Chapter 19: Conquer the Audience

The last contestant of the county-level selection competition of the "Middle School Student Style Competition" is about to appear.

The judges were already packing their things and getting ready to leave. And there was a sound from time to time in the audience, and many people were like arrows at the moment.

Lin Guangping leaned sideways close to Jiang Chunyan, "Let's go to dinner together after the game in a while." ”

"The county must pick up the wind for us, how can we have time to go out to eat!" Jiang Chunyan looked at the stage and said quietly.

David on the other side looked at the movements of the two and felt a little unhappy. His two Chinese counterparts seem to have poor patience and lack of respect for the players. He thinks it's very inappropriate for such a person to be a judge. However, this decision is not in his hands. He can only do his job.

"Who's next? Hurry up and let's go back, how late is this? A school teacher who had already been on stage in the morning said with some irritation.

"That's right, it's all the last, what else is there to see, is it possible to name a flower?" Another teacher on the side chimed in.

Chen Xueqian took all this qiē in the audience. He took a deep breath and threw the qiē out of his body again. Whether it is Chen Xuebin, Zhu Hongyu, Yang Wei, Huo Xinyi's concern, or Wu Xiuzhi's schadenfreude.

This qiē, at this time, Chen Xueqian forgot all about it. All he had to do now was to step onto this podium and surrender the world to his feet for the first time.

After checking his image for the last time and making sure that there was no problem, Chen Xueqian strode onto the podium.

"Good evening, judges, teachers, students, I am Chen Xueqian, the last contestant today!" When Chen Xueqian stepped onto the podium and bowed lightly to the audience, he calmed the commotion in the venue as soon as he opened his voice!

A lot of people are blinking.

They heard you right, right? Is this student's self-introduction in English?

Well, that's nothing, too!

Just when the venue was silent for a moment, Chen Xueqian's speech began.

"I'm an ordinary 14-year-old boy from the countryside. My biggest hobby is reading, I read classical classics when I was a child, and I started reading some English books when I was in junior high school. Unlike others, I like to read the original English text. ”

"What? What did he just say? He reads the original works in English? Will this kid die if he doesn't brag? An English teacher shouted out with a ridiculous expression.

It's just that at this time, no one cares about him.

At this time, Chen Xueqian began to recite an English poem in English. It was a sonnet by Shakespeare.

At this time, not only those English teachers were dumbfounded, but the three judges were stunned!

This man is reciting an English sonnet! Well, this is nothing, but this recitation, how can this emotional ups and downs be as if English is his mother tongue?

Just when everyone was stunned for a moment, Chen Xueqian began to talk about the fun of reading books again.

"I found a lot of different pleasures when I read these books in English. The joy of this is that after comparing my translated English books with those of some famous artists, I found that there are many interesting differences. ”

Chen Xueqian said that many people don't understand it very well. It's like watching a foreigner talk on stage. And they don't understand much of it in English.

Jiang Chunyan's mouth opened wide at this time. From the time Zheng Zhi recited the sonnet, she felt that she had a hard time listening to this student's speech. And she was sure that the other party was not talking nonsense. Every speech of the other party is extremely standard, as if immersed in English for many years. Even English is the other person's mother tongue at all.

David on the other side almost wanted to applaud at this time.

To be honest, for a foreigner, today's competition is really a bit speechless. What are these students talking about? They basically say that they like football and puppies.

What the? What games have they played? How old is a puppy? What color puppy is? Don't be funny. They're only junior high school students, and they've only been learning English for three years. I'm afraid their English skills are not much better than that of a 6-year-old British girl.

And then they started to introduce the school, well, their school has three grades, ten or twenty classes.

Enough, which junior high school has four grades?

And then what? Without! Yes. Their introduction is such an understatement.

So what is Chen Xueqian talking about?

He's talking about poetry. A poem was also improvised and recited. Then he talked about literature, about translation, about some of the issues that people often debate in translation.

Then he talked about his most recent football game, and David even wondered for a moment if he asked if the defender had saved that crucial goal.

Then he talked about his school and hometown, from the scenery of the school, to the interesting teachers of the school, to the special snacks of his hometown.

Well, David felt that the next time he went to this student's hometown, he would definitely ask the other party to be his tour guide.

The English teacher on the scene was already stupid.

Yang Wei didn't know which sentence to listen to at all. always felt that every sentence Chen Xueqian said was enough for her to ponder for a long time. But as soon as I pondered it, I missed the next sentence.

Zhu Hongyu was ready to resign when he went back. Nima, this is too shocking, is this really her own student? Why he couldn't hear much halfway through him?

And those who are not English teachers can see the last student on the stage walking up a few steps on the podium from time to time, spreading their hands, and sometimes laughing and angry as if they were changing their faces.

A strange thought arose in their minds at the same time.

This kid must be very interesting! Although they don't understand!

Wu Xiuzhi looked at Principal Xu next to him at this time, his eyes were breathing fire, this is what you say English, and you have never entered the top twenty? Nima, what is that self? Didn't learn English?

He had just peeked at Huo Xinyi, even if he was far away, he could feel that there were little stars flashing in her eyes. Now he didn't dare to look at it anymore. He was afraid that if he looked at it again, he couldn't help but rush to the stage and strangle that bastard to death.

Huo Xinyi felt that she was once again amazed by this little boy at this time. This little boy has surprised himself more than once in just a few hours since they met.

She suddenly felt that the villain on the stage who had just teased her at this time didn't seem to look so bad. The facial features are quite three-dimensional, and the face is also very angular. Except for being thin, everything else seems to be okay.

And Jiang Chunyan didn't know when she started, and kept jotting down some words on the paper. She didn't care about anything else at this time, she felt that she would probably not be able to keep up with the boy's train of thought on stage if she was distracted.

Finally, the boy concluded his speech with a passage from Jane Eyre.

"Do you think that because I am poor, lowly, unbeautiful, and short, I have no soul and no heart?

You're thinking wrong! - My soul is like yours, and my heart is exactly like yours!

If God gives me wealth and beauty, I will make it hard for you to leave me, just as it is hard for me to leave you now.

God did not do this, and our souls were equal, as if the two of us walked through the grave and stood at God's feet,

Equal to each other - that's what it is! ”

When Chen Xueqian said: "Above! ”

There was silence. A lot of people haven't reacted to his speech yet. There are also some people who don't understand at all, let alone comment whether it's good or bad, so they wait for others to react first.

Jiang Chunyan was still writing something on paper. Lin Guangping looked at Chen Xueqian as if he had seen a ghost. It looks like I don't know where to start.

Suddenly, David was the first to react, only to see him slap the table in ecstasy.

He ignored the surprised eyes of others, as if he was crazy, stood up, and asked with his hands dancing, "Do you like this paragraph too?" Do you know which book this is from? ”

To be honest, David came to China because he was lonely, and he found that his Chinese friends could talk to him about anger and work, but they wouldn't talk to you about football, they wouldn't talk to you about a book, no matter what it was written, unless it was an English question for the exam.

So when David saw Chen Xueqian at this time, he was like seeing an old friend who had not been seen for a long time.

He was so happy that he was even a little crazy!

"It's Jane Eyre, and I love Helen Burns!"

David slapped the table again and gave a thumbs up.

Jiang Chunyan looked at the names of the words and books she had memorized, and didn't know where to start for a while, if she finished asking them all, she was afraid that she would have to ask for half an hour.

Finally she asked, "Do you know the meaning of the sonnet you just recited?" ”

"When I count the self-striking bells of the poster on the wall,

Seeing the bright day fall into the hideous night,

When I gaze at the violet and the old spring,

The curls of green silk were sprinkled with snow;

When I saw the branches and leaves of the towering trees falling off,

Not long ago, it had shaded the wheezing cattle and sheep;

The green of summer is bound by bunches of ground,

with a stiff white beard was put on the mortuary bed;

So I can't help but be anxious for your Zhu Yan:

Someday you're going to join the waste heap of time,

Since Mei and Fang Fei have abandoned themselves,

Watching others grow and wither;

There is nothing to resist the poisonous hand of time,

Except for childbearing, when he comes to take you away. ”

Jiang Chunyan has no problem.

Lin Guangping pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Actually, just before you memorized this poem, I always wanted to ask you a question." Do you speak Chinese? ”

After hearing this, the same question arose at the same time.

Is this Nima really Chinese, or a junior high school student?

Chen Xueqian rolled his eyes speechlessly.

He will tell them, in fact, our English is good because we hooked up with a foreign girl in a bar before and became ♀ friends?

Chen Xueqian stepped off the podium in the eyes of countless people. The first conquest show after his rebirth ends.

Chen Xueqian is very satisfied with the effect.

Especially when he saw Huo Xinyi and Yang Wei, as well as the few beautiful girls he had peeked at before, they were all blushing and secretly sending him autumn waves.

Actually, it's not bad to be a student!