"Holy crap!"
"How is that possible?!"
"When did he get over there?"
"My God! Isn't that the magic trick from last year's Spring Evening?"
"But that Spring Evening trick had been prepared in a semi-enclosed space for ages before the final reveal."
"Yeah, there was plenty of time during the Spring Evening one. They kept using curtains to stall for a long time, and only at the end did the person appear among the audience below. But Secretary Dong... how did he enter the table and immediately end up behind it? Damn, this magic trick is fucking amazing."
"It's practically divine!"
"How the hell did he do that?"
"Isn't he a leader? How does he have magic skills like this too?"
After a moment of uproar, the tens of thousands of audience members and guests burst into thunderous applause. The sound filled the air from every direction, deafeningly loud!
Clap clap clap clap!
"Great!"
"That was incredible!"
"Mom! That uncle is so awesome!"
Everyone had originally assumed the leaders' speeches would drag on forever—dull and tedious, nothing more—so they had not paid much attention to Zhang Dongfang and Dong Xuebin's remarks. Who would have thought that the Jiaolin County leaders would refuse to follow the usual script? Instead, they gradually drew the uninterested public into their rhythm. First, Dong Xuebin used words to stir everyone's interest in watching a joke unfold. Then he pretended he truly had not prepared a performance, making many people believe it. They had even been waiting to see how the County Party Secretary would embarrass himself on a live broadcast. Many viewers in front of their televisions had gone through the same change in mindset. Yet the scene suddenly took a godlike turn. When that contrast exploded, the visual impact on the audience was naturally