At this moment, the only thing left in the entire hall was the brightest big screen on the stage!
Standing in front of that big screen, Pan Bo held a microphone and said to the spot where Huo Feng was standing below the stage, "Brother Feng, please receive a surprise from your ten sons!"
After speaking, Pan Bo stepped aside, and soon, the brightest big screen on the stage gleamed with light.
All eyes focused on that screen as the background music started to play, the very song that Huo Feng often sang with them...
"The worth of loyalty and righteousness equals gold, what’s the fear in climbing mountains and braving seas of flames!..."
And you could tell it was a chorus of eleven male voices, a set of fighting songs they learned from Stephen Chow’s "God of Cookery" when they were young and ignorant...
The recording was foolish; after finishing a section, there was the sound of their eleven voices laughing heartily "hahaha," though noisy, it was also very genuine...
From junior high to high school, Huo Feng would occasionally use this song to emphasize that the eleven of them could brave any danger for their brotherhood!
Now, suddenly hearing the silly recording they made together in junior high being played at the event, Huo Feng immediately laughed, showing off his brilliant white teeth, shaking his head helplessly...
Only then, the real images started playing on the big screen.
The background music at that time was Jay Chou’s "Maple." The soft music began to play slowly, and with it, a slideshow of photos appeared...
Each photo was a memory of Huo Feng’s youth...
The first one was from the fifth grade.
The photo from then was blurry, with only Huo Feng and Pan Bo in it.
Back then, Pan Bo was even chubbier, his small eyes were merely slits, and the skinny Huo Feng stood beside him, his arm looped around Pan Bo’s unseen neck...
At that time, Pan Bo was still half a head taller than Huo Feng! Both of them were holding ice creams, smiling with bright, sunny dispositions, just two clueless kids!
On the photo, there was a line of text: [Fifth grade, you are Huo Feng, and I am Pan Bo, forming a brotherhood! I’m very happy to eat, drink, and fight with you!]
Huo Feng silently looked at that photo, his thin lips slightly curved up, suddenly feeling a warmth in his chest, as a fervor called ’brotherhood’ ignited...
Quickly, the second photo appeared on the screen...
With the second photo came a line of text: [Sixth grade, you are Huo Feng, I am Pan Bo, along with Gu Yang, Lin Yuhao, forming a brotherhood! We skipped classes together, gathered pocket change to buy Kung Fu lollipops, went to the school next door to pick fights, so wild and happy!]
In this second photo, Gu Yang, Pan Bo, and Lin Yuhao sat on the ground, each holding fragments of Kung Fu lollipops, licking them blissfully, while Huo Feng sat on the steps behind them, counting money...
He still remembered that this photo was taken by their grandfather when they skipped class and went to his house.
In sixth grade, acting like the boss of the school, they never saw themselves as just kids...
At their current age, looking back at those photos, they just seemed hilarious!
Huo Feng’s thin lips curled even higher as he took a deep breath, wanting to say something, but he found himself speechless...
The background music "Maple" continued to play, Jay Chou’s soothing voice echoing in the hall, stirring up vivid memories of childhood, of that naive past...
When the third photo appeared, the count of brothers had finally increased...
The text that came with the third photo was: [First year of junior high, you are Huo Feng. I am Pan Bo, Gu Yang, Lin Yuhao, Zheng Sen, Wang Chao, Chen Li, Zhao Guobin, Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei, Zhu Hao... we’re finally all here! It’s unclear why each of us followed you, but once we did, we ten lost our own judgement. We called out ’Brother Feng’ every day, consulted you on every matter, and handed all decisions to you. We believed in you, we followed you, we would climb mountains and plunge into hot oil together; we will always be your little brothers!]
The third photo showed the ten brothers hiking over mountains for the first time, reaching the summit. At the top, they took a group photo with a camera... Follow current novels on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝕟𝕖𝕥
Those memories, with each photo and each line of text, surged through Huo Feng’s mind...
At that moment, Huo Feng could no longer lift the corners of his mouth...
His nose began to tingle, a heat rose from the bottom of his heart, rushing towards the top of his head!
In just that instant, Huo Feng’s eyes reddened quietly...
The photos continued to play slowly...
The fourth one was from Huo Feng’s birthday, showing the eleven of them horsing around, with whipped cream flying everywhere.
——The photo was taken by Grandpa.