Chapter 44 - Will it really not be axed? (2/2)

A woman beside Li Si looked at his screen and immediately turned dumbfounded. After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, she exclaimed, “For this Essay Compet.i.tion, the first place was ‘Little Bunnies Be Good’…Heavens! It’s written by our Teacher Zhang Ye! He had obtained first place after suppressing good Teachers like Tao Xueru and Little Red Mushroom!”

Zhang Ye added on, “Yesterday, that was the story that was broadcasted at noon!” When he heard this, he, too, understood. So this was what had happened. No wonder his listeners.h.i.+p rating had gone so high. Previously, he believed that the newspapers had not advertised for him, but who knew that the Education Ministry had issued a direct order. How many kindergartens were there in Beijing? How many elementary schools were there? How many of them were young students? It was nearly uncountable! Having disseminated to the students by the schools, wouldn’t the teachers have to listen to it, too? The students had to listen, right? Even more parents had to listen to it, too, right? That was why the listeners.h.i.+p rating had such a miraculous leap! This was like textbooks. You don’t like them? You still need to read them, even if you didn’t like them! It was like mandatory education! Everyone had to learn!

The woman quickly followed up, “My son and I have heard of ‘Little Bunnies Be Good’. His kindergarten even printed brochures about it. Teacher Little Zhang, so that story was written by you?”

Zhang Ye said, “Yes, Big Sis Zhou. That day, I saw the Essay Compet.i.tion and decided to do something for the children. With some inspiration, I wrote a piece.”

The woman praised, “You wrote very well. My son really loves it.”

w.a.n.g Xiaomei looked at Zhang Ye, “The children’s fairy tales for the past few days of ‘Old and Young Story Club’ were also written by you?”

Zhang Ye acknowledged and said in a low-key manner, “Yes. I just wrote it haphazardly.”

Teacher Feng exclaimed, “You did not use the story scripts that I gave you? You really wrote the stories yourself?” Zhang Ye had told him that if the fairy tales industry was low in quality, then he would write his own fairy tales. However, Teacher Feng never expected Zhang Ye to really write them. He thought that he was joking!

Zhang Ye was at a loss of whether to laugh or cry, “Teacher Feng, could it be that you haven’t been listening to my program over the past few days? This is a segment that you have been broadcasting for so many years, and you didn’t listen?”

“I didn’t. *cough* I did not dare to listen.” Teacher Feng’s face was a little red. It was not right for him to not listen to it at all.

Zhang Ye explained, “The few stories were all written by me. I have some experience and talent in writing after all. Sorry for incurring the ridicule of everyone.”

Incurring the ridicule?

Many people could sense the sarcasm in Zhang Ye’s words!

After they put down the things on their hands, everyone searched on the internet. All they saw were praises and discussions on the internet message boards!

“The story is too awesome!”

“Little Bunnies be good; open the door. Haha, Teacher Zhang Ye really sang it well!”

“That’s right. This children’s song is marvellous. And it’s very simple. You can learn it instantaneously.”

“My daughter has already learned this song, but she still wants me to tell the story every day. I’ve no way out. From today onwards, I will have to listen to Teacher Zhang Ye’s program at noon.”

“There’s no need for today onwards. Check the past two episodes.”

“There are more in the previous two episodes? I’m already sick of listening to those children’s fairy tales.”

“No, the previous two episodes were also original fairy tales written by Teacher Zhang Ye. One of them is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”, and another is “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. They are extremely good stories and have a moral behind them. From a literary perspective, it is even better than ‘Little Bunnies Be Good’!”

“Really? Then I’m going to take a listen!”

“I’ve heard it. Now, I’m really astounded by Teacher Zhang Ye!”

“I’ve decided that as long as Teacher Zhang Ye is around, I will not miss a single episode of ‘Old and Young Story Club’. After listening to it, I can tell it to my twins at night!”

“Hey, did you notice it? The Beijing Radio Station’s website has a notice of programs going off-air. Why is the name ‘Old and Young Story Club’ inside it? How can such a good program be taken off-air?”

“It can’t be?”

“Really. I’ll send you the link!”

“Ah? It’s really true? It’s being taken off-air?”

“Holy sh*t! Is the radio station dumb? How can such a good program be taken off-air?”

“Hai, maybe there won’t be many episodes left. Everyone hear as many as you can. There will be one fewer episode after every listen.”

“It can’t go off-air. If it does, I’ll send complaints. What the heck! Do they even have any aesthetic taste?”

Over there, Xiaofang had brought the letters from the readers. Knowing that Zhang Ye had obtained second place, pus.h.i.+ng Wu Datao’s news program down, Xiaofang was extremely overjoyed. The amount of letters in her hands was nearly half the height of a person. She nearly could not bring them over by herself. “Teacher Zhang, your letters.”

Zhang Ye stood up and took them over, “Which stack is mine?”

Xiaofang said happily, “All of them. The other Teacher’s letters are still in the mail room. I couldn’t bring them over.”

Ah? These are all mine?

There must be a thousand letters here, right?

Teacher Feng marveled, “This number of letters must have broken a record, right? Our channel has never had more than a thousand letters sent from listeners!”

Xiaofang smiled gently, “That’s right. The rest of the letters received today, when added up, aren’t as many as this.”

Zhang Ye wiped the sweat from his forehead. He lifted the letters over and began reading. They were mostly written by parents. There were tens of them which were written by children. It was easy to see at a glance, as the characters were all crooked. They looked very innocent.

Everyone looked at each other, for they no longer had words to describe their current feelings. Back then, Zhang Ye had made the bold statement that “Old and Young Story Club” would not be taken off-air. They had not believed it, nor did they take it to heart. However, now, Zhang Ye had used his abilities and his program’s rating to make everyone shut up. Everyone even had a thought that they had never thought of before!

It’s already in second place!

Will “Old and Young Story Club” really not be axed?

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