When he walked out of the mall, Cheng Xiaoyu casually bought a long down jacket and put it on Xia Shamo, stopped a taxi at the door and rushed to the Fudan Auditorium.

I don't know how many calls I received on the road, and I don't know how many text messages I replied. But in fact, Cheng Xiaoyu is quite sure in his heart, after all, their show is still far away, but it is just such an unorganized and disciplined behavior of Yan zhòng.

When Cheng Xiaoyu and Xia Shamo arrived at the corridor backstage, the performance was almost halfway through, and the next program was Su Yuxi's piano solo "Bell".

Cheng Xiaoyu and Xia Shamo were only dismantled by the head teacher Wang Wei to make specimens, fortunately, Teacher Ji Xin sat on the side of the rostrum, otherwise there would be one more person who would have let Cheng Xiaoyu fall apart. Cheng Xiaoyu sent a text message to Mr. Ji to say that he had arrived, and walked to the backstage with Xia Shamo.

The backstage is messy, some are still touching up makeup, some are standing in the corner reciting lines, and some are whispering. There were two blonde foreigners dressed in the costumes of European aristocrats, Romeo and Juliet, who sang in the private school. There is also a Zhao Yun Peking Opera costume worn, which is their school's grandson Hao singing "Changban Slope". All kinds of people are interspersed in the background, and the calm in front of the stage is really two days of ice and fire.

Until the curtain of the newspaper, Chen Jiajun read aloud, "There is Su Yuxi from the 2 (3) class of Fudan High School below, performing the program, and playing the piano solo "Bell". "All of a sudden, the whole backstage was quiet, and a lot of actors were squeezing towards the curtains on both sides of the backstage, where was the only place backstage where they could watch the show.

Cheng Xiaoyu took the opportunity to draw two stools, found a dressing table, asked Xia Shamo to sit down, took out the cosmetics bought in the paper bag, and piled them on the small dressing table. Then I heard thunderous applause from the audience.

Cheng Xiaoyu could imagine Su Yuxi standing by the piano and bowing in thanks, then sitting on the sofa stool, raising the picture of the slender hands of the ice muscles and jade bones jumping quickly on the black and white piano keys.

Cheng Xiaoyu is also very familiar with this song, and he has also practiced it. Liszt's adaptation of the rondo of the third movement of Paganini's virtuoso Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor into The Bell shows with certainty that "only a very small number of people are capable of playing such an etude......", so that the Bell is perhaps the most difficult of all piano works and requires the highest level of virtuosity.

Cheng Xiaoyu pricked up his ears, closed his eyes and listened carefully to Su Yuxi's performance. At the beginning of the piece, after a concise prelude, the "theme of the bell" appeared in the ** register, and the crisp and pleasant timbre and overtone articulation of the piano treble formed a short and powerful sound, forming a series of vivid and realistic bells. Since the timbre of a piano in the high register is easier to imitate a bell than a violin, the effect of a bell is more pronounced. The following theme (1=b4/6) continues with the timbre characteristics of the piano's high register, playing bells with different rhythms. These two themes alternate to form a brilliant and ornate passage of high difficulty.

"Bell" mainly uses variations, which are composed of alternating variations of two themes. The technical content of the difficult content includes: one-handed maximum interval staccato, agile jumps over long distances, rapid repetition of octaves, simultaneous melodies and trills with one hand, and fast running clusters. Su Yuxi is flawless in these difficult skill sheets. In the case of a one-handed staccato of a large interval, the treble is at all wrong, like a clock suddenly malfunctioning, and the jump is far beyond the limits of the human hand. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve high accuracy without practicing this point for a considerable amount of time. Moreover, Liszt demanded that the melodic voice be highlighted, that is, not only should the dance be very accurate, a little more or less is not allowed, and finally the main theme should be highlighted. In some places, there were also big jumps with ornamental sounds, which was really difficult! At least Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't do it perfectly.

Su Yuxi's superb piano skills are not only reflected in the mastery of skills, she makes the whole performance full of a sense of picture, the opening passage through the ethereal octave allows Cheng Xiaoyu to hear the faint sound of the bell in the distance through the sound of the wind, the slight sound of the charm heralds the beginning of the listener's gorgeous feast; the beautiful melody through the guò decomposition octave of the root sound plays slowly, and the transparent crown vividly depicts the "jingle bell" of various sizes of bells hitting each other In the cordial call of Boeing in the left hand, Cheng Xiaoyu seemed to feel the wonderful momentary illusion of flowing water from the player's finely carved keyboard playing; With the contrast of harmonic color writing, the crisp ornamental sound and the light sound pattern are sung and harmonized, and the festive warm humorous atmosphere is gathered into a warm rotation in infinite motion, and the exquisite playing method, accurate poetic expression, and distinctive dance make Cheng Xiaoyu's imagination rise to the level of a storm.

After more than four minutes of playing, Cheng Xiaoyu's impression of this piece completely changed. He originally thought that Liszt had adapted the piece to pretend to be a B, because the difficult skills it required were really daunting. After listening to Su Yuxi's performance, he discovered the extreme beauty of this piece, and this beauty can only be expressed by very few people.

The piano stopped, and there was a storm of applause outside, and there were far more people who know how to appreciate classical music in this era than in previous lives. What's more, due to the limitations of congenital conditions, there are few famous female pianists, and there are really very few people like Su Yuxi, and the performance of the song "Bell" alone can barely be regarded as a master, and it is still such a beautiful master, how can it not be sought after and popular? "Artist" has invited Su Yuxi to do an exclusive interview for her, but Su Yuxi refused, she feels that her skills are not qualified to be in such a top magazine, but she does not know that her value is not just the piano.

Cheng Xiaoyu sighed secretly, and finally knew why so many people told him not to perform piano solos.

Xia Shamo also saw that Cheng Xiaoyu was a little discouraged and asked, "What's wrong?"

Cheng Xiaoyu said with a wry smile, "I originally thought that the gap between me and her was not much, but now it seems that I underestimated her and looked up to myself." I'm starting to wonder if I'm fit to play the piano. ”

Xia Shamo smiled and said, "It's wrong for you to think like this, everyone's talent direction is inconsistent, I think your talent, Su Yuxi definitely doesn't have it." So here, she can only play other people's music. And we are different, because of you, we can do unprecedented performances. I can even imagine that you can create an era with your music. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at Xia Shamo's sparkling eyes and said, "Thank you for your comfort, I feel much better." We'll tell them later, there are even cooler notes in the world. ”

Xia Shamo nodded slightly.

At this time, all the actors backstage applauded, and Su Yuxi returned to the backstage. Cheng Xiaoyu looked back and saw that Su Yuxi was wearing a single ponytail, wearing a white knee-length gauze skirt, and patent leather high heels with silver shining, thanking the applauding actors. She didn't even have makeup on her face, and for her, it was just an ordinary performance.

Su Yuxi also saw Cheng Xiaoyu, hesitated for a moment and walked over, and a light voice like a snowflake floated over, "How are you preparing?"

Cheng Xiaoyu was a little stunned, she didn't expect this sister to talk to him unusually, and she was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you ask me?"

Su Yuxi nodded, the breathing of the boys around him was short, Su Yuxi actually asked a fat man, this face was too beautiful for them to look at.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "It's okay, it shouldn't be ashamed." ”

Su Yuxi didn't show any encouraging smiles or anything like that, and said flatly, "Then come on." The appearance between the eyebrows was just ordinary politeness, and then walked towards the exit of the backstage.

When he left, he stopped for a moment, and whispered to Cheng Xiaoyu, "Oh, by the way, don't offend Xu Qinning, if she makes trouble for you, you let it go, and she won't really treat you badly." ”

Cheng Xiaoyu felt that this sentence was the focus of her entire dialogue, somewhat of a bit of a fierce and auspicious meaning, a cold sweat broke out on her head, and then nodded.

Cheng Xiaoyu turned around and thought again, what am I afraid of, what can a little girl do to him?

Xia Shamo also rarely gossiped and asked, "Do you know each other?"

Cheng Xiaoyu casually said "um", and explained, "Her father and my mother know each other, so we know each other." ”

Xia Shamo didn't ask much, because Cheng Xiaoyu asked her to close her eyes and help her put on makeup.

At present, the makeup habits of this era are still biased towards heavy makeup, and even more so on stage costumes, many actresses have put on a thick layer of powder and put on heavy eye makeup and blush. This is incomparably rustic in Cheng Xiaoyu's eyes.

When he went out to perform, Cheng Xiaoyu's makeup in their band was all painted by Cheng Xiaoyu, not to mention that Cheng Xiaoyu was not mainstream, he really played with the visual kei for a while, but the visual kei was broken by the domestic non-mainstream, so he had to give up. (The origin of Japanese visual kei is glam rock, and many people will always confuse it with heavy metal punk, which means that the shape is easy to mix, and punk is actually noise in terms of musical style, and the music style of Japanese visual kei is all-encompassing.) In fact, the visual kei is closer to Gothic in terms of styling. Don't substitute the image of the domestic village cannon washing, cutting and blowing here, the distance between the two is comparable to the distance between Gao Yuanyuan and Sister Feng's appearance, in other words, there is no money to play visual kei, and you can't play without superb makeup skills)

Here, Cheng Xiaoyu didn't plan to paint more exaggerated makeup with Xia Shamo, but painted tearful makeup, Xia Shamo was originally delicate enough, and heavy makeup could only cover her beauty, so as long as she applied a little foundation, it would increase the luster of her skin. For a sparkling effect on the whole eyelid, pearlescent eyeshadow is applied to the entire eyelid, which is only a color, but it fully retains the tearful effect, and a slight application of natural brown eyeshadow in the middle of the eyelid gives a shadow effect. Finally, divide the eyelids into three equal parts, and give a little tear effect at 1/3 of the eye. After completing the most important work of the eyes, apply false eyelashes, draw a little light eyeliner to make the eye contour deeper, add a little blush, and the whole makeup is almost done, and finally modify the eyebrow shape with the eyebrow clip, and the face is done.

When Cheng Xiaoyu turned around to find the comb, there were already a few girls around him. Someone else asked Xia Shamo, is this a professional makeup artist you hired? Cheng Xiaoyu listened to a black line.

Cheng Xiaoyu borrowed a comb and a blow dryer, first blew wavy bangs with Xia Shamo, qualitatively used spray, and tied a double ponytail with a crimson head rope. Yes, the double ponytail is purely to satisfy Cheng Xiaoyu's own little reverie, but fortunately, at this time, Xia Shamo, who is extremely talented, can easily interpret the beauty of double ponytails that is difficult for ordinary beauties to control.

Cheng Xiaoyu asked Xia Shamo to take off her down jacket and stand up to take a look, and the slender Xia Shamo took off her down jacket, revealing a pearl-white satin cheongsam like a radiant color, and the exclamations around her immediately rang out. Xia Shamo hurriedly put on the down jacket again, for fear that more people would come to watch.

Cheng Xiaoyu touched his chin and thought that such a Xia Shamo could probably threaten Su Yuxi's status as the goddess of Fudan. smiled happily, Xia Shamo at this time was like a flawless and beautiful work of art completed by his own hands, which made him feel a different sense of satisfaction.

Waiting for the people around him to disperse, Cheng Xiaoyu finished the last thing, put a teardrop-shaped diamond patch under Xia Shamo's eyes, carefully looked at Xia Shamo's face, felt flawless, took out JIMMYCHOO's crystal shoes, and said to Xia Shamo, "Put it on, Cinderella, the dance is about to start, you will be the most beautiful focus." ”

Xia Shamo took the shoes, and obviously the dazzling crystal slippers flashed a little into her eyes. She squinted her eyes and said to Cheng Xiaoyu through those flickering colorful lights, "I'm not the prince's Cinderella, I'm SUMMER, Xia Shamo." ”

Cheng Xiaoyu looked at Xia Shamo and smiled happily, and said softly, "Forever summer?"

Xia Shamo, who was putting on her shoes, didn't hear this whisper.

Finally, Cinderella puts on her crystal slipper, and the ball is about to begin.