Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 888 148. The “cunning” master and disciple!

To be honest, that night of eating barbecue, Ang Lee gained some new insights into Lao Tang.

Lao Tang is a self-disciplined person and a man who keeps his promises.

Later that night, the two of them talked about the contents of at least a box of wine, but Lao Tang insisted on drinking only three bottles.

Lao Tang was afraid of missing the house viewing early in the morning, but Li An said it was okay and asked why not come and view the house at any time.

Lao Tang said he had already made an appointment with the landlord.

Lao Tang's tone at the time was a little depressed, but there was also a bit of inexplicable persistence mixed in with the depression.

It was only later in the conversation that Li An realized that Xue Li was just a fuse, and the explosive was actually Lao Tang's work experience over the past six months.

The fact that he couldn't pursue Xue Li was like a magnifying glass, magnifying all the misfortunes that Lao Tang had encountered in the past six months.

Before drinking, Lao Tang's various remarks seemed like he was drunk, and from time to time Li An felt that Lao Tang had really changed.

After drinking, the old Tang he first met seemed to come back again, speaking gently, without aggression, and with a smiling look in his eyes.

But there was a layer of helplessness in that smiling look that only adults could understand.

Lao Tang said three bottles would be enough, and Li Ang said that was fine.

Just three bottles will do, and then face and accept the reality while being slightly tipsy. Perhaps this is how an honest person who does not fight with the world can remain calm and composed in adversity.

Ang Lee admires Lao Tang.

However, admiration cannot change the current situation for Lao Tang. Ang Lee knows that people like Lao Tang always keep their truest emotions hidden in their hearts.

As a friend, all he could do under the circumstances was to accompany and support her.

Since Lao Tang wanted to be alone for some time, Li An did not ask him where he rented the house.

Li Ang doesn’t care where Lao Tang lives, but there should be no problem with normal social interaction between friends.

It was early in the morning on the 30th, the first day of the New Year's Day holiday. Ang Lee arranged lessons for the children last night and called Lao Tang early this morning, inviting him to come to his house for dinner.

When Lao Tang received the call, he was at a nearby library. Being invited by Ang Lee, Lao Tang gladly accepted. Although he had been there for a few days, he had not had time to visit Ang Lee's house.

On the one hand, he was in a bad mood these two days, and on the other hand, Ang Lee was too busy these two days, and he didn't want to disturb Ang Lee's work.

"Are you okay today?" While agreeing, Lao Tang asked worriedly.

He didn't want Li An to make time to entertain him. He hated causing trouble for his friends the most.

Li An laughed on the other end of the phone, "Can't I give myself a holiday on New Year's Day? No drinking for a few days, just eating."

Lao Tang: “Just the two of us?”

Li An: "Aren't the two of us enough?"

Lao Tang felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.

He knew that Li An made this arrangement to take care of his mood over the past two days, but he wasn't that fragile and sensitive.

"Isn't Haitao coming?"

As Ang Lee was busy with his children's performances in the past two days, he arranged for Haitao to take Lao Tang for a walk around Tianhu Avenue. Haitao also treated him to a meal at noon yesterday, which touched him very much.

Li An: "He really can't come. He has something going on at home."

Lao Tang could only sigh when seeing this. He really wanted Haitao to come along. After two days of getting to know each other, Haitao left him a very good impression and the two of them could chat with each other very well.

"What time should I go there?"

Li An: "Any time is fine. I'm not going out today. Where are you now?"

Lao Tang: "Library, just got a card."

Li An: "The library downstairs from you? How is it? Is it big?"

Lao Tang: "Not small. I've been walking around the first floor for quite a while and I haven't finished yet. There are two floors above."

Li An: "It's only half past eight now. What time did you get up?"

Lao Tang: "I got up at half past six, ran downstairs for half an hour, went back home to take a shower and came out."

Li Anle: "Do you also run in the morning at home?"

Lao Tang: "I really don't run. I've been doing live broadcasts for the past six months and my body is weak. I need to exercise."

Li An thought for a moment, "Okay, what are you going to do later?"

Lao Tang: "I don't have any plans yet, I'll see later."

Li An: "If you have nothing to do, come over in a while. You can help me with some work."

When Lao Tang heard there was work to do, he said, "Okay, I'll go there later."

Li An: "Just buy whatever you want, don't be polite."

Lao Tang: "Please give me a chance to be polite."

Li An smiled and said, "No more talking. I'll send you the address later."

After hanging up the phone with Lao Tang, Li An felt much more at ease. He called the boss because he was worried that Lao Tang was staying in the house alone and didn't want to go out.

Now it seems that he was worrying too much, Lao Tang has arranged his life very well.

It can be seen that Tang is now eager to find something to fill his life, so he finds something serious for Old Tang.

"Teacher Tang will be here soon."

"Within an hour," Li An sent the address to Lao Tang, then looked up at the car beside him and said firmly, "Within an hour at most."

Xiao Che thought that the teacher would be teaching in an hour, and naturally would not be able to receive Teacher Tang, so this task would naturally fall on her.

"Teacher, does Teacher Tang know that I am here too?"

Li An: "He doesn't know. Just focus on your homework and don't worry about anything else."

Xiaoche: "Okay, teacher. I'll go do my homework then."

Li An: "Go ahead."

Xiaoche went back to the house to do his homework. While Li An was waiting for Wang Xiaohu, he looked through the express delivery information.

These two days, he and Xu Li discussed placing many orders online for the subsequent soft furnishing process.

The soft furnishing process he envisioned was completely different from the actual soft furnishing process.

It can be as simple as a vase placed on the windowsill in the hall. According to his original imagination, when the hard decoration is completed, he can just choose a vase that matches the decoration style, and the shape can be simple.

But now that the hard decoration is completed, there are thousands of simple vases on the Internet, but he can't pick out a satisfactory one in an hour.

In the end, it was Xiaoche who helped him choose one.

He only thought a certain one looked good because Xiaoche said it looked good. Otherwise, he didn’t know how long he would continue to pick.

Not to mention other large items of soft furnishings, he was just lying down after choosing.

Just leave it at that.

Almost there.

It's just a training school anyway.

It's all pretty good.

It’s a good idea to lie down. After that, everything will look good to you.

Everyone placed orders crazily, and now he is waiting for the goods to arrive and contact the workers to come and install them.

As for the piano, he would wait until after New Year's Day for the three agents to deliver it to him.

After careful selection, Li An finally chose five piano models from three domestic brands, a total of ten pianos, as teaching pianos.

Among them is a grand concert grand piano named after him, which was specially customized by Mr. Lu for Sigang to be used for stage performances.

He had already ordered the remaining teaching materials, which were now in the storage room on the second floor of the school.

Everything is ready, only the opening is left! -
At 8:55, Wang Xiaohu arrived.

"Good morning, teacher."

"morning."

This morning Wang Xiaohu and Ma Ke had classes, and in the afternoon Xiaobei and Xiaoliu had classes. As soon as Wang Xiaohu entered the door, he was very well behaved, unlike before when he entered the door and looked around.

After the teacher entered the study, he asked, "Teacher, where did Senior Sister go today?"

Last night, Senior Sister Xiao Ji suddenly said in the group that she would not come to class today and asked everyone to attend class seriously.

"You can ask her next time you meet." Li An gestured to Wang Xiaohu to warm up.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu stopped asking questions, took off his coat, took out the music score, sat in front of the piano and started jogging the scales.

While listening to Wang Xiaohu warming up, Li An wondered why Wang Xiaohu was so well-behaved today.

You shouldn’t do that. You just made such a big splash last night, shouldn’t you show off a little today?

Speaking of which, last night's New Year's Day performance by the book people was a great success.

Following the Cultural Exhibition Week, Li An's Music Literacy Club once again contributed two top-notch programs to the teachers and students of the whole school, and single-handedly raised the main channel's programs by more than two levels.

The wind ensemble Tequila left the most dynamic music beats on the stage.

The piano ensemble stunned the audience on their first appearance on stage.

Thirty performers, fifteen pianos, and sixty hands played Canon together.

When the cantabile melody cycled and rose in counterpoint, the teachers, students and leaders in the audience truly realized that the piano could be played in this way.

Both tracks are undoubtedly successful.

And the contribution of Wang Xiaohu must be indispensable behind this success.

As the conductor of the orchestra and the first principal of Canon, Wang Xiaohu was the talk of the town last night.

But today, not only did Wang Xiaohu not show off at all, he even behaved so well.

Could it be that Xu Li had already told Wang Xiaohu last night that she would be going to Guangzhou in a few days?
Shouldn't.

He and Xu Li had already agreed that he would tell Wang Xiaohu in person after the book show was over, and it was impossible for Xu Li to tell Wang Xiaohu in advance.

The only other person who knew about this was Xiaoche, and it was even more impossible for Xiaoche to do it because Li Ang had already told Xiaoche not to tell Wang Xiaohu.

"Teacher, I'm almost there." Wang Xiaohu withdrew his hand and turned around to find that the teacher's eyes were staring at him like a scanner. He suddenly felt weak in his heart, "Uh."

Wang Xiaohu's eyes were dodging, and Li An caught the flaw. Although he didn't know what happened to Wang Xiaohu, Li An was sure that something was wrong with Wang Xiaohu.

Maybe Wang Xiaohu really did get some inside information from Xiaoche.

If you know, then know. It's not a big deal. Li An smiled and said, "What's wrong? Why are you so nervous?"

Wang Xiaohu quickly said it was okay, then sat up straight and looked at the score in front of him, "Teacher, I'll start."

Li An hummed, then picked up the teacup and walked to the window.

The sound of a piano rang out behind him, and he nodded, thinking that Wang Xiaohu's piano was now taking shape more and more.

Obviously, this is the musical thinking that is accumulated horizontally through learning conducting. If we continue to accumulate like this for another three years, it is hard to say who's opening performance between Wang Xiaohu and Che Lin will be more catchy in the first moment.

One second hero counts too.

The more Li An listened, the more confused he became. Wasn't this piece assigned to him just last week? He just got home last night, how could he have time to practice?

Li Anxin opened the backstage panel and took a look. Wow, from 9:30 to 10:30 last night and from 7:30 to 8:30 this morning, in just such a short period of time overnight, the kid managed to squeeze out two hours to practice the piano.

It seemed that this was really encouraging. At this moment, Li An was almost certain that Wang Xiaohu already knew that he was going to Guangzhou soon.

"Playing well."

After Wang Xiaohu finished playing it once, Ang Lee came behind him and continued to encourage him: "You can play it a little more. Your treatment at the beginning was very good. At this point, open your left arm a little more and push your arm upwards."

Li An bent down to demonstrate, "Is this the wave after wave of upward movement you want?"

"Yes, yes, teacher!" Wang Xiaohu felt that the teacher was the worm in his stomach. No, no, he was the worm in the teacher's stomach. No, no, in short, the teacher was awesome, and that was what he wanted.

"You must keep your wrists relatively relaxed," Ang Lee finally reminded, "otherwise all the music will be on your wrists, and your fingers will get bruised and no sound will come out."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, let me try again."

Lee Ang: "Just join hands, no need to separate."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, I can't do it."

Lee Ang: "Boys can't just say no."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, I am still a boy."

"Boys can't do that either. Be quick." Li Ang placed his right hand on the piano first, "Get ready to go in."

At the urging of the teacher and the music, Wang Xiaohu raised his hands and moved his fingers, and the rhythm was accurately stuck after two measures.

"Very good." Li An kept his fingers moving forward at a steady speed, his eyes moving to the next section, "Get ready, relax your wrists, the first set is weak."

Wang Xiaohu drew circles lightly with his left arm, pushing his body forward, and the accompaniment with his left hand was like a shallow wave rolling over.

Li An nodded, "Keep it up, add little by little, yes, you can bring more body."

"Very good, the right hand is well handled, very singing."

"Keep going, there are three more groups!"

The teacher and the student in the study were not having fun at all. This was always the case when Ang Lee taught his children.

With the vocals and piano playing so concentrated, no one could hear the faint knock on the door coming from the living room.

Lao Tang outside the door could hear the faint sound of the piano, otherwise he would have thought he had found the wrong door.

But this is obviously not played by Ang Lee. Is Ang Lee teaching a class?
That’s not right. Didn’t Li Ang say that he was fine today?
At this moment, the door of the living room suddenly opened. Lao Tang was stunned, and then he saw a familiar smiling face appear in front of him.

"Hello, Teacher Tang!"

"Hello, Xiaoche. I haven't seen you for half a year and you have grown so tall."

"Hey, it seems to have grown a little bit."

"How could I know this little? I think you must be over 1.6 meters tall."

"Almost. Teacher Tang, please come in."

Lao Tang walked in and put down the things in his hands. He looked down and saw Xiao Che wearing slippers. He thought that all students changed into slippers when they came to class, so it would be bad for him not to change.

Just then, "The teacher didn't prepare slippers for you."

As he spoke, the cart pulled Lao Tang into the living room.

It was Lao Tang’s first time visiting Li An’s house and he had to say that it was completely different from what he had imagined. However, at the moment he had no intention of paying attention to the layout of the place.

"Is there a class in there?" Lao Tang asked in a low voice.

"Yeah." Xiaoche poured a cup of tea for Lao Tang.

"Thank you, thank you." Lao Tang took it and then frowned. He heard the left-hand accompaniment in the study reaching its highest point, with a full burst, even force, and just the right amount of handling. One more point would make it strong, and one less point would make the tension disappear.

This is also what Lao Tang is wondering, is he still playing 849 at this level?
"when!"

As the last set of running ended, Wang Xiaohu put his hands away.

"That's pretty much what I mean." Li An was afraid that Wang Xiaohu would get too proud, so he didn't dare to praise him too much. "Continue to explore this idea, and you can handle similar clips this way in the future. Now you're processing from weak to strong, and when you've mastered it, you can also process from strong to weak."

That’s what Wang Xiaohu thought!
"Yeah, teacher."

Li An felt a little sorry for Wang Xiaohu. He didn't praise him much last night. "Keep going, just like last night. You can do much more than what you have seen. Do you understand?"

Wang Xiaohu was a little excited! It was natural that he was happiest to get the teacher's affirmation, but this time was different. He really needed the teacher's approval because he had something to ask the teacher.

"Thank you, teacher. Can I ask you for a favor?"

Li An raised his eyebrows, the case was solved, that's what he said, it made people feel uneasy to be so well behaved so early in the morning, now it feels right.

But no problem.
"Go ahead." Li An narrowed his eyes.

moment.

"Teacher, I want to go to Haishi during the winter vacation."

Li An: "What are you going to do?"

On February 2023, 2, the famous Dutch conductor Merich will hold a master class lecture at the Hai City Concert Hall.