Early the next morning, when Xu Yiyang and his sister went out together, their parents were still encouraging the two of 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.

Exams?

If you don't take the test and get a zero score, it can also be explained that you are in a bad mood and don't want to take the test.

If you participate in it and take the exam again, you really can't explain it.

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

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

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

I just didn't go to the exam today, and I had nowhere to go, so I simply came to the edge of the Yellow River to find my memories of the year.

In winter, the Yellow River is cold and cold, but Xu Yiyang does not feel cold.

After strolling around the small park along the riverbank for a while, his mind was still thinking about how to make money.

After walking back and forth a few times, Xu Yiyang suddenly heard a noise of people.

As soon as I looked up, I found a group of people not far away, and I saw that there were at least seven or eight of them.

Among the seven or eight people, two blonde-haired foreigners were particularly conspicuous.

These two foreigners, a man and a woman, about thirty or forty years old, are blonde, blue-eyed and have a high nose.

The two foreigners were flanked by five or six Chinese, including a photographer with a camera on her shoulder and a female reporter with a microphone in hand.

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

Looking at this posture, Xu Yiyang estimated that eighty percent of these two were foreign businessmen who came to invest locally.

Seeing that these people are getting closer and closer, Xu Yiyang is worried about being filmed by the camera, after all, it is the exam time to hang out, and if he is on TV again, it will be troublesome to be seen by his family, teachers and classmates.

So he quickly turned his back to the crowd that was coming.

When these people passed behind him, Xu Yiyang heard the middle-aged foreign man with blond hair, speaking very standard English, and said seriously: "My grandfather has lived in Yingzhou for twelve years, and when I was very young, he always told me that it was the people of Huaxia and Yingzhou who raised him......

After the blonde man finished speaking, a middle-aged Chinese man next to him said with an embarrassed face: "Oh, I'm really sorry, Mr. Lauter, I ...... My ...... I don't understand what you're saying...... Please wait a little longer, I've already sent people to our best local high school to ask for an English teacher......"

The foreigner known as Raute couldn't understand what the middle-aged man was saying, so he smiled awkwardly.

Xu Yiyang, who was not far away, peeked at this scene and couldn't help but laugh twice.

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

Now the vast majority of Yingzhou locals should have never seen a living foreigner.

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

Moreover, Xu Yiyang's father's generation has 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 the current locals in Yingzhou, even if they are unit leaders, not to communicate normally with foreigners in English.

Not only Yingzhou, but also the vast majority of small cities in the interior 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 the matter? Why hasn't anyone come yet?"

The person who looked like a secretary next to him hurriedly said: "I called the principal of No. 1 Middle School just now, and he told me that he was coordinating with the English teacher, saying that the teachers of the first and second years of high school in their school are on vacation, and although the teachers in the third year of high school are not on vacation, but in today's exam, the teachers are invigilating in the examination room, and it will be difficult to transfer for a while." ”

"It's not easy to transfer?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly and said angrily: "I think it's the English teacher of their No. 1 Middle School, and when I heard that I was going to come to work as a translator for foreign guests, I was all timid!"

The man next to him smiled awkwardly and said: "Director Cai, let me tell you the truth, dialogue with foreign guests, real-time translation, not only has high requirements for English proficiency, but also has higher requirements for speaking and listening, otherwise, either you can't understand what the foreign guests say, or what the foreign guests can't understand, our English teachers have been teaching according to the lesson plan for several years, more than ten years, and it is a problem to see or not to see foreigners.

After speaking, the other party quietly bowed to the two reporters not far away, and said in a low voice: "In addition, there are reporters following the interview and the camera shooting, I am afraid that no teacher will dare to take this task......!

The middle-aged man known as Director Cai said angrily: "No one dares to answer, so let the principal directly assign one to me! Even if you tie the knife holder around the neck, you have to tie one over! You call him again, and if I can't see anyone again within ten minutes, he, the principal, will not do it!"

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

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

Just as he was about to slip away, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind:

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

In these years, the masses of the people actually have no leisure and entertainment, and the most popular entertainment activity every day is to watch TV.

Moreover, there are not many CCTV units nowadays, so the ratings of local TV stations are very high.

I have been married to Gu Sijia for so many years, I have been "bilingual education" by her, and I have been in the English training industry for so many years, dealing with foreign teachers every day, and it is completely enough to be a temporary translator in terms of English level.

If you volunteer to be a translator for these two foreigners in the past, once this matter is on TV, you can at least make a name in Yingzhou, right?

It just so happened that I was worried about not knowing how to make money at the moment.

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

Isn't this a good time to increase parental approval?

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

Whether you succeed or fail, you must give it a try!

......

Thomas Raut, who came to Yingzhou from Germany, was 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 bring some of his ashes back to Yingzhou and scatter them into the Yellow River, and also asked him to take out 200,000 German marks from his inheritance and donate them to Yingzhou for education.

What I didn't expect was that I took my wife to Yingzhou and found the Yingzhou Education Department all the way, but in the office of the agency, I couldn't even find a person who could speak fluently in English.

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

Even college students' English proficiency may not be able to speak fluently with foreigners.

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

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

Thomas Raut took his wife to the Education Bureau, and finally reluctantly got through the Yellow River.

So the leaders of the Education Bureau hurriedly arranged the car first, regardless of what these two foreigners were going to do, it was 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 let Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School send an English teacher to come over to meet.

In this way, the Education Bureau brought people to the Yellow River, and the teachers of Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School also happened to come over to act as interpreters, and the two sides happened to be seamlessly connected.

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

With such a little road, you can come over by pedaling a bicycle for more than ten minutes, but Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School has been inked until now, and a good person has not been selected!