Please, come home and practice the piano

After checking what he knew from Lao Dong, Li An had a general idea. He and Lin Yan would study it in detail in the evening.

After sorting out all the things that need to be prepared in the early stage, he can start choosing a position when he comes back from Yucheng.

Arriving at the door of Li Zheng's piano room, Li An listened for a while. When he stopped inside, he knocked on the door.

"uncle."

Li Zheng did not dare to speak loudly, and quickly gave up his position at the door after opening the door.

"sit."

Li An entered the room and chatted with Li Zheng for a while. It could be seen that the nephew was very happy to see him.

Li Zheng talked about what happened when he returned home, saying that he also went to the third grandfather's house for a meal. Li An asked what he was cooking, and Li Zheng said braised pork.

Li An was also a little greedy for Lao Li's braised pork, "Zhengzi, why didn't you eat at noon recently?"

Li Zheng's explanation was the same as Yang Shuangyu's. Recently, he couldn't get into the state until the second half of practice, so he didn't want to lose his feeling.

"That's right, you should consider why you can't get into the state at the beginning, and you should also be clear that during the exam, you basically have to go directly to the exam room."

"So this is not a good habit. From today on, you have to plan your practice well, what time it will be, what time it will be, eat when it is time, and regularize your study life."

"To practice the pipe, you come to the piano room early in the morning and pick up the instrument. The first thing you need to know in your mind is what you want to practice in the first ten minutes and what you want to practice in the second ten minutes."

Li Zheng nodded, "Yes, uncle."

Ang Lee: "You must practice until you sound satisfied before moving on to the next item. Am I right?"

Li Zheng: "Yes, uncle."

Li An: "You are right, but it is not suitable for your current stage. You are racing against time now. Every minute you have to prepare for the art exam. You have to put your experience aside for the time being and listen to the teacher's arrangements. Listen to the teacher's instructions. Standard, Teacher Liu told me last time, saying that you are sometimes too cautious."

"It's a good thing. When studying art, you need to have this attitude of striving for excellence, but at the same time, you also need to learn to relax."

Li An pointed to his temple, "Wangling too much about whether a note is played perfectly will seriously consume your energy. Let me say it again, what you are wrong is not the method, what is wrong is that you use this method. this stage."

"understand?"

Li Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, I don't know if I understand it correctly. For example, if I practice long tones, Teacher Liu stipulates that I can practice for twenty minutes. Then I don't need to practice in order to master every note. Thirty minutes, at that point I will move on to the next item, is that what you mean, of course I will try my best to play every note well during the process."

Ang Lee: "Yes, that's what it means. Let's see if you can get into the state you want earlier."

Li Zheng: "I'll give it a try, uncle."

Li An: "Go on, stop practicing when the time is up, and have dinner with them, Ang."

Li Zheng: "Yeah, uncle."

"The bread has been taken away. I'm still a little hungry."

Taking his nephew's bread, Li An left the piano room.

He experienced Li Zheng's situation in college, or many art students have experienced this stage. To put it bluntly, it means a lack of appreciation of music, a lack of understanding of one's own abilities, and then one has to pursue the ultimate effect of one's own imagination.

Is this possible without falling into self-inflicted conflict?

You don’t even know what is good, can you play, sing, blow and pull out something good?

Therefore, players with better skills spend more time thinking.

For novices, it is sometimes wise to relax more and use their brains.

Li Zheng's current stage is a bit similar to Gao Ruijin. He thinks too much and can't reach it, but he still works very hard.

Therefore, Li An gave suggestions to such students: listen to the teacher and practice step by step. This is the fastest way to improve at this stage.

However, Li Zheng has another advantage over Gao Ruijin. Li Zheng reacts faster than Gao Ruijin, and Gao Ruijin is a bit slow at learning.

Back at 802, Li An saw the tea leaves on the table as soon as he opened the door and thought to himself, is the old director so polite?

Okay, then he will accept it for now. It just so happens that he hasn't thought about what to pick up from Lin Yan's place in the evening. The tea looks pretty good.

"Hey Principal Qi."

Li An then called Lao Qi. He and Lao Dong had already explained what needed to be explained, and they also communicated with Principal Qi one after another during the summer vacation.

Even though Lao Qi was not satisfied, he had nothing to say about the matter so far. The club had to be opened this year, and even if he didn't cooperate with Li An, he would still have to cooperate with others. Instead of going through all the trouble, let's just leave it like this.

At least there is Li An as a guarantor, and he can still trust Li An.

"Don't worry, my instructions will be in place." Seeing that Lao Qi had no objections, Li An felt at ease and said, "Have you not written the lyrics yet?"

Lao Qi sighed on the phone, "I've been busy with the start of school recently, and there are a lot of things happening inside and outside. Let's wait a little longer."

When discussing cooperation, one of Lao Qi's conditions was that Li An would help him compose the music, he would write the lyrics, and the two would compose a school song.

Li An had always cared about this matter. Seeing that Lao Qi was really busy, he gave up the idea of ​​​​keeping a position for Lao Dong. Anyway, there was no problem. "No matter how busy you are, you should pay more attention to your health."

After a few words of greeting, Li An waited for Lao Qi to hang up the phone and sent Wei Fangyuan a message.

After making an appointment for dinner, he left 802.
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At 11:50 noon, Li An and Xu Li met at the Starbucks at the entrance of Harmony Square.

"Where's Teacher Chen?" Xu Li thought the two of them would come together.

"She has class at noon," Li An looked around, "Where's Xiaohu?"

"He went to play with his cousin," Xu Li explained. "The two children didn't see each other very often during the summer vacation."

"Then we have to hurry up and play for two days," Li An smiled, "When will the old couple come back?"

"The day after tomorrow." They said as they walked out of the mall gate, "I heard from Xiaohu that Sister Xu loves to make porridge."

"He likes to drink it, so I'll just follow the recipe." Xu Li cooked a pot of preserved egg and lean meat porridge for her son last night.

Li An praised: "Making porridge is a time-consuming and laborious task, and most people don't have the patience."

Xu Lixiao: "I usually have nothing to do."

Li An nodded and took Xu Li to the second floor, "Sister Xu's side."

Originally, Xu Li said that she would cook a meal in the evening and invite Li An and Chen Xuan to their home, but Li An had already agreed with Wei Fangyuan and his wife the day before yesterday that they would go to their house to teach Lin Guoguo on the evening of the 23rd and have a meal.

So he and Xu Li set a time for noon today. Li An said that he would go to Xu Li's house for dinner next time, so he invited him to have dinner today.

During this period of time, he was busy in Yanjing, and Xu Li was not at ease. No matter how Xu Li negotiated with the scholar, he, as a person, had to treat Xu Li and his wife seriously. Have a meal.

In the end, Xu Li said that she could just eat something simple, and mainly talked about the issue of being a scholar.

Seeing that Xu Li didn't want to take her husband with her, what else could he say? Anyway, the invitation was sent to him, and he had the attitude.

Let's keep it simple. Anyway, after this period of time, he regarded Xu Li as one of his own from the bottom of his heart.

Although Boss

Of course, this premise does not make sense without Wang Xiaohu.

As for whether Xu Li was more interested in "investing" in her child's piano teacher or making more money with her child's piano teacher when it came to the issue of being a scholar, he probably would have known it before long.

Let’s listen to what Xu Li has to say for a moment.

The two stopped in front of a Chaoshan porridge shop. The waiter at the door was very discerning and didn't hand out flyers. He just smiled and said, "You two, please come in." Xu Li likes to drink porridge, so drink porridge at this restaurant. I have eaten at Li An and Chen Xuan several times and it is very good.

The two chose a booth. Xu Li took off her hat and put it on the table. Then she went to wash her hands. When she came back, Li An had already finished scanning the QR code to order.

"Less."

Li An didn't really order much, just a large portion of porridge and a side dish. Usually he and Chen Xuan would have to add another dish.

While waiting for the porridge, Xu Li briefly talked about the current situation with Li An. The preliminary negotiations went very smoothly, and the school was extremely satisfied with their plan. Now it was up to Li An, the course director, to meet with the school leaders. .

Regarding the method of meeting, Xu Li’s idea was to ask Li An to prepare a course introduction. She would make an appointment and find a morning or afternoon where she would be at the bookstore and let Li An introduce it carefully to the school leaders and the person in charge of music literacy. Check out their courses.

Li An and Xu Li had the same idea, "Sister Xu, look at the time. I plan to return to Yucheng on the 28th, but I can adjust the time for all readers at any time."

Xu Li: "Then let's tentatively schedule the morning of the 26th or 27th. I will give you an accurate reply before noon tomorrow."

Ang Lee: "Okay."

During the meal, Xu Li carefully explained to Li An the power structure of the storyteller.

The first is the three major shareholders, and the second is the principal.

The three major shareholders basically do not interfere with the school's affairs on weekdays. Unless they come out to take charge of some major events, the rest of the time is handed over to an acting principal.

The Acting Principal is known as the Grand Principal by the faculty and staff of the Bookman.

The principal represents the collective will and decision-making of shareholders. As the most powerful person within the school, he is mainly responsible for the normal operation of the school.

Below the president, there are finally four vice-presidents. Although the positions of these four are vice-presidents, in actual work, they are equivalent to the position of principals within their respective work environment areas.

In fact, before 2017, Shuren had only three vice presidents.

The three vice-principals each have their own teams and are responsible for the affairs of the upper and lower campuses and three levels of departments, and are not involved in each other.

In response to the government, Shuren established a cultural and sports teaching center in 2017, focusing on developing students' quality education. Following this, the fourth vice principal was born.

The fourth vice-principal is mainly responsible for aesthetic education at three levels and the school’s external publicity work.

The person who had been in charge of the Cultural and Sports Teaching Center before was Principal Yang, Liu Daguang’s thigh.

However, the thunderous incident at the June 1st Art Performance alarmed the board of directors, and a round of reshuffle was inevitable. The final outcome was that Principal Yang was dismissed by the board of directors and replaced by Principal Liu, who was transferred from the junior high school.

Liu Zhen.

After two exchanges and a dinner, Xu Li's evaluation of Liu Zhen was eight words: cautious, steady, and unsmiling.

At the same time, Xu Li also emphasized that Principal Liu’s personnel transfer was authorized by the chairman of Shuren Education Group, not Uncle Yue, the third shareholder.

In other words, Principal Liu is not one of his own in the sense of the word, but Uncle Yue is the specific executor of this reshuffle of middle and high-level school leaders.

Hearing this, Li An basically understood the current power distribution of the Scholars, and at the same time, he basically linked up the past and present life of the Scholars Wind Band Club since its establishment.

Shuren established the Culture and Sports Teaching Center in 2017, which happened to be the year after Hu Mingzhi took over Yuan Chenfei, and finally broke up with Shuren due to internal struggles in Lantian.

In the past, Yuan Chen ran away, and later Hu Mingzhi abandoned his car to protect the leader. The Shuren Wind Band Society suffered two heavy blows in the early stages of its development, both from the Blue Sky Elegant Art Promotion Center.

It’s no wonder that in 2017, a department was set up to centrally manage literacy clubs, with a principal.

I can understand that there are 18 categories of club majors and 120+ classified club minors. That’s 120 classes.

Li An then told Xu Li the story of Shuren's wind band club before 2017 - the love and hatred with Lan Tian.

Yuan Chenfei, sister-in-law, nephew, and uncle, the logistics director, all appeared again, but Li An's speech was not as vivid as Qin Yong's speech at that time.

But even so, Xu Li was a little emotional after hearing this, "Looking at it this way, the management at that time was indeed chaotic. A person in charge of logistics could intervene in the school's literacy education work."

Li An: "Yes, Sister Xu, which school director does Principal Yang who was transferred before belong to?"

Xu Li: "The second shareholder."

Li An nodded. Although he didn't want to get involved in these things, he should be labeled as uncle-in-law in the eyes of Principal Liu.

It was no different than in Lan Tian. He was about to enter a new environment, so he had to be more cautious.

Then do your job well.

Of course, the premise is that the contract must be successfully implemented first. If the meeting between him and Principal Liu is not pleasant, then everything will be empty talk.

You have to prepare well these two days.

"This porridge is really good," Xu Li scooped up half a spoonful of sticky porridge and fed it into her mouth. "I have always passed by this store before, and this is the first time today."

Li An: "Next time your family of three comes to eat, it will be just right if you order another dish."

The two smiled. It was obvious that Li An had ordered too much at noon today. The two of them couldn't finish the large portion of porridge. He should have ordered a medium portion of porridge.

After the meal, Li An followed Xu Li back to Meizhuang. On the way, she told Xu Li that Qin Yong had gone out to recruit students for the past two days. "I will make an appointment with him after I finish my busy work these days. Then we will carefully study Xiaohu's command skills." question."

"Thank you, Teacher Li. Please tell me the time in advance and I will make arrangements," Xu Li said, unable to help but smile.

In the past few days, when she had time, she would look through the video of Xiaohu conducting on the church stage that afternoon.

"What else can we say to thank each other?" Li An said and swallowed the words that were on his lips.

Xu Li did not talk about follow-up issues after the course is launched today, such as the whereabouts of student resources.

Xu Li knew before the Shuren incident that he was going to do it by herself in the second half of the year, so it was impossible for Xu Li not to be unaware of the inextricable relationship between the Shuren and the school she was about to open.

It seems that the cooperation between the two people has been reached so far. He is responsible for guest courses, Xu Li is responsible for public relations, and then they will run the bookstore together.

However, the issue of profit distribution and how to develop in the future were issues that the two of them had to face later.

Maybe Xu Li also felt that it was a little early to discuss these issues today. Li Anxin thought that he would discuss it in detail with Xu Li after he formally met with the person in charge of the book.

It would be best if he could meet Xiaohu's father by then, not only about cooperation, but also about Xiaohu's learning of command. It had been so long, but he and Wang Xiaohu's father had never met.

After swallowing the words, Li An didn't know what to say for a moment, and the car fell into silence for a moment.

The car turned at the intersection, and his eyes subconsciously fell on the rearview mirror. An old-style silver dolphin pendant hung on the rearview mirror, swaying with the car as if swimming in the air (Volume 63, ).

It was said to be silver, but the surface of the dolphin had already appeared a large area of ​​oxidation, and there were yellow rust spots on the top of the head. Li An guessed that this thing must have some special meaning for Xu Li.

"This pendant looks old," he said casually.

"Fifteen years ago," Xu Li said, "Xiaohu's father gave it to me when he was in college."

Ang Lee: "Wow, you guys got married so early."

Xu Li: "It's not bad. At that time, everyone around us was earlier."

After a moment, he smiled softly and said, "You two have to speed up too."

Li Anxin sighed and said yes with a smile.

The two of them had their own concerns and the car drove all the way to Meizhuang.

Passing by the door of Telecom, "Sister Xu, just leave me here."

Xu Li stopped the car and the two parted ways at the door of the telecommunications office.