Chapter 46: Piano Lessons
The weekend was followed by Monday, and in the blink of an eye it was the last week of October 1994.
Lin Miao was called to her office by Principal Miao after the second class on Monday morning, and she was summoned directly through the school's radio, which was quite stylish.
Principal Miao told Lin Miao about the Oucheng District Primary School Olympiad Training Team.
The coach of the district training team has been put in place, and the training time is set for Saturdays and Sundays every week, at the No. 1 classroom of the last exam in the Children's Palace, and it will start this week.
Lin Miao was very happy when she heard the news.
Although there is no essential difference between the training camp and the class, he got a weekend experience-
You must know that even if a rest day is used to make up for classes, it is still a rest day.
And the feeling of going to school on weekends, the feeling of going to school on weekdays, it is completely different!
With such a good mood, Lin Miao brushed the second round of Olympiad workbooks and spent the day leisurely.
After school in the evening, Lin Miao did not continue to go to the music classroom to attend Teacher Shan's Olympiad lesson. Because after the district has a training instructor, the school's team leader can no longer interfere in the daily teaching of these district team members, so as not to affect the effect of the training. So the music classroom, which was full of talents before, was left with only Xu Fengfan and Liang Huanhuan in a blink of an eye.
In view of the fact that these two sixth-grade prospective graduates are about to leave Bailifang Primary School, and it is unlikely that they will have the opportunity to compete in the district next year, Teacher Shan's class can be said to be quite exciting.
So Teacher Shan already has a plan now, and wants Principal Jin to transfer her to teach in the fifth grade next semester - just take Lin Miao and their class.
Lin Miao couldn't understand Teacher Shan's "thirst for survival", and even if there was no training for the district Olympiad team, he should not go to the music classroom to make up for the class. First, he has learned all the routines he should learn, and second, he has to go to the Children's Palace to learn the piano at night.
Lin Miao, who is slowly getting used to being a child, has gradually regressed a little in terms of physical habits. He jumped towards the outside of the school, not thinking that there would be any psychological obstacles to using such a lively walking posture, but at the same time, deep down he maintained the impurity of a middle-aged man, and he was very much looking forward to meeting his beautiful sister Teacher Xia, who taught music, on this road - if Teacher Xiao Xia saw him so cute, she should be very likely to give a soft [head and chest kill] again, right?
Lin Miao was like a rabbit, swinging her empty schoolbag up and down, and maliciously selling cuteness all the way to the school gate.
It's a pity that I didn't meet Comrade Xiao Xia, but there are two other people waiting for him outside the school gate.
Today is the first time to go to a piano lesson, Lin Guorong and Jiang Ping both feel quite fresh, so they plan to take Lin Miao over together.
After the family of three gathered, they first went to the small restaurant on Xicheng Street for dinner. The small restaurant is just outside the alley of the office building on Xicheng Street, and Lin Guorong is obviously a regular customer, and after sitting down, he didn't even ask for the menu, so he skillfully quoted four dishes and one soup. The boss acted quickly, and soon put the dishes on one after another. Salt-and-pepper fish, braised wings, homemade tofu, steamed river eel, plus a knock fish soup. The chef who cooked the dishes was skilled, and Jiang Ping praised him endlessly, saying that he would come to patronize more in the future.
Almost 40 minutes later, Lin Miao's family was full of food and drink.
Since it was not a working meal, Lin Guorong, a familiar face on the street, rarely took out cash, and the shopkeeper smiled happily. Lin Miao stood aside and watched, thinking that if it weren't for the office building on Xicheng Street, this store would not be able to develop into a hotel in the future, but unfortunately the business has just started, and it has been dragged down by Lin Guorong's group of long-term white goods......
The family of three did not have the habit of taking a walk after meals, so Lin Guorong paid the bill, turned around and stopped a tricycle. The two of them got into the car first, occupying the only space in the back seat of the car, and then Lin Miao was like a doll, hugged by Jiang Ping and sat on her lap.
At night, the tricycle rides into a secluded alley, through the brightly lit Xicheng Street, crosses a small bridge, and enters the deserted Lakeside Road.
At this time, the northern section of Hubin Road is surrounded by a large area of farmland.
However, the road is newly built, and street lights have been installed, but there are only a few of them.
Lin Miao looked sideways at the dark night scene on the other side of the lake, and said in his heart that if his buddies had money in hand, even if he just got this field, then he probably wouldn't have to go to work in this life, the next life, and the next life......
The tricycle accelerated with difficulty, and the lights on both sides of Lakeside Road gradually brightened.
After crossing three bridges, passing through four or five newly built buildings of government agencies, riding from the northernmost end of Hubin Road to the southernmost end, about 10 minutes later, Lin Miao's family of three finally came to the gate of the Children's Palace.
The tricycle driver sat on the saddle with a smile on his face, panting and taking the four steel hammers from Lin Guorong's hand, and then turned around and left.
Lin Miao looked at the back of the driver who was in his early fifties, and couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, and sighed: "Alas, for such a long journey, I should give him an extra dollar......
Lin Guorong was very moved when he heard this, touched Lin Miao's head, and sighed: "Child, why are you so kind-hearted......
Lin Miao was speechless for a while, and was very hesitant to be modest, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
Lao Lin is right, I have been so kind and sensible since I was a child, I am compassionate and sympathetic to the laboring masses, and every time the unit calls for donating money, materials and blood, I have not been left behind, not because I dare not say no, but because I have a high ideological consciousness!
Lin Miao thought so, straightened her waist and walked into the gate of the Children's Palace, feeling that the red scarf on her chest was fresher - oh, the red scarf was confiscated by Principal Miao, and she still hasn't taken it back......
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The Children's Palace was brightly lit, but it was quiet, and it was obvious that the number of children attending classes in each building was not very large.
Lin Guorong asked the security guard at the school gate about the location of the classroom, and then led Lin Miao and walked straight towards the east building. Following the intermittent sound of the piano, five or six minutes later, Lin Miao and his family finally touched the door of the classroom. Jiang Ping looked inside, and when she saw her neighbor Ah Fang and her son Le Cheng, she opened her mouth and shouted, "Ah Fang!" and beckoned to her excitedly.
The teacher, who was in the classroom, was interrupted from the lesson.
She didn't show an angry expression, just silently stood up from the only grand piano in the room, walked to the door of the classroom with an indifferent expression, and asked Lin Guorong and Jiang Ping in a soft voice: "Are you bringing children to sign up?"
"Yes, yes, I'm here to sign up!" Jiang Ping nodded excitedly.
The piano teacher smiled slightly and said, "The registration is not here, I have to go upstairs." And today's registration time has passed, so you can come over tomorrow morning. Before 5 p.m., the person in charge of registration was upstairs. ”
"Huh?" Jiang Ping couldn't help but look disappointed.
But immediately, Lin Guorong, who was on the side, put on a posture of his own and said loudly to the piano teacher: "We have already signed up yesterday! Lu Jianbo, vice chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, personally called your leaders yesterday! Your leaders said that we can come over whenever we want!" The voice is so loud that there is no doubt that it is not only for the teacher alone.
The piano teacher was visibly stunned.
Lin Guorong was already in a hurry to stuff Lin Miao into the classroom, pushed Lin Miao's small schoolbag and said, "Ah Miao, go and sit down first." ”
Lin Miao had no choice but to pretend to be faceless and skinless, and walked in directly.
The piano teacher couldn't stop him, and hurriedly shouted, "Kid, wait a minute! I'll ......."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Miao had already sat down in front of a foot organ placed not far from the door. Immediately afterwards, he heard Lin Guorong, who was standing outside the house, say righteously: "Teacher, don't delay the class, if you have anything to say, wait until the end of class!"
The piano teacher had no way to deal with an old hooligan like Lin Guorong, so he had to open the door and let Lin Guorong and Jiang Ping also walk in.
Jiang Ping sat next to Lin Miao and smiled at Ah Fang again.
The piano teacher looked at this unreasonable and shameless family, and could only sigh helplessly, and then depressedly returned to the piano and sat down, and continued to talk about music theory with the children in the classroom.
The content she said is very shallow, all about the basic knowledge of staves, Lin Miao recently revisited it again in the "Municipal Boutique Music Class" of Bailifang Primary School,
So even if Lin Miao didn't have a textbook in his hand in the whole class, he could still understand what the other party was saying.
After more than 20 minutes, the bell rang for the end of class.
At this time, the piano teacher walked up to Lin Guorong and asked him about Lin Miao.
Lin Guorong was quite direct, saying that he asked the piano teacher to ask the leaders of the Children's Palace by himself, but the piano teacher had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to the office to pager the leaders of the Children's Palace.
Ten minutes later, when she came out of the office, her face finally looked better.
But I still complained a little bit about the leader in my heart, so I didn't tell her this kind of thing in advance.
The piano teacher cleaned up his mood and when he returned to the classroom, he found that there was a commotion in the classroom.
I saw a large group of parents, all surrounding Lin Miao and their family, talking about something in a rather excited mood.
When she got closer, she was surprised to hear the phrase "first prize in the Olympiad", so she hurriedly asked a parent who had just come yesterday: "This parent, who are you talking about? Who won the first prize in the Olympiad?"
The parents who were asked had a slightly strange expression, and reluctantly pursed their mouths, looked at the center of the crowd and said, "It's the one who came in just now!"
The piano teacher looked at Lin Miao's seat in shock, and immediately recalled that there was a news in the Children's Palace last week that spread the news - it is said that there was a very young child who won the first prize in the district's primary school student Olympiad competition......
"No wonder it was directly recommended by the vice chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, but when it comes to such parents...... "The piano teacher is a little unpredictable."
At this time, Jiang Ping's arrogant remarks suddenly came out of the crowd: "Our family Ah Miao doesn't have to pay tuition fees when he comes here to take classes, he has a free place." But in fact, it doesn't matter if the money is not rich, anyway, it's only 2,000 yuan a year! The key is that we still want our children to learn more things, as long as the children themselves want to learn, even if we spend a little more money, we are willing to be parents!
Then a group of parents chimed in.
"Yes, yes, money is not a problem, the main thing is for the good of the children's future!"
"Ouch, no wonder your children are so good, it seems that family education is really important......"
"Lin Miao's father, get to know me, I am from the Electric Power Bureau, this is my business card, which teacher did your child learn the Olympiad from?"
"This time I won the first prize in the district, and then it's time to go to the city to compete, right?"
The parents were so excited that they didn't even notice that the class bell rang.
The piano teacher stood outside the crowd, and his heart was so complicated. Just thinking about whether to interrupt first, the guy she asked just now suddenly started a nameless fire, and said to her with angry eyes: "Teacher, we don't want to learn this piano, can I come tomorrow to refund the tuition?"
"Huh, you've all had two lessons......" The piano teacher looked confused.
Ah Fang said excitedly: "People's classes are free, do you want to take 2,000 yuan after we only have two classes? You and my family's money are blown by a typhoon! Also, didn't you say that yesterday's class was auditioned?
"No, no. The piano teacher hurriedly said, and said in his heart that he didn't go out today and didn't look at the yellow calendar, why did he meet two abnormal parents in a row, and hurriedly reassured, "That's it, if you don't want to go on, you can come over tomorrow morning to refund the money." Your child has only taken two classes, and the money will definitely be returned to you, we are a regular school, and we will not mess around. ”
Ah Fang stopped at this time, and then bowed her head and said to her son: "Le Cheng, let's not learn, it's boring." ”
"Oh......" A trace of loss flashed in the child's eyes, but he didn't dare to say more to his angry mother.
Ah Fang glanced towards the center of the crowd and happened to meet Lin Miao's gaze.
She snorted indignantly, took her son's hand, and strode out of the classroom.
Lin Miao didn't have any thoughts about Ah Fang's departure. There are millions of paths in the world, and each one is chosen by oneself. Who is to blame for giving up what may be the best choice in life in order to gamble on the moment?
Lin Miao faintly lowered her head in the noisy environment and gently touched the organ keys in front of her.
When I looked up again, I found a small note in the upper right corner of the lid of the organ.
There were two small words written on the note: Luo Li.
Lin Miao guessed that this might be the name of a child who had learned the piano before, and he couldn't help but smile slightly, feeling that the feng shui here was very good.
In the name of his predecessor, both words carry three points of water, which just happens to prosper him.