62. The Finals Coming Early (4)
Just after nine o'clock, the hall of the Prefectural Museum of Culture and History was full of people, except for the seats reserved for the judges in the first row, which was empty, all the other places were full, and even there were many onlookers standing in the aisle. Liu Chenyu and Wu Yangzhen took a lot of effort, and finally squeezed from the entrance to the front of the aisle, standing on tiptoe and barely seeing the figure on the stage.
Liu Chenyu wiped his sweaty forehead, and couldn't help complaining: "It's all your fault! Let you go out early, let you go out early, but the result is still delayed until half past eight." Can't you get up early? Look, there's no place to stand!"
"How can you blame me? Although I usually get up late on weekends, I got up at seven o'clock in the morning today!" Wu Yangzhen shouted, "It's rare that I got up early in the morning, but my mother thought I was going out to fool around, and she wouldn't let me go out." If it weren't for your golden signboard, I guess I'd still be locked up at home right now!"
Liu Chenyu snorted: "I don't blame you? But as long as you can be well-behaved and sensible, work hard, interact less with those problem students, and skip school every once in a while to go shopping, will your aunt not let you go out?"
Wu Yangzhen hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Yes, yes, yes, it's all my fault, okay? I finally avoided the broken thoughts of Obasang at home, but I didn't expect to make up for it here again!"
"What did you say?" Liu Chenyu raised his eyebrows.
"I mean, I finally went out with you, cousin, but you didn't have a seat, so I was so upset that I didn't want to go. I'll see if there are any acquaintances around, and try to find you a seat!" Wu Yangzhen's eyes rolled around while she spoke, and she really found an acquaintance, and immediately squeezed it with all her strength, and unceremoniously poked a certain brother who was concentrating on fiddling with the SLR camera in his hand: "Yo, stir Jiwu, it's really a place in life where you don't meet!"
The sudden accosting startled Wu Zichen. He turned his head and found that it was Wu Yangzhen, and immediately turned his face and continued to fiddle with the camera in his hand: "Oh, ugly girl, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I don't miss it at all." Anyway, you're almost in your third year of junior high school, and you can't read and write at home on weekends, so why do you come here to join in the fun? Could it be that it's and intermittent attacks?"
"I'm having a attack, so what are you?" Wu Yangzhen sneered, "Hurry up and give us a seat!"
"Look at your tone, it's more domineering than an old lady getting on the bus and looking for a seat. Why should I give you a seat? I was ordered to take pictures, and I wanted to leave the boss on the stage the most handsome, chic, and sharp and heroic posture, so I needed the best light and the best angle. In order to choose this seat, I came here at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and I finally decided on this seat after a lot of choices, why should I give you this nymphomaniac and idiot in one sentence?
Wu Yangzhen dragged Wu Zichen: "I think you are the coolest to sit here." Hurry up! Lady first, do you understand?"
At this time, Liu Chenyu also squeezed over, and saw that Wu Yangzhen was pulling with Wu Zichen, so he hurriedly shouted: "Wu Yangzhen, what are you doing?"
When Wu Zichen heard Liu Chenyu's voice, he didn't dare to hold it up anymore, so he hurriedly got up and gave up his seat: "Ah, sister-in-law, are you here too? Hurry up and take a seat! Look at my stupid one, I knew you were coming, so I should have occupied a few more seatsββ"
The cry of "sister-in-law" made Liu Chenyu's face flushed, and he didn't know how to answer. Wu Yangzhen said honestly and politely: "You are stupid! Sister, can you sit or not? If you don't sit, I can sit and rest for a while, and then let it go to you later." It's so tiring to trot all the way from home, I have to sit and catch my breath!"
Seeing that his cousin was so lazy, Liu Chenyu blushed even more, so he had to look left and right and say to him: "I thought there shouldn't be many spectators in an ordinary knockout match." I didn't expect there to be so many people!"
"Yes, yes, I didn't expect it either!" Wu Zichen echoed, "But after careful analysis, it will feel completely reasonable, you see that in addition to the judges, judges, and reporters from newspapers and TV stations, there are also members of the two teams, alumni and supporters, and there are many members of the other participating teams who came to observe and learn from the experience, plus the fans of the boss, it is easy to fill the hall that can only accommodate two or three hundred people!"
"Jiang Shuiyuan still has fans?" Liu Chenyu was a little surprised.
"Of course there is!" Wu Zichen replied categorically, "Now those artists who are crooked and cracked and don't sing in tune have a large number of fans, why can't he have the boss? The boss is the school grass of our school, he is handsome, studies well, and can sing and dance, and even write poems and articles are first-class, how can such a perfect person not have fans? You might as well secretly tell you that almost all the girls in our second class are here today, and there are also a lot of girls from other classes in the grade. I even saw Pu Xiaoxiang appear here just now!"
Liu Chenyu chuckled and said, "It seems that our school is going to produce a big star!"
Although Liu Chenyu was laughing, Wu Zichen found that Liu Chenyu was obviously smiling very reluctantly.
In the blink of an eye, it was ten o'clock, and the game officially began. Because of the audience, the competition added a part of the debater's self-introduction. When Fu Shouzhang, Chen Di and others introduced themselves before, the audience applauded politely at most. When it was Jiang Shuiyuan's turn, he hadn't stood up yet, and the audience had already burst into tsunami applause, including Wu Yangzhen and others shouting "Jiang Shuiyuan will win" and "Jiang Shuiyuan, I love you".
The host Zhou Zhiwat not only did not stop it, but joked: "Fortunately, it is March and April, and no fruit is produced, otherwise the fruit thrown by the little girls on this stage today would have to be buried solidly!"
Jiang Shuiyuan stood up generously and bowed slightly to the stage to express his gratitude: "Respected hosts, judges, referees, opponents, audience, hello everyone! My name is Jiang Shuiyuan, from the second class of the first grade of Huai'an Mansion High School, I am the third debater in this competition, thank you for your love, and please give me more advice." β
As soon as the words fell, thunderous applause rang out from the audience again, mixed with frequent flashing lights, which did not feel like a debater introducing himself, but like a star or dignitary. Some of the classmates who realized the news were confused, and asked the person next to them with a puzzled face: "Who is this person? Why is he such a stinky fart?"
"You don't know him, he's the source of the river!" Seeing him so ignorant, the people next to him were also shocked.
"And then?"
Yes, what if he is called Jiang Shuiyuan? Could it be that just because he is more handsome than me and goes to a better school than mine, he can gather so many supporters, and even newspapers and television stations come to praise him for his stinky feet? Could it be that he is a relative of the emperor and the country, the son of a dragon and a phoenix?
The people next to him felt even more incredible, "How did you grow so big when you don't eat the fireworks in the world? He is the source of the river, and the freak who is said to be able to recite the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-four History" in full! He is also a lieutenant colonel in Huai'an Mansion, and his academic performance is the first in the grade, and he is not a problem for singing and dancing. You've never heard of such a cow?"
"It turned out to be him! Didn't you say that he was the commander of the Huai'an Mansion squadron?
In the buzz of discussion in the audience, the debaters on the stage also completed their self-introduction. However, since the source of the river, everyone has been a little absent-minded, not to mention anything else, just from the point of view of appearance, the debaters behind have lost a lot, what can everyone be interested in? Not to mention a mere self-introduction, can you still say what flowers? If you leave a flamboyant and frivolous impression on the judges, that is the real gain outweighs the loss!
It wasn't until the game entered the official main speech that the audience retracted their minds slightly.
As the chief general of the positive side, Fu Shouzhang first clarified what is "phase", that is, the appearance is "phase" for the outside, and the "heart" for the inside, and the appearance includes but is not limited to appearance, posture, spirit, temperament, speech, and behavior, rather than just referring to appearance, so as to distinguish "appearance" from "appearance". Then it proves the correctness of "each other is born from the heart" from multiple perspectives such as traditional Chinese medicine theory, Taoist health preservation, divination and metaphysics.
There is no doubt that most of Fu Shouzhang's arguments can be attributed to the source of the river, for example, the arguments cited from various ancient books, if there is no miraculous memory of the source of the river and extensive reading, who knows that from the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" "joy and sadness, thoughts hurt the spleen, anger hurts the liver, sorrow hurts the lungs, fear hurts the kidneys"? Who knows that from Zeng Guofan's "Bing Jian", "evil looks at the eyes and nose, and truth and falsehood look at the lips." Fame depends on spirit, and wealth depends on spirit. The idea is to look at the fingers, and the turmoil is to look at the hamstrings. As for the "Physiognomy of the Heart" in the early Song Dynasty, "the root of the appearance of the heart, the judgment of the heart and the self-seeing of good and evil; the hair of the heart of the doer, the observation of the action and the good and the bad can be known", "believe in the bone and step position, complement each other, and allow the spirit of flesh and blood to be revealed from it", I am afraid that all the people present have never heard of it.
Such a large quotation of the original text of the ancient book as evidence, the effect is also very obvious, not only to prove his point of view, but also to win the audience's applause, even the judges nodded frequently, the debaters of the No. 1 Middle School are frustrated and demoralized.
First of all, the difference between "appearance" and "appearance" is more of a divine stroke of the river source.
The other party obviously did not expect such a tricky scoundrel in Huai'an Mansion, and when he came up, he denied the reciprocal relationship between "appearance" and "appearance", and only regarded "appearance" as an important but not the only part of "appearance", so that the other party turned the hard-working argument and speech into a castle in the air in an instant, so he had to temporarily add a paragraph of the exposition that "appearance" is "appearance", and then talked about the allusion of Confucius "judging people by appearance, and losing the son and feather".
The allusion of Confucius "judging people by their appearance, losing their son and feather" comes from "Historical Records: The Biography of Zhongni's Disciples". It is said that the people of the Lu State were ugly in appearance - in the original words of the "Historical Records", called "very evil appearance" - and wanted to worship Confucius as a teacher. Confucius felt that he looked like a brain-dead countryman, and it must be difficult for him to become a talent, so he didn't want to take him as an apprentice at first. Later, because of the expansion of private schools, they wanted to charge more tuition, so they reluctantly agreed to enroll. Who knew that Ziyu had done a great career after graduation, and there were 300 disciples who traveled with him across the river alone, and his reputation spread far and wide among the princes. When Confucius heard this, he said with emotion:
"Judging people by their appearance, losing their sons!"
To say that this allusion that has been passed down through the ages is indeed a powerful denial of the view that "phase is born from the heart", but the premise is that the first middle school can use rigorous logic to prove that "phase" is "appearance". However, everyone present felt that the discussion of the First Middle School in this regard was a bit hasty, and the foundation of the argument was very fragile. If the seams are not bridged in the next link, it is very likely that the army will collapse for thousands of miles.
But will Huai'an Fuzhong give the first middle school a chance to fill in?