After lunch in the afternoon, Chen Dongsheng took Lin Xuerou to an event room at the Golden Bauhinia Convention and Exhibition Center where the band was rehearsing for a state banquet.
In addition to some new faces, Xuerou and Chen Dongsheng also saw a seat and rushed to it. Unexpectedly, the team member next to them suddenly sat down.
He looked up and saw the beautiful Xuerou, so he gave up his seat to her.
"Aren't you the legendary Snow Fairy?" the boy said in surprise.
"Who are you……"
"I am Jin Chenghui, the vice-captain of Phoenix Middle School and a third-year student at Tangdi Middle School. We shook hands two years ago in South Korea. Do you remember?"
It turned out that he was the representative sent to United Band by Phoenix, the second-ranked band in Hong Kong. The younger brother of the third grader is actually Schubert’s arch-enemy, the world’s second-largest Lahmann, and one of his younger brother’s students.
He is a phoenix, specially poached from South Korea to target Chen Dongsheng.
When he was 8 years old, he was selected as Asia's trumpet prodigy. Now he is 17 years old, and he looks high-spirited and has the temperament of a Korean pop star.
"Hello, Brother Dongsheng!" Chenghui greeted his idol Chen Dongsheng, the little prince of Asian brass music, whom he admired enthusiastically. "Brother Dongsheng, why don't you see Brother Ren? I remember that he also participated in the selection that day, right?"
"That guy is no longer in Black Dragon." Dongsheng said calmly, "Siren and Xuerou are in the same band now. You have to ask her."
"He is leading my teammates on a parade to compete!" Xuerou said, thinking to herself: I didn't expect Ye Siren to be quite famous.
It turned out that at the New Year's Eve Gala at the beginning of the year, Jin Chenghui defeated Jiang Nanmei, once threatening Black Dragon's position as trumpet soloist with the band at the New Year's Gala for ten consecutive years. If Ye Siren hadn't been there at that time to teach this Korean boy how to behave, he would still be arrogant here for a while.
Fortunately, he is from the Korean team, otherwise, he will become Xuerou's biggest stumbling block in participating in the individual competition, besides Jiang Nanmei and Ye Siren. Moreover, he is only in the third grade. Lin Xuerou and Chen Dongsheng are already in the sixth grade. In the last year, he still has three years to go in the third grade, the fourth grade, and the sixth grade. People think that he has the best hope of Phoenix defeating the Black Dragon in the future.
Two years ago, he had represented South Korea in international competitions, and that was the first time he met Xuerou.
At that time, he was only a young man of 150, but he was able to play a super high C for more than 30 seconds. His lung capacity was so amazing that even Chen Dongsheng was frightened for a while.
"If I give him another two years, he might be able to fly again!" Chen Dongsheng said of him at that time. Looking at him two years later, he is in high spirits. He suddenly grew from 150 to 176. The big change is still surprising. , he has grown not only in his skills, but also in his appearance.
When Chen Dongsheng saw Xuerou and him chatting together when they were reunited, Chen Dongsheng suddenly felt a little sour, so he separated the two of them on the pretext of helping Xuerou find a place. Chen Dongsheng sits on the left side where the chief usually sits (from the audience's perspective), and Xuerou follows closely behind. There was already a woman sitting next to Xuerou, but Jin Chenghui shamelessly asked the girl to get out of the way, moved over and sat next to Xuerou.
All of a sudden, the sharpest trumpet players in Asia gathered in the upper left corner.
The 50 people in the joint band will basically be directly inherited from the 120 people in the international competition. This year, Chen Dongsheng will go to the British team because he has changed to England. Chenghui will still be in the Korean team. In order to balance the tone, on the right side are Wu Guangyao from Singapore, Nagasaki Kawaichiro from Japan, Pandit from India...all are great people.
But they only have one opponent, the quasi-British player Chen Dongsheng. This is an opportunity to get a glimpse of the strength of future opponents. It is also an international competition, a preliminary battle for the Asian group.
At this time, Xuerou felt a very cold atmosphere behind her, and she subconsciously turned her head to the corner. There was only a young man wearing an ancient European-style dress, adjusting his trumpet. The young man's clothes were mainly black, with white, gray and red as the background. He put on a huge floor-length cloak, his skin was white and cold, and he wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses. His eyes hidden behind the lenses were dark and exuding an aura. Killing intent.
Suddenly, he raised his head and met Xuerou's eyes. The biting and deep cold air invaded from her eyes and penetrated Xuerou's whole body, giving her a very ominous feeling.
"Who is he?" Xuerou asked Chen Dongsheng. She seemed to have never seen him before; but maybe, she had seen him before, but she just didn't have a deep impression.
"You met him two years ago." Chen Dongsheng said, stood up, bowed to him, said hello, and then said, "He is Nakaryakov III of the Russian team."
Dongsheng read out his name with trembling lips, and then continued: "Another best soloist at the Silver Band International Competition, the world's number one under the age of 24, Nakaryakov II The son of Coach Schubert’s master. Everyone calls him the Demon King of Destruction, or Little Kov, and he is also the mysterious guest at tonight’s state banquet concert.”
"It seems difficult to get along with her." Xuerou frowned.
"It looks terrible," Jin Chenghui said.
"Yes, because he comes from a musical family, he spends all his time studying music. He doesn't know how to get along with others, and he is very conceited." Chen Dongsheng said.
Um……
That makes sense, why does it look a bit like that person named Ye?
Xuerou said in her heart.
The joint band practiced for a while. Xuerou looked at the time and thought it was almost time for the Unicorn Parade at the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower, the final stop of the parade, and the final performance, so she secretly took out her mobile phone and put it on the music stand.
Chen Dongsheng looked at it and frowned: "Aren't you afraid of being seen by your father?"
"What he can't tell is that I've memorized the music a long time ago. This music stand is just for decoration." Xuerou said calmly.
Soon, Schubert began to rehearse the piece to be performed with the mysterious guest, the young Kov. Schubert used to meet the master's composition "Little Brave" excerpts in B flat major.
This is a very famous song in which a solo trumpet plays against the whole band. Kokov, who plays the role of the devil, will take turns challenging the 8 principals of the 8 music parts representing the 8 legendary warriors, and will lose to the last warrior according to the plot. "Little Brave Man".
Xuerou is more familiar with her father's works than anyone else, so she secretly watched the live broadcast and played while rehearsing.
But seeing that Xiaokov was very dissatisfied with the performance of the United Band: "Your Asian bands are really rubbish! Why don't you, Uncle Harry, complete the 8 confrontations with me by yourself!"
Schubert frowned indifferently. He also understood that it was a bit reluctant for Xiaokov to lose to the United Band according to the plot... He wanted to ask Chen Dongsheng to take over the last baton, but the supervisor said: "Chen Dongsheng is not Chinese. He can't make the last move."
Xiaokov's expression changed from joy to sadness, but he still decided to endure it.
Maybe, after rehearsal, it will be better!
Just when everyone was concentrating, Lin Xuerou suddenly shouted "Ah!" from her seat. At this time, everyone looked at her intently, especially Xiaokov, whose eyes almost wanted to kill her.
It turned out that Lin Xuerou saw that Qiu Wensheng did not appear at the last baton as originally planned, but appeared at the second rest stop together with Lin Xiaojing, who had caught up temporarily, and Zhou Zixin, who had a stomachache.
Seeing that Siren didn't stop Vincent, she felt very angry and kept accusing her of resentment.
It wasn't until Vincent fell 50 meters near the finish line that he screamed in fright.
"Lin Xuerou, what's wrong with you?" Schubert scolded coldly. He had no selfish intentions because she was his daughter. "You don't want me to punish you with a mark time mach in front of the whole of Hong Kong, do you?" "(Forbidden to stand still)
At this time, Lin Xuerou felt very complicated. She was embarrassed about making a fool of herself and was afraid of being punished in public; she was also worried about the performance of the rhinoceros, especially Qiu Wensheng's condition... She stood up when her name was called and frowned in embarrassment. , said: "My stomach feels a little uncomfortable...I want to go to the bathroom."
"Go and come back quickly! Dongsheng, please take Xuerou's place first!"
"good!"
So Xuerou pretended to be her aunt, pulled her face in pain, and screamed to the women's restroom to queue up. After waiting in line for a while, she entered, and the strong and pungent smell immediately came to her head.
The restrooms in the Convention and Exhibition Center are famous for being clean and hygienic, and there are dedicated cleaners stationed there. The service and hygiene are top-notch...but that's only for external use.
In such a large-scale performance, Xuerou, as a performer, can only use the staff's washroom. The staff are notoriously devoid of human rights in Hong Kong. There are thousands of staff, and they can only squeeze in five~ With six toilet compartments, the cleaners are already extremely busy, and it is even less possible to find time to come back and clean the staff's toilets.
The taste and hygiene are really top notch.
Xuerou endured the smell and hid in one of the toilets. She closed the lid of the toilet filled with feces, wiped the traces of feces on the lid, and couldn't wait to sit on it, watching everyone's performance attentively.
“Next, let’s invite the leading team in the National Day Parade, Hong Kong Chan Nam Fong Secondary School Silver Band! The Unicorn Horse!”
It was already getting a little dark when the Unicorn arrived.
Xiaoyao conducted the percussion section, and with a burst of broken drums, everyone moved from the square formation into a U-shape. The cheerleaders and Li Xiaojing, who is wearing a red robe and looks like Little Red Riding Hood in the fairy tale, stand in position C.
She is playing the role of an ordinary, ordinary, no-confidence, no friends, bullied everywhere, cowardly, fearful, ugly girl, kneeling on the ground, unable to save her old father's terminal illness due to poverty, and praying to the gods in heaven. .
"It would be great if magic really existed in this world..."
At this time, a magical magic wand fell from the sky.
(Zhou Guodong put Li Moyan's painstaking efforts into creating the ceremonial baton prepared by Sumire for this five-minute performance)
The girl (Xiao Jing) took the magic wand, and suddenly a magical power (clarinet, celesta, and horn prelude) emanated from the magic wand. The girl instantly transformed into the legendary "Magical Girl" .
From then on, we embarked on a colorful, wonderful, wonderful, twists and turns of adventure...
