Thirteen Bass

Breakfast is typical continental, milk on toast and fried eggs with bacon.

Bai Lang sat at the dining table, looking out through the French doors.

Qi Sinian brought him a glass of milk and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Elder will immerse himself in his music for a long time when he is in a good mood. He avoids the city and the crowds and lives here just to enjoy the world of the Alps With the sun and the moon. For him, there is nothing more enjoyable than a dialogue with nature through music."

Bai Lang took a sip of the milk and sighed sincerely: "This is the ultimate harmony color he pursues."

Qi Sinian looked up at him, and commented: "It's also a kind of extreme synesthesia aesthetics."

Bai Lang took a bite of the crispy toast, narrowed his eyes and sighed: "I don't know why, but it's really admirable."

He put down the glass, and suddenly found that Qi Sinian's gaze fell on his face, smiled and pointed to the corner of his mouth, reached out and took out a tissue and handed it to him.

Bai Lang was stunned for a moment before taking the tissue, turned on the phone camera to take a picture, and found two white milk stains on his mouth that were particularly eye-catching, he licked it with the tip of his tongue embarrassingly, then lowered his head and wiped it with the tissue.

Qi Sinian kept looking at him, and after a while, he suddenly asked, "What do you mean by 'I don't know what's going on'?"

"..." Bai Lang put down the tissue in his hand and looked at him, then laughed out loud.

After breakfast, Bai Lang went out to play Frisbee with the two dogs for a while. When he returned to the house, he found that Elder Armor had returned and was sitting in front of the piano, playing a song from Bai Lang An unheard, soothing and soft tune.

Tamino and Pamina walked gently to their master and lay quietly beside him.

Sunshine came in from the window, the light was soft, and the gray-haired old man looked relaxed and extremely happy. The dust particles jumping in the air surrounded his body, as if separating him from the outside world by an invisible wall.

Bai Lang stood and listened for a while, then walked forward to Qi Sinian's side.Qi Sinian looked back at him with a smile, raised a finger to his lips, and made a "shh" gesture.

Bai Lang nodded, opened the door softly and went to the balcony, then turned around and closed the door of the room, through the glass door, the piano sound became very soft.

Bai Lang said: "Although I knew before that musicians and writers like to live in seclusion in their later years, but before today, I have never been able to imagine what their lives were like. It turns out that..."

Bai Lang paused for a moment, not knowing how to describe it, and finally he could only say, "It's such a pure feeling."

Qi Sinian smiled, and only asked, "Are you envious?"

Bai Lang lifted his head vigorously and took a breath of the mountain air, thought for a while, and answered honestly: "A little bit."

Qi Sinian looked forward and said, "Elder is very lonely, but also very happy."

Bai Lang looked at Qi Sinian's profile: "I'm lonely because I don't have any companions, and I'm happy because he still has music. Is that right?"

"He once had everything." Qi Sinian seemed to be a little emotional, but he didn't want to say any more, and said in a gentle voice, "So let's not disturb his happiness, okay? The nearby Hallstatt is the best season, Don't want to go and see?"

Bai Lang's eyes crooked with a smile: "Chief, are you inviting me to go with you?"

Qi Sinian's smile also became more obvious: "Yeah, I'm also afraid of being lonely, so please accompany me to live by Lake Hallstatt for a few days, would you like to?"

Bai Lang cleared his throat and replied, "Okay, then I agree. In order to repay me - you have to cook for me every day."

After speaking, he felt embarrassed himself, covered his face and laughed.

After a while, I heard Qi Sinian say: "Okay."

When going up the mountain, both of them only brought simple luggage, so it seemed easy to go down the mountain.

Bai Lang followed behind Qi Sinian and walked towards the station.Looking back, I can still see Elder Armor standing in front of the house.It was the same as when we first met yesterday, with glasses on his nose and a newspaper in his hand. When he was not wearing a tuxedo, he looked like an ordinary old man.

Tamino and Pamina showed reluctance to leave them, ran out to chase a few steps, returned to the owner's side, and watched them go away with their tongues out.

The red steam train came with a car full of sunshine. Coincidentally, when going down the mountain, I met the old couple from yesterday again.

This time the old gentleman took the initiative to say hello to Qi Sinian, his wife looked at Bai Lang and smiled, and said something.Bai Lang didn't understand, but Qi Sinian responded with a smile, and said to him: "Madam knows that Elder's guests are musicians, and she calls you 'Young Der Rosenkavalier'."

Bai Lang was taken aback for a moment, he finally understood the word.In the opera "Der Rosenkavalier", the 17-year-old earl won the heart of a beautiful girl with the rose that symbolizes love in his hand and his appearance that is even better than the rose.

He immediately remembered that he was actually holding a bouquet of roses in his hand when he came up.

Bai Lang smiled at the lady, leaned into Qi Sinian's ear and said, "Then tell her for me, thank you for the compliment from this beautiful lady. When I come here next time, I will definitely visit her personally Coffee house, present her a song "Rose Knight."

Qi Sinian blinked in surprise, and said, "MaestroBai, such a gentleman? I haven't even heard your "Rose Knight."

Bai Lang thought for a while, looked up at him, and said innocently, "I've never heard of you either."

Qi Sinian glanced at him, and then translated Bai Lang's words to the lady. Sure enough, the other party showed a very happy smile after hearing it, and kept saying to him regardless of whether Bai Lang understood or not. As he spoke, he took out a piece of rose sugar from his handbag and gave it to Bai Lang.

Bai Lang had no choice but to accept it, and thanked her politely.

Finally, they bid farewell to the elderly couple who were about to go on vacation at the station.The lady pointed to Bai Lang and asked Qi Sinian what he wanted.After hearing this, Qi Sinian showed a helpless expression, didn't say anything, just shook his head with a smile.

Bai Lang kept looking at Qi Sinian's face, and when the couple disappeared from sight, he asked curiously, "What did she ask you?"

Qi Sinian put his hands in his pockets, was silent for a while, and said, "It's just ordinary greetings."

Bai Lang didn't believe it, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only complain in a low voice: "It's inconvenient not knowing German."

Qi Sinian said, "Your English is enough."

"But I want to talk to everyone freely like you." Bai Lang looked at Qi Sinian, "Chief, why don't you teach me German? How about a sentence of Chinese for a sentence of German?"

Unexpectedly, Qi Sinian shook his head and said, "It's not that good. It's not fair to trade my Chinese for your German."

Bai Lang was taken aback for a moment, and didn't realize that he was joking until he saw the smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I'm also quick at learning languages." Bai Lang said, "Being my German teacher will definitely give me a sense of accomplishment."

The corners of Qi Sinian's eyes were bent, and his tone was gentle but stubborn: "Would you consider a German teacher for that song "Rose Knight?"

"Why are you still thinking about this?" Bai Lang felt that the teasing in his tone was too strong, he couldn't help but blushed again, and murmured, "I think your Chinese is very good, you don't need to learn it at all."

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[1] DerRosenkavalier: It is called "Rose Knight", an opera by Richard Strauss.In order to distinguish the following tracks, German and Chinese are used respectively.There is a waltz in it. I remember it was played at a concert in Berlin. The title of the piece at that time was "Rose Knight Waltz". I like it very much.I did hear the violin arrangement for solo a few years ago, but I can't find it now, so let it be an overhead track.

Austria and Switzerland are both German-speaking areas.But their German is accented and different.

I will talk about this later.

This is a novel, so let’s assume that Gong is a language genius who can speak German with any accent (.)

Well, the two musicians are leaving Salzburg. As usual, we will post some photos I took in this place on Weibo. They are all things that have appeared in the article. If you are interested, you can take a look