Chapter 5 Who is Involved?
The two walked in, and there were not many people in the store, so they just found a place and sat down.
Looking at the menu, in Chinese and English, the second shouted to the fat owner of the store in fluent Chinese: "A pot of beef potatoes, a braised chicken, a homemade tofu, a plate of stir-fried broccoli, a tomato egg soup, plus two cans of wine, that's all, two people, all right." ”
At this time, in the back seats of the store, there were three young Chinese, one man and two women, who may also be international students. Among them, the young man with the four or six middle school distribution style turned his head and asked, "Brother, Chinese?" Where? Which college to study at? ”
When the second heard the Chinese language, it was so kind, and his heart was excited, and he almost wanted to go over and hug him, crying, and was afraid of scaring others, so he had to talk more.
"Brother, there are people who can speak Chinese here, but not Chinese, that's really not much! Qin Long, from Hong Kong, pre-law class in Oxford. ”
"It's really rare for Hong Kong people to be able to speak Mandarin like this?" One of the two girls in the opposite row bloomed this pink and white smile, turned a pair of big black and white eyes, shook a long ponytail, and made a surprised and suspicious sound with her naturally red mouth.
Nishi couldn't help but glance at the beautiful girl, listening to the somewhat suspicious words, a little sensitive, and quickly understood the underlying reason.
**Hong Kong in the 10s was a place that was very envied by the mainland, there were many people who used Cantonese to pretend to be Hong Kong people to save face, or there were many scammers who used the identity of Hong Kong people to do business and invest, and swindle, but most of those people were using Cantonese to speak Chinese and pretending to be Hong Kong people, unlike II, who spoke fluent Mandarin but said that they were Hong Kong people. Because, in fact, if you are really a Hong Kong person, there are really not many people who can speak Mandarin, and there are very few who speak fluently.
The second now knows that this little girl is doubting herself, doubting whether she is really from Hong Kong? A Hong Kong man can speak fluent Mandarin, which is more unusual than Chinese speaking English, just like hearing that the abbot of Shaolin Xuanci married Ye Erniang.
A little sad, but the second still laughed and said: "Hong Kong people are also Chinese, and they will return after the ninety-seven, and by then, we will all have to be the same." Hong Kong people learn Mandarin, it's just an early bird with bugs. Hehe, no need to pretend! ”
The beautiful girl pursed her lips and had nothing to refute, because you can't allow Hong Kong people to learn Mandarin. Besides, if others give reasons, can't you see the big picture? The beautiful girl could only smile, the young man was a little embarrassed, and the woman on the side was embarrassed to smile at the second one.
At this time, the fat Chinese boss in the bar over there raised his thumb and said with a smile: "Little brother, come here for the first time, then send a plate of fruit, my surname is Sun." ”
As he spoke, Boss Sun took a fruit bowl and sent it over personally, which contained bananas, kiwifruit, and black fruits.
The second took the fruit plate with great gratitude, then borrowed flowers to invite everyone to eat fruit, and invited three Chinese to share the table together.
The atmosphere softened.
Yang Bo hurriedly stood up and took a banana from the fruit plate handed over by the second, but politely and tactfully rejected the proposal of the second to share the table, and said: "Forget it this time, we are also full, and I will invite you to eat next time." Let me introduce to you, Yang Bo, Liaoshang, Finance Bank, this from Kyoto, Ye Zilan, that is my cousin, Yang Yang, all majoring in economics and business administration, transferred from China to Oxford University for further study. ”
"Hello everyone, I'm Qin Long, not Jackie Chan." The second arched his hand and introduced himself again.
At this time, Jackie Chan was not the era of big brother, he was not a household name, and he was a time when men, women, and children ate everything, but at this time, he was already the leading film and television star in China, and young people basically knew it.
The second introduced Nat in English: "This is my pre-university classmate, Nat . Smith, Australian. ”
"Hey, hello, nice to meet you."
"Hello!" Then they introduced each other in English. Although the five of them were strangers, they were all young people, and for a while, it was lively.
Especially with Nishi, a duck-billed person, everyone could have spoken in English, but Nishi insisted on acting as a translator. That's because the second has not spoken Chinese for a long time, and can only show Chinese by himself in his mind. At this time, the opportunity came, and the second showed off Mandarin Chinese.
Chatting and chatting, football has become a common topic for everyone. Hearing that the second did not buy the Chinese national team uniform, Ye Zilan said that the next time she returned to China, she would definitely bring a set of Chinese national football team uniforms to the second.
The dishes came up, Yang Bo and they were about to leave after eating, Yang Bo wanted to invite a guest to pay the bill, of course the second did not let him, saying that he was asking Nat to help him today, and he wanted to treat him, saying that it was better for me to pay the bill together.
The enthusiasm of the Chinese is vividly displayed at this moment.
In the end, the boss joked: "Otherwise, you all keep the money and come back to eat next time." ”
The second and Yang Bo had to pay their own money, and the second and each of them left their contact numbers, saying that they would definitely find a time to get together next time, and then bid farewell warmly.
The episode before the meal, although it made the people of the mother's family misunderstand themselves, is actually not a misunderstanding. II is really Chinese, fortunately, everyone knows each other. The fact that the second can hear the native voice in a foreign country has already made the second excited, so he didn't care so much.
The dishes cooked in the Sichuan restaurant are good, the colors are bright, the fragrance is full of nose, and it makes people have a great appetite.
Nat is not as old-fashioned as the British when eating, but the chopsticks are too unaccustomed to use, and with a knife and fork, the dish is burned badly, and there is soup in the dish, which is not easy to handle. Simply, Nat used his hands directly, holding the chicken thigh in one hand and gesturing with the other hand to make it delicious, almost biting his tongue.
Nat didn't notice that the table where he was eating was already a table where soup and oil were flowing.
It is also true that the British diet is notoriously bad, that is, fried fish, French fries, steamed meat dishes, everyone is tired of eating them, and the British themselves are tired of it?
As soon as the second saw that this was wrong, he quickly began to feast, this was the first meal that the second came to bring to this world. Of course, foreigners do not treat Chinese food as a main meal, but consider dinner to be a main meal.
But the second is not, the second heart is still full of recognition of the Chinese dining theory, breakfast to eat full, Chinese food to eat well, dinner to eat less. Isn't eating good Chinese food a main meal? Anyway, the second didn't know all this, seeing that Nat was grabbing food, the second used his flexible chopsticks to stick into the delicious food, leaving only the stunned Nat behind, he couldn't understand how the two small sticks in the hands of the second were like acrobatics, scooping up the food!
Celebrate! The two of them touched the beer can.
Nat thanked God for giving him such delicious Chinese food, and the second was grateful to God that he had a new life and that his life could begin.
The meal was full, the second paid the bill and went out, and the friendship between the two quickly warmed up after the meal.
After a hundred steps after dinner, he could live ninety-nine, and the second and Nat talked as they walked.
Nat said that he was not going to class in the afternoon and would go back to sleep.
Nishi didn't want to be alone in that still a little strange house, so he said that he had to go to class. The reason is that the tuition fees are all handed over to the school, and if you don't go to class, isn't it a cheap school? I want to go to class and earn the money back.
Nat was shocked by the theory of the second on the side, his blue-green eyes were glazed, and he looked at this classmate he had just met, and felt that he really couldn't tell outsiders that this person was his classmate, what was it? It's weird, but he doesn't know how to use these two words.
Nat was stunned for a moment, but still said, "That, that, then I'll go to class too!" ”
It's still early before the start of class, and Strange can be contagious, and Nate is really being Strange Strange now into another Nat.
"Dragon, why don't we go to the library and read the books first, although it's free, but don't read it for nothing, after all, part of our tuition is used here." ”
As soon as the second heard that the idea was good, he immediately agreed to go along with it.
The University of Oxford, especially the famous foreign universities, the library is the most famous, and the second is ready to go and see it, but which library to go to?
There are many libraries on the campus of the University of Oxford, basically every college has them, and some have more than one, some are public, some are private, and some are donated by others. The successful accumulation of the industrial revolution in the British Empire over the past hundred years has indeed cast a cultural veil on their original barbarism.
Hearing Nat introduce the different libraries, the number of libraries that were introduced, because of the large number, it was so many that it shocked the second world, but what surprised the second was even more that there were those types of libraries.
Because some libraries are not pure library tubes at all, but a combination of museums and libraries. Among them, there is a library called the Potato Library, which is really a place where potatoes are treasured, where books, newspapers, magazines, and photos are all about potatoes, and there are real specimens of potatoes. I heard that if you go in, you can eat all kinds of french fries from all over the world, different types, different flavors, whether you want money, Nat doesn't know. I haven't been there before, do you want to try it together?
The University Library of England really impressed the second this time. But now that both of them are full, they didn't go to the potato library, and decided to choose a comprehensive library nearby.
The library was not far away, and II and Nat swaggered in.
The second first browsed the books that needed to be examined in the preparatory class, and basically browsed through the catalog, after all, the second felt that he was still a student, and the student still had to study, even if sixty years were long-lived, the score was still the root of life.
Everything is inferior, only reading is high.
The second also borrowed some key books, which he put in his backpack and kept them to read when he had nothing to do, passing the time, and not reading them in vain.
The second looked at the time, it was still early before the afternoon class time, and he was ready to go to the reading room of the library. Because Nat was separated from II as soon as he came to the library, he ran to the reading room first.
II hurried to the reading room of the library on the first floor.
There were not many people in the reading room, and from a distance, I saw Nat sitting on a chair, holding a newspaper in his hand, looking around.
As soon as Nat saw that the second had also come to the reading room, he hurriedly beckoned the second to come over.
II walked over quickly, sat down next to Nate, took a newspaper handed to him by Nate, and saw that the sports section of the Guardian was headlined "Analysis of the quarterfinals", and the subtitle was a special report on the quarterfinals of the 9th European Championship in Sweden.