"Oh my God, see who is here, haha, Lu Wei, you are so punctual, but why didn't you say hello to me before coming? In that case, I can at least pick you up." Grafman stood up, smiled and hugged Lu Wei enthusiastically.

"Dean Grafman, you are so polite." Lu Wei said, a happy smile also appeared on his face. Grafman's enthusiasm eliminated a lot of the strangeness he felt when he first came.

"Lu, please sit here with me first. I will ask Ms. Jones to help you arrange the accommodation. After a while, there is a school board, and I will talk about you at the meeting." Grafman said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll bother you, Mr. Grafman." Lu Wei said with a smile.

"Don't be polite," Grafman said, making a phone call. After a while, a tall beauty in a professional suit and wearing a blond hair walked in. Although Lu Wei was over 1.8 meters tall, standing next to this beauty, she could only be a little taller than her, which shows the height advantage of the Americans.

"Miss Jones, this is a new student in the piano department of our school. His name is Lu Wei. Please arrange a student apartment for him." Grafman said with a smile to the blonde beauty, with a kind attitude and no condescending expression as a leader. That natural expression made Lu Wei feel that it was definitely not pretending, and he couldn't help but sigh at the difference between the East and West systems.

Hearing Grafman's words, Jones's face obviously showed a look of surprise. He held onto the narrow-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and Jones's extremely magnetic female voice sounded:

"Mr. Grafman, aren't our 160 freshmen this semester fully recruited?"

"Oh, Miss Jones, Lu Wei was met when I went to China some time ago as a judge for the international piano competition. He played the piano really well, so I invited him in the name of the academy." Grafman explained with a smile, without any intention of blaming Jones.

"But Mr. Grafman, this may not be in line with the college's regulations." Jones asked with some concern.

Although he could barely understand the conversation between the two, Lu Wei still understood it a little, and couldn't help but sigh at the strict management of foreign academies. If this were in some domestic academies, the words of the top leader would be an imperial edict. If his subordinates had doubts about the leader's orders, they would have long caused the leader to be "furious".

"Don't worry. Miss Jones. I'll explain this to the school board of directors in a while. I think they'll be happy to see Lu Wei become the new place in our school." Grafman said.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements for him right away." Jones said, smiling kindly at Lu Wei and said, "Please follow me. Lu Wei."

After saying goodbye to Grafman, Lu Wei followed Miss Jones and walked for about twenty minutes before he arrived at the student apartment building. Along the way, Lu Wei saw various teaching buildings and concert halls with unique shapes hidden among the green trees. It made people feel very comfortable.

The apartment building consists of six-story buildings in yellow and white. In front of the building is a large lawn that is neatly decorated. It looks extremely pleasing to the eye. However, it is probably the class time at this moment. The apartment building looks very quiet.

"Student Lu Wei. I just checked it. There is a single room on the 5th floor of this building. You can live here. This is your room card. It is marked with the name of the room. Just insert it into the room card slot." Jones said and handed over the room card.

"Thank you." Lu Wei said, picking up the room card.

"Student Lu Wei, this is my phone number. If you have any needs in life, please call me. Please don't be polite. I wish you a happy life in Curtis." The blonde beauty Jones said with a smile. Then he handed Lu Wei a card with the phone number printed on it.

"Okay, please trouble you Teacher Jones." I don't know what the other party's position was in school, Lu Wei had to call him "teacher". However, the English pronunciation was not very standard, but Jones smiled softly.

After saying goodbye to Jones, Lu Wei walked up to the apartment building with his luggage. When he came to the room, Lu Wei took out the room card and inserted it in. A slight "click" sound came from the door. Lu Wei then twisted the door handle slightly and opened the door.

This is a small room of about 40 square meters, one bedroom, one living room, and a bathroom with an independent bathroom. It looks similar to the room in the hotel, but just one bed shows that it is just a single room. Thinking of the eight people crowded in the same dormitory when he was in Changli Normal School, Lu Wei naturally felt a little emotional.

After simply putting his luggage, Lu Wei remembered that he had not called his family and Xiaoling. He took out his cell phone and found that the screen showed "The Internet cannot be used". He remembered that Mobile has not expanded its business to foreign countries. Looking at the time, it was almost noon. Lu Wei decided to go out and apply for a local mobile phone card first, and then go to have some food to reward himself with a hungry stomach.

Not to mention that Lu Wei was leisurely walking around the school alone, there was a fierce quarrel in a conference room at Curtis Music Academy:

"No, this is absolutely not possible, Dean Grafman, this practice is contrary to the school's regulations, and I cannot agree to such a thing." A middle-aged man with sparse short brown hair, small eyes, big nose, and a big belly that is comparable to a pregnant woman who is about to give birth, shaking his head like a rattle.

"Director Hans, please believe me. Lu Wei is definitely a very outstanding student. His talent is like Lang Lang, and even surpasses him. Rejecting such a student is definitely a big loss for Curtis College." Grafman said without any weakness, and at the same time he was very depressed. He thought that his proposal would be passed the director's resolution very smoothly, after all, his prestige in the school was still very high. Unexpectedly, Director Hans, who has never liked to express his opinions, jumped out of normalcy today and opposed it.

In fact, Hans is not targeting Lu Wei. Although Curtis College only recruits 160 freshmen every year, this number is not fixed. Every year, some students with extremely outstanding talents are admitted to the college. For this situation, the board of directors also acquiesced, after all, it is for the future of the college. However, this time it is different. At a Philadelphia concert some time ago, Curtis was invited to send a student from the college to cooperate with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, which is undoubtedly a rare opportunity for students to exercise and become famous.

The college’s practice requires selection from the students who have registered. However, in the competition, Hans’ nephew George was defeated by Lang Lang from China by a slight gap and lost this qualification. Although this was a fair competition, Hans was dissatisfied with Lang Lang, and today’s board of directors heard Grafman’s suggestion. Hans didn’t think anything was wrong at first, but when he heard that the student named Lu Wei was actually from China, Hans’ dissatisfaction immediately surged out, and then he jumped out of the college’s regulations.

Seeing Hans telling the college's regulations, Grafman was angry, but he couldn't find any good words for a while. You know. Although he is the dean of the college, his real decision-making power is still in the hands of the board of directors. Although the board of directors has never liked to interfere with the specific work of the college, this does not mean that they do not have this power.

Grafman turned his eyes to the chairman Leonard Rich, who was sitting in the innermost, and immediately spoke: "Mr. Rich, I want to hear your opinion."

Ritchie, with silver hair, had been sitting there quietly listening to the two of them quarrel for a long time. The board of directors has not expressed much since the present time. It seemed to have become a stage for two people to perform. In the history of the Curtis Conservatory, such a quarrel on the board of directors is indeed very rare. On the one hand, this is related to the board of directors not interfering with the normal work of the college, and on the other hand, from the school perspective, they did a great job. However, the dispute did happen, and now Dean Grafman has handed over the decision on this difficult problem to himself.

To be fair, Ritchie admires Dean Grafman very much. Although the Curtis Conservatory of Music has been established since its establishment, there are dozens of deans. However, Grafman has done a very good job in terms of personal ability and sense of responsibility. It has been nearly eight years since Grafman came to Curtis Conservatory of Music to serve as dean. In short, it can be said that Curtis Rie has served as dean for the longest time. However, even in so many years, he personally recommended a student to enroll in school. It can be seen that this student named Lu Wei must have his own excellence, but Hans raised a question is reasonable, because the college's regulations do state that.

"I want to hear from others," Richie said, looking at the other directors on the seat, but it was obvious that no one was willing to show his position on the matter, because no matter which side he supports, he would inevitably offend the other side.

"Since no one has expressed his opinion, I have a suggestion." Rich said, looking at Grafman and Hans, seeing that both of them were listening attentively, he continued: "We hold an entrance exam for this Lu Wei, with the most authoritative piano teacher in our college as the judge. If Lu Wei can meet the requirements, I think he can make an exception and become a Curtis student. What do you think?"

"I have no objection." Grafman quickly said that he was very confident about Lu Wei's level. Although Ritchie made such a decision and did not give him face, he also knew in his heart that his actions were indeed somewhat contrary to the regulations.

"Okay, I have no objection, but Mr. Ritchie, I hope I can listen to the exam." Hans said. "Okay, that's the decision." Ritchie said, looking around everyone, seeing that no one wants to speak anymore, and announced the end of the meeting.
Chapter completed!