Chapter 58 A Transaction
When Xiao Peng listened to Doug's explanation of Wade's school, he was a little dumbfounded, not only him, but Yang Meng also listened to it one by one.
Private schools with bilingual teaching in Chinese and English are really nothing new in China, almost every city has such schools, what bilingual kindergartens, bilingual primary schools are almost everywhere, some Chinese parents with economic strength will send their children to bilingual schools, familiar with English and Western culture from an early age, in order to lay a good foundation for their children to compete on the global stage in the future, at least the language must be passable first, right?
But this Chinese-English bilingual school in Europe, that has never been done before. In addition to this Wade bilingual primary school, which was established this year in the London borough of Kensington. This also caused a stir in Europe.
In fact, the British like Chinese is not a day or two, London originally had a Chinese-English bilingual kindergarten, the name is very interesting, called 'Hatching Dragons', translated into Chinese, the meaning of the elegant point is probably Wangzi Jackie Chan. But if it is translated literally, it will be more simple and rude'.
A few years ago, former British Prime Minister David Cameron called on British children to give up learning French, which should learn Mandarin Chinese, and attracted a lot of saliva, but recently, the British Council released a questionnaire survey of thousands of British parents, of which 51% of parents believe that Chinese is the 'most useful language in the future', hoping that their children can learn Chinese. Even the current Prince George of the United Kingdom is studying Mandarin seriously.
In this environment, Doug's life has always been good: he works as a Mandarin private teacher in a language training institution, earning 25 pounds an hour, and earning 45,000 pounds a month, which is not bad in the UK, and he is also considered a middle-class person. Although Kelly can't work, the family life is quite good.
At that time, when they decided to send their children to Wade School, life began to be stretched: Wade School is located in the richest area of Kensington in the UK, and the tuition fee is as high as 17,000 pounds a year! The tuition fee of the affiliated kindergarten is also more than 5,000 pounds, but in this way, the school places are still being rushed! In the words of the local residents of Kensington: 'The price is very affordable', which shows what kind of people live in Kensington. You know, the average British person earns only 20,000 pounds a year!
But this 'people-friendly' price is a huge pressure on Doug's family, and the couple can only desperately find a way to make money, Doug works part-time as a private tour guide, and Kelly sells his own oil paintings on match days. As for the belief in the team you love, put it aside, the future of your child is the most important.
Xiao Peng thinks about this and feels quite refreshed, in China, many 'scumbag' children have been "tortured" by English since childhood, and now it is finally the turn of British children to experience this feeling! Full-time primary schools, half of the curriculum time is taught through Chinese, the whole process must use Chinese, English is not allowed to be spoken privately, and there will be no English words in the classroom. British children, Chinese-English bilingual school, you deserve it.
Well, one more thing to add, the British are still very remedy. Isn't it said that the British are not good at mathematics? Isn't it said that the biggest headache for all British children is the mathematics class? The British are brave enough to face their own sore feet, so this Wade Primary School directly adopts the primary school mathematics textbooks in Shanghai, and the difficulty of the curriculum is compared with that of Shanghai primary schools. To be precise, there are now more than 8,000 primary schools in the UK, that is, half of the primary schools in the UK, all of which are using Chinese-style mathematics education.
The expressions of those British children, babbling, just thinking about it are very beautiful, very beautiful.
Xiao Peng asked: "Does Kelly have a portrait of a Tottenham player?"
Doug nodded hurriedly: "Of course, Kelly is from White Hart Lane, how can there be no portrait of a Tottenham player? Portraits of Tottenham players are painted every day. There are a full set of portraits of Tottenham players at home, and they are all signed by the players themselves!"
Yang Meng whistled after hearing this: "Doug, your daughter-in-law can stand painting other men every day?"
Doug shrugged indifferently, "It's all art, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng asked, "How much does Kelly's painting cost?"
Doug shook his head and said, "We are all friends, how can we take your money? β
Xiao Peng was stunned: "Eh, give it to us for nothing, Doug, there is no free lunch in the world, tell me your requirements." β
Doug smiled slyly, "I just want your voice recorder." β
"Damn, don't even think about it!I'm an Arsenal fan!" Xiao Peng didn't answer, Yang Meng had already objected.
Many people will be interested in the content of the voice recorder just now, not to mention anything else, the Sun will definitely be interested, the Tottenham team will definitely be interested, uh, the most interesting should be Arsenal themselves.
The two most famous newspapers in Britain are the "Times" and the "Sun", the two newspapers are two extremes, the former is a high-class newspaper, the latter is aimed at the middle and lower classes of society for readers, is the best-selling newspaper in the United Kingdom, often using various sensationalist methods to stimulate sales. For example, the famous 'Lady of the Third Edition', many people buy this newspaper for the naked women on the third page of the Daily Sun. It is known as the largest 'tabloid' in the United Kingdom. If you have nothing to do, you will explode a celebrity scandal, and if there is no celebrity scandal to explode, you will explode your own scandal, anyway, how to attract people's attention. So the "Sun" has always had mixed reviews.
Of course, the Sun doesn't care about that, anyway, they and the high-end "Times" are a family. They all belong to Murdoch's News Corp., and they just have a different division of labor.
If the "Sun" gets this recording, it doesn't have to think about it, tomorrow's newspaper headline will definitely be "Arsenal Surprises China Scandal"! With the sales of "The Sun", it will definitely make Arsenal disgraced.
Tottenham Hotspur, as Arsenal's sworn enemies, any scandal about Arsenal is something they want to see, and they won't mind spending money to buy this recording to toss Arsenal.
As for Arsenal itself, it is better to understand, spend money to buy lessons, as a large football club, the image is very important, especially the Chinese market is the foreign market that Arsenal attaches the most importance to, if such a scandal breaks out, it will be really not fun!
So don't underestimate this recording, if it falls into the hands of different people, it will definitely be a different result. For Xiao Peng, it doesn't matter, but for Doug, it means spending a lot of pounds.
"As a die-hard Arsenal fan, I won't allow you to do this!" Yang Meng protested.
Doug smiled slightly: "I still have signed jerseys and football and portraits of Bergkamp and Henry there. β
"Deal!" Yang Meng replied directly without thinking: "Xiao Peng, then give him the recording." β
"Poof" Xiao Peng laughed: "Hey, aren't you a die-hard Arsenal fan?"
"Bergkamp and Henry are all of Arsenal! In other words, although we Chinese have many fans, they are not as deep as the British culture, and the team has been inherited for hundreds of years, where are there so many real die-hard fans? Yang Meng asked curiously, "Doug, how did you have a souvenir of these two people?"
Doug said: "Although Bergkamp used to play at Arsenal, he never denied that he was a Tottenham fan since he was a child. As for Henry. When I asked him for an autograph, he was already a Barcelona player. β
"Anyway, we got the deal. Xiao Peng and Doug shook hands.
"Okay, when are we going to trade?" asked Doug.
"We exchanged phone calls, and when the game was over, we called and I went home and got my stuff ready. Doug's face was full of joy, and he was about to get up and leave when he suddenly stopped and took out a package from his arms: "To ensure that the two of you are safe, I still recommend that you use them." β
Xiao Peng opened the package curiously, a fake beard and wig, and a Tottenham team crest towel. Doug smiled at Xiao Peng and said, "This towel is my favorite, and it is considered as a deposit for you." By the way, there are two more suggestions, first, be sure to wear a hat and keep your head down when entering, and second, in the UK, you should never say 'soccer'. After saying that, he left the bar, leaving Xiao Peng and Yang Meng staring wide-eyed.
The second Xiao Peng can still understand, although we learned it when we were in school, in English, football is football, and English football is soccer, but if you really go to the UK and say soccer, it is really nothing to beat. In the UK, football is also football, only Americans call football soccer soccer, and rugby is football in their eyes. After all, we are learning American English, and if we really come to the UK to show American English, isn't that a provocation?
But what does it mean to wear a wig and a fake beard? Do you have to bow your head when you enter the field? This made Xiao Peng and the others confused, but after listening to the advice of people to eat enough, the two put on wigs and fake beards, if you don't look at the skin color, just look at the wigs and beards of the two of them, but they really look like the British.
As for the Tottenham towel given to Xiao Peng, after Xiao Peng looked at it carefully, he felt like eating a fly. This is also a towel signed by the player, but it is Sun Xingmin who signs itγγγγγγ
Although the Chinese people don't like South Korea, it cannot be denied that the level of South Korean football is indeed higher than that of China, but there is a big gap between the national team performance and the level of foreign players.
For example, Son Heung-min is not an exaggeration to say that he is one of Tottenham Hotspur's top stars. Last season, he scored 14 goals in 34 appearances, which was extremely efficient. In the Champions League match held a few days ago, it was Son Heung-min who took the lead and helped Tottenham beat Dortmund 3-1.
For Tottenham fans, Son Heung-min's signature towel is indeed a good thing, but for Xiao Peng, it is really like eating flies. Just rub it and stuff it into your pocket, out of sight and out of mind.
The two of them were drinking in the bar to pass the time, and the fans in the bar had not stopped drinking and singing since they came in, singing a drink and a drink, and they were really not afraid of getting themselves drunk and unable to watch the game.
The two of them were about to go to another place to have a look, when they suddenly heard someone in the bar shouting, "The pheasant necks are here." The bar fell silent in an instant, and everyone stared out the window.