Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1327, Section 547: Picking Up the Girl at the Airport! The Summer Curtain Rises Once Again.

Airport pickup! Let's go!
However, there is still one problem before we set off.

"Whose car were you three in?"

There are now three transportation options for the three children.

The teacher's car.

Aunt Xu Li's (Mom's) car.

The eldest sister's car.

Ang Lee looked around and thought that the three children would definitely choose to go with Ji Yang.

As a result, Wang Xiaohu chose him directly, saying, "Teacher, I'll go with you."

Ang Lee: "Okay."

Wang Xiaohu: "Why do you look so disgusted?"

Ang Lee: "Don't ask."

Hahahaha!

In the end, the two girls followed their senior sister in the car, Wang Xiaohu went with Li An to drive, and Xu Li set off first.

We agreed to meet at the airport parking lot.
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Sitting in the passenger seat of his teacher's car again, Wang Xiaohu felt as if he had been through another world.

"Teacher, my mom has already contacted the agency, you should already know that, right?"

Ang Lee really didn't know. "Let's wait. It'll probably take a week. What, you sound like you've already made up your mind?"

The teacher and student drove out of the residential area.

Wang Xiaohu: "Yes, I'm sure I've made up my mind. As long as I can leave in September, I'm a little worried about whether I can adapt to the environment there quickly."

Ang Lee: "Don't force yourself to adapt quickly. After all, it's a completely new environment. Take it one step at a time. As long as you know what you're there to do and follow the learning plan, I think you'll be able to integrate quickly."

"Yeah!" Wang Xiaohu looked out the window and saw two familiar cars parked on the side of the road ahead. "By the way, my mom hasn't picked up the flowers yet."

As he passed the entrance of the Heartfelt Flower Shop, Li An honked the horn twice and then drove on.

“I once bought roses for my mom at this flower shop. The lady at the flower shop was so nice.”

Ang Lee smiled and stepped on the gas, crossing the intersection just before the yellow light.

For the rest of the journey, the teacher and student didn't talk about going abroad again. Instead, they talked about music and the orchestra's rehearsal plans for the new semester. As they talked, the terminal of Huyang Airport appeared outside the car window.

"reached!"

Before Wang Xiaohu could even get excited, a white BMW overtook them and pulled up in front of them.

Looking back, I saw that my mom's car was already following behind them.

"Teacher, I've always had a question."

"ask."

"Why did you choose this car back then? What's wrong with it besides its appearance? The power is so poor."

"I like it, so what?"

As he spoke, Li An glanced at the rearview mirror, checked the road conditions, then turned on his turn signal and overtook Ji Yang.

Wang Xiaohu shook his head, secretly amused that even adults had this strange competitive spirit.

Five minutes later, a group of people gathered in the parking lot.

Xu Li arranged for a minibus to arrive at the airport soon.

With half an hour to go before Mr. X and his entourage landed, Ang Lee held a quick meeting with the children.

"Assign tasks."

"Xiaoxing, you can give Professor Charlie some flowers later."

"Roger that!"

"Linlin, give Professor Novak flowers."

"Roger that!"

"Ji Yang, send flowers to Professor Citaya."

"Roger that!"

"What about me, teacher?"

When Wang Xiaohu heard that all three foreign professors had been assigned tasks, he wondered who he should deliver the gifts to.

Li Anle: "I'm giving you the most honorable task: you deliver flowers to Grandpa Tang."

Wang Xiaohu immediately became nervous and started stammering, "I, I can't do it, teacher. Let Xiaoxing deliver it instead. I'll deliver the flowers to Grandpa Charlie."

"Is my grandfather really that scary?" Tang Xiaoxing asked doubtfully.

Wang Xiaohu quickly waved his hand: "No, no, it's just that my class is too low."

Hahahaha!

Brother Xiao Hu was not joking. Grandpa Tang is the godfather of the domestic conducting world, a god-like figure, while he is just a little Karami who hasn't even fully understood the methods of conducting.

"Look at your potential."

Ang Lee was speechless. "You're scared just by offering me flowers. It's not like I'm asking you to attend a class."

Tang Xiaoxing followed up earnestly, "Grandpa praised you for being great; he's seen your conducting videos."

"Huh? Really?" Wang Xiaohu thought to himself, "Oh no, I'm doomed!" "Which match?!"

Tang Xiaoxing: "Why would I lie to you? It's just about this choir competition."

Wang Xiaohu: "Grandpa Tang is joking, right?"

Ang Lee: "Alright, alright, be more observant in a bit. After we deliver the flowers, we'll head to the resort. Linlin, you and Wang Xiaohu will go with the bus."

Little Car: "Okay, teacher."

Ang Lee: "Ji Yang, you take Professor Charlie and Professor Novak with you, and have Professor Chen follow in your car."

Ji Yang: "Okay, teacher."

Ang Lee: "Sister Xu, you take Professor Citaya with you, and let Xiaoxing follow in your car."

Xu Li: "Okay."

Ang Lee glanced at his watch: "If there are no problems, let's set off."
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"Dear passengers"

At 5:15, the China Eastern Airlines flight from Yanjing to Chengdu landed smoothly.

The plane continued along the runway, and the children in the cabin couldn't help but lean out of the windows to look out.

"This is Chengdu! It feels really nice!"

"Hot pot, hot pot, here I come!"

The group of young visitors from Yanjing, represented by the siblings Liu Ziqian and Liu Zige, were so excited that they couldn't wait to unbuckle their seatbelts.

"Hey, hey, hey." Yuan Xiaoyu gestured for the children to be quiet. "What did we say before we set off?"

The cabin fell silent instantly.

Despite her serious expression, Yuan Xiaoyu was actually incredibly excited inside.

She had long wanted to visit Chengdu, especially for its delicious food.

According to Xiaoxing's reliable sources, this is a place where you'll find unexpected surprises no matter which restaurant you walk into.

Five minutes later, the plane came to a stop.

The team from Yanjing, led by Boss X, successfully disembarked.

"Hey! We've arrived! We're waiting for our luggage."
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After hanging up the phone, Ang Lee told the kids around him to get ready.

Not to mention the children, even he was a little excited.

After a year's hiatus, their summer camp has begun once again.

He had just chatted with some children about some interesting things that happened during last year's summer camp.

Five minutes later, the bustling exit suddenly became lively with the flow of people leaving the station.

"coming!"

Wang Xiaohu was the first to spot Liu Zige pushing a blue box in a group of adults and children.

"Liu Zige!!!"

"team leader!!!!"

And so, two calls from across the fence opened the curtain on this year's summer camp.

"Thank you for your hard work!" "Uncle Tang!"

"grandfather!"

"Haha, Xiaolinzi, this is Wang Xiaohu."

"Grandpa Tang, you must be tired from your journey! Here are your flowers!"

"Hahaha! Thank you, thank you, Xiaoxing has really gotten fat!"

"Grandpa, I haven't gained weight!"

"This is Xiaohu's mother, Ms. Xu Li."

"Hello, Ms. Xu."

"Hello Uncle Tang, just call me Xiao Xu. Thank you for your hard work."

"Wang Xiaohu! He didn't even say hello to me!"

"Oh, Teacher Chen, I was just about to tell you this!"

"Hahahaha!"

The lively scenes were just like celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Ang Lee has already started chatting with the three foreign professors.

To the surprise of old Charlie and Sitya, Ang Lee spoke German.

Professor Cittaya, in particular, had at least a few email exchanges with Charlie Hebdo in German during that year.

Sitaya only remembered that last summer she needed a translator to communicate with Ang Lee.

This was Novak's first time meeting Ang Lee face-to-face, although the two had already known each other at the Shaw School of Design competition.

At that time, the young Mao Ge developed a strong curiosity about Li An because of contestant number 01, Che Lin.

Ang Lee also remembered the kindness that the young Mao gave the car a perfect score.

This meeting was like meeting an old friend at first sight.

What happened next shocked old Charlie as well.

Because Ang Lee is currently communicating with Novak in Russian.

Charlie also clearly remembers that last year, Ang Lee couldn't understand Russian at all.

It's only been a year!

In fact, Ang Lee only added Russian to the language catalog after confirming Novak's willingness to participate in the summer camp.

He used up most of his teaching points.

Finally, he gave the young Mao a tight hug, the two of them like old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years.

"welcome."

As he spoke, Ang Lee waved and called the car over again.

It was too chaotic when we were presenting the flowers earlier, so this time Ang Lee formally introduced her student, Che Lin, to Novak.

After listening, Novak gave the car a thumbs up.

Then he uttered two ridiculous Chinese characters.

"Brilliant!"

Hahahaha!
The airport pickup went smoothly. After confirming that all members had gathered, the group walked out of the airport in a grand procession.

Following the route planned by Ang Lee, the four cars—three small and one large—drove out of the parking lot one after another.

Ji Yang, along with Boss X and two male professors, set off first.

Next came the bus, where Wang Xiaohu and Xiao Che had already become friends with the young men from Yanjing.

In addition to Liu Ziqian and his sister and Lu Hanwen, four more friends joined this time.

Liu Ziqian was enthusiastically introducing the two of them, while Yuan Xiaoyu, sitting at the front, had already opened her phone to check the food delivery options near the event location.

Following behind the bus was Xu Li. The reason Xiao Xing was assigned to this bus was simple: among the remaining people, she was the only one who could communicate with Professor Sitaia.

"Um, Aunt Xu, Professor Sitaya wants to know if we can see giant pandas along our route."

Following at the back of the convoy were Ang Lee and Mr. Tang.

Ang Lee originally wanted the old man to sit in the back for safety reasons, but the old man insisted on sitting in the front passenger seat.

"It's still so hot in Chengdu."

"It got hot early this year. Today is relatively cool, but yesterday the perceived temperature was already 40 degrees Celsius."

"Hehe, I think Yun'er is adapting very well."

"Haha, she knows our neighborhood better than I do now."

“That day, after she video-chatted with her mom, her mom told me that she had gained weight. I thought I couldn’t tell from the photos, but when I saw her just now, her face was rounder.”

"Don't even mention it, I can't control her anymore. All she does all day is practice piano and figure out where to eat. After the last choir competition, those kids took the subway for more than ten stops just to eat some rice noodles."

"Fine," Old Master Tang sighed. "If I had known, I would have sent her here last year. Why did we have to go through all this trouble?"

Ang Lee: "You can't say that. It's not like she could have gone out and never come to Chengdu in the end. It's all for the best."

Grandpa Tang: "You're right, it's all for the best. That day she sent me a video of her playing Czerny and Grand Polonaise. After listening to it, I wanted to call you, but I thought you'd been busy lately, so I didn't."

"Thank you for your hard work, Ang Lee. She's been stuck on that Grand Polonaise for almost half a year."

Ang Lee: "If you're talking about this piece, it really has nothing to do with me. To this day, I haven't said a single word about it to her."

Upon hearing this, Old Master Tang frowned slightly. "You mean she practiced it herself?"

Ang Lee: "To be honest, she has not practiced this piece recently, it is the Etude and the Four Hands Twist of Fate."

Now Mr. Tang was even more surprised, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his face. "Tell me about it quickly."

Ang Lee smiled and gently applied the brakes. "Please wait a moment."

The car slowed down, allowing the electric scooter behind it to pass, and then changed lanes, leaving the fast lane.

"Xiaoxing's Grand Polonaise was no longer a technical problem; her problem at the time was that she didn't know how to play it."

"Don't be fooled by what she said before about having her own ideas."

"That's right, she does have her own ideas, and we don't deny that."

"But for some reason, she has never had the space to play according to her own ideas, so another situation arises: she lacks the practice to implement her own ideas."

Grandpa Tang: "That makes sense, that's true."

Ang Lee: "What she lacks is not practice about a particular piece of music, but about the act of playing the piano itself."

Grandpa Tang: "Yes, they are interconnected."

Ang Lee: "So from the moment she arrived here, I didn't tell her how she should play. Just like I told you on the phone last time, once I tell her how this should be done and how that should be done, she will passively return to the previous state of 'I should accept it.'"

Grandpa Tang: "Yes, yes."

Ang Lee: "It's nothing more than that she may like Teacher Lee at this stage. But if she follows the advice of a teacher just because she likes him, she still won't be able to break free from her previous self-contradiction."

"So in this stage, and in the next stage, what I need to do is to control what she needs to practice, and leave the rest to her."

"She can play however she wants, allowing her to completely break free from her previous state in the process."

"In my opinion, this is also the process of her completing her personal practice. You understand some things much better than I do. Maybe one day you will suddenly understand one point and then you will understand everything."

"During those few days, she and Linlin studied how to play Fate from morning till night. Suddenly one morning I heard her playing Czerny, and I immediately felt that the Grand Polonaise was the one."

Grandpa Tang: "Practice has yielded results."

Ang Lee laughed: "To be honest, Linlin secretly recorded a clip of her playing the Grand Polonaise for me that afternoon. She was probably too embarrassed to play it in front of me."

Grandpa Tang grinned: "This girl."

Ang Lee: "That strong personality, the closing of the chords, including several consecutive large dotted notes, layer by layer, the sense of grandeur all comes out at once."

Grandpa Tang: "I guess we were watching the same video, which is only a little over a minute long, right?"

Ang Lee: "That's it, don't you think? They've all come out."

Grandpa Tang sighed, "Yes, Yun'er's problem isn't with music, it's with life. Art can't be separated from life."

After a pause, she said, "She has her own life now."

“She told her mother that she learned a lot of life skills and understood a lot of principles by being with Lin. I think these are the key reasons why she was able to break through her limitations.”

moment.

"Sigh, she just whispered to me that Wang Xiaohu gave them some guidance on their destiny yesterday, saying how insightful he is. Is that true?"

Ang Lee smiled but didn't reply. "Hey, what could he possibly be thinking? He's just joking around."