My Xueba Life Simulator

Chapter 218 The Charm of Language

The 5-hour flight takes off in the afternoon and arrives in the evening, so the tour group can check into the hotel.

Coincidentally, the hotel that Gu Feng and the others booked was in the same place as the tour group.

The mandarin of the tour guide is not standard, but the language of Elephant Country is very fluent. After greeting with the docking person, he took everyone to the Beyond Patong Hotel.

This is a four-star hotel with the theme of the ocean. It adopts the Mediterranean design concept. From the outside to the inside, it is dominated by clear sea blue and pure white. Beach, but has its own swimming pool.

At night, the hotel is brightly lit, which has a special aesthetic feeling.

The lobby is covered with marble floors made into a checkerboard pattern, fish-shaped sofas and benches, and the air conditioner is fully turned on, which immediately liberates people from the heat.

Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao came to the front desk, Ling Xiaoxiao checked in in English, and the front desk of a four-star hotel must pass the English test, so there is no obstacle to communication at all.

The tour guide greeted Gu Feng friendly, "What a coincidence, I met you again."

"You live here too?"

Gu Feng asked curiously.

"That's right, it was a four-star hotel on the first day, and we moved to a five-star hotel on the second day. It's still too late for you to join now."

The tour guide said with a smile, Gu Feng shook his head, "We plan to stay here for a few more days."

"Okay then, we're going to PP Island tomorrow morning, and I hope we can meet again then."

The tour guide left with the team, and Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao also checked into the hotel suite smoothly.

The hotel doorman delivered the suitcases of Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao to the room, and wished them a good time in Chinese with an accent.

"Huanying joins the group, it's enough for you to have a good time."

Both Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao were stunned. Unexpectedly, the doorman at the hotel could speak Chinese, which is enough to tell that there are a lot of people from Xia who are traveling here.

Gu Feng gave the doorman a tip of 50 baht according to the common sense that Tour Guide Wang chatted with himself on the plane.

The doorman left with a tip in satisfaction. 50 baht is about 10 yuan when converted into soft sister coins.

Although the money is not much, it is barely considered a tip.

There is a habit of tipping in foreign countries. Unlike in China, this behavior has basically been banned long ago. Everyone pays with QR codes. The doorman can’t take out a QR code and scan it. Thank you.

Funny to think about.

"I didn't expect the hotel to be so good with the travel coupons in the lottery. I thought it might be a homestay."

Ling Xiaoxiao lay down on the big white bed with a sigh, and stretched.

This is an ocean-themed room with bright colors and modern decoration, fresh and refined marble bar counter, art-deco-like bathroom tiles, white shuttered cabinets, convenient capsule coffee machine, bathtub, and aromatherapy. There are also free fruits, which is worthy of a four-star hotel.

"Only one room?"

Gu Feng asked hesitantly.

"That's right, because the lucky draw is a couple's package tour for two people, and this is a double bed room."

Ling Xiaoxiao sat up, patted the bed, "I can only wrong Xiaofeng a bit."

I think the sofa is quite big, otherwise I will sleep on the sofa?

Gu Feng thought so, but the words turned into: "Okay."

"Then I'll take a shower first, and then I'll change you."

Ling Xiaoxiao opened the suitcase, took out towels, toiletries, and pajamas, rushed into the bathroom like a happy little white rabbit, and carefully took a peek at Gu Feng before closing the door.

Gu Feng sat in the room and turned on the TV. It was time to go to bed at this point. After sleeping, he woke up and started touring Phuket the next day.

There are local programs on the TV, which are a bit boring.

Gu Feng turned off the TV, opened the window, and a gust of hot wind blew in, with a faint fishy smell. Although it was not close to the beach, it was an island after all.

The view from the window is basically the hotel, but not bad.

After taking a shower, Ling Xiaoxiao came out of the bathroom wearing a white nightdress and slippers, and was wiping her wet hair with a towel.

She sat on the sofa, "Xiaofeng, you can go take a shower now."

"it is good."

Gu Feng was changed into the bathroom, saw the bathtub, and decided to try taking a bath as well.

On the way to take a bath, Gu Feng had already imagined various pictures of himself leaving the bathroom, could Ling Xiaoxiao have been impatiently waiting for him?

In memory, the two had such opportunities several times, but they were blocked every time.

After soaking for half an hour, Ling Xiaoxiao was already lying on the bed and fell asleep, breathing evenly, and Gu Feng's fantasy was shattered.

Forget it, go to sleep.

Gu Feng sighed and lay down on the other side of the bed.

He stretched out his hand and held Ling Xiaoxiao's soft hand. Ling Xiaoxiao seemed to be dreaming, her saliva was drooling, and she faltered something similar to delicious, really delicious.

This looks like a foodie.

Fortunately, the air conditioner in the room was fully turned on tonight, and Ling Xiaoxiao, who was sleeping with Aiguo, didn't take off her clothes indiscriminately, but just put her legs on Gu Feng's body.

Gu Feng lifted her legs away, and after a while, she slumped up by herself again.

If it wasn't for the thought of visiting Phuket the next day, Gu Feng really planned to clean up his restless girlfriend so that she wouldn't be able to get up the next day.

Of course, just thinking about it.

The strong man in his head quickly fell asleep.

After waking up the next day, Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao changed into their clothes and shoes, and went downstairs to the hotel to have a buffet.

The restaurant of the hotel has a shaded terrace outside, and indoors there are high and low tables and bar counters that meet different needs, and a variety of very distinctive Thai and Western meals. Ling Xiaoxiao obviously likes the buffet here.

The chef is a fat man who is carefully preparing various meals.

After a full meal, Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao decided to officially set off to experience the customs of Phuket Island.

It's a pity that the weather was not beautiful, and it started to rain. It was unrealistic to go to the beach on a rainy day, so the two decided to go to Puji Town instead.

The museums in Phuket Town are especially suitable for visiting on rainy days.

On the way to the museum by bus, through the window, you can see all kinds of cars passing through the rain, and the pink (,,)゛ hellokt car, Ling Xiaoxiao's eyes are shining, and Gu Feng feels that she must also want to ride in that car car.

Along the way, I saw countless gorgeous tuk-tuks, vans and motorcycles, colorful, colorful, exaggerated and unrestrained. These masters also worked hard to attract customers. Unfortunately, Gu Feng and the others chose an ordinary yellow minibus .

There are also various street culture wall paintings on the street, which seem to be painted by folk artists themselves, and seem to be jumping between professional and non-professional, which is not so good for the original painting masters, but Ling Xiaoxiao likes it very much.

If it wasn't raining, she would have pulled Gu Feng out of the car to clock in.

When approaching the destination, the driver began to communicate with Gu Feng in the local language, but Gu Feng could only understand the general idea.

The driver seems to be recommending himself, saying that if you need a tour guide, you can find him, and he can get half the price of the attraction tickets.

Gu Feng's eyes were mostly focused on the buildings on both sides.

Portuguese-style clock towers, Chinese-style courtyards, mixed Portuguese-style Hokkien arcades, old houses and old buildings that can be seen everywhere on the streets, combined with colorful elements, fully retain the colonial style of the past when the business was flourishing.

The museum phuket finally arrived, divided into two museums, just across the road.

The first one is very small, only the gemstone pavilion is open in the morning, and the others are open in the afternoon.

The person watching the museum was a silver-haired old lady, who was very kind and amiable. When she saw Gu Feng and Ling Xiaoxiao, she asked them where they were from in the local language.

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"what did she say?"

Ling Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Feng curiously, and Gu Feng answered the old lady with a smile, "".

Ling Xiaoxiao on the side was confused, she didn't expect Gu Feng to be able to talk to the old lady, "Xiao Feng, when did you learn the elephant language?"

"A must-have skill for traveling."

Gu Feng blinked, and then translated, "Just now the old lady asked where we are from, and I said we are from Xia Guo."

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The old lady spoke another string of local languages.

Ling Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Feng, and Gu Feng translated, "She welcomes us very much, saying that she likes our country, let's go, go in and have a look."

Ling Xiaoxiao nodded and followed Gu Feng into the museum.

At the same time, she felt that Gu Feng's speaking of the language of the Elephant Kingdom was also very attractive, and she wanted to start learning this language, so that she could communicate better next time.

There are indeed many beautiful looking gemstones in the Gem Pavilion, especially the jewelry of the former royal family.

The old lady likes to communicate with young people, especially those who can speak the local language, so she has been beside Gu Feng, explaining some historical stories to him.

Through the old lady, Gu Feng learned about Phuket. The history of the name can be traced back to 1025. The old name of the island, Manikram, means Crystal Mountain in Tamil.

Phuket also has another more well-known old name-JunkCeylon, which originated from the famous scholar Ptolemy in the library of Alexandra in the 3rd century. ) to the Malay Peninsula, they will pass through a post station called JangSiLang, which is the earliest mention of Phuket in Western literature and is the resting place for navigators.

The French were the first to discover the importance of Phuket. They discovered tin mines on Phuket. France lobbied the king of Siam (the predecessor of Thailand) to obtain the management rights of Phuket, but the control still belonged to Siam.

In addition, Phuket is in a key position in the Strait of Malacca.

The west exit of the Strait of Malacca is like a big horn, and Phuket Island is just at the northernmost point of this big horn.

From Phuket to the west, there are Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which enter the vast Indian Ocean and can enter Europe through the Suez Canal.

If the importance of Penang to the Strait of Malacca is tactical, the importance of Phuket is strategic.

As long as it controls Phuket Island, it will be in an advantageous position in the competition in the Straits of Malacca.

Because of this, Phuket Island is naturally being targeted by all parties.

At the beginning of 1785 AD, an army of as many as 7 people from Myanmar attacked Phuket Island.The officials who defended the city and many men were killed in battle, only women remained in the city, and people were panicked.

The wife of the city guard official is a heroine who does not give way to men. This Mrs. Zhuang gathered five hundred women in the city. Without weapons, they used coconut branches to disguise themselves and walked around the city.

The Burmese army outside the city was fooled, thinking that there were still a large number of troops in the city, so they dared not enter the city easily.This bought a lot of time for the Elephant National Army, which rushed to help from afar, and finally forced the suspicious Burmese army to retreat in embarrassment.

The old lady was very excited when she told this period of history, and Gu Feng also listened with great interest.

Only Ling Xiaoxiao couldn't understand, she wished she could bring a translator and translate along with her.

Fortunately, Gu Feng condensed most of the story complex and told Ling Xiaoxiao, so Ling Xiaoxiao had such a sense of participation.

She is now looking forward to the rain stopping, and then she can go to the beach with Gu Feng.

"..."

The old lady continued.

Ling Xiaoxiao widened her eyes and begged Gu Feng to translate.

Gu Feng said, "The old lady said that all the people in Phuket used to dig tin mines, but now there are no more, because the resources are getting less and less. Since the 20th century, tourism has been developed, and now most of the people on the island rely on tourism. They do business for a living, so tourists like us are very welcome.”

(End of this chapter)