In the past few years that Wu Dao has worked in Fangzhou College, the leaders of Fangzhou College have been planning to build a new campus, gather all students from each campus, and further expand the enrollment scale, and strive to change the name of the college to a university as soon as possible based on the new campus in the future.

The Fangzhou municipal government is also very supportive of Fangzhou College's plans to build a new campus. Because the locations of each campus of Fangzhou University are relatively prosperous areas in Fangzhou City, if Fangzhou University wants to build a new campus, it is necessary to move out of the urban area and choose a new site in the suburbs.

In this way, it can not only promote the development of the suburbs, but also empty the original old campus for commercial development, which is really a big win.

However, the overall relocation and construction of a new campus of a university requires at least thousands of acres of land, and land acquisition, house demolition, resident resettlement, etc. require a lot of funds and a considerable amount of time to complete, so it was not until the second semester of Wu Dao's fourth year of working at Fangzhou College that the foundation stone of the new campus construction began to be laid.

On April 20, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new campus of Fangzhou University will be held. For the grand project of building a new campus, the leadership of Fangzhou University attaches great importance to it, and the groundbreaking ceremony must naturally be vigorous.

On April 19, the college distributed two colorful balloons to each student through the student union of each department, and asked all students to walk to the construction site of the new campus with the blown balloons the next day to watch the groundbreaking ceremony. At the same time, the college also notified all the teachers to take the college shuttle bus the next morning.

Each campus of Fangzhou University is far away from the construction site of the new campus, and it takes about an hour and a half to walk from the farthest campus, and about an hour to the nearest campus. It takes at least two hours to walk round trip, so when the students learned the news, they were all complaining about the long journey they were about to begin.

Since his first date with Su Hongmin, Wu Dao has often met with her, and will have lunch or dinner with her at least once a day.

In fact, Wu Dao didn't want to do this, because he didn't want his colleagues and students to know that he was dating his female students, and he also preferred to cook and eat with Meng Yihong, but Su Hongmin was very active in this matter, and Meng Yihong always urged him to go to the appointment, and asked him to take the initiative to ask Su Hongmin, so he had to do his best.

On April 19, Wu Dao and Su Hongmin had dinner together. During the meal, Su Hongmin said to Wu Dao:

"Tomorrow we all have to go to see the groundbreaking ceremony, and we have to walk for more than two hours, and I feel tired to think about it."

"The teacher is going too, but we're going by bus. Only your counsellor will go with you. Wu Dao said.

"It's better for you."

"You're all young people in your early twenties, and it's not bad to walk more. We can't do it anymore, we're all old. ”

"Who said you are old, you are still very young, not old at all."

At 8 o'clock on April 20, students from all campuses of Fangzhou University set off from their campuses at the same time. Each student held a blown colored balloon, and the lead student carried a red flag with the name of each department written on it.

For a time, nearly 20,000 students of Fangzhou College filled several main roads in Fangzhou City, and the scene was not grandiose, and the colorful balloons became a beautiful landscape.

Colored balloons, while beautiful, are a very easy thing to break. Some of the balloons burst when some students started blowing. As you walk along the road, some of the balloons burst naturally, or burst when students are fighting with each other. Everywhere the students went, they left behind a lot of balloon fragments.

The teachers arrived by shuttle bus, so they arrived at the groundbreaking ceremony earlier than the students. When Wu Dao got out of the car, he saw that a red rostrum had been set up there, and there were more than a dozen chairs on the stage, and the names were still pasted on the back of the chairs. The faculty also has chairs that are placed under the podium.

Wu Dao walked to the front of the rostrum and saw the names written on the chairs, most of which were the names of the leaders of the college, and a few of them were the leaders of Fangzhou City.

There was still more than an hour before the groundbreaking ceremony began, and the teachers had nothing to do, so they just walked around. Meng Yihong was with other female teachers, and Wu Dao walked around by himself. He saw that the area was originally a large area of farmland, and the villagers' houses had been demolished, and many places were overgrown with weeds.

Seeing this situation, Wu Dao's heart was quite complicated. As a teacher at Fangzhou College, he naturally hopes that the college can grow and get better and better; However, as a farmer's son, he felt a little sad when he saw the destruction of his farmland.

More than 30 minutes later, students from various campuses arrived one after another. The teachers who were hanging out also returned to their seats and sat down, waiting for the groundbreaking ceremony to officially begin.

At 10 a.m., the groundbreaking ceremony began. Municipal leaders and college leaders successively delivered speeches on the rostrum, promoting the great significance of the construction of the new campus and the beautiful blueprint for the future. After that, several main leaders symbolically shoveled soil and laid the foundation stone under the stage, and in order to set off the atmosphere, they also set off a salute.

After the groundbreaking ceremony, tens of thousands of teachers and students will return to their respective campuses. When they arrived, the students lined up and marched forward under the guidance of the counselor. Because the students didn't know the way, they followed the front team in the back line. In addition, my physical strength was still very good at that time, and there were no people left behind.

When I returned, the situation was completely different, the students already knew the way, their physical strength had decreased a lot, and the counselors did not have the spirit they had when they came, and it was difficult for each department to form a neat line, and they all walked back in twos and threes. Teachers are not constrained and may or may not take the bus.

As soon as the ceremony was over, Su Hongmin ran to Wu Dao's side, pulled him to a place where no one was, and said to him:

"Big brother, I'm too tired to walk back. It's almost time for lunch, so why don't we finish lunch here and take the bus back. ”

Wu Dao originally planned to eat with Meng Yihong after returning to school, but now that Su Hongmin made a request, he couldn't refuse, so he had to agree, and then greeted Meng Yihong again.

Although the area is relatively remote, there are also a few restaurants on the main road. Wu Dao and Su Hongmin walked to the main road and entered a mutton soup restaurant to eat. Wu Dao ordered two bowls of mutton soup, took three more cakes, and the two of them ate them.

During the meal, Su Hongmin said to Wu Dao:

"Big brother, you said that the new campus can be built in a few years, can I build it when I graduate?"

"It's hard to say if your class will be able to move to a new campus. Thousands of acres of land need to be built with teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, canteens, libraries, stadiums, and so on, each of which costs a lot of money.

Now it is the municipal government that advances the funds, and when the new campus is built, the college will replace the old campus. Whether the city can come up with such a large amount of money is also a question. Wu Dao said.

"It doesn't matter if you go to the new campus or not, I just want to be with you. By the way, big brother, it will be the May Day holiday in ten days. Do you have any plans? ”

"I haven't planned on yet."

"If that's the case, why don't we go on a trip."

"The two of us?"

"That's right."

"Where do you want to go?"

"I want to go to the beach."

"It's not the best time to go to the beach, it's still a little cold."

"Then we don't go to the beach, just look at Ocean Park."

"If you want to go, then let's settle it for the time being. When it's time for the holidays, if we don't have anything else to do and you still want to go, we'll go. However, there is no train from Fangzhou to the beach, so I can only take a car, and I have to find a place after I arrive, which is too tiring. If we really want to go, we might as well go with a travel agency. ”

"It's fine. The May Day holiday is three days, so we will sign up for a three-day tour. ”

"Let's do it for now, and then we'll talk about it then."

After lunch, the two of them took a taxi back to the central campus of Fangzhou University.

Fangzhou College will publish an issue of "Fangzhou College Newspaper" every week to report on the major events that have happened in the college in the past week. Three days after the groundbreaking ceremony, the "Fangzhou University Daily" published a special issue, which published all the groundbreaking of the new campus construction project. Every teacher in the "Fangzhou College Newspaper" has a copy, which is placed in the mailbox.

Although Wu Dao doesn't like "Fangzhou College Daily", he will flip through each issue and take a few looks. In this special issue, he originally thought it was not interesting, but the two long poems praising the academy on it aroused his interest, because the signature of the poem was Xin Shaoqing.

In the past few years of working in Fangzhou College, although Wu Dao has not dealt with Xin Shaoqing much, he has also gained a little friendship and knows more about the latter.

As Meng Yihong said, Xin Shaoqing is indeed a very talented weirdo, but he is still a decent person in essence, and he has always disdained flattery.

However, the two long poems on the "Fangzhou College Daily" were written impassionedly and with gorgeous rhetoric, obviously slapping the sycophants of the leaders of the academy, which was completely inconsistent with Xin Shaoqing's usual behavior. Wu Dao felt very strange.

After meeting Meng Yihong, Wu Dao also showed her the two long poems. Although Meng Yihong didn't understand the reason, she knew that Xin Shaoqing was a weirdo, and she had seen him do even stranger things, so she didn't feel so strange about these two long poems.

Another day passed, and Wu Dao met Xin Shaoqing at school. Xin Shaoqing took the initiative to greet Wu Dao, and Wu Dao took this opportunity to say:

"Teacher Xin, have you read the latest issue of "Fangzhou College Newspaper"?"

"I haven't read it yet, what's so good about "Courtyard Newspaper", it's all nonsense." Xin Shaoqing said.

"I don't like it either, but since the editors put it in our mailbox every issue, I'm going to probably flip through it and look at it twice."

"Is there any news new in this issue?"

"There's no new news, but there are two long poems that are very interesting."

"Two long poems?"

"Yes, two long poems, a hundred lines each."

"Don't sell it, you want to say that the three words Xin Shaoqing are written under those two long poems, right?"

"Exactly. I knew you wrote good poems, but I didn't expect those two poems to be written by you. ”

"Do you think I like to write poems about whiskers and horses? Am I that kind of person? ”

"From what I know, Mr. Xin is naturally not that kind of person. What are the reasons you wrote those two poems? ”

"What reason, I tell you, is to survive. I was one of the first graduate students in the college, and everyone else had already been rated as a professor, but I was the only one who had not been rated as a professor. I also have a wife and children, and I want to live with dignity.

A few days ago, the head of the department came to me and said that the foundation stone of the new campus was about to be laid, and asked me to write two grand poems to praise virtue and win glory for the Chinese department. If I write well, I will be promoted to professor the next time I am evaluated. If it were you, would you write or not? ”

"So that's the case, no wonder you write poetry like that."