The world's number one pianist

At this moment, the Symphony Piano Shop was brightly lit. Just from the outside, you could see the crowds of people inside.

At this moment, it was the peak time for parents to pick up their children. Because it was a holiday, there were even more people sending their children to practice piano, so many that it was a bit outrageous.

After getting off the taxi, He Shen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He had never expected the scale of the Symphony Piano Shop to be a little bigger than he imagined.

Could it be...

The Symphony Piano Shop was acquired?

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He Shen walked towards the piano shop with a trace of doubt.

Wang Pei was standing at the door and had just sent off a mother and son who came to see the piano. He found that He Shen had just got off the taxi and was walking towards him. He immediately opened his arms and walked towards He Shen.

"Oh, He Shen, you're rich now. You can afford to take a taxi now. You're worthy of being a teacher at Jiangzhou Normal University. You're different."

"The salary of a teaching assistant is very low."

When He Shen saw that it was Wang Pei, there was no expression of coercion on his face. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He also greeted Wang Pei and hugged him. Then he looked at the sign of the Symphony Piano Room and asked casually.

"How is it? How is your piano store doing recently? I see that you have a lot more people..."

"What do you mean by recently...recently? Do you mean the past few days? Or do you mean since you won the Golden Piano Award?"

Wang Pei put his arm around He Shen's shoulders, laughed and chatted with him casually, and took him to his office.

At this moment, there are still many students in the Symphony Piano Room. Most of the empty piano rooms are occupied by students, and only a few small classrooms are empty.

From the utilization rate of piano practice, it can be fully seen that there are many students in the Symphony Piano Store at this time.

Most students have pianos at home, and only a small number of people do not have pianos at home.

Even with this extremely small number of students, their number is enough to fill the empty piano rooms in the Symphony Piano Shop.

In addition, the Symphony Piano Shop is very large, with about 40 piano rooms available for students to use.

Just a random calculation, then this school has at least 200 to 300 students.

This is just the piano students, and other students have not been included in the calculation.

He Shen followed Wang Pei in the Symphony Piano Shop, while listening to Wang Pei's bragging, looking around to see what Wang Pei has done with his piano shop.

In the piano shop, students practiced in the piano room, and all the teachers in the piano shop did not accompany the students. They sat outside the piano room to practice.

In the lobby of the Symphony Piano Shop, there are four rows of upright pianos. All the piano teachers sit on the piano stools, following the rhythm of the head teacher in the front, and everyone plays the same piece together.

At a glance, there are about 20 teachers, which means that each teacher here basically has more than a dozen students.

He Shen was a little envious of this teacher-student ratio. It would be nice if he didn't know Wang Pei.

If he didn't know Wang Pei, he could come to work for Wang Pei.

After all, if he worked for Wang Pei, the relationship between the two might not be good at first, but it would definitely change in the end.

He Shen put this thought aside and looked at all the teachers sitting in front of the upright piano, who were playing the same piece.

The sound of the piano echoed throughout the symphony piano store, making people's ears hurt.

However, some parents who didn't seem to know much about music stood in the aisle, watching those teachers and listening to the roaring music, and didn't feel any pain in their ears.

Wang Pei took He Shen to the depths of the piano room and said to He Shen.

"Let me tell you about our recent situation. To be honest, our recent situation is really good. Our reputation has been spread out, and many people already know our music store, so when they want to learn music, their first reaction is to come to our music store first."

"You have to know that once this reputation is established, the speed at which we make money will be much faster."

"Not only that, in order to protect the reputation and make it more popular, we have also carried out industrial restructuring planning, removed some unpopular instruments, and focused on piano training, violin training, drum training, and guitar training, these four types of training."

"At the same time, for the professionalism of all teachers, we also specially organized the evening training that you just saw, all teachers will have training after get off work. Before, we all had to follow the chief teacher, start sight-reading a new piece, and then play it at a uniform speed. "

"After all, you know, how many people who can work in a music store are particularly good? Basically, they are ordinary teachers. Although ours will erase their ideas about music education, it also guarantees the minimum quality of our music teaching."

"Of course, I know you are very good. You also worked in a music store before. I didn't mean you, I meant most of them."

"But anyway, after the implementation of the policy of evening training in the classroom, many parents here have given much better feedback, saying that they like the teacher like this..."

As they talked, Wang Pei and He Shen had already arrived at Wang Pei's office.

Wang Pei's office is different from the previous one, and the decoration inside is much newer.

In particular, a very large phonograph is placed in the corner of the room, attracting all the eyes entering the room.

He Shen was no exception. He looked at the gramophone and asked with slight confusion.

"This gramophone... I remember there wasn't one last time?"

"Of course, I just bought this gramophone. Didn't you think that the audio recording effect was not good before, so I bought a CD maker and a vinyl recorder. This is just to play for those students and their parents. It’s for their children’s recording.”

“After all, we are professionals in making parents satisfied and proud!”

Speaking of this place, Wang Pei did not begrudge the machine at all, thinking that it would wear out after using it. Instead, he went directly to the bookshelf on the side, flipped through it, found a record, took it out, and put it on onto the gramophone.

when……

A very familiar music flowed from the gramophone.

Listening to this music, He Shen couldn't help but hesitate a little, pointed at the gramophone, and asked slightly doubtfully.

"This music..."

"Hey, it sounds familiar to you, right? But can't you remember? Let me remind you, this is your own music~"

"My...music?"

Seeing that He Shen didn't hear it, Wang Pei immediately smiled, handed the record cover in his hand to He Shen, pointed to the mark written on it with a marker, and said.

"Have you forgotten? This is the complete collection of your Chopin ballades. I have re-recorded all your Chopin ballades. However, because of the conversion of data to audio, audio to physics, and physics to audio, the sound effect is not particularly good. , you just have to listen.”

"If you still want to record vinyl records, we now have a special vinyl record recorder here, and the effect will be better in the future."

He Shen looked at the record cover in his hand, looked at Wang Pei, smiled and nodded, thanking him.

"Thank you very much"

"You're welcome, I want to thank you. Thanks to you, our school is so great."

Wang Pei felt a little embarrassed here, and he explained helplessly to He Shen.

"That time before, I asked you to say that you were the teacher of our piano shop, and then that person seemed to be really, uh... how should I put it..."

After Wang Pei struggled for a moment, he hesitated.

"He...seemed to really take that matter seriously. In fact, it would be fine if he just took it seriously, but the problem is..."

"He also went out to promote..."

"The publicity said that his son studied piano with the winner of our Golden Piano Award in China. They said that our symphony piano shop is very powerful. The winners of the Golden Piano Award are all from our school..."

"Then, it was obvious that our reputation exploded. No matter how I told others that you have now gone to Jiangzhou Normal University to be a teacher, they still regarded you as our student and tried to ask me, do you want a class? How much……"

When He Shen heard this, he obviously didn't expect that things would develop like this, but it didn't matter. Since Wang Pei asked him for help before, he would help him. It would be better if he could help like this.

Therefore, He Shen asked directly and casually.

"So, how much did it cost?"

"How dare I say that? After I said it, did I really go to the school to find you and ask you to come to class?"

Wang Pei smiled bitterly and sat next to He Shen. He fumbled around with his right hand for a while, took out a lollipop, handed it to He Shen and said casually.

"But, if you really want to take classes, I have resources here. You can take students who want to take college entrance exams or art exams. The price is about 400, right? It should be the market price. Do you want to do it? ?”

"A student taking the art exam."

He Shen took the lollipop, carefully tore off the outer paper coat, put the lollipop into his mouth, thought about it, and shook his head to refuse.

"Forget it, the students taking the teaching arts exam are too tired. I still have a student here who hasn't graduated yet. Let's wait until she graduates."

"Zhao Zitong? You haven't thrown her away yet?"

"Throw her away? Why?" He Shen asked with great confusion while eating a lollipop, not understanding Wang Pei's thoughts at all.

"It's nothing, I just heard what you said before, it seems that she is annoying and not particularly easy to get along with."

Wang Pei shook his head, stood up, walked behind the desk, fiddled with things, brought out two particularly large lollipop jars, placed them on the desk, pointed at the lollipop jars and said.

"No, no matter what, I got you the two cans of lollipops I promised you last time. I owe you this time. Because of your incident, our school has developed so fast that I can't even imagine it." To compensate you like this..."

"If this music store were mine, I would give you shares directly. Unfortunately, this music store is not mine. I am just the store manager and have the greatest control over the store. The shares can only be distributed as dividends, and I am purely a worker."

"If I give you money directly... I have no way to follow the instructions of those holding companies. Although they will not care how I use the money in this piano store's accounts except for the necessary annual revenue, but... they will audit the accounts. , the amount is wrong, I might be a little annoyed.”

"Of course, if you insist, I can give it to you! After all, you have helped me so much."

Wang Pei said extremely seriously. He Shen looked into his eyes, looked at his sincere gaze, and immediately waved his hand, saying it didn't matter.

"It's okay. For me, the money is enough."

"So...do you need anything? As long as I can help you..."

Wang Pei immediately added a sentence. He Shen had never expected Wang Pei to be so serious. He couldn't help but think about it carefully and asked tentatively.

"How about... you give me a Steinway upright grand piano? I want the largest one, D274"

"... or I'll give you the money? Isn't it just a false account? At worst, I'll leave with you."

Wang Pei poked He Shen unhappily, sat back on the sofa, and asked He Shen seriously.

"Seriously, do you need anything? It's best if I can do it."

"I have a few hundred thousand cash flow available for free now, because there are quite a lot of students and parents who have signed up for classes recently, so there is so much."

"This money can only be used in the piano store, for the overall improvement of the piano store, and these improvements can be slightly turned over, such as buying dozens of pieces, so that I can operate it a little bit."

"How about it? Any ideas?"

He Shen touched his chin and didn't answer immediately.

Since Wang Pei said that he must compensate him, then...

He Shen thought for a while and spoke.

"I need some Urtext books, Chopin's works, it would be better if they are Polish editions."

"Okay!"

Wang Pei nodded without any hesitation.

"No problem, you can make a list of what you want and I will buy it for you in the name of the piano store."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

The two smiled at the same time, and did not continue to discuss this issue.

If they continue to discuss, it will be difficult to discuss a specific result, such as how much reputation fee Wang Pei needs to pay He Shen for the development of the piano store, and what obligations He Shen needs to be responsible for.

If the two of them really discuss this, they will say it one by one, whether they are brothers or friends, there will always be a little bit of discomfort.

So, the two of them have a deep tacit understanding and will not get involved in money.

After all, Wang Pei's attitude is also very good. As long as He Shen needs it, he will compensate as much as possible without any shirking.

It is precisely because of Wang Pei's behavior that he never wants to owe others too much, so after graduation, the only person He Shen still has contact with is Wang Pei.

After the two continued to chat casually about the previous Golden Piano Awards for a while, Wang Pei suddenly spoke.

"By the way, I almost forgot to ask you, what are you doing here today? You can't just come to me to reminisce about the past, right?"

"Of course not." He Shen shook his head: "I came here to record, who knew you would take me directly to your office, and I didn't even have time to say it."

"Hey, you should have said it earlier, I would have taken you down if you had said it earlier."

Wang Pei stood up, pushed open the door, and walked towards the recording studio with He Shen, asking as he walked.

"Do you have any new works? I remember that if you don't have new works, you usually don't want to come to me, and you practice alone at home."

He Shen followed behind Wang Pei and nodded.

"Well, if you have new works, you need to practice, and then listen to the recording to feel this work as a whole."

"Okay, okay, you talk a lot, you are awesome."

When Wang Pei pushed open the door of the recording studio and was about to go down, he suddenly thought of something, threw the key in his hand to He Shen, and said with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, since you often need to use our recording studio, then this key is for you. If I'm not here when you come later, you can come in and record directly without worrying about other people."

After saying that, without waiting for He Shen to refuse, he went downstairs directly.

He Shen looked at the key in his hand, stunned for a moment, and said nothing, and also went down to the basement.

Wang Pei, who came down first, was already standing in front of the control console and started all the items in the recording studio. Countless lights were on, and the people watching were dazed.

When Wang Pei saw He Shen coming down, he immediately waved his hand towards the recording area.

"Come on, my pianist He, your stage is set up, and you are waiting for your performance."

"Thank you..."

"Thank you for what? Key? Hey, it's okay, just help me play GG later."

He Shen glanced at Wang Pei and nodded, as if he remembered his joke, stretched out his hand to push open the two extremely heavy soundproof doors, and walked into the recording room.

All life outside the recording room was isolated. Around He Shen, only the purest breathing sound remained, his own breathing sound.

Except for this sound, all other sounds disappeared.

Obviously, this recording room was renovated by Wang Pei again, and the sound collection of the surrounding walls was strengthened.

He Shen sat on the piano stool in the recording room, put his hands on the keyboard, stroked the warm keys on it, and let his emotions brew a little.

The huge warhorse, with the powerful motherland behind it.

The confidence to not be afraid of anything.

The love for the country that is released to the fullest!

When he was taking classes with Chopin before, everything instantly appeared in his mind. He Shen looked at the piano keyboard in front of him, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled.

Let his emotions become more excited, so that he can interpret this work more perfectly.

When his emotions reached their peak, like overflowing water, He Shen looked at Wang Pei behind the double-layer soundproof glass and nodded.

Hands, raised, smashed down.

Boom!

The sound of the piano roared! An extremely perfect feeling burst out from the resonance cavity of the piano.

This fully released emotion instantly filled the entire recording studio.

Wang Pei's eyes widened instantly.

This, this sound!

He Shen's progress surprised him...