I am reborn and just want to concentrate on my studies - Chapter 200 Watching people serve food

It’s just a joke.

Naturally, Yi Yang and Wang Sangning were unlikely to take it seriously. Even Jiang Lili herself felt that it seemed a little inappropriate after saying these words. She just looked at the surprised expressions of the two of them and felt amused, so she called them haha. .

Of course, if Yi Yang can really be with Xiao Ba, it will not be an unacceptable thing psychologically. Both the father’s side and the mother’s side do not care about family, but care about character. Girls’ thinking is more divergent and jumpy. They think about one thing and another, and they also think that two people should not fall in love at this age, so they still need to concentrate on their studies…

Wang Sangning was peeling shrimps when Jiang Lili put down her chopsticks and said abruptly: “You two, please don’t fall in love during high school!”

This sentence is somewhat ambiguous. Jiang Lili’s original intention is that you don’t want to fall in love and he doesn’t want to fall in love, but in other people’s ears, it inevitably doesn’t mean “you and him don’t want to fall in love.”

Wang Sangning peeled off a shrimp, stuffed it into her mouth, and mumbled something incoherent…

“Long-winded…”

“What?”

“hey-hey……”

…

After eating, I looked at the time and saw that there was still some time before the next evening self-study. Although I asked for leave, I still had to go back to the dormitory to rest at night. I go to bed at 10 o’clock every night, and I have to go back beforehand. Seeing that it was still early, Jiang Lili went to the room to take out the guitar and asked Yi Yang to perform a song… It had been a long time since I heard him play and sing.

Wang Sangning had never seen Yi Yang sing.

She likes literature. What she likes is a kind of “feeling”, simple words that match each other and skillfully create a sense of artistic conception. As long as you read words with that flavor, you will feel very comfortable. A similar artistic conception can also be found on the guitar. Listening to some folk singers will evoke certain emotions in her.

She does not consider herself an artistic young woman. Become a certain label person, and then copy all the characteristics of the label person… She does not pursue this. She likes words, especially small poems like Bing Xin’s, some warm and romantic novels, small prose, and she simply likes the emotions brought about when reading them. She likes boxing, martial arts, and the emotions that come out of her heart when she does those things… In the end, she feels that she is just following her heart.

Somewhat looking forward to Yi Yang playing the piano.

Jiang Lili brought a Taylor guitar.

At this time, of course, Yi Yang would not be able to distinguish between good and bad guitars as before. A person who practices piano for a long time will definitely come into contact with this knowledge gradually. Taylor and Martin are two giants in the guitar world. The value of these two brands is not speculated, but is gradually settled by the choices of generations of famous guitarists.

Jiang Lili said: “There is no Martin, only this brand-name one, so just use it~”

“Miscellaneous brands.” Yi Yang sighed slightly.

Forget it, as long as she likes it.

This Taylor guitar is cutaway, and its feel is similar to that of Martin. However, due to the cutaway attribute, it will be more comfortable when playing high-end music. Pluck the strings at will, and the piano box will resonate with a rich sound. The top-notch pianos at the same level as Martin can only be said to have their own differences in sound. In comparison, this Taylor has a much warmer sound than the Martin D41 at home.

Afterwards, Yi Yang tried to climb a few steps of the musical scale and move his fingers.

Jiang Lili wiped her chin and watched Yi Yang play, with a look of surprise in her eyes from time to time… Unexpectedly, Yi Yang’s guitar skills improved again.

If I could use one word to describe the warm-up just now, it would be “stable”. Naturally, the skill on his fingers cannot be astonishingly high, but the strength of each stroke of picking the strings is moderate, the left hand presses the strings accurately, the string protection is clean, the sound produced has an obvious graininess, and more importantly… the rhythm is very stable.

Jiang Lili said: “In the past two years, have you practiced with a metronome?”

Yi Yang smiled slightly, and when he saw Jiang Lili’s expression, he felt a little happy.

Practicing an instrument is a long and boring process. Although he usually only practices it as a seasoning, it does not mean that he will practice it casually. In the past two years, he did not try to practice some very difficult fingerstyle pieces. He just practiced the basic skills over and over again while practicing listening.

I made the fastest progress during a certain period of time, so I spent more time practicing. When there is positive feedback on something, people will be more willing to spend time and energy on it. This is true for learning, and the same is true for other things. Practicing basic skills will not see any effect in the short term, but after a long time, if you try to pick up the music or play some music one day, you will find that this song is so simple…

Jiang Lili said: “Hey, let’s play one!”

Yi Yang nodded, thought for a while, and placed his right hand on the strings. At the same time, Jiang Lili and Wang Sangning looked at him attentively and became quiet.

After a while, the melody slowly flowed out.

A fingerstyle solo called “Dusk.”

This piece is a must-learn piece for many guitar enthusiasts. Under Yi Yang’s performance, the whole piece exudes a lazy flavor. Close your eyes, and you can’t help but imagine a scene in your mind: the setting sun melts gold, when everything is painted with the same background color by the setting sun, the guests in the tavern are getting drunk, the lovers are walking out of the picture hand in hand, and the car is parked for gas. At the door of the station, an old couple dancing silhouetted against the window of a certain family…

When Yi Yang finished playing, Wang Sangning said in surprise: “It feels so good!”

Yi Yang smiled modestly: “Thank you, thank you.”

Wang Sangning said: “I thought of beer duck, roasted foie gras, fried steak… Sister, let’s go eat this weekend!”

“cough……”

Jiang Lili knocked her sister on the head, and then asked Yi Yang: “Are you ready to perform this then?”

“It’s not that…”

“I also think that fingerstyle soloing is much more difficult than playing and singing, and it’s also thankless. Ordinary people see you playing all the time and wonder why you don’t sing… When playing and singing, it doesn’t matter if you play wrong, the sound of the singing can be covered past.”

Yi Yang nodded: “I haven’t decided what to sing yet… Well, since it’s the National Day cultural performance, I want to sing a song with the main melody, um… How about me and my motherland?”

After saying it again, Yi Yang thought for a while, started to pick the strings with his fingers, and started singing along with the chord progression…

“My motherland and I cannot be separated for a moment…”

The song has a pleasant melody and catchy lyrics. His voice is more magnetic than two years ago, and after two years of vocal training, he can control his breath more freely. Naturally, he is not as good as a professional singer, but if he is a resident in a bar, it can be considered the best. That’s a good batch. He sang this song, which was originally a popular bel canto song, in the form of pop music, giving it a unique flavor.

“It sounds good, this is it!” Jiang Lili made the decision.

…

“My dearest motherland~ You are the sea that never dries up. You always give me blue waves, clear waves, and the song in my heart…”

After Yi Yang finished singing, the classroom of the audition program was completely silent. Of course, it’s not like “I was shocked because he sang so well”, but I have to say that when he sang just now, everyone consciously stopped what they were doing and said and listened carefully to his singing. over.

For people from the High School Affiliated to Normal University, it is not very difficult to put together some programs for a major festival. There are many students like Yi Yang who have certain literary and artistic attributes.

On the one hand, in a big city like Hanning, many children will be exposed to some hobbies at a very young age. Although some students give up halfway through high school, and some students go full-time to learn specialties, the remaining base is not No less. On the other hand, the more key high schools are, the more emphasis they place on students’ specialties… With the same scores, students with specialties are definitely more likely to be selected. One of the internal logics is that selecting students is based on potential, and potential is a manifestation of it. That is, how much effort did you use to get the same score?

Obviously, students who have special skills and can still get a certain score will have more potential with less effort.

At this time, Yao Qian was silent.

Wang Sangning said excitedly: “President, is our program good? How does it compare with other guitar playing and singing programs?”

For a moment, Yao Qian didn’t know how to answer.

Nature is self-aware.

Another guitar show was his. In this era, the proportion of students with guitar as their specialty hobby is not high among all musical instrument specialties. After all, those who are truly talented and have good family conditions tend to let their children learn violin or piano. After all, it is expensive, temperamental, and elegant… and the guitar has always given people a sense of being a poor man’s instrument.

He studied in junior high school for three years just for fun.

When it comes to performance level, it can’t be considered very low even after three years. But learning music depends on the teacher. Most of the so-called guitar teachers on the market are unreliable. Many guitar teachers are self-taught and can only read the six-line notation of the guitar and cannot even understand the five-line notation. Naturally, the students they teach cannot have a systematic foundation in music theory. Sight-singing and ear training are even less possible. Yao Qian simply learned the guitar, unlike Yi Yang who came into contact with the guitar from a higher dimension of “music” under the guidance of a major student like Jiang Lili.

If the two people’s experience of learning guitar is compared to baking bread, Yi Yang has mastered the entire process from how to grow wheat, how to grind wheat into flour, and how to use yeast and oven to turn flour into bread. Yao Qian only knows how to press the knob of the oven.

There was one scene in particular: When a piano student next to him said: “It’s a bit low, I think a higher key would be more suitable for you…” Yi Yang thought about it and directly changed a few chords, After finishing the rising tone, he said: “Is this so…”

When he saw this scene, Yao Qian knew that he and Yi Yang were not on the same level. Yi Yang really understands music, unlike himself who is just a ruthless six-line notation translator.

So when Wang Sangning asked him this question, he was in pain.

The fact is that he is not as good as Yi Yang.

And this is just from a musical perspective, Yi Yang’s voice and image are both better than his.

What’s even more annoying is…

Yao Qian saw the guitar in Yi Yang’s hand.

Of course he would recognize…Tyler.

He doesn’t understand.

Yesterday, after Yi Yang and the others left, they specifically chatted with a new student from Grade 1 to Grade 1 in the student union this semester and asked for some information about Yi Yang… They are just ordinary families in Qinghe County, they seem to be farmers. family.

Why does he have the money to buy Taylor? !

Wang Sangning asked again: “President?”

Yao Qian said calmly: “The student union does not have a president, I am the president.”

“Oh… Chairman, our program…”

Yao Qian said: “Okay, let me be honest. The other guitar program is mine. But I thought about it yesterday. After all, I am in the student union. This kind of opportunity to perform on stage should be given to other students. , So, that’s it, I’ll give you this opportunity!”

Wang Sangning was immediately moved and said, “This is so embarrassing…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Just don’t be nervous when the time comes.”

Wang Sangning turned to Yi Yang and said, “Don’t be nervous.”

“No problem.” Yi Yang shrugged and handed the piano to Wang Sangning: “Come on, Heroine, hold it for me.”

“oh……”

“Be careful, your sister’s piano is precious.”

Yao Qian was slightly startled when he heard the conversation between Yi Yang and Wang Sangning. So it’s not his piano… I took another look at Wang Sangning and nodded secretly. I see, it makes sense to say this. With Wang Sangning’s temperament and his family’s condition, it is obvious that he can produce such a good piano. , it’s reasonable. Looking at Yi Yang again, his heart felt slightly more balanced.

Yao Qian’s family is not bad. His father is the CEO of an American-owned company with an annual salary of one million. He has been exposed to some concepts about resources, circles, and classes since he was a child. He also thinks that he is much more mature than his peers. He believes that he understands the real rules of how this society operates. Some of those rules were taught by his father, and some were learned by himself. One of them is that it is difficult to catch up with the barriers brought by family conditions through personal efforts.

These things he firmly believed in made him still watch people order food even when he was still in high school, and usually only walked around with those with good family conditions. As for students like Yi Yang whose family conditions are far poorer, there is no need to care.

The sense of psychological superiority and comfort returns.

However, Yi Yang and Wang Sangning left chatting and laughing. Seeing their close relationship, Yao Qian felt a little uncomfortable again.

…

After Yi Yang returned to the dormitory, he put the piano in the dormitory and read the chemistry book by himself.

Wang Jie and Li Maoxin seemed to be plotting something in the past two days. When the two came in from outside, Li Maoxin would often say something risqué, and then Wang Jie would laugh and say something else: “Is it really okay? Like this… Not so good…” and the like.

Although they didn’t pay special attention to it, they didn’t deliberately avoid talking about it when they communicated. After a few times, they could roughly piece together the outline of the matter from a few words: it seemed that Wang Jie had fallen in love with a girl in the first year of high school.

Yi Yang secretly laughed, these kids are really arrogant, how dare…how dare…

The days of studying went by so peacefully. In the following days, there were several more walks, and after a formal rehearsal, it was time for the official performance.