"If you are not from Guangfu, you cannot participate in the Mandarin competition."
Lao Dou told everyone about the first-hand news he heard at the street office. The boss became unhappy after hearing this and said angrily: " Is there something wrong? Didn't Xianglan practice all night in vain? "
"Also, family members of foreigners are not allowed to participate in the English competition," Lao Dou continued, and Azu heard this. He was very angry, but he didn't show it. He was just here to have fun, so he was not allowed to participate.
But the second brother felt that something was wrong. He said: "Old Dou, these two items are clearly aimed at our Kang family. The entire Changsheng Street except that we are the family members of foreigners and people from other provinces, Which other households will be restricted by these two regulations?"
Everyone realized it, and Azu said bluntly: "Seriously, Lao Dou, have you offended anyone? Huh? Could it be Uncle Liang? He came up with a bad idea because he was jealous of our family.”
The second sister-in-law said even more excitedly: "If I knew who came up with the idea, I would peel off his skin and cook it for salad dressing, and break his bones and fry it." She was so excited that she clapped her palms, and the result was the photo. Tianxiu's leg hurt so much that he screamed. At this time, Diana happened to walk into the house. When she saw everyone there, she smiled and said: "What is so lively?"
"Honey, you came back just in time. I don't know who the bad guy modified the game. The articles of association are for our family. How can this be unreasonable? If I knew who it was, I would curse him to have a baby." Azu asked simply when he saw Diana coming back.
Diana is now a non-staff cadre at the sub-district office, so she naturally knows who made the suggestion. In fact, she suggested this matter to Director Ye, and she frankly admitted this to everyone. Hearing this, Azu could only express in embarrassment that it was good that Paul had a poop.
"The purpose of my doing this is to make the competition fair and reasonable. There is nothing wrong with it, right?" Diana explained her thoughts to everyone.
Lao Dou did not agree with her point of view. He said: "This is simply inappropriate. By doing this, aren't you depriving Azu and my sister-in-law of the right to participate?"
"You can find someone else to participate." Diana said.
Kang Qirui actually does not agree with Diana's point of view. It has nothing to do with fairness and reasonableness if non-Cantonese people participate in the Mandarin competition. Every place has its own dialect, and when speaking Mandarin, there is more or less an accent. Is there a superior-subordinate relationship between accents? Just like Xianglan's southern Henan accent, compared with other people's Cantonese accents, Kang Qirui didn't think it was unfair for her to participate in the Mandarin competition.
It is even more ridiculous that family members of foreigners are not allowed to participate in English competitions. This is a typical case of putting the cart before the horse. For example, Azu pursued Diana because he was good at English and could communicate with her. It was not because he caught up with Diana that he became good at English and was able to communicate with her. His English proficiency is the result of his hard work. Why is it unfair to participate in the competition?
Of course, Kang Qirui didn’t want to make the whole house noisy because of this kind of competition organized by the street, so he didn’t express his thoughts. Instead, he followed Diana's words and suggested: "If Azu can't participate in the English competition, Tianxiu can participate. Let's see how Xiuzai is doing in school. If my sister-in-law can't participate in the Mandarin competition, I can go to the big brother. Ah, anyway, the big guys are used to talking about familiarity.”
Tianxiu agreed immediately. He was not doing it for the prizes, but because he has a performance personality and likes to be in the limelight. . The boss was not so confident anymore. He said hesitantly: "Me? I'm going to participate in the Mandarin competition? Is it okay for me?"
"If you can't do it, who can?" Kang Qirui and the boss Guang said half-jokingly and half-encouragingly: "Can't you just let your sister-in-law be by your side to tutor you 24 hours a day?" He emphasized that Xianglan should tutor the boss Guang. The reason is because in the original time and space, the boss Guang actually went to Yemo to tutor him in Mandarin. Yemo's accent was much worse than Xianglan's.
Kang Qirui thought for a while, and then said to Tianpu: "Xiaozi, just ask your fourth uncle to give you 24-hour tutoring, hahahaha." Azu glared at Kang Qirui angrily, He said helplessly: "It's okay for me to tutor Yuzi in English, but don't mess with me for 24 hours. Yuzi doesn't need to rest, and I have to rest."
Kang Qirui pulled Tianxiu aside, The two discussed in a low voice: "You know XBOX360, right?"
Tianxiu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "I know, there are only a few people in our school who have them at home, which is enviable. Uncle Yao, you want to give it to me" Give me one?”
XBOX360 quickly gained widespread attention and popularity after its launch in November 2005. When it was finally removed from the shelves, global sales exceeded 86 million units. In 2005, Guangfu was still at the forefront of gaming trends, and many people had already bought it within just one month of its release. "If you win the English competition this time, Uncle Yao will buy one and put it at home for everyone to play with." Kang Qirui made his promise, and Tianxiu immediately went back to his room to study.
In Kang Qirui’s impression, Guang and Tianxiu, the bosses in the previous life, both lost in this street skills competition, and the reasons were very simple. The boss just found the wrong person to tutor him in Mandarin, resulting in a serious accent. Tianxiu didn't pay enough attention because Diana was the judge, so he just learned a few words and then went to the competition.
In this life, Kang Qirui has found ways to help them correct their problems respectively, and believes that they can achieve good results in the street skills competition this time.
According to the original plan, the street skills competition was supposed to be held on New Year's Day in 2006, but the street suddenly received a notice that leaders would be coming on New Year's Day, so it was temporarily decided to advance the skills competition one day to December 31, 2005.
On the day of the competition, the first event was the Mandarin competition in which Daguang Guang participated. Gangster Guang was the first contestant No. 1 to take the stage to recite. He recited a modern poem taught to him by Kang Qirui: "From tomorrow on, be a happy person, feed horses, chop firewood, and travel around the world."
"Stranger, I also wish you well: may you have a brilliant future; may your lover finally get married; may you find happiness in the world. I only wish to face the sea and the spring flowers to bloom."
This song "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Bloom" by Haizi has been memorized by Guang Guang. Although there is a mix of Southern Henan accent and Cantonese accent, it is still pretty good compared to others. So in the end, he beat several other contestants and won the Mandarin championship.
When the Kang family cheered for Da Lao Guang's victory, Kang Qirui patted Da Lao Guang and joked: "I said you can do it, Da Lao. If your Mandarin is not good, How did you catch my sister-in-law in the first place? Hahahaha.”
After the Mandarin competition was the English competition. Tianxiu’s self-introduction article was completed by Azu. He even asked for Diana for the game console. Whenever he had time, he would pester Diana to check his pronunciation. Therefore, Tianxiu's English recitation received a perfect score of 10 from five judges, including Diana, and successfully won the English recitation championship in the street competition.
"Uncle Yao, Uncle Yao, it's a game console." Tiantuo found Kang Qirui immediately after he stepped down. The second brother and second sister-in-law pointed at him angrily and said: "I said you Why is this bad guy working so hard? It turns out it’s because of the game console. Your grandma and I thought you were enlightened and understood the importance of studying hard every day.”
"Oh, Uncle Yao, you clearly know that Yu Tsai is playful, but you still let him buy a game console for him, so that he has no intention to study." The second sister-in-law complained to Kang Qirui.
Kang Qirui waved his hand and said to his second sister-in-law: "Second sister-in-law, don't worry. Tianxiu is here from the start. You can see him this time. If he has a goal and wants to learn, with his Talent can be learned with hard work, so we need to provide encouraging education to Tianxiu. You guys used to use suppressive education, so how can you do that? You haven’t noticed that Tianxiu is not as confident as before in the past two years. Well? ”
Repressive education is not just a problem of two people, it is a problem of the general environment. Most parents educate their children in this way. Common expressions include "Look at how outstanding other people's children are, and then look at you...", "Why can others do it but you can't?" and so on. Or indifference and questioning of children.
Because this education model lacks positive affirmation and encouragement for children, the children they educate often have low self-esteem and lack of confidence, feel that they lack love, and even become depressed. What's even more frightening is that it's not that such parents don't love their children, they don't know how to love their children.
The second brother and the second sister-in-law looked at each other and thought about Tianxiu's enthusiasm and initiative in learning during this period. They both nodded slowly, agreed with Kang Qirui's words, and took the initiative to reflect on the past education methods.
After the morning competition was over, there was the afternoon costume competition. In this life, the second sister-in-law had a little daughter named Kang Siyu and was raising two children by herself, so she did not have the time or leisure time to participate in the competition. In other words, this time there was no conflict among the Kang family due to this small street competition like in the previous life.
The Kang family did not have their last dinner at home in 2005, but went to the Garden Hotel for a buffet dinner to celebrate the championship of the big guys Guang and Tianxiu. (End of this chapter)