Courtyard House: A Great Musician! Red Songs Resound Worldwide

There are cultural performances like this every year.

Besides, if the choir wins a prize this time, the steel mill workers' choir will definitely have many more opportunities to participate in similar events in the future. So why is this girl so insistent on participating in this performance...?

Li Chaoyang was completely baffled.

But Xiao Song hesitated and refused to say why, only insisting on joining the choir.

He looked at the first person he met when he came to the steel rolling mill, who was also his fan.

Li Chaoyang still couldn't bring himself to say anything strongly against it.

After thinking for a moment, he said in a gentler tone, "Xiao Song, let me put it this way."

"Your voice has a natural childlike quality; you would be very suitable for participating in a children's choir."

"But as you know, this time our factory has formed a workers' choir."

“So I definitely won’t let you participate…” Seeing Xiao Song raise her head again looking aggrieved, Li Chaoyang quickly added, “But I promise you I’ll wait until after this National Day performance.”

"I will definitely make time to write a song just for you!"

"Moreover, I guarantee that the songs will be very suitable for you to sing."

"Do you think this will work?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Song was clearly tempted, but then, as if remembering something, he shook his head with a somewhat disheartened expression.

"Hey...you little brat!" Li Chaoyang glared at him!

"I've painstakingly explained the whole story to you."

"Why are you still so insistent, girl...?"

"I already told you, I'll definitely write a song for you after I'm done with this!"

"What, you're still not satisfied?"

Xiao Song blushed deeply upon hearing this.

Biting her chin... she hesitated for a long time before finally saying with some determination, "Section Chief Li..."

I cannot disclose the specific reasons.

"But I really, really want to participate in this National Day cultural performance..."

"As you just said, I'm very suitable for children's choir..."

"Then... if I could form a children's choir, could you write a song for me?"

"As for signing up, I'll apply to the factory myself..."

"Could you write a children's choir piece for me?"

After saying this, Xiao Song looked at Li Chaoyang with a pleading expression.

But Li Chaoyang was completely dumbfounded when he saw the girl's confident demeanor...

I wondered what this girl was really thinking.

Isn't that a bit over the top?

They actually want to form another children's choir? And they even want to sign them up for a cultural performance?

The way you're saying that makes it sound like the factory would just approve it if she applied...

As if the steel rolling mill is owned by her family... haha.

Li Chaoyang looked at her helplessly, somewhat amused, and said, "Xiao Song, stop fooling around..."

"If we can really convince the factory to form another children's choir and participate in the National Day performance."

"So what if I actually write a song for you..."

"But you also know... the factory definitely won't agree to your idea..."

Li Chaoyang hadn't finished speaking yet!

Little Song immediately stopped looking at Li Chaoyang with a pitiful expression!

With an expression of utter triumph, he said, "It's a deal, Section Chief Li!"

"If I can convince the factory to form a children's choir, then you'll have to write songs for me!"

"Alright, I won't bother you any longer... Goodbye, Section Chief Li!"

The girl, her face beaming with excitement, nodded at him and then dashed off like a gust of wind...

Judging from their posture, it seemed they were afraid Li Chaoyang would change his mind on the spot...

This left Li Chaoyang completely bewildered... What's going on here?

Could this girl be the daughter of one of the factory's leaders...?

Even if she were the factory manager's daughter, it would be impossible for her to be so sure that she could put together a children's choir.

......

If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it anymore... Li Chaoyang watched as his little fan disappeared in a flash.

I thought to myself, what if she could really form a children's choir....

She even convinced the factory to participate in this National Day performance, so what's wrong with helping her write a song?

It's not difficult at all...

He was the first person I met after I came to this factory.

And she's his number one fan...

She's also so good-looking... *cough cough*... that's not relevant...

Li Chaoyang shrugged, smiled, shook his head, and went to the bike shed to push his bike to the cultural center.

But he had barely found his car and hadn't even pushed it out when he saw Sister Li come out of the office building.

And they even headed straight for the bicycle shed...

Seeing her walking towards him, Li Chaoyang assumed she was coming to see him and stopped.

Sister Li approached and was somewhat surprised to find Li Chaoyang in the bicycle shed.

"Chaoyang, you haven't left yet."

Li Chaoyang smiled and nodded: "I just ran into Xiao Song and chatted with her for a bit..."

"Sister Li, is there something you need from me, or...?"

"Oh, no, I didn't come looking for you. I had to go out for a bit..." Li Xia replied somewhat awkwardly, her embarrassment practically written all over her face. She quickly found her bicycle and left.

Seeing her like this, Li Chaoyang suddenly realized that his older sister was probably going home to show her brother-in-law the sheet music!

It seems that the expert instructor for my choir should be in place soon...4

Judging from Sister Li's embarrassed expression... I guess when she helped persuade her brother-in-law, this retired expert from the veterans' cultural troupe certainly didn't say anything nice about her...3

Otherwise, how could someone as outgoing as Sister Li be so hesitant and secretive in her speech...?

Or perhaps we should give this great artist a taste of his power when we meet him...?

Li Chaoyang thought to himself with a touch of smugness...

If Sister Li's husband is indeed a high-minded artist, then she'll have to show off her skills.

This is the cultural center.

It's completely different from how deserted it was a while ago!

Although it is already working hours.

But it's still very lively here, especially the two activity rooms and the screening room on the left...

Even just standing in the lobby, you can hear singing coming from inside.

That's right, the choir auditions aren't over yet...

Li Chaoyang hadn't expected that finding 300 people who could sing from the more than 20,000 employees in the steel rolling mill would be so difficult... But what could he do? Now he could only painstakingly try to find the best among the worst.

After all, most of the workers at that time were literate.

However, without nine years of compulsory education, most of them only graduated from literacy classes.

It was completely impossible for them to develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and practically in an all-round way like in later generations...

So during the registration period a few days ago, the publicity officers went down to the workshops to register the workers. Almost everyone who could sing in tune and whose voice wasn't particularly strange was registered...

The final tally showed that over three thousand people had registered...

Almost everyone was represented, from newly arrived apprentices to near-retirement seniors...

Even Sha Zhu signed up, but he was eliminated on the first day because he was tone-deaf!

It was also thanks to Li Chaoyang that the factory manager transferred a few music teachers from the factory-run school.

Several college students with some music theory knowledge were also transferred from various offices of the factory to provide assistance.

Otherwise, if we rely entirely on the propaganda department, the selection process will probably take forever to finish!

Even so, of the more than 3,000 people who signed up, more than 700 are still left!