TWWMABMTBH Chapter 54

Chapter 54: They Might Just Send the Whole School Off

The suona can be said to be one of the loudest instruments in traditional Chinese music.

Rong Ziyan, having recovered from his illness and with a strong voice, produced his first long note, instantly making the class monitor jump.

The greatest characteristic of the piece “Ten Knees for Father” is its mournfulness. Although the suona sounds bright at first, it carries a unique ruggedness.

Rong Ziyan had been practicing since he was a child! Not only did he play the piece flawlessly, but even his expression was spot on.

It was as if the class monitor was the old father, already halfway buried in the ground.

Class Monitor: …

[Bewilderment value +1000]

However, he didn’t say anything, so Rong Ziyan assumed he wanted to continue listening, and since the climax of the piece was about to arrive, he played even more enthusiastically.

Class Monitor: …

[Bewilderment value +3000]

The System couldn’t bear to watch any longer and reminded Rong Ziyan, “Rong! The class monitor has been taking care of you, you need to calm down, don’t actually send him off!”

Rong Ziyan stopped playing, interrupted by the System.

The class monitor, who was still immersed in the shock of the music, was finally able to catch his breath. But clearly, his emotions were still greatly impacted.

Rong Ziyan tried to persuade him, “The lyrics of ‘Ten Knees for Father’ are also very good, the last line is ‘May you have a good life in the next life.'”

The class monitor quickly stopped him, “No, no, no, it’s a graduation ceremony after all, this isn’t appropriate. Do you know anything else?”

Rong Ziyan thought for a moment, “I know quite a few. I know ‘The Grand Funeral Procession,’ ‘Thousand Sheets of Paper,’ ‘Seven Cries,’ and ‘Su Wu Herding Sheep.'”

The class monitor’s face was blank for a long time, unable to speak. These pieces might actually send the entire student body off at the graduation ceremony.

After several seconds, he finally declined tactfully, “It’s a bit too traditional, it’s a new era after all, we need something a bit more modern.”

Rong Ziyan, “Modern is fine too, I also know ‘Returning to My Mother’s Home,’ ‘Lucky Three Treasures,’ and ‘Where Has Time Gone?'”

The class monitor was going crazy, thinking about how messed up the person who taught Rong Ziyan the suona must be. But even so, he still had to find a way to refuse.

So, the class monitor sincerely held Rong Ziyan’s hand, “It really won’t work, we’re doing a group performance, your suggestion is good, but we can’t borrow so many suonas temporarily!”

While the class monitor was still racking his brain for ways to refuse, Rong Ziyan said two words that were like the devil’s whisper – “I have them.”

The class monitor dazedly repeated, “You have what?”

Then, Rong Ziyan opened his cabinet to show the class monitor his half of the room.

On top of a full basket of salted duck eggs, there were neatly arranged more than twenty suonas.

Their class had 40 people, excluding the girls who didn’t want to embarrass themselves, and the five useless good-for-nothings in Rong Ziyan’s dorm, the rest of the thick-skinned guys could indeed have one each.

Rong Ziyan touched the suonas and couldn’t help but sigh, “In the four years of university, everyone has taken good care of me. Consider this a gift from me!”

He spoke so sincerely that the class monitor’s heart softened for a moment and he didn’t refuse.

Five minutes later, the class monitor was carrying more than twenty suonas from Rong Ziyan’s dorm back to his own.

Looking at the shocked expressions of his roommates, he decided that he couldn’t be the only one suffering this kind of shock, and he had to let everyone feel his breakdown together.

So, he sent a message to all the guys in the class.

“Come to my dorm now, Rong dog, no, the academic genius is giving everyone a gift!”

Half an hour passed, and the class group was unusually silent.

Some girls curiously asked what had happened.

So, some boys sent a photo of a suona.

This time, the whole group fell silent.

The girls all stopped asking questions very rationally. Clearly, this topic wouldn’t end well.

But even so, it was still difficult to achieve something without the right resources. In the end, Rong Ziyan’s class still had no good ideas for their performance.

Especially the counselor’s comment that it would be best if the whole class participated made the class monitor feel like he was at his wit’s end.

In addition, that piece of suona that Rong Ziyan played that day was simply toxic. For three days afterwards, the class monitor’s dreams were all filled with that piece of music.

Therefore, with the intention of getting revenge, and with the crazy mentality of “I can’t suffer alone,” the class monitor finally agreed to Rong Ziyan’s suggestion and started organizing the other guys in the class to learn the suona.

At first, they encountered many difficulties. The suona was just too difficult to learn, especially if they wanted to play a melody. Fortunately, their veterinary medicine department wasn’t good at anything else, but they all had enough lung capacity, at least they could make it sound somewhat like a melody.

In addition, the song they chose had a simple melody, just the climax of Li Ronghao’s “If I Were Young.” After calculating, they figured that they could all basically learn it at that pace.

As for the girls, they would just sing. Rong Ziyan was the most skilled with the suona, so he would accompany them at the beginning, and then when it came to the climax, everyone would play together.

Thinking about it this way, the concept was still pretty impressive. Especially with their chosen instrument, which was truly unique.

There wasn’t another group that could do it across the entire agricultural university!

Therefore, after accepting this idea, the class monitor was also infected by Rong Ziyan and the more he thought about it, the more amazing he found using the suona. He even started actively persuading others.

In just one morning, all the students in the class thought that this was a great idea. Some guys, who were most familiar with the school’s layout, even found an excellent place for everyone to practice the suona.

It wouldn’t disturb people, nor would they be discovered.

For a time, the training for suona practice began in full swing. Because Rong Ziyan, as the teacher, had experiments during the day, the teaching was usually concentrated around 8pm.

At this time, even the cleaning aunties had already gone home. Only mosquitoes and insects were deeply suffering from their harm.

As for the other students in the school, they naturally didn’t notice any clues. Only the brothers in the mechanical department on the same floor had a slight suspicion, wondering why these veterinary medicine dogs hadn’t been collectively eating snail noodles lately!

They hadn’t smelled the smell of snail noodles for several days, and for some reason, they actually felt a little lonely!

But such a big event as collective suona practice couldn’t be hidden forever. Rong Ziyan still revealed a few clues.

In order to save time, Rong Ziyan would bring his suona with him when he went to the lab during the day. After returning from the lab, he would go directly to teach his classmates, so as to avoid wasting time going back to the dorm.

Logically, these actions were actually very small, but it was inevitable that someone observant would notice.

The middle-aged fat man that he had met in the vegetable garden before, the one who spoke bluntly but had a very good impression of Rong Ziyan, had been secretly watching Rong Ziyan since their first meeting.

He wasn’t actively going up to him, but just observing him from afar, watching him do experiments, watch him take notes, watch him research materials, and ponder project details.

He had even gone out of his way to collect the papers that Rong Ziyan had participated in in the past, the three papers submitted to provincial journals this year, and the first drafts of the papers for core journals, reading them over and over again.

These actions looked a bit strange in the eyes of Rong Ziyan’s advisor and the department head.

The two of them were also very worried in private.

“So, what do you think his intentions are?” The advisor hadn’t interacted with him, he had only heard that this big shot had a very unique personality and was hard to judge.

The department head also had a headache, touching his increasingly bald head, feeling exhausted, “I also want to know. Sigh, let’s just wait and see! He is observing Rong very carefully now, being interested is better than not being interested.”

“That’s true!” The advisor nodded, seeming convinced.

Little did they know that their private mutterings had long been seen through by this fat man.

Since he was accompanying a friend, the two good buddies naturally got together in the evenings to drink and chat.

However, their drinking was only to a point, not enough to affect their work the next day.

At this point, they had been at the agricultural university for more than half a month, and naturally they had formed some psychological judgments.

But unlike the fat man’s appreciation for the agricultural university, his friend clearly didn’t like it.

“How do you mean? I think both the teachers and students are quite talented!” The fat man couldn’t help but talk about Rong Ziyan, whom he had recently discovered.

But his friend just snorted and didn’t say anything.

The fat man knew right away where his friend’s prejudice came from.

After all, it was a bad karma. The fat man’s friend was the advisor of the Rich Second Generation.

At first, based on that paper and the name of the agricultural university, this big shot advisor had actually thought of the Rich Second Generation as a genius. But later, after the guy joined the lab, they realized that he was a complete fraud, completely useless.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but complain to the fat man, “You tell me! He can’t even tell the basic application drugs apart, he has to look at each medicine bottle. And later, it came out that the paper was written by a ghostwriter.”

“The agricultural university just has these kinds of issues, what kind of good talent could they have!” The big shot advisor became increasingly annoyed, and he took a sip of his wine to suppress his anger.

After hearing this, the fat man laughed, “Who told you that your new useless addition was very impressive?”

“Didn’t everyone say he was a top student?”

“You’ve been tricked! The people who found someone else to take their CET-4 and CET-6 during their four years of university, would the university give away a real top student to you? A decent one would be recommended for graduate school!”

“???” The big shot felt like his worldview had been overturned.

After the two talked further, he realized that the rumors he had heard about excellence were about Rong Ziyan, but the one he had brought into his lab was actually the Rich Second Generation. He had matched the wrong person! He had misunderstood the whole thing.

“Ah! Gao Bin is at fault here!” The big shot suddenly became unhappy again.

Gao Bin was Rong Ziyan’s senior under the big shot, “He knew that I had the wrong person, why didn’t he remind me?”

The fat man was helpless, “You must be truly stupid, he has a good relationship with Rong Ziyan, and definitely not the other guy. He was too busy avoiding it to start any trouble, why would he come forward?”

The big shot suddenly understood and then began to recall which one was Rong Ziyan.

“I know now! It’s the agricultural university student who discovered the medicine, right?”

“Yes! That’s him!”

The big shot became excited, “I’ve read that kid’s reports several times, and they are truly!!!”

The fat man nodded in agreement, “He is particularly talented, isn’t he!”

“Yes, and he’s also intelligent.”

“He is also meticulous and has a stable personality, not arrogant or rash, especially suitable for scientific research.” The fat man went on to tell the big shot all of Rong Ziyan’s good qualities, and he also showed him the papers that he had collected about Rong Ziyan in the last few days.

After reading them, the big shot was amazed, and he was instantly converted to the fat man’s belief in Rong Ziyan. He felt that Rong Ziyan was really very suitable for his team.

But what he didn’t expect was that, when he had already started considering observing for a couple days before asking the department head for Rong Ziyan, the fat man actually said, “You also think that he is especially suitable to be my disciple, right!”

Big Shot: ???

Fat man: This character, this talent, this knowledge are all like they are tailor made for me!

Big Shot: Wait, something seems wrong.

Fat Man: What’s wrong?

Big Shot: Weren’t you recommending him to me?

Fat man: Brother, wake up, good seedlings are so hard to come by, I was just showing off to you.

Big Shot: …

They went their separate ways after a disagreement.

And after realizing that the big shot wanted to snatch him, the fat man really planned to seize the chance to pull Rong Ziyan into his team.

This fat man was interesting; he always felt that forced melons were not sweet, so he planned to have a good talk with Rong Ziyan first and then go to the department head to discuss the subsequent matters.

But Rong Ziyan had been leaving early and returning late recently, and he hadn’t been able to find a suitable opportunity.

That night, after finishing his experiments, Rong Ziyan grabbed his suona and ran towards the practice area.

The fat man had been waiting for him for a long time and quickly followed behind.

He thought to himself, did his little disciple start dating recently? Is he practicing to woo a girl? Otherwise, why would he always take an instrument and go to a remote place after finishing his experiments?

Sigh, indeed, the youth are full of life!

The fat man shook his head with a smile, looking like someone with experience.

However, what he never expected was that when Rong Ziyan finally arrived, he took out the instrument, but it wasn’t a flute or a xiao, it looked like a trumpet from afar.

What shocked the fat man even more was the one who came to meet Rong Ziyan was actually a man, holding the same kind of trumpet in his hand.

Is his little disciple gay? Then it was understandable he had to be secretive. The fat man processed this information for a bit.

But then, a robust man, nearly six-foot-four, and shirtless, came out of the woods, yelling at Rong Ziyan in a northeastern accent, “Rong, we’ve been waiting for you, let your brother give you a blast!”