55. Playing at night
"Really, don't you think it's abnormal? I'm going to spend the night here with the body.\" The old police officer said, holding a mattress, blanket, and some travel sleeping bags on the ground.
"Didn't I tell you to go to the hotel?" Maori leaned on the piano with one hand while watching Xiaolan and the others.
\"Because of Conan...\" Ran pointed at Conan.
\"Because we're worried about our uncle, there's a lot of strength in numbers, so we're here.\" Conan replied scramblingly.
"Oh, by the way, who is the person who moved the body casually?"
"Of course it's me, even a bodhisattva would feel pitiful if I kept that posture.\" The old policeman replied earnestly.
\"What a cute old police officer.\" Xiaobai looked at the old police officer and smiled.
\"It's really nerve-wracking, the scene hasn't been verified yet.\" Maori touched his head and smiled bitterly.
"Strange, why is that sheet music missing?\" Conan said, standing on the piano chair and putting down the piano lid.
"Nani?\" Maori ran over to look at the piano.
\"Oh, the paper is not missing, I put it away.\" said the old police officer as he took the sheet music out of his pocket.
"That old man...\" Maori sweated and squinted at the old police officer beside him.
"This is the score of the moonlight.\" Xiaolan said, looking at it.
\"Nani?\"\"Moonlight.\"\"It's not weird.\" followed by Maori, then Conan and Xiaobai's voices, but the last one is read in the heart.
...
\"What are you doing? clumsy.\" When Xiaolan took the piano sheet and played it, the tone suddenly became dissonant.
\"It's not...\" Ran responded.
\"It's this fourth section of the score that's weird.\" Lan glanced at the sheet music and tried to play it, saying as she played.
\"Fourth paragraph?\" Conan looked at the score in confusion.
"If I'm not mistaken, this score...\" Maori said as he looked at the score.
"It's Mr. Kawashima's turn.\" Mori said, picking up the sheet music and looking at it.
"If that's the case, there's a chance the killer will come back and get it.\" Maori said, looking at the score.
"Excuse me...\" A female voice came from outside the door.
"Uhh
\"I went to the inn and heard that you were still here.So I brought some supper and gave it to you to eat.\" Chengshi said as he lifted the supper in his hand.
"It turned out to be Dr. Sung Sil.\" Mori said as he looked at Sung Sil.
\"But I heard you say that...\"\"My stomach...\"\"\"I'm really hungry...\"\"Well, I really forgot to eat.\" followed by Xiaolan's beanie eyes, Maori touching his stomach, then Conan smoking, with beanie eyes, and finally Xiaobai's suddenly remembered voice.
Midnight snack
\"Oh, Doctor Chengshi, you're not from this island?\" Xiaolan asked Chengshi, who was pouring tea for the old police officer, as she ate rice balls.
"Yes, I usually go back to Tokyo on weekends.\" replied Serumi.
\"Well, maybe...\" Xiaobai looked at Cheng Shi thoughtfully and thought.
\"It seems to be a doctor working here.\" Xiaolan said as she looked at Cheng Shi.
\"I've always wanted to work on such an island surrounded by nature, and this year is the second year.\" Chengshi said with a smile.
\"Two years ago...\" Xiaobai heard Chengshi's answer, and seemed to have an answer in his heart.
"Dr. Narumi, is the cause of death of the former village chief, Mr. Kameyama, who died two years ago, really from a heart attack?"
\"Yes, the former village chief had a bad heart since the beginning.It's just that when he examined him, his face looked quite tense, as if he had seen something terrible.\" Chengshi thought about it and replied.
"By the way, did you notice anything strange at that time?" Conan asked.
\"This...\" Cheng Shi made a thought.
\"If that's what I say...\" Chengshi seems to have thought of something.
"What?" Conan asked hurriedly.
"I think there's a window that's open.\" replied Serumi.
"Windows?\" Maori asked, confused.
"I don't know who forgot to close it at that time, it should be like this.\" The old police officer said with his chin touched.
"Is that the window?" asked Maori, pointing to the window next to her.
"Well, that's the window.\" Sung Sil said as he walked to the window.
\"There's a voice... Who is it.\" Xiaobai heard a slight sound outside the window, and then ran forward with a shout.
"What?\" Maori hurried to the window and watched a shadow run away and open the window, while Conan had already jumped out of the window, and then Maori followed.
\"That discordant sheet music.\" Xiaobai didn't follow, but chose to stay in the room.
...
"Damn, since he ran away.\" Maori said viciously when he returned to the public hall.
"Okay, we're going to stay here tonight, you know?\" and Maori shouted.
\"Hi.\" the crowd replied.
"Uncle, lend me the sheet music.\" Xiaobai said to Maori.
"What do you want sheet music for?" asked Maori, confused.
"Lend me a look.\" Xiaobai held out his hand.
"Really, I don't know what you're doing here, don't lose it.\" Maori said as he handed over the score.
"Hi.\" Xiaobai took the score, jumped into the piano chair, then closed his eyes, exhaled, and began to watch the score play.
The melody of the moonlight played out between Xiaobai's hands, which was particularly beautiful in the silent night, and the slow melody at the beginning revealed a faint sadness, but when it reached the fourth section, there was a dissonance and notes.
"Wrong note, it wasn't a mistake...\" Xiaobai looked at the score, although it was wrong, but kept playing, and then the dissonance disappeared.Entered the second movement, the light rhythm, the short, concise and beautiful melody. (The description of the Moonlight Sonata is borrowed from Baidu Encyclopedia)
At the end of the song, everyone was still immersed in the music played on the piano and had an endless aftertaste.
\"I didn't expect Xiaobai to play so well.\" Xiaolan looked at Xiaobai and said.
\"Yes, it's comparable to the master.\" Chengshi thought about it and praised.
"That's a nice sound.\" Uncle Maori complimented.
\"yes.\" Conan echoed Maori.
\"Hehe, I don't play very well, when the teacher used to teach, I played better than me.\" Xiaobai touched his head and replied with a smile.
"Oh, that must be a master.\" Maori said as he thought. (Here Maori thinks that Xiaobai's parents found him a teacher, praising his teacher as a master.)
\"Yes,This song is already very good.,I didn't expect to hear you say that there are even more beautiful ones.\" Chengshi said, and then raised his head and didn't know what to think.
"Does Dr. Chengshi know anything about the piano?\" Xiaolan asked, looking at Chengshi.
\"Hehe, it's nothing, I don't know much about it.\" Chengshi replied with a wave of his hand.
\"When I hear this song, I think of Mr. Keiji Aso, and he plays it so beautifully.\" said the old police officer next to him.
\"...\" Everyone fell silent when they heard Keiji Aso's name.
\"Xiaobai, do you play other tunes?\" Xiaolan bent down to Xiaobai and asked.
\"Hmm, let me think about it...\" Xiaobai looked at Xiaolan with expectant eyes, turned his head to look at the piano, put his left hand on the piano keys, and raised his right hand.
Time seemed to stand still, and no one uttered a word, as if they didn't want to disturb, and everyone's breathing slowed as they looked at the boy with his right hand raised.
It didn't take long for the piano sound to make everyone look forward to it.It's just that no one present has heard this song, although there are countless piano songs.But this one is moving.,Drive the emotions of everyone present.They groped for the origin of this song,But the answers they got were...
This is a beautiful tune that I have never heard before.
I can't blame them for thinking so, because this song doesn't exist in this world, it's an anime that Xiaobai liked very much in his previous life, and it's called "One・Summer's・Day\" in the Spirited Away anime. (The website does not support spaces, so use other symbols instead)
At the end of a song, there was no unexpected end, but unconsciously, led everyone into another piano piece.
It is also a moving song, but the same bewildering song they have not heard in the first place, and the one they are playing now, is likewise unheard.
This song, also played by the same person, is called "Castle in the Sky".
Subsequently, it entered the \"My Neighbor Totoro\" (this animation is a favorite animation of my girlfriend who used to be in online dating.,For this reason, she also gave a chinchilla cake on her birthday.,However,It's just in the past.),And then \"Song of the Mystery Garden\".Although it's a solo.,There is no collocation of the small violin.,But it's still sentimental.,And then into \"???? -?????? \" (a pure piano song in Korea, very good, I personally like it.), a cheerful rhythm that makes people turbulent.
One song after another, a long time has passed unconsciously, one after another, without many people listening, only a few people present. There is no big stage, just playing in this place with corpses.
An hour has passed, two hours have passed, I don't know how many beautiful tunes have been played, but the people present still did not disturb Xiaobai's performance at this moment, as if the existence of this moment was just listening to his recital, or rather, it was a recital he specially held.
I don't know how many hours have passed, but a faint light has begun to shine in through the window, but the sound of the piano inside has always been the same.
However, this state did not last long, and a discordant sound put an end to the concert, which was not a concert.
Early in the morning.
\"Goo~~~\"
Although the past is covered in the sound of the piano, it is so clear for Xiaobai's hearing.
\"Whew...\" stopped playing, and at this moment it felt like his hands were so heavy as lead. (I don't know if there will be such a cow in reality, but this is just a novel, so a few hours or even longer, everyone should exist.)
\"Ahh It's already morning.\" Maori and the others looked out of the window in surprise.
\"Xiaobai, I've been playing for so long, I'm tired.\" Xiaolan stepped forward and hugged Xiaobai.
\"Hmm.\" Xiaobai nodded slightly, although there was nothing wrong with his spirit, but his arm was still so weak.
\"It's amazing.\" Cheng Shi clapped his hands and said.
\"yes, I don't know how long it's been since I've heard such a great concert.It seems that I haven't heard it since Mr. Aso had a concert.\" The old police officer on the side also got up and clapped his hands, and then seemed to feel something back away.
\"Hmm...\" Except for Xiaobai and Chengshi, who lowered his head and thought about something, everyone looked at the old police officer.
\"Hehe, that... Well, did I say something wrong?\" The old constable asked as he stepped back.
\"Xiaolan, you stay here to take care of Xiaobai, Conan and I, and Dr. Chengshi went out to buy some breakfast and came back.\" Maori turned his head to Xiaolan and said, and then beckoned Conan and Chengshi to walk out the door.
\"Okay.\" Xiaolan threw the mattress on the ground and let Xiaobai lie on it.
\"Lie down well, dad will bring breakfast later.\" Xiaolan smiled and said while stroking Xiaobai's forehead.
\"Hmm.\" Xiaobai nodded and lay down on the mattress.
\"It seems to be too forgetful.\" Looking at the ceiling, Xiaobai smiled bitterly.Because he was immersed in music at one time, because he remembered a lot of things, his hands have been beating on the keyboard of the piano, and he has not been able to stop.
\"But Xiaobai plays so well, although I have been hearing it until now, I don't feel tired at all.\" Xiaolan said while stroking Xiaobai's forehead.
\"But, I'm tired.\" Xiaolan spread Xiaobai's hair with both hands and helped him take off his glasses.
\"It's just,Why does Xiaobai keep squinting, isn't it good to open it?\" Xiaolan's eyelids also slowly narrowed slightly, and she looked at Xiaobai with worried eyes.
\"Sister Xiaolan...\" Xiaobai wanted to stretch out his hand, but he couldn't lift it.
\"Hehe, you see me.I'm always saying strange things.\" Xiaolan put her glasses next to Xiaobai, squinted and smiled.
\"I don't want you to worry but I worry you more...\" Xiaobai looked at Xiaolan and thought.
\"I'm fine, Sister Xiaolan.\" Xiaobai opened his eyes slightly, blue-like pupils, with tiny black eyes.
"Xiaobai's eyes look good.After taking off his glasses, he looks so handsome now.\" Xiaolan looked at Xiaobai who opened his eyes and said with a smile.
\"Sister Xiaolan, you're making fun of me.\" After Xiaobai finished speaking, he turned his head and closed his open eyes.
\"I see, no wonder I don't want to open it all the time...\" Xiaolan looked at Xiaobai who turned her head and thought in her heart, she saw a mature feeling in Xiaobai's eyes.
\"Xiaolan, we're back.\" It wasn't long before Maori's loud voice came from outside the door.
"There was no breakfast in the village, so I bought some xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings.\" Maori said as he walked through the door carrying the bag.
"Come, Xiaobai, let's have breakfast.\" Xiaolan took the handbag, then let Xiaobai lean on her body, and took out a hot xiaolongbao from the bag.
"Come, open your mouth.\" Xiaolan felt that the temperature of Xiaolongbao had dropped a lot, and said to Xiaobai.
\"Ahh Hmm...\" Xiaobai opened his mouth and ate a small long bao into his mouth.
\"Hmph...\" Conan on the side looked at Xiaobai while eating steamed dumplings.
The exception, of course, is Uncle Maori. (Uncle Maori is also a mouthful)