This school has consistently ranked among the top 30 among hundreds of public high schools in California, and is the first choice for Asian high school students studying in California. Because the proportion of Asian students in this school is close to 70%, and Chinese students make up the majority.
, even Chinese students who have just arrived in the United States and do not speak English can still communicate happily in Chinese in this high school.
Yang Caini transferred here as a sophomore in high school. She was not used to it in her original school. It was only after she transferred to San Marino High School, which has a large Chinese population, that she really made a few good friends.
In the girls' dormitory of the school, Yang Caini was lying on the bed, reading a Chinese book with relish. This was "Tomb Robbery Notes" recently published by Oriental Publishing House. The book included "Seven Stars of King Lu" and "The Sands of the Raging Sea".
a story.
Before it was released in Hong Kong, Yang Caini had already received the hardcover version in the United States. During this period, she would pick it up and read a few chapters whenever she had time.
"Hey, Caini, are you reading again?" Roommate Zhou Linghua walked in and said in fluent Mandarin.
Yang Caini didn't even raise her head, continued to watch, and responded: "Didn't you go to the basketball court to hook up with a handsome guy?"
Zhou Linghua came over with a smile, lying on the edge of the bed and said, "I'm going to take action. Isn't there a handsome guy? I made an appointment with Charlie to have dinner and watch a movie together in the evening. You should go too."
Yang Caini was not interested and said, "Didn't you always want to date him? Didn't I just be a light bulb for you?"
Zhou Linghua said with a smile: "You don't understand, that boy is a bit carefree. I have to whet his appetite, and then he will know how to cherish it."
"You know he's so flirty and you still like him." Yang Caini turned over the silver.
Zhou Linghua said in a matter-of-fact tone: "Because he is handsome and looks like Tom Cruise." Then she urged, "It's getting late. Hurry up and change clothes and dress up."
Yang Caini then got up from the bed and slowly changed her clothes. It was now the spring break. At this time last year, she went back to spend the holidays with Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao. Unfortunately, the two godmothers returned to Hong Kong to settle down. Yang Caini could only
Can stay in the school dormitory.
The dormitory is an apartment suite, each suite has two bedrooms and one living room. Two people have one bedroom, and four students live in the same apartment.
Zhou Linghua, who sleeps with Yang Caini, is originally from Fujian, and her grandfather went to Taiwan. A few years ago, her family immigrated to California in the United States. Yang Caini’s mother is Taiwanese, and she was born in Taipei, so she and Zhou Linghua are from the same hometown.
We became very close to each other after we met. Now we have become best friends as close as sisters.
As for the two roommates in the other room of this apartment, one is Japanese-American and the other is Jewish-American. They have some conflicts with Zhou Linghua and Yang Caini. They usually live under the same roof, but they never interact with each other.
After the two girls packed up, it was almost evening. Within a few minutes of arriving at the school gate, they saw a Ford muscle car driving towards them.
"Hey, beauties, get in the car!" The car window was lowered and a blond boy whistled and shouted.
Zhou Linghua ran a few steps excitedly and asked: "Charlie, is this your car?"
Blond hair: "Of course, it's cool!"
Yang Caini suddenly said: "Charlie, you don't seem to be old enough to get a driver's license yet, are you stealing your dad's car?"
"Uh...ahem," said the blonde, "I'll get my driver's license soon, and my dad promised to give me a car as a birthday gift."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Zhou Linghua quickly winked at Yang Caini, then smiled at Charlie and said, "Really? You must have a party then to celebrate you getting your first car of your own."
Yang Caini just couldn't stand Charlie's playfulness, which reminded her of her romantic godfather. Yang Caini didn't want to make her best friend look bad, so after a while, she got in the car and started chatting normally.
The blond Charlie breathed a sigh of relief. Although Yang Caini was beautiful, her mouth was equally powerful, so that few brave men dared to chase her now.
After the car got on the road, we detoured two streets and picked up another boy. He was Paul Zhang, who was in the same grade as Yang Caini. His Chinese name was Zhang Chengyi.
Zhang Chengyi's great-grandfather came to the United States at the end of the Qing Dynasty. He was the fourth generation of immigrants. He could barely speak Cantonese, but except for his own name, he didn't recognize any Chinese characters.
"Hello Caini!" Zhang Chengyi greeted in broken Cantonese. He obviously liked Yang Caini. His face turned red when he spoke and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at the goddess.
Yang Caini said in English: "You'd better speak English, your Cantonese sounds uncomfortable."
"I have been studying Chinese diligently recently and can already write more than fifty Chinese characters." Zhang Chengyi blushed even more as he spoke. He originally wanted to use Cantonese to get closer to Yang Caini, but he never expected that his sweetheart would ruthlessly complain about him.
The blond Charlie saw Zhang Chengyi's embarrassment in the rearview mirror of the car, and immediately laughed with schadenfreude. He deliberately dragged Zhang Chengyi over to be a green leaf, and by the way, he attracted the firepower of Yang Caini, the queen of poisonous tongues.
"Let's go eat first," blond Charlie asked Zhou Linghua, "Zhou, do you have anything to recommend?"
Zhou Linghua said softly: "I'm free to do it, you decide."
The introverted Zhang Chengyi was embarrassed in the back. When he heard the conversation between the two people in front, he immediately said: "Let's eat Chinese food. I know there is a great Chinese restaurant nearby."
"It's a good idea." The blond Charlie praised. There were three Chinese people in the car, so it was very suitable to go to eat Chinese food.
More than half an hour later, the four people came out of the Chinese restaurant.
Zhang Chengyi said to Zhou Linghua and Yang Caini: "You are such ladies when you eat, you only ate a little."
Zhou Linghua chuckled and said, "It's okay. Eating smaller meals more often is good for your health."
Yang Caini knew that Zhang Chengyi was interested in her, so she deliberately expressed her rejection through words: "The place you chose must taste too bad."
"Does it taste bad? I think it tastes very authentic." Zhang Chengyi said with confusion.
The blond Charlie got into the cab first and shouted: "Hi, guys, get in the car soon. Have you thought about a movie to go to?"
Zhang Chengyi immediately said: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I heard that movie is very good. It will be released in two weeks. If you don't watch it, you will have no chance."
Yang Caini said: "I want to watch "Tomb Raiders"."
"Tomb Raiders"?" The blond Charlie thought for a few seconds before reacting. "You mean the movie made by the young Chinese director Kang?"
Zhang Chengyi smiled and said: "Chinese films are not as exciting as Hollywood blockbusters..." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Chengyi saw Yang Caini's displeased look on her face and asked dully, "Uh, did I say the wrong thing?"
Zhou Linghua gave him a look that said, "You're dead." She said helplessly, "Director Kang is Caini's godfather. Well, he's probably equivalent to the godfather here in the United States."
"Ah ha. That's such a coincidence," the blond Charlie whistled to help Zhang Chengyi, "I have read Kang's report. I heard that he became an entertainment media tycoon from scratch in just ten years.
Already worth billions of dollars. He is my idol, Yang, next time you see your godfather, remember to ask for an autograph for me."
Charlie praised Kang Jianfei to death, which made Yang Caini very happy, and said with a smile: "Of course, I will get you a set of his signatures."
"Really? That's great." The blond Charlie laughed. In fact, he didn't even know what books Kang Jianfei had written.
Although Zhang Chengyi has a dull personality, he is not stupid. At this time, he changed his mind and said: "Mr. Kang's movies are always very good. Let's go see "Tomb Raiders"."
It was during the spring break, and the most people in the cinema were students, and they were in pairs, which caused a lot of popcorn sales in the cinema.
Since "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been in theaters for three and a half weeks, the popularity has dropped a lot. At this time, the movie with the most screenings in theaters is actually a Chinese film like "Tomb Raiders".
The theaters arranged the film in this way not because "Tomb Raiders" had done enough publicity, but because they made adjustments based on the film's early box office response.
After buying the tickets and waiting for dozens of minutes, the four high school students finally walked into the screening room.
"Sweetheart, I heard this Chinese-language film is so cool."
"Really? Is it as good as "Ninja Turtles"?"
"I don't know, but Jack has been recommending this movie to me since he watched "Tomb Raiders" a few days ago."
"Is it a horror movie?"
"Maybe, after all, the title of the film is related to tomb robbing."
"..."
Yang Caini listened to the comments from the audience around her. She sat in her seat holding a popcorn bucket, waiting for the movie to start.
Except for Yang Caini, the other three people traveling with us were just trying to kill time and didn't have much expectations for this Chinese-language movie.
Kang Jianfei's best-selling movies in the United States were the first part of "The Royal Sisters" and "It's too long ago. They were only a few years old at that time. In comparison, Kang Jianfei is more famous among the twenty-something youth group in the United States."
Higher.
The title sequence of Oriental DreamWorks appeared on the big screen, three minutes later...
"Ah!" Zhou Linghua screamed and was so frightened by the bloody monster that she threw herself into Charlie's arms.
Laughter, screams and exclamations began to appear alternately in the screening room. Compared to East Asian audiences, "Tomb Raiders" is more exotic, mysterious and uniquely attractive to Western audiences. That kind of
Monsters and wonders that could not even be imagined in their dreams deeply fascinated American audiences.
Some fans of "Shu Mountain" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the United States were equally excited after watching "Tomb Raiders" and proudly spread knowledge about Eastern ghosts to their friends.
Zhang Chengyi was stunned at the big screen. He did not expect that the Chinese could also make such a good-looking adventure movie. Several generations of family reproduction in the United States have turned him into a veritable banana man. Zhang Chengyi has no good impression of China.
To him, it was just a distant country, and he didn't even know that there was a war between Japan and China.
But when he saw the beautiful scenery of Danxia Mountain, the mysterious and sinister mechanism of King Lu's tomb, the gorgeous clothes on the female corpse, the antique calligraphy and paintings full of oriental flavor in the antique shop, and the elegant tadpole-like words on the silk books of the Warring States Period, Zhang Chengyi
Suddenly he felt an incomparable sense of closeness, and a power was awakening in his bloodline, as if his ancient ancestors were calling him.
After the movie ended, the blond Charlie exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Oh, it's incredible. There is a cypress tree with branches that can transform into poisonous snakes. Is that the plant version of Medusa? The Chinese people have too rich imaginations."
"That gold-lined jade garment is not imaginary. There are real objects unearthed in China." Zhou Linghua grew up in Taiwan before junior high school. She still has some common sense about ancient China. "In ancient times, the emperors wore gold-lined jade clothing after death."
Jade Yi just wanted to live forever, but unfortunately King Lu in the film turned into a zombie."
The blond Charlie rushed to speak: "I know, Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Warriors and Horses, they are the army after the emperor's death."
Zhou Hualing affectionately held her best friend's arm and said, "Caini, your godfather is really talented. The movies he makes are no less than Hollywood blockbusters."
"Of course, my godfather is the best." Yang Caini's eyes turned into moon buds when she smiled.
Zhang Chengyi walked silently and suddenly said: "After I graduate from high school, I want to go to university in China. Caini, Hualing, do you have any recommendations?"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Yang Caini said, "Go to Hong Kong University or National Taiwan University. As for schools in mainland China, I don't know much about them. I heard that Tsinghua University and Peking University are very good." (To be continued...) u
