Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

Early the next morning, when Xu Yiyang and his younger sister went out together, their parents were still encouraging them to perform well in the exam.

Xu Yiyang responded vaguely, and after riding his sister to No. 3 Middle School, he turned around and rode out of the city.

take an exam? Exam shit!

Not taking the test and getting a zero score can also be interpreted as being in a bad mood and not wanting to take the test.

If you take part in it, and the test is a mess, there is really no way to explain it.

But Xu Yiyang had no money in his pocket and nowhere to go, so he simply rode his bicycle to the Yellow River outside the city.

Yingzhou is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, not far from the mouth of the sea. The original scenery of the Yellow River is still very magnificent.

Xu Yiyang used to like to take a walk along the Yellow River. Whenever he was stressed or in a bad mood, he would go for a walk on the river embankment alone.

I just didn't go to the exam today, and I didn't have a place to go, so I simply came to the bank of the Yellow River to find the memories of the year.

In winter, the wind and wind beside the Yellow River were extremely cold, but Xu Yiyang didn't feel cold.

After strolling along the small park on the river bank for a while, he was still thinking about how to make money.

After walking back and forth a few times, Xu Yiyang suddenly heard a burst of noisy voices.

When I looked up, I found a group of people coming not far from the front, and I saw at least seven or eight of them.

Among these seven or eight people, there are two blond foreigners who are particularly obvious.

The two foreigners, a man and a woman, were about thirty or forty years old, and both had blond hair, blue eyes and a high nose bridge.

Next to the two foreigners were five or six Chinese people, including a cameraman with a camera on his shoulder and a female reporter with a microphone.

Xu Yiyang looked at the logo on the microphone, it was the local Yingzhou TV station.

Looking at this posture, Xu Yiyang reckoned that these two are probably foreign businessmen who came to invest locally.

Seeing this group of people getting closer and closer, Xu Yiyang was worried about being caught by the camera, after all, he came out to hang out during the exam time, and if he went on TV again, it would be troublesome for his family, teachers and classmates to see him.

So he quickly turned around and turned his back on the people who were walking.

When these people passed by behind him, Xu Yiyang heard the blond foreign middle-aged man, speaking very standard English, seriously say: "My grandfather lived in Yingzhou for twelve years. At that time, he kept telling me that it was the people of Huaxia and Yingzhou who raised him..."

After the blond-haired man finished speaking, a middle-aged Chinese man next to him said with embarrassment: "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Lauter, I... I... I don't understand what you said... Please wait a little longer , I have sent people to our local best high school to invite an English teacher to come over..."

The foreigner called Lauter couldn't understand what the middle-aged man said, so he smiled awkwardly.

Not far away, Xu Yiyang peeked at this scene and couldn't help laughing secretly.

Yingzhou itself is not a port city, nor is it located on the southeast coast. In 1999, Yingzhou was actually very closed.

Most of the locals in Yingzhou now probably have never seen a living foreigner.

The first living foreigner that Xu Yiyang met in his previous life was the foreign teacher he met after going to the provincial capital to study in university.

Moreover, among the generation of Xu Yiyang's parents, there are very few people who have received higher education, and there are even fewer people who can learn and speak English well.

Therefore, it is very common for locals in Yingzhou, even the leaders of their work units, to be unable to communicate with foreigners in English.

Not only Yingzhou, but also most of the small cities in the inland at this stage, the situation is similar.

The middle-aged man was a little impatient at this time, and asked the people around him in a low voice: "What's going on? Why hasn't he come yet?"

The person next to him in the disguise of a secretary hurriedly said, "I called the principal of No. 1 Middle School just now, and he told me that he was coordinating with the English teachers.

Although the teachers in the third year of high school did not have a holiday, they will be invigilating the exam today, so it will be difficult to mobilize for a while. "

"It's hard to transfer?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly and said angrily, "I think it's the English teacher of one of their middle schools. When they heard that they were going to be interpreters for foreign guests, they all showed timidity!"

The man beside him smiled awkwardly and said, "Director Cai, to be honest, talking to foreign guests and translating in real time not only require a high level of English, but also higher requirements for speaking and listening. I don’t understand what the foreign guests are saying, or they don’t understand what they are saying. Our English teachers have been teaching according to the lesson plans for several years or more than ten years. Whether you have met a foreigner is a problem. , Engaging in real-time translation, it may not be very clever!"

After finishing speaking, the other party pouted quietly at the two reporters not far away, and said in a low voice: "Plus there are reporters following the interview and the cameras are filming, no teacher would dare to accept this task! Make a fool of yourself..."

The middle-aged man called Director Cai said angrily: "No one dares to pick it up, so let their principal directly assign one to me! Even if the knife is tied around the neck, one must be tied! You call him again!" Call, if I don't see anyone again within ten minutes, he, the principal, will quit!"

Thinking that the school might send an English teacher over, Xu Yiyang subconsciously wanted to leave.

Otherwise, it would be embarrassing if the teacher at the school recognized him later.

Just as he was about to sneak here, another thought suddenly flashed through his mind:

The battle in front of me was interviewed by a TV station!

People these days don't actually have much leisure and entertainment. The most popular entertainment every day is watching TV.

Moreover, there are not many closed-circuit televisions, so the ratings of local TV stations are very high.

I have been married to Gu Sijia for so many years, and I have been "bilingually educated" by her, and I have worked in the English training industry for so many years, dealing with foreign teachers every day, and my English level is completely sufficient to be a temporary translator.

If I volunteered to act as an interpreter for these two foreigners in the past, once this matter is on TV, I can at least get a nickname in Yingzhou, right?

It just so happened that I was worrying about not knowing how to make money right now.

I want to return to my old business and engage in training, which is a costless business, but because I am too young and have no qualifications, it is difficult to be recognized by my parents.

Right now, isn't it a good opportunity to improve parents' recognition?

As an adult, he would never sit by and let any opportunity pass him by.

Regardless of success or failure, you must let go of your hands and feet and give it a try!

...

Thomas Lauter, who came to Yingzhou all the way from Germany, felt a little helpless at this moment.

His grandfather grew up in Yingzhou and had a deep affection for it.

Before he died, his grandfather entrusted him to take part of his ashes back to Yingzhou and scatter them into the Yellow River. He also asked him to donate 200,000 German marks from his inheritance to Yingzhou for education.

Unexpectedly, I took my wife to Yingzhou and found the education department of Yingzhou all the way, but in the office of the office, I couldn't even find a person who could speak English fluently.

This cannot be blamed on the poor level of the education department in Yingzhou, but that the general English level was very low when they went to school.

Even the English proficiency of college students may not be able to communicate fluently with foreigners.

What's more, I have been working for so long, I haven't seen any foreigners for several years or even more than ten years, and I haven't spoken a word of English. Almost all the things I learned back then were returned to the teacher.

Moreover, the leaders of the Education Bureau may not all be educated, so it is not realistic to insist that they have excellent English skills.

Thomas Lauter took his wife to the Education Bureau, talked and gestured, and finally managed to make sense of the Yellow River.

So the leaders of the Education Bureau hurried to arrange a car first, regardless of what the two foreigners were going to do, it would be right to pull them to the edge of the Yellow River first.

The original plan was to bring the two foreigners to the Yellow River first, and at the same time quickly ask Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School to send an English teacher to meet them.

In this way, the Education Bureau took people to the Yellow River, and the teacher from Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School just rushed over to act as an interpreter, and the two sides were seamlessly connected.

Unexpectedly, Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School lost the chain at a critical moment.

With such a short distance, you can get here in ten minutes by bicycle, but Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School has not yet chosen a good person!