Volume 1 Chapter 8
At Shenyang International Airport, a pair of worn-out size 44 tennis shoes stepped on the smooth floor of the airport hall and walked forward briskly. Dressed in a white-washed dark blue tracksuit and carrying two huge old-fashioned blue canvas suitcases, Chen Yiting paused and looked behind him hesitantly as he walked some way forward.
Mom and Dad didn't have passports, and they couldn't even get into the halls of the international airport, but he still stubbornly walked forward for a while, and then stopped to look back, hoping that for some special reason, the uniformed staff would let Mom and Dad in, and they were chasing him after him, and wanted to tell him something important.
He finally understood that it was all his imagination, and that his parents were getting farther and farther away from him, and he ran with two large suitcases, whining and crying as he ran, his voice low and muffled, and occasionally large tears fell on the smooth ground in front of him......
In order to save money, his father asked someone to buy a transit ticket for Chen Yiting, and he had to change flights twice in Beijing and Detroit. Everything went smoothly in Beijing, but when he arrived in Detroit, he was told that he needed to take his luggage out and check it in again.
When Yi Ting went to collect his luggage, two uniformed airport police officers walked up to him and spoke a lot of English to him with serious expressions. Chen Yiting didn't understand a word, he couldn't figure it out, he hadn't done anything bad, but why did the police rush to talk to him as soon as he set foot on a foreign land?
In a foreign country, without relatives, his head was clouded for a while, and he didn't know what was going on for a while, but he could know by guessing that it was not a good thing. The policeman then muttered something that he still didn't understand. Finally, the policeman politely said three times, "Please come with us to the office." Chen Yiting reacted, and followed the police nervously all the way, not knowing what they were going to do to him.
Two policemen took Chen Yiting into a small office, closed the door with their hands, and the hustle and bustle of the airport was immediately cut off. Chen Yiting saw his two rustic suitcases, which were placed in the center of the office, and a large police dog was walking around the suitcases.
Seeing the owner of the box walk in, the eyes of the policemen in the office looked at Chen Yiting, although he still didn't understand what was going on, but his palms were already sweating. Chen Yiting has lived for 14 years, and he has never faced so many policemen alone, and he is an American policeman! He felt that his face must be ugly.
At this time, a policeman asked him in English with a serious expression: "Tell me, what are you in your box?" ”
Chen Yiting understood this concise sentence, Yiting's English was not good, and he couldn't speak the whole sentence when he was nervous, so he began to jump out of his mouth one by one: "My tennis racket, clothes, shoes, quilt and pillow...... ”
"What else?" When the police questioned him, there was no expression on his face.
Chen Yiting stood there stiffly, thinking for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "No." ”
"Are you sure? The policeman's tone was full of questions.
Chen Yiting's mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered that his mother was afraid that he would not be used to eating Western food at school, so he specially bought him six of his favorite Harbin red sausages. At this moment, he racked his brains to think about what to say "ham", he had learned this word, but, looking at the room full of policemen with loaded guns, nervous to the point of urgency, he couldn't remember this word, the policemen looked at Chen Yiting with questioning eyes, giving him a strong sense of oppression, the police officer who had been questioning him just now saw him standing in a daze, and suddenly said sternly: "Answer my question!" ”
Chen Yiting was so frightened that he rushed out and said, "Leg, some legs. (legs, some legs). ”
He saw an indescribable look of horror on the faces of all the policemen in the room, some of whom had reflexively pressed their hands to their belts. The police officer who spoke to him just now seemed calm and asked, "What?" ”
Chen Yiting realized that he had said something wrong, but at this time his mind was blank, and he really couldn't think of that English word anymore, under the forced gaze of the policemen, Chen Yiting embarrassedly squeezed out a smile, gestured on his leg, and said the word "Leg. (leg)" again with sincerity.
He saw that several policemen quickly opened one of the boxes, and the police dog immediately jumped up and barked wildly, and the three round hams wrapped in the middle of the clothes rolled down from the boxes to the ground with joy, and then the police successfully found three other Harbin red sausages from the mezzanine of the boxes.
The policemen in the room breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere immediately changed from tense to somewhat funny.
The policeman who was talking to Chen Yiting just now walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Young man, do you know that meat cannot enter the country?" I have just looked at your passport, and you are not yet a minor, so you will not be fined, but these ...... 'legs' will be confiscated. ”
Chen Yiting shook his head desperately, and his English expression ability magically returned to him, and he said: "No, no, no, don't, these are my favorite foods, and I can eat them before I board the plane." "He never spoke English as slippery as he did today. The policeman looked helplessly at the honest big boy in front of him, sealed his box, handed him the red sausage, and sent him out of the office.
A few minutes later, on a chair in the baggage transfer area, Chen Yiting frantically nibbled on a Harbin red sausage in his hand, ignoring the strange eyes of people passing by, and actually chewed the red sausage with a big mouthful. There was no water, so it was very uncomfortable to eat like this, but he thought that it was bought for him by his mother after a two-hour bus ride to a supermarket far away from his home. If he didn't want to go to the United States, his mother would definitely not be willing to buy him so many Harbin red sausages at one time, and the cost of these red sausages was about equivalent to their family's food expenses for two weeks, so he couldn't waste it anyway, he had to eat the red sausages here.
When he ate the fifth root, he felt a little choked very uncomfortable, as if he was about to vomit, for a while, he felt that coming to the United States to study, in fact, was a very sad thing, somehow, tears just fell.