Chapter 169 Sunrise (Added update for Midnight Lands)
"Hu~~"
A cloud of white mist spurted out from Ke Xinying's mouth.
She rubbed her hands and was about to put them into her pocket when an excited but low-volume voice came to her ears: "Ke Ke, can we take a photo together? I like you very much."
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Ke Xinying turned her head and saw a fat girl looking at her expectantly.
So, she smiled and nodded, then pulled her to the side and pulled Xu Xiyu over to take a photo with her.
With a click, two figures wearing long red down jackets appeared on the screen of this fat girl's phone.
Soon the photo appeared on her WeChat Moments, Twitter and even other social platforms. The copywriting is very unified, they are all "encountering Ke Xinying and Xu Xiyu taking children to watch the national flag raising".
There are already quite a few similar photos and videos on the Internet. After all, there are indeed many people watching the flag raising every morning.
Moreover, Xu Xiyu and Ke Xinying were so conspicuous that it was difficult not to notice them.
There were more than two hundred people, all wearing uniform red long down jackets. Not only that, they also wore golden woolen hats on their heads.
Looking around, the group of people are intertwined with gold and red, just like the two colors on the national flag.
In fact, these children were originally going to wear the school's new uniforms. But in the winter in Beijing, nothing that school uniform can stop.
Although you can wear warm clothes underneath, it is still a bit cumbersome after all.
As a result, Xu Xiyu and Ke Xinying prepared clothes for all of them in advance. Major expenses such as travel expenses, food and accommodation have been paid, so there is no shortage of this.
The biggest fear when doing things is that the price is spent, and the last few small details are not taken care of properly. This will often make people seize on this to negate all your efforts.
Of course, sometimes, in the eyes of some people, everything you do is wrong.
Just like now, some people are complaining on the Internet that the two of them are putting on too much of a show, and for fear that others will not know, they even wear the same clothes.
Ke Xinying has never experienced the feeling of walking on a mountain road at four in the morning, but she can feel the feeling of being on trending searches at four in the morning.
But she doesn't care.
She is very happy now because the children standing on her left are very happy.
Emotions are contagious.
Spend more time with happy people, and you will most likely be happy too.
At least, Ke Xinying felt that since she and Xu Xiyu were really together, many things had changed subtly.
"I used to feel that I had to stand above others, but now I think it's not bad to stand among the crowd." Ke Xinying suddenly said in Xu Xiyu's ear.
"What did you say?" The wind in the north was very strong, so Xu Xiyu covered his ears with the brim of a woolen hat. Ke Xinying's voice was so low that he didn't hear it clearly at all.
Seeing Xu Xiyu leaning her head towards her, wanting to say it again, Ke Xinying pulled his hat up and said angrily: "I said, you are just a fool!"
Xu Xiyu glanced at her doubtfully when he heard this. What do you mean by saying something so mean to me?
So, he pulled his hat down, covered his ears, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Find a fool as your boyfriend, and you still think you are smart."
As soon as these words came out, Ke Xinying was choked by Xu Xiyu. After a while, she rolled her eyes and said, "I'm happy with it. Do you care about it? Huh~~"
"Come out, brother Xiyu, the escort is out!!" Just as the two of them were whispering to each other, the little girl next to Xu Xiyu suddenly pulled him and shouted excitedly.
The two of them looked up and saw that the escort was approaching Tiananmen Square.
At this moment, Xu Xiyu, who was watching the national flag being raised for the first time, suddenly realized that there are some things that you really can’t feel unless you come to the scene.
Majestic and mighty.
The scene was noisy, and the escort was far away, but looking at the escort approaching in an orderly manner, Xu Xiyu seemed to hear the sound of "tap, tap, tap" in his ears.
Maybe there is a microphone on site, or maybe there is no need for a microphone.
At this moment, the guards' steps not only stepped on the solid ground, but also stepped on his heart.
It's an indescribable feeling.
The noisy people present unconsciously became solemn.
The children next to them all stood up straight, perhaps because of the influence of the escort.
But Xu Xiyu felt that perhaps the tall and straight flagpole in front of Tiananmen Gate had become their backbone at this moment. They stood as straight as the flagpole.
"I hope they can always stand this straight."
"What?" This time it was Ke Xinying's turn who didn't hear clearly.
"People still have to have a flagpole to support them in their hearts, otherwise they will easily kneel down, don't you think?" Xu Xiyu's eyes moved from the escort to the flagpole in front of him.
"You're right." Ke Xinying heard it clearly now.
Just because she heard clearly, she took her hand out of her pocket, inserted it into Xu Xiyu's pocket, and then held his hand tightly.
She didn't care if anyone saw her.
Of course, no one is actually paying attention to them. The only real "star" at the moment is the red flag.
Moreover, when people are crowded, no one can see their small movements.
The sound of tapping is getting closer and closer.
The flag was quickly hung at the end of the flagpole.
Following the slogan "Stand firm", Xu Xiyu and Ke Xinying also took their hands out of their pockets, took off their hats and stood up straight.
The children seemed to have been warned and quickly took off their hats and held them in their hands.
Immediately afterwards, with the sound of "Salute to the national flag", Xu Xiyu and Ke Xinying stared at the national flag. This is the gift of attention.
But the children next to him all raised their right hands to the top of their heads.
They are young pioneers.
Therefore, they gave the Young Pioneers salute.
Sometimes people always have some inexplicable insecurities and shame.
Just like when Ke Xinying was a child, she felt that saluting properly was a very shameful and uncool thing.
But at this moment, looking at these children with serious faces, doing something that once made her a little ashamed, she felt that her scalp was starting to tingle.
The next moment, she also got goosebumps because the national anthem played.
The children's eyes became more determined.
The national anthem in my ears became louder and louder.
Li Hanhua, who has been teaching in mountainous areas for more than 30 years, looked at the scene in front of him and his eyes slowly became blurry. He didn't like to cry, but he couldn't help it now.
In a daze, he remembered the scene of Xu Xiyu chatting with the children in the car.
"Let's play a game. I will give a gift to whoever gets the answer right. The first question is, why is the flag-raising time in Tiananmen Square not fixed, but different dates have different flag-raising times?"
"No one knows? Let me tell you, it's because the time of raising the flag and the time of sunrise in the capital are usually synchronized. Therefore, when the red flag slowly rises on the flagpole, the sun also rises slowly."
"Brother Xiyu, is that rising red flag or the sun?"
"What do you think?"
"It's all the same, the red flag is the sun, and the sun is the red flag."
The childish reply still rings in my ears.
This made Li Hanhua's eyes blurry even more, so blurry that he really couldn't tell whether the flagpole in front of him was a red flag or a red sun.
"It's all the same, it's all the same." He muttered in his mind.
After chanting, the national flag was raised to the top. He wiped the corners of his eyes and turned to look at the group of children around him who had followed him out of the mountains.
After looking at it, he looked to the other side, where the two young men and women were still looking up at the national flag. He muttered another sentence that he had said countless times since yesterday.
"Thank you."
His thank you was so soft that Xu Xiyu and Ke Xinying could not hear it. They were looking at the national flag and communicating in a low voice.
"Let me teach you a song."
"What song?"
"The five-star red flag is fluttering in the wind, and the victory song is so loud, singing our dear motherland, and moving towards prosperity and strength from now on..."
"Wait a minute, is this the song you asked Teacher Xiang to teach these children?" As she listened, Ke Xinying looked at Xu Xiyu with wide eyes and said in disbelief.
She had just watched the flag-raising ceremony, and the hair on her body stood up after just a few sentences.
I can't stop the urge to cry.
She thought she already knew enough about Xu Xiyu's songwriting skills.
Now she suddenly realized that she still underestimated him.
Can he write this kind of song?
Where did you learn this?
Is your talent a little too exaggerated?
When Xu Xiyu heard this, he shook his head and said: "That's not true."
He had no intention of copying songs like "Singing the Motherland". You're a scumbag, so don't lean on this.
As for "Beijing Welcomes You", it doesn't matter. The original version itself has a bunch of contestants who have collapsed.
All in all, Xu Xiyu felt that since the children were here, of course they couldn't just go and learn and then leave.
Xu Xiyu decided to teach them a song and shoot a chorus MV,
If you can't sing "Beijing Welcomes You", can't you sing anything else? Singing a song can be regarded as a souvenir, and music has a strong ability to retain memories.
To this end, Xu Xiyu hired a master to help arrange the chorus and give these children a master music class.
This master is none other than the well-known conductor Xiang Huadong, deputy director of the Philharmonic Orchestra who previously praised Xu Xiyu's "Hometown Scenery" ocarina song. He was the teacher that Ke Xinying spoke of just now.
"You don't plan to teach the children to sing this song? Then do you plan to sing it yourself in the future?" Ke Xinying asked curiously.
"Yes, I sing it in private." Xu Xiyu smiled.
"Privately? You don't plan to release it to the public. Why don't you release such a good song to the public?" Ke Xinying immediately became anxious when she heard this.
Xu Xiyu looked at her funny and said: "Look, you are in a hurry."
"I..." Ke Xinying was startled when she heard this, then turned away and hummed, "I'm not in a hurry, why should I be in a hurry? If the emperor is not in a hurry, why should the empress dowager be in a hurry?"
"No, is this how the words are used? Are you taking advantage of me?" Xu Xiyu said with a suppressed laugh.
Ke Xinying was about to say something when she heard this, but another voice came from beside her, "Tie Lao... um, it's not... Dan... nor, um, Teacher Xu, I am your fan, can we take a photo with you?"
"Tsk...hahahahahahaha." This stuttering greeting made Ke Xinying instantly unable to hold her nerve.
At the same time, netizens who got up one after another also began to see the news about Ke Xinying and Xu Xiyu taking their children to watch the flag raising.
(End of chapter)