Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

Xu Yiyang ran around the provincial capital all afternoon.

He went to several schools and met more than a dozen foreign teachers, but no one wanted to come to his training class.

The reason for the refusal is the same, and I don't want to take up too much rest time.

Seeing that it was getting dark and there was no harvest, Xu Yiyang decided to stay in Quancheng for one night first, and try to find foreign students tomorrow in another way.

I found a hotel not far from several universities. Xu Yiyang remembered that there was a pedestrian street nearby, which was very lively at night, with small bars, dark Internet cafes, and small hotels. It was a place where college students gathered.

So he decided to try his luck in the past.

Xu Yiyang found a small bar called Texas on the pedestrian street, which felt a little American style. After stepping in, he found that there were really a few foreigners in it.

There were three young couples at the table of foreigners. The men and women were hugging each other, with a cigarette and a bottle of beer in their hands, chatting a bit unscrupulously.

Xu Yiyang originally wanted to go up and chat with them, but he felt that these six people didn't look like the kind who obeyed the rules, and it seemed inappropriate to teach elementary and middle school students.

At this moment, on the small stage in the bar, a blond boy holding an acoustic guitar walked up.

After he sat down on a small round stool, he held the guitar and strummed softly.

Afterwards, the blond boy whistled melodiously into the microphone, Xu Yiyang's eyes lit up when he heard this song.

This song is "Patience" by Guns N' Roses, a song I like very much.

This young man's voice was great, and he played the guitar very well, so Xu Yiyang couldn't help but hum along softly.

The blond boy sang four songs in a row, Xu Yiyang listened carefully, and at the same time carefully observed this young man, the more he looked, the more he felt that he was the most suitable candidate.

First of all, this kid has an American pronunciation, so he should be an American, and his spoken English must be fine;

Secondly, he is very ordinary in clothes, the denim jacket and jeans are washed white, and the shoes are also very old. It can be seen that he should be in financial difficulties and it is easier to dig;

In the end, this guy plays the guitar well and sings well. If he is hired as a teacher and occasionally brings a guitar to teach students to sing two English songs on the spot, the students will definitely like it.

This is entertaining and teaching!

When the blond boy sang the last song and walked off the stage, Xu Yiyang immediately stepped forward, stood in front of him and greeted him in English: "Hey man, you sing really well!"

The blond boy looked at Xu Yiyang in surprise, and said with a smile, "Thank you!"

Xu Yiyang said: "I want to discuss a business with you, I wonder if you are interested?"

The other party asked suspiciously: "What business?"

Xu Yiyang first introduced himself and said, "My name is Xu Yiyang, you can call me Xu."

"My name is Billy Stone, you can call me Billy."

Xu Yiyang nodded, shook hands with him, and said, "Hi Billy, may I ask, are you an overseas student?"

"Yes." Billy said, "I am an international student at the Graduate School of Qilu Normal University, studying Chinese."

Xu Yiyang nodded and asked, "Then your Chinese must be very good?"

"Not bad." Billy Stone immediately switched to fluent Mandarin and said, "I have been in China for three years, but I have been learning Chinese for six years."

Xu Yiyang praised: "Your Chinese is very good!"

Billy Stone smiled and said: "Your English is also very good."

"Thank you." Xu Yiyang smiled slightly: "Billy, I have a training institution and want to recruit a foreign teacher to teach spoken English to elementary and middle school students. I wonder if you are interested."

Billy Stone said in surprise: "Teaching spoken English? I haven't taught..."

Xu Yiyang nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you haven't taught me before,

Just say it well, I have mature courseware here, you can just follow my courseware, don’t you know the guitar, and occasionally you can show students how to play and sing English songs with a guitar, so as to increase students’ interest in learning English. "

Billy hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Where is the training class?"

Xu Yiyang said: "In Yingzhou, it takes about three hours by car one way, can you?"

Billy said, "That's not a problem, can you tell me about the salary package?"

Xu Yiyang said: "Classes start every Wednesday to Sunday, and I will give you 150 yuan for each class. The salary is settled on a weekly basis, and the transportation, board and lodging expenses are all included."

"One hundred and fifty per class?" Billy couldn't hide his joy and said, "I'm graduating soon, and now there's basically nothing to do in school. I can take it at any time. How many classes can I take at most in a week?"

Xu Yiyang said: "Currently there are up to 11 classes a week."

He has 22 classes now, and if Billy comes over, give half of the classes to him.

That is to say, in the future, students will have eight classes in Jiayang Education each term, four classes will be taught by themselves, and four classes will be taught by Billy.

In this way, every student has the opportunity to get in touch with foreign teachers, and he can save half of the time.

The time saved can be used for reviewing, or a few more classes can be held as appropriate.

Billy agreed without hesitation and said, "No problem! I can press as many as I want!"

Xu Yiyang asked him: "Then when do you want to start working?"

Billy said, "I'm going to participate in a school debate this Wednesday, can I go on Thursday?"

"OK!" Xu Yiyang asked the waiter for a pen and paper, wrote down his mobile phone number, and handed it to him, saying: "Call me at the Yingzhou bus station on Thursday, and I will pick you up."

"it is good!"

Finding Billy Stone relieved Xu Yiyang.

There is someone to share the workload with me, and I feel a lot easier all of a sudden.

Moreover, he believed that once Billy arrived in Yingzhou and went to Jiayang Education, he would definitely cause a sensation in Yingzhou.

So what if Ma Mingming's resume is real? Billy, a typical American face, is definitely more authoritative than Ma Mingming.

...

Because he had a good conversation with Billy Stone, Xu Yiyang drank a few bottles of beer with him, and slept comfortably in the hotel until after nine o'clock in the morning the next day.

After getting up, he washed and checked out, and headed to the bus station.

At the same time, the train from Zhonghai to Yanjing has been rattling since eight o'clock last night, and finally entered Quancheng Railway Station.

The train came to a complete stop, and the six-member team from China Overseas to Yingzhou got off one of the sleeper cars.

The leader of the team is Hu Bingwen, the oldest.

Besides him, there are Li Yunhui, the director of the Academic Affairs Office of China Overseas, as well as two staff members of the Academic Affairs Office and two security guards.

As soon as Hu Bingwen got off the train, he immediately stretched his limbs on the platform. The train for more than ten hours was indeed a bit exhausting for him.

Li Yunhui next to him asked Hu Bingwen while exercising his muscles and bones: "Mr. Hu, have you ever been to Qilu before?"

"I've been here." Hu Bingwen nodded, and said, "I have a brother with a close relationship who is from Quancheng. In 1997, my wife and I visited him once."

Li Yunhui smiled and said, "Then you still go to see him this time?"

Hu Bingwen said: "Let's finish the business first. If there is time, I will go to his house and sit for a while. If it is too late, we will talk about it later."

Among the two security guards who came this time, one was the deputy captain of the security team, a veteran named Zhang Hao, and the other was a young man named Xu Daqiang.

Xu Daqiang was the only Yingzhou native in the security team, so Zhang Hao brought him over.

Zhang Hao looked at the time and interjected, "Leaders, let's get out of the station quickly. Daqiang said that the long-distance bus station in Quancheng is next to the train station, and we have to buy the earliest bus to Yingzhou."

Hu Bingwen nodded and said, "Then let's go!"

...

At this moment, Xu Yiyang was already sitting in the waiting hall of the coach station.

Quancheng Long-distance Bus Station is not too big, and its structure is very simple, just a ticket office and a waiting hall.

There are more than a dozen ticket gates in the waiting hall, and there are bus parking spaces outside each ticket gate.

Xu Yiyang missed the ten o'clock bus, so he bought a ticket for eleven o'clock.

With nearly an hour left, he came to the designated ticket gate and waited.

Because he had developed the habit of cherishing time, after sitting down, Xu Yiyang turned on his Walkman to listen to music, then turned on his laptop, put it on his lap, and continued to make his own courseware PPT.

As the first batch of veteran students had already started classes, Xu Yiyang's courseware also needed to be constantly updated. Last week, he finished the courseware for the ninth lesson, and before this week's class, he had to make all the courseware for the tenth lesson.

Hu Bingwen and his party also bought tickets for the 11:00 o'clock bus, because there was still nearly an hour left. After everyone came in, they found empty seats to rest.

This time, Hu Bingwen suddenly discovered that the young man sitting diagonally across from him was holding an IBM laptop, concentrating on tinkering with something.

Seeing that this young man seems to be very proficient in computer operation, he quickly typed on the keyboard for a while, and skillfully operated the little red dot and the touchpad for a while, which made Hu Bingwen very surprised.

Laptops are an absolute rarity in this era. Even among the professors at China Overseas, few can afford a laptop, and even if they can afford it, they are reluctant to buy one.

Moreover, when he looked at Xu Yiyang, he guessed that Xu Yiyang was only about 18 years old, so he felt even more strange.

What a wealthy family must this be to buy such expensive things for their children?

What made him even more unbelievable was that when this young man was typing, he never looked down at the keyboard. This proficiency was even better than that of the young teachers from China Overseas.

Now when everyone uses a computer, they stare at the keyboard and poke their fingers one after another. The typing efficiency is extremely slow. He has never seen anyone so proficient.

Therefore, he was even more curious about what this young man was doing while staring at the computer so intently.

Driven by curiosity, he stood up, walked behind Xu Yiyang, and was instantly dumbfounded by the content on the computer screen!

This kid is actually doing PowerPoint!

Hu Bingwen led a team to overseas universities last year, only to be surprised to find that western professors have already used this software to give lectures in the classroom.

After personal experience, he realized how amazing this kind of software is in teaching, simple, efficient, and clear at a glance.

After he came back, he suggested to the school to organize teachers to study, bought a computer himself, and studied it at home for a winter vacation, but he still doesn't know much about it.

Therefore, he couldn't understand anyway, why a young guy is so proficient in operating this software?