Chapter 019

After dinner, Chuxia returned to the dormitory, washed up and went to bed.

The noise in the kitchen was separated by two walls and a distance, and only the occasional laughter could be heard. It was not too noisy, so Chuxia fell asleep quickly.

Because she was tired during the day, she slept very deeply.

I don’t know when Li Qiao and the others finished steaming the buns, nor do I know when they returned to the dormitory, and I don’t know whether they gossiped about her or said bad things about her before going to bed.

Of course, Chu Xia didn’t really care whether they said bad things about her.

Her recent behavior has upset Li Qiao and the others, it would be strange if they didn't say bad things about her behind her back. They have mouths on their bodies, so they can say whatever they want.

As long as you don't tell her, everything will be fine.

After this sleep, it was still dawn in early summer. While others were still fast asleep, I got up quietly, tidied up and washed up, and went to the kitchen to cook breakfast.

The enrollment work has been completed, and a small burden that was weighing on me has finally been lifted.

Apart from holding an opening ceremony today, everything else is small and I don't feel any pressure, so I feel much more relaxed mentally than in the past few days.

With a relaxed mood, early summer is still the same as before.

I sat at the same table with Lin Xiaohan to have breakfast, then put on my schoolbag and followed him to school.

She and Lin Xiaohan didn't have to talk too much, but they had to keep a close distance.

Knowing that Lin Xiaohan was very sensitive, Chu Xia tried not to act so deliberate.

After the two arrived at school, they immediately started the first small thing to do that day - cleaning.

We divided the work and swept the school inside and out, and then moved on to the second small task - making a blackboard newspaper.

The school has been closed for so long and it is rare for it to reopen, so the sense of ceremony for the opening of school must be maximized.

In addition to the opening ceremony attended by all team leaders, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan also discussed putting up an opening poster on the blackboard at the back of the classroom to welcome the children to school.

Because they had thought about it in advance, they also bought a box of colored chalks when they were shopping yesterday.

Use colored chalk to draw a blackboard at the back of the classroom, and the classroom will become much brighter.

Chuxia was holding colored chalk in her hand and standing in front of the blackboard with Lin Xiaohan.

The two of them looked at the blackboard side by side, each offering their own ideas and discussing how to produce the blackboard newspaper.

We worked out the general idea.

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and asked, "How are you at painting and writing?"

I really don’t have any artistic talent in early summer.

She was born ordinary and never had a single glimmer of light in the novel in her entire life.

Tong Rui is noble, dignified, pure and proud, a goddess. Su Yun is beautiful, elegant, artistic, good at singing and dancing, full of romance, and every glance and frown is different from others.

Everything she was good at was for the purpose of serving Han Ting, and she had no personal charm at all.

What she is best at is cooking, doing housework, and working silently to serve others. The adjectives associated with her are all - hard-working, not fighting or competing, unknown, and a good woman who knows how to live.

Chu Xia shook her head at Lin Xiaohan: "I can't draw, and my handwriting is just average."

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia for a while, and suddenly said in a mean way, "You really have the word 'ordinary' written all over you. Han Ting no longer has Tong Rui, and now he has Su Yun. No wonder he can't see you."

I knew that he couldn't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth.

Chu Xia pursed her lips and glared at him, thinking secretly in her heart - when I break free from the constraints of the novel's settings and find my complete self, I will make you shut your dog mouth!

Seeing Chu Xia glaring at him, Lin Xiaohan said again: "Why are you glaring at me? If you have the guts, go glare at Han Ting."

Chu Xia glared at him and retorted, "He didn't mean to say I was ordinary, why should I glare at him?"

Lin Xiaohan snorted and laughed, took the chalk from Chu Xia and started to draw the blackboard, and continued: "If he didn't think you were ordinary, how could he not see your love and dedication for more than ten years? If you become extraordinary one day, he will immediately come to his senses and know better than anyone how much you have given to him and how many years you have liked him. He will regret it and scold himself for being so blind. It turns out that the person he loves most in his heart has always been by his side, but he never saw it."

At this point he suddenly turned his head and looked at Chu Xia, "You are not planning this, are you? First stay away from him for no reason, let him know what he will lose without you, then find a way to make yourself better to surprise him, let him know that you are the best, and turn to your arms."

After hearing what Lin Xiaohan said, Chu Xia's hair stood up.

The story in the novel about a woman silently waiting for Han Ting for nearly half of her life, and only seeing her love and kindness after he had suffered a lot, was already hard for her to accept. What Lin Xiaohan was saying now, that she had gone to great lengths to make Han Ting see her love and kindness, was even more unacceptable to her.

She immediately refuted Lin Xiaohan and said, "I'm not that boring. I'm not using all these tricks and methods for a man. Even if he really understands my feelings and efforts in the future, I won't want him!"

Lin Xiaohan looked into Chuxia's eyes, as if trying to determine whether what she said was true.

After a moment, he suddenly smiled again, turned back to continue drawing the blackboard and said, "It's not the best. Some things are innate, and no matter how hard you try, you can't change them, such as going from ordinary to amazing. Even if one day Han Ting really turns around and sees your feelings, it's just the second best."

Although this is a fact that happened in the novel, Chuxia still couldn't help but get angry when she heard it.

She looked at Lin Xiaohan's back and subconsciously broke the chalk in her hand.

Of course, chalk is very precious, so she immediately came to her senses and stopped pinching it.

Chu Xia held her breath, sat directly at the table in the last row, looked at Lin Xiaohan and said, "Let's wait and see. One day, I will shine my own light. I'm saying this today. In this life, I will never be a supporting role for anyone else, and no one can stop me from shining."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaohan's hand holding the chalk stopped on the blackboard.

After a moment he turned his head to look at Chuxia and saw her sitting on the desk with a firm and clear look in her eyes. The morning sunlight shone through the window, making her eyes bright and her profile shining.

He vaguely felt that the light seemed to be emitted by her herself.

Lin Xiaohan was in a daze.

Suddenly, someone outside the classroom shouted, "Comrade Xiaolin! Comrade Xiaoxia!"

Lin Xiaohan came back to his senses and turned around with Chuxia to look outside, only to see that it was Liang Youtian who came.

Chuxia quickly jumped off the desk and walked out of the classroom with Lin Xiaohan.

Went outside the classroom and said hello to Liang Youtian.

Liang Youtian stretched his head to look into the classroom and asked with a smile, "Are you drawing a blackboard newspaper?"

Lin Xiaohan responded, "Yes, we plan to put up a poster to welcome the children to school."

Liang Youtian was very satisfied with everything that happened before his eyes, and he was naturally even more satisfied with Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan.

Before, the school was so deserted that no one could get in and the grass was taller than people. Now it is clean and bright inside and out. If we draw on the blackboard newspaper, it will look even more presentable.

He smiled and praised Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan for their abilities for a long time.

Among the dozen or so educated youth who came to their team, the two children, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, were the most worry-free and satisfying to them.

They are not afraid of hard work and are down-to-earth and capable, and can do anything beautifully.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan listened to Liang Youtian's praise humbly.

Then Lin Xiaohan asked again: "Captain Liang, do you have anything for us to do?"

Liang Youtian slapped his head and said, "Oh, I was so happy that I almost forgot about the important matter."

The main business is naturally the opening ceremony.

He said to Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan, "We don't care. We can hold large and small meetings together. In the afternoon, call all the villagers to the threshing ground outside to save time. It's both an opening ceremony and a village meeting. We don't have to spend too much effort on the decoration. We can just move three desks outside and put them together as a podium. Then we can bring the red cloth from the office to cover it and put a microphone on it. That's it."

This is quite simple indeed.

The brigade’s threshing ground was just outside the school gate, a large piece of flat land.

Normally, the grain would be harvested and dried here during the autumn threshing process. The projectionist from the commune would come here to show movies, or the propaganda team would come here to set up a stage and perform shows, all in this threshing ground.

In the future, it will have another use - as a school playground.

After talking about arranging the venue, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan nodded.

Liang Youtian smiled and said to them, "Comrade Xiaolin and Comrade Xiaoxia, you should also get ready and speak a few words on the stage. The children will be left to you in school from now on."

There are only two teachers in the school.

Since it's an opening ceremony, they naturally have to give a speech.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan did not say anything to refuse, and agreed generously: "Okay, Captain Liang."

Liang Youtian had finished what he needed to arrange and was ready to leave.

He still smiled and said, "That's all. There's nothing else. I won't bother you any more."

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan escorted him to the gate out of courtesy.

After walking two steps, Lin Xiaohan remembered something and said to Liang Youtian, "By the way, Captain Liang, there is one more thing I need your help with."

Liang Youtian stopped walking and looked at Lin Xiaohan: "Just tell me what you want to say."

Lin Xiaohan said, "We will officially start school tomorrow. We must go to and leave school at fixed times, and we must ring the bell on time, but there is no clock in the school..."

There was an alarm clock in their dormitory, but it was brought by Wang Xiangqian from home.

Their relationship with the other ten people is at a freezing point, so it is impossible for them to borrow the alarm clock to use at school.

Liang Youtian naturally understood.

He hissed, thought for a moment and said, "There should be a horse-head clock in the brigade's storage room. I don't know if it can still be used. Wait for me to go back and look for it. If I find it, I'll bring it to you."

This clock was confiscated from Li Fugui's house back then.

Lin Xiaohan nodded, "Okay, thank you for your help then."

Liang Youtian said, "Why bother? It's all my duty. Leave it to me. You guys go ahead and do your work."

There was nothing else to do, so Li Youtian left.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan saw him off to the gate, watched him leave, and then turned back together.

The two returned to the classroom and continued drawing the blackboard newspaper.

Lin Xiaohan drew a line pattern, and when he was done, he handed the chalk to Chuxia and told her, "You color it."

Chuxia took the chalk and colored it according to his request.

If it is too high to reach, just use a stool to stand on.

While painting, Lin Xiaohan said to her, "There's only one box of colored chalks, use them sparingly. Don't paint too heavily or too thickly to waste chalk. Just apply a light layer and it will be fine."

Chu Xia responded to him while applying the medicine, "I know."

Lin Xiaohan added: "Apply it in one direction, don't paint it all over the place, it won't look good."

Chu Xia was still applying it one by one and replied: "I know."

The two of them stood in front of the blackboard and held up their hand-drawn posters.

Lin Xiaohan stood on the ground and Chuxia stood on the bench.

The chalk drew different colors on the blackboard. Soon, the blue sky appeared on the lifeless blackboard, white clouds floated, and infinite vitality and hope spread.