Chapter 298: The Ugly Duckling's Ambition
Dear Principal Shi, dear Teacher Chen, leaders, teachers, and students.
Two months ago, like my younger students, I sat in the classroom and studied hard, never relaxing for a moment, working hard, occasionally looking up at the blue sky, feeling that the future was confused, and life was so difficult.
Mr. Lu Xun said that the college entrance examination is the final fairness.
Well, don't care about these details. Mr. Lu Xun has said many things, and every sentence is the truth.
The meaning of this truth is that the college entrance examination is a linear input-output, and how much sweat you sweat, how much you will gain. How much water you put in your head, you will cry out later.
In front of our teaching building, there is a countdown board, which the younger students can see every day, and every day that passes, there is one less day. I just watched it, and there are 278 days left before the college entrance examination.
Soon, right?
After 278 days, my younger students will be screened into different universities and in a sense, in a sense, into different life paths, just like a sieve, according to the size of the mesh that they can hold.
I, Ning Wushuang, was a year ahead of you, and I was lucky enough to hold up the biggest mesh.
It's hypocritical to bless you here, you can hold it up after 278 days, it's the biggest mesh.
Zangma Mountain produces apples, with a diameter of 85 more than 4 pieces per catty, a diameter of 75 more than 3 pieces per catty, a diameter of 65 more than 2 pieces per catty, and a diameter of 55 and below, which cannot be sold in the past. Now it can be sold, and it can be packaged and sent to my brother's mixed fruit beverage factory, which can be regarded as a price.
The mixed fruit drink tastes good, I drank it every day before the college entrance examination, so my grades are getting better and better.
My brother said that he would donate a batch of drinks, everyone has a share, you must drink it seriously, and your grades will get better!
Well, it's my brother, his name is Yule, like a rich man.
Now he is sitting on the rostrum, with President Shi on the left and Director Li on the right.
Okay, brother, sit down, don't laugh so stupidly, and don't laugh either.
Six years ago, my brother graduated from No. 3 Middle School and was admitted to Canghai Agricultural University. He was the first college student in our tun, and I was the second, and I did a little better than him.
Now my brother's beverage factory is making money, so he set up this platform and asked me to pour some chicken soup for our mutual students.
Well, don't laugh, it's not pretty when you laugh wrinkles.
Let's drink chicken soup first, I've been through the summer and I'm serious.
The remaining 278 days, seventeen or eighteen years old, this is the time to decide your future.
We're still kids, aren't we?
At an age when we don't know how powerful the future is, how hard life is, how much impact a decision might have, and our worldview is completely immature, we have to work hard consciously or unconsciously to determine our own future.
In other words, these 278 days are in our own hands. We are overwhelmed with these possessions, either unknowingly squandering them, or building a solid foundation for our lives.
Scary, right?
Is this fair?
It's not fair to individuals, we're still kids!
It's fair to the whole, because everyone is like this, everyone is on the same starting line, and your enemy is only yourself.
No matter urban or rural, rich or poor, male or female, virtuous or foolish!
Do you want to laugh so happily, the virtuous is the virtuous, the foolish is the foolish......
Mr. Lu Xun said that the college entrance examination is the final fairness, and he told us with pity and pathos a fact that life is not so fair.
There are too many factors outside of ourselves that affect the life path of each of us, and hard work is not the reason for success, at least not the only reason.
And now, it's still!
In the 297 days since, hard work has been the only reason for our success.
The future can be grasped in our own hands, this is the last chance, think about it?
After 297 days, the younger students scattered and never had a chance to gather together.
At that point you might think, if I tried a little harder, I could have done it too, or even done better than him. Well, I'm just working a little harder, it's not a big deal, don't bully the poor boy.
Here I want to cruelly pour a scoop of cold water on you, hard work, in fact, is a kind of ability, a kind of quality, a kind of virtue.
It's the same as your height, weight, appearance, and IQ, it's real, not ethereal, and it's not something you reach out for at any time when you think of it.
Today you think, if yesterday I tried it.
And then you think, tomorrow I must try.
I'll just ask you, why don't you say now?
Because you don't have this ability and quality and virtue at all, just like if you're ugly, dark, short, fat, stupid, you won't try!
Smart people work harder than you, handsome people are richer than you, beautiful people are kinder than you, the world is so desperate!
You didn't work hard in the past, you don't work hard now, you say you will work hard tomorrow, where do you get your self-confidence?
I work hard, this is the humility of the strong.
I didn't make an effort, this is a fig leaf for the weak, self-anesthetize for the incompetent.
You can only comfort yourself, life has to go on, you have lost the warm and inclusive self-anesthesia, how do you face this cold, blunt, and only ask about the result of the real world?
Yes, hard work is a kind of ability, a quality, a kind of virtue, on the one hand, it is innate, on the other hand, it can also be exercised and improved.
But it's not like you have it if you want it, you get it when you think of it, and you can use it at any time.
Whether it's sourly disapproving, or secretly poking and laughing, or silly honey self-confidence, it can't change the fact that you can only hide in the shadows and self-anesthetize.
If you don't work hard, you won't work hard, you lack this ability, you lack this quality, you lack this virtue.
So, let's change, come on, it's okay now, if you want to change yourself, if you want to improve yourself, it's never too late, just start today.
As long as you start, it is half the success, and the remaining half is persistence.
Yes, from now on, start from within, start from reality, and change yourself!
The college entrance examination is actually a starting point, but it is only a peak on the long road of life, the first peak, but it is not the highest mountain, let alone the peak with the best scenery.
We are rural children, when we climb the first mountain, we often have exhausted all our strength, and when we are in college, we are not able to do this, that is not good, and then there is only this one mountain in our lives.
That's what my brother told me.
Sitting on the stage today is also one of my seniors, Wudaokou Vocational and Technical School, majoring in civil engineering, Senior He Qingbai, graduated from Canghai No. 58 Middle School two years ago, one of the two most famous high schools in Canghai City, and only the best children in the city can study.
Thank you, Senior He, Senior He, please sit down.
We look at Senior He's smile, gentle and elegant, modest and introverted, starry eyebrows and sword eyes, red lips and white teeth, no matter how thick the glasses are, they can't block the light of wisdom in his eyes.
Senior He told me that from the first year of high school to the present, please note that it is still today, his winter and summer vacations are used to study, and the Spring Festival is no different. After college, I had to read at least one book a week, professional or unrelated, and I didn't sleep before 12 o'clock at night.
Pengsheng hemp, do not help self-straight. If you are in the company of excellent people, you will become excellent yourself.
The white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black with it. Who can be assured of being alone in the company of fallen people?
In fact, this is the reason why we are desperately trying to get into a better university.
I am saying this today to let the younger students broaden their horizons, cross the peak of the college entrance examination, and see the scenery behind the peak.
A person's vision determines his realm.
A person's efforts determine his future.
A person's self-restraint determines that he can constantly surpass himself.
The college entrance examination is not the end, so you will be less afraid, boost your confidence, and move forward steadily and resolutely.
You see, the difficulties are still very long, the college entrance examination is not special, we need to continue to grow in the grinding.
Senior He, you see that the younger students, especially the younger students, seem to care about you very much, mmmm, please stand up and show it again.
Uh-huh, just laugh, thanks!
Let me introduce you again, Senior He is my brother's boyfriend who gave me the royal approval.
It's true, it's true, although my brother didn't tell me, Senior He also hid it.
But I grew up with my brother, and I know all the bad water in his stomach.
When I was a child, my brother took me down to the river to fish, go up the trees to catch birds, steal sweet potatoes, steal bud rice, dig pits and burn fires to roast and eat.
He often took me to the neighboring village to watch open-air movies, and at night the mountain road was very dark, so I pulled his sleeve, and today I also pulled.
With my brother by my side, I have nothing to fear.
There is a movie, I still remember, a few bad boys bullied a little girl, wrapped sheep dung eggs in candy paper, and said eat it, eat it, and don't stutter after eating.
My brother also wrapped sheep dung eggs in candy paper and tricked me into eating them.
But I took it and ate it. Even if people in the world are liars, my brother won't lie to me.
When I did put it in my mouth, my brother snatched it. I chased after him for it. He threw it away, and I ran over to pick it up. Eventually he picked it up and ate it himself, and I cried.
Brother, how does the sheep dung egg taste?
This is my brother, no matter how bad it is, it can't hurt me, I'd rather eat it myself.
He always saved the best for me and thought a lot about me.
My brother paid for my college expenses, and he even helped me find a boyfriend in advance, for fear that I would suffer in college.
O my brother!
As I said earlier, I've been working hard, not just to do well in my studies, but also to grow faster, smarter, and prettier.
I didn't say that the internal reason for my hard work was actually that I wanted to marry my brother when I grew up and be his wife.
It doesn't matter if he's not so pretty, anyway, my brother is so dark, so ugly, and can't speak, and no one likes him.
Brother, sit down!
It's the first time I've said that, and I'm not going to say it again, and that's inspiring, right?
Can you let me finish?
I don't have a mother, I haven't seen my mother, I have only had my father since I was a child, and my brother, an older brother who is five years older than me, an older brother who is not related by blood.
When someone bullied me, my brother would always come down from the sky and beat the bad guys away.
Even if you can't beat the bad guy, the person who is bullied has become my brother. The bad guys are really powerful, so it's me and my brother who are being bullied together.
I used to naively think that we would always go on like this, and my brother would always be by my side.
But later, my brother secretly liked the village chief's daughter. She was white and tender, as white as a strip, and her family still had money and all kinds of delicious food.
I learned to cook at home, and I tried hard, but I would only burn myself to the ground, even my braids.
That's when I realized that I was wrinkled, dark, ugly, stupid, and unruly.
I was desperate. The gap between me and the village chief's daughter is too big, it's like there is an insurmountable chasm that I can't fill no matter how hard I try.
I don't even have a mother, it must be because I was too ugly and stupid to run away with my mother.
Because my father said that my mother actually loves me too.
It's all my fault, and my brother is in love with someone else.
Fortunately, the village chief's daughter didn't like my brother, and my life had a ray of light.
Of course, my brother also has advantages, his academic performance has always been very good, and he is a proud disciple of my father, who is the principal of Murawan Elementary School.
I studied hard, followed his path, tried to catch up with him, and I was worthy of him.
My brother was admitted to high school, and I worked hard to get into high school.
My brother was admitted to college, he was the first college student in Soahutun, he still looked so ugly, his skin was still so dark, and he had grown taller.
The village chief's daughter was about to accept him, and the village chief found my brother's house. Uncle and aunt want to tell my brother about this, and my brother will decide for himself.
I said, "I'm writing to my brother, and I'm writing well!"
The letter was written, but it was not mentioned. My brother also wrote back to me and pointed out a few typos to me.
So, when I was in the second year of junior high school, I ruined my brother's marriage.
But I'm not guilty, because I'm going to pay him myself.
I studied hard, I had to keep up with my brother, and I was at the top of my class.
I ate harder, I grew taller and less wrinkled, and gradually some people said that I was a beauty.
Later, my brother graduated from college and stayed in the city to work, and the daughter of the village chief also got married.
My brother hadn't told me, or anyone, but I knew he wasn't doing well in the city.
But I'm happy, and I'll go home if I'm not doing well.
My brother really went home and took over the pond of my uncle and aunt. The duck he cooked was delicious, and he helped him grab the first pot of gold. He is very loving but not ambitious, sincere and simple, willing to help others, so many rich, status, and capable people appreciate him, and he earns more and more money.
It is called flower duck and is sold in a small shop in the mountains. The small shop in the mountains was opened by Lao Shanye, a combat hero who came down from the front line of the war, and he adopted ten orphans. There is a volunteer who works as a waiter in a small shop in the mountains to help the old man raise these children.
This volunteer became my brother's girlfriend and my sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law, please stand up for a moment, thank you!
Beautiful, right?
People who are prettier than you are kinder than you, right?
I also want to tell you that my sister-in-law has just graduated from the National Ocean University, a 985 college. Her mother is the chairman of a five-star foreign-related hotel, and she is Bai Fumei.
Thank you, sister-in-law, please be seated!
My brother and my sister-in-law appreciate each other, and because of these children, they are both very caring people.
It should be noted that my brother's rise is not due to my sister-in-law, but because he is really capable.
Although I would rather my brother has no ability, just a poor ordinary college student, no one likes him, except me.
Sister-in-law, I know it's not your fault.
My brother didn't know that I had been working so hard to grow up, and I had always had an ambition in my heart.
Today, I'm still the ugly duckling, even though I'm admitted to Wudaokou School.
Or maybe I can fly too, the sky is infinitely wide, although my roots remain in the pond of Sohutun.
It's all over, my brother has a girlfriend, I have a boyfriend, and there is still a long way to go in the future.
What am I afraid of, I have a brother who is very rich and loves me, I have a boyfriend who is tough in all aspects, and I am also a provincial champion, I am very strong, right?
So be it, thank you!
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