Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 902 162. New Year
"See you tomorrow afternoon, teacher!"

"See you tomorrow afternoon, and go to bed early tonight!"

After lunch, Li An walked into the elevator to the lower floor with the other candidates seeing him off.

The elevator went down to the first floor, and the moment the door opened, Li Ang almost ran out of the hall.

On the way home in a taxi, Li An first called the taxi driver.

Li An: "Hey, Linlin, is the boiled fish delicious?"

"It's delicious. Are you back, teacher?" The condition of the car on the other end of the phone sounded much better than in the morning.

Li An smiled and said, "I guess I won't be back until very late today. I heard you'll have to come to work tomorrow, right?"

Car: "Yeah!"

Li An: "Then you should go home and stay tonight, otherwise we really won't have time. You will have classes the day after tomorrow, and then we will leave."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then a hum, "Teacher, have you had dinner?"

Li An: "I ate some rice and fried vegetables. Have a good rest tonight. I will pick you up to go to the store tomorrow morning."

Xiaoche: "No need for teacher, I already know how to get here, I can just take the bus by myself."

Li An: "Okay, keep eating, eat more."

Xiaoche: "Well, see you tomorrow, teacher."

Lee An: "See you tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Li An sent a message to Xu Li: I will send her back later.
After a moment Xu Li replied: Well, let’s talk about it when I come back.

Then Li An called Ji Yang and called him all the way until he got off the car. He then met up with everyone at the gate of the community.

"Teacher Li."

A dark-skinned man stepped forward and shook hands with Ang Lee, and briefly introduced himself.

Chen Shixiang, captain of this search and rescue team.

"Hello Captain Chen, thank you for your hard work."

Without a moment's greeting, Chen Shi went straight to the point and explained the current search and rescue work to Li An in detail.

"Based on the information we have collected, we can currently give a 70% probability that the activity area of ​​80,000 is still within the scope of these three communities."

"Here, here," Chen Shixiang drew four circles on the hand-drawn map. "We have set up cat traps in four places. Night is a good time to search. If there is no result tonight, we may expand the search area tomorrow depending on the situation."

Li An: "Okay, okay, I'll follow Captain Chen's instructions. Let's have a meal first, and then we'll..."

Chen Shixiang waved his hand to interrupt: "Our team members carry food with them, and I will soon join them. Teacher Li, you can live and rest normally, and leave the search work to us."

Li An nodded: "Please."

Chen Shixiang has experienced too many such scenes in his many years of work, and he can understand Ang Lee's feelings at the moment very well.

The fact that you are willing to spend money to hire a professional team is enough to explain a lot of problems.

But, "Teacher Li, I can't give you any guarantees. I can only say that we will do our best to help you find your cat."

Li An: "Understood."

Chen Shixiang: "Based on my experience, it is relatively easy to find 80,000 yuan. He is not an expensive pet cat, and the probability of him being taken away by someone is almost negligible. Secondly, the humidity is relatively high nearby, and cats prefer such an environment."

Li An: "Uh-huh, what else do you need to know?"

"Not for now." Chen Shixiang checked the time, "Teacher Li, you guys should take a rest first."

After saying that, he turned and left.

In the afternoon, Li An had already informed the other party of Ba Wan's basic information including his age, habits and hobbies via phone.

"Let's go."

Ang Lee invited Ji Yang and Zheng Haitao to have dinner. After a busy afternoon, they were already starving. Even though they had no appetite, they were really hungry.

Each of them had a bowl of noodles, and they finished it all in no time.

Hearing that Xu Li, the boss of Sigang, had been busy at Sigang with her two children all day, Haitao asked about the specific arrangements for tomorrow morning. "How about I not go with you to pick up Mu Xin tomorrow morning? I will stay in the store to work and try to finish the work tomorrow."

Li An: "I definitely can't finish it tomorrow. It's not a job for one person. Let's do it the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow we can do it together. I'll call some more people to come and help."

Haitao: "Brother, just focus on your performance these days. We are enough there."

Xiao Ji: "That's right, teacher, you don't want to practice the piano!"

Li An: "Practice, there's no time to waste. I have to go to the piano the day after tomorrow."

Hai Tao: "Hey? Aren't we going to have a plaque-hanging ceremony the day after tomorrow?"

Li An laughed and sighed: "It's not the official opening yet, why do we need to hold a ceremony? Let's wait until the official opening."

Hai Tao: “That’s right.”

Li An actually thought about the problem Haitao mentioned a few days ago, but he was not in the mood for it under the current circumstances.

After dinner, Li An asked Haitao to go back first. He said he wanted to teach Ji Yang a lesson. Little Ji was just about to say that she wanted to take a lesson.

Xiao Ji will have his professional exam after New Year's Day. As he was busy on New Year's Day, Li An did not plan to give Xiao Ji lessons during the holiday. It just so happened that he caught up with it today, and he also wanted to give Ji Yang another lesson.

The teacher and student went upstairs. The living room, which had just been tidied up in the morning, now looked a little messy again.

“What a pity.”

The air was still filled with the smell of beef hotpot.

"What's there to regret? I'll cook a meal for you someday when you're free."

Xiao Ji: "That will have to wait until next year. There is no chance this year."

Li An looked at his watch and said, "There are less than four hours left. We still have enough time. How about I cook you a meal now?"

As they spoke, both the teacher and the student laughed.

"Come and listen."

"Ok!"
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Forty minutes later.

When Xiao Ji stopped playing in front of the piano, Li An reminded him again: "Go down and practice the continuous notes of your left hand. Pay attention to being dignified and elegant, and use more wrist movements."

"Yeah," Xiao Ji took a pen and wrote down the teacher's words under measure 58.

Li An: "get out of class dismissed."

After class, Xiao Ji chatted with Li Ang for a while.

Li An knew that Xiao Ji knew that he was feeling uncomfortable and wanted to stay with him for a while, but it was already late.

"Let's go, I'll take you down."

"Teacher, don't be too sad. Take care of yourself."

"Do not worry."

At the gate of the community, Xiao Ji called an online taxi. Before she got in the car, Li An said thank you.

Xiao Ji didn't say anything else, just smiled and said, "Happy New Year, Teacher!"

"Happy New Year!" Li An waved and watched the car disappear at the intersection. He turned around and went home.

As soon as he returned home, he received another call from Fang Yongbo.

Fang Yongbo asked him how his preparations were going, and he told Fang Yongbo not to worry.

He gritted his teeth and sat in front of the piano until half past nine, but finally he couldn't calm down and gave up.

After sending a message to Xu Li, Li An left home again.

After waiting at the south gate of the community for about a quarter of an hour, Xu Li drove over from the south.

"Get in the car and sit for a while." Xu Li opened the car window. "I asked him to go home first."

Li An got on the passenger seat and leaned back, sighing, "Are you okay today?"

Xu Li: "Very good, the front desk is almost ready, and they both behaved well. They finished their homework in the afternoon. Che Lin didn't eat much at noon, but had two bowls of rice in the evening."

Li An smiled and said, "Better?"

Xu Li: "I feel better now, how about you?"

Li An: "The pet rescue team that Ji Yang contacted seems reliable. Let's wait for the results."

Xu Li: "I also hope to find it quickly, but you should be mentally prepared in advance and don't have too high expectations."

Li An: "Well, what did Liu Zhen say?"

Xu Li: "Liu Zhen asked us to count the number of people, and he tried his best to report more." Li An: "This time he was quite efficient."

Xu Li: "I'll ask Uncle Yue to tell him again in a couple of days."

Li An: "Don't bother, just take whatever he can offer."

Xu Li: "You are not qualified to be a boss like this."

Li An smiled and sat up. "Sister Xu, you should go back and have a rest soon. We'll have to rely on you to preside over the work tomorrow afternoon."

Xu Li: "Shall we hold a plaque-hanging ceremony the day after tomorrow?"

Li An: "Are you still going to do it? Why don't we wait until the official opening, and then we can hold a grand ceremony."

Xu Li: "Okay."

"Che Lin will go there by herself tomorrow, don't worry about her." Li An got out of the car and waved, "Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year and go to bed early." Xu Li turned and left.

Li An walked around the gate of the community again, and suddenly he took out his phone and called Lu Huizhong.

"Mr. Lu hasn't rested yet."

"Haha, that's right. I was wondering if you could send the grand piano over tomorrow. I need to adjust the stage here."

"Thank you thank you."

"Okay, okay. There will be people in the store all day after nine tomorrow. You can send someone over anytime."

"Yeah, okay, okay, no, no, we have to wait until mid-January."

"Of course. If you don't come, who will cut the ribbon for me? I will definitely send you the invitation a week in advance."

"Haha, good, you should rest early."

Everyone will be gathered tomorrow, and Ang Lee wants to make some noise first. It would be inappropriate to have everyone playing the piano in the room.

New Year, new atmosphere. A little movement is also festive.

After hanging up the phone with Lu Huizhong, Ang Lee @ed Mu Xin in the teachers’ group.

Teacher Mu Xin, who was on the train, finally saw the movement in the group and happily replied with a laughing puppy emoji!

Then Lao Tang, Haitao, Xu Li and others popped up one after another.

Seeing all the "long-lost" greetings, Mu Xin, who was sitting alone in the aisle of the sleeper car, felt indescribably warm in his heart.

No one knew that Mu Xin was almost moved to tears when she was pulled into the group yesterday.

Perhaps it is because he is in a particularly sensitive period that Mu Xin needs such care and greetings.

But just when she was ready to have a good chat with everyone last night, she found that there was no movement in the group.

This made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Until today when she got on the train, she was still wondering whether she should tell everyone in the group, because Sister Lin told her last night that everything was fine, and told her again that there was a loving big family waiting for her in Chengdu.

But after thinking about it, she still got into the car quietly. She had been too proactive in the past, and her initiative had caused trouble for others, and later also caused trouble for herself.

However, even so, she couldn't help herself when she saw the caring greetings in the dialog box one after another.

Mu Xin: Thank you everyone! I brought you some delicious food!
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Seeing that the group chat was getting heated, Li An quietly left.

According to the several locations Chen Shixiang sent him, he found a point near the community children's swimming pool.

A young man, probably in his early twenties, was sitting there quietly.

Looking at the equipment around the young man, Li An walked over and sat next to him quietly, "Thank you for your hard work."

The young man asked, "Is that Teacher Li?"

"What's your name?" Li An took out a cigarette.

The young man took the cigarette with his teeth bared, "Just call me Xiaowen."

Li An: "Xiao Wen, you look young."

Xiaowen: "23, shhh!"

Li An quickly muted the sound.

After a moment, Xiao Wen looked away from the screen and sighed, "It's that little white cat again."

Li An smiled and said, "It's okay. I just graduated from college at 23. How long have you been doing this?"

Xiaowen: “Half a year”

Li An: "Why did you choose this profession?"

Since losing the kitten she had raised for five years six months ago, Xiaowen has joined the pet rescue industry. "I still feel regretful. If I had tried harder, maybe I could have found Tangyuan."

Li An: "Tangyuan may be living a more comfortable life now."

Xiaowen smiled and said, "I always think so. Tangyuan is a girl, so I treat her as my eloped daughter."

Li An: “Hahaha.”

Xiaowen: "Teacher Li, Ba Wan must be family to you."

Li An: "Not really. I have always considered him a buddy, the closest kind. If he is willing to come home this time, I will treat him as my family in the future."

Xiaowen: "Are you a Chinese teacher?"

Li An: "Music teacher."

Xiaowen: "I was just about to say it, but I felt that the way you speak is a little different."

Li An smiled and said, "What's the difference? We are all teachers, including you. Have another one to perk you up."

Xiaowen: "Hey, thank you, Teacher Li."

Xiaowen then told Ang Lee a lot of his experiences in finding the cat.

For example, cats especially like to hide, especially in narrow crevices. High places and sewers are their favorites.

"Cats naturally like to find corners to hide in. If they feel that they are not completely hidden, they will continue to move to a place where they feel safe."

Li An: "Xiao Wen, aside from the present moment, can I ask you for private advice?"

Xiao Wen: "Teacher Li, if you ask, I will tell you as long as I know."

Lee Ang: "Just put it bluntly. Is it possible for cats to find their way home by themselves? I mean cats living in urban communities."

moment.

Xiaowen: "Although it is rare, there have been cases like this, but now it has been 24 hours."

Li An: "Thank you, will you stay here overnight?"

Xiao Wen: "Someone will come to replace me soon."

Li An: "Just keep busy. I won't bother you anymore."

Xiao Wen: "Teacher Li, your cigarette."

Li An: "Save it for smoking."

Before going home, Li An found Chen Shixiang again and transferred one day's expenses to him.

The search and rescue work was calculated by the hour, and this was all Ang Lee could do.
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Before going to bed, Li An and Chen Xuan had a video call, and they both celebrated the New Year in the East 8th District.

Last New Year’s Day, the two of them went to buy meat and cabbage early in the morning and made dumplings at noon.

At that time, Chen Xuan imagined that in the future they would have their own small institution, which would be beautifully decorated and not far from home. Ang Lee agreed.

One year later, Ang Lee fulfilled his promise.

"Are we going to eat dumplings tomorrow?" Chen Xuan asked with a smile.

Li An replied with a smile: "Okay, it also comes with cabbage and meat."

Chen Xuan laughed: "Forget it, there are so many things to do tomorrow, let's not bother with it, where's the 80,000? I haven't seen him for several days."

Li An looked around and said, "It was just here."

Chen Xuan saw Li An was about to get out of bed and said, "Don't look for him anymore. Let him play by himself."

Li An lay down, and Chen Xuan asked again: "Was Ba Wan well behaved yesterday? With so many people coming to our house for dinner, was it scared and hid?"

"Very well behaved, hiding well." Li An said, "Teacher Xiaomi, there are still ten days left, come on."

Chen Xuan: “Come on!”
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2023.01.01, sunny.