An incident that happened at the newspaper party last year has been like a small lump, and has been remembered in Song Qiaoxi's heart for a whole year.
When I thought about this time last year, Chu Jin was brought to the stage by Aunt Gao and Secretary Sun, and when Secretary Sun heard about the car accident that his parents experienced and the injuries he suffered in front of all the employees of the newspaper, he said, "This is a good thing. The name of "child" made her feel uncomfortable.
Song Qiaoxi is a very happy little girl with a big heart and no grudges.
He doesn't like to cry, and rarely can't control his emotions. He is angry, complaining, and even hates and disgusts. The people around him have never seen it.
In this life, she grew up surrounded by love.
The love of her parents and the love of her friends make Song Qiaoxi live a simple and happy life without fear.
Before December, Song Qiaoxi and Ding Miao, two little best friends, got together to discuss the countermeasures for the Millennium Annual Press Party several times.
Ding Miao has strong logic, Song Qiaoxi has a lot of ideas, and the two little girls are quite complementary. After discussing for a month, they came up with such a strategy. This year, Chu Jin will not be allowed to read any broken "thank you letters" at the newspaper party. .
"Xixi, have we succeeded?"
Ding Miao held the kraft paper envelope in her hand and tiptoed to look into the corridor.
Song Qiaoxi jumped up and looked at it several times, confirming that Aunt Gao really went down the stairs and disappeared in the corridor on the fourth floor, and hugged Ding Miao's arm excitedly, "Miaomiao, we are halfway there!"
"I'll take a look at it for you first and see how to revise it," Ding Miao waved the kraft paper envelope with the newspaper's logo in her hand, and raised her chin at Song Qiaoxi, "Go back to your seat first, what if Chu Jin comes back right away?"
"it is good."
Xixi nodded and jumped back to the back row of the classroom.
After a while, the class bell rang.
Wang Junyang stepped on the class bell and rushed into the classroom, running out of breath, the one-eyed boy turned back and grinned at Song Qiaoxi.
Judging from his proud look, he knew that the task must have been successfully completed.
The head teacher, Mr. Feng, turned on the TV in the upper left corner of the classroom, and the image of the principal of the primary school attached to the normal school appeared on the TV screen.
Halfway through the class, Chu Jin and Ding Yicai entered the classroom with a "report".
This semester, because of the training for the Mathematical Olympiad competition, Chu Jin will occasionally miss class meetings.
Because Ding Yi is highly appreciated by art teachers, he was promoted to the representative of art class this year.
At this moment, Ding Yi held a picture scroll in his hand and shook it at Teacher Feng.
Mr. Feng raised his eyelids and saw that Ding Yi came in with Chu Jin. He didn't even ask, and let them both enter the classroom and go back to their seats.
When Chu Jin sat down, Song Qiaoxi pursed her lips and quietly passed him a note, "What have you been doing? It took so long to come back?"
Chu Jin took the note, frowned slightly, picked up a pencil from the pencil case and scribbled a few words, "It's okay, Ding Yihua forgot in the art room, accompany him to get it."
Looking at the note he sent back, Song Qiaoxi held back his smile and drew a smiley face on the note.
Chu Jin usually participates in the Mathematical Olympiad training with his senior classmates in another teaching building of the attached primary school, the old red brick building of the attached primary school.
It is also a coincidence that the art classroom where Ding Yi usually paints is also in the old red brick building.
So when Aunt Gao appeared in the school corridor, Wang Junyang and Ding Yi received a signal from Song Qiaoxi.
The two little boys acted immediately, and according to the plan agreed in advance, excused Ding Yi to pull something down in the art classroom, and asked Chu Jin to accompany them to find it.
Chu Jin often goes to the Mathematical Olympiad classroom, and is very familiar with the uncle of the janitor who holds the classroom key.
When he arrived at the old red brick building, Wang Junyang used the excuse of diarrhea to delay the time, making Ding Yi and Chu Jin toss for nearly 20 minutes before returning from the old red brick building.
Chu Jin definitely didn't see Aunt Gao, and didn't know what happened to Aunt Gao.
Thinking that the plan had been half-successful, Song Qiaoxi kept her mouth curved, and wrote next to the smiling face on the note, "Ding Miao and I will leave first after school in the afternoon, Wang Junyang and Ding Yi will accompany you on duty."
"You don't have to wait for me."
Chu Jin wrote on the paper.
On the note that came back, Song Qiaoxi wrote, "They want to wait for you, I can't stop them."
After school in the afternoon, Chu Jin packed up his schoolbag and stayed on duty. He looked up to see Song Qiaoxi carrying a small schoolbag, jumping up and down in front of Ding Miao like a little rabbit.
The two little girls whispered a few words, turned around and waved to him, and disappeared in a hurry at the door of the classroom.
Wang Junyang was carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder, Ding Yi was carrying a schoolbag in his hand, and the two "Hum Ha Second Generals" walked back from the front row.
"They have something to do."
Wang Junyang slapped Chu Jin, his expression a little unnatural.
Ding Yi pushed his glasses, his acting skills were obviously better than Wang Junyang, he cleared his throat and said, "That's right, girls are very strange, both of them don't want to play with us now, maybe go to a video store? My sister Said to accompany Xixi to buy Faye Wong's new album, what is it called "Only Love Strangers", a strange name..."
Chu Jin shook his head and smiled, but said nothing.
The boy Bingxue is smart, how can he not notice the strangeness of several children
He knew that Song Qiaoxi was always sneaking around these days, hiding some little secrets. In addition to him, the "Little Five Gang" also gathered together to bite their ears.
Chu Jin didn't break it. Although he didn't know what the children headed by Song Qiaoxi wanted to do, he knew in his heart that the things they were hiding must have something to do with him.
And the reason can only be out of friendship, out of his protection.
Therefore, Chu Jin did not dismantle them.
Although Wang Junyang is a second grader, he is enthusiastic and straightforward. Ding Yi looks cowardly and falls on both sides like grass on the wall, but his mind is delicate and soft. Ding Miao is cold on the surface, but he is never stingy in complimenting his partner, and always stands by his partner at critical moments. around.
Song Qiaoxi, she always laughs innocently, a little girl who grew up in endless favor, her love for others will never be reserved and open.
Chu Jin glanced at Wang Junyang and Ding Yi, the two boys were a little fidgety and carefully observed his expression.
He got up and walked to the podium, picked up the blackboard eraser to clean the blackboard, turned around and said to the two of them, "You two are just standing there, not helping each other?"
"Oh! We help your group's duty students put all the stools on the table."
Wang Junyang smiled unnaturally, poked Ding Yi, and threw his schoolbag on the table.
Ding Yi also put down his schoolbag and scratched his head, "Come here!"
Chu Jin turned around and wiped the blackboard with the eraser.
Hearing the two of them behind them, they were kicking and moving chairs while discussing with each other in what they thought was a very low volume.
"You said, Chu Jin didn't find it?"
"I don't think so. He's so smart that he didn't say wow directly when he found out?"
"That's good, it scared me to death. Looking at his eyes, I thought he found out. When I look back, Xixi wants to be anxious with me."
"My sister 'killed' me! They're like two tigresses now, they don't look like girls at all..."
"What time does the party start?"
"At half past four, Xixi and the others should be at the scene soon..."
…
Hearing "Gathering" and "Xixi is coming to the scene", Chu Jin frowned, and his hand wiping the blackboard paused.
Is it a newspaper party today
Since it's a party, why didn't Aunt Gao come to the school to find him today, nor did she tell herself
A few days ago, I was in the boiler room and heard people from the neighborhood committee talking about this year's "thank you letter".
Putting down the blackboard eraser, Chu Jin turned his head and asked in a low tone, "Today is a newspaper party, you all know?"
Wang Junyang straightened up with embarrassment on his face, shaking his hands and letting go of the bench, "I, I don't know..."
"Oh hey..." Ding Yi jumped up on one foot and cried out in pain, covering his smashed left foot, "Wang Junyang! You don't have eyes!"
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Song Qiaoxi and Ding Miao trot all the way to catch the bus after school.
After getting off the bus, the two little girlfriends ran out of anger and rushed into the newspaper compound like two small whirlwinds.
"Daughter, run slowly!"
The gatekeeper, Uncle Li, held up a newspaper and shouted at them both.
Song Qiaoxi turned around and waved to Grandpa Li, "We're in a hurry, bye bye Grandpa Li."
"Xi, Xixi, have you got the key to the boiler room?" Ding Miao was about to breathe, and was pulled by Song Qiaoxi to run forward, "I, I can't climb the fifth floor, you, if you don't have the key , take it home yourself."
"Don't worry, I got up in the middle of the night last night and put the spare key of the boiler room in my schoolbag."
Song Qiaoxi had better physical strength, and dragged Ding Miao to the door of the boiler room.
She threw her schoolbag on the ground, opened the small pocket on the outside, took out a key with a small turtle keychain hanging on it, and opened the iron door of the boiler room.
The two little girls looked around, feeling a little guilty.
"We, we are not trespassing in private houses, right? I heard sister Qiu Meng say that it is illegal to trespass privately in homes abroad..."
Before Song Qiaoxi opened the door, she felt a little guilty.
"No, the boiler room is the property of the public family and belongs to the collective. We are all residents of the compound, so we are not trespassing privately. Besides, we will use Chu Jin's coat and hat, and everything else will be used. Don't touch."
Ding Miao pushed his glasses and said seriously.
Not to mention, her sister Miao is a logical genius
Xixi was then persuaded and pushed open the big iron door of the boiler room with a "squeak".
Chu Jin's room was clean, and the air was filled with the familiar scent of shower gel on him.
Song Qiaoxi took a deep breath and walked towards the wardrobe.
"this?"
She picked up a blue padded jacket that Chu Jin often wore, and turned to ask Ding Miao.
Ding Miao nodded and took off a wool hat from the hanger, "I think it's okay, I often see Chu Jin wearing this dress and this hat?"
"Okay, then I'll change it now."
Song Qiaoxi took off her pink down jacket and put on Chu Jin's blue jacket.
Miaomiao helped her tuck the ponytail into her coat and put on a wool cap.
From behind, you can't tell it's a little girl at all.
"It's four-fifteen, let's hurry up, shall we?"
Song Qiaoxi glanced at the small alarm clock on Chu Jin's desk and said to Ding Miao.
Ding Miao said, "Okay, let's go."
The place for the Millennium Party is still in the auditorium between the newspaper office and the compound dormitory.
At the entrance of the auditorium, two children, one tall and one short, were struggling to push aside the heavy windproof curtain and burrowed in like two nimble little fishes.
In the auditorium, the atmosphere was lively.
The heating in the room was fully turned on, and it was full of people. Uncles and aunts were all smiling and eating fruits and chatting happily.
The millennium is the Year of the Dragon. Above the auditorium hangs a large dragon head with claws and claws. It is gleaming with gold, and there are also indispensable red lanterns and bright colored paper flowers.
The two children found a corner and sat down. Song Qiaoxi sat in the innermost position and lowered her hat. Ding Miao went to the front row to greet Aunt Gao and Secretary Sun.
"Little Dingmiao is here, your other friends? Didn't the 'Little Gang of Five' come with you?"
Aunt Gao patted Ding Miao's head and looked back.
"No, Chu Jin and I are the only ones who came here," Ding Miao replied obediently, looking at Secretary Sun who was nodding at the leader with a 90-degree waist, she pointed to where Song Qiaoxi was sitting, "Let's sit There, Director Gao just asks Uncle Sun to call us directly on stage."
"Okay, Miaomiao is really sensible." Aunt Gao was very satisfied and asked again, "Have you read the thank you letter?"
"I saw it, I saw it." Ding Miao didn't change her expression and her heart didn't beat.
"That's fine, Ding Miao, you said that my uncle Sun and I really broke our hearts for Chu Jin." For some reason, Aunt Gao's voice suddenly increased a lot, and she raised her voice as if she was deliberately trying to make the people sitting next to her. The leaders and uncles heard the same thing, "Let's pay more attention to Xiao Chu Jin, the leaders of the newspaper office, last year's commendation meeting was very successful, Chu Jin can thank the leading comrades, by the way, Chu Jin's speech is me and Secretary Sun together. Written, Ding Miao, do you think the writing is good?"
Ding Miao really wanted to roll her eyes. After her parents were laid off, Aunt Gao occasionally ran into her and Ding Yi, and she must grab their sister and brother to "educate" them.
What "can't spend money indiscriminately", "Ding Yi can no longer buy comic books without doing a good job", "Ding Miao should work harder to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University", "help parents to reduce the burden and do more housework"...
The Ding family can solve the problem of the Ding family themselves. What about Aunt Guan Gao? My parents didn't say that to them. It's her turn to talk about it
Ding Miao raised her eyelids, her voice raised a little, and answered Aunt Gao: "I don't think the writing is very good, it's all fake clichés, the language teacher teaches us to write essays, the first point is to be real, not real things. No one will believe it.”
After speaking, Ding Miao nodded slightly to the uncles who looked up and gave them strange looks, turned and walked to the back seat.
"Hey! This kid, how are you talking..." Aunt Gao didn't dare to lose her temper in front of the leader, and slapped her thigh twice, "Look, Lao Ding and his wife were laid off to open a restaurant. Now, I just don't have time to take care of the children, Ding Miao was a child who talked more about politeness and never talked back to adults."
"Director Gao, I think Ding Miao is right. I have an impression of Xiao Chujin's speech last year. At first glance, the manuscript was not written by a child. I don't know what it means, you and Xiao Sun need to review this."
The one who spoke was the vice president of the newspaper, who happened to be passing by with a tea jar.
Aunt Gao and Secretary Sun were both flat, but fortunately for them, President Jiang was talking to several editors and did not hear their conversation.
The party started smoothly, and Uncle Wang was invited to sing on stage again.
This year, he still imitated Zhang Yu and sang "Rain Keeps Falling", which won applause.
Uncle Wang just stepped off the stage when Aunt Gao walked onto the stage with Secretary Sun with a certificate and red envelope in her hands.
Song Qiaoxi squatted down quietly, took off the woolen hat on her head, and took off the wide blue padded jacket on her body, holding a kraft paper envelope tightly in her hand.
"This year is the millennium. At last year's party, we experienced misfortune. Chu Jin, who lost his parents in a tragic traffic accident, was commended by the leaders of the newspaper for his excellent academic performance."
Secretary Sun was in the center of the stage, holding a microphone and said with a smile.
Aunt Gao took the lead and started to applaud, followed by applause in the synagogue.
After the applause ended, Secretary Sun continued: "This year, Chu Jin's child once again achieved good results in the first class in this semester, and on behalf of the Primary School attached to the Normal School, he won the first prize in the city's primary school group Mathematical Olympiad. Of course, Chu Jin's achievements are inseparable from the care and concern of our newspaper leaders for him.
This year, we have prepared certificates and scholarships for Chu Jin as well. Now let us applaud the children of Chu Jin and read "A Letter of Appreciation to the Leaders of the Newspaper Office" for everyone. Applause and welcome! "
Amid the applause and cheers, Song Qiaoxi, holding a kraft paper envelope, hopped on the stairs next to the stage to board the stage.
There was an uproar downstairs.
"Oh, isn't it Chu Jin?"
"Yeah, Lao Chu and reporter Sun's family is a boy?"
"This little girl, looks familiar?"
"Isn't this Editor-in-Chief Song's daughter, Song Qiaoxi!"
"Yes, isn't this Xixi? Why is she on stage?"
…
Under everyone's astonished eyes, Song Qiaoxi strode to the center of the stage, put her toes on her toes, and took the microphone from the elevated microphone stand.
"Hey, hey..." She said tentatively, she heard her voice spread throughout the hall, and couldn't help asking again, "Can you hear it?"
The newspaper staff sitting under the stage looked at the pink-carved jade-carved, curly-haired girl standing on the stage, holding a microphone, sticking out her tongue playfully and cutely, and the audience burst into laughter.
Taking advantage of Secretary Sun and Aunt Gao's stupefied efforts, Song Qiaoxi stretched out the speech with one hand, took out the style of speaking under the national flag, stood upright, and began to read the "thank you letter" aloud in her hand. .
In the end, she rewrote this letter during her lunch break, and Ding Miao polished it up a little.
"Hello, aunts and uncles, my name is Song Qiaoxi, I'm a primary school student in the fifth grade of the fourth grade of the primary school attached to the normal school. Today, I represent my deskmate and my best friend Chu Jin to receive the award. Chu Jin usually studies very well. I'm busy, so I don't have time to be there today. I'll read the thank you letter aloud for him.
On behalf of Chu Jin, I would like to thank the uncles and aunts who have been taking care of him. Thank you, you will think of him when you have delicious food. Although you gave Chu Jin a lot of delicious food, I also secretly ate some... . "
"Ahahahahaha..." There was another round of laughter from the audience, "The baby of the old Song family is really a living treasure, and it's too cute!"
"I also thank the old boss uncle on behalf of Chu Jin, and Aunt Sun, who is a colleague of Chu Jin's mother before her death. Thank you for buying new clothes, school supplies, and many, many beautiful books for him every year, old boss. Uncle will also stuff an extra big red envelope," Song Qiaoxi smiled embarrassedly, scratching his head with his hand holding the letter, "He invited us to eat KFC with the money in the red envelope..."
"Hahahahahaha! Where's the editor-in-chief Song?"
"Editor Song is on a business trip and went to Beijing to attend a seminar. It's amazing that he has a daughter."
"Hey, why is Xixi so cute, look at the little mouth, hahaha..."
"Don't say it, what the little girl said is quite touching, a little wanted to cry and especially funny?"
…
"... After reading Chu Jin's thank you letter, I personally want to say a few words to the leading uncles."
Song Qiaoxi read all the contents of the letter, thanked the neighbors of the compound and the newspaper's uncles and aunts who had cared and cared for Chu Jin over the years, and put down the stationery in her hand.
"I hope that the uncles of the leadership will not let Chu Jin come again next year, as well as Uncle Sun, and Aunt Gao, please don't talk about the death of Chu Jin's parents every time.
I don’t know if Chu Jin is uncomfortable or not, but I heard Uncle Sun speak on stage last year and felt very sad. Although we are children, we also have self-esteem. We cannot be used casually just because we are children. Self-esteem to do 'performance' and 'face project'. "
In this passage, Song Qiaoxi said neither humble nor arrogant, looking directly at the row of leaders and uncles sitting under the stage. The words "political achievements" and "face project" were written by Ding Miao.
Song Qiaoxi dares to say this, and because she is a child, she will be regarded as "children's words without taboo", but she believes that it will have the desired effect.
Because she could clearly see that President Jiang frowned and looked seriously at Secretary Sun and Aunt Gao standing on the stage several times. When he looked at her, he smiled and nodded frequently.
Uncle, the vice president of the newspaper, with a tea jar in his hand, whispered to President Jiang.
Wang Junyang's father was also sitting with them, and Uncle Wang secretly gave her a thumbs up.
"Last year, I felt that Sun Mi and the others made this process bad and caused secondary harm to the child."
"Isn't it? It felt wrong at the time..."
"The daughter of Editor-in-Chief Song's family is so brave, she dares to tell the truth at such a young age."
"Look at other people's children, their eloquence is really good. Editor-in-chief Song and Teacher Qiao really know how to educate children."
…
Song Qiaoxi breathed a sigh of relief and said playfully, "I'll say it again for the last time, I'm Chu Jin's spokesperson. Our family Chu Jin is very busy and has no time to deal with these chores. In the future, if Aunt Gao and Uncle Sun have any questions, please contact me directly. My landline is 53211..."
After speaking, she put her toes back on her toes and put the microphone back on the microphone stand.
When they walked in front of Aunt Gao, Aunt Gao and Secretary Sun both had ugly expressions on their faces, and their faces were ashen.
"Thank you Aunt Gao, thank you Uncle Sun, I will receive Chu Jin's certificate and red envelope for him."
Song Qiaoxi consciously took the certificate and the red envelope from Aunt Gao's hands, and waved to the cheering uncles and aunts in the audience.
Seeing Uncle Wang walking to the side of the stage, she jumped and ran to the side of the stage, and was carried off the stage by Uncle Wang.
Uncle Wang put her on the ground and pinched Song Qiaoxi's face, "We Xixi are awesome! How can you say that! Who wrote the manuscript for you? I think you can take over your father's class as an editor in the future. "
Song Qiaoxi shook her hand vigorously at Ding Miao who was sitting at the back. She saw Ding Miao waved to her excitedly, with a bright smile on her face, she turned her head and said to Uncle Wang, "I wrote the manuscript with Ding Miao, I will go back first. Uncle Wang!"
After speaking, she ran towards Ding Miao like Sa Huan'er's little sparrow.
Just after meeting with Ding Miao, Song Qiaoxi held Chu Jin's blue padded jacket and woolen hat and glanced at the entrance of the auditorium.
Song Qiaoxi was stunned for a moment, and grabbed Ding Miao's arm with one hand.
I saw Chu Jin standing at the entrance of the auditorium, watching them fixedly.