Chapter 742: The World's Most Beautiful Encounter
Although he once overlooked the whole of London in the viewing room at a height of 10,000 meters, he really felt the British style in the streets of all sizes, and felt the British style in the pedestrians and buildings on the road, and he still felt that the whole city was strange to him.
With no sense of direction, no destination, and no idea where the road leads, it feels like a giant labyrinth in London.
Well, to put it simply...
He was lost.
Originally, I just wanted to find a supermarket, but I kept going straight and turned out to be more and more deserted, and then turned around and changed the street to find Fang Ran, who had returned to the original point, covered his face and collapsed quietly.
"It's a long life... What a hell is this! ”
Unlike other big cities I've been to before, I haven't seen many modern high-rise buildings in London, most of them are about four floors of white or dark yellow, with triangular roofs or pointed hats, typical European buildings, very compact arranged together.
Then he turned so dizzy that he couldn't find the north.
Although Fang Ran admits that his sense of direction is a little weak, he thinks that he still has the level of finding the way of a normal person, as for why he still gets lost...
You tell me I don't have a mobile phone, I don't have a map to navigate, throw you in London, can you find your way (slap the table)!?
Gollum———
Ah, no, if you continue like this, you'll really starve to death...
The baby doesn't want to be the first participant in history to starve to death, so....
Standing on the streets of London that I don't know, Fang Ran, who couldn't even find the north for more than an hour, deeply understood how important mobile phones are to human beings at this moment, and looked at the streets of London with melancholy and made up his mind with difficulty.
Sure enough, I had to ask someone for directions.
Standing in the leisure square of this business district, Fang Ran looked around at the surrounding crowd and constantly screened the target, and after excluding women, passers-by who were busy walking, young people shopping together, etc., he finally locked his eyes on a kind face and easy to start... Cough! A man is easier to talk to!
Although it is the first time to talk to an ordinary foreigner like this, there is no way, there is no room to hide your strength,
Hmph, it's time to show the real technology!
Taking a deep breath, Fang Ran first glanced at the nearby streets, pretending that he couldn't find it... In fact, I really can't find my destination, and then I pretend to be anxious and sigh in distress, and finally pretend to be surprised to see an old man nearby, and finish the foreplay when I add a crazy drama to myself.
Well... How do you feel weird about that...
But anyway! Showing the appearance of a normal person who wants to ask for directions, Fang Ran finally gave himself a hint of 'don't be nervous', and then took off his hood and walked towards the lonely foreign grandfather with high spirits!
What? Why take off your hood, you ask?
щ(°Д°#щ) On a sunny day, don't you wear a hood and ask someone for directions, isn't it suspicious!?
In fact, there are many thieves in London who take advantage of the opportunity to steal by asking for directions and blocking their vision with newspapers or something, so remember to take care of your belongings when you are away at home or traveling, and don't have some extra good intentions...
"That's... E... Excuse me...? ”
(ˉ?ˉ*; Uh.... Great, fortunately, I learned a conversation about asking for directions in high school, so that the baby remembers that the opening sentence is Excuse me and didn't say a Hello directly...
Walked slowly to the foreign grandfather's side, although the pronunciation was slightly Chinese and mixed with a big, but Fang Ran selectively ignored the tentative opening that he believed the other party would understand, so that the old gentleman, who was waiting for his daughter and son to come back from shopping, looked at him in surprise, and replied with a smile when he saw that he was a foreigner:
"Oh, good morning, young lad, welcome to London, it's been a nice day, what's the matter with you?"
Fang Ran: (°▽°?) Forehead....
“Hello...?”
Foreign grandfather: "......"
“???”
Seriously, thinking that he was also a top student of a prestigious school in Beijing University, it shouldn't be a problem to ask for directions in English, Fang Ran, after saying hello, after hearing the foreign grandfather say a string of words that he could only barely hear the words 'good morning, welcome, today, what' and 'to', he felt that he was affected by the language difference.
Then, coincidentally, after seeing that he tentatively replied 'Hello' after saying it, the old man felt that he had been hit in the same way.
"Ahh That's what I want to ask.... I'm dripping days, I... want to go to... No, it's not this sentence, that's how can I ... Uh, go to the supermarket I remember was... Sue... Su Po Ma kte...? ”
I felt that the other party might be saying hello, so I felt the atmosphere was awkward after replying to a Hello, Fang Ran, who quickly expressed his intention halfway through before remembering that people couldn't understand Chinese, retrieved the English residue in his head, what more polite modal verbs, tone particles, all forgot about it, and finally held back a sentence of grammar and ate English.
Let the other party's grandfather directly succeed in being confused.
Then after thinking about 'why is it a rhetorical tone' for a long time, I slowly suddenly understood and looked at him tentatively back:
"You... You want to ask me how to get to the nearby supermarket? ”
Although he didn't hear every word of the old man at all, Fang Ran successfully grasped that the other party understood his meaning after cultivating his sense of English in the listening of the English test since high school, and quickly nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and his heart was moved to tears.
I'm sorry, English teacher, I shouldn't think that I am sick with so many points in English in the exam, and I will definitely listen to your class if I have the opportunity (tears)...
Seeing him nodding quickly, knowing that this was a young foreign man who didn't know English, the old man didn't talk nonsense, and used simple words as much as possible to point to a completely opposite direction to what Fang Ran had just walked to give him the way.
"Go straight in this direction, then turn left, pass an intersection and turn right, continue straight and you'll see."
In the London dialect that the other party deliberately slowed down, he finally heard the familiar simple phrases of junior high school level such as 'go straight, turn left, turn right', and finally was able to solve the second goal, Fang Ran hurriedly thanked him in his construction site English.
"Thank you... No, that three-gram oil is very much."
Then, taking advantage of the fact that he had not forgotten the order in his mind, he hurriedly walked in the direction that the old man pointed him out, and asked the exact way, so he finally didn't have to worry about starving to death, Fang Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to look at the street he had just left behind him.
I succeeded for the first time in plastic English on this construction site, and I ran into an unlucky guy last night.
Seems to be lucky...
Then fifteen minutes later.
Looking at the road behind me, I don't know the surrounding streets and compact urban buildings at all, and I don't find a supermarket...
Fang Lost Again Ran: "......"
I'm sorry, I take back that sentence (expressionless).
! Could it be that there is something wrong with my ears, not going straight, left, right, and then straight again!?
At this moment, Fang Ran had deep doubts about his junior high school level of construction site English.
I wonder if I have regressed to elementary school.
Looking at a new block in front of him, a new group of passers-by, Fang Ran who continued to get lost in another place, the corners of his mouth twitched almost slightly, and it was not until this moment that he realized that the biggest real crisis he was facing at the moment was not at all no money, no mobile phone, no identification, no residence and food,
I don't know English!!
I can't understand what others say, I don't know the names of those flowery shops on the street, I can't communicate, this is the fundamental reason why the whole London is incomprehensible and strange, and being on the street is like being in a labyrinth!
It wasn't until this moment when I experienced it personally and was helpless that I understood from the bottom of my heart,
It's really important to know a foreign language.
If it was Yesheng, Su Qun, or even Lime and Gou Yu, even if Meng Lang encountered the current situation, Fang Ran could believe that they would definitely not be stuck on the threshold of not knowing English...
To be honest, Fang Ran was actually very curious about what would happen if he were replaced by Ye Sheng.
Well.... I always feel that I can't imagine Sister Yesheng's panicked appearance at all...
But I don't want those who don't have it, looking at the streets of London like a maze in front of me, Fang Ran, who is lost again, is like ashes at this moment, and intends to survive in London before finding a way to return to China.
It doesn't just give him the feeling of zero money, zero level hell difficulty start,
And Chinese Simplified is not supported...
Goo ———
"Ah, no..."
The stomach couldn't help but make the sound of a pigeon, although it was not dizzy, but Fang Ran, who was wrenching in his stomach, sighed helplessly, looked at the nearby street and held his forehead and muttered to himself.
"I can only find a way to find someone who can speak Chinese..."
Otherwise, if you know almost nothing about the human environment of London, it is impossible for you to escape the chase and survive here.
Although there is no way to swear by the king of the gods, at this moment Fang Ran absolutely prays from the heart.
Fate, please, give me a passing Chinese compatriot!
Even if it's a girl, I'll definitely muster up the courage to talk to me!
But I don't know if the goddess of fate really heard his prayers, or if he was really lucky since Tokyo, after chanting in his heart, to be honest, he didn't have expectations, and sighed when he was thinking about what to do.
What made Fang Ran slightly stunned for the next second was that on the opposite side of the street where he was,
A girl who walked out of the corner was a little different in a group of foreigners, with a height of about 1.7 meters and a somewhat thin figure, whether it was a bright red coat with a cartoon pattern or a swaying ponytail, it showed her sunny and cheerful character, humming a tune and walking away in one direction.
In the eyes stunned, not yet, there is really a girl! 'I subconsciously instinctively chased after Fang Ran,
Crossing the crosswalks on the streets of London, passing through the crowds of passers-by under British buildings, reaching out to pat her on the shoulder among the unknown number of people....
It wasn't until many, many years later, recalling this scene in his memory, Fang Ran couldn't help but think of a sentence.
The most beautiful encounter in the world is probably meeting another self...
"That, this classmate...."