Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1200 460. Li An's Plan A, sending Agent Lin! [Part ]

The next morning, Tang Jingren was cleaning the table in the yard when he vaguely heard the sound of a cell phone alarm ringing in the room.

After about five or six seconds, there was no movement.

Then he continued to clean up.

The courtyard was completely restored to its original state, and it was exactly eight o'clock.

He heard the cell phone alarm ringing from the compartment again.

This time the alarm continued to ring until the end.

He estimated that Li An would not be able to get up for a while.

Everyone was drunk by the end of last night, but the person who drank the most was definitely Ang Lee.

The original plan was for six people to have four bottles of wine, but later he took two more bottles from the house.

When he was clearing the table just now, he found that there was still half a bottle left, which means that the six people drank nearly six bottles of white wine in total last night.

Li An probably drank one and a half kilograms by himself.

After the drinking party, Assistant Feng asked a designated driver to take everyone back. In the end, only he and Li Ang were left, and they chatted until almost three o'clock before going to bed.

Some things are hard to say without drinking.

Especially when it came to sending the child to Chengdu, Li An agreed so readily.

Ever since Tang Jingren learned that the old man wanted to send Tang Xiaoxing to Chengdu, he has been waiting for the day to meet Li Ang.

It seems that this matter has always been led by Mr. Tang and Tang Qianfeng, but in fact he is the real supporter behind the scenes.

He was willing and hoped to send Tang Xiaoxing to Chengdu, because Chengdu was neither close nor far from home.

Being close to home means that children will not be exposed to too much direct intervention and influence from their family.

Being close to home means it is convenient for children to come back and stay for a few days when they miss home.

When it came to Tang Xiaoxing's decision to study music, everyone around the Tang family thought it was due to pressure from Mr. Tang and Tang Qianfeng, and that the second son of the Tang family and his wife had no business intervening in their child's affairs.

In fact, this has always been a misunderstanding by the outside world.

Thirty years ago, the most rebellious person in the Tang family was Tang Jingren.

There are six brothers and sisters in Mr. Tang’s generation, and fifteen cousins ​​in Tang Jingren’s generation. He is the only one who has not studied music.

I have never learned any music at all.

His uncles and aunts asked him why he didn't learn music, and he said he didn't like it.

A simple "I don't like it" is his entire attitude against all questioning.

Mr. Tang forced him to study music more than once, but in the end he failed every time.

Neither sweet dates nor big sticks will work.

Once, after having a heated argument with Mr. Tang about not wanting to learn music, he went to his second uncle's house and stayed there for a month.

From then on, no one in the family mentioned letting him learn music.

It wasn't long before he picked up the paintbrush.

His brothers and sisters all said that he wanted to learn painting just to make his uncle angry!
But in fact, it is not true. He just likes painting and has liked it since he was a child.

Just like Tang Xiaoxing has loved learning music since he was a child.

Tang Jingren looks gentle and refined, and his conversation is elegant, but he is actually very cruel.

He himself was unwilling to accept the family's arrangement, so how could he let his precious daughter accept it?

Before Tang Xiaoxing was born, he had secretly made a decision that when he had a child, he would never force the child to learn music. He would let the child do whatever the child liked.

As a result, Tang Xiaoxing showed a strong interest in music since his early childhood.

And then it’s until now.

It seemed like in the blink of an eye, the child had grown up and was about to participate in the Chopin Competition.

During Tang Xiaoxing's entire growth process, he was actually not forced by anyone.

Just like what he and Li Ang said at the end last night.

"It was always her choice."

But this choice is made in a depressing situation.

"Like she went to Moscow last year."

"To be honest, Teacher Li was very happy to know that she could go to Moscow to study."

Ang Lee: To some extent, this is also a way of being free from family interference.

Tang Jingren said yes.

Tang Jingren then told Li An that he originally thought that Tang Xiaoxin would be truly happy after going abroad.

Because he always felt that the reason why Tang Xiaoxing could not be truly happy in the country was because of his grandfather and uncle.

“She hasn’t complained to me about not being able to play what she wants to play, but I know it’s always been there.”

"Teacher Li, do you know why?"

Li An answered subconsciously at the time: Because of Mr. Tang and Brother Qianfeng.

Tang Jingren gave Li An another answer: "She is like me in this respect, sensitive and stubborn. In fact, no one in the family asks her not to play something. Sometimes, even the old man encourages her to play what she wants to play."

Tang Jingren's answer really refreshed Lee's view on the whole matter.
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Ang Lee has always believed that Tang Xiaoxing’s passivity came from the “oppression” of his family structure.

After communicating with Tang Jingren at night, he realized that the source of this shackles came from Tang Xiaoxing himself.

From the process described by Tang Jingren, Ang Lee clearly saw such a picture.

The sensitive Xiaoxing could feel that her grandpa and uncle did not want her to have too much autonomy in the initial learning process, even though her grandpa and uncle had not actively asked her to do anything.

However, with the family halo given to her since birth, her stubbornness forced her to follow the right path.

This road is the idea that grandpa and uncle have hidden under their care.

Gradually, in this process of self-confrontation, as she grew older, she became more conflicted.

On one side are self-needs, and on the other side are what is believed to be expected.

In this extreme contradiction, the first recording of the Grand Polonaise that Ang Lee heard was born.

One can clearly hear the various details of Tang Xiaoxing's struggle to find a balance.

If he hadn't heard the second version of the recording yesterday, it would have been hard for Ang Lee not to worry about Tang Xiaoxing's mental state after learning all this.

If children are allowed to continue to waste time in this self-contradiction, the consequences will be disastrous.

This should also be the reason why Mr. Tang wanted Tang Xiaoxing to return to China immediately.

But the situation is still not optimistic. Although Tang Xiaoxing's second recording gives people a feeling of breaking free from constraints, the music can only reflect part of the performer's emotions.

Who knows how quickly a teenage girl's inner thoughts change.

What’s more, she is such a sensitive and stubborn girl.

Now that Li An has taken over Tang Xiaoxing's piano teaching work, the first step he has to take is naturally to understand the child's current true psychological state.

But the child is still abroad. Is there any way for him to quietly integrate into the child's situation without being so deliberate?

After thinking for a while, Li An sat up from the bed. I'm afraid I'll have to ask Xiaoche for help with this matter.

Ang Lee has experience in this kind of thing, and children tend to communicate better with each other.

After telling Haitao to rest, Li An got out of bed to look for his shoes, but his legs went weak and he almost couldn't stand.

He couldn't remember how much he drank yesterday. He felt fine when he lay down. He even had a video call with Chen Xuan, but when he woke up, he felt drunk.

Symptoms include dry mouth, headache, weakness in limbs, and stomach discomfort.

As far as Ang Lee could remember, this was the first time he felt so uncomfortable the next day after drinking.

Li An walked out of the side room and saw Tang Jingren watering the flowers in the yard.

"Wake up." Tang Jingren quickly put down the shower head and walked towards Li An, asking with concern: "Did you sleep well last night?"

Li An: "Very good, very good. Second brother, do you have a mobile phone charger? My phone is running out of battery."

After charging their phones, the two chatted and laughed as they walked to the dining table.

"No." Li An was a little confused about the statement that he drank one and a half kilograms. He felt that he had drunk one kilogram at most.

"Definitely. I know the number. This morning I checked the last two bottles and only half of them were left."

Tang Jingren handed over a spoon, "Come and drink some hangover soup."

Li An was surprised: "We drank five and a half bottles yesterday?"

Tang Jingren laughed: "If it wasn't so late, I would have drunk it. Your alcohol tolerance is really inherited from Teacher Wei."

Li An waved his hand: "I can't drink alcohol quickly. If I drank it the way my teacher did, I would have died a long time ago. This soup is really delicious."

Li An really couldn't remember how much he drank yesterday.

If he really drank five and a half bottles, then he must have drunk more than a kilogram. After that, only he and Assistant Feng, Tang Jingren, kept drinking.

After drinking two bowls of hot soup, Ang Lee felt much better.

"Is my second brother okay this morning?"

"I'm fine, I'm just an idle person."

This really made Ang Lee envious. He had to say that Tang Jingren's life was what he longed for.

"The flight is at 7pm?"

"Correct."

"Anything else planned for today?"

"I don't have any plans. I'll talk to Brother Yan about the summer camp at noon. I'll leave for the airport at two o'clock."

"I'll take you there this afternoon."

"No, no, second brother, just let me go by myself. I want to take a look around."

Seeing this, Tang Jingren didn't insist anymore. In fact, he was the same. If he was not in a hurry, he liked to travel alone.

"Then I'll take you to the hotel. It's almost half past ten. You can pack up and take a rest."

"Don't worry, second brother. I still want to discuss Xiaoxing's problem with you."

Tang Xiaoxing's going to Chengdu was no small matter for Li An, but Li An also thought it was an even bigger deal for the Tang family.

"I'll be frank. You're so polite, brother. I'll pour it myself."

Standing up and taking the teapot from Tang Jingren, Li An filled both of their cups with tea.

"I think the most important thing right now is that we first understand the specific thoughts of the children."

Tang Jingren also became serious, "Yes, I think so too."

Li An: "But we can't talk about this. She is so sensitive. If the adults ask, she will inevitably have some associations."

Tang Jingren: "That's the problem. Actually, I wanted to call her yesterday afternoon, but I was afraid she would think too much. She sent a message to her mother yesterday saying that she didn't practice the piano."

Li An nodded: "Uncle Tang said that Xiaoxing would send a copy to her family whenever she recorded something before, but she didn't take the initiative to send it this time."

Tang Jingren: "Professor Huff asked her for it."

Li An: "Do you think Xiaoxing knows that we have listened to her recording?"

Tang Jingren: "She will definitely guess it."

Li An: "So why should we ask her now? She will think too much. I think during this period when she returns to China, we should not ask anything and just pretend we know nothing."

"I guess she hoped to get a response in her heart because she did something she didn't dare to do before, and it was something she thought was right. All children are like this, they hope to be recognized."

"But at the same time, she is worried because she wants to be recognized, but she is also afraid that the recognition she gets is not what she wants."

Tang Jingren completely agreed with Li An's analysis. This was exactly what he thought.

Tang Jingren: "She herself doesn't even know what kind of response she wants."

When Li An heard this, he thought to himself that he was indeed a father. "So instead of giving her a response that she herself is not clear about, I think it would be better not to give her any response at all. This way, she can at least be clear that the adults know what she did, but they didn't say anything."

Tang Jingren: "Acquiesced."

Li An: "Let her adjust to her condition first. You just said that she didn't practice the piano yesterday. I think it's rare for her to have this kind of situation. It's good. She needs to stop and rest for a while."

Tang Jingren's concern is: "I'm worried that she can't adjust on her own. This child can be quite annoying sometimes. That's all. I won't say anything."

Li An laughed: "Which child is not like this now? In fact, adults are the same. Aren't we also whispering here to keep her in the dark? Children will also think that adults don't know what they are saying."

Tang Jingren smiled and thought that it was indeed the case. "Then you must have a good idea."

"It's not a good idea," Li An was not trying to keep anyone in suspense. The soup was just a little salty, so he picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"But I need to discuss this with you first."

Tang Jingren: "You are Xiaoxing's teacher now, just tell me what you need me to do."

Li An was naturally very comfortable listening to this. "You don't have to do anything on your side. Didn't we just say that adults should talk about this matter with adults, and children can only talk to children."

Tang Jingren was slightly stunned, "Child?"

Li An: "I plan to let Che Lin communicate more with Xiao Xing recently."

Tang Jingren understood Li Ang's idea when he heard it. This was indeed a good idea.

At the end of last year's summer camp, Tang Jingren wanted to invite Li Ang and his students to have a meal together.

It was because he heard from Boss X that Xiaoxing got along very well with the group of children throughout the summer camp, and he was very surprised at the time.

Because this had never happened in Tang Xiaoxing's growth process, but Li An's teachers and students were anxious to return to Chengdu, so he had to give up.

Later, he often heard Tang Xiaoxing talk about Che Lin at home.

Li An continued, "I don't know if you know, but the two children have been in touch over the past year, sending each other messages from time to time to check on each other's recent situation."

Tang Jingren: "Xiaoxing never told me."

Li An: "Then you should continue to pretend that you don't know."

Tang Jingren: "Okay!"

Li An: "Based on the communication between the two children, we can probably understand Xiaoxing's current thoughts, and then we can prescribe the right medicine. It will only take about 20 days."

Tang Jingren: "I'm counting on you."

The friendship between children is the purest. Whoever you often mention and say good things about is your good friend.