Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 157 Selected for the Freshman Evening Party Program (Part 2)

Shen Qingqing shrugged, recalling the "confrontation" between their homeroom teacher and the homeroom teacher of the next class in the office: "We haven't decided what program it will be for yet, so we might not participate."

The two younger sisters said "Oh," but they weren't too disappointed, because Shen Qingqing had always been like this since she was little; she didn't like crowded places or performing in front of people.

Two years ago, when we went back to Shen Rongzhou's hometown for the Spring Festival, some relatives who didn't know how to read the room got drunk and took advantage of their status as elders. Since it was the first time that Shen Qingqing and her two older children had gone back to Shen Rongzhou's hometown with him, they asked Shen Qingqing and Shen Yangyang, the two older children, to perform for the elders what they had learned at school.

Shen Qingqing calmly refused twice at first. On the third time, the elder, perhaps drunk, suddenly became angry at Shen Qingqing's refusal and scolded her for being ill-mannered and not listening to her elders.

Shen Qingqing disliked performing in front of others and adhered to the principle of "no more than three times," but this elder thoroughly trampled on her.

Shen Qingqing had never had a good impression of Shen Rongzhou's relatives from his previous life. If it weren't for her grandmother, who always cared about their family and refused to leave, Shen Qingqing would not have come back with them.

Just as Shen Qingqing was about to lose her temper, Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli held her back. The couple tried to resolve the matter in a dignified manner, since the other party was a drunkard, and it was really unnecessary to argue with a drunkard.

Unfortunately, Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli didn't want to argue with the drunkard, but the drunkard kept clinging to the fact that his elders' reputation didn't work with Shen Qingqing.

Shen Qingqing listened to the dialect she couldn't understand at all. Although she didn't know if they were cursing her, she could tell from their expressions that it was definitely not nice.

Unable to bear it any longer, Shen Qingqing grabbed the teapot on the mahjong table, threw off the lid, and splashed the entire pot of water onto the man's face.

The man was stunned for a moment, then barely came to his senses, but quickly reverted to his old ways.

"Slap, slap, slap," three more cups of tea were splashed on the man's face in quick succession, with great force, and the man was finally woken up.

Next up is the matter between Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli.

Shen Qingqing kept a cold face and coldly scanned every relative who looked at her. Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong hid behind her and dared not make a sound.

From then on, Shen Qingqing's name became famous in Shen Rongzhou's hometown. In addition, although Shen Rongzhou was not old, his seniority in his hometown was not low, and Shen Qingqing's seniority was also not low. Her fierce reputation spread.

Since that year, Shen Qingqing hasn't been back for two years.

Of course, Shen Qingqing was also disciplined by Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli afterward. Neither of them were the type to hit a child, so they could only discipline Shen Qingqing by scolding her. However, those words of discipline were completely ignored by Shen Qingqing.

As Shen Qingqing grew older, some of the bad temper she had from her previous life began to surface.

Because of the reduced living resources in her previous life, she had to try her best to be sensible and not cause trouble for her parents. Her temper, which she had been spoiled since childhood, gradually subsided.

But they don't have to keep it all bottled up for the rest of their lives. Shen Rongzhou's only concern back home is his grandmother, and their current financial situation is more than enough to persuade her to come and live with them.

However, this incident was firmly imprinted in the hearts of her younger siblings. After Shen Yangyang returned, she also told Li Chunchun about it, and Li Chunchun looked at Shen Qingqing with eyes full of admiration.

"Since the teacher has asked you two to participate, you two must perform well. You can't just rehearse with them when you're happy and then not rehearse when you're not, understand?" Auntie said, serving them food as she gave them these instructions.

This wasn't the first time something like this had happened to Shen Yangyang and Li Chunchun.

The kindergarten's complaint hotline went directly to my aunt, asking her to go to the kindergarten.

That's why their aunt gave them such instructions.

Before returning to the classroom, Shen Qingqing told Shen Yangyang that she would wait for her in the classroom after school. After lunch, there was still time for a lunch break. When Shen Qingqing and Wu Fangyi returned to the classroom, it was quiet. Some students were asleep on their desks, while others were quietly doing the homework left over from the three classes in the morning.

Shen Qingqing also saw Zhang Bohang and the others, who were huddled together whispering to each other. She guessed they were probably writing a proposal for the song medley.

There are seven classes a day in junior high school, which last until 5:40 pm, so Shen Qingqing still needs to take a nap.

Today's class meeting and six regular classes allowed Shen Qingqing to get to know all the teachers of subjects other than history.

The first period in the afternoon was their homeroom teacher Fang Chengying's class, where Shen Qingqing saw a high-speed test paper review mode that was almost identical to Liu Shiyun's.

The speed was so fast that Shen Qingqing suspected that the two of them had specially prepared a list of the answer rates for each question on this test paper.

No wonder these two are competitors.

After class, Shen Qingqing watched Fang Chengying's departing figure and thought silently.

However, the Chinese teacher was much gentler. To Shen Qingqing's surprise, the top scorer in the entrance exam for Chinese was not her. The other student scored two points higher than her because the essay was worth 40 points, while the other student got 39.

Shen Qingqing's essay only scored 36 points.

As expected, the Chinese teacher immediately appointed the boy as her class representative. After going over the test paper, the teacher even had the boy read his own composition aloud.

Shen Qingqing was convinced. Compared to the brilliance in that boy's essay, her own essay now only contained technique.

She might have had spiritual energy in her past life when she was just starting junior high, but she definitely wouldn't have it now.

The position of class representative was only confirmed for the teachers of Chinese, Mathematics and English. For other subjects, the class monitor, vice class monitor, academic committee member or Youth League secretary would temporarily help collect homework.

As the bell rang for the end of the last class, the first day of school came to a close.

Shen Qingqing took her phone out of her bag and received a text message from her mother, telling her and her two siblings to wait for her father's call.

Wu Fangyi was packing her bag to go to her dormitory when she saw Shen Qingqing still sitting there and asked, "Aren't you going home yet?"

Shen Qingqing quickly wrote down the exercises for the first lesson in her geography workbook. "My dad hasn't come yet; I have to wait for him."

"Okay, I'll head back to my dorm now. See you tomorrow~" Wu Fangyi walked away with light steps.

After Shen Qingqing quickly finished her geography homework, she packed her schoolbag and was about to leave when she was stopped by the class monitor, Zhang Bohang.

"Shen Qingqing!"

Shen Qingqing paused in pushing her chair, then turned to look at the person who had called her, "Class monitor? Is there something you need?"

Zhang Bohang held a notebook in his hand and smiled amicably: "I wanted to ask you, what are some songs you like to listen to?"

Shen Qingqing paused for a moment, then said, "Xu Song, Xu Liang, and Wang Sulong are all fine."

Zhang Bohang raised an eyebrow and quickly scribbled something in his notebook. "So, what are your favorite songs for each of the three of them?"

Shen Qingqing shook her head: "I don't have a favorite, I like them all." "Okay!" Zhang Bohang made another mark on his notebook, "Then do you know what songs your deskmate likes?"

Shen Qingqing continued to shake her head: "I don't know, she didn't tell me."

"Okay, thank you so much for your cooperation. If it's convenient, could you ask her for me tomorrow? You were in the office this morning, so you must have seen it. Our proposal is almost finished, and now we're looking for songs to make a medley. Since we're all classmates, I wanted to ask if any of our classmates have any songs they like to listen to, so we can choose those for the medley first." Zhang Bohang put his hands together on the notebook and looked at Shen Qingqing with a pleading expression.

Shen Qingqing understood that this matter might be related to the class's honor in their eyes. As a member of the class, she did her best to help in small ways and nodded: "Okay, I'll ask for you when I go to school tomorrow."

"Thank you so much! I'll go ask the others now!" Zhang Bohang waved and left.

Recalling the route she took through the preschool and primary school sections on the day she registered, Shen Qingqing went to find Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong one by one.

When they arrived at the elementary school, Shen Yangyang was playing with classmates who hadn't gone home yet, and her schoolbag was still unpacked and left on the table.

When they saw Shen Qingqing arrive, they immediately stopped playing like mice seeing a cat, slunk back to their seats, stuffed everything on their desks into their bags, said "bye-bye" to their classmates, and ran to Shen Qingqing.

"Sister," Shen Yangyang called softly.

Shen Qingqing didn't say anything and took her to the preschool.

Shen Hong sat obediently in the classroom, doodling and drawing, while another classmate who hadn't gone home yet was also drawing.

Shen Qingqing called out to him, and Shen Hong turned his head to look at her, quickly packed his schoolbag, said goodbye, and ran towards Shen Qingqing.

When he ran over, he didn't stop his momentum and knocked Shen Qingqing back two steps.

Just then, Shen Rongzhou called, and Shen Qingqing answered, learning that he was waiting for her at the school gate.

He held Shen Yangyang's hand in one hand and Shen Hong's hand in the other as they walked out.

"Big sister, second sister, I've been chosen to be a host at the freshman party!" Shen Hong said proudly to Shen Qingqing and Shen Yangyang.

"The teacher said that there will be two junior high school students hosting the event, and our kindergarten will have a junior host, and another one will be chosen from the elementary school."

"Then in the afternoon we went to the auditorium, where a lot of people gathered to compete to see who could speak Mandarin the best. Everyone voted for that person, and that person could become a junior host!"

"I got the most votes! More than fifty!" Shen Hong was so happy that he was skipping around, and his eyes were full of one sentence when he looked at Shen Qingqing—praise me!

"Wow, that's amazing! So you'll be rehearsing at school after class this afternoon too?" Shen Qingqing naturally praised him enthusiastically.

Shen Hong was satisfied: "Yes, I want to rehearse with my three older brothers and sisters."

Shen Qingqing suddenly became curious, "Where do you all rehearse?"

She swayed Shen Yangyang to the left and Shen Hong to the right.

"We're in the small auditorium. There's a platform over there; we need to practice how to walk there." As Shen Hong followed Shen Qingqing out of the preschool, she turned back and pointed to the playground.

The small auditorium is located below the teaching building next to the playground, and next to it are the canteen and the convenience store.

"Let's go to the music room!" Shen Yangyang's eyes lit up. "Sister, have you ever been to a music room?"

Shen Qingqing shook her head: "No, did your teacher say that others can watch your rehearsals?"

"They didn't say," Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong said in unison.

Shen Qingqing nodded and decided that she could go and watch when they rehearsed tomorrow, and she would decide what to do if the teacher didn't allow it.

As Shen Rongzhou walked out of the school gate, his car was parked right across from the school gate. He got out of the car and saw the three children walking out of the school gate. He quickly looked at the car and saw that it was coming from the other side of the road to pick up the children.

Shen Rongzhou helped them carry their schoolbags and asked each of them how their day at school was.

Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong couldn't hold back their words and started telling each other everything that had happened that day, including the freshman party.

After listening, Shen Rongzhou asked Shen Qingqing, "Qingqing, are parents allowed to attend your freshman welcome party?"

"I don't know, the teacher didn't say. I'll ask tomorrow. If I can come, do you and your mom want to come too?" Shen Qingqing asked.

"Of course! This is our baby's first time performing on stage, how could we not come?" Shen Rongzhou said proudly.

"And we'll also record it for you, so that when the two of us get old and the three of you grow up, you can take it out and watch it."

Shen Qingqing recalled that in her previous life, only Shen Qingqing's performance in kindergarten was recorded, and it was a DVD that the kindergarten provided after she paid for it.

Shen Yangyang didn't participate in any performances after that. However, Shen Hong hosted a Children's Day event one year after starting elementary school, but there was no video recording at that time, only a photo.

That incident remained a regret for her parents for a long time.

Because their family couldn't afford a VCR.

But things are different now; they can afford it completely.

"Let's go buy a video camera first. If Mom and Dad can't go in to watch, Qingqing, you can help record it and show it to us when we get home." Shen Rongzhou said and left.

“Okay.” Shen Qingqing readily agreed.

Anyway, she won't be in the video, so what's wrong with recording her younger siblings?

Shen Rongzhou smiled broadly as he bought a high-definition video recorder for four thousand yuan.

When Li Xunli got home and saw the video camera, she immediately frowned when she asked about the price. "Why did you buy this? How much did it cost?"

Shen Rongzhou immediately followed her lead and told her that he bought the video recorder to record the school's freshman welcome party for the children. One child was selected to be the host, and another had a dance performance, so they needed to record it and keep it safe.

Upon hearing this, Li Xunli's expression immediately brightened, and she looked at the three children with delight: "Really? We have to record it! Good buy, good buy!"

After calming his wife down, Shen Rongzhou looked at Shen Qingqing and said, "Qingqing, after you ask your teacher tomorrow, remember to tell us if we can go into the school to take a look."

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