Chapter 195: Make a Friend
Zhang Taibai didn't deliberately listen, if he really wanted to listen, he could naturally hear it with his hearing, but even if he thought about it with his ass, he knew what these people were gossiping, and he didn't bother to listen to those tongue-chewing bullshit.
However, I have to say that the quality of the waiters here is really good.
Even the eyes of those diners looking at Zhang Taibai and the two of them were a little wrong, but these waiters did not show any different colors, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they were absolutely normal on the surface anyway.
This also made Zhang Taibai secretly admire the service quality of this cruise ship.
It is one of the most luxurious cruise ships in the world.
Flipping through the menu casually, Zhang Taibai found that there was actually a Chinese breakfast featuring Cantonese refreshments, so he ordered a few things casually, and Laura saw the Chinese breakfast ordered by Zhang Taibai, so she also ordered two.
"Are you used to eating?" Zhang Taibai asked in surprise.
"I once represented Stanford as an exchange student at Beiqing University for two years." Laura replied abruptly in Mandarin.
Her Mandarin is not very authentic, and she has some iconic American accents, but she still speaks very fluently, and it can be heard that her Chinese skills are very good.
However, Zhang Taibai does not think it is strange that there is no Peking University and Tsinghua University in the previous life in this world, there is only one Beiqing University, which is the top university in China, and there is no one.
It is a top university that gathers all the elites of China in the world, and the world ranking is also the top five universities in the world for a long time, and it has long competed with famous universities such as Harvard and Stanford.
Laura worked as an exchange student there for two years, and her Chinese skills could not be bad.
"I didn't see that you were still a top student." Zhang Taibai exclaimed.
"My father was very strict with me, and he also provided me with educational resources that ordinary people can't have, if I can't learn this well, then it's really a problem with my IQ." Laura said modestly.
"I haven't been to China yet, so I'd love to see it when I have the chance." Zhang Taibai sighed.
Of course, he said that he had never been there, but he had never been there in his life.
In his previous life, he was not ABC.
"Boss, haven't you been to China? It's incredible that you speak Mandarin so well. Laura looked at Zhang Taibai with some surprise.
After she showed off a sentence of Mandarin just now, Zhang Taibai also subconsciously communicated with her in Mandarin.
Although her accent is not standard, after all, she has been in China for two years, and it is still no problem to distinguish the standard accent, so she can hear Zhang Taibai's Mandarin without any accent at all.
She also has a general understanding of Zhang Taibai's situation, knowing that Zhang Taibai is not the kind of traditional Chinese who grew up in Chinatown, and there are no parents to teach him, which is incredible.
"Self-taught, awesome, right?" Zhang Taibai said in a mocking tone.
"Six-six-"
“……”
Just as Zhang Taibai was hurt by Laura's sentence of 'six-six-six' that ruined the style of painting, an uninvited figure took a chair from the side and sat on the side of the table between the two.
"Dude, you're amazing, you can actually subdue the ocean...... Foreign beauty-" The speaker was a young Chinese man who looked about the same age as Zhang Taibai, looked at Zhang Taibai with admiration and said, "Get to know me?" ”
"You are?"
"Li Tianshu, from Wuhan." The youth held out his hand.
"Zhang Taibai, New York." Zhang Taibai didn't refuse to be thousands of miles away, and shook hands with him.
"Huh? Dude, aren't you from the mainland, or have you just immigrated to New York? ”
"Hmm...... I'm probably a native New Yorker. Zhang Taibai touched his chin.
"Overseas Chinese?" Li Tianshu looked at Zhang Taibai with a very strange look, but he immediately realized that he was a little rude, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else, I just listened to your buddy, you Chinese said such a standard, I thought you were also from the mainland, but I didn't expect ......."
Zhang Taibai: "It's okay, I'll just treat you as praising me." ”
"As the so-called fellow sees the fellow, the tears are in my eyes, and I am too excited." Li Tianshu shook his head and said, "You don't know, I've been on the boat for many days, and I haven't met a fellow countryman of the same age." I don't speak English very well, and I can't find someone to talk to, so I can't find it...... I was thrilled to hear what you said over there just now Chinese me...... Ahem, it's a bit rude, don't be weird. ”
"How so." Zhang Taibai smiled and shook his head, not disgusted by this somewhat reckless guy, "Then again, if you don't speak English well, how can you come here alone to play and choose a cruise?" ”
Zhang Taibai's tone was slightly weird.
Because cruise travel never seems to be the best choice for solo travel, it is generally a couple or family together to choose a cruise, and it is relatively rare for a person to choose a cruise.
It's even stranger, especially when the language isn't very good.
"I'm miserable!"
As soon as Li Tianshu heard Zhang Taibai talk about this topic, he immediately turned into Xianglin's sister-in-law and began to complain wildly.
The object of the complaint is his father.
In his description, his dad is simply an anti-human superbully.
It turned out that the reason why he came to take the cruise alone was because he was forced by his father.
From Li Tianshu's description, it is not difficult for Zhang Taibai to deduce that this guy should also be a second-generation who has not run away.
This time he went out because his father gave him a task.
Li Tianshu didn't say what the specific content of the task was, anyway, it was very difficult in his description.
Moreover, his father seemed to regard this as a test for him, and did not provide him with any help during the whole process, such as hiring a translator or something, only gave him a ferry ticket, and nothing else.
He wasn't even going to be reimbursed for the extra expenses along the way, and he had to use his own small coffers.
Along the way, he completely relied on the English of jumping words to communicate with people, which is called a sad urge.
Fortunately, there was also a Chinese waiter on the ship, and sometimes he couldn't move the words, so he asked the Chinese waiter to help translate it.
When Li Tianshu poured the bitter water, Zhang Taibai's breakfast had already come up.
Li Tianshu, as the second generation, although he is now a little harder, he still has a basic look.
Seeing that the breakfast of the two of them came, he immediately got up and said, "I'll go back to the room to rest first, so I won't disturb your meal, buddy, if you have nothing to do after eating and want to go around, remember to call me, I'm in room 1111...... You must call me, or I will hate you for the rest of my life! Li Tianshu said faintly.
"I will, see you later." Zhang Taibai smiled and waved at him.
Li Tianshu left with peace of mind.
"This person's identity shouldn't be simple." After Li Tianshu left, Laura said suddenly.
"Huh?" Zhang Taibai put the napkin on the mat and waited for Laura's later words.
"He said his father didn't help him, but that's not the case." Laura said.
"Do you mean the two guys at the third table on the right behind me?" Zhang Taibai asked with a smile while taking out a pair of chopsticks from the chopsticks placed horizontally on the table next to him.