Chapter 44: School Celebration
This weekend, the school will celebrate its 80th anniversary, with alumni representatives, faculty and students participating in the celebrations at the stadium.
Every sports day or major commemorative event at the school is held in the stadium. The stadium is located in the southern part of the campus and has a capacity of more than 20,000 people. From a distance, a majestic rostrum first came into view. The rostrum is a long strip of steel membrane canopy made of three yurts, which can provide shelter from the wind and rain for the school leaders standing on the platform. In stark contrast to this is the ring of concrete steps around the perimeter of the stadium, which serve as grandstand benches for school students. Over time, these cement steps have been eroded by the scorching sun and rain, and the surface is mottled, and there are many cracks and falling off. In the middle of the stadium is a red plastic 400-meter standard runway, and the straight road runs in a north-south direction. The curves are semi-circular, with 8 runways in the curve section and 10 runways in the straight section side by side. In normal times, the runway center is generally used as a football field or arena for competitive performances.
One of the major events of the school this year is to hold the 80th anniversary of the founding of the school, and the alumni association office of the school has been actively operating for more than two years, organizing a special policy lecture on "attracting alumni back to the school" to publicize and display the achievements of the school's reform and development, and attract alumni to return to the school to invest and start a business. Leaders at all levels of provinces, municipalities, schools, experts and scholars, alumni at home and abroad, people from all walks of life and friends have been invited to participate in this event.
Since Monday, flags have been flying all over the campus, and countless banners welcoming alumni home have been hunted, showing a different and joyful atmosphere than usual. There are all kinds of vehicles with foreign license plates shuttling around the campus, and the school has also arranged many special vehicles for guests to receive alumni who do not have a car to visit the attractions and courtyards of the school.
At 7 o'clock on Friday morning, Chen Jingping and Song Yao in the 216 dormitory have gone out to study, at this time, Huo Dongming issued a notice in the class group, the notice said that the school will hold a large-scale school celebration in the stadium on Saturday, and the class is divided into X area, he requires all students in the class to attend the celebration meeting, and it is not allowed to be late or leave early.
Su Yuhan heard the sound of the mobile phone "ticking", she picked it up and saw this message, turned her hand and threw the mobile phone on the bed: "Cut, large-scale activities like school have always required the little children in the lower grades to participate. Our class is a graduating class, and he still sends this kind of brain-dead notice! Still ask him for leave in writing? What do you think? Whoever wants to go to see the excitement will go, and whoever doesn't want to go will not go. Don't be late or leave early, who are you scared? What about when everyone is a primary school student? If I don't want to go, can you still drag me there? I don't ask for leave, what else can he do to me? Isn't it just a broken squad leader, and he really treats himself as a green onion? ”
Su Yuhan couldn't get used to Huo Dongming's invincible appearance before, he often skipped class to play ball, but if his classmates were absent, especially the more wizened students, he immediately reported to the counselor or class teacher, causing these students to be criticized often. He didn't study well on his own, I don't know if it was cheating or what, and he always got a high score on his exams. Now seeing that such a person can still be qualified for graduate school promotion and exemption, Su Yuhan is even more disgusted with this person from the bottom of his heart.
"Even if you don't know whose power he is relying on? All day long, the fox is fake. He also likes to mess with flowers and grass, he has a girlfriend, and every time he plays, he deliberately attracts a group of junior girls to surround him and watch him show off. I don't know how his girlfriend can stand him! Zhao Lihong was also annoyed by him.
Feng Lu was tidying up her quilt on the bed at that time, pretending not to hear what the two of them were saying, and said nothing.
And Ning Hua, who was sitting at the desk, couldn't help but blush when she heard these discussions, but she didn't dare to make a sound. Fortunately, she was facing the wall, and no one noticed her strangeness. Ning Hua didn't expect Huo Dongming, who she had always had a crush on, to be so unbearable in the hearts of her roommates. In the past, these girls in the class just didn't take the initiative to deal with Huo Dongming, and they didn't say anything bad about Huo Dongming publicly, why are they about to graduate now, and Su Yuhan's impression of him has become so bad? Ning Hua has always liked Huo Dongming's playing posture, and being able to attract the attention of girls doesn't mean that he is attractive? So what's so bad about that? Fortunately, they didn't know that she and Huo Dongming were in a relationship, otherwise it would be really embarrassing. Ning Hua didn't tell her roommates the truth that she was in love with Huo Dongming at the moment, because she was worried about the exemption from graduate school qualifications. Besides, after the two returned from their trip to Dalian, Ning Hua had not seen Huo Dongming yet. He told Ning Hua that he had to help the college receive alumni who returned to the school to participate in the school celebration in the past two days, so he had no time to accompany her.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the launching ceremony of the school celebration was held in the stadium. The high-definition live broadcast vehicle of the city TV station has arrived at the scene, ready to broadcast the school celebration live. The campus was full of people, the stadium was crowded early, and countless alumni returned to their alma mater to gather with the teachers and students at the school. The alumni were elated and smiling, some were happy to see their old classmates, and some were amazed by the school's thriving. They sat on the stools in the large playground under the stage, watched the documentary on the development of the school shown on the podium, as if they were on a time shuttle, and returned to the familiar classroom, reliving the beautiful and ignorant youth when they were studying in school in the past.
Considering that the graduating class may have to attend the job fair and do not have the time or reluctance to attend the celebration, the school allocated the cement step seats from the U to Z sections, which are farthest from the podium, to these graduating classes. Sure enough, more than half of the seats in these areas were empty and no one was sitting. Fortunately, the concrete steps in these areas are hidden in the woods, and even if all the graduates do not participate, they are all empty, and they do not look very empty. It's just that this place is too far away from the rostrum, and the students sitting in these districts can't see the faces of the leaders at all levels and those well-known alumni sitting on the podium, except for the video played on the huge electronic display screen on the rostrum.
The seats for the Class of 2015 of the EIS Academy were allocated to Zone X. Area X is diagonally facing the rostrum, and there are only a few students sitting sporadically in Area X, and most of the students such as Su Yuhan, Zhao Lihong, Song Yao, and Chen Jingping have not come to Area X to report at all.
At this time, Ning Hua and Feng Lu sat in a small area of their class in their own class with the other dormitories in the early morning. Between Zone X and Area K of the CES teachers' seating area, there is only Area R where the junior students are seated. Ning Hua sat idle, looked through the R area, and saw the back of his father sitting in the K area. Dad was sitting with Teacher Zhang from the college, and the two of them hooked their heads and whispered something.
Two volunteers walked from the alumni area under the rostrum to the K area, and one of them was Huo Dongming. Ning Hua followed Huo Dongming's figure intently, and saw him bending over to pick up garbage around the teachers' seats. Ning Hua thought to herself, no matter what Su Yuhan and the others said about Huo Dongming, anyway, she just liked to see Huo Dongming's busy figure, and she preferred to see him rampage on the basketball court and his slightly flamboyant posture. Ning Hua really wants to share her secrets with others, but she also knows that it has been an eventful time recently, so it is better not to take the initiative to announce the relationship between the two for the time being. She sat motionless on the steps, smiling and admiring Huo Dongming's busy work in the stadium from a distance.