Chapter 744: Wandering in London on a Budget (Part 1)
"Hey, senior Fang Ran, are you an exchange student coming to London too?"
In downtown Stratford, London, on the edge of a street full of British architectural styles, I was moved to tears by the fact that the person I met by chance was a schoolgirl from Peking University.
Following Tang Bing as he shuttled through the crowd, from time to time he could hear conversations in pure English from passers-by. When Fangran, who had finally been saved, heard her ask,
Looking directly at the Donald Duck on her red coat,
One moment it becomes Peking duck, the next moment it becomes Nanjing salted duck...
"Exchange student...? How did you know?"
When he suddenly heard her say the name "exchange student", Fangran was slightly startled when his thinking was about to stop.
Then when he saw Tang Bing next to him, his eyes widened as if he was being cute, and he naturally spread his hands.
"After all, senior, your student information is still at Beijing University. If you are not studying abroad, what else can you be besides being a regular exchange student between schools?"
When she said this, she pursed her lips and rolled her eyes with a "what more to say" look on her face.
"Otherwise, the National Day holiday in China is over. Could it be possible, senior, that you skipped school and traveled here?"
Fangran(；￣д￣)....
Um... Strictly speaking, I skipped school and came here secretly...
"By the way, why didn't I see you, senior, when we set off for this semester? Did you fly here by yourself after something happened at that time?"
Following a genuine school girl who is different from a pirated and parallel-imported Kyoto University student like myself, I walk on the way to the supermarket.
Watching her turn to look at him and ask curiously, during a few simple chats, Fangran discovered that this girl wearing Donald Duck's red coat had exactly the same character as he had imagined.
While he is wary of others, he is also cheerful and cheerful. From the beginning, he never let the atmosphere become awkward due to unfamiliarity. He has always been very lively in provoking topics.
All in all, I think Fangran is a energetic girl with high social skills.
Although it is not impossible to lie here and follow her words, saying that I am also an exchange student in London, but a certain senior here who is good at lying and committing suicide wants to teach everyone a little trick.
That is, instead of lying in an area that you are completely unclear about and the other party is relatively familiar with, it is better to make up a new setting that the other party does not understand at all.
Even if you don't know it yourself, the probability of exposure is much smaller.
"Ah, I'm actually not an exchange student in London. I came to the UK with my tutor to participate in a computer-related competition."
"It's just that something unexpected happened and I was left alone in London with no one I knew."
Seeing the school girl blinking her big eyes and asking herself, Fangran slightly moved his eyes and brought out the character he had just thought of three minutes ago.
Then he felt that it was not good for people to keep provoking the topic. After thinking about it, he asked curiously:
"By the way, junior sister, are you an exchange student at Beijing University this time?"
"Yes, one of the two most fortunate and lucky things in my life was that I was specially recruited by Beijing University because of my English."
Hearing Fang Ran ask this question, Tang Bing seemed to still be able to feel the nervous clenching of his small fists, and then he was so excited that he almost jumped up with excitement.
"Then the second thing was that after working hard for a semester and a summer vacation, I was actually able to study abroad for a year in this city that I had been looking forward to for more than ten years!"
"Study abroad, it sounds like it's very powerful..."
Seeing her look like this, Fang Ran was slightly stunned and murmured, which made Tang Bing realize that he was a little too excited about the person he met for the first time and stuck out his tongue in embarrassment:
"Well...but there is no such thing as you, senior, who can really get into Beijing University..."
"Well...ahem, it's not that bad..."
overseas study.
This thing sounds high-end and grand, let’s not say whether it is really good or bad, but while experiencing the exotic customs and new environment in a new country that I like,
Starting a fulfilling and interesting learning career may be a dream that every student has imagined.
"Then which university in London did Beijing University arrange for you this time?"
Of course, Fang Ran, who had thought about this kind of thing before, suddenly asked curiously, and then saw Tang Bing giving a thumbs up with a bright face.
“Queen Mary, University of London, is amazing!”
"Oh, it sounds very impressive..."
The topic of Tang Bing also aroused my interest in studying abroad. Although there is no need to think about the powerful people in the night game, such as Sister Ye Sheng and Sister Su Xing, they must have similar resumes.
But this was the first time I met my peers studying abroad.
As a scumbag boy who was born and raised in China, Fang Ran asked the question with an eager look that probably every boy who yearns for a career studying abroad is curious about.
"There are a lot of beautiful women in foreign countries. If you study abroad, you can easily be single?"
The moment Tang Bing succeeded, he was speechless. He looked at him expressionlessly and silently said:
"There are a lot of gold bars in the bank, senior, why don't you go grab them."
Fang Ran: "..."
School girl, is it so real...
Wandering on the streets of London where European-style buildings are adjacent, I passed by foreign men and women with fair skin and high nose bridges, and watched the red double-decker buses passing by with various signs in English.
Led by the ponytail swaying in front of him, he walked through this exotic maze that dazzled Fangran with the British atmosphere.
While having an unexpectedly happy chat, I noticed that the curbs in London are very shallow, and some places don’t even have such details at all.
Fangran finally heard what he wanted to hear most right now.
"Senior, we are here."
Coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo!
When the constant voice in his stomach was almost playing Spanish Matador, he followed Tang Bing and Fangran finally came to the place where he could solve the second goal, but...
Looking at the Tesco logo on the building in front of him, Fangran felt that he had seen this word before when he was lost.
He asked Tang Bing beside him with a complicated and serious look:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "That school girl, the place where this word is written is a supermarket!?"
Tang Bing, who was confused by his question, rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"Otherwise, senior, you might think that supermarkets abroad say supermaket or something like shopping on them."
That's what Fang thought. Then: "..."
If you hadn't told me this was a supermarket, just looking at this single flat building with the bright 24-hour sign from a distance, I would have thought it was a gas station...
I'm so stupid, really.
...
...
Speaking of London prices,
What is the first instinctive reaction of someone who knows nothing about this?
Is the cost high? Are things expensive?
Do you think that the consumption level in a big city like London must be high?
However, the answer is...
Not exactly.
With 10 pounds in his pocket, he rushed into this Tesco with hungry eyes. If Fang Ran had nothing to do, he wanted to help Gou Yu with some errands and some common sense in life.
You can also know that this is actually a supermarket called Tesco in China. The moment you enter the store, how should I say...
A bright yellow light and a dazzling scene with bright and neat decorations came into Fangran's field of vision.
Various commodities are neatly placed on the shelves. Fruits are packaged in bags and illuminated by lights. In some spacious aisles, foreign women push shopping carts.
Except for numerical prices, all labels are in English, which makes it feel like you are in London.
I dived into the food aisle and looked at the rows of food. I felt satisfied and happy, but I was quite uneasy because I only had 10 pounds in my pocket.
Fangran first looked at the price of a bag of butter bread. It said something like Bread 800G...
NOW! 70P
(°—°lll)?P?
I stared at this unit that I didn't recognize at all in a daze for a second, and I was deeply confused as to what the price was.
Is the symbol for pound sterling P?
It’s embarrassing to say that Fangran only knows the symbols of foreign currencies: the U.S. dollar.
This is because I always watched Tom and Jerry when I was a kid...
But in fact, P is not the symbol of the pound. The United Kingdom, which feels that the local currency is very important, is relatively resistant to the euro, so in the United Kingdom, in addition to the pound, there is also a subsidiary currency, the penny.
1 pound = 100 pence,
That is, 1￡=100P.
After Fangran stared at a bag of bread for a minute, scaring away a woman next to him, he rummaged through the text of "Four Pennies" that he had forgotten when he was a child.
Think of it.
Damn it! A bag of bread only costs 0.7 pounds!?
Then after realizing this, a bunch of numerical prices rolled through his mind. Fangran looked at the 10 pounds in his hand in disbelief, with a look of shock and disbelief on his face, doubting life.
So...it seems like the ten dollars I spent were well spent!?
After thinking about this, Fangran, who had known that the pound was valuable before, but did not expect it to be so valuable, suddenly fell into deep thought. While staring at the shelves in front of him and swallowing,
Suddenly, I felt a little bit of guilt towards the knife-wielding robber who I beat... ahem, and had his hand cut off in a act of righteousness last night.
Well, okay, I shouldn’t call him a poor guy. I hope that guy can give him a 120...
(°▽°丶)? Hey, when calling an ambulance in the UK, do you dial 120?