This time it was Ling Zhi's turn to be surprised. He really didn't expect that Cai Fen would take the initiative to come up with ways to help the children enrich their extracurricular activities. This was an unexpected surprise.
Naturally, Ling Zhi didn't know. Seeing the seriousness of these children, Cai Fen's thoughts gradually changed.
"If we clean up the old tables, chairs and benches that are piled up in the classroom next to us, we can free up some space, but..."
When Zhao Shiyan heard Cai Fen's words pause, he followed her gaze and instantly understood what Cai Fen was worried about.
I saw that there were too many tables, chairs and benches piled up in the room on one side of the yard! Even if the room was vacated, where should these tables, chairs and benches be placed? We can't throw them all away.
"These things are public property in the village and cannot be thrown away, so it is really difficult to open up a new space to lay these bricks."
"It's okay, teacher, I have a solution!"
Xiaofeng didn't know what he was thinking, and he couldn't wait to run to the room. He didn't mind it being dirty, and moved out tables one by one, as if he really planned to free up the room.
"Xiao Feng, don't waste your efforts. These things cannot be piled up in the yard. The village chief will definitely not allow us to do this."
"Teacher, you misunderstood me. I didn't want to pile them up in the yard. I wanted to organize these things in an orderly manner. I put the sturdy tables and chairs below and stacked them unstablely on top, so that there would be no empty space.
Is there less space?”
Oh! Xiaofeng said this, and if you think about it carefully, it is really the case.
Usually after these school supplies are broken, everyone never thinks about cleaning them up. They only think that they can be disposed of by outsiders to make some money in the future, so the current scene of haphazard stacking is formed.
But as time went by, the space in the side room became less and less. In the end, if I wanted to throw something in, I could only throw it in at the door, and I couldn't even get through the door.
If you take this opportunity to tidy up the side room, it will not only make it easier to store other things in the future, but also free up space for the children to carry out extracurricular activities. It is indeed the best of both worlds.
Ling Zhi couldn't help but sigh. He recalled a book by Liu Cixin that he had read before, called "The Supernova Era". It tells the story that after the supernova explosion, due to the influence of cosmic rays, the lives of adults gradually come to an end, while those under the age of 13
The story of the children surviving.
At first, after the adults disappeared, the children followed the rules set by the adults step by step to maintain the order of the real world. But it didn't last long. After a while, the children's playful nature was revealed.
Later, in order to maintain the order of the country, the children's leaders selected by the adults in advance established a basic national policy centered on play, reminding the children under their control that if they want to continue playing forever, they must maintain a certain level of play.
order and productivity, existing resources cannot be consumed without limit.
The establishment of this basic national policy has initially stabilized the chaos in the children's world after the adults disappeared.
Lingzhi saw that Xiaofeng's behavior was completely different from that at the beginning, and he deeply felt that to a certain extent, play is indeed the most original driving force for children's actions!
This sometimes also applies to adults. After all, no one is born with a love for work. Work is just to do other things better.
Next, Ling Zhi and Xiao Feng began to clean up the side room together. Most of the boys were still gathered around the "ball table" in the corner of the yard, and few came to help.
The girls are very sensible. Although some of them didn't know what Teacher Cai was going to do, they were always sure to clean up the house, so they didn't ask any questions and came to help one after another.
There is strength in numbers. In just half an hour, the entire side room was completely transformed. Cai Fen couldn't even believe how big this room was!
However, there were indeed a lot of things. In order to free up more space, Ling Zhi held Xiao Feng, Zhao Shiyan and Cai Fen held the girls, and stacked many tables and chairs high.
After cleaning up, everyone followed Xiaofeng and Lingzhi to the river to pick up stones. In the evening, with everyone's concerted efforts, 10 "ball tables" were successfully set up in the side room.
Although we still can't let all the children play in one go, at least the waiting time for rotation has become much shorter.
After the base was built, everyone couldn't wait to enter the side room, but Ling Zhi let the girls go in to play first. The boys looked at each other, wondering what kind of medicine Ling Zhi's brother was selling in the gourd.
"You are all young men. When there was only one ball table, you kept fighting over it. Didn't you see the girls beside you who also wanted to play? Also, when you were cleaning up the house,
Where have you gone?"
Hearing this, the boys were a little ashamed. But some little troublemakers were still unwilling:
"Brother, how can we let us play? They can't occupy all the tables. Wouldn't it be a waste if we don't play?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"You can play if you want, I have a condition."
"Ah? What are the conditions?"
"Sister Shi Yan standing next to you is going to ask you some questions. If you answer them well, you can go in and play."
"It's so simple."
Everyone seemed very happy.
Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan smiled at each other and started the plan they had discussed earlier.
...
At 6 o'clock in the evening, the two returned to the village chief's house. After a simple dinner, Teacher Lu asked everyone to rest for a while and come to his room for a short meeting at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Yao Jun also took advantage of this time to ask Zhao Shiyan to come out alone to talk about something.
"Tell me, senior brother, why did you call me out? Is it about this visit?"
"No, this visit was actually not smooth. I only got a very small amount of data. Compared with this, I want to talk to you about your own affairs."
"Myself?"
Although Zhao Shiyan had some questions, he was not too surprised. Instead, he could guess what Yao Jun wanted to say.
In fact, during this social survey, when Yao Jun singled out Zhao Shiyan at the group meeting to come to Yuanxi Village with him, she was already alert.
No matter how nervous she is, she is still a girl, and she is somewhat self-conscious about this matter. So she did not hesitate and said straightforwardly:
"If you want to confess, then I advise you not to say it."
Yao Jun rarely showed a surprised look:
"You...how do you know?"
"How do I know? Do you think everyone else is a fool?"
"Of course you are not a fool."
"Haha, I'm not a fool, what about you? You know that I have a boyfriend, but you still plan to confess to me. Are you a fool?"
"Of course not. I know Ling Zhi and you are a couple, but I believe that I am better than him!"
"excellent?"
Zhao Shiyan shook her head. If she had had her past temper, she would have been unable to bear it at this time. However, after meeting Ling Zhi, she was infected by Ling Zhi and improved in emotional management. So she suppressed the discomfort in her heart and said:
"Then tell me, what is your excellence?"
Yao Jun didn't seem to realize the coldness in Zhao Shi's tone. Instead, he felt that this was a rare opportunity for him to express himself, so he straightened his expression and said solemnly:
"During my Ph.D. studies, I have published 10 articles in SCI area 1, and I am the first author of all of them."
"I participated in two national key research and development projects hosted by Teacher Lu Ming, and I contributed to the main scientific research results."
"I still have internship experience..."
Faced with Yao Jun's endless eloquence, Zhao Shiyan's heart sank little by little. Just when she was almost unable to bear it anymore, Yao Jun finally finished:
"In short, with my scientific research achievements and project experience, I am confident that after graduation, I will definitely have an annual salary of four to five hundred thousand, not to mention one million. If you choose me, you will definitely have no worries about food and clothing in the future."
"Oh, is this the end?"
"Yes, it's over."
"Is this what you call excellent?"
"Isn't it?"
"You do seem to be relatively good at scientific research, but you are confessing to me now. Do you know that you are confessing? It is not reporting on work! What are you like as a person? What is your personality? What do you like? What do you hate? What kind of love do you have?
You haven’t talked about your views and values, how dare you say you’ve finished talking about them?”
"I... this is my first time confessing my love. I have no experience. I'm sorry. But I believe I am a warm man."
"A warm man? What do you think a warm man looks like?"
"Just...just give you what I think is the best."
"Not at all!"
Zhao Shiyan finally broke out. After enduring it for a long time, she finally decided she couldn't bear it anymore:
"What do you think is best, is it good for me?"
Zhao Shiyan didn't want to talk nonsense to him anymore and was going to go back to find Ling Zhi.
"Wait a minute, Shi Yan, I haven't finished speaking yet."
I saw Yao Jun holding Zhao Shiyan's arm, seemingly not ready to give up yet.
Zhao Shiyan frowned and said:
"open!"
"Just listen to what I have to say, and then I'll let you go!"
"I let you go!"
"..."
"Okay, senior brother, if the girl doesn't want to, don't force her, okay?"
A familiar voice came, and Yao Jun hurriedly let go of Zhao Shiyan, looked at Ling Zhi in front of him, and asked:
"When did you come? Ling Zhi. Did you hear what we just said?"
"No, when I first came here, I saw you flirting with other girls. It wasn't good for others to see you, so I couldn't help but stop it, haha."
Zhao Shiyan rolled his eyes at Ling Zhi angrily, and without saying anything else, he took Ling Zhi's hand and prepared to leave.
"Ling Zhi! You can't give Shi Yan happiness! Shi Yan, look at him taking you away from your normal duties all day long. He usually takes you out to play billiards. Didn't he just say that at dinner that he would be helping the elementary school in the afternoon?
Those kids are laying bricks! You came out this time to investigate the society, not to play! But he will only take you around to play!"
"enough!"
Zhao Shiyan was angry! She turned around, pointed at Yao Jun and said:
"Do you dare to say what you just said again? Let's see if I can't kill you!"
"Hey, Shi Yan, calm down, calm down!"
Ling Zhi comforted his girlfriend a little, then looked at Yao Jun with pity, and said:
"Senior brother, the road is narrow. You don't know Shi Yan very well. You will never know what is a real job and what is a side job to her. Or maybe, she can turn what you think of as a side job into a real job.