After class that day, Xia Qingqing was stopped by Liu Huimin, who deliberately avoided Xiang Qiu and Chen Xiu. Xia Qingqing thought something serious had happened.
"Sister Huimin, just say what you want to say, don't scare me."
"It's nothing serious, it's just that our school's anniversary is coming up soon, and I was thinking how about a few of us sign up for a program together?" Liu Huimin said, giving Xia Qingqing a flattering smile.
Xia Qingqing hesitated and refused, "No, I don't have any special talents. Sister Huimin, would you like to perform?"
Liu Huimin pouted helplessly: "It's not that I want to perform, it's that none of my classmates want to participate. But each class has a performance quota, so the class committee decided to let us class officers draw lots together. I was unlucky enough to be chosen."
These days, many people can't even get enough to eat. Children from ordinary families don't usually have any special talents. She just thought she could perform a poetry recitation or sing a song with her roommates, something simple and easy.
"I've already talked to Sister Qiu and Xiuxiu, and they both agreed to perform with me. Now all that's missing is you, Qingqing, please help me out," Liu Huimin said, looking at Xia Qingqing with a pitiful expression.
Ahem, actually she hadn't figured out Xiang Qiu and Chen Xiu yet, otherwise she wouldn't have deliberately avoided those two to talk to Xia Qingqing.
It was because she thought Xia Qingqing was the most difficult one to deal with that she planned to wait until Xia Qingqing agreed before taking her down one by one.
Hehe, she really is a clever little devil.
Xia Qingqing looked troubled: "But I don't have any special talents either."
Although she learned a little piano and painting when she was young, regardless of whether the school had a piano, given her rural girl persona, she shouldn't be able to play the piano.
Painting is even more impossible; her painting skills are only mediocre to begin with, and to put it on stage to perform would be utterly embarrassing.
"It's okay, I don't know how either, so I'm planning for the four of us to perform a poetry recitation together, or sing a song, just to give me some courage, please," Liu Huimin pleaded, tears welling in her eyes, as if she would cry on the spot if Xia Qingqing didn't agree.
Unable to resist her pestering, Xia Qingqing nodded with difficulty: "Alright then."
"Haha, that's great! Qingqing, you truly are my best friend, so loyal!" Liu Huimin happily hugged Xia Qingqing.
Xia Qingqing chuckled and shook her head. If the consequence of being loyal to someone is having to bite the bullet and perform on stage, then can she not be loyal to them?
Needless to say, that's not going to work. Even if she doesn't agree this time, Liu Huimin will definitely keep pestering her for the next few days until she does. To avoid suffering a bit more, she should just agree for now.
Fortunately, reciting poetry and singing are not difficult. But if you ask her to dance, no matter how much Liu Huimin pleads with her, she will not agree.
After successfully dealing with the most difficult one, Liu Huimin secretly approached Chen Xiu.
As the quietest little sister in the dormitory, Chen Xiu always followed in the footsteps of her older sisters, doing whatever they told her to do.
So when Chen Xiu heard Liu Huimin say that Xia Qingqing and Xiang Qiu had agreed to perform on stage with her, she agreed even though she was a little scared.
The last one is Xiang Qiu. Although she is a bit more difficult to deal with than Chen Xiu, she couldn't withstand Liu Huimin's endless torment and quickly gave in.
Liu Huimin successfully won over her three roommates, and the little devil inside her laughed with glee. She really was a clever little devil.
After discussing it, the four of them decided to perform a poetry recitation.
Fortunately, Liu Huimin remembered that she was the main force behind the performance, and took the initiative to take on the task of writing the poetry recitation script.
After staying up for several nights in a row, Liu Huimin finally finished writing the poem recitation script.
"Sisters, please take a look and tell me how this draft is and if there are any changes needed."
Xiang Qiu looked at the dark circles under her eyes and patted her shoulder: "You've worked hard."
"It's not hard work. As long as I can get through the school anniversary performance smoothly, I won't feel tired at all," Liu Huimin said with a look of utter despair.
Xiang Qiu and the others took turns reading Liu Huimin's manuscript, each finding areas for improvement, and then discussed and revised it several times together.
After all, the entire school's teachers and students will be watching their recitation, and it would be very embarrassing if the recitation script was poorly written.
With the school anniversary celebration just days away, Liu Huimin made the final decision: "No more changes, let's leave it like this and rehearse according to this final draft."
There weren't many of them, and they didn't specifically look for any empty classrooms. Every day after the last class, they would go back to their dorm to rehearse.
Xia Qingqing was afraid that Zhang Hongyan and the others would worry, so she told them about it and even ate dinner at the school cafeteria.
During the last rehearsal, everyone tried to cram at the last minute, and before they knew it, they had been rehearsing until dark.
Liu Huimin glanced at the time and exclaimed, "Oh no, it's already past 7 p.m.! How time flies!"
They usually only rehearse until 6:30 and then leave to practice their own parts individually.
The main reason was to let Xia Qingqing go home earlier. At 6:30, it wasn't completely dark yet, and Xia Qingqing could ride her bicycle home in 10 minutes.
But it happened to rain this morning, so Xia Qingqing didn't ride her bicycle over. Liu Huimin and the others were not at ease letting her walk back alone.
"Qingqing, why don't you stay in the dorm tonight instead of going back?"
"No, my parents are definitely waiting for me at home. They'll be very worried if I don't go back," Xia Qingqing shook her head and refused. There was no cell phone or anything like that right now, so she couldn't even contact her parents if she wanted to.
After hearing this, the three of them decided not to continue trying to persuade Xia Qingqing to stay in the dormitory that night. They knew that Uncle Xia and the others were probably getting impatient, and if Qingqing really didn't go back, they would probably be too worried to sleep that night.
Chen Xiu suddenly suggested, "Then the three of us will take you back together? It's not too far anyway."
It takes less than half an hour to walk from the school to Xia Qingqing's home, so they treated walking Xia Qingqing home as a stroll.
"I can really do it myself. Have you forgotten that I have a secret weapon in my bag? If any bad guys run into me, I'll take them down one by one, or two by two," Xia Qingqing joked with them on purpose.
Liu Huimin and the others were both amused and exasperated by her arrogant words: "Then be careful and don't linger on the road."
"Don't worry, I'm leaving now. See you tomorrow," Xia Qingqing waved to Liu Huimin and the others.
It was dark outside, and it was raining quite heavily. A cold wind made Xia Qingqing shiver involuntarily.
She pulled a flashlight from the system's inventory, and with an umbrella in her other hand, she quickly walked towards home.
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