Chapter 11 Foreigners? Let me talk
Chapter 11 Foreigners? Let me talk
"Take a seat first, and I'll go order."
Li Kang had already told them to keep their voices down.
Guo Yixing, Zhang Yiming and Liu Lang came to Shanghai for the first time.
I couldn't help but smile from ear to ear with excitement.
"Liu Lang, look, what kind of drink are they drinking?"
"And the food they eat looks a bit like Huang Huang's reply."
“It makes a crunchy sound when you chew it.”
When Li Kang heard what Guo Yixing said, his face turned dark.
Fortunately, I spoke in dialect just now, otherwise the looks from people around me would not be the same as they are now.
"Guo Yixing! Stop talking nonsense. Be careful that someone kicks us out."
After getting a scolding, the boy became much more obedient.
Some of the people dining around could tolerate it, but most of them wanted a slightly quieter dining environment.
"Kid who just came in, keep your voice down."
"It's noisy."
Children who have just entered the new world will be taught some basic etiquette.
There is no need for Li Kang to teach deliberately.
After that man shouted just now, the naughty children became well-behaved.
Li Kang just happened to like a seat, and just as the other person left, he took it.
There is a long sofa behind this position where you can sit, which is suitable for lying down for a while.
As for the leftovers on the table, just call the waiter and someone will come to clean them up.
The waiters in this store look like they are part-time workers from a nearby university.
She's pretty, with delicate features and a plump figure.
From Li Kang's perspective, she is at least a school beauty.
It’s a pity that the girl was dressed very simply.
After wiping the table, I left and then served the guests.
Working part-time for KFC, the income is pretty good.
A weekly income of one or two hundred yuan is enough for college students.
If you spend it sparingly, it's enough.
But the girl was holding an English dictionary in her hand, as if she was memorizing some words?
It doesn't affect work and the manager won't care about it.
He even feels honored to have college students working part-time.
It was not until 93 that the first year of the expansion of college enrollment began. At that time, college students still had a very high social status.
Most of them have good prospects after graduation.
In the future, they will basically be in the top 10% of society.
It’s not like Li Kang’s era, when college students were as common as cabbages.
Now that I have been admitted to university, people in the village can play drums and gongs and suona for three days and three nights.
The whole village will come to support.
The same is true in a big city like Shanghai.
All the neighbors in the alley came to support.
Li Kang really wanted to go up and have a chat with this female college student.
He studied foreign languages in his previous life, majoring in English and minoring in Spanish.
Those who study a foreign language generally have to learn a third language.
But at that time, Li Kang didn't know that learning Spanish could easily merge with English.
I suffered a lot when I started learning.
But his oral English is very good, with an IELTS score of 8, which is a very high score.
The total score is only nine points, but you can imagine how valuable it is.
It’s a pity that the best era for translators has passed. In that era, passing the CET-6 was enough to cope with general work.
No matter how good your spoken English is, it is just icing on the cake.
Li Kang was also bound to be unemployed.
After seeing other college students who tried to strike up a conversation fail, Li Kang gave up the idea.
"You guys sit here, I'll go out and buy you some food."
"Brother Kang, I'll go with you." Lin Meixia took the initiative to follow, and the others were held down by Li Kang, who let them stay inside to enjoy the air conditioning.
As soon as Li Kang and Lin Meixia left, several strong white men from Europe and America came into the store.
In the 90s in Shanghai, white people were almost unmatched in height. They were nearly meters tall, with thick necks and legs, and looked very oppressive.
Especially since this KFC restaurant is from the United States, although it is run by Shanghainese.
But when the store manager saw the Americans coming in, he came over.
Ask them what they want to eat.
Unfortunately, the white people’s Chinese is not very good and they speak in English.
Manager Fang couldn't understand anything and could only call Ye Yuqing.
"Yuqing, you're an English major, come over and translate for me."
Ye Yuqing put down the dictionary in her hand and walked over.
It is a rare opportunity to practice speaking.
"Hello, pretty girl."
The white man's name was Tom. What he told Ye Yuqing was that he wanted to order a group meal and hoped that the owner could deliver it to their designated location.
Ye Yuqing expressed Tom's intention to Manager Fang.
But when he relayed it to Tom again, his speech was a little halting.
I have very few opportunities to practice speaking, so basically all I learn is dumb English.
Tom waited for a long time but still didn't understand what Ye Yuqing meant.
In the end, I had no choice but to ask the boss to make it.
He waits here for a while and takes it away.
However, this old white man in his forties or fifties saw that Ye Yuqing was plump, good-looking, and about 170 cm tall.
She was one of the rare beauties he had ever seen in Shanghai.
It just so happened that Ye Yuqing was also interested in communicating with him in a foreign language, so the two of them started chatting.
Unfortunately, we didn't speak the same language, so the conversation wasn't very smooth.
Li Kang and Lin Meixia bought a big bag of food.
Tom saw two young men and women walking together and said in English with some hints: "look at them" (Look at that couple, their youth and free love are very enviable.)
"In America, everyone is free to express love to any girl they like."
Ye Yuqing's cheeks were slightly red. After entering college, she had been studying hard.
I never thought about falling in love.
But Tom instilled in her many liberal values.
If I had spent a few more days in contact with them, I might actually become an American.
Unfortunately, the person he was talking about was Li Kang, and he heard it.
"Damn it, when did the white devils come? They actually started to tease our girls."
Tom thought that the little boy would not understand what he said casually.
Unexpectedly, the other party would respond to him in fluent American English.
"Sir, where are you come from?"
".New York."
Tom also became somewhat interested in the boy. There were not many Shanghainese who could speak English so well.
"I know New York, that's the best city in the world.'"
Tom felt very proud when he heard that a country boy knew about New York.
His favorable impression of Li Kang increased a bit, and he even introduced Ye Yuqing, whom he had just met, to him.
"You can communicate more. Li Kang's spoken English is very good."
"It sounds no different from me as an American."
The old white man is willing to talk about everything, and he speaks as if he has no thoughts in mind, just saying whatever is asked.
Li Kang learned from his communication with him that this person came to Shanghai to discuss cooperation.
While you have free time, go out and have some fun.
"KFC is a delicacy for the poor in our place, but I don't know what to eat here, so I can only eat fast food."
Tom doesn't mind revealing the inside story of his country's enterprises to foreigners.
Li Kang already knew this and gave him some advice: "You can try the Peace Hotel. The food there is pretty good, but it's a bit expensive."
He himself hasn't eaten it, but heard it's very famous. It depends on whether your Peace Hotel can handle it.
"I will try it, thank you for sharing. You mainlanders are so hospitable."
Who says foreigners don't understand human nature? They just compliment you so easily.
Li Kang didn't feel the hospitality at all, so he started to praise.
(End of this chapter)