Professor Ward agreed to this for the sake of the rich country's patronage, and his main business was the study of ancient Egyptian antiquities, and the holy book was only his incidental research. For a person like Xiao Yifei who only asks to learn the holy script, it is impossible for him to go out in person. So he called a blonde beauty.

"Professor, you're looking for me?"

"This is Jesse, this is Shaw. Shaw was intrigued by the Sacred Book Style. Jesse is a graduate student I am mentoring, so you should learn some basics of ancient Egyptian with her. ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you, Professor."

Jesse looked at Shaw curiously. Xiao Yifei also looked at the blonde beauty. In Europe and even in the West as a whole, there is a general prejudice that blonde beauties are synonymous with "brainless" and "stupid". But in reality, it's a prejudice, or rather jealousy. It is not denied that some blonde women are stupid, but there are not stupid women in other colors. In fact, we also have this kind of prejudice in our country, many people think that beautiful women have low IQ, but there are not many beautiful women who have achieved the coexistence of beauty and wisdom. Jesse could actually go to Berkeley, and he certainly wouldn't be a brainless person.

After Professor Ward finished instructing Jesse, Catherine was left to continue muttering, and Jesse was asked to take Xiao Yifei out of the office.

Jesse took the initiative to reach out, and the two were officially contacted.

"Meet me, I'm Jesse. Tess. ”

"I'm Marshall. Shaw, you can call me Shaw. ”

Xiao Yifei, the English name of Marshall, was chosen a long time ago, and he thought that Marshall's name was good, and the Marshall during World War II was a five-star general, and later made the Marshall Plan to aid the recovery of Europe. In addition, the English abbreviation of American Marshals is also Marshall.

However, because English can pronounce his last name, Shaw, he usually calls him Shaw, and rarely uses the English name Marshall.

"Xiao, are you Chinese?"

"Yes."

"What are you looking for Professor Ward for?"

Obviously, Jesse still hadn't figured out what was going on.

"It's dinner time anyway, can we talk while we eat?"

Jesse's face was slightly unhappy.

"No need."

After all, it will be troublesome for Jesse to study the holy book body in the future, so Xiao Yifei will eat first to contact her feelings according to the habit of the Chinese, let her eat people's mouth short, and teach Xiao Yifei more dedicatedly in the future. Apparently he had inadvertently ignored the cultural differences, and he himself was inexplicably surprised by Jesse's sudden change of face.

"I can't say a word or two about this, so I can't just stand and talk about it all the time. Why don't you talk about a café and let's sit and talk. ”

Jesse thought for a moment and led Xiao Yifei to an open-air café on campus.

"Let's talk about it now."

Xiao Yifei briefly explained his situation, and said that he had been to Egypt and was very interested in the holy script, and wanted to learn this kind of script.

Jesse only now figured out what was going on.

"How many days a week can you come?"

"My situation is a bit complicated, I have another job, I can only find time to study, and I can't come to school every time."

"You're not coming to school? So how to teach? ”

"What I'm trying to learn is different from what I'm teaching at school. All I need to know is the words, and I just need to know what they mean, just out of interest. I would like to ask you to help me get a set of teaching materials, I will study by myself, if I don't understand, I will ask you through the Internet, and I will try to find time to ask you in person once a month. What do you think? ”

Jesse didn't answer directly, but became interested in Xiao Yifei himself:

"You work in Silicon Valley?"

Khan, it seems that Chinese people are smart, and apparently Jesse thinks that Xiao Yifei is a rich Chinese working in Silicon Valley, so he will do this.

"No, I have a winery in Napa."

"Napa? Are you Shaw? ”

Xiao Yifei was confused, and introduced my name at the beginning?

Jesse added: "I mean, you're the Chinese billionaire Shaw who bought the Monterena winery? ”

Is buddy so famous?

"Yes, how do you know?"

"I read Wine Spectator."

Wine watchers are the magazine that Black Monterena Winery has TCA problems, and when they signed the contract, they were invited out of courtesy, and finally they wrote a report Xiao Yifei also read, adhering to the consistent Black Monterena style, their reports are more scathing, and they question Xiao Yifei's inexperience, and they say that the quality of the wine will definitely decline, and that the wine is only destined to be shipped back to China to be sold to the Chinese. Anyway, this magazine has been blacklisted here by Xiao Yifei.

"You like wine too?"

"Yes, I drink a little bit every day before I go to bed."

It's good to have something you like, so I'll send this in the future. In order to learn the holy book style and figure out what the use of the Isis statue is, Xiao Yifei was also willing to write it.

The two chatted about wine for a while, and after drinking all the refills, Xiao Yifei proposed to go to dinner again.

"Now that we're acquainted, I'll treat you to dinner."

"You're dating me?"

Khan, although you are indeed a beautiful woman and have very interesting blonde hair, Xiao Ya has just flown away, and Xiao Yifei is still embarrassed to go out and fool around now.

"Just eating."

"Okay."

During the meal, Jesse explained why she began to hear Xiao Yifei invite her to dinner.

It turns out that when dealing with young women, you can't just kiss them for dinner, they will think that your motives are not pure, and you want to do some activities after eating, and then you will snap. Especially since she is a blonde beauty, Westerners have always had a preference for blonde beauties, which makes her unbearable.

After some exchanges, the two temporarily cleared up the misunderstanding and walked back to school while chatting. Jesse took the initiative to suggest:

"Why don't I take you to the bookstore to buy textbooks now?"

If you buy the textbooks one day earlier, you can find one day to start studying, and you can solve the mystery of the idol one day earlier, of course Xiao Yifei is willing.

"This bookstore is the largest in our neighborhood, and at the same time, it has the most complete range of textbooks and supplementary materials, and we can find everything we need here."

This bookstore is big enough, and dozens of rows of bookshelves are densely packed with thick tomes, and Xiao Yifei is dizzy when he looks at it. Led by Jesse, he traveled to the Egyptian-speaking area and found the bookshelf in the holy script. Xiao Yifei casually took out a notebook, which contained pictures in the style of holy books in addition to English.

"Your study of the Second Dynasty is supposed to be yours, and you shouldn't need to look at it now."

Hearing her say this, Xiao Yifei directly put the book back.

After Jesse confirmed Xiao Yifei's learning requirements again, he thought for a while and said:

"Your requirements are very low, so I suggest you buy a basic textbook and add a dictionary, what do you think?"

Xiao Yifei thought about it, the basic textbook was to let him have a concept of the holy book style first, know the basic grammar, tenses, etc., and the dictionary must be used to memorize words and the like. If he had a basic idea of the holy book style, coupled with a dictionary, he should indeed be able to get the "icon manual".

"Okay, anyway, I just need to read it, and I don't have to read it accurately."

Jesse smiled and said:

"If you want to pronounce it accurately, let alone you, there is no one in the world who can accurately pronounce the holy script."

"Isn't it, doesn't it mean that Champollion has completely unravaged the Holy Book?"

"He's unraveling, but he's just unraveling the meaning, letting us know what the holy book says. But the pronunciation has been lost. ”

It turns out that the Egyptian language went through several stages, the last of which was Coptic. Since Coptic is still in use, modern scholars have reconstructed the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian through the pronunciation of Coptic. However, as mentioned earlier, the holy script does not remember vowels, and whether it is English or Chinese, it is impossible to pronounce consonants alone. For example, in Chinese pinyin, the full "bpmf" must not be able to be read, and similarly, English also has this problem, so in order to read the words, everyone adds e after the consonant sound of the holy book to facilitate pronunciation, so that the pronunciation of the ancient Egyptian restoration by modern people must be inaccurate.

"Oh, I'm in a posture today."

Coming to the bookshelf of the basic knowledge of the holy book style, the thickness of the books here is uneven, Xiao Yifei took a booklet casually. Halo This book is actually a page of pictures, a page is text, and the text part is also a line or two of holy book style plus one or two lines of English, how does Xiao Yifei see how wrong.

Jesse saw his confusion and explained with a smile:

"It's a children's book in Egyptian and English, a publisher's trick."

Xiao Yifei read a few pages of English, and sure enough, this is the fairy tale book "Cinderella" at all, and it has also been made into a holy book. However, this book is also useful for him, at least after learning the basics, he can use it to practice his hands against a dictionary, and compare his own translation with the publisher's translation to ensure the correctness of his translation. If the meaning is basically the same, then he can translate the "Icon Manual".

Xiao Yifei put a few fairy tale books in his shopping cart. Jesse couldn't figure out why he chose children's books, maybe it was the weird fetish of a rich man. She took a book and handed it to Xiao Yifei:

"This book was a textbook we used in college at that time, and I think it's pretty good, and it should be suitable for you."

Xiao Yifei flipped through it casually, although he couldn't understand it, but at least a large part of the front was a symbol, not the common kind of several symbols made up into a pattern, it seems that it is indeed starting from the basics.

I took a look at it, I went, 120 dollars, this is not a tome, as for so expensive?

Seeing the price of Xiao Yifei after reading the book, Jesse seemed to know what Xiao Yifei was thinking, and she said with deep feelings:

"Yes, textbooks are like this, and they are expensive."

According to Jesse, American college students basically have to take 3 to 4 courses in the semester, and some students even choose 5 or 6 courses, and each course needs about 3 books, so that the textbooks alone cost thousands of dollars a semester, no wonder even Sheriff Jonathan, a middle-class with an annual salary of 70,000 yuan, can't afford to support his two daughters to go to college, and he has to work with the sheriff's wife to do odd jobs. Xiao Yifei probably recalled, as if all the textbooks in his university were not $1,000 combined.

Moreover, the most troublesome American universities are different from ours, no one buys textbooks in a unified manner, and even different professors ask for different textbooks for the same course. Therefore, you must wait for you to choose a course and decide on the professor, get the book list provided by the professor, and go to the bookstore to buy the textbooks yourself.

Early the next morning, Xiao Yifei drove to Berkeley, and after waiting for a while in the café yesterday, Jesse came to him.

"I'm sorry I'm late."

"It's okay, I've just arrived."

"Mr. Xiao, I thought about it for a while, although you just got the textbook and didn't have a preview, but today I try to talk more about it, so that you can slowly recall it against the textbook when you return to the winery, and if you can't remember anything, you can ask me on the Internet or by phone. Is that all right? ”

"Yes."

Then Jesse began to start teaching, only to see that the basic tutorial turned a page after a while, and then a page, and the progress was quite fast. It's a pity that Xiao Yifei overestimated his English level, English has never been his native language, although he has no problem watching TV, daily conversations, reading, etc., but when encountering Jesse's large-capacity bombardment, he can't keep up with the rhythm. He had to stop:

"Wait, wait."

Jesse also realized from Xiao Yifei's reaction that he was too fast:

"I'm sorry, I forgot about it while I was talking, thinking I was usually communicating with my classmates."

Well, you almost blew my head up when you forgot.

"Why don't I do it all over again?"

Xiao Yifei took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, it turned out that he had been bombed for an hour and a half, no wonder his head was big.

"I have an idea, so I'll take a picture with my phone when you talk again, I'll listen to it once today, and then go back to the winery and learn slowly, so you don't have to think about speed."

"Good idea, I'll start all over again."

Next, she actually talked about what she started to finish in an hour and a half, and Xiao Yifei could only express her admiration and admiration.

After inviting her to lunch, Xiao Yifei was ready to go back to the winery.

"Jesse, thank you today, I'm rushing back to the winery today."

"Okay, call me if there's a problem."

Xiao Yifei thought of a question:

"I don't think you have a textbook, you should have this book if you studied it before."

"This, that textbook is sold."

It turned out that the textbooks were expensive, and more than $100 was not a small amount of money, so after this course, the old students who were tight on their hands sold the textbooks, and the new students could also buy the textbooks cheaply.

"So what if I ask you questions, for example, I want to ask questions like the second line on page 13."

"You can take a picture or show me a video with your phone."

Xiao Yifei is too lazy to toss so much, he has his own solution. Pulling out his wallet, he handed Jesse a $100 and a $20 bill:

"Well, it's most convenient for you to buy a book yourself."

"Wow, what are you doing, why do you have so much cash?"

"Is it much?"

Although Xiao Yifei has been in the United States for so long, he still retains the habit of carrying cash with him in this country. Although there are several credit cards, there is $1,000 in cash in the wallet at all times. In addition, tens of thousands of dollars in cash are placed in the Osiris space in case of emergency.

"Of course it's a lot, so much cash, be careful that the police check you."

The other races that carry large amounts of cash with them in the United States are generally drug dealers. Therefore, when the police see it, they usually come forward to investigate.

"It's okay, I'm sure the police can appreciate the cultural differences between us and you."

"That's right, we have Chinese classmates, and every time we want to pool money for an event, they pay the bill first, and we give them the money after we take the money."

"That is, there are so many Chinese in California, I believe that the police must have heard about it more or less, and I am not afraid of them to investigate."

"Well, if you have a winery as much money as Monterena has, it will definitely not be ......."

"Okay, Mr. Jesse, thank you today, and next time I invite you to drink the red wine of my winery."

"Okay, you know, I'm still a student, and I don't dare to drink such expensive red wine."