Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1376, Section 596: Old Master Tang's Mysterious Gift
Mr. Tang didn't have much luggage, just a rolling suitcase.

But the box was packed full, weighing more than 20 kilograms.

As soon as Ang Lee turned off the car, Mr. Tang opened the door and got out.

"The trunk."

"I'll come, I'll come."

"I can do it myself."

Unable to persuade the old man, Ang Lee could only stand aside with his arm outstretched, ready to step forward and help at any moment.

"Move aside."

As he spoke, Grandpa Tang bent down and dragged the box out of the carriage, then placed it steadily on the ground.

"Wow, your health is amazing." Li Anzhen wasn't just flattering him.

Grandpa Tang smiled and said, "These are just a few heavy things, which way do you want to go?"

“This way,” Li An led the way, “Let’s go back inside and put our things down first, then go out for a quick bite. You can rest when we get back this afternoon, and I’ll show you my skills again tonight.”

Grandpa Tang: "After all that trouble, I won't be able to eat anything in the summer."

Ang Lee: "Then please sit down and eat with us."

Grandpa Tang chuckled and said, "Alright, alright."

They arrived at the elevator. Ang Lee said that this was the first floor, and sometimes they wouldn't wait for the elevator and would just climb the stairs.

Inside, Chen Xuan and her two children were already waiting, while Xiao Che was giving Ba Wan instructions.

Suddenly, as if hearing something, Bawan turned its head and was instantly picked up by the car.

Then the living room door opened, and Chen Xuan immediately went to the door.

"Uncle Tang, you've finally arrived!"

Ang Lee pushed open the door, and Chen Xuan greeted him warmly.

"Sorry to bother you, Teacher Chen, haha."

"What are you saying!"

"grandfather!"

"Grandpa Tang!"

Two little girls followed closely behind.

"Alright, alright, you two have worked hard this morning too. This orange cat must be Bawan."

"Yes!" Tang Xiaoxing happily introduced, "Linlin is holding 80,000, and Xiaobai has disappeared somewhere. It must have been scared by you."

“Lin girl, put it down quickly,” Old Master Tang chimed in with a laugh, “I don’t want to be the bad guy.”

Hahahaha.

Tang Xiaoxing: "Grandpa, these are your slippers."

Ang Lee: "Uncle Tang, you don't need to change into slippers anymore. We'll go out for dinner right away."

Tang Xiaoxing: "We have to change! My teacher's wife has been getting ready all morning!"

Chen Xuan hurriedly said, "No, no, Uncle Tang, please come in and rest for a while."

Grandpa Tang laughed and said, "I have to listen to Xiaoxing now."

Tang Xiaoxing: "Hehe."

Tang Xiaoxing was overjoyed to learn that her grandfather would be living with them for the next period of time.

After changing into slippers, Grandpa Tang entered the house and was led to the master bedroom by the two children.

"This room used to belong to the teacher and his wife; it's yours now."

Tang Xiaoxin happily explained, "This desk lamp was specially prepared for you by your teacher."

Looking at the brand-new floor lamp standing beside the bed, Old Master Tang felt a little embarrassed. He had already troubled Li An and his wife with his visit, and now he had brought in a whole house full of household items.

He could tell that everything in front of him was new except for the room itself.

"Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Chen. I'm really sorry to have troubled you."

"Uncle Tang, you're too kind. We're too grateful to you. We've both been very busy lately, so we'll have to ask you to take care of them."

Grandpa Tang looked around and nodded with a smile, "You two can focus on your work during this time, Li An."

"Here you go." Li An pushed the suitcase to Grandpa Tang's side.

Grandpa Tang squatted down, laid the suitcase on its side, unzipped it, and flipped it over, revealing the suitcase to everyone.

It was only then that Ang Lee noticed that the left half of the box didn't contain much; it was just a few short-sleeved shirts that had been pasted on.

Then his gaze turned to the right half of the space.

Grandpa Tang casually unzipped half of the suitcase, and the moment the cloth was lifted, everyone was stunned.

The right half of the box was filled with sheet music!

"Uncle Tang, what's wrong?"

"This trip was indeed rushed, and I don't know what I brought for you," Old Master Tang said with a grin, picking up the sheet music on the top shelf and standing up.

He turned and handed it to the car: "This complete set of Chopin etudes was given to me by an old friend when I led a troupe to perform in Warsaw in 93. It was at the Chopin Museum. The scores are all hand-drawn. It's quite interesting. You can take a look when you have time."

Seeing the little car with its hands behind its back, Grandpa Tang smiled and said, "Take it."

The car couldn't reach out.

Li An stopped him, saying, "No, no, Uncle Tang, this really won't do; it's too precious."

Grandpa Tang scoffed, "It's not for you, move aside."

Ang Lee: "What are you doing? If you keep doing this, I'll..."

Tang Xiaoxing, who was standing nearby, hooked her arm around Xiaoche's and said with a grin, "Hurry up and take it, Linlin!"

The little car looked helplessly at Li An, who gave another wry smile. "Hurry up and thank Grandpa Tang."

"Hurry up, Linlin!" Tang Xiaoxing urged.

"Thank you, Grandpa Tang," Xiao Che finally replied.

But she didn't reach out immediately. Instead, she took a step back, bowed, and rubbed her hands on her clothes several times before carefully extending her hands.

"Thank you," the car owner said again.

Grandpa Tang smiled and said, "No need to thank me," then turned and called out, "Xiao Xing, bring out all the sheet music."

"Hey!" Tang Xiaoxing immediately sprang into action.

In the blink of an eye, the desk in the bedroom was piled high with sheet music.

Li An and Chen Xuan didn't know what to do either, so they could only smile and thank them.

It wasn't that they were being polite; each of these sheet music books was simply too precious to be true.

Among them are not only various versions of piano scores that Mr. Tang has treasured for many years, but also the orchestra score with rehearsal details and the independent scores for the flute part.

To outsiders, it's just a stack of sheet music, but to Ang Lee and Chen Xuan, each sheet is a priceless treasure, both in terms of its collectability and practical value.

These sheet music scores, like cabbages, were being taken out of the box one by one by Tang Xiaoxing.

Grandpa Tang pulled an old-fashioned notebook from a stack of scores and handed it to Chen Xuan.

"This is a record of quintet rehearsals that I've compiled since I started working. It's also a collection of my personal experiences and insights. It's no longer of any use to me, so I'm giving it to you. It contains some ideas about integrating our national works with woodwind quintets. You can refer to it when you have time."

"Thank you, Teacher Tang."

Chen Xuan was speechless. "Thank you, I will definitely study it carefully."

"I look forward to your return." Old Master Tang smiled, then looked at Li An one last time. "You can handle the rest of the scores; I won't interfere."

Ang Lee scratched his head, looking exactly like Wang Xiaohu: "You really are... Well then, I'll gladly accept your offer, thank you."

Grandpa Tang chuckled, "Let's go eat."

Chen Xuan: "Please sit down and have some tea."

Grandpa Tang: "I'm starving, let's eat first."
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At noon, Ang Lee treated us to a meal of Chengdu specialties for the five of us.

After the meal, the two children took Grandpa Tang back to rest, while Ang Lee and Chen Xuan went to the market again.

I bought pork and cabbage.

Ang Lee had planned to make dumplings for Mr. Tang tonight.

Half an afternoon passed in the blink of an eye. Li An prepared the dumpling filling and sent a message to Xiao Che. Xiao Che reported: "Grandpa Tang woke up after sleeping for forty minutes. He just told us about polyphony. Teacher, are you ready?"

Ang Lee replied via voice message: Almost done. Just come over around 5 PM. Send Wang Xiaohu a message and tell him to come over for dumplings tonight.

Car: Received!
After receiving the teacher's reply, Xiao Che was about to send a message to Wang Xiaohu when she remembered that Wang Xiaohu had sent her a message two hours earlier saying that he had to practice the piano in the afternoon, so she put her phone down again.

For the next hour, she and Tang Xiaoxing took Grandpa Tang by bus to the entrance of Shipo Middle School for a stroll.

“Grandpa, Linlin and I park our electric bikes here every day,” Xiaoxing said, pointing to a bike shed. “Last time it rained, we stayed in the shed for half an hour.”

"That's the teaching building over there. Do you see the second open window on the third floor? That's our classroom!"

Looking in the direction his granddaughter was pointing through the courtyard wall, Grandpa Tang smiled and nodded.

"Grandpa, let me show you my and Linlin's secret hideout."

"Then I'll have to go and have a good look around."

The so-called secret base for the two was actually a branch of Er Mao Mala Tang located behind the school.

When the two children need to find their own lunch, they usually come here.

"Is it so delicious?" Grandpa Tang stopped at the shop entrance, his eyes filled with curiosity. He knew how picky his granddaughter was.

Tang Xiaoxing said proudly, "Of course! I only realized how delicious this food was after Linlin took me here for the first time. I'll treat you sometime, but you'll have to pay!"

Grandpa Tang: "Alright, alright, then tomorrow. I want to try it and see how delicious it is."

Tang Xiaoxing shook her head: "We have a certification exam tomorrow! You forgot?"

Grandpa Tang remembered and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you have your exam tomorrow."

At this moment, Xiao Che interjected, "We'll finish our exams tomorrow morning, so we can come over for lunch."

Tang Xiaoxing: "But don't we still have to help out at the shop after the exam?"

Xiao Che laughed: "Don't worry, it won't be our turn to help tomorrow. If we stay there, we'll just be causing trouble for the teacher, so let's set it for tomorrow noon."

Tang Xiaoxing: "Okay!"

Shipo Middle School is actually not very big; it only takes a few minutes to ride an electric bike around it. However, it took the grandfather and his two grandsons an hour to walk around it.

The two young girls talked about whatever they saw along the way, mostly about trivial things on campus, but Grandpa Tang was happy to listen. He would occasionally ask a few serious questions, which made the two girls laugh.

When the two children laughed, Grandpa Tang laughed too.

Xiao Che laughed until the bus back to the city was ready, and then he sent Wang Xiaohu a message.

One minute later, the phone screen lit up, and the toy car slid open the screen.

Wang Xiaogou: Let me tell you something amazing. You just finished practicing the piano and picked up your phone to see the message you sent!

Xiao Che pursed his lips, a smile appearing on his face, and quickly typed a reply: I'll tell you something even more amazing. Even if you practice until 8 PM, you can still see the message I sent you the moment you pick up your phone.

moment.

Wang Xiaogou: Then I'll continue! Anyway, my mom isn't home today, so I can practice until 10 o'clock straight, okay?

Little Car: Sure, nobody's stopping you. Anyway, the teacher told me to ask you to come eat dumplings in a bit, I've passed on the message, so feel free to come.
Wang Xiaogou: Why didn't you say so sooner! I can be there right now! Wait for me!
Little Car: Hurry up and help peel the garlic, Grandpa Tang and I will be there in a bit.

Wang Xiaogou: Received!
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five minutes later.

A series of urgent knocks came through the doorbell. Li An wondered what Chen Xuan had forgotten to take this time.

I hurried to the door and saw Wang Xiaohu fiddling with his hair through the screen.

Ha ha.

"You're pretty quick."

Ang Lee opened the door, and Wang Xiaohu, who had already changed into slippers outside, rushed into the room.

"Teacher, let me help peel the garlic."

"Oh my, look at this awareness, it's different from before."

"of course."

"There must be a master guiding him behind the scenes."

"Hehe, I've always been self-disciplined. Where's your master's wife?"

"Went out to buy cilantro."

"Doesn't your master's wife not eat cilantro?"

"Are you out of your mind? We're not eating this! Go wash your hands and peel these three cloves of garlic."

"Oke Oke."

After washing his hands, Wang Xiaohu came back, took a plate, and went to Li An's side to start peeling garlic.

As he worked, he observed and discovered that the teacher was making dumplings faster than his grandmother.

"Teacher, you're so fast!"

"of course."

"Do you know how to make mouse dumplings?"

"will not."

"Where are the Yuanbao dumplings?"

"will not."

"What about the fishtail?"

"You can?"

"All I do is eat."

"Then shut up."

moment.

"Teacher, how do you think I've behaved these past few days?"

"You broke so many of my bowls yesterday, what more do you want?"

"Oh, I mean, aside from this, do you know how long I practiced the piano today?"

"It's only been less than eight hours, what's there to brag about?"

"Teacher, you..."

"But I still have to give you a shout-out, you've almost fully recovered today."

"Yes! Teacher, I only sent Arlene two messages today, one when I woke up and one at noon, just to tell her I had to practice the piano."

"It doesn't have to be that strict. You can handle it yourselves."

"Yes, I think this is great. I feel very positive and healthy. I really like how I feel today."

Ang Lee paused for a moment, then nodded. "I hope you can maintain this, just like you have these past few days."

Speaking of which, Wang Xiaohu has been behaving quite well these past few days. In Ang Lee's opinion, the two children seem to have returned to their previous way of getting along, as if nothing had happened.

But subtly, both of them have undergone some changes.

Wang Xiaohu is more composed than before.

And the little car seems to smile more often than before.

This is certainly what Ang Lee hopes to see; he hopes the two children can continue like this forever.

"Go and get my water glass."

"Eh!"

Not long after, Chen Xuan and the grandfather and grandson entered the house together; they had just met downstairs.

The little car also had two extra buckets of drinks in its hands.

"Grandpa Tang!"

"Little Tiger has worked hard too."

"It's not hard work! It's all about serving the people!"

"Then I should also serve the people. I might not be any worse than your teachers at making dumplings."
-
It was another heartwarming dinner, and afterwards the three children took the initiative to clean up.

Today, Xiao Che is in charge of supervising the project.

In the living room, Mr. Tang sat in front of the piano, becoming Chen Xuan's artistic advisor.

The day after tomorrow, Chen Xuan will be going to Rong'ai with Li An to rehearse for the music festival.

Amidst the continuous sounds of piano and flute music and laughter, Ang Lee made a video call to Lin Youyou from his study in his new home.

Regarding the grading exam tomorrow, the two of them still need to double-check the work details.

"Hey, what are we eating?"

When the video call connected, Ang Lee saw Lin Youyou slurping something down from a bowl.

“Spicy hotpot.”

In the video, Lin Youyou is both sexy and calm.

Regular updates will resume tomorrow! Sorry.