Chapter 451 Simultaneous Interpretation
“That’s awesome!”
Yi Chichi gave him a thumbs-up, then looked at Huahua and the others, "How are your studies going?"
"Not as good as the clay doll, but I still learned a lot!"
Compared to the Mandarin spoken by Niwawa, Huahua and the others’ Mandarin is not that good and has a distinct accent.
But, it’s better than last year.
What they said last year sounded like a foreign language to Yi Chichi, and he didn't understand anything at all.
Communication relies purely on gestures and drawings.
"The new brain really works!"
Ji Jian was stunned for a moment after hearing Yi Chichi's words, and then realized what she meant. She couldn't help laughing, "You put it very vividly. Huahua and her parents are not good at learning Mandarin."
Communication is still difficult.
Yi Chichi laughed and said, "Children have active minds, but older people's thinking is fixed, so it is really difficult for them to learn new knowledge."
Ji Jian blurted out, "It's just like I want to learn embroidery from you, but I can't learn it no matter how hard I try."
Yi Chizhi didn't want to respond, nor could he.
Ji Jian was still upset about not being able to learn embroidery, and she was afraid that if she took the job, this guy would get angry.
It's better to change the subject to be on the safe side.
"Niwa, are your father and the others home?"
“No.”
The clay boy said in a loud voice, "Everyone has gone to work. There are no adults at home. But if you want to exchange seafood, I can help you call the adults."
After exchanging glances, Yi Chichi and Ji Jian asked him to call for help.
The clay boy said "OK" and turned around and left at a swift speed.
He also reminded Huahua and the others to treat Yi Chichi and Ji Jian well.
The children didn't understand what it meant to entertain or not. As soon as the clay doll left, a group of children began to enthusiastically invite Yi Chichi and Ji Jian to see the fruits of their labor according to their own ideas.
"Sister, do you think our lychees are doing well?"
As he spoke, Tiedan's little black hand grabbed two dried lychees and stuffed them into the hands of the two people.
"Eat, it's sweet!"
Yi Chichi looked at Ji Jian and saw her nod and smile, "Okay, let's try it."
In fact, you don’t even need to taste them, these dried lychees are so well-dry.
It looks delicious at first glance.
I peeled the shell and tasted it, and it was indeed delicious.
Although the core is a bit large, it does not affect the taste of the flesh at all.
That’s right—
“Why are you still drying lychees in this season?”
"It was dried in the sun before, and it's a little damp. Take it out and let it air out."
"The purchasing station confiscated it?"
"I received it, but it's not sold out."
Tiedan sighed like a grown-up, "We're not a major lychee-producing area here. The purchasing station only takes a small portion, but doesn't want the extra. We buy from places that specialize in lychee cultivation."
This means that other places charge too much, so they charge more here.
Yi Chichi turned to Ji Jian and said, "Do you want to exchange the dried lychees?"
"want!"
Ji Jian answered without hesitation. Whether it was lychee or longan, they were not rare on the island. They were quite common fruits like bananas and plantains.
There is no telling how many there are in the wild, so there is no shortage of food.
However, she and Lao Li's hometown don't have these, so it would be nice to send some over to their relatives and friends to try.
Dried lychees and seafood do not take up much weight. It takes four or five pounds of fresh lychees to produce one pound of dried lychees. The same goes for shrimps.
Because, after Niwawa called the team leader over, Yi Chichi talked to him about quantity.
However, due to the language barrier, the captain's Mandarin was terrible and his speech gradually changed into dialect.
Yi Chichi had a headache after listening to this, and had no choice but to ask the clay doll to act as a translator.
The child was very responsible and did a great job as a simultaneous interpreter.
This made the conversation between Yi Chichi and the team leader go extremely smoothly.
In the end, she bought a total of 80 kilograms of seafood including prawns, dried abalone, hairtail, squid, shellfish, etc., 20 kilograms of which were for Ji Jian.
Next are 60 kilograms of dried fruits including dried lychees, dried mangoes, longans, etc.
Fifteen pounds belongs to Ji Jian.
The total cash cost for exchanging these things was 31.5, and the remainder was minted by the team leader.
Five industrial coupons, two two-liang brown sugar coupons, and three half-jin grain coupons.
Yi Chichi issued industrial coupons and sugar coupons, and Ji Jian issued grain coupons.
The team leader's after-sales service was great. He packed more than 100 kilograms of seafood and dried fruits into sacks according to the two people's requirements, and then helped them deliver them to the post office and send them away directly.
Nowadays, buying things is not as convenient as in later times. If anyone has the opportunity to travel far away, it is very normal to carry a lot of bags.
Those who are willing to spend money can send it through the post office, and those who are reluctant to spend money can carry it with them.
When you go to the train station, you can see people carrying luggage on their hands and with bags hanging on their bodies.
Same thing with the post office.
In addition, there are many military families here, and there are many large and small packages received and sent, but no one reported it.
Qin Hui had a few good friends, and there were probably even more military dependents and relatives and friends who left their homes to settle on the islands to engage in construction and coastal defense.
Reporting will cause public outrage.
So, the items were sent very smoothly.
After coming out of the post office, the two said goodbye to the team leader and seeing that it was still early, Yi Chichi suggested going shopping in the department store.
Ji Jian, "??? Going to the department store now?"
"It's still early, not even two o'clock."
She pointed to the time on the dial.
Ji Jian's mouth twitched, "How do we get there?"
"Take the shuttle bus."
"That'll take an hour or an hour and a half."
There are a limited number of shuttle buses at the station in Fenglin. There are only two buses coming to their side. Under normal circumstances, there is one bus every hour, and under special circumstances, there is one bus every hour and a half.
The specific time depends on the driver's mood and road conditions.
"The first one just passed two o'clock."
She sincerely suggested, "If you're talking about taking the bus, my suggestion is that we either walk there or go back to the family area and ride our bikes there."
Yi Chichi thought about it and found that both options were quite troublesome.
So I gave up the idea of going to the department store.
"Go back."
Anyway, she will go to the Friendship Store after arriving in Guangzhou, so she can just buy whatever she needs at the Friendship Store.
Ji Jian nodded and walked back with her.
"I plan to go back this Spring Festival."
"Homesick?"
"I haven't been home for a few years. I have to go back and see my parents."
"Then it's time to go back. Aren't you going to your in-laws' house?"
"Go back to my husband's house first, then go back to my parents' house."
Talking about this topic, she became a little irritable. "Actually, I'm not very happy about going back to my in-laws' house."
Yi Chizhi didn't ask why. There was only one possibility for a daughter-in-law to be unwilling to return to her parents-in-law's home: the disharmony between her and her parents-in-law.
No need to ask.
"Does Lao Li know what you're thinking?"
"I know. He asked me to save face. He doesn't ask for anything else."
Quite clear.
"Then just do as he says. It's not hard to save face."
Ji Jian laughed, "So I changed to seafood and dried fruits."
But your seafood is obviously not distributed evenly.
The bulk of it was given to my parents' home, and the remaining meager amount was sent to my husband's home.
The face-saving work was not done well.
Unless Ji Jian's family members don't show off, there will probably be trouble once her husband's family finds out.
However, she couldn't say this directly, so she could only remind him implicitly, "Old Li's thoughts and emotions still need to be taken into consideration at certain times."
(End of this chapter)
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