It was almost 10 o'clock in the evening when Li Yan came out of Lin's house, and he stayed at Lin's house for nearly two hours in total.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Li Yan had breakfast and set off for the Municipal Education Bureau under the leadership of Tian Feng. When Li and his wife came to the Municipal Education Bureau, some school teachers had already brought their students over, and the teachers and students who came and went made the original quiet tree-lined courtyard of the Education Bureau very lively.

Li Yan followed Tian Feng to the sign-in office, and after signing in, he also stood in the courtyard and waited for the speech contest to begin.

Li Yan stood in the courtyard, observing the teachers and students who came and went, and the municipal schools due to the geographical advantages, in addition to the participating students and teachers, some schools also brought some other students who came to cheer.

Li Yan stood in the courtyard for about 10 minutes when he saw a student coming from outside the Education Bureau, carrying a banner with the inscription "I wish the students of No. 7 Middle School a successful start." Li Yan stared at it and couldn't help laughing, he saw Lin Jing's energetic figure in the team, she was still wearing a fiery red tracksuit, the hair on her naughty doll's head was black and shiny, this was an energetic young girl.

"Li Yan. Lin Jing walked to the courtyard with the team, and saw Li Yan standing there with a smile, so he jumped and ran over, and shouted happily.

"Well, I'm okay with this cheerleader. Lin Jing pointed to the cheerleaders of the No. 7 Middle School who were standing in the courtyard and pulling the banner.

"Yes, I don't see how you can organize. Li Yan exclaimed.

"That is, I am the head of the Propaganda Department of the Student Union of Shangyang No. 7 Middle School. Lin Jing blinked and continued to show off.

"Alright, Minister, go back quickly, the students of your school are looking this way. Li Yan said.

"Come on, Li Yan, if you win the award, my father will give you the award himself. Lin Jing ran back to her team, turned her head and said to Li Yan.

Lin Jing returned to her team, and was immediately upset by a group of girls in the team, chattering and asking Lin Jing who the boy was, not to cast a curious look at Li Yan. The boys in the team looked at Li Yan with a hostile face, you know, Lin Jing is a flower in the seven, although she is lively and easy to get along with, but Lin Jing can always keep a certain distance from any boy, when have these boys and girls seen Lin Jing so close to a boy.

Li Yan touched his nose, it seemed that he was very unpopular with Lin Jing's male classmates.

At this time, Zhang Shukai and Dai Jia also walked in from outside the courtyard, Dai Jia followed behind Zhang Shukai, and when he walked to Li Yan's side, he snorted with a proud chest and walked past Li Yan's side.

"Didn't you look at the yellow calendar when you went out today, why are so many people hostile to you?" Li Yan touched his nose and said secretly in his heart.

At this time, a black Audi sedan drove into the courtyard and stopped in front of the office building, and Li Yan noticed that the license plate number of the Audi car was the No. 2 car in Shangyang City.

Before the car door could be opened, a fat man in his fifties wearing glasses ran down from the office building, came to the car door, helped open the car door, and waited for the owner of the car to get out of the car with a smile on his face.

Lin Weidong got out of the car, stood in the courtyard, glanced around, and when he saw Li Yan standing under a big tree in the courtyard, his originally somewhat serious face showed a smile and beckoned to Li Ling.

"Uncle Lin is good. Li Yan came to Lin Weidong and greeted.

"Little man, your advice yesterday was very good, and you will behave well today. Lin Weidong touched Li Yan's head and said with a smile.

The fat man standing next to Lin Weidong was still smiling, but he couldn't help but look up and down at this young man who made Mayor Lin, who had always been unpretentious, look at him differently, and at the same time remembered him in his heart.

After Lin Weidong finished speaking, he didn't stop, and went straight to the office building, and the fat man followed.

Soon, the noise in the courtyard was restored before Lin Weidong came in, but people with a heart had already remembered the scene just now, and at the same time, they were asking around where this young man was sacred, which could make Mayor Lin look at it differently.

"Dear teachers and participating students, please gather here. "Yesterday, the young woman in charge of reporting came to the front of the office building with a loudspeaker and said to the courtyard.

After the personnel were assembled, she took the participating students and teachers to a large lecture hall on the third floor of the office building, which can accommodate 1,200 people, and arranged for the leading teachers and their respective students to sit in the middle of the conference room, and the back row was reserved for the students and cheerleaders of the various middle schools in the city that followed. The first two rows of the conference room are lined with seating signs. At the front of the conference room is a high platform with a floor-to-ceiling microphone stand, which is where the contestants speak.

After all the participating students and teachers were arranged, a moment later, a row of people walked in from the front door of the conference room, these people had a huge aura, Lin Weidong was obviously the one with the largest aura in this group, Li Yan also found Liu Bingyi in the crowd, obviously this time he was one of the judges of this competition. After they had taken their seats in the front row, the young woman came to the stage and acted as the host.

"Leaders, teachers and students, good morning, the finals of the Shangyang City Patriotic Middle School Student Speech Contest are now open, first of all, we welcome our Mayor Lin of Shangyang City to the competition site with warm applause!"

Lin Weidong sat in the middle of the second row, he stood up, turned around and waved to the teachers and students behind him, and then sat down.

The host introduced the leaders and judges of the first two rows one by one, and the next link was the leader's speech. The first to speak was the director of the Shangyang Municipal Education Bureau, that is, the fat man, because the time was relatively tight, so the fat man did not speak at length, and Lin Weidong resigned the request to speak.

The tense speech contest officially opened after the leader's speech, and the order of the competition still used the method of drawing lots, but the signing had already been drawn by the leading teacher yesterday.

Tian Feng helped Li Yan draw the 30th, which was already very backward, and it was estimated that it would be afternoon when it was his turn.

As one after another participating students came to the stage to speak, the participating students who did not have their turn couldn't help but feel a lot of pressure. In order to save time, the results of each student were not calculated immediately, but the results of the competition were announced when all the competitions were over in the afternoon.

The morning passed quickly, Lin Weidong, the mayor of Shangyang City, sat peacefully in the audience for a morning, and when Lin Weidong appeared at the competition site again in the afternoon, even Li Yan felt that the mayor of Lin was a little strange today, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Could it be that the mayor of Shangyang City has reached this level first?"

Next, the No. 30 participating students are invited to give a speech on stage, and the host calls Li Yan's name on the stage.

Li Yan stood on the stage, his eyes swept down the stage, he saw Liu Bingyi and Tian Feng's expectations and encouragement, Lin Weidong's smile, Lin Jing in the back row of the cheerleaders waved his little fist at him, Dai Jia's disdain.

"Before I stood here, just when I came to the stage, I was still thinking, this speech competition is too fierce, if I want to stand out from many masters, I must think of a chic way of greeting, not the cliché leaders, judges, teachers, classmates, good afternoon, but think about it, in the end I still didn't think of a chic way to greet, I think, I am a layman, so I still be vulgar, maybe a judge teacher in the audience will add a few points to me in line with the vulgar that is elegant, leaders, judges, teachers, classmates, good afternoonLi Yan talked eloquently.

"Haha......" The audience was amused by Li Yan's opening remarks, and the tense atmosphere of the original saber rattling relaxed for a while.

"1600 years ago, Loulan, a highly developed civilization in the Western Regions of China, suddenly disappeared, there are many theories about the disappearance of this beautiful country, some people think that Loulan was destroyed by natural disasters, and even some people think that aliens suddenly came to take away the Loulan people, but in recent years, archaeological discoveries have made more and more people believe that the disappearance of Loulan is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster, and it is nature's punishment for Loulan. ……”

Tian Feng listened to Li Yan's speech in the audience, couldn't help frowning, and said secretly: "What the hell is this Li Yan, this is not the speech he originally prepared." ”

"Our Shangyang City is an ancient capital with a long culture, not only the history is profound, but also the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, these are the precious wealth of each of our Shangyang people, as a native Shangyang people born in Si and grew up in Si, I also love this land ......"

"As a teenager born in the 70s, I sincerely feel that I am happy, because I grew up under the red flag, bathed in the spring breeze, and enjoyed the tremendous life changes brought to us by the reform and opening up,......"

"I had a dream, the chimneys of Shangyang City in the dream are full of dust, the mountains and rivers are gone, the historical relics are destroyed in the acid rain flying in the sky, the wind is together, the yellow sand is all over the sky, the yellow sand is accumulating more and more, Shangyang City is gone, in the dream I saw the truth that the ancient Loulan disappeared, I was scared awake, this is a nightmare. ……”

"The future of Shangyang City is ours, as the future master of Shangyang City, I think I am qualified to ask the government decision-makers who hold the future of Shangyang City to think more before making every major decision, and when you call Shangyang City in our hands in the future, it is not only a mountain of banknotes left, the economy has taken off, but the price is the destruction of the ecological environment of Shangyang City, I think this is not the future we want. ……”

"I remember when I participated in our Shangyang County Speech Contest selection, I once borrowed the famous black speaker Martin's I have a dream sentence, here I also want to borrow his I have a dream sentence, I want to say loudly: I have a dream, I dream that when I am old, Shangyang City is still beautiful, still beautiful. I have a dream, in which I don't have to rummage through the pile of old papers to introduce my children and grandchildren to the picturesque scenery that Shangyang City once had. ……”

"Whenever I think of my hometown, I often have tears in my eyes, because I love this land and my hometown, the beautiful Shangyang. ”

"I know that my speech is long gone, thank you judges, thank you host for not interrupting me, my speech is over, thank you. Li Yan bowed deeply and walked off the stage.

Lin Weidong looked at Li Yan, whose eyes were red as he walked past him, and couldn't help but be a little moved when he recalled the speech just now, he stood up and applauded the young man. There was thunderous applause for a while, and everyone present was applauding this young man.

Li Yan took his place, shook his head, and said secretly: "I am still impulsive, and my nature is difficult to change." ”

By 5 p.m., all the participating students had finished their speeches, and the host announced a half-hour break, and then returned to the venue to announce the final results of the competition and present awards to the winners.

Li Yan came to the courtyard of the Education Bureau, looking at the French plane trees in the yard that had begun to turn yellow and fall off, his mood was a little difficult to calm down. Li Yan loves his hometown deeply, and he hopes that his hometown will be an ancient capital of Lingxiu suitable for human habitation in the future, rather than an industrial capital full of factories and chimneys, so when he saw that Lin Weidong was really coming, he was impulsive, improvised, and changed the speech.

Half an hour passed quickly, and all the participating students and leading teachers sat back in the conference room, waiting for the host to announce the winners.

The host walked to the stage with a blank piece of paper and said with a smile: "Teachers and students, the exciting moment has finally come, and now I will announce the final list of winners of this speech competition." ”

"The first to be announced are the students who won the third prize and the schools that were selected, they are ......" The moderator read out a list of students' names and schools.

Li Yan and Tian Feng looked at each other and smiled, relieved, it seems that it is at least a second prize.

Next was the award ceremony of the third prize, and the students who won the third prize and their teachers stood at the front desk, remembering the front desk with full memory, and the awarding soldier was a deputy director of the Education Bureau.

After the winner of the third prize stepped down, the list of winners of the second prize and the award ceremony were announced, and there was still no name of Li Yan.

"The most exciting moment has arrived, and I will announce that the students who won the first prize of this speech contest and the selected schools, they are Tang Xiaoyi of Shangyang No. 3 Middle School and Dai Jia of Liangcun Town No. 1 Middle School of Shangyang County. ”

"What's going on?" Li Yan and Tian Feng glanced at each other, their faces were full of doubts, didn't they say that there were only one, second, and third prizes in this speech competition, why hadn't Li Yan been mentioned yet, didn't Li Yan win?