strictlysupreme Chapter 127 New Trends in Senior Citizens’ Universities - Raising Little Firemen
Chapter 127 New Trends in Senior Citizens’ Universities - Raising Little Firemen
Lin Qinglan often hears conversations like this while walking on campus these days:
"It was you who insisted on having a 'child' in the beginning, and now you don't care anymore?"
"If you are so cruel, at least be considerate of the 'child'. It is still young and it doesn't understand anything. What has it done wrong?"
"The 'child' is for me to raise? How can you bear to let the 'child' live in a loveless family?"
"What do you want me to do to satisfy you? I'm also very tired and don't have the time to care about it."
"I don't care. Other people's 'children' are full of life, but our 'child' cannot be depressed. It's still a child who hasn't grown up yet. If you raise it, you have to be responsible for it."
Conversations like these made Lin Qinglan shudder with fear, thinking that she had accidentally walked into someone else's family conflict.
At first, it was Aunt Li and Uncle Zhao, an old couple from the planting class, who were arguing. Lin Qinglan asked their son Xiao Zhao indirectly.
"Has something happened in your family recently? Something's not right between Aunt Li and Uncle Zhao. They're always arguing."
Xiao Zhao on the other end of the phone racked his brains for a minute and managed to find a contradiction: "Maybe it's because my dad ate the last piece of fried chicken on the plate before my mom yesterday? Then my mom got angry and ignored him."
Lin Qinglan hesitated, "I heard them keep talking about the child, I want to ask you if anything has happened to you recently?"
"Child? They both have other children behind my back?"
Xiao Zhao's voice rose an octave. After screaming, Xiao Zhao suddenly realized:
"Principal Lin, I know why! It must be the little fire man. My parents are obsessed with raising little fire men recently."
"Poor little Fire Child was born in my family. He met a hot-tempered father and an even hotter mother. He can only be a loser like me."
"That's not right. Why should I be friends with a little fireman?"
The case has been solved. This is a new popular trend in senior citizen universities – raising little firemen.
After Lin Qinglan found out, she discovered that the first people to start raising the little fire man were Aunt He and Aunt Yang.
They learned it from Aunt He's daughter Xiao Mo and Aunt Yang's granddaughter Niuniu.
Aunt He and Aunt Yang have raised the little fire man for the longest time and are already planning to celebrate the little fire man’s 60th birthday.
Next came Uncle Zhao and Aunt Li. Their little fire men wore tiger-head hats and pink glasses and were dressed exquisitely.
Xiao Zhao complained about the old couple. When he was a child, they treated him perfunctorily with school uniforms, but now they dress up the little fire man carefully. It is obvious that they treat him differently!
Xiao Zhao felt that his already low status in the family had dropped further. What was even more annoying was that the old couple didn't know how to dress up as the little fire man. It was Xiao Zhao who taught them, and he also picked out the clothes for the little fire man himself.
Aunt Li’s answer to this was that Xiaohuo was only 10 days old and still a child, and she was dressing him up according to the standards of Xiao Zhao’s childhood so that Xiao Zhao would not be embarrassed by “other children”.
Uncle Li and Lao Fu’s little fire man has a “flowery arm”.
Old Fu cries every day that his child has become a bad boy and has become a delinquent.
The two people's little fire man turned gray several times, and even disappeared directly after a few interruptions.
In a rage, Old Fu rushed to the company and asked the legal department of the Fu Group to draft the "Little Fireman Breeding Regulations" and "Little Fireman Responsibility System" for him, and printed them out as a contract for Uncle Li to sign.
Uncle Liao, Uncle Li and Old Fu also have a little fire man respectively.
However, since Uncle Liao didn't watch videos often, he couldn't keep the little fire man alive, so Lao Fu and Uncle Li gave up.
Aunt Liang raises the little fire man with her son. Her son lives in another city and calls Aunt Liang every day or shares videos with her.
Aunt Du’s little fire man was raised by her and her granddaughter Yuanyuan. Even if Yuanyuan is busy with her studies, she never forgets to continue the spark with Aunt Du.
Uncles and aunts like Little Fireman because they cherish the people who chat with them, so they respond to every word and try to keep the spark going.
Although they don't understand the purpose of raising a little fire man, they cherish this bond.
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Lin Qinglan has recently contacted several doctors, hoping that they would come to the school to teach uncles and aunts "how to calmly accept the physical changes brought about by aging."
During their last chat, after Aunt Deng spoke out her worries, her mental state improved a lot. She even attended the "Study Master Tutoring Class" organized by Aunt Du and practiced speaking with the uncles and aunts in the English class.
The words and sentences learned in the English class are mostly used for daily communication. The content is not very difficult, but the uncles and aunts’ dedication amazed the English teacher Xia Xia.
Teacher Xia Xia is a "returned overseas student" who studied "English Education" abroad.
After returning to China, she still couldn't find a job. After several setbacks, she stayed at home and was in a bad mood. By chance, she heard from someone and applied for a position at the Senior Citizens' University. She unexpectedly got her dream job.
The students are easy to teach, the leaders are approachable, the colleagues are easy to get along with, and even the food in the cafeteria fascinates her.
Teacher Xia Xia herself thinks that she is a person without great ambitions, and that she only needs to earn enough money to have enough food and money to spend. But her students, the uncles and aunts at the senior university, are very ambitious.
In the first class, she asked her uncle and aunt why they wanted to learn English.
Many uncles and aunts wanted to make up for the regrets of not having the conditions in the past, and some people wanted to use a sentence or two when they travel abroad one day.
The uncles and aunts are very enthusiastic, and Teacher Xia Xia feels that their English class will be able to produce a second "international student" one day.
She is ready to be interviewed by TV stations as a "famous teacher".
As a 25-year-old young man who is determined to lie down and enjoy life, eating melons is Teacher Xia Xia’s favorite leisure activity.
She was at the forefront of gossip-eating at the senior citizens' university and had established a deep "revolutionary friendship" with the uncles and aunts because of gossip. No gossip in the school could escape her eyes, and she was always the second to know about new dishes in the cafeteria. The first person to know was Aunt Zhong, a loyal fan who waited in the cafeteria all day.
As a "well-known" melon-eater, Teacher Xia Xia not only has a keen sense of smell for food, but also has a strong insight into gossip.
She was the first to discover that something was wrong between her calligraphy teacher Luo Qi and her Chinese painting teacher Huang You.
The teachers held a meeting before the inspector came, and the two were still in an "unspeakable" atmosphere.
She guessed that at this stage, Teacher Huang was the only one who was interested, and Teacher Luo Qi also said that they had a "simple and friendly relationship as colleagues."
Until the two of them appeared in the same frame again at the "flea market", the atmosphere had become quite awkward and no one wanted to see each other.
According to Teacher Xia Xia's observation, the two people should have "turned love into hate".
I guess one of the parties failed to express their feelings, and the relationship between the two reached freezing point.
When the “straight-forward” teacher Huang met the “iron-board” teacher Luo, Xia Xia exclaimed: “That’s great.”
Now there is new progress between the two, and even the uncles and aunts are teasing that there is something going on between them.
With melon to eat, Xia Xia felt that she was okay again.