Shen Qiqi took a deep breath, walked to the door, and was about to speak, but was choked back by a word from Head Wang: "Humph! I want to see what tricks you are up to!"
Shen Qiqi took a deep breath, calmed down, and decided to go to Mr. Wang's house to have a good talk with him.
She came to Wang's house. The head of Wang's family was sitting in the yard smoking a pipe. When he saw Shen Qiqi, he snorted heavily and knocked his pipe to the ground, sparks flying.
"Mr. Wang, I want to explain something to you about the new curriculum..." Shen Qiqi just started to speak when she was rudely interrupted by Mr. Wang.
"Explain? What's there to explain? You just do all these fancy things. Instead of teaching your children to read and write, you just do all these useless things!" Parent Wang's voice echoed in the courtyard like thunder.
Shen Qiqi patiently explained: "Mr. Wang, the times are progressing, and children also need to learn new knowledge..."
"Progress? I think it's regression! Didn't we get through this before, and we're living well now?" The Wang family stiffened their necks, looking unyielding.
Shen Qiqi listened silently, feeling aggrieved. She took a deep breath and continued, "Mr. Wang, you..."
"Stop talking! I don't want to hear it!" Parent Wang interrupted her rudely and waved his hand. "Go away! Don't bother me!"
Shen Qiqi left the Wang family helplessly, feeling powerless.
But she didn't give up. She returned to school and started looking for discarded items that could be used.
She was rummaging through a cluttered classroom, her eyes sweeping over a pile of worn wooden boards, discarded wire, and several rusty iron buckets.
Her eyes gradually brightened, and an idea gradually took shape in her mind.
She found tools such as a hammer, nails, pliers, etc. and started to make it.
Lu Qing also came to help. The two worked together in perfect harmony and quickly made some simple experimental equipment.
Lu Qing looked at Shen Qiqi's focused eyes, his heart full of admiration.
"Qiqi, you are so amazing!" Lu Qing praised sincerely.
Shen Qiqi smiled, with a confident light in her eyes: "This is just the beginning!"
It was late at night, and the light was still on in the Lu family's study...
Lu Qing pointed at the content in the textbook and said to Shen Qiqi: "Qiqi, look here..." Lu Qing pointed at the illustration in the textbook with his slender fingers, frowning slightly: "Qiqi, look at the schematic diagram of this steam engine, is there something wrong?" Shen Qiqi leaned closer, and her breath gently brushed against Lu Qing's ears, bringing a hint of itch.
She studied the drawing carefully, running her slender fingers lightly across it. "It seems... the proportions aren't right."
The two of them discussed back and forth, sometimes arguing, sometimes smiling at each other. The atmosphere in the study was warm and harmonious.
The chirping of crickets outside the window rises and falls, like a gentle lullaby.
Before I knew it, the night had deepened and the chill was growing.
Lu Qing stood up, took a coat from the chair, and gently draped it over Shen Qiqi's shoulders: "It's late at night, be careful not to catch a cold." Shen Qiqi's heart warmed up, she looked up at Lu Qing, her eyes moving, and a sweet smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "As long as you are here, I won't be cold."
Lu Qing also smiled, and his gentle gaze fell on Shen Qiqi, as if to melt her.
The two smiled at each other, and everything was said without words.
Time passed minute by minute, the light in the study was still on, and the two were immersed in the ocean of knowledge, relying on and supporting each other.
However, there are undercurrents in the peaceful village.
Some rumors began to spread in the village, growing like weeds.
"Hey, have you heard? Shen Qiqi is doing these new courses just to show off and become an advanced member!" Aunt Zhang said mysteriously to the people around her while eating melon seeds.
"That's right. I think she just wants to be famous! I've never seen her so active before." Aunt Li also agreed.
These rumors spread quickly throughout the village like wings, bringing new troubles to Shen Qiqi's education expansion plan.
That day, Shen Qiqi had just walked to the entrance of the village when she heard several women whispering.
She stopped and wanted to listen to what they were saying.
"It's her, it's Shen Qiqi! She just messes around all day long!" A sharp voice came into Shen Qiqi's ears.
"Hey, what do you think she wants? Is she just bored?" Another voice said with a hint of sarcasm.
Shen Qiqi clenched her fists, her nails digging deep into her flesh...
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