Seeing the message from He Xiao, Tang Miao pursed her lips slightly and smiled. While smiling, she enlarged the picture He Xiao sent, which was a picture of He Xiao's hotel room.
It was eleven o'clock in the morning. The sun shone through the French windows on the balcony into He Xiao's room, forming a square-shaped light grid on the ground. The light connecting the sun and the ground seemed to be visualized in this photo, thin and slender, sharp and bright.
Through this light, you can see the balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling windows and the scenery outside the balcony.
It is still a sunny day in Haicheng today. The mountains, forests and sea are all dyed with a layer of highly saturated filter, which looks vivid and beautiful.
Tang Miao enlarged the photo and then reduced it, then tapped the photo and returned to the chat interface.
【Tang Miao: Are you tired? 】
【He Xiao: Not bad.】
【Tang Miao: Let’s sleep a little longer. 】
There are no performances today, but we have to leave Haicheng and go to the next city for performances. However, the ticket is booked for the afternoon, so He Xiao still has time to rest.
He was on the road all night yesterday and only arrived in Haicheng this morning. He hasn't slept for very long now, so he must be tired both physically and mentally.
After Tang Miao sent this message, He Xiao replied with a message.
【He Xiao: Yes.】
Seeing the message from He Xiao, Tang Miao lowered her eyelashes, and a smile appeared in her eyes again. She looked at the chat box, clicked on the input interface, and typed two words to him.
【Tang Miao: Good afternoon.】
【He Xiao: Good afternoon. 】
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Tang Miao's morning class didn't end until twelve o'clock.
After the class, Tang Miao said goodbye to the students and their parents in the classroom. After they left, Tang Miao sat on the piano bench and was in a daze for a while. After clearing his mind a little, Tang Miao took out his phone to order lunch takeaway.
Tang Miao didn't eat much breakfast, but she wasn't really hungry. She rarely stayed up late, and even with the liver-protecting tea Xiao Jiang gave her, it didn't have much effect, and she still had no appetite.
But even if I have no appetite, I have to eat something because the afternoon classes are very tight and I may not be able to hold on without eating.
Tang Miao simply ordered a salad, a bowl of porridge and yogurt. After ordering, Tang Miao sat in the piano classroom, scrolling through his phone and waiting for the takeaway to arrive. Not long after, the takeaway guy called. After Tang Miao answered the call, he got up and left the piano classroom and went downstairs.
The takeaway meals from the piano store were usually placed at the front desk. Tang Miao went downstairs and met the takeaway boy, took the meal he brought over, thanked him, talked to Xiao Jiang for a while, and then took the meal upstairs.
When he walked to the door of Qian Cheng's office, Qian Cheng just pushed the door open and saw Tang Miao. Qian Cheng's eyes lit up and he said, "Hey, Teacher Tang, are you done with your work?"
Tang Miao swapped shifts with Yu Yaya yesterday. In the afternoon, Yu Yaya's family member went to the hospital to accompany her because she was not feeling well. They were supposed to contact Tang Miao and ask her and the students' parents to cancel the afternoon classes. But Qian Cheng happened to be free, so he took over the afternoon classes.
Speaking of yesterday's incident, Tang Miao was originally going to thank Qian Cheng. However, she was busy with classes in the morning and didn't have time. Now that they happened to meet, after Qian Cheng asked, Tang Miao stopped and looked at him, smiled, and said.
"yes."
"Yaya told me that you helped with the class yesterday afternoon. Thank you." Tang Miao and Qian Cheng expressed their gratitude.
After being thanked by Tang Miao, Qian Cheng smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's no big deal. I just happened to be free and playing games all the time is boring. A few classes are just the right way to combine work and rest."
Combining work and rest is indeed a good thing, but for Qian Cheng, taking piano lessons is rest and playing games is work.
After hearing Qian Cheng's words, Tang Miao smiled again.
When she was smiling, Qian Cheng looked at her, his eyes fell on the lunch in her hand. Seeing the lunch she was holding, Qian Cheng said, "Ah, go eat. I came out to get food too. The delivery guy called me just now, but I was playing games and didn't have time to get it, so he left it at the front desk."
"Yeah, okay." After Qian Cheng said this, Tang Miao didn't bother him. After responding, he took his lunch to the piano classroom.
Qian Cheng stood at the door of the office, watching Tang Miao leave. After she walked into the piano classroom, Qian Cheng withdrew his gaze, shook his head, and went downstairs with his hands in his pockets.
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After Tang Miao finished talking to Qian Cheng, they returned to the piano classroom. When she arrived at the piano classroom, she put her lunch on the small table and took a sip of porridge. While she was drinking, Qian Cheng, who had just met her not long ago, suddenly knocked on the door of her piano classroom.
After knocking, Tang Miao turned around and Qian Cheng directly pushed open the door of her piano classroom.
"Teacher Tang, I just went downstairs to get my meal, and Xiao Jiang told me that you asked her not to settle your tuition for yesterday?" Qian Cheng pushed the door open with his meal in his hand. He stood at the door and looked down at Tang Miao in the piano classroom.
Tang Miao hadn't swallowed the porridge in her mouth yet. When Qian Cheng opened the door, he had already looked up at her. After hearing Qian Cheng's words, Tang Miao swallowed the porridge, nodded and said, "That's right."
The so-called non-payment of class fees means that Tang Miao does not want a share of the class fees for her yesterday's class, which is equivalent to working a day for nothing. Although she did not come yesterday, she exchanged her class with Yu Yaya on Sunday, which means that she actually took a full day of classes, but now she does not want to pay the class fees.
"What are you doing?"
After Tang Miao finished speaking, Qian Cheng looked at her and seemed to be laughing out of anger, and asked this question.
"Yaya helped me with half a day's class yesterday, and you helped me with half a day's class. I was going to buy a gift for Yaya..." When Tang Miao said this, Qian Cheng listened to her and did not interrupt her happily.
"Oh, so I just give you the money directly?"
Being interrupted by Qian Cheng, Tang Miao raised her eyelashes and just looked at him without saying anything. There was a sense of entitlement and confusion in her eyes.
Of course, Qian Cheng taught her, so she should give him the tuition fee for yesterday. But if she gave it to him directly, he would definitely not want it, so when she went downstairs to get the food, she told Xiao Jiang not to settle her tuition fee for yesterday.
And this is why I am confused.
For piano teachers, under normal circumstances, when colleagues help to substitute for other students, they have to pay the tuition fees to the other party. At that time, she had just arrived and substituted for Qiu Yu for a few classes, and Qiu Yu also settled the tuition fees with her.
This is a normal thing for a piano teacher, but she feels that Qian Cheng doesn't seem to like the way she handled it.
After being asked this by Qian Cheng, Tang Miao did not feel embarrassed by being questioned. She still sat there quietly, looked up and smiled gently at Qian Cheng, and said.
"I just wanted to thank you."
The woman explained.
After she finished explaining this, Qian Cheng's eyes moved a little bit with her gentle explanation. Almost instantly, Qian Cheng felt that the inexplicable dissatisfaction he had just felt when he went downstairs and heard Xiao Jiang tell him that Tang Miao did not allow him to settle yesterday's tuition fees had just dissipated.
She did this for no other reason, she just wanted to thank him. But he attended half a day's class, and Yu Yaya also attended half a day's class, so Yu Yaya just bought a gift for him, and he directly transferred the money.
The relationship seemed to have become distant in an instant.
But Tang Miao was right to do so. It was so flawless that he couldn't find any fault with it.
But he was not very satisfied with Tang Miao's approach.
"But transferring money is too polite." After Tang Miao said this, Qian Cheng's stiff tone softened and he said this to her.
After he said this, Tang Miao didn't care about his impoliteness when he spoke earlier. He smiled at him lightly and said.
"Then how do you want to thank me?"
Of course she had to thank him. Since Qian Cheng didn't like her approach, she would just do as Qian Cheng thought.
After Tang Miao said this, Qian Cheng paused and looked at her.
After reading it, Qian Cheng really thought about it, and after thinking about it, Qian Cheng said.
"Then please treat me to a meal."
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Tang Miao agreed to Qian Cheng's request for a way to thank him.
In fact, compared to her way of thanking him by not directly paying the tuition fee, Qian Cheng's way of thanking him by treating him to a meal was indeed more humane.
After she came to Huaicheng, the only people she knew, apart from He Xiao, were her colleagues in the music store. Among her colleagues in the music store, apart from being close to Yu Yaya and Xiao Jiang because they were both girls, the other person she had a better relationship with was Qian Cheng.
Qian Cheng is really a very good boss. He has a sunny and cheerful personality. Although he is the boss, he is not arrogant at all. He always organizes team building and relaxation for the piano teachers in the piano store, and he is very good at joking with everyone.
More like a friend than a boss.
Tang Miao also likes his friend Qian Cheng very much.
He has a very pure heart and treats his friends as friends should be. He is not shy or secretive and is open and aboveboard. His personality is very likable.
Just like that, Tang Miao agreed to treat Qian Cheng to a meal.
After agreeing, Tang Miao's schedule was too tight, but when it came to implementation, he couldn't find the time. It was the peak period of summer vacation, and Tang Miao's classes were packed every day. Even if he didn't fill his schedule, his free time was fragmented, so he couldn't find time to invite him.
But Qian Cheng was not too anxious about Tang Miao inviting him to dinner. In his words, Tang Miao was his piano teacher at the piano store, and as long as she didn't resign, he wouldn't be afraid that she would run away from the dinner.
Qian Cheng was right to say this. Tang Miao had never planned to resign. As long as she was at Boya Music, she would always be Qian Cheng's employee, and she would never be able to keep giving lessons without treating him to this meal.
And although the plan of inviting Qian Cheng to dinner had never been implemented, after this meal, the contact between Qian Cheng and her became more frequent.
In the past, the two of them were at most boss and employee, but now their relationship is somewhere between boss and employee and friends.
Qian Cheng used to be less comfortable with her than when he was with Yu Yaya, and he didn't joke with her much. But after this meal, Qian Cheng would remind her from time to time that she still owed him a meal.
Every time Yu Yaya heard it, she would catch Qian Cheng and scold him.
Yu Yaya: "You are a second-generation rich man who owns a music store, do you really care about this meal? You keep talking all day long."
Qian Cheng: "I appreciate it. Who wouldn't appreciate a free dinner? Why don't you appreciate it?"
Yu Yaya: “…”
Despite being ridiculed and insulted many times by Yu Yaya, Qian Cheng still did not change this habit. Until the end of August, when the classes at the piano store gradually relaxed, Tang Miao found a day to treat Qian Cheng to a meal.
A rich second generation like Qian Cheng actually didn't care about this meal. He should have eaten at all the big and small places in Huaicheng, and Tang Miao had done some research on what to treat him to.
Finally, she booked a barbecue restaurant in the suburbs.
This barbecue restaurant is not an ordinary Korean barbecue, but a Japanese barbecue. The ingredients are all high-quality meat and some seafood. A meal costs about five or six hundred yuan per person.
This is already a high consumption in Huaicheng, but Tang Miao thinks it is worth it.
Her tuition fee for that afternoon was almost three or four hundred yuan, and if she really wanted to treat Qian Cheng to a meal worth only three or four hundred yuan, it would be a bit too shabby.
The more time you spend working in a music store, the easier it is to sense what kind of people you are when you get along with them. Tang Miao has been working for ten years and is very good at judging people.
She could see that Qian Cheng was a good person and was willing to make friends with him.
Qian Cheng had been nagging about this meal for half a month, and when he finally had it, he was very satisfied. Although Tang Miao invited him to the meal, he was the one who grilled the whole time. Qian Cheng seemed to be very good at barbecue. In his words, when he was in college, he often went out to eat with his girlfriends, so he developed this skill of grilling meat.
Tang Miao smiled at what he said and also chatted with him about some of his college days.
Tang Miao never went to college, but she once had a strong desire to go to college. Later, as she worked longer and longer, this desire gradually faded.
And although her longing has faded, she still has some respect and admiration for universities or people who have attended university.
Maybe the more you don't have something and can't get it, the more you like it, and you will also love everything about it.
The meal was extremely satisfying.
After finishing her meal, Tang Miao went to the front desk to pay the bill. After paying the bill, she and Qian Cheng went to the parking lot together and got into Qian Cheng's car.
Originally, Tang Miao invited Qian Cheng to dinner today and wanted to take a taxi, but Qian Cheng said he could drive. Qian Cheng drove and not only took him to the barbecue restaurant, but also picked up Tang Miao.
Now that they had finished eating the barbecue, the two were ready to leave, and Qian Cheng took Tang Miao back with him.
This was their original plan, but after having a full meal, Qian Cheng didn't want to go back because he was addicted to alcohol. Since he had driven here and had to drive back, he didn't drink alcohol at the dinner table, but drinks.
Now that the meal is over, the two are ready to return to the city. After getting in the car, Qian Cheng said to Tang Miao.
"I'll buy you a drink."
After Qian Cheng finished speaking, Tang Miao turned around and looked at him.
"Ah, let's go to the bar." Qian Cheng was looked at by Tang Miao. He smiled and explained. After that, he looked at Tang Miao and said, "If you don't want to drink, don't drink. Drinks are fine."
After saying this, Qian Cheng said, "It's just too boring for me to drink alone."
"Besides, you treated me to a meal, and if I don't treat you to something, I'll feel uncomfortable all over." Qian Cheng said, "It's like I'm taking advantage of you."
After Qian Cheng said this, Tang Miao smiled.
"No need." Tang Miao said this to Qian Cheng after laughing.
"This meal was originally supposed to be my treat for you, you don't have to pay it back," said Tang Miao.
"Aren't you going?" Qian Cheng asked Tang Miao after she said this.
After he asked this, Tang Miao turned around and glanced at Qian Cheng who was driving.
To be honest, it doesn't matter whether she goes or not. She hasn't been too tired from work recently, and she's not in a hurry to go back and rest. But she really doesn't have an addiction to drinking, and if she goes out alone with the opposite sex, Tang Miao really won't drink.
If she really didn't drink, Qian Cheng would probably find it boring to drink alone.
"I don't drink. You'd probably be bored just sitting there," said Tang Miao.
"It's okay." After Tang Miao said this, Qian Cheng shrugged nonchalantly and said, "I'll drink, you drink, and then we can chat."
They were chatting in the barbecue restaurant just now, talking about some messy and superficial topics.
Most of the time, Qian Cheng was talking and Tang Miao was listening.
Although Tang Miao is not very good at speaking and doesn't talk much about herself, she is a very good listener, which makes everyone who is with her feel very comfortable.
Qian Cheng had said this, and if Tang Miao still disagreed, it would seem a bit too inhumane.
So after Qian Cheng finished speaking, Tang Miao nodded and said, "If you like, it's okay."
"Okay." Qian Cheng responded and said to Tang Miao.
"Then let's set off on our journey home!"
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