"Thunder Monkey"

Seeing passers-by waving their hands again and again to show that they didn't understand, Henry felt very depressed and found that he seemed to have made a very serious mistake, because he had worked in the branch in Hong Kong for two years, so he learned to speak fluent Cantonese, so he felt that he could cross China without a translator, and even when his colleagues in the Beijing branch kindly reminded him, he didn't take it seriously.

Now this is really troublesome, speaking English naturally no one understands, speaking Cantonese also no one understands, just when he was scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, suddenly a familiar and kind English sounded in his ears: "A I help ou, sir?" (Sir, may I ask you to serve?) ）

Henry looked up and saw that the person who was asking him questions in English was actually a driver pulling a rickshaw, which surprised him greatly, because in his cognition, the people who pulled rickshaws were the kind of uneducated coolies who could only do things, and it was impossible for him to speak English at all, otherwise he could have gone to a foreign bank to apply for a job, and there was no need to do this kind of dirty work!

But where did he know that this coachman actually had no choice, he had to do it, yes, this amazing coachman who could speak English was none other than Tang Ning, and he inadvertently recalled a plot in the Republic of China "I Am Not the Sick Man of East Asia" that he was chasing recently, in which the protagonist earned enough money to supplement nutrition by pulling foreigners when he was a rickshaw driver, otherwise he could only be full by pulling the cart alone.

Although Beijing does not have a dock like Shanghai, there are also many foreigners at the railway station and airport, so Tang Ning planned to come over to try his luck, and happened to meet Henry, who was scratching his ears and cheeks in a hurry.

Seeing that Henry was a little stunned, Downing asked again: "A I help ou, sir?" ”

At this time, Henry reacted and replied repeatedly: "Send me to Citibank, thank you!" ”

"Okay! Please get on board! Downing let Henry into the car, and then asked as he ran, "Sir, you speak Cantonese well, you are from Guangdong?" ”

Henry shook his head and replied, "No, I'm from Hong Kong!" Hey, I really didn't expect that no one in Beijing could understand what Hong Kong people said! ”

"This is our China is too big, there are dozens of dialects, not to mention you as a foreigner, even if you are the same Chinese, it is very likely that you will not understand it in another place!" Downing replied casually.

"And what do you rely on to communicate?" Henry asked curiously.

"Although the dialects are different, the words are the same!" Tang Ning replied while sighing in his heart, Qin Shi Huang's greatest achievement is actually the unification of writing, otherwise with such a large territory of China, so many dialects and folk customs, if the writing is not unified, it is estimated that it will be divided into a large number of small countries like Europe

While running, Downing also pointed to various buildings on the side of the road and introduced:

"This French restaurant is said to be very authentic!"

"This café is where you can drink pure Blue Mountain coffee!"

"This is the Catholic Church!"

"This is the U.S. Consulate!"

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When he arrived at Citibank, Henry got out of the car very satisfied, and then handed it to Downing and said, "Thank you for your introduction and let me know about this city!" This is your fare, if it is more, count as your tip! ”

Tang Ning took it and took a look, it was actually a dollar, although it was only one dollar, but this is definitely far more than the fare payable, normally this trip is only five cents at most, but if this dollar is exchanged, it will cost at least two silver dollars, so it seems that he has found the right way!

Since then, Tang Ning has been fixed at the train station to work, and he only pulls foreigners, and even for foreigners, he has to pick and choose, because not all foreigners are rich, and he has found some patterns after a long time.

At that time, trains were also divided into grades, and the decoration of the first-class carriages was extremely luxurious, not only the seats were leather sofas, the floor was carpeted, and there were special conductors who were responsible for serving tea and pouring water. The second-class carriage is equivalent to the current soft seat on the train, but it is certainly not as comfortable as the soft seat, but it can go to the dining car to eat like the first-class carriage.

The third-class carriage can only buy a trolley pushed by the conductor, but the variety is far inferior to the current "beer, drink, mineral water, cigarettes, melon seeds, eight treasure porridge", according to the famous educator Mr. Qian Mu's description, it is all "greasy, hard rice!" ”。

In addition, the environment of the third-class carriage is also extremely bad, not only is it a long hardwood bench, but also because it is close to the front of the car, it is easy to be contaminated with the soot that floats over, so the people who come down from the third-class carriage are covered with soot, and such people are definitely poor even if they are foreigners, so Tangning will only greet those foreigners who look ruddy and full of energy, and such people have a large amount of tips to earn.

However, after a long time, Tang Ning's behavior attracted the attention of other colleagues, and as soon as he took away a foreigner that day, several coachmen were discussing on the side:

"Huh? When will Shoko speak foreign? ”

"Yes, I also wonder about this, he is a native bun from the countryside, don't speak foreign dialect before, even official dialect is not good!"

"I guess, this kid doesn't know where he learned these words, otherwise if he really knows how to speak all foreign words, then why would he still pull a cart? I didn't go to work in a foreign company a long time ago, how decent it was! ”

"Well, what you said makes sense, so where did you say he learned this foreign language?"

"Then you'll have to ask him!"

"Eh, wait a minute, I seem to remember, I seem to have seen Xiangzi pull an old foreign woman a while ago, did you say you learned it from her?"

"It's possible, it's possible, don't look at Xiangzi Tu, but he's young and sturdy, and he attracts women, haven't you seen that even the tiger girl has taken a fancy to him, so maybe he was hooked up by a foreign woman, and then learned so many foreign words in someone's belly!"

As soon as they heard that this kind of thing about men and women was especially related to foreign women, the coachmen immediately became interested.

"Oh, if you say that, that Xiangzi can be regarded as opening a foreign meat!"

"You're so good at opening that foreign meat? It is said that this foreign woman has a smell on her body, otherwise why would they spray such a heavy perfume? So it's not easy for Xiangzi to make this money! ”

"That's right, you must work hard, if you don't serve a foreign woman comfortably, can someone teach him foreign words?"

ps: Actually, to be honest, I think "I Am Not the Sick Man of East Asia" would be better if it didn't write about sports and focus on writing about the life at the bottom of the Republic of China, anyway, my favorite is the plot of selling newspapers and pulling carts