When the scheduled time for the school celebration ceremony arrived, the stage of the small auditorium was still drawn, and the ceremony had not yet started.
This kind of delay is also expected, Ji Ran sat down, took out his mobile phone boredom, and posted a position in the three-person discussion group.
Yue Wenwen: ? !
Yue Wenwen: Xiao Ranran, how did you get back to full height? Could it be that you finally figured it out after many years and decided to burn this broken school down
Ji Ran: Yes, but I lost the lighter.
Yue Wenwen: Wait a minute, I'll send it to you right away!
The two chatted for a while before they saw another person bubbling.
Cheng Peng: Today is the school celebration. Mangao sent me an invitation letter, but I was busy with the land, so I didn't go.
Yue Wenwen: I've heard about this too... Wait, Xiao Ranran has also received an invitation letter
Ji Ran: Hmm.
Yue Wenwen exploded immediately.
Yue Wenwen: Why didn't this broken school invite me? ! My mother hasn't made the top 100 in her grades for three years in high school! He also abides by the law and has never violated the rules!
Ji Ran: Come as soon as you want. Now the school celebration ceremony is being held, and there are seats in the back.
Yue Wenwen didn't really want to come, but he didn't receive the invitation, and his heart was always unbalanced.
Yue Wenwen: Forget it, I won't go! What should I do when an ignorant student confesses to me? But haven't you always wanted to go back to Mangao, why did you agree to go back this time
Ji Ran didn't waste time explaining to them because he didn't plan to go abroad.
Ji Ran: I said, let's burn the school.
After sending this sentence, he put away his phone and looked around. Just happened to see a middle-aged man walking towards him with pursed lips.
He was the head teacher of his junior high school.
The other party's face was not very good, and he forced a smile.
"Ji Ran, you're back, it's been a long time since you've seen him, and... you've grown taller again." The teacher couldn't keep the smile on the corner of his mouth when he saw the color of his hair.
Ji Ran sat still. He asked, "What's the matter?"
The ceremony didn't start, and there was some noise around him. The seats on his left and right sides were empty, and the teacher simply sat beside him.
He said: "It's like this, your father asked you to show your face on stage, so we temporarily added three minutes for you to speak and let you come on stage as one of the graduate representatives. This is the speech, you will follow it later. Just read it, you don’t need to recite it.”
Ji Ran raised his eyebrows and took the speech from him.
In the manuscript of just a few hundred words, the most words are "thank you" and "happy".
Ji Ran laughed, he didn't expect that his father would occasionally do something useful.
Seeing him smiling, the teacher was also very guilty: "Is there anything wrong with the manuscript?"
"No." Ji Ran folded the piece of paper and put it in his pocket, "Teacher, don't worry, I will talk about it properly."
"..." The number of times Ji Ran called him 'teacher' could be counted on both hands. He was a little flattered, nodded, and greeted habitually, "That's good, what have you been busy with in recent years? Didn't you encounter any difficulties?"
Ji Ran looked back: "Teacher, you should go."
The middle-aged man paused, but in the end he didn't say anything, and turned back to his seat.
A man has been teaching for more than ten years. In fact, it is not bad, but he does feel ashamed of Ji Ran.
Ji Ran was in the class he took as the head teacher for the first time. He had no experience at the time. The people in the class knew about Ji Ran's isolation and rejection, and he occasionally pushed and pushed twice, and he also knew that at first, he also talked to a few skinny people symbolically. But nothing worked. He reported this matter to the parents of the other party. Who knows that the children did not change their minds. The grade group leader even talked to him specifically, saying that it is normal for adolescent children to fight and let him be good. Teach and lead the class, stop meddling with these nostalgic things.
He hesitated when talking more often. He has always been cowardly, and what he has done before is all he can do.
So much so that when Ji Ran asked him for help, he uttered the sentence: "They bully you, then you just avoid them. The teacher will communicate with them, but you must also take a good look at your own problems."
He still remembers Ji Ran's dim eyes at that moment.
After that, Ji Ran never looked for him again. It wasn't until Ji Ran sent someone into the hospital that he realized that the child had completely changed.
To Ji Ran, he had a guilty conscience, so whether Ji Ran was sleeping in class or skipping class, he would ignore it intentionally or not.
After the teacher walked away, Ji Ran slowly released his palm, which contained the speech he had crumpled.
"... Ji Ran?"
Ji Ran turned his head and saw that it was the owner of the seat on the right.
"It's really you." The person here was a boy, wearing a black suit, which was quite formal. The boy grinned, "It's me, we are friends in junior high and high school. I was sitting on the left side of your front row in high school."
Ji Ran finally believed Qin Man's words. Although he had a sense of familiarity with the person in front of him, he could no longer remember who he was.
To be more careful... He does seem to have a deeper impression on Qin Man's classmates.
He nodded as a greeting.
It seems that the seats are arranged by high school class. He looked left and right, making sure that only the two of them were in the class, and then he resumed his sloppy sitting posture.
If the enemy came, they would probably have to fight on the spot.
Wait, if it's by class...
Ji Ran subconsciously looked to the front row.
Sure enough, Qin Man and Ji Wei sat side by side, and on the other side of Ji Wei was the man who had confessed to Qin Man in the grove.
Just in the gap he was looking at, the man suddenly leaned back on the seat and tapped Qin Man's shoulder from the gap behind him.
From his angle, he could only see the back of Qin Man's head, but couldn't see his expression clearly.
But he could see the smile on the man's face, restrained and flattering.
"That, Ji Ran." The person next to him suddenly called him.
Ji Ran looked back: "What are you doing?"
"I saw everything on the Internet some time ago." The boy lowered his voice, "Is that what you're talking about?"
Ji Ran's expression became colder, and he looked at him quietly without saying a word.
"I also commented on that Weibo, but I don't know anything else... But I know you didn't bully others on campus. I even quarreled with people over twenty floors!"
Ji Ran didn't react for a while: "... what?"
"Everyone on the Internet speaks like this, because across the screen, they have no scruples. If you really lose, don't care." The boy said.
Ji Ran stared at him for a while, and suddenly had an impression of this person.
He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Would you be... a little short when you went to school?"
"What!" The boy laughed and patted his arm generously, "I was only short when I was in junior high school, but I grew up in the second year of high school!"
Ji Ran completely remembered.
In junior high school, when everyone in the class isolated him, a dwarf once gave him a bottle of medicinal wine. It's just that his mind was full of revenge at the time, and he didn't trust this person at all, and after that, the two never had much interaction.
He nodded, this time with a lot of sincerity: "Long time no see."
The two only said a few words, and the phone suddenly vibrated.
Q: What are you talking about, so happy.
Ji Ran looked up, Qin Man was looking straight ahead, very similar to the sitting posture of the elderly leaders next to him.
Dad Ji: It's none of your business.
Q: I'm a little bored. I'll go up and find you, okay
Dad Ji: No.
Dad Ji: Bored? I see you and that buddy are having a good time chatting.
Q: Are you peeking at me? [Penguin in circle]
Ji Dad: ? ?
Dad Ji: Whoever peeks at you, you have no shame.
Ji's father: [Don't suffer Laozi jpg]
Q: If you didn't peek at me, why did I just say two words to others and you saw it
Q: He just asked me about the speech.
Dad Ji: I didn't ask you, don't rush to answer.
After this message was sent, there was no reply for a long time. Ji Ran looked forward and found that Qin Man was chatting with the leaders.
He was about to lock the screen of his phone when he saw Qin Man suddenly raise his hand towards the group of old men and wait for a while, then lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the phone.
Q: Maybe rush to answer for extra points.
Gee, opportunistic top students.
Ji Ran chuckled unintelligibly, then put the phone away and stopped replying.
Not long after, the school celebration finally began. The host is a student, two men and two women, with good temperament. The opening remarks were the same, praising the school up and down, and praising more than a dozen leaders before and after, and then slowly got to the point.
On the stage, the male host said earnestly: "In order to allow the students and graduates who cannot enter the small auditorium due to the limited number of people to participate in this school celebration, we linked the microphone to the school-wide broadcast. Everyone outside the small auditorium can also feel the lively atmosphere in the venue.”
This time, the school arranged a total of five graduate representatives to speak, and Ji Ran was the sixth.
Ji Wei was also one of the student representatives. When he came to the stage to speak, Ji Ran listened to him, and he was very polite and hypocritical, and his final reflections were even more hypocritical.
After the fourth representative finished speaking, the host returned to the stage.
"The graduate who will speak next, he studied in our school for six years, and was successfully admitted to XX University after graduation. He left school for many years, but he did not forget the kindness of his alma mater, and donated a thousand desks and chairs and a hundred computers to the school. And 100 air conditioners. Let’s welcome Senior Ji Ran with applause!”
Ji Ran stood up and strode toward the podium.
Many graduates have changed their faces. Almost everyone in the three years before and after Ji Ran behaved in school.
"Do you know about his speech?" Ji Wei unconsciously frowned and asked the people around him.
Qin Man shook his head.
Even in the chat just now, the younger brother didn't mention this to him.
The first few representatives who spoke were all in suits and leather shoes, but it was his turn to wear a casual dress, and even his hair color was so wild. Many students in the audience who were playing with their mobile phones couldn't help but look up.
"I'm very grateful to the senior for providing so much convenience for the students." After the hostess said this, she bowed slightly to the stage, and turned around to prepare to step down.
Ji Ran walked to the podium, raised his hand and patted the microphone in front of him. After making sure the microphone was picking up correctly, he raised the microphone stand.
"You don't need to thank me, junior. I didn't plan to donate anything. Whoever promises to donate will go to whom."
As soon as these words came out, the hostess stepped down, and the entire small auditorium became silent for a while. Even the people who were whispering before stopped discussing and looked at the people on the stage in shock.
This sentence was also transmitted word for word through the school broadcast and spread to all parts of the campus.
Seeing the dead silence under the stage, Ji Ran smiled.
"However, when I speak on stage this time, I really want to thank the school."
Before the school leaders could take a breath, the people on the stage spoke again.
"Thanks to the school's sky-high tuition fees, I have learned the good quality of generosity; I also want to thank the canteen for those bad meals, which made my stomach hard to eat, and I want to thank a certain leader for maintaining a long-term The cooperative school uniform factory sold such poor quality clothes at the brand price, which made me feel the trend of wearing ripped pants countless times."
Ji Wei: "..."
Qin Man couldn't hold back, and a smile escaped from the corner of his mouth.
The leader next to him looked extremely bad, and it took a long while to react, pushing the person next to him: "Hurry up! Hurry up and pinch the microphone! Hurry up!"
On the stage, Ji Ran was still talking.
"By the way, I still have something to thank." He said lightly, "I also want to thank my teachers."
"Thank you for turning a blind eye and turning a blind eye to school violence for so many years. It has allowed me to practice a good skill. Maybe after I retire, I can apply for a boxing coach."
The male teacher felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, and sweat was left on his cheeks.
Ji Ran: "And..."
After these two words were finished, the microphone suddenly went silent—the playback device was cut off from the power supply.
Ji Ran raised his eyebrows first, then shrugged: "Okay, no more."
The people in the audience were stunned at first, and when Ji Ran turned to leave, no one knew who took the lead in applauding, followed by thunderous applause, no matter how the teachers waved their hands in front of them, they couldn't stop. .
The leaders were so angry that Ji Ran had just stepped down when he saw that the school police in the school security room were already waiting to get him out.
When he saw one of them, he greeted him skillfully: "Oh, Lao Xing, haven't you retired yet?"
What he called was the captain of the school police team, the one who came to arrest Ji Ran every day a few years ago.
Lao Xing is also speechless: "You have graduated for so many years, how can you still find trouble for me?"
"Isn't this afraid that you will be idle?" Ji Ran smiled.
Not to mention, since Ji Ran graduated, he has indeed had a lot of free time.
He choked: "How do you say this time, go by yourself or I'll carry you?"
"Do you think I'm still the little skinny stick? I've practiced after graduation. You can't stand me now."
Lao Xing: "..."
"But I didn't plan to keep it." Ji Ran waved his hand, "Get out of the way, I'll go by myself, and I won't increase the workload for you."
If he really moved his hands, it would not look good. Lao Xing did not hesitate much, and gave way to the side to make way for him.
Ji Ran strode towards the exit, and whistled calmly as he passed the leadership seats.
The leaders were almost gasped.
The atmosphere in the small auditorium was instantly embarrassing. The female teacher walked quickly to Qin Man and whispered, "Xiao Man, you have seen what happened just now. This Ji Ran ruined the whole school celebration. The words were sent to the campus radio, and the matter is serious... So I may trouble you to revise the speech for a while, and try to save face for the school. What can you do? Do you need a teacher to help you prepare a new speech come out?"
"Need not."
She breathed a sigh of relief: "Can you do it?"
"No." Qin Man stood up, flattened the folds on the edge of the T-shirt, and smiled, "I have nothing to say, so I won't speak."
"What, what?"
"I still have something to do, so I'll say goodbye first."
Qin Man nodded, and after speaking, he turned and left the small auditorium.