Chapter 264 Those Eyes
Accompanied by a voiceover, the camera angle shifts.
In the crevice.
Those were innocent and naive eyes.
As a child, Chopin had no birth certificate or passport, so to avoid being questioned, he could only hide in a dark and cramped cabin from the time he was old enough to understand things.
Through the window, he saw the ocean and white seagulls, and one different port after another.
A small house and a round window comprised most of his childhood.
Gu Gang plays the adoptive father, who has high expectations for Chopin. Whenever he has free time, he teaches young Chopin to read and write. He also often looks to the future, saying that when Chopin grows up, he will save up a sum of money so that he can go to the biggest city and study at the best school.
As a child, Chopin was confused about the future. Having never disembarked from a ship, he did not understand what kind of world his adoptive father described.
In his limited memories, this ship and that sea were his whole world.
He was unfortunate; he was abandoned by his biological parents shortly after being weaned.
He was also lucky because he had a loving adoptive father who raised him with great care.
But misfortune never comes singly. His adoptive father died. During a voyage amidst towering waves, due to a crew member's mistake and the ship's rocking motion, a huge iron hook struck his adoptive father hard on the back of the head.
As a child, Chopin attended his adoptive father's funeral and witnessed his adoptive father's body being placed into the waves.
At the same time, he also heard a melodious sound, and someone told him that it was music.
It was still that cramped cabin, that round window.
These are lonely eyes.
He remained on the ship. Although he had sailed more than fifty times and visited many cities, he never disembarked. He simply stayed on the ship, watching one different port after another.
For him, the port was the land he perceived.
The crew believed that if Chopin had stayed on the ship as an adult, he would have become a sailor like them, or perhaps done some manual labor in the engine room.
One night, while he was hiding in the cabin listening to the waves and gazing at the moonlight, he heard a somewhat familiar sound again. He followed the sound and opened an iron gate that forbade entry.
Perhaps, to the other crew members, it was just a place for the wealthy to indulge in glitz and glamour in first class.
But for young Chopin, it opened the door to a new world.
Through the glass, he watched curiously as the guests inside ate, drank, played, sang, and danced.
My gaze finally settled on a piano.
"captain!"
"captain!"
"Wake up!"
In the dark of the night, the ballroom was dark. The crew members and guests working nearby pushed open the door and entered, all looking toward the piano at the far end.
Under the moonlight, a young Chopin sits at the piano and plays.
Another original song!
It's still classical music!
A text appeared on the screen.
—Nocturne in E-flat major
Pianists, both overseas and in China, showed surprise in their eyes.
In some screening rooms, there was a bit of noise or the crying of babies, which made them frown and some even shouted at the people to quiet down!
"Damn it, if I had known it was such a top-tier movie, I should have booked the entire screening room!"
Some overseas pianists thought indignantly.
On screen, the young Chopin still plays the piano in a proper and orderly manner, but the guests around him are surprised and curious about where the child came from.
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