Chapter 55: Why Be an Ostrich?
"Xu Yan! Great, you're really here. I'm worried you won't come!"
It is natural to get up, Xia Wanqiu is as before, sitting quietly at that time, you will feel that she is as far away as a fairy in the sky, but when she walks towards you, she is so kind and warm.
"Summer ...... Teacher Xia, you ...... How are you?"
I had prepared so many words in my heart, but at this moment, I couldn't ask a word.
Xu Yan wanted to know why Xia Wanqiu suddenly left without saying goodbye, where he had gone for more than a year, and why he had called and sent messages to her......
However, now that she is really standing in front of her again, Xu Yan's thousand words have converged into a sentence of "How are you?"
"I'm fine. However, I heard...... You're bad. ”
With this ridicule and a little worry, Xia Wanqiu pulled Xu Yan to sit down, staring at him with sincere and clear eyes as before, and asked, "Is it still the same problem as before?
"Yes!"
Xu Yan became a little shy, he didn't know where to start, nodded, but felt that this was not entirely right.
The frowning brows made Xia Wanqiu also lose his mood, patted his hands, and said, "We discussed, no matter what, you shouldn't drop out of school." ”
"Right...... I'm sorry!"
Xu Yan hesitated for a moment, and then added, "Maybe I'm really wrong." ”
"You're not sorry for anyone, it's your own choice. It's also your life......"
Xia Wanqiu smiled again, and said a little self-deprecatingly, "Actually, you are very similar to me now. As I told you, I starred in "The World" despite the opposition of my family. Including coming to film school and staying in school......"
Hearing Xia Wanqiu say this again, Xu Yan looked at her, and the tension in his heart was let go little by little.
"What you hate and run away from is what I have experienced. But avoiding it is not the solution. ”
Xia Wanqiu said, for example, "Why do you have to be an ostrich?"
"Yes. Mr. Xia, I admit that I am now an ostrich who deceives himself. ”
lowered his head again, Xu Yan actually knew his current state very well.
The so-called ostrich thinking refers to the fact that when an ostrich encounters danger and fright, it often does not really run away or fight with it, but is so frightened that it buries its head in the sand and reassures itself that the danger does not exist because it cannot see with its eyes.
Pure self-deception, a bit like "covering your ears and stealing the bell", thinking that if you can't hear, others won't be able to find out.
"It's nothing, Xu Yan! Or rather, in fact, each of us, more or less, often becomes such an ostrich. ”
Looking at the time, Xia Wanqiu said again, "My speech is about to start, Xu Yan, I hope you can listen to it well, and I hope that after you finish listening, you can go back to school......"
After finishing speaking, Xia Wanqiu tidied up her makeup a little more and walked towards the stage of the auditorium.
"What are you still doing in a daze, Brother Huohuo, let's hurry up and listen!"
Zhang Ziliang pulled Xu Yan to the seat, there were more than 2,000 seats in the entire auditorium, all of them were full, not to mention, there was a large circle of onlookers standing outside, and even the door was almost blocked.
Xu Yan sat in the front position, looking at Xia Wanqiu, who came to the stage in the midst of cheers and screams, but what she had just said to herself kept echoing in her mind.
"Perhaps, Mr. Xia can give me the answer today. ”
I don't know why, Xu Yan feels that in the more than a year since Xia Wanqiu left, he should have found the answer that "we" have been pursuing.
"Teacher Xia, we love you!"
"I finally met Ms. Xia with my own eyes, and I was completely fascinated by her when I watched "The World" in junior high school. ”
"Obviously Teacher Xia has such a high popularity, why is she only a sixth-tier star, the ranking is not real at all. ”
"I don't know what Mr. Xia's speech is today! I'm so excited, our family is all fans of Mr. Xia......
"I heard that Mr. Xia has disappeared for more than a year, and he has traveled to the whole country. Alas, I really want to go on a trip......
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The students below were all kinds of jubilation and discussion, and it was not until Xia Late Autumn picked up the microphone that everyone gradually quieted down.
"I'm Xia Late Autumn, thank you very much for coming to listen to my speech today......
Before the first opening sentence was spoken, the scene burst into very warm applause.
The popularity and appeal of Xia Wanqiu among young students are even more than those kings and queens.
"Thank you! Thank you! I have felt the enthusiasm of everyone, and I appreciate and need this enthusiasm very much.
Most of you are film school students, and you should know that I resigned as a counselor in the acting department of the film school more than a year ago.
During this time, I have traveled all over the great rivers and mountains of my motherland, and I have seen many scenes that I can't see when I sit in the office.
In the same way, I also found a place for my own floating mind. ”
When he said this, the boys in the audience suddenly felt a sense of heartbreak.
Heart...... Found a place to stay?
What do you mean?
No way!
Could it be that in the late summer and autumn, it took so much effort to hold a lecture purely to spread dog food and make the relationship public?
Xu Yan's heart twitched even more, and there was an indescribable sense of pain.
However, then, what Xia Wanqiu said had nothing to do with any bullshit feelings.
"Below, please look at the big screen, which is the scenery I have traveled everywhere for more than a year, these ...... They are all truly beautiful rivers and lofty mountains of our motherland......"
With the display of photos taken during the trip on the big screen in the late summer and autumn, the atmosphere in the entire auditorium was relaxed.
And, most people are attracted by these magnificent natural landscapes.
There are the magnificent and shocking Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River, the magnificent and priceless Longmen Grottoes, and the unknown deep mountains and old forests, and the mountain streams with nine bends and eighteen bends......
Just looking at these photos, you can feel a kind of soul being summoned, not to mention, there is a narration introduction in the late autumn of summer.
Xu Yan was also deeply fascinated, and was amazed that he had been to so many places in the late summer and autumn years.
However, when these photos were put to the end, Xia Wanqiu clicked on a video.
"In fact, it took me less than three months to see so many beautiful scenery in front of you, and for the rest of the nearly a year, I lived in this very small mountain village in the Sichuan-Guizhou Mountains......
With the introduction of Xia Wanqiu again, everyone was surprised to see that the sound of reading aloud from the stereo turned out to be from the mountain children who still had patches on their clothes in the video.
Defeated and airy classroom!
The yellow-complexed and malnourished children, holding worn-out textbooks in their hands, are trying to read in the morning.
The camera turned again, and on the podium, it was Xia and Autumn who gave them a lesson.
He was also dressed in very simple clothes, his hair was simply tied behind his back, and he was full of enthusiasm to give lectures to these children.
"As you can see, this ...... This is the 'Place' I have found. Like you with your mouth wide open, before I saw this, I didn't believe that our country is still so backward that even substitute teachers have run away......"
Speaking of this, Xia Wanqiu couldn't help but pause, choked up slightly, "Yes! When I got there, there were no teachers in the elementary school for half a year, and these children all went to school consciously every day. Composed...... You see the little girl in the middle who is dressed in a fertilizer bag, she's six years old, and she's going to teach these kids who are younger than her. ”
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