Chapter Ninety-Four: Selection from a Foreign Country
As a student of the Central Conservatory of Music, Li Xuejiao, who has studied the dulcimer for 12 years, has a good face and a slender figure, whether it is school or work, she has always been the focus of everyone, but this focus is usually focused on her appearance. In fact, not many people care.
And Li Xuejiao herself also has her dreams.
I want to make money, I want to get ahead, I want to see a bigger shijie, a broader world.
But the reality is often unsatisfactory.
China has its own set of music system, erhu, pipa, dizi, dulcimer, guzheng...... Although Li Xuejiao feels that her professionalism is no worse than those who learn Western music, but the reality is cruel, folk music can only be played in one acre and three points of land in China, if you rely solely on strength, like them, it is already a very good result to be able to mix with national first-class actors before retirement, as for those who learn Western music, they go abroad and compete? Don't dream about it.
Li Xuejiao has won the gold medal of the annual folk music competition of the main version of the Central Conservatory of Music, at least at her age, her dulcimer is difficult to rival, and the teachers and predecessors of the school also have high hopes for her, and they have predicted that she will get at least 1,000 yuan of high income after graduating from the Conservatory of Music.
For a folk music worker who has just graduated from school and joined the work, this salary is already a very high category.
But Li Xuejiao was not very happy, because people are afraid of comparison, she knew a boy who was about the same age as her, that boy studied violin, when Li Xuejiao won the city dulcimer championship. The boy's violin only won the seventh place in the city competition, and Li Xuejiao entered the national conservatory of music. The boy went to a provincial conservatory. When Li Xuejiao won the gold medal in the national competition, the boy ...... barely passed the preliminary round. In the finals, almost the first batch was brushed down.
Although the competition for violin is more fierce than that of traditional instruments, in any case, Li Xuejiao is not at the same level as that boy.
But after meeting the boy a few days ago, the harsh reality hit him.
The boy found his job in the province very early, and the monthly salary was about 1,000 yuan from her, and there was no gap between the two from this point alone, but the boy said that he had found two other tutors! Four times a week, for two hours at a time, for a hundred dollars at a time. Eight hours of tutoring in four weeks is 1,600 yuan! Li Xuejiao listened to it for a while, but she didn't have any way, now there are too many children who learn violin and piano, but what about those who learn dulcimer? According to the news from the previous school, the school's dulcimer class is about to run out!
"What about Weishenme? weishenme is obviously inferior to me, just because he is a student of Western music, and I am a student of folk music, so I have to lose to him? It's not fair! There is such haode folk music. Weishenme still wants to chase the so-called Western music invented by foreigners? "She's not angry, but there's nothing she can do.
The family is not without burdens, and after graduating from school, you must join the work, as for the content and location of the work. It's very simple, it's nothing more than the provincial and national orchestras, their path. From the beginning of the choice of folk music, it was 100% determined.
"Graduation...... Job...... Tie the knot...... Having a baby...... Take the children to the Children's Palace...... Graduation ...... child Kids work ...... Children get married...... Take care of the children's children......" Li Xuejiao lay on the table, boredly plucking the strings, thinking about her painful future.
But even so, she never thought of giving up the piano in front of her.
Because she loves this. She likes folk music and the melodious melody that comes when the strings are plucked. She actually wanted to introduce the melody to others. She used to do this, and when she was in school, a boy became interested in what she was learning, so she played the piano with great interest, introduced the instrument, and explained how it worked with other instruments...... At that time, the feeling of being a soulmate made her unforgettable.
But soon, she found a problem, what the other party is really interested in is not the dulcimer or even folk music, but the other party is actually interested in herself......
That boy is quite handsome to be honest, white, tall, thin and thin, but Li Xuejiao still has a feeling of nausea like accidentally eating insects, if you like me, come and tell me directly, why are you teasing me? Do you know how much joy and anticipation I put into your hypocritical liking?
Leaving the boy's choice, Li Xuejiao did it very simply, and slapped it hard, and the crisp sound attracted many students around to look back. However, she has no regrets, and she wants to make those who dare to desecrate the most important thing in her heart pay their own price!
Yes, she is such a strong girl, although now she finds that her strength seems to be of little use, no matter how strong she is, it seems that the trajectory of her life is doomed, her mother is like this, she is so, her children are like this, she doesn't want to be like this, but she can only be like this, because from childhood to adulthood, she can only play the dulcimer!
She can't go to the sea to do business, she can't sing records, and she can't go to work and sit in the office.
"My life seems to have been carved for a long time, and my future ...... It seems to have been predestined for a long time. Li Xuejiao thought sadly.
"Thighs, what are you doing in a daze!? Hurry up, assemble. Someone shouted. Li Xuejiao is 174 cm tall, but her weight is only 99 pounds, and her thighs are white and straight.
"What are you going for?" Li Xuejiao asked.
"It seems that someone is going to pick the actors of folk music." The friend replied.
"Pick actors? Do what? Li Xuejiao asked strangely.
"I don't know, someone should have told us in the past."
Li Xuejiao, who was confused, followed her friend to the classroom, and the first thing he saw at the door of the classroom were three men with different looks.
A middle-aged man with the marks of time on his face, a man less than forty years old standing in the middle and seeming to take the lead, and another young man holding a notebook ready to write something at any moment.
"Let me introduce you, these three comrades are from Japan, the purpose of this time is to select a few students to perform in Japan, the salary is absolutely unimaginable to you, everyone must seize this opportunity." The teacher at the school said.
Going to Japan? The salary is very good? Li Xuejiao's heart warmed up, this seems to be a very good opportunity.
The novice agent Zhang Yu followed Inoue to Beijing to deal with contract matters, and another "middle-aged man about forty years old" was naturally Wang Guanghai, who is very good at Japanese folk music.
The three people who arrived in Beijing have already selected half of the team of the Twelve Women's Orchestra to come out, but the girl who can be satisfied with the three of them, who is beautiful enough to act as a façade, is still not settled, such a girl was taken care of by Zhou Xiao when he asked the three of them to come, as for Wang Guanghai? In the past few years in Japan, he has long been accustomed to Japanese thinking, and it is obvious that doing this women's twelve orchestra is definitely not Zhou Xiao's desire to promote the folk music of the motherland, the only reason is that Zhou Xiao wants to make money or earn fame and so on.
Therefore, he also understands the reason why Zhou Xiao must choose a beautiful one, of course, Zhou Xiao has also taken care of him, beautiful must be beautiful, but if he is not level, it will definitely not work, and his role, of course, is to help the two Zhou Xiao company personnel who know nothing about music to decide that the person is enough to go to Japan.
In fact, they have been to many places, selected a lot of people, major places, national troupes are the focus of their choice, but disappointingly, such places have gone a lot, but there are few people who can satisfy them, and today's music academy is likely to be a location for them.
"I don't know what the level of the current conservatory is, but I hope I can find someone who is competent......," Wang Guanghai thought as he looked at the girls who were rushing in. (To be continued......)