Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 334 35. The Xiao Sai Champion Appears, Xiao Bei Explains It
In the end, the two ended their hot pot week by killing the last lamb tenderloin.

Leaving the dinner table, Li An felt that he didn't want to eat hot pot anymore in his life.

And he also had an extreme idea, if in the future he meets someone who can't live without eating hot pot for three days, Li An will invite him to eat mutton hot pot for a week, and take him to recognize this kind of food once. Essentially, help him solve the bad habit of gluttony once and for all!
Chen Xuan didn't get any better. Immediately after eating, she threw all the used plates, bowls and chopsticks, together with pots and utensils into the kitchen sink to soak in the water, and then squeezed in a huge amount of dishwashing liquid.

The two worked together to solve the battle in the kitchen in 10 minutes, then washed the fruit, took out snacks, went to the study and turned on the computer, happily waiting for the opening ceremony to arrive
There are two highlights in this opening ceremony tonight.

The first thing to watch is to listen to the live performance of Zhao Chengyan, the winner of the No.17 Xiao Sai Gold Award. The preview will be Chopin's first ballad, which is worth looking forward to.

The second thing to watch is the lottery. The 36 players draw lots on the spot to determine the order of appearance. Li An naturally hopes that the players from Huaguo can draw a good order of appearance.

"Is this competition a high level in Asia?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.

"It shouldn't be too low." Li An turned down the volume of the computer. He didn't know much about this competition. "Many players already have a certain reputation."

At this time, the playback window under the webpage flashed, Li An clicked the mouse to refresh, and then the video screen came to the opening ceremony.

Then a man with a mustache and a suit appeared on the screen, walked to the stage and Balabala spoke a lot of English, and Chen Xuan could only help Ang Li to translate.

"The opening performance, Zhao Chengyan is going to play."

As Chen Xuan was speaking, there was applause at the scene, and then Xiao Huzi bowed and stepped off the stage. After about 30 seconds, Zhao Chengyan in a black dress walked onto the stage.

With every gesture, the whole person is full of confidence.

He stopped next to the piano, turned his face to play the piano and nodded to the audience.

After sitting down, the scene suddenly fell silent.

The camera showed a close-up in front of the piano, and Zhao Chengyan had adjusted the piano bench, and was lowering his head slightly, looking at the keys with deep eyes.

Raising one's hand and dropping one's fingers, "Dang—", a coherent movement, a set of deep octaves seems to fall slowly from the sky, Chopin's first ballad in G minor.

In front of the computer screen, Li An screamed in his heart for the timbre of this group of bass.

The sound is stretched too far.
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In 10 minutes, Ang Lee seemed to have completed a trip to the romantic period.

He really listened to it, or rather he was brought in by Zhao Chengyan's performance. After listening to it at this moment, he felt relaxed and happy.

It plays so well.

It's just that the speeches of individual friends on the barrage really affect people's mood.

It's not necessary, why do you have to compare Zhao Chengyan with another Asian Xiaosai champion? Now it's all right, a group of more existences exploded, causing the barrage to be full of smoke.

And you can say that you don't like Xiao Xuyi because Zhao played this time, but you can't say that he is the champion, right? The co-author is more professional than the eighteen judges of Xiao Sai combined?
Annoying, seeing this kind of bullet screen made Li An angry.

No, no, blame him, it's his fault, why don't you watch the barrage.

After turning off the barrage, Li An turned to look at Chen Xuan and asked, "What do you think?"

Chen Xuan spread her hands truthfully and said, "Very good."

As soon as Li An heard the tone, he understood that Chen Xuan was not too impressed with the interpretation of Zhao's work, so he didn't plan to continue it. Unexpectedly, Chen Xuan then asked him what he thought.

I don't know whether Chen Xuan wants to talk about this topic with him, or if he really wants to hear it, but he really likes it.

"Delicate performance, intense emotion, amazing control of finger power."

After expressing, Li An got up and went to the bathroom, and when he came back, he had an extra cup of tea in his hand.

"Shall we go out after watching the lottery?" He asked.

Chen Xuan: "Okay, I just want to buy a bottle of eye drops this afternoon."

Ang Lee: "What's wrong?"

Chen Xuan rubbed her left eye: "I don't know, it started yesterday afternoon, and my eyes are sore."

Ang Lee analyzed that Chen Xuan might have been irritated by the dust generated when the sound insulation board was drilled, and that he used his eyes too much last night.

"Let's go, don't read, let's prescribe eye drops first."

"It's okay, it's about to start, let's finish it, I really want to see it."

Fortunately, the whole lottery session was not too long. In less than 10 minutes, each contestant got his own serial number.

The order of the seven players from China was not bad. Unfortunately, it was Wu Fusheng's match at [-] o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, and Li An had to attend class.

It is also worth mentioning that among the contestants participating in this Asian Youth Piano Invitational Competition, four of them participated in the previous Chopin Competition

Among them, the buddy named Nakamura Tomokazu had a pretty good performance in the last Xiao Sai.

Regarding this situation, what Li An wanted to say was that he was very happy.

That's how the game looks.
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After going out to buy eye drops with Chen Xuan, Li An sent a message to Wu Fusheng, and the other party sent him a video reply 10 minutes later.

The two chatted for a while.

It can be seen that Wu Fusheng's overall condition is not bad.

"Come on, try to get a good ranking."

"Do your best, don't talk anymore, I'll call home."
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The next morning, a round of competition officially started.

Li An also finally met Wang Xiaohu in the second week of the new year's class.

"Hello teacher."

Wang Xiaohu's body obviously hasn't recovered yet, his whole body is not very energetic, and he is not as glamorous as before.

Xu Li sent Wang Xiaohu into the classroom, chatted with Li An and left.

"It's all here, let me listen to you."

Knowing that Wang Xiaohu had a fever again last night, Li Anxin said that he would not stay at home today and take a good rest, so he made this trip.

Wang Xiaohu obediently sat down in front of the piano and began to warm up, playing the scales weakly.

Normally Li An would have to call it a stop, but today he just let it go.

After warming up, Wang Xiaohu took the initiative to hand in his homework.

Years ago, Ang Lee arranged four works for him, two Bach and two Czerny etudes.

Wang Xiaohu was really lazy in practicing the piano during the whole Chinese New Year, but luckily he also worked hard in the last three days.

Although I am in poor health at the moment, there are still some points to note when the four works are played.

"Not bad."

As soon as Wang Xiaohu stopped, he heard Li An's praise, and he was a little confused. His mind was in a daze, and he wasn't sure what he was playing.

But he likes to hear Li An praise him. After a short moment of astonishment, a small smile appeared on his face, "Teacher, I'm practicing the piano."

"Practice, practice, I know."

Li An didn't plan to teach Wang Xiaohu any new content in this class, and spent most of the class time introducing the main learning content for Wang Xiaohu this year.

These include completing the entire Bach elementary music collection, 599 at least the first part, and the sonatas depending on the situation. You can practice as much as you can, supplemented by various scales and arpeggios that need to be mastered in the initial piano learning stage.

Wang Xiaohu nodded after listening: "Good teacher."

Li An smiled: "Nod if you don't understand, can you finish it?"

Wang Xiaohu immediately stood up and patted his chest, and the next second—"I cough! Cough! Cough! Cough!"

Li An hurriedly patted Wang Xiaohu's back, "It's alright, I understand, you're fine, stop talking."

After feeding Wang Xiaohu a sip of water, Li An put down the water glass. Not to mention, this child is really well-behaved when he is sick, and he is very cute.

Thinking of the last time he made the other party cry and howl, Li An felt a little guilty, so he put his hand on the back of Wang Xiaohu's head dotingly. Neck, Wang Xiaohu was afraid of ticklish, so he curled up his neck and fell on Li An, Li An naturally hugged him to his side.

Suddenly, small blue characters floated in front of his eyes, [Wang Xiaohu's teacher-student index increased to 95]

It grew by two points at once.

Li An sighed: "Get well soon, Xiaohu, there are still two competitions waiting for you to participate in this semester."

After hearing about the game, Wang Xiaohu felt that his illness had recovered by two points, but he was reluctant to get out from under Li An's arm, so he raised his face and asked, "Teacher, what game?"

Li Ang: "One is organized by our blue sky, the youth music skills competition, which includes our piano group competition, it should be in May."

"The other is the Rongcheng Cup Piano Competition, which is the highest level piano competition in our city."

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "Teacher, shall all of us participate?"

Li An hummed: "You, Xiaobei, Liu Fengrui, Che Lin, and Ma Ke, you five try to choose one of the competitions to participate in. Do you feel that you have improved after participating in the last competition?"

"I feel it! Teacher, really."

Wang Xiaohu really felt his progress when he performed for his uncle's family during the Chinese New Year. In the past, he was troubled and worried about this kind of link, but this year he didn't feel anything when he played wrong.

Li An was speechless after listening, "No, you are just thick-skinned."

Wang Xiaohu giggled at Li An's words.

It doesn't matter, anyway, Li An is clear about this point, Wang Xiaohu, Xiaobei, and Che Lin have all made a significant improvement compared to before after participating in the competition.

Considering that several children will be promoted to primary school in June and July, Ang Lee does not force every child to participate, but he will do what is suggested.

Because in the second half of the year, there were no piano competitions worth participating in in Rongcheng, and another year passed.

"Teacher, I will participate!"

Wang Xiaohu made a decision, "You tell me what song to prepare, I don't want to play Summer this time."

Li An almost rolled his eyes when he heard this, I'm so thankful, thinking of myself being a judge in the audience, and Wang Xiaohu playing Summer on the stage—tsk tsk, it can be said to be the scene of a social death.

"Don't worry about the tune, go back this week and take care of your body, and I will arrange it for you in the next class."

"Okay, let's come here today, wait, have you finished your homework for the winter vacation?"

"I've already finished writing! If you don't believe me, ask my mother."

"I believe I believe."

There was no knocking on the door to end get out of class today, Li An directly sent Wang Xiaohu out, Xu Li saw Wang Xiaohu's face turned rosy after a class outside the door, she felt lucky that she didn't continue to ask her son for leave today.

"Mom, I'm going to participate in the competition again." Wang Xiaohu said, and Xiaobei's father and daughter came to the door of the classroom.

"Xiaobei!" Wang Xiaohu waved his hands enthusiastically when he saw Yu Xiaobei, and did not forget to ask, "Hello, Uncle!"

"Hello, hello." Xiaobei's father remembered this young man, who participated in the last Xinghai Cup Rongcheng competition with his daughter, and then greeted Li An, "Ms. Li."

While the two family members nodded to each other, Xiaobei had already greeted Li An, and then bared his teeth with Wang Xiaohu.

It happened that both parents were there, and Wang Xiaohu spoke up. Fortunately, Li An explained the two competitions in detail.

Xu Li felt that it was a good thing to participate in the competition, so she gave Li An a letter in person, "Mr. Li, you can arrange it, and you can let me know when you will sign up."

Xiaobei's father's idea is that this is Xiaobei's last semester before entering junior high school. Will participating in two competitions take up too much time? He has to go back and discuss it with Xiaobei's mother.
However, after listening to Li An's introduction, he still hopes that Xiaobei can choose one to participate in, "Ms. Li, let's choose one competition to participate in for the time being. Which competition do you think is more suitable for her? We will listen to you."

Li An nodded, "Okay, then I'll take Xiaobei in for class first."

After bidding farewell to Wang Xiaohu's mother and son, Li An took Xiaobei back to the classroom.

As soon as Xiaobei entered the classroom, he asked Li An excitedly, "Teacher, is this competition difficult?"

Is the game difficult?When Xiaobei asked this question, Li An answered with a smile, "Is the competition difficult or not?"

Xiaobei thinks about it, "Then teacher, if I participate in the Blue Sky Cup competition, how many songs do I need to prepare?"

If Qin Yong adopts Ang Lee's suggestion, Xiaobei should prepare two pieces, one for the preliminary round and one for the final round, but in addition, Xiaobei will also prepare a set of scale and arpeggio performances before the performance of the preliminary round.

Xiaobei nodded, "What about the Rongcheng Cup?"

Ang Lee: "I don't know the specifics. The regulations for the competition haven't come down yet, so at least two songs have to be prepared."

"What's the matter, Xiaobei, is there a problem?"

After a while, Xiaobei hesitated and said, "Teacher, can you tell my mother if it's okay? I want to participate. Anyway, I'm preparing two songs, so I won't waste much time."

Li Anxin said that he was waiting here, "Okay, the teacher will try his best to help you, and try to let you participate in both competitions, but it's the last semester, so don't delay your homework because of piano practice, you understand."

Xiaobei grinned: "Understood! Thank you teacher."

Xiaobei sat in front of the piano, Li An started today's lesson, and had to learn something new today.

Not counting the content, there is one work on Bach's elementary level and two 599 etudes.

After pondering and reflecting since last week, Ang Lee made a preliminary New Year's piano practice plan for several children.

Compared with Wang Xiaohu, Li An decided to speed up Xiaobei's progress, so that he didn't have to go through 599 one by one.

Originally, he wanted both children to play 599 from beginning to end, but he figured it out. Seeing Xu Li's attitude, as long as he is willing to teach, Wang Xiaohu might be able to graduate from high school with him, but Xiaobei is different. .

After chatting with Xiaobei's mother last year, although he knew that Xiaobei might stop studying in junior high school, he didn't really feel this.

This year is different, especially after returning from the Chinese New Year this time, Li An can clearly feel that Xiaobei should go to junior high school.

Of course he wouldn't think that Xiaobei's mother was telling him stories before, so he had to change his mentality. Starting from this semester, Xiaobei had to mention the premise of every stage.

A class passed in a blink of an eye. When the class was over, Xiaobei asked Li An: "Teacher, don't you need to practice the six etudes in the middle?"

Li An replied with a smile: "These six are too simple, understand?"

Xiaobei understood, "Goodbye, teacher."

"Goodbye, Teacher Li."

"Goodbye Xiaobei, goodbye Teacher Yu."

After sending the father and daughter into the elevator, the elevator door closed, and Li An sighed.

On the way back to the classroom, he suddenly thought of a question, if Xiaobei didn't perform well in the preliminary round, how would he achieve this result.

He hopes that the child can participate in one more round.

(End of this chapter)