Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1207 467. This is not a favor! This is the magic of music!

Qin Yong Taozi led the team out to do enrollment promotion today. Only Wang Panpan and Fang Zheng were on campus in the morning.

"Boss, I have a music theory class soon. How about you go upstairs and take a look? Brother Zheng's get out of class will be over in 20 minutes."

"You keep busy. Is my classroom still there?"

"Of course! It has been kept there. Nothing you and Sister Xuan left behind has been touched. Except for Sister Wang who sometimes goes in to sweep the dust and mop the floor, no one else has ever gone in."

Li An nodded, "Okay, then I'll go to room 802 for a while, you go back to the classroom."

Walking all the way from the rest corner to the entrance of Room 802, Ang Lee seemed to be back in the winter of last year, when Zhao Weida and others were playing rock-paper-scissors at the entrance to decide who would survive the calamity first.

I don’t know how the little ones have been preparing recently. Last week, before he went to Yanjing, he received a call from Gao Ruijin and talked for a while.

Come on, students, there are only twenty days left until the college entrance examination.

I pushed the door and walked into room 802. The room was tidy and clean.

Ugh.

Sister Meili, you are the same. You didn’t even tell me when something happened.

He could understand the approach of the Art Examination Department. The teachers’ salaries had all been cut, let alone the front desk staff.

I think Qin Yong wanted to transfer Wang Meili to the Jiangbei campus because of his relationship with her.

At least I can earn more money per month at the Jiangbei campus.

After hesitating for a moment, Li An turned around and walked out of 802, avoiding the corridors where students were and going around to the rooftop.

Then he took out his phone and called Wang Meili.

The familiar jasmine ringtone rang, and he inexplicably wanted to laugh. He used to complain that the jasmine ringtone was not tuned correctly and suggested that Wang Meili change it.

"Hey!"

"Sister Meili, are you busy right now?"

"No, no, what's the matter, Xiao Li?"

In the past two years, whenever he meets people, especially the elderly, Ang Lee always tells them to just call him Xiao Li.

But only this name, Xiao Li, sounds the most intimate to him, and only Sister Meili is willing to call him Xiao Li.

"I can't give you a call if I have nothing to do."

"Come on, tell me now."

Li Anxin smiled and her aggressiveness came back. She paused and said, "Sister, I really have something I want to ask you for help with."

Wang Meili: "What difficulties have you encountered? Just tell me."

Li An: "The store has been too busy lately and we are short of staff."

After a pause, he said, "Sister, come and help me."

Wang Meili: "Where are you now?"

Li An: "I'm sitting on the rooftop of the Art Examination Department."

There was silence on the phone.

After a moment, Li An continued, "What a coincidence. I came here today to look for Fang Zheng and to see what's going on with you. I'm currently short of an academic affairs teacher who can also work at the front desk. When we had a meeting yesterday, you were the first person I thought of, but I didn't know what was going on with you. After listening to what Panpan said just now, I thought I'd just give you a call."

"Sister Meili, let's not beat around the bush. The current situation is really not about me helping you, but I need you to help me. You know the academic affairs, especially for students like me. I really don't dare to just find someone to take over."

"I know you're closer to Jiangbei, but it's not too far to come here. I can't guarantee you a salary right now, but it's definitely higher than if you went to the Jiangbei campus. Please consider it."

Wang Meili: "Give me a week and I will hand over the work of the Art Examination Department."

Li An: "Sister, you have decided to come."

Wang Meili: "Only a fool would not come! The salary is high."

Li Anle: "Let's make a deal. I'll tell Brother Yong about the Art Examination Department tonight, and then you can handle it as soon as possible."

Wang Meili: "Okay."

Li An: "That's it for now, let's keep in touch."
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After finishing his phone call with Wang Meili, Li Ang did not return to piano room 802.

After Fang Zheng finished his get out of class, the two went directly to the concert hall.

Li An has already explained the general situation to Fang Zheng. The main task this afternoon is to work on the chorus program for Class 8 of the first grade.

At present, the overall quality of Shipo’s programs is not very high.

Therefore, Ang Lee needs to create three or four interesting programs to improve the overall program quality.

And chorus is one of them.

"I try my best."

After further understanding the situation, Fang Zheng did not dare to say that he was completely confident that the quality of the chorus program would meet Ang Lee's expectations in the end.

Because judging from the chorus video that Ang Lee just showed him, the overall quality of this group of children is not high.

Both lead singers had some problems that needed to be corrected.

"No no no."

Li An waved his hand, "You still don't understand what I mean. Our standards for the chorus do not need to match those of professional choirs. By then, it is very likely that the children will not even have to sing live."

Fang Zheng: "Recording?"

Li An: "Yes, I just need to make this show look professional by then."

Fang Zheng understood: "Performance, shape, and state."

Li An: "That's absolutely right. We must let the school see the spirit of the children."

Fang Zheng: “I understand.”

Li An: "Now let's study whether there are any parts of this song that need to be modified in the accompaniment. You are a professional in this, I will listen to you, and Xiaoche will play the piano accompaniment when the time comes."

As they spoke, the two of them began to get busy on the stage.

As for why Ang Lee attaches so much importance to the chorus program, there is actually another reason.

He had mentioned to several children before that there would be a choir competition after the city's primary and secondary school wind band competition during the summer vacation.

Li An wanted Shi Po to participate as well.

If he could help Shipo form a choir, it would be the starting point for further cooperation between him and Shipo.

It is definitely unrealistic to set up a wind band to participate in a competition in three months, and setting up a wind band is also something that the school needs to think carefully about.

Because Shipo’s situation and Shuren’s situation are different.

Shu Ren can control students’ time in school so that students will not be affected by their studies even if they participate in various clubs.

However, Shipo currently has no way to balance this, and the time of middle school students is very precious.

Therefore, compared to a wind orchestra which takes a long time to develop and requires more time, the choir has its advantages.

It does not take up much of the students' time and can be completed quickly.

Results can be obtained in a short period of time.

This is also what Ang Lee values ​​most.

If Shi Po can get a relatively good result in the choir competition during the summer vacation, then this will be an important bargaining chip for his subsequent discussions on cooperation with the school.

Li An: "That's it for now. We'll see how it goes this afternoon. If the students can't finish it, we'll revise it."

Fang Zheng: "Why can't we gather a group of outstanding students from across the school? This plan is excellent."

Li An: "There's not enough time, and this is someone else's class program."

At noon, Wang Panpan treated Li An to a meal, and he ate dumplings which he had not had for a long time.

Everyone is not optimistic about the situation of the Art Examination Department this year.

After all, the problem seems to lie within the art examination department.

Deng Shiqi: "The current enrollment situation of several other large institutions is good."

Li An: "Well, the advantages we have here have been destroyed by policies." Everyone nodded.

Last year, Lao Ma alone solved the problem of nearly half of the students. The reason was that Lao Ma was able to provide protection for some candidates at that time.

This year, the country has largely cancelled school entrance exams and only looks at unified examination scores, which has made it impossible for many schools to conduct individual recruitment.

If we can’t recruit individually, it would be like cutting off the most important leg of Lao Ma.

Wang Panpan: "Old Ma is so anxious that he wants us to go to the streets to hand out flyers."

Fang Zheng: "I won't go unless he leads the team."

Li An: "You don't have to worry. There are five designated cooperative schools nearby. One school can recruit five or six students. It won't be a problem to get through this year. We'll see how things go next year. The principal is back now."

Wang Panpan: "My brother has been busy with the symphony orchestra for the past two months and has been away from home every day."

Li An: "What else? Lan Tian's base is primary and secondary school students, not the art examination department. Now that he is cooperating with Rong Ai, he has to put all his energy into the symphony orchestra."

Wang Panpan sighed: "I'm just complaining. You and Sister Xuan left, and he's been busy lately. Old Ma has one idea today and another idea tomorrow. We don't know what to do. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore."

Li Anle: "Not really. Apart from the fact that there are fewer students, are there any other problems? Shi Qi is here now, and there is Zheng Ge in vocal music. The teaching staff configuration hasn't changed much compared to before. You've become the director, right?"

Wang Panpan: "I am a very strange director, okay?"

Ang Lee: "Don't worry about whether it makes sense or not. This is your job now. Either don't do it, or you have to be serious."

After a pause, he said, "People from our West Office have seen all kinds of things, so don't complain. Just do your job. If you don't do it well, it's still a mess. It's so uncomfortable to be stuck in the middle."

Deng Shiqi: "Brother is right."

Wang Panpan glared: "You can't even complain about it!"

Deng Shiqi smiled bitterly: "I didn't say anything."

Fang Zheng: "Here you go again, Boss. You don't know this. Every day in the office I feel like I'm watching a skit."

Li An laughed: "Come, let's have a bowl of dumpling soup."

Four people raised their bowls.

Fang Zheng: "Tomorrow will be better, let's do it!"
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"Please enjoy it, tomorrow will be better."

In a blink of an eye, it was already 5:40 in the afternoon, and more than half of the program review had been completed on the lecture hall stage of Shipo Middle School.

Li An and Principal Min were sitting side by side in the second row. Li An was holding a program in his hand, and the two seemed to be discussing something.

Following the announcement by the temporary host, Teacher Wu organized the children from Class 8 of the first grade to go on stage.

Li An turned on the microphone and said, "Teacher Wu, you don't need to arrange the procedures for them to leave and enter the stage first."

Today's task is to review the programs. It is almost six o'clock and there are still four programs to come.

Ang Lee had to hurry up as he had to leave some time for Fang Zheng to clap for the chorus later.

Principal Min suggested, "Teacher Li, let's not host this program. Let Teacher Fang talk to the children directly."

Then Li An asked Fang Zheng to come to the stage. It must be said that Principal Min’s proposal touched his mind.

Fang Zheng went on stage and checked the music score with Xiao Che first, then started giving a chorus lesson to the children in Class 8 of the first grade.

Soon Fang Zheng used humorous and witty language to turn the stage into his own home court.

Plus the slightly childish style made the children laugh.

Director Guo, who was standing nearby, thought that the stage discipline was a bit chaotic. The students were standing in a mess. He thought, wouldn't this affect the teacher's class?
As a result, just as he was about to speak up and ask Teacher Wu to regulate the discipline, Li Ang raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't worry, Director Guo."

At this moment, Teacher Fang Zheng's encouragement was heard again from the loud speakers.

"Very good, very good, please keep laughing."

"Ha ha ha ha--"

"Okay, Che Lin can start now."

The next second, the small car in front of the piano started moving.

As soon as the prelude sounded, the stage suddenly became quiet. No one expected that they hadn't even lined up yet, and they were about to start singing?
"Student Che Lin can play the prelude three times. Each prelude is twenty seconds long, which is enough for us to prepare."

"Now everyone listen to me. We don't need to lead the singing this time."

A Qian: Ah?

Xiao Zhang: Ah?

"Everyone knows all the lyrics, right? Answer me louder! Do you know?"

"Know!!"

"Very good. The first thing to do when singing is not to stand straight, but to open your mouth, just like when you laugh, just like when you shout "I know", open your mouth completely, can you sing with a smile?"

"Yes!" "No!"

Some say yes, some say no, which is particularly interesting in the piano prelude of Tomorrow Will Be Better.

Fang Zheng: "If you don't know how to sing, just smile and don't sing yet. If you know how to sing, just smile and sing. Is there any problem with that?"

Classmates: “No problem!!”

Fang Zheng: "Now the second prelude has begun. Everyone, try to stand up straight. Yes, no, no, keep smiling. Stand up straight with your legs, not your mouth. Why can't you smile when you stand up straight?"

Classmates: “Hahahahaha!”

Fang Zheng: "Yes! You are awesome. The boy on the far left, your smile is the most fake, but also the best. Remember, all the smiles on the chorus stage are fake."

Ah Qian: Me, me, me? Is my smile so fake!!!

There was another burst of laughter on the stage.

The teachers in the audience were dumbfounded. What was this Teacher Fang going to do?

Is this also part of art?
This is completely different from the previous scene where Mr. Ang Lee directed the show. How come there is no artistic style at all?

I have to say that it is really not the teachers' fault. Just now, Ang Lee really showed the demeanor of an artistic master perfectly while directing the program.

So the current style of painting on the stage is a bit difficult for them to accept.

Besides, no teacher likes to see students being disorganized and undisciplined.

However, just ten seconds later, all the teachers fell silent.
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The time came to fifteen seconds ago, and Fang Zheng laughed along with the children.

When the piano prelude came for the third time.

"Classmates, let's sing a song with laughter."

"It's very simple. What's the first line of the lyrics?"

“Gently wake up the sleeping heart, right? There are still twelve beats left. Open your mouth and smile.”

As he spoke, Fang Zheng unconsciously raised his hands and began to gesture gently.

The car caught the moment immediately and immediately got into the speed and feel of the command.

As the feeling of the piano changed, the atmosphere on the stage changed instantly.

"Knock gently to awaken the sleeping soul."

"Slowly open your eyes."

“Look at the busy world”

For a moment, accompanied by the singing, the smiling faces on the stage seemed to become cute.

But they stood straight, like sunflowers scattered in the sun.

Principal Min was watching and listening intently, and as he listened a childlike smile appeared on his face.

Maybe this is the magic of music.

Ang Lee was not surprised by what was happening on the stage at this moment.

Fang Zheng is his personal choir instructor.

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