The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 35: Graduation without Regrets

There weren't many questions in the interview and it ended quickly.

The reporter smiled and said to Xiao Yi: "Thank you for your cooperation, Xiao Yi. This interview will be broadcast on the news channel tonight. Remember to watch it then."

"Sure." Xiao Yi nodded in agreement.

"Oh, that's right." Suddenly the reporter took a briefcase from the photographer, took out a document, and said, "Our station director learned that the person we are going to interview this time is our provincial champion, so he specially approved 10,000 yuan as a sponsorship for our provincial champion to go to college in the future."

"Fill in the relevant information on this document, and the money will be deposited into your account in a few days."

Hearing the reporter's words, Xiao Yi's eyes suddenly lit up again.

Whoops!
You told me earlier!

If you had told me earlier that there was 10,000 yuan, I would have agreed yesterday.

While taking the document and looking at it carefully, he said, "No, no, no."

Finally, under the "full persuasion" of a bunch of school leaders nearby, he filled out the document "with great reluctance".

It mainly stated that the money was given to him by their provincial satellite TV station, and then asked him to fill in his ID card, bank card number, etc.

Of course, in fact, for a top scorer in the college entrance examination, it is normal to encounter some institution or unit giving money.

In fact, in the past few days, some large companies in their province have contacted him, basically wanting to give him money or even houses, but his family has rejected all of these.

According to his father, he only accepted rewards from state-owned units, such as public schools or government agencies, such as the Anhui Provincial TV Station, so Xiao Yi accepted the money and refused all private rewards.

The reason is simple. The reward from the country is basically to reward him as a person, hoping that he can do better in the future and make contributions to society and the country in the future.

Private rewards are basically rejected for the sake of profit.

Xiao Guohua is a civil servant working in the government and has a thorough understanding of these things, so he made this decision. Xiao Yi naturally expressed his strong support for his father's decision.

Gladly accepting the TV station's sponsorship and after filling out the information, the reporter said goodbye. They had to go back and edit the interview video quickly, so that it could be broadcast smoothly tonight.

Xiao Yi was surrounded by school leaders again.

Principal Liu Songlin gave him a thumbs up and said, "Well done."

Xiao Yi said shyly: "It's all because of the good teaching of the school."

Liu Songlin laughed and said, "Well, we've got the top prize that we promised you today."

Soon, a school leader once again took out a scholarship plaque, which read [USTC High School presents a 2020 yuan scholarship to Xiao Yi, the science champion and student of our school].

Apparently this scholarship plaque was also newly made.

As usual, we first took a group photo holding the scholarship plaque.

After taking the group photo, Xiao Yi thought that today's matter was over, but at this time, Principal Liu said to him: "By the way, have you not taken graduation photos yet?"

Xiao Yi was stunned. Graduation photo?
He shook his head: "No, I guess we can't shoot it anymore."

He is the only one graduating in their class now, so how can they take a graduation photo?

Principal Liu laughed and said, "How can we miss your graduation photo?"

Xiao Yi was puzzled, but at this moment, he heard bursts of running sounds coming from behind. He turned around and was stunned.

He saw the students from Science Class 3 running towards him from the entrance of the playground.

He suddenly recalled that he didn't know when Teacher Luo left, and he thought he had gone back to class - the first and second year of high school had not yet had their holidays.

But what I didn’t expect was that Teacher Luo went to call the students from Class 3 to come down.

"Brother Xiao is awesome!"

"As expected of our Brother Xiao, he easily accomplished what we couldn't do!"

"Hello, Brother Zhuangyuan!"

"My brother Xiao is invincible!" The students from Class 3 ran over, surrounded him and congratulated him.

Obviously, they already knew that Xiao Yi had successfully won the top spot.

However, it would be hard for people in this school not to know this.

Xiao Yi was stunned, "You guys...?"

"We are all here to accompany you to take graduation photos. Are you happy?" his roommate Zou Yuan said to him with a smile.

Chen Wei said solemnly: "You have fulfilled your old promise and abided by the contract, so we have come to give you the final celebration."

Xiao Yi felt warm in his heart.

I thought I would never have a high school graduation photo again, but it was made up at this moment.

More than 40 classmates in the class came to accompany him to complete the final process of graduation.

Looking at the kind smiles of his classmates, he said sincerely: "Thank you everyone."

"Well, what is there to thank you for? We should thank you for letting us not have to take this class, you know." Chen Wei walked up to him, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile.

Xiao Yi also had a knowing smile on his face.

This is true.

For high school students, even if they can skip half a class, it is already worth being happy about.

"Snapped!"

"Here, put on your bachelor's gown."

At this time, the principal next to him slapped a bachelor's gown into Xiao Yi's hand, which was obviously prepared long ago.

"Principal, where are ours?" Chen Wei next to him took the initiative to ask - although he didn't dare to talk to the principal alone, he became much braver now that there were so many people around.

The principal waved his hand and said, "You don't have any. Wait until you officially graduate next year."

"Okay." Chen Wei didn't ask any more questions, or rather, his courage stopped there.

The photographer in charge of the group photo has also arrived. He is from a photo studio in front of their school. I heard that he was taking a graduation photo for this year's top student. The boss said it was free. This was probably the first time their photo studio took graduation photos for the top student.

As this year's provincial top scholar, Xiao Yi's name has become very famous among them.

A banner was hung at the school gate: [Congratulations to our student Xiao Yi for becoming the top scorer in the province in the 2020 college entrance examination]. In addition to the banner, there was a large congratulatory message posted on the bulletin wall outside, which also talked about this incident.

Under the arrangement of the photographer, Xiao Yi and the principal stood in the C position in the first row, while the students of Class 3 stood behind them.

In the camera's picture, all the classmates were wearing school uniforms, and only Xiao Yi was wearing a bachelor's gown.

With “3, 2, 1, eggplant”, the shutter button was pressed and the picture froze.

The laughter rang out at the end, announcing that Xiao Yi's high school life was not only over, but also ended without any regrets.

……

Time passed quietly.

Afterwards, Xiao Yi returned to his research on the thesis, which could be considered as a retreat in a sense.

Those hot searches about him eventually disappeared from the list as time passed.

The information age is like this, it comes violently and goes away violently.

When everything returned to calm, knowledge began to surge in Xiao Yi's small bedroom.

Finally, until a month later.

……

(End of this chapter)