Huo Tingzhou pondered for a moment, "This matter should be related to a criticism meeting held by the military district primary school during the National Day holiday."
"A criticism meeting?" Jiang Si turned her head. "Criticize whom?"
Seeing Huo Tingzhou hesitate, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and pointed to herself, "Are you going to criticize me?"
Huo Tingzhou nodded. "Mm."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Si laughed in anger. It was truly a case of trouble falling from the sky while one was sitting at home!
She hasn't been back to Qiongzhou Island for a year, yet she's still being used as a negative example for criticism?
"No wonder Teacher Hu was willing to give up everything on the island to be transferred away."
In fact, it wasn't just Jiang Si; during that period, children from families in the residential compound with less favorable class backgrounds were isolated at school.
At the time, Huo Tingzhou and his team were busy preparing for the grand competition. Commander Yao and Political Commissar Li were afraid that these messy things would affect their mood for the competition, so they kept quiet about it.
But this incident still infuriated them.
In the words of Commander Yao, Jiang Si has done enough for the Fourth Division.
They didn't expect these people to be grateful to her, but it was better not to do such a despicable thing as cursing someone after putting down their bowl!
They didn't say anything before because they were afraid of disturbing Jiang Si's peaceful life. Now that the couple has been transferred back to Beijing, the leaders of the division have nothing to worry about anymore.
That's why we have this letter today.
But doing all that was far from enough. In order to set an example for others, the division headquarters also took some tough measures.
Didn't this group of people set up a model of learning from workers, farmers, and soldiers at school before? Shouldn't the teachers take the lead and set an example?
So, not long after the National Day holiday.
These people were transferred directly to a nearby farm by a single order from the division headquarters to conduct labor practice.
The farm has no shortage of farm work.
Expanding the factory requires people, raising livestock on the farm requires people, and harvesting in the fields still requires people!
After a few days of farm work, when you're so tired you can't even straighten your back, you'll naturally become more obedient.
But that's not the worst part.
Huo Tingzhou asked, "Do you remember the specialty canned goods I mentioned to you a while ago?"
That's right, it's canned Three-Snake Soup.
There's no such thing as false advertising these days; everything is made with the real ingredients.
Just imagining the scene gave Jiang Si goosebumps. "Are we going to have them deal with all this?"
Huo Tingzhou nodded.
Unsurprisingly, these people were also frightened.
It is said that several people fainted as soon as they were led to the processing workshop.
After this incident, these people finally behaved themselves and kept quiet for a while.
After hearing this, Jiang Si didn't know how to react, but she felt very relieved.
"So now at school..."
"It's still the same as always." Huo Tingzhou said helplessly, "These people have been causing trouble at the school for almost a year, and many students have become averse to studying."
Of course, this is also related to the current environment.
People in this era generally feel that it's better to have a good father than to excel in math, physics, and chemistry.
Fortunately, this promotion has brought up many young officers, and after New Year's Day, many new military wives will come to the island.
The division headquarters plans to recruit some of these newly arrived military spouses to fill teaching positions.
That's the gist of it. Huo Tingzhou told Jiang Si everything in detail.
What he didn't expect was that the women in the family compound would actually gather so many things and send them over.
Jiang Si also felt deeply about this.
When she donated money to help build the school, she never thought she would get anything in return.
But at this moment, these local specialties from all over the country, and this simple and unpretentious thank-you letter, made Jiang Si feel the satisfaction and joy of "giving roses and having fragrance linger on your hands".
Looking at the mess on the ground, Jiang Si smiled.
The next day, she and Huo Tingzhou went to a stationery store and bought two large boxes of pencils and calligraphy practice books.
For no other reason than the sentence at the end of the thank-you letter, "Sister, we will definitely study hard and live up to your expectations!"
After packing and shipping these items, Jiang Si also took the opportunity to browse the section on the third floor that sells large items.
For this move, the eldest brother, second brother, and fourth brother all prepared things in advance.
It was said to bring good fortune to the new home.
Her elder brother and his family will be coming to Beijing in a few days, and she should reciprocate with a gift in return.
After some searching, Jiang Si settled on a radio.
My older brother and sister-in-law are busy with work and probably don't have time to listen to these things usually, so this is for Mr. and Mrs. Lu.
We didn't choose anything with too many complicated functions. The elderly mainly want to listen to the news or model operas, so they don't like using anything too complicated.
The second sister-in-law and the fourth sister-in-law were both very busy at work and couldn't easily take time off, so they gave the money and coupons to Jiang Si early on, asking her to help them choose two things.
...
After a heavy snowfall, the weather gradually turned cold.
However, on the day Mr. and Mrs. Lu arrived in Beijing, the entire Huo family still went to the train station early to pick them up.
Around the same time last year, they picked up their eldest son and his wife, along with their two grandchildren, from this place.
A year later, the family's excitement was no less than it had been back then.
As soon as Mr. and Mrs. Lu stepped out of the station with the flow of people, they saw a large family waiting anxiously outside.
However, the two children reacted even faster than them.
"Dad!" Rui Rui and Yao Yao spotted Lu Zhankai in the crowd immediately.
The two of them ran over excitedly and rushed into his arms like two little cannonballs.
Both children have good memories and are polite.
After giving her father a tight hug, she looked up and sweetly called out, "Grandpa and Grandma!"
Then, they didn't need any reminders from adults.
He turned directly to his uncles and aunts and called out to each of them.
"So good!" Mrs. Huo was overjoyed. Knowing that the children loved candied hawthorns, she had specially bought a few skewers before they set off.
I divided the candied hawthorns among the two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Huo quickly went to greet them and took Mr. and Mrs. Lu's hands, saying, "Big brother, big sister, you must be tired from your journey."
Mr. and Mrs. Lu waved their hands hastily, saying that their child missed them and wanted to bring them to Beijing to live out their retirement.
The two were overjoyed; this little bit of hardship was nothing.
"Young lady, the train was delayed by more than two hours. I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting for so long..."
Before Lu's mother could even begin to speak, Huo's mother warmly grabbed her hand and interrupted, "Elder sister, you're being too polite! We're family, and family doesn't need to stand on ceremony. Waiting any amount of time is perfectly acceptable!"
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