Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 236 231. Farewell to Sorrow, The Storm After the Moonlight

When Li An returned home, the steaming rice cooker was smelling, and Mr. Chen was busy preparing dinner in the tinkling kitchen.

"came back."

The two of them almost spoke in unison. Li An changed his shoes, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and then came to the kitchen to help.

"Hehe, is this stewed tofu with cabbage vermicelli?"

Chunks of edamame on the chopping board, vermicelli soaked in the basin, and cabbage in Chen Xuan's hands.

Adding up the three ingredients, there is probably only one truth?
"In the afternoon, everyone was talking about how to bring meals conveniently and save trouble. It happened that Sister Wang came and taught us some kitchen experience, and then recommended a dish that is most suitable for lazy people in winter."

"Miss Meili and his wife can fiddle with food."

Li An started to cut the tofu while copying the knife, and continued to look around while using his hands. After looking around, he found nothing, "There is nothing meaty."

Chen Xuan came over with the washed cabbage in her arms, "Greedy?"

Li Ang: "I can't even say I'm greedy."

Chen Xuan: "Sister Wang gave us a bag of air-dried sausages made by her husband when she got off work today. I plan to cut two and steam them at night, and then make a vegetarian dish with soup."

Ang Lee couldn't help admiring: "Full marks for the design."

Chen Xuan: "How do you get the cabbage? Do you cut it?"

Ang Li: "Just leave it alone, and you can do it after I finish."

Chen Xuan: "It's hard work, then I'll peel the eggplant first."

Ang Lee: "Good eggplant?"

Chen Xuan: "Huh~"
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After half an hour.

Delicious cabbage, stewed tofu, silky vermicelli, and a piece of spicy and chewy sausage, happiness is only a mouthful of steaming rice.

"I'm coming."

Li An came over with two bowls of rice, "Why did you steam so much rice today?"

Chen Xuan: "I have to bring food tomorrow, stupid."

A warm and delicious dinner is just around the corner.

No more words.

Migrant workers in the two cities picked up their chopsticks and started working.

The exhaustion of the whole day was reduced by seven or eight at the moment of eating a meal.

With three minutes full, Li An began to share the new friends he met in the afternoon.

Chen Xuan sounded interesting, and after listening to the conversation between the two in the afternoon, she also felt that this concert might present some unexpected things.

At least for now, Fu Tianming's idea is good.

As the stage director of a concert, he pays more attention to the protagonist of the concert itself, rather than some rigid procedures.

"It's a very interesting person, and his girlfriend has a video camera hanging in his hand all the time. They will come to me tomorrow afternoon and introduce you to each other."

Chen Xuan: "Would you like to invite them to dinner tomorrow night?"

Ang Lee: "We'll see when the time comes, it's convenient to eat, just watch their time."

After dinner, Li An went to the piano and stretched his waist, then sat down, and he planned to practice farewell again tonight.

Chen Xuan rested for a while and began to work on the lunch that was to be brought tomorrow morning.

On the way home from get off work today, she bought Ji Yang a lunch box.

Since Li An arranged for Ji Yang to stay in Yudong to practice the piano for the next period of time, she couldn't watch this kid eat out at noon all day long.

Besides, she and Li An also wanted to eat, so every day they just steamed more rice and fried a la carte.

The green onions are being pulled here, and the living room has already heard the crisp sound of the piano.
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When discussing Beethoven's works in the afternoon, Li An and Fu Tianming had some disputes over the order of performance of the four works.

Ang Lee's idea was to start with a storm, then play pathos, start with a storm in the second half, and end with a farewell.

This sequence plan is based on the perspective of the audience, and it is possible to ensure that the audience's attention will not be distracted within nine to ten minutes.

Although Fu Tianming did not think about the order of Ang Lee's repertoire, he suggested that Ang Lee should arrange a story for each work.

It would be even better if the titles of the four works can be connected together to form a complete story paragraph.

For such a suggestion, Li An was somewhat repelled at first.

It is reasonable to make some articles on each piece of music, but it would be too deliberate to force a relationship between the four pieces of work.

But Fu Tianming's words later moved him to some extent.

"Why not try to find some self-expression in Beethoven's music."

This sentence reminded him of one of the post-it notes left by Boss X in room 4005, 'As an interpreter of music, never be a servant of a composer. '

Ang Lee considers himself a classical pianist and teacher, and he still has a sense of reverence for composers in his blood.

So most of the time he belongs to the rational player, and the voice in his heart follows the composer's intention, that is, he plays by copying the sheet music.

However, sometimes he will choose to add some personal understanding, like the third movement of his Tempest.

On the question of whether we should play according to the composer's thinking, he also personally consulted Boss X before the final.

Boss X asked him back if you did this in the performance of the storm.

Li Ang didn't, but his storm was appreciated by many people.

It's at least a positive statement that his emotionally charged repertoire resonates with modern listeners.

Then this question seems to be extended to the two people's discussion about Beethoven's music in the afternoon——

Beethoven needs to be heard by more people today, and as today’s performers, it is still used as a medium to promote Beethoven’s music to the general public. So what needs to be heard by the public in today’s Beethoven music? ?

Perhaps this is the root of the problem.

It is also a trade-off problem faced by the performer.

It's hard for Ang Lee to imagine that he, who hasn't even finished playing Beethoven's 32 sonatas, can take it for granted to think about such problems.

He is not even a young performer.

Maybe it was a little swollen after the final?

Maybe, as a chosen person in a certain sense, he carries a cheating device and feels that he can always solve some difficult problems in the end?
no one knows.

But at this moment, he is really thinking about such a question in his mind-this is my Beethoven concert, what can I play, and what can I listen to the audience.

Pointing to the depth of love, the graceful melody is like a wave of ripples under the dim light, and he seems to have returned to the stage.

Farewell Sonata, a grand farewell, he bid farewell to his past.

According to the development of the story, perhaps this farewell should not be at the end.

Farewell is a new beginning, the last spring rain for all things to sprout.

If you put farewell in the first song, it means a new beginning.

Just like when he opened his eyes and saw this strange world, he was extremely sad, and there is no better description than this word.

Thinking of this, Li An was amused by his word play.

What the hell.

But you might as well continue to think about it along with the music. He was so sad that he had to devote himself to the next new life, and then met his moonlight.

Li An was almost embarrassed by himself. Where is the moonlight a work depicting love? Even the title approved by Beethoven is only the first movement.

But thinking about it from another angle, the endless collision of two opposing themes in the third movement of Moonlight in the complicated and anxious melody is not just a portrayal of his heart at that time.

Suddenly, Ang Lee felt an epiphany, that what great works are written in music may be human nature after all.

Aside from the profound nouns such as harmony, polyphony, musical form, orchestration, etc., the composer himself creates musical works as a human being. Since he is a human being, there must be human motives revealed or hidden behind the creation of each work .

After swimming in his own world for an hour and a half, Li An's fingers stopped.

At this moment, he just wanted to give a shout out to Boss X's realm.

He felt he understood the meaning of the last sticky note the other party left in the piano.

'If we are the servants of the composers, to what greater power do the great composers owe their allegiance? '

human nature.

Ang Lee thinks it is human nature.

And human nature is figured out.

Then the last song must be the storm. In his mind, the storm has always been a special existence.

It is his self-monologue, his longing and longing for the future that swayed between dream and reality.

And in such a concert, after the final chapter of the storm, he doesn't know whether there will be a rainbow across the sky in the next future that belongs to him.

He only knows that the storm will always be the commanding flag for his charge, guiding the way under his feet.

The road ahead.

In it were new longings he had had for a new future.

Li An's hands have been put away from the piano.

Bawan, who was lying on the side of the piano bench, suddenly stood up, but when he noticed something strange, he had already lost his last chance to escape.

next second.

Bawan felt that the world suddenly turned upside down.

"Meow!!!!"
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The next morning Li An woke up to the sound of the alarm clock. To be honest, he was a little tired last night. He played with the moonlight until the moon was so ashamed that the moon was ashamed. At this time, he couldn't fully open his eyes.

But the reminder on the phone screen cheered him up for a moment.

'There are still 6 days before Mr. Li's personal piano recital. '

This was set by Chen Xuan for him. Recently when he wakes up every day, he will see that the date is getting closer.

On the way to work, Li An was pondering over the sequence of the new tracks that he had concluded last night, and he was cheerful like a big fat boy.

That's how people are, once the barrier in the heart is cleared, they will be invincible.

At worst, he's not much of a performer anyway, so there's nothing to worry about.

At least he can guarantee high-quality completion of four works, which is already a great responsibility for 90.00% of the audience above five.

"Take away the set meal of four sauced meat buns, and add a shrimp bun to each."

"Okay, Mr. Li, wait a moment."
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"Miss Zaoli, the sausage is too delicious."

After getting out of the elevator, Li An cheerfully greeted Wang Meili at the front desk

Wang Meili likes to listen to Teacher Xiao Li's talk, and she is so happy that she can't close her mouth from ear to ear: "As long as you are used to eating it, I am worried that you are not used to that taste. I will know now, and I will bring you some more later. "

Li An laughed: "That's so embarrassing, sister, go and have a look first."

Li An listened to the sound of the piano in the teaching area on the west side and quickened his pace. Chen Xuan didn't go with him, but stopped at the front desk and handed him a breakfast: "Sister Wang."

Wang Meili curled her lips: "It's not like you two don't know that I bring breakfast every day, you two just take it back to the office and eat it."

Chen Xuan stretched her arm forward again: "Li An specially bought it for you."

Wang Meili: "Hey, it's unnecessary, tell him not to buy it in the future, it's a waste, thank you both."

Wang Meili took it and put it aside, leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "I think he's in a high mood today, what's the good news?"

Li An has been nervous since the piano practice last night, Chen Xuan has gotten used to it, looked at the direction of Li An's departure with a chuckle, "I guess the concert will be held soon, I was so excited when I got up early in the morning gone."

Wang Meili followed Chen Xuan's gaze and murmured, "That's great."

Looking away for a moment, "Mr. Chen, I still want to ask you something."

Chen Xuan also looked away when she heard the words, looked at Wang Meili and nodded seriously: "Sister Wang, you ask."

Wang Meili hesitated for a moment: "You said that the most taboo is the art entrance examination in the sky and the earth. I wondered about using musical instruments to take the entrance examination. Is it reliable? Children with no foundation will have no chance at all."
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Li An returned to the office and took off his coat. The tea was ready. After waiting for a few minutes, Chen Xuan didn't come back, and then he left with a glass of water.

"You are busy."

"See you at noon, Brother An."

"See you at noon, boss."

When I came to classroom No. [-], I found a small bunch of succulents on the piano as soon as I entered the door.

Not to mention such a small decoration, the narrow space immediately becomes a little more lively.

"Morning teacher!" The energetic girl was full of energy.

Li An praised: "You play the scales well. After warming up in a while, I'll go find you, Mr. Chen, for breakfast."

Ji Yang chuckled: "Thank you, Sister Chen."

Li Ang: "Okay, you can practice."

Li An returned to classroom No. [-], combined with last night's new ideas, and started today's practice.

Three hours later, Fu Tianming cut him off on the phone.

The two made an appointment on the phone to meet at 1:[-] p.m. on the ninth floor of the Yudong office building.
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12:40, in the corridor of the teaching area on the west side.

Li An leaned against the door frame of classroom No. [-], and Ji Yang stuck his head out of classroom No. [-].

"Teacher, are you hungry? I'll treat you at noon today."

"What kind of guest are you, we won't go out to eat today."

"Ah, then I'll order what takeaway you want to eat."

"Why don't you eat takeaway? Let's cook by ourselves today."

"what?"

"Stop practicing, come here, we will come after dinner."

With Ji Yang's joining, the dining place was moved from Chen Xuan's No. [-] classroom to No. [-] classroom.

When classmate Xiao Ji saw the hot food in the new lunch box Chen Xuan had prepared for her, she felt like she was going to cry.

"Eat quickly, Ji Yang, I don't know if it suits your family's appetite."

"I want to lick the lunch box clean!"

Ji Yang swears that she has identified this teacher, and from today onwards, no one will try to snatch her teacher away from her sister Chen.

While savoring the delicious braised eggplant bite by bite, a sudden phone call made Ji Yang reluctantly put down his chopsticks.

Pick it up and take a look.

!! ?
"It's Teacher Wei." She looked at Li An.

Li An: "Then pick it up, what are you doing in a daze."

When Ji Yang answered the phone, she only heard her um, ok, good teacher Wei, um, ok, ok, huh, ok.

Then the phone hung up.

Li An vaguely heard the general idea. Teacher Wei asked Ji Yang to go to class in the afternoon, but he didn't hear the exact time.

"What time is it?"

Ji Yang blew on his bangs: "Teacher Wei asked me to arrive at 02:30."

"Hurry up and eat, I'll listen to it for you again after eating."

Li An also sped up the speed as he spoke. Normally, when Teacher Wei contacted Ji Yang for class, he sent a message one day in advance, but today he suddenly called Ji Yang over.

But she didn't think much about it, the old man might also be on a whim, just like in his memory, Teacher Wei would occasionally call him or Lin Youyou to go to the house for a meal suddenly, and ended up having a class before the meal.

After eating two more mouthfuls of rice, Li An raised his hand to look at his watch, put down his chopsticks and went out with the phone.
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"Hello, Master Li."

On the co-pilot, Fu Tianming turned on the speakerphone.

"Have you set off yet?" Li An's voice came from the phone speaker.

Fu Tianming looked at Yudong Harmony Square not far from the window, "We should be almost there."

On the phone, "Sorry, I have something to do suddenly. I have to teach a child a class. Can we postpone it for half an hour? You can sit at the Starbucks downstairs first, and I will pick you up after I am done."

As soon as he heard that Li An was going to class, the DNA in Fu Tianming's body instantly moved.

The whole person sat up.

"if."

"I mean if, if I don't interrupt your class, can I listen to this class?"

(End of this chapter)