Summer Lemon Hearts

Chapter 11 A Successful School Performance (2)
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When I slipped from the tree and quickly returned to the second floor of the girls' dormitory, Sun Jialin really had opened the door of the dormitory and was waiting for me.

After I walked into the dormitory smoothly, I quietly checked the time on my phone, secretly anxious in my heart, but my face was as motionless as a mountain, and my smile was more gorgeous than the spring sunshine.

"Let's make a long story short, Sun Jialin. I don't want to talk to you right now, so let me ask you, do you really want to give up your ideals, beliefs, and even your future for someone who doesn't care about you? If your The answer is yes, I will never say anything, I won’t persuade you a word, just turn around and leave immediately!”

I stood up and made a gesture of turning around to leave.

"If your answer is no, then Sun Jialin, put away your bad emotions now, come out of the dormitory with me, and complete the next performance perfectly. After this performance is over, I will let you understand the meaning of life." The meaning is really not only those romances, our world, there are more meaningful people and things waiting for us to explore and discover. And your current state is just a small storm and episode in life, absolutely It’s not the end of the world. Believe me, this world is worse than you, but there are people who still look at life with a smile every day!”

"Ideals and beliefs?" Sun Jialin looked at me dubiously, her eyes flickering with struggle, "Squad leader, are you sure I will forget these unpleasant things after the show is over? You will really prove to me what you said ?"

I silently glanced at her, didn't speak, just strode towards the outside of the dormitory.

"Hurry up, it's too late! I promise you, I will take you to see it after the show is over!" I said loudly without looking back.

Seeing this, Sun Jialin quickly stood up and shouted, "Squad leader, wait for me, at least wait for me to change into a costume!"

When Sun Jialin and I rushed to the studio hall, the whole school performance had already started.A wonderful performance is going on on the stage, and the next show will be played by Class One (1).

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When I watched Sun Jialin hurried into the backstage of the studio, I almost collapsed on the seat.

"Girl, good job! I knew you wouldn't let me down." Gu Yan came to me at some point, patted my shoulder, and said appreciatively.

"Fortunately, I was in time, just in time!" I twitched the corners of my lips and smiled gratefully at him.

At this time, Gu Yan, who is the president of the student union, should be very busy.He took time out of his busy schedule to come to the camp of our class, probably because he was worried that I would not be able to persuade Sun Jialin to return smoothly!
Although Gu Yan never talks about some things, I can really feel his concern every time.

"Thank you for your hard work. Let's enjoy the next performance." Gu Yan smiled lightly and left in a hurry.

I let out a long sigh of relief, and was secretly glad that this crisis was resolved invisible, but an extremely discordant voice came from my ear: "Looking at you, it seems that the harvest is not small. How about it, this time I made more money!" How much did you pay?"

The damn guy!
Why is my head full of dirty thoughts?
I have to admit, Hetu has always had a knack for irritating me successfully.I just felt that the blood was flowing backwards all over my body, smoke was coming out of all seven orifices, and the breath was not coming from one place.

I laughed back angrily, and a sarcasm appeared on the corner of my mouth: "In the past, Su Dongpo joked that the seal of Buddha is a pile of cow dung. Don't you know that Buddha is born from the heart, and if there is a Buddha in the heart, everything is a Buddha. If the heart is cow dung, then everything is a Buddha." Everything you see turns into cow dung... Hetu student, probably you are so dark in your heart, that's why you see others are so dark. But I want to tell you, no matter how much I love money, I, Ye Suisui, will do something and not do something So don't always look at others with a discriminating eye, that will make your heart even darker..."

After all, I turned around and walked away without even looking at He Tu.In my annoyance, I didn't notice the line of sight that was following me closely all the time, and I didn't notice the strange thoughtful light in Hetu's eyes...

I rushed to the backstage of the studio angrily. The performance of our class had already started, and the applause from the front of the stage came like thunder.Although I couldn't watch this performance with my own eyes, I already know how successful today's show is from the applause!

Damn it, I wouldn't be angry with that guy Hetu before I knew it.

Impulse is the devil, it caused me to not even see the performance of my class.

I was still secretly cursing a certain mean guy in my heart. The classmate who performed at the stage had returned from the curtain call and surrounded me tightly.

"Squad leader, squad leader, we succeeded!"

"Squad leader, squad leader, you didn't even see how enthusiastic the audience was just now!"

"Squad leader, squad leader, this time we didn't embarrass Class One (1), did we?"

Everyone was chattering, excited like a child who got candy.Although I didn't participate in the performance, I felt as if I became one of them in their heartfelt "squad leader", and my heart was as sweet as eating honey.

"Thank you for your hard work, Class One (1) is proud of having you!" My eyes fell on Sun Jialin in the crowd, I looked at her with a smile, and I said sincerely, "Sun Jialin, you will always be in Grade One (1) The best conductor in the class!"

"Squad leader, thank you, you are our hero behind the scenes!" Sun Jialin bowed seriously to me, her expression was so serious that the students who didn't know the truth of what happened today were shocked.

Naturally, I could hear what Sun Jialin was saying.

I patted her on the shoulder, and I said sincerely: "You performed better than I imagined. Don't worry, I will do what I promised you before. Remember to wait for me after school."

I walked through the crowd and left the backstage of the studio, leaving behind the laughter of my classmates.

The thrill of the morning made me feel a little tired.I have no intention of watching the next performance.Sitting alone in a corner of the campus, I quietly watched the little sweet-scented osmanthus blowing down in the golden autumn breeze, and wafted a burst of fragrant fragrance, while thinking about how to persuade Sun Jialin and truly untie her knot .

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"Squad leader, I finally found you." Before there was a moment of silence, Le Xiaoxiao's crisp and sweet voice came from behind.

"You girl, you don't want to go to the show. What are you doing here?" Seeing her sitting down next to me unceremoniously, I couldn't help but cry.

This little girl has almost become my follower recently.

Wherever there is me, I can always see her figure.

On the contrary, she used to always chase after Hetu. It seems to me that it has been a long time since Le Xiaoxiao showed an unusual interest in him.

No wonder Hetu is very dissatisfied with me!

From his point of view, Le Xiaoxiao must have been bewitched by me to ignore him!
God knows, I'm actually more wronged than Dou E!

But I'm not going to explain this to Hetu anymore.Anyway, even if I explain, he may not be able to listen to it.

"I'm looking for you." Le Xiaoxiao tilted her head to look at me. Apart from admiration, there was also a strange gleam in her eyes. "Sir, tell me, why are you so powerful that you can persuade Sun Jialin to change her mind? I think you It's really great, why can't you hide anything from your eyes? It's like the last autumn outing, even though you weren't there at the time, how do you know what Cheng Yibao said to me?"

This little girl Ganqing heard about what happened this morning, and she came to gossip with me.

But... Am I acting too wise and mighty, so that this little girl has a strong interest in me?
I have already said that I will not let others know about the fact that I can read people's hearts!
So I gave Le Xiaoxiao a blank look, dumbfounded, and prepared to say a bunch of nonsense to perfunctory the past.

Who knew that she didn't care about my answer at all, she changed the subject, and continued to say to herself: "There is also President Gu Yan, he is also very good!"

"Oh, what's wrong with Gu Yan?" I looked at the scorching light in Le Xiaoxiao's eyes, and my heart moved——

This little girl talked a lot about it in a roundabout way. This is what she wants to talk about today, right?
"Senior Gu Yan really deserves to be the president of our student council! Not only is he responsible, he also has a strategy. Didn't Cheng Yibao say that he had blind confidence in you before? I accidentally discovered it just now, but it's not like this at all. thing."

As soon as Gu Yan was mentioned, Le Xiaoxiao began to chatter.

"When you went to persuade Sun Jialin, he had already made arrangements in secret. So even if you failed to persuade Sun Jialin to come back, the performance in our class will go smoothly. But after Sun Jialin came back just now, he didn't mention it at all. I didn't take credit for myself for this matter. If I hadn't overheard his conversation with others, I wouldn't have known he had done so much for our class. Squad leader, do you think that such a senior Gu Yan is special? Is it worthy of our admiration?"

"Of course!" Seeing Le Xiaoxiao's adoring face, I nodded, and the pride in my heart welled up, "President Gu Yan's character and charisma are naturally beyond doubt."

Having a friend like him is also a precious treasure in my life, Ye Suisui!

"However, Mr. Squad Leader, what were you and Sun Jialin talking about just now? Where are you going after school?"

"I promised Sun Jialin that as long as she successfully completes the performance, I will let her understand some truths. Therefore, I am going to take Sun Jialin to the orphanage." Because Le Xiaoxiao has known about the orphanage for a long time, so to her, I have nothing to hide.

"Really? Then can I go?" Hearing this, Le Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up.She looked at me softly and flatteringly, "Sir, you are so partial! It's been so long, and you haven't taken me to the orphanage yet."

"It's no problem to take you there." I turned my head to look at Le Xiaoxiao, with serious eyes, "But you have to promise me one condition, you can't leak anything about the orphanage, otherwise..."

Before I finished speaking, Le Xiaoxiao had already sworn to promise: "Don't worry, Mr. Squad Leader. Although I'm not as good as you and Senior Gu Yan, I still know the words 'keep your word' meaning!"

"That's good. After school in the afternoon, see you there!" I listened to the faint voice coming from the studio hall, stood up and patted my buttocks and said, "It seems that it's almost over there, and we should go back."

"Yeah." Le Xiaoxiao stood up and followed me towards the studio hall.

Neither of us noticed that in the dense shade of trees behind us, a tall and straight figure was watching us go away, refusing to look back for a long time...

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The orphanage is located in an inconspicuous alley in the north of the city, adjacent to it is the most prosperous "Jingxi Avenue" in Jincheng.Liveliness and loneliness, prosperity and poverty are vividly reflected here.

In fact, the so-called orphanage cannot be called a "court" at all.It is composed of a blue brick courtyard.I heard from the dean's mother that it was left by her ancestors, and it has been very old.Although it has been repaired every year, it has already shown a dilapidated appearance.Especially compared with the high-rise buildings in the next street, it looks even more dilapidated.

But it is because of this dilapidated courtyard that the children in the orphanage can have shelter from the wind and rain, and the dean's mother doesn't have to worry about the expensive monthly rent.

According to the neighbors in the neighborhood, the government will implement planning for our street soon.This place will soon face demolition, and we are likely to move into a spacious and bright house.

This news is undoubtedly good news for the children in the neighborhood and the orphanage.But for me, this courtyard house carries too many memories and joys.I spent almost all of my childhood here.There are too many people and things that I am reluctant to part with, and I have witnessed too much of my growth trajectory.

If this place burns to the ground, so will my past.

So, from the bottom of my heart, I don't want the courtyard house to be demolished.

But when I think of the expecting eyes of the dean's mother and the children, I feel that my thoughts are a bit selfish.Especially at this moment, when seeing Le Xiaoxiao and Sun Jialin's surprised eyes, this feeling became more obvious.

"Sir, what is this place?" If Le Xiaoxiao, who knew about it, was only a little surprised, then Sun Jialin, who didn't know about it, was very surprised.

"This is my home!" The blue skateboard stopped precisely in front of the gate of the courtyard. I opened the gate and made an invitation gesture to the two girls, "Welcome to my house."

"But... this sign?" Sun Jialin pointed to a faded sign on the threshold and said, "Why does it say 'Sunshine Orphanage'?"

"It's true that this is the Sunshine Orphanage, but it's also my home!" The corners of my mouth turned up slightly, and my eyes were full of pride, "Yes, just as you are thinking at this moment, I am an orphan!"

"Squad leader..." Sun Jialin froze for a moment, a strange and complicated light flashed in her eyes.

"Please, don't look at me like that, I'm not as pitiful as you think!"

From childhood to adulthood, I have seen too many such eyes.But to be honest, I really don't need any sympathy or pity.Even if it is sincere from the heart.

Because, I have never felt inferior because I was an orphan.

"Come on, let me introduce you to my family."

"But...squad leader, the orphanage on TV is not like this!"

In the eyes of a rich lady like Le Xiaoxiao, this dilapidated courtyard should be something that only exists on TV.So even though she knew my identity a long time ago, the shock in her eyes at this moment is not much less than that of Sun Jialin.

"Why...your house is like this?"

Because of her face, Le Xiaoxiao was probably too embarrassed to say the word "shabby", but I could see what she was thinking at the moment from the expression on her face.

The corners of my mouth raised silently, and a helpless smile bloomed. I paused in my forward steps and said, "Silly girl, there are all kinds of things in this world, and there are many things that are not necessarily what you see with your own eyes. The orphanages you see on TV are funded by the government and are of an official nature, so they have a spacious and bright library, a colorful game room, a clean and tidy restaurant, and a computer room , language training room, rehabilitation room for autism, rehabilitation room for mentally handicapped children...but some orphanages are built by caring folks. They don't have decent facilities and equipment, and most of their funding comes from donations from kind-hearted folks. They They don’t even have a legal status and cannot be protected by law.”

This situation is most vividly reflected in the Sunshine Orphanage.Without the persistence of the director's mother for ten years, the support of many unknown caring people, as well as the unrequited help from the neighbors and neighbors, our Sunshine Orphanage would have been disbanded long ago!
"Squad leader, is it because of this that you are so keen on making money?" Sun Jialin's eyes flashed a flash of guilt, although it was fleeting, I keenly caught it.

I could see that she was feeling very complicated at the moment.

I smiled and didn't answer, but led them towards one of the rooms.

"Come on, I'll take you to see our multi-functional comprehensive room integrating library, game room, activity room and study room."

(End of this chapter)