Chapter 35: A Way to Be Thankful
When he arrived at the area of Changyang Road, Guo Xiang saw that there were a lot of small buildings described by Mia, but I didn't know which one it was, so I looked for it one by one!
Of course, the focus is still on foreign-related hotels and company offices.
Halfway down the street, I didn't find the building Mia described.
"There's a representative office of a machinery company here!" Wu Yuanfei, who was walking in front, said.
Guo Xiang led Mia over, and saw a blonde woman in a skirt pacing anxiously in front of the door.
“Mama!” Mia saw the woman running over.
"Mia!" The woman's eyes turned red when she saw Mia, and she squatted down and picked up her daughter, "Where have you been, my mother is worried to death!" ”
Xu Jing touched Wu Yuanfei with her elbow, "They called my mother the same as us, I thought it was Chinese." ”
Guo Xiang smiled, "There are many places around the world where the sound of calling mom is very similar, and it is a very magical unity. ”
"Mom, this sister brought me back." Mia turned around and pointed to Guo Xiang behind her.
"Thank you so much, thank you!" Mia's mother said in stiff Mandarin.
"You're welcome." Guo Xiang pointed to the three people behind him and said in fluent German, "It was these three friends who saw your daughter first, and we came here together." ”
"Do you know German?" Mia's mother was pleasantly surprised, turned to Wu Yuanfei and the three of them, and said again and again: "Thank you, thank you!" ”
"No thanks, no thanks!" The three of them hurriedly waved their hands, and they were not used to seeing foreigners so polite.
"Everyone, come in and have a cup of coffee!" Mia's mother greeted her warmly.
"Don't use it?" The three students were embarrassed.
"Come, come, you're welcome!" Mia first grabbed Guo Xiang's hand, and couldn't help but break up and pull her inside.
Guo Xiang smiled, "Then sit down for a while." ”
When the three students saw Guo Xiang enter, they also followed.
Mia's mother led a few people into her room and asked them to sit down first and make coffee.
"It's so beautiful here!" Xu Jing looked inside curiously.
Guo Xiang nodded, this is a typical Western European style, low-key luxury, naturally very different from China.
Nowadays, most of the families in China have white-walled log furniture, and some of the walls are half-painted with green paint, which is similar to that of classrooms.
It's like the wallpaper here, and the sofa is also a European-style leather sofa, which is very different.
After a while, Mia's mother walked in with a plate and a few cups of coffee, and Mia held a small saucer with some small snacks on it.
Back home, Mia regains her lively personality.
She sat down next to Guo Xiang, took a small snack and handed it to her, "Sister, you eat!" ”
"Thank you Mia!" Guo Xiang smiled and took the snack.
Mia's mother also sat down and chatted with Guo Xiang, and the two introduced each other, and Guo Xiang learned that her name was Emma and she came to Changqing with her husband.
Because there are many heavy industry enterprises in Changqing, some of which import their equipment from Germany, because there is daily maintenance and repair, so the manufacturer has set up an office here.
She also just picked up her daughter, and she lost someone before she knew it, and she was about to die just now.
Emma's Chinese is not very good, so she communicates with Guo Xiang in German, and the other three can't understand it, so they chat quietly by themselves.
"Is this coffee? Why is it so bitter? Zhang Ming said quietly.
"yes, I thought it was sweet, but it smells good." Xu Jing said.
"It's the first time I've drunk it, so it tastes okay!" Wu Yuanfei pretended to be old.
Guo Xiang picked up the coffee, stirred it with a small spoon, put the spoon on the edge of the plate, and then elegantly picked up the cup and drank it.
"Good coffee, very good!" Guo Xiang said with a smile.
"Do you like it? That's great! Emma was pleasantly surprised, "This is the coffee beans I brought back from Germany, I'll bring you some later." ”
"No need." Guo Xiang shook his head, there was neither a coffee machine nor a grinder at home, so there was no way to make coffee.
"It's okay, I still have a lot of them here." Emma thought she was polite.
The three of them blushed when they saw Guo Xiang drinking coffee just now, it turned out that they were going to drink like this, just now they were holding a small spoon and drinking it, and they licked the spoon, it was really embarrassing.
Emma didn't point it out either, smiling and beckoning everyone to eat.
"Wait for me!" Emma stood up, went into the bedroom, and after a while took out an envelope, and said to Guo Xiang with a smile, "This is for you, thank you for helping me find the child!" ”
Guo Xiang and the three of them looked at each other, what is this?
Guo Xiang opened the envelope and saw that it was a brand-new banknote, and there were twenty or thirty pieces of ten-yuan unity.
What does she mean by that? Give us money? Xu Jing said in surprise.
"We can't ask for it!" Wu Yuanfei said immediately.
Guo Xiang smiled lightly, foreigners and Chinese express their gratitude in different ways, we think it is a pleasure to help others, and it feels a bit insulting to give money, especially for students with three views during this period.
Guo Xiang is a person who came from later generations and didn't care if she saw too much, if it was a few days ago, she might have accepted it, because she was poor, but now that she has money, she doesn't take this money to heart.
"We can't ask for it!" Guo Xiang shook his head, put the money on the coffee table, and said to Emma, "We have a fine tradition in China that is to help others without asking for anything in return, and you make us very embarrassed by this...... Guo Xiang said very tactfully.
"This ......" Emma blushed, she didn't expect this, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" ”
Guo Xiang waved his hand, "The national conditions are different, don't take it to heart!" ”
Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Guo Xiang said to the three students, "Then let's go?" ”
"Good!" All three nodded at the same time and stood up.
Emma thanked them again and again, and when she went out, she stuffed two packs of German sausages and a bottle of coffee beans into them.
When he got downstairs, Guo Xiang gave the sausages to a few students, "You take this, as for the coffee beans, I still keep them, right?" ”
"To you, to you, we can't get used to it!" All three nodded.
"Then I'll leave beforehand!" Guo Xiang said goodbye to the three students and went to the bus station to catch a bus, ready to go to Gu Zhennan.