Chapter 18: Composition
Chapter 18: Composition
To register, you only need to fill out a form.
Because there is no registration fee, Fan Wumian is quite fond of this singing competition.
According to the introduction on the registration brochure, the age limit for participating is 12 to 20 years old. If he were to compete with professional singers in singing, he might find it difficult, but facing a group of middle school and high school students, he is confident that he can beat them.
Most of the other contestants only sang covers, but Fan Wumian sang "original songs" that had not yet been released. As long as the judges were not blind or deaf, he believed that he had a good chance of winning the prize money.
As for winning first place, considering that the only champion seems to have been decided in advance, there is no need to think about those things for the time being.
After all, the entire middle school singing competition was not sponsored by Silly Old Fan. Having lived to Fan Wumian's age, how could he not understand that many things are not absolutely fair? If he could get the second place, he would be very satisfied.
After filling out the form, return to the classroom.
The discipline director, Li Jiagui, can be seen waiting for Fan Wumian in the classroom, with a thick stack of textbooks, exercise books, and tutorial books for various grades at his side.
After seeing Fan Wumian, the dean of discipline said to him in front of the whole class with a serious tone:
"I made more than a dozen phone calls last night to get these books for you, and even drove to Stanley overnight. I hope you study hard in the next year. Even if your grades are not satisfactory, it will be worth my trip if you can gain some knowledge from the textbooks."
The dean of discipline was obviously a little moved by himself.
After saying that, he patted Fan Wumian on the shoulder to show encouragement, and asked his classmates and teachers to help him more.
If it were other students, they might be moved to tears by this action.
However, Fan Wumian, who had long been a veteran in the workplace, was now wondering whether the fact that Dean Li Jiagui was working so hard to show himself was related to the "election for principal" he mentioned yesterday.
This is not because Fan Wumian has a dark mentality.
The main reason is that the discipline director Li Jiagui is not that considerate and friendly in his daily life. For example, some students who have poor grades but whose families are powerful are arranged by him into good classes.
Some special recruitment places in cooperation with European and American universities are also given priority to students with strong family backgrounds, which often has little to do with academic rankings.
Mantis Xiao Tingwei also mentioned this uncle in private, saying that he bought two houses in Wan Chai last year for rent. The houses were worth several million Hong Kong dollars, which he could not afford with his income from school alone.
However, Fan Wumian was still very grateful to the other party.
If it weren't for the help of the dean of discipline, it would have been very troublesome to get a complete set of textbooks. Anything that requires money is now considered a big problem in his eyes.
Saying that you want to study hard is not just a pretense.
For the whole morning, the teacher was lecturing in class, and Fan Wumian was busy reviewing the Chinese knowledge points according to the order of the textbook.
Compared with the Chinese textbooks in the mainland, some classical Chinese texts seem to be more complicated and difficult to understand, especially when paired with the dazzling traditional Chinese characters. It can only be said that the decision to simplify Chinese characters back then was a great feat that benefited students and reduced the difficulty of learning characters by a large margin.
For example: "I slept through the spring and heard birds singing everywhere. The sound of wind and rain came at night, and I wonder how many flowers have fallen."
In the time that it took the students from Gangcheng to copy the text once, Fan Wumian felt that it was enough for him to copy the simplified Chinese version twice.
Fortunately, there is still more than half a year to slowly adapt to the difference in writing. It doesn’t matter if your handwriting is ugly, as long as you get the questions right.
I am busy with classes and study every day, and I take time to practice guitar at night, trying to get back to my peak playing form.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Plans cannot keep up with changes, and the film has basically not started yet. The reason is that I always feel that even if it is written, there is no way to actually shoot it for the time being, so there is no rush for the time being.
On the afternoon of September 9rd, Friday, Fan Wumian was busy working on his Chinese workbook, and it just so happened that he had another Chinese class.
Ning Da, a 26-year-old Chinese teacher who dresses fashionably, graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University. She looks sweet and has dimples on her face when she smiles.
As soon as I arrived at the classroom, the Chinese teacher Ning Da placed the materials on the podium and smiled and said:
"Classmates, we are not learning new knowledge in this class. We have a small essay test."
As soon as these words came out, a wailing sound was heard.
Unlike the mainland, the classroom atmosphere in Hong Kong is more relaxed. Many teachers do not have much authority and like to treat students as friends.
Youpiao immediately said, "Writing is a headache. Can we write it next Monday so that we can have a good mood for the upcoming holiday?"
Teacher Ning Da smiled and shook her head, adding:
"This is not a normal composition, so you don't have to worry about me grading it. Huiwen Newspaper is holding a short composition competition. The winners will be able to see their own works in the newspaper, and they will also have the opportunity to win a 3000 yuan prize, as well as gifts such as MP3s, mobile phones, and Polaroid cameras."
"What's the topic?"
Teacher Ning Da spoke softly and with a smile in her tone:
"There is no set topic. It just needs to be as concise as possible and no more than 100 words. You can take out paper and pen and start thinking about it. I hope you can give me a little surprise. Oh, and remember to write your name and student number."
What made Fan Wumian raise his head was the word "bonus".
It has to be said that he felt very uncomfortable as he had a lot of talent but was unable to cash in because he had no money to invest.
It's like guarding a gold mine, but unfortunately there are no equipment or channels to mine it.
A mere 3000 yuan bonus is still a small amount of money after all. Fan Wumian twirled his pen and pondered over it for a while, and soon he had a clue.
I saw him writing the traditional Chinese characters slowly and leisurely, stroke by stroke, and soon he "created" a wonderful short essay.
Just as I was about to continue chewing on the bone, I thought that just one article was not enough, so I continued to write and spent some time writing two more articles on the same piece of paper.
The first person to hand in his manuscript was his bad friend Mantis. The Chinese teacher Ning Da was amused after reading it and said to him:
"What do you mean I ate a bowl of wonton noodles this morning. The soup base of Chiji wontons tasted great? I asked you to write a short essay, not a primary school essay, but I can see that you really like the wonton noodles at Chi Wenshui's house. I will go and try it when I have time."
Hear the words.
The class burst into laughter.
Especially Chi Wenshui, who was fat and fat, saw that his second brother Mantis did not forget to advertise his wonton shop, so he patted his chest and shouted:
"Let's be brothers! In my heart! Come to my house tomorrow morning and I'll make you a huge bowl of wonton noodles!"
"Third brother! Can I have another chicken drumstick?"
"Second brother! Of course it's no problem! I'll kneel down and beg my dad to give you two extras!"
Fan Wumian didn't dare to look up, for fear of being involved with these two idiots, which would be too embarrassing.
Seeing other students handing in their homework one after another, he quickly handed his own short essay to Teacher Ning Da.
Chinese teacher Ning Da glanced at it and said in a surprised tone:
"Fan, you are doing great today. You actually wrote three articles at once. Let me see if you are playing a prank on the teacher again and making me happy for nothing."
It doesn't matter if you don't watch.
Seeing this, Teacher Ning Da was stunned for a moment.
(End of this chapter)