Chapter 392: Chapter 392: The Pride of Our Village
But he felt a little guilty, shielding his comic books with his sumr howork. He clenched his fist and waved it in front of the two, threatening, “Village… I an, Jiang Mianmian, Li Lan, if you two even think about tattling to my parents that I’m reading comic books, I’ll beat you up, understand?”
“I’m not interested in ratting you out,” Jiang Mianmian glanced at him and continued reading.
Li Lan didn’t even raise her head and simply ignored him.
So, Wang Li was quite satisfied and retracted his fist, happily continuing with his comic book.
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On Saturday, thinking about tomorrow’s recognition ceremony, Li Lan, who rarely initiated conversation with Wang Li, spoke to him.
“Wang Li, Mianmian is going to attend the recognition ceremony tomorrow. Our whole family is going to watch. Are you going?”
“I’m not interested,” said Wang Li indifferently.
But when the weekend arrived and Jiang Mianmian stood on the stage, she saw Wang Li standing in the crowd.
Jiang Mianmian couldn’t help but smile at the sight of this little hypocrite who had claid he wouldn’t co.
The recognition ceremony was attended by many, including the relatives and friends of the two students from the town who had ranked first, as well as people from other communes who ca to join in the excitent.
In the countryside at that ti, entertainnt was extrely scarce; aside from chatting with neighbors, there were almost no other leisure activities.
So whenever there was an event at the commune, as long as people had the ti, they would attend, just to be part of the excitent.
This ti, the most people ca from Jiang Mianmian’s commune. After all, she was the Little Genius that their own commune had nurtured, and they naturally wanted to show their support.
At the Jiang Family, except for Zhaodi who feigned illness to skip the event, the whole family set out. Most of the people from Stone Bridge Village attended as well.
After the recognition ceremony began, Principal Fang started with so encouraging words, then gave the stage to the three students who had ranked first.
The two top students from the town read their essays first. Since the ceremony was held in honor of Jiang Mianmian, it wouldn’t be fair to let only her read her essay.
So they decided to have all three kids read their essays, since it wouldn’t take much ti anyway.
The two town kids’ essays were also quite brilliant, with so sentences even more beautiful than Jiang Mianmian’s. When they finished, both received a round of applause.
After the two had finished, it was Jiang Mianmian’s turn. As soon as she began to read her essay, the villagers from Stone Bridge Village started applauding and cheering.
“Good job, Mianmian! Truly worthy of being our Stone Bridge Village’s Little Prodigy.”
“Wonderful, just wonderful! You’re the pride of our village.”
Their excitent left people from other communes in astonishnt.
Seeing they were being watched, the people from Stone Bridge Village proudly puffed out their chests and said, “That kid on the stage is from our village, we’ve watched her grow up.”
Although Jiang Changhai and Su Wanyu were also very excited, they didn’t show it.
With so many leaders on stage, they had to act with more composure, not wanting the leaders to think Jiang Mianmian’s parents were country bumpkins inexperienced with the world.
However, when Jiang Mianmian finished reading her essay, everyone in the audience beca very excited and applauded vigorously. For a mont, the applause was like thunder.
Even though so people in the audience had already read the essay, they were still very moved at this mont.
Similar sentints were shared by the leaders sitting on stage, who were also quietly exchanging words.
“This child has written so well, even though I’ve read it several tis before, listening to it now still makes feel stirred up.”
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