President Kennedy smiled as he listened to the translator's account of the Chinese trade mission, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the whole dinner, and soon he saw the person he wanted to meet.

It was a clean man, whether it was hairstyle or clothing, or skin management, it was like a shining object, although he sat quietly in the corner of the banquet, but some of the surrounding political and business ladies looked at him from time to time, and all the women's eyes were sparkling and radiant.

Even from the perspective of Western aesthetics, Liao Yuan's appearance is surprisingly exquisite, and it seems a little biased for a man to describe it as exquisite, but the moment people see him, there is only the word delicacy in their minds, even if they talk to him, they are cautious, lest they shatter this delicate appearance.

At this moment, Liao Yuan will be next to someone from time to time to clink glasses, talking about his views on music, in the international music scene, Liao Yuan is undoubtedly a famous musician and pianist, especially after winning the Elizabeth Platinum Award, this strength is even more eye-catching, and many elegant men and women at the dinner will naturally not miss the opportunity to talk with Liao Yuan.

In the contact, Liao Yuan's fluent English has made many people admire, Asian people have many accent problems in English, but this is not a problem for Liao Yuan at all, if it is not for Liao Yuan's identity in advance, many people may think that this famous pianist is Native American.

Some American business tycoons are also interested in Liao Yuan, and in Western high society, it would be quite face-saving to invite an internationally renowned pianist to his huge party.

Dennis Washington Citibank manager has this idea, and even he wants to cooperate with Liao Yuan in business, in the Asia-Pacific region, Liao Yuan's popularity is also obvious to all, Dennis thinks that maybe Liao Yuan can be invited to endorse Citibank's new products, but as soon as his idea was proposed, Liao Yuan smiled and shook his head, he has already cooperated with domestic banks, according to the rules of contract signing, Liao Yuan can not continue to endorse other banking businesses, so he declined Dennis's kind invitation.

Dennis was quite regretful, but still exchanged business cards with Liao Yuan.

There are not a few business people who think the same as Dennis, Liao Yuan can attend a state banquet of this specification, itself has reached their level, any person who has achieved the top in the industry will be impressive, people know that after today, Liao Yuan's popularity in the United States will reach a peak.

Sean Wild, the last pianist to play at the White House, is now a favorite of the American high society on all continents, with a performance of up to $100,000, and a pianist who is more famous and stronger than Sean can get up to $200,000 for a performance.

The income of professional pianists has always been eye-catching, but their income comes from many channels, in addition to the small heads such as record copyright income and competition awards, the big ones are almost all in performance fees and advertising endorsements.

Lang Lang, a famous pianist in his previous life, ranked second on the China Forbes celebrity list with an annual income of 150 million yuan in 2007, second only to NBA athlete Yao Ming.

His appearance fee, in 2007, was already as high as more than 200,000 yuan, and ten years later, this figure has doubled and doubled, as high as 1.5 million yuan, which is not much better than some super first-line stars in the entertainment industry, even the genius pianist Li Yundi, the appearance fee has reached the level of 1.25 million yuan.

Such an income is fully qualified to enter the upper class of countries around the world.

Unlike stars in the entertainment industry, pianists not only have a lot of income, but also can get the respect of the upper class.

Therefore, after learning Liao Yuan's identity, even people in the political and business circles who were not familiar with Liao Yuan expressed their goodwill to Liao Yuan to a greater or lesser extent.

For this banquet alone, Liao Yuan received more than 20 business cards, a thick stack of business cards, and each of the titles revealed could make the outside world shake.

At this time, the banquet was already halfway through.

President Kennedy finally couldn't help himself and said to John, the White House chief next to him, "Did we invite Mr. Liao to perform here?"

"Yes, Mr. President. John smiled.

"Then hurry up and arrange it, I can't wait, I believe the same is true of Mr. Prime Minister. Kennedy said with a smile.

Hearing this, the second leader looked through the crowd and looked at Liao Yuan, who was surrounded by everyone not far away, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and he nodded slightly: "Then let's start." ”

When Guo Qian heard this, he walked towards Liao Yuan as soon as possible.

And John, the head of the White House, also began to let people push out the piano that had been prepared for a long time.

Such a move made the scene a little quieter.

People looked sideways, and some people had already guessed it, so they couldn't help but look at Liao Yuan.

Guo Qian came to Liao Yuan's side, patted Liao Yuan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Liao Yuan, let the Americans take a look at your strength, if you perform well, I will give you a credit when you go back." ”

Liao Yuan had already seen the piano in the middle of the banquet, this was a Steinway piano, very well maintained, even from a distance, it was shiny and shiny.

At this time, John came to Liao Yuan's side quite gentlemanly and politely invited: "Sir, everything is ready, Mr. President, greetings you, you have twenty minutes to play." ”

Liao Yuan nodded, got up and walked towards the piano.

At this moment, the originally slightly noisy banquet began to quiet down.

People's eyes looked at Liao Yuan, who was walking around the room, and saw him sitting in front of the piano, so many people stopped eating and communicating, and looked at the legendary pianist with eager eyes.

Many people already knew Liao Yuan's name when they attended this banquet, but there were some people who didn't know Liao Yuan, and they didn't pay much attention to the outside world except for information from the political and business circles, but they knew that a pianist who could play in the White House, no matter what country it was in, was a pretty remarkable thing.

People gave absolute respect.

At this moment, the entire banquet was quiet and the needle drop could be heard.

Soon, in people's attention, Liao Yuan began to play, when the sound of the piano sounded, people only felt an impassioned, majestic movement, quickly surrounded in the ears.

"This is the Piano Concerto for Defending the Yellow River!"

When Guo Gan heard this prelude, he immediately introduced it to the leaders, "It is the most popular piece of music in our country, with a strong national style. ”

When some gringos heard this, they suddenly realized that they immediately understood the connotation of this performance from the name of the piece, and when they thought of some past events during World War II, Kennedy and others nodded secretly.

The music is from small to large, from weak to strong, very similar to the spirit of the Chinese people in the anti-Japanese period, at the end of the music, all the piano sounds seem to converge into an invincible force, highlighting the momentum of overwhelming all enemies, showing the great spirit of the heroic nation.

The second leader smiled and nodded.

This is the second time he has heard a live version of the piece, the last time at Diaoyutai and this time at the White House, and the meaning is very different.

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Thanks to Shan Qingying, Shang Xiying, and hsclaker for their tips