Chapter 60: Teasing Zhao Yingying

  After washing up, Zhao Yingying started eating the breakfast her aunt had prepared for her. After finishing her meal, she opened the window of the train and let the wind blow in, causing her long hair to flutter about, instantly creating a beautiful scene inside the carriage.

  Since it would take a long time to arrive in Beijing, Zhao Yingying took out the gift her cousin gave her from her travel bag, an RBSX monaural tape recorder, and started reviewing English.

  Zhao Yingying's English level was average in her class, so her elder cousin specially asked someone to buy an expensive tape recorder for her and also got a set of 900-sentence English language teaching tapes from the Foreign Language Department of Jilin University.

  Just as Zhao Yingying was intently listening to the tape on her bed, Wang Weiye returned from outside the compartment and sat down on her bed with a smirk on his face, teasing that she was listening to bird language. This made Zhao Yingying furious again, she lifted her head, glared at Wang Weiye fiercely, and retorted: "Yes, I have a big brain, but I can understand bird language, unlike some stinky... rascals who have a big pumpkin brain, can't even understand basic bird language, and still have the nerve to come and say, really don't know how to write the word shame."

  Zhao Yingying finally had a chance to get revenge, and she did so by mocking and ridiculing Wang Weiye, calling him a "stinky fart" for a whole day.

  Wang Weiye didn't take Zhao Yingying's sarcastic words to heart. When he heard her say that he didn't understand English, he didn't even bother to refute it. Seeing Zhao Yingying pout made him think of Sima Youlan's expression when she used to scold him.

  Wang Weiye smiled slightly, then he also learned from Zhao Yingying's earlier pouting and angry expression, and said to Zhao Yingying: "Yes, my melon head can't understand bird language. But I don't know how to do it, 26 English letters, I don't recognize them, they don't recognize me either. It's not a pity for you to say that you're stupid and should grow up a bit, you can also listen to children's things. A fluent and pure English came out of Wang Weiye's mouth immediately.

  Zhao Yingying never thought that the scoundrel in her mind could speak fluent English, and even more standard than their English teacher. Unfortunately, Zhao Yingying's current level is not up to this level. So when Wang Weiye spoke a few sentences of English to her, Zhao Yingying didn't understand a single sentence.

  Although Zhao Yingying didn't understand, she knew that Wang Weiye had just spoken standard English. But Zhao Yingying didn't want to show weakness in front of Wang Weiye, so she started refuting him, saying: "Hmph, please ask the melon head, what kind of bird language did you speak earlier? Why haven't I ever heard of it? You spoke for half a day and no one understood, not even as good as the bird language my child can understand."

  "Listen, Zhao Yinying, you don't understand the English he's speaking and still argue with him. Wang Weiye said bluntly: "Silly sister, you're really stubborn, even if I gave you a mahua (a type of pastry) for free, you wouldn't exchange it. I admire you from the bottom of my heart, but also feel sorry for you. Even Confucius said, 'To know what you know and what you don't know, that's real knowledge.' Now, you're pretending to be a big shot, but you can't even understand the bird language I'm speaking. Can you say a few sentences of bird language that I can understand? I don't know which idiot gave you that tape, let me tell you, silly sister, the English words on your tape are not standard at all. If you learn from the recording, you'll really become someone who speaks a language that foreigners can't understand and Chinese people can't comprehend."

  Wang Weiye meant well, but Zhao Yingying didn't appreciate it. In her heart, she cursed: Humph, you're just a stinky rascal, whatever good words come out of your mouth are all tainted, a dog's belly can't produce ivory.

  When Zhao Yingying turned off the tape recorder, she carefully put it away. Wang Weiye started talking nonsense to Zhao Yingying again: "I'm telling you, stupid sister, that broken tape recorder of yours, you really treat it like a treasure. If you threw it on the street, I'm afraid even the trash collectors wouldn't pick it up."

  When Wang Weiye said that her tape recorder was a piece of junk, not even worth picking up from the trash. Zhao Yingying got really angry and said to Wang Weiye: "You're really shameless, are we close friends or something? What makes you call me 'silly sister'? And what's with the broken tape recorder? Do you have one to show me? Yeah, it's not like I'm going to go pick up trash for you. It's hilarious how you can talk nonsense without paying taxes. This tape recorder cost over a thousand bucks, but in your foul mouth, it becomes worthless. What a joke."

  Wang Weiye didn't care if Zhao Yingying was angry or not, he remained his usual self. When he heard that the broken tape recorder was worth over a thousand yuan, Wang Weiye burst out laughing and muttered to himself: "Haha... you idiot, I love you so much! You dare to buy something worth less than a hundred yuan for over a thousand yuan? Alright, let's do it this way. When I get back, I'll make sure you regret it. It seems like I'm going to make a fortune after all. Haha!"

  As soon as Zhao Yinying heard Wang Weiye's tone, it seemed to her that the tape recorder in her hand was something he had gotten. Moreover, the price at which he had obtained this tape recorder was less than a hundred yuan. Zhao Yinying looked at Wang Weiye with great suspicion and didn't even bother about his rudeness earlier. She took the tape recorder and handed it to Wang Weiye, asking: "You say this tape recorder is smuggled goods? What's your basis for saying that?"

  "Damn, I'll call you stupid sister from now on, and it's true that I'm not wronging you. Which store did you see this at? Tell me which store dares to buy this thing. Honestly, your broken tape recorder is a smuggled good from the other side, very cheap, the wholesale price is just tens of dollars. But it can still be used to listen to songs, if you want to use it to learn a foreign language, it's useless. How about it, stupid sister? If you have connections, I'll let my friends sell it to you at a low price and in large quantities, so you can make some small profit from it."

  Sun Yumei, who was listening on the side, was surprised when she heard Wang Weiye speak fluent English. She couldn't help but reevaluate Wang Weiye in her mind. She thought to herself: "I really didn't expect this young man, despite his smooth talk, is not simple at all. At his age, most young people can barely write their own names properly, let alone speak fluent English."

  When Wang Weiye said that the girl's tape recorder was worthless and seemed to be something he had smuggled, Sun Yumei began to suspect whether her own eyesight was a problem. She thought this young man was a good person, but his words and deeds didn't quite match up. But if you say he's a hooligan, it's not hard to see from the fluent English he spoke that this young man had very high cultural knowledge.

  As for what kind of person Wang Weiye was, it confused Sun Yuemei for a while.

  But Zhao Yingying is no longer interested in the tape recorder in her hand, she casually throws the tape recorder onto the bed and starts to resent her cousin, thinking that he has fooled her with a broken thing.

  School is about to start, and studying foreign languages as a graduate student is extremely crucial. Now hearing Wang Weiye say that this broken tape recorder can't help her at all, and may even mess up her foreign language skills.

  To learn, Zhao Yingying put down her pride as a big sister and asked: "Is there anything better than this tape recorder? I'm in urgent need of learning foreign languages now."

  Seeing Zhao Yingying's anxious look, Wang Weiye's face showed a sly smile again. He replied: "Of course there is! How can there not be? It depends on whether you want to learn quickly or slowly over the next three to five years."

  Zhao Yingying was confused by Wang Weiye's words, and she had never heard of it before. She asked curiously: "What is the rapid way? And how about the slow way?"

  Wang Weiye saw Zhao Yingying, this little white rabbit, hooked up, and he started laughing. Wang Weiye is now like a big gray wolf, seeing the cute little white rabbit, can't help but want to eat it away. Wang Weiye didn't immediately answer Zhao Yingying's question, but instead lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said calmly: "Let's start with learning foreign languages slowly. First of all, your foreign language teacher must have standard pronunciation, and you also learn standard pronunciation. Then, every night before going to sleep, you must memorize three English words, I mean writing and reading together. The next morning, don't look at any textbooks, just start writing silently and reading aloud, see how many words you can remember. After you finish writing and remembering, go outside and read the sentences loudly, don't be afraid of being laughed at..."

  Wang Weiye saw that Zhao Yingying was already mesmerized by his words, so he took a few more puffs of smoke and continued: "If you want to make quick progress, there's one way. Outside, people say that if you want to learn, you have to sleep with the master. Haha."

  In the end, Zhao Yingying was teased again by Wang Weiye. This young lady couldn't take it anymore. After being teased several times, Zhao Yingying decided that she couldn't let Wang Weiye off easily this time. Her face turned bright red as she pointed at Wang Weiye and said: "You are truly a rascal! I've never had anyone dare to say such lewd words in front of me before. When we arrive at Beijing Station, I will definitely..."

  Wang Weiye listened to this and immediately stopped Zhao Yingying with his words: "Got it, got it. I know what you're trying to say, aren't you saying that after I get off the train, you'll let your brother beat me up in a deserted place until I'm rolling on the ground looking for my teeth, right?"

  Zhao Yingying looked at Wang Weiye in surprise, but her mouth involuntarily asked: "How did you know I was going to say these words, can you predict the future?"

  Now Wang Weiye had thoroughly understood the silly girl in front of him, a flower bud that grew up in a greenhouse and had never seen the world outside, not knowing what was going on, but being a spoiled princess at home. Wang Weiye knew that those who could sit in the soft sleeper car were either high-ranking officials or young people like him, 100% of whom were children of high-ranking officials.

  "Remembering Sima Youlan's words at the time, Wang Weiye said with a bad tone: 'Damn it, does he still use his brain? When my wife and I first spoke, she said the same thing. In less than half a day, she was arranged to marry me by her father. You stinky girl dare to say this to me, you're great! Fang Zheng, after I got off the train, nothing happened, I'll go meet your brother, and I must pull out all his teeth. By the way, do you want to make a bet with me?'"

  "What are you betting on? Are you saying that all of my second brother's teeth should be pulled out?" Zhao Yingying didn't believe Wang Weiye's words, she knew exactly what kind of person her second brother was. Whoever dared to pull her second brother's teeth would be asking for death in Beijing.

  "That's right, he even pulled out all his teeth with his hands." Wang Weiye said affirmatively and repeated it again.

  Zhao Yingying knew the answer, and she was overjoyed in her heart. She asked excitedly: "Okay, I'll make a bet with you. What's the bet? If there's no benefit, I won't play along."