Zhou Yunwan looked over carefully and recognized that person as the older sister who had posted flyers on the bulletin board yesterday.
"She is Zhao Qingxia, the street women's director. We all call her Director Zhao. She is very easy to talk to." Zhao Wanwan remembered that she had just arrived and probably didn't know anyone, so she kindly introduced her.
Zhou Yunwan stared at her suspiciously for a few seconds. She knew from the beginning that Zhao Wanwan had a vague hostility towards her, so she had always deliberately kept a distance from her. However, the other party's sudden goodwill made her a little confused.
Zhao Wanwan felt guilty when she stared at her: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Yunwan retracted her gaze and replied indifferently, "Thank you for letting me know."
She didn't know whether Zhao Wanwan did this because she suddenly wanted to ease the relationship with her or if she had some other intention. She didn't really want to get too close to her.
If she guessed correctly, even if Zhao Wanwan and Liang Shuqin were not friends, they should have known each other for several years, which was at least better than their relationship with her, whom she had only known for a few days.
However, when Liang Shuqin had a conflict with her, Zhao Wanwan not only did not speak up for Liang Shuqin, she even showed an expression of disgust, which is a bit intriguing.
Her sixth sense told her that Zhao Wanwan was not someone she could have a close friendship with, so it was better to keep her distance as much as possible.
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"Thank you all for your support and admiration for our work." Zhao Qingxia's voice was loud and clear, and fell into everyone's ears: "Since the number of people who signed up on the first day was much higher than expected, in order not to affect the smooth progress of the party, we decided to temporarily change the rules."
"Director Zhao, what rules are you changing?"
"Are you going to change the prize? No, I'm going there for the bike."
Zhao Qingxia listened to the constant discussions below. Her head was buzzing, but she was happy in her heart. The more people participated, the more it proved that she had organizational skills, and promotion and salary increase were just around the corner.
Every year, the New Year's Eve Gala held in the family compound is highly valued by the higher-ups, and the leaders will come to watch the show in person, so the quality of the show is strictly controlled. The military families who have registered also try their best to perform well and strive to leave a good impression on the leaders.
However, the evening parties in recent years have had nothing new to offer. There are only a few fixed programs performed over and over again, and apart from a few veterans in the theater who are keen on performing, no young people are willing to participate.
Without young people, it means there is no youthful vitality, which always feels a little lacking.
And what attracts young people the most? They must be the good-looking girls and boys in the art troupe.
So last year she specifically went to ask the director of the art troupe for help in arranging two programs, a boys' chorus and a girls' dance, and asked the girls and boys to come to the big stage in the compound to rehearse every now and then.
The effect was naturally very obvious, and young people in the family compound joined in one after another.
In addition, in order to boost everyone's enthusiasm and motivation, she also specially applied for three additional prizes with great value.
Finally, thanks to her unremitting efforts, last year's party was a complete success, which is why this year it was able to attract so many military families to participate. Moreover, the higher-ups made an exception and increased the budget for the party, making the prizes even more valuable.
It’s a good thing to have more people signing up, but too many is a bit annoying. She received more than fifty program lists in just one morning! You have to know that there were only thirty programs in total last year!
After investigation, we found out that some people totally ignored the quality of the programs and tried to be clever by signing up for several programs at once, whether they were individual programs, group programs, singing, dancing, playing musical instruments... In short, all the programs that could be thought of were signed up.
Although it is not ruled out that some people have outstanding personal abilities and can take on multiple programs at the same time in a short period of time, it is more likely that they will pass off inferior products as good ones and try their luck to win prizes.
If everyone did that, wouldn't the party be in a mess?
Thinking of this, Zhao Qingxia's expression became much more serious, and she said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, the rules won't change much."
"In order to ensure fairness, each person can only submit one program name to me. For individual programs, you only need to fill in one name, while for group programs, you need to write down the names of all members."
"As for the prizes, they are the same as last year. If an individual wins, they take the prize. If a group wins, the prize will be converted into money and tickets and divided equally among everyone."
Group programs have a great advantage in winning awards compared to individual programs, so this rule is relatively fair.
However, whether the rules change or not has little impact on Zhou Yunwan, so her expression did not change much. In contrast, the expressions of Liang Shuqin and Zhao Wanwan next to her looked a little ugly.
They had previously believed the "loophole in the rules" that some people talked about, and had deliberately prepared the program two weeks in advance, delaying the dance training of the art troupe, hoping to increase their chances of winning this evening party.
In this case, wouldn't they have worked in vain?
There were many people in the crowd who had the same mentality as Zhao Wanwan and the others. As Zhao Qingxia finished speaking, wailing sounds suddenly rang out all around.
Some people even thought that they could use their "connections" to make an exception for Zhao Qingxia and allow him to sign up for another program, but Zhao Qingxia refused every time and said that if they were discovered, they would be disqualified from participating.
Zhao Qingxia asked everyone to take the application forms back and think about them carefully, and submit them again after they have thought them through.
As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd dispersed and started to make noise, making the place extremely lively.
Zhou Yunwan and the others had almost all left before she walked forward with the registration form, "Director Zhao, this is my program registration form."
At a glance, Zhao Qingxia recognized her as the little girl she had seen on the bulletin board yesterday. She reached out to take the registration form and glanced at it. Her handwriting was neat and tidy, and very pleasing, which made her like her a lot more.
His eyes slowly slid from name and age to address.
He paused for a few seconds, then raised his eyebrows in surprise. His surname is Zhou, but he lives in Chief Shen's house? Then isn't she the little girl brought back by Professor Shen that was rumored to be so popular before?
She remembered that her son went out for a trip on New Year's Eve, and after coming back he kept talking about how pretty the new girl in the compound was. She was wondering who he was talking about, and it seemed to be the one in front of her.
Her son is not good at anything, but he has good taste.
After thinking for two seconds, Zhao Qingxia's eyes fell on the program she was going to perform, the folk dance "Dance of Mountains and Waters", which she had never heard of before. Only her name was written on the list, so it seemed that it would be a solo dance.
Solo dance requires very high basic skills from the dancer. Zhao Qingxia glanced at Zhou Yunwan who came from the countryside. Can she do it?
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