Chapter 124: Bonus Chapter

Amidst the applause of the entire venue, Xueyan also saw Teacher Ding Jiaying standing below the stage, gesturing to him to indicate the next segment.

Teacher Ding Jiaying originally felt a bit uncomfortable knowing Xueyan drew Number 1, but right now, feeling the atmosphere of the entire venue, she actually revealed a bit of a smile.

Why should I force the competitiveness of adults onto a cub?

Although it is a competition, perhaps it is already enough to be able to temper Xueyan and let him feel the affirmation of the parents.

Therefore, Teacher Ding, having perked up again, also followed the procedure agreed upon during rehearsal and reminded Xueyan to continue the competition.

Under the gaze of the entire venue, Xueyan also silently pursed his lips and smiled, although his face was still a bit red.

This scene happened to be captured by the directing team of the filming crew.

Even if this little contestant recommended by Princeton forgot his lines standing on stage, this appearance is undoubtedly worth shooting a few close-ups!

“Hello to all the judges, uncles and aunties, older brothers and sisters, and little friends. The story I want to tell today is ‘The Big Tiger That Escaped the Zoo’.”

When Xueyan said the words “big tiger,” Teacher Ding below the stage clenched her two hands into fists and placed them on both sides of her cheeks to start the reminder action.

The next second, Xueyan also smiled and skillfully clenched his two little hands into fists and placed them on the sides of his face, making a big tiger pose for the entire audience.

No way, this opening is super cute, right?

Not to mention the parents at the scene, even Wei Zhili and this group of young students were startled by the cuteness, their mouths inexplicably curling up along with Xueyan.

Who on earth is so genius to have the picture book story Xueyan prepared be a big tiger?

The effect of this compared to reading some little rabbit or little mole story is absolutely incomparable to this wondrous contrast cuteness!

“A long, long time ago, there was a big tiger in the zoo named Tiger…”

And Xueyan, gradually entering the competition state, slowly turned his tone brisk. He truly read the story with clear pronunciation and fluent vividness, without a single stumble throughout.

Immersed in telling the story, Xueyan didn’t notice that the entire audience, who had just been collectively applauding, had already quickly quieted down. Everyone had a smile on their faces as they watched this cute little tiger in the center of the stage tell the story.

The story told in this picture book, “The Big Tiger That Escaped the Zoo,” was actually very simple, and the length wasn’t long either. It told the story of how, after the zoo fell into ruin, a newly born little tiger was so hungry he was at death’s door. He was forced to bravely escape the familiar zoo to find a chance of survival, ultimately returning to the great forest and becoming the King of the Forest.

On the way, the little tiger was once picked up and taken home by a farmer uncle. Everyone thought it was just a little cat, but Tiger firmly believed he was a big tiger, and still left the comfortable life to embark on the journey to find the forest.

“How could I possibly be a little cat? I am clearly the King of Beasts! And the King of Beasts belongs to the great forest!”

The tone of the cub wearing the headgear was first confused, then firm. When he said “King of Beasts,” even his big eyes were sparkling, as if truly filled with yearning for the forest.

“Meow-Awoo—!”

Charlie nearby also quickly followed his role from the rehearsal, opportunely letting out an “Awoo~” and opening his mouth wide towards the audience seats.

The big tiger in the story, the little cat wearing a headgear in reality, it was so cute that even knowing this was just a very simple toddler’s story, people were reluctant to look away for even a second.

This is too magical, isn’t it?

For a time, quite a few camera flashes lit up in the entire venue.

At the same time, the little tiger in this section of the story was also nearly chased by poachers at one point.

When Tiger subdued the poachers, dragged them to the police station, and then left, he also bravely protected many other small animals. He successfully made the local city news and became an animal superstar!

When telling this thrilling section of the plot, Xueyan’s speaking speed also quickened without being taught. When reading that Tiger subdued the bad guys and made the news, the entire audience subconsciously smiled and collectively applauded again.

This extremely high degree of coordination between the stage and the audience was something even the organizers hadn’t anticipated.

In the city competitions across several grade levels, to put it plainly, the toddler group’s competition was relatively prone to being for amusement and entertainment. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] After all, it was very perfect if many kindergarten little friends could stand on stage without stage fright and finish telling a whole story.

Rather than saying the program effect needs to be mature and perfect enough, it’s better to say it’s suitable for the parents offstage to proudly take photos and record videos, waiting until they are older, reaching elementary or junior high school age, before considering the stage effect.

Yet the very first cub to take the stage right at the opening had a stage effect so good that people couldn’t look away for a second.

Although there was the factor that the little guy’s appearance was truly too stunning, and the performance costume he wore super fit the theme, his agile and occasionally shy expression while telling the story just made people uncontrollably smile broadly as they watched.

Not to mention there was also a super cute and fierce performing guest assisting. It was so cute that even the judges, who originally hadn’t quite entered the state, unknowingly sat up straight in their chairs, holding the scoring sheets in their hands and smilingly watching the cub perform on stage.

Among them, Lan Ying had already raised her phone, her occupational disease acting up as she started taking close-up photos of Xueyan.

This made Teacher Ding, who noticed this scene and had originally stopped caring about the ranking, have her heart subtly soar again.

This shows it’s a good thing! The judges are also brought into the state by the little contestant’s performance, that’s simply the most perfect result.

Maybe Xueyan really can create a miracle!?

And in the final paragraph of the story, the little tiger Tiger, who had finally grown up through countless hardships and dangers, ultimately transformed from a green little tiger into a truly majestic King of the Beasts. As he stood at the peak of the mountain forest and roared—

Xueyan’s fierce tiger roar “Awoo~”, and little kitty Charlie’s divinely synchronized “Meow-woo~”, even more directly pushed the atmosphere of the entire venue to a climax, with camera flashes directly lighting up into a sheet.

Heavens, isn’t this little fierce tiger a bit too cute!?

Many parents who originally held cameras, wanting to record and film their own cubs preparing in the backstage area, had already uncontrollably shifted their lenses onto Xueyan on stage.

As if naturally the darling of the camera.

Many little contestants backstage also forgot their own rehearsals, only focusing on keeping their eyes wide open to watch Xueyan perform.

Even Xueyan’s milky-white hair, which he was always a bit shy and uncomfortable about, perfectly blended with the hood because he was wearing a white little tiger one-piece suit today, making him no longer afraid of being constantly stared at!

“…My story is finished, thank you everyone!”

It wasn’t until he read the very last sentence that Xueyan completely breathed a sigh of relief. With flushed cheeks, he looked down at the stage, smiled, and concluded.

This time, the applause that rang out in the entire venue was even much louder than during the opening.

If the applause during the opening was a polite encouragement, then at this moment, it was completely the affirmative applause of Baby, you are truly too amazing.

Truly worthy of Princeton Kindergarten, the little contestant recommended is actually amazing to this extent!

Even Teacher Ding Jiaying below the stage, who was super proud of Xueyan, was enthusiastically surrounded by several instructors from other kindergartens coming over to greet her, attempting to ask how on earth this was taught.

It’s one thing for the little friend to have such strong expressiveness, but to even find a cat with such a majestic physique and such cooperative performance to play the tiger, did you guys bleed money for this competition!?

“And where was this performance costume ordered, Teacher Ding? I feel the texture of the ones we ordered isn’t as good as the one on Little Contestant Xueyan.”

There was also an experienced veteran teacher who saw at a glance that the fluffy tiger suit on Xueyan simply crushed the entire venue. Not only did it maximize the stage effect visually, but it also looked very comfortable and non-scratchy.

“Haha, this was actually made by a designer the little friend’s parents went to find, it wasn’t funded and made by our kindergarten.”

To this, Teacher Ding Jiaying could only smile and vaguely reply. This instantly made quite a few teachers think it was a secret weapon that couldn’t be revealed, otherwise next year I’m afraid everyone would run to this competition costume customizer to order clothes.

“No, I’m really not hiding anything, it’s just that it truly isn’t suitable for ordinary people to buy the same style…”

Just as Teacher Ding was awkwardly preparing to continue explaining amidst a crowd of suspicious gazes, the host on stage spoke up again.

“Thank you very much to our Number 1 little contestant for the wonderful display! Next, we enter our on-site impromptu hosting segment.”

“Please take 1 minute to think, little contestant, and tell a story about a life experience that left a deep impression on you. The requirement is that the story should include certain foreign language elements as much as possible, which can earn extra bonus points.”

As soon as the host said this, the entire venue was shocked, and many little contestants’ faces turned pale.

Heavens, this impromptu segment requirement announced only on-site is this high?

Teacher Ding Jiaying indeed remembered that the initial requirements for the competition stated the need to prepare a foreign language, and there was an extra tie-breaker segment testing on-site impromptu performance. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Because of this, Xueyan had practiced English for quite a while at the beginning.

However, as the foreign language requirements for the junior and senior high school groups that competed first were sequentially lowered, especially when the elementary school group just read a few paragraphs of English maxims and finished, during the competition preparation guidance, Teacher Ding and several other teachers thought the kindergarten group’s requirement would be completely downplayed.

Didn’t expect it would be using Chinese to tell a story experience, but adding some foreign language elements can earn extra bonus points? Then some cubs on the scene with bilingual or even multilingual backgrounds would have a huge advantage.

But, but… our Xueyan doesn’t seem to be bad either?

Princeton’s multilingual teaching was absolutely already the cream of the crop among kindergartens in the whole city, and Xueyan had always learned super earnestly and was very smart.

Teacher Ding’s originally nervous expression gradually calmed down upon seeing that Xueyan on stage wasn’t nervous at all, merely holding Charlie and looking like he was thinking.

Even Third Brother Lu Li, who was holding his phone to remote video live-stream the competition venue for Eldest Brother and the others, pressed his thin lips tightly together, staring at Xueyan on stage.

Not to mention Dad, who had already directly crossed his arms.

Lu Tinf almost felt this competition was simply bastardly at this moment. If he were asked to go on stage without a translation assistant and tell some story with foreign language elements, he would be angered to the point of fainting.

Let alone asking a little cub who is just in kindergarten? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Simply nonsense!

As if that wasn’t enough, Xueyan even drew Number 1, having absolutely no preparation time compared to the others. Is this bastardly competition of yours fair!?

【Time is up—May I ask if you are ready, Contestant Number 1?】

“Ready!”

Unexpectedly, just as the host said time was up, Xueyan also loudly expressed he was ready with full momentum, looking as if he had completely entered the state of the first competition in his life, without the slightest hint of stage fright.

At this moment, Lu Ting almost wanted to find a handkerchief to wipe away the tears of a tough guy.

Sweet cub, you are truly too amazing!

A man does not easily shed tears, but watching his own sweet cub competing so hard and earnestly, as an old father, he just couldn’t help but be very moved!

“I also think it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

Even Lu Jing, who was far abroad at this time and could only watch the live stream call in the family group, silently tightened her knuckles, looked at Eldest Brother, and expressed her judgment.

Taking Xueyan abroad for medical treatment before happened to inadvertently let Xueyan stay in a foreign language environment for a period of time. It could be said that telling a story with similar elements wasn’t difficult.

Not to mention, even for a cub who had never been abroad, telling an everyday experience like not being able to read English words in kindergarten at first, and then successfully answering the teacher’s questions, completely fit the competition requirements.

Thinking carefully about this impromptu segment, it actually wasn’t as difficult as it sounded, it was mainly that it shocked people all at once.

“…”

Eldest Brother merely looked at the screen with an unreadable expression, his gaze fixed on Xueyan on the stage. For the first time, he regretted why he missed such an important experience again, not going to the scene to accompany him.

At this kind of time, he should really need a parent by his side, right?

Under the attention of the entire venue, Xueyan, the first to face the impromptu segment, actually patted Charlie’s big head beside him.

“I want to tell a story about a Ph.D. cat…”

Ph.D. cat? Cats can even be Ph.D.s?!

This time, the entire audience was firmly grabbed again by the cub’s soft voice, simply leaving no room for wandering minds throughout the whole process.

So, Xueyan recounted the story of Charlie auditing classes that the Chinese international students in Professor Philenster’s class had shared with him back in Brisbane.

He naturally interspersed many English pronunciations inside, such as the pronunciation of Dr. cat being both cute and standard. Just the story of a kitty taking Ph.D. classes in university itself was already very interesting, not to mention when Xueyan finished telling it, he even super obediently and self-taught elevated the theme a bit:

“…Therefore, even little cat Charlie is studying hard, all of us little friends should study well, and grow up to be the pride of the teachers!”

“Meow—” That’s exactly it!

Charlie also proudly raised his cat tail, bringing this competition of Xueyan’s to a final perfect close with a “Meow”.

The entire venue actually became a bit terrifyingly quiet for a moment, making Xueyan, who was originally super happy that he really did it, blink his eyes a bit blankly and look around.

In fact, everyone in the entire venue was purely shocked.

No way, as a kindergarten little friend, he could actually really look at this cat and improvise such an interesting and ideologically correct story within 1 minute?

This is simply a genius, right?!

When the first applause from Lu Ting rang out, the tidal wave of applause from the entire venue also unhesitatingly followed.

“Xueyan, Xueyan— Look here!”

Someone even suddenly mimicked how Lu Huai shouted just now.

The next second, everyone behind Wei Zhili who wanted to cheer for Xueyan also raised the small banners in their hands, smilingly cheering for Xueyan:

“Snow Filling the Starry River! Words Moving the Heart! Go Xueyan charge—”

Shouting the slogan neatly in unison shocked the entire venue again.

He already has fans in kindergarten? Could this really be some famous little child star!

Xueyan, who was about to be guided off the stage, turned his head and looked at the older brothers and sisters below the stage, and couldn’t help but purse his lips and smile, hugging Charlie and waving his little hand.

“Ah ah ah—Xueyan saw us haha! So cute! Got a picture!”

Everyone in the class was instantly extremely satisfied.

This absolutely counts as the first batch of die-hard fans who successfully cheered for our Xueyan Little Pear hahaha!

“No, why don’t I have any of these things you guys prepared—?”

Lu Huai went from being dumbfounded to glaring at Wei Zhili in exasperation.

If I hadn’t thought of such a flashy cheering method, wouldn’t my limelight as a brother have been completely stolen by this guy!?

“And what is this thing hanging on your bag? Answer me!!”

Lu Huai even sharp-eyedly saw that a 1.8-meter-tall big guy actually had a pink Q-version little human pendant wearing a Little Pear hat hanging on his bag, which was out of place to the extreme.

“Heh, hehe… Brother Huai, you guess?”

Everyone instantly scratched their heads and stopped talking, letting Lu Huai’s anger level start to soar.

I am going to mash all these perverts coveting my younger brother into bean paste—!

And when Xueyan was guided off the stage, the little contestants along the way all stared at Xueyan with admiration as if chasing a big star, completely unable to imagine that a little friend could truly do this well!

But only Lu Li, who was the first to walk backstage and tightly hug Xueyan, knew that this story wasn’t made up by Xueyan on the spot.

“I just thought of this, and just told it like this, Brother.”

Xueyan leaned near his brother’s ear and secretly revealed his competition secret.

Is it a little bit like cheating?

Actually, if he hadn’t told Charlie’s story, he wanted to tell the story of practicing speaking English with the chef uncle accompanied by his brother when eating the buffet.

It was just that Xueyan thought for a few seconds and felt that since Charlie was right beside him, telling the story of Charlie loving to study should have an even better effect.

“You told it exceptionally well, Charlie was also exceptionally good, you two are both the gold award in your parent’s heart today.”

At this moment, the smile in Lu Li’s eyes was so thick it couldn’t be concealed. Finally unable to control himself, he took off his mask, lowered his head, and kissed the cub’s cheek.

Xueyan, kissed by his brother, was like a little cat that had its fur stroked. His whole person was soft as he hugged his brother and became happy.

“Meow~”

Charlie was also very anxious, because Charlie also wanted to be kissed by Xueyan!

“Mother ah, this is really Lu Li—!!”

As a result, the next second, he was rapidly recognized by someone.

Then this Number 1 little contestant Lu Xueyan, isn’t he Little Pear!?