Chapter 35: For the Truth
Aristotle once said, "I love my teacher, and I love the truth even more." ”
On the New Year's Day of the first year of high school, Liang Chen is still a trick that has nothing to do with himself, and he became one of the class presidents in the second year of high school, although it is only a false title, this kind of major event in the class, he will also "give advice" on the side.
Liang Chen heard Tang Rui say that this year's New Year's Day Teacher Mu attaches great importance to it, and as for the reason, Liang Chen heard it from Du Ruo. Du Ruo is now like the "Dai Li" of the Shihe Central Unified Bureau, and the intelligence information from all walks of life, from the principal and the dean of education to the student security guards, is gathered in his hands.
Du Ruo told him that the leadership of the school was about to change, and Teacher Mu was on the list of people to be promoted.
In December, the cold air with magical properties in the south descended on Shihe, and the doors and windows of the seventh class of the second year of high school entered the control stage again.
On New Year's Day this time, Teacher Mu rarely took over all the arrangements from the beginning of the program, and most of the staff of Class 7 were absorbed into the list of personnel of the program, and all the boys including Liang Chen were requisitioned, and she boiled a pot of chicken soup that "left us with good memories of youth" this time. And Mr. Mu also left us with suspense, what is the performance program? She didn't say a word.
Regarding the New Year's Day show, Zhou Sang complained about Mr. Mu's feudal dictatorship, and was curious about what kind of show they were going to perform. Xue Ji was also curious, she thought that Teacher Mu would show a little bit of tone to Liang Chen and Tang Rui, especially Liang Chen, who was favored by Teacher Mu. Looking at Xue Jiao's expectant eyes, Liang Chen shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
"There are so many people, it's either a recitation or a chorus." Liang Chen still said his guess.
Unexpectedly, he guessed correctly, but only half of the guess, Mr. Mu's plan is to recite and chorus, full of the style of the Republic of China, the wind of the red revolution. She asked the school's music teacher Xu who was responsible for one of the New Year's Day audit programs to guide us, and every New Year's Day, Teacher Xu would be invited by each class to do program guidance, but according to Du Ruo, Teacher Xu had not been out of the mountain for six years.
As for why Mr. Xu is willing to go out of the mountain, the answer he gave us is - our class has the loudest singing, every time he goes to class, he can always hear our singing downstairs in the comprehensive building, he said that the song hears the vitality of our youth, Liang Chen has a little doubt that these words are not taught to him by Teacher Mu, he would rather believe that he came out of the mountain because Teacher Mu is the principal's cousin niece.
Liang Chen was very resistant to the New Year's Day performance, first, he didn't like the program arranged by Mr. Mu, and second, he hated this kind of forced arrangement the most. Liang Chen doesn't hate acting, he just doesn't want to perform on stage, the people in the audience don't give him any reward, nor are they acquaintances, why do he make them happy like a monkey! And Teacher Mu's program was not for the students in the audience, fifteen, six, seven, eight little girls and little boys who like to watch the Red Revolution song chorus, but unfortunately they are not judges, and the decision is held in the hands of the leadership of Shihe Middle School, which is sitting in the front row across the galaxy from them. Liang Chen is even more disgusted with pandering to the leader. He hated being an official since he was a child, he was the second child, and when he cried for the first time, a few hands in the village reached out to the house, eating and taking cards, and Liang Chen's father took out most of the family's savings to keep him.
The noon sun was very warm, and the sunlight passed through the transparent glass window of the office, which made Liang Chen's heart itch, and Mr. Mu summoned him, Tang Rui, and Zou Li to discuss the specific matters of the New Year's Day show. Liang Chen followed the usual practice and occasionally mixed in a few irrelevant words, but today's Liang Chen had a heart, he wanted to mention to Mr. Mu whether he could not participate in the New Year's Day performance, but when he wanted to speak, his heart was always soft, his throat seemed to be stuck with a thorn, and he couldn't speak.
Half an hour passed, and Mr. Mu roughly set the repertoire of the songs, "Yingshan Hong", "Defending the Yellow River", "Country" and "Into the New Era", the core idea is to praise the historical changes of the motherland in the past 100 years.
When he was about to leave, Liang Chen still couldn't speak, but his heart hardened, and it was a big deal to get over.
Teacher Mu stopped Liang Chen, he thought that Teacher Mu had seen his strangeness, and he was entangled in his heart whether he should say it or not, Liang Chen's face was a little nervous and rosy.
Teacher Mu said, "I want you to write the final recitation." ”
It turned out that it was for this, Liang Chen sighed a little annoyed.
"Why, don't you want to?" Mr. Mu asked.
Liang Chen raised his head and looked at Teacher Mu sitting on the stool, and said, "You know that I am not good at writing these scenes, but if you ask me to write, I will definitely do my best, but I have a small request." ”
Teacher Mu looked at Liang Chen's appearance and smiled, and asked him, "What are the requirements?" ”
Liang Chen was a little hesitant, and he only said seven words in one sentence, but there seemed to be a tenfold gravitational field around Teacher Mu, oppressing Liang Chen's voice, he took a deep breath of air, and wanted to fill his lungs, but it was not that much.
Teacher Mu urged Liang Chen and told him to say quickly, "What's the mother-in-law, tell me quickly." ”
At this moment, Liang Chen had the courage to speak, "I don't want to perform on stage." ”
"That's it." Teacher Mu looked at Liang Chen with some disdain and said.
"That's it." Liang Chen pretended to shrug his shoulders relaxedly, but he was extremely remorseful in his heart, he avoided Teacher Mu's gaze a little, looking at her, as if he was thirty centimeters shorter.
"Liang Chen, did I tell you when you were the squad leader that the most important thing to be a squad leader is responsibility." Teacher Mu became serious, "You quit, have you thought about how many people still want to be on this show." ”
Liang Chen lowered his head, didn't speak, and muttered what Teacher Mu had just said.
"Do you think you can still get back?" Teacher Mu questioned Liang Chen.
"I can't." Liang Chen replied stupidly.
"Hey!" Teacher Mu sighed, "Forget it, I asked Zeng Tong to write the recitation, and you and Tang Rui are still responsible for helping Teacher Xu coordinate the scene." ”
Liang Chen replied! Walked out of the office with his head down, and when he raised his head, the sun was shining in his eyes, Liang Chen closed his eyes and dodged, a little tears appeared in his eyes, he rubbed his eyes, and his eyes were a little red.
When he returned to his seat, Xue asked him in a whisper why he was crying.
"I was hit by the sun's rays." Liang Chen replied.
Xue Ji didn't believe it, leaned on Liang Chen's table, and said, "It won't be that Teacher Mu sent you into the cold palace, you are sad and sad." ”
"I was really flashed by the sun." Liang Chen argued with a smile.
Xue Ji looked out the window, the sun was bigger than usual today, and when she looked at it, the sun also stung her, Xue Ji squinted and rested on the desk.
Liang Chen put the pen between his index finger and middle finger, and did not write, turned around a few times from time to time, thought about the New Year's Day show for a while, fell asleep, yawned a few times in a row, and looked at Xue Jiao, who slept on his school uniform, Liang Chen sighed inexplicably, slammed his head on the table, covered the small piece of sunlight on his right shoulder, and fell asleep in a moment.
In Tuesday's music class, Teacher Mu deprived Liang Chen of his previous free movement privilege and pressed Liang Chen and them to practice singing in the classroom. In the past two days, Liang Chen's ears have been very tired of "Yingshan Hong" and "Defending the Yellow River", and Mr. Mu took Tang Rui and Zou Li to Mr. Xu's house to get props, leaving only Liang Chen and Zuo Yun to organize everyone to practice singing.
Liang Chen sat on the podium coyly, uncomfortable, and didn't sing, just switching songs one by one, and didn't care about other irrelevant songs several times, Zuo Yun reminded him several times, Liang Chen only said, "Change the taste, if you eat too much sugar, you will get diabetes." Zuo Yun thought that Liang Chen was a little unhappy because Teacher Mu didn't take Liang Chen out, so he came.
Tang Rui and Zou Li returned with a white bag containing seven national flags. Tang Rui threw the bag to Liang Chen, told him to put it on the bookcase, took a large glass of water himself, and drank it in one go.
"You've just taken a few flags, and you're tired like this." Liang Chen scoffed.
"You know a fart, there was originally a flagpole, but it was too heavy, I really couldn't hold it, I walked halfway and put it at Teacher Mu's house, remember to get it after school in the afternoon." Tang Rui swallowed the remaining water and said.
"I heard Teacher Mu say that two days ago, you lost your temper with her, and asked you to write recitations." Tang Rui approached Liang Chen's side and asked in a low voice.
Liang Chen was a little unhappy, he was just a little annoyed that day, he didn't understand why Teacher Mu and Tang Rui said that he lost his temper, listening to Tang Rui's tone, he didn't write recitations, or his own. Liang Chen looked at Tang Rui expressionlessly and said, "I also scolded her, lifted her table, and slammed the door away." ”
Tang Rui was also a little angry, furrowed her eyebrows, and said angrily: "What kind of temper you have with me, it's all Teacher Mu said, and you have a temper to rush at her." ”
Tang Rui returned to his seat, Liang Chen regretted it a little, he shouldn't be so stingy, let out a sigh, squeezed out a smile, half-squatted in front of her desk, and said with a smile that he was wrong.
"The main thing is that I am very angry at the slander of the feudal class, and I have no intention of harming my comrades."
"I regard you as a comrade on my side, but you regard me as a lackey of the enemies of the feudal dictatorship." Tang Rui angrily pointed at Liang Chen and reproached
"I'm also angry, I shouldn't have affected my comrades, and afterwards, I'm also heartbroken!" Liang Chen lowered his head and sighed again and again, remembering in his heart that when he first became the squad leader, the first thing he said when he shook hands with Tang Rui, he inexplicably called out comrade, she thought it was funny, Liang Chen got into trouble, so he called her comrade.
Tang Rui was relieved and said to Liang Chen, "Teacher Mu also said that you are extremely unwilling to participate in this New Year's Day show. ”
"I guess every boy doesn't want to participate." Liang Chen shook his head and said.
"Xue Ji, Jiang Zhiyun, I, so many beauties are going to go, you don't want to." Tang Rui asked.
"I don't know if Xue Ji is willing to go, Jiang Zhiyun is definitely unwilling." Liang Chen said very firmly.
"How do you know that Jiang Zhiyun is definitely unwilling to go?" Liang Chen was so determined, Tang Rui felt very strange, he was not sure of Xue Jiao, but it was Jiang Zhiyun who was so sure. In her eyes, the only communication between Jiang Zhiyun and Liang Chen was that Jiang Zhiyun would ask Liang Chen about historical issues every once in a while.
Liang Chen gestured for Tang Rui to bow his head and come over, and said in a low voice: "Because on Monday, when I was called by Lao Zeng to check the recitation of English words, Jiang Zhiyun and Teacher Mu personally said that she didn't want to participate in this New Year's Day performance. ”
Mr. Mu agreed. Tang Rui asked.
"What do you think?" Liang Chen asked rhetorically.
Tang Rui said with certainty: "I definitely don't agree!" ”
Liang Chen nodded and said, "What Teacher Mu means is that you can't just study, but also exercise yourself in other aspects. ”
"What about you?" Tang Rui asked Liang Chen.
"What am I?"
"You don't want to go, what did Mr. Mu tell you."
"Hey! What can Mr. Mu say, it is nothing more than that I am the class leader, and I have to take the responsibility of being the class leader. Liang Chen looked a little helpless.
"You're so reluctant!" Tang Rui asked.
"What do you say, the heart is in the Tianshan Mountains, the body is old in Cangzhou, and the body can't help itself!" Liang Chen stood up, patted Tang Rui's shoulder, and returned to his seat.
The sunshine has been very good these days, maybe it was a bargaining chip that Mr. Mu exchanged for Liang Chen from God. The New Year's Day show is one of the things that Liang Chen has resisted the most since he was in high school, it is like a thorn in Liang Chen's heart, eating, sleeping and attending classes always hurt him at a certain time, making him remember this annoyance.