Christmas is approaching day by day, the snow outside the window is falling on the face, and the snowdrifts are knee-high when you go out of the door, but the temperature in the room of the Black Swan Harbor is getting higher and higher, warm and pleasant, the master of the boiler class adds two more meals of coal to the boiler in order to celebrate the advent of Christmas, and the black coal mine is thrown into the furnace fire to burn, which inputs more heating to the entire Black Swan Harbor.

The girls are like delicate swans, and they begin to try all kinds of colorful dresses, as well as stockings of different thicknesses and colors, because the Christmas Ball is coming, and every year the Ballball is a time for girls to show their youth and charm. The elderly nurses could only sit on the cold bench and watch the young girls dance with envy.

The most striking girl was of course Khorkina, who walked the hallway in a sundress and black stockings like a runway model, and the boys in the harbor were so fascinated that even the soldiers guarding the harbor sighed that she was such a beautiful girl.

The Doctor seems to have been extraordinarily generous lately, handing out spirits and cigarettes to the officers, perfume and stockings to the nurses, roast beef with potatoes for dinner every day, the nurses cutting latte art out of confetti and sticking it on the walls of the passage, decorating the huge Christmas tree with colored lights, stacking it in the golden hall where Lenin's portrait is hung, and the air is in a festive atmosphere.

There is another thing that children should look forward to. Dr. Herzog told everyone on the radio that when the spring comes, the ice in the Arctic Ocean will partially melt, and that Major Bondarev will leave Black Swan Harbor with a handful of outstanding children and go to Moscow to study in a luxurious school.

This fills every child with anticipation and hopes that they will be the chosen ones.

"I want to go to high school with Khorkina, and we're both old enough to go to high school." Yakov stole a glance at Khorkina in the distance, and made no secret of his affection.

"Heh, then you can officially launch a love offensive against Khorkina, right? And there are neither doctors nor nurses there, no one can hinder you. Sergei scolded with a smile, "But I advise you to have a snack, the boys in Moscow are not easy to mess with, maybe there are excellent sons and daughters who are also eyeing Khorkina, if you want to confess, it is best to take advantage of the icebreaker on the way to Moscow, at that time Khorkina is far away from the place where she was born, it is really lonely and lonely, it is easy to become attached to people, and it is easiest to conquer girls when their hearts are empty." ”

"Sergey, it sounds like you understand it very well." Anton Fox next to him was suspicious, he knew that his bad friend had never been in love, and even the number of times he held hands with girls was lackluster, and he was one of the very few boys who sat on a cold bench and looked at the sky at the annual Christmas ball, because no girl was willing to accept his invitation, Sergei could only find some romance novels from the library to pass the time.

"Oh, that's it! When I go to high school in Moscow, there must be a lot of beautiful girls to choose from, and there must be girls who can see what is unusual about me and agree to join me in the Christmas ball! Sergei said angrily, while looking at his face in the mirror, and then, like a deflated ball, began to complain that his parents did not have a good face.

"I still prefer Renata to Khorkina." Anton said sullenly, "I don't want to leave Black Swan Harbor either. If I leave here, I may be separated from Renata, and even if I don't, there will be many competitors who will compete with me for Renata. ”

As he spoke, he looked infatuated at the thin white figure at the end of the table, the girl's white blonde hair was so long that it hung down to cover half of her face.

"Hehe, you understand or you understand, Anton. I'm sure to pack the ticket, although Renata doesn't look as good as Khorkina right now, but by the time she reaches the age of eighteen, she'll have the body and beauty that will drive all men in the world crazy! Sergei looked at the girl's figure.

At this time, Renata had already left with the stainless steel dinner plate, she put the cleaned dinner plate back in the sideboard, took off the small wrench at the bottom of the sideboard under the cover of her body, and acted secretly according to Chu Ling's explanation.

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On Christmas Eve in 1991, a snowstorm came as scheduled, and the sky was snowing heavily, but in the interior of Black Swan Harbor, it was a different warm and pleasant scene.

The girls chased and frolicked in the hallways, and the boys shouted their names outside the walls, and they responded with a coquettish smile. The nurses brought the girls all kinds of clothes, they showed their white milky skin, their bodies were delicate and dazzling, they wore clothes and makeup, they were dressed beautifully, black night dresses, sundresses that were smudged like sunflowers, and translucent skirts with white silk lace trims, as well as stiletto heels and stockings of different styles and thicknesses.

"Khorkina, who are you going to fascinate with? Is it Yakov or Sergey? Zhulova chased Khorkina and screamed, "If I were a boy, I would like you too!" ”

"Who put a thick padding in the clothes? Who learns to perm their hair? It's our Zhulova, Zhulova! Khorkina laughed and ran away.

When she ran into the corridor, she bumped into a boilermaker, Khorkina was a little angry, and suddenly saw that the other party pressed the felt hat, but still could not hide the youth and heroism of the face, Khorkina recognized him at once, and while pinching his waist, he asked with a smile: "Am I good-looking?" ”

Khorkina was a little nervous. It was neither Sergei nor Yakov who she wanted to be fascinated by, but someone else, but she knew very well that the other party seemed to care more about Renata.

Khorkina said that she was not jealous, but the ball was a battlefield for girls, and it was her home field, where she was like a white swan queen, and all the boys were her subjects. But Khorkina cares about only one person, and she wants to touch the hearts of the other person with her most beautiful side.

"Good-looking, I'll come back to you later, there is still some part of the escape plan to prepare." Chu Ling, who was dressed as a boilerman, smiled, his face was covered with soot at this time, and he looked quite unelegant.

But Khorkina didn't care about that, staring straight at him, like a little gluttonous cat that saw Houttuynia cordata.

Chu Ling sighed and wanted to rub the other party's hair, but remembering that his hands were dirty, he hesitated and didn't stretch out his hand.

"I'll come and do your first dance later." Chu Ling squeezed his eyebrows and said.

After receiving the other party's promise, Khorkina immediately became happy, nodded heavily, and for a moment the whole corridor seemed to be in full bloom.

A few minutes later, Zhulova chased after her from behind, hugged Khorkina's small waist, and was about to joke, when she was suddenly stunned: "Ho, Khorkina...... Why are you crying all of a sudden, wow? ”

Khorkina wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and sighed faintly: "Zhulova, have you tried to fall in love with someone?" I found that I felt like I was completely in love. ”