Sunday, 9 a.m., Peking University Auditorium.

Inside and outside the auditorium, the crowd surged, and the seats that could only sit about 1,000 people poured in at once, and the students who could not have seats stood on both sides of the aisle, and some simply squatted on the ground, stunned to block the water of several one-meter-wide aisles.

When the students came in, most of them waited quietly for the lecture to begin, except for whispered conversations.

Most of the student councils and teachers responsible for maintaining order in the auditorium turned a blind eye to the serious "overloading" behavior in the auditorium, after all, there had been several such "overloading" incidents before. As long as there is no noise, the order is stable, and the teachers and students of the student council who maintain order will not talk about this aspect.

"Huh, there are so many people here today! Yu Zi, have you seen Xiaobo?"

Zhang Pengxuan exhaled a long breath, when he just came in, he was almost not squeezed into a meatloaf, but fortunately, his brain was smart and he was directly inserted from his seat, otherwise, he might not have been squeezed anywhere.

"No, there are so many people, I didn't know he was squeezed into that area. Yu Zi shook his head, just now he was also caught in the middle of the crowd, if he hadn't followed Zhang Pengxuan's example, he might have disappeared into the vast sea of people like Cheng Xiaobo.

"There are so many people here today, I thought that no one would come to listen to the speech of this professor from Hong Kong! I don't know if this professor speaks Cantonese or Mandarin. If it's Cantonese, that's bad, but if it's Mandarin, I think it's better to listen to Cantonese. ”

While speaking, Yu Zi looked at the environment in the auditorium, glanced at it a few times, and suddenly saw an acquaintance in the seat in front of him, and hurriedly patted Zhang Pengxuan's shoulder and said, "Pengxuan, look over there, is it Zhang Yannan!"

"Zhang Yannan! Doesn't that mean that Lu Jing is also here!"

As soon as Zhang Pengxuan heard that Zhang Yannan was coming, she immediately thought of her friend Lu Jing, looked left and right, followed the direction that Yu Zi pointed to, and finally saw Lu Jing, who she had been in love with for a long time, in the middle of the first few rows.

"I didn't expect Lu Jing to come too!" Zhang Pengxuan looked at Lu Jing blankly.

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Lu Jing is from the Department of Philosophy, isn't Professor Huo who gave this lecture a professor of philosophy? And I heard that this Professor Huo mainly came to attend the philosophical exchange meeting, and it seems that he came to give a lecture to our Chinese Department just in passing. ”

After speaking, Yu Zi rolled his eyes at Zhang Pengxuan.

"Oh, too. Zhang Pengxuan smiled stupidly, his eyes kept focused on Lu Jing.

And Lu Jing, who didn't know that she was being peeked at at the moment, was preoccupied with the upcoming opening speech, as Huo Yaowen's few Peking University book fans in the mainland, after hearing that there was a Huo Yaowen's lecture in the Chinese Department, Lu Jing naturally asked her friend Zhang Yannan to help her sign up.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was 9.30 o'clock, the time for the start of the speech.

"Professor Huo, it's almost time, the students have arrived, it's time for you to play. Jin Kaicheng hurriedly walked from the front to the backstage.

"Okay Professor Kim. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled, picked up the speech written on the table, and walked towards the front desk under the leadership of Jin Kaicheng.

A moment of effort.

The two went behind the scenes one after another, and Jin Kaicheng, as a professor of the Chinese Department, naturally wanted to take the lead in appearing to warm up for Huo Yaowen's appearance later.

"Dear teachers and students of Peking University, good morning, I am Jin Kaicheng from the Department of Chinese. I am very happy to have so many students come to listen to Professor Huo's speech today......"

Jin Kaicheng talked eloquently in front of thousands of students, and when he was about to introduce Huo Yaowen after some warm-up, he paused deliberately and said: "I think a large part of the students have read the big-character posters I posted on the bulletin board before, and they are very curious and admired some of Professor Huo's achievements, but in fact, I only wrote a small part of them. After I learned about Professor Huo's detailed information, it is hard to imagine that a young professor in his thirties can have so many titles and achievements......"

In their thirties!

When Jin Kaicheng said this, the thousands of students in the auditorium no longer cared about what he said later, and their eyes and thoughts were all focused on the fact that Huo Yaocheng was only in his thirties.

Because of the special period before, it is not surprising that the students of Peking University in these years are generally in an older state, twenty-four or five years old, or about thirty years old, and come to Peking University to study through the college entrance examination.

Therefore, when the professor who heard this speech was actually in his thirties, almost the same age as many people at the scene, this sense of disparity suddenly increased a few points.

I thought Huo Yaowen was an old professor in his fifties and sixties, but he didn't expect to be a young scholar.

"Okay, everyone, be quiet. After Jin Kaicheng finished speaking, seeing the chaos at the scene, he couldn't help frowning, clapped his palms, and said through the microphone: "Next, let's welcome Professor Huo from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Hong Kong." ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

With crackling applause, Huo Yaowen walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage with a smile on his face, wearing a suit and leather shoes that were different from those worn by most people in this period, which immediately attracted the students in the first few rows.

Especially when Huo Yaowen's handsome face appeared, it caused many students below to whisper.

Huo Yaowen stood on the podium and looked at the dense crowd under the stage. Their clothes are simple and unpretentious, basically dark blue and white, the boys have short hair, and the girls almost all have ponytails, and everyone's face is full of curiosity about Huo Yaowen, a professor from Hong Kong.

In this group of students, Huo Yaowen saw the temperament of a reader belonging to this era.

"Hello teachers and students of Peking University, I am Huo Yaowen. I am very grateful to Peking University for giving me the opportunity to speak at this time, because Peking University is a university that I have always admired. I think it's an honor to stand here today and give a speech to the students of Peking University. ”

When Huo Yaowen said this, he suddenly smiled and said: "Although this honor came too suddenly, causing me to be busy preparing speeches in the past two days, resulting in sleepless tea and dinner, I still feel that it is the most worthwhile time in my life to be invited by Professor Jin to give a speech by Peking University." ”

"Haha......"

"I didn't expect this Professor Huo to be so funny and humorous. ”

"Yes, yes, I used to listen to speeches seriously, but I didn't expect this professor from Hong Kong to think about the speech and stay awake at night. ”

"Didn't you notice that Professor Huo spoke Mandarin of a good standard, much more standard than all of us!"

Although Mandarin began to be popularized slowly before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was really vigorously promoted in the 80s and 90s, which is why the older generation spoke with a strong local accent.

The students in the auditorium laughed and laughed, and soon quieted down under the watchful eyes of the teachers, student councils, and others who maintained order.

Huo Yaowen didn't care, and continued: "I received the invitation three days ago, and I have been preparing for the content of this lecture for the past three days. Because Professor Jin wanted me to give a lecture to the students of the Chinese Department, I considered teaching literature, but I myself was not born to study literature, so it was not good to get an axe in front of all the talents of Peking University. ”

"As for me talking about philosophy, that's fine. But tomorrow is the opening of the philosophical exchange meeting held by the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, and I don't think there is any need for this to happen. So after thinking about it, I excluded a lot of speeches before I settled on this one in my hand. ”

As he spoke, Huo Yaowen raised the thick manuscript in his hand.

"I was backstage, and Professor Jin asked me what the title of the talk was, and my answer was no. Actually, I wrote the title for this manuscript for me, or two titles, and after the first title came out, it felt a little too big, so I erased it again. As for the newly written second title, I personally felt that the words were a little wrong, so after thinking about it, I erased it, leaving only this stack of manuscripts. ”

"So this manuscript doesn't have a title, although it doesn't, it doesn't mean I don't want to have it, so if the lecture is over and some students have a good title, you can tell me that I really want to write a good title for this manuscript. ”

Huo Yaowen paused for a moment and continued: "Although there is no title, the core of the content is the word "youth". What is youth? It is young people, and there is no shortage of young people in any country in the world, and there must be no shortage of young people, because young people represent hope and the future of the country. I like a passage from Mr. Liang Qichao's "Juvenile China Says": "If a young man is wise, the country will be wise, if he is rich, he will be rich, and if he is strong, he will be strong......"

"All of you here are young people, and if you can be admitted to Peking University, it means that you are the best of the young generation. What you carry is the hope for the future of the motherland, the dream of the future of the motherland......"

"Many years ago, when I went on a business trip to Japan, I saw a lot of young people in the area, all of them full of energy, and I was very worried. But when I came to Peking University today and stood here to meet all the students, I realized that my worries were unnecessary......"

Huo Yaowen's speech had been shown to Professor Jin before, and after he deleted and modified the content, although it was not the same as the original text, the meaning was not far behind.

Coupled with Huo Yaowen's sonorous and powerful magnetic voice, from the beginning to the end of the hour and a half, the scene was almost quiet, which does not mean that the students don't like it, but they talk about their hearts, their faces are full of expectations for the future of the motherland, and they look forward to the future.

At the end of the speech, Huo Yaowen did not leave the venue directly, but gave the students some time and opportunities to ask questions in accordance with the previously set process.

"Okay, I'm done talking, if you have a title in mind, you can tell me a little bit. ”

Huo Yaowen glanced at the watch on his wrist, at ten forty o'clock, thirty minutes before the opening of the Peking University cafeteria, and suddenly smiled: "There are still thirty minutes before the opening of the canteen, and if there are students who want to ask questions, you can ask questions now." ”

"Me!"

"Me, me!"

"Professor Huo chooses me!"

The scene instantly boiled, and hundreds of hands were raised high, wanting to put forward their inner questions, and some views and ideas about the content of Huo Yaowen's speech just now.

"The seventh student on the right in the third row, yes, that's you. Huo Yaowen glanced at it and casually chose a male classmate wearing thick frames.

"Hello Professor Huo. ”

The male classmate shouted loudly: "May I ask what a new personal computer developed by the United States that you just mentioned looks like?"

Computer?

Huo Yaowen glanced at the classmate in surprise, when he gave a speech just now, he just wanted to talk to the students about the importance of knowledge for scientific and technological progress, but he didn't expect him to remember it in his heart.

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PS: I originally wrote a lot, but after thinking about it, I deleted it. Everyone understands the general meaning, and there may be a little less sense of substitution. I'm sorry.