Opening Ceremony + Commendation Conference
After the Lantern Festival, the new semester began, which was also their last semester in high school.
Every year, the opening ceremony and commendation meeting for the second semester of Xinghai No. 1 Middle School are held on the same day, mainly to give senior high school students more time to study.
At this opening ceremony, all the students lined up and stood in their respective class seats. Looking from the rostrum, the playground was full of cheerful and energetic students.
On the first day of school, every student's mood is always different. The most typical example is Shi Nannan. She is dejected as soon as she returns to the classroom, but becomes full of energy as soon as the get out of class is over.
In the student team of Class 6, Grade 3, Chen Xing stood in front of Shi Nannan. This time she was not late and was the first to arrive in the class. After all, it was the last opening ceremony of the high school.
At this moment, Chen Xing suddenly felt a little sad when he heard the last word.
Looking back to my freshman year of high school, I was looking forward to the end of my high school prison life almost every day. When that moment really came, I felt that time had passed so quickly.
Shi Nannan was really bored standing in the crowd and looked around.
Suddenly he approached Chen Xing and said from behind her, "Xingxing, have you seen Shen Xuyang? I looked around but didn't see him."
The class team was divided into two rows, with the girls standing in front and the boys behind them. They were all standing in order of height. Only Shen Xuyang, a special person who no one could control, could stand wherever he wanted.
In previous years, Shi Nannan could always see Shen Xuyang by looking behind her, after all, he had a huge height advantage.
Chen Xing leaned back slightly and said, "I haven't seen him today either."
The more Shi Nannan thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. "That's not right. Shen Xuyang never comes late on the first day of school."
Based on Shi Nannan's understanding of Shen Xuyang, he would never be late as long as the first class was not in the classroom.
Shi Nannan couldn't think of a reason no matter how hard she thought. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something had happened to Shen Xuyang. She even wondered if he had a car accident on the way.
Shi Nannan said with a worried look on her face: "Xingxing, Chen Xuyang hasn't come yet. Could something have happened to him?"
Shi Nannan's voice was a little loud this time, and the students around her could hear it. The students were already standing very close to each other, so even if they spoke in a low voice, they could still hear the sound.
Chen Xing was about to turn around to comfort Shi Nannan when Zhou Xiang, who was standing in the row in front of her, leaned back and said, "Shi Nannan, don't you know? Chen Xuyang went to see the dean."
Shi Nannan heard it and asked in confusion, "What?"
Xia Meimei, who was standing next to Zhou Xiang, said, "You really don't know. We thought you had a very good relationship with him, but he didn't even tell you this."
When Shi Nannan heard this, she thought, weren't Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei obviously trying to sow discord between her and Shen Xuyang?
Shi Nannan said, "Zhou Xiang, Xia Meimei, school has just started and I'm already in a bad mood. I don't want to deal with you two nagging. Tell me what you know!"
Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei have always liked to get involved, they are the type of people who add fuel to the fire.
Xia Meimei said: "Tsk! You want to know? Oh! I won't tell you."
Shi Nannan was provoked by Xia Meimei, and she got angry all of a sudden. She was about to cut in line, but was stopped by Chen Xing.
Chen Xing said, "Nannan, don't move. The teacher is watching you from behind."
Chen Xing stood in front of Shi Nannan and looked back, just in time to see the head teacher Dong Liang at the back through the gap in the middle.
Shi Nannan angrily pointed at Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei in front of her and said, "Hmph! You two, just wait!"
Shi Nannan didn't want to go to school in the first place, but Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei fanned the flames, which directly ignited her anger.
Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei were not afraid at all and were still laughing secretly in front of them when they suddenly heard the announcement from the rostrum that it was time for the student representatives to speak.
They couldn't wait to tiptoe to see Wen Yu appear.
Wen Yu was the one who gave the speech for outstanding students at the opening ceremony of each semester. As soon as he came on stage, the female students in the audience all applauded with all their might, which was completely different from the weak and powerless applause before him.
Shi Nannan deliberately said, "Humph! Even if you fly to the sky, Wen Yu won't even look at you twice."
Zhou Xiang turned around and gave Shi Nannan a look, saying, "We're happy to watch him, what's it to you?"
Xia Meimei interrupted again and said, "That's right, Shen Xuyang didn't tell you about such a big thing. It seems that your relationship is not that good."
Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei looked at each other happily. When they came to school in the morning, they saw Shen Xuyang entering the dean's office, and on a whim, they eavesdropped outside the door for a while.
If they hadn't eavesdropped, they wouldn't have known, but they got some great news on the first day of school and were so happy.
Shi Nannan really couldn't stand it anymore. Normally, she could just open her mouth and make Zhou Xiang and Xia Meimei cry and scream in anger, but now that she was blocked by these two people, those hurtful words suddenly flew out of her mind, and even her momentum was gone.
If Shi Nannan couldn't win the argument, she would roll up her sleeves. Every time she quarreled with others, Shen Xuyang would always appear before she started fighting, holding her hand, standing in front of her, supporting her and venting her anger.
But this time her sleeves were almost rolled up to her shoulders, and still no one appeared behind her. Shen Xuyang really wasn't coming.
Xia Meimei said, "Shi Nannan, what are you doing? This is the opening ceremony, all the teachers and students in the school are here. If you do anything, you will be pulled under the national flag and scolded."
Xia Meimei's words reminded Chen Xing of the last opening ceremony. Because she was late, she was brought in front of all the teachers and students in the school, made to stand under the national flag on the rostrum as punishment, and was also reprimanded as a negative example.
But it was also from that time that Wen Yu came into her sight and entered her world.
Now that I think about it, I don’t feel it’s a punishment at all, and it’s not even shameful.
Although Shi Nannan is not afraid of things and is not that thin-skinned, she has to save face and does not want to be famous in the whole school and become the laughing stock of the whole school this semester.
Shi Nannan was a little bit scared, but when she thought that Shen Xuyang was hiding something from her, and that something she didn't know was known by the two people she hated the most, she felt unbalanced.
Shi Nannan still didn't put down her arms, just as she stared at the two people in front of her with vicious eyes.
Suddenly someone grabbed her arm and turned her 180 degrees, facing all the boys behind her.
But he alone blocked Shi Nannan's entire view.
Shi Nannan raised her head slightly, and seeing the person in front of her, she said happily: "Chen Xuyang! Why are you here just now?"
Shen Xuyang did not answer immediately, but helped Shi Nannan pull down her rolled-up sleeves.
The only thing that was intimate on Shen Xuyang's expressionless face was his concern for Shi Nannan.
"Although it's spring now, the wind is still cold. Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
After Shen Xuyang finished speaking, he looked at Shi Nannan, who made him worry. She had an innocent look on her face. He stretched out his finger and poked Shi Nannan's forehead.
Shi Nannan touched her forehead and said in a tone of grievance and dissatisfaction: "Chen Xuyang! Why did you poke my head? I'm like this because..."
Shi Nannan couldn't utter the last word when she looked at Shen Xuyang in front of her.
She just felt that Shen Xuyang seemed a little strange. It was obviously only a few days since they last met, and they even chatted on the phone almost every night. But why did Shen Xuyang seem to become more serious and mature when they met this time?
His original nonchalant and indifferent attitude was gone, and the content of his words did not change, she could still guess it, but his tone had changed, becoming calm and unfamiliar.
Shen Xuyang suddenly said something that made Shi Nannan very strange.
He reached out and gently rubbed Shi Nannan's head. His tone was very soft and he even slowed down his pace. He said as if giving instructions: "Okay, from now on... I won't poke you anymore. I can't accompany you in class anymore. Don't be distracted in class either. This semester..."
Shi Nannan listened to Shen Xuyang's nonsensical words. She reached out and touched Shen Xuyang's forehead, but didn't feel that he had a fever.
Shi Nannan asked, "Chen Xuyang, are you okay? Why are you saying things I don't understand? What do you mean?"
Shen Xuyang pulled Shi Nannan's wrist, opened his mouth but stopped talking.
He just sighed and looked up at Wen Yu who had just finished speaking on the podium, then said, "You'll know in a moment."
Shi Nannan wanted to ask something else, "What do you mean by wait a while? How long is a wait a while?"
"You haven't told me why you came just now? Oh! Don't push me."
Before Shi Nannan could ask what she wanted to ask, Shen Xuyang put his hands on her shoulders and turned her 180 degrees back to her original direction.
The only difference is that Shen Xuyang is still standing behind Shi Nannan.
Shi Nannan was about to turn around and ask him, but Shen Xuyang's voice came from behind her.
"The commendation meeting is coming soon, be serious."
Shi Nannan was quiet for a few seconds, then changed her mind and felt that something was wrong with Shen Xuyang today, and he was not the kind of person who would let her keep quiet.
Shi Nannan said: "Chen Xuyang, what's wrong with you? If you continue like this, I will be angry?"
For the first time, Shi Nannan informed Shen Xuyang before she got angry. Was this considered giving him another chance to find out and coax her?
Shen Xuyang said, "I asked you to be quiet because I was worried that you wouldn't hear me when I called your name later."
Shi Nannan crossed her arms, frowned, and asked, "Huh? Calling my name? When have I ever had anything to do with ceremonies or conferences like this? I'm the type of person who watches others give speeches or receive awards and claps and applauds."
Shen Xuyang curved the corners of his lips and said, "Then listen carefully this time, I will definitely call your name."
Shi Nannan didn't believe it and said, "Tsk! Shen Xuyang, didn't you bring your brain with you when you went out today?"
"The opening ceremony is over, and my name won't be called again. Besides, how could I, a student with no qualifications, no qualifications, or no qualifications, be called up to give a speech?"
The "three no's" that Shi Nannan mentioned are names she named herself, namely no class position, which means she is just an idler in the class; no grades, which means her grades are at the bottom of the grade ranking and will be ignored; no contribution, which means she has never won any extra-curricular awards for the school, or been praised for doing good deeds.
"Also, I've always been ranked at the bottom of my grade and at the bottom of my class. How could I possibly be named at the commendation ceremony?"
"unless……"
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