"No." Li Chengxi said confidently, "I have great confidence in you."

It's not that he speaks for Lin Tao just because she is his wife, it's a fact that Lin Tao sings well.

Lin Tao pursed her lips and smiled, her eyebrows curved and her cheeks slightly red, which was a little bit of excitement that welled up because of being praised.

She asked, “Is it really that nice?”

Chen Shuifen almost praised her to the skies just now, but to be honest, this was her first time singing in front of other people, and her first time in front of an audience.

Li Chengxi nodded and said seriously, "It sounds nice. To be honest, after listening to your singing, I regretted not going to Xiangcheng to have a good walk and visit the Miao village there."

This is the truth. His vacation schedule was too tight at the time and he didn't have time to travel.

Now after listening to the songs sung by Lin Tao, I long for it again.

Lin Tao said, "Actually, I have also been to my grandmother's house. When I was a child, my aunt mentioned it. She said that the houses there are different from ours. There are really stilt houses. And it was my aunt who taught me to sing this song."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Then when your sister is ready, let's go back to Xiangcheng together to visit grandma, okay?"

"Okay." Li Chengxi held her slender wrist and nodded.

With the high praise from Li Chengxi and Chen Shuifen the night before, Lin Tao’s confidence was doubled.

The next day, Lin Tao told her classmates that their class was going to organize a choir. Similarly, the sixth grade class led by Teacher Jin was also going to organize a recitation group. When the fifth and sixth grade students competed, the winning class would represent Shengshan Primary School to participate in this year's National Day Gala.

Among this group of children there are soldiers' children and fishermen's children, but no matter whose children they are, they are still a 'choir'.

After hearing what Lin Tao said, I was a little confused for a moment.

After Lin Tao's explanation, the little faces all blushed, showing shyness and excitement.

Although organizing a choir requires rehearsals, it cannot delay studying.

However, the principal gave a speech, and the fifth and sixth graders, at the beginning of the National Day Gala,

During the time, only the three main subjects, Chinese, mathematics, and English, are needed. Other minor subjects, such as singing, art, and physical education, are all cancelled and used for rehearsal.

The main subjects are usually arranged in the morning. Basically, after two-year students finish their morning classes, they can rehearse in the afternoon.

Lin Tao went back home at noon and was about to cook when she saw Li Chengxi coming back with two lunch boxes in his hands.

I opened the lunch box and found two dishes inside. I also had steamed buns at home, which I could eat directly after steaming.

Lin Tao took out the steamed buns and said, "Aren't you very busy recently? Why did you bring me food?"

"No matter how busy you are, you still have to eat." Li Chengxi said, taking away some of the plate of pickled beans that Lin Tao had brought out, and pushing the aluminum lunch box of braised pork in front of Lin Tao, "If I don't come back, are you going to just deal with it like this?"

Lin Tao told him last night that she would rehearse with the children today. After school at noon, they had to go to the classroom in the afternoon.

He was afraid that Lin Tao was too tired, so he simply got some food from the army canteen and brought it back to eat with her.

As for the busy things, this little time doesn't matter. At most, I can just come back a little later at night.

Lin Tao blushed and muttered softly, "Actually, sour beans are delicious with steamed bread."

"Okay, from today until the National Day, I will bring lunch back and eat with you every day. You can rest for a while after eating. I will call you when the time comes." Li Chengxi did not listen to Lin Tao's "cunning excuses" and directly gave a death order.

Lin Tao opened her mouth and took a bite of the steamed bun, then took a bite of the braised pork.

Although the braised pork in the army canteen tastes better than the one cooked by me, it is still meat after all, and it tastes really good.

Lin Tao nodded honestly: "Yes, sir."

After lunch, Lin Tao dozed off for half an hour before being woken up by Li Chengxi. Lin Tao drowsily glanced at the time and found that it was almost time, so she quickly got out of bed, recombed her hair, straightened her clothes, and went out with Li Chengxi.

As usual, they reached the fork in the road and separated, one going to the training area and the other to the school.

When Lin Tao arrived at school, she found that the students in her class had already arrived. When they saw Lin Tao coming in, they all sat very straight.

Lin Tao asked them to stand up and asked each of them to sing a line or two to see how they sang.

We'll tell you how the sound is later.

Every student has a different personality. Some are lively and courageous. They will sing as soon as they get on the podium, regardless of whether they sing well or not.

There are also those who sing well but are afraid to sing with their throats open, and Ma Xiaoying is one of them.

Ma Xiaoying is Ma Debiao's daughter, and Huang Aidi is her stepmother. The child is shy and doesn't talk much. When it was her turn to sing on stage, she blushed, lowered her head, and hummed, which made a group of classmates laugh.

However, Lin Tao was close by, and although Ma Xiaoying sang very softly, she still heard a few words.

In fact, this girl's singing is quite nice, but she is too timid. When her classmates laughed again, she wanted to crawl under the podium even more.

Lin Tao signaled the students not to laugh and said, "Let's encourage Ma Xiaoying."

"Encourage, encourage, encourage!" The warm applause was accompanied by the enthusiastic voices of the students.

"Ma Xiaoying, the people in the audience are all my classmates. Please don't be shy! "How about the teacher start the song and you can sing along, okay?"

Lin Tao sang "Sing a Mountain Song for the Party", which was also the song she was going to sing at the National Day Gala. Although she personally liked the song "High Mountains Have Beautiful Waters" she sang last night, it was too Xiangcheng-flavored.

The National Day Gala is to celebrate the birthday of our great motherland, so it is better to sing songs of our motherland.

"Sing a folk song for the Party—"

With Lin Tao's introduction, the first sentence of the song set the tone. In order to keep up with the tune, Ma Xiaoying's voice became much louder than before.

There were more than 20 students in the class, and not all of them could sing. For example, the two brothers Jianguo and Jianye refused to speak after they went on stage.

The two brothers are tall and strong, the tallest in their class, taller than some sixth graders. They are usually very cheerful, but they are not good at singing.

Similarly, Lin Tao asked her classmates to encourage the two of them. However, even though the two of them sang in the end, the effect was not ideal.

It turns out that the two brothers were not unwilling to sing because they were shy, but because they really couldn't sing well.

Finally, Lin Tao selected four singers for comparison.

Ma Xiaoying is one of the female students with a nice soprano voice.

Lin Tao arranged for Ma Xiaoying to sing the first four sentences, and then the whole class began to sing together. When it came to the last four sentences, Ma Xiaoying and three other female classmates sang together.

It took them an entire class just to listen to each student sing a few lines.

After class, Lin Tao asked them to take a break and returned to her office. The first thing she did was to pick up her cup and drink some water.

Xu Yuting was in the afternoon, but she came after taking a nap. She walked into the office, sat down next to Lin Tao, and asked, "How is it? Are you okay?"

Lin Tao nodded: "It's OK, but why are you coming to school when you're not at home resting?"

"Didn't I think that I was the one who supported you about the choir in the beginning? Now you have to work overtime because of this, and I can't help but go there. I have to give it my all." Xu Yuting said.

Lin Tao smiled and waved her hands: "Don't do that. You're pregnant now. Captain Wang has almost made you a sacrifice. How dare I order you around? You should go back and have a good rest. Don't cause any trouble for me. That will be considered as helping me."

Xu Yuting curled her lips and said, "Look at what you said. It's just a pregnancy. How can it be so expensive? Wang Yuanliang is like that, and you are like that too. Okay, okay, I'll go back, but I have to leave these candies. You can give them to the students in your class to sweeten their mouths."

Xu Yuting opened the cloth bag she brought, and found a lot of fruit candies and White Rabbit milk candies inside.

Lin Tao did not refuse and said with a smile: "Okay, then I thank you on behalf of our class, Teacher Xu."

After Xu Yuting left, Lin Tao was about to distribute the candies to the students when the two brothers Zhao Jianguo and Zhao Jianye arrived.

The two of them took the initiative to propose not to join the choir. Although they also wanted to be with their classmates, they were afraid that their singing would be bad and would hold their classmates back.

In this regard, Lin Tao advised them that although their singing was not very good, it was a chorus, and as long as they followed the rhythm and did not sing randomly, there would be no problem.

Before rehearsal, Lin Tao distributed the candies given by Xu Yuting and said, "These candies are given to you by Teacher Xu. She has great confidence in you and wants you to work hard.

force."

After eating the candies, the students were full of fighting spirit.

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But the next day, Ma Xiaoying found Lin Tao with red eyes and said that she could not join the chorus.

Seeing that her eyes were almost swollen like walnuts, Lin Tao estimated that she had cried all night. She quickly asked her if she had any problems and told her that she could tell the teacher if she had any problems. Maybe the teacher could help her.

Ma Xiaoying told her what had happened. It turned out that Ma Xiaoying was one of the four female students chosen by Lin Tao yesterday, and she happily told her father Ma Debiao about it when she went home.

However, Ma Debiao did not respond and just said a few perfunctory words.

But Ma Xiaoying did not let down her stress and was still happy humming a few lines from time to time.

When her stepmother Huang Aidi found out about this, she poked her head with her finger and said, "You are just a little girl, and you want to participate in the National Day Gala and the Spring Festival Gala? Is she worthy of it? She should wake up and stop dreaming. She has too much work to do at home, and she still wants to participate in the Spring Festival Gala."

There are some unpleasant words, Ma Xiaoying

Huang Aidi's original words were: "You should take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror. Your sister is a student in a school and she is also in the choir. How can they let someone like you perform at the National Day Gala? How can that be seen? Do you want your father's leaders to criticize your father? Why don't you do more work with your time? Instead of dreaming about good things!"

Lin Tao sighed. Although she had met Huang Aidi on some occasions, after these incidents, she had a very bad impression of Huang Aidi.

Even if Huang Aidi is a stepmother, she cannot speak to the child like this. It will hurt the child's self-esteem.

Lin Tao touched Ma Xiaoying's head and told her gently: "Xiaoying, even the Chairman said that 'women can hold up half the sky'. Who says women are inferior to men? Your mother is wrong, so even if she is the elder, you don't have to listen to her. You sing well. You were selected by the teacher. Don't you believe in the teacher's vision?"

"And you see, the teachers are also girls. Look at our school, there are more female teachers than male teachers. This just proves that women are no worse than men. Gender has nothing to do with being a good person. Xiaoying, as long as you study hard, you will definitely have a bright future."

Ma Xiaoying used her pair of

She looked at Teacher Lin in front of her with tearful eyes, and her little heart was greatly cleansed at this moment.

Her mother died early, and her father and grandparents favored boys over girls. They thought she was a girl and didn't like her. Because she was not valued at home, her stepmother treated her even worse. Because she was bullied anyway, she would stand up for herself.

The stepmother always put pressure on her, saying that girls are money-losing goods and that girls are to be played with by men. Her greatest use is that when she gets married in the future, her parents can get a sum of money as a betrothal gift.

In fact, at first her mother didn't even plan to let her continue her studies, saying that sending her to school was a waste of money. It was only after Director Yang went to find her father that she was able to continue her studies.

She used to think that being born a girl was a sin. She envied boys and always thought that it would be great if she was a boy. Then her father, grandparents would love her very much.

But she is not.

But from this moment on, she no longer thought so.

Teacher Lin is right, women hold up half the sky, who says women are inferior to men?

There are many people who know that although she is a girl, she can still have a bright future!