Thirteen Bass

Lin Chu performed throughout the final day of the Venice Music Festival.

The afterparty that night was extremely lively, both Qi Sinian and Lin Chu drank some wine.Later, Lin Chu got impatient with socializing, so he called Qi Sinian and Bai Lang to a private room upstairs to chat.

This room has a large terrace overlooking the brightly lit Grand Canal of Venice. Those bright waterways are intertwined and complicated, flowing into the distance and merging into the dark Mediterranean Sea, like holding up the moonlight on the sea together.

There was a large hanging chair on the terrace, and Lin Chu was lazily nestling on it.

He was not in a good mood. In the performance just now, he, who claimed to have zero mistakes, made a few mispronunciations—all very low-level mistakes.

Bai Lang guessed that he and Qi Sinian had something to say, so he went downstairs to get some fruit, deliberately waited in the house for a while, and then walked back to the terrace.When he pressed the doorknob, he heard Qi Sinian interrupt Lin Chu and said, "...I think you really need to stop and take a rest."

Bai Lang was a little surprised, and looked towards Lin Chu, only to see that he closed his eyes and didn't speak, as if he was extremely tired and exhausted. After a while, he lifted his eyes weakly and looked at Qi Sinian: "Resting allows me to understand Beethoven." The essence of popping up the perfect crescendo line from ppp to fff? What if the holiday is over and the last touch is gone.”

At this time, when he saw Bai Lang walking in, he laughed at himself and said: "A few days ago, I asked Xiao Bai if he liked me. As a senior, it was really a joke."

"Why do you say that, Mr. Lin, I have always liked you very much." Bai Lang looked at him seriously, "You are Harvey Lin who can beat a symphony orchestra with a piano, no one has ever dared to doubt you Professional standard."

Qi Sinian put the cup in his hand on the table, smiled slightly, with a calm and soft expression, and said: "A musical instrument is just a container for carrying music. There is always a limit to the amplitude that black and white keys can bear, but the emotions in the heart are infinite." Touching, Lin Chu."

This kind of truth should have been the first lesson every performer learned when they were young, but with the practice day after day in the severe cold and scorching heat, it was left behind by many people.

Lin Chu was in a daze for a moment, turned over and sat up.Then he let out a long breath that sounded like a sigh.

At this moment, there was a burst of lively laughter from the hall downstairs.

No one spoke for a while, only the evening wind mixed with the smell of sea salt blew a poster hanging on the outside of the terrace - it was Lin Chu's performance poster tonight.

Bai Lang had seen this poster before. It showed a forest after the rain and ruins covered with moss. Lin, a world-renowned Chinese musician, was wearing a white suit, sitting in front of a piano surrounded by vines and playing with his eyes closed.It happened that a beam of sunlight shone through his head on his hands, which looked like a holy lily blooming on top of the ruins.

"I originally thought that I would dedicate all my life's passion to music..." Lin Chu stood up and walked to the edge of the terrace, facing the gentle sea breeze and said, "But now I think you are right, Qi Sinian .Enthusiasm will always dry up, maybe enjoying a pleasant intermission can make people feel more happy."

Qi Sinian nodded and said: "You are too tense, you really should stop and take a rest. This is not a big deal in the first place."

Bai Lang raised the glass filled with iced juice and took a sip, blinked his eyes and smiled slightly: "Mr. Lin, I don't think music is necessarily on the black and white keys. It can be in the mountains, it can be in the sky, or it can be in the sea." .The harmony of voices in nature, or... the unexpected love, always give people a steady stream of musical inspiration. This is what you need, right?"

Lin Chu was taken aback for a moment, looked at Bai Lang, then at Qi Sinian, and his smile became a little more real: "It's a very romantic idea. Well, I'm convinced, it's really desirable."

Qi Sinian didn't speak, but picked up the glass and clinked it with Bai Lang, then reached out to stroke his hair, and smiled slightly.

The next few days seemed to go by very fast.

The Venice Music Festival is over.Lin Chu left Venice before them—he still had a lot of itineraries that had been set in advance, and he didn't have the right to leave as soon as he said it.

Unlike Lin Chu, Bai Lang and Qi Sinian appeared to be very relaxed.It took them a whole week to travel hundreds of kilometers from Venice to the Amalfi Coast and finally arrived at their destination, Positano.

Bai Lang sometimes even felt that such a beautiful day with deep affection would go on forever, until one afternoon, he received a call from Bruno, the operator of the E group.

Bruno first congratulated him on the unprecedented success of his European debut. After saying a few words, he mentioned that Bernstein's body has almost recovered.

This phone call completely brought Bai Lang back to reality.

He knew that the vacation time was running out, so he couldn't help sighing after putting down his phone, turned around and lay down on the white brick railing of the balcony, staring at the endless blue Mediterranean Sea in a daze.

Qi Sinian came over with ice water in his hand, and a glass bowl in his other hand, which contained neatly cut oranges and blueberries.

He asked Bai Lang, "What's wrong?"

The air is filled with the scent of lemons, and the clear and hot sunlight shatters the splendor of summer, flowing over the entire stretch of Amalfi's vast coastline, and also makes Qi Sinian's eyebrows look handsome.

The moment he saw Qi Sinian, Bai Lang couldn't help but smile.He opened his arms, hugged Qi Sinian's waist and buried his face in his arms, then shook his head.

Qi Sinian didn't ask any further questions, but just lowered his head and kissed Bai Lang's nose, and basked in the sun quietly with him for a while. He seemed to feel that it was too hot, so he unbuttoned the shirt slowly, took off his shirt, and threw it away. on the chair, and said at the same time: "Is it hot? Do you want to go swimming?"

After a while, Bai Lang said in a muffled voice, "I don't want to go."

Qi Sinian touched Bai Lang's scorched face with his palm, and asked in surprise, "Just now you said you wanted to go diving, why are you unhappy now?"

Bai Lang raised his head and said bluntly, "I'm afraid I won't have so much time with you when I go back."

"We will always be together after we go back." Qi Sinian thought for a while before he understood what he was worried about, smiled, and said in a low and pleasant voice, "When Mahler's fifth row is about the same, I will take you back to Switzerland ,OK?"

Bai Lang's eyes lit up immediately.

He turned around and lay on Qi Sinian's body, controlled his expression not to look too excited, and said, "Chief, isn't your home in Switzerland... very big?"

The place where the two skins touched soon became sweaty, Qi Sinian changed his posture, and said along with his words amusedly: "It's okay. A two-story house with a garden, do you think it's big enough? "

Bai Lang said in a serious tone: "It's huge. I've never lived in such a big house."

Qi Sinian laughed, then suppressed his smile, deliberately shook his head and said, "I think it's still a bit small. At that time, in order to make room for the piano room, only one bedroom was reserved."

"It doesn't matter, I can sleep in the master bedroom." Bai Lang pulled his hand cheekily, "It's too big for one person, but it's just right for two people. Do you think I'm right?"

Qi Sinian couldn't help laughing out loud.He lowered his gaze, took a piece of fruit with a fork and handed it to Bai Lang's mouth, and said, "You're right. I'll wait for you to come and live with me, okay?"

Bai Lang was a little shy, but he still nodded contentedly.He smiled and opened his mouth to eat the fruit, then stuck out his tongue to lick the crystal clear juice on the fork.

Qi Sinian kept his eyes on his face, and now he smiled slightly, touching Bai Lang's wet lips with his thumb, and helped him wipe off the water from the corners of his lips.

The sun above his head seemed to melt Bai Lang's heart. He saw that Qi Sinian was completely shrouded in the clear and scorching sunlight of the Mediterranean Sea, and his hair and naked upper body were outlined in bright gold.

Bai Lang couldn't help opening his mouth to enclose Qi Sinian's fingers, circling his fingertips with his tongue, and gently nibbled on Qi Sinian's knuckles with his teeth.

Qi Sinian smiled, hugged Bai Lang's waist tightly, let him lie on his lap, and carefully fed him the leftover fruit.

The fruit in the glass bowl was not eaten much and was quickly knocked over to the ground.

Bai Lang raised his head and kissed Qi Sinian deeply.

As the place that has been selected as the most spectacular coast in Europe for many years, Amalfi has a typical southern European style: one side is sunshine, sea water and soft white sandy beaches, and the other side is towering cliffs.The winding and narrow winding mountain road connects one flower town after another with a Mediterranean style.

These coastal towns are built along the cliffs, completely covering the entire hillside.Living here, as long as you open the window, you can see the diamond-like luster of the blue Mediterranean Sea in the sun, as well as the seagulls constantly circling and flying high.

Summer is the peak season in Amalfi, and you can see Europeans enjoying the sun and vacation everywhere.Colorful parasols are lined up on the beach, white sails are dotted on the sea in the distance, and speedboats pull out white arcs one after another.

Qi Sinian and Bai Lang lived near the top of the mountain in Positano, and to get to the center of the town, they had to walk through the long down alleys.

Walking on the steps full of flowers, the green vines climbing on the stone houses on both sides stretched wantonly in the midsummer sun, and time seemed to melt and become very slow.

Bai Lang took a deep breath of the air full of sea salt and lemon fragrance, and felt that the original worries and worries were just asking for troubles, which were totally worthless.

——Bai Lang, you already have everything you want, and your future will be accompanied by music and lovers all the way. Is there anyone happier than you in the world?

Thinking of this, he felt a joy that could not be described in words suddenly surged in his heart. He couldn't help but take a deep breath, then jumped up, strode down from the steps with big strides, and rushed to the road with the help of the mountain. Lie on the railing by the side of the road panting and laughing loudly.

He saw that the sky was as blue as washing, as if he could touch the white clouds in the sky as soon as he stretched out his hand.The shadows of the clouds move slowly, gently slashing across the blooming rose waterfall on the stone wall.

And Qi Sinian was standing under the flower wall, raised his gaze, and looked at Bai Lang with a smile.

Miraculously, when they looked at each other, all the bright backgrounds turned into blurred lights and shadows, and only Qi Sinian's tall and straight figure was real and eye-catching.

"Aren't you too hot to come out?" Qi Sinian asked him.

Bai Lang's bright eyes kept looking at him, and he said loudly: "I changed my mind. I suddenly felt that I wanted to see you so much, so I came to look for you."

When he said "very special", he pronounced his words very heavily, with a strong sense of coquettishness.Qi Sinian laughed a little when he heard that, and took two steps forward, walked directly below Bai Lang and looked up at him: "I'm buying gelato for you, do you want to eat?"

Bai Lang nodded: "What flavor is it?"

Qi Sinian said: "Of course it's pistachio flavored. It's just that this flavor doesn't seem to be popular here in Amalfi. I only found this one that sells it."

Bai Lang stepped on the bottom of the railing, and leaned out half of his body: "I want to eat now."

"Then you go down the stairs over there." Qi Sinian said.

The smile on Bai Lang's face couldn't be contained. He grabbed the railing with both hands and said loudly, "No. I can't wait any longer. I'm going to jump off. Follow me."

Qi Sinian wanted to stop him, but Bai Lang had already jumped over the railing with a smile, opened his arms, and jumped down fearlessly.

Qi Sinian had no choice but to immediately reach out to pick it up.

In the next second, Bai Lang fell into Qi Sinian's arms, and Qi Sinian took two steps back to stabilize the two of them.

They hugged each other tightly in the sun, and Bai Lang heard Qi Sinian's strong heartbeat.

"Bai Lang, this is too dangerous." Qi Sinian said to him after he calmed down.

Bai Lang buried his head in his chest, and suddenly burst into a muffled laugh, his body also trembled.Then he whispered: "Chief, I really love you."

Qi Sinian didn't speak any more.

After a long time, his palm touched Bai Lang's waistline and stroked downwards, and then he hit his butt so hard that Bai Lang grunted before replying in a soft and deep voice: "I love you too." you."

The author says:

Note:

[1]intermission: It refers specifically to the long intermission between plays and concerts.

Then Lin Chu will go to New Zealand, where he will meet his love, and that will be another story.

Sicily is not written (because the author himself has not been there), it will end in Amalfi.

I did not expect so many readers to read the article that was prepared for the sky. I am very satisfied. Thank you everyone!