This morning, a young man named Tang Li hurried into a five-star hotel to attend a lecture in the conference hall. The topic of the lecture was to explore how to observe and grasp details. The organizers specially invited Mr Smith, who is known as the "king of details" in Europe.
The meeting was about to start, and Tang Li went straight to the elevator. He was about to close the elevator door when he saw a gray-haired foreigner squeeze in, so he politely motioned for the other party to press the button first. The foreign old man reached out and pressed it, then found that he had pressed it wrong, smiled apologetically, and pressed the button on the 15th floor again. It just so happened that Tang Li was also going to the 15th floor, so he estimated that the other party was also here to listen to the lecture.
The foreign elder smiled at Tang Li and asked in Chinese, "Are you here for the lecture?" Tang Li nodded, and the elder took the initiative to extend his hand and said, "Hello, I'm Smith."
Tang Li was astonished, and he didn't expect to meet the famous "King of Details" in advance, so he quickly shook hands with the other party. Smith looked at him habitually and asked, "If I'm not wrong, you used to be a soldier, and now you're probably a police officer, right?"
Tang Li was even more surprised and asked how the other party could see it. Smith smiled and said many characteristics of his body in one breath: his straight body, his bright eyes, and the calluses on his hands as he shook hands... Tang Li secretly admired him. Before the meeting started, Smith taught him a lesson first.
At the beginning of the lecture, Smith's speech was easy to understand, which benefited the people present a lot. During the exchange session, someone in the audience asked: "Mr. Smith, you have studied all kinds of details so deeply, so you should like to read very much, right?" Smith replied that he was usually too busy to read, and the mailbox downstairs was always full, and it was too late to pick it up. As soon as he finished speaking, a surprising scene appeared. Smith seemed to suddenly feel unwell, clutching his chest and falling down...
The audience was stunned, and the staff rushed to help him. The staff was about to make an emergency call, but Smith shook his head and struggled to raise his arm to point out the window: "I live in the foreign-related apartment opposite, and my wife has emergency medicine." He added: "We are in Unit 1..." But before he could finish speaking, he passed out.
In a hurry, the staff shouted on the microphone: "We need to take care of Mr. Smith. There are not enough people now. Who will hurry to the first unit of the foreign-related apartment opposite and ask Mrs. Smith to get medicine?"
Three young people shouted, "Let's go!" They immediately ran out of the conference hall. When Tang Li heard this, he followed without hesitation.
When Tang Li arrived in the lobby of an apartment building, he saw two young people standing there helplessly, but the other didn't know where to go. He went forward and asked, only to find that everyone was too anxious, but he still didn't know what floor and number Smith lived on. This unit had 30 floors, and there were many rooms on each floor, so the other person had already gone to the property management office to inquire.
At this time, the person who went out to inquire hurriedly ran back, saying that the property management could not find Smith's name. A young man's mind turned and had an idea: "We are in charge of the ten floors alone, and we will knock on the doors from house to house. We will definitely be able to find out Mr. Smith's room." The three of them ignored Tang Li and all rushed into the elevator at once.
Tang Li stood there and thought for a while, then suddenly slapped his head and quickly walked into an elevator.
The hotel conference hall at this time was a scene that Tang Li and the others completely did not expect: all the actions of the four people appeared on the big screen, which was the surveillance screen of the apartment management office. Smith, who had long since recovered, stood by the screen, explaining to the audience what happened opposite. Smith's fainting was actually orchestrated, and he had long been preparing to use people's on-the-spot reactions as a case for everyone to analyze.
Smith pointed to a picture of a person going to the property management office to inquire, and said, "The idea is right, but unfortunately he doesn't know that this apartment is rented out The property management only has the owner's information, and no one knows me."
Seeing that the three young men went to each floor to inquire, he sighed and said, "Most of the people we live there are foreigners, and I like to be alone. Unless I happen to ask for the right floor, it will be a waste of time." As for Tang Li, Smith recognized that he had seen him in the elevator before, but seeing that he had also entered the elevator directly, he shook his head and did not comment.
Then Smith turned to look at everyone, with a hint of slyness in his eyes. He reminded me that he had deliberately revealed a detail in his previous speech. If these people had paid attention and thought about it first, they would have saved a lot of time, and maybe "saved" his life. The secret is that the mailbox downstairs is full, and everyone else's is relatively empty. Four people were walking around the lobby just now, but no one noticed. In fact, just go to the mailbox to check, and you can quickly find the right room. The audience suddenly realized and couldn't help but admire Smith's ingenuity in design.
At this time, the door of the conference hall was suddenly pushed open, and Tang Li calmly walked in, holding up the pill in his hand: "Mr. Smith, I have brought your medicine back." It turned out that he had returned to the scene long ago, and had been listening at the door until Smith finished speaking. Smith was greatly surprised, and quickly let Tang Li walk up to the stage and asked him what method he used to find the right room so quickly.
"The answer was this morning, when I met you in the elevator." Tang Li explained that after Smith got into the elevator, he first pressed the wrong floor, and he noticed that it was the eighth floor. Tang Li thought that the floor that people would press casually must be used to going every day, probably either to work or to go home. In Smith's speech, he said that he liked to work from home, which made him more convinced that Smith's house lived on the eighth floor. So he just went directly to the eighth floor, knocked on the door of the first house, and learned that Smith lived next door, so he immediately found Mrs. Smith.
Smith was surprised by Tang Li's explanation and exclaimed in admiration, "If I wasn't wrong, you must be a police officer, and you must be very outstanding!"
Tang Li smiled modestly and replied that he was actually an ordinary security guard in this hotel, and he used his vacation to attend the class today. However, he proudly said that Smith was right that he had been a soldier before, and because of his meticulous work, he also received many awards for meritorious service.
Smith gave a thumbs-up and pulled Tang Li to face the audience together. "Mr. Tang's wonderful performance is undoubtedly the most perfect interpretation of the theme of my speech today. No one is the true king of details.