Shen Lele's state has been a bit strange these past two days.
Ever since she saw Xu Yiyang on TV the night before yesterday, Xu Yiyang's appearance always appeared in her mind.
Sometimes what emerges is Xu Yiyang's usually silent and dull look;
Sometimes what emerges is his relaxed expression of talking and laughing with foreign guests.
Xu Yiyang on TV is really confident!
Even the smile on his face showed no signs of nervousness.
If it were you, in front of the TV cameras, you might be so nervous that you can't even speak Yingzhou dialect, right
She really wanted to ask Xu Yiyang what was the secret to practicing speaking so that he could become so proficient in speaking.
However, every time I picked up the phone and wanted to call Xu Yiyang's home, I started to hesitate, and then quickly put it back.
Today was the first day of vacation. When she was having breakfast, she was still thinking about Xu Yiyang, so she mustered up the courage to call his home.
The person who answered the phone was Xu Yiyang's sister. According to her sister, Xu Yiyang went out at dawn.
What is this guy busy with even though he's on vacation
Shen Lele had been a little absent-minded all morning while thinking about Xu Yiyang.
When it was almost noon, Shen Lele's mother came back from get off work and said as she entered the door:
"Lele, your brother-in-law just called me and said that he and your aunt would go to the provincial capital temporarily. You can ride to your brother-in-law's house and pick up your brother for dinner."
"Oh, okay." Shen Lele nodded, put on a down jacket and went out without thinking much.
Shen Lele's brother-in-law's house is not far from her home, only ten minutes' ride by bike.
When we arrived at my uncle's house, my aunt had already packed her cousin's small schoolbag and said to Shen Lele, "Lele, your uncle and I may not come back until tomorrow, so I'll leave Xiaobao to you."
A chubby little boy next to him held a lollipop in his mouth and said, "Sister, what delicious food did my aunt make for lunch?"
Shen Lele looked at her cousin and said helplessly: "Cai Baozi, look how fat you have become. You eat all day long. It's time for you to lose weight, you know?"
Shen Lele's cousin is named Cai Jiabao. He is 10 years old and is in fifth grade in Yingzhou Primary School. He is very close to her on weekdays. To her, he is no different from his biological brother.
Shen Lele's aunt handed the schoolbag to her son, and then took out another hundred yuan, handed it to Shen Lele, and said with a smile: "Lele, aunt, please do one thing for you. You will take Xiaobao with you later." Let’s go to your Yingzhou No. 1 Middle School.”
"Aunt, why are you going to No. 1 Middle School?" Shen Lele looked surprised.
My aunt said: "Xu Yiyang, the one on TV who receives foreign guests, has opened an English speaking training class in the audio-visual classroom of your No. 1 Middle School. I want Xiaobao to sign up to learn it."
As she said that, she said apologetically: "Originally, I wanted to take him there myself, but your uncle suddenly said that something happened and was about to leave in a hurry, so I can only trouble you."
Shen Lele asked in surprise: "Xu Yiyang has started a training class?"
The aunt asked curiously: "Don't you know? There is an advertisement posted by him in our community. Today, the parents of several of Xiaobao's classmates called me and said that they all signed up."
"Okay, I understand..." Shen Lele responded absently.
Somehow, Shen Lele's mind at this moment was filled with the scene when Xu Yiyang confusedly grabbed her hand in the classroom a few days ago.
After coming out of his uncle's house, Shen Lele drove Cai Jiabao on his bicycle and asked him, "Cai Baozi, where is the enrollment advertisement your mother mentioned?"
Cai Jiabao said angrily: "It seems to be posted at the entrance of the community."
Shen Lele drove him out of the community on a bicycle. When he saw a few people looking at the advertisement on the wall, he also went over and took a look. Sure enough, it was Xu Yiyang's recruitment advertisement.
Shen Lele read the recruitment advertisement carefully and marveled that Xu Yiyang really had business acumen.
Not only did they take advantage of the popularity of the news, they immediately opened a training class, and they also called it a "spoken oral intensive intensive class."
This name can give parents a feeling that this is a rare opportunity that cannot be missed.
Moreover, he also divided it into three levels: junior high school and high school to deal with different age groups, which is really thoughtful.
However, Shen Lele did not expect that this guy would not accept senior high school students by name.
Isn't he a senior in high school himself? Why is there still discrimination
…
Xu Yiyang's junior class was quickly filled up.
So he immediately added a junior class 2.
The class time for Class 2 is scheduled from 2 to 3 pm on the teaching day.
If other classes are full, please wait in line at this time.
At 11 o'clock, the total number of registrations had reached 220.
At this time, there was still a lot of people outside the door, and the popularity showed no downward trend at all.
Xu Yiyang found that he was still a little conservative and underestimated the space of Yingzhou training market in 1999.
Whether it is 1999 or 2020, parents’ desire to invest in their children’s education remains unchanged.
However, the economic and living conditions were relatively poor in 1999, and there were fewer training services to choose from.
But once there is a training service that can impress parents, they are still happy to pay for it.
Moreover, the entire urban area of Yingzhou and the surrounding shantytowns have a permanent population of approximately 500,000 to 600,000. Yesterday’s news and word-of-mouth spread are estimated to reach at least 100,000 or 200,000 people.
I only posted dozens of advertisements yesterday. If I spread the advertisements, the number of students who sign up will have a lot of room for improvement.
It is not impossible to recruit one to two thousand students across the city.
However, the problem is also obvious. I cannot enroll students without an upper limit because I can’t digest it.
There are 80 people in one class, and my limit is only 8 classes a day. Calculating this, I can only accommodate 640 students at most during this winter vacation.
No matter how much it is, not to mention that the venue can't bear it, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it either.
Thinking of this, Xu Yiyang felt a little regretful.
He had gone through training and knew very well that the potential market was all about money. If he couldn't bear it, he could only watch the money slip away from his eyes.
However, when he thought about it from another angle, Xu Yiyang felt much happier.
After all, more than 200 students have been recruited now, and more than 20,000 yuan has been obtained in one morning.
If we can recruit more than 200 people in the afternoon, it will be almost 50,000 yuan.
These days, 50,000 yuan can buy a two-bedroom apartment in Yingzhou.
…
It was approaching noon, and Xu Yiyang was not only hungry, but he couldn't even take time to go to the toilet.
But the number of people who came to sign up was not small at all. It was already dinner time, and there was still a queue outside.
Xu Yiyang was lowering his head to fill in a lecture card for a student when he suddenly heard a familiar voice exclaiming: "Brother, you are really holding a training class!"
When he looked up, he found Xu Yishan looking at him in shock, her big eyes widening.
Xu Yiyang asked curiously: "How did you find this place?"
Xu Yishan said: "My classmate called me and said that her mother signed her up for your training class."
Saying that, Xu Yishan pouted and said, "Brother, you are so mean! You didn't even tell me about such a big thing!"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "I don't tell you because I don't want my parents to know. You don't know what our mother's temper is like? In her eyes, I can't do anything except study. I want to make it clear that I'm going to start training." Ban, she will definitely not agree."
"That's true..." Xu Yishan nodded. Xu's mother had always been like this, asking them to do things step by step. If her brother really expressed this idea, Xu's mother would never agree.
So she hurriedly asked: "Are you going to keep hiding it from them?"
Xu Yiyang shook his head and said, "Of course not. I'll tell them when I get home in the evening. Anyway, now that the students have signed up, I can't help but let me teach the students, right?"
"Behead first and then tell..." Xu Yishan said with a smirk on her face, "By the way, brother, Sister Lele is calling to find you."
"Sister Lele?" Xu Yiyang asked in surprise: "It can't be Shen Lele, right?"
Xu Yishan nodded repeatedly: "That's her."
Xu Yiyang asked in confusion: "When did you become so familiar with her?"
Xu Yishan said: "We don't know each other very well. I got a call from someone at home. She said she is older than me. Isn't it normal to call her sister?"
"Well, it's normal." Xu Yiyang nodded and asked, "Why is she looking for me?"
"How did I know?" Xu Yishan said, "They just asked if you were at home. They didn't say anything about you."
"Oh." Xu Yiyang nodded, without taking it seriously, and said, "You're just in time, sit here for a while and keep an eye on me while I go to the toilet."
Before Xu Yishan came back to her senses, Xu Yiyang had already pulled her to the desk and sat down.
Then, she heard her brother whisper in her ear: "Watch the money in the drawer."
When Xu Yishan heard what he said, she subconsciously bent down and looked into the desk drawer, and found so much cash piled in the drawer. She was so frightened that she couldn't even speak.
Xu Yiyang patted her back quietly to make her come back to her senses quickly, and then said to the next parent who was about to come in at the door: "Please wait a moment, I'm going to the bathroom."
The student's parents were about thirty-six or seventy-seven. They were very reasonable and said with a smile: "Teacher Xu, you have been idle all morning. It's really hard work!"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "It should, it should, please wait for me first."
After saying that, he stepped out.
As soon as I walked out, I was startled by the long queue outside.
Just looking at the queue, there were more than thirty or forty people in the queue, most of them with their children, so the corridor was almost packed.
As soon as he came out, he immediately caused a commotion in the crowd.
"Oh, Teacher Xu is out!"
"Son, call Teacher Xu quickly!"
"Teacher Xu is really a talented person. He is more energetic in person than on TV!"
Xu Yiyang didn't expect the parents who signed up to be so enthusiastic. He thanked everyone and then turned to the bathroom.
After Xu Yishan sat down, she curiously browsed the registration information written by Xu Yiyang.
Seeing that the number above had reached more than two hundred, her little heart was shocked again.
My brother actually admitted more than two hundred students this morning
Isn’t this too awesome
She never thought that her brother, who was usually introverted, honest and dull, would have such an amazing business acumen.
Not long after the meeting, as soon as Xu Yiyang came back, Xu Yishan took the initiative and said: "Brother, how about I fill in the registration information for you and you fill in the class attendance card. It will be faster this way."
Xu Yiyang waved his hand and said, "Don't waste time with me here. Go home and have lunch first. Don't worry your parents."
Xu Yishan said with a smile: "I told my parents when I went out that I wouldn't go home for lunch."
Saying that, Xu Yishan said with a proud look on her face: "I heard that you held a training class, and I knew that you would be too busy alone, so I came here to help you! I just saw your process clearly. Filling out forms, collecting money, and writing lecture cards, we can be more efficient by dividing the work and cooperating."
Seeing the serious look on her face, Xu Yiyang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, his treasure sister is really caring and sensible.
(End of chapter)