741 [Godfather's Glory]
San Marino High School, USA.
This school has always 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 account for the majority. Even Chinese students who have just come to the United States and cannot speak English can communicate happily in Chinese in this high school.
Yang Caini transferred to the second grade of high school. She was not used to the school she used to. After she transferred to San Marino High School, which has a lot of Chinese, she actually made several good friends.
In the school girls' dormitory, Yang Caini was lying in the quilt, reading a Chinese novel with relish. This is "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" compiled and published by Oriental Publishing House not long ago. The book contains two stories "Seven Stars King Lu" and "The Sea of Rage Hidden Sand".
The novel was released before it was released in Hong Kong, and Yang Caini had already received a hardcover book in the United States. When she had time, she would read a few chapters.
"Hey, Cai Ni, are you reading a book again?" roommate Zhou Linghua walked in and said in fluent Mandarin.
Yang Caini didn't raise her head, continued to read the novel, and responded: "Didn't you go to the basketball court to hook up with a handsome guy?"
Zhou Linghua smiled and leaned over, lay on the edge of the bed and said, "I'm not a handsome guy, right? I made an appointment with Charlie to go to dinner and movies together in the evening, and you can go together."
Yang Caini was not interested and said, "Didn't you always want to ask him? Didn't I be a light bulb for you when I went?"
Zhou Linghua smiled and said, "You don't understand, that kid is a little fickle. I have to sway his appetite, and he will only know how to cherish it later."
"You still like him knowing that he is fickle." Yang Caini turned a blind eye.
Zhou Linghua said in a tone of course: "Because he is handsome and looks like Tom Cruise." He urged again. "It's getting late, get up quickly, change clothes and dress up."
Yang Caini got up from the bed and slowly changed her clothes. It was spring break now. At this time last year, she went back to celebrate the festival with Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao. Unfortunately, both godmothers returned to Hong Kong to settle down, so Yang Caini could only stay in the school dormitory.
The dormitory is an apartment suite, each suite has two bedrooms and one living room. Two people have a bedroom and four students live in an apartment.
My grandfather went to Taiwan. A few years ago, his family immigrated to California, USA. Yang Caini's mother is from Taiwanese and she was born in Taipei herself, so she is considered a fellow villager with Zhou Linghua. After they met, they were very close. Now they have become best friends who are as close as sisters.
As for the two roommates in the other room in 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. After they arrived at the school gate, they saw a Ford muscle car coming.
"Hi. Beauties, get in the car!" the car window lowered. A blonde shouted, whistling.
Zhou Linghua ran a few steps excitedly and asked, "Charlie, is this your car?"
The blonde boy said timidly: "Of course, it's cool!"
Yang Caini suddenly spoke out: "Charlie, you don't seem to be old enough to get your driver's license yet. Are you stealing your dad's car?"
"Uh... Cough," said the blonde boy, who was poured a basin of cold water on his head, coughing twice, "I will 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 little awkward, Zhou Linghua quickly blinked at Yang Caini, and then smiled at Charlie: "Is that so? You must drive a party at that time to celebrate your first car of your own."
Yang Caini just couldn't stand Charlie's fickleness, which made her think of her romantic godfather. Yang Caini didn't want her best friend to be ugly. After a run, she got into the car and started chatting normally.
Blonde Charlie breathed a sigh of relief. Although Yang Caini is beautiful, her mouth is equally powerful, so few warriors dare to chase her now.
After the car was on the road, I walked around two streets and picked up another boy. Paul Zhang, who was of the same grade as Yang Caini, whose 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 and could barely say something in Cantonese, but he did not recognize any Chinese characters except his own name.
"Hello Caini!" Zhang Chengyi greeted in a broken Cantonese language. 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 should speak English, your Cantonese sounds uncomfortable."
"I am learning Chinese carefully recently and can write more than fifty Chinese characters." Zhang Chengyi blushed even more when he spoke. He originally wanted to use Cantonese to narrow the distance with Yang Caini, but he did not expect that he would be ruthlessly complained to his lover.
When the blonde Charlie saw Zhang Chengyi's embarrassment in the car's rearview mirror, he immediately laughed gloatingly. He deliberately pulled Zhang Chengyi over to be the Green Leaf, and by the way, he attracted the firepower of Yang Caini, the vicious queen.
"Let's go to have a meal first," Blonde Charlie asked Zhou Linghua, "Zhou, do you have any recommendations?"
Zhou Linghua said gently: "I'm free, you decide."
The introverted Zhang Chengyi was embarrassed behind him. When he heard the conversation between the two people in front of him, he immediately said: "Eat Chinese food, I know there is a great Chinese restaurant nearby."
"Good idea." Blonde Charlie praised. There were three Chinese in the car, so it was very suitable to go for Chinese food.
More than half an hour later, four people came out of the Chinese restaurant.
Zhang Chengyi said to Zhou Linghua and Yang Caini: "You are so ladylike to eat, I only ate a little bit."
Zhou Linghua laughed and said, "It's okay, eating less and more meals is good for your health."
Yang Caini knew that Zhang Chengyi was interested in her, so she deliberately expressed her rejection through verbal runs: "The place you chose is too terrible."
"Is it bad? I think the taste is very authentic." Zhang Chengyi said in confusion.
Blonde Charlie took the lead in the cab and shouted, "Hi. Guys, I'm about to get in the car. Have you figured out what movie to watch?"
Zhang Chengyi immediately said: "Telebrity of the Ninja Turtles, I heard that the movie is very good. It will be released in two weeks. If you don't go to watch it, you will have no chance."
Yang Caini said: "I want to read "Grave Robbers' Chronicles."
"Grave Robbers' Chronicles?" Blonde Charlie thought for a few seconds before he realized, "Are you talking about the movie made by the young Chinese director Kang?"
Zhang Chengyi smiled and said, "Where is the best Hollywood blockbuster in Chinese films..." Before he finished speaking, Zhang Chengyi saw Yang Caini showing displeasure and asked slowly, "Uh, did I say the wrong thing?"
Zhou Linghua handed him a look of "You're dead" and said helplessly: "Director Kang is Cai Ni's godfather, well, probably equivalent to the godfather of the United States."
"Ahhh. That's a coincidence," said the blonde Charlie, who helped Zhang Chengyi smooth things over, whistling, "I've read Kang's report. I heard that he only took him ten years to start from scratch and became an entertainment media tycoon, with a net worth of billions of dollars. He is my idol, Yang, next time I see your godfather, remember to ask me for an autograph."
Charlie praised Kang Jianfei for his death, which made Yang Caini very happy. He smiled and said, "Of course, I can help you get a set of his signature novels."
"Really? That's great." Blonde Charlie laughed. In fact, he didn't even know what books Kang Jianfei had written.
Although Zhang Chengyi was dull, he was not stupid. At this time, he changed his words and said, "Mr. Kang's movies have always been very good. Let's go and watch "Grave Robbers' Chronicles."
It was spring break, and the most students were in the cinema, and they were paired up, which increased the sales of popcorn in the cinema.
Since "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been released for three and a half weeks and its popularity has dropped a lot. At this time, the movie with the most scenes in the theater was actually a Chinese-language film like "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles".
The theater chain is scheduling this film not because "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" has done a lot of publicity, but is adjusted based on the early box office reaction of the film.
After buying the ticket, I waited for dozens of minutes before the four high school students finally walked into the screening hall.
"Sweetheart, I heard that this Chinese-language film is so cool."
"Really? Is "Ninja Turtles" good to watch?"
"I don't know, but Jack has been recommending this movie to me after watching "Grave Robbers" a few days ago."
“Is it a horror movie?”
"Maybe it is, after all, the title of the film is related to tomb robbers."
“…”
Yang Caini listened to the discussion of the audience around her, and sat upright in her seat with a popcorn bucket in her arms, waiting for the movie to begin screening.
Except for Yang Caini, the other three people who accompanied him all had the intention of passing the time and did not expect much from this Chinese-language movie.
The first movie "The Elderly Sister of the Royal" that Kang Jianfei once sold in the United States and the first movie "Home Imperial" were too old for American boys and girls who were fifteen or sixteen years old. They were only a few years old at that time. In comparison, Kang Jianfei was more well-known among the young people in his twenties in the United States.
The opening credits of Oriental DreamWorks appeared on the big screen, three minutes later...
"Ah!" Zhou Linghua screamed, and was so scared by the bloody monster that she threw herself into Charlie's arms.
Laughing, screams and awesomeness began to appear in the screening hall in turn. Compared with East Asian audiences, "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is more exotic in the eyes of Western audiences, mysterious and uniquely attractive. The monsters and wonders that cannot even imagine in dreams have made American audiences deeply obsessed with it.
Some American fans of "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" were also excited after watching "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and proudly popularized the common sense of ghosts from the East to their friends around them.
Zhang Chengyi was dumbfounded at the big screen. He didn't expect that the Chinese could also make such a good adventure movie. The generations of family reproduction in the United States have turned him into a veritable banana man. Zhang Chengyi has no favoritism for China. To him, it was just a distant country. He didn't even know that there had been wars between Japan and China.
But when he saw the beautiful scenery of Danxia Mountain, the mysterious and dangerous mechanism of the tomb of King Lu, the gorgeous clothes on the female corpse, the antique shop full of oriental atmosphere, and the elegant words like tadpoles on the silk books of the Warring States Period, Zhang Chengyi suddenly felt an incomparable sense of intimacy, and a kind of power in his bloodline was awakening, as if ancient ancestors were calling him.
After the movie ended, the blonde Charlie exaggeratedly: "Oh, it's simply incredible. There are branches that can turn into cypresses that can turn into poisonous snakes. Is that the plant version of Medusa? The Chinese people have too rich imagination."
"That golden-wire jade garment was not imagined. It was really unearthed in China." Zhou Linghua had been growing up in Taiwan before junior high school. She still had some common sense about ancient China. "The ancient emperors wore golden-wire jade garment after their deaths, just to live forever. Unfortunately, the King of Lu in the film became a zombie."
Blonde Charlie snatched the words: "I know, Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Warriors, that is the army after the emperor's death."
Zhou Hualing held her best friend intimately and said, "Cai Ni, your godfather is really talented. The movies he made are no worse than Hollywood blockbusters."
"Of course, my godfather is the most powerful." Yang Caini's eyes were smiling in the shape of a moon bud.
Zhang Chengyi walked silently and suddenly said, "After I graduated from high school, I want to go to China to study for a university. Cai Ni, Hua Ling, do you have any good recommendations?"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Yang Caini said, "Go to Hong Kong University or National Taiwan University. As for the schools in mainland China, I don't know much about them. I heard that Tsinghua and Peking University are very good." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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