Chapter 85 Slap in the Face: Questioning Bias Leads to Another Crushing Victory
"Miss Zhao, please speak."
"Why are the guests acting as tour guides? Is your production team so poor that you can't afford tour guides?"
"this……"
Zhuo Rui was successfully choked.
He subconsciously looked at Xu Lanyan.
He couldn't very well say that there was originally a tour guide, but because he received a text message from Xu Lanyan, he changed his mind at the last minute and gave the opportunity to Xu Lanyan to perform, could he?
Isn't that just asking for trouble?
"Well, it's like this..."
After a tactical cough, Zhuo Rui quickly formulated his explanation in his mind.
“Our show has four episodes this season, and each episode is set in a different city. In the first three episodes, we will select one person from each group of guests to serve as the tour guide. So today’s tour guide role will be given to Ms. Xu.”
"But you didn't say that before! You didn't even ask if the other groups were willing to come first, and then you just handed it over to Xu Lanyan. Isn't that inappropriate?"
[Exactly! If I remember correctly, Song Ying did her undergraduate and master's degrees in London, so she should be quite familiar with the city, right? And her spoken English is even better than Xu Lanyan's, so why not give it to Song Ying?]
[Reasonable suspicion that the production team is biased towards Xu Lanyan]
"Director, you're not deliberately showing favoritism, are you?" Zhao Qingluo asked directly.
"If Qinglu feels that the director is biased, then I can give you the role of tour guide today."
Xu Lanyan stepped forward, her expression ambiguous.
"Who, who asked you to give way..."
Zhao Qingluo became timid and disliked Xu Lanyan even more.
Knowing full well that she was clueless, he still deliberately offered to give it to her.
Forget about taking everyone to visit any museums, she doesn't even know which way the British Museum's doors face! She'd be more likely to lead everyone astray.
However.
“If Miss Xu is really willing to part with it, I can try to give everyone a tour of London.”
Gu Junting stepped forward.
Zhao Qingluo's eyes lit up immediately.
As if they had someone backing them up, they started to act arrogantly and intimidatingly.
"That's right, my brother Gu can do it too!"
"I wouldn't mind giving it a try."
Song Ying also stood up to support Zhao Qingluo.
Zhao Qingluo immediately felt more confident and put her hands on her hips.
"See? Every group can do it. Director, you tell us who to give it to!"
No one expected things to turn out this way.
Zhuo Rui was at his wits' end, secretly angry that Xu Lanyan had gotten herself into a big mess.
"How about we draw lots?" Zhao Qinglu suggested. "Drawing lots is the fairest way, and it can also prevent anyone from cheating."
"Who are you calling cheated?" Xu Lanyan retorted.
Zhao Qinglu raised her chin. "Anyway, I didn't specifically name you."
"Qingluo".
Gu Junting put his arm around Zhao Qingluo's shoulder, leading her away from Xu Lanyan and closer to Song Ying.
Then he turned his back and whispered.
"Actually, I'm not familiar with the British Museum either."
Zhao Qingluo: "? Then what you just did..."
"Shh!" Gu Junting raised a finger. "He's faking it."
Zhao Qingluo: "..."
Song Ying: "..."
Okay.
In terms of acting skills, Gu Junting is indeed quite capable.
Putting everything else aside, at least Song Ying didn't realize he was pretending to know what he didn't.
To prevent the draw from actually ending up with Zhao Qingluo or Gu Junting, Song Ying looked up at the clock in the shop.
"It's getting late. Since each group is pretty much the same, Miss Xu should go instead. If we delay any longer, we might not even be able to see all three places in a quick visit."
Having just lost face, Xu Lanyan was naturally eager to turn the tables.
Otherwise, the director wouldn't have arranged for him to do the narration.
Therefore, when she saw Song Ying and the others giving up their opportunities, she didn't have much doubt—in fact, even if she did have doubts, she would still have to keep the opportunity to explain in her own hands.
This is the best opportunity for me to show that I am no less capable than Song Ying.
It must be admitted that Xu Lanyan had indeed made sufficient preparations.
Putting everything else aside, as a tour guide leading tourists, he's quite good.
[The heiresses are truly different; she knew how to translate even the most difficult-to-pronounce exhibit names, and she could switch between Chinese and English to provide explanations. She's incredibly talented.]
But there are bilingual (Chinese and English) descriptions next to each exhibit! Even if you're going to give an exaggerated compliment, is this really necessary?
However, to be fair, Xu Lanyan's spoken English is quite standard. Look, many tourists are following her, clearly listening to her explanations.
Inside the venue, some people did indeed mistake Xu Lanyan for a professional tour guide.
Especially those who didn't hire a tour guide, they would follow the production crew around and listen in on the explanations.
Xu Lanyan's vanity was immediately satisfied.
See? She said she could crush Song Ying with her own strength.
She's nothing like Zhao Qingluo, that pretty face.
She is truly talented.
Not to mention, she had already started preparing after deciding to participate in "The Princess's Romance".
This morning, she underestimated her opponent and misjudged her, which led to her being outmaneuvered by Song Ying.
In all the remaining trips, she will use her own methods to completely crush Song Ying in her area of expertise and bring down her arrogant and overbearing head.
Thinking this way, Xu Lanyan suddenly felt even more motivated.
Suddenly, someone next to her pointed to a certain artifact and said something in a language that Xu Lanyan couldn't understand.
Judging from the other person's expression, Xu Lanyan could roughly guess that the person was asking about the artifact.
But she couldn't understand what the person meant at all.
So she introduced it again in English.
Then the person started babbling on and on, seemingly even more anxious than before.
Xu Lanyan was a little confused.
The man spoke Spanish. He said he could understand English, but didn't speak it very well. He wasn't asking Xu Lanyan to introduce the artifacts; he was pointing out errors in her presentation.
[A Spanish major said that hearing this strange pronunciation brought back nightmares of learning the rolled 'r' sound.]
[Xu Lanyan probably doesn't understand Spanish, right?]
Communication between people speaking different languages is ineffective and leads to misunderstandings and miscommunication.
Xu Lanyan was about to leave, bracing herself for the worst, and continue leading the guests to the next exhibition hall, when Song Ying suddenly spoke up.
Smooth and melodious, leisurely and crisp, it was also a language that Xu Lanyan could not understand.
But the guest who asked the question looked pleasantly surprised and then launched into a long string of sentences.
Song Ying dealt with each issue one by one in an orderly manner.
Soon, the man gave Song Ying a thumbs up and said in broken Chinese.
"Wow, the Chinese are so fat (amazing)!"
"I finally understood one sentence from that man's words!"
Zhao Qingluo let out a breath, "Sister Ying, that person was saying—Chinese people are great, right?"
"Yes."
"What language was he speaking just now? It sounded like English but not quite, and it didn't feel like French either."
"It's Spanish, a language of the Indo-European family."
"Sister Ying, you're amazing! You even speak Spanish! When did you learn it?" Zhao Qingluo exclaimed in amazement.
"I really liked a Spanish movie before, and later I stayed at the filming location for a while during a holiday. The locals spoke Spanish, so I learned a little bit. Spanish is actually not difficult. After you know English, you can learn Spanish very quickly."
"Really?" Zhao Qingluo's eyes sparkled. "Then could you teach me sometime? I really like that tune, it sounds nice!"
"sure."
[Don't believe that, honey! Spanish is really hard to learn! Especially since you haven't even learned English yet, be careful not to mix up vocabulary words or confuse masculine and feminine genders!]
She made it sound so easy, giving me the illusion that I could easily learn it too.
However, Song Ying's pronunciation is absolutely perfect! It's not just similar to the audio of my previous Spanish listening test, it's exactly the same!
[Spanish Department student reporting for duty! Just wanted to clarify that all the technical terms Song Ying used were correct!]
"By the way, Ying-jie, what exactly were you talking about with that person just now?"
Zhao Qingluo is like a curious child with a hundred thousand whys. When she is with Song Ying, she can't help but ask all sorts of questions.
Fortunately, Song Ying didn't find it annoying and even enjoyed answering her questions.
"The person just pointed out that the mummy in front of us is not from Egypt, as Miss Xu said, but from England."
"How could a mummy be from England?" Wen Yize, who was standing next to Song Ying, immediately objected when he heard Song Ying say that Xu Lanyan was wrong. "Mummy is from Egypt, that's common sense, isn't it?"
Song Ying glanced at him sideways and said, "Your common sense is quite unique, unlike that of others."
I suspect she's subtly criticizing me.
[By the way, I seem to share the same common sense as Wen Yize...aren't mummies a specialty of Egypt?]
[Since Song Ying said so, it can't be!]
In fact, Zhao Qingluo, and even Gu Junting next to her, had the same first reaction as Wen Yize.
However, because Song Ying had said that, the two frantically tried to cover up their guilt and asked Wen Yize not to interrupt and to let Song Ying continue.
"This mummy was discovered in 1984 in a peat bog in the Wooddau Marsh in England, hence the name Wooddau Man, also known as Peter Marsh, and is over two thousand years old."
"He is said to be one of the oldest citizens of Britain and was likely used as a human sacrifice. The discovery of Lindaman has opened a new chapter in the study of British swamp mummies and is of great significance to the study of mummies in Britain."
"If you don't believe me, look behind you. The information plaque for this mummy should be on the other side; this side is a blind spot for us."
Song Ying's concise explanation made everyone suddenly understand.
Upon closer inspection, the information board indeed stated the same thing.
"It turns out that mummies are not only found in Africa, where Egypt is located, but also in Europe."
Song Ying nodded and added, "In fact, China also has mummies, and archaeological discoveries have shown that the earliest mummies in China can be traced back to the western region of China between 2,600 and 4,000 years ago, much earlier than the Silk Road."
"Sister Ying, you're amazing! How do you know everything!"
"I only know a little bit by chance."
Cultural relic restoration is a sub-specialty of archaeology at Imperial Capital University. In the past, when Song Ying was on vacation and bored, she would go to Imperial Capital University to visit her father, Song Huaiyan.
He would either use his card to go to the library to read books, or chat with his father's colleagues, those academic bigwigs, uncles and elders, and even go down into tombs to do research.
The archaeology program at Imperial Capital University is the strongest in the country, and by being exposed to it from a young age, I was bound to learn something.
However, Song Ying knew in her heart that she was only at a mediocre level and was still far behind the PhDs and experts in their field.
So saying that I know a little is not being modest.
After all, her forte lies in the field of cultural relic appraisal and restoration, which her father, Song Huaiyan, specialized in.
But Xu Lanyan, who was standing nearby, heard these words and thought they meant something else entirely.
"It's all my fault, I didn't notice the sign was on the other side."
Xu Lanyan looked apologetic, then glanced at Song Ying and sighed.
“Song Ying, since you just saw it, why didn’t you remind me? It’s true that there’s a misunderstanding between us, but if it’s just our own people, it doesn’t matter if we make a mistake, we can just correct it.”
"But that was an international friend just now. Didn't you remind me? Aren't you deliberately making me lose face for China in front of foreigners?"
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