Yingying felt a little embarrassed by the two people's laughter and lowered her head. Cheng Maixiang quickly stopped laughing, squatted down, and asked her with concern, "Yingying, are you confident about today's performance?"
Yingying nodded heavily. "Ever since my aunt helped me rehearse, my teachers and classmates have praised my performance. Now that my aunt is here again today, I feel even more confident."
That's good.
Cheng Maixiang smiled and nodded.
Yingying gently circled her right foot and whispered, "Aunt, when I perform later, you, please don't sit in the audience. Stand by the stage and watch me, okay?"
After all, it was her first performance and she was probably too nervous, so they asked her to stand at the edge of the stage just to give her courage and cheer her on.
"Okay." Cheng Maixiang agreed immediately.
Lin Qingwan asked with a smile, "Then Mom and Auntie can also stand by the stage, okay?"
Yingying shook her head. "No, Mom. Just ask Dad and Uncle to sit in the audience and cheer me on."
Soon it was time for the performance to begin.
As the childish announcements from the playground began, the classroom door opened. Teacher Fang walked out with three children. They stopped at the door and said with a smile, "Our first-grade class three program is the third one. Don't be nervous, just let go and perform. The important thing is to participate."
Cheng Maixiang nodded. At this point, the children's levels had basically been determined. Putting pressure on them would be of no use. It would be better to let them relax so that they could perform at their normal level.
After Teacher Fang finished speaking, she saw Cheng Maixiang still standing aside and asked curiously, "Parent, why don't you go sit in the audience?"
Cheng Maixiang pulled Teacher Fang aside and whispered a few words to her. Teacher Fang glanced at Yingying, smiled, and nodded in agreement. "This child actually has a talent for acting. She performed very well in rehearsals, but she gets nervous easily. I asked her to perform in this children's play just to give her some exercise."
There is no auditorium in the provincial primary school, so the performance was held in the playground. The stage was the school's flag-raising platform. The students had already brought out their own stools and placed them on the playground for parents who came to watch the performance to sit on.
Cheng Maixiang followed Teacher Fang and the children to the edge of the stage, only to see a sea of people below, all looking up at the performance on stage.
Yingying's legs suddenly went weak. She couldn't help but hold Cheng Maixiang's hand and whispered, "Aunt, why are there so many people? I'm so nervous."
Cheng Maixiang held her hand and felt her palm gradually getting moist. She also saw sweat beginning to seep out of her little face. She knew that she was extremely nervous and was afraid that she would forget all her lines once she went on stage.
It was almost time for the second program, and ten children were going on stage to perform a dance. Yingying became more and more nervous. If Cheng Maixiang hadn't held her back, she would have run away in a moment.
"Yingying, look at your aunt." Seeing Yingying almost crying from nervousness, Cheng Maixiang immediately squatted down and said seriously, "Your performance this time is not just for you, you are performing with Qiaomai. You are bringing your good friend onto the stage as well. Do you want to disappoint her?"
Yingying was stunned for a moment and shook her head firmly.
"Auntie knows you're just worried about messing up because there are too many people in the audience. I'll teach you a way to make sure you don't get nervous anymore."
Yingying's face lit up with joy, her eyes fixed on Cheng Maixiang, "Aunt, I'll listen to you."
"Okay, when you get on stage, don't look down at the audience. Either look at your companions, or look at your aunt standing at the edge of the stage. Remember that?"
"Okay, aunt, I'll remember it." Yingying nodded heavily.
Her lines and movements were all taught to her by her aunt. In front of her aunt, she didn't have to worry about how she would perform. Yingying's originally anxious heart suddenly relaxed. As long as her aunt was there, she was not afraid of anything.
Soon, the song and dance performance ended, and the ten children left the stage with smiles on their faces, and the audience burst into warm applause.
The announcer walked onto the stage with grace and confidence. "Next, please enjoy the play, 'Bamboo Shoots from the Production Team,' performed by the students of Class Three, Grade One."
Cheng Maixiang patted Yingying's shoulder and waved her fist in front of her. Yingying smiled and nodded. Seeing that her two companions had gone on stage, she followed them up.
Perhaps it was because one of the children was wearing old makeup that the parents in the audience found it funny, and there was continuous laughter from the audience.
Cheng Maixiang followed Yingying closely and saw that she was becoming timid again. After bowing to the audience, the children stood stupidly on the stage, not knowing what to do.
The audience suddenly buzzed with discussion. Seeing the children becoming increasingly embarrassed, their faces turning red, Cheng Maixiang suddenly shouted at the top of her voice, "Young actors, come on!"
Cheng Maixiang's encouragement drowned out the audience's chatter and also alerted Teacher Fang, who was anxiously standing by. Teacher Fang was the first to applaud, "Come on, young actors!"
Cheng Maixiang followed suit and clapped. The applause seemed to be contagious and instantly echoed among the audience. Yingying turned her head and saw Cheng Maixiang's eyes full of encouragement and concern, and her mind suddenly became clear.
She had to do something.
She pulled her classmate and said with a smile, "Xiaogang, didn't you tell me yesterday that you found something strange in the kitchen? What did you find?"
Seeing that the applause had stopped, the boy who played her brother was still confused and unable to start speaking his lines. However, the first sentence of the whole play was introduced by him. Cheng Maixiang couldn't help but get anxious and wanted to go on stage to wake the boy up.
Suddenly, Yingying took the boy's hand and said affectionately, "Xiaogang, didn't you tell me that you found something strange in the kitchen? Tell me what it is."
This line was not in the original script. It was a line Yingying made up on the spur of the moment to save the situation and wake up the boy. What's even more rare is that this line is closely connected to the original script. She said the first line after she finished talking about the boy, and there is no conflict in the plot.
Cheng Maixiang and Teacher Fang smiled at each other. It seemed that Yingying had calmed down. She began to lead her companions into the play through her own performance.
Seeing that she was looking at him seriously, the boy suddenly came to his senses and finally said his first line, "Sister, I found a bamboo shoot in the kitchen yesterday. Let me take you to see it."
The two children walked hand in hand towards the place that was set up as a stove. The boy pointed to a prop on the ground and said, "Look, it's right here."
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