Chapter 398 Inspiring Speech
Ye Rou stood on the stage, in front of everyone, looking at them.
Fifty years later, China will be prosperous, peaceful and rich.
And now, these students sitting in the audience are the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, and they are also the foundation for the future prosperity of the motherland.
Most of these students wore black, dark blue, and gray clothes. In the gray darkness, the only bright color was their eyes.
Expectant, longing, burning gaze.
Ye Rou suddenly felt ashamed. Why should she stand here representing these students?
She was able to get high scores because she came from fifty years later and had accumulated enough knowledge. In addition, the rewards from the system expanded her brain.
Ye Rou cannot represent anyone, and her so-called learning experience cannot really help these students.
There was only one thing that made her different from them.
She came from China fifty years from now and saw the future prosperity of her motherland.
Ye Rou suddenly put down the speech manuscript in her hand, stood in front of the microphone, took a deep breath, and said, "Allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Ye Rou, and I am a freshman majoring in Traditional Chinese Medicine in the medical school."
"Principal Ji asked me to share my learning experiences, growth experiences, and success stories that helped me achieve high scores. I hope this will set an example for the students and inspire their learning motivation and ambition. But I don't think that's what the students sitting here need."
There was a commotion from the audience.
The school leaders and teachers were all on the second floor. Principal Ji's seat was facing the stage, and next to him sat the old principal Zheng Daozu.
Zheng Daozu's face turned ugly after Ye Rou walked onto the stage.
Hearing this now, he couldn't stand it anymore and said to Ji Chunming, "You're just going to let her do this?"
Ji Chunming smiled slightly and stopped the head teacher who was about to go downstairs.
He smiled and said, "Uncle Zheng, you are old, and I am old too, but these students are still young, and young people understand young people, so we old guys should not get involved."
Zheng Daozu frowned and looked at Ji Chunming.
He lowered his eyes to look at the stage and smiled faintly, but Zheng Daozu suddenly couldn't see through him.
Sitting among the students, Zhao Jinmei tightly grasped Jia Wenzhen's hand and said in an unsteady voice, "Wenzhen, I suddenly feel a little excited."
Jia Wenzhen sat up and stared at the girl on the stage.
She felt the same way as Zhao Jinmei.
"I'm not here today to be anyone's role model. I just want to ask you a question."
Ye Rou stood under the headlights, her skin as white as snow. Her eyes were dark as she asked earnestly, "What will China be like in fifty years? Have you ever thought about it?"
The audience was completely silent, and the students looked at each other in confusion.
"I have thought about it, or perhaps I have seen it with my own eyes."
Ye Rou raised her head and said to everyone, "That is a tremendous change. It is a China that we cannot even imagine today."
She took off the microphone, walked off the stage, and asked, "Are there any students from the south, such as Qiongzhou or eastern Guangdong?"
Someone suddenly raised her hand. It was a girl, thin and small, with clothes covered in patches. "Wa, Wa is from Qiongzhou."
The Qiongzhou accent attracted everyone's attention, but no one laughed.
Ye Rou said slowly, "Don't be nervous. I just want to ask you a question. How long did it take you to get from Qiongzhou to Jing City? What means of transportation did you take?"
The girl thought for a moment and said, "It took almost half a month. I took my family's ox cart, then a boat, and then a train and a bus. Then I walked for a long time."
Everyone comes this way and no one thinks there is anything wrong with it.
They looked at Ye Rou, curious why she asked that.
Ye Rou: "What if I say that one day, it will only take a few hours to get from Qiongzhou to Jingshi?"
"Why is An so tired?" The girl couldn't believe it and was the first to express doubt.
One of the students asked, "Are you talking about airplanes? I've seen them in the newspaper, but who can afford to fly on one?"
Ye Rou smiled and said, "We can't afford it now, but fifty years from now, flying will no longer be something to brag about, but just a very common thing in the lives of ordinary people."
"If I say there will be a train in the future that can reach 350 kilometers per hour, or even 100 kilometers per hour, would you think I'm bragging?"
The students who were preparing backstage all crowded at the stage entrance and listened along with the students in the audience.
"If I say there's a communication tool that's the size of a palm and very thin, but you can use it to get news from all over the world and make video calls to your loved ones anywhere in the world anytime, every household and every person will have it."
Ye Rou returned to the stage and raised the microphone. Her voice was amplified countless times, and it was particularly shocking in the spacious auditorium.
"Fifty years from now, China will become the world's second-largest economy, accounting for one-sixth of the global economy. Extreme poverty will be eradicated, and eating meat will no longer be a luxury. Hong Kong and Macau will return to the embrace of the motherland, and no country will dare to challenge us militarily. The country will be rich, the people will be strong, and prosperity will flourish. Westerners will call this transformation a miracle, a red miracle."
Everyone was so aroused by this idea that their breathing became unstable, their eyes turned red, and they got goose bumps layer after layer. Then their blood boiled and their whole body trembled.
"The future of China will be even more splendid and powerful than anyone can imagine. And this is not a distant future, but only fifty years away."
Ye Rou looked at everyone.
"Who will be able to accomplish all this in the future China?"
Everyone raised their arms and cheered, their voices rasping and breaking with excitement.
"It's us!"
"It's us!"
The cheers of the people swept through the auditorium like waves.
Ye Rou asked again: "What can we do for our motherland?"
"Study for the rise of China! Contribute to the prosperity of the motherland!" A boy suddenly stood up and shouted excitedly.
There was a moment of silence in the auditorium, and then an even louder noise erupted!
All the students in the auditorium stood up and shouted in unison:
"Study for the rise of China and contribute to the prosperity of our motherland!"
The heat wave was overwhelming, and the roaring sounded enough to nearly blow the roof of the auditorium off.
Even the teachers on the second floor stood up and shouted.
Zhao Long and Fang Zhuang in the audience were carrying cameras and filming like crazy.
Ye Rou mobilized everyone's enthusiasm, making this opening ceremony an unforgettable memory for everyone.
The people in the art troupe backstage were also infected and started cheering.
Surrounded by enthusiasm, Zhu Bingying looked extremely ugly.
Teacher Wen stood in the corner, his gentle and admiring gaze all focused on Ye Rou.
Obviously, all of this should belong to her, all the cheers and Teacher Wen’s appreciation should belong to her!
The student representative she rejected made Ye Rou successful and also stole Teacher Wen's attention!
This thought is like a little bug, gnawing at your bones and heart.
The ropes that controlled the curtain were right in front of her, within her reach, but at this moment, only the stage lights were on, so no one would see her actions.
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