Chapter 214 Old Friends Gathering
Xiao Peng and his group finally arrived at their destination.
Pascal got off the train excitedly: "Xiao, this is your hometown?"
Xiao Peng said: "It is and it is not."
Pascal's face was filled with black lines: "What kind of answer is that?"
Xiao Peng explained, "This is the county seat of my hometown. The administrative units below it include townships, towns, and villages. It's more than 40 kilometers away from my home!"
"Oh my god!" Pascal exclaimed, "That sounds really remote."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "I told you, I came from a small mountain village."
Deborah, however, was still excited, snapping photos with her phone. "You call this a 'countryside'? Trust me, boss, in my hometown, a place like this is called a city. A big city at that!"
Xiao Peng laughed.
Bruch asked, "Boss, since we are still so far away from your house, how are we going to get there now?"
Xiao Peng shook his phone. "Don't underestimate me, okay? I grew up here, and I have friends here. I told my friends to pick us up yesterday! Okay, Deborah, stop filming here. You're enjoying the scenery on the bridge, and the people enjoying the scenery are watching you upstairs!"
As they walked out of the train station, they heard a strange cry: "Peng Peng!"
Then he saw a young man in a sports suit running towards him!
When Xiao Peng heard the shouting, he tilted his head, looked over and laughed, then opened his arms to the person who came.
The young man in the tracksuit didn't hug him. Instead, he punched Xiao Peng in the chest. "Hey, son of a bitch, you look like you've been abroad to learn some foreign things. You want to hug me when you meet me? We're in China! That's not allowed!"
Xiao Peng laughed heartily: "That's right! When I saw you, I shouldn't have hugged you. I should have given you the middle finger and yelled, 'Get lost!'"
The two looked at each other and laughed together.
Xiao Peng introduced Pascal and the others, "Let me introduce you, this is my high school classmate Liu Baorong. You can just call him 'Rongrong'."
Although Liu Baorong didn't understand French, he still understood his own name. He said with a frown, "Rongrong, your uncle!"
Xiao Peng introduced him to Pascal and others one by one. He shook hands with Pascal and Bruch, but gave Deborah a big hug!
Xiao Peng coughed dryly twice. "Dude, isn't hugging forbidden here? Why are you rushing forward just because you see a girl?"
Liu Baorong lowered his voice and said, "Brother, I have never hugged a foreign girl before. If not now, when will I hug her?"
Xiao Peng raised his middle finger and said, "Wait until I tell your wife about this!"
Liu Baorong spread his hands: "She won't believe you."
Xiao Peng pointed at Bruch and said, "I forgot to tell you, Deborah is Bruch's girlfriend. You can do whatever you want."
"Huh?" Liu Baorong blinked and looked at Bruch. "It's okay, he won't hit me. This is the enthusiasm of the Chinese people! He will understand!"
Xiao Peng nodded: "Let me see what you will do when he hugs your wife!"
Liu Baorong looked around and said, "Um... Um... This is not the place to chat. Let's go and get in the car!"
But after hearing what he said, Pascal and others laughed.
Liu Baorong was stunned: "What are they laughing at? Do they understand Chinese?"
Xiao Peng sighed, "'That' is so similar to the English word 'nige'. I almost got into a fight with someone over it, and they just thought it was a joke."
He told Liu Baorong about the dispute he had with someone in the Church of Our Lady of the Garde in Marseille, and Liu Baorong was very amused after hearing it.
Several people arrived at the parking lot, and Liu Baorong drove a minibus to pick him up.
After getting in the car, Xiao Peng asked, "Why did you get this thing?"
Liu Baorong explained, "I'm relying on it for my livelihood! Not long after you left, our township was lifted out of poverty. Green agriculture and eco-tourism are booming. I'm now involved in the tourism industry! Haven't you seen how many foreigners there are in our county? They all come here for tourism!"
Xiao Peng suddenly understood, but he jokingly said, "I remember you scored 14 in English when you were in school. How do you communicate with them?"
Liu Baorong grinned. "I admit, I can't speak French as fluently as you, but what can I do? Let me tell you what 'technology changes humanity' means." He then pulled a black cellphone-like device from his pocket, fiddled with it, and said, "Hello, my French friends!"
As a result, the "mobile phone" automatically played the translated French.
"What the hell is this?" Xiao Peng asked in confusion. Pascal and the others were also amazed.
"A translator!" Liu Baorong said. "It translates four languages, English, French, Chinese, and Japanese, in real time. It's almost like a simultaneous interpreter. It's over two thousand yuan a piece. It's a great thing!"
"Can you translate foreign languages into Chinese?" Xiao Peng asked.
"Of course!" Liu Baorong said, "You can also expand the language pack, which is very useful! People like you who deal with foreigners all day need to be proficient in foreign languages. For those of us who occasionally deal with foreigners, a translator is enough! This thing can also expand the number of languages. The most advanced one can expand to 104 languages. Amazing!"
"Where can I buy it?" Xiao Peng's eyes widened. "If I had this thing back then, would it have been so tiring to learn French?"
Liu Baorong sighed and said, "This thing has been around for many years, but back then we were all so uneducated that we didn't even know about it. There's a counter in the Dahua Department Store in the county town that sells this thing!"
Xiao Peng patted the seat and said, "Come on, take me to buy three first! I don't want to be their translator!"
"Let's go!" Liu Baorong started the car. "Pengpeng, why did you come back so suddenly? You didn't even tell me beforehand. We haven't contacted you for half a year, Penguin. We all thought something happened to you. You came back so suddenly, didn't you get into trouble outside and come back to hide?"
Xiao Peng said helplessly, "What kind of trouble did I get into? I was working so hard to make money over there, how could I have time to chat about Penguin? Then my phone was stolen, and I forgot about it. Why, did you look for me?"
Liu Baorong nodded. "It wasn't me who looked for you. It was Lao Wu who looked for you. He's getting married and he doesn't know if you can come back, but he still had to inform you."
"Old Five is getting married? When?" Xiao Peng asked.
"There's still more than a month left." Liu Baorong said, "It's okay. I haven't told anyone about your return. It's not a pleasant thing to be hit by a red bomb when you come back. At worst, I can just say you didn't come back."
Xiao Peng's face was filled with black lines. "Fuck, who do you take me for? How could I miss such a good thing as Lao Wu's wedding? I came back to see my grandfather. After I finish my family affairs, I will call your classmates and have a good reunion with a few of us old classmates."
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