Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1239, Section 459: The Night of Stars
Wang Xiaohu, who had just gotten his chicken leg back, added insult to injury, saying, "Ah Liu, you should really cut back on your diet."

"I admit I was wrong, okay!" Liu Fengrui knew why he was getting fatter and fatter; he had been consciously controlling his food intake.

"Pah!" Wang Xiaohu said disdainfully, "You just said one chicken leg wasn't enough."

Xiao Liu cried out that he was wronged, "I was just worried that some people wouldn't eat it, and I was afraid of wasting it!"

Xiao Bei added insult to injury: "A fat person's mindset!"

Xiao Liu sighed, "Hey, Xiao Bei, you've changed."

At this moment, Senior Sister Ji interrupted the children's bickering, saying, "Hurry up and eat, we have to go on stage after you finish eating."

Then he looked at Xiao Liu again, saying, "We'll talk about weight later, the key is to eat your fill. Is one serving enough?"

Xiao Liu scratched his head: "It should be about right. Senior sister, you're really on a diet, but you're not fat."

Marco swallowed the rice in his mouth and asked, "I'm also curious, why do you want to lose weight, senior sister?"

After all, they are just a group of children; how could they possibly understand the principle that even if they are not fat, they should still lose weight?

The desire of female college students to maintain their figure cannot be explained to children in a few words.

"So you were hiding here all along."

Suddenly the door to the lounge was pushed open, and Li An walked in carrying a lunchbox. All the children stood up and called him teacher.

"Eat quickly."

Ang Lee joined the children in eating, and when he learned that his senior sister Ji Yang was trying to lose weight, he suggested, "You should pay a little attention to it and lose some weight."

"Huh?" The children were bewildered.

My teacher really understands me! Senior Sister Ji chattered on and on about her weight loss strategies.

They're telling us to do cardio and adjust our diet to 16+8, which makes all the kids feel like they're going to lose weight.

"What is the 16 plus 8 diet method?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

Senior Sister Ji: "Simply put, it means dividing the 24 hours of a day into two periods: an 8-hour eating period and a 16-hour fasting period. During the eating period, you can eat whatever you want, but during the fasting period, you must strictly control yourself and not eat anything, you can only drink water."

Wang Xiaohu was stunned: "Aren't they all in the feeding period?"

Xiao Bei: "I give up! An 8-hour feeding period, 'entering'; a 16-hour fasting period, 'prohibiting'."

"Oh, oh, oh." Wang Xiaohu suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Our school is a typical 16+8 school, Liu, you should transfer."

Xiao Liu's face darkened: "I don't eat anything at night anymore, okay?"

Then, feeling wronged, she asked, "Senior sister, does doing aerobics really work?"

Wang Xiaohu chuckled and received three eye rolls at the same time.

Senior Sister Ji: "Persistence will definitely have an effect. I think your problem is that you can't control your mouth."

Ang Lee said, "Just eat less. No matter what weight loss method you use, you have to control your diet. Liu Fengrui, you also need to pay attention. Your dad said last time that you can eat three bowls of rice in one meal now, and you have to have a late-night snack after finishing your homework. If you make this a habit, how much will you weigh?"

Xiao Liu sighed, "Almost 190cm."

The children: "."

Ang Lee: "Wow, you'd better hurry up. If you keep going like this, breaking 200 is just around the corner."

Marco: "The key is health."

Ang Lee: "That's exactly what I'm talking about. Obesity is a disease, don't take it lightly."

Xiao Liu stared at the chicken leg in her lunchbox for a moment, then made up her mind, "I've decided! I'll start my diet today! And I'll start with this chicken leg!"

Wang Xiaohu leaned closer and grinned, "If you're not going to eat the chicken leg, give it to me. I'm growing a lot lately, so I'll help you out."

Everyone fell silent.
Xiao Liu held out the lunchbox in his hand to Wang Xiaohu with a fierce expression, gritting his teeth and snorting, "Thank you!"

The pleasant lunch ended with Little Tiger receiving a chicken leg from Ah Liu. After the meal, Ang Lee reminded Senior Sister Ji to control her diet a little and not to lose too much weight.

Ji Yang doesn't look fat, but his face is definitely rounder than before he went to university.

Ang Lee understands that you can't compare yourself to others when it comes to weight; you can only compare yourself to yourself. So he fully understands Chi's desire to lose weight.

Just like when he lived in 2501, Chen Xuan made him exercise every night, saying that she had gained weight and needed to lose weight, even though she still looked very thin.

If you want to lose weight, just do it.

However, wandering around everywhere is not an option.

The agreed-upon rehearsal time was postponed to 12:30, which gave the children an extra 40 minutes of rest time.

Wang Xiaohu suggested going to the backstage of Rong'ai's largest concert hall, but Ang Lee immediately rejected the idea.

"Hurry up and get ready, there will be plenty of opportunities to go see it later."

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Xiao Che did not try on costumes like the other children, but was instead arranged to practice the piano on the stage.

The modified background music requires the piano to accompany it from beginning to end.

In terms of the overall program flow, Xiao Che is undoubtedly the second most important person tonight, second only to Qiao Zhizhi.

But in terms of background music, the car is the mainstay of tonight's stage.

At 12:20, the musicians who had arrived one after another began assembling their instruments.

The musicians, having tuned their instruments, sat in the audience, chatting and listening to the small cart playing the piano on stage.

The musicians were already familiar with this young violinist who had grown taller.

Even in terms of fame, most of them are far less famous than Xiao Che.

As Fang Yongbo arrived, the musicians stood up one after another.

"Brother Bo," Lin Qingfeng greeted him, "Our people are all here."

Fang Yongbo nodded, "Get to work!"

With a whoosh, the musicians entered the orchestra pit.

Backstage, Ang Lee immediately brought the children to the front of the stage, and Liang Yudan, Wang Wenyang, Zhang Miao, and other teachers in charge of the performance were also ready with their instruments.

"Brother Bo, you can make the arrangements." Li An gave up the center position on the stage.

Fang Yongbo smiled and crawled into the orchestra pit: "Director Li is fine."

Ha ha ha ha--

Ang Lee smiled helplessly, clapped his hands, and looked around the room: "Everyone to your positions, wait, everyone stay where you are, just keep your current positions."

Everyone was taken aback, and then they heard Ang Lee shout, "Lighting teacher, light number one!"

In an instant, all the stage lights went out.

Ang Lee: "Thank you for your hard work."

Then the stage lights up again as if in response.

Li Anle: "Come on, let's play it once."
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Even last-minute preparation can be effective, and time quickly passed to 4:30 PM.

The first run-through went perfectly. The second run-through was done after the official director, Xue Qinghua, arrived, and the stage setup was slightly adjusted.

They moved the large tree prop that Wang Xiaohu was leaning against closer to the audience seats.

After the adjustments, the stage now feels more spacious.

After the third rehearsal, the children rested for forty minutes.

The fourth time, all the children changed into their costumes, and the entire performance, complete with sound effects and stage design, was shown from beginning to end.

After watching the video, Ang Lee wanted to find fault with it, but he couldn't find anything that he was dissatisfied with.

“Alright, my dear teacher Li,” Xue Qinghua patted Li An on the shoulder and said with a confident smile, “If we can achieve 70% of the effect in this take tonight, that will be more than enough.”

Ang Lee smiled and sighed, "I'm relieved to hear you say that."

Xue Qinghua: "You can rest assured."

Ang Lee was naturally worried that something might go wrong during the evening's activities.

Unlike any of the shows on stage last night, if yesterday's show was a short drama, tonight's show is a movie.

This program marks Rong Ai and Shu Ren's first public collaboration, so how could he, as the main creator, not be worried?

"Let's go, let the children change their clothes and go eat."

As Xiao Che said, dinner was even more lavish.

Two and a half hours before the official performance began, the children were taken to the restaurant.

The standard is 15 people per table, 10 dishes and 1 soup.
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After the meal, the children were taken backstage to change clothes and put on makeup.

The car took over the role of the piano, and naturally had to take on the task of playing the zebra pianist.

She was wearing her old clothes when the program was being reviewed, but today every character's costume is a new creation.

She just tried playing in the new outfit, and everything was fine except it was too hot.

Ten minutes later, an adorable little zebra emerged from the changing room, eliciting another burst of laughter from Xiao Bei and the others. The little car confidently circled in front of everyone, then jokingly said, "I'm going to change my WeChat name to Zebra Pianist."

Just then, a large, lush green tree shyly peeked out from another changing room.

"puff!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Xiao Liu wasn't really seeking revenge; it was just that Wang Xiaohu's new outfit was too green.

"Okay, okay." Little Tiger muttered as he walked out of the fitting room, looking at himself in the mirror and saying, "I think I look fine."

Xiao Liu: "Brother, you look so green."

Wang Xiaohu: "Die!"

Before long, one small animal after another came to gather in the backstage hall.

Wu Yifan plays the role of the flute-playing lark.

Yan Junze plays the role of the mini Lion King.

Lin Ziyang plays the clarinet mole.

Hu Zewen plays the saxophone frog.

And finally, the little star Qiao Zhizhi makes her appearance.

Qiao Zhizhi's outfit was the most troublesome, requiring the help of two teachers.

Li An glanced over and then went to the three groups of team members responsible for high-fiving.

When he returned, Liang Yudan and the others had already changed into their performance costumes.

All the performers gathered in the backstage lobby, where Ang Lee gave them his final instructions before they went on stage.

"First, pay attention to safety. Students going up to the platform must be careful."

"Secondly, if we make a mistake, it's okay. No matter who makes a mistake at which stage, we can just keep going. We're a musical, so as long as the music keeps playing, the show won't be interrupted."

"third."

As he spoke, Ang Lee looked around again and then bowed to the child.

This really excited the children, although none of them knew exactly why they were so excited.

"Thank you, thank you for staying here today."

"I know that each of you has worked very hard during this time. No matter the result today, you are all the best."

Just then, Old Tang spoke up with a smile, "There's only one result today."

Mu Xin added, "It has to be a perfect curtain call, right?!"

The children shouted in unison, "Yes!!"

The teachers burst into laughter, and the children giggled. Looking at the smiling faces with makeup on, Li An felt a surge of energy welling up inside him once again.

“Okay.” He nodded. “The entrance to the opera house is open. I just went to the front and saw that many audience members have already entered. There is still half an hour before the show starts.”

As he spoke, Li An looked at the car and Qiao Zhizhi, "Get ready to go on stage."

The two children nodded vigorously at the same time, understanding the entrustment in their teacher's eyes.

"Let's have the teachers participate in the performance in the orchestra pit. Xiao Bei, follow Teacher Zhang closely."

Xiao Bei: "Mmm!"

Ang Lee then turned to Marco, Liu Fengrui, and Han Yiming: "Take good care of your respective parts."

The three little boys nodded in unison.

Ang Lee waved his hand and said, "Come on stage."

With a whoosh, the backstage area didn't descend into chaos in an instant.

Several children huddled together, raised their fists and bumped them, and were the first to take the stage.

Following closely behind, the children from each group took to the stage in an orderly fashion, and in less than ten minutes, all the performers were in place.

In the orchestra pit, the musicians began to tune in.

For a moment, the entire opera house was filled with the sounds of various musical instruments. Ang Lee and Fang Yongbo stood in front of the curtain and whispered a few words to each other. Afterward, Ang Lee returned to the backstage entrance.

From that moment on, he could no longer offer any help; everything was now in the hands of the children.

Keep it up, Linlin! As long as the piano keeps playing, nothing unexpected should happen tonight.

In front of the piano adorned with groves, the zebra-striped car seemed to turn its head as if by telepathy.

The teacher and student exchanged a fleeting glance across the backstage entrance. Ang Lee gave a thumbs-up, while the little car raised its hoof and made an OK sign.

Senior Sister Ji raised her hand and made a heart shape with her fingers towards the little zebra.

"Ji Yang."

"Ok?"

"Have you met a guy you like?"

"No, teacher, why are you suddenly asking this?"

"Pretend I didn't ask."

moment.

"Teacher, you don't think I'm losing weight because of this, do you?"

"I didn't say that."

"Haha, teacher, you're thinking wrong!"

"Cough cough."

At the other end of the curtain, the audience seats were already more than half full.

Xiang Nan accompanied Senior Chairman Lin Xiao to sit in the very center of the audience. The two chatted and laughed. Sitting next to them were Lao Yue, Liu Zhen, Xu Li, and others.

Qin Yong, Wang Panpan, and a few others were among the first to enter, sitting in the seats on the west side.

Not far from the group, Liang Shan kept burping, he couldn't even count how much he had eaten that day.

On the east side, Dingzi was calmly explaining to Zhang Yuan beside him in a low voice.

"Don't be nervous, relax."

"Um"

Unlike Dingzi, this was Zhang Yuan's first time entering such a formal concert hall.

In tonight's original plan, there was no Lao Che and Sang Ping, and Dingzi did not accept Teacher Li's gift of tickets.

He paid for those two tickets himself.

Although he brought his girlfriend to see his sister's performance, Dingzi wasn't as calm as he seemed on the surface.

"Aren't you going to wait for Linlin when it's over?" Zhang Yuan asked again in a low voice.

Nail: "Are you afraid of Teacher Li?"

Zhang Yuan was so frightened that she immediately shut her mouth.

Nail: "So let's do it next time, after Linlin comes back from her performance in Yanjing."

Zhang Yuan nodded, "Linlin is amazing."

Nail said smugly, "Don't you even know whose sister she is?"

Zhang Yuan: "Where's your face?"

Most of the people sitting near the young couple were parents of the children who were participating in the show. No one expected that they had only enrolled their children in an extracurricular class at school because their children said they liked it, and then in less than a year, their children would be on such a big stage.

Coupled with last night's performance, this undoubtedly strengthened parents' resolve to support their children learning music with Ang Lee's team.

Fifteen minutes before the performance was scheduled to begin, a friendly reminder was announced in the lobby.

Then, two staff members at the entrance closed the gate.

A commotion arose in the audience. On the stage just a curtain away, a lush green tree turned its head to look at the zebra.

The zebra raised the corners of its mouth and raised its hooves at him.

As the on-site reminders ended, the lights gradually dimmed.

The audience below the stage couldn't help but hold their breath.

Before long, the stage gradually lit up a little.

A scene of a cozy classroom slowly appeared before all the viewers.

I'll resume normal updates on the 20th. I'll try to make up for the ones I missed. I've been so busy lately that I'm completely overwhelmed. I'm so sorry everyone!