San Marino High School, USA.

The school is consistently ranked in the top 30 among hundreds of public high schools in California and is the first choice for Asian-American high school students studying in California. Because the proportion of Asian students in this school is close to 70%, and Chinese students make up the majority, even Chinese students who have just arrived in the United States and do not speak English can communicate happily in Chinese at this high school.

Yang Caini transferred from high school in her second year of high school, and she was not used to living in that school, but after transferring to San Marino High School, which has a large number of Chinese, she really made a few good friends.

In the girls' dormitory of the school, Yang Caini lay under the covers, reading a Chinese novel with relish. This is the "Notes on Tomb Robbery" published by the Oriental Publishing House not long ago, which includes two stories: "King Lu of the Seven Stars" and "Diving in the Sand of the Angry Sea".

The novel has not yet been released in Hong Kong, and Yang Caini has already received a hardcover copy in the United States, and she will turn it out and read a few chapters whenever she has time during this time.

"Hey, Caini, are you reading again?" Roommate Zhou Linghua walked in and said in fluent Chinese.

Yang Caini didn't raise her head, continued to read the novel, and responded: "Didn't you go to the basketball court to hook up with a handsome guy?" ”

Zhou Linghua came over with a smile, leaned on the edge of the bed and said, "Miss Ben is out of the horse, isn't the handsome guy still handsome?" I asked Charlie to go to dinner and a movie with me in the evening, and you should go with you. ”

Yang Caini was not interested, and said, "Haven't you always wanted to date him?" Didn't I go to be a light bulb for you? ”

Zhou Linghua smiled: "You don't understand, that kid is a little distracted." I'll have to whet his appetite so that he will know how to cherish it later. ”

"I know that he is attentive and you still like him." Yang Caini turned over a silver medal.

Zhou Linghua said in a natural tone: "Because he is handsome and looks like Tom?" Cruise. He urged as he spoke. It's not early, hurry up and change your clothes. ”

Yang Caini got up from the quilt and slowly changed her clothes. Now it is the spring break period, and at this time last year, she went back early to celebrate the holiday with Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao, but unfortunately the two godmothers have returned to Hong Kong to settle down, and Yang Caini can only stay in the school dormitory.

The dormitories are apartment suites, each with two bedrooms and one living room. Two people have one bedroom, and four students share an apartment.

Zhou Linghua, who slept with Yang Caini, was born in the ancestral home. Built, grandpa's generation went to Taiwan. A few years ago, his family immigrated to California. Yang Caini's mother is Taiwanese, and she herself was born in Taipei, so she and Zhou Linghua are fellow villagers, and the two are extremely close after they met. Now they have become best friends like sisters.

As for the two roommates in the other room of this apartment. One is a Japanese-American, and the other is a Jewish-American, they have some conflicts with Zhou Linghua and Yang Caini, and they usually live under the same roof, but they don't get along with each other.

After the two girls packed up, it was almost evening, and they didn't wait a few minutes when they arrived at the school gate when they saw a Ford muscle car driving by.

"Hi. Beauties, get in the car! "The windows of the car are lowered. A blonde boy shouted whistling.

Zhou Linghua ran a few steps excitedly and asked, "Charlie, is this your car?" ”

The blonde boy coaxed, "Of course, it's cool!" ”

Yang Caini suddenly said loudly: "Charlie, you don't seem to have the age to get a driver's license, are you stealing your father's car?" ”

"Uh...... Ahem," said the blonde boy, who was poured cold water on his head, coughed twice, "I'm going to get my driver's license soon, and my dad promised to give me a car as a birthday present." ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, Zhou Linghua hurriedly winked at Yang Caini, and then smiled at Charlie: "Really? When the time comes, be sure to drive a party and celebrate that you have got your first car of your own. ”

Yang Caini just can't get used to Charlie's flowery heart, which reminds her of her amorous godfather. Yang Caini didn't want her best friend to be ugly, so after a squeeze, she got in the car and started chatting normally.

The blonde Charlie breathed a sigh of relief, although Yang Caini was beautiful, her mouth was equally powerful, so that few warriors dared to chase her now.

After the car hit the road, I went around two streets and picked up a boy, it was Paul, who was in the same grade as Yang Caini? Zhang, whose name is Zhang Chengyi in Chinese.

Mr. Zhang's great-grandfather, who came to the United States in the last years of the Manchu Dynasty, was a fourth-generation immigrant who barely spoke a little Cantonese, but did not recognize any Chinese characters except his own name.

"Hello, Caini!" Zhang Chengyi greeted in broken Cantonese, he obviously liked Yang Caini, his face was red when he spoke, and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at the goddess.

Yang Caini said in English: "You still speak English, your Cantonese sounds uncomfortable." ”

"I've been learning Chinese hard lately, and I can already write more than 50 Chinese characters." Zhang Chengyi's face blushed even more when he spoke. He originally wanted to use Cantonese to shorten the distance with Yang Caini, but he didn't expect to be ruthlessly complained about by his sweetheart.

The blonde Charlie saw Zhang Chengyi's embarrassment in the rearview mirror of the car, and immediately laughed gloatingly, he deliberately pulled Zhang Chengyi over to be a green leaf, and by the way, he attracted the firepower of Yang Caini, the queen of poisonous tongues.

"Let's go eat first," the blonde Charlie asked Zhou Linghua, "Zhou, do you have any recommendations?" ”

Zhou Linghua said gently: "I'm free, you decide." ”

The introverted Zhang Chengyi was embarrassed in the back, and when he heard the conversation between the two in front of him, he immediately said: "Let's eat Chinese food, I know there is a great Chinese restaurant near here." ”

"Not a bad idea." Blonde Charlie praised that there were three Chinese in the car, and it was very appropriate to go to eat Chinese food.

More than half an hour later, the four of them came out of the Chinese restaurant.

Zhang Chengyi said to Zhou Linghua and Yang Caini: "You guys are really ladylike when you eat, you only ate a little bit." ”

Zhou Linghua said with a smile: "It's okay, eating less and more meals is good for your health." ”

Yang Caini knew that Zhang Chengyi was interesting to her, so she deliberately expressed her refusal by using guò words: "The place you chose tastes too unpalatable." ”

"Is it unpalatable? I think it tastes very authentic. Zhang Chengyi said confusedly.

The blonde Charlie was the first to sit in the cab and shouted, "Hi. Guys, it's time to get in the car. Have you figured out what movie to watch? ”

Zhang Chengyi immediately said: ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", I heard that movie is very good. It's going to be released in two weeks, and if you don't watch it, you won't have a chance. ”

Yang Caini said: "I want to watch "Tomb Robbery Notes". ”

"Notes on Tomb Robbery?" It took a few seconds for the blonde to react, "You mean the movie made by the young Chinese director Kang?" ”

Zhang Chengyi said with a smile: "How can a Chinese film be as wonderful as a Hollywood blockbuster......" Before he finished speaking, Zhang Chengyi saw Yang Caini's displeased face and asked slowly, "Uh, did I say the wrong thing?" ”

Zhou Linghua handed him a "you're dead" look. said helplessly: "Director Kang is Caini's godfather, well, probably equivalent to the godfather of the United States." ”

"Aha. That's such a coincidence," said the blonde Charlie as he whistled as he helped Zhang Chengyi play the round, "I've seen Kang's report." I heard that it only took him ten years. became an entertainment and media tycoon from scratch, and he is already worth billions of dollars. He's my idol, Yang, next time you see your godfather, remember to help me get an autograph. ”

Charlie praised Kang Jianfei to death, which made Yang Caini very happy, and said with a smile: "Of course, I'll help you get a set of his signed novels." ”

"Really? That's great. The blonde Charlie laughed. In fact, he didn't even know what books Kang Jianfei had written.

Although Zhang Chengyi has a wooden personality, he is not stupid. At this time, he also changed his words and said: "Mr. Kang's movies have always been very good, let's go watch "Tomb Robbery Notes". ”

During the spring break, the movie theater was popped up with students, and it was in pairs, which made the popcorn sales in the movie theater increase a lot.

Since "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been released for three and a half weeks, the popularity has dropped a lot, and the movie with the most screenings in theaters at this time is actually a Chinese film like "Tomb Robbery Notes".

The theater side arranged the film like this, not because "Notes on Tomb Robbery" had done enough publicity, but because it was adjusted according to the early box office response of the film.

After waiting for dozens of minutes to buy tickets, the four high school students finally walked into the screening room.

"Sweetheart, I heard that this Chinese film is cool."

"Really? Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles any good? ”

"I don't know, but Jack has been recommending this movie to me since he watched "Tomb Robbery Notes" a few days ago."

"Is it a horror movie?"

"Maybe, after all, the title is related to tomb robbing."

“……”

Yang Caini listened to the discussion of the audience around her, and she sat in her seat with a popcorn bucket, waiting for the movie to start playing.

Except for Yang Caini, the other three people in the company are all thinking about passing the time, and they don't have too many expectations for this Chinese movie.

Kang Jianfei's first blockbuster movie "Royal Sister" and the first part of "Home Alone" were too long ago for fifteen or sixteen-year-old American boys and girls, and they were only a few years old at that time. In comparison, Kang Jianfei is more well-known among young people in their twenties in the United States.

The opening credits of Oriental DreamWorks appeared on the big screen, three minutes later......

"Ahh Zhou Linghua screamed, and was so frightened by the bloody monster that she threw herself directly into Charlie's arms.

Laughter, screams and exclamations began to alternate in the screening room, and "Notes on Tomb Robbery" was more exotic, mysterious and appealing to Western audiences than it was to East Asian audiences. The kind of monsters and spectacles that can't even be imagined in a dream make the American audience deeply addicted.

And some fans of "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the United States were equally excited after watching "Notes on Tomb Robbery", and proudly popularized the common sense of oriental ghosts and monsters to their friends around them.

Zhang Chengyi was dumbfounded at the big screen, he didn't expect the Chinese to make such a good adventure movie. Generations of his family in the United States have turned him into a veritable banana man, and Zhang Chengyi does not have any good feelings for China, for him it is just a distant country, and he does not even know that Japan and China have been at war.

But when he saw the beautiful scenery of Danxia Mountain, the mysterious and dangerous mechanism of King Lu's tomb, the gorgeous clothes on the female corpse, and the antique calligraphy and paintings full of oriental atmosphere in the antique shop, as well as the elegant words like tadpoles on the Warring States Silk Book, Zhang Chengyi suddenly felt an incomparable sense of closeness, and there was a power awakening in his blood, as if the ancient ancestors were calling him.

After the movie, the blonde Charlie exaggeratedly exclaimed, "Oh, it's incredible." There is actually a cypress tree with branches that can be transformed into poisonous snakes, is that a botanical version of Medusa? The imagination of the Chinese is too rich. ”

"That golden jade dress is not imagined, there are really physical objects unearthed in China," Zhou Linghua has been growing up in Taiwan before junior high school, and she still has a certain common sense of ancient China, "The ancient emperors wore golden jade clothes after death, just to want to live forever, but unfortunately King Lu in the film became a zombie." ”

The blonde Charlie scrambled to speak: "I know, Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army, that is the army after the death of the emperor. ”

Zhou Hualing hugged her best friend affectionately and said: "Caini, your godfather is really talented, and the movies he makes are not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters." ”

"Of course, my godfather is the best." Yang Caini's eyes smiled into the shape of moon buds.

Zhang Chengyi walked silently and suddenly said: "After I graduated from high school, I want to go to China to study at university. Cai Ni, Hua Ling, do you have any recommendations? ”

Yang Caini saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so she said: "Go to Hong Kong University or National Taiwan University, as for the schools in Chinese mainland, I don't know very well, I heard that Tsinghua and Peking University are very good." (To be continued......)