Chasing You and I’m Home Chapter4
"L’exil et le Royaume" has been rehearsed for four days, and the progress is gratifying. The news that Mu Kang and Lin Yan will once again collaboratehas flown out of the campus. Even the tour of Fang Zhimu was affected. When he was giving autographs for the audience, there were people asking him for the tickets of "L’exil et le Royaume".
Fang Zhimu wears a white suit and sits in front of the pure white signing table arranged by the organizer. He was dizzy because of the white all around him, and his signatures have caused him to be dizzy as well. He is like a bridegroom who was forced to marry a number of brides (or grooms). The type that has been cheated on for a dozen of times and is still unconscious about it.
Dealing with another irrelevant person who wants the tickets, Fang Zhimu sighs indifferently. He thinks, I stay here to sign the CD for you guys, what kind of question do you ask? Mu Kang? I am not familiar with him! They don’t even invite me for the piano part in "L’exil et le Royaume"!
And I even actually arranged some time for their performances!
Thinking of this, Fang Zhimu is more heart-broken.
He is not the only one though. The whole orchestra are entangled in this piano part that does not take the usual path: why do symphonic poems usepiano? Even if you are adding a piano, why do you make it a concerto piece? The concerto piece is fine, but why do you have to ask Lin Yan to play?
Lin Yan and Mu Kang are having an argument for the first time.
"You should play it yourself." Lin Yan stands on the podium and once again stresses to Mu Kang, "This is your work, even if you change the command, there is nothing wrong with it."
Mu Kang once again flatly refuses: "No, I wrote the piano part especially for you."
"I don't play as well as you." Lin Yan is unmoved and insisted, "This work, your understanding is obviously much deeper than mine."
Mu Kang: "Bullshit, you play exactly what I want. You are not the composer, how can you know more clearly than I do?"
"I know very well what you want, and I know more about how to achieve the effect you want." Lin Yan raises his chin and says in a word, "You play better than me."
"I won’t." Mu Kang crosses his chest with his hands and stares at Lin Yan, threatening, "I’m saying this for one last time, this is written especially for you. If you don't want to play the piano, then don't play at all."
More than sixty members of the orchestra are quietly watching the show.
Lin Yan can’t do anything about Mu Kang’s threat. He has no choice but to say to everyone: "Let's take a break."
The crowd are relieved and they watch Lin Yan bow his head and put on his coat.
The sorrowful and silent jaw is really pitiful to look at.
Mu Kang shrugs, sitting down and taking out the phone that keeps shaking.
In the last row, Lu Xifeng has his head down and swiftly sweeps the screen in the "Hail Schoenberger" WeChat group:
-@Mu Kang Stop being a prick.
-@Mu Kang Stop being a prick.
-@Mu Kang Stop being a prick.
-@Mu Kang Stop being a prick.
-@Mu Kang Stop being a prick.
......
Mu Kang: ......
He looks up to give Lu Xifeng an eye-catching kill. But Xifeng doesn’t look at him as he is so focusedon his mobile phone.
Mu Kang then turns to Guan Xiao who is in front of Lu Xifeng.
Guan Xiao trembles, turning around and taking Lu Xifeng's mobile phone, and gains a puppy’s eyes.
Guan Xiao: "Is this useful?"
Lu Xifeng: "Is it useless?"
Guan Xiao: "How?"
Lu Xifeng: "It's better than not doing anything."
Guan Xiao thought: Fuck, it actually makes sense for a little bit.
However, it is apparent that Lu Xifeng is not reliable. Guan Xiao sends Qiu Liming a WeChat first, and Chief Qiu responds quickly, saying that he is so close to the accident center and is deeply affected. His HP has been red and can’t do anything about it. Guan Xiao has to try to connect with Li Zhongyuan then. Hardbone successfully receives Guan Xiao’s intentions and nods his head to show that he is accepting it.
He thinks for a moment, putting down his instrument casually, stands up and walks toward Mu Kang.
Guan Xiao sends Qiu Liming a WeChat quickly: So close my ass. Hardbone had the same distance as you.
-Chief: You are also a pussy yourself, who are you to judge me.
Li Zhongyuan drags a chair and sits next to Mu Kang, posing a gesture of a long conversation. The voice in the rehearsal room suddenly becomes several times smaller, and everyone raises their ears.
"You..." Li Zhongyuan pauses for a long time, "Lin is giving you enough respect by just standing on the podium for your new work. And you even want him to command and play at the same time? Who do you think you are? Beethoven? Mozart?"
Everyone: "..."
Although these words sums up the thoughts of more than sixty onlookers well, saying these out loud normally is still something unbelievable. The nickname of "Hardbone" is not deceiving in anyway.
Li Zhongyuan: "Playing well and performing is not the same thing at all. Once he starts performances on stage, there will be countless partners who will ask for the request. Isn’t that just increasing Lin’s work?"
Mu Kang: "I..."
"Even if all of these are not considered by you," Li Zhongyuan does not give him the opportunity to interject, "You and Lin are friends. You ask your friend to do something that he does not want to? What kind of friend are you?"
Mu Kang still tries to debate: "This is what I specifically wrote to..."
"So what?" Li Zhongyuan points out Mu Kang, "Must he play it just because you wrote it on purpose? Did you ask him beforehand? Does he agree? Are you the kind of 'because I like you, so you must like me, otherwise you owe me’ princess?"
Mu Kang looks at Li Zhongyuan with amazement. He can’t say anything clearly: "What...what? Fuck?"
Li Zhongyuan sums it up: "Think about it." He gets up and returns to the cello's chief seat.
If Guan Xiao hasn’t been staring at him, Lu Xifeng would have applauded for Hardbone.
Lin Yan pushes the door open at this moment.
He glances at Mu Kang, but Mu Kang is in a daze on the ground and does not look at him back.
Lin Yan silently sighs, standing on the podium, and smiles helplessly is at the corner of his mouth. He faces the entire orchestra. His eyes are clear and quiet.
Li Zhongyuan looks at him and suddenly has a hunch.
Lin Yan says: "In that case, I am going to play."
The audience is in deep silence.
Mu Kang raises his head up immediately. He sits behind the podium and can only see Lin Yan’s back. The conductor’s voice is calm and gentle, and he feels that he is beginning to feel flipped again.
He opens his mouth: "You..."
He does not actually manage to let it out.
Mu Kang closes his mouth. He has beeninterrupted by Li Zhongyuan's words, and now he is disturbed by Lin Yan's statement.
Lin Yan does not look at Mu Kang. Since he made a decision, he would not repeat it. He let a few free brass players push the piano in the corner to the podium, leading the whole group to reconnect, and said calmly: "Go a few times first, then I will join you."
His fingers slide across the scores to determine the number of bars, and then raises his hand, standing straight. The baton steadily stays in the air, fully expressing the conductor's calm. It seems like that the dispute with Mu Kang not long ago did not even have happened.
Everyone is seamlessly connecting to work. The soulmate thing seems to be real. The two lead the orchestra and fix all the lines cleanly for only two times.
When Lin Yan sits in front of the piano and lets out the first sound, Mu Kang's whole heart calms down as if he has tasted all the rewards and wishes of the world.
That's it.
There is no deviation from the original intention of writing it.
Mu Kang and Lin Yan’s piano style are very different. Mu Kang's piano sound is unique, fierce and stubborn. Lin Yan’s is delicate and gentle, and more like a master.
At that time, Mu Kang wrote the piano with thinking of Lin Yan actually. To be exact, since the day he heard Lin Yan playing the piano, all the pianos under his pen and in his mind are not without thinking of Lin.
Motherfucker Li Zhongyuan, I don't care if he ever wants to.
I want to write this way.
I just want him to play.
It can only be him.
For Mu Kang, composing is a search for spiritual enlightenment and realistic resonance. Since Lin Yan can get all he that is looking for, he has to make the best use of his own things to make him his.
"L’exil et le Royaume" will become Mu Kang's most successful work so far, and at the end of the rehearsal, everyone is convinced of this.
The day is already dark when the rehearsal comes to an end. Guan Xiao and Lu Xifeng stand at the door with the instrument waiting. Qiu Liming and Li Zhongyuan are in the back of the crowd. Mu Kang and Lin Yan are reading the scores at the stage.
Guan Xiao looks at his cell phone which received the news just now. He looks up at the two soulmates not far away and says to Lu Xifeng: "Xiaoxiao is back."
Lu Xifeng does not care, saying: "Oh."
Guan Xiao says: "She’s on her way."
Lu Xifeng's thumb slides on the cell phone fast: "Okay."
Guan Xiao reluctantly thinks: This idiot can’t really be counted on.
Fortunately, Li Zhongyuan has already completedthe chief task and is coming over with his cello. Guan Xiao thanks God, saying it again and pretending that it is nothing: "Xiaoxiao is back."
Lu Xifeng looks up strangely: "You just said it."
Li Zhongyuan immediately gets it: "She is coming over?"
Guan Xiao nods: "Right away."
Li Zhongyuan asks: "Did you tell Mu Kang?"
Guan Xiao sighs: "No. I knew it ... like just now."
Li Zhongyuan still wants to say something, while Qiu Liming and Mu Kang come together, followed by Lin Yan.
Mu Kang says with enthusiasm: "Let’s take Yanny to eat."
Li Zhongyuan and Guan Xiao exchange a look, and naturally says: "Sure, Xiaoxiao is back anyway, she will be here in a minute."
Lu Xifeng is still paying attention to his mobile phone to be an outsider, and Qiu Liming’s expression has becoming gloating.
Lin Yan obviously does not get what is happening, Mu Kang is stunned as well and repeats: "Guan ... Xiaoxiao?"
Guan Xiao says yes.
"Fine." Mu Kang nods, and pauses and says, "We go to Chuanyu Renjia then, she loves to eat that."
Li Zhongyuan calls two cabs. They divides into two groups, going to Chuanyu Renjia.
On the way, Guan Xiao introduces to Lin Yan: "The one who will come here in a while is called Xiaoxiao, my little sister."
Mu Kang sits in the front row and takes the sentence: "Singer."
"Soprano." Guan Xiao said, "Josephine's student and is graduating soon."
"Josephine in't interested in teaching students." Lin Yan is a little surprised. "She must be outstanding."
"Have you collaborated with Josephine?" Mu Kang asks.
"A few times of rehearsals, but it’s all Carlos' performances." Lin Yan says.
Lin Yan’s teacher is the famous Carlos Moster. Several records fly through Guan Xiao and Mu Kang’s mind. Carlos Moster’s name is like a record cover for them and an authoritative guarantee. In short, he is not a living person. They can’t speak out the name directly like Lin Yan.
"Josephine has a … temper." Guan Xiao exclaims.
Mu Kang says with a smile: "Guan Xiaoxiao was scolded and she was crying when she was interviewed."
"Josephine ... has quite a character." Lin Yan thinks for a moment, "A bit like you."
Mu Kang is a bit unhappy: "Ah?"
Lin Yan smiles: "Yup."
Guan Xiao: "Xiaoxiao says that, too."
Mu Kang snorts without talking, and the cab fallsinto silence.
Seeing that they are approaching the destination, Guan Xiao is entangled all the way, and feels that it is necessary to say it before the situation begins to be awkward.
He clears his throat and says in a tone of "I just mentioned it casually": "Xiaoxiao and Mu Kang are ... childhood sweethearts."
Mu Kang does not respond to this, which is thedefault, while Lin Yan keeps on looking out the window, not speaking.
Outside the window, there is a feast of the city at night, and Guan Xiao is screaming in his heart: Lin ... Do you understand?
Until the car stops at the entrance of Chuanyu Renjia, Guan Xiao faintly hears Lin Yan saying: "Is it?"
The voice is very small, and Guan Xiao is not even sure if it is his own hallucination.
TBC
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