Chapter 44: Thoughts
Yang Jingxing sent Li Yingzhen home first, and then sent Yu Xinting back to school.
Yu Xinting happily looked forward to Yang Jingxing's future: "You will definitely be able to travel all over the world in the future, and you want to take photos to show me." ”
Yang Jingxing said: "I don't like to travel, so I don't go. ”
"For what?"
"I love home. ”
Yu Xinting took it for granted: "Then you won't be in school in the future." ”
Yang Jingxing said: "I still have to study, where to go if I don't go to school...... Oh, you can't bear the apple!"
"No, you wronged me!" Yu Xinting patted her thigh, "It's because you're with Professor Li at noon." Hey, what do you eat at night? Is it steak?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I don't know the way, if it's delicious, we'll go next time." ”
Yu Xinting was worried: "It must be so expensive...... I still like to eat hot pot...... You're going to wear a dress tomorrow night, I want to see it. ”
Yang Jingxing said: "Of course you have to go! Don't think about running." ”
Yu Xinting asked, "Will you ask for an invoice for us?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I'll ask at night, if it's gone, you will be wronged in the background." ”
Yu Xinting is not particular: "As long as you can go, you can go." ”
Yang Jingxing went home to change his clothes and called his mother. Xiao Shuxia shouted, saying that he was going to drive to Puhai overnight, and shouted: "Why did you only tell us now!?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I have just received a notice that you will leave tomorrow morning, and it will be too late." ”
Xiao Shuxia refused: "No! I want to go early, so as not to disgrace you." ”
Xiao Shuxia asked a lot of details, and then asked Yang Jingxing to have a good rest at night, she had the key herself.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Yang Jingxing and Li Yingzhen arrived at the restaurant of the hotel where New Love stayed on time. Jaromir and the strings were already waiting, dressed formally.
The dinner lasted for two hours, which was to enhance everyone's understanding, and of course, more to understand Yang Jingxing. There is also the matter of the performance, Yang Jingxing is a friendly cameo, so he will not sign any contract, a concerto every night, respectively, La San and Beethoven third, and it is the finale. Of course, Yaromir also encouraged Yang Jingxing to prepare a small show in case he returned.
Yang Jingxing offered to invite friends and asked if he could still buy tickets. Strings contacted the organizers and got six tickets for Saturday night, but none for Friday. Of course, this is all paid by Yang Jingxing himself. As for Li Yingzhen and Yang Jingxing's parents, they can sit in the VIP box, which can be arranged. Yaromir and the others also wanted to meet Yang Jingxing's parents and see how they cultivated this genius.
After eating, I sent Li Yingzhen home, and it was already close to eleven o'clock. Yang Jingxing called Tao Meng first: "Have you slept?"
Tao Meng said: "I'm ready to sleep, it's so late, what's the matter?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I will perform at the Puhai Concert Hall on Saturday night, are you free?"
"Saturday night, you only let me know now!" Tao Meng was not surprised at all.
Yang Jingxing explained: "I also made it clear in the afternoon. ”
Tao Meng asked, "What kind of performance?
Yang Jingxing proudly: "I work with the New York Philharmonic. ”
"Bragging!" Tao Meng asked again: "How did you choose you?"
Yang Jingxing flattered: "It's not official, I'm embarrassed to invite you!"
Tao Meng doubted: "Saturday night, can you still buy tickets now?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I have it, everything is ready, you can come alone." ”
Tao Meng said, "Who else? Are your parents here?"
"They're on their way now," Yang said. I'm going to ask Hu Yiqing, a graduate student in the piano department who taught me, and Yu Xinting and a friend of hers. ”
Tao Meng was a little sarcastic: "There are still a lot of people...... Are you free tomorrow? We'll meet and talk. ”
Yang Jingxing said: "There will be a performance tomorrow night, and we will practice during the day. ”
Tao Meng shouted: "Then who are you inviting tomorrow night!?"
Yang Jingxing hurriedly explained that it was because he didn't have a ticket, but Tao Meng still said that he would meet at noon tomorrow to talk. Then Yang Jingxing called Hu Yiqing again, and Hu Yiqing was very happy. Yu Xinting hadn't slept yet, and Yang Jingxing could hear her telling An Xin good news.
After Yang Jingxing returned home, he had to take a shower and wash his clothes, and he recalled Beethoven who had not practiced much. At twelve o'clock, I heard the sound of the door opening and Xiao Shuxia's reprimand: "You be quiet, wake him up!"
Yang Jingxing shouted: "I haven't slept yet!"
Yang Chengyi and Xiao Shuxia rushed into the house in a hurry, blaming Yang Jingxing for why he hadn't slept yet, but then he pulled him to ask questions for more than an hour.
Xiao Shu Xiale: "No wonder the money on your card is used so quickly!"
Yang Chengyi told his son to be calm and rest quickly.
At eight o'clock on Friday morning, Xiao Shuxia was about to take her son to buy clothes, when Yang Jingxing received a call from Tao Meng: "I got the ticket for tonight, have your parents arrived?"
Yang Jingxing was angry: "I don't have it myself...... Here they are. ”
Tao Meng asked, "How do you arrange your time?"
The two discussed for a while and decided to meet in the concert hall before noon, and Yang Jingxing only started practicing in the afternoon.
Her sons are all people who want to cooperate with foreigners, Xiao Shuxia is really uncomfortable without spending money, not to mention that she has to dress up herself, and she doesn't have to stop in the morning.
At ten o'clock, Yang Jingxing, who couldn't wait for his mother, went to the concert hall first and met Tao Meng at the door. The two of them went to the car to chat, Tao Meng was also Xiao Shuxia's problems, and they were much more careful, and they had to understand clearly how Yang Jingxing hooked up with Niu Ai.
Tao Meng still didn't believe it: "That's it, I want you to come to power?"
Yang Jingxing said: "What else?"
Tao Meng poured cold water: "This is your first performance, what if you don't prepare well and something goes wrong? Why are you so sloppy? Why don't you tell me early!"
Yang Jingxing said: "There will be no mistakes, even if there is, it will not be me." ”
Tao Meng said: "No matter who it is, but you are the one who is most affected...... Do you know how it felt to be on stage for the first time in front of thousands of people? I used to speak on stage at school, and my legs were shaking. ”
Yang Jingxing said: "I don't believe it, you brag!"
Tao Meng was anxious: "I don't have the heart to joke with you...... But don't be nervous, playing the piano is not the same as speaking. ”
Yang Jingxing smiled: "I was just afraid of being nervous so I called you." ”
Tao Meng taught: "If there is anything to be nervous about, you should practice by yourself, doesn't Teacher Hu say that you are a genius!
Yang Jingxing said: "It's been many times, don't worry." ”
Tao Meng was still not at ease: "Can I go and see it in the afternoon?"
Yang Jingxing said no problem. However, lunch was scheduled, and Li Yingzhen and Xiao Shuxia were going to meet. Tao Meng hesitated again: "They all have to accompany you in the afternoon?"
Yang Jingxing smiled: "I can't drive it away." ”
Tao Meng blamed: "This is not good, you need to be quiet by yourself...... I'll go eat first, and then you'll call me when you're done." ”
Yang Jingxing invited: "Let's go together." ”
Tao Meng shook his head: "When I was introduced, I said that I was your high school classmate and had practiced the piano before." ”
Yang Jingxingle: "Otherwise, what else can you say?"
Tao Meng glared.
At eleven o'clock, Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi rushed over and waited for a few minutes for Li Yingzhen. Li Yingzhen brought Yu Xinting with her again today, and it seems that she is really working hard to cultivate.
"Hello uncle and aunt. Seeing the elders, although Yu Xinting was polite, she was also a little shy.
Xiao Shuxia's enthusiastic expression: "Hello...... Professor Lee, is this yours?"
Li Yingzhen said: "Students, like Yang Jingxing, are freshmen...... They have known each other for a long time, when they did not enter the school. ”
Yang Jingxing introduced: "Her name is Yu Xinting, and I met when I was preparing for the exam last year. ”
Xiao Shuxia looked at Yu Xinting: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Yidu. ”
Xiao Shuxia said to her husband: "The girls over there are all small and beautiful. How old are you?"
"Eighteen. Yu Xinting became more and more embarrassed.
Xiao Shuxia was surprised: "It looks like fourteen or fifteen years old, doesn't it?"
Yang Jingxing said: "At her current age, she is afraid of being said to be young, so let's eat." ”
found a nearby restaurant that was still passable, and Xiao Shuxia entertained the guests: "Order what you like to eat, don't be polite." ”
Yu Xinting grabbed the edge of the wide chair with her hands down, and was polite: "I like to eat everything." ”
Xiao Shuxia understood: "You guys should like spicy food over there." ”
Yu Xinting said seriously: "Actually, I don't like chili peppers very much, but I like sour and spicy, sweet and sweet, but it's not a dish, I like ice cream." ”
Xiao Shuxia smiled and asked the waiter, "Do you have ice cream here?"
"Yes. ”
Yu Xinting hurriedly said: "Don't eat now, I'll eat when I'm done." ”
Li Yingzhen explained: "Xin Ting and Jing Xing are very familiar, and they are not polite to each other. ”
Yang Chengyi said: "This is good, now is not the era of twisting and pinching, just like that." ”
Yu Xinting was embarrassed again and hung her head.
After eating, Yu Xinting's movements were still a lot more restrained than with Yang Jingxing, but she didn't twist it, the chopsticks were still actively moving frequently within the range she could reach, and occasionally looked at the table, hesitating to start at that plate.
Xiao Shuxia asked, "How does it taste, can you get used to it?"
Yu Xinting nodded: "It's all delicious, Auntie, you eat it yourself, don't worry about me." ”
The braised pork ribs are a bit big, Yu Xinting clamped it, and accidentally dropped it on the table on the way back to the bowl, and she actually wanted to save it.
Xiao Shuxia hurriedly stopped: "Don't do it, Yang Jingxing, push the plate over!"
Yu Xinting picked it up again, quickly put it back in the bowl, and whispered embarrassedly: "It's not dirty at all, it's okay." ”
Yang Jingxing smiled: "Learn this from me." ”
Yu Xinting was even more embarrassed: "No." ”
Yang Chengyi said: "Who knows that the food on the plate is hard...... Parents are well educated. ”
Yu Xinting said: "Yang Jingxing will not waste, he eats a table clean every time. ”
Yang Jingxing said: "I can eat it purely. ”
A few people laughed.
After eating, Xiao Shuxia also asked Yu Xinting if she wanted ice cream, and Yu Xinting shook her head again and again: "I'm so full." ”
Yang Jingxing encouraged: "I'll accompany you to eat one." ”
Yu Xinting said: "I really can't eat it...... Aunt Xie Lu, Uncle Xie Xie. ”
Xiao Shuxia smiled and asked, "Do you have any brothers and sisters?"
Yu Xinting shook her head: "No, I plan to give birth." ”
Xiao Shuxia said to her husband: "I feel like a little sister in the family." ”
still has to go to business, Yang Jingxing called Tao Meng: "We are done eating, you can come over." ”
Tao Meng said: "I'll be there soon, ten minutes." ”
Xiao Shuxia asked, "Who? Why don't you call us for dinner?"
Yang Jingxing said: "High school classmates. ”
Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing.
The group walked to the concert hall, Tao Meng was ready to wait there with a smile, and took a few steps towards this side: "Hello, hello, meet again." ”
Yu Xinting was happy: "It's great that you're here." ”
Xiao Shuxia remembered: "You are a classmate of Yang Jingxing, and you were the student representative during the parent-teacher meeting." ”
Tao Meng nodded: "Yes, you are still so young." "It didn't take long.
Yang Jingxing said: "Tao Meng, who also learns the piano, let's take a look today." ”
Xiao Shuxia remembered again: "Tao Meng, it's called Tao Meng...... It's changed, hehe, where are you studying now?"
"Fudan University. Tao Meng didn't wait for others to praise him and said to Li Yingzhen: "You are Professor Li, hello." ”
Li Yingzhen nodded and smiled.
Tao Meng said to Yang Jingxing again: "Don't delay your time, let's go in." ”
When the group entered the concert hall, Xiao Shuxia said to Tao Meng: "Xie Lu, thank you for coming, you didn't have class today?"
Tao Meng said: "There is no class in the afternoon. I've studied piano before, and yesterday Yang Jingxing called me, so I came to see it, hoping that his debut would be successful. ”
Yu Xinting asked, "Will you come at night?"
Tao Meng nodded: "Come on, the tickets have been booked." ”
Yu Xinting asked again: "What about tomorrow?"
Tao Meng said: "Come too." He said to Yang Jingxing again: "I don't need your ticket, you can give it to other friends." Asked Xiao Shuxia again: "You came overnight, did you work hard?"
Xiao Shuxia said: "No, no. ”
After going up to the second floor, Yeromir and Le Xian, who were waiting, met Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi. Yang Jingxing was responsible for translating English into Chinese, and Lexian translated Chinese into English, establishing a friendly bilateral relationship. chatted for half an hour, and Xiao Shuxia's vanity continued to rise. She also said that she was embarrassed that she didn't prepare a gift because she was in a hurry, and the strings also translated with a smile.
Yeromir said that Yang Jingxing was the best gift, which almost scared Yang Chengyi and his family. This is their son, and he will not give it away.
Tao Meng finally found an opportunity to respect Yeromir, first introduced himself as Yang Jingxing's high school classmate in fluent English, and then said welcome to Puhai, wished the performance a success, and liked what he conducted.
Let's get down to business, Yang Jingxing still has to practice Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor with the orchestra. A large group of foreigners in the practice hall aroused Xiao Shuxia's interest, and they looked at them one by one, hoping to find a beautiful woman or something.
Tao Meng was still polite: "Professor Li, please take a seat, Auntie ......"
Tao Meng sat on Xiao Shuxia's right, and Yu Xinting sat on Tao Meng's right. Tao Meng said to Yu Xinting: "You are a professional, if he plays anything bad, you can tell me, thank you." ”
Yu Xinting was embarrassed: "You must know better than me how he played, but it's a pity that you didn't come yesterday ......"
Tao Meng smiled.
Yeromir also paid tribute to Xiao Shuxia before starting, and he didn't plan to find faults, so he went straight to the whole thing.
Yang Jingxing sat in front of the piano, but the prelude lasted for a few minutes, and nothing happened to him. An orchestra of dozens of people feels so different from listening to a CD at home or watching Yang Jingxing play a solo. Xiao Shuxia was anxious, shaking his body to the melody of the band, staring at his son.
Finally, Yang Jingxing started, and Xiao Shuxia laughed. Yang Chengyi didn't have the heart to appreciate the music, so he looked at the people, hoping to find something from their expressions. The magnificent climax at the end of the first movement caused Xiao Shuxia to pull her husband's hand so hard that it almost hurt him to grin his teeth.
Tao Meng looked at it very seriously, and didn't notice that Yu Xinting glanced at herself from time to time.
The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor is magnificent and powerful, which suits Yang Jingxing's appearance and style, so Jeromir specially designated this one. His choice was right, Yang Jingxing's entire performance was watertight, and even the depth of the second movement was just right. Gradually, Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi both entered the play, and the focus of their work shifted from their eyes to their ears, especially the stupid expression of Yang Chengyi, who was funny.
At the end of the forty-minute piece, Jeromir led the clapping and asked the rest of the band to follow. Le Xian also said to Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi here: "He is really ...... Great!"
It's good, although Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi didn't hear anything ugly, they just thought it was good. What a brilliant and atmospheric music, it is what Yang Jingxing should do.
Tao Meng also smiled and applauded, and asked Yu Xinting: "Is it okay?"
Yu Xinting smiled.
Yeromir came to ask the audience how they felt, but Yang Chengyi couldn't understand it, so he smiled with a peach blossom on his face, and then said: "Okay, great! It's you, Yang Jingxing is okay." ”
Xiao Shuxia pulled Yang Jingxing's ears again: "I'll take a look, I'm sweating...... I didn't raise you in vain. ”
The band had to do other exercises, so Yang Jingxing and the others went to the lounge to sit down, accompanied by the strings. Yu Xinting took the initiative today: "Auntie, what are you drinking with your uncle?"
"Water, coffee, whatever. "How can Xiao Shuxia have the heart to think about this now.
Yu Xinting asked Tao Meng again: "What about you?"
Tao Meng said: "Coffee, sweetened, thank you." ”
Yang Jingxing followed Yu Xinting: "I'll help you." ”
"No, don't!" Yu Xinting pushed Yang Jingxing back to his seat.
Le Xian was pleasantly surprised when she learned that Xiao Shuxia and Yang Chengyi were both musically illiterate, saying that her situation was the same, but that was twenty or thirty years ago. Xiao Shuxia asked where are you from?
Yu Xinting came back with coffee, put a cup in front of one person, and Yang Jingxing asked, "What about your own?"
"Oh...... Forgot. "Yu Xinting, hehe.
When Yu Xinting also came back with a cup and sat down, Le Xian revealed important news: "Mr. Cliff got on the plane at noon today, and he should be there in the evening, and he will listen to Yang Jingxing's performance tomorrow." ”
Li Yingzhen asked, "That Cliff?"
"Artistic Director of Avery Fisher Hall," said Strings. ”
Tao Meng said to Yang Jingxing, who was at a loss: "Avery Fisher Hall is the concert hall of Lincoln Center. ”
Yang Jingxing hehe: "Oh, I'm sorry. ”
Le Xian smiled: "You are so good, you only have the piano in your heart." ”
Yang Jingxing was even more embarrassed: "It's really lonely." ”
"I think you have a good chance of going to the United States, and Cliff and Jeromir are good friends." I'm telling you in advance in the hope that you'll be prepared. ”
Yang Jingxing was not surprised: "Ah, I still have to study." ”
"You can read books anywhere, but the audience is different. ”
Yu Xinting was happy for Yang Jingxing again: "I said you were going to travel." ”
Yang Jingxing reprimanded: "You want to be beautiful!"
Tao Meng looked at Xiao Shuxia: "Auntie, what do you and your uncle think?"
This is a big problem, Xiao Shuxia looked at her husband, and Yang Chengyi didn't smile anymore: "This has to be considered carefully." ”
Yang Jingxing looked dead: "Don't think about it, I won't go." ”
Tao Meng was nosy: "Do you want to go now?"
Lexian smiled: "It's not up to me, but it's a great opportunity, so don't miss it." ”
Li Yingzhen spoke: "If you are going to study, you can consider it." ”
Yang Jingxing disrespected the teacher: "If it's a performance, I can think about it, study, it's at the Puhai Conservatory of Music, it's good." ”
Yang Chengyi taught his son: "Don't say such things!"
Yang Jingxing is sure: "I want to finish all the courses in the composition department at the Conservatory, and I will not be a commercial performer." ”
Yang Jingxing's face was expressionless, so that everyone else didn't know what to say, only Yang Chengyi could ask: "Then what do you think?"
Yang Jingxing said again: "I think it's not interesting to learn music without my relatives and friends." ”
Xiao Shuxia taught: "It will be said well...... But I can't bear to let him go that far. ”
Li Yingzhen said: "I believe that with your talent, you can achieve your dreams at the Conservatory. ”
After chatting for a while, Tao Meng looked at the time and said to Yang Jingxing, "I'm going home first." ”
Xiao Shuxia is like a guest: "Sit down again." ”
Tao Meng said: "I'm going to go back and prepare, Auntie will see you again, and Professor Li will see you again." ”
Yu Xinting reminded: "Come early in the evening." ”
Tao Meng nodded.