Chapter 0268: The Dinner Party Begins
Ye Chen looked to the left and right sides of Foreigner Street, and found that the trees planted here were all those more distinctive landscape trees. For example, good sycamores, kapok, ginkgo trees, jacarandas.
Because Ye Chen has been familiar with Chinese medicinal materials since he was a child, and his hometown where he used to live is at the foot of Shennongjia, he is even more familiar with all kinds of rare plants.
After looking at the time and walking for a few minutes, it was almost 6:50, Ye Chen kept counting the address number plate outside the building, and soon, he came to No. 15 Foreigner Street, and saw that at the door, a security guard dressed as an Indian Ah San was guarding the door.
Ye Chen walked to the door, and when he was about to go inside, the Indian Ah San looked Ye Chen up and down, but he stopped him directly, and said in that very non-fluent Chinese: "You can't go in!"
This made Ye Chen a little stunned, could it be that he came to the wrong place? No! He carefully saw the door number, the address written in Chinese and English was the location on the banquet post that Paul had given him!
"Why can't I go in?" Ye Chen wondered.
"This is a private place, outsiders can't just come in!" said the Indian Ah San, who continued to look at him.
Actually, this is what Ah Sangou looks down on, if Ye Chen is wearing a suit and a suit, holding the post of the banquet, and dangling it in front of him, Ah San's attitude is guaranteed to bow his head and bend down ninety degrees to welcome you. However, Ye Chen didn't know that he was going to come in with the banquet post, and he didn't expect it to be so troublesome.
"I was invited!" Ye Chen said.
"Then please take out your invitation!" said the third still reluctantly.
At this time, Ye Chen naturally thought that his banquet post was in the car, and if he went back to get it now, he would definitely be late for the round trip.
Ye Chen could only prepare to rush in, but at this time, the red iron door was opened, first a very elegant, temperamental, almost forty-year-old foreign white woman opened the door, and beside her, there was a person Ye Chen knew, it was George Harris.
Just now, Harris and Paul found that it was almost seven o'clock in the evening, why couldn't they come yet? They believed that Ye Chen should be a very punctual person. Therefore, Harris's mother and Harris personally came out of the door and saw Ye Chen being stopped by the security guards.
"Ye Chen!" Harris shouted at him.
Then, after Ye Chen saw Harris speak to the very temperamental white woman next to him in English, before Ye Chen could react, the white woman directly hugged Ye Chen, and then kissed him on the forehead and said, "ChenYe, thanksalot!"
This sentence was very clear in English, but suddenly, being held by such a plump white woman, and then kissing his forehead, Ye Chen stood there in a daze.
"Ye Chen, this is my mother Catherine!" Harris said in English.
Catherine looked at Ye Chen slightly and nodded, looking very friendly. At this time, Ye Chen seemed to understand a little. However, Catherine's action just now shocked him too much.
Now it was not only the Indian Ah San who was surprised, so much so that he bent down and looked down at Ye Chen and didn't dare to speak. Obviously, in his opinion, he had inadvertently contradicted the young man, who had come to attend the vice-consul's house, and if he had reported the matter to the vice-consul's wife, he would have been fired.
Ye Chen didn't look at him again at all, but went inside with Harris and Harris's mother, Catherine.
He found that he could get that bit of English, grammar, and it was really difficult to communicate with these foreigners who spoke authentic American English.
Basically, Catherine was talking, and Ye Chen could only understand the general meaning through the grammar of the English word, and in the end he could only nod his head constantly.
Now Ye Chen understands why Harris's mother Catherine was so excited just now, it is precisely because Ye Chen used traditional Chinese medicine to treat her son's epilepsy, so that her son can recover his health and become like a normal person, which is what she is most grateful to Ye Chen.
And the private banquet held tonight was also specially prepared for Ye Chen by Harris's father Paul and mother Catherine.
I thought that there would not be many people inside, but I didn't expect that Ye Chen followed Catherine and the two into the inside, in addition to seeing a lot of Indian security guards, he walked through the corridor and came to the courtyard outside, which was about more than five hundred square meters in size, Ye Chen had already seen seventy or eighty people inside.
Among these seventy or eighty people, they are mainly white, and there are also some yellows, and the ratio of men to women is about the same. However, in this crowd, in addition to Paul and Harris, who Ye Chen had seen before, as well as John and Henry in the class, there were also their homeroom teacher Annie, as well as Qian Ping, the director of the Shanghai American School, and Kevin, the principal.
Among these people, the men are all dressed in suits, the women are all skirts, the very orthodox kind, Ye Chen is wearing a very ordinary summer shirt on the upper body, a pair of jeans on the lower body, and the pair of fake Nike sneakers on his feet.
So, now his arrival and his dress seem a little out of place. In the discussion of those men and women, when they looked at Ye Chen, they all couldn't understand why Vice Consul George Paul would deliberately bring Ye Chen, a young man, over.
Ye Chen first said hello to Harris's father Paul, and then he went over to Teacher Annie, because here, he and Teacher Annie were familiar, and as for the others, he was very strange.
"Ye Chen, I thought you were almost late!" "Anne, who was wearing a blue dress, was definitely the most beautiful and outstanding one among so many women.
"I just went to give acupuncture to a patient, and I came back again, because I forgot to take the banquet invitation, the security guard at the door didn't let me in, and Mrs. Paul passed over, so I could come in!" Ye Chen explained simply.
"You've just gone to treat a patient again, what kind of patient is that?" said Anne, looking strange.
The reason why she felt so strange was because she had dizziness before, after Ye Chen prescribed her prescription, after buying medicine at the pharmacy and coming back to decoction and drinking it according to the prescription, she found that she did not have the same situation as before, which showed that the prescription Ye Chen prescribed to her was very good.
"It's a heavy vegetative person!" Ye Chen whispered.
"Vegetative people? Wouldn't it be amazing if they were really cured with traditional Chinese medicine?" In the United States, even if Western medicine is more developed, the cure rate is still very low in the face of vegetative people. So, this undoubtedly surprised Anne even more.
Ye Chen smiled, just nodded, and asked again, "Teacher Annie, haven't you experienced vertigo again?"
Obviously, Anne's condition was a symptom of low blood pressure, but if she had not been examined, it would not have been detected.
"I'm already fine, thank you for your concern!" Annie looked at Ye Chen and smiled.
At seven o'clock in the evening, under the beautiful moonlight, the private banquet of the George family had already begun to be held in the courtyard, which was different from the way Ye Chen saw the big family in the Xu family, but it was very similar to the buffet that Jiang Yu went to eat.
This is a European and American buffet private high-end banquet, when Paul announced the beginning, everyone brought the bowls, plates, knives, forks prepared by Paul's chef, and then went to choose their favorite food.