I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

In October 1968, Lou Xiao'e, who had been dragging her feet for almost two years, married Wei Shixian. Lou Zhenhua readily gave his daughter another dowry, which was even more generous than her first one. After all, their two families were old friends.

Looking at the boxes of dowry being moved out of the middle courtyard, Lou Qiming's eyes were red with jealousy. He had sneaked a peek at his stepsister's dowry two days ago, and the dowry was so generous. If someone didn't know, they would think Lou Zhenhua was transferring property!

When he thought about how these fortunes originally belonged to him and were now flowing into someone else's home for nothing, he felt so heartbroken that he almost stopped breathing!

But he didn't dare to go to his father Lou Zhenhua to argue! His father didn't like him at all now.

Lou Zhenhua was also very disappointed with his only heir. Their Lou family had a family rule that a married man in the Lou family could only marry a concubine if he had no children after three years. This was related to the harmony of the family and the prosperity of everything!

But Lou Qiming, a rebellious son who had both a son and a daughter, took advantage of the fact that Beijing and Hong Kong were thousands of miles apart and secretly married two wives without telling his family.

Look at the people he married. One was the daughter of a gangster whose family was full of gangsters, and the other was a Cantonese opera actor. The heir of his family was a playboy.

When Lou Zhenhua went to the company to check the accounts again, he was shocked! The money on the books was enough to offset the company's profits for several years. All of it was spent on a life of luxury by this money-loser.

Look at the Wei family. They used to live in Beijing, and their wealth was not inferior to that of the Lou family. But they didn't have a good wife, so they were reported by their daughter-in-law, and the wealth they had accumulated over the years was confiscated. They could only buy a house of more than 100 square meters to live in when they came to Hong Kong, and the remaining money could only be used to open a restaurant.

How could he dare to hand over such a huge family business to such a loser? It was a pity that Lou Xiao'e was not a boy!

Lou Zhenhua also made up his mind to train his brother's son Lou Qigang in the future. When he was gone, he would leave a will, and only let him take some shares of the company.

After Lou Xiao'e married into the Wei family, she did not bring her adopted daughter Huaihua with her. The Wei family lived in a 150-60 square meter sea view house in Kwun Tong, Kowloon. Now the family of four also brought a Filipino maid, so it would be a bit crowded for Huaihua to live there.

Therefore, Jingyi still lived in the middle courtyard of Lou Mansion after she came back from the academy. Lou Zhenhua and his wife treated her like their own granddaughter and never treated her badly.

Lou Jingyi is also very hardworking! She has excellent academic performance and entered the third grade at the age of seven.

At the age of eight, she was recommended by Diocesan Girls' School to participate in the Hong Kong Youth Piano Competition jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and Education and the Music Association. She crushed a group of opponents who were much older than her and won the championship.

At the age of ten, she represented Hong Kong in the Leeds International Piano Competition in the UK. In the under-15 category, she also beat young talents from all over the world and won the championship trophy.

At this time, her piano skills were far superior to those of her previous life. She won the championship in an international competition in the UK, and the news caused a sensation in Hong Kong. Reporters from radio, television and newspapers came to Diocesan Girls' School to interview her. In a short time, she became a well-known figure in Hong Kong.

In November 1971, Sir Murray MacLehose came to Hong Kong and assumed the office of the 25th Governor of Hong Kong. A grand welcoming ceremony was held at the Governor's Office in Hong Kong, and Lou Jingyi was also present.

Ten-year-old Lou Jingyi was wearing a white princess dress and a crown of bauhinia flowers on her smooth black straight hair. She walked lightly to the piano and sat down to play a cheerful "Scottish Dance" for His Excellency Governor MacLehose.

Governor MacLehose and his wife were both Scottish, and they both expressed great pleasure in enjoying the music of their homeland.

After Lou Jingyi finished her performance, Mrs. Murray MacLehose came over to hug her. Sir Murray MacLehose also came over to shake her hand and chat with her with a smile.

All of this was recorded by photographers. The next day, large photos were published on the headlines of major newspapers. In the evening news broadcasts on TV stations, Lou Jingyi's name also appeared frequently in the mouths of the announcers.

At this point, Lou Jingyi seemed to have become the official pianist of the Governor-General's Office in Hong Kong. Whenever the Governor-General's Office held a dinner party, Lou Jingyi would often be invited to play music.

Jingyi also knew that Governor MacLehose was the most popular governor in Hong Kong history and the longest serving governor in Hong Kong, serving four terms in total. During his term, the majority of Hong Kong citizens called it the MacLehose era.

It was under his leadership that Hong Kong achieved economic growth through reforms and became an international commercial and financial metropolis.

In particular, he punished corruption and founded the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, clearing up all kinds of administrative malpractices from top to bottom, laying a solid foundation for Hong Kong's economic prosperity.

He also improved people's livelihood and vigorously built infrastructure. The ten-year public housing plan he implemented ensured that ordinary citizens in Hong Kong had houses to live in.

His development of new towns, nine years of free education, and construction of subway and undersea tunnels directly improved the living standards of citizens and benefited the general public. From then on, Hong Kong citizens began to feel a sense of belonging to the colonial government.

Jingyi felt honored to be acquainted with Governor MacLehose and his wife. They were the most important officials and celebrities she had ever known in her two lifetimes.

In 1977, when Jingyi was 16 years old and about to graduate from Diocesan Girls' School, she was recommended to go to Warsaw to participate in the five-yearly Chopin International Piano Competition.

The Chopin International Piano Competition is known as the Olympics of the piano world. It is the most authoritative competition! Lou Jingyi lived up to expectations and won the championship in the youth group under 23 years old. From now on, she can be called a young pianist!

After graduating from Diocesan Girls' School, she was offered admission by many prestigious overseas universities, but she chose none of them and went directly to the Department of Music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

This surprised many people! The current Hong Kong Chinese University is still unknown. Especially its music department, which was established not long ago and has a two-year academic system. It is a fake music department.

But Jingyi had no choice! She didn't want to go abroad. The Chinese University was the only university in Hong Kong that had a music department. She didn't expect to learn anything there. She just wanted to get a diploma from the Chinese University of Hong Kong after two years.

In view of Lou Jingyi's achievements in piano and her contributions to the Hong Kong music community, the Hong Kong Education Bureau and the Music Association jointly wanted to create a Zhang Chun piano album for Lou Jingyi to promote it among piano lovers and use it in some teaching occasions.

Jingyi was overjoyed when she heard the news. She had wanted to release a piano album for a long time, but if she delayed a few years, someone else would have taken away the title of original work. But she had no way to do it!

In the past, she was still young, and she would definitely be questioned if she released those timeless classics. Take the piano piece "Wedding in a Dream" for example. How can you, a little person who doesn't even understand what love is, compose such a delicate and emotional piece?

Now? Although she is still a little young, if someone questions her, she can refute it with a convincing argument. What? Isn't it okay for her to mature early?

She sorted out the piano scores in her space, a total of eleven. "Dream Wedding" is definitely indispensable! "Poem to Adeline" and "Adeline by the Water" were released by the original author last year, and these two scores must be crossed out! "Autumn Whisper" is retained. Add a Korean song "Mark of Rain", and the eleven classics are complete.

The Education Department and the Music Association contacted Warner Records (Hong Kong) and planned to release 3,000 albums within the Music Association.

Mr. Bill, the music director of Warner Records, took the music score handed over by Jingyi and flipped through it slowly, his bearded face becoming more and more surprised the more he read.

"Ms. Jingyi, may I ask, were all these music scores composed by you alone?" Bearded Bill asked in disbelief.

"Of course! How can this be fake? Has Mr. Bill heard these songs before?" Jingyi looked calm and composed.

She checked and checked again, and there was no omission! This kind of thing is not to be joked about. Once a car accident occurs, it concerns a person's reputation.

"Ms. Jingyi is truly a musical genius! Each of these eleven piano pieces is a classic! In this case, you don't have to release it internally. I'll go to the headquarters to apply, and we can work together to release it to the world. How about that?"

Bill was a little too excited! Warner Music's headquarters is located in the United States, and it has branches all over the world. However, the music market in Hong Kong has always been bleak, and the performance of his Hong Kong branch is the lowest among all branches.

Now, Lou Jingyi's eleven piano scores have come out, giving him hope of turning things around.