"Leaders, teachers, and students, good morning! The city-level elementary school knowledge competition has concluded. Now we begin the awards ceremony. First, we invite Comrade Jiang Zongda from the General Education Section of the Municipal Education Bureau to give a speech. Everyone, please welcome."
The applause of hundreds of people filled the auditorium.
The microphone on the podium was moved to a middle-aged man, who briefly talked about the purpose of holding the competition and ended his speech.
After he finished, he received even louder applause. Zhou Xiang guessed that the applause was an encouragement for his conscientiousness in speaking.
"Second item, please allow Principal Chang of the Second Elementary School, the organizer of this event, to speak."
Perhaps because the previous speech was so brief, Principal Chang threw away the manuscript, stood up and took the microphone.
"Hello, leaders of the Education Bureau, teachers, and students! This competition has shown style, marked a new starting point, and reached new heights.
I have seen all the test papers and none of them were difficult before. However, this year there was still a grand slam. From the preliminaries to the finals, I was always in the lead with full marks.
She is a contestant from a rural town. She chooses to study at home and helps her parents with housework while studying at home.
Diligence, effort, struggle and enterprising spirit are all shining in her. She is Zhou Xiang, a girl from Xu Town, Huai County.
Please invite Zhou Xiang to come to the stage and talk about your self-study experience.
Zhou Xiang glared at Liu Xuewen. It must be him who was causing trouble inside. No wonder he disappeared for a while just now.
Liu Xuewen took the lead in applauding, and Zhou Yizhou followed suit, clapping loudly.
Zhou Xiang walked to the podium helplessly and took the microphone from the host.
"Hello, leaders, teachers, and students. Actually, I didn't know there was a stage speech, so I'll just say a few words.
I believe that there is no shortcut to learning, and you can never rely on cleverness. Yes, I did take leave to study at home due to housework. During the self-study process, I often think divergently and think about deeper levels, so I borrowed junior high school books to read.
After hearing this, you may think that I have already read the junior high school books, and I am bullying you if I compete with you. In fact, although this test paper involves junior high school question types, it is just an extension of elementary school knowledge.
You spend more time studying in school than I do, so why don’t you learn as quickly or as thoroughly as I do?
Because you are lazy. There is a path to the mountain of books through diligence, and the sea of learning is endless and requires hard work. Diligence and hard work are clearly pointed out here, but how many people have done it?
Everyone only learned what the teacher taught and completed the homework assigned by the teacher.
Please understand that learning is for ourselves, not for our parents or teachers.
I write in pencil in my exercise book. After finishing, I erase it and do it again. After I finish memorizing a book, I will recite it again a few days later. These are the principles of reviewing the old to learn new things!
My self-study experience is based on these two principles, which are well-known truths! There is nothing special about them, that's all. Thank you everyone!
Zhou Xiang nodded to the audience and returned the microphone to the host. The audience immediately burst into applause, which lasted for a long time. The host shouted several times into the microphone before the applause stopped.
"I know that your applause contains joy, encouragement, guilt, and pride. Yes, Zhou Xiang is the pride of all rural primary schools in towns and villages.
Students in rural primary schools have a very hard life. In order to take care of their families, some people drop out of school after the fourth or fifth grade to help with housework, even if they love reading.
So, for those students who are in towns and don’t have to do housework and just need to focus on their studies, are you focusing on your studies? "
The host's heart-wrenching question caused the audience to fall silent immediately.
Most people lowered their heads.
"Alright, let's begin the awards ceremony. Third place goes to Xia Zhihai from Yuan County, and second place goes to Jiang Keshi from Gu County. Please come up to the stage to receive your awards."
The two boys went up to the rostrum, and the leaders of the Education Bureau awarded them certificates of honor and prizes, and took photos of them. The two boys left the rostrum and the host continued.
"Please invite the first place winner, Zhou Xiang, to come up to the stage to receive the award. Our Deputy Mayor Zhou Zuoping will present the award."
Zhou Xiang was slightly stunned, and several people from the Education Bureau on the rostrum were also stunned for a moment, and immediately stood up to greet him.
The people in the audience also stood up.
Zhou Xiang hurried up to the podium.
The deputy mayor came over from the backstage with a smile on his face and walked to the podium.
He took the certificate of honor handed over by the Municipal Education Bureau, which acted as a ceremonial officer, and handed it to Zhou Xiang, who immediately took it with both hands.
Then came the trophy. Zhou Xiang could only take it with one hand. Seeing the deputy mayor extending his hand, he quickly transferred the two things into one hand and hugged it in his arms.
He stretched out his right hand and shook hands with the family from five hundred years ago.
"Congratulations to Zhou Xiang!"
"Thank you, Deputy Mayor Zhou!"
The photographer's camera kept clicking.
Zhou Zuoping nodded secretly. Although the little girl was startled by his sudden arrival, she quickly calmed down and accepted his congratulations calmly.
After presenting the awards, the deputy mayor left. He appeared briefly, leaving behind a scene of amazement.
Everyone in the audience was sighing at Zhou Xiang's luck, as the deputy mayor came to inspect and awarded him a prize.
Only Zhou Xiang noticed the arrogant smile on Zhou Yizhou's face.
She walked down from the podium, holding the glittering golden trophy, and placed the trophy and certificate of honor in front of him. "You did this?"
The tone was affirmative.
Zhou Yizhou nodded and whispered, "He wants to meet you. Isn't this an opportunity?"
"Now, please invite the Huai County Education Bureau to come on stage to receive the Best Contribution Award." The award ceremony continued.
The greasy uncle was so angry that he gritted his teeth. These honors should have belonged to Gu County.
Liu Xuewen walked up to the podium with his head held high and chest puffed out, accepting the certificate of honor from the Municipal Education Bureau. It wasn't easy! This competition had been held for five years, and this was the first time he'd won a prize.
"After the award ceremony, the top ten students will participate in the provincial competition in June. The specific time will be announced separately. Go back and prepare well."
Liu Xuewen accepted the congratulations from the people around him with a flushed face. Zhou Xiang pulled Zhou Yizhou away quickly and was almost drowned by the crowd.
After returning to the hotel, Zhou wanted to ask the waiter to open the door of the room and pick up his things.
"Hurry up, I don't know what's next! I'm tired of dealing with all those fake favors."
Zhou wanted to hide the trophy and certificate of honor under his clothes, and Zhou Yizhou took the bag.
"Come on, I drove here."
Taking Zhou Xiang all the way east, we turned left after leaving the street and saw a jeep parked on the side of the road.
After getting in the car, Zhou Xiang asked, "Where are we going?"
"Let's go to the building first and talk about something."
Zhou Xiang nodded.
A few minutes later, we arrived at the family building area.
After opening the door, Zhou Xiang sat down on the sofa and said, "What's the matter? Tell me!"
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