Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 61 Singing to the Motherland

Chapter 61: Chapter 61 Singing to the Motherland

Monday, morning self-study.

Teacher Cao entered the classroom and went straight to the podium.

"Cough! The school has organized a ’National Day Chorus Competition’ for each class, and all the elementary and junior high classes must participate."

The first-year junior high school class bees: "Buzz buzz buzz..."

"Quiet!" Teacher Cao knocked on the lectern with the blackboard eraser, "Qiao Xian! You discuss with the classmates later what song our class will sing, and report to me during math class."

"Yes!"

Qiao Xian sat up straight and replied.

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After Teacher Cao left, Qiao Xian stepped up to the podium.

"Everyone, please speak up and propose patriotic songs that everyone knows, then we’ll vote. Let’s start!"

"Learn from Lei Feng, a good role model!"

Someone moaned, "Not really!"

Someone complained, "We sing this every year, can’t we change it this year?!"

"We are the successors of communism."

"I don’t like it!"

"I can’t sing it high!"

Qiao Xian recorded each song name on the blackboard.

"Sing the Motherland."

"This one is good! The class that sang it last year even got first place!"

"Yeah! Let’s sing this one!"

"Our Motherland is a garden."

"Are you being childish?!"

"Haha, we are junior high first-year students, not first graders in elementary!"

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"Does anyone else have suggestions?" Qiao Xian asked twice, but no more students spoke up.

"Let’s start voting then! Starting from the first row at the door, stand up and choose one by one."

...

Eventually, "Sing the Motherland" won by an overwhelming majority.

Before the third period math class, Qiao Xian reported the song name to the homeroom teacher, Teacher Cao.

Then! Right after math class ended, the classroom was filled with mourning.

The oppressed students roared in frustration, "Why take away our right to have a PE class!!!"

Under Teacher Cao’s supervision, the first-year class sang "Sing the Motherland" for a whole period, their voices nearly smoked out, all looking forward to the long-awaited class bell.

Zhen Yu sang softly at low notes, and just muted herself at high notes, her throat just feeling a bit uncomfortable.

Fu Yu, that silly boy, had it worse; he kept screaming and couldn’t even speak on his way home.

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Bai Xue, due to her mother having to work, had her lunch at her grandfather’s house, which is also Fu Yu’s house.

Her brother Bai Yong, who attended kindergarten, was also picked up and dropped off solely by Grandpa Fu.

Everyone said their goodbyes at the entrance of Fu Family’s courtyard, watching Fu Yu and Bai Xue enter the Fu Family courtyard before Zhen Yan opened the door lock and led everyone into Zhen Family’s courtyard.

It wasn’t about being wary of those two, but Bai Xue and Fu Yu just couldn’t keep a secret, and many things could slip out of their mouths unwittingly.

Thus, the Han Family Brothers’ afternoon rest at the Zhen Family’s place had to be kept from those two.

Since they planned on dining there for the long term, the brothers naturally couldn’t continue acting like guests waiting to be fed.

Zhen Yan cooked rice; that was the only thing he knew how to do.

Han Jiayang helped set the table and arrange bowls, while Han Mingyue and Zhen Yu picked and washed vegetables together.

The four nearly-adult kids managed the tasks quite efficiently.

Of course, mainly because Zhen Yu organized everything well, making best use of resources and talents.

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"Zhen Yu!"

"Hmm?"

"Talk."

"Talk about what?"

"Nothing, just checking if your throat is hoarse."

Zhen Yu didn’t feel much, but the Zhen Yan, who was eavesdropping, rolled her eyes speechlessly and made a funny face.

"Pretty good, what song are you singing?"

"Lei-Feng..." Mentioning this made Han Mingyue feel nauseous, singing it year after year till she’s almost sick of it.

"And you?" Zhen Yu turned to ask her brother.

Zhen Yan rolled his eyes again, "The same song..."

"We are singing the ’Yellow River Chorus’!" Han Jiayang came out of the living room and casually added.

He grabbed four pairs of chopsticks from the cabinet, holding them like whipping a horse, and gestured, "The wind is roaring! The horse is neighing..."

As he sang, he imitated the horse’s neigh, "Huuu..."

Han Mingyue shook her head helplessly and sighed, while Zhen Yan quickly pressed the rice cooker button and chased after Han Jiayang into the living room.

Zhen Yu looked up at her brother’s back, her lips barely curving into a faint smile.

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The next morning during morning self-study, Teacher Cao came into the classroom again.

He had marked the morning self-study as his own territory, specifically used for announcements, meetings, and assigning tasks.

"Cough!" A routine light cough, and the class quieted down.

"The school requires everyone in the chorus competition to wear uniform attire, our class will wear white tops and black pants, with white shoes. Those who don’t have them should prepare quickly!"

After he finished speaking, he didn’t leave but sat down behind the podium since the first period on Tuesday was math class.

The students didn’t dare to gossip and diligently focused on their self-study.

In the evening after school, Zhen Yu flipped through her wardrobe; she needed the ’activity outfit’ she wore every year—it was indeed there.

Just that, it was too small...

Including the shoes, everything was too small.

Not only Zhen Yu’s class, but the whole junior high school, or rather the whole school, wore the same uniform.

Zhen Yan’s was also too small.

So, before the National Day weekend, Mrs. Zhen took her children for another shopping trip.

Perhaps because many people were buying, the sales of this ’outfit’ were booming. It took visits to several stores to find the right sizes.

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After two weeks of practice, even with the throat lozenges Han Mingyue provided, Zhen Yu was nearly at her limits.

Fortunately, National Day finally arrived, called forth by the eager cries of the students.

Several friends, all dressed in their brand-new uniforms and shoes, came to the school playground and headed towards their class teams.

Right when Zhen Yu was about to reach her spot, the girl who should’ve been standing behind her suddenly stretched out a foot.

Zhen Yu’s eyes flashed, adeptly stepping on it and even grinding her foot a bit.

"Ah!"

The girl screamed, reaching out to grab Zhen Yu’s sleeve.

"You got my shoes dirty!!"

Zhen Yu shrugged off her grip, calmly responded: "I didn’t step on them, it wasn’t me, don’t accuse blindly."

"It was clearly you who stepped on them!"

"Do you have evidence?"

"..." Under the watchful eyes of those around, a circle of classmates who witnessed the whole incident indicated they really didn’t!

You ground it over and over, the shoeprints are all blurred now!

The girl was furious, "Zhen Yu! You purposefully dirtied my shoes and won’t admit it! You must apologize!"

Zhen Yu lowered her head.

But the proud smile on her face lasted less than half a second before she saw Zhen Yu quickly lift her foot and stomp down, grinding once before retracting her foot.

Then she raised her head, tugged at the corner of her mouth and said, "Sorry."

Then she turned around, standing upright, all in one smooth motion.

-

The girl, red-faced and with a thick neck, poked at Zhen Yu’s spine, "I’m going to tell the teacher! This is disrupting classroom harmony!"

"The hat is too big, I can’t wear it."

Zhen Yu looked at the girl, who was the dorm monitor in her previous life, shared with Wu Qiong, named Wang Ping.

Before Wu Qiong’s ’theft’ trait was exposed, Wang Ping and Wu Qiong were best friends.

Later... Wang Ping was the fiercest in condemning...

She was someone with a hot temper but also loyal. This play today must be to vent for Wu Qiong!

Zhen Yu slowly extended her hand, a piece of chalk quietly lying at her palm, "Want it?"

"..." Wang Ping hesitated for a second, and Zhen Yu already clenched her hand

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