small town story

Chapter 9 Gifts



Chapter 9 Gifts

The day before the garden party, Su Youqin received another message from his teacher inviting him to the garden party.

It rained a little in the early morning, and when she was standing behind the electric baking pan frying oil pancakes, she felt faintly sore from her thighs to her knees, and her waist hurt a little.

She insisted on standing until the fritters were fried, and then dragged a stool to sit down. Because she moved too much, she was comforted by the neighbor who came to buy breakfast not to be too tired.

Because of the discomfort in her legs and waist, Sister Cui didn't let her work when she closed the shop.Seeing the news, she asked Sister Cui if she wanted to go to play. Sister Cui was unusually shy: "Do you want to go to the classroom? I haven't been to a classroom for many years. I used to help in the school cafeteria, and I never went."

Su Youqin explained the content of the garden party to Sister Cui. Sister Cui was amazed at the school life of the students, and lamented that the conditions of the children are good now. When she was a child, her family was poor, and she had not finished elementary school for a year.

There is no difference without comparison.Su Youqin thought of the richer lives of children in big cities. Many children in elementary schools in the town could only rely on these activities organized by their teachers to add some fun to their growth.

The garden party starts at 01:30 pm.The whole school participates together, including kindergarten children.

Su Youqin took Xiaojin to sleep for more than half an hour after eating, and woke him up with a bottle of Wahaha.Xiaojin was in a daze, holding her mouth and almost crying, two people, one big and one small, went to the kindergarten, and the road was full of parents and children rushing to school.

All the children in the kindergarten gathered in the playground in front of the preschool building. The teacher set up several parent-child games and children's games in the playground.

Su Youqin took Xiaojin to play four parent-child games, such as climbing competition, balloon stepping, little feet stepping on big feet, and baby kangaroo. She was so tired that her waist almost broke, but she was very happy and won No.1 twice. She changed to a red panda pendant, and she hung the pendant on Xiaojin's schoolbag, and Xiaojin jumped up with joy.

Around 02:30, kindergarten small class, middle class, large class, and preschool class were paired up. The teacher took them to play children's games, and the parents watched.Uncle came from home, Su Youqin greeted him and left first.

There is a marble fence between the preschool building and the primary school. The gate beside the fence is open, and several security guards are chatting beside the gate.Su Youqin passed by, they stopped chatting and greeted her.

Although Su Youqin didn't know them.

The school has four classes in each grade from grades one to three, and six classes in each grade from grades four to six.

The first to fourth grades are located in the building facing the big playground and the school gate. The building is arc-shaped and divided into three parts: left, middle and right. There are classrooms on the left and right, and the teacher's office in the middle.

Su Youqin originally wanted to go to Shen Qianyao's class first, and greet Shen Qianyao by the way.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the first grade, he was held back by a little strange girl.The little girl was wearing a mask that only covered the upper half of her face, and a beautiful little skirt, and she didn't speak.

She pulled Su Youqin to the door and gently pushed the door open.A brisk melody came from the classroom, and the tables and chairs were pulled to the corner and arranged as a dance scene. In the open space in the middle, the students led the adults they invited in to dance.

The dance is like a ballroom dance, but the height gap between adults and first-year students is too large. Some adults really don't have dancing talents, so it's very funny to dance with them.

All of a sudden, the brisk melody was mixed with various laughter.

When Su Youqin came in, many people looked at her at the same time, most of them glanced past and hurriedly followed the movements of the little dance partner, some glanced at her several times, but she ignored it.

The little girl stretched out her hands and feet, and her movements looked very professional. Su Youqin followed her with a smile. After the two of them moved, they danced much better than the other big and small dance partners in the classroom.

Someone stopped to watch Su Youqin and the little girl dance.

Su Youqin hasn't danced to the music for a long time.The little girl kept smiling at the corner of her mouth, and Su Youqin was brought joyously by her.

A song ends.

The little girl led Su Youqin to another door, only then did Su Youqin notice that beside the door was a half-person-high color box with eyes, nose and mouth painted on it, and beside it stood a KT board in the shape of a comic dialogue, The board reads: Did you have fun dancing?Just put a dollar in my stomach if you are happy.

Su Youqin was amused.Fortunately, she was prepared, took out one yuan from the small bag that was slanted across, and threw it in through the opening on the side of the color box.

The little girl led Su Youqin out of the classroom, and gave her a princess salute.Going to find the next big dance partner.

Two male parents in their forties came out of the classroom. One asked why he could only invest one yuan, and he wanted to invest more. The other parent laughed at him, saying that this was just a student activity, not a business to make money.

Next, Su Youqin saw drama performances, sketch performances, chorus, and piano playing in different classes. In a class of the second grade, a little boy who often came to buy breakfast invited him to perform a double reed. Su Youqin sat in front and opened his mouth to make movements. The boy squatted behind her chair and told stories.

This game is very suitable for Su Youqin, she only opens her mouth but does not speak, which is her current actual situation.

She just didn't expect the little boy in the second grade to be able to speak oboe.The story is the story of the classmates in the little boy's class. He learned it vividly and told it wonderfully, which made parents and children laugh.

When Su Youqin found Shen Qianyao's class, Shen Qianyao was standing outside the classroom staring at the phone and laughing.

Kind of silly.

Su Youqin patted her on the shoulder, Shen Qianyao probably wanted to share the things on the phone with others too much, so he dragged her to the corner and handed her the phone to look at.

On the screen of the mobile phone, a young man was being led to dance by a little boy. The chubby little boy moved slowly and looked cute, but the young man was on the same hands and feet, hurriedly, which looked very funny.

Isn't this the first grade class?

Shen Qianyao said that the man was a doctor from the town hospital, named Bian Chao.After a while, he introduced that he didn't like him very much.She didn't say the reason, and looked at the screen and laughed: "It's too funny, I'm going to post it on the website, let others see it, and then laugh at him."

The action quickly and neatly sent the video out.

Su Youqin typed to her: "He won't say anything?"

"It's okay, the teacher in the student class is still broadcasting the live broadcast, I heard that there are quite a few people watching."

live streaming?Su Youqin was taken aback for a moment, then, she was also recorded just now?

Shen Qianyao didn't know what she was thinking and led her into his class.

Several booths were set up with tables in the classroom, and there were origami, origami, little stars, and paper-cuts on the booths, all of which were handmade.The students gathered behind the booth in groups of three or four, some folded on the spot, and some introduced it to their parents.

In the middle of the classroom, there are little boys performing taekwondo.

Shen Qianyao smiled and watched the little boy's non-standard movements: "The students said that the empty space in the middle is not good-looking. The children in the class are volunteering to perform, and they can perform anything. Just now, a little boy told a ghost story."

Ghost stories?

Shen Qianyao smiled helplessly: "Children read a lot of things. Most boys in the class like to read ghost stories, and then tell them in front of girls. Just like when we were young, boys liked to pull girls' braids."

The third grade students have indeed reached this age.

Shen Qianyao followed Su Youqin to the paper-cut booth.

There were already two or three parents in front of the booth, and two little girls were talking to their parents about how the word "Fu" was cut out.Seeing Su Youqin approaching, a little girl kicked the little boy who was squatting on the ground behind him, the boy jumped up instantly, smiled and said to Su Youqin, "Sister, do you want to see the paper-cut?"

Oops, the mouth is so sweet.

Su Youqin glanced sideways at Shen Qianyao, and wanted to ask if she had taught the children in the class to call younger people older brothers and sisters instead of aunts and uncles.

The little boy first introduced the types of paper-cuts on the stall, and then mentioned the history of paper-cutting, with a correct accent, as if reciting a text.Attracted several parents to approach.Su Youqin bought two paper-cuts, left the booth, and left the place for the parents who came later.

She stayed in this class for a long time.The students in the class are very good at greeting, and the students at the folding star booth can talk about the paper stars to the planets and then to the universe.

Shen Qianyao followed her to two booths and was called away by the teacher in the next class.When Su Youqin came out of the classroom, she was leaning against the corridor wall to answer the message.

"Are you done shopping?" Shen Qianyao asked her, looking at the small jar of stars, a bouquet of star flowers, paper-cuts, folding boats, etc. in her hand, the things were small but many, filling both hands.

Shen Qianyao asked her to go to the office with him to pack things up so that he could get some more.

Su Youqin wanted to refuse at first, but looked at the things in her hands, she still had two grades left to go shopping, so she hurriedly followed.

Shen Qianyao's office is relatively small, with a rectangular desk in the middle and three chairs around the desk.It was still the usual arrangement of Su Youqin's office when he was in elementary school.

"There are only three teachers in our office. Apart from me, the other two are husband and wife, in their forties, and sometimes they quarrel in front of me." Shen Qianyao pushed open the door with a smile, "I was not used to it at first, but now they are almost mediator between husband and wife."

There are three little dolls on Shen Qianyao's desk, including a little Pikachu, which is very cute.She went to the corner to get the small bag, Su Youqin put the things in her hand on the table, and patted Pikachu with her hand.Seen by her turning around.

"I caught this some time ago, isn't it cute?"

Su Youqin nodded.

"I caught it twenty times before I caught it. I'm tired." She picked up Pikachu with a smile, and put it directly in Su Youqin's hand: "At first, I thought it would be fine to catch it three times, but I was not reconciled. After five times, I was still not reconciled." , and continued to catch it, and finally caught it at No. 20. I feel at ease."

Su Youqin took Pikachu.That's what grabbing a doll is all about, especially looking at a doll that nearly fell into a hole.She shook Pikachu and put it back on the table.

Shen Qianyao stopped: "Here is for you." She put all the things that Su Youqin put on the table into paper bags.

Su Youqin shook her head, took out her phone and wanted to say no.

Shen Qianyao blinked: "Take it as a gift for getting to know Boss Su, and thank you Boss Su for inviting me to drink." Seeing Su Youqin shaking her head, she preemptively said, "I know it wasn't the wine that Boss Su bought, but the mangzi is yours." My friend, if you are not a middleman, can I drink it?"

Makes sense, can't refute.

Shen Qianyao's eyes were sincere, and his joyful expression was extremely contagious. Su Youqin frowned, accepted the gift from little Pikachu, and silently said thank you.

After visiting each class, it was past five o'clock, and it was almost the end of school at 05:30 on weekdays.

The students in the fifth and sixth grades are older, and they sell drinks and fruit plates in the classroom.When Su Youqin met Sister Cui, Sister Cui was holding a plate of fruit, commenting on how well it was cut and arranged with her companions.

The two greeted each other.Sister Cui bought a box of fruit plate for Su Youqin, saw the bouquet of stars in her hand, liked it very much, and dragged her companions to the third grade to see if the stall was closed.The excited look was completely different from the shyness shown when he mentioned that he needed to enter the classroom in the morning.

Su Youqin returned home alone and arranged the things she bought.

The little Pikachu was first placed on the back of the sofa by her, together with several panda figurines.

But yellow is too bright, like an outsider in the panda world.

Su Youqin went back and forth in the living room a few times, and would unconsciously glance over the little yellow ball, and finally picked up Pikachu and put it on the backrest of the bed in the bedroom while eating dinner.

The backrest of the bed in the bedroom is more than [-] centimeters wide, and there are some miscellaneous books on it. Su Youqin would grab a book and turn a few pages every night before going to bed.Pikachu is placed next to the book, the size, color and shape are very suitable.Just a lonely one.

When I go to the city next time, I will grab a doll and come back to pair with this Pikachu.Su Youqin thought so, and the cell phone in the living room rang.

Someone made a video call.

She walked out in a hurry, saw the contact on the screen, and suppressed her expression.It was her mother calling.

She picked up the video, and the woman on the other side of the phone was ironing a small brown-red curl, and asked loudly what are you doing the moment she connected?

Su Youqin stared at the screen.The person on the screen frowned slightly and asked again.

Su Youqin opened her mouth and said she was eating.The person on the screen only saw her mouth moving, but couldn't hear her voice, so she reacted at this moment, froze for a moment, and slowed down her voice: "Have you eaten yet?"

This time Su Youqin nodded.

Silence spread, and the person opposite finally found a way to effectively communicate with the person who could not speak: "Have you continued to see a doctor?"

nod.

"Can it be cured?"

Shaking his head.

"Are there any other problems?"

Shaking his head.

"Why don't you come here to have a look?"

Su Youqin pursed her lips.Several hospitals in the largest cities in the country have not been able to see it, so there is nothing to see there.

"Then you are at home alone, you still have to take care of yourself. How is the business of the breakfast shop?"

nod.

When she opened the store, she didn't discuss it with her parents. After it opened, her parents got the news from relatives at home and called her to complain.The complaint is not that she is worried about her body, but that she feels ashamed to go home and open a breakfast shop.

"A good college graduate, go home to recuperate and recuperate, open some breakfast shop."

At that time, Su Youqin hung up the phone directly.A few weeks later, her younger brother Su Xinyou celebrated her birthday, sent her a message, and built a step in the middle, so she only communicated with her parents once.But only through words.

For this video, it's probably been a long time since I haven't contacted her. Her mother wants to see her current situation.

Parents have never believed in Su Youqin.I always feel that this child who grew up with his grandparents is too far away from him, and he doesn't understand what she is thinking.

At the beginning, they didn't know where they knew that she had a good friend, and they also knew that girls and girls could be together, so they asked her for a long time.

At that time, Su Youqin was indeed dating Ai Yun.But she will definitely not admit it in front of her parents.So until the two broke up, her parents thought she was single.

After she was 26 years old, her parents began to urge her desperately.Even using the reason of grandparents, she was so angry that she was entangled by a girl she didn't like at that time, so she simply started looking for a boyfriend, and was going to sacrifice two or three years of her own time in exchange for the rest of her life's peace .

It's a pity that this peace was not exchanged.The accident came first.

The person in the video also realized that it was rude to chat with Su Youqin via video. After asking what he needed to ask, he hung up the video first. Su Youqin curled his lips, threw his phone away, and sat down to eat.

That night, she received a WeChat message from a friend asking her where to go on National Day.

She joked that the people who opened the shop didn't have holidays.After replying to the message, I realized that I could indeed go out to play during the National Day.

During the National Day holiday, families who buy a house with children will basically go back to their hometowns, and people in the town will also go to the city or other places to play, so closing the door for a few days will not cause much loss.In addition, thinking of the neighbor's words to comfort her in the morning, don't be too tired.

I am already like this now, so I shouldn't be too tired.She turned on her phone, ready to search for places to play around.After searching around, I found that the interesting places are either near the provincial capital or in the nearby municipalities.

Tier [-] cities do not have places to play.

She put down her phone and lay down on the bed.Suddenly remembered seeing a sharing of an exhibition in Shen Qianyao's circle of friends.She went to look it up, but couldn't find it, so she went back to the dialog box, thought about it, and decided to ask.

Su Youqin: "Mr. Shen, have you rested?"

Shen Qianyao was sitting on a chair playing video with her cousin.

The place where she lives now is the old teachers' dormitory.

After Wu Han's husband made a fuss on the first day of school, the school did not plan to change Wu Han's room allocation arrangement.The old teacher's dormitory has basically been converted into a small apartment [-] without a living room. They can live in a family of five, and the floor of this apartment is low, which is suitable for families with the elderly and children.

Moreover, the new teacher's dormitory does not have a whole set of empty rooms, and the room vacated by Wu Han is allocated to a new female physical education teacher this year.

Wu Han refused.When I came out of the police station, I followed the logistics teacher Wang's buttocks that night.Teacher Wang was annoyed by being followed and dragged her directly to the principal's place.

The principal of the school is in his fifties this year, and he has been the principal in the town for almost ten years. Now his family is in the city, and he is the only one working in the town.The teacher's dormitory at the school was short of housing, so he returned the room originally assigned to him to the school and lived with two male teachers.

Wu Han cried in front of the principal.The female teacher in her forties, with slap marks on her face, crying out of grievances, no matter how you look at it, it is unbearable.The principal asked Mr. Wang if there was any way, what could Mr. Wang do, unless the new teacher's dormitory vacated a suite.

Can't make it.

The principal thought about it, and said that he should ask the teachers when the teacher's meeting is held the next day.

When sending Wu Han away, the principal said euphemistically that if they were unwilling to accept the school's accommodation arrangement, they could rent a house outside.

A big house with three bedrooms and one living room near the school costs about [-] yuan a year, and the teacher's family can basically afford the money.Wu Han's expression changed, he whimpered and wanted to cry again.The principal hurriedly asked Mr. Wang to take her away first.

That night when Wu Han went back to the dormitory, he met Shi Mi in the living room, and immediately closed the door of his room with a cold face. Shi Mi was so angry that he pointed at Sang and scolded Huai in the living room, calling him a white-eyed wolf.

On the second day of the teachers' meeting, the principal asked Mr. Wang to mention Wu Han's matter in front of all the teachers, and asked the teachers to think of a way together.

Most people think that it is a bit embarrassing to talk about it, and it will cause trouble for others.But Wu Han didn't think so, and even proposed that the co-resident teachers could live in the old teacher's dormitory, and the new, larger dormitory could be allocated to the teachers with families.

These words are too directional.Many teachers lowered their heads and sneered, and the principal also frowned. Finally, he suggested that the teachers who live in the old teacher’s dormitory should pay a symbolic monthly rent of [-], while the teachers who drag their families want to live in the new dormitory. Six hundred rent.

This suggestion is also reasonable. The teachers who originally lived together need to pay [-] per month, and there are three people living in a flat, which is exactly [-].

The monthly rent for the family housing in the old teacher's dormitory is two hundred.

In fact, not many teachers in the school apply for home accommodation.Teachers with families usually have houses in the town, and married teachers who don’t have houses usually live with their single teachers because their family members live in other places.

Counting, there are more than 12 in-service teachers in the school, only [-] have applied for family housing, eleven of them have already lived in the old dormitory, and the remaining one is Wu Han.

As soon as the headmaster said this, everyone only focused on her.She couldn't pretend no matter how ignorant she was, the principal's suggestion was for her.

She buried her head and said nothing.

The principal asked Mr. Wang to take another young teacher from the logistics department down to discuss the matter, and the meeting ended.

After the meeting, Wu Han wanted to cry in front of Teacher Wang again, but was interrupted by Shen Fei, a young teacher in the logistics department.Shen Fei lived in the old dormitory with her husband and children, and she also met with Wu Han's husband that day. She asked Wu Han to go back and discuss with her husband about renting a new dormitory instead of the old dormitory.

Shen Fei is also in charge of the daily welfare distribution of school teachers.Wu Han was worried that she would wear small shoes for herself, and give her less oil, rice, dry goods, etc., so she stomped her feet and called her husband to come to school directly.

Shen Qianyao accidentally saw Wu Han's husband enter the back office and dragged Shi Mi to listen.

Wu Han's husband was probably educated at the police station, and this time his attitude was quite good. After thinking about it for a while, he agreed to pay the rent.

The two teachers in the logistics department are now worried about who will be free.

Shen Qianyao and Shi Mi, who were eavesdropping, discussed moving to the old teacher's dormitory, so that the school would no longer assign other teachers to share with them, and they would live in a small apartment without a living room. It's only one hundred, what a deal.

Shi Mi was concerned about money, while Shen Qianyao felt that the old teacher's dormitory was compact and more comfortable than the empty new dormitory.The two filed an application, and the logistics department immediately approved it, and called two male teachers to move for them.

As for the new female physical education teacher, she was assigned to another shared house.

Cousin Shen Qianyao works in Beicheng, a municipality directly under the Central Government, and the two hadn't been in touch for a long time. They watched Shen Qianyao change residences on video, and asked a few more questions. Shen Qianyao told about Wu Han and her husband, and the two complained together.

Su Youqin's message popped up, Shen Qianyao stopped talking, and replied first: "No, what's the matter?"

The cousin waited for a few seconds before listening to Shen Qianyao continue.Without saying a word, Su Youqin's news popped up again.

Su Youqin: "I want to ask you something. Is the exhibition you shared earlier in Jinshi?"

Shen Qianyao: "In Jinshi, but it should be over."

"You want to go?"

Su Youqin: "Yes. Let's just forget it's over."

She thought about it, and sent another message: "Jinshi or Beicheng, which city is more fun?"

Shen Qianyao looked at the message that popped up and smiled.Captured by the cousin on the opposite side of the screen, the cousin narrowed her eyes and said meaningfully: "Little Qianyao, who are you chatting with?"

Shen Qianyao looked at her speechlessly: "You."

The cousin shook her head: "Then who are you replying to?"

"a friend."

"Friend?" The cousin's eyes became sharper, "Male or female?"

Shen Qianyao said without hesitation, "Men."

The cousin was disappointed: "What's the use of chatting with men. Men are big pigs. You said that you are a person who likes girls. When you came out of the closet, you made a big splash. I haven't seen you bring a girlfriend home for so many years. You can tell me honestly." , I don’t want to be urged to marry, so I found an excuse to like girls.”

Shen Qianyao was even more speechless, what is this and what is it.

She looked at her cousin on the screen with contempt: "I, a socialist successor with a bright future, would I have thought of being urged to marry at that time?"

She raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked at her cousin with a strong mockery: "Even if I know that I will be urged to marry when I am old, if I make an excuse in advance, will I make an excuse that almost broke my leg? I have been broken for more than a year." Living expenses, I almost starved to death in the school dormitory..."

The cousin sneered and said: "Oh, just kidding, don't get excited, don't get excited, miss... It's my fault, I couldn't secretly give you money back then. You know, because of your incident that year, all of our cousins Sisters and cousins, every month’s pocket money is deducted so that you can only eat instant noodles, there is no way to help you.”

Speaking of that time, the cousin and Shen Qianyao were silent at the same time, then looked at the screen and laughed.

The cousin leaned against the head of the bed and stretched: "I won't bother you to reply to the message. Come to Beicheng for the National Day. It's agreed. Hang up, bye."

Shen Qianyao nodded and said goodbye.

The screen jumped to Su Youqin's chat interface, and Shen Qianyao began to reply her message: "Both are okay. According to experience..."

She sent a lot of four- and five-line texts, briefly introducing the delicious and interesting things in Jinshi and Beicheng.

Su Youqin didn't know how to reply, so she could only choose a few introductions to express her shock and curiosity.

Su Youqin didn't realize it until the alarm clock rang at 10:30. She went to chat with Shen Qianyao tonight and didn't read the book before going to bed.

The phone is still shaking, and new messages continue to come.

She checked the time and the news, and secretly decided to go to bed at eleven o'clock tonight.Fortunately, since Sister Cui has mastered the preparations of the breakfast shop, she can wake up at four o'clock every morning.

From eleven o'clock to four o'clock, I can sleep for five hours.

A few more hours of sleep during the day will give you enough sleep for the day.

Shen Qianyao also seemed to go to bed around eleven o'clock, and when it was almost ten fifty, she took the initiative to mention that she had to wash up first.Su Youqin quickly responded, sent a good night emoji, and put away the phone.

After going out to the toilet, she picked up her phone again and read the record of their conversation.

But we chatted a lot, although Shen Qianyao was mostly introducing Jinshi and Beicheng.

Su Youqin finally decided to go to Beicheng. He set off on the afternoon of the second day of the National Day and came back on the morning of the sixth day.It happened to be able to catch up with the two market days, and it was also possible to avoid the travel peak, so it was easy to buy tickets.

After booking the ticket, she turned off the lights and went to sleep, before closing her eyes, she said goodnight to the air.On the phone she put aside, an emoji of a little mouse covering the quilt and saying good night jumped out at the right time.

Shen Qianyao came out of the shower quickly, and found that she forgot to say good night to Su Youqin, so she hurried back.Then he turned on his phone and booked a ticket to Beicheng on the third day of National Day.

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The author has something to say:

Will there be more people watching on weekends?Then come on and do more on the weekend?

It seems that Zhangzhang is very fat~~


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