She is in the fog

According to the previous schedule of Nanzhou No.2014 Middle School, the school anniversary party had to wait until the 3-day oath-taking ceremony was over before the school anniversary party. In addition, the senior high school students were busy with their studies and usually missed the school anniversary party. But this year is different. This year is the 12th anniversary of the founding of Nanzhou No. Middle School, which is of great significance. Therefore, the school decided to hold a grand party and let the senior high school students participate in it. Therefore, the time was slightly changed, and the -day oath-taking ceremony was postponed to after the school anniversary, which was scheduled for March , .

Before the school anniversary arrived, the person in charge arranged the sequence of each program, asked the students of the literature club to write the host and linking words, and then organized the performers to rehearse the program at least three times. Before the official performance of the school anniversary party, there was another overall rehearsal, including the host, lighting, positioning, props, and almost everything was taken care of. After confirming that there were no omissions, everyone was allowed to go to the cafeteria to eat.

At 6:30 in the evening, all the students in the school were waiting in the auditorium in an orderly manner, waiting for the school anniversary party to begin.

He Xi and Ming Mei sat in front of the makeup mirror while the makeup artist carefully put makeup on them.

After finishing their makeup, He Xi held her violin case and Ming Mei held her skirt, and they went backstage together to wait for the performance under the guidance of the person in charge, Xiao Tang.

Xiao Tang brought them stools and handed them the school uniform jackets in his hand, saying patiently: "I am Xiao Tang from the Student Union. I am mainly responsible for communicating with the host and your program. Your program is the tenth one. If you feel cold now, you can put on your jacket. When you perform, just put the jacket on the stool. I will help you keep your things."

The two took the coats handed over by Xiao Tang and said "thank you" very politely.

Xiao Tang raised his head and looked somewhere else, then said to the two of them, "Then I'll go check on the host first. You guys just rest here. I'll let you know when your show is almost over."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Xiao Tang."

After putting on her school uniform jacket, Ming Mei seemed to have thought of something, so she rolled up her school uniform sleeves, slowly pulled up the long sleeves of her dress, and put the scar on her arm in front of He Xi, and spoke as if intentionally or unintentionally: "I used to hate this scar so much that I didn't even wear short sleeves. Even if I wore long sleeves, I didn't dare to lift my sleeves, for fear that others would see such an ugly scar on my arm."

He Xi's eyes showed distress, and he said seriously, "It's not ugly."

"It's ugly," Mingmei corrected, "like the trunk of an old tree, densely packed with pits and holes."

"Old trees will grow new buds, full of greenery and vitality." He Xi stretched out his hand and gently stroked the rugged scar with his fingertips. "Mingming, don't punish yourself with the mistakes of others."

"Okay." Mingmei nodded obediently, "I have changed my mind."

"Huh?" He Xi didn't understand what it meant.

"Just when you touched it, I changed my mind."
Mingmei took off her school uniform jacket and fiddled with something on her shoulders. After a while, she removed the collar and long sleeves of the dress, and the dress suddenly became a strapless tube top. The original style was dignified and retro, but now it is full of youth and moving. Just like an old tree sprouting new buds, it is completely new and full of vitality.

He Xi was so stunned that he forgot to speak for a moment. After a while, he reacted and hastily retracted his burning gaze. Then he said, "So this is what you call 'a great background'. I didn't expect the sleeves and collar to be detachable. This design is so unique."

"Does it look good?" Mingmei turned around on the spot, swaying her skirt left and right, and asked He Xi's opinion.

"It looks good, it looks very good."

"How beautiful is it?"

"Uh... it's just very beautiful." He Xi was at a loss for words and could not think of any adjectives to describe it.

“Can you make people ignore the scars on their arms?”

He Xi nodded and said firmly: "It's so beautiful that I can ignore everything."

“Is there anything else that can be improved?”

Hearing this, He Xi looked up and down at Ming Mei's dress again, and began to think and judge seriously: "It's already perfect, but if it was a short skirt, it would be more suitable with the tube top."

Mingmei smiled, as if she had guessed what He Xi would say. She put on her school uniform again with an ambiguous expression and said, "I accept your suggestion."

The evening went on very smoothly and soon came to the performance session.

Xiao Tang rushed back from the host and said gently: "After this show is over, the next show will be "Jasmine Flower". Are you ready?"

"I'm going to the bathroom." He Xi handed the violin case to Ming Mei, "I'll be back soon."

Xiao Tang nodded: "Then hurry up, don't miss the time."

"Well, I know, don't worry."

The ninth program was a skit choreographed by students from the drama club. It was very funny and the students in the audience were all laughing.

The skit ended, the actors bowed, and Li Fuyue walked onto the stage. She gave a brief summary of the show, and then introduced the next show with a smile: "Next, let's invite Mingmei and He Xi from Class 3-5 to perform the song "Jasmine Flower" for us."

The applause of the audience was thunderous.

Mingmei and He Xi came on stage from the backstage and walked to the positions they had rehearsed in advance.

He Xi got into position and looked at the bright beauty ahead.
She was wearing a white dress, and under the spotlight she looked like a blooming jasmine flower, bright and beautiful.

When everything was ready, He Xi pulled the bow, and the melodious sound of the piano resounded throughout the auditorium through the microphone.

Suddenly, the whole audience burst into screams. He Xi then noticed that Ming Mei had touched a switch on her dress. Her long skirt shrank instantly and turned into a puffy short skirt. Then, she moved lightly, followed the rhythm of the violin, and slowly retreated to He Xi's side and started dancing beside her...

Not hearing the beautiful singing voice she had imagined, Li Fuyue was a little puzzled: Wasn’t it a female solo?
Li Fuyue thought she had read it wrong, and checked the contents on the cue card again and again. After confirming that it was correct, she quickly pulled at Li Bufan's clothes, turned off the microphone, and asked curiously, "Am I right? We are singing during the rehearsal, right?"

"You remembered correctly." Li Bufan looked at the dancing figure on the stage and said softly, "She privately went to see the teacher in charge and asked to change the program temporarily, and the teacher agreed."

"Then why didn't I know? The content of the hand card didn't change? The song became a dance, the difference is too big, isn't it my fault as the host?"

"You went to the bathroom at that time, and..." Li Bufan paused, "It's not that the song has changed into a dance. To be precise, it's still the song, it hasn't changed."

Li Fuyue was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Li Bufan pursed his lips, signaling her to continue watching the performance on the stage. Li Fuyue had no choice but to turn her head and after watching carefully for a moment, she suddenly understood.

Originally, Mingmei's female voice was the absolute protagonist, and the violin was just echoing it and polishing it. But after Mingmei's arrangement, the dance and the piano complemented each other. He Xi's violin suddenly became the protagonist in the auditory sense, and Mingmei's dance was the protagonist in the visual sense. There is no distinction between the two, so the song is still a song.

Li Fuyue stared at the two people glittering on the stage. Mingmei's white dress and He Xi's bow tie actually gave rise to some fantastic ideas in her mind. She couldn't help but said with a smile, "Look, Mingmei looks like a jasmine flower, and He Xi looks like a butterfly spirit. I have only seen butterflies flying around flowers before, but today is the first time I have seen flowers blooming around butterflies."

After the song ended, He Xi and Ming Mei held hands, bowed, and walked off the stage.

After arriving at the backstage, He Xi quickly pulled out a tissue, wiped the sweat from his temples, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Mingming, why didn't you tell me that you changed your mind at the last minute? When I didn't hear your voice at the appointed time, I thought your microphone was broken. I was so scared that I almost didn't continue."

"It seems that you need to practice your on-the-spot reaction ability and stress resistance more." Mingmei pursed her lips with interest, "But fortunately, we completed the task successfully."

In fact, when she saw Mingmei dancing, He Xi already understood Mingmei's good intentions, but she was still very curious and couldn't help asking: "But why do you do this?"

"Actually, I lied to you. I was lying to you when I told you that I let you be my only accompaniment."

"Is there any connection between the two?"

Ming Mei was also very direct. She stared into He Xi's eyes with a bewitching look in her eyes: "Because, I still prefer us to be each other's protagonists."

hiss--
He Xi's heart was beating wildly, why was this girl so flirtatious?

"Bright!"

Mingmei heard the voice of Jiang Qi, the head teacher, and turned around to see Jiang Qi walking towards her. "Head teacher Jiang." Mingmei grabbed the school uniform on the chair and put it on while walking towards Jiang Qi. "Do you want to talk to me about something?"

"It's just right. It's still early. You can go to my office and familiarize yourself with the procedures for tomorrow's oath-taking ceremony. I've roughly sorted it out before. It would be more appropriate for you to lead the oath. It will be a good time after you finish your speech."

Mingmei zipped up her school uniform to the top, partially covering her chin, blinked and said, "Okay, Director. I'll follow your instructions."

"Then go to the office and wait. I'll contact other students."

So Mingmei waved to He Xi and said, "He Xi, I'm going to the Academic Affairs Office. You can go back by yourself."

He Xi gestured "goodbye" in return, sorted out her belongings, and then came to her class's base. When Zhong Nuo saw her, he couldn't help but give her a thumbs up: "Not bad, you did a great job."

He Xi cocked his lips in a smug manner and joked, "Of course, don't you see which class I'm from and whose student I am?"

Fang Yiyi raised her eyebrows and said, "Hey He Xi, are you talking so sweetly today?"

All the students present laughed from the bottom of their hearts. He Xi pretended to be helpless, spread his hands and said, "I have always spoken beautifully, but you just didn't notice it before."

After she finished speaking, she sat in the empty seat next to Li Xingyu. Wen Wan turned her head and called out, "He Xi, where's A Mei?"

"I went to the Academic Affairs Office. It seems that they are preparing for tomorrow's oath-taking ceremony."

"Is that so." Wen Wan picked up the DV in her arms and patted Li Xingyu next to her: "Change seats with me, I want to sit next to He Xi."

After exchanging positions with Li Xingyu, Wen Wan raised her eyebrows proudly and said, "Let me show you something good." Then she pulled out a photo from the DV and handed it to He Xi, with the corners of her mouth raised, waiting for the teacher's praise like a kindergarten kid who answered the question correctly.

He Xi took the DV and looked at the photos on the screen carefully.

The protagonists in the photo are He Xi and Ming Mei.

The stage lights were dreamy. He Xi stood under the spotlight, maintaining a slow bow-pulling motion with a smile on her face and gentle and affectionate eyes. Following her gaze in the photo, I saw Ming Mei who was also under the spotlight.

Mingmei bent her knees and raised her left leg, stretched her instep, stood on tiptoe of her right toe, stretched her neck, slightly raised her chin, raised her arms parallel to her chest, relaxed her wrists naturally, and her fingers were in a very elegant position.

Looking at this photo, He Xi couldn't help but recall the scene on the stage. At that time, Ming Mei was like a fairy, circling around the moon, which was unforgettable.
She just kept turning around, and each time she turned around, she would stop at He Xi's body. So, they turned around, looked at each other, turned around, and looked at each other again...
Mingmei doesn't have dimples, but she is almost drunk in her smile.
She has a really pretty smile.

"I like this photo very much." He Xi returned the DV to Wen Wan, pretending to be pitiful, "Sister Wan, I beg you to come down and pass it to me, okay? Thank you in advance."

"Three meals, no bargaining."

"make a deal!"

Wen Wan put the DV away into her schoolbag, looked at the stage, and continued to watch the next show attentively.

He Xi was very happy, thinking back to her previous life when she was in the audience and could only take photos secretly when the lights were dark. She didn't expect that in this life, not only would they have a photo together, but they could also be so close. She couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion and couldn't help but chuckle. Suddenly, a face flashed through her mind.

Oh, right, photos! He Xi frowned suddenly.
In her previous life, when she took the photo of Mingmei, the man to the upper right of Mingmei had that weird look in his eyes...

But soon her tense nerves relaxed again.

Yanhuo has been arrested and is currently undergoing trial and conviction. He is also under special supervision, so there shouldn't be any problems.

But to be on the safe side, He Xi left his seat, walked around the aisle, and quickly checked for any suspicious figures.

After walking around the venue three times, I didn't see the familiar faces I remembered, and I finally put my mind at ease.

The next day, the sun was shining brightly and the wind was gentle.

He Xi and her classmates arrived at the classroom early and suddenly found a red banner above the blackboard at the back of the classroom.

"Raise one point, kill a thousand people." Mingmei read the words on the banner, "When was this banner put up?"

He Xi guessed, "It was probably because no one was in the classroom last night, so it was just the right time to hang it up."

Ming Mei said excitedly, "Are the banners of each class different? He Xi, can you accompany me to see the banners of other classes? I want to see what the banners of other classes say."

There are thirty classes in the senior year of Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School, so the school prepared thirty slogans with different contents, printed them into banners, and had the workers randomly install them in the classrooms.

The content on the banner of Class 1 reads: "Spring breeze blows, war drums beat, who is afraid of whom in this year's college entrance examination?"

The second class said: "Today, I will study hard and I will be the best. Tomorrow, who else can be the best?"

The third class said: "Strive for the next hundred days, keep up the good work; fight for the college entrance examination, create miracles."

……

After reading the slogans of 30 classes, Mingmei concluded: "After reading so many slogans, I think our class's slogan is the most realistic."

"Improve one point, kill a thousand people." He Xi repeated the slogan of Class 5 and nodded in agreement. "Indeed, but it always feels a bit cruel."

"Although it's cruel, it's very realistic." Mingmei smiled and said, "He Xi, come on."

"Come on." He Xi made a "yeah" gesture to her and clenched his fist to cheer himself up.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the senior students and teachers of Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School gathered on the football field, ready for the passionate and solemn Hundred-Day Oath Ceremony.

The host announced that everyone should stand at attention, raise the national flag, play the national anthem, and salute. The oath-taking ceremony began with everyone singing the national anthem.

This was followed by a speech by the principal, a speech by a teacher representative, and a speech by a student representative.

Mingmei drafted her own speech, and after careful consideration, she gave it to Teacher Yang Jianwen for review and revision, and it was approved by the person in charge before she came up with such a wonderful speech.

Especially the last paragraph of powerful parallel sentences, which brought the morale of all senior three students to a climax.

Amid such overwhelming emotions, Mingmei took advantage of the situation and said loudly: "Next, all senior students, please recite the oath with me."
Mingmei paused for a moment, raised her right hand, clenched her fist, and shouted in a more passionate voice: "One hundred days before the college entrance examination, I swear!"

Under Mingmei's leadership, the students in the audience also raised their right fists, almost using up all their strength, and shouted in unison: "In the 100 days before the decisive battle of the college entrance examination, I swear: if the youth are strong, the country will be strong; if the youth are smart, the country will be smart; if the youth are rich, the country will be rich; if the youth are independent, the country will be independent; if the youth are free, the country will be free; if the youth are progressive, the country will be progressive; if the youth are better than Europe, the country will be better than Europe; if the youth are more powerful than the earth, the country will be more powerful than the earth. The red sun rises, its path is bright; the river flows out of the underground stream, pouring into the ocean; the latent dragon soars into the abyss, its scales and claws flying; the young tiger roars in the valley, and all beasts are frightened; the eagle tests its wings, the wind and dust are fluttering; the exotic flowers are born, shining brightly; the dry generals are sharpened, and they have their edges; the sky wears its blue, and the earth wears its yellow; even if there are thousands of years and the eight wildernesses, the future is like the sea, and the future is long. Beautiful is my young China, which will never grow old with the sky; magnificent is my Chinese youth, which will never be bounded with the country!"

"Ten years of studying, a hundred days of hard training, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the world! Full of vigor and vitality, cut through the waves, and set sail to cross the vast ocean. Ten years of tempering a sword, a hundred times of tempering into steel, the sword is just waiting to be tested. A hundred days of hard work, a battle to achieve success, young people are naturally young!"

The students' faces flushed, their eyes were determined, and their words were sonorous.

Young people have a long way to go and their future is bound to be as bright as the sea.

(End of this chapter)