Although going to school was like a torture on the first day of school, he quickly adapted to primary school life and showed great enthusiasm for it.
It wasn't that Mingming suddenly switched to studying, but he was appointed as the class monitor on the second day of school. Ruirui was also appointed as a class leader, and he was appointed as the study committee member.
The two brothers had very different attitudes towards being a class cadre. Ruirui thought it was very troublesome and didn't really want to be one. Finally, it was their class teacher who comforted him by saying that being a study committee member didn't have much work to do, and if he still didn't want to be a cadre after a month, he could resign and be replaced by someone else. Only then did he reluctantly agree.
Mingming was very happy. In his opinion, the class monitor was the most powerful person in the class, second only to the teacher. He was the boss of everyone, and he was willing to be the boss.
After becoming the monitor, he clearly felt that he might have reached the limit of his patience. Now he doesn't look people in the eye, but instead looks at them with his nose up, looking arrogant.
Moreover, he doesn’t allow people to call him Mingming anymore. They have to call him Mingming squad leader. Once, Zong Shao called him the wrong name, and he got very unhappy and looked at his father with squinted eyes.
It was not until Zong Shao's face darkened that Ming Ming admitted his mistake and corrected him, "You should call me squad leader Ming Ming."
Zong Shao: “…” I’d rather call you little bastard.
Zong Shao felt that Mingming deserved to be punished, but Lin Wei thought it was okay. As long as Mingming could go to school honestly, she was willing to satisfy her son's vanity in this regard.
The couple's different attitudes towards this matter resulted in Mingming responding differently to different people. He would only respond when Lin Wei called him "Squad Leader", while Zong Shao only needed to call him Mingming.
Lin Wei: “…” It’s confirmed, he clearly deserves to be punished.
After Mingming's hard work in promoting the project, within a week, everyone in the residential area knew that Mingming had become the class monitor as soon as he entered school, and Ruirui had become the study committee member.
In response, Ruirui said: He is about to step down, so there is no need to promote him so hard, thank you.
…
As Mingming and Ruirui began to adapt to primary school life, the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived and every family celebrated the reunion festival.
But the atmosphere in Lin Wei's home was a little solemn, because she remembered that the great man died after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The exact date was not mentioned in the novel, so she was not sure, but according to the description in the article, it should have been within a few days.
Lin Wei and Zong Shao were in a bad mood and were in no mood to celebrate the festival. However, because the company distributed mooncakes, the whole family still sat in the yard to admire the moon in the evening.
Ruirui is emotionally sensitive and noticed that mom and dad were in a bad mood, but Mingming and Beibei were not sad at all. The brother and sister, one sitting in a small stroller with wheels and the other sitting on an ordinary stool, ate and drank face to face.
Beibei learned to speak earlier than other children. Although he is only ten months old, he can already call mom, dad and brother, and occasionally utter some simple words, such as good, bad, yes and no.
Oh, she also learned how to touch today.
She and Mingming each held half a mooncake, touched each other and took a bite. After a while, they could pronounce the word very clearly.
After eating half a mooncake, Lin Wei didn't let Beibei eat any more, fearing that she wouldn't be able to digest it.
But the child didn't think about whether she could digest the mooncake or not. She just thought the game of eating a bite with just touching it was fun. When she realized that she couldn't get the mooncake, she started crying at the top of her lungs, shouting "bad mother".
Beibei had never associated good or bad with titles before. She often spoke in single sentences. For example, when she called "Dad", she would pause in the middle, so it sounded like she was calling "Dad" twice. The same was true for her mom and brother.
This was the first time that she didn't just utter words, but also learned to make sentences spontaneously.
But Lin Wei, who was accused of being a bad mother, was not happy, and even wanted to smack her daughter on the head. Looking at the expressions of Zong Shao and the two children who were trying to hold back their laughter, Lin Wei finally decided to throw her daughter to Zong Shao: "Coax her."
After being in his father's arms, Beibei's attitude towards asking for mooncakes changed, and soon Zong Shao also earned the title of "bad dad".
But Zong Shao did not dare to leave his daughter to his wife. He could only think of ways to divert his daughter's attention. He raised her arms and lifted her up, sometimes high and sometimes low.
The little girl screamed in fear, but a smile appeared on her face.
I just coaxed my daughter. Ruirui obviously didn't want to do it anymore, and they also wanted to fly.
Zong Shao is very strict when working, but he is also willing to play with the children during his rest time. At the strong request of the two children, he took turns lifting them up to fly.
When the child from Captain Sun’s family next door saw this, he immediately pulled his father’s sleeve and wanted to play too. At first, Captain Sun agreed cheerfully, but he started to feel tired after ten minutes, and after fifteen minutes he felt exhausted, waved his hands and said, "Dad can't lift it anymore."
Captain Sun's son was immediately disappointed: "Dad, why are you unable to lift it so quickly?"
Captain Sun was choked by these words. He stretched out his finger and pointed at the dial on his wrist: "Fifteen minutes, is it fast?"
Captain Sun's son looked to the next door and said, "But Uncle Zong can still lift it."
After saying that, the two children of the Sun family turned around and looked at Mingming who was lifted up, all with envy on their faces. Then looking at their own father who was out of breath, they all had expressions of disappointment on their faces.
Captain Sun: “…” He shouldn’t have come out to admire the moon!
…
The weather was so good last night that Lin Wei thought it would be sunny the next day. However, when she woke up in the morning, there was a strong wind outside and the sky looked a little gloomy.
In case of rain, Lin Wei packed raincoats for both children. She also brought more things with her, including a raincoat and an umbrella.
The main reason was that she was holding Beibei, and bringing only an umbrella or a raincoat might cause her daughter to get wet in the rain. What she was most worried about was her daughter getting wet. She was an adult, so a little rain would be no big deal, but if a child had a fever, it would be a serious matter, so she had to be prepared.
When I arrived at school for the second class, it started raining outside as expected, and the rain lasted for a long time and didn't stop until school was over.
Therefore, after school, the doors of each classroom are filled with parents who come to pick up their children.
After class, Lin Wei did not leave immediately as usual. Instead, she watched the parents pick up the children who were not boarding the school, and then hurried back to the office holding an umbrella.
When she returned to the office, Ruirui was already there, sitting in the stroller playing with her sister. Because she didn't see Zhao Yanhua's youngest son, Lin Wei asked, "Did Teacher Zhao take the child back?"
Huang Aiyun stood by the window, looking worried and shaking her head. “It was raining too hard. She didn’t plan to go back at noon. She took her son to an empty room to feed him.”
The empty rooms are dormitories prepared for faculty and staff. Since no one has ever lived there, the teachers call them empty rooms. Zhao Yanhua mainly feeds her child with breast milk, so she goes to that room to breastfeed from time to time.
Lin Wei understood and asked, "What about you? Why don't you go back?"
"I didn't bring an umbrella." Huang Aiyun said with a wry smile.
"I can lend you my umbrella if you go back."
Huang Aiyun asked: "Aren't you going back?"
"Do you think I can make it back with three people?" Lin Wei asked back, "I'll go to the cafeteria to get food later."
Huang Aiyun couldn't help laughing, and then said: "I want to take two people with me too."
"Then will you come back?"
"Yes." Huang Aiyun said immediately.
"Do you want a raincoat or an umbrella? Mingming Ruirui also brought a raincoat, I can lend it to you if you want."
Huang Aiyun originally wanted to borrow an umbrella, but upon hearing this, she immediately changed her mind and said, "Then lend me your raincoat."
Lin Wei responded, took out her own raincoat from the drawer, and handed over the two raincoats that Mingming and Ruirui were wearing and hanging by the window.
Huang Aiyun thanked her after taking the raincoat. Lin Wei smiled and said, "I should thank you for helping me take care of the children."
During normal classes, Lin Wei would let Beibei sit in the stroller and take her to the classroom. But the weather was bad today, and Zhao Yanhua happened to have morning reading and the next two classes, so it was inconvenient for her to go back with the child. So Lin Wei left Beibei in the office and asked her to help take care of him.
Huang Aiyun didn't go home for the last two classes because she wanted to wait for Yuting, so she took care of both children. She had agreed that if she was going back, she would call Lin Wei and Zhao Yanhua before leaving and ask them to take the children to the classroom. However, the rain continued, so she helped look after the children for two classes.
After Huang Aiyun left, Lin Wei also took an umbrella and went to the kitchen, and brought back two lunch boxes. The food in the school cafeteria is mostly vegetarian, but in special circumstances, we have to make do with it.
When Zhao Yanhua returned to the office with the lunch box, her son and daughter had also returned from the classroom and were surrounding the cradle to play with their little brother. Because she didn't see Zhao Yanhua, Lin Wei asked, "Where's your mother?"
"I went to the toilet." Zhao Yanhua's daughter said softly.
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Yanhua came back holding an umbrella. Seeing Lin Wei, she asked, "Did you go to the cafeteria to get food? What dishes are there?"
"One is braised potato slices, and the other is stir-fried vegetables."
Zhao Yanhua was mentally prepared for the food in the cafeteria and said, "Today's food is pretty good."
"Are you eating in the cafeteria too?" Lin Wei asked.
"Let's eat. I'm too lazy to cook at home." Zhao Yanhua said as she took out a lunch box from the drawer of her desk, said goodbye to her son and daughter, and went out.
After Zhao Yanhua left, Lin Wei asked Mingming and Ruirui to eat first, while she took out the milk bottle and milk powder from the drawer to prepare lunch for her daughter.
After preparing the milk powder, Lin Wei did not give it to her daughter directly. Instead, she held it in her hand and shook it, waiting for it to cool down.
During this time, Zhao Yanhua came back and put her umbrella outside in the corridor. As soon as she entered the room, she lowered her voice and asked, "What happened to the principal today?"
"What's wrong with the principal? Wasn't she fine when I saw her this morning?" Lin Wei asked puzzledly while shaking the bottle.
Zhao Yanhua shook her head: "It was fine in the morning, but I ran into her when I went to get lunch just now. She had a gloomy face and seemed to be in a bad mood." Then she opened the lunch box and invited her to come over to eat.
"That's not very clear." Lin Wei said as she opened the bottle cap and handed the bottle to her daughter.
In fact, Beibei was not very hungry. He had last eaten at around ten o'clock, and it had been less than two hours since then. But when her mother put the bottle in front of her, she was still willing to eat in advance. She took the bottle with both hands and started drinking.
Zhao Yanhua was still muttering behind Lin Wei: "Could something have happened?"
Lin Wei shook her head: "Don't make blind guesses. If something happened at school, Principal Feng would definitely notify us immediately." If it was her family affair, it would be difficult for subordinates like them to ask too much.
"You're right." Zhao Yanhua said, still with some worry in her tone.
As the teachers who had gone home for lunch returned to school one after another, Zhao Yanhua's question was soon answered.
It turned out that at noon, all major radio stations were repeatedly broadcasting the same phrase: There will be an important broadcast at 4 p.m.[1] There is a radio in Principal Feng's office. She must have heard the news and that's why she was so worried.
But after learning the news, not only Zhao Yanhua, but other teachers who didn't know about this before were worried, not knowing whether this important news was good or bad.
Unlike other people who were worried, Lin Wei's heart sank after hearing the news.
She knew the date that was not written in the novel.
Before the afternoon class, the rain stopped. Lin Wei had no classes in the afternoon and could have gone home, but she had something on her mind and ultimately did not go back.
I waited until four o'clock in the afternoon, and then I heard funeral music outside.
The remaining teachers in the offices walked out one after another, and the teachers who were teaching in the classrooms also put down the chalk in their hands and hurriedly left the classroom.
All the teachers gathered outside the principal's office and watched Principal Feng walk with heavy steps towards the radio on the desk and turn on the button.
There was no need to change the channel. As soon as the radio was turned on, the announcer's sad voice came out.
For a moment, there was crying inside and outside the office.
…
Although 1976 was a year of disasters, good news continued to come after the Chinese New Year.
Zong Shao was promoted in March, Deng Xiangyun's parents were finally released in May, and Zhou Jianhai, whose rank had not changed after marriage due to his background, finally had a change in his job.
Outside the family quarters, Chen Lihua also persuaded the brigade cadres to set up a breeding farm and negotiated supply matters with the troops.
As chickens and ducks from the farm appeared on the tables of soldiers in the army, the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination became more and more popular. But the news was true and false, and in the end there were only three words: uncertain, which made people in various units uneasy.
The same is true for the teachers in the military primary schools. Many of them are graduates before the Great Movement and still have the idea of going to college.
Knowing that Lin Wei had already started learning high school content, some people came to ask her if she had heard the news a long time ago. Lin Wei denied it all, saying that she was not a prophet.
However, regarding whether the college entrance examination will be resumed, she gave a positive answer based on the news in the past few months, and suggested that if everyone wants to take the college entrance examination, it is best to review early.
And Lin Wei's words did come true. On October 21, the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was officially announced.
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