Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 137 Duos

  Verak had a feeling of enlightenment. Hearing the singing, he became more refreshed. He couldn't wait to go back to see Keating, so his pace also accelerated a lot, so that the prison guards couldn't keep up with him and urged him to slow down.

  After returning to the cell, Keating saw that Veraker was so energetic after returning from work for the first time, and guessed that something good must have happened: "Is there any good news from Lecter or Dawn?"

   "No." Verak waited patiently for the prison guards to go away, and said excitedly, "I know what I should fight for them."

"what?"

"Music." Verak said these two words in a low voice, his eyes were full of light, "The most scarce thing here, what they can't get anyway, is entertainment. Usually they can only pass the time by playing cards, if We can enrich their lives through music, bring them together, maybe it will work.”

   Keating nodded slightly: "Music is indeed a spiritual need that is not usually noticed, but always exists."

   "I think it is very feasible. How do you think it will be implemented?" Verac asked Keating's opinion before he could think about it.

   "It may be more appropriate to ask Ross." Keating raised his chin at the wall behind Veraker.

  Verak turned his head to look.

  Ross, who lives next door to him, was a former pianist, and it is indeed more appropriate to ask him this question.

   "He should be asleep now, I'll ask him when I work in the afternoon." Verak didn't bother Rose during his lunch break, and it's not convenient to chat through a wall now.

   "Then you should rest first and recharge your spirits."

"Yeah." The excitement gradually passed, and the feeling of exhaustion invaded the whole body again. Verak lay on the bed, "I haven't had a chance to see Dawn in the past two days. If I can't allocate a room for the wind tomorrow, I will go to Lecter Find a way to transfer me to the leather shoe production area."

   Keating frowned: "Didn't you say that there is the most workload there? Your body will definitely not be able to bear it after it has passed."

"There is no way. It's already the ninth day. After Lecter resolves his crisis, it's still unknown whether we can get these conveniences later, so we have to implement many things before noon on the 12th." Verak called Yawning, "Let's not talk about the teacher, I really need to sleep for a while."

   "...have a good rest." Keating also hoped that he could help Veraker a little bit. Seeing Veraker face a huge mental and physical test all day long, he was a little ashamed.

  —

  After the lunch break, Verak and Rose came to work in the work area.

   "Ross, you used to be a pianist, right?" As soon as he got to work, Verak talked about music.

"Well, I used to form a piano quintet chamber orchestra with some of my friends, and I often played in the home of the nobleman I mentioned. Then the nobleman had an accident, and all five of us were arrested and locked up here for these years. The other members of the orchestra Three of the four have already..." Rose took a long breath, controlled his emotions, and didn't get depressed because of mentioning the unhappy past, "Why are you asking this?"

  Villac didn't answer Rose's question first, and was puzzled by the piano quintet he said: "A quintet? What exactly is it?"

"Don't you know?" Ross felt that Verac, as a nobleman, should know this. "Simply speaking, five people use five instruments to play five parts of chamber music. Our piano quintet chamber orchestra, including the piano , violin, viola, cello and double bass, and now only I and Ennio the cellist are left."

"Ennio? He's here too?" Veraker has met many prisoners along with Rose these days, but he has never heard of such a person. "You should be very close, right? Why didn't I hear you mention it?" past him?"

Ross operated the machine: "He's in the leather shoe production area, and we don't live in the same cell, so we rarely meet each other, and what everyone can do here is to live, and when we meet, I will recall the past, recalling the past here, isn't that just asking for guilt...so... I don't talk much..."

   "Understood." Verac patted Rose's shoulder free of his hand, "By the way, can you and Ennio play a quintet?"

   "Two people are a duet." Rose pointed out the mistake in Veraker's words, "Yes."

   "Then tell me, if there are pianos and cellos now, would you still be able to play them?"

  Ross seemed to have heard some big joke, smiled and shook his head: "Don't make these meaningless imaginations, we will never touch the piano or cello again in this life."

   "Is it still possible?" Verak asked stubbornly.

  Rose's smile froze, and he opened and closed his mouth slightly a few times: "...I don't know."

  The gazes of the two focused on Rose's rough hands. Because of years of high-intensity work, Rose's originally fair and slender fingers have become somewhat deformed.

   "Try it." Verak suggested.

   "How to try?" Ross smiled wryly.

   "I'll find a way to help you get a piano and a cello." Veraker thought about what requests he should make to Lecter next, "What you and Ennio have to do is to cooperate again and prepare to play."

  Ross froze: "What, what?"

   "Let's work." Verak patted Rose on the shoulder again.

"Can you get a piano and a cello?!" Rose looked at Verak in disbelief, "Aren't you just an ordinary prisoner like us now? Where can I find these things? And what's the use of finding them? We can play For whom? "

"I don't know either, let's take a step at a time." Veraker is not sure whether Lecter can help him get a piano and a cello. You have a definite answer."

  —

The next day, at nine o'clock on October 10th, when it was time to allocate the prisoners for a release, Verak felt his heart was pulled up. If he couldn't meet Dawn today, he could only do it in the worst possible way. Please Lecter transfer himself to the leather shoe work area with the heaviest workload.

  Fortunately, there were no Verac and Dawn in the batch from nine to ten o'clock, which meant that they were all in the second batch of prisoners.

  The other good news is that Ross and his friend Ennio are in the first batch. He and Verac said that they would talk to Ennio during the wind.

  Without Rose's company, Verac finished the work earnestly by himself and stayed up until ten o'clock.

After arriving at the square with the second group of prisoners, Veraker saw Keating, and Keating was also looking at him. He pointed to Dawn who was lying alone in the distance, and said that he would take the opportunity to find Dao first. En chat.

   Keating nodded, pushing the wheels of the wheelchair with his hands, and turned around.

   "Dawn." Verak sat down next to Dawn again, "Finally I'm assigned to you again."

   "What else?" Dawn asked coldly.

"It's still about the prison escape." Verak's voice became softer, and he looked around the prison guards on the sentry post with scruples, "I know you have no expectations for the prison escape, and you also think that I, a newcomer here, don't know about the prison escape at all. How difficult it is, the proposed method will not be feasible. But you should know what I have experienced and what I have done since I came here, I am not a person who likes to just talk."

  Dawn didn't respond at all, which was actually a way of waiting for Verak to continue.

Verak considered his words: "I know who you are, so I can tell you this with confidence. Now that the plan has begun, I have won the opportunity to have a briefing with Mr. Keating and take the initiative to work with everyone. It is all part of the plan. But if you want to succeed, you will undoubtedly need to gather the strength of all the prisoners. As the most prestigious prisoner, this matter will definitely not bypass you... I really want to tell you what our plan is and how feasible it is , but frankly speaking, these are not yet clear, only if we reach a cooperation and include everyone in the plan, we can therefore formulate the plan with the greatest hope."

   "Very good." Dawn replied with three words.

"Either way." Verac found that his words didn't impress Dawn very much, and proposed a more realistic and safer cooperation method for Dawn and other prisoners, "Let's do something that will not threaten you even if something happens Safe and simple cooperation, after the specific implementation of the plan is clear, you can make a decision whether to work together or not."

   "What does such a simple cooperation include?" After ensuring the safety of everyone, Dawn felt that he was qualified to talk to Verak on behalf of everyone.

  Verak pondered: "...What we need now is probably some information that everyone knows, such as the most comprehensive terrain of Daymans Prison, the shift time of the prison guards, and even the personalities of the prison guards that may be known."

"I can provide you with these." Dawn opened his eyes, "But you also know that you found me because I have a reputation among the prisoners, and convincing me is equivalent to convincing other prisoners. In a sense, I represent them, and I have to be responsible for them. Are you sure you can save everyone?"

   "No." Verak dare not say big words, "The plan has not been fully formulated yet, and I don't know what will happen in the end."

   "... I will start preparing for the information you mentioned." Dawn agreed to start a simple cooperation with Verak.

  Verak breathed a sigh of relief and persuaded Dawn, and the foundation of the plan became much more solid. As for the matter of simple cooperation, it doesn't affect anything in his opinion. If there is really hope of going out, they can naturally cooperate in depth. If he still has no idea after knowing this information, then the significance of in-depth cooperation is not very great.

   "Thank you." Verak thanked him and got up, "I also ask you to collect more information recently. We want as much as you have."

   "Hmm." Dawn remained motionless.

  Verak left, went to share the good news with Keating, and continued to pretend by the way. If he didn't touch Keating during the hour of the briefing, Lecter would be suspicious if the matter got to Lecter.

"Teacher, it's done. Dawn agreed to cooperate with us first, and tell us all the information they know. If we can formulate a plan with high enough feasibility, he will consider in-depth cooperation." Wei Wei Pushing the wheelchair, Lak leaned over slightly to talk about the situation.

   Keating clapped his hands, and wiped the dust on his hands after pushing the wheelchair wheel with a towel: "That's good."

"In addition, I talked with Ross when I was working." Verac introduced some things about Ross, "If we get a piano and a cello, he should be able to perform a duet with his friend Ennio. Or just play on the basement level.”

   "I haven't listened to music for a long time." Keating looked forward to it.

   "Everyone here is." Verac squeezed Keating's shoulders, "Then I will go and mention it to Lecter at noon today, and you have to prepare the golden clues."

  —

   After lunch, Verak met Lecter in the infirmary.

   This time, before Lecter asked, Verak took the initiative to report: "It's basically done."

  Lecter swallowed back the routine question, feeling uneasy at the same time with joy: "What do you mean it's basically done?"

"Mr. Keating's heart has been shaken. I'm afraid he will tell me some information tonight, or at noon tomorrow at the latest." Veraker didn't give Lecter a chance to think, and threw him a piece of good news first. So that he can readily agree when he makes a request next time, "If it continues like this, it is not impossible for him to directly tell the location of the gold."

   "Tell me specifically." Lecter dismissed the doctor.

Verac babbled nonsense, which made Lecter dumbfounded: "...It's almost like this, and Mr. Keating said that he really wants to listen to music. If I can help him fulfill this wish, everything will be under control. .”

   "That's simple. I have a phonograph in my office, and it was made by your family. You can take it away and give it to him later." Lecter only understood Keating's request at the end.

   "No, the music on the phonograph is not good." How could Verac agree to the phonograph? It was too different from the effect he expected to achieve. "Mr. Keating has a clear request and wants to invite the chamber orchestra to play live."

"Chamber orchestra?" Lecter snorted, "Where can I find him a chamber orchestra? And which one can be named and he can see that the orchestra is willing to travel thousands of miles to come here? play in a prison?"

  Verak looked lost in thought, and suggested for a while: "Danny Rose, do you know?"

"Who?"

"A prisoner who lives in the cell next to me and works on the same production line as me. I heard him say that he used to be a pianist in a chamber orchestra, and their entire orchestra was arrested. Except for him, only The remaining cellist is still alive." After Verac finished speaking, he denied himself, "There are only two people, it still doesn't work..."

   "Not necessarily." Lecter folded his arms around his chest, "A duet is also fine."

  Villac looked distressed: "But there should be no piano or cello in the prison, right?"

"No." Lecter narrowed his eyes and stared at Veraker, "However, if you can really find out the whereabouts of the gold because of these questions, it's worth shipping it from outside. Anyway, it's almost the twelfth, and what Keating wants can be Ship it with a new batch of prisoners."

   "Then let's arrange it?"

   "No rush, it's not too late to arrange tomorrow. You should at least ask some useful information to prove that it makes sense for me to arrange these things." Lecter said.

Verac heard that this was Lecter's temptation. He still suspected that he and Keating were planning to escape from prison, so he was very wary of the piano and cello: "You said it as if I wanted to listen to music. Prove that everything is right. Meaning, not only depends on me, but also depends on you. We all want to find out the whereabouts of the gold, I can be free, and you can also make great achievements."

   "It's best to win-win." Lecter went to call the doctor, "I will find a way to arrange it, and I will wait for your good news."

   "I'm also waiting for your good news." Verak looked at Lecter's back and said.

After the doctor came back to change the medicine for Verak, in order to implement it as soon as possible, Verak discussed with Keating at noon which clues to reveal the gold to Lecter, and found Lecter again before starting work in the afternoon, and put Keating The transfer said to him when transferring the gold.

   It was a matter of whether he could stay or not. After sending Veraker away, Lecter immediately called his father and reported the progress of his interrogation of Keating.

It will take at least a week for his father to determine whether the information is credible, and to further trace the whereabouts of the gold based on the clues in the transit place. Lecter will not be taken away for at least this month, and he is not worried that Verak will tell lies , because the truth of the information can be verified within a week, and Verac's telling lies is asking for death.

  Verak returned to the work area and explained the situation to Ross as agreed.

   said that Keating wanted to listen to the music, which might reveal the whereabouts of the gold, so he recommended Ross and Ennio to Lecter, and Lecter also allowed them to form an orchestra to play for Keating.

  Ross wept with joy, he didn't care who he was playing for, he just wanted the chance to play the piano again.

  —

   At noon on October 12th.

  Because Lecter was busy abusing Veraker during this period, and later focused on how to stay, so he didn't encourage the prisoners to escape from prison and take action to suppress them, which made the twelfth of this month a rare tranquility.

  The transport ship docked at the pier of Daymans Island, and Lecter received a new batch of thirty prisoners, as well as a piano and a cello that he specially arranged for someone to find.

  When he saw the two musical instruments, the desire to listen to them arose in his heart: "Move them back carefully, don't break them."

  There is no suitable place to place these two objects in the prison, and it is not convenient to move them to the basement floor. It is easy to block the corridors that are not very spacious, and prisoners may accidentally damage them when they pass by every day. Lectos thought about it and decided to arrange it in the square.

  In the afternoon, he was so impatient that he called Ross and Ennio away, and went to the square to practice, hoping to play for Keating as soon as possible and get the whereabouts of gold.

  Although Veraker worked alone all afternoon, he thought that Ross was playing the piano again, and while he was sincerely happy for him, he also had motivation to work.

  In the evening, after Verak returned to the cell, Ross hadn't come back until eleven o'clock. He leaned against the door and looked at Keating: "Lecter probably forced him to practice overnight."

   "Maybe they are willing to do this themselves." Keating said.

   "I'm looking forward to their performance now." Verac waited for Rose for a long time, enduring sleepiness, but it was almost impossible to wait, so he left the wall and lay down, "Forget it, we should meet tomorrow."

   Keating, who stayed up with Veraker all this time, also lay down: "Good night."

  Inexplicably, the beautiful sound of the piano sounded in Verak's ears, and the corner of his mouth raised: "Good night."

  —

  October 13th

  Early in the morning, Veraker was called away by Lecter. Lecter suggested that he take Keating to the square early today, listen to Ross and Ennio's performance, and then arrange for the prisoners to go for a release.

Verac's purpose of doing this is to let everyone hear the duet of Rose and Ennio. If it's just him and Keating going, it's meaningless, so it's just that they go too deliberately, and it's easy for Keating to go. Noticing something's wrong' reason convinced Lecter to arrange for Rose to play while the prisoners were out.

   In the morning Verak was still working alone. Rose and Ennio hadn't touched the piano in years, and now, at Lecter's urging, the pressure of less than a day to recover and a perfect ensemble was overwhelming.

   At nine o'clock, with Lecter's instruction, Veraker was arranged among the first batch of prisoners to come to the square.

   At this time, in the middle of the square, Rose was sitting in front of the piano, with Ennio playing the cello next to him. In the eyes of some people, they were waiting for Keating, and in the eyes of Keating and Veraker, they were waiting for the prisoners who were also suffering.

   "They really are!"

   "Look, it's a piano!"

   "Isn't that Rose and Ennio?!"

  The prisoners who entered the square one after another were attracted by Ross and Ennio in the center, and stepped forward one after another, surrounding them.

  Villac stood at the door, waited for the prison guard to push Keating, and took the wheelchair from the prison guard: "I didn't expect Lecter to be so impatient, and let them start playing within a day."

   "Since he is willing to arrange this, it must mean that Rose and Ennio have almost practiced." Keating also lamented how Rose and Ennio did it in such a short time.

   "I can't believe it." Verak pushed Keating into the crowd.

   "Ross, what's the situation?!" A prisoner asked.

   Rose raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and smiled at the prisoner.

"Starting today! We will organize concerts for everyone every day!" On the sentry post, the prison guard grasped the trumpet and introduced the situation to the prisoners. "Everyone, keep quiet! Sit down! Those who do not obey the discipline! Three days of confinement!" "

Ross and Ennio were arranged to practice the piano because the news about Keating and Jin had been spread all over yesterday, and no prisoner would naively believe that the prison had prepared them for them out of mercy, but when the rumors were confirmed, , They still cheered, and after the prison guard fired a few shots in a row, they sat down and looked at Rose and Ennio quietly.

   "It's about to start." Verak sat next to Keating's wheelchair and glanced at the sentry post. Today's sentry post was full of prison guards, and Lecter was among them, staring at him.

   "Enjoy the music." Keating closed his eyes.

"Um."

  Ross and Ennio looked at each other, and they nodded slightly to each other. Afterwards, Rose stroked the keys with both hands, only black and white remained in his eyes.

  The brisk and flying piano sounded, and Rose began to play freely on the keys. After a period of fast playing, the tune suddenly slowed down, and Ennio played the delicate and soothing cello.

   "Playing love." Keating whispered the name of the song.

  This piece of music is simple, clean and pure. Everyone present has not listened to music for a long time. When the piano sounded, their emotions were completely taken away and they began to fluctuate with the sound of the piano.

  —

  Note 1: "Palying Love" is a piece of music composed by Ennio Morricone for the movie "The Pianist on the Sea".

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