Chapter 401 School Anniversary Activities

Birmingham Conservatoire is the most important music venue among all the major music organizations in Birmingham, and at least 300 performances are held here every year.

The upcoming 150th anniversary celebration will be a grand event. In addition to performances by musicians from all over the world, people are also talking about the fact that the Queen will bring the princess to watch the ceremony.

Tang Shuo arrived in Birmingham the day before the school anniversary. As soon as he got out of the airport, he saw Gavin in formal attire.

Originally, he just wanted to say hello to Gavin. But Gavin came up to Tang Shuo and gave him a bear hug, patting him on the back twice, his joy beyond words.

Fortunately, after two weeks of recovery, Tang Shuo's injuries could withstand this kind of impact. If he were in the same condition as two weeks ago, Gavin's two blows would probably have caused him considerable damage.

Even so, Tang Shuo cursed Gavin to death in his heart.

"I was so surprised when I received your call half a month ago!" Gavin said to Tang Shuo excitedly, "I didn't expect you to actually come to Birmingham."

Tang Shuo forced a smile, but felt a little sorry for Gavin in his heart.

If it weren't for Louise's matter, he probably would never have called Gavin in his life.

"This event will feature performances by musicians from all over the world. I'll arrange for you to go on stage and play a piece!" Gavin said to Tang Shuo after they got in the car, "The guqin music you played was truly impressive."

"Sorry." Tang Shuo smiled apologetically and said, "I just want to come and take a look. I won't be performing on stage!"

"Is that so?"

Gavin suddenly pulled a long face and said dissatisfiedly: "I thought you came here specially to perform."

"Maybe there will be a chance next time!" Tang Shuo comforted him.

Gavin nodded and said, "Let me show you around our college first. Perhaps you'll want to teach at our school in the future, and we'll be colleagues then."

There will never be one!

Tang Shuo silently said in his heart, "Okay."

In fact, even if Gavin didn't say it, Tang Shuo also planned to visit this place in advance. If an accident happened tomorrow, it would be much easier to escape.

Along the way, Gavin was introducing Tang Shuo to some of the conditions in the academy, and his words were full of temptation.

If Tang Shuo hadn't known that Gavin was a professor in the college, he would have thought that he was a logistics teacher in charge of human resources.

After the car stopped in the college parking lot, Gavin began to introduce the names of each building and each road, as well as some interesting stories, to Tang Shuo one by one.

Tang Shuo knew very little about the history of Chinese music, let alone the messy history of Western music. He had never even heard a symphony of any scale, so Gavin's introduction was really difficult for him to understand.

Although the school anniversary celebration will not start until tomorrow, the whole way is full of students and staff busy setting up some decorations, and the whole campus is very lively.

When the two of them arrived at a venue called Bolt Hall, Tang Shuo finally became interested.

"This is the main venue for tomorrow's performance." Gavin pointed to a building with a strong church atmosphere and said to Tang Shuo, "But it can only accommodate about 500 people. The rest of the crowd will have to watch from outside."

The Bolton Hall venue gives people a solemn and mysterious feeling. Although it looks a bit old in appearance, it has very good acoustic effects. It can host symphonies, and can also be used as an opera house and venue.

After taking a look, Tang Shuo asked, "Can I go in tomorrow?"

"Of course, you are my distinguished guest." Gavin immediately patted his chest and said, but after he finished speaking, Gavin frowned.

Tang Shuo noticed the change on Gavin's face and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Gavin's cheeks flushed, and he replied somewhat awkwardly: "It's like this, there's no problem for me to take you in tomorrow, but there probably won't be any room by then."

Tang Shuo smiled and said, "It's okay, this is already good enough."

“That’s wonderful.”

Gavin pointed to the venue and said, "Let's go in and take a look."

Tang Shuo agreed and followed Gavin into the venue. The interior of the venue was full of artistic atmosphere. As soon as he entered, Tang Shuo heard a guqin piece playing inside the venue. This guqin piece was the same one he played at Mingzhu Conservatory of Music.

Gavin listened for a while and then said to Tang Shuo, "Did you hear that? This is your song."

Tang Shuo smiled and nodded. Although he didn't say it, he was actually very proud in his heart that a Chinese guqin piece was being played in this place.

After walking around the venue, Tang Shuo secretly memorized the terrain, and then he no longer had the mood to continue the tour.

Because of this event, Birmingham had reserved some of its vacant dormitories for guests to stay in. After having lunch with Gavin, Tang Shuo was arranged by Gavin to stay in the college's dormitory.

...Hongshang Shiji.

Buckingham Palace.

The simple sound of the guqin, accompanied by the desolate sound of the xun, came from the record player.

A young blond woman sat in front of a record player, lost in thought. She held a photograph in her hand, but her gaze wasn't focused on it; it was clear her mind was elsewhere.

Snap...

A slightly older woman, who looked a bit more heroic than the blonde, patted the younger woman on the back and said, "Louise, are you thinking about him again?"

The young woman was Xiao Chuxia's mother, the youngest princess of the royal family, Louise.

Louise turned around to look at the heroic woman, put the photo away and said, "Sister..."

The heroic woman sat down next to Louise and said, "You can rest assured now. Since Karl has already negotiated with the sun, there shouldn't be any problems."

"Thank you, sister." Louise said.

The heroic woman touched Louise's head and said with some heartache: "I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position."

"It's nothing, I just think about Chuxia often." Louise replied.

The heroic woman glanced at the photo that Louise had put aside, stretched out her hand and said, "Let me see."

Louise hesitated for a moment, but finally handed over the photo.

The person in the photo is Tang Shuo, who plays the piano at Mingzhu Conservatory of Music, and the process of how this photo fell into Louise's hands was very tortuous.

She had always liked listening to music, and when she watched Xiao Chuxia Meets the Han Palace, she happened to hear this piece of music. She was deeply impressed after listening to it, but for a while she had no idea where to find this piece of music.

Just when she was about to give up, she accidentally saw a guqin piece recommended by the Birmingham Conservatoire on the Internet.

Later, in order to get this song, she went to the music college in person and wanted to burn it. Then she saw this photo on the mobile phone of a teacher who was accompanying her to Huaxia at that time.

The heroic woman took the photo, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "Is this the person who bullied you back then?"

"No."

Louise hurriedly shook her head and explained: "He didn't bully me, I volunteered."

The heroic woman sighed and said, "I'm going to Birmingham with my mother tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"

"No." Louise shook her head.

"Go and relax." The heroic woman continued, "Then you can pretend to be my bodyguard. No reporter will recognize you anyway."

Louise still insisted and shook her head, refusing: "No, I don't like going to crowded places."

The heroic woman nodded and said, "Well, if you change your mind, come find me."

"OK."

“…”

…

The next morning, Gavin ran to Tang Shuo's residence, handed a pass to Tang Shuo, and left in a hurry.

He needs to coordinate two orchestras in the evening activities and play a piano piece on stage, so he is very busy during the day.

The event actually started at noon, but the Queen would attend the evening performance, so Tang Shuo was not in a hurry. In fact, there was nothing he could do even if he was anxious.

After wandering around the academy for a while, when the time was almost up, Tang Shuo was the first to enter the venue.