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

I don’t know how many phone calls I answered on the way, and how many text messages I responded to. But in fact, Cheng Xiaoyu felt quite confident in his heart. After all, their program was still far away, but this was a serious form of unorganized and disciplinary behavior.

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

Cheng Xiaoyu and Xia Shamo were just about to be dismantled and made into specimens by the head teacher Wang Wei. Fortunately, Teacher Ji Xin was sitting on the podium, otherwise there would be another person who would make Cheng Xiaoyu fall apart. Cheng Xiaoyu and Teacher Ji sent text messages and talked about it, and they

Xia Shamo walked backstage.

The backstage was messy, with some people still applying makeup, some standing in the corner reciting lines, and some whispering. There were two blond foreigners wearing European aristocratic costumes. They were singing Romeo and Juliet from the Gucci Private School. There were also people wearing clothes.

Zhao Yun's Peking Opera costume was for Sun Zihao from his school singing "Chang Ban Slope". People of all kinds were running around in the background, which was a world of ice and fire compared to the calmness in front of the stage.

Until Chen Jiajun, who was announcing the curtain, read loudly, "Now I invite Su Yuxi from Class 2(3) of the High School Affiliated to Fudan University to perform a program, a piano solo "The Bell"." Suddenly the entire backstage fell silent, and many actors turned to both sides of the backstage.

The curtain is squeezed past, and that's the only place backstage where you can watch the performance.

Cheng Xiaoyu took the opportunity to pull out 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 he heard a thunderous sound from the audience.

applause.

Cheng Xiaoyu could imagine Su Yuxi standing by the piano and bowing in thanks, then sitting on the sofa, raising her long, slender hands and jumping quickly on the black and white keys.

Cheng Xiaoyu is also familiar with this piece of music and has practiced it before. Liszt made it very clear when he adapted the Rondo of the third movement of Paganini's virtuosic "Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor" into "The Bell".

Only a very small number of people have the ability to play such an etude..." Therefore, "The Bell" may be the most difficult of all piano works and requires the most advanced performance skills to support it.

Cheng Xiaoyu pricked up his ears, closed his eyes and listened carefully to Su Yuxi's performance. At the beginning of the music, after a concise prelude, the "Theme of the Bell" soon appeared in the climax area, with the crisp and sweet timbre and overtone playing of the piano's high register.

It forms a short and powerful sound, forming a series of vivid and realistic ringing of small bells. Since the timbre of the piano's high range is easier to imitate the sound of bells than the violin, the effect of the bells is more obvious. The next theme (1=b4/6

) continues to use the timbre characteristics of the piano's high range to play bells with different rhythms. The alternating variations of these two themes form a difficult, brilliant and gorgeous passage.

"The Bell" mainly uses variation techniques, consisting of alternating variations on two themes. Its highly difficult technical content includes: one-handed staccato with extremely large intervals, agile jumps in long-distance intervals, rapid repetitions of octaves, and simultaneous one-handed

Melody and vibrato, fast running sound groups, etc. Su Yuxi was flawless in the performance of these difficult skills. Take the one-handed extreme interval staccato as an example, any mistake in the high range is obvious, like

The clock suddenly malfunctioned, and the jumping range far exceeded the limit that human hands could reach. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve high accuracy without practicing for a long time. Moreover, Liszt required that the melody part sound be highlighted, that is to say

, not only must the dance be accurate, more or less is not allowed, but in the end the main melody must be highlighted. In some places, there are also big dances with decorative sounds, which is really difficult! At least Cheng Xiaoyu is not perfect yet.

Do it.

Su Yuxi's superb piano skills are not only reflected in the mastery of skills. She makes the whole performance full of pictures. At the beginning, through the ethereal octave, Cheng Xiaoyu can hear the faint sound of bells in the distance through the sound of wind. That kind of

The charming slight sound heralds the beginning of a gorgeous feast for the listener; the beautiful melody is played slowly through the root note of the octave, and the transparent crown note vividly depicts the "ding-dong" of various bells of different sizes striking each other.

", in the cordial call of Bing Bing in his left hand, Cheng Xiaoyu seemed to feel the wonderful momentary illusion of gurgling water from the performer's meticulous keyboard playing; the swinging rhythm, changing texture, and peaking skills will

The music is as colorful as soap bubbles and bizarre headdresses. With the contrast of harmonic color writing, crisp decorative sounds and light sound patterns are sung in harmony, bringing together the festive and enthusiastic humorous atmosphere in endless motion.

The passionate rotation, exquisite playing techniques, accurate poetic expression, and distinctive danceability made Cheng Xiaoyu's imagination rise to a climax like a storm.

More than four minutes of playing completely changed Cheng Xiaoyu's impression of this piece. He originally thought that Liszt adapted this piece just to show off, because the difficult skills it required were really daunting. But after hearing this

After Su Yuxi played it, he discovered the extreme beauty of this piece, and this beauty can only be expressed by very few people.

The sound of the piano stopped, and there was a storm of applause outside. In this era, there are far more people who know how to appreciate classical music than in previous generations. Of course, everyone still knows how well they play. What's more, due to the limitations of innate conditions, famous people

There are only a few female pianists, and people like Su Yuxi are really rare. Her performance of "The Bell" alone can barely be considered a master level, and she is still such a beautiful adult.

How could she not be sought after and welcomed? "The Artist" once invited Su Yuxi to do an exclusive interview with her, but Su Yuxi declined. She felt that her skills were not qualified to be featured in such a top magazine, but she didn't know her own skills.

The value is not just about the piano.

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

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

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled bitterly and said, "I originally thought that the gap between her and me was not that big, but now it seems that I have underestimated her and overestimated myself. I have begun to doubt whether I am suitable for playing the piano."

Xia Shamo smiled and said, "You are wrong to think so. Everyone's talents are in different directions. I think Su Yuxi definitely doesn't have your talent. So here she can only play other people's music. But we are different."

Ah, 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 will tell them later that there are 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 had a single ponytail, a white knee-length gauze skirt, and her feet were glowing

Wearing silver patent leather high heels, she was thanking the applauding actors. There was no makeup on her face. To her, this was just an ordinary performance.

Su Yuxi also saw Cheng Xiaoyu, hesitated and walked over, and said in a voice as light as snowflakes, "How are the preparations?"

Cheng Xiaoyu was a little dazed. He didn't expect that this sister would talk to him out of character. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you asking me?"

Su Yuxi nodded. The boys around him were breathing rapidly. Su Yuxi actually asked a fat man something. This scene was so beautiful that they didn't dare to look at it.

Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "It's okay. It shouldn't be embarrassing."

Su Yuxi didn't show any encouraging smile or anything like that. She said flatly, "Then keep going." The look between her brows was ordinary politeness, and then she 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 troubles you, just give in and she won't really do anything to you.

"

Cheng Xiaoyu felt that this sentence was the focus of her entire dialogue, and it somewhat meant that he was more sinister than good. Cold sweat broke out on his head, and he nodded.

Cheng Xiaoyu turned around and thought again, what am I afraid of as a big man, and what can a little girl do to him? Feeling at ease, he asked Xia Shamo to lean her face over, and he helped Xia Shamo put on makeup.

Xia Shamo also asked a rare gossip, "Do you know each other?"

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

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

The current makeup habits of this era still tend to favor heavy makeup, especially stage costumes. Many actresses put on thick powder, heavy eye makeup and blush. This is extremely rustic in Cheng Xiaoyu's eyes.

When they went out to perform, the makeup of Cheng Xiaoyu and his band were all painted by Cheng Xiaoyu. Not to mention that Cheng Xiaoyu was not mainstream, he actually played visual kei for a while, but visual kei was ruined by domestic non-mainstream, so he had to give up. (Japan)

The origin of visual kei is glam rock. Many people always confuse it with heavy metal punk. This means that the style is easy to confuse. In terms of music style, punk is actually noise, while the music style of Japanese visual kei is all-encompassing. In fact,

Visual kei is closer to Gothic in terms of appearance. Don’t substitute the domestic image of village cannons, shearing and blowing. The distance between the two is about the same as the distance between Gao Yuanyuan and Sister Feng in appearance. In other words, there is no money to play in visual kei.

You can’t do it without superb makeup skills)

Here, Cheng Xiaoyu did not intend to apply an exaggerated makeup like Xia Shamo, but instead used tear makeup. Xia Shamo was already delicate enough, and heavy makeup would only cover her beauty, so she only needed to apply a little foundation to increase the beauty.

Glossiness of the skin. In order to achieve the shining effect of the whole eye, apply pearlescent eyeshadow on the entire eyelid. Although it is only one color, it can fully retain the tear effect. Use natural brown eyeshadow to slightly apply it in the middle of the eyelid to give a shadow effect. Finally, apply

Divide your eyelids into three equal parts and apply some tear-eye effect to 1/3 of the eye. After completing the most important work of the eyes, apply false eyelashes and draw some light eyeliner to make the eye contour deeper.

Add a little bit of blush, and the entire makeup is almost complete. Finally, use an eyebrow clip to modify the eyebrow shape, and the facial work is done.

When Cheng Xiaoyu turned back to look for the comb, several girls had gathered behind him. Some people asked Xia Shamo if this was the professional makeup artist you hired? Most of them wanted to pay Cheng Xiaoyu to re-make up immediately. Cheng Xiaoyu heard that

black line.

Cheng Xiaoyu borrowed a comb and a hair dryer, and first blow-dried her wavy bangs with Xia Shamo, then used spray to make them firm, and then tied a pair of ponytails with a scarlet hairband. Yes, the purpose of tying double ponytails was purely to satisfy Cheng Xiaoyu.

It was a small daydream, but fortunately, Xia Shamo, who was extremely talented at this time, could 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. The slender Xia Shamo took off her down jacket, revealing a sparkling pearl white satin cheongsam. The people around her immediately burst into exclamations. Xia Shamo quickly put on her down jacket again.

I put it on, for fear that more people would come to look at it.

Cheng Xiaoyu touched his chin and thought that Xia Shamo like this could threaten Su Yuxi's status as the goddess of Fudan University. He smiled happily. At this time, Xia Shamo was like a flawless and beautiful work of art that he had completed by his own hands.

It gave him a unique sense of satisfaction.

After everyone around them dispersed, Cheng Xiaoyu finished the last thing. He put teardrop-shaped diamond patches under Xia Shamo's eyes. After carefully looking at Xia Shamo's face, he felt that it was perfect and took out the patch.

JIMMYCHOO's glass slippers, said to Xia Shamo, "Put them on, Cinderella, the dance is about to begin, and you will be the most beautiful focus."

Xia Shamo took the shoes, and the dazzling crystal shoes obviously caught her eyes. She squinted her eyes and said to Cheng Xiaoyu through the flashing colorful lights, "I am not the prince's Cinderella, I am 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, did not hear this murmur.
Chapter completed!