Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 995 255. Secret Baking Ingredients!? Let’s Go, Let’s Go
At 8 a.m. on the 22nd, Piano Classroom No. 4 officially opened.

On the first day of business, the atmosphere was lively, with the sound of pianos ringing out from upstairs and parents bringing their children to consult downstairs.

Near six o'clock in the afternoon, a deal was concluded for a one-year course student.

Based on this trend, it can be inferred that there is a possibility of placing orders in the next two days. Seeing this, Lao Tang suggested that he would look after the store while everyone traveled as planned as usual, so that neither side would be delayed.

The result was vetoed by Ang Lee.

"You should not leave during the New Year, otherwise who will look after the store during the New Year?"

Li An's words were unanimously agreed by everyone, and they all persuaded Lao Tang to stay in Chengdu for the New Year.

The situation suddenly changed. Lao Tang was outnumbered and quickly admitted his mistake. He had already bought the ticket to go home for the New Year.

"Withdraw."

"withdraw."

"Let's go, let's go. See you tomorrow morning, everyone."

"Bye-Bye."

As soon as the iron gate was opened, everyone left work at 7:15.

The first day's report showed that sixteen sessions of one-on-one piano lessons were completed and the debt of 4,608 was turned into profit, which was a good start.

After get off work, the first thing Lao Tang did when he got home was to check his backpack again. In preparation for tomorrow's trip, he had packed his belongings yesterday.

Lao Tang’s habit of doing things is to prepare in advance. He envies those people who can burst out with great potential when things happen.

He can't do that. If he doesn't prepare in advance, he can't sleep well.

After checking everything, he walked around the room again and stuffed the smart flashlight on the bedside table into his backpack.

On the 23rd, the door of piano classroom No. 4 was closed

He can't do that. If he doesn't prepare in advance, he can't sleep well.

After checking around, Lao Tang walked around the room again and stuffed the smart flashlight on the bedside table into his backpack.

What to do in the evening? I feel a little nervous when I suddenly have so much free time.

Let’s just study. Lao Tang opened his course notes and threw his phone aside.

I just watched the live broadcast of my old club. It’s hard to describe what happened, but it has nothing to do with him anymore.
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In the evening, Wang Xiaohu came home and gave Bawan and Xiaobai some newly arrived canned cat food.

When Wang Xiaohu left, Li An gave Wang Xiaohu a bunch of cat strips and asked Wang Xiaohu to take them back to Doubao Douhua, but Wang Xiaohu refused.

According to Wang Xiaohu, the cats in his family eat more than humans.

"My mother's biggest hobby now is buying things for Doubao Douhua."

Li An expressed his complete understanding of this, "Be careful about your family status. Okay, go back quickly, go to bed early tonight, and see you tomorrow morning."

"Hey, good night, teacher."

Wang Xiaohu happily got on the elevator, and right after that Chen Xuan came out of the cabin holding a flute.

"Leaving now?"

"Put down the things and leave." Li An called Ba Wan and Xiao Bai, and opened a box of cat food sent by Wang Xiaohu for Ermao. "Sister Xu has been a little obsessed with kittens recently."

Chen Xuan: "This afternoon she said that raising a son is not as good as raising a kitten."

Li Anle: "Her son is indeed difficult to raise. Are you still practicing?"

"Let's practice for a while longer." Chen Xuan looked at the watch. "It's only half past nine. Wait for me to finish and then we can clean up together."

Although Teacher Xiaomi has been busy in recent days, she still uses her free time every day to practice the band pieces given to her by Fang Yongbo.

"Then I'll practice the piano too." Li An followed him back to the study.

The two kittens were still eating on the ground, and soon the sound of a piano was heard, followed by the sound of a flute.

Not a family of cats, but a family of doors.

Xiaobai was not afraid of the sharp sound of the flute. Instead, he ate even harder.

There was a can of food on the ground. Bawan seemed to be unable to compete with Xiaobai, so he put his paw on Xiaobai's head and continued to lick the can on his head.

"Meow."

"Meow."

After a while, Li An heard Xiaobai screaming outside, so he went to the living room and saw something. One was riding on the other, and the one being ridden didn't resist but just screamed.

"Eighty thousand!"

Firmly opposing any form of bullying, Li An directly put a large Elizabethan collar on Ba Wan.

"Try picking it if you dare."

Ba Wan dared, and he managed to escape from the collar five minutes after Li Ang returned to the study, but the can was empty.

The two cats looked at each other for a moment, and Ba Wan almost threw a cat punch.
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We have to gather and set off at 7:30 tomorrow morning. Several children are busy preparing to varying degrees, only Xiaoche is practicing the piano.

She had practiced the piano for less than six hours in the past few days, and she would not be able to practice in the next two days. Xiao Che roughly calculated that if she wanted to stick blue kitten stickers all over the holiday, she would not be able to slack off during the New Year period and would have to practice for eight hours every day.

At lunch today, she had already told her father, Aunt Sang, that she would also practice the piano during the New Year holidays and no one should interfere with her.

Lao Che was so happy that he couldn’t contain himself!
While his daughter was practicing the piano upstairs, Lao Che and Dingzi were in the kitchen preparing various skewers of meat for Ang Lee and his party to use tomorrow.

He is happy as long as his daughter is happy, and he will do his best to help Teacher Li whenever he needs help.

Moreover, the money that Teacher Li transferred to him far exceeded the skewers he prepared. Although he had already prepared enough, plus the lunch boxes from the previous two days, he was really taking care of his business.

There is nothing much to say, just make sure to marinate these skewers well so that the teachers and children can enjoy eating and having fun.

"The cow is fat and thin."

Lao Che wrote a note while talking, but he was not satisfied when he picked it up. The thin man's handwriting was not good either.

"Forget it, Nail, you write it, write it nicely."

Dingzi smiled bitterly: "Master, leave it there. I have a way when you come back."

An hour later, the master and apprentice sorted all the skewers of meat and put them into the prepared transparent plastic boxes.

Although there were not too many meat skewers in each box, they were divided into nine categories. Together with the vegetable skewers prepared by Sang Ping, there were a total of fifteen categories.

The old car began to pickle, and Dingzi rode his electric bike in the cold wind and searched around before he found a 24-hour unmanned printing shop.

I printed the names of all the ingredients on a piece of paper, then made five copies. I then nailed the printed papers together and rode my bike back to the store an hour later.

"Why didn't you answer the phone? Where have you been for so long?"

"It's too windy to catch it, where are the scissors?"

Dingzi thought the old car was completely pickled, but it turned out that it was only halfway done.

After finding the scissors, Nail took out the printed ingredient list and started cutting.

In a short while, rectangular strips of paper divided into 30% and 20% were cut out.

Lao Che now understood, "This one looks good."

How could it not look good? Dingzi thought to himself that the font was so straight and neat.

Then he found some transparent tape and neatly stuck the printed strips with the names of the ingredients on the lid of the lunch box corresponding to the strings in the lunch box.

When Lao Che had finished marinating all the meat, Dingzi asked Lao Che not to close the lid in a hurry: "Master, wait for me to take a few pictures first."

After taking pictures of the various skewers of meat in the box, Ding put all the boxes together and took a picture after closing the lids.

The master and his apprentice looked at their phones and admired them. It made their kitchen look a lot more upscale.

"Master, I think we can definitely get barbecue started this summer."

Lao Che grinned: "Can I?"

Nail: "Absolutely. Look at how big and clean this skewer is. It's many times better than the one on the other side. I'll make a video and post it on TikTok when I get back."

Lao Che: "Does anyone see what you've done? They just see you busying yourself."

Dingzi said, "Of course there is no one. It's just that there are not many people now. When I succeed, you can just wait and see to open a branch."

"Okay, then I'll wait." Lao Che didn't believe that this thing was useful. If it was useful, everyone would have done it. None of his friends around him would have tinkered with it.

"Pack these two bags of barbecue ingredients into boxes." Lao Che took off his apron and went to the lobby to light a cigarette.

After a while, a voice came from the kitchen: "Where did you buy it?"

Lao Che curled his lips and said, "Where did you buy it? Are the ingredients sold in the market edible?"

"Master, you adjusted it?!" Then Dingzi poked his head out of the window with shock written all over his face.

Lao Che: “What?”

Dingzi couldn't believe it: "When did you learn how to make barbecue seasoning?" Lao Che laughed and said, "What do you know? Stop fiddling with your phone and learn the craft. What I have is enough for you to learn for another ten years."

"If you don't want to tell me, then forget it!" Dingzi thought to himself that the old man was really stubborn, but there was something to this information.

Dingzi retracted his head and dipped a little with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. It was okay, it tasted a bit like Yulin barbecue, but a little thicker than Yulin, and had an indescribable sweetness.

"I'm going upstairs. Put the things in the freezer. I'll go buy groceries tomorrow morning. Just take Linlin to Teacher Li before seven o'clock. Don't forget the things."

Nail: "Hurry up and go to sleep."

How could I forget this? He quickly divided the two packets of ingredients into four bottles, and then started searching the kitchen.

He seemed to have some impression that his master was tinkering with something in the afternoon.

Finally, he found a large stone mortar in the corner of the stove, which was used by Lao Che to grind angelica powder.

He picked it up and blew it towards his face with a sweet scent of angelica dahurica. Looking inside, he saw some yellow powder hanging on the surface of the mortar.

Nail wiped it with his hand and put it into his mouth. After tasting it, his brows furrowed.

"peanut?"

It can’t be just peanuts, right? Just adding some ground peanuts can produce this flavor?

Dingzi got some more barbecue seasoning and tried it, but finally gave up.

But this is not important. What is important is that he thinks that even if all the barbecue ingredients on this street are added together, they cannot produce the taste like the master.

Dingzi really didn't know that the first master that Lao Che followed as an apprentice was a barbecue master from the north.

That was all in the 1990s.
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At six o'clock the next morning, Dingzi took out the skewers of meat that had been marinated overnight from the freezer.

After carefully packing the box, I went to the breakfast shop opposite to buy fried dough sticks and soy milk. At half past six, the little car arrived at the store carrying a large white backpack.

"Why don't you wear that red hairpin?"

"Leave me alone."

Xiaoche still pinned up her hair in front of her forehead today, but she used a black hairpin.

Ding Zile: "Everything is ready, let's go, I'll call a taxi."

The brother and sister were sitting in the back seat. Xiaoche was eating fried dough sticks while asking Dingzi what kind of skewers of meat he had prepared.

But Dingzi's attention seemed to be all on the phone, and he answered Xiaoche's questions in a disjointed manner.

"Pork breast?" Xiaoche asked doubtfully.

Nail turned his head and said, "What pork breast, chicken breast?"

Xiaoche was speechless: "Who are you talking to?"

Nail put away his phone: "I'm searching for something."

Xiaoche: “What are you searching for?”

Nail: "I just want to buy a down jacket."

Xiaoche: "Didn't you just buy what you are wearing now?"

Nail was suddenly silent.

Then Xiaoche smiled slyly: "You are playing with friends."

Nail: “I don’t have any.”

Xiao Che became more certain when she heard the tone, as she had noticed abnormalities in the nails more than once recently.

"If you tell me, I promise not to tell my dad and Aunt Sang. If you don't tell me, then I can't say it."

Facing the threat from the car, Dingzi could only smile helplessly and coax, "We have only known each other for a short time, and we don't know what's going on yet. We are just friends now, so don't tell the master yet."

Xiaoche chuckled and said, "Then tell me her name. I won't ask anything else."

Nail: "Her name is Zhang Yuan."

Xiaoche: "Hey! You two have the same last name! What does she do? Where is her home?"

Nail: "Hey, have breakfast first. I'll explain it to you slowly when you come back from playing."

Xiaoche: "It's a deal."

Nail: "When did I ever lie to you?"

Xiaoche: "Just now, you said you didn't chat with girls."

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Xiaoche: "Why does she get up so early? Is she going to work?"

Nail: "She just got off work."

Xiaoche: “Huh?”

Nail: "Look."

From afar, under the street light, a yellow minibus was parked on the road in front of Piano Classroom No. 4.

The lights were on in the classroom, but no one could be seen inside.

Xiaoche's attention immediately shifted, "Aunt Xu Li's car is not here, so the black car should belong to Teacher Xu."

With that, the brother and sister got out of the car.

After Nail unloaded the white foam box, he followed the cart towards the store door.

In the store, Li An and Chen Xuan were chatting with Xu Hongxin while eating cabbage.

Before going to bed last night, Xu Hongxin suddenly sent a message saying that Baocai also wanted to go. Li An of course welcomed him, but Baocai was almost five months old and he was worried about the bumpy ride along the way, plus the kids would definitely make noise along the way.

Baocai said it was okay, but Xu Hongxin didn't dare to take it as an excuse, so after thinking it over, he decided to drive himself. Baocai was really bored staying at home for the past two months, and he was clamoring to set off at 6:30.

Xu Hongxin: "I'll bring two more later."

Li An: "You don't need to lead anyone. Just follow the navigation. Go slowly."

Bao Cai: "Brother An, I'm really not that squeamish."

Li An: "I know, but in this special period, we should pretend to be squeamish."

The four of them were laughing when they heard footsteps coming from the door.

"teacher!"

"Master's wife!"

"Teacher Xu!"

"Forehead."

The car had never seen cabbage.

Chen Xuan: "Teacher Bao."

Xiaoche: "Hello, Teacher Bao!"

Bao Cai: "Hello, little beauty."

Xiaoche smiled shyly, then gave up his position at the door. Dingzi followed behind him and greeted several teachers, then asked Li Ang which car to load the skewers. Li Ang told Dingzi to just put them down.

"That's hard work. We'll take a look later and decide which car to load it on."

"Okay, Teacher Li, I'll leave it here first. Teacher Li, you're busy," Dingzi said as he bowed to everyone, and finally looked at Xiaoche and warned, "Listen to what you say, teacher."

After Dingzi left, Xu Hongxin praised Dingzi and said that Dingzi was a really good guy.

Xiaoche was naturally happy when he heard this.

As Lao Tang, Haitao, Ji Yang and others arrived one after another, Xu Hongxin set off first with Bao Cai.

At 7:30 sharp, all the children were present and Ang Lee asked everyone to get on the minibus first.

He picked up the foam box that brought the nails and shook it, wondering how could it be so heavy?

How many things are wrong with this old car?

"Teacher, are we going to have a barbecue at noon?!"

As soon as Ang Lee got in the car, the children couldn't help themselves.

"I admire you guys. All you do is eat all day!"

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

Haitao: "Let's go, let's go!!!"

At daybreak, a minibus filled with laughter drove towards the foggy mountains.