Chapter 141: Ao Mountain and Cave Mountain
Watson's biggest fear is that the other party misunderstands his identity and sends him to the police station, which is too humiliating for a professor.
As soon as he saw that the other party understood the purpose of his trip, he felt that it was best to seize the opportunity to find out the address on the list, otherwise where would he go to find someone who knew English to ask if he missed this opportunity? Watson immediately asked, "I wonder if you know where the addresses on this are located?"
Mr. Liu didn't understand much else, only the English word "address", and he figured out the meaning of the word and figured out Watson's intentions.
In order to answer Watson's question, Mr. Liu could only look at the list with a hard head. Fortunately, the address information on the list is all spelled in pinyin, which is the so-called transliteration, which is relatively simple.
Teacher Liu whispered pinyin while watching, and quickly figured out where the first three addresses were. When he spelled out the last address, the whole person was suddenly stunned.
The information of the provinces and cities on the fourth address has been wet with water, so blurred that it is impossible to make out at all, and only a small part of the pinyin is still relatively clear. Teacher Liu was stunned for a moment and couldn't help muttering: "Is aoshan referring to Aoshan Town? No wonder foreign guests come all the way to our Qingjiang, and their feelings are to go to Aoshan Town." ”
Section Chief Xu, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but ask, "Teacher Liu, where is Aoshan? How come I have never heard of such a place in our Qingjiang?"
"Aoshan is in the direction of Jiashan County - now it has been renamed Yuyang County, there are mountains, the place is very remote, I didn't know there was such a place before, it happened that I had a very good student when I was teaching in the county last year, she happened to be from Aoshan Town, so I only knew about this place. ”
Section Chief Xu sighed: "I see, in such a remote place, what are foreign guests going to investigate?"
Teacher Liu didn't know this question, he had already shown that he understood it very well just now, and now it was obviously inappropriate to say that he didn't know very well. In order to avoid revealing the stuffing, Mr. Liu simply pretended not to hear it, and explained to Watson instead: "I know these addresses, especially the last one, which is near us. ”
In fact, the town of Aoshan is dozens of kilometers away from the hostel, which is not close at all, but compared to the previous places, it is indeed very close. The first few places are in other provinces, and the nearest ones are thousands of kilometers away, and the farthest is more than 3,000 kilometers.
Watson didn't expect that he had actually come to the right place by mistake. He couldn't help but be overjoyed, thanked Mr. Liu again and again, and then went on to ask about the specific location of Aoshan Town.
Mr. Liu took a lot of effort to point out the direction, and also specially explained that there are many mountains on the side of Aoshan Town, and the road is not so easy to walk, so he suggested that Watson take a boat to go there.
Watson thanked him again, and then suggested that he needed something to eat and a place to rest.
Since the English words involved were not very obscure, Mr. Liu quickly understood Watson's meaning and helped translate it.
Section Chief Xu was naturally indispensable, and immediately ordered the staff to cook food for Watson. After eating and drinking, he arranged a room with the best conditions for Watson.
Watson first took a comfortable shower, and then lay down on the bed completely relaxed.
Before going to bed, he was still secretly glad: It's good that I'm in the right place, otherwise it would be really difficult to continue to wander around.
The language barrier is the biggest obstacle, and Watson secretly made up his mind that he must find time to learn Chinese after returning to China, so that he will not have to worry about anything when he comes back to China in the future.
"Well, I'll go to Aoshan tomorrow to see if that student is really as good as the application says. ”
Watson didn't know that he had gotten it wrong, and in fact the aoshan on the list was not referring to Aoshan, but to Aoshan, which was more than 2,000 kilometers away. This can't be blamed on Mr. Liu, the main thing is that there are no tone marks when transliterating, and no matter who translates it, this kind of problem is easy to occur.
After Watson fell asleep, Section Chief Xu originally wanted to report the reception of foreign guests to his superiors. But now that he has left work, he has made several calls one after another, and no one has answered the leader's side.
Section Chief Xu had no choice but to give up: "It's better to report tomorrow morning, anyway, the foreign guests won't run away, and a delay of one night is not a big deal." ”
What Section Chief Xu didn't know was that due to Watson's unauthorized actions, the relevant departments had already made a fuss. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suddenly disappeared after coming to China, and this is still the case?
The relevant departments issued an urgent notice within an hour of Watson's departure, asking various units to help find people.
In their opinion, Watson's goal is too obvious, as long as he is a foreigner who comes to China these years, it is impossible not to attract attention wherever he goes, as long as he sends a notice, he will definitely be able to find Professor Watson quickly.
As a result, three days and two nights passed, not to mention finding anyone, not even a single person who saw Watson, so the situation became more and more serious. Some people even wonder if Watson had an accident, and if so, the consequences would be terrible.
To put it mildly, once Watson really encounters an accident, the relevant departments will definitely be severely punished, and a large number of people will be unlucky.
There is no way, the name of MIT is too loud, and even the identity of Watson has become very dazzling, if something happens to such a foreign guest, it is impossible to suppress the news.
No one thought that Watson had left the capital by train, for a simple reason: how could a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do such a ridiculous and dangerous thing?
At the beginning, the notice was only issued in the capital, but as time passed, the scope of the notice gradually expanded to the adjacent areas of the capital, and as for Qingjiang, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the capital, he did not receive the notice at all, otherwise I was afraid that the news about Watson would have been fed back long ago.
Early the next morning, Section Chief Xu got up early and rushed to the leader's office to report the situation. The reason why he is so positive is mainly because he feels that he has done a great thing, and he will definitely be commended by his superiors, which will be very helpful for his future development.
may be too anxious to earn performance, Section Chief Xu did not explain to the staff of the guest house to be optimistic about Watson. He was still on his way to the leader's office when Watson got up.
After washing, Watson finished breakfast at the guest house, and then he took out the renminbi he had exchanged for dollars when he entered the country and handed it to the waiter. There was no need for a translator this time, and the waiter immediately understood what Watson meant.