Utrecht, a city in central Netherlands, is the capital of Utrecht Province and an important port along the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, a water transport center and a railway hub.

Utrecht is a small town, but it is a very beautiful city and a city with a very artistic heritage. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists come here to travel and vacation from all over the world. Utrecht has the highest clock tower in the Netherlands - the Bishop's Tower, the ultra-modern central railway station and the shopping center of the hoogcatharijne, which are all very famous scenic spots here. However, in April, the most attractive thing here is the hermanhertzbergersvredenburg Music Center.

This is a building with a strong Gothic style, or it is more appropriate to describe it as a "complex". The hermanhertzbergersvredenburg Music Center is built in the heart of the entire Utrecht city. The complex covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters is hidden among the tall sycamore trees. The red brick walls and the green spire exudes an ancient and artistic flavor.

The complex is irregularly staggered, but it has a sense of tranquility and natural beauty. In the small square in front of the music center, there is a small fountain. On a pedestal about three meters high in the center, there is a bronze statue of the piano master Liszt, which seems to tell people the legendary life of this music master.

Liszt was a great pianist, styler, and romantic master of the 19th century. He was known as the "king of the piano". He created many piano works throughout his life, the most famous of which include thirteen preludes such as "Taso", "Hungary", "Prelude", "Mateppa", "Prometheus", etc., nineteen Hungarian rhapsodes, and twelve advanced etudes. These are all called the pearls in the treasure house of piano art, and these songs are also known for their difficulty. Even those pianists who mention Liszt's songs are also "daunted".

It is also because of this that the Liszt Cup International Piano Competition held here every four years is also known as one of the highest-level piano competitions in the world. It is as famous as the "Chopin Cup" in Poland and the "Tchaikovsky Cup" in Moscow. Even because of its strict selection criteria, it has made its reputation stand out as the first of the three major piano competitions.

April is the season for the start of the Liszt Cup International Piano Competition.

A huge Airbus roared and landed at the airport in Utrecht. The cabin door slowly opened, and the passengers inside walked off the plane one after another.

Liu Yufan and Wang Yujia got off the plane, retrieved their luggage in the waiting room, and dragged them all the way out of the airport. This was Liu Yufan's second time to come to a foreign country. Unlike the last time he went to Moscow, the climate here was very pleasant. Liu Yufan looked up at the sky above his head. The tiles were blue and blue, so thorough. In China, he rarely saw such a clean sky. He took a breath of the air here and gave him a very clean feeling. Before coming here, he did some homework and knew that this city was a famous tourist city in the Netherlands. The environment was very good, but only after seeing it in person could he know how good it was. Looking around, the buildings were not necessarily very luxurious. Even compared to Beijing, there were fewer high-rise buildings, but they gave people a kind of neat, tranquility, comfortable beauty, less annoyance, and more calm. It was indeed a good city.

"Yufan, it's pretty here." Wang Yujia dragged the box and looked around and chatted with Liu Yufan with a smile. Today she wore a black style, with long black hair floating and a pair of wide brown sunglasses, covering half of her delicate melon-shaped face. She looked very star-like and had the unique charm of oriental women. Along the way, I don't know how many foreigners looked at each other. She even came up to chat with her with some courage and enthusiasm, but most of them were kind-hearted and not very annoying.

"Yeah, it's good. Although it's not big, it looks like a small family. And the pace here looks quite slow, so it should be a very suitable place to live." Liu Yufan said to Chen Siying with a smile.

"Of course, this is one of the fifty most livable cities in the world. I have long wanted to come here to play. This time I come to the competition, I must take this opportunity to take a good tour here. Yufan, can you accompany me to visit?" Wang Yujia said with a smile, and his tone actually had a bit of silly voice.

"Haha, that, senior sister, I think I'd better wait until the game is over." When Liu Yufan heard the words "Shopping", he felt his scalp numb, and he couldn't help but remember the situation when he was shopping with Chen Siying. It was so scary. Liu Yufan felt that he was in good physical strength, but he had a few times when he went shopping with Chen Siying. When he got home, he felt that his feet were not his.

"Yeah, that's right, hey Yufan, do you think that's here to pick us up?" Wang Yujia suddenly pointed to the front and said.

Liu Yufan looked in the direction of her finger. There was a row of cards holding signs to pick them up. One of them was printed with beautiful treble clefs and "." and the words "" attracted Liu Yufan's attention. Looking at the sign, Liu Yufan immediately affirmed the other party's identity, because the invitation letter he received a few days ago also had the same sign.

"Haha, that's right, let's go there quickly. I didn't expect the organizer to think quite thoughtfully." Liu Yufan said, and hurriedly followed Wang Yujia and the two of them came to the man together.

Holding the sign was a young man wearing a casual clothes and a baseball cap. He was as tall as Liu Yufan, but he looked much thinner than Liu Yufan.

"excuseme..." Wang Yujia stepped forward, stumbled skillful English, and started talking to the person holding the sign. After a few words, Chen Siying took out the invitation letter from the handbag on her shoulder, and signaled Liu Yufan to take out his invitation letter and handed it over.

The foreigner holding the sign saw the invitation letter in the hands of the two people, and the expression on his face immediately became enthusiastic, and he gave each of them a hug with a smile. When Liu Yufan saw that the buddy was hugging Wang Yujia, it was obviously longer, so he couldn't help but laugh at the foreigner who would take advantage of the beauty when he saw it.

Seeing Wang Yujia talking fluently with the man, he had to listen for a long time but only understood a few words, Liu Yufan couldn't help but sigh. I thought that the time traveling male pigs written in the novel were all super intelligence and brain development. Why did he lose everything when he got here? Hey, it would be great if he could speak fluent English so well, so he wouldn't have caught him here.

While thinking about it, Wang Yujia had finished the conversation with the man, turned around and looked at Liu Yufan and said with a smile: "Yufan, this is the staff arranged by the competition meeting team to pick up the plane. His name is Kevin. Let's follow him, he will take us to the hotel where we stay."

"Okay, anyway, when I got here, I was blind and just followed you." Liu Yufan said with a smile.

"Hehe, aren't you afraid that I will sell you?" Wang Yujia looked at Liu Yufan and joked.

"No problem, the scenery here is so beautiful. If you really sell me here and be a son-in-law, I would like to thank you." Liu Yufan said half-jokingly.

"Haha, okay, then that's all. Wait until my senior sister has time to find a Dutch beauty for you. I heard that the women here are very enthusiastic." Wang Yujia seemed to like to make Liu Yufan happy, and said while walking.

Kevin stopped a taxi on the side of the road, said a few words to the driver, and took the two of them into the car, but did not get in the car with them, but said goodbye to them and continued to pick them up at the airport. The contestants will come one after another in the past few days. It is his third day to work here.

The car was walking through the city center of Utrecht. Liu Yufan looked at the scenery that was constantly regressing outside the car window, felt the charm of this small town, and unconsciously fell in love with it.

The neat streets, clean and beautiful houses, shady trees and flowers and plants everywhere, leisurely crowds, everything is showing people the beauty here.

After driving for about half an hour, the car arrived at a small hotel. The driver sent the two of them to the door. Liu Yufan took out his wallet to pay the fare, but the driver shook his hand and spit out a large string of English at him.

"Yufan, he said that the competition preparation team will settle with them, so we don't have to pay the fare." Looking at Liu Yufan with a confused look on his face, Wang Yujia explained with a smile.

"Hey, it's really not OK to know how to speak English. It seems that I have to learn it well when I go back this time." Liu Yufan shook his head helplessly and said.

"Hehe, yes, if you become a professional pianist in the future, you will have to run around the world. It is very troublesome to not be able to speak foreign languages. When you go back, I will introduce you to a crash course, where I learned it, and the effect is good." Wang Yujia smiled.

"Yeah, okay." Liu Yufan nodded, then took out his luggage from the trunk of the car, and walked into the small hotel with Wang Yujia.

When they arrived at the front desk, the two showed their own competition certificates, and the staff enthusiastically brought them to the room. The organizer arranged them very thoughtfully. In order to take care of the contestants' habits, they arranged a single room for each person.

After putting down his luggage, Liu Yufan came out and was about to call Wang Yujia to go to the music center to take a look, but he heard a familiar voice.

"Liu Yufan? When did you arrive?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!