Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 765 24. Chengdu September Story [Part ]

"Oh dad, can we just stop talking about the rotten grains in the old warehouse?"

"Xuan, why does this mustard taste so good?"

"Uncle, how young auntie is!"

"You have to take care of yourself over there and don't let your parents worry. We are all relieved."

The warmth of laughter and laughter was like an advance preview of a scene on a certain day in the future. It wasn't until midnight came again that the four of them were reluctant to go back to their rooms to fall asleep.

In the middle of the night, Lao Li limped to the living room, stuffed a tightly wrapped bag into the bottom of Li An's already packed travel bag, and then covered the bag with his clothes.

The next day, the old couple sent the young couple downstairs early. When they went out, Li An said that they would not take the suitcases they brought with them.

"We have to buy another suitcase when Chen Xuan goes abroad. You can keep this one. Anyway, we don't have a suitcase at home, so you don't have to buy it when you go to Chengdu. Our things won't be in it."

At the door of the unit, Li Fu has been waiting for a long time.

After a long and short farewell, Chen Xuan waved her hands and said goodbye to uncle and aunt over and over again. She got in the car and stretched her hands out the window to continue waving. An Ma also kept waving to Chen Xuan, but Lao Li didn't know After saying something in Li An's ear, Li An tightened his tight bag and nodded.

"Goodbye, uncle and aunt!"

"Mom and Dad, let's go! Uncle Liu, please also take care of yourself."

The car started amidst the farewell sounds and slowly drove out of Nanxin Community.

On the way, Li An conveyed Lao Li's words to Chen Xuan. After hearing this, Chen Xuan pursed her lips slightly, took Li An's arm with both hands and leaned lightly on his shoulder.

Li An patted Chen Xuan's leg.

Lao Li just said to Li An: We don't know how to express Xiao Chen's decision to go abroad. I put 20,000 yuan in my bag for you. What do you think of telling her? Even if you can't make it later, your parents are willing to do it.

"Thank you, third brother."

"Goodbye, third brother."

Li An and Chen Xuan walked into the train station carrying their luggage and two Helan inkstones that Li Fu got from somewhere.

Say goodbye to this short but meaningful trip to Yucheng.

"We'll be busy starting tomorrow."

"From today."

September is destined to be brand new and busy, for Ang Lee, for Chen Xuan, and for every child in Piano Classroom No. 4.
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The first half of September.

With the help of friends from all walks of life, Li An completed all the materials that needed to be approved by the society. As long as he found a good facade, he could proceed to the next step of submitting the application.

During this period, apart from teaching the children, all his remaining energy was devoted to the preparation work before the start of the book class.

To be precise, it should be that he and Xu Li put their time and energy into the work of being a book writer.

One of the two is responsible for the pre-class training of teachers and the final course submission plan, and the other is responsible for purchasing musical instruments and dealing with the bookman and Dawei Musical Instrument Factory.

In the end, with the coordination of multiple parties, the instrument was priced at a price that was 25% lower than the market price. Party B was responsible for purchasing on behalf of Party B, and the person in charge was Li An.

This price was already the limit that Xu Li could achieve. On the day of signing, Li An felt like a boss for the first time. In the evening, he invited all the teachers in the calligraphy team to have a meal together.

It was indeed time to have a meal, firstly because the price of the instruments exceeded their expectations, and secondly, to reward every teacher for their hard work since September.

Although enrollment has not yet started, everyone is working hard towards their common goal.

Xu Li also spoke at the dinner and gave Li An a toast on behalf of all the teachers. Everyone present could see how hard Li An had been recently.

And only Xu Li knew that she could negotiate with the school for a price that was only 25% lower than the market price. Li An seemed to have done nothing, but in fact it was the key.

She believed that the reason why the school finally relented was because Liu Zhen relented, and if Liu Zhen could relent, it would be Teacher's Day.

On the day he returned to Chengdu, Li An immediately contacted Lin Youyou and proposed the idea of ​​long-term cooperation with the running girl.

Lin Youyou naturally wanted to promote the cooperation between the two, but she could not make the decision for Pao Mei.

After watching the stage premiere of her Vivaldi Seventh Duo, Pao Mei directly expressed her willingness to accept the cooperation invitation and gave Ang Lee a discount.

There are 1,000 large-scale ensemble works and 3,01 volumes of piano ensemble etudes.

For Li An, this price can be said to have saved him a considerable amount of money. He originally wanted to use part of it to thank Lin Youyou for his help.

It's just that Lin Youyou didn't ask for it, but Lin Youyou asked him for another thing.

This year's Teacher's Day is the last Teacher's Day for teachers on the job. Lin Youyou really can't come back and can't participate. He hopes that Li An can take her heart to spend this Teacher's Day successfully for teachers.

Lin Youyou's instructions reminded Li An, and Li An also sincerely wanted to celebrate the last Teacher's Day on the job for the teacher, but he still connected several things together.

It can be said that he was worried about how to get closer to Liu Zhen, and Lin Youyou gave him a brilliant idea.

One day before Teacher's Day, Li An went to Liu Zhen's office with the Helan inkstone Li Fu had prepared for him.

Originally, Liu Zhen had already accumulated some goodwill towards Li An during his contact with Li An again in the past few days in September, but this goodwill immediately became thinner due to Li An's move, even though he knew that the inkstone Li An brought was nice one.

Because the two sides were having a heated discussion about the pricing of musical instruments at that time.

But after hearing Li An's purpose, he didn't know how true or false Li An's words were, but he was willing to help Li An in a private capacity.

"Principal Liu, Teacher Wei has no big ideals in his life. He just wants to teach students well and develop piano education in Chengdu. He has never said that, but he has always done so. This year is his last year at the school. On Teacher's Day, all the students in Wei's class wanted to give him a calligraphy as a gift. The younger brothers and sisters could only ask me to do this. But among the people I know, you are the only one with good calligraphy, and only You understand the mood and feelings of an old teacher who has spent most of his life in education facing retirement in his later years."

Liu Zhen prepared for this for a day and made the frame himself. On the morning of Teachers' Day, he wrote an inscription for Lao Wei, using the Helan inkstone brought by Li An - the fragrance of calligraphy and calligraphy will be passed down from generation to generation, and the garden will be filled with talents and talents.

The cursive script is like a violent storm, flowing freely, and the pen moves quickly and easily, making it dizzying.

Li An watched in amazement, and Liu Zhen stopped writing and glanced at it, sighing in relief.

In the end, the Helan inkstone was not used by Li An as a reward for Liu Zhen to write the inscription for him. He also wished Liu Zhen a happy Teacher's Day.

Within two days, the pricing plan for Xu Lihe Art Teaching Center came out.

It was only 25% lower than the market price. While Xu Li was happy for the team, she also had to say that she admired Li An's thoughtfulness.

When talking about Teachers' Day, we must talk about a few children.

After finishing their military training, the children and their senior sister made an appointment to go to Yunkai Garden at noon on Teacher's Day, but no one was home when they came.

While waiting for the teacher to go home, the children sat in a row at the door of the unit. They exchanged military training with each other and the first week of school. And I also heard Senior Sister Ji Yang talk about a speech that the teacher gave at the orientation meeting of the piano department of Rongyuan some time ago.

They were extremely happy and proud to hear this.

At noon on Teacher's Day, Li An unexpectedly postponed the meeting with the children that was supposed to take place two days later. He received a total of seven gifts. At the same time, he "warned" everyone that no one is allowed to spend money to buy him gifts in the future, no matter what. what gift.

Finally he treated the children to a meal.

During the meal, he asked each child to talk about their experiences in junior high school during the past ten days.

Each child spoke for three to four minutes, and Li An laughed while listening. In less than twenty days, many interesting things happened to each child.

Even if Wang Xiaohu refused to let Liu Fengrui talk about it until the end, no one knew what it was, and neither did he.

There was also Xiao Che. Although Xiao Che seemed to be speaking positively, his face looked a little tired. What made him even more distressed was that Xiao Che had lost weight.

Li An understood what was going on, and Lao Che also called him several times.

In fact, even if Xiaoqi was full of energy that day and Laoqi didn't call him, he still knew that Xiaoqi had been very hard since the military training.

Because during this period of time, the background showed that Xiaoqi practiced piano for an average of less than two hours a day. Not only did he not practice at noon every day, it was too late to get home in the evening.

Lao Che had made up his mind to rent a house near the school and had quietly contacted the house. But he couldn't get through to his daughter, so he called Li An several times for help.

Two days later on the weekend, the children's piano lessons for the new semester officially began.

Li An took the opportunity to schedule Xiao Che's class to the end, and then chatted with Xiao Che for a long time.

During the chat, Li An felt more deeply about Xiaoche's understanding.

In the past, he only knew that Xiaoche was sensible, but he had never heard Xiaoche take the initiative to say anything to him.

Chen Xuan went to Yanjing again that day. After class, there were only two teachers and students at home. The teacher and students cooked together and fried two vegetables in a small cart.

During the meal, Xiaoche said that she really didn’t want her father and Aunt Sang to spend this money on her. This was the first time she mentioned Sang Ping to someone other than her family, but she could understand why her father and Aunt Sang wanted to rent a house for her to go to school. The house is for her to go to school conveniently, and it also allows her to save more time to practice piano, so she has figured out this problem. Anyway, she will definitely work hard to earn the money back when she grows up.

But what really bothered her was another problem.

"Teacher, I may be a little afraid of living in a strange new place at first, but I believe I will be able to adapt to it soon, but I know that if I really rent a house, no matter what I say, someone will come to accompany me every day."

"Teacher, I don't want to split one home into two because I moved out. Zhizhi is very noisy at night, and I can't take care of it alone. Their work is already very tiring, and they have to get up early the next day, no matter what No matter who comes to stay with me at night, my dad or Aunt Sang, the one who comes will be more tired, and the one who takes care of Zhizhi alone at home will also be more tired."

"Teacher, if it's just two days a day or two months a month, I will have to attend junior high school for three years and high school for three years. When Zhizhi gets older, he will go to kindergarten and will need to be picked up and dropped off. They can only go beyond It’s getting busier and busier.”

"Teacher, I don't want them to work so hard."

When Li An heard this, you can imagine how shocked he was. This was just a child who had just entered the first grade of junior high school.

It turned out that it was him and Lao Che who thought Xiao Che's idea of ​​renting a house to go to school was too simple.

They think that the child is just reluctant to let her family spend money on her, but in fact the child really feels sorry for her parents, even though she has never called her mother.

"Is it hard to ride in the car like this every day?"

The car shook its head.

"you lost weight."

The car shook its head.

"Do you have enough time to practice piano every day?"

Xiaoche stared at the bowl but didn't answer. She couldn't lie to the teacher, but she didn't want the teacher to worry about her.

Fortunately, Li An followed with a smile and didn't ask any more questions, "Eat quickly, this fried pork with chili has a bit of the taste of your father, it's pretty good."

The car seemed to be happy again. Between his teeth, it seemed as if the girl of the afternoon wind was back.

But Li An could see that there was something missing in the child's bright pupils, and something was added in its place.

He knew that Xiaoche would be happy if he praised Xiaoche, and he also knew that Xiaoche didn't want him to worry too.

After the meal, the cart had to help clean up the kitchen and dining room before leaving. Li An couldn't do it, so he let the cart go.

At that time, the whole house was much cleaner when the car left. Indeed, Chen Xuan went to Yanjing every now and then, and he was also running around all day, so the hygiene at home was indeed not as good as before.

Maybe she and Chen Xuan's fast-paced life style has come, and some things are unavoidable for them, such as occasionally coming back to be lazy after a busy day.

Every day when Li An was running around, Chen Xuan seemed to be on stimulants.

Since returning from Yucheng, Chen Xuan contacted Teacher Xiao immediately, and then started a life of traveling between Yanjing and Rongcheng, during which she also returned to Yanshi.

Prepare for professional exams, prepare for French exams, apply for visas, listen to Liang Yudan giving lessons to three art candidates from time to time, and take care of Chen Zitong and Feng Keke’s children. To describe Chen Xuan’s first half of September in one word, it must be “tight.” "

Chen Xuan seemed unwilling to let go of every moment. Li An sometimes felt distressed when he saw Chen Xuan like this.

But he knew what Chen Xuan was doing, so all he could do was to prevent himself from wasting every minute and every second.

At the end of the first half of September, Chen Xuan happened to come back from Yanjing. In the evening, the two of them sat face to face on the bed. Both of them saw in the other's eyes the steadiness and peace of mind that came from being busy.

Not only were they busy, they were all busy and produced results.

If nothing unexpected happens, Chen Xuan and Ye Xinyi can leave early next month and use their tourist visa to take the professional examination in advance, so that Chen Xuan can save three months for the future.

Needless to say, Li An's gains were beyond his expectations. The pricing of musical instruments exceeded his expectations. He established a good personal relationship with Liu Zhen. The planning procedures for opening a personal school were completed one after another. The art candidates achieved excellent results in the monthly exams. More on Teachers' Day. Needless to say, when Teacher Wei saw those words, he touched the corners of his eyes on the spot.

In the end, the old man didn't say anything, just patted him heavily on the shoulder.

If there was anything that troubled Ang Li in the first half of September, it was the car problem and the location of the rental house.

Both things are urgent for him. Relatively speaking, the former is slightly more urgent than the latter because his focus in the last ten days was not on finding a place.

But the little car was still jostling the bus every day, and the child said some inner words to him.

So as Xiaoche's favorite teacher Li, he felt that he should do something for this family.

At the end of the conversation with Chen Xuan that night, Li An talked about the current predicament Che Lin's family was in.

Chen Xuan smiled after hearing this and said, "I have an idea."

(End of this chapter)