Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 916 176. Passionate Sincerity

"Come on, order takeout."

"Roar!"

Xiaoche put down the milk pot and picked up his phone. Li An also took out his phone: "I'm eating wontons. I'll order whatever you want. If you don't use the red envelope, it will expire."

"Let's have rice rolls," I haven't had rice rolls for a long time. I looked through the takeaway list and finally decided to have rice rolls. "Teacher, let's order a large portion and eat together. The small portion is not enough for me, and I can't finish the large portion by myself."

"Okay," Li An threw his phone aside after placing the order, then lay down on the sofa with his head tilted back and stretched out, "I'm really exhausted today, are you tired?"

"Not tired," Xiaoche grinned, "It's a very fulfilling day."

Li An smiled: "What do you think of that piano?"

Xiaoche: "Loud sound, sensitive touch, crisp tone."

Ang Lee: "When the time comes, if you raise the castanets, the sound will be even louder, and the whole feeling will be completely different when you play again."

Car: "Hey."

Li An: "Silly boy, hey, today Mr. Lu praised you to me, saying that you helped him a lot."

Xiao Che: "Teacher, I didn't help much. I basically just stood there and listened. Whether it was high or low, it was all Grandpa Lu who adjusted it."

Li An: "How is it, did you gain anything?"

Xiao Che: "Yes, I just learned that there is more than one string corresponding to one note on the piano, and even if each note is displayed accurately on the tuner, there is no guarantee that the harmony played will be accurate."

Ang Lee: "We need to continue to calibrate the notes using different pitches, and then make adjustments as a whole in the end."

Xiaoche: "Hmmmm, it's amazing."

Li An: "There is more to learn than this. When I have time, I will take you to visit Mr. Lu's factory. We will stay there for a few days so that you can have a good experience."

Xiaoche: "Wow, can we go during winter vacation?!"

Li An: "I don't really have time during the winter break, maybe after May, when the competition is over."

Xiaoche: "Yes! Thank you, teacher!"

Li An: "What are you thanking me for? I've always wanted to go and see it."

Xiaoche: "Of course I thank the teacher for taking me there. I am curious about how pianos are produced."

Li Anle: "What's wrong with you today? You're being polite now."

Xiaoche scratched his head: "Hehe."

After a moment, "Linlin."

The car sat up straight: "Yeah."

Li An was stunned and asked with a smile: "What are you doing?"

Xiaoche: "Teacher has something to say."

Li An hissed, frowning but unable to help but grinning: "You can't do this to me."

Xiaoche blinked and said, "Teacher, let me tell you then."

Without waiting for Li An to respond, Xiao Che sighed and lowered his voice a few notches, "Teacher, I'm really sorry. It was my negligence that caused Ba Wan to run away."

"Lin"

"Teacher, please listen to me. I know you don't blame me, and I know you are very worried about my condition. I don't know what else I can do. I just want to tell you, please don't worry about me. Although I still feel very uncomfortable, I know that I can't just immerse myself in sadness. Teacher, I can handle myself, and I promise to tell you any thoughts or emotions, so please rest assured."

"Well, teacher, I'm done."

After a long while, Li An sighed and smiled, "Okay, then I'm relieved."

Xiaoche nodded: "Teacher, are you feeling better?"

Li An: "It's better than yesterday. I've been busy all day and I can't think about anything. Just like you said, I can't just indulge in my personal emotions."

After a pause, he said, "Sorry, Linlin."

Xiaoche: "Ah? Teacher, why are you apologizing to me?"

Li An sighed: "What you said reminded me of many things about you and me."

Xiaoche: "Teacher, I don't understand."

Li An raised his eyebrows: "I really don't understand, but I'm pretending not to understand. Sometimes I really don't know whether you understand or not. I think you understand, but sometimes I think you don't understand."

Xiaoche: "Oh, I see, I see."

Li An smiled helplessly: "See, you understand what I mean."

Xiaoche smiled and rarely stuck out his tongue.

"Hey," Li An stood up and walked to the windowsill to open the window, "You usually don't talk, but you have eight hundred tricks on your mind."

After a pause, he said, "I've never seen a child as sensitive as you. I know that you can often understand what adults are thinking, but do you know why sometimes I can only choose to use one, one, um——"

Xiaoche: "Use a story."

Li An: "Look, you are so good at talking. You really understand."

The teacher and the student looked at each other from a distance. "But we are not telling stories today, Che Lin. Sometimes I can only respond to you with white lies, because you are always a child in my eyes. No matter how perceptive and sensible you are, you are still just a child."

The car nodded.

Lee Ang: "So I wanted to tell you something in a way that I would treat a child. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if that was the right thing to do."

Xiaoche: "I am willing to listen to whatever the teacher says, and I like to listen to it."

Lee An: “But you know the truth about some things.”

Xiaoche: "Well, then I am willing to listen to you and I like to listen to you."

Li An: "Then I am different from you. When I was a child, if I knew something was like this, but adults told me it was like that, I couldn't accept it from the bottom of my heart. I would feel that they were lying to me."

Xiaoche: "The teacher thinks that's cheating."

Li An: "Yes, but I later seemed to understand from you that sometimes as a teacher, I have to lie to the children. Now that I think about it, I seem to be pretty bad."

The teacher and the student both smiled as they talked. Xiaoche picked up the cigarette on the table and walked over, "Teacher."

"What are you doing? Put it down. I'm not smoking now."

Xiaoche put down the cigarette box and sat on the armrest of your sofa, "Teacher, you could have said nothing." Li An was stunned.

Xiaoche: “So no matter what you say, I must be willing to listen and enjoy listening.”

Li An: "Hiss, do I need to get to know Che Lin again?"

Xiao Che: "Sure, my name is Che Lin, I'm thirteen years old, currently studying at Shipo Middle School, living in my teacher's home. My hobby is playing the piano. My piano teacher's last name is Li, but I like to call him teacher. He is the best teacher in the world, the person I admire the most, and the person I want to be. My goal is to become a person like my teacher."

Li An pretended to think for a moment, "You can change your goals. Your future is not limited to this."

Xiao Che shook his head: "Teacher, I wanted to be a piano teacher. I wanted to be one since I was a child, but I didn't know what kind of piano teacher I wanted to be at that time. After meeting you, I know what kind of piano teacher I want to be."

After a long pause, he gave a bitter smile, "Linlin, you are a little tired, why don't we watch some TV and wait for the takeaway, and continue tomorrow."

Xiaoche: "Teacher, when you asked me if I was tired just now, I said I was not tired. Teacher, I am not lying to you, but I also want to watch TV with you now."

"No." Li An waved his hand. At this moment, he regretted starting a conversation with Xiao Che. What happened to this kid all of a sudden? "Linlin, don't scare me. Are you upset or did someone say something to you?"

Xiao Che scratched his head: "Teacher, I have always been like this. Maybe in your mind I usually don't talk much, but I can also talk a lot."

Li An: "Um, your tone, your speed, and your expression, do you understand what I mean?"

Xiaoche: "Uh, teacher, am I not usually like this?"

Li An: "No, you are very lively."

Xiaoche asked: "Teacher, is your first impression of me lively?"

The first thing that popped up in Li An's mind was that dumbfounded little expression. "If that's the case, you rarely even smiled before. I wonder if this child can't laugh."

Little Car: “Hahaha!”

Lee Ang: "Look at you now, you smile so well, so what I mean is that you have changed a lot compared to that time."

Xiao Che: "A lot has changed. I didn't have any friends then, but now I have many good friends. I couldn't accept Aunt Sang then, but now I like her very much. I didn't even understand the rules of key touch then, but now I can play one note using three key touches."

"I just feel happy because of these things. There are things worth being happy about, so of course I like to laugh."

Li An was speechless for a moment: "That means you are cheerful now, which means lively."

Xiaoche: "Well, teacher, you love to laugh, but you have a lot on your mind. You are not relaxed most of the time, but you always put a smile on your face. Would you say that you have a cheerful personality?"

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Li An frowned: "Why don't you want to admit that your personality has become cheerful."

Xiao Che chuckled: "Teacher, I don't mean to deny anything. I usually talk to you like this. It's just that you plan to say something to me today without telling a story, so I will respond to you in the same way."

After a pause, he said, "You know what I know, I just said it in a way of speaking. And teacher, I have to tell you, there are some things I don't know if I understand or not, but I am not worried anymore, I will take the initiative to ask you in the future."

"This," Li An suddenly smiled, "We can talk about the future later. Can we switch back now?"

Xiaoche then grinned: "Yeah!"

Looking at the smiling face in front of him, Li An really had a headache. He had to digest it first. The impact of Xiao Che's words just now on him was really too great.

Just then, there were three knocks on the door, and Xiaoche hurried out to get the takeaway, which was wontons. Within five minutes, the rice rolls were also delivered.

The teacher and student listened to the replay of the 2023 Vienna New Year's Concert while discussing the decision for tonight's piano. This time, Ang Lee really felt that the familiar feeling had returned.

But this familiar feeling soon made him feel a little strange.

After eating and drinking, the teacher and student washed up and returned to the cabin. Suddenly, Xiaoche threw herself on Li An and burst into tears for no apparent reason.

Cry, cry, it will pass after you cry.

Li An knew that Xiao Che had been suppressing his emotions these days.

At the same time, he was also reflecting that maybe the car had always been like this, but he didn't know when he started to add a filter to the car.

Or he wants the car to become a certain way, a way that he thinks is good.

Thinking of this, he felt ashamed, and thought back to the last time he reflected on the teacher-student relationship between him and Xiaoche. At that time, he found that he had too high expectations for Xiaoche, did not recognize Xiaoche's learning enough, and gave too little comprehensive encouragement.

Looking back now, he not only had high requirements for the car's learning, he had "strict" requirements for the car in all aspects, and even "expected" the child to develop the personality he expected.

Yes, he is very good to Xiaoche, so good to him that his kindness far exceeds that of a teacher to his students. He tries his best to train him and can be said to be raising him like his own child.

Listening to the crying in his arms, he suddenly asked himself a question, why was he willing to be so nice to Xiaoche?
Appreciate talent?

Ang Lee admitted that this accounted for a considerable proportion.

But even if Xiaoche didn't have such a good talent, when Xiaoche's family encountered the dilemma of going to school and renting a house, he thought he would still take the initiative to help.

There is no special reason. Just think about every reaction this child gave him and every moment with him from the moment he came into contact with him. You don't need to think about anything else. He will definitely help this child.

Why wouldn't he help a child like this?

Just like Xiaoche said to him just now: You don’t have to say it.

Yes, he could have said nothing and done nothing, but he still said it and did it.

Thinking about this again, Li An seemed to understand why he was willing to be so nice to Xiao Che.

For a child of that age, life has made her experience many emotions that only adults can understand, but she gladly accepts everything that life brings her.

Of course, there was resistance, for example, when Xiao Che told him for the first time that he didn't like Sang Ping at that time, it was very real.

Ang Lee suddenly thought of the train ride to the summer camp, when Xiaoche happily told him that she was looking forward to the trip. Xiaoche said this was her first time leaving Chengdu, and she was curious about what the outside world was like. Her expression at the time contained a smile but also a little nervousness.

Very real too.

He is such a real child. Perhaps without him and this summer camp, Xiaoche would have spent a fulfilling summer vacation. Maybe he would have had the opportunity to climb a mountain with Dingzi, or maybe something would have led to a reconciliation between him and Sang Ping.

It doesn’t matter if you carry an old schoolbag for a long time or wear a pair of sneakers for a long time. Xiaoche never complains about anything. He laughs out loud when he should be happy and cries when he really can’t help it.

Just like this moment.

Such a real child said that he wanted to be a teacher like him in the future, but he thought it was an inappropriate idea.

In his subconscious, the car should go a longer way, as if to say, I'm doing this for your own good.

Did he really care about the child's thoughts at that moment?
Or maybe the child is just such a child, who has never changed anything, such a child who is extremely sincere to himself, to life and everything around him, but has talents that ordinary people can hardly possess.

So people around me are praising the car. What exactly are they praising about it?
If Xiaoche did not have such musical talent, would he still be recognized by so many people?
Li An doesn't know.

But Ang Lee was already clear that what impressed Xiaoche was a bottle of mineral water. At that time, he didn't know anything about Xiaoche. Seeing that other children had water to drink and Xiaoche had chapped lips, he asked Xiaoche if he was thirsty. Xiaoche said no. In the end, Xiaoche still took the mineral water he handed over, took a big gulp, put down the bottle, and said thank you to him, Teacher Li.

Li Ang thought about the tone of the voice and found it was exactly the same as tonight.

With a faint, passionate sincerity.