This was a big deal. Qiu Yuling couldn't go home so early after get off work because she had to rehearse a small chorus with her colleagues in the department.
Later, when she practiced the erhu, her skills amazed everyone. The department head immediately made the decision and asked Qiu Yuling to accompany everyone with the erhu. Qiu Yuling did not refuse.
She also signed up for audience seats for her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Together with the seats for Xie Chunrong's two family members, it was just enough for her parents, brother and sister-in-law to see her embarrass herself in person.
The Municipal Bureau borrowed the site of the opera house and held the ceremony on the first day of New Year's Day. Fortunately, Qiu Dahe brought his parents up a day in advance, otherwise they would have almost missed it.
When Qiu Yuling was performing, she wore a military uniform, which was popular at the time. Her racehorse was put at the beginning to rock the show. Li Qingmei and Qiu Jianshe were in the audience and felt that their daughter was shining on the stage.
"Boss, look, is that our Yuling?" Li Qingmei was so nervous that she grabbed the baby's father's hand. Qiu Jianshe was panicked. What if someone saw this?
"Don't talk nonsense and focus on our baby." He carefully took his old rough hand away. As an old couple, they even played with his heartbeat.
He tried hard to focus on the stage, and soon the passionate tune captured his attention.
When the song ended, Qiu Yuling squeezed in front of her parents and asked arrogantly, "How was it? Was it exciting? Was it surprising?"
Qiu Jianshe was so excited that he just laughed his ass off. Li Qingmei, on the other hand, tucked her daughter's hair behind her ear and said, "I didn't expect my Yuling to be so capable outside!"
Wang Xiaotao also leaned over to praise, "Yuling is really amazing. I didn't expect you to have this skill. My mother wanted to ask you to join the military art troupe. Now when I think about it, I feel regretful. If you had gone, you would have become a stagehand."
Qiu Yuling's eyes sparkled with laughter. "It's the same everywhere. Just watch for a while. Once our department's chorus is over, we can leave and go back to making dumplings."
She thought everyone would find it boring, but little did she know that this was the first time for Li Qingmei and Qiu Jianshe to witness such an occasion. Even the announcer was not impressed and was reluctant to leave.
Even after they came out, the old couple was still immersed in the performance. Li Qingmei pulled Qiu Yuling aside and asked her quietly, "Can you bring mom over next time?"
Wang Xiaotao responded even faster than Qiu Yuling, "Come with us to the military to watch the art performances there. They're quite good. We'll let you see as much as you can."
For the first time, Li Qingmei felt an infinite yearning for the upcoming schedule, despite her timidity.
Qiu Dahe wasn't the type to stick to his guns. He bought four sleeper tickets, and before leaving, he repeatedly told Qiu Yuling, "If you can get some time off at the end of the year, come to my second brother's place. I've also told my third child that my parents are staying with me for the New Year. You all should come if you can."
It’s hard for Qiu Dashu to say, as the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau has relatively more holidays. Both he and Wang Xiaotao hope that the younger sister can come.
Qiu Yuling smiled and agreed, "As long as I have a day off, or can take a leave, I will go."
The car was already moving when Li Qingmei remembered something and leaned out of the window to shout loudly. However, the wind was blowing against her and Qiu Yuling couldn't hear a word she said.
Wang Xiaotao helped pull down the window and advised her, "It's okay, Mom. Yuling will watch it when she gets home."
It turned out that Li Qingmei thought that she would be away for a long time this time, so she moved all the food and drinks in the house to Qiu Yuling. She was afraid that it would be inconvenient for her to take care of the donkey, so she entrusted it to the team leader's cousin's house, and also prepared feed and fodder over there.
Qiu Yuling wrapped her coat tightly around her, shrank her neck, and felt a rare sense of melancholy.
The way she gets along with Wang Xiaotao is different from the way she gets along with Wang Aihong. To her, Wang Aihong has always been a bit of a noisy and cheerful person, but Wang Xiaotao is different. She feels a bit like a best friend.
Although we didn't spend much time together, we had been pen pals for many years and had countless things to share. In addition, because of each other's family background, the other person had been accustomed to the social interactions since childhood and had matured better than a child from a poor family. When they communicated, they felt a kind of spiritual connection.
People say that children from poor families grow up early, but this is actually wrong. This kind of ability is the result of practice makes perfect.
Children who come from families with real backgrounds are well-versed in human nature and worldly-wise. As long as they are not the kind who are spoiled, they are much better than ordinary people in dealing with the world.
Like Wang Xiaotao, or Li Feidan.
When she returned to the small dormitory, it suddenly became deserted and seemed particularly quiet. After thinking for a while, Qiu Yuling called her old friend Zhuzhu.
"Zhuzhu, I want to drink milk tea. Can you bake some cookies for me?" The fire was burning brightly, and two oranges were roasted on the stove.
Qiu Yuling squeezed a single recliner into the gap between the stove and the cabinet, so she could reach food and drinks with just a stretch of her hand.
I covered my legs with a blanket, picked up an old book from the air, and quickly put this little bit of loss behind me.
I don’t know when it started snowing outside. Children were running around in the open space in the family compound. Their screams and laughter woke up Qiu Yuling, who had fallen asleep without knowing when.
She put away the book and the fruit core crumbs, took out her hat, put on her scarf, put on her military coat, walked a few steps, and came back to get a pair of gloves, ready to join in the fun.
Qiu Yuling's arrival instantly roused several children, who couldn't distinguish friend from foe. Then, someone suddenly called out that she was an adult, and all the children attacked her.
Young people who couldn't sit still came out to join in one after another. The naughty kids complained that it was unfair for adults to fight against children, so they divided into male and female teams.
Now, not only the children had a desire to win, but the adults were no less eager. Even the aunts passing by put down their dustpans, made two snowballs, and threw them at the men they disliked.
As more and more people joined in, the attacks were no longer limited to men and women. Everyone started looking for whoever they wanted to beat up. Qiu Yuling quietly withdrew from the battlefield, hiding her achievements and fame.
She returned to the house, locked the half door made by her second brother, locked the front door, drew the curtains, and turned off the system monitoring. She planned to take a comfortable flower petal bath.
Now almost everyone in the family compound knows that Xiao Qiu's family is well-off, her brothers are promising, and her relatives are well-connected. So she is no longer as secretive as before when using things.
Just by looking at the coal and firewood in the corner next to the kitchen, everyone could imagine how warm Xiao Qiu's house was.
In fact, they even underestimated the warmth. With these superficial covers, Qiu Yuling was busy placing orders from the system mall. The windows in the room were ajar, but the people inside were still sweating from the heat.
With Spider watching over the fire for her, she wasn't even afraid of the coal smoke.
In order to let Zhuzhu go out for some fresh air, Qiu Yuling even sewed a Q-version Zhuzhu and placed it on the sofa as a pillow, thinking that even if someone passed by and saw the dark shadow through the window, they would not think much of it.
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