Tang Huai arrived at the county town and didn't head directly to school. Instead, he went to Gu Jiajia's home.
Gu Jiajia's house was on a street managed by the county town's street office, a three-story building.
Gu Jiajia's mother was a music teacher for the first year of high school. There wasn't much music class for the first year; each class only had one music lesson per week.
With eight classes in the first year, that added up to eight lessons per week—not a lot of classes, but Gu Jiajia's mom was not an idle teacher.
One of the first-year classes was participating in a performance of a large choir, and Gu Jiajia's mom was helping them rehearse.
When Tang Huai arrived at Gu Jiajia's home, Gu Jiajia's mom had already had dinner and gone to school.
Seeing Tang Huai, Jiajia was very happy.
They had agreed to practice for the performance on Sunday night.
Initially, Tang Huai wanted to teach Jiajia to play a song that she would sing.
