Chapter 188: Shocking Change
With the arrival of school leaders, the student union meeting started on time.
First, the student union leader spoke on behalf of the student union, followed by the school leader's speech. The content of the speech was nothing more than how to study hard as a new era college student, to serve the motherland after graduation under the cultivation of the country and the school, and the role and importance of the student union in this process.
In his previous life, Song Yuanchao had heard all these things so many times that his ears were callused. Anyway, the speeches at every meeting were basically the same, so Song Yuanchao didn't care about those things at all. He held a camera in his hand and found his own angles to take pictures of the leaders on the stage and the people in the audience one by one, leaving behind beautiful memories of the moment.
The meeting went very smoothly. After the leaders finished their speeches, they got down to business.
Since today is an election meeting, the main content is to elect additional members of the current student union. The list of candidates has already been shortlisted, but the process still needs to be followed. The process is that everyone goes on stage to speak and introduce themselves, and then vote to express their agreement or opposition.
Of course, since they are on the final list for the additional election, all the candidates are actually members of the Student Union. The so-called process is just a process. Among these people, Song Yuanchao is naturally most concerned about his class monitor and roommate Cheng Mengshan.
It wasn't easy for Lao Cheng either. He was not outstanding among the first batch of candidates, but he made it to the end.
Now, Cheng Mengshan, who was sitting below, was very excited because it was soon his turn to go on stage to speak. For this speech, Cheng Mengshan revised his speech several times because he knew that today was one of the most important days in his life.
Before, there were three most important days in Cheng Mengshan’s life. The first one was naturally the day he was born. Being born from the mother’s womb was the beginning of life.
The second important day is the day he marries his wife, which represents that he has become an adult, married, had children, started a family and established a career, which is the beginning of being a real man.
The third important day was the day when Cheng Mengshan received the admission letter. The moment he received the letter, Cheng Mengshan was so excited that tears filled his eyes, because this represented the first step for him to leave the mountains and transform from a farmer to a city dweller or even a state cadre.
Today is also an important day for Cheng Mengshan. After today, he will become a member of the Student Union of Imperial University. Cheng Mengshan knows very well what this means. As long as he becomes a Student Union cadre, it will be of great help to his future and he will realize his long-awaited dream.
Listening to the speeches of the students in front of him and looking at the stage just around the corner, Cheng Mengshan couldn't help but clench his fists and tried to calm himself down. He said to himself, "You can do it, Cheng Mengshan! You can do it! You will succeed today! Definitely!"
With a round of warm applause, the previous student finished his speech. When this student stepped down from the stage, the small auditorium was filled with voices: "The next student is Cheng Mengshan from the 1979 class of the Economics Department. Let's warmly applaud and welcome Cheng Mengshan's speech!"
When the thunderous applause rang in his ears, even though Cheng Mengshan had been prepared, he suddenly felt his heart beating so violently that it seemed like it was about to jump out of his chest .
Standing up with a slightly red face, Cheng Mengshan took another deep breath, nodded to the left and right, and then walked up to the stage as if he had first walked up to the podium to teach students.
Walking onto the stage, Cheng Mengshan first bowed to the school leaders and student union members sitting there, and then turned around and bowed to the students below the stage.
But for some reason, when he got on the stage and was about to speak, he suddenly smelled a faint foul odor in the air coming from somewhere. Cheng Mengshan frowned slightly, thinking that it was probably the person who had a stomachache and couldn't hold it and let out a gas. But at this moment, Cheng Mengshan couldn't care about these things, as business was more important.
"Hello, teachers and students. I am a student in the first class of the Economics Department of 1979. My name is Cheng Mengshan. Mengshan is the Mengshan of Yimeng Mountain. From my name, you can know that I am from the Yimeng Mountain area. My ancestors were not only farmers, but I am a farmer's son and used to be a local rural teacher..."
Cheng Mengshan was worthy of being a teacher. His speech was well-organized and eloquent. He started with the origin of his name, then gradually talked about his hometown and the past events in his hometown.
As he spoke, everyone was gradually attracted by what he said, especially when Cheng Mengshan mentioned the hard times when he was a rural teacher. Although life was difficult, he still did not give up work and study. He not only taught the children, but also worked hard to improve himself. Finally, he was admitted to the Imperial University of Peking...
"This Old Cheng, I didn't expect that he, who usually can't even get a fart out of his mouth with three sticks, would actually do this." Song Yuanchao, who was taking pictures below, couldn't help but laugh secretly. Cheng Mengshan's speech was very well prepared, and he played to his strengths and avoided his weaknesses. In the content of his speech, he highlighted some aspects of himself and concealed some of his shortcomings very well, and made people feel good and sympathetic towards him during his speech.
This method was given a not-so-nice name in later generations, which is "selling misery."
That's right, Cheng Mengshan was deliberately playing the victim. He used this method to establish a character for himself who came from a difficult background, had a simple personality, but was indomitable in his pursuit of progress. Moreover, his identity as a farmer was also an advantage in this era. Compared with his classmates in the city, Cheng Mengshan, who came from a peasant family, was more touching and aroused sympathy.
When Cheng Mengshan finished his last sentence, the audience was quiet for a while, and then there was thunderous applause. Facing such a student, a student who had such a hard time getting into the university and still wanted to make progress in the university, how could ordinary students and teachers not give him a chance? A chance to move forward?
Everyone expressed their appreciation for Cheng Mengshan's speech, and the decision was made unanimously to elect Cheng Mengshan as a member of the Student Union cadre.
Cheng Mengshan was suddenly so excited that he could not control himself, but he suppressed his excitement on the surface. He once again bowed to express his gratitude to the students in the audience and the teachers and leaders on the stage.
Success! I finally succeeded! When Cheng Mengshan stepped down from the stage, he couldn't suppress the smile . If he wasn't still in the small auditorium, he might have jumped up and cheered in excitement.
But as he walked off the stage, Cheng Mengshan felt a little puzzled, because from the beginning to the end of his speech, the strange smell in the room had not dissipated, but became stronger. Was it that the bastard had a stomachache and was leaking gas until now? Couldn't he just hold back on such an important occasion today?
In fact, not only Cheng Mengshan, but even the school leaders and student union cadres on the stage had smelled it a long time ago. Their initial thoughts were the same as Cheng Mengshan's, but as time went on, the smell began to get stronger and stronger, and they couldn't help but frown.
"Where does the smell come from?" A school leader was a little unhappy. He took out a handkerchief and pretended to wipe his nose but actually covered his nose.
"I don't know..." Another leader also asked in confusion.
"Who farted? Why does it stink so much? Did you eat garlic?" Wei Qiang couldn't stand it anymore. The smell seemed to be emanating from right next to him. If it continued like this, he would be suffocated to death.
Everyone was whispering, but they couldn't find the source of the smell. It was true. People who farted wouldn't admit to farting in public, right? The meeting had to go on , so they had no choice but to endure it for the time being, hoping that the smell would go away as soon as possible.
After Cheng Mengshan finished his speech, Zhao Minglei stood up and walked to the microphone and said, "Thank you Cheng Mengshan for your speech. His speech made us feel that as long as we have faith, we can overcome difficulties. Let us applaud Cheng Mengshan again and give him encouragement!"
Applause broke out. Zhao Minglei smiled and looked around. He raised his hand and pressed it down. When the applause gradually died down, he continued, "Next, we invite the students from Class 2 of the Library Management Department, Grade 78..."
Before Zhao Minglei could finish his words, there was a low exclamation from behind him, and then he heard someone shouting in his ear: "Zhao... Zhao Minglei... you... you behind...!"
"Behind? What behind?" Zhao Minglei was stunned, and turned around to look. He saw that behind him, whether it was the school leaders or the classmates from the Student Union, everyone was staring at him in disbelief. There were even two female classmates whose eyes were about to pop out, their mouths opened wide, and they looked stunned.
"Behind you, behind your pants!" said Zhao Minglei, pointing his finger at the classmate who had just spoken.
Zhao Minglei subconsciously touched the back of his pants. When his hand touched it, he was stunned because he felt something wet in his hand.
"Did the tea spill?" Zhao Minglei's face darkened. This was his first reaction. But he soon realized something was wrong. This was definitely not because the tea spilled, because the dampness on his hands was not just dampness, but also some inexplicable stickiness and smell.
Zhao Minglei raised his hand in confusion and took a closer look, but before he could see clearly what was on his hand, a familiar stench rushed into his nostrils.
For a moment, Zhao Minglei stood there motionless as if he had been struck by lightning. He knew what it was, but how could it be so? He didn't feel anything at all! If it weren't for the reminder from his classmates behind him, he would have no idea that he had made such a big fool of himself.
"Zhao Minglei, you... you are so disgusting, you actually... actually..." A female classmate watched Zhao Minglei touching his back and then putting his hands in front of his eyes. How could she bear it any longer? She immediately stood up with a disgusted expression and ran away.
As for the school leaders on the stage, they also came to their senses at this time. They stood up one by one and turned around and left without saying a word. As they left, they said with a sullen face: "It's inappropriate for the occasion. It's just nonsense!"
"No...it's not me...I didn't...this is not..."
Zhao Minglei never expected such a change to happen. His mind was in a mess for a moment, especially when he saw the school leaders and classmates leaving. Zhao Minglei even forgot his own situation and stretched out his hand to try to stop them. It would have been fine if he hadn't done this, but after he did this, others were so scared that they ran away in a hurry, shouting as they ran: "Go, go! Be careful not to get anything on his hands!"
