Pied Piper (2)
"People can't always live in fantasy, one day they have to face reality." Qiao Yan persuaded Wan Xing.
Wan Xing's expression was uneasy. "Just let me fantasize about it for a little more time, the reality is too cruel, I don't want to face it so early."
Qiao Yan sighed slightly. "Reality is not necessarily cruel, maybe it is beautiful."
"Have you ever seen a picture of Babe's mother?" Wan Xing suddenly asked.
Qiao Yan shook her head.
Wan Xing opened her computer folder, took a photo from it, and opened it. "This is Beibei's mother, I secretly retook the photo with my mobile phone."
Qiao Yan leaned over to take a look, and in the photo was a very young girl, standing on a rock by the sea, standing in the wind, her long hair flying, and the girl was smiling sweetly and charmingly. Qiao Yan stared at the girl carefully, with bright eyes and bright teeth, a clever smile, and a variety of graces and charms. Beibei's mother is so beautiful, no wonder Zhong Kai is so obsessed with her and unforgettable.
Wan Xing smiled bitterly. "See, why I think reality is cruel and not beautiful. Zhong Kai kept this photo on the small table at the head of his bed, and I sneaked in to see it when I passed by his room that day. Beibei's mother's name is Liang Xiaoliang,
Even the name is elegant. When I saw this picture, I knew I was out of action. There is a difference between me and the type he likes. ”
Qiao Yan suddenly felt a strange sourness in her heart, although Wan Xing was indifferent on the surface, she was actually very proud in her bones, but now she lost her self-confidence because of a photo, and after meeting Zhong Kai, she lowered her posture and went down to the dust. In order to hide this sour emotion, Qiao Yan brushed her hair, and said with a quick smile: "Don't think of Zhong Kai as so superficial, maybe he pays more attention to spiritual connection rather than judging people by their appearance." By the way, what concert are you going to see tonight? If it weren't for taking Yu Chihong to meet her parents at night, she would also like to go to a concert with Yu Chihong to relive the romantic feelings she had when she was intoxicated with "The Lover Under the Roses".
"I don't know, just follow along." Wan Xing is not interested in music, she is purely there to accompany Zhong Kai and Beibei.
After Wei Chihong returned to the Public Security Bureau from the hospital, he had a busy business, and he agreed with Qiao Yan to arrive at Qiao's Mansion together at about half past nine in the evening, and Qiao Yan also told Zhuo Yiqin in advance. Wei Chihong was busy until more than 8 o'clock in the evening, and he didn't even have time to eat dinner, so he just nibbled on a piece of bread, and hurried to the pier with Qiao Yan to take the ferry.
At this time, Wan Xingzheng and Bei Bei were watching the special concert of the "Silk and Bamboo Shen Yun" flute performance troupe in the Zhulang Island Concert Hall. Before the concert began, Zhong Kai suddenly received a call from the hospital that a patient needed him to undergo immediate surgery. He had no choice but to hand over Bei Bei to Wan Xing and rush to the hospital by himself.
This concert is public benefit and does not require a ticket. There are staff responsible for distributing tickets at the entrance of the concert hall, and the audience is on a first-come, first-served basis.
This ensemble is a group of students from various schools in Haidu and has a history of more than 10 years. In various national authoritative competitions, the troupe has won many battles and won gold medals. At present, there are nearly 100 members in the ensemble, the oldest of whom is in high school, and the youngest is a preschooler. Ke Yifei, the tutor of the orchestra, is a very famous bamboo flute player in Haidu, with a large number of fans, and he has also made great achievements in the field of teaching, and has won the Yucai Achievement Award and the Outstanding Tutor Award.
Due to the fame of the orchestra, it attracted many students from music schools, as well as children and parents studying music, and the concert hall was full, and many children who did not have tickets could only sit on the trapezoidal steps of the aisle, which was full of people.
Wan Xing and Bei Bei sat in the sixth row, Wan Xing absentmindedly fiddled with the concert ticket in his hand, the ticket was very special, it was in the shape of a foot. But her interest is not in the ticket, Zhong Kai's departure caused her to be uninterested, and she couldn't arouse any interest.
The concert program is rich and diverse, including soloists, ensembles, ensembles, etc. Conductor Ke Yifei is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a Chinese dress, handsome and full of spirit. His conductor is passionate, has a lot of movements, and likes to step on his feet and beat with his feet. He also turned around from time to time during the conducting process, leading the audience to step on the beat together.
"Sister Wanxing, that commanding uncle is smiling at me." Bei Bei tugged at Wanxing's sleeve, she looked very excited, and kept stepping on her feet.
Wan Xing lazily raised his eyelids, and the conductor Ke Yifei did smile brightly at where they were. She just glanced indifferently and continued her bored daze.
The final 100-member bamboo flute ensemble set off the climax of the audience, and nearly 100 young musicians of the orchestra all took the stage, and the scene was extremely spectacular. The bamboo flute ensemble is a major feature of the "Silk and Bamboo Shen Yun" flute performance troupe, and this form can be said to be Ke Yifei's originality. Usually you can only see the bamboo flute solo or the ensemble of other ethnic instruments, and nearly 100 people play the bamboo flute on the stage together, which is really rare.
Hundreds of young musicians played a strong, passionate and unrestrained tone, which was very penetrating, making the whole concert hall enthusiastic and surging. Under Ke Yifei's passionate command, the little musicians stomped their feet while playing, and the audience was also excited to step on their feet.
At nearly 9 p.m., the one-and-a-half-hour concert came to an end with a rousing melody and long-lasting applause. There are LED displays on all four walls of the concert hall, and when it is time to finish, the shapes of feet suddenly appear on the displays on all four sides
Under the command of Ke Yifei, the musicians on the stage also played the bamboo flute again.
Wan Xing took Beibei's hand and walked out of the audience, the accident happened at this time, she felt that the crowd in the aisle suddenly became crowded, she bent down to protect Beibei, shouting "Don't squeeze", I don't know who replied: "It's not me who squeezed, it was the people behind who bumped into it." ”
The crowd became more and more crowded, and Wan Xing had no choice but to pick up Beibei, she was wearing a long skirt that almost mopped the floor, and it was not easy to move, and she was even more stumbling at this time. But in a matter of seconds, a huge push pushed her and Bebe forward, and there was a noise and screaming in the crowd
and the sound of crying, her feet were basically suspended, her mind was blank, she just subconsciously hugged Beibei, and the two of them were pushed forward by the crowd together, and slammed out of the side door of the concert hall, outside was a narrow corridor, and the crowded situation had not been changed
Good. Bei Bei was already so frightened that she cried out, hugging Wanxing's neck with both hands. Wan Xing was thin and small, and hugged Bei Bei again, and his body gradually couldn't bear it, and he couldn't breathe. There is a partition wall on the right-hand side, and behind the partition wall is a passage that leads to the backstage dressing room, actors' lounge, etc. The passage was equivalent to the height of the mezzanine, and it was a flight of stairs down to the first floor, where a small door opened directly to the outside of the concert hall, which was not connected to the corridor where Wanxing and the others were.
At this moment, a young musician in a performance costume ran from the direction of the backstage, poked his head out from behind the partition wall, and anxiously watched the crowd below crowd and push, but could not do anything.
Wan Xing's eyes were sharp, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the young man, and shouted in a hurry: "Do me a favor and pick up the child." "The wall is too smooth to climb, but with Bebe lifted up, you should be able to barely reach the top.
The boy above immediately leaned out half of his body and stretched out his arms.
"I'm not going up." Beibei couldn't stop crying.
"Bei Bei is obedient, you go up first, I'll look for you right away." Wan Xing was so anxious that her voice was hoarse, she coaxed with good words, and almost used all her strength to lift Bei Bei high above her head along the wall. The people behind kept pushing Wanxing, she couldn't stand anymore, her feet and skirt kept being trampled on, and the long skirt slipped down, she didn't care about it at all, she just desperately lifted Bei Bei up. While shouting: "Reach out and let my brother pull you up." ”
Bei Bei twitched and stretched out her hands upward, and the young man's body leaned down further, and finally grabbed Bei Bei's hands, and dragged her over the partition wall with force, and the two of them fell down the passage together.
Wanxing's skirt had been completely dragged to the ground, and as soon as Beibei's body broke away from her hand, she was suddenly rushed forward by the flow of people, stepped on her skirt, and the whole person rushed forward, fell, and suffered a merciless trampling on her back, and then someone fell on top of her, and the crowd fell down layer by layer. Wan Xing lay on the ground, a mouthful of blood vomited out, her whole body hurt as if her bones were broken, and a black mist suddenly surged up in front of her eyes, obscuring her vision......
At 9:20 in the evening, Yu Chihong and Qiao Yan stepped on Zhulang Island and walked hand in hand in the direction of Qiao's Mansion. On the way, I saw many people walking in a hurry, and I vaguely heard people say that "something big happened to the concert hall". Wei Chihong pulled a pedestrian and asked what was wrong, and the other party said that there was a crowded stampede in the concert hall, which seemed to be very serious.
"Oh no, Wan Xing went to the concert with Zhong Kai and Bei Bei tonight." Qiao Yan was shocked.
"What kind of concert are they going to?" Wei Chihong asked urgently.
Qiao Yan shook her head blankly. "I don't know, and Wanxing himself doesn't know."
"I'll go and see, and you can go back first." Yu Chihong took Qiao Yan's hand and sighed dejectedly, "It's really unfortunate, I have repeatedly disappointed your mother, I don't know what to do." ”
"I'm going to the concert hall with you." Qiao Yan put her other hand on the back of his hand, "I'll explain it to my mother, don't worry." ”