"When it comes to thanks, we should actually thank Hi-Jing TV. If they hadn't arrived, the final of our piano competition would be the same as before..."

"No!" Ma Zhuocheng interrupted Lian Qing and said, "Lian Qing, it's not the first time that Hai Jing's colleagues have come to Yongzhou to do live broadcasts. This is not a record!"

"Haha, you are still thinking about the third record!" Lian Qing replied with a smile, "This third record is the rule of the piano competition!"

"What rule set a record?"

"First of all, this piano competition is divided into two stages. In addition to the performance of self-selected piano music and the scoring of the review experts, we have added the audience's scoring session."

"How do the audience score?" Ma Zhuocheng asked like a double act.

"For this piano competition, we specially opened a mobile voting channel. Mobile editing text messages can be sent to support a certain contestant. The contestant's support rate accounted for 40 points in this piano competition. The top ten contestants in the first stage advanced to the second stage and played a song with a different style from the first stage. The audience support rate in the second stage accounted for 20!"

"Ah?" Not to mention Xu Zhi and Tong Dihong, everyone in the concert hall was stunned.

However, after a moment, everyone woke up again. Some people hurriedly took out their cell phones and started to dial the phone, while others stood up and went out. It was obvious that they were all looking for someone to vote.

Xu Zhi and Tong Dihong looked at each other with bitter smiles. They finally understood the true meaning of the last sentence before Xiao Xiao left.

The two hosts talked on the stage for a while, and the piano competition finally started. The performance time for the self-selected songs of this competition was three minutes.

The first one to go on stage was a girl about the same size as Xie Meng. Facing the live broadcast, the girl obviously was not used to it. After performing abnormally, she ended up with tears. Then the dozen players performed unevenly. Seeing that they did not score more than 9 points, Tong Dihong kept shaking her head, saying that the live broadcast affected the true level of the children. It was Xie Meng's turn, and Xu Zhi's heart also thrust, but what surprised Xu Zhi and Tong Dihong was that Xie Meng had a full sense of camera. Not only did she smile sweetly at the camera, but she also played the piano piece very well!

"Thank you..." After Xie Meng got up and waved to the camera, Xie Meng's parents took the lead in applauding. Xu Zhi could hear clearly. All the teachers in the judges seat gave a lot of points. Sure enough, Xie Meng's final score was 9.3 points!

Unfortunately, Xie Meng's limelight only took two minutes. The female host walked out with emotion and looked at the audience and said, "We all know that as a pianist, we must first have a pair of slender hands, but the boy I want to introduce today does not have hands, he has an ideal pair of wings, he is Zhao Peng!"

The armless boy Zhao Peng stood up and took the performance seat with applause. Lian Qing did not let Zhao Peng play directly, but asked emotionally: "Zhao Peng, what power makes you tenaciously fight against fate? Do you know? Your appearance subverted my understanding of the piano. I never thought that someone could still play the piano with his feet!"

"...I like playing the piano since I was a child, but my family was poor and my parents had no money to send me to study, so I secretly listened outside the training classroom... Later, a teacher discovered that I was eavesdropping and started to drive me away. I begged, so he asked me some questions. Knowing that I was better than his students, he allowed me to do some chores in their school and also taught me some skills in playing the piano... But just as my grades gradually stood out, bad luck came, and I was electrocuted with both hands while cooking at home..."

In the concert hall, although many parents knew that Zhao Peng was a competitor to their children, they were still moved. They sobbed and applauded, and Zhao Peng's words were interrupted several times. The audience in the venue was like this, let alone those who watched the live TV broadcast. They had already taken out their mobile phones and voted for Zhao Peng.

"... After I woke up, I knew that I would never have the chance to play my beloved piano again. I was so heartbroken that I felt that there was nothing in the world to nostalgia!...My teacher and my mother gave me encouragement. They said that playing the piano depends on the heart, not on the hands. As long as I have the wings of my heart, my dream will definitely come true! So I made up my mind to play it with my feet, so that everyone can listen to my heart..."

There was no accident. In the following performance, Zhao Peng's level was similar to Xie Meng, but his score was as high as 9.8 points!

"This is unfair..." Xie Meng bit her lip and whispered, "He is not as good as me."

"You use your hands, others use your feet!" Xu Zhi smiled, "The difficulty is different!"

Xie Meng argued, "But... the piano competition is about playing the piano, it has nothing to do with using hands and feet, right?"

"Maybe..." Xu Zhi looked at the other wall of the concert hall, a column chart representing voting, rising like a budding sprout, and replied faintly.

Yuan Xiaoyu also appeared quickly. His performance was obviously much better than Zhao Peng, but he only scored 9.7 points. However, Yuan Xiaoyu is different from Xie Meng. He looked at his score, smiled slightly, and stepped down calmly.

Looking at Yuan Xiaoyu's indifference, Xu Zhi was a little surprised and asked in a low voice: "You play much better than Zhao Peng, but your score is not as good as him. Don't you feel wronged?"

"Hasn't the master told me about it just now?" Yuan Xiaoyu smiled, "I don't have ears, how can I not hear it? Besides, music is the sunshine in life, why do you have to see unhappy in the sunshine?"

"Why are you so precocious at such a young age?" Xu Zhi curled his lips, "It sounds like he's in his twenties!"

"Aren't this taught by the master?" Yuan Xiaoyu blinked at Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi suddenly realized.

Finally, Lu Guoping, the second prize winner of the Haijing Piano Competition, took the stage. Ma Zhuocheng also stopped him as usual and asked: "Lu Guoping, I read your information. You won the second prize in the Haijing Piano Competition a few months ago. This is already a good result. Why did you come to Yongzhou to participate in the piano competition again?"

"Because my goal is to win the piano competition!" Lu Guoping said, "In the Haijing Piano Competition, I was ranked second for a small mistake. I was going to practice hard for another year and wait for the championship next year. Since there is a piano competition in Yongzhou and it is broadcast nationwide, I am here to prove my strength. I want everyone to know that I am the strongest!"

Lu Guoping's strength matched his bold words, and the judges gave the same high score of 9.8.

Because it was the final, there were not many contestants who could participate. In addition to Zhao Peng and Lu Guoping, there were only 40 people, but even if there were 40 people, it took nearly two and a half hours to finish the first stage of the competition.
Chapter completed!