After successfully passing the graduation thesis defense and signing a contract, Wu Dao's graduate career at Jeju University has actually ended, and all that is missing is a graduation photo and graduation certificate.

After attending Yang Xinxin's wedding, some of the seven graduate students majoring in foreign literature went on a trip, some went home, and some went to work in the contracted unit in advance, leaving only Wu Dao in school. He wanted to spend the last dozens of days with Si Baifang.

At the beginning of June, graduate students from the graduating classes of Jeju University took a group photo one after another. Of the seven graduate students majoring in foreign literature, five returned to school except for Wu Dao, and Xue Yujiao worked in another province, and the journey was too far, so she did not come back, but sent an electronic photo to Lu Qianqian and asked her to hand it over to the photographer and add it to the group photo.

On the day of the photoshoot, Lu Qianqian took everyone to get a doctor's gown, each of whom wore a set, and the six graduate students took dozens of group photos and solo photos in different patterns. After all the graduate students and supervisors of the Department of Chinese took a group photo, they returned their doctoral gowns.

After the group photo, the graduate students majoring in foreign literature will go their separate ways, and several have already confirmed that they will not return to school. Therefore, they decided to use the last gathering to hold a thank-you banquet for the mentors in the evening to thank the four mentors for their hard work over the past three years.

Six graduate students went to the hotel in advance and booked a large private room, and ordered wine and food. At seven o'clock in the evening, the tutors and graduate students of the foreign literature major arrived at the hotel. After a while, the wine and food were served. When the waiter poured the wine, Huang Hongkun and Lu Qianqian didn't drink, so they poured water into the cup themselves.

At the beginning of the teacher appreciation banquet, a graduate student should be selected to give a speech and thank the four supervisors on behalf of everyone. Lu Qianqian is a guaranteed student of this school, the longest time in school, and the only person who has been admitted to the doctorate, and everyone elected her as a representative. Lu Qianqian couldn't refuse, so she had to stand up. She was just about to speak, when a tutor saw that her wine glass was filled with boiled water, and joked:

"Sissi's glass is water, and I don't drink this wine."

"Sissi, you'll have a drink for the first drink. And Huang Hongkun, you also change to wine. Otherwise, just drink three glasses of wine each of the four girls, and then you want to drink water, drink water, drink drinks, drink drinks. Zheng Tao and Wu Dao, you two boys can only drink alcohol, and nothing else. Lu Qianqian's mentor said.

Everyone said it was a good idea. Lu Qianqian and Huang Hongkun poured out the water in the cup and replaced it with wine. At this time, Lu Qianqian began to say:

"In the past three years, the four teachers have given us meticulous care, taught us how to do research, and made us real graduate students. Although I was the first to enter Jeju University, I feel as if I only entered this school yesterday, but I graduated in a blink of an eye, and I will never see each other again. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Qianqian was touched by the scene and cried. Wu Dao and the other four graduate students were also very sad, and several of the girls were in tears. Lu Qianqian's mentor said:

"Sissi, why are you still crying when you're such a big person? Graduation is a good thing, and there will be no more of us old men forcing you to write essays in the future, how good is that! ”

"Everyone has their own path to take, gather when they should get together, and disperse when they should disperse, or the world will be chaotic!" Tian Mo asked.

"You can come back when you want to come back, but I'm afraid that after you leave, you don't want to come back." Another tutor said with a smile.

Lu Qianqian wiped her tears, but her mood was still very unstable, so she said to Zheng Tao:

"I'm crying too easily, I cry when I say it, I can't complete the task, Zheng Tao, let's talk about it."

Lu Qianqian sat back in her seat, Zheng Tao stood up and said to the instructors:

"Thank you to the four teachers for teaching us in the past three years, and now that we are about to leave the school, on behalf of the seven graduate students majoring in foreign literature, I would like to give you a glass of wine and thank you."

After speaking, Zheng Tao drank the wine in the cup. The four supervisors and the five graduate students seated also finished their glasses. At this time, one of the teachers said:

Zheng Tao just said two thanks for this sentence. We now have a rule that no one is allowed to say the words thank you or thank you when they get up to toast again. ”

The other three mentors agreed. Zheng Tao toasted the first glass of wine on behalf of everyone, and then each graduate student took turns to toast, from left to right in the order of the six graduate students. The first toast was Lou Xinhua, who stood up and said:

"In the past three years, whether it is research or life, the teachers have taught me a lot. Thank you, teachers. ”

As soon as Lou Xinhua finished speaking, he realized that he had made a mistake and should not have said the word "thanks". Yang Xinxin took the lead in laughing and said, "I want to be punished for a cup", and Lou Xinhua also smiled awkwardly. The mentors also grabbed the handle and let her drink an extra glass of wine.

The second toast was Yang Xinxin, who, like Lu Qianqian, studied Russian literature, and both of them knew a little Russian. She learned Lou Xinhua's lesson and did not say "thanks" in Chinese when she spoke, but said thank you in Russian. Several tutors can speak several foreign languages, and as soon as she finished speaking, Tian Mo asked:

"Yang Xinxin is not right like this, if you don't say thank you and thank you, you just say it in Russian, isn't it still the same? No, it's also a foul, and you have to be punished for drinking. ”

"Now that the rules are re-established, I know that each of you can speak a foreign language, whether it is English, French, German, Russian, or any other foreign language, you can't use it to say thank you and thank you, and if you say it, you will be fined a glass of wine." Another mentor said.

Yang Xinxin had no choice but to punish a glass of wine.

With the lessons of the past, the next people did not foul again during the toast. Wu Dao was the last to toast, and he stood up and said:

"I was the latest and oldest graduate student in this class. When I switched from a major in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature to a major in Foreign Literature, many people said that I had chosen the wrong path. However, I have no regrets, not only did I not regret it before, I do not regret it now, and I will not regret it in the future, and changing my major is the most correct decision I have made. A glass to all teachers. ”

All the tutors and graduate students applauded Wu Dao's words.

The thank-you banquet that day was full of the joy of getting together, but it was also shrouded in the sadness of parting. The end of the banquet also means that the graduate students of this year are over, and Lu Qianqian cried again. People disappeared into the night with a bit of drunkenness.

That night, Oh felt for the first time that he was a student at Jeju University, which was indeed his alma mater. He has an inseparable connection with this school, because there are teachers and classmates he loves, and there are memories that will never be erased for a lifetime.

It is certainly a sad thing to be separated from teachers and classmates, but for Wu Dao, the saddest thing is to be separated from Si Baifang.

It is getting closer and closer to the end of June, when Wu Dao will graduate and leave school, and Si Baifang will also leave for a foreign country. Wu Dao wished that time would pass slowly, as slowly as possible, but at this time, time was like a car on the track of the F1 Grand Prix, and it was the fastest one.

Soon it was the end of June, and the day of leaving school had arrived.

The day before leaving school, Wu Dao and Si Baifang had their last dinner together before they parted. During the meal, both of them said very little, because what they were about to say had already been said many times, and at this time, everything was silent.

In the three years after Wu Dao entered Jeju University, Tian Mowen recruited three women and one man, a total of four graduate students. On the morning of the day he left school, Wu Dao and several junior brothers and sisters went to Tian Mowen's house to say goodbye. Tian Mowen said to Wu Dao:

"Wu Dao, you are a person who is suitable for learning, if you have the opportunity in the future, you still have to take the doctorate exam."

Wu Dao nodded yes, and said to the juniors and sisters:

"You should study French and English hard, do serious research, and strive to be admitted to a doctorate in the future and strengthen your teacher's school."

Wu Dao only stayed at Tian Mowen's house for a short time, because he still had to send Si Baifang, and on this day Si Baifang was going to Beijing with other graduate students from Jeju University who went abroad to teach, and then went to various countries, and Si Baifang was going to Southeast Asia.

Si Baifang took a special car to Jeju Railway Station, and then took a train to Beijing, and Wu Dao could not get into their car. Wu Dao and Si Baifang parted in front of the special car, watching the special car start and drive away and disappear around the corner, Wu Dao's heart was extremely sad. He suddenly remembered that although he couldn't take the special car, he could take a taxi to the train station to see off Si Baifang, and see him there for the last time. At this time, it was the day when the students left the school in a concentrated manner, and there were many taxis passing by, and Wu Dao quickly waited for one. As soon as he got into the car, he said to the driver:

"Go to the train station, the sooner the better."

The driver also wanted to pull two more passengers to go with him to earn more money. Wu Dao said to him:

"I'll give you double the money, and I'll leave right away."

Hearing Wu Dao say this, the driver immediately started the car, and he said to Wu Dao:

"Are you in a hurry?"

"It's a very urgent matter, the sooner the better."

"Then sit tight."

As he spoke, the driver quickly shifted gears, and the car quickly drove to the train station. When he was two-thirds of the way through, Wu Dao's taxi finally caught up with Si Baifang's special car, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "Finally caught up." ”

After arriving at the train station, Wu Dao had to pay the driver double the fare, but the latter refused to overcharge, and finally only charged one part of the fare. Wu Dao said "thank you" to the driver and got out of the car.

Three minutes later, Jeju University's shuttle bus arrived at the train station. As soon as Si Baifang got out of the car, she saw Wu Dao, and she was very surprised:

"Wu Dao, aren't you at school, why are you here?"

"After your car left, I still didn't feel at ease, and I thought I should come to the train station to give you one last ride, so I took a taxi. I said to the driver, let him drive faster, the faster the better, and he drove very fast, and we got to the train station in front of you. Wu Dao said.

Si Baifang's eyes were moist, and tears were almost falling. She wiped her eyes with her hand and said:

"It's good that you're here."

"I'll help you with your luggage." Wu Dao said.

The teacher in charge had already bought tickets for all graduate students in advance and sent them out when they were on the bus. All the graduate students got off the bus, and the teacher beckoned everyone into the station. Wu Dao and Si Baifang walked at the back and followed the people in front to the entrance of the station. The final moment of separation came, Wu Dao hugged Si Baifang for the first time, this time she did not refuse, the two hugged each other, and they were reluctant to separate for a long time. When the teacher in charge called Si Baifang, they let go of their hands. Wu Dao said to Si Baifang:

"Baifang, take care."

"Wu Dao, wait for me to come back."

Si Baifang turned around and walked into the station, and both of them shed tears.