There are two words in the northern dialects of the modern world, called "rooted" and "rootless", or as a question to ask others "do they have roots", which means to do things with or without a bottom in their hearts. Only those who have roots can have the confidence to speak and do things, and can proudly and confidently say that "there is no problem if they have roots"; those who have roots will also have a place for their souls, which may be the reason that Chinese people have to pay attention to the principle of returning to their roots since ancient times.

"For most people, home is undoubtedly our roots, but I don't have roots......"

When I was six years old, I left my hometown with my parents, left my friends to play with, and went to the city to attend primary school...... My parents said that we are called backgammon, and we can only achieve such a leap when we have a good future, but in the migration again and again, I only feel that I am just a "foreigner" everywhere I go, speaking a different dialect from other people, and having different memories. It didn't matter, I finally returned to my hometown after the college entrance examination, and the children in my hometown actually called me "from other places", and then I found that I had no hometown ...... anymore"

The girls on stage are talking about their experiences, a special session after the resumption of classes, where each of them gives a speech on the theme of "Roots".

Many students in the audience looked gloomy, as if they remembered a lot of unpleasant pasts.

When he left home, he returned to his hometown, and his hometown accent did not change, and his sideburns declined.

When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from.

I have been away from my hometown for a long time, and I have been half-worn recently.

Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze does not change the old waves.

Many people in the class also had similar experiences, transferring to another school, going to the city, and then transferring to another school, coming to a strange environment, just familiar but having to face parting, until finally they didn't even know their childhood playmates, and their childhood memories were no longer able to be trusted.

Yufeng only moved to Lingnan with his parents after graduating from junior high school, and did not experience the sudden separation from his classmates, but he still deeply understands the feeling of being far away from home, whenever other classmates talk and laugh in the local dialect, he will always feel inexplicably lonely, and even begin to miss the life of elementary school and junior high school that he thinks is not good. There, you always have to be careful when you speak and do things, for fear of being laughed at, which may be a sign of no foundation.

Children don't know each other, Yu Feng thought of a text "Hometown" that was often ridiculed by everyone in junior high school, Brother Xun returned to his hometown with great expectations, ready to catch up with his childhood playmate Runtu, such an idea was finally shattered by a respectful "master". At that time, when I studied the texts, I only felt bored, what class differences, what feudal ideas were too far away for students in the modern world, out of reach, but this kind of regret and melancholy of "the same people now belong to two worlds" can be perceived by people through the times.

Last year in this door today,

The peach blossoms on the human face are red.

The face of man does not know where to go,

The peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.

Things are not people, and since ancient times, how many literati and writers have been emotional, so if not only people, but even the grass and trees in their hometown have changed, I don't know how the wanderers feel?

When it was Yumi's turn to speak, she slowly walked up to the podium and revealed an astonishing message as soon as she opened her mouth - Kaori was actually her cousin.

Yumi and Kaori were born in a small town on the southeast coast, they were both relatives and playmates since childhood, and when they were young, their families raised cows, ducks, and sometimes fishing, and lived a peaceful and comfortable life.

Driven by the economic tide, many people in the town made a fortune by taking the lead and became rich, and their father moved the idea of going out to work, and then went abroad to Dongying, and the sisters were taken to this island country adjacent to China to receive education when they were five years old, and later they learned that their parents had gone through the divorce procedures at that time.

In order to be able to put down roots in a foreign country, they were given the name Toei and completed their middle school studies as Yumi and Kaori.

At the age of eighteen, the two girls asked to return to their hometown to meet their biological mother, and after a few days of tossing and turning, they finally set foot on the land again, but they were greeted by a different scene: the river was drying up, the bridge was turned into an ornament, the mountains and springs that were the favorite of the children of their childhood disappeared, the mooing of the ploughing cattle was inaudible, the smell of the earth dissipated after the rain, and the scene of the dog chasing butterflies in the field was blurred......

Instead, there was the roar of machinery in the town, the hum of a large truck full of cabinets, bed boards, and sofas as it passed by. At noon in the summer, they couldn't open their eyes because they were stabbed by something, and their neighbors told them that it was the formaldehyde in the paint, and many children in the village suffered from leukemia, and many villagers moved early and lived in buildings in the development zone.

Of course, they didn't get to see their biological mother, and the sisters stared blankly at this new town, and they finally understood that they could never go back to home.

Since then, the two have also become rootless people.

Meng Lin secretly wiped her tears, she may have remembered her divorced parents.

"Lie Yufeng, it's time for you to speak. Teacher Ouyang continued to roll call.

"I ...... I don't know where to start, I don't have a lot of stories about my roots, I can share stories about my hometown......" Yufeng organized the language, "I think hometown is not just a city or village name, it has our crying and laughter, there are traces of our walking, and there are our most precious memories. Even if these things are worthless in the eyes of others, they are still priceless to us, and we may have lost our roots to a greater or lesser extent, and now that we are bound to the world of nations, even more distant from our homes and families, in this sense, perhaps we should hate and even hate this Academy. But Senior Kosai told me that he didn't know why new students were constantly brought into this world every year, why he chose us to come to this world, he didn't know. But in these three months, I unconsciously began to regard the college as my hometown, my hometown in the world, my best friends as family, I wanted to protect everything I had, I wanted to continue living in this school, and these thoughts gradually took root and grew in my heart. Sometimes I think that maybe I belong to the world of nations. This morning, my roommate, Meng Lin, read a poem from my textbook that I wanted to end my speech. ”

The guest house and the state have been ten frosts, and the heart remembers Xianyang day and night.

For no reason, he crossed the mulberry and dry water, but he looked at the state as his hometown.

"Koko" dormitory

"I really didn't know that Yumi was Kaori's cousin, no wonder Kaori knew her so well. ”

"There are so many things you don't know, how can you tell you about the girl's past. Meng Lin said while bathing Baba, "You speak at a very good level today, hero." ”

"I also feel that the wind is very different from a few months ago. ”

"How...... Not the same?"

"I became brave and dared to take on many things. ”

"Maybe it's the environment that forced me to stand up. "Yufeng is very proud.

"Xiaoxue, don't always praise him, I was almost cheated by him when I went to the country this time, isn't it all the trouble caused by feeling good about myself?"

There was a knock on the door, and it was Yumi.

"Yufeng, I'm here...... Come and tell you my real name. ”

Yumi's original name was Zuoqiu Yanhan, and Kaori's name was Xiahou Yiran, and their father worked for the archaeological team in Dongying, and often traveled to East Asian countries. Yumi said before that someone in her family has been doing literature and history-related work for generations, and Yumi herself is also determined to study history, so she applied for the most famous liberal arts university in Toei, but the competition was too fierce, and she failed to do so, and then she received an admission notice from Fu Yang, Kaori is a person who doesn't care about academics, as long as she is with her sister.

"Why don't you use your real name?"

"Because it makes us stagnant because we miss the past too much, in fact, because of the weakness of my heart...... Yufeng said that you want to protect your new hometown and new family, so am I one of them?"

"Absolutely. ”

"Then I'll be relieved!" Yumi got up to say goodbye, "I'm very happy, it seems like I've found a sense of roots." ”

......

"Yumi, this is a blatant challenge, Koyuki. ”

"Well, I can already feel Meng Lin's fighting spirit. ”

"Not really!"