Chapter 7

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Since then, I have been assimilating what Big Brother Li said. Only by linking a series of memories can I realize my carelessness.

When Mu Chenghe called me into the office to ask about the class for the first time, he said that he had never taught college students. At that moment, I understood that he had never been a teacher.

The second time Mu Chenghe came to the police station to pick me up with Bai Lin, the policeman said that he had seen it in the newspaper.

Even his fluent mental arithmetic I suspect. Then he told Peng Yu and me about airplanes, even the curator of the science and technology museum knew him too.

I have ignored so many details, that I am careless.

When we returned to the West District with Bailin, the campus bus turned around at the door and then circled the bulletin board. Lit by an orange lamppost, I saw his name in the window from a distance, it was something very striking.

It turns out that he is such an outstanding person, that it makes people feel like there is a superficial halo behind him.

The next day, I missed class for an unprecedented time and took the bus to the auditorium where Mu Chenghe's lecture would be held. When I arrived, I realized that the entrance was not free.

Bai Lin called me by pure chance.

"How is he going?"

"I can not enter."

"Oh no."

"You give me Brother Li's phone number. He said yesterday that he would come to listen to the lecture, that it belonged to his department."

"Good," Bai Lin replied

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"Good," Bai Lin replied.

After a while, I was finally able to contact Brother Li.

Fortunately, one of his classmates had set aside a spot, something happened at her house and she couldn't attend, so I took her seat.

Before it started, the atmosphere in the place was already very formal.

Several cameras have been installed behind, and the staff on stage are also testing the sound of the microphone.

In the first few rows, the table in front of each seat is marked with the name of the owner of the place. At the end of our student seat, the positions and areas of the various faculties are outlined. The schematic diagrams are clearly marked and the label marks the way. As expected, there was no room for one more person.

People entered one after another, everyone already had their reservation made.

Except for the year I took the stage to accept the award on behalf of my dad, I had never been on such a formal occasion, even less so with so many foreign guests.

In front of each seat there is a brochure in which Mu Chenghe's speech is printed in Chinese, English and Russian.

When Mu Chenghe appeared on the stage, everyone stood up and clapped. Dressed in a dark blue suit, he had left his usual nonchalance behind, cautiously took a few steps, stood still, leaned toward the stage, and then walked over to the conference table.

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