"Okay, Jan! not young. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Seeing Xiao Yao's childish movements of comparing height, Betty rolled her pretty eyes helplessly.

"I still remember when you played the piano in the western restaurant and played the keyboard on the Eva show, but I didn't expect that in addition to playing the piano well, your guitar also played very well!" Betty then praised Xiao Yao.

"Although the piano is known as the king of musical instruments, I think the guitar is the most popular instrument among young people. Xiao Yao smiled, "It's just that I was too young back then, and no matter how tall or the size of my palm, I wasn't very suitable for playing guitar." ”

"Is it the favorite instrument of all young people, or yours?" seems to be that every time they meet, Betty and Xiao Yao like to play the pun of young.

"I think it's for all young people. Xiao Yao replied.

"Why?" asked Betty.

"Because it's easy to show in front of the girls. Xiao Yao introduced, "At least on the campus in Huaxia, a boy carrying a guitar to the dormitory of his favorite girl downstairs to play the guitar and sing is a very popular way to show love, and the success rate is very high." ”

"Really?" Betty was curious.

"Of course," Xiao Yao smiled and shrugged, "but only if the boy's guitar plays well." If it sucks, you'll be smashed away by all sorts of things thrown down from the floor by the girls in the dorm building. ”

"Hehe," Betty made up the picture that Xiao Yao said, and said with a smile: "That scene must be very interesting." ”

"But it must not be you. Betty continued, "If you confess to the girl you like in this way, the girl will not be able to refuse." By the way, do you have a girlfriend?"

"Nope. This time, Xiao Yao did not hesitate and replied directly.

Seeing Betty's somewhat surprised gaze, Xiao Yao complained in his heart: "I'm only seventeen, why does everyone think that I should have a girlfriend?" Not to mention that in my previous life, I saw that there were only a few middle school students who fell in love, even in the current world, there are not many people in the class who are in love, less than one-third, Chen Mingfei and Ma Peng, don't they all have girlfriends yet?"

Seeing that several band mates behind Xiao Yao had already packed up the instruments on the stage and stood aside waiting for Xiao Yao, Betty felt that now didn't seem to be the time for a long talk, so she said to Xiao Yao: "It's nice to see you again, come to my house this weekend." Keith was very curious about you back then, and I've always wanted to meet you, but it's rare that you're in the United States and you're playing in a band, and I think you two must have a lot to talk about. ”

"Your family?" Xiao Yao repeated with some surprise.

"Yes," Betty nodded, "my home is on Beverly Hills." Since you're an exchange student at Westbridge Middle School, you should be living in Calabasas, right? Calabasas isn't far from Beverly Hills, less than an hour's drive. ”

"Well, I'll go. Xiao Yao smiled and agreed.

After Betty and Xiao Yao exchanged contact information, they said goodbye and left, and Xiao Yao quickly packed up his guitar and returned to the band members who were waiting on the side.

"Is that Betty Bellette?" Seeing Xiao Yao come back, Dean couldn't help but ask Xiao Yao at first.

"Yes. Xiao Yao nodded.

"What did she say to you?" George asked, too, "Her husband is Kiss Craig, the lead singer of Daydream, does she have a crush on this song of yours and want to buy it for her husband?"

"No, we just met again by accident and had a casual chat. Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

"Oh... What?!" Dean nodded "oh", and then he exclaimed, "Meet again? You knew Betty Bellette before? How? When?"

"I met when I went to New York seven years ago, and as for how I met, it's a long story, and I'll tell you when I have a chance to tell you later. Xiao Yao pointed to the packed musical instrument and said, "Now we should put the instrument back first, and then think about how to celebrate the success of our first performance." ”

Hearing Xiao Yao say this, everyone's joy at the success of the performance still overwhelmed their curiosity about how Xiao Yao met Betty Bellet. Under Xiao Yao's call, everyone put the packed instruments back into the instrument room and thought about how to celebrate.

When it comes to celebrating, the first thing that comes to mind is wine. When it comes to wine, Xiao Yao feels that it is better in the United States than in China. When he graduated from junior high school that year, he and a group of friends almost got drunk when they went to karaoke. But in the United States, the law not only sets the legal minimum drinking age at 21, but also strictly prohibits the sale of alcohol to young people under the age of 21 in any place that sells alcohol in bars and shops. As a result, even if the band members were too excited by the success of the show to celebrate, there was no way to buy alcohol for a while, even if they wanted to drink illegally to celebrate.

Without alcohol, everyone can only use non-alcoholic drinks instead when they celebrate, and for Xiao Yao, it doesn't seem to be so enjoyable.

After a passionate and exciting performance in the afternoon, Xiao Yao's mood after returning to Smith's house after celebrating has calmed down, and people also feel tired.

When he returned to his room and threw himself on the bed, Xiao Yao, who just wanted to sleep well, failed to do so, because as soon as he went upstairs to the room with his front foot, Dean followed with his back foot.

"Jan, I want to learn to write songs, can you teach me?" Xiao Yao, who heard a knock on the door and opened the door to let Dean in, originally thought that Dean was here to gossip about how he met Betty, but he didn't expect Dean to make such a request.

"Today I realized that playing in a band and having my own music is the right way. So I thought, if you can write songs, why can't I?" said Dean with a confident expression.

"Since you want to learn, of course I can teach you some basic rules and methods," Xiao Yao looked at Dean and said, "But creating this kind of thing depends on inspiration and talent, whether you can write a song, or whether the song you write is good or bad, it's all up to you." ”

"Of course, I understand that. Dean nodded in understanding, "I didn't think I could do it before, but now I want to try." ”

"Okay, in that case, then you come to my room when you go home in the evening, and I'll teach you. But forget it tonight, I'm tired and need to rest now. Xiao Yao nodded in agreement.

"No problem, then I won't bother you. Seeing that Xiao Yao agreed, Dean simply got up and said goodbye.

At breakfast the next day, Mrs. Smith, who knew that the show had been a success, first apologized to the children for not being able to attend the show yesterday because of work, and then congratulated the three young men and praised them greatly.

Mrs. Smith's congratulations and compliments made the trio start the day on a very pleasant note. After arriving at the school, it was obvious to the band members that everyone's attitude towards them was completely different. They used to be a little obscure, and they seemed to have become star students in the whole school overnight. Everywhere they went, they greeted them warmly and praised them for their great performance yesterday.

For the rest of the band, yesterday's performance on the school anniversary was a good influence for them, but for Xiao Yao, he still has some legacy issues to solve.

Because all the rehearsals for the previous week were in the evening, Xiao Yao's part-time job at the "Duomai" supermarket was also absent for a few days. Xiao Yao explained the situation to his boss Mr. Johnson in advance and asked his colleagues to help him transfer the shift, and now that the performance is over, he has to work longer hours this week to make up for what he owes before.

Originally, the working hours were from 8 to 10 p.m., but this week, Xiao Yao's working hours were from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. And Xiao Yao, who worked for the first time after ten o'clock, encountered an unexpected incident.

After 10 p.m., the supermarket is hardly empty. This time is also the main time period for the tally clerks to prepare for the next day's sale.

Pushing the supermarket shopping cart full of goods, Xiao Yao put the goods on the shelves with empty spaces one by one. It's not a difficult job, but it's a bit boring.

"Stop, catch them!" Just as Xiao Yao was squatting on the ground a little bored to load the lowest shelf, he suddenly heard a girl shouting from the end of the aisle in the middle of the shelf.

Xiao Yao turned his head to look and saw three black young men in their twenties carrying bags and running in his direction with nervous expressions. And behind them, chasing them seems... Gold?

Xiao Yao, who looked stunned, stood up, just in front of the three black youths. A young black man with a turban who was running at the front saw Xiao Yao who was blocking the way, took out a knife from his coat pocket as he ran, brandished it and shouted to Xiao Yao: "Get out of the way!"

Xiao Yao, who still maintained a stunned expression on his face, raised his hands when he saw this, and then... One leaned sideways against the shelf next to him, making way for the three fleeing black youths to open the passage in the middle of the shelf.

The black youth at the head showed a smug look, but as soon as he ran out of the passage between the shelves, he tripped over a supermarket shopping cart rushing from the slanted stab. Not only did the knife in his hand fly out of his hand, but he also tripped over the two companions who were following closely behind him.

Then, several tall supermarket employees ran over and subdued the three people who had fallen to the ground.

"Kim, what's going on?" asked a sturdy white employee in his thirties, led by a black youth, looking up at Kim, who was running over. Several of them rushed over when they heard Kim's shouting, and he was the one who pushed the shopping cart that blocked the way.

"They were thieves who stole from the supermarket. Kim gasped and replied, "I saw them stuffing things from the supermarket into their clothes and bags, so I called out to them." But when they saw me, they turned around and ran, and I was sure that they must have stolen, so I ran and chased after me. ”

"Good job!" the white man complimented, and then said to the frightened female cashier behind the cash register on one side, "Call the police and let the police deal with it." Then he twisted the black young man's arm behind his back, pulled him up, and said to the black young man, "Go, go to our break room before the police come!"

Watching several tall white colleagues take the thieves away, Kim, who was gasping for breath, finally relaxed. Then she thought of the scene where Xiao Yao, who had stopped in front of a few thieves in the passage just now, took the initiative to give way to the thieves.

Unexpectedly, this guy who looked sunny and played in a band and was cool would take the initiative to make way for the thief when he met the thief, Jin glanced at Xiao Yao, who was standing on the side and had put his hands down, and shouted angrily: "Coward!" (To be continued.) )