Chapter 033: A Conversation with Mayor Lin
Lin Jing took Li Yan into the house, but she didn't see Lin Weidong, and there was a clanging sound in the kitchen.
Li Yan looked at the Lin family, this is a two-story duplex unit, the first floor is mainly the living room, kitchen, two other rooms, two rooms on the second floor, and a small platform with a black piano on it, the overall decoration of the house is simple and generous, but it is ingenious.
"Mom, I'm bringing Li Yan back. Lin Jing shouted into the kitchen.
Wei Shuxian came out of the kitchen, glanced at Li Yan coldly, and said, "Let's go upstairs and wait for a while, your father will come back and we'll have dinner." With that, he went back to the kitchen.
Lin Jing stuck out her tongue and pulled Li Yan upstairs.
"Jing'er, hasn't your mother always objected to you associating with me?" asked Li Yan strangely.
"Hmph, I've been fighting with my mother for days to get you to come to my house for dinner. Lin Jing snorted and said.
"Hehe, it's not easy, tell me how you made your mother succumb. Li Yan said with a smile.
"I begged my dad to convince my mom, but my mom usually listened to my dad. Lin Jing immediately grinned.
"......" Li Yan was speechless.
The two came upstairs, and Lin Jing said, "Li Yan, last time I saw you watching Czerny practice fingering in the bookstore, do you know how to play the piano?"
"It's a little bit, it's not good to play. Li Yan said modestly.
"I'll play a piece for you, what do you want to hear?" Lin Jing puffed up her chest and raised her little head and said triumphantly.
"Your favorite. Li Yan said.
Lin Jing did the piano, opened the lid, tilted his head and thought about it, and said:
"No, I have to test you, I'll play a paragraph, can you hear what I'm playing?"
After speaking, Lin Jing put his hand on the keys, brewed his emotions, and a beautiful piano piece flowed out from Lin Jing's ten fingers.
Li Yan looked at Lin Jing playing the piano, at this time, Lin Jing completely lost her usual lively and jumping girl next door, at this time she was more like a lady, quiet and generous.
After playing the song, Lin Jing raised her head, looked at Li Yan with a smile, and asked, "Have you heard of it?"
Li Yan smiled and said: "Chopin Nocturne in F minor, a very nice tune, Jing'er, you play really well." β
"You've passed. Lin Jing stood up and said, and then made a gesture of please.
Li Yan was not polite, before he did the piano, he casually played a piece of Czerny fingering, he needed to familiarize himself with the feel of the piano first, after all, he had not touched it for many years.
Lin Jing, who was accustomed to Li Yan's amazing performance in the skating rink, couldn't help but feel a little proud when she looked at Li Yan's unfamiliar fingering, it seemed that she was still stronger than Li Yan.
Li Yan's fingering became more and more fluent, Lin Jing's eyes widened wider and wider, and he secretly said in his heart: "This Li Yan is making too fast progress." Immediately afterward, she listened to Li Yan play a tune he had never heard before, and the melancholy melody fascinated her at once.
It wasn't until the last note flowed out of Li Yan's fingers, and after nearly ten seconds, Lin Jing woke up from the melody just now, and said excitedly: "Li Yan, what kind of tune did you play just now, why have I never heard it." β
"The adaptation of a song is much simpler than your Chopin. Li Yan smiled.
"What song, can you sing it?" Lin Jing then asked.
"Fairy tales, can sing. Li Yan replied that he had a soft spot for Guangliang's fairy tale, and he had only played it on the electronic piano in his previous life, and it was the first time he played it on the piano.
"Sing it to me. Lin Jing was more interested in Li Yan's singing voice.
"Okay, but my voice is a bit shas-beaten, so don't laugh if you can't sing well. Li Yan said.
"I don't laugh. Lin Jing immediately straightened her little face and said.
Li Yan then played and sang to himself, he was always so relaxed when he was with Lin Jing, and even he was a little obsessed with these times.
Wei Shuxian came out of the kitchen, glanced at Li Yan who was playing and singing upstairs, didn't speak, and went back to the kitchen.
"Li Yan, why do you sing such a sad song, I want to cry. Lin Jing listened to Li Yan sing this fairy tale, and said with red eyes.
"Hehe, don't worry, I'll give you another song that will make you laugh. Li Yan said with a smile, this fairy tale is a little more lethal to the girl.
"Pig, you have two holes in your nose......" Li Yan sang to himself in a funny self-play.
"Haha, Li Yan, stop, stop singing, my stomach hurts. Lin Jing listened to Li Yan's funny pig song, and said with a smile.
Li Yan stopped and looked at Lin Jing with a smile, Lin Jing stopped laughing, she found that Li Yan was staring at her, her face flushed, and an inexplicable feeling rippled between the two.
With a squeak, the door opened, Lin Weidong walked in from outside, and when he saw his daughter and Li Yan upstairs, he said with a smile: "Xiao Yan is here." β
"Uncle Lin is good. Li Yan stood up upstairs and greeted Lin Weidong.
"Jing'er, take Li Yan to wash your hands, and start eating immediately. Wei Shuxian heard that Lin Weidong was back, and also came out of the kitchen and said to the two people upstairs.
Li Yan and Lin Jing's family of three sat at the dinner table, Lin Jing sat next to Li Yan, and Lin Weidong and Wei Shuxian sat on the other side.
"Li Yan, where did you learn the piano?" asked Wei Shuxian during the meal, his attitude softened.
"I learned it from a music teacher at school. Li Yan said.
"Good play. Wei Shuxian said a word, and stopped talking.
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After eating, Lin Jing helped Wei Shuxian clean up the table, Lin Weidong sat on the sofa and read the newspaper, Li Yan took the opportunity to sit next to him and asked, "Uncle Lin, is there a large-scale lead smelting plant project in the city?"
Lin Weidong put down the newspaper, looked up at Li Yan, and asked, "Where did you hear about it?" β
Of course, Li Yan couldn't say what he knew before he was reborn, so he made an excuse and said, "I heard someone mention it on the bus this afternoon." β
Lin Weidong nodded and said, "The city is discussing it, and it hasn't been decided yet." β
Lin Weidong smiled: "You still care a lot about a child?"
"Uncle Lin wants to hear what I think of this little kid?" Li Yan also said, he was deeply impressed by this lead smelting plant project, the project was finally launched in the previous life, but due to the lack of sufficient environmental protection means, it caused huge pollution to the project site, resulting in the local residents' body lead content generally exceeded the standard, for minors, the direct consequence of excessive lead is mental retardation, once as a teacher, Li Yan has a deep understanding of this, it can be said that this lead smelting plant has directly affected the local people for at least one generation, because this lead smelting plant is located near the rural middle school assigned to Li Yan after graduation, and the chairman of this lead smelter is Hou Jun's fatherγ
"Tell me about it. Lin Weidong looked at Li Yan with interest and said.
"The launch of the lead smelter project can certainly bring rich tax revenue to our city, but I think we should see the harm brought by the lead smelter project to the project location, lead is a heavy metal, highly toxic, if the lead content in the human body exceeds the standard...... Li Yan quoted classics, for the lead smelter may bring economic benefits and the harm to the local area made a detailed analysis and elaboration, and put forward any project to start, environmental protection first, to know that in the early nineties, including government officials, the environmental protection of the Chinese people is not particularly strong, people often see the huge economic benefits brought by a project, and ignore the potential pollution problems of the project will bring long-term irreparable losses.
Once the topic began, Li Yan talked endlessly for nearly ten minutes, during which Lin Jing and Wei Shuxian packed up the tableware and sat on the sofa, and for a while they became a family of three listening to Li Yan.
"In short, I think that economic benefits refer to the main goal we pursue, but at the same time in the pursuit of economic benefits, we should not pay more attention to the protection of our ecological environment, can not pursue economic benefits, but left a scarred ecological environment for future generations, which should be said to be meritorious in the present generation, harmful in the future. Li Yan finally concluded that he felt that this was all he could do, and if the project was still launched, there was nothing he could do, after all, Li Yan was only a teenager under the age of sixteen at this time.
"Jing'er, take Li Yan upstairs to play. Lin Weidong said to Lin Jing.
"Li Yan, go upstairs and write me a copy of the song you just played, along with the lyrics. Lin Jing was very interested in the piano music played by Li Yan just now.
"Okay. Li Yan stood up and went upstairs with Lin Jing.