The red stage cloth is particularly thick.
The table in front of the stage cloth looks particularly lonely.
When Xiaoqi walked onto the stage, there was no warm applause like the tenth contestant Tang Baolin had received. After all, this was Qingmeng University, and few people knew her.
People are still somewhat curious about Enhua University. After all, it is a rare second-tier private university. There are many private universities in China, but there are very few genuine second-tier universities.
Xiaoqi's roommates were sitting in the back of the stage, watching Xiaoqi go on stage. Mier clapped hard, but it didn't lead the way, and the applause was sparse.
They also felt a lot of pressure at this time. Before coming, they thought Xiaoqi would be able to do it, and even had confidence that Xiaoqi would take first place. After all, Xiaoqi always brought them miracles, even breaking records in marathon running.
But after watching the speeches of each contestant, even Xiaoqi's number one fan, Mi'er, became a little uncertain. The students of Qingmeng University are really too strong, each one is better than the other. They originally thought that since they are all college students, they should be about the same, but in fact, there is a huge gap.
Think about it, others got into Qingmeng University with more than 600 points, and you got into Enhua with more than 400 points. The difference in college entrance examination scores is more than 200 points. Even the worst student at Qingmeng University is better than you.
Especially with the tragic contrast between the students of Qingmeng University and those of other universities, they are becoming less and less confident, and even Yunshu's silly face seems to be even more silly.
Wei Cheng also puffed up her cheeks, looked serious, and was extremely nervous, as if she was the one going on stage.
On the other side, several of Lin Min's roommates saw Xiao Qi coming on stage, nudged Lin Min and whispered, "Fuck, your girl is so pretty, on par with Tang Baolin. No wonder you have no interest in Tang Baolin at all."
Xiaoqi did not put on makeup. Although the auditorium was a small stage and the distance was relatively far, makeup would make her face look clearer and more three-dimensional. However, considering the content of her speech, she felt that she might find it difficult to control her emotions during the speech and might shed tears, which would make her makeup smudged, even more strange.
The theme of her speech was "Be a useful person to society". She said this to her roommates during a night talk in the dormitory. She wanted to be a useful person to society and a valuable person.
The original draft was based on her own life experiences, mostly childhood experiences. When recalling them, Xiaoqi still cries easily. Many people say that childhood misfortunes require a lifetime to heal, and some people spend their entire lives healing their childhood misfortunes.
If it weren't for the transformation that happened later, Xiaoqi felt that she might have lived a different life. She would not have gone to college, but would have gone to work, just like other girls in the village. When she reached a certain age, she would have considered getting married and negotiated for a bride price. The poorer the place, the higher the bride price. She would have married an equally poor person and repeated her parents' life. Then she might have had children. If the child had good grades, he would have to continue to go to school and apply for subsidies. The company could not provide very good conditions, and everything depended on his luck. If the child's grades were not good, he would not go to school and would continue to go out to work.
Repeat it for a lifetime, forever.
She didn't want this to happen. There was a seed in her heart, which she didn't know when it was planted, but it had been trying hard to take root, sprout and grow. She wanted to move forward and progress. She wanted to move upward. She wanted to go out. She wanted to get out of her own class. She wanted to explore the class above hers and the class above that. She wanted to be a more useful and valuable person. She had to keep working hard and move forward.
Xiaoqi's spoken English is very good, better than Tang Baolin's, but her voice is not as sweet as hers. She was not nervous when she stood on the stage. In fact, she was very emotional at the moment and had ignored the nervousness. She did not smile from the time she came on stage until the beginning of her speech. She was a little serious, which inexplicably made people feel that her aura was very strong. Although there was no applause from the audience, there was no whispering or chatting like other contestants. It was very quiet.
Even the judges looked at it intently.
"I was born in a very poor mountain village. When I drank bottled water for the first time in fourth grade, I thought it was a prank. How could something that cost one yuan taste like water?... My father was disabled and limped. No one called him by his name, but Su Quezi. Even his mother called him that.... That year during Chinese New Year, I received an apple and a sausage. I thought they were the most delicious things in the world..."
Xiaoqi told the story in this way, and she shed tears as she spoke. She was telling a story, her own story, about her experience of walking from Gumula Village in the deep mountains, to Huanghe Town, then to Lushan City, and then to Mengshi City.
Her failures, her successes, her efforts, her sadness, her anger, her grievances, her persistence, until today, standing on this stage.
There was no funny thing when she spoke, although some of the things she said seemed a little funny, but besides being funny, she was also sad.
At this moment, every student and every teacher was brought into that scene. They cried when Xiaoqi cried, but they were not crying for Xiaoqi. Most of them were crying for themselves, because the experiences described by the little girl on the stage, a part, a small part, were things they did not want to recall, and the softest and most fragile corners of their hearts.
Wei Cheng cried very sadly. She thought about herself. Before going to college, she thought she could not make it. She even wanted to work in a factory. She even contacted a factory, a garment factory.
Mi'er thought about the grievances she suffered at home. Her family favored boys over girls, and her brother always got priority.
Lian Yunshu felt very depressed. She wanted to have a more independent life instead of having her parents arrange everything for her. Also, she knew that her father had another woman outside. She knew it a long time ago. She had seen her mother cry secretly, and then act like nothing happened and show her love.
Lin Min's mind was filled with a dark tunnel that would never end. He felt like a maggot, buried in the deep darkness.
The judges were older and recalled the past years, the tragic experiences, and much more.
Even the happy Tang Baolin cried. She seemed to see the hardship and sadness of herself being forced by her mother to choose ballet and play the piano.
The second female contestant who only received 5.9 points cried the most miserably. She felt so sad. Tonight was her embarrassing Shura field.
Xiaoqi continued his speech.
With tears still on her face, she expressed her wish. Even after experiencing so many bad things, she still wanted to be a good person, a person who was useful to society. She had been working towards this goal.
At the end, she spoke with a strong voice and passion, because this was not just a speech, but a goal and aspiration that she was willing to work hard for the rest of her life, and even her lifelong goal.
Everyone who cried seemed to feel that power.
Maybe not strong enough, but firm enough and powerful enough.
It seems like a soft seed has been planted in everyone's heart, and this seed will take root, sprout and grow over time.
Xiaoqi finished his speech and bowed and left the stage.
No applause.
It was not until she sat back in her seat and it was a long time later that people reacted and applauded. This time the applause was thunderous and very uniform, even more uniform, louder and longer-lasting than when the tenth contestant came on stage.
The judges rubbed their eyes while giving scores.
There are many people who haven't cried for a long time. It's not that life is really smooth sailing and there is no need to cry, but that they feel crying is cowardly and don't want to face their own cowardice. No matter what, they have to smile.
But today's speech made almost all the audience cry.
The final score is 9.7 points.
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