Chapter 14: The Ritual
Crowded into the whitewashed church-like auditorium with the flow of people, Su Yuchen found that its interior was not as narrow as it seemed from the outside, with a high dome, an audience seat of nearly 10,000 people on the left and right sides at the same time, and a wide aisle decorated with a red carpet in the middle, just looking at it, it gave people a very spectacular feeling.
The young man's gaze followed the stairs to the nearly two-thirds of the audience, all of whom were dressed in the same bright white uniforms as himself, but with one or two more bars on their shoulders than themselves. They are all seniors who come to attend the freshman entrance ceremony, and as a tradition, they come to observe the freshman entrance ceremony every year and send their blessings to the new students.
Slowly walking down the stairs, some sighing teenagers came to the aisle where the freshmen gathered in the middle, where a group of teenagers and girls like him were concentrating on looking for their own class, and in front of the red carpet, a row of college tutors wearing professional suits held signs of the class they were responsible for, providing instructions for the students in their own class and helping them find their own class.
Su Yuchen took out a piece of paper from his pocket, which was the admission letter that was handed over to him yesterday afternoon, and there was information about the class he belonged to. Looking down and taking a closer look, after making sure that he belonged to Class 7, Su Yuchen raised his head and began to look for the sign of Class 7 in the long row of signs, and soon, he found the location of his class in a relatively remote location.
Pulling away from the crowd, Su Yuchen came to the gathering place of the seventh class of students, under the sign, there were already many of his classmates there to communicate with each other, he glanced at it lightly, and then turned his curious gaze to the figure directly below the sign, however, then, his face suddenly showed an unexpected expression of surprise.
Is there really any fate in this world that can't be said? Looking at the beautiful figure wearing a teacher's costume and a familiar warm smile on his face, he was a little stunned, and he didn't expect that the little joke when they parted would really become a reality at this time. Although the division of classes in the Naval Academy is only for the convenience of management, and he may not see the current class instructor a few times a year after the division of majors, but for the teenager, this can still surprise him.
Maybe she felt the young man's gaze, and in an inadvertent turn, the beautiful woman also happened to see Su Yuchen, who was staring at her from a short distance, and was surprised for a moment, and a surprised smile immediately appeared on her face. She subconsciously took a step forward, but remembered that she still had to provide instructions for the students in her class to find a meeting place, so she had to retract her steps and shook her head apologetically at the young man.
Seeing her apologetic smile, Su Yuchen felt that his face gradually became hot, obviously he had already seen it once, but why did he still not hold back when he met again this time, thinking about his dumb expression just now, he felt very embarrassed.
Just as the boy reflected on why he was like that, he was tapped on the shoulder by someone who didn't know, he turned his head, and then he saw a handsome young man with oblique bangs. "Hello, you are also a classmate of our seventh class, get to know me, my name is Dewey, what about you?" With a smile, a young man named Dewey greeted Su Yuchen.
"Ah, hello, my name is Su Yuchen." The young man hurriedly replied that he couldn't treat his classmates with carelessness or anything.
In this way, the two who were acquaintances began to talk to each other, and after learning some general information about each other, Dewey suddenly grabbed the young man's shoulders tightly, "Yu Chen, don't you know Tutor Shen Yanlin, the class teacher of our class?" I saw that she just smiled at you alone! He stared at Su Yuchen, who was a little scrambling by him, with wide eyes, as if he wanted to see something from his expression.
Maybe it's because the influence of the name Shen Yanlin in the Naval Academy is too great, and before Dewey's words fell, several students around who also heard the conversation between the two of them immediately looked at Su Yuchen, and suddenly, someone felt that the pressure on his body had doubled. "Well...... Big, probably know......" Feeling the increasingly frustrating gaze on his body, the young man replied with a cold sweat and a wry smile.
"What!? Do you really know our mentor Shen Yanlin? So what's your relationship with her? Could it be ......" got the expected answer in his heart, and Dewey's hand holding Su Yuchen's shoulder became more and more forceful, and even made him feel a little pain.
"No, don't get me wrong!" Su Yuchen hurriedly shook his head, although he had always heard Yuan Ye talk about how famous and popular Tutor Shen Yanlin was in the academy, but he had never had any actual feelings, until ......now, "I just helped Tutor Shen Yanlin by chance when I signed up, so I just knew her!" Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming more and more eerie, he quickly explained.
"Really? But I had never heard of Tutor Shen Yanlin taking the initiative to show that kind of sincere smile to any boy. Listening to the young man's words, Dewey still didn't seem to believe it, as one of the many mentors who admired the powerful and beautiful Shen Yanlin, he let go of Su Yuchen and hesitated, wanting to say something, but suddenly there was a melodious sound of music from the stage, and it seemed that the entrance ceremony was about to begin. Dewey had no choice but to shrug his shoulders helplessly, and then handed the boy a look that he would say later, to which the young man smiled helplessly.
As the music sounded, the students who had already found their classes around them gradually silenced their voices, and they consciously returned to their class positions to line up, and then waited for the official start of the ceremony. Soon, a woman holding a microphone and dressed in a nun-like garb walked to the center of the stage.
In the light music, as if she was doing mass, she reverently read out the solemn speech of the Naval Academy, there was no formalism, no boredom and boredom, only blessings and expectations for the young man and the new cadets like him. After speaking, the infected teenagers and girls solemnly raised their right fists and solemnly swore an oath to the solemn music.
When they finished taking the oath, a heavy bell rang above the auditorium, and at the same time, a flock of doves of peace flew over the auditorium and the heads of the people. From this moment on, they officially became part of the Naval Academy.