Chapter 063 Xiaoqiu graduated!
Shi Qiu Shui was briefly curious about what liking something was, but her attention was quickly diverted to Song Nan who came to play with her.
"Ah!" Shi Qiu Shui looked a little surprised when she saw Song Nan coming to play with her.
Song Chunsheng's collusion with human traffickers to kidnap children has somewhat impacted the situation of Li Juan and Song Nan. Although everyone knows they were almost victims themselves and feels no hostility towards them, only sympathy, every time they appear in public, everyone starts talking about Song Chunsheng's actions, which is a source of worry for them.
Because of this situation, Song Nan usually wouldn't go out except to go to and from school. Whenever Shi Qiu Shui wanted to play with her, it would be Shi Qiu Shui who would take the initiative to go to Li Xiuying's house to find her.
Shi Qiushui's soft, sweet voice asked, "Song Nan, why are you here?"
Song Nan: "Xiao Qiu, I have something good to tell you."
Shi Qiushui's round eyes widened: "What's the matter?"
Song Nan: "My mother is taking me to change my name tomorrow."
Shi Qiushui: “!!!”
She looked at Song Nan in shock: "You want to change your name?"
Song Nan nodded. "Well, my mom and I...my mom and that man have completed the divorce procedures and received the divorce certificate. My mom wants to change my last name. I won't take that man's last name, but my mom's."
Shi Qiushui grinned and said, "Auntie's divorce papers are done?! That's great!"
She knew that Aunt Li Juan had wanted to divorce Song Chunsheng ever since she moved into their compound, but before she could mention this to Song Chunsheng, Song Chunsheng and Old Mrs. Ding were arrested.
After Song Chunsheng went to prison, Li Juan also went to the prison several times for this matter.
But the helpless thing is that Song Chunsheng, that bastard, knew that he would be in prison for more than ten years. He was afraid that when he was released he would have no money, no job and no chance of finding a wife, so he refused to divorce Li Juan.
Later, the Women's Federation learned about Li Juan's situation and told her that Song Chunsheng had committed a crime and was imprisoned. As his spouse, Li Juan could file for divorce. According to her family's situation, the court would definitely grant the divorce.
In this way, with the help of comrades from the Women's Federation, Li Juan prepared the complaint while putting pressure on Song Chunsheng.
After all, the divorce procedure takes a relatively long time, so she still hopes that Song Chunsheng can agree to the divorce.
Song Chunsheng was a coward who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Once he learned that Li Juan could file for divorce, his stubborn refusal to divorce dissipated. He procrastinated for a while before finally agreeing to divorce Li Juan. After all, he knew that if he went through the divorce process, he would definitely have to divorce Li Juan.
Things became simple after Song Chunsheng nodded and agreed to the divorce. He wrote an application and submitted it to the Civil Affairs Bureau. The Civil Affairs Bureau verified the situation and issued a divorce certificate.
Song Nan nodded seriously with a bright smile on his face.
If you ask who is the happiest person when Song Chunsheng and Li Juan get their divorce certificate, it would of course be her.
Even though Song Chunsheng is her biological father, she would rather be a fatherless wild child than recognize Song Chunsheng, the man who almost sold her to human traffickers, as her father.
Shi Qiushui: "Then what name do you want to change to? Li Nan?"
Song Nan shook his head: "It's not Li Nan. That man gave me the name Nan. My mother said it was unlucky and wanted to change it altogether."
Shi Qiushui: "Then what do you want to be called?"
Song Nan: "I want to change my name to Li Xi, which means hope."
"Li Xi." Shi Qiushui: "What a nice name!"
Song Nan, oh, no, it should be Li Xi. Li Xi nodded and said, "I think this name sounds nice too."
She likes the name Li Xi, and it makes her feel hopeful as soon as she hears it.
Instead of a name like Song Nan, which sounds disgusting.
Yes, she hated the name Song Nan, she hated it very much.
She just told Shi Qiu Shui that her mother disliked the name because it was given by that man and felt it was unlucky. What she didn't say was that she herself didn't like the name either.
Song Nan, actually it should be Song Nan. The man named her Song Nan. The "nan" in "boy" and her last name together means "sending a boy", which means sending a boy to the family.
It was her mother, whose body had not yet recovered from the confinement period, who forced the man to change the word "nan" in his name to "nan" when registering.
"It's all your mother's fault. I told you to call it Song Nan, the Nan for boy, so that you could bring a boy home. But your mother was too nosy and insisted that the word Nan wasn't appropriate, so she asked me to change it to Nan. Damn it, it's all over now. She gave birth to you for so many years, and she's like a hen that doesn't lay eggs. She's never gotten pregnant again. Damn it, just because of your crappy name, our Song family is going to be extinct."
This is what the man said to her when he was drunk before.
Obviously, the man only said this to her once, but these words seemed to be engraved in her mind. Every time someone called her name, these words would come to her mind.
Every time she heard this name, she had to face a known fact - her role in the man's life was just to fulfill his wish of having a boy; her birth was not what the man wanted; she was not loved.
At first she was sad about this matter, but after hearing it many times, she got used to it. It didn't matter if she was not loved by that man, she no longer expected that man's love.
Now that she can completely get rid of the last bit of influence that man has on her, she just feels happy.
Shi Qiushui: "Li Xi, when are you going to change your name? Tomorrow?"
When the little girl heard Qiu Shui calling out Li Xi's name, a bright smile appeared on her face.
She nodded. "Yes, tomorrow. Actually, my mom wanted to go today, but the person in charge of household registration is not working today."
Shi Qiushui: "That's great, you can change your name tomorrow. This is a good thing, we should celebrate!"
Li Xi nodded, a blush on her face: "Well, my mother also said it was a good thing. She said that after we change our name tomorrow, we will go out to celebrate and eat out. It just so happens that my mother got her salary, and she wants to take me out to eat."
It can be seen that she was very happy about this matter, but she was also worried that her show-off behavior might be inappropriate.
Fortunately, Shi Qiu Shui was very supportive. She chattered with Li Xi about what to eat in the restaurant.
Shi Qiushui: "If you want to know where the food is delicious, of course you have to ask me!"
Her round belly instantly made her look more convincing.
Li Xi couldn't resist the urge to show off, and secretly told Shi Qiu Shui about the name change a day in advance, but by the next day the whole hospital knew about it.
After Li Juan brought Li Xi back with her name changed, she told everyone about it in the evening. Not only did she tell everyone about it in the yard, but she also brought some gifts and went door to door to tell people that she hoped everyone would call her child by the new name Li Xi in the future.
In fact, it was just a small matter. Even if Li Juan didn't bring anything, everyone would be willing to cooperate and change their words, not to mention that she brought candy and biscuits to ask for it.
From then on, Li Xi completely cut off ties with his father Song Chunsheng.
After Li Xi changed his name, the compound was quiet for a while.
Nothing else, mainly everyone is busy.
First of all, there are the aunts headed by Yao Dazui. They have been busy introducing partners to Yang Zhiqiang and arranging blind dates.
Yes, it wasn't just Yao Dazui; several other women in the compound also got involved in the matchmaking for Yang Zhiqiang. Yao Dazui took it on out of kindness, Gao Cuifen wanted to earn Old Lady Yang's matchmaking fee, and Li Xiuying, seeing Gao Cuifen's involvement, felt compelled to compete with her. In the end, with the exception of Ma Yulan, who was too preoccupied with her own son to pay, all the other women in the compound enthusiastically began to introduce Yang Zhiqiang to potential partners.
Secondly, there are the children in the courtyard, from Niu Xiaobei who is about to take the college entrance examination to the Guo family twins who are still in kindergarten. These children have stopped making noise and have settled down.
Because it’s the end of the semester.
Yes, it’s the end of the semester and everyone has to take exams. Niu Xiaobei has to take the college entrance examination, and all the children in the courtyard also have to take their final exams.
Final exams are what children are most reluctant to face.
Shi Qiu Shui became depressed because of the exam.
In fact, their kindergarten does not hold formal exams at the end of the semester, but Shi Qiu Shui is in the senior class. After this semester, she will go to elementary school next semester, so the teacher has to check the children's mastery of the required knowledge points in kindergarten at the end of the semester.
Shi Qiu Shui's grasp of some of the knowledge points was not so solid yet, so he had to cram and study hard at the last minute.
Next are the adults in the courtyard and the adults who work in the machinery factory.
Even though adults don't have to go to school, they are also busy recently, preparing for the annual technical competition of the machinery factory.
The technical competition is called a competition, but in fact it has nothing to do with martial arts. It is a competition of techniques.
The technical competition is held once a year and lasts for half a month or even a month. The items to be competed include theoretical technology, on-site practice, quality control technology, etc. The scope of the competition ranges from various workshops to various factories. After selecting outstanding employees, outstanding employee study sessions will be held in various factories to learn from the outstanding employees their skills and spirit.
Moreover, during technical competitions, technical grading tests will be held, and employees' wages for the following year will be linked to their ratings. How could employees not take it seriously?
Shi Yue and Zhao Hui, who hold non-technical positions and only need to take safety theory exams, are better off. However, it is different for the couple Da Liu and Xiao Liu in the hospital. In order to practice their skills, they have voluntarily worked overtime in the factory during this period.
Everyone in the hospital was busy with their own work, and this busy atmosphere continued until late June.
In late June, Shi Qiu Shui, as one of the first children to be liberated, graduated!
Although Shi Qiu Shui was cramming at the last minute, he was very successful. He passed Teacher Kobayashi's assessment smoothly and successfully obtained his kindergarten graduation certificate.
Of course, there are no children who repeat a grade in kindergarten.
But after all, it was Shi Qiu Shui's first graduation ceremony, so she still took it seriously. On the day of the graduation ceremony, she even specially wore the little skirt that Shi Yuexin bought for her.
She wore a chiffon puff-sleeved short-sleeved top inside and a denim-like suspender skirt outside, which was very fashionable.
Although Shi Qiu Shui got a lot darker in the summer, her skin has become fairer because she has been staying in the house studying hard recently. Wearing this little dress, she looks like a child model on TV, cute and beautiful.
The kindergarten graduation ceremony was not intended to be a big deal, and even the parents were not invited this time, but the children all took it very seriously. They all dressed up beautifully, but the most eye-catching thing was Shi Qiu Shui's dress.
Nothing else, just fashionable!
Don’t think that children don’t appreciate beauty. Children also know how to appreciate beauty.
As soon as Shi Qiushui appeared in the classroom, the eyes of several little girls lit up. They came up to Shi Qiushui curiously and asked, "Xiaoqiu, Xiaoqiu, where did you buy your clothes? They are so beautiful."
"Yes, wow, Xiaoqiu, where did you buy this top? The sleeves are so special."
"It's like the clothes that the PR lady on TV wears. Xiaoqiu, can you let me touch it?"
Shi Qiushui was stunned by the sudden enthusiasm for a moment. She nodded and said, "I bought the clothes at the department store. They arrived this week."
Because it was new and looked a bit special, the salesperson couldn't sell it very often, so when her father took her to buy clothes, the salesperson specially recommended it.
Shi Yue touched the material and thought it was good, so he bought it for her. He didn't expect that the kids in the class liked it so much.
The kids in the class really liked it. Little Taozi was so excited that she immediately said, "I'm going to ask my mom to go to the department store and buy me the same one after school today!"
The little bun next to him also said: "I want my mother to buy it for me too!"
Shi Qiushui: "Don't let your mother make the wrong choice at the counter on the third floor of the department store!"
Xiao Taozi: "Okay!"
Little Baozi: "Xiaoqiu, where did you buy your skirt? I think your skirt looks great too."
Shi Qiushui: "I also bought it at the department store, at..."
Shi Qiu Shui's fashion sharing session ended with the arrival of Teacher Kobayashi.
Teacher Xiaolin, who always had a smile on her face, now had a look of reluctance on her face. She walked into the classroom and said softly, "Children, congratulations, you are graduating today. From now on, you are no longer kindergarten children, but preparatory students for elementary school. Teacher Xiaolin wants to say something to you..."
Teacher Kobayashi had prepared her speech in advance, but as she read sentence by sentence, her voice became more and more trembling, and in the end she even started to cry.
She started working at the kindergarten affiliated with the machinery factory right after she graduated two years ago. The current Class 2 is her first class, and the children in the class are the first batch of students she taught.
Now that she was about to send them off to graduation, she really couldn't bear to let them go.
The children who originally didn't understand what graduation meant finally realized after Mr. Kobayashi finished his speech that graduation meant they would not be able to see Mr. Kobayashi anymore.
The classroom was suddenly filled with crying.
"Teacher Xiaolin, I don't want to go to elementary school. I want to go to kindergarten..."
"Teacher Xiaolin, can you go to elementary school with me?"
"Wow, Mr. Kobayashi, I'm going to separate the tonic from you. The tonic..."
Shi Qiu Shui's eyes were also red. Although she had been in the kindergarten for less than two months and had limited time with Teacher Xiaolin, she had to say that Teacher Xiaolin was really a very responsible and good teacher.
Teacher Kobayashi was left in a state of confusion by the children's crying.
She realized that she was too excited and made the children cry, so she quickly controlled herself and went down to comfort the children one by one.
After coaxing the children for a long time, she finally managed to calm them down and got down to business, awarding the children their graduation certificates.
It is not a formal graduation certificate, but the kind written by the kindergarten itself, one by one, almost like a certificate of honor.
The children who received the toys were very fond of them. They held them in their hands with great care and were afraid to even fold them.
After awarding the graduation certificates, Teacher Kobayashi took everyone to the playground to take graduation photos. The head teacher brought his own camera to take photos of everyone. He took photos of the entire grade and of each class individually.
After taking photos, the principal gave a speech, and saying goodbye to the teachers, the kindergarten was finally dismissed despite the children's reluctance to leave.
The children who had been coaxed by Teacher Kobayashi with great difficulty realized that they had to leave the kindergarten, and their tears started to fall like a floodgate. They were reluctant to leave Teacher Kobayashi and the headmistress!
No matter how reluctant the children are, they still have to leave, after all, their parents are waiting at the door to pick them up.
Shi Qiu Shui held the graduation certificate, pouted his lips, and tears were about to fall in his eyes. He looked extremely pitiful.
Shi Yue saw his daughter's expression and stepped forward to rub her head. He asked distressedly, "Xiao Qiu, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Shi Qiushui: "Wow, I can't bear to leave Teacher Xiaolin."
Shi Yue: “…”
He thought something was wrong.
Shi Yue found it a little funny and wondered if it was worth crying over such a small thing. But when he looked at the children around him, he saw that almost everyone had tears on their faces.
Okay, he'd better stop talking.
Shi Yue took out a handkerchief and wiped the little girl's tears, saying, "It's okay, it's okay, don't cry, it's okay if you can't bear to leave Teacher Xiaolin. It's okay, anyway, we live nearby. Even if you go to elementary school, you can come back to see Teacher Xiaolin."
Shi Qiushui: "Wow, wow, I know I can come back to see Teacher Xiaolin, but this is different. Teacher Xiaolin doesn't teach us anymore. Dad, do you know? Teacher Xiaolin doesn't teach us anymore!"
Shi Yue: “…”
He looked at the crying little girl and said, "How about you repeat a grade and stop attending elementary school and continue to go to kindergarten?"
"dad!"
Shi Qiushui was so angry that she couldn't even cry. She stared at Shi Yue with wide eyes in anger.
Shi Yue chuckled: "Okay, stop crying, okay?"
Shi Qiushui: "Dad!"
She bit her lip and her eyes turned red again.
Shi Yue: "Hey, don't cry, don't cry. You weren't crying just now. You were laughing. So don't cry."
He walked out holding the little girl's hand and asked, "Come on, let's discuss how you're going to spend your summer vacation."
Shi Qiu Shui is on summer vacation from now on until elementary school starts. There are more than two months of summer vacation. He can't stay at home all the time, right?
After all, Shi Yue had to go to work, and he was worried about leaving Shi Qiu Shui alone at home.
Shi Qiushui: "Well, summer vacation, what can I do during summer vacation?"
Zhao Hui, who was walking behind Shi Yue and also came to pick up the child, interrupted at this time: "Shi Yue, why don't you let your daughter learn martial arts with my son?"
Shi Yue and Shi Qiushui, father and daughter, turned their heads at the same time and looked at Zhao Hui curiously: "Learning martial arts?"
Zhao Hui: "Well, I'm planning to send Zhao Ran to learn martial arts this summer from a friend of mine who owns a martial arts school. My friend actually learned martial arts in Wudang Mountain and is quite reliable. Do you want to send Xiaoqiu there to learn as well? I think Xiaoqiu seems quite interested in this stuff."
Shi Qiushui's eyes lit up, and she tugged at Shi Yue's sleeve: "Dad, I want to go~"
Shi Yue was a little hesitant. He asked, "Brother Zhao, is the teaching at your friend's martial arts school strict? I'm worried Xiaoqiu can't bear the hardship."
Shi Qiushui was unhappy. She pouted and said, "Dad, don't talk nonsense. I can endure hardship!"
"What kind of suffering can you endure? You don't even want to eat bitter melon." Shi Yue pushed Shi Qiushui aside and faced Zhao Hui himself: "You know, our Xiaoqiu is a little girl. Little girls are different from little boys. I'm still worried that she can't bear this hardship."
Zhao Hui: "Oh, about that, don't worry. Although my friend is a serious martial artist, their martial arts school has classes divided by age group. There are classes specifically for children. They don't learn difficult moves in class, just basic skills. Of course, practicing basic skills will definitely require some hard work, but it's definitely at a level that children can accept."
He smiled and said, "Actually, they also know that we parents send our children there not because we really want them to learn a lot of martial arts, but because we want to give them a place to pass the time during the summer vacation, so the classes are relatively gentle."
Shi Yue smiled and nodded: "That's what I thought. I wanted to send Xiao Qiu to kill time."
Zhao Hui: "Who isn't? This kid is so energetic. I can't stand watching him for a whole summer."
Shi Yue: "Is your Zhao Ran okay? I think he's quite well behaved. My Xiao Qiu is the more naughty one, though."
Zhao Hui sighed. "Well, what do you mean by honest? There's no child who isn't naughty. My Zhao Ran is even more mischievous. You don't know, during the winter vacation, he was bored at home and insisted on taking his grandfather's radio apart to see what was going on. His grandfather doted on him, so he really took it apart for him..."
Shi Yue: "Then your Zhao Ran can be dismantled and reassembled, but what about my Xiao Qiu? She is destroying things..."
The two children, Zhao Ran and Shi Qiu Shui, listened to the two adults complaining about them and tugged at their father's clothes in dissatisfaction.
"Dad, stop talking."
"Dad, we agreed to save some face for me!"
Zhao Hui/Shi Yue: "..."
Okay, okay, just consider it as giving face to the two kids, they won’t say anything more.
Zhao Hui looked up at Shi Yue and asked, "How about your Xiaoqiu going with our Zhao Ran?"
Shi Yue: "Well, I think we can give it a try."
Zhao Hui: "Well, come with me to the martial arts gym tomorrow. You can take a look at it yourself. If you like it, you can let Xiaoqiu and Zhao Ran go together. If not, we can talk about it later. Tomorrow is Sunday, so we can have a day off."
Shi Yue: "Yeah, that's fine."
He lowered his head and asked, "Xiao Qiu, what do you think?"
Shi Qiu Shui touched his chin, pretended to be silent for a while as if thinking, and then nodded.
"Yeah, I think so too."
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