Chapter 130: Realistic F-14
As soon as he heard that there was a gift, Owen stopped what he was doing and looked at Ning Xiaodong suspiciously.
Ning Xiaodong's smile did not decrease: "Didn't I hear that you are going back to the United States, I specially customized a gift for you." As he spoke, he took out a tin box.
Owen immediately stood up, there is no way that foreigners still value gifts very much, especially customized, what custom cakes, custom rings, anyway, no matter what custom is tall, I am afraid that it is just an inconspicuous gadget, they will be very happy, because they are not interested in the thing itself, but the mind.
So before Ning Xiaodong took out the things, Owen was already so happy that he didn't know what to say, he looked at Ning Xiaodong and smiled: "Ning, my good brother, I never thought you would give me a gift, this is the first gift I received in China, really, no matter what, I am very happy." ”
As he spoke, he went up and gave Ning Xiaodong a warm hug, which directly confused Ning Xiaodong, and said in his heart that the foreigner was so excited to receive a gift, and hugged himself, don't you want to see if the things in the box fit your heart? What if it's a stinky shit?
Just when Ning Xiaodong was stunned, the iron box in his hand had been taken away by Owen, and then gathered in his hand and shook it in front of Ning Xiaodong's eyes: "Is it in the box? There are still words on it, is it calligraphy? It's beautiful, but unfortunately I can't read it, but it doesn't matter, let's guess what's inside, it's very heavy, it won't be your tea or candy, right......?"
Owen muttered, his hand already opening the box, and it turned out to be neither tea nor candy, but a piece of metal covered with gauze.
But Owen didn't care, opened it casually, and a pair of eyes straightened immediately, and at the same time exclaimed loudly: "Oh, my god!"
Then he raised his eyes and looked at Ning Xiaodong, who was still in a daze: "F14!" Then he looked down at the model in the box, especially the eye-catching white skeleton on the vertical tail, and excitedly shouted several oh, my god!
"Uh...... Do you like it or not!"
Looking at Owen's gaffe, Ning Xiaodong was a little scared, what if he was too excited and pumped over, it would be bad if it became a foreign-related **, so he hurriedly asked.
"Like, very, very, very like, Ning, I'm sorry, I lost my temper, but your gift is the best gift I've received this year, you don't know that my cousin is a pilot in the 84th Fighter Squadron of the United States Navy, and you perfectly replicate the livery of their squadron' 'Pirate Flag'. ”
As soon as these words came out, Ning Xiaodong put his heart down, but he didn't expect this thing to be given to the right person, he thought that Zhuang Jianye was making a skull simply to make it domineering, but he didn't expect it to be crooked, not bad.
Throwing a cow~~ look at Zhuang Jianye, Ning Xiaodong leaned back in the chair and watched Owen fiddle with the model in his hand like a child.
The model is about 50 centimeters in appearance, because it is made of metal, it is slightly heavy, and the exterior livery is a copy of the pirate flag livery of the 84th Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Navy, as Owen said.
It's not that Zhuang Jianye is unpredictable and wants to do what he likes, but this paint has always been a classic paint in the field of F14 models, fierce, domineering, and high-grade.
If you think that Owen still has relatives who serve in this squadron, then the meaning is different.
In fact, it is true that at the US Navy's family open day the year before, Owen was fortunate enough to board the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and saw the whole plane painted with the pirate flag, and he thought it was very beautiful at the time, and he wanted to go up and experience it, but unfortunately there was no project at that time, so he could only circle around the fixed F14 a few times.
Later, when he heard that there was an F14 model in the hangar with the pirate flag livery for sale, he hurried over to buy a treasure, but as soon as he ran over, he was told that the thing had been sold out, and he had to go back in a huff.
Fortunately, because of the convenience of the pilot, his cousin got him a few aerial photos of their squadron, which didn't let him go home empty-handed.
Although more than a year has passed, Owen beats his chest at the thought of missing models, and scolds the U.S. Navy for not preparing more.
But he didn't expect that after a year, in distant China, he would receive a model of the F14 fighter with the same pirate flag livery, how could he not be happy.
So he just put it in his hand and played with it, completely forgetting that there were two guests in the house, and while playing, he found a crack in the back of the machine, and he didn't know why he poked it with his finger.
Listening to the sound of "pop~", the back of the plane immediately lifted a board, which startled Owen, and thought that the model plane was broken, so he hurriedly went to check, but at this look, a pair of eyes immediately lit up, and then pointed to the board that bounced up on the plane, and said excitedly with Zhuang Jianye and Ning Xiaodong: "Speed brake, oh, my god!
"The landing gear, canopy, variable sweep wing, tail vent are all replicas of the real aircraft, and they are movable, oh yes, even the engines are removable. Zhuang Jianye did not answer how to do it, but said other parts that could be moved.
Owen didn't pursue Zhuang Jianye's question or not, and immediately followed what Zhuang Jianye said, using his hand bucket here and where to buckle it, just like a discoverer who found a new world, accompanied by a strange cry of oh, my god!
It wasn't until I finally opened the bottom cover of the rear compartment that I took out the two engine models. Owen looked at Zhuang Jianye and Ning Xiaodong excitedly: "This gift is really good, it simply reproduces every detail of the F14 perfectly, I want to know if there is a similar model, I want to have another one." ”
"Yes, but ......" Ning Xiaodong wanted to take the topic to other places, but was interrupted by the excited Owen as soon as he spoke: "How much?"
"The ex-factory price is 200, but it's ......"
"$200? Oh, oh, my god! That's so cheap, you don't know, those plastic bumps in the U.S. Navy are $450. ”
Owen interrupted Ning Xiaodong's words again, and then counted out ten green hundred-dollar bills from the drawer, slapped them on Ning Xiaodong's hand, and said apologetically: "That's all I have in my hand, help me buy five first, I want to take these as gifts and give them to my family, I believe they must like it very much." ”
Ning Xiaodong only felt that his whole body was starting to get hot, and the 200 he said was a person~~ yuan, but it turned out to be a dollar, which was also 200, and the value of the two was very different.
That's fine, Owen came up and shot a thousand dollars, a thousand yuan~~ He has seen it, but a thousand dollars is the first time to touch it, a thousand dollars, dollars, foreign exchange, what is the exchange rate? Ning Xiaodong's intuitive head was a little short-circuited.
Ning Xiaodong just can't see the money, as soon as he looks at the stunned appearance, Zhuang Jianye knows that he was stunned by the money again, it's just a thousand dollars, as for it!
I had no choice but to get on it myself, and then pointed to the model and asked Owen, who was still excited: "You just said that the same type in the United States bought 450 dollars?"