Sail across the sea

Chapter 316 Can you speak Chinese?

Yin Baowen arranged a sumptuous lunch for Gao Fan and his party. When the county heard that foreign guests were coming, it naturally took it very seriously and sent the deputy county magistrate in charge of industry and the director of the county economic committee, along with several middle-level cadres from the county to accompany them.

As Yin Baowen said, everyone in Yanxiu County knew about the vitamin factory, so when county officials came over, they would naturally ask about it.

Gao Fan reached a behind-the-scenes agreement with Yin Baowen, but when faced with inquiries from officials, he just pretended to be stupid and said that the foreign party was entirely responsible for the matter and that he was carrying Mr. Hutch's bags.

Bob knew what role he should play. While he was reservedly clinking glasses with the officials, he talked about American corporate management concepts, perfectly portraying the image of an American nerd who did not understand the ways of the Chinese world.

As for Ning Mo, it was completely a true performance. He took on the role of holding back the drinks for Gao Fan and Bob, and single-handedly challenged six or seven Yanxiu County officials. When he was drinking to his heart's content, he would make one or two silly remarks that were unreliable, which could adjust the atmosphere at the wine table.

After the meal, the county officials felt that they had gotten a lot of information, but they seemed to have gotten nothing at all. There is no need to elaborate on how to recall, analyze, and guess the mystery behind Bob's words.

After leaving Yanxiu Fertilizer Factory, Gao Fan and his party did not rush back to Cangtang, but drove to Yanxiu County at Bob's suggestion.

The layout of Yanxiu County is similar to that of Cangtang County, with one main street running east-west and one north-south, intersecting in the center of the county. On both sides of the main street are various units in the county, such as hospitals, post and telecommunications offices, cinemas, grain stores, non-staple food stores, department stores, Wujiaohua stores, etc. In addition, there are the gates of various committees and bureaus in the county. What do they look like? The Education Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Agriculture Bureau, Forestry Bureau, etc. can be said to be small but complete.

Gao Fan asked the driver to drive the car to the intersection and found an open space to park. Then he got out of the car with Bob and Ningmo and started wandering around.

Gao Fan and Ning Mo were both familiar with this standard small southern county, so naturally they had no interest in it. But Bob feels new to everything he sees. He has to go in every shop and stop to buy some snacks when he sees them.

Bob's high nose and blue eyes are naturally very eye-catching in such a small county. They didn't go far before they attracted onlookers. The onlookers did not dare to come forward. They just looked at them from a distance, pointed and talked about them.

"Bob, you won't tell me that you enjoy being watched, right?"

Gao Fan raised his eyes and looked at the melon-eating crowd around him, and asked Bob in a low voice.

Bob also raised his head and looked around, showed an idiotic smile to everyone, and raised his hand to wave. As a result, there was naturally a commotion, and some brave people waved to Bob, and then burst out laughing, not knowing what was so funny about it.

"I'm used to it." Bob shrugged and said to Gao Fan, "When I was first on Cangtang Street, Cangtang people watched me like this. Later, they got used to it and found it boring."

"As expected, as long as you are not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed," Gao Fan said.

"Is this also an ancient Chinese saying?" Bob asked.

"No, this is postmodern talk." Gao Fan said.

While they were chatting without any fuel or salt, they saw three young people walking out from among the onlookers and walking in their direction.

Of these three people, the two on either side were wearing blue cloth overalls. Gao Fan could not clearly see the small words printed on the left side of their overalls, but the style of the overalls was clearly the same as what they had seen the workers wearing at the Yanxiu Fertilizer Factory. work clothes.

The man in the middle is dressed completely differently from his two companions. He has a wavy haircut, a pair of large sunglasses that cover half of his face, a plaid shirt, and bell-bottom pants of the same style as later generations of sweeping robots. , is clearly the most popular style of the so-called "amateur overseas Chinese" nowadays. Gao Fan was stunned for a moment when the three young men had already walked in front of them. The "amateur overseas Chinese" in the lead glanced at Gao Fan and Ning Mo, then grinned at Bob and said a strange English:

"Hello, Are_You_USA?"

"Yes, I'm_USA." Bob replied seriously. When the other person said USA, he would also say USA. Anyway, he understood what the other person wanted to express.

"I_like_USA!" amateur Chinese said again.

"Thank_you, I_like_China_too." Bob responded fluently.

Gao Fan saw little stars popping up in the eyes of the two young workers in overalls looking at the amateur overseas Chinese, clearly saying:

The boss is really awesome, he can actually chat with foreigners.

"My_name_is_Tan_Jianjun." The amateur overseas Chinese chatted more enthusiastically and began to introduce themselves.

"Shi_Bayijianjunje_de_nage_jianjun_ma?" Bob asked, imitating the other person's accent.

"Yes, yes, it's for Army Day... Hey, you can speak Chinese!" The other party's eyes widened and he asked belatedly.

"Otherwise?" Gao Fan asked with a smile.

"This..." The man who claimed to be Tan Jianjun was immediately embarrassed. I know very well how good his English is. Thinking that he was struggling to squeeze out a few words of stiff English to chat with the other party, but the other party understood Chinese, and his performances were purely self-motivated, he really couldn't help it.

But Bob didn't think there was anything wrong with this. The other person greeted him in English, which was considered a kind of kindness, and there was no need for him to laugh at the other person. He nodded to the three people and said in pure Mandarin: "Hello, my name is Bob Hatch. You can call me Bob. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, nice to meet you, Mr. Bob." Tan Jianjun was the first to react and responded hurriedly.

The other two young workers also nodded quickly to greet Bob and said something incoherent.

"Are you from Yanxiu Fertilizer Factory?" Gao Fan asked, looking at the three of them. The two sides were getting closer, and he could already clearly see the words on the other person's work clothes, which were indeed "Yanxiu Fertilizer Factory".

"Yes." Tan Jianjun replied. He looked at Gao Fan and asked, "Are you a translator for foreign guests?"

"No, no, he's my boss." Bob replied quickly. He originally went crazy alone, and it was impossible not to get weird in situations like this.

"Are you the boss of the foreign guest?" Tan Jianjun was shocked again, even more surprised than when he found out that the foreign guest could speak Chinese.

"I work with Mr. Bob." Gao Fan gave an ambiguous answer, and then asked: "Master Tan, the three of you came here simply to say hello to the foreign guests, or do you have something to do? "

"There's something wrong." Tan Jianjun hesitated, completely losing the courage he had when he greeted Bob just now.

(End of this chapter)