Chapter 216: Barton's Investigation (I)
At this time, it was time for Xiao Qin to come out, because no one could understand Barton's otherworldly language.
"Well, I'm sorry. This is a professor of social studies at King's University in Europe and is on an academic visit to China. The professor is called Barton, and Professor Barton wants to ask if he can sit down with you for dinner. ”
Qin Kuairen and Zhang Tong have been together for a long time, and they haven't learned anything else, but lying is a set. He kind of casually gave Barton a bunch of titles. But I'm not afraid of people checking, if someone really checks, I believe Fu Changqing will help round these up.
Several cleaners who were eating were inexplicably nervous when they heard Qin Kuairen's introduction.
"This ...... This university professor is not good to eat with us. A wrinkled uncle whispered, "We don't speak foreign languages." ”
Several sanitation workers subconsciously believed that Qin Kuairen was telling the truth. Because Barton, as a legendary mage, has a temperament that has been in the top position for a long time. After coming here through the Gate of the Other World, Fu Changqing and the others also prepared decent clothes for Barton and Von Meier to facilitate their movement outside.
Master Barton had white hair, but his hair and beard were meticulously groomed, and he was dressed in a modest three-piece suit. Coupled with the temperament of a scholar (mage), it really made people believe what Qin Kuairen said.
Several of the sanitation workers looked a little reserved. And the boss, who had been settling accounts behind the counter, also muttered in his heart after hearing Qin Kueren's words: I'll just say, this foreigner doesn't look like a tourist. He turned out to be a university professor.
After the boss collected the money, he came over familiarly, he seemed to be an old acquaintance with several sanitation workers, and said directly: "Lao Zhang, Lao Li, Lao Wang, Sister Xie." If the university professor wants to eat with you and talk about it, you can just talk, what are you afraid of!"
Lao Li, who was in his fifties, rubbed his hands a little nervously: "This ...... Isn't that afraid that you won't be able to speak? ”
"Hey, what are you afraid of. Other university professors are chatting with you, and they are so timid. We people in the old capital can't be ashamed of the country, you can say yes. Translator, tell us that your university professor is here to do specific academic research in China. ”
The boss said to Qin Kuairen, Qin Kuairen's inexplicable absolute boss called himself [Translator], and there was an illusion that the little soldier Zhang Ga was calling the fat translator.
"Professor Barton mainly studies the happiness index, people's livelihood economy, living standards and other social science research in various countries. "Qin Kueren's nonsense came as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Oh, that's asking [Are you happy?] As soon as the boss said this, several sanitation workers next to him instantly understood what Qin Kuairen meant by the big words just now.
"Brothers, don't embarrass the capital and the country. What are you cowardly, what do you say, don't boast, don't be black, just say things. I invited my brother to this meal. "The boss uncle is really atmospheric, and he speaks and does things with a special energy of the capital's old guns.
Qin Kuairen couldn't help but glance at the boss more, and the boss waved his hand to signal that it was done.
"Master Patton, sit down, it's all arranged. ”
At Qin Kuairen's suggestion, Master Barton made it to the middle of the sanitation workers. However, the sanitation workers still subconsciously distanced themselves from Master Barton.
"Did you just make up an identity for me?" Barton glanced at Qin Kuairen.
"Well, I said you're a school scholar doing social research. Otherwise, I can't explain why you suddenly want to eat and talk with them. ”
The explanation given by Qin Kuairen was acceptable to Master Barton.
"Okay, then you can help me translate. You can help me ask if they think the food in this small shop is expensive or cheap for them. ”
After Patton's words were translated by Qin Kuairen to the four sanitation workers, Lao Zhang, Lao Li, Lao Wang and Sister Xie are all you look at me, I look at you.
It was Lao Zhang who spoke first: "This professor asked this." In the capital, the boss is either a restaurant or a good hall. Seventeen yuan what kind of money does he make, just point to eating pot boys at night and selling drinks and drinks to make money. Of course, this meal is cheap, you can't eat such a cheap meal anywhere else in the capital, and it tastes delicious. ”
Qin Kuairen had reservations about the point of being delicious, because it was too salty for him. However, for sanitation workers who have to brave the wind and sun to engage in hygiene, this salty taste may be just right.
After Barton listened to Qin Kuairen's translation, he nodded and continued to ask, "How is this seventeen yuan a meal for your income?"
"It's not expensive, who doesn't earn three or five thousand a month now. Lao Wang replied with this sentence, and at the same time took out a box of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, and the large front door of the soft bag.
He scattered cigarettes to several of his co-workers (Sister Xie didn't smoke), and he enthusiastically handed them to Barton. Master Barton didn't refuse, for he could tell it was tobacco. There is also tobacco in the mage world, and I occasionally smoke it, but in small quantities.
This tobacco on the planet that doesn't need a pipe is interesting.
When everyone saw Master Barton take the cigarette they handed them, they instantly felt much more kind. The conversation also began to become much more casual, at first Barton asked them for answers, and then it became that they also asked Barton about various things, and chatting became a casual chatter.
"Professor Barton, let me tell you. What is unhappy or unhappy, if you want me to say that no one in this world is happy. To be born is to pay off the debts of the previous life. Therefore, people are born with bitterness. Don't say anything about happiness or unhappiness. There is nothing happy or unhappy in my life. Lao Wang smoked a cigarette and lowered his eyebrows and said, "If you want me to say, you old professor don't study whether Chinese are happy or not." It's something you can't study in your lifetime. ”
"You have to say that I am happy, I am not happy. My wife and I live in a 10-square-meter house, and the 20-square-meter main house is given to my son and daughter-in-law. Do you think I'm happy? I'm going to go out with a broom to sweep the streets early in the morning, do you think I'm happy?"
"But if you're going to say I'm not happy, that's not right. My family of four is happy, and there is no illness or disaster in the family. Sons and daughters-in-law are also filial. In addition to not having much money at home, I am not unhappy. ”
Lao Li heard this and said: "Hey, what is happy or unhappy is nonsense." What is happiness, just your old Wang's stomach and stomach eat some lard and have diarrhea, give you money to let you eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, you run around every day and have diarrhea, you are happy?!"
"That doesn't work, that doesn't work. This big boiled eggplant is the most suitable for my taste, and I will not change the lobster and abalone from the mountains and seas. Lao Wang smoked a cigarette and laughed.
Soft-packed front door, three yuan a pack, a veritable low-grade cigarette, smoking choking. Barton couldn't smoke such a heavy cigarette, so he could only let it burn naturally.
Then chatted: "Then do you think it's good or bad to be born in this country?"
"Well, it has to be good. Old professor, it's not because you're a foreigner, we're talking nonsense in front of you. Let me tell you, living in China, you can't say it's the best, but you're not the worst either. People can't look up every day, you have to be tired to death when you look up. There are seven billion people in the world, and a few have climbed to the top. Life is just a life. Lao Wang smoked out a cigarette and lit another one.
"Wang, can I go to your house and have a look?" Barton suddenly asked a question that he didn't know how to answer.