Zhou Yu didn't take it seriously at all. He looked up at the three-good students raising the national flag with a nonchalant look, listened absentmindedly to the principal's endless talk, and watched the students who went up to the stage to receive their awards and ran away with smiles.
Xiao Shuangning lowered her head in shame, wishing she could bury her head in the ground.
"Ningning, why are you lowering your head? You can't bear not to take a look at such a lively opening ceremony?" Zhou Yu pulled Xiao Shuangning's sleeve, shamelessly asking her to be shameless with him.
"Do you think everyone has a face as thick as yours, thicker than a city wall? No wonder my brother wouldn't let me be friends with you. Now I understand his good intentions. I, Zhang Shuangning, have completely lost face today, and it's all your fault."
"What's so embarrassing about this? It's so nice to stand side by side with the flag-raising platform." Zhou Yu looked up at the red flag above his head, with no trace of shame on his face.
For a student like him, standing in the corner as punishment was child's play. He had already experienced many hardships and was immune to all kinds of poisons.
Xiao Shuangning ignored him. She felt that it was impossible to communicate normally with Zhou Yu. Talking to him was like talking to a cow and a waste of words.
She just hoped that the opening ceremony would end quickly so that she could leave here quickly.
The principal finished his irrelevant remarks and began the award ceremony, presenting prizes to students who had achieved excellent results in the previous semester as encouragement.
"Now, our school has specially prepared certificates and prizes for the top five students in the final exam last semester. We hope they will continue to work hard and achieve even better results in their future studies. We also hope that all students in the school can take them as role models and learn from them."
The principal spoke a lot into the microphone, and then, starting from the first grade, he called out the names of the students one by one and distributed the prizes to them.
Second grade, third grade, fourth grade...
Each grade is divided into one batch, and the materials are distributed in batches.
Soon it was the sixth grade's turn, and the first name the principal called was, of course, Zhang Shuangning, who ranked first in the grade.
"Jiang Lin and Zhong Luxia from Class 1, Grade 6; Leng Jin from Class 2, Grade 6; Huang Xun and Zhang Shuangning from Class 3, Grade 6, please come to the stage to receive your certificates and prizes."
As soon as the principal finished speaking, the students whose names were called walked up to the podium.
Although Xiao Shuangning lowered her head, her ears were still sharp, and she clearly heard her name. However, unlike the other students, she did not confidently walk up to the podium. Instead, she looked up and looked for her homeroom teacher. Without the homeroom teacher's permission, how could she, a person under punishment, dare to go to the glorious podium without permission?
"Hey! What are you doing? Didn't I call your name? Why don't you go upstairs?" Seeing that she didn't understand, Zhou Yu urged her.
She ignored Zhou Yu and continued to look around for her head teacher.
The principal looked at the students walking up and noticed at a glance that one person was missing.
In order to find out who was missing from the stage, he picked up the list and quietly called out the names, "Jiang Lin?"
"arrive!"
The principal looked up and continued to call the roll: "Zhong Luxia?"
"arrive!"
Just as the principal was about to continue with the roll call, Huang Xun, who was in the same class as Zhang Shuangning, raised his hand and interrupted him, "Principal, are you trying to see who's missing?"
"That's right!" The principal gave Huang Xun an admiring look, thinking that Huang Xun was better at observing people's expressions!
"It's Zhang Shuangning from our class." Huang Xun replied.
The principal didn't say much, nor did he ask Huang Xun why Zhang Shuangning wasn't there. He just picked up the microphone and shouted to the audience, "Student Zhang Shuangning, please come to the podium."
The principal paused for a moment, and seeing that no one came up, he continued to call out Xiao Shuangning's name, "Zhang Shuangning, Zhang Shuangning..."
There was a lot of noise in the audience, especially the students in Class 3, Grade 6, who were talking and whispering to each other.
Zhang Shuangning looked at the podium from afar. She was really anxious, but she couldn't find her class teacher.
At this moment, their homeroom teacher came out of the bathroom and heard the principal's shouts. She then turned her gaze towards Zhang Shuangning, and their eyes met unexpectedly.
Xiao Shuang stared at the head teacher, waiting for the head teacher to speak.
The head teacher didn't think much of it. Although she was still angry, she felt that this was a matter of honor for her, so how could she let Xiao Shuangning be absent? She winked at Xiao Shuangning, signaling her to hurry up.
After getting the consent of her homeroom teacher, Zhang Shuangning ran up to the podium with her head down in embarrassment.
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