The one who greeted Jiang Jun was Tian Xiurong, Zhang Xiuying's best friend.
In the spring, Tian Xiurong's husband Yoshinaga Zhi was promoted to deputy commander of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and Tian Xiurong was also assigned to work as a nursery teacher in the newly opened kindergarten at the division headquarters.
Although Tian Xiurong was not well educated, she was quite careful in taking care of children. The principal of the kindergarten arranged for her to be in charge of the middle class. When she heard from Yoshinaga Zhi that they had the task of receiving foreign guests in the next two days, she took the children for a walk on the boulevard outside the division headquarters office building in the hope of meeting foreign guests.
Unexpectedly, they actually met!
What was even more unexpected was that she knew the girl who was with the female foreign guest!
Tian Xiurong was very happy, not because she met Jiang Jun, but because knowing the people around the foreign guests meant that she could know more than others.
Accompanying foreign guests on a tour is like carrying out a mission. Talking to other people outside the specified range is a violation of military regulations.
Even if there are no guards following, the rules must be followed. This is the self-awareness that every soldier must have.
Jiang Jun glanced around calmly without pausing. With a nonchalant smile, he said to Jenny, "It's the kindergarten children taking an outdoor walk. They've never seen foreigners before, so they're very curious. Please don't mind their pointing and talking."
Jenny smiled friendly and said, "It's okay, I think they're cute."
A typical oriental doll, it looks so interesting.
Jiang Jun didn't want to stay too long, lest Tian Xiurong greet him again: "Jenny, I'll take you somewhere else."
While Jiang Yun and Jenny were explaining, the guard had already gestured to Tian Xiurong, asking them to leave immediately with the children.
Tian Xiurong also knew that this was a restricted area for the time being, but when she greeted him and got no response, she still felt hot on her face and couldn't bring herself to lose face.
Yet another childcare worker, Qiu Yulan, asked mysteriously, "Teacher Tian, do you know the person next to that foreigner? Did you recognize the wrong person? Otherwise, why would she ignore you?"
Tian Xiurong curled her lips. "Humph, she thinks she's so great just by changing clothes and standing next to foreigners! I'd still recognize her even if she burned to ashes! She used to be such a wimp, getting beaten and scolded by her mother all day long."
Qiu Yulan looked at Jiang Jun's back in a dress and sparkling jeweled hair accessories with envy: "If you didn't tell me, you wouldn't be able to tell. She's dressed so stylishly now! Look at her demeanor, even holding hands with a foreigner!"
The group of middle-grade children behind them also joined in the booing, scratching their faces with their fingers and shouting in unison: "Shame on you, hold hands! Shame on you, hold hands!"
Tian Xiurong's mouth curled up to her chin. "Humph, just because she dresses stylishly doesn't mean she has a conscience! Her mother's leg has been broken for three years, and she hasn't even looked at it!"
Qiu Yulan's mouth dropped open. "Three years? Then she won't go home? Did her mother beat her away? Was her mother particularly cruel?"
The children who were beaten by their parents in the family compound were basically boys, and many of them wanted to run away from home to find the party or organization after being beaten.
Tian Xiurong rolled her eyes in disdain: "There are no parents who are not good! It's only natural for parents to spank their children. Whose parents don't spank their children? So what if they spank them a little harder? It's all for her own good! Humph, you raised me with so much hardship, but I don't know how to repay my kindness, you don't know how to be filial. What an ungrateful bastard!"
"Oh, her father doesn't care? Isn't this spoiling the child too much?"
"Her parents are divorced, and she and her sister are both with her father."
"Oh, divorced?" Qiu Yulan hurried forward: "You have two daughters? Shouldn't each of them have one? Why are they both with their father?"
Tian Xiurong pretended to sigh: "Ah! Her mother is uneducated and works as a worker. She definitely doesn't earn as much as her father."
Qiu Yulan tutted her tongue: "Why did they get divorced? Is it because her father dislikes her mother? Is her father attracted to someone new?"
Tian Xiurong sighed again: "Oh! Who knows! Anyway, her mother drags around with a broken leg all day, unable to do anything or go anywhere. If it were me, I would definitely want to die."
Qiu Yulan also had gossip: "Who is his father? Is he from our troupe? I heard from our old man that the instructor of their troupe divorced his wife just to find an actress from the art troupe."
Tian Xiurong curled her lips: "Her father's surname is Jiang, and he used to be a section chief in the division headquarters."
"Oh, then that's not the person our old man was talking about. Has her father found someone since he divorced her?"
"After the divorce, they moved away. I don't know if they've been looking for him since then. Look at that woman just now. She looks just like her father. Her father is very fair-skinned and well-mannered. It won't be easy for him to find another one!"
"Oh, I really have to find one. I'll be a stepmother as soon as I get married. It's not easy to be a stepmother to two such big girls."
"That might not be the case. Maybe the stepmother is quite well-off. Look at how the girl is dressed now! No wonder she looks down on her biological mother! Bah, how ungrateful!"
This last sentence is what Tian Xiurong really wants to vent!
The two caregivers who were taking care of the buds of the motherland walked to the kindergarten without any scruples, chatting about gossip in front of the children.
Jiang Jun walked back slowly holding Jenny's hand, with a calm expression on his face, but he felt uncomfortable in his heart because he saw Tian Xiurong and the expression on Tian Xiurong's face that changed in the blink of an eye.
"Zhan An, what's wrong with you? I really don't mind the behavior of those children. They are all angels, angels that bring light and love. Haven't you noticed? Their fingers are all shining with love!" Jenny tried to cheer Jiang Jun up: "My grandfather opened a kindergarten and a school. I go to the kindergarten to volunteer during the holidays."
The sincerity in Jenny's eyes filled Jiang Jun with warmth: "You are so loving! You must be the pride of your family!"
Jenny smiled back, “Zhan An, you must be the pride of your parents too!”
Jiang Jun cast her eyes towards the cloudless sky. She had always wanted to be a child that her parents could be proud of. Unfortunately, her efforts and successes had never caught the eye of her biological parents or her adoptive parents.
Turning back, the dedicated guard was following closely behind him.
Jiang Jun tried to find a topic: "Jenny, what elective courses did you choose?"
Jenny shrugged. "Art and design, drama, geography, history, food nutrition, music, physical education, Spanish, and classics."
Jiang Jun was shocked: "Can you learn this?"
Usually it is good enough if you can choose half of the courses. It is not because you cannot learn, but because you do not have enough energy, because all compulsory and elective courses require exams.
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