Back in the dormitory, she looked at the ticket in her hand and calculated: Liang Jing must go, otherwise it would be meaningless to sit there alone. The remaining two tickets can be given to Ye Feng so that he can come with Liang Jing. But what about the one ticket left?

She didn't want to invite Wang Yi, for fear that he would cause Qin Hong to be displeased, and she didn't want Wang Yi to misunderstand. She flipped through the tickets, wondering who was the best candidate for the last vacant seat.

"Admission to the law school graduation ceremony?" Sun Wei didn't know when he was standing behind her, staring at the ticket in her hand and said.

"It seems to be quite rare." Wu Yun also came over, picked up one and looked at it, "This weekend's?" ”

"I'm free on the weekend." Sun Wei announced.

"I have it too." Wu Yun also followed, "Let's go together, it should be a dormitory activity - also called Liang Jing." ”

The problem was resolved in a few minutes. The two roommates each took a ticket from Chen Ying's hand and put it in their drawer, and then they took a bath with a basin, and sang the latest popular songs together as they went down the stairs.

"That's a good arrangement." Chen Ying thought. She picked up her phone and texted Ms. Liang to tell her about the graduation ceremony.

The graduation ceremony was held in the school's largest centennial auditorium. Chen Ying skipped a morning class for the first time, and even Liang Jing was surprised by this. With tickets in hand, the four girls mixed in the crowd and walked towards the largest auditorium. A lot of people are taking pictures, and many more are wearing bachelor's, master's or doctor's gowns. The sun is blazing outside the door, the heat of early summer is steaming, and the activity in the sun is like being scorched. Sun Wei and Wu Yun met a few acquaintances, and they exchanged information and disappeared into the flow of people. Liang Jing led Chen Ying and followed the team that entered the hall to move forward step by step, looking for a seat in the chaos.

"I didn't expect so many law school graduates." Liang Jing said with emotion.

It was impossible to find Qin Hong in such a chaotic crowd. Chen Ying had to give up after a few attempts and sat quietly on the red velvet cushion. The auditorium was air-conditioned, and banners congratulating the graduation of the XX class of law students hung in front of them, and the graduates sat closest to the center of the podium, with a crowd of spectators gathered in the back, many of whom set up tripods and took pictures with professional cameras as thick as cannon barrels.

After a while, the auditorium was darkened, and the dean of the law school and all the professors took their seats on the stage in turn. The audience erupted in thunderous applause and whistles.

"Probably only law school graduation ceremonies are so lively!" Wu Yun didn't know when he sat next to Chen Ying and shouted in cheers. Chen Ying noticed that she and Sun Wei were wearing heavy makeup today, and the style of their clothes was not the same as usual.

"Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet. The graduation ceremony will begin immediately. The presenter, dressed in a crisp suit, said with a microphone. His deep voice was heard through a megaphone to every corner of the auditorium, and the excitement of the crowd quickly calmed down. The way he spoke reminded Chen Ying of what she had when she participated in Model United Nations.

"I know everyone is very happy and happy today, but we still have to exercise a little restraint so that the ceremony can go according to the regulations." He comforted everyone that the red flowers in the upper left corner of the suit were particularly conspicuous. Someone shouted his name from the audience. He smiled and continued, "Now I have the dean of the law school to speak. ”

The dean was a respectable old man with gray hair pressed under a black doctor's hat. His appearance caused the audience to boil, many people stood up and cheered, the long guns and short cannons in the aisle kept making shutter sounds, flashing lights everywhere, and many people raised their mobile phones to record the video. After this commotion, the dean began to speak:

“…… I used to think that this period was a very long time, and now it has been saved and packed. Four years ago (maybe two years ago, three years ago, maybe ten years ago), in late summer and early fall, you timidly walked into this campus. Time is like a steamed bun just out of the drawer, full and steaming......"

When Chen Ying heard this, she felt that her life was condensed. She remembers how she came to campus two years ago with a schoolbag and a trolley suitcase. She was still wearing her summer school uniform from high school that day, the red one. She didn't find anyone on campus to receive her, so she went to the dormitory to check in first. Then according to the campus manual, I searched for a cafeteria according to the map, and I was busy all afternoon. Time always passes quietly, and in an unconscious moment, life turns into the next bend, and then looking back is even more wrong.

“…… No matter how much you yearn for the distance at this moment, look forward to the future, and are about to leave a foreign country, or even cross the ocean. Please believe me, after many years, your smooth face has become rough, your slender waist has become bloated, and on a snowy twilight or drizzly morning, you will never know why, you softly think of this campus that has made your heart ache......"

Chen Ying's thoughts drifted out again. Her stack of pink visa application forms for the embassy was still in the shelves of the dormitory, and promotional materials for the exchange had just arrived a few days earlier. A few months ago, she was so eager to go to Europe, not necessarily to wander around, even if it was just a passerby, to see around this land connected to the Asian continent. The determination, which had been so strong the night before, seemed a little vague in this moment.

"Bless you! Law School blesses you! ”

With cheers resounding through the auditorium, the dean stepped off the podium. Then the president of the student council of the college took the stage and began to show the photos collected from the previous activities of the students. The slides were projected onto a curtain on the podium. Chen Ying saw that Qin Hong was present in almost every undergraduate activity. They took a group photo next to the inscription stone of Tianshan Tianchi, in front of the yurt of HLBE, prayed in front of the Shaolin Temple, and lingered on the side of the Shu Road in Bashan. Every picture of a boating has him rocking his oars, and every picture of a beach has him piling sand. Chen Ying looked at the screen and heard the girls in front of the stage collectively shouting his name. He stood up excitedly, and several girls gathered around him to take pictures.

"I want to go out and breathe." Chen Ying whispered to Liang Jing, and walked up to the side aisle with her waist bent. The emotional crowd was rushing to the front desk, and she scrambled to dodge, trying not to touch anyone.