"Students, be quiet."

A middle-aged man walked onto the stage and held the microphone to start speaking. "Today is a city-wide high school student speech competition held by our Municipal Education Bureau. The outstanding students and teachers in our city were gathered here. Of course, we are also honored to invite the leaders in the city..."

"Next, please ask Secretary Shu to speak to me."

I don’t know if it’s the leader or the host, but the host who is working as a host took the lead in applauding after speaking, and for a moment, the entire lecture hall was filled with applause.

Shu Ang stood up in applause, walked to the stage, took the microphone, and turned around to face his eyes.

"Hello, classmates."

I don’t know who led it, but applause came out from the audience.

Shu Ang pressed his hand and the applause stopped quickly. He looked around at the young faces below, then turned slightly and pointed to the big words "Yunlong City High School Students' 'Patriotic Education' Speech Competition" on the screen behind.

"The theme of our speech contest is 'patriotism'. I know that many students, whether they are on stage or listening in the audience, can carefully understand the word 'patriotism', listen carefully, understand what the students who are speaking, study hard, and love the motherland."

"Okay, please give a speech by the classmates."

After Shu Ang finished speaking, he handed the microphone to the host standing on the edge of the podium. The latter quickly came over and took it over. When Shu Ang returned to his seat with applause, he looked at his hand card and said, "Next, I'll invite today's No. 1 contestant, Zhao Yafang from Class 4, Grade 2, High School, and welcome him with applause."

Fan Tingting sat in the other aisle, stood up and walked onto the stage with her speech in small steps. She looked obviously a little nervous, but she tried hard to relax herself during the process of taking the stage.

Following the host's instructions, she came to the speech table located in the center of the podium, put down the speech, took a deep breath, greeted the microphone in front, and then gave a speech without any manuscript according to the content I had practiced for countless times.

Fang Chang'an thought below: "Zhao Yafang is the second prize and is arranged in the first place. There may be a certain arrangement in it. The school wants to save face, but I am afraid that I will not perform steadily when I go to the stage, so I put the second place in the first place, and I will lean back as the first place."

"It's a pity that I never thought of giving a good speech."

Everyone's speech time is still limited to fifteen minutes, but the teacher has given advice, try not to exceed ten minutes, and don't whisper for five minutes. This is the real time requirement.

The first three students were undoubtedly very "mastering" and kept their time to about six to eight minutes at the same time.

When the boy from No. 3 from the No. 1 Middle School bent down and finished his curtain call, Liu Bei, Mao Shanshan, Song Tang and Cheng Juan, who were sitting inside, looked here and gave him a cheerful gesture.

Shen Mo and Wang Ke no longer became angry with him and whispered "Come on."

"Next, I'll invite contestant No. 4, Fang Chang'an, who is from Class 12, Grade 2, High School in the City. I'll invite you to applause."

Fang Changan waved his hand and signaled to receive it. Then he stood up and walked to the podium with empty hands amid applause. The students of No. 1 Middle School were already accustomed to his "confidence", while the students of other students were somewhat surprised.

Even if they are already very skilled, most of the students participating in the competition will still take their speeches if they are allowed. After all, no one can guarantee that they will not get stuck in such a situation.

"He's so confident."

In the seats of a county No. 1 Middle School student who was a little behind the city No. 1 Middle School, Li Ya turned her head to Wang Yuwei with a little surprised expression.

Wang Yuwei nodded without saying a word, turned her head and looked in the direction of Shen Mo and Wang Ke, then turned to the stage, her eyes no longer moving.

Fang Changan did not walk behind the lecture table like several speakers just now. He walked to the table, reached out to pick up the microphone on the table, then turned around and faced the audience with more than 200 people under the stage.

"Hello, students, teachers, and all the leaders here."

Fang Changan said hello briefly, but the sound was not loud, but with the addition of the microphone, it was still enough to spread throughout the lecture hall.

After saying that, Fang Changan did not give the audience a chance to applaud the audience, and the audience did not mean to applaud. He continued: "I have prepared for nearly half a month for today's speech. The speech was revised over and over again, some of which I modified myself, and some of which the class teacher helped me modify."

This opening made many people in the audience a little confused, some people were excited and smelled the breath of playing cards that were not based on common sense. Some people appreciated it, and some people instinctively felt displeased.

The leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau are undoubtedly disliked. Within the system, there are now major leaders above. There is no doubt that they hope this is a regular and steady speech contest, and they do not like any unstable factors.

However, the student on stage has not said anything, and there are no inappropriate remarks, nor have they said anything.

Song Changxian sat in the third row, frowning involuntarily. With more than a year of experience in dealing with him, he instinctively felt a little uneasy and smelled a bad smell.

"But I just heard a few words from Secretary Shu, and I don't want to say them according to the prepared speech."

"The topic of my speech I originally prepared was "How Should We Be Patriotic". Now I want to briefly talk about my personal thoughts on the topic of "patriotism".

After saying this, Song Changxian could hardly help but stand up and call Fang Chang'an down, but as soon as this thought flashed through, he realized that there was no place for him to speak here. He immediately stopped this impulse and looked at the second row of the teaching director Tang Pengfei, who was sparsely haired head.

Tang Pengfei also frowned, looked back at Song Changxian, confirming that this was not a "trick" he had discussed with the students. His brows became deeper and looked at the principal Zhang Junhui in the first row.

Zhang Junhui was in front of the two of them, because Tang Pengfei and Song Changxian could see half of the principal's side face. Although he could not see the principal's full expression clearly, from the perspective of the two, Principal Zhang did not show any displeasure on his face. Instead, he seemed to be interested. He adjusted his sitting posture and seemed to listen carefully.

Song Changxian is not unfamiliar with this attitude, because during the school finals some time ago, when Fang Changan first appeared on stage, the principal also had this attitude, but the result seemed very disappointed.

Zhang Junhui really appreciated it. He had a good impression of Fang Chang'an when he met at Shen Mo's house, especially a few answers, which made him look at this boy who was only seventeen years old and had some expectations. However, the last school speech contest was just a script, which made him begin to doubt his previous judgment, and felt that he should not have such high evaluation and expectations for children of this age.

Intervention and challenge the common things take great courage, especially in the current educational environment in China, where everyone likes to be obedient and gentle students, who have been instilled with various "obedient" concepts since childhood, are not something that ordinary people can have.

Thoughts cannot be completely equated with actions, nor do they need to be unique to prove themselves.

Therefore, afterwards, Zhang Junhui reflected on it and felt that his actions of giving Fang Changan a low score because of his subjective ideas were really unnecessary and unfair.

But this did not affect his expectation again at this time.

Shu Ang raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at the boy on the stage who had already heard of the name.

Shen Mo and Wang Ke looked at each other but didn't say anything. They quickly put their attention back on the stage. Song Tang and the others next to them also had similar expressions.

"When I was a child, the book said patriotism, the teacher said that we should be patriotism, and we all said that we should be patriotism. This is a very normal thing, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about."

"When I was a kid, I would scold others: 'You are Chiang Kai-shek', 'You are the Japanese devil', and the other party also scolded 'You are the Chiang Kai-shek', 'You are the Japanese devil'..."

A low and depressing laughter sounded strangely from the audience, and it seemed that someone said, "I was also..."

"But I don't know when it started. It seemed to be junior high school, high school, and it seemed that we were becoming sensible. Gradually, no one said patriotism anymore."

"It seems that the older we grow, the more sensible we are, the more we feel that patriotism is a shameful and bad thing."

"Is patriotism shameful? Isn't it good?"

"The answer is obvious, patriotism is a glorious and deserving thing."

"Why are people becoming more and more embarrassed to speak out such a glorious and natural thing?"

"I don't know when it started, but there was an atmosphere around us. It seemed that everything in China was bad, wrong, and had no future. It would be a stupid and shameful thing for you to love this wrong country..."

"I have seen such news more than once in newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and even in TV news. If you read them, you may be familiar with this kind of statement."

"For example, where to hold summer camps, Chinese children compare with foreign children. Foreign children are very self-reliant. Chinese children do not know anything after their parents, and they have no ability to be independent at all...

"There are also 'Chinese students who only know how to do questions and can't do anything except do questions and tests', 'The post-90s generation is a beating generation, and China in the future has no hope'..."

"For example, it cost 500 million to build the Three Gorges to pollute the environment... For example, resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea was a completely wrong decision. The United States was so good to us. It was only the fight against U.S. aggression and aid Korea that offended the United States... For example, China's only way out is to beautify it completely, otherwise it would collapse within ten years... For example, how important and important the Kuomintang played in the War of Resistance, some people even openly slandered and insulted teachers on TV, and a large number of fans applauded this..."
Chapter completed!