Chapter 222: Chapter 221: Showcasing Talents
ng Zhaojun raised her head haughtily and puffed out her chest, her laugh filled with scorn. “Tang Shunyan, are you really asking to leave? Would you rather have this teacher, who doesn’t understand music all that well, teach you instead of letting tutor you?”
ng Zhaojun was highly capable, which Tang Shunyan knew. Even with the girl’s strong abilities before him, he wasn’t willing to have her teach him music.
Moreover, the teacher was watching. What was ng Zhaojun doing trying to undermine the teacher?
Could it be that she wanted to embarrass the teacher? Tang Shunyan didn’t want to do that. The teacher was instructing not just him but others as well. ng Zhaojun would only spend a little ti tutoring him. If it were in his own courtyard, he might be willing to listen to her.
But this was a classroom setting. Should ng Zhaojun show even a slight disrespect to the teacher…
“ng Zhaojun, I am currently learning the basics. Once I have a solid foundation and if you have the ti, could you tutor privately? Right now, the teacher is teaching us the basics. He might not be as skilled as you, but he is our classroom teacher.”
“If you ask to leave, you’d better not regret it. In the future, when you want my tutoring, it won’t be so easy,” ng Zhaojun said haughtily. At this mont, she noticed that the person who had played the piano carelessly earlier seed to beco aware of her presence. They were sporadically touching the piano keys, their gaze drifting over to them, and the teacher was also looking their way.
Mr. Mo felt rather helpless. No matter how advanced the young girl’s piano skills were, she was still disrupting his class and causing him embarrassnt.
Considering she was only five or six years old, he didn’t hold it against her, but the little girl’s actions could affect his prestige in the eyes of his students.
Teaching was already difficult, and he struggled with unforeseen challenges. The future held unknown difficulties that might be exacerbated by the presence of this little girl, potentially making things even more awkward for him.
As the teacher of this classroom, he could stop this female student from causing disruptions, but he didn’t understand her status and whether his actions might offend soone. When teaching in affluent families, one must be cautious and careful.
He knew his own limitations, and the little girl wasn’t wrong in her assessnt. Still, he couldn’t believe that her abilities were as high as she claid.
As an adult, he felt indignant but didn’t want to quarrel with the little girl. He wondered, how would his student handle this?
Tang Shunyan still looked at ng Zhaojun with determination. “ng Zhaojun, thank you for your kindness, and I hope you’ll have the ti to tutor in the future. For now, let the teacher teach the basics in this classroom.”
ng Zhaojun silently watched the young boy before her, feeling imnsely irritated. She had told herself not to get upset no matter what happened, to first win over a boy’s heart.
But the boy’s rejection now wounded her adult pride, especially since it was occurring in front of many of her peers.
She was the daughter of the most noble official in the county. With so many people watching her embarrassnt, Tang Shunyan’s cold rejection was cutting.
In her previous world, such an attitude would have been considered aloof and cool, but in her current environnt, it seed rciless.
ng Zhaojun pondered but could not understand why the boy’s heart was as hard as stone.
She had tried so hard, yet the boy’s attitude towards her was poor; it was really hard to accept that he treated the girl from the Ye family differently from how he treated her.
“Tang Shunyan, can you stand up? You can’t learn properly like this. Let play a piece for you.”
“ng Zhaojun, you can play a piece so that everyone can learn from your skill. We have a teacher here, but if you’re free later, you can co and guide ,” Tang Shunyan replied.
Tang Shunyan felt that the young girl was so insistent on showing off her talent right there, an arrogance befitting a Miss from a wealthy family.
They had known each other for so long, and he was well aware of the girl’s character. Not allowing her to have her way this ti might an that none of the students would be able to practice in the classroom.
They had been friends for many years. Out of affection, he wished to grant her this desire but didn’t want to make things difficult for the teacher.
Even though ng Zhaojun’s talent was unparalleled and she could showcase it in front of everyone, she didn’t have the ti to teach students, nor did she have the patience to do so.
Since he was a teacher hired by their family, they were willing to show him the proper respect.
“Alright, then I’ll play a piece.”
With a haughty wave of her hand, ng Zhaojun signaled for Tang Shunyan to rise and make way for her.
The classroom, which just monts ago was filled with sporadic learning, fell silent, as the students who had been practicing their instrunts all stopped what they were doing.
The students put aside their practice and fixed their gaze on ng Zhaojun, waiting as the audience for her performance to begin.
Mr. Mo remained silently seated by his instrunt. As a teacher who guided his students through the basics, he would typically circle around each of them, but now that soone was showing off, he took it as a break from the lesson.
ng Zhaojun paid no attention to the others in the classroom, as she fitted her fingers with plectrums and looked up at Tang Shunyan. Her hands were already on the strings, softly beginning to play.
An expert’s touch is imdiately noticeable, and the quality of the sound produced reveals one’s skill.
The others in the classroom didn’t truly understand the excellence of ng Zhaojun’s sound quality; they were just beginners, so of them yet to even establish the fundantals. However, they thought the sound that ng Zhaojun produced was very pleasant to the ear.
Mr. Mo, with his own musical ability, knew imdiately that the young girl in front of him was more proficient at playing the instrunt than he was.
He listened silently, appreciating the music, understanding that while the sound produced by her young, tender hands might not be as formidable as a master’s, it was undoubtedly superior to his own, and he was completely convinced of it.
Mrs. Mo was in another classroom, teaching music to the children. At first, she did not pay attention to the outside or the classroom next door.
The couple’s division of labor ant that they could not let each other’s lessons affect their own.
If her husband encountered so difficulties in his teaching in the past few days, he had to overco them by himself.
Even if she was montarily able to help, if he didn’t overco the difficulties, then it would be hard to carry on with future lessons.
Among the many girls of the Tang family, although so had a foundation, their playing abilities were not strong, and they required careful guidance in this area.
The younger ones had no musical foundation at all and needed even more of her dedicated instruction.
So her teaching wasn’t necessarily relaxing; she had about seven or eight students in the classroom that needed to be split into two groups.
Mrs. Mo played a piece for the students, and then, as they practiced, she would give them so guidance on their techniques.
As she approached the door, the students’ chaotic piano sounds quieted down a bit, and when she heard the piano sound from next door, she was sowhat astonished.
She knew her husband’s ability to play piano; they had t in a cultured pavilion where they bonded over poetry and music.
At that ti, she had been invited by so close friends to join them there.
Her husband had also entered with so others who, like him, had co to the Capital City to take exams. In such a pavilion, whether you were rich or poor, as long as you had talent, you could showcase your abilities.
With the endorsent of her close friends, she played a piece there.
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