Chapter 742 The most beautiful encounter in the world
Although I once overlooked the whole of London from the observation room at an altitude of 10,000 meters, I really felt like walking through the streets.
Feel the British style while the pedestrians and buildings on the road all look like foreign countries.
Fangran still felt that the whole city was unfamiliar to him.
With no sense of direction, no destination, and no idea where he was going, he felt that the whole of London was like a huge maze.
Well, to put it simply...
He is lost.
Originally I just wanted to find a supermarket, but I kept walking straight and it became more and more deserted. Then I turned around and changed streets and found that I was back to the starting point.
Fangran covered his face and broke down quietly.
"Yao Shou...where are these things!"
Unlike other big cities I’ve been to before, I didn’t see many modern high-rise buildings in London.
Most of them are white or dark yellow typical European-style buildings with about four floors, with triangular roofs or pointed hats, and are arranged very compactly.
Then he was so dizzy that he couldn't find the direction.
Although Fangran admits that his sense of direction is a bit weak, he believes that he still has a normal way-finding ability. As for why he still gets lost...
You tell me I don’t have a mobile phone or map navigation. If I throw you into London, will you be able to find your way (beat the table)!?
Gulu————
Ah, I can't do it anymore. If I continue like this, I will really starve to death...
If your baby doesn’t want to be the first participant in history to starve to death, then...
Standing on an unknown street in London, Fangran walked around for more than an hour and couldn't even find the north.
At this moment, I deeply understood how important mobile phones are to human beings. I looked at the streets of London melancholy and made up my mind with difficulty.
Sure enough, I can only ask someone for directions?
Standing in a leisure plaza in a commercial district, Fangran looked around at the crowd and kept filtering out targets.
After excluding women, busy passers-by, young people shopping together, etc., we finally focused on a kind-faced person who is easy to attack when alone...cough!
An old man who is easier to talk to alone!
Although this was the first time that I had spoken to an ordinary foreigner normally like this, I had no choice but to hide my strength.
Hum, it’s time to show off your real skills!
Taking a deep breath, Fangran first conducted a tactical scan, looking left and right at the nearby streets and pretending that he couldn't find it... but in fact, he really couldn't find his destination.
Then he sighed anxiously, pretending to be distressed, and finally pretended to be surprised by seeing an old man nearby, and then finished the foreplay that he gave himself like crazy.
Hmm...Why do I feel this is so weird...
But in short! Acting like a normal person who wants to ask for directions, Fangran finally gave himself a hint of ‘don’t be nervous’,
Then he took off his hood and walked proudly towards the lonely foreign grandfather!
What? Why did you take off your hood, you ask?
щ(°Д°#щ)Won’t it make people suspicious if you wear a hood and ask for directions on a sunny day?
In fact, many thieves in London take advantage of the opportunity to steal by asking for directions and blocking their view with newspapers or the like, so they are often away from home or traveling.
Remember to take good care of your property and don’t have any unnecessary good intentions...
"That...E...Excuse me...?"
(ˉ?ˉ*;) Um... That's great. Fortunately, I learned about asking for directions in high school, so my baby remembers that the opening line is "Excuse me" instead of saying "Hello" directly...
I came to the foreign grandfather with gentle steps. Although the pronunciation was slightly Chinese and smelled of big dirt,
But Fangran selectively ignored the tentative words that he believed the other party would understand, causing the old man who was waiting for his daughter and son to come back from shopping to look at him in surprise.
When I saw that he was a foreigner, I smiled with enthusiasm and interest and replied:
"Oh, good morning, young man, welcome to London. It's a nice weather today. What can I do for you?"
Fang Ran: (°▽°?) Uh...
"Hello...?"
Foreign grandpa: "..."
"???"
To be honest, Fang Ran, who was thinking that he was also a top student at a famous university in Beijing, so asking for directions in English shouldn’t be a problem, after saying hello, Fang Ran said,
After hearing the foreign grandfather Tu Lu Tu Lu say a string of words in which he could barely understand the words 'Good morning, wele, today, what' and 'to', I felt that I was struck by the language difference.
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Then coincidentally, after seeing him tentatively replying "Hello" after he finished speaking, the old man felt that he had also received the same shock.
"Ah... that's what I want to ask... I am tired, I... want to go to... No, it's not this sentence pattern, that How can I... uh, go to supermarket, I remember
Is it...Su...Supo's special...?"
Feeling that the other party might be saying hello, Fangran felt the atmosphere was awkward after replying Hello. After quickly expressing his intention, he remembered halfway through that he didn't understand Chinese, and searched for the remaining English in his mind.
I forgot all about the more polite modal verbs and modal particles. I even talked and gestured and finally managed to come up with a sentence of English that was not good at grammar.
Let the other party's grandfather be immediately stunned by success.
Then after thinking for a long time, ‘Why is it a rhetorical question?’, I slowly understood and looked at him tentatively and returned:
"You...want to ask me the way to the nearby supermarket, right?"
Although I didn’t understand every word of the grandfather at all, I developed a sense of English that I had been basically blind to in listening in English exams since high school.
Fangran still successfully grasped that the other party understood what he meant, and nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice, feeling moved to tears.
I'm sorry, English teacher, I shouldn't feel that English accounts for so many points in the exam. I'm sick. If I have another chance, I will definitely listen to your class carefully (tears)...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing him nodding quickly, I knew that this was a young foreigner who did not understand English.
The old man didn't talk nonsense. He used simple words as much as possible and pointed the way to him in a direction completely opposite to the one Fangran took just now.
"Go straight from this direction, then turn left. After passing an intersection, turn right. Keep going straight and you will see it."
In the other party's deliberately slowed-down London accent, I finally heard the familiar phrases like "go straight, turn left, turn right" and other basic and simple phrases of junior high school level.
Fangran, who was finally able to solve the second goal, quickly said his thanks in his construction site English.
"Thank you... No, that three grams of oil is very much."
Then, while the sequence was still in his mind, he hurriedly walked in the direction that the grandfather pointed to him, and asked for the exact way. Finally, he didn't have to worry about starving to death.
Fangran breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the street he had just left behind him.
I actually succeeded in plastic English at the construction site for the first time, plus I happened to meet an unlucky guy last night.
I seem to have pretty good luck...
Then fifteen minutes later.
Looking at the road from behind me, I didn't recognize the surrounding streets and compact urban buildings. I couldn't find a supermarket...
Fang lost his way again and said: "..."
Sorry, I take back what I just said (expressionless).
Come on! Is there something wrong with my ears? Why don’t I go straight, turn left, turn right, and then go straight again!?
At this moment, Fangran had deep doubts about his junior high school-level construction site English.
I wonder if I have regressed to elementary school.
Looking at a new block in front of him, a new group of passers-by, Fangran, who changed places and continued to get lost, almost trembled with a twitch of the corner of his mouth,
It was not until this moment that he discovered that the biggest real crisis he was facing at this moment was not having no money, no mobile phone, no identification, no shelter and no food.
But I don’t understand English!!!
I can't understand what others are saying, I don't know the names of the shops in the street, and I can't communicate. This is what really makes London so strange and incomprehensible to each other.
The fundamental reason why being on the street is like being in a maze!
It wasn't until I experienced it personally and was helpless at this moment that I understood from the bottom of my heart,
It is really important to master a foreign language.
If it were Ye Sheng, Su Qun, even Qing Ning, Gou Yu, or even Meng Lang encountered the current situation, Fangran could believe that they would not be stuck at the threshold of not knowing English...
To be honest, Fangran was actually very curious about what would happen if Ye Sheng was in his current situation.
Hmm... I always feel like I didn't expect Sister Yesheng to be so panicked...
But I don’t want to miss those things. Looking at the maze-like streets of London in front of me, Fangran is lost again. At this moment, he is heartbroken. He plans to survive in London as a real-life ‘RPG’ before finding a way to return to China.
It gave him the feeling of not only zero money, but also a zero-level hell difficulty start.
And it doesn’t support Simplified Chinese...
Gu————
"Ah, I can't do it anymore..."
His stomach couldn't help but make a dove sound. Although he was not dizzy yet, Fangran, whose stomach was cramped and uncomfortable, sighed helplessly and looked at the nearby street while holding his forehead and talking to himself.
"I can only find a way to find someone who can speak Chinese..."
Otherwise, it would be impossible for me, who knew almost nothing about the cultural environment of London, to survive here without being hunted.
Although it was impossible to swear an oath without the King of Gods, Fangran was absolutely praying sincerely from the bottom of his heart at this moment.
Destiny daddy, please give me a passing Chinese compatriot!
Even if she is a girl, I will definitely have the courage to go up and talk to her!
But I don’t know if the goddess of fate really heard his prayer, or if he was really lucky after Tokyo. After thinking about it in his heart,
To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I sighed and thought about what to do.
What made Fangran slightly stunned for a second was that on the opposite side of the street where he was,
A girl who was a bit unusual among a group of foreigners walked out from the corner. She was about 1.7 meters tall and had a somewhat thin figure.
Whether it is the bright red coat with cartoon patterns or the swaying ponytail, they all exude her sunny and cheerful personality. She hums a tune and walks away in a good mood.
Fangran's eyes were stunned, and before he could say, "Damn it, a girl really showed up!" Fangran subconsciously chased after her.
Crossing the crosswalk on the streets of London, passing through the crowds of people passing by under the British buildings, I don’t know how many people stretched out their hands to pat her on the shoulder...
Until many, many years later, when he recalled this scene in his memory, Fangran couldn't help but think of a sentence.
The most beautiful affair in the world is probably meeting another one of you...