The world's number one pianist

He Shen took Zhao Zitong back to her home first. Before they reached her door, He Shen and Zhao Zitong found Xi Shuwen standing downstairs in thin pajamas, looking tired, with a cigarette in his hand and his mind empty. He had no intention of taking a puff, and just left it there to let it go out automatically. Read

There was a big truck on the side. When He Shen came, the big truck had just started and was ready to drive away.

Zhao Zitong stopped back very calmly, and pulled He Shen, shaking her head at him.

"He Shen, don't go, let my mother be quiet for a while."

"Huh?"

He Shen didn't understand, but still agreed to her request, quietly accompanied her, stood in the distance, and looked at Xi Shuwen.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Xi Shuwen couldn't help shivering, rubbed his arms with both hands, and looked around.

Soon, she found He Shen walking towards her, and Zhao Zitong standing beside him. She immediately forced a smile on her face, threw the cigarette that she had never smoked at all to her feet, stomped it out, and then walked quickly towards He Shen and took Zhao Zitong's hand.

When she was holding Zhao Zitong's hand, she showed a relaxed smile on her face.

Xi Shuwen nodded gently at He Shen and said gently.

"Teacher He, thank you for your hard work today. Thank you very much for taking Zitong out today. I will give you the money you spent on taking Zitong out today."

"No, it didn't cost much." He Shen shook his head and refused.

"Hey, He Shen, my mother wants to give you money, just accept it!"

Zhao Zitong suddenly spoke up and said to Xi Shuwen.

"Today, He Shen took me to the Jiangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra. Apart from treating me to a meal at noon and night, it didn't cost much. Mom, you can just make up the difference."

After saying that, without waiting for He Shen to refuse, she winked at He Shen and took Xi Shuwen to the direction of home.

He Shen stood there for a while, without saying anything more, and turned to leave.

After Xi Shuwen turned her head and found that He Shen had disappeared, she slowly breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out her hand to rub Zhao Zitong's head, looked at the night sky, was a little dazed for a while, and sighed after a long time.

In the next few days, nothing happened, and everyone was still the same as before.

Xi Shuwen was at home very early in the morning, and immediately gave He Shen today's tuition.

In addition to practicing the piano himself every day, He Shen tutored Zhao Zitong.

Zhao Zitong's second choice for the exam was a sonata, Mozart K330, which He Shen had played before.

She said that when she heard this piece, she felt like she was baptized, so she immediately decided to choose this piece as the exam piece.

He Shen certainly didn't believe this statement, but since Zhao Zitong chose it, he would follow her choice.

In this way, she had prepared two exam pieces, leaving only one etude and the twelve-tone equal temperament.

These two pieces were quite quick to practice and did not take much time, so He Shen was not in a hurry.

After Zhao Zitong's selection was confirmed, He Shen immediately took her to practice, helping her to focus on details and analyze the piece to ensure that she would not go in the wrong direction.

From the most basic background history of the piece, to Mozart's habitual playing method, to what is contained in this piece of Mozart, and so on, he took Zhao Zitong to analyze it.

Although she may not be able to reach a very good level, as long as she follows He Shen's analysis and practice, it will not be a problem to reach the entry level.

And a small art exam, it is impossible that she can't even pass the entry level, right?

Generally, students who graduate from music colleges are not particularly good at playing the piano, and they are basically at the entry-level level. Only the top piano students in music colleges can reach the professional level.

And there are not many players like He Shen, who have reached the professional level in many works and most of his works are at the entry-level level.

In the past few days, He Shen's daily diet has also recovered a lot. Before, he always ate some very cheap steamed buns and pickled mustard, and spent most of his money on lollipops.

Now that he has money, his diet is no longer so embarrassing, and he can ensure that every meal has a little meat.

For example, he eats an omelet with a sausage for breakfast, a little sausage for rice for lunch, and a sausage for porridge for dinner.

Even if he doesn't want to eat, he will force himself to eat more to restore his body to normal.

After all, he doesn't want to collapse on the stage later.

The main reason why he is still so poor is that the money from Jiangzhou Normal University has not arrived yet. He can only live on the salary given to him by Xi Shuwen every day.

The salary is not low, but he does not plan to continue teaching. When he promised Xi Shuwen before, he only promised to teach until Zhao Zitong finished the art exam.

So there is no other extra income in the future, and the issue of entering the university has not been completely resolved, so He Shen still dare not indulge himself.

If there is any problem in the future, after resigning from Xi Shuwen, no piano store is willing to hire him, then he may have to find Wang Pei again?

With only a little money, what should he do if he runs out of money?

After all, Wang Pei, as the know-it-all of the music shops in Jiangzhou, has long said that he is now a cancer of the music shop. Basically, those music shops that are a little more well-informed will not let him work in their companies.

As for those small piano shops that are not well informed?

In those places, teachers are treated as consumables. They teach four or five little kids an hour. Most of the time is not spent in class, but taking care of the children.

He Shen had almost had enough of raising Zhao Zitong, a rebellious child. As for raising four or five brats? Can you only earn more than ten or twenty yuan per hour?

It's better to bear with Zhao Zitong a little and be her piano partner.

But having said that, He Shen suddenly thought that Zhao Zitong has obviously become much better recently and doesn't talk back to him so much.

No, he's probably not good-looking, he seems to be much more mature.

If my guess is correct... Zhao Zitong should have discovered the divorce between her mother and her father very early.

She had been refusing to go upstairs before and didn't want to go home. This was probably the reason why she wanted Zhao Zitong to be alone.

He Shen sighed. Xi Shuwen thought that she hid it well, but she had no idea that her daughter had already seen through it.

Zhao Zitong obviously didn't want Xi Shuwen to worry too much about herself, so she pretended to be completely unaware in front of Xi Shuwen.

I just don’t know when Zhao Zitong discovered this.

He Shen shook his head and put the matter behind him. Zhao Zitong's family affairs had nothing to do with her. If she interfered in other people's family affairs without authorization, she might be resented by others.

It's better to keep this matter in your stomach and pretend you don't know anything about it.

He Shen put his hands on the piano again and continued practicing Chopin's Concerto No. 1 in preparation for the competition.

Time passed like this little by little, and soon the final day of the Golden Piano Award came.