Don’t Be Aggressive with Me

That night, Cheng Si Qiao filled out the registration form and handed it to Li Menghe.

Zhou Yun explained the situation to Lao Zhao on her behalf. Lao Zhao did not object to her, but instead expressed his appreciation for her way of chasing her dream bravely.

When she moved from Liaocheng, she didn’t bring the piano over. Lao Zhao helped her and the school fight for a bit, and allowed her to go to school during the last two evenings of self-study. Public piano room for training.

To know the news that Cheng Si Qiao agreed to participate in the competition, Li Menghe was very happy. Her main work location was still in Liaocheng. After some consultations, she decided to provide remote guidance to Cheng Si Qiao.

The preliminary round and the semi-final round are scheduled on the same day, so each person is required to prepare two performances. The difficulty level is not limited. Li Meng and Cheng Si Qiao made a list. Cheng Si Qiao picked it up in a lap and choose. Now, "The Wedding in Dream" is used as the preliminaries, and "The Prelude of the Third British Suite" is used as the rematch.

The time of the competition is set one month later, and the venue of the competition is the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The time is not urgent.

These two pieces are familiar to Cheng Si Qiao. She downloaded the scores from the Internet in advance, and took advantage of the time between classes to familiarize them.

Xie Chen lay on the desk beside him, took a piece of music in his hand, and gave up after reading it in less than half a minute, and muttered from the side: "These notes look almost the same in my opinion. Ah, is there any difference?"

Cheng Si Qiao rolled his eyes and snatched his own score: "Xie Chen learned from the same school. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, okay?"

"Start practicing tonight?" Xie Chen asked.

"Huh." Cheng Si Qiao nodded, "Although the game is still a month away, the time is not very tight, but I have no bottom at what level I am, it is better to prepare as soon as possible."

"Why don't I go with you?" Xie Chen answered.

"What are you going to do?" Cheng Si Qiao subconsciously blocked him, "The piano room is next to the Yiti Building, which is only five minutes away from the classroom."

"I want to be with you."

Cheng Si Qiao poked on his forehead? He said, "No, I won't go to study at night? It was approved by the class teacher? You skipped class if you went with me? Do you still stay here? Study hard. "

Xie Chen "tsk"?

In the afternoon between classes, Xie Chen went to Lao Zhao's office to look for him.

"You also want to take time off for self-study late?" Old Zhao wasn't very surprised. He took a sip of tea without hesitation, "What's the reason for asking for leave?"

"Don't want to study by yourself in the classroom?" Xie Chen said vaguely.

Lao Zhao looked up? He glanced, put the tea cup aside, and said meaningfully: "I think you want to go to the piano room to study by yourself?"

Xie Chen: "..."

He was too lazy? What did he hide from Lao Zhao, straightforward? Asked locally: "Do you know everything?"

"Do you think? You two are hiding? Good enough, or do you think? I'm really blind?"

Xie Chen: "..."

Old Zhao hummed a laugh? He said: "Is it anyway? This? How many years? The head teacher, I have long discovered that something is wrong with you two?."

Xie Chen "Oh"? With a cry, lazily said: "So what? Are you finally thinking about me? Want to educate?"

"I'm not too lazy? Take care of you." Old Zhao waved his hand, "What are you two like? I know the child, I don't oppose your matter, but this? It's school after all. Do you remember? Converge. "

"In the next period of time, Cheng Si Qiao will definitely distract part of her energy on the piano competition, but now she’s in her sophomore year? I can’t say that I can’t relax too much. You can help her with her studies. Don’t slide down, I won’t talk about your problems with others."

"I also have a time when I am young and I know that this age of feelings is the most pure and beautiful?, cherish it."

"Thank you teacher." Xie Chen said sincerely.

"Yeah, it's not easy." Lao Zhao raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I thought I taught you for three years? I never had a chance to hear the word thank you?"

Xie Chen: "..."

"Then I take back what I just said?"

After the first self-study get out of class in the evening, Cheng Si Qiao packed up his things and prepared to go to the art and sports building, turning his head to see Xie Chen also packing things.

"What are you doing?" Cheng Si Qiao reached out to stop him, "Didn't you say it? Don't skip class?"

"I didn't skip class." Xie Chen gave him the approval of Zhao? The fake slip and showed her, "I have a fake slip."

"..." Cheng Si? Qiao took the fake note and read it seriously? Once again, confirm that it was not forged by Xie Chen?, "What reason did you use?"

"I said I don't want to study late in the classroom, so Lao Zhao approved it? Ah." Xie Chen hooked up Cheng Si Qiao's schoolbag and stretched the tail tone, "Go?"

Cheng Si Qiao followed his footsteps.

The school’s public piano room is very large, and the choir team usually rehearses here. In the center of the piano room is a black Pearl River upright piano.

Cheng Si Qiao sat on the piano stool, opened the piano cover, and put his fingers on the piano keys? At that moment, there was a feeling of "familiar and unfamiliar".

It seems that the time has gone back in time, and I have gone back two years ago.

Xie Chen went to the empty classroom downstairs to move it to a table and put the roll of paper on it. Cheng Si Qiao turned around with some worry and asked him: "Will the piano sound affect you?"

Xie Chen held the pen with his fingers, and turned it around twice: "Don't worry, no."

"The Wedding in a Dream" is less difficult than "The Prelude of the Third British Suite", and it is the piece to be played in the preliminary round. Cheng Si Qiao decided to start practicing from this piece.

Last time she was preparing for the competition, she chose this song in the same way, and had practiced it many times, so even if she hadn’t touched the piano for two years, she started playing it again. Not as unfamiliar as I imagined?

Xie Chen stopped the pen in his hand and quietly looked at her from behind.

He didn't have any idea about the piano, and he didn't know what was the result of two years of non-training for Cheng Si Qiao, and he was still a little worried.

Worried that she could not find her previous status, and worried that she would think of her past experience again and choose to withdraw.

But the facts proved that Cheng Si Qiao's talents and abilities were beyond his expectations.

A smooth and mellow melody flows from under her fingers. She has a high ponytail today, revealing a white and slender neck, with her head slightly lowered, her expression focused and serious, her hands beating back and forth on the black and white keys.

The piano in the piano room seems to have a special preference for her and hit her all over.

Xie Chen has never seen anything like this before, Cheng Si Qiao.

Gradually, a scene emerged in front of him. A little girl was sitting alone in the piano room, facing the complicated music score practice over and over again, full of hope for the upcoming competition.

He could not estimate how much effort Cheng Si Qiao had put into the piano, and he did not dare to imagine how Cheng Si Qiao was feeling after he dropped out of Beicheng.

Xie Chen felt distressed and blamed himself.

Self-blame for not being able to accompany her during the most difficult period in her life.

The time between the two classes soon passed. Cheng Si Qiao asked Xie Chen to help her record the part of the exercise into a video, and then sent it to Li Menghe.

Li Menghe has always been confident about Cheng Si Qiao's level. He was not surprised by her outstanding performance. She gave some pointers and asked her to go back and have a good rest. .

On the way back, Cheng Si Qiao felt a little hungry, and told Xie Chen that he wanted to eat oden, so Xie Chen took her to a convenience store near the school.

Two people were sitting on the chairs at the door, Cheng Si Qiao leaned on Xie Chen, and Xie Chen helped her fiddle with her bangs: "Are you tired?"

"Not tired." Cheng Si? Qiao Zha? A crispy bone ball was put into his mouth, with a relaxed tone, "hours? I have to practice for six or seven hours a day? So, where is this? Where?"

"Then when you were young? Did you feel tired?"

"Nor." Cheng Si Qiao recalled, "I don't feel tired when I face something I really like."

"Cheng Si? Qiao." Xie Chen called her softly, "I regret it a bit."

"Regret? What do you regret?"

"I regret that I left Liaocheng and couldn't stay with you all the time." Xie Chen took her hand and helped her relax her fingers, "I couldn't accompany you through these? Some bad? things."

"It's okay." Cheng Si Qiao was particularly excited tonight, "Those are all things in the past? And I should thank you."

"Thank you for encouraging me. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have the courage to face this? Everything."

"If you have to talk about your leaving Liaocheng?" Cheng Si Qiao deliberately made a long tail tone, "Although Aunt Lin took you away, I will punish you too."

"you say."

"After you punished you? Don't leave me." Cheng Si Qiao raised his head and raised the end of his eyes, and said capriciously, "Punish you to always like me."

"Okay." A smile finally appeared from the corner of Xie Chen's eyes. He touched her hair and said, "I am willing to be punished."

A month’s time passed quickly. Cheng Si Qiao maintained a high-intensity life of studying during the day and training at night. People were also tired and lost a lap.

The match was scheduled for Saturday, and Cheng Si Qiao asked Xie Chen to accompany him to Shanghai.

"You say this? Is the child plausible?" Zhou Yun complained while sitting on the sofa with Linman next to her. "I said I would accompany her to the game. What I said is different?"

"Mom—" Cheng Si? Qiao was packing up, "You look at me in the audience, I will only get more nervous? Are you nervous?"

"Then Xie Chen is watching you from the bottom, so you won't be nervous?" Zhou Yun said dissatisfied.

"not nervous."

Zhou Yun: "......"

"Alright?." Lin Man smiled and persuaded, "Thinking that Qiao must have her own reason for not letting you go, so don't worry about it? I have explained to Xie Chen? Xie Chen will be fine. Take care of her?."

"Thinking Joe, play hard. When you come back, Aunt Lin invites you to eat something delicious?"

"okay."

It is only over an hour’s drive from Nancheng to Shanghai. Xie Chen first took Cheng Si Qiao to eat something, and then went to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to meet Li Menghe.

All contestants are divided into seven groups, each with fifteen people. The top two contestants with the highest scores in the group will be eligible to enter the semi-finals.

The order of the contestants’ coming on stage is determined by drawing lots. Before the drawing, Cheng Si Qiao held Xie Chen’s hands: “Xie Chen, I’m a little nervous. What if I get the number one?”

Xie Chen helped her wipe the sweat from the tip of her nose: "No?, what number do you want to get?"

"Number five." Cheng Si Qiao thought about it carefully, "Five is my lucky number."

Xie Chen didn’t know where to get a fountain pen, and then he drew it on Cheng Si’s Qiao’s arm? A little four-leaf clover: "Don’t worry, go and draw it. Four-leaf clover will bring it. Good luck for you?."

If you were someone else, Cheng Si Qiao would definitely not believe it, and instead would abandon the other person's naivety.

But the person in front of her is Xie Chen.

Cheng Si Qiao suddenly believed it.

She went to the lottery and took away her own label, she pressed it in her hand without daring to look at it, and ran back to find Xie Chen in the crowd, and opened the label with him—

Number 5.

"Really? It's number five!" Cheng Si Qiao was overjoyed.

"Let me just say it." Xie Chen flicked on her forehead, "A four-leaf clover will bring you good luck?"

The player was taken to the waiting stage, Xie Chen hugged? She gave a little comfort and said, "Don't be nervous, come on."

Cheng Si Qiao nodded.

Cheng Si Qiao's basic skills are very solid, and he performed better than usual. He undoubtedly won the first place in the group stage and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

In the afternoon rematch, Cheng Si Qiao relied on a strong sense of rhythm and superb playing skills to stand out in the rematch, defeating the students of the affiliated school of the Chinese Academy of Music, and once again won the championship in the rematch. .

After the competition, Cheng Si Qiao was taken to accept the award, and Xie Chen waited for her in the audience.

"Cheng Si Qiao learns together." The judge who made the comments after the competition was a special-level professor in the piano department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She smiled and said to Cheng Si Qiao, "First of all, congratulations on your stay in Croatia. In the piano challenge, we won the championship. We can see from your registration form that you are not from the music school. You can see that you are very talented. Our wonderful performance to you? Also feel? Very pleasantly surprised."

"I think you also know that the top few players in this competition can get the quota guaranteed to us at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. I wonder if you have this?"

Cheng Si Qiao took the microphone and smiled politely at the judges. "I am honored to be the champion of this competition, but I want to give up this recommended place."

As soon as the voice fell, there were waves of exclamation from the audience.

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music is the most advanced music school in China, and it is also a place that every music student yearns for. Most of the people who come to participate in this competition are also for this chance to be a guarantee.

Xie Chen was also a little surprised when he heard Cheng Si Qiao's answer.

"We are willing to respect your decision?" the judges said, "but can you tell me why?"

"Because—" Cheng Si Qiao's hand was tight while holding the microphone, "I want to stay by one person."

"Piano has always been my ideal, but because of some things when I was young, I gave up? This ideal, it was the person who gave me the courage to regain my ideals."

"I can come here to prove that my ideal has been realized?" Cheng Si Qiao suddenly looked in Xie Chen's direction, "Since he has helped me realize it? My? Ideal, then I am willing to help him realize his ideal."

You said that your ideal is in the future, I will always be by your side.

Because I like you, I am willing to fulfill your ideals.