"It's a lot of money to eat outside, you wait a while, I'll give you something to eat; Or are you used to eating American food and are starting to dislike my craft? Although she earned more than 200 US dollars yesterday, Guo Yan counted for a long time after coming back, and she was so excited that she didn't fall asleep for half a day, but she was still reluctant to pay for breakfast.

"Come, I'll settle the account for you!" Shen Long didn't argue with her, but counted the accounts with his fingers, "Even if it's below, even washing vegetables, boiling water, boiling noodles, and washing dishes and shabu-shabu, let's count half an hour a lot, right?" If I had gone to Lincoln Center for the Arts half an hour earlier, I would have earned about $20 an hour by yesterday's standards, do you think we would have had $20 for breakfast? How do you think this account is more cost-effective? ”

Guo Yan thought for a long time, "It seems that this is really the case." "In today's country, people basically go out to eat when they have something, and it has to be a big event, and the general situation is to do it at their own home, and no one would think about this.

I'm afraid they can't imagine that in another twenty or thirty years, Xiaoxiao will basically not cook at home, and eat in the restaurant for breakfast, lunch and evening. This is actually the result of the refinement of the division of labor due to economic development, and the United States has long been on this path.

It wasn't until KFC that Guo Yan reacted, "That's not how I said the account, right?" It takes time for us to come and queue up to get food and eat? That saves half an hour? ”

"But we don't have to cook and wash the dishes, do we?" Shen Long took advantage of the gap between drinking the happy water of the fat house and gnawing on the chicken legs and said, "Besides, how hard you cook and wash dishes, you couldn't help it before, but now that you have come to the United States, I can make you work a little less!" ”

Guo Yan's nose was a little sour, Wang Qiming valued his hands playing the cello very much, she used to cook and wash dishes at home, but now she will inevitably be moved when she hears this kind of words, and after a while, she muttered, "It's okay, or else, when I come back in the evening, I will boil some porridge first, make some cold dishes or something in the refrigerator, and just get up tomorrow morning and heat it up; After eating, put the dishes and chopsticks in the refrigerator first, and then wash them in the evening. ”

"You're going to have too much hard work!" Shen Long took her hand, "Your hands are for playing the violin, not cooking and washing dishes, we are busy all day during the day, and we are tired enough at night, you still have to toss until so late, can you hold on for a long time?" ”

After saying that, he was afraid that Guo Yan would insist, Shen Long hurriedly added, "And it will also affect the performance effect during the day, which will outweigh the losses." He remembered the situation when Guo Yan first came to the United States in the original book, knitting sweaters in the garment factory during the day, and having to go to the factory to drive a forklift at night, and there was almost no time to rest, but now that I am here, I must not let you do this anymore.

Guo Yan opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything, she just silently took a piece of chicken wings from her dinner plate and put it on Shen Long's side, Shen Long smiled, and gnawed the chicken wings clean in three times and two times, Guo Yan smiled at this time.

"Mr. Wang, Ms. Guo, I am very much looking forward to your performance." When it came to yesterday's venue, Robert and Boris greeted them warmly, and they even prepared chairs for them in advance.

Guo Yan and Shen Long warmed up first, played a few etudes, and in the process, Guo Yan gradually calmed down and initially adapted to the environment of street performances, and then the beautiful melody of "Liang Zhu" sounded again near Lincoln Center.

Guo Yan and Wang Qiming have worked together many times in this piece, as long as she closes her eyes slightly and ignores the surrounding audience, she feels as if she has returned to the concert hall in the capital, and the familiar melody is played naturally, but the accompaniment of flutes, brasses, woodwinds and other instruments makes her a little regretful, and the two people alone cannot fully play all the charm of this piece, and the complete "Liang Zhu" is not only for violins.

After more than 20 minutes, the audience once again burst into warm applause, and seeing the gradually increasing coins and banknotes in the piano case, Guo Yan felt a completely different sense of satisfaction from performing in the concert hall, and the audience's feedback on the performance was more direct.

"You go and rest first, I'll change the tune, and then you come solo, and then you can play "Jasmine." Shen Long admonished, and then began to play Dvořák's "Cello Concerto in B minor".

It's just that at the end of this performance, the applause was far less enthusiastic than when "Liang Zhu" was played, and the benefits were not as much, and the audience here appreciated Dvořák too many times, and his performance was by no means very good.

However, when it was Guo Yanla's turn to pull "Jasmine", the audience's response was much more enthusiastic, and American audiences are no strangers to this piece, because "Jasmine" is a passage from the famous opera "Turandot".

The author of "Turandot", the famous Italian composer Puccini was very interested in Chinese culture, but at that time China implemented a closed policy, a friend who was an ambassador in China gave him a music box, the music in it is the well-known folk song "Jasmine" by Chinese, Puccini liked it very much after listening to it, and then wrote the tune into the opera "Turandot" set in China.

In this way, Shen Long and Guo Yan began a new life in New York, where they got up early in the morning to perform at the Lincoln Center and rest in the basement back to the slums in the evening.

The daily income is more or less, but no matter how you calculate it, it is countless times better than going to the restaurant to wash the dishes and wash the dishes; After about half a month, they went to my aunt's house and paid her back the 900 dollars.

My aunt was a little surprised when she saw it, and at the same time a little disappointed, maybe it was because Guo Yan's behavior was beyond her control.

After having lunch at her aunt's house, Guo Yan asked, "What are we doing now?" It seems a little too late to go home and pick up a musical instrument and then go to Lincoln Center? ”

"We haven't rested for half a month, it's time to give ourselves a vacation, go to a place we haven't been to first, and then find a Chinese restaurant to eat, these days just eat American food, but it hurts me!" Shen Long said.

This time, Guo Yan did not refuse, because she also missed Chinese food a little; So after a few hours of shopping, they came to a restaurant called Xiangyuan Building, ready to eat here, by the way, the boss said that the aunt introduced them to the work here, although they did not come, but they should also say hello.

Inside, Shen Long saw the proprietress Ah Chun at first sight.