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  Li Wei sat on the bus holding her erhu, reminiscing about the handsome young man. Alas, who knows when they'll meet again? Opportunities to buy a new instrument are rare too. It seems like she can only hope that Li Lin will break her instrument soon and come over for repairs. Right, let's get Li Lin to practice hard and learn well.

  Li Wei returned home with a heart full of spring.

  The time spent outside wasn't too long, apart from taking the bus, buying a violin, walking and adding to that having lunch at a decent restaurant after buying the violin as I was a bit hungry, having a bowl of wontons, all in all just over three hours but less than four.

  So, when Li Wei nervously entered the house and saw her mother and grandfather busy in the workshop, she secretly let out a sigh of relief. A while later, when her mother asked, she said she had been back for half a day, anyway they didn't see what time she came in, yeah, that's what she said.

  Li Wei's butt had just touched the edge of the kang, when her mother Cheng Min's voice came from the doorway: "You went to the moon to sew needles, how come you're back so late? Didn't you say you still wanted to buy canned goods? Where are they?"

  Li Wei hastily got up, not expecting to be discovered so soon. Without thinking, she said: "I waited for Old Man Lin at the restroom for half a day, then came out and ran into a guy playing the erhu on the street. Oh mom, he's so pitiful! His hair and beard are so long, his vest has many pockets, his pants have many holes, and there are only a few coins in the bowl in front of him... He's so skinny from hunger..."

  It's basically a composite of artist, director, hippie and beggar.

  Her mother was impatient: "And then, how did he take care of you? I've told you guys so many times to stay away from those beggars and street performers. What if you ran into a scammer and got scammed? What's the point of all this, after half a day, are you helping someone beg or what?"

  "No, I just felt sorry for him, then he said his erhu could produce a nice sound like Old Man Wu next door, and asked if I wanted to buy it, so I did."

  It turned out to be a scam, Cheng Min glanced at the erhu case and couldn't see anything special, so she asked: "How much money did he swindle from you?" Looking at the small bag on her back, it's unlikely that she was scammed out of all the money she made from selling those old clothes yesterday.

  How much money is good? Alas, a lie has been told and n lies are needed to cover it up, this is not something a human can do.

  "Twenty-five yuan." A lie with some truth in it will be more effective. Who said that?

  "That's a lot! But it's okay. At least they didn't cheat you out of all your money. Be more careful next time. Don't get too close to strangers, especially those who want to sell or give you something." Mom reminded me.

  Li Wei secretly let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it seemed like she had passed the test. She hastily replied: "Got it, mom. I won't buy an erhu again in the future. I promise." Buying something else should be okay, right?

  Cheng Min didn't have the energy to nag his daughter either. He was about to go do something else, but still glanced at the piano: "It looks pretty new. I'll open it and take a look inside."

  Li Wei was a little proud. With some show-off, she opened the piano box and said: "Mom, look at this. Why would I buy it if it's not new? I'm not collecting junk. Actually, I'm very thrifty."

  "Oh. The box is quite new. But this erhu looks old. It seems like it's been used for several years." Cheng Min said while touching the erhu.

  Li Wei looked at her and argued, "That's just how it's supposed to be, this way looks artistic, musical instruments are like that too."

  "What does a kid like you know about art and tone? It's just an old violin, something to fool kids with. Do you think I'd really give you a good one?"

  Li Wei was somewhat unhappy, a proper piano store and a handsome young man could deceive people: "How can it not be a good piano? I saw her take out the new piano from the warehouse with my own eyes. Don't believe me? Look at this logo, here..."

  Li Wei pointed at the trademark and looked up at her mother in a fit of rage, only to find that her mother's face was not right. She suddenly came back to her senses, let out a sharp cry, and ran out: "Grandpa, grandma! My mom is hitting me!"

  Sweat! Cheng Min was speechless with laughter and tears, she hadn't even said a word yet, but this girl had already labeled her as a violent person.

  In the end, Li Wei told her mother the truth under her grandfather's supervision. She didn't get a beating, but she couldn't avoid a long and severe lecture, who let her go into town privately and buy such expensive things!

  I don't know how such a young child is so enthusiastic about buying and selling things. Is this the legendary profiteer?

  What if I get kidnapped by a bad guy on the road!

  Anyway, Li Wei passed the test. As for buying a piano for Li Lin and letting her learn to play it, she didn't even dare mention it. If she really said something, that would be another crime: making excuses to shirk responsibility!

  But it's not easy to sell the piano to Li Lin either. Li Wei thinks that Li Lin will only be interested for a while, and if she really wants her to persist in learning, she'll have to use both carrots and sticks.

  It's hard to get started with anything, and this beginning must be initiated by herself in order to learn the lesson, only then can Li Wei properly take charge of her and persist.

  Before Li Wei could think of a way to deal with Li Lin, it was almost time for school to let out. Li Lin ran back home and threw down her backpack before finding her mom: "Mom, the teacher wants you to go to school."

  Cheng Min found it somewhat strange: "What's with going back to school? Where's your younger brother? Why didn't he come back with you?"

  Li Lin said with some concern: "Xiao Hui and Luo Jianzhong broke the glass in the office."

  Cheng Min sighed, why are they all so troublesome one by one!

  Took off the apron and white coat on his body, changed clothes, and ran to school with no choice.

  Li Lin followed behind, Li Wei thought for a moment and also went along with them.

  She took a day off, how did she get into trouble again? The glass broke and just replaced it with another one. But if the kids were demoted, that would be bad. If they also implicated her, that would be even worse.

  Cheng Min arrived at school and saw that one of the windows in the teacher's office area, which was in a 田 shape, had two broken panes. Without needing to ask around, he went straight into the office.

  A row of children stood against the wall inside the office.

  Cheng Min took a glance and found that there were quite a few familiar faces, her precious son, Er Bao, Luo Da and Luo Er, the rest of whom were older and unfamiliar to her.

  Cheng Min felt very embarrassed to go forward and greet Teacher Li, and couldn't avoid being scolded by her. "Your child is so young and skipped a grade, loves to sneak around during class, makes trouble after class, and doesn't listen to instructions at all..."

  Cheng Min, although not well-read, is also a very competitive person. He always strives to be better than others in everything he does. Now that he's over 30 and has many employees under him, being scolded by his boss like a student makes him feel terrible. It's simply torture, making him want to go home and take out his frustration on his son.

  Li Wei took advantage of no one paying attention to them and quietly asked Li Lianhui about what had happened. Only then did she understand that the four people standing in punishment could basically be divided into two small groups of troublemakers. One group consisted of Li Lianhui, Luo Er, and Er Pangzi, who competed with each other throwing bricks and accidentally broke the office window. Luo Er, whose tongue was a bit sharper, even defended the three of them: "It wasn't intentional." The other two nodded vigorously in agreement, leaving Li Wei speechless.

  As for Luo Da's group, which was dirty and disorganized, Li Wei saw two familiar faces. Judging from their hair color and skin tone, they seemed to be Huang Mao and Er Hei, who had robbed them on the mountain before. They were also known as Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei. The remaining boys Li Wei didn't recognize, but judging from their physique, they seemed to be upperclassmen.

  Considering Luo Da's barbaric behavior yesterday, Li Wei didn't want to bother with him at first, but thinking that this might also be a case of "heavenly net" not leaking, she showed some 'concern'. However, the little brat probably saw through her ill intentions and dared to ignore her!

  Li Wei magnanimously spared him and turned to ask Luo Er, who was still wavering: "What did your brother do?"

  Looking at his overall appearance, it's definitely related to violence.

  Luo Er didn't quite understand the situation either, but his summarizing skills were still pretty good: "They're fighting."

  Oh, it's not what she cares about, but rather who won and who lost.

  Luo Er seemed to have a keen sense of political smell, and after just one glance at the group of people, he said: "My brother is really formidable."

  Li Wei wanted to remind Luo Er that blindly worshipping individuals is not good. However, looking at the extent of damage and shabbiness of their clothes, it seems that Luo Da and Xiao Hei Xiao Huang's group had the upper hand, while the other four were quite miserable.

  Alas, what a calamity that will last for ten thousand years!

  Li Wei and Luo Er were whispering to each other when several parents arrived one after another. Seeing that Teacher Li had nothing new to say, it was estimated that the meeting would not be dismissed for a while. Li Wei took Li Lin and hurriedly went to the town's agency store to find someone to replace the glass.

  Better make up for the school's loss quickly, otherwise Teacher Li will be furious and send them all back to first grade.

  In the evening when I went home, Old Mom Cheng indeed pulled out a stretcher to hit Li Lianhui. Li Wei didn't have any opinion about this, but when Old Mom pulled her up together with him, she had a lot of opinions.

  Cheng Min was angered by his son and daughter today, counted their crimes and punished them together, making Li Wei and Li Lianhui stand in a row, while he himself held a broom upside down to carry out family law.

  Li Wei originally thought her mother just wanted to scold her, but now that the situation has escalated, she wants to run away, but the door is blocked by her mother. What can she do?

  He looked up and saw that the window on the kang was open, so he quickly climbed onto the kang, took a few steps over, flipped out of the window and jumped outside. The whole process was smooth as flowing clouds, if it weren't for the urgent situation, he would have even had time to exclaim "good", it was simply too cool.

  Li Lianhui saw his sister run away, thought he would follow her example, but before he could get on the bed, he was caught by his mother who grabbed him by the collar and didn't let him get away. However, he wasn't so scared anymore, thinking that his sister would definitely come back to save him.

  "Little rabbit, the sky has turned upside down!" Cheng Min was furious and scolded her children. How could there be such a reckless and fearless child? Under her nose, they dared to run away, and actually ran faster than a monkey! Her hand didn't stop, she hit Li Lianhui's buttocks with a broom, and just as she was about to hit him again, his father came in.

  Li Wei didn't disappoint her brother after all. She went out and brought back reinforcements, following her grandfather from the front door into the house.

  Old Master Cheng, the treasure of this town, once again fulfilled his mission to save the country's flowers and deeply imprinted his tall and glorious image in the hearts of children.

  Of course, the kids were also unusually well-behaved throughout the night, including Li Lin, who didn't dare to make a sound. Who made their mom's face so gloomy?

  Li Wei thought carefully and secretly considered letting her sister learn the erhu, the instrument had been shown to Li Lin before, who said it looked better than Wu Grandfather's erhu, but a bit like the big iron hammer in their family's junk pile. As for learning, no way, afraid of being laughed at, only old men play this kind of instrument.

  Li Wei was out of breath, she had been busy all day, this girl didn't dare to show any interest at all, what kind of eyesight did she have? What's the point of saying that only old men play this instrument? Other people's old men started playing the instrument since they were young, okay?! Maybe they were even beautiful young men back then! No taste!

  Actually, learning to play the piano has another important reason. As Li Wei knows, there is a folk music band in No. 1 High School in the city. Students with special talents in this area can get bonus points if they enter the band. It's always better to plan ahead and avoid worries later on.

  Now Li Lin has no interest at all, and Li Wei is a bit in trouble, which was also expected. After thinking about it, the power of example is infinite, learn by yourself first, when you can smoothly pull out the song, maybe you can attract Li Lin, but before that, you must not let her touch the piano, add some mystery. This is called "desire to capture and then release".

  The more Li Wei thought about this idea, the better it seemed. She had never realized how clever she was before, hehe.

  The next day after school, Li Wei supervised a few who had finished their homework and let them go. She herself carried the piano box and ran to Wu Grandfather's hut to pay respects.

  Wu Feng's grandmother passed away less than two years ago, and now the old man lives alone in a small house in Wu Feng's backyard. The old man has nothing to do by himself, so he sits at home listening to the radio and smoking.

  Li Wei came in and chatted with the old man for a few sentences, explaining her intention. The old man was idle anyway, and he also liked this neighbor's child who had a good reputation for being sensible, so he agreed to teach Li Wei how to play the erhu. Li Wei didn't waste any words either, and immediately asked Wu Grandfather to teach her the sound scale.

  Ke Su, but Ke Su, Li Wei found that the sound of this exercise is so unpleasant, I don't know if Wu Grandpa is sawing wood in the house.

  Li Wei practiced non-stop while thinking to herself, if she were to practice at home, her mom would definitely not be happy and think that she had killed the old hen again. As for Li Lin, finding out there was no chicken to eat would make him even more disgusted with her, it seemed like this ugly side of practicing couldn't be seen by Li Lin, otherwise it would be all over.

  It seems that for now, I can only practice at Grandpa Wu's house. Those who don't know will definitely think it's Grandpa Wu practicing. Sorry, Grandpa Wu, I've tarnished your reputation. Tomorrow, I'll go buy a bottle of wine to apologize to you.

  Alas, it's easy for her. Doing a good deed without leaving a name or saying anything, but still having to do it secretly, when will this pay off?