Chapter 1198 Ah Chun

"It's expensive to go out to eat, wait a minute, I'll eat it for you; or are you used to American food and start to dislike my craftsmanship?" Although he made more than two hundred dollars yesterday, after returning, Guo Yan counted for a long time, but she was so excited that she didn't fall asleep for a long time, but she was still reluctant to part with the little breakfast money.

"Come on, let me settle the bill for you!" Shen Long didn't argue with her, but counted the bill with his fingers, "Even if it's down here, even washing vegetables and cooking noodles, plus washing dishes and pots, we Half an hour is a lot, right? If I could go to the Lincoln Center for the Arts half an hour earlier, based on yesterday's standards, I could earn about twenty dollars in half an hour. Do you think we can earn twenty dollars for breakfast? How do you think this account is more cost-effective?"

Guo Yan thought for a long time, "It seems to be the case." In today's China, people basically go out to eat when they have something to do, and it has to be a big deal. Think about it.

I'm afraid they can't even imagine that in another 20 or 30 years, young people will basically stop cooking at home and eat at restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes they are too lazy to go out and just swipe their mobile phones, and the takeaway will be delivered to their door ; This is actually the result of economic development leading to the division of labor, and the United States has long been on this road.

It wasn’t until KFC that Guo Yan came to his senses, “I said that’s not how the accounts are calculated, right? It takes time for us to queue up to pick up our meals? Can that save half an hour?”

"But we don't have to cook and wash the dishes anymore, do we?" Shen Long took advantage of the gap between drinking the fat house happy water and nibbling on chicken legs, "Besides, you have worked so hard to cook and wash the dishes. There was no way to do it before, but now that you have come to the United States , can make you work less, just less!"

Guo Yan's nose was a little sore. Wang Qiming valued his hands playing the cello very much. She used to do all the cooking and washing at home. Now she will be moved when she hears such words, and she will only murmur after a while. He murmured, "It's okay, how about this, when I come back at night, I will make some porridge, make some cold dishes and put them in the refrigerator, and I will heat them up in the morning when I get up; after eating, put the dishes and chopsticks in the refrigerator, and come back at night Wash again."

"It's going to be too hard for you like this!" Shen Long took her hand, "Your hands are for playing the violin, not for cooking and washing dishes. We have been busy all day during the day, and we are tired enough at night. You still have to toss It’s so late, how can we hold on for a long time?”

Fearing that Guo Yan would persist, Shen Long hurriedly added, "And it will also affect the performance during the day, so the loss outweighs the gain." He remembered the situation in the original book when Guo Yan just came to the United States, knitting sweaters in a garment factory during the day , I have to go to the factory to drive a forklift at night, and there is almost no time to rest, but now that I am here, I must not let you do this again.

Guo Yan opened her mouth, but she didn't say anything in the end. She just silently took a piece of chicken wing from her dinner plate and put it on Shen Long's side. Shen Long smiled and gnawed the chicken wing clean , Guo Yan smiled.

"Mr. Wang,

Ms. Guo, I look forward to your performance very much. "When it came to yesterday's performance venue, Robert and Boris came over to say hello warmly, and they even prepared chairs for them in advance.

Guo Yan and Shen Long first warmed up and played a few etudes. During this process, Guo Yan gradually calmed down and initially adapted to the environment of street performances. Then the beautiful melody of "Blessed Lovers" sounded again near the Lincoln Center for the Arts .

Guo Yan and Wang Qiming have collaborated on this song many times. As long as she closes her eyes slightly and ignores the audience around her, she feels as if she has returned to the concert hall in the capital, and the familiar melody is played out naturally. , but the lack of flute, brass, woodwind and other musical instruments makes her a little regretful. Only two people can't fully display all the charm of this piece. The complete "Blessings of Love" is not just a big and small violin.

After more than 20 minutes, there was warm applause again at the scene. Seeing the gradually increasing coins and banknotes in the piano case, Guo Yan felt a completely different sense of satisfaction from performing in a concert hall. Feedback is more direct.

"You go to rest first, I'll change the song, and then you play "Jasmine" as a solo." Shen Long warned, and then began to play Dvořák's "Cello Concerto in B Minor".

It's just that at the end of this performance, the applause was far less enthusiastic than when he played "Blessed Lovers", and the income was not so much. The audience here appreciates Dvořák too many times, and his performance is by no means a great.

However, when it was Guo Yan's turn to play "Jasmine", the audience's reaction was much more enthusiastic. American audiences are no strangers to this piece, because "Jasmine" is a song from the famous opera "Turandot". for a while.

The author of "Turandot" and the famous Italian composer Puccini was very interested in Chinese culture, but at that time China was implementing a closed-door policy. A friend who was an ambassador in China gave him a music box, and the songs in it were folk songs that Chinese people are familiar with. After listening to "Jasmine", Puccini liked it very much, and then wrote the tune into the opera "Turandot" set in China.

In this way, Shen Long and Guo Yan started a new life in New York. They got up early every morning to perform at the Lincoln Center for the Arts, and returned to the basement of the slums to rest at night.

The daily income may vary, but no matter how you calculate it, it is countless times better than going to a restaurant to wash dishes; after about half a month, they went to their aunt's house and returned the nine hundred dollars to her aunt.

My aunt was a little surprised when she saw it, and at the same time she was a little bit disappointed, maybe because Guo Yan and the others' actions were beyond their control.

After lunch at my aunt's house, Guo Yan asked, "What are we doing now? It seems a little too late to go home to pick up the instruments and go to the Lincoln Center for the Arts?"

"We haven't rested for half a month, and it's time to give ourselves a vacation. First, go to places we haven't been to before, and then find a Chinese restaurant to eat. These days, we only eat American food, but it hurts me. !” Shen Long said.

Guo Yan did not refuse this time, because she also missed Chinese food a little bit; so after a few hours of shopping, they came to a restaurant called Xiangyuanlou, and they were going to eat here. What they introduced was the work here. Although they didn't come, they should say hello.

Entering inside, Shen Long saw the proprietress Ah Chun at first sight.