He wore a blue cotton shirt with a white shirt underneath, and the red star embroidered on his chest looked particularly bright.
The children put them on, stood up straight, twirled in front of the mirror, and smiled, revealing their gap teeth.
The teacher leading the group had tears in her eyes: "Comrade Ling, how...how can we thank you?"
"No need to thank me!" Ling Huanwu squatted down and helped the smallest child button up his clothes. "The kids have brought honor to our village, that's the best thank you gift!"
On the day the ship departed, Ling Huanwu stood at the dock with her aunts.
Thirty children in blue and white school uniforms waved to them, the red stars on their chests shining brightly in the sunlight.
Seeing this, the aunties were so moved that they wiped away tears and laughed, saying, "Our stitches have truly shone!"
As evening fell, the children who had gone to the competition returned to the island. The class monitor, who was leading the group, ran towards Ling Huanwu, holding up the certificate high in her hand with a proud look on her face. "We got third place! A lot of people asked us where we bought our clothes. I told them that the villagers made them, but they didn't believe me!"
Seeing that her advertising campaign had achieved its intended effect, Ling Huanwu was about to praise the children.
Unexpectedly, following behind the children were several teachers from the city who had come for classroom exchanges. They offered to place orders with the sewing team to make unique school uniforms for their school.
Ling Huanwu felt that everything was going too smoothly, like a dream.
She gazed in the direction the convoy had gone, clutched the order in her hand, turned to the women behind her, and her eyes shone brighter than the brass loudspeaker in the tree that day. "Sisters, the first batch of work has arrived! Our Stone Village sewing team will make sure the whole region hears our rhythmic clatter!"
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