After Qin Jian found the idea, his piano practice progressed smoothly again.
After once again figuring out the context of Stov's performance, he spent the rest of the afternoon sorting out the works of the other seven judges that he had listened to and copied before.
Overall it has become more refined.
After he fastened the cover of the piano, he called Fang Xiaoyu and the three of them were on their way back.
After a few simple questions, Qin Jian and the three of them made an appointment to meet at the Zhajiang Noodle House in front of the school.
The three of them had been busy all day and probably didn't have a good meal at noon, so at dinner even Fang Xiaoyu, who usually ate a big bowl, asked for another bowl.
"Ah! So satisfied."
Putting down his chopsticks, Shi Yue wiped his mouth, "It's so delicious!"
Fang Xiaoyu on the side also nodded repeatedly, not even realizing that the sauce on the corner of his mouth had dried up.
"Wipe your mouth again."
Qin Jian handed Fang Xiaoyu a wet wipe, and then said with a smile, "So you two have a good day today."
"Thanks to Senior Brother Chen." Fang Xiaoyu said, "Otherwise Shi Yue would have missed the second written exam."
Shi Yue also patted his chest and said loudly: "When I finish the exam, please invite Senior Brother Chen to dinner!"
Chen Tangjie laughed and said, "The pancakes and fruit at noon today were very good."
After spending a day with the two girls, he felt very good about them. Although Shi Yue seemed carefree, there was a subtlety in her roughness. Fang Xiaoyu was well-behaved and quiet, and it was obvious that she was a well-educated girl.
"But it's just the beginning. You two have to keep working hard tomorrow!" Chen Tangjie cheered them up again.
"come on!"
"Fuck it!!"
"Ha ha ha ha."
The laughter disappeared the moment Qin Jian's phone rang. Qin glanced at the mobile phone on the table.
He quickly picked it up.
"Hi, Teacher Shen."
...
"Yeah, yeah, I'm at the school gate, yeah."
...
A moment of silence.
"Okay, okay, third examination room?"
...
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Jian looked at Fang Xiaoyu and said, "I'll take you to see your exam room tomorrow."
"Ah, is that okay?" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly felt like she was cheating. In the past two days, everyone just looked outside the examination room. She had never heard anyone say that she could enter the examination room early.
"Teacher Qin, can I go? I promise to only take photos and not post them on WeChat Moments." Shi Yue said pretending to be aggrieved.
Chen Tangjie asked: "The third examination room should be next to our club's rehearsal theater, right?"
Qin Jian nodded, "Let's go together after eating."
Shen Qingci called Qin Jian to go to the examination room because every year before the preliminary piano exam, the school will have a task of testing and tuning the piano, and usually this task will be handed over to teachers specializing in tuning.
However, this was Shen Qingci's first time presiding over the art examination after returning to Hua Guo Yuan. He decided to take matters into his own hands because many candidates reported this in the news he received from major piano examination centers this afternoon.
The piano in a certain test center has problems such as insensitive pedals and aging piano strings.
Shen Qingci would never allow this kind of situation to happen in the piano examination room of Huaguo Academy.
After the four of them finished eating, Qin Jian went back to 309 to get his tuning tools and took the three of them directly to the main building of the concert hall.
In the deserted corridor, the sound of the piano could be clearly heard coming from the direction of the third examination room.
The brisk two-note melody is coherent like a perpetual motion machine, making people feel that the sound of the piano will never be interrupted.
"This must be played by Teacher Shen, right?" Chen Tangjie asked.
Qin Jian nodded, "The third movement of Peter Shluka, Shrovetide Fair."
There were two girls behind me. One kept talking about how cool she was, and the other was listening quietly.
When Qin Jian quietly walked into the examination room with the three of them, there were only Shen Qingci's figure on his back and two grand pianos on the entire stage, and there was no one in the audience.
Shen Qingci heard someone coming in.
Qin Jian motioned to the three of them to find a place to sit, and then he went on stage.
Shen Qingci played about thirteen bars and then stopped, looked at Qin Jian aside and asked, "How is it?"
"The treble range is not transparent."
Qin Jian took a look inside the piano body and saw a row of Russian characters, "Russian piano? I've never heard of this brand."
Shen Qingci nodded and said, "The Liv Factory has a new brand this year. Go try that one."
"good."
Qin Jian responded and sat in front of another piano.
He noticed that this piano had no label.
As soon as he raised his hand, he started playing the Psalm of Escape.
As soon as the chord came out, the entire concert hall was filled with the color of the main chord of C major, and the radiant and fast arpeggio running became more vivid in this bright atmosphere.
The three people in the audience were naturally brought into this atmosphere immediately.
This was Shi Yue's first time watching Qin Jian's performance live. She had never thought that Qin Jian's performance would be like this.
Although Chen Tangjie is a member of 404 and a veteran member of the club, he rarely hears Qin Jian except for "One Step Away from Carmen" and "Rock Canon" during the semester.
I was very excited at the classical performance.
Chopin's music is so magical.
Not to mention Fang Xiaoyu, no one can understand how high Qin Jian's status is in her mind.
...
"Ding, a low-quality piano master performance pill was found."
With a quick movement of his fingers, Qin Jian heard the electronic sound in his ears, and once again thought of the incomplete gun from long ago...
"The inferior ones are probably a little better than the incomplete ones?"
"I don't know how much this can sell for."
While thinking, he struck a powerful main chord again.
Then the music, which lasted less than two minutes, ended completely.
After the music ended, Shen Qingci's eyes were full of approval, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In three days, Qin Jian solved the problem by himself in only three days. This speed surprised him.
"good."
This sound was like saying 'that's right', and it was also like a compliment. In short, the last worry in Qin Jian's heart disappeared after hearing Shen Qingci's 'that's right'.
"This piano is really good, with fast key response, full tone, sensitive bass, and the sound of the soundboard is loud," Qin Jian said.
Shen Qingci asked: "Do you think the tension is enough?"
"That's enough." Qin Jian nodded and took out the tool bag and hung it on his waist. "But three of the notes are about 40 cents lower."
As he spoke, he got busy.
After some conditioning, Qin Jian asked Shen Qingci to give it a try.
Shen Qingci tried it himself and thought it was pretty good, so he said he would use this piano for the exam tomorrow.
As he was almost busy with business, Qin Jian felt that the time was right.
"Teacher Shen, I want Fang Xiaoyu to give it a try in advance, what do you think?"
Only then did Shen Qingci notice the familiar short-haired girl among the three people in the audience, and then nodded and said, "It's okay, let her come up."
"Fang Xiaoyu!"
After getting Shen Qingci's consent, Qin Jian raised his hand towards the audience.
Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly ran onto the stage after hearing the sound. After he came on stage, he politely said hello to Shen Qingci.
Qin Jian did not hesitate, and pulled Fang Xiaoyu towards the designated piano, "I will use this piano for the exam tomorrow. You should hurry up and give it a try now. If you have any questions, tell me immediately."
Fang Xiaoyu was unambiguous and immediately sat down and started playing.
What she played were key parts of the work, so it was so intermittently that neither of the two people in the audience could understand it, but the two people on the stage could understand it.
Shen Qingci could tell that Fang Xiaoyu had made great progress compared to the last time he came here.
Qin Jian on the side also showed a satisfied expression.
...
Half an hour later.
Chen Tangjie and Qin Jian agreed on a time tomorrow morning and sent the two girls back to the hotel.
Only Shen Qingci and Qin Jian were left at the school gate.
"Qin Jian."
"ah?"
"Are you interested in being a judge tomorrow?"
Shen Qingci's tone seemed to be talking about a trivial matter, but to Qin Jian's ears it was not that simple.
"I'm afraid this is not good, Teacher Shen," Qin Jian coughed, "If this spreads out, it will probably have an impact on the school's reputation."
What he meant was that he was still a student, and the art exam was an important national exam.
"What's the problem with this?" Shen Qingci said with a smile, "On behalf of the school, I hired the piano gold medal winner of the Mozart International Music Competition to be the judge."
"That's okay?!" Qin Jian discovered for the first time that the gold medal could be played like this.