coobybook Chapter 301 Opening Ceremony
Chapter 301 Opening Ceremony
Lan Zhiyu and his companions left in the morning, and the instrument transport vehicle arrived in the afternoon. Fearing that such precious items might get bumped or scratched, Commander Gu brought a squad of soldiers to help. According to previous arrangements, Principal Fu and other teachers placed each instrument in its corresponding position.
In the next few days, the sports equipment that Zheng Xuyang had customized arrived, and the basketball hoop and ping-pong table on the playground had been installed.
The extracurricular books and magazines that Ruanruan asked Ruan Chuanji to help order have all arrived. They were transported by a truck, a whole truck.
Before school started, the teachers began to clean the school slowly. When the students around saw this, they consciously brought basins or buckets and rags from home to school to help every day. With the joint efforts of students and teachers, the school was finally cleaned before school started.
September 9st is the first day of school. Early in the morning, teachers of each grade were sitting in their corresponding classrooms waiting for the students assigned to their classes to report.
As early as the day before, the pharmaceutical factory issued a notice that on the first day of school, if both parents are at work, one person can take the child to register, with half a day pay. If there is only one person, after informing their supervisor, they can also take half a day pay to send the child to register.
The workers were very happy about the notice. They had originally thought that the school was so close and they often went there during holidays, and they went in groups together, so they were not too worried. However, they felt that they could not send their children to school on the first day of registration due to their busy work, and they felt a little sorry for the children. But now that the notice has come out, they are very happy to be able to send their children to school.
At around 7 o'clock in the morning, nearby villagers began to send their children to register one after another. Taking into account that some parents were illiterate and the class divisions posted on the bulletin board were unclear, two soldiers were borrowed from the military to stand there and help those who could not read.
There are many children today, and to prevent criminals from sneaking in, Commander Gu arranged two classes of people to patrol inside and outside the school.
The children who arrived early were able to quickly find their classes according to the instructions. As more and more people came in, the originally quiet school suddenly became lively.
It was already past 10 o'clock when Uncle Kun and Uncle De arrived with the children sponsored by the charity. Because there were so many people, they chartered a bus and brought a lot of daily necessities for the children. They all lived far away from home and it was inconvenient to commute every day, so they were arranged to live in the school. Also with them was Wan Niang's son, Li An.
After Uncle Kun checked the children in, took their belongings to the dormitory, and sent them back to their corresponding classes, he left the institution's phone number with the teachers before heading towards the military's staff quarters.
When they arrived at Ruanruan's house, Ruanruan was organizing school supplies for Xiao Mingxuan. Xiao Mingxuan had never been to school properly before. It was only at home that Lan Zhiyu and others taught him to read and count. Xiao Mingxuan was also smart and did very well in his studies. According to his current progress, he could go directly to the second grade, but he was still a little young, so after discussing with him, Ruanruan decided to let him go to the first grade.
They lived close to each other, and after Xiao Mingxuan decided to stay, Principal Fu directly arranged him to Class 1, Grade 1. Now that he knew the class, he didn't have to go there too early. If he went too early, it would be uncomfortable to just sit in the classroom.
Now, seeing that the time was almost up, Ruanruan put Xiao Mingxuan's small schoolbag on his back, hung his small water bottle around his neck, and let Wang Qun take him to school.
Ruanruan had just sent the two children, one big and one small, out the door when she saw them coming.
"Uncle Kun, Uncle De, when did you arrive?"
"I've been here for a while. After settling the children, I thought of coming to see you. How are you? The children didn't bother you, did they? Where's Huo Haocheng? Are you alone?" As soon as he entered the house, he saw that no one was at home and Ruanruan was standing at the door alone with a big belly. Uncle Kun asked him three questions in a row.
Facing Uncle Kun's question, Ruan Ruan calmly replied, "The child is fine. Huo Haocheng is on a mission, so my grandmother and my mother came to take care of me. It's getting late, so my grandmother went to the fields to pick vegetables, and my mother sent my nephew to school to register. The two people who just went out, I just sent the child out, so I'm standing outside."
The three of them walked into the house while talking. Ruanruan took the tea on the table and poured a cup for each of them.
"Please sit down first. We can pour water for you if you want. You came here today for two reasons: one is to send the children to register, and the other is to tell you about the children's situation." Uncle Kun took the water cup handed to him by Ruanruan, asked her to sit down, took a sip, then took out a notebook from his backpack and handed it to her.
Because there were so many things to do today and so many things to pack, Uncle Kun just carried a big backpack. After handing the notebook with the children's information to Ruanruan, he started to take out things one by one from the bag, including a bag of brown sugar, a bag of milk powder, a bag of egg cakes, cloth for the children, a few sets of small clothes made with the help of Sister Zhang, a few pairs of small shoes, a few tiger-head hats, and small pistols made by Uncle Kun and Uncle De out of wood, and carved little rabbits. They were wrapped in cotton cloth after being smoothed because they were worried that the wood would hurt the children. There were also small animals made by Wan Niang for the children, all of which were stuffed with cotton and looked lifelike.
Ruanruan was originally looking at the list, but was also stunned by Uncle Kun's actions. She simply put the notebook aside and watched Uncle Kun take things out carefully. She was very curious. This back looked only two-thirds the length of an arm, how could it hold so many things? Was it really like the blue fat man's treasure chest?
After Uncle Kun finished taking out the things, he saw that she was not looking at the book, but was staring at the backpack in his arms. "Okay, no need to look at it, that's all for now. I wanted to prepare some cotton for you, but the new cotton hasn't arrived yet. When it arrives, we'll send it to you."
Seeing that Uncle Kun had finally taken out all the things, Ruanruan breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, she was really afraid that she would not be able to resist and would open her hands to take a look. However, this bag can really hold a lot of things.
I looked at what was piled on the sofa. Most of them were things for children, but the small clothes, shoes and animal toys were really beautiful.
“These are…” Ruanruan pointed with her fingers. Uncle Kun and Uncle De definitely couldn’t make these things, and they didn’t look like they could be bought on the market?
"We asked Sister Zhang to help make the clothes and shoes. Wan Niang made the animal toys. She also brought her children here today. We wanted her to come with us, but she said she didn't have anything prepared today. She will come to see you next time."
In this regard, Uncle Kun and his comrades, as old men, didn't want to say much to a female comrade like her, so when they saw that she was not coming, they came over on their own.
"Oh, so, next time, just let her come directly. No need to prepare anything. I have everything I need. The same goes for you. Just come. No need to carry so many things all the way here, and run around with so many children. It's so tiring!"
Although the school had compiled the children's class division table in advance and given it to them, the children's grades were all uneven, and each grade was still full. It was enough for the two of them to send the children here, and they had to run a lot, with so many things on their backs, and they looked tired just by looking at them.
"It's just a little stuff, less than two pounds. Why are you so tired? Have you finished reading the book?" Uncle Kun and Uncle De have seen how lazy Ruanruan is in the past six months, so they just listen to what she says and do what they are supposed to do.
After hearing Uncle Kun's unpleasant words, Ruanruan knew she couldn't argue with him, so she could only pick up the book and start reading again.
"Hey, Ruan En, Ruan Tian... who are they?"
The notebook began by recording each child's name, age, which commune they were from, and basic information about their family. Later on, they were all surnamed Ruan. Ruanruan didn't understand why. Since when did the surname Ruan become so common in Yuncheng?
"Oh, these children with the surname Ruan are the ones you gave medicine to before so that they would forget their past. Have you forgotten? You even asked us to re-register them. They are all in our charity organization. You didn't really forget, did you?" Uncle Kun and Uncle De care about these children very much and they visit them almost every other day.
"I haven't forgotten, but why do they all have the surname Ruan?" This is the point that Ruanruan didn't understand.
"When they were re-registering their household registration, the child asked me what the surname of the person who helped them was. We told him it was Ruan. Then they gave themselves a surname, Ruan. There was nothing we could do about it. It was their own decision and we all respected it."
In fact, when the children thought of taking the surnames of the people who helped them, everyone present was confused. The director only added their names after repeated confirmation.
Ruanruan accepted Uncle De's statement. Well, it had already come to this. What else could she do if she couldn't accept it?