Chapter 43: Ghost Fire(1/2)
On November 1st, Wednesday, there was light rain and the temperature dropped to 14 degrees. Yang Jingxing dressed formally and went to school to be inspected by Li Yingzhen. It was only ten o'clock, and Li Yingzhen was still giving Yu Xinting a small lesson.
Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing with an expression like Yao Chunyan's nymphomaniac. Li Yingzhen just looked at it and then wondered: "Is the tie too old? The cufflinks are not good either, they need to be changed."
Li Yingzhen asked Yu Xinting again: "Xinting, do you have suitable clothes?"
Yu Xinting was startled: "Ah! Me?"
"Zhang Chujia has class tomorrow afternoon, you come with us." Li Yingzhen looked at Yang Jingxing.
Yu Xinting looked at Yang Jingxing again, pleading: "I don't have it."
Li Yingzhen looked at Yang Jingxing again: "Your shoes! No, you need to change them, go now."
Li Yingzhen asked Yu Xinting to follow her, but the girl was afraid: "I won't go, I don't know how."
Li Yingzhen was unhappy: "If you don't learn, you will never know."
Yang Jingxing helped to plead: "Professor, forget it, I don't need a support team now."
Li Yingzhen couldn't listen and lectured Yu Xinting: "I won't take such a good opportunity when others want to go!"
So the three of them went to the mall together to buy leather shoes for Yang Jingxing first. Li Yingzhen finished what Xiao Shuxia had failed to do, and Yang Jingxing was forced to wear the pointed leather shoes, which had to be laced.
A pair of cheap cufflinks cost several hundred, so when it was Yu Xinting's turn, she got scared and quietly said to Yang Jingxing, "I have no money!"
Yang Jingxing said, "You cheer for me, and I'll pay for the clothing."
Yu Xinting shook her head repeatedly: "No, it's so expensive! I will never spend this kind of money!"
Li Yingzhen asked Yu Xinting to try on clothes, and said to Yang Jingxing: "Zhang Chujia is about to graduate, and I will ask Yu Xinting to help from now on."
Yang Jingxing said: "She should be able to do a good job."
Li Yingzhen boasted about herself: "I treat these students better than my own children. The same goes for Zhang Chujia, who is far away from home and very lovable..."
Yu Xinting moved quickly, but when she came out of the fitting room, she was squirming and afraid of seeing people. Also, the straight trousers, a professional woman's shirt and a small jacket really didn't match her face, so she still wore them on her feet.
Those sneakers.
Li Yingzhen didn't care about Yu Xinting's feelings and asked Yang Jingxing: "How is it?"
Yang Jingxing laughed: "It looks good, but the span is too big."
Li Yingzhen thought so, so she said, "Then you give her a choice. I'm not young anymore."
Yu Xinting didn't dare to say anything and just followed Yang Jingxing, doing whatever he said. She was wearing a pair of dark blue jeans, a white mid-length T-shirt, and a light red jacket, all of which were a bit cute.
After Yu Xinting had changed out again, Li Yingzhen said: "It's good to be a little more casual, you're eighteen, right?"
Yu Xinting said: "It's almost nineteen."
Li Yingzhen asked Yang Jingxing again: "Is it okay?"
Yang Jingxing was satisfied: "Not bad, not bad."
Li Yingzhen said: "I also need a pair of shoes and a change of bag. Check out."
Yu Xinting looked like she was crying and said coquettishly: "Professor Li, can you go buy something cheaper?"
Li Yingzhen has already taken out her credit card.
Yu Xinting grabbed Li Yingzhen's hand and jumped: "Professor Li..."
Li Yingzhen scolded: "You girl, it's none of your business!"
Yang Jingxing said: "I will take care of my business."
Li Yingzhen agreed: "That's good."
It was more than four thousand for just three items. Yang Jingxing was about to cry, let alone Yu Xinting. This girl was like a execution ground, following Yang Jingxing to watch him swipe his card.
I still had to choose shoes, and they cost more than a thousand dollars. Yu Xinting finally had a nervous breakdown, and she smiled after putting them on: "They look good." They were white short-heeled boat shoes with a cute black bow on the front.
The bag only costs a few hundred yuan, but it’s not bad.
On the way back to school, Yu Xinting said to Li Yingzhen seriously: "Really, our one- or two-hundred-dollar ones are just as good-looking. My compassionate shirt only costs eighty, and I will bargain for it!"
Li Yingzhen said: "That's not what you have to worry about now. How is your English?"
Yu Xinting: “Do you want to speak English?”
Li Yingzhen comforted: "It doesn't matter if you don't."
After returning to school, Yu Xinting went back to the dormitory, put away her clothes, had lunch with Yang Jingxing, and settled the accounts: "I make three hundred dollars a week, and it will take twenty weeks to pay you back, and it's already next year! I'm a permanent employee!"
Yang Jingxing said: "If I am recognized for my good performance tomorrow, I won't ask you to pay me back."
Yu Xinting shook her head: "No, there are too many, and I can't help."
Yang Jingxing said: "Who said we can't help. If it were Yao Chunyan, even if she was wearing those clothes..."
Yu Xinting quickly stopped: "You can't say that to her, she will be sad."
Yang Jingxing was ashamed and changed the subject: "How much does a tutor cost?"
Yu Xinting said: "It's sixty an hour, so I have to give my senior ten yuan."
Yang Jingxing was angry: "Why!"
Yu Xinting said: "She helped me find it and took me there."
Yang Jingxing asked: "Is it far?"
Yu Xinting said: "It's not far, but it takes a long time to walk into the community. It's so big! I was afraid of getting lost, so I remembered it for a long time, hehe. Liyang Huadu, Building 24, Building 602."
Yang Jingxing was surprised: "No way? I live in Building 30."
Yu Xinting didn't believe it: "You lied to me."
Yang Jingxing said: "There is a big garden not far from the south gate and a swimming pool. It's so dirty!"
"Really! Why didn't I see you?"
Yang Jingxing said: "Give me the fare, pick up and drop off every day, four yuan."
Yu Xinting said: "I have to go at nine o'clock in the morning. Actually, I wanted to go in the afternoon, but the child has to attend tutoring classes in the afternoon."
Yang Jingxing said: "9 o'clock is good, I just came out to have breakfast."
Yu Xinting laughed and said, "I will go online later to review my English."
Yang Jingxing was arrogant: "No, once I play the song, they will only laugh if you scold them in Yidu dialect."
Yu Xinting smiled: "I know you can do it."
After lunch on Thursday, Yang Jingxing, the three of them and the deputy dean of the Conservatory of Music rushed to Puhai Concert Hall. The first person to receive them was the Chinese female assistant conductor in the lounge on the second floor. The assistant conductor's name was Le Xian, who was not in her forties.
Well, I have been abroad for more than ten years, and my clothes and makeup have become Westernized. Fortunately, I still remember my mother tongue, which still has a Northeastern accent.
Li Yingzhen told Yang Jingxing that Yuexian was also a piano player, and after going abroad, she switched to conducting because of her small hands. Yuexian had won awards both as a piano player and as a conductor, and she was a very talented woman.
Le Xian encouraged Yang Jingxing and told him not to be nervous when he saw Mr. Jaromil later, but to seize the opportunity. Jaromil is the current chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has only been in office for three years. Because of his persistent pursuit of music and
Known for his iron-fisted management of the band.
Lexian respected Li Yingzhen very much and also asked about Yang Jingxing's piano learning experience. She was inevitably curious. She had never heard of it before, and now a peerless genius suddenly appeared. Or is Li Yingzhen just being confused and just blowing the whistle?
Yang Jingxing was of course modest, but Li Yingzhen boasted based on him. The coffee was gone, and Li Yingzhen asked Yu Xinting, who had never had a chance to talk, to change it. The girl had been out for a long time before she managed to bring back a few cups.
Lexian asked Yu Xinting if she bought it at the coffee shop on the second floor, and even took Yu Xinting out to meet another member's lounge, which had hot water and instant coffee. Yu Xinting was embarrassed.
After several people chatted for half an hour, a young Caucasian man came to the piano. Yang Jingxing understood that the chief conductor was waiting in the piano room and asked them to come over.
Several people went to the piano room and waited for two or three minutes. Conductor Jaromil came. He was about sixty years old, tall and strong. Jaromil only shook hands with Li Yingzhen, and then said to Yang Jingxing: "You have five minutes."
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What kind of attitude is this! But Yang Jingxing still needed three grams of oil, and then he sat down in front of the piano unhurriedly and pondered for a while, wasting half a minute.
Li Yingzhen also said: "The third movement starts from the eighty measure."
Yang Jingxing looked at the teacher: "Shall I play "Wild Fire"?"
Li Yingzhen frowned as if she was frightened, but finally nodded.
"Will-o'-the-Wisp" is the most perverted of Liszt's perverted etudes. It's impossible to practice the high-speed double tones of various intervals. You can only rely on talent. You must have a pair of big and dexterous ones.
With abnormal hands, the fingers can stretch and contract extremely fast. Although this piece only lasts three or four minutes, it requires more than just perseverance and courage. The performer must be extremely talented, otherwise no matter how hard he works, it will be useless.
It’s no use. Of course, you can force yourself on it, but it’s just too cruel to both the audience and yourself.
After Yang Jingxing played the first few bars, Le Xian and Jaromil both raised their eyebrows, and Li Yingzhen also breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Jingxing was Yang Jingxing after all.
A minute later, the proud smile on Li Yingzhen's face was in sharp contrast to the expressionless Jaromil. Yu Xinting was still pinching her clothes, peeking at the reactions of other audience members from time to time.
Yang Jingxing plays the song that is obviously a show of skill, but the grain is still very clear. The clarity is not enough, the fun in the song must also be shown, which is what reminds people of "Ghost Horse Elf"
It's childish and interesting. This is really in line with Yang Jingxing's style. He wishes he could play Chopin like that!
Suddenly, Jaromil straightened his upper body because he finally heard a wrong sound, haha. But he immediately stretched his neck again, because it was not a wrong sound! Yang Jingxing actually started to play ossa, not getting simpler, but
Increase the difficulty and focus on the left hand. This makes Liszt so embarrassed! There may be a will-o'-the-wisp coming from his grave!
Two minutes later, Yang Jingxing showed off more and more. The audience had to pay close attention to identify where he was arrogantly doing something. But Yang Jingxing would not give them a chance to criticize himself. After all, he also majored in composition and taught himself.
To be continued...