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Chapter 1000: 260. The Path Traveled by Young Bach [Part ]

bach?

As a child?
Going to a concert?

Listening to Bach's concerts as a child, what a fresh topic.

Bach, the father of Western music, actually attended concerts when he was a child. This made the child so curious that he ignored the teacher's question itself.

"Teacher! Whose concerts did Bach attend when he was a child?"

As a representative, Wang Xiaohu asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.

"What is the teacher asking you?" Xu Li took over her son's question. "The teacher is asking you if you know how far composer Bach walked when he was a child to attend a concert, no matter whose concert he attended."

Only then did the children react.

Li An smiled: "Guess."

Hmm, how much distance does it take to go to a concert? The children began to think.

No matter how much distance you walk to a concert, it is definitely less than the distance they walk to a concert.

"Ten minutes." Wang Xiaohu guessed.

Li An shook his head: "How much distance can you walk in ten minutes? An adult can't even reach two kilometers in a hurry."

That must be greater than two kilometers. Xiaobei then guessed, "Four kilometers."

Li An shook his head: "Guess again."

Xiao Qiao: "Eight kilometers."

Li An laughed: "Eight kilometers is quite far. Liu Fengrui is exactly eight kilometers away from my home. No, keep guessing."

Xiao Ma: "Teacher, can you first tell us whether eight kilometers is too much or too little?"

Li An: “Less.”

Xiao Liu heard this and said: "It takes me half an hour to ride a bicycle!"

Xiao Ma ventured to guess, "Twelve kilometers."

Li An continued to shake his head: "Less."

The kids were shocked! Twelve kilometers were missing! ?
Bach was just a kid when he was young! He had to walk more than 12 kilometers to attend a concert!

"You can be bolder."

After saying that, Li An quickened his pace, and Lao Tang and the others followed with a smile. To be honest, everyone was a little curious about this question.

You have to know that Bach never left his home within a hundred miles in his entire life, so how far could a child go for a concert?

The children all quickened their pace at the same time, and for a moment no one felt tired anymore.

"Teacher." Wang Xiaohu followed the fastest, "Fifteen kilometers, right?"

"It's still wrong." Li An paused and turned to announce the answer, "30 kilometers."

Thirty kilometers!!!??

Everyone was stunned. What does thirty kilometers mean?
"That will take at least four or five hours!" Haitao admired Master Bach even more. He was indeed the originator of the piano world.

At this time, Marco held up his phone and said, "Teacher Zheng, I'm afraid it's far more than that."

Everyone looked over, and Marco pointed to the screen of his phone, "The average walking speed of an adult is five kilometers per hour. That is to say, if we don't consider the deceleration caused by physical loss, an adult needs six hours to walk thirty kilometers."

After a pause, he said, "Considering that Bach was still a child, his physical strength was far less than that of an adult. In addition, the road conditions at that time were definitely not like today, where all roads are paved everywhere. Bach might have to walk a lot of dirt roads, and it is not ruled out that he had to cross mountains and ridges during the period. In the end, there was the problem of physical exhaustion."

"So I guess it would take young Bach eight hours or even longer to walk the 30-kilometer round trip."

After hearing Marco's speculation, the children fell silent. They could hardly imagine what it would be like to walk for eight hours.

Just for a concert.

"I admire you." Lao Tang admired Xiao Ma a little, and he admired the young Bach even more.

As everyone was sighing, Li An smiled and said, "Thirty kilometers is just the distance for him to get to the concert hall. He has to go home after the concert. Aren't you going home after the concert?"

Children: “.”

After sixty kilometers, Xiaobei suddenly felt very uncomfortable. No matter what Bach's future achievements would be, Bach was just a child in his youth, children of the same age as them.

It was such a child of their age who had to walk for more than sixteen hours to attend a concert.

Ang Lee: "Bach would leave home before dawn, and when he got home it was still dark."

Why? Just because of a concert? What kind of concert could have fascinated Bach so much that it was completely incomprehensible.

There was no child present who did not like to listen to concerts, but if they were asked to walk 60 kilometers back and forth just to listen to a concert, they could not imagine what kind of concert would make them do that.

Xiao Che thought that perhaps only at the teacher's concert would she be willing and able to do it.

"Teacher, whose concert was Bach going to listen to?" Xiao Liu asked softly.

Ang Lee: "Concerts back then were different from today. For example, if we were to hold a performance at the Chengdu Concert Hall on June 1 this year, and it's almost February now, then we'd still have four months before the performance."

“But our program will be finalized and submitted at the end of March, and everyone will be able to see a preview of the show online by the end of April at the latest.”

"But there was no such developed communication system in Bach's time, and most concerts at that time did not have pre-determined repertoire and performers. People only knew that there would be a concert in a certain church or venue on Wednesday night."

Zhang Miao: “Open the blind box.”

Ang Lee: "Yes, it's like opening a blind box, and you might even get an empty box. If the concert is cancelled on that day, then everyone's trip will be in vain."

Wang Xiaohu: "How irresponsible!"

Ang Lee: "If you catch up, there's nothing you can do about it, just like not all efforts will have equal rewards in the end."

Xiao Qiao: "Teacher, would you walk 60 kilometers for an unknown concert that might not be held?"

Li An: "It's hard to say. Maybe I'll be impulsive once or twice."

Xiaobei: "Teacher, isn't Bach afraid when he walks home alone at night? What if he can't walk anymore?"

Li An: "Maybe you're scared too. If you can't walk anymore, then take a break. Are you okay? Do you want to rest for a while?"

"do not want!"

The children's attitudes were unusually unified. The three brothers Ma, Wang and Liu took the lead again to "charge forward", followed closely by the three little girls.

"Slow down, be safe!"

Li An shouted loudly at the children's backs.

Lao Tang gave a thumbs up and said, "It's all thanks to Mr. Li An. At this speed, we can reach Tianlong Cave at noon."

Li An: "When we get to Tianlong Cave, we'll take a break and have some lunch, and see if we can reach the top of the mountain before the sun sets."

Chen Xuan: "You didn't let us say it, but you couldn't help it first."

Li Anle: "I was just giving them an analogy. I didn't say we would really have a performance on June 1st."

The mountain road is not very winding, with green grass, wild flowers and trees on both sides, high and low, scattered in an orderly manner.

In the following two hours, the teachers and students walked and stopped, with the children always leading the way. They overtook three groups of tourists and finally arrived at Tianlong Cave at noon as the first group.

"Wow!"

The mountain breeze is blowing gently, and looking up at the sky, there is a large natural crack between two towering stone pillars. Looking through the crack at the opposite mountain, it looks like a giant dragon hovering in the clouds. The children marvel at the wonders of nature and unconsciously develop a sense of heroism.

"Everyone, look!"

The children looked down in the direction of Xiao Qiao's finger, and Xiao Liu said excitedly, "Isn't that the courtyard where we started from?"

Wang Xiaohu: "It looks so small from this perspective!"

A group of teachers followed and looked over. Wang Wenyang suddenly became curious and asked everyone, "How far have we walked this morning?"

Xu Hongxin: "It must be about ten kilometers."

Li An: "Probably not. We were already very fast. The road up the mountain is not easy to walk on." Wang Xiaohu: "Exactly. The group that had been following us just now turned back halfway down the mountain. I heard a child say that he was too tired."

Mu Xin bared his teeth: "So you guys are great."

Someone's stomach was growling a few times. Li An waved his hand and said, "Come on, let's have lunch here."

Lao Tang took off his backpack and spread the prepared black tablecloth in the shelter under the stone platform.

The teachers and students sat on the ground and took out the food they had prepared before leaving, including fruits, bread, sausages, and boiled eggs provided by the store in the morning. Although it was not one-third of the sumptuous lunch yesterday, it was better in feeling.

I ate a simple lunch while enjoying the mountain breeze. The green grass around me was as high as my waist, and I could hear the occasional bird calls.

Liu Zhaocheng picked up a handful of foxtail grass and made a small bracelet for each of the children.

"Thank you, Teacher Liu!"

The six children happily held them in their hands and stretched out their arms to take a fun group photo.

After the meal, Xu Hongxin found Li An and said that Bao Cai was a little unable to climb. Li An saw this and asked everyone to gather.

"Come on, let's take a group photo here."

A row of adults stood in a circle at the back, and six children sat on the ground in front.

Haitao adjusted the countdown and quickly ran towards the camera, shouting "Five! Four!"

"three!"

The kids join in! Haitao jumps right over to Marco, hugs him and squats down!
"two!"

All the teachers and students finally shouted together: "One!!"

Click.
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Xu Hongxin brought Bao Cai down the mountain, while Haitao, Zhang Miao and several other young people wanted to go play around the plank road.

The problem now is that if we choose to go to the plank road, we won’t be able to climb to the top of the mountain before returning today.

"Do you guys still want to continue climbing?" Li An asked the children.

"miss you!"

A few children had secretly agreed again halfway that they must climb to the top of the mountain today.

"it is good!"

Li An looked at Lao Tang and Mu Xin again and said, "Do you two want to continue climbing the mountain or go play with them?"

The two looked at each other and each carried a bag to move forward.

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: "Teacher, Xiao Wu and I also want to continue climbing the mountain."

The group split into two teams, and Li An led the children to continue climbing up.

The children continued to lead the way, and Sister Xiao Ji secretly told a few teachers something in the back.

"In fact, when they set out early in the morning, they agreed to climb to Tianlong Cave and then go to the plank road to play two projects."

Mu Xin: "Maybe it was because I was touched by Bach's story."

Everyone laughs.

"Hey, Ango, where did you get these little stories about musicians? I actually found the story about Schubert fishing that you told me last time. I thought you made it up, you know?"

Li An laughed: "I can't remember where I saw it, anyway, I have liked reading these interesting stories about musicians since junior high school. I remember that when I first learned that Mozart died of illness, I cried for a long time."

Xiao Wu: "Teacher Li, are you a Pisces?"

Li An: "Yeah, does this have anything to do with zodiac signs?"

Xiao Wu smiled: "It feels like you are a Pisces person, who is very sentimental."

Speaking of emotion, Ang Lee thought about it. He was not an emotional person before. Probably, well, there is no probably. It is just like this. Let him be emotional.

"Let's go. We can't let them fall behind too much."
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When the sun was about to set again, the teachers and students finally climbed to the top of the mountain.

Today's sunset is still beautiful.

The children were so tired that they could only sit on the ground, not caring about the stones hitting their buttocks, and they were all breathless and unable to speak.

But every child has a special sense of accomplishment.

After a long while, Wang Xiaohu turned around and said, "Teacher, have we walked 15 kilometers now?"

"Almost, maybe a little more." Li An nodded, smiled after a moment and said, "Maybe even 20 kilometers."

When they heard the number twenty kilometers, the children couldn't help but laugh.

Xiao Ma: "If we count the way back, we walked at least thirty kilometers."

Xiao Qiao: "Half of Bach."

Car: "Yeah!"

Xiao Liu: “Hahaha!”

Listening to the children's laughter, to be honest, Li Ang didn't know how far they had walked today, but it didn't matter anymore.

The children all performed very well today.

Sitting among the children, Li An pointed to the temple gate in the distant mountains.

"Use your imagination and guess what's behind that door?"

The children looked

Wang Xiaohu was the first to think: "God!"

Xiao Liu: "There is a 500-year-old tree!"

Xiao Ma: "There is an old well."

Xiaobei: "There is an old man guarding the temple. He looks very kind."

Xiao Qiao: "There is another world."

Wow, Xiao Qiao’s answer made the kids feel so cool.

Li An smiled and asked Xiang Xiaoche: "Linlin, how about you?"

Xiaoche, who was so hungry that he wanted to eat grass, now just wanted to eat a bowl of delicious spicy hot pot: "Ermao Spicy Hot Pot."

Everyone was stunned!
Then hahahahaha!!!
The children's laughter mixed with the adults' laughter, wave after wave, as if blown far away by the mountain breeze.

Xiaoche also laughed, "I'm really hungry."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xin quickly took out small breads from his bag, exactly six.

Xiao Wu took out the sausage from her bag.

"Thank you, Teacher Mu!"

"Thank you, Sister Xiaowu!"

For the first time, the children felt that bread and ham could be so delicious.

"Teacher," Xiaobei suddenly said, "Grandpa Bach must be hungry after walking so much."

Li An: "Of course I'm hungry."

"Once, Grandpa Bach finished a concert in Hamburg and learned that there was another concert the next day. In order to attend the concert the next day, he did not go home that night because going home meant he had to walk another 30 kilometers the next day. At that time, he had no money and was so hungry that he could hardly stand up."

"Grandpa Bach was from a poor family when he was a child. Every time he went to a concert, he could only bring a small piece of black bread. The black bread was dry and hard, but even so, he would not eat it unless he was extremely hungry."

Xiao Liu: "Why didn't Grandpa Bach bring more bread for such a long journey?"

Li An laughed: "Would you choose to go barefoot if you had shoes to wear?"

In just a moment, the children felt the bread in their hands became unusually heavy.