The speech came earlier than Qin Fengzhong imagined.

Although Hou Juyi looked at Hang'er Langdang on the surface, he thought that he should keep a close eye on this matter in private. After dinner, the revised and translated manuscript was faxed directly from a university campus in New York, USA, to Hou Juyi's private office on the farm estate in Toronto. Hou Juyi's assistant Sean Swift did not immediately hand over the manuscript to Qin Feng, but took it to Guan Chaohui first. After reading it, Guan Chaohui felt that there was no problem, so he handed it over to Qin Feng.

The revised speech, the content has changed greatly from what Qin Feng wrote before, but the logic of his speech is basically retained, in translation, the translator has added a lot of American cold humor, and the words are all as simple as possible, almost all of them are CET4 level words, with Qin Feng's broken English level, read it word by word, and can actually understand seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, and when reading those more obvious deliberate humors, Qin Feng, who has been baptized by American dramas for many years, can also show a knowing smile. In this way, there is no language and cultural barrier, and Qin Feng is much easier to prepare.

On the third and fourth days of the Lunar New Year in Toronto, for two full days, Qin Feng locked himself in his room and slammed this speech, which would take at least 15 minutes to finish at the speed of normal Americans. First of all, clarify the professional words in the article one by one, and mark the phonetics. Then it is to read, read back and forth again and again, the third day of junior high school, at least thirty-four times, until every time I finish reading the previous sentence, the next sentence can automatically pop out of my mind, to the fourth day of junior high school, I began to break down the paragraph by paragraph into the memorization program, and memorized until the evening, and finally memorized all the long pages word for word, in terms of length, it is equivalent to spending 2 days, memorizing a whole English version of the "Tao Te Ching". It can be seen that Qin Feng's top liberal arts in the college entrance examination of Dongou City No. 18 Middle School in his previous life, as well as the champion of liberal arts in the college entrance examination of Dongou City No. 5 Middle School in this life, are definitely not in vain.

Under the intensity of absolute high pressure, Qin Feng's voice was actually not hoarse.

On the fifth day of the junior high school, Qin Feng found Guan Chaohui and wanted to give her a performance.

Guan Chaohui probably thought this kind of small exercise was quite interesting, and as soon as he got up and said hello, more than a dozen servants of different skin colors who lived in the manor, such as cooks, gardeners, security guards, etc., immediately threw down the work in their hands and stepped forward to watch Qin Feng. The scene was a little shameful, but fortunately, Qin Feng had done this kind of shameful thing back then-in terms of performances that ignored shame, no country could compare to China's domestic elementary school and even middle school boys, wearing lipstick and rubbing powder on their cheeks, to sing the motherland on stage. So there is no doubt that a class grass like Qin Feng, as the natural literary backbone of the class, naturally can't escape this fate every year.

Qin Feng, who has been tossed by the socialist literary and artistic circles to ignore transgender performances, will naturally not have any psychological fluctuations in the face of a few people watching the excitement. Qin Feng recited the speech to Guan Chaohui from beginning to end very calmly, and his spoken language was so fluent that Hou Kaijuan was dumbfounded when he heard it, and called out that you have been taken away by someone in the past two days? ”

After praising him, he asked the local natives: "Sean, what do you think?"

Sean Swift looked at Qin Feng with quite appreciative eyes and said with a smile: "English is very fluent, I can't hear the accent of ordinary Chinese, but some places are a little strange, there is a feeling of a London accent with a New York accent." But it's already very good, much better than many Scots I know, and Mr. Qin has a great talent for languages. ”

Qin Feng, whose English level is very bad but whose pronunciation is of the standard of God, passed Guan Zhaohui's test in this way. Guan Zhaohui did not delay, contacted the organizer of the TED talk on the same day, and at 9 o'clock in the evening, he flew to Monterey, California, with Qin Feng.

At 9:30 a.m. on February 3, 2006, California time, Qin Feng and Guan Zhaohui appeared outside the venue of this TED Talk.

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The city of Monterey, California, located on the peninsula, is much warmer and more comfortable than Toronto, due to the sea breeze. After Qin Feng and Guan Zhaohui got off the plane, they all changed into spring-like clothes, but they didn't take off the warm clothes inside. Guan Zhaohui specially chose a youthful and calm dress for Qin Feng. The 18-year-old Qin Feng has a well-proportioned body, and after a little tricking, he is indeed quite human-like, except for a slight defect in height, in general, the hardware conditions for cheating girls can be said to have all the deserved.

As guest speakers, after Qin Feng and Guan Zhaohui arrived, they were immediately led into the preparation room.

The director in charge of the scene, before Qin Feng came to the stage, specially told him a few points, although Qin Feng couldn't even understand Mao, but about Chaohui acting as a translator, it would not be a problem to understand.

TED, as a nominally non-commercial speaking organization, is actually still making money.

Its profit basically comes from two parts, the majority is the audience's admission tickets, which are usually as high as thousands of dollars a piece, especially when there are super heavyweight guests such as Bill Gates, even if the ticket price is speculated to tens of thousands of dollars, it is still difficult to find a ticket. However, characters of this level may only come once in several years, so there are still a few cases where it is difficult to get a ticket.

Most of the time, TED is in a dilemma of not being able to sell tickets - because there are not enough speakers, or the content of the talk is too niche and unpopular, and in fewer cases, both reasons exist.

In Qin Feng's limited memory, there was an actress with a fairly large background in China who came to TED to give a speech in order to brush up on her qualifications. At that time, Qin Feng watched the video out of curiosity, and said with a sense of conscience that the actress's speech, both in terms of content and quality, was quite unsatisfactory, and from beginning to end, there was a sense of stiffness about giving new words and speaking for the sake of speech, and he could only say that he barely passed. But it is such a video, but it has also become popular on the domestic Internet for a while, and many netizens have left messages under the video, praising the actress for being really talented and beautiful, and raising my country's prestige, which makes Qin Feng feel quite speechless. And the public relations fee paid by the actress to be on TED is naturally TED's main income in the off-season.

For such an institution that can not only invite the world's top cattle in various industries, but also casually let people in and smash signboards for a few copper plates, Qin Feng can't make an objective evaluation of it. In the final analysis, it is because the name of TED Talks is too old and too high, so that it has a fixed relationship with the reciprocity of interests generated by the upper class, with the reality of the elite class, they may not care about the key of "reputation" at all, one side can provide funds, one side can increase the value, it is a mutually beneficial thing, you say that some celebrities who rub the speech are to make up the number, from the perspective of other TED organizers, people may be quite happy!

Qin Feng's situation, in the eyes of the TED organizers, is not fundamentally different from those little stars who give speeches.

After all, Qin Feng is not famous at all in the United States, and before Ma Yun started to buy and buy globally before 2010, the status of Chinese faces on the world science and technology stage, as long as they are a little rational, should know it.

And Qin Feng didn't have any idea of winning glory for the country at all, and he himself felt that he was just here to go through the motions, which was equivalent to acting, so there was no mental pressure at all.

After waiting with Guan Chaohui in the preparation room for less than 15 minutes, the director let Qin Feng come on stage.

"Relax, just go to the city for a meeting. Guan Chaohui said to Qin Feng.

Qin Feng said with a smile: "There are many meetings in the city than here. ”

Holding the line card prepared just in case, Qin Feng walked briskly from the backstage to the front of the stage.

There are not many people in the audience, at most two or three hundred people, half of whom are domestic villagers with black hair and black eyes.

A burst of courtesy applause rang out, Qin Feng cleared his throat, smiled, and said calmly: "Hello everyone, my name is Qin Feng, I am from China, and I am now the CEO of a Chinese network technology. Last year, our company launched a desktop social software based on instant messaging technology, and the product name is Weibo......"