Daddy Academy

Chapter 3259 The Invitation from Xiaozhou

Chapter 3259 The Invitation from Xiaozhou

"Who's singing?"

Some children at Little Red Horse Academy heard the singing and peeked over to look in this direction.

"It's Liuliu! She's singing again!!"

"Ah~"

Many children were playing in the yard. When they heard Liuliu singing, they covered their ears and scattered in all directions with exaggerated movements.

Liu Liu was furious. The children's reactions weren't particularly harmful, but they were incredibly insulting—a huge insult to her passion for her work!

But once one child took the lead, the other little ones followed suit, covering their ears and running around the yard, yelling and screaming, but they just wouldn't go back to the classroom.

Xiao Bai laughed heartily and teased Liu Liu, saying, "Liu Liu, your singing is really killing us!"

Liuliu rolled her eyes at her, grabbed a kid who ran past her feet, and asked, "Why are you running?"

The little one blinked his big, innocent eyes and said with a look of complete bewilderment, "I don't know, I was just running around playing."

Liuliu said, "Stop running, be careful not to fall."

"Oh~"

The little one stopped running and stayed close to Liuliu's feet, curiously talking to Robin.

Xiao Mi came out of the classroom and said, "Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, you're finally back."

Xiao Bai asked, "Are the things ready?"

Xiaomi said, "We've been ready for a while now. If you hadn't come back soon, we would have started already. The cake will have spoiled if left out too long."

"Okay, okay, let's get started quickly." After saying that, Xiaobai called to the children in the yard to hurry back to the classroom.

"Let's cut the cake and eat it!"

Upon hearing that there was cake to eat, the children who were running around in the yard all ran into the classroom.

However, Liuliu was one step ahead and had already closed the classroom door, blocking the way behind it with a smug smile: "Don't come in yet, we'll let you in after we've finished eating."

The corridor was suddenly filled with sweet, childlike voices, and the crowd was in high spirits.

In the classroom, most of the lights were off, and Xiaobai and Xiaomi brought out a large cake, which they had bought with their own pocket money.

Xiao Bai said, "The wrap party is for the whole crew, but our Little Red Horse's own celebration isn't over yet!"

This cake has four layers and is as tall as Robin.

The children were very excited as they gathered around the cake.

The children outside the classroom were going crazy.

"Dudu!!"

"Liuliu, let us in—"

"Dudu, you're so naughty—"

Liu Liu was laughing loudly on this side of the door, looking just like a big devil.

Suddenly, Little Li rushed over and tried to open the door. Just as Liu Liu was about to stop him, she was blocked by Xiao Xiao and Xiao Youyou.

"Don't move, Liuliu, you stay right here," the two said.

Liu Liu glared at her and said coldly, "How dare you!!"

I wanted to scare them, but Xiaoxiao and Xiaoyouyou just nodded and didn't move. Yes, they were bold.

Little Li had already opened the door, and the children rushed in, surrounding Liu Liu and launching a barrage of verbal attacks, spittle flying everywhere. Liu Liu wiped her face several times, trying to leave, but she was surrounded by children.

Xiaomi and Dudu ran over and said, "Come and eat cake, come on, stop fooling around."

The children then dispersed.

Dudu said to Liuliu, "Look at you, you almost got beaten up."

Liu Liu said indignantly, "That little Li from her duck is deliberately going against me. She's the one who let people in!"

Dudu said, "Why are you blocking everyone outside the door? We're going to cut the cake!"

Liuliu said, "They said I sing badly."

Dudu said, "You're a big kid, you should give way to everyone else."

Liuliu said, "Big kids are still kids, and this is my first time being a kid too."

Dudu said helplessly, "Then you can continue fooling around with everyone. We're going to cut the cake and eat it."

Liuliu chimed in, "Let's make a fuss, but we can't stop eating cake."

The four-tiered cake was covered with children's smiling faces, and the words "Little Red Horse, Our Home" were written in cream on the side of the cake.

Wow! It's a rainbow cake!

The children excitedly circled around the cake.

Xiao Bai said, "Make way, make way, I'll cut the cake."

Little Vivi said, "We haven't sung the birthday song yet!"

Xiao Xiao also said, "I didn't make a wish!"

Xiao Bai thought for a moment and said, "Let's do it now. Everyone come over, hold hands, and sing the birthday song together."

Suddenly, Xi'er asked, "Is any of our little red horse friends having a birthday today?"

The scene was somewhat quiet, and just when everyone thought nothing had happened, a timid voice rang out from the crowd:

"It's my birthday."

Everyone turned to look, and there was a little girl with rosy cheeks, who had raised her little hand.

Xi'er immediately stepped forward, took the child's little hand, led her to the cake, and said, "Then let's sing you a birthday song together and wish you a happy birthday!"

The classroom was filled with even more joy as everyone held hands, forming layers upon layers, and sang together over the four-tiered cake and the little girl celebrating her birthday.

The adults stood on the outermost edge, smiling as they watched the scene unfold without disturbing it.

After singing the birthday song, the little girl made a wish with both hands, then blew out the candles. Her little face was rosy like a red apple; she was so excited.

In an instant, spittle could splatter all over someone's face.

Next came cutting the birthday cake. The children lined up to receive a slice each.

Even the teachers and Lao Li were assigned to their own groups.

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During recess at a school for the blind, sunlight streams through the windows onto the tactile paving in the corridor.

Xiao Zhou held a stack of invitations in his hand, his fingertips gently tracing the raised patterns on them. These were Braille premiere invitations specially made by Xiao Bai for his classmates, each one printed with "Special Guest of the Premiere of 'Miss Zhao's Family'".

"Xiao Zhou! You really participated in the tug-of-war competition at the sports meet?"

Xiao Xu, a classmate, groped his way over, his voice full of surprise.

Last time Xiaozhou went back to school to share her experience of the sports meet, she said that she and her friends from Little Red Horse played tug-of-war together and even gave a speech as a representative, which made the whole class go wild.

In their eyes, it's already a miracle that blind people can participate in sports that visible children can participate in.

Xiao Zhou smiled and nodded, handing an invitation to Xiao Xu: "Yes, I also filmed a movie and played the harmonica accompaniment for the theme song. This is an invitation to the premiere; I'd like to invite you all to come see it."

"Movie?"

Xiao Xin, who was standing next to her, suddenly stopped in her tracks, her fingertips trembling as she touched the invitation.

"We...we are blind, how can we watch movies?"

One sentence instantly silenced the noisy classroom.

Xiao Xu whispered, "Movies are watched with your eyes. We can't see anything, so it's a waste of our time to go."

Xiao Xin chimed in, "Besides...we're different from others, won't we be laughed at if we go?"

Feelings of inferiority enveloped everyone like a thin mist.

Xiao Zhou understood this feeling all too well. He used to feel different from others and didn't dare to participate in group activities, or even imagine standing on the podium at a sports meet to give a speech.

But life on Little Red Horse changed him. The encouragement from Little White, the care from Xi'er, and the encouragement from Dudu and Liuliu—everyone stopped treating him as a disabled person. This made him slowly understand that being different doesn't mean he can't do it.

He straightened his back, his voice clear and firm: "We can listen to movies! Movies have dialogue, laughter, background music, and my harmonica."

“The character I play is blind, just like me, but he plays and shares happiness with his friends. You can imagine the scene just by listening to the voice, just like we listen to a story, and you can even feel the more real emotions.”

He recalled his days at Little Red Horse, the tug-of-war where everyone held his hand at the sports meet, and how Xiaobai and Liuliu helped him find the rhythm when recording the theme song. His eyes welled up with tears: "I used to think I couldn't do anything, but my friends at Little Red Horse told me that blind people can run, play tug-of-war, play the harmonica, and even make movies. Now I want to tell you that we can also watch movies and enjoy our own happiness."

Xiao Xu clutched the invitation tightly, her voice hesitant: "But...won't it be inconvenient for us to go to a place with so many people?"

"Don't worry!" Xiao Zhou said with a smile, "Xiao Bai has already made arrangements for us! She asked the film company to prepare a special bus to pick us up from school, and our friends will be with us too, so we won't get lost."

Clutching the invitation, Xiao Xu thought and thought, and after a struggle, finally said firmly, "I'll go! I've never been to a movie theater before, and I've never seen a movie. I'd rather hear Xiao Zhou play the harmonica in the movie."

Once he took the lead, the other students followed suit.

Xiao Xin nodded and said, "I'll go too! I want to experience what it's like to listen to a movie."

(End of this chapter)