Ye Zhen Zhen gently touched Shen Yuan Chao's cheek: "He's so soft. Xu Da Mao, we'll help you watch your brother!"
Xu Da Mao: "Okay, he's a bit fussy. Let's watch him together!"
Xu Da Mao stood next to Ye Zhen Zhen as he wished, but that's all he could do. There were a bunch of girls around her, so there was no way he could dance or hold hands with her.
And, all of Ye Zhen Zhen's attention was on Shen Yuan Chao!
But even so, it was enough for Xu Da Mao to provocatively look at Liu Guang Qi and Yan Jie Cheng!
Seeing this, Liu Guang Qi and Yan Jie Cheng's faces turned green with anger: "Xu Da Mao is a scoundrel with a heart full of malice, a despicable and shameless villain!"
Liu Guang Qi: "Hmph, using Liu Widow's son to attract Ye Zhen Zhen's attention, so despicable!"
Looking at Shen Yuan Chao's small bamboo carriage, Yan Jie Cheng mused: "Ever since this baby came to our courtyard, it feels different, not as peaceful as before!"
Liu Guang Qi: "Hmph, at best, he's just an abandoned child. Liu Widow, that soft-hearted woman, gave up the rural household registration. Maybe, the Shen family won't be able to stay past this year, they'll have to move out!"
Liu Hai Zhong had told Liu Guang Qi that if Liu Widow moved out, the western courtyard would be his to use for his marriage.
Thinking about that spacious courtyard with three rooms, Liu Guang Qi's heart ached with desire.
Shen Yuan Chao looked around curiously. A group of children sat on the ground, forming a semicircle, waiting for the campfire to start.
Not far away, there were groups of boys and girls, some singing the Russian song "Red Plum Blossoms" and the Korean song "Bellflower Ballad".
There was also the popular Spring Dance:
"We jubilantly leap under the five-starred red flag, we happily welcome the beautiful spring..."
Everyone sang together. The junior high girls and senior high boys squatted down, stretched out their arms, and moved their heads side by side. The campfire, the people, the earth and sky seemed to sway merrily along with the dance.
There were also students who kept composing clumsy poetry: "Our youth is eternal, our youth burns..."
Some played the harmonica and the harmonica.
The harmonica, after being played, was taken by another classmate. He shook off some spit and started playing, shaking his head, Shen Yuan Chao couldn't bear to watch...
Soon, Xu Da Mao led a group of people to the center of the bonfire party.
"Xu Da Mao, who's child is this? This child is really cute!"
Xu Da Mao: "My brother! How about it? Cute, right? Tell you what, I haven't seen a kid this cute in all of Beijing!"
"Cut it out, Xu Da Mao, you're just bragging. With your looks, you could have a cute brother like that?"
"Xu Da Mao, it's time for our performance, hurry up, are you coming or not?"
"Coming, put my brother in the middle, Zhen Zhen, watch him for me!"
Xu Da Mao had a plan. He placed Shen Yuan Chao in the middle, with Ye Zhen Zhen also in the middle, so she would have to look up at his dashing dance moves!
Xu Da Mao directly put Shen Yuan Chao in the middle and joined the group of junior high students.
This time, Xu Da Mao and the others were performing a cartoon dance!
This kind of dance was introduced by the Shanghai Youth Newspaper in 1951.
It's a fun group dance, with no limit on the number of people or formations, but there must be a leader. Whatever he does, everyone else follows.
For example, if you want to perform soldiers, you can make the gesture of holding a bayonet and stabbing at the enemy bravely. If you want to perform war profiteers, you can hold your head with both hands and limp backward, showing your cowardice.
You can also express joy by doing the Yangko dance, as well as holding hands, dancing in a frenzy...
All the young boys and girls, their youthful spirits, danced and sang and shouted at the party, pouring out their youth.
At that moment, even Shen Yuan Chao, lying in his stroller, was infected by the scene and felt a surge of excitement. In the end, he was even held by Ye Zhen Zhen and a group of junior high girls, joining in the wild dance. A few of the girls, in the chaos, kissed Shen Yuan Chao's cheek several times.
Several classmates, while dancing, couldn't help but share how they had uncovered corrupt elements in the Three Anti Movement at school, and many classmates had participated in the protection, auditing, and statistics work!
There were also lucky high school students who directly joined the organization during this movement!
"The most precious thing for man is life... When he looks back on his past, he will not regret wasting his years, nor be ashamed of having done nothing. He can proudly say: "I have given my all to the most magnificent cause for mankind, for the struggle for the liberation of all humanity!"
"Our youth is as red as flame, burning in the field full of thorns, our youth is as brave as the seagull, flying in the stormy sky..."
In his sleep, Shen Yuan Chao seemed to still hear the shouts of those young boys and girls.
What a wonderful era this is!
Back home, Liu Hui Zhen had already returned from her literacy class. Seeing that there was no child in the house, she was worried and was about to go out to look for him.
Xu Da Mao pushed the stroller into the west courtyard.
"Auntie, hehe, I just took Yuan Chao to the dance party!"
Liu Hui Zhen couldn't say anything, she could only send Xu Da Mao and Xu Xiao Mei home quickly. After they left, Liu Hui Zhen said: "Chu Chu, Tian Tian, don't let anyone just take Yuan Chao away, okay?
Xu Da Mao didn't have bad intentions this time, but what if you encounter a bad guy in the future?"
Shen You Chu and Shen You Tian nodded obediently: "Mom, we were wrong, we won't do it again!"
He Yu Shui: "Auntie, it's all my fault. If I had stopped Xu Da Mao..."
Liu Hui Zhen: "It's okay, Yuan Chao is fine!"
After He Yu Shui left, Liu Hui Zhen put Shen Yuan Chao to bed. She then stood by the stove, using the moonlight from the courtyard, using charcoal as a pen, she wrote the three words "Shen Yuan Chao" on the ground stroke by stroke.
Looking at the three characters, Liu Hui Zhen's eyes were filled with joy. She recognized half of the phonetic symbols!
She had also learned dozens of characters through the phonetic symbols.
Wang Director said that if you know more than a thousand characters, you'll be awarded a primary school diploma.
More than two thousand characters, you'll be awarded a junior high school diploma.
If she can learn some Russian, she can become a high school graduate. High school graduates, now in the new country, are all trained to be cadres!
Because the standard for this literacy campaign is that cadres and workers generally know two thousand common characters, can read popular newspapers, and can write short essays of two to three hundred words, while farmers generally know one thousand common characters, can read the most popular newspapers, and can write commonly used notes, receipts, etc. in rural areas.
Urban working people generally know one thousand five hundred common characters. The reading and writing standards are based on those of workers and farmers.
Today, at the street office, Liu Hui Zhen heard that many women, after entering the workplace, quit their jobs halfway because of children and family burdens!
Some wealthy families are afraid of dirt and hard work, and others quit because the wages are too low. For example, those who enter the store to work as salespersons, new employees are paid sixteen thousand yuan per month!
But the cost of a nanny is seventeen thousand yuan. The money earned is not enough to pay for the nanny, not to mention that some need to take the bus to work and eat out, and there are other expenses.
So, there are still job vacancies. The premise is that Liu Hui Zhen must work hard enough to make her ability match her job.
So she decided to learn two thousand characters!
Grandma was also very happy when she got home. Today, with the help of Liu Hui Zhen and the literacy class teacher, she also learned many phonetic symbols, and she saw with her own eyes that Liu Hui Zhen could now write "Shen Yuan Chao".