"Even if it has been verified, it is in the past, and it is hard to say what will happen in the future." Hesta paused, "If Mrs. Kajia specifically tells you in two days, 'Don't skip school anymore. ', will you listen?"
Ding Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then pushed Hesta's back hard, "... Just take what's yours, okay! Leave me alone!"
Hesta laughed twice, then turned around, "Just tell me, is it useful?"
"I know what I'm doing," Ding Yuqing replied eloquently. "Anyway, my grades won't prevent me from going to school in the end... What's the use of staying in school all the time? There are some skills that don't even exist in school. I don’t know how to teach. Do you know what academic qualifications my mother and sister have? My mother was an honors graduate when she graduated. How is it now? My sister was pregnant with Miaomiao when she was in her first year of bachelor’s degree, but she has never mentioned it again. Regarding resuming school, no matter what, I won’t stay in school for too long. The real world is outside school... If it weren’t for the need for a basic diploma, I would have dropped out of school now.”
Hesta listened carefully, "Then what are you going to do in the real world?"
"...I don't know yet," Ding Yuqing kicked up a pebble on the roadside, "but one day, I will know."
Hesta was about to say something more when she suddenly saw a familiar figure from the corner of her eye - Ksenia and her friends coming down the steps of Wenhui Building together. They were carrying musical instruments and talking and laughing with each other. From time to time he burst into hearty laughter.
Hesta was quiet for a moment. She stopped and stood at the intersection in front of the school gate and looked sideways. Ksenia and her friends turned directly after walking down the steps and headed in the other direction of the school. They were chatting so happily that they walked very slowly. Amidst the alternating and overlapping silhouettes, Hesta suddenly I found that there was a familiar figure always walking beside Kseniya - Methnan.
He also carried a piano case on his back, but walked very quietly.
Ding Yuqing had already taken a few steps forward, but found that Hestad had not followed, and jumped back to Hestad, "What are you looking at?"
"A lot of people came out of Wenhui Building just now." Hesta said softly, "It's so late, I don't know what they are doing."
"Let's do club activities." Ding Yuqing followed Hesta's gaze and said, "Ding Jiali is like this sometimes."
The two soon returned home. Judging from the unpacked takeout bags and lunch boxes on the dining table, Ding Jiali and Ding Guisheng had quite a sumptuous dinner.
Ding Yuqing frowned and put the lunch box containing the leftovers back into the bag, carried it to the door and opened the window for ventilation.
"I suddenly remembered something..." Hesta said suddenly, "When I first came here, Ms. Xu once told me that in addition to teaching language classes to children, she also works part-time as a piano teacher."
"Yeah. Most of them are children in the community."
"But I seem to have never seen a piano at home, nor heard the sound of a piano..." Hesta looked at Ding Yuqing, "Am I always missing it?"
Ding Yuqing shook her head, "My mother hasn't practiced piano at home for a long time... Dad doesn't like it. It was like this when we were in Songxueyuan. She usually practiced at the piano store and came back after playing."
"Where's the piano?"
"In the attic." Ding Yuqing looked at her, "That's not our piano. It was left by the previous owner of this house... Do you want to take a look?"
…
Early the next morning, Ding Jiali drove Ding Guisheng to the hospital. Not long after the father and son left, someone rang the doorbell. Ding Yuqing asked through the door who was coming, and a female voice came from outside, "Tuner."
"Tuner? Who are you looking for?"
"Is this Ms. Jane Hestad's home?" the woman asked. "She made an urgent appointment last night, and I just happened to have time to come over this morning -"
Ding Yuqing opened the door in confusion and saw a woman carrying a work box.
The woman looked at Ding Yuqing's standard South Fourteenth District face, "You...shouldn't be...?"
Ding Yuqing was about to call back to Hesta when she heard footsteps coming from behind - Hesta walked out in pajamas and slippers.
The two of them went to the attic with the tuner, and stood at the door watching the tuner hunched over the piano while working.
Ding Yuqing didn't come back to her senses for a long time. After a while, she looked at Hesta, "...Why did you suddenly think about the piano? Did my mother mention this to you yesterday?"
Hesta shook her head, holding her left hand on the door frame with a smile on her face, "Just think of it as a surprise."
"Haha, when are you going to tell her?" Ding Yuqing couldn't help but laugh, "She has twisted her waist now, and she shouldn't be able to sit for a long time recently -"
"You decide?" Hesta looked at Ding Yuqing, "You can tell Ms. Xu whenever you think it is appropriate."
"Okay! Hey... I just don't know how dad will react when the time comes. If he has any objections -"
"Then let him learn to get over it," Herstad said softly. "If you ask me, this piano should not be placed in the attic, but should be moved to the living room."
"The piano in our house used to be placed in the living room! I remember that when I was very young, my mother would occasionally play the piano and teach me and my sister to sing, in our Songxueyuan home... But the piano was later moved to We went to the underground garage, and we were—"
At this moment, Hesta's cell phone rang.
She answered the phone, and a middle-aged male voice came from the other side, introducing himself as being from the supervision team of the University of Technology. He came to ask Hesta today to learn about Zuo Wentao's unreasonable expulsion of students.
"Wait a minute, I'm looking for a quiet place..." Hesta put down the phone and looked at Ding Yuqing, "I have an important call——"
"You go back to your room to pick her up." Ding Yuqing said immediately, "I can just watch here."
Hesta left quickly. Ding Yuqing leaned against the door frame and looked at the sound engineer at work with some emotion.
…
At around ten o'clock in the morning, Ding Xueyang sent a message saying that Miao Miao's high fever had subsided this morning, and Xu Ruyi, accompanied by Ding Jiali and Ding Guisheng, went to the orthopedics department of a nearby general hospital - in fact, the doctor at the Children's Hospital had already made a diagnosis last night , the problem is not big, just for peace of mind, it is better to do a set of tests.
On this day, Ding Yuqing was in a good mood. She was humming a song and tidying up the living room downstairs. From time to time, a string of scales or a few bars of classical music came from upstairs. The tuning of the attic piano was really a big project. It took a long time to adjust such a piano. An unmaintained piano needs at least two hours to start.
Suddenly, the sound of a key being turned came from the door, and then, Ding Guisheng's face appeared behind the door.
