"Professor Shi is here, hurry, everyone, hurry up!" Seeing a gray Buick business car turning down from the highway and taking a closer look at the license plate number, Wang He hurriedly greeted a few teachers in the piano shop and greeted him together.

waved at the car from a distance, and the Buick business vehicle with the Beijing brand on the opposite side turned right and slowly leaned over to them.

After stopping on the side of the road, the middle door opened, and two young people, a man and a woman, got out of the car, standing on both sides, and then ushered in a middle-aged man wearing a light gray suit, about 1.7 meters, combing meticulously parted hair, and looking very temperamental.

If there are piano lovers or piano students here, you will be surprised to see this middle-aged man! Therefore, the person in front of him is Shi Shucheng, a piano professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and a Taishan Beidou-level figure in China's piano education industry.

Being able to invite such a figure to be the judge of the "Jianghai Cup" is, on the one hand, the "sincerity" given by Wang He is sufficient, and on the other hand, it is also related to the special geographical location of Jianghai. It's not too far from Yanjing, and it's along the coast, so it's the time of summer, and the climate here is very pleasant, and the judges are happy to take advantage of this competition to come here for a vacation.

Seeing Wang He, who was coming towards him and enthusiastically stretched out his hands, Shi Shucheng showed a reserved smile on his face, and reached out his right hand to ride him.

"Oh, Professor Shi, I can be regarded as looking forward to you, hehe, this Jianghai Cup can invite you to be a judge, but it has been upgraded several grades at once, I am here on behalf of more than 10,000 piano children in Jianghai, thank you for your concern about Jianghai piano education!" Wang He said enthusiastically while holding Shi Shucheng's hand.

"Hehe, Xiao Wang is polite." Shi Shucheng nodded at him, and said with a faint smile raised on the corner of his mouth.

"Professor Shi, who are these two?" Looking at a man and a woman standing next to Shi Shucheng, Wang He asked with a smile.

"Oh, the two of them are graduate students I took with me, this young man is Chang Hua, this little girl is Du Mingyin, Xiao Chang, Xiao Du, this is the principal of Jianghai Art School, Wang He." The other party respects himself so much, Shi Shucheng naturally has to give back face.

"Principal Wang."

"Hello Principal Wang!"

The two of them said hello to Wang He separately, but the attitude was similar to that of Shi Shucheng, although they both had a smile on their faces, but it was a faint and reserved smile. The graduate students led by Shi Shucheng are already at the level of young pianists, and when they come to such a small city, they naturally have a sense of condescension. In fact, in China, the piano students of the Central Conservatory of Music have the capital to stand out from the crowd in any part of the country, and in several top conservatories in China, the most powerful piano level is recognized as the alto, and it belongs to a few grades higher than other places, which is the real international standard.

Wang He didn't care about the other party's attitude, but felt that it should be. These people in front of them are really big names in the piano world, especially Shi Shucheng, who can't be hired for money. If I hadn't invited myself several times this time, and the other party happened to be interested in coming here to cool off, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to invite you this time. Not to mention anything else, if people come once, they are willing to sit down as a judge, and then take a few photos with the teachers of the art school, and the popularity of the art school must be "rubbing" upward!

Wang He did not introduce the teachers behind him, although these people are also the top backbones of the art school, but they are obviously nothing in front of others, even if they are introduced, it is estimated that they are not very interested. So after Wang He exchanged a few words with them under the car, he invited a few people into the car, and then the two cars from the art school took the lead and drove to the hotel where they were staying.

In the private room on the second floor of the most luxurious Jianghai Hotel in Fu'an, Wang He and Xie Xiaosong, the director of the Municipal Cultural Center, held a banquet together and entertained Shi Shucheng and his party. At the same time, in order to show the importance of the competition, the city also came to a deputy director of the Propaganda Department and a deputy director of the Cultural Bureau. Of course, it's all the kind of idle jobs that rank lower.

Dai Qiang, the deputy director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, was a little depressed at the moment, originally there was an inspection task in the bureau that he was determined to go by himself, but he came to such a file and temporarily pulled himself to be a judge. In his heart, he prefers to "investigate", and I heard that there are several scenic spots in the places he went to this time, all of which he has never been to.

However, after the unit was arranged, he could not refuse, which also seemed to be too low in political consciousness. In particular, Minister Jiang has just taken office, and everyone is busy performing, so naturally he cannot go against the grain and take the lead in not listening to the arrangement. You must know that he, the deputy minister, is just a good-looking man, and in fact he doesn't have any real power.

For the piano, Dai Qiang can be regarded as ignorant of anything, the only song he knows is the "To Alice", this is still always listening, by chance there was an interest, I wanted to inquire about the name, the office of the Xiao Dong told him.

However, this does not prevent him from being a judge of the piano competition, anyway, the other people are professionals, and adding one of him is nothing more than to show the importance of the political axe to this work, and when it comes to scoring, he just needs to watch those people play and follow along, and it is not a difficult task.

Seeing Shi Shucheng sitting next to him and faintly at the core of everyone, he was a little strange, just a piano player, as for paying so much attention?

Naturally, this Minister Dai doesn't know the weight of Shi Shucheng in the piano world, the two of them are completely two worlds, the only intersection with each other, even if it is a piano competition that is not too large.

Today is the registration of the competition, and the official competition will start tomorrow, but today's task is also a lot, to fill in the registration form, and then draw lots to decide the group, but also to hold a short meeting under the organization of the organizer, listen to the competition.

"Yu Fan, Quan Tao, I've already got the form, you two come here and fill it out." Peng Tielin held two blank sheets in his hand and said to the two people who were waiting not far away.

The place of registration is a small hall, about 100 square meters, at this moment there have been a lot of contestants and parents squeezed in, received the form is looking for a place to fill in, the only coffee table that can write normally, a few chairs on the side have been full of people, more people are looking for window sills, steps and other places to make do at will.

Liu Yufan took the form from Peng Tielin's hand, looked at the content on it, and there were a few simple items, all of which were basic information and the like, he took out the piano he carried with him, found a wall, pressed the form on it and began to fill it in, and after a while, he filled in the form after a few strokes.

took the form handed over from Liu Yufan's hand, and glanced at the beautiful line of writing on it, Peng Tielin couldn't help nodding his head and said with a smile: "Yufan, I can't see that you still write a good hand." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Peng has won the award, and he usually practices when he has nothing to do, and it's still neat." Liu Yufan said modestly.

Listening to Peng Tielin's words, An Quantao was a little ashamed, and looked at the crooked words on the form, he was a little embarrassed, and at the same time a little depressed, and said in his heart that Liu Yufan plays the piano better than himself, how to write so well, this is not a blow.

Hurriedly filled out his form and handed it to Peng Tielin. The latter took it, skillfully pasted the pre-prepared photo, and led the two towards the meeting hall.

It is said that it is the hall where the meeting is held, but in fact, it is also the venue for the competition. This is a hall of about 5 to 6,000 square meters, the audience is divided into two floors, the upper and the lower, there is a semi-circular stage in front, and at this moment, a black grand piano has already been placed in the center of the stage. Because it's far away, I can't see what brand it is, but in terms of volume, it's the largest nine-foot triangle, a performance-grade piano.

A huge banner of "The Second Jianghai Cup Piano Competition" has been hung above the stage, and stacks of materials are placed next to several tables temporarily set up below, and several staff members are busy.

The three of them found a position in the middle and sat down. After a while, one after another, contestants and parents who had filled out the forms began to enter the hall.

This year's Jianghai Cup competition is divided into two groups, namely the children's group and the Chengren group. Take sixteen years as the boundary. Although Liu Yufan and An Quantao are students, they will also be counted in the Chengren group according to their age. Compared with the children's group with some amateur surnames, the Chengren group is more professional, and there are more professional players in it.

When Liu Yufan was looking at the materials in his hand with some boredom, a beautiful woman in black suddenly walked over in the front row, somehow, at first glance, Liu Yufan suddenly had a familiar feeling.

As if feeling Liu Yufan's gaze, the woman in black glanced up at Liu Yufan, but the eyes met slightly, and the woman found a place not far from Liu Yufan in the front row and sat down.

Most of the participants were accompanied by family members or teachers, and compared to them, the woman in black was alone, which seemed a little special.

Liu Yufan desperately searched for that sense of familiarity in his mind, but he always couldn't think through it as if he was separated by a membrane, so he stopped thinking about it.

After a while, the staff began to notify the contestants to draw their own competition numbers, and Liu Yufan and An Quantao walked to the front of the stage.

Along the way, he met countless beauties, and Liu Yufan also sighed that compared with other competitions, the probability of beauties in the piano competition is indeed not small.

Looking at the number tag placed in the large glass fish tank in front of him, Liu Yufan drew one easily, and An Quantao drew it a little nervously, and then pulled it out.

"Group B No. 12" looked at the number in his hand, and Liu Yufan read lightly.

"It's miserable, I'm also in Group B, I'm No. 3, hey, I'm in a group with you." An Quantao said with a bitter face.

"What kind of expression do you have, what's wrong with one group, and it's not like there's only one qualifier." Liu Yufan looked at An Quantao's "fuss" appearance, pouted and said.

"Hehe, Brother Fan, isn't this feeling stressed with you?" An Quantao laughed with a grin.

(To be continued)