Chapter 1081 Kashmiri Milk Tea
After the car stopped at the door of the residence, Staff Officer Zheng was invited to the military headquarters by Brigadier General Abbas.
Before leaving, Staff Officer Zheng explained to Meng Chuan, "You must manage the team members well, no matter what they do, I must ask you, remember, you are in this country, you represent not only you, but the Chinese soldiers, the Chinese country, understand, if there is any problem with the team members, you will wait to be punished." ”
As the deputy team leader, it is his responsibility to manage the team members well, "Don't worry, team leader, if they dare to mess around, I will definitely clean them up." ”
When several team members heard Meng Chuan's words, they shivered directly, they couldn't forget what inhuman training they had experienced in Meng Chuan's hands last month, and in the face of Meng Chuan, they couldn't resist at all.
After Staff Officer Zheng left, a Pakistani captain officer trotted over and said to Meng Chuan in Chinese, which was not fluent in Chinese: "Major, you come with me, I will arrange accommodation for you first, and then I will show you our capital." ”
Meng Chuan was a little awkward when he heard Chinese, which was not fluent, so he replied in English, "Captain, we all know English, so you can communicate with us in English." ”
Because English is the official language of Pakistan, whether it is a government official or an army officer, English is the language that must be known, just like Mandarin in our country, you grassroots soldiers have no problem speaking with any accent, but once you become an officer, you must know Mandarin.
Some people may think, no, it turns out that our company commander's Mandarin is not very good, so he is not still a company commander.
This situation does exist, but now it is different, there are hard and fast rules, officers must use Mandarin, otherwise when giving orders, the low-level soldiers will not understand, and it will delay the big thing.
Just as the numbers that the army has been using now are unit, two, three, four, wu, lu, qi, gui, hook, and hole, instead of one, two, three, four, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
The army's requirements for language are really too high, and accurate orders are the most basic must be achieved.
When Captain Ba Guo heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, Chinese is recognized as the most difficult language in the world to learn, even if he has studied it very seriously, but it is quite difficult to communicate with people fluently.
The Chinese language is recognized as the most difficult to learn, and this is not what the captain of Pakistan thinks privately, this point is issued by the authority of UNESCO. In fact, it is true that Chinese is indeed the most difficult language in the world to learn.
However, when it came to Chinese, Meng Chuan remembered an interesting incident he encountered when he was operating with those foreign mercenaries.
Because the mercenaries on the battlefield abroad come from all over the world, sometimes there is a little language barrier when they act together.
As a result, some people do not understand the commands.
If it were an Englishman, when he could not understand the command, he would probably say, "This is literally Greek!" ”
South Africans will also say, "This is definitely Greek." ”
Latins: "+1 for Greek." ”
Portuguese: "Greek +2." ”
Poles: "Greek +3." ”
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The reason why Greek, which is often watched by people from other countries, is famous because they feel that the pronunciation of Greek is particularly similar to Chinese.
If it weren't for the fact that there were too few Chinese who were active in foreign battlefields, they would definitely say it directly, and this is definitely Chinese.
Captain Baguo immediately said in fluent English, "Our rooms here are all double rooms, please don't mind, these three rooms, please arrange them yourself, right?" ”
The double room is already very good, even when I was a graduate student at the Logistics College, it was only a four-person room, Meng Chuan thought for a while, "Two girls live in the middle room, Guo Zhi and I live on the left, Cai Chao, you live on the right." As for Staff Officer Zheng, let's leave it alone for now, someone will arrange a room for him at that time. ”
After everyone heard Meng Chuan's words, they immediately entered the room to tidy up, and ten minutes later, everyone stood at the door, and Meng Chuan said to Captain Baguo, "Captain, if it is convenient for you, then please take us out for a walk, and in addition, where can I exchange rupees?" ”
In these countries near Pakistan, the rupee is the name of the coin, but they are different, such as the Pakistani rupee, the Indian rupee, and so on.
Because Meng Chuan is in Pakistan, he directly said the rupee, which is naturally the Pakistani rupee.
Captain Pakistan pointed to the door, "There is a foreign exchange office at the door, and the renminbi is very popular with us, and it can be exchanged immediately." ”
Because Pakistan is the only place on our country's Maritime Silk Road, in addition, when we trade bilaterally, we do not need to convert through the US dollar, but directly use the RMB as the dominant currency, so the RMB is very popular in this country, even more popular than the US dollar.
Therefore, as soon as the foreign exchange office sees the RMB, it will immediately exchange it.
The economic conditions of Pakistan are not as good as those in China, so there is no need to exchange too much money, Meng Chuan told everyone about the approximate price here, that is, the Kashmir milk tea with pistachios and almonds, a cup is only about ten yuan, about one or two hundred yuan per person, which is enough for several days.
After exchanging the rupees, under the leadership of the captain, several people came to a bubble tea shop.
As soon as the owner of the bubble tea shop saw that it was a Chinese soldier, his attitude instantly improved, "May I ask what you need?" We can buy in RMB here. ”
Actually supports direct purchase of foreign exchange, this store is a little bold, but looking at the money detector, Meng Chuan understands, it turns out that he is prepared.
Since you want to use the yuan so much, Meng Chuan will spend less rupees, even if you can't spend this thing, it's not bad to keep it as a souvenir.
So he took out a red renminbi, "Seven cups of Kashmiri milk tea, two cups of sweet, five cups of salty." ”
Guo Zhi heard that there was still a sweet taste, and hurriedly said, "I also want to drink sweet." ”
Meng Chuan glanced at Guo Zhi, "Milk tea is salty and authentic, if you want to drink sweet, just bring a cup back later." ”
When Guo Zhi heard this, he immediately stopped talking, is there still such a thing as drinking milk tea? Do you have to drink salty?
In fact, the traditional milk tea in Pakistan is salty, which is a religious characteristic, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is going back hundreds of years, when you couldn't eat sugar, so you can only drink salty.
And they don't drink milk tea as a drink, but as a cook.
Because they usually eat more pasta, which is similar to naan, salted milk tea can play a role in rice, in addition, salt is an indispensable thing for the human body, far more real than sugar, so salty milk tea has become a tradition.