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Chapter 799 - 429 Yan Sanfen Studies Foreign Language_1

Chapter 799: Chapter 429 Yan Sanfen Studies Foreign Language_1

Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles.

A person’s experiences largely determine their horizons.

For Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan, their trip to Hong Kong was an eye-opening journey.

No matter how prosperous Hong Kong is, just seeing it is enough. The city has its charms and the sea is magnificent, but the small town of Sancha River also holds a unique place in their hearts, the rivers around the cattle ranch don’t seem too bad either.

Having seen all they could and experienced all they could, the two finally decided to return home.

Naturally, there were gains. Miss Xu Xiaoyan bought plenty of clothes and cosmetics - just some cream for the face basically, and it wasn’t expensive.

There was also a portable music player, which Yan Fei insisted on buying for the young lady. Initially, he didn’t understand why the small tape recorder he had bought for her was a bit of a rip-off. The quality of the sound didn’t matter, as long as it could play; let’s not even mention the frequency of winding the pirate tape, there was no choice, there were far more pirate versions on the street than the genuine versions, in most people’s view, who would buy expensive ones when they could get pirated versions cheaply...

All the flaws could be ignored, but the most crucial issue, that thing used batteries like it was discarding them, if you kept listening, even a whole morning’s worth of batteries would be used up and needed to be replaced.

If you calculated it carefully, if this thing doesn’t break and is used for two years, it’s not any cheaper than buying a better-quality tape recorder.

So when Yan Fei learned that a better portable player could use one set of batteries for tens of hours, he firmly decided to buy her a new one. The young lady also bought a few boxes of authentic pop music tapes and some foreign language learning tapes with accompanying books. She feels that learning is now easy and plans to learn a few more foreign languages.

The price of these items certainly did hurt, Miss Xiaoyan originally was reluctant, but with Yan Fei promising that he would learn with her, her worries about cost were easily resolved.

As for Yan Fei, he didn’t go away empty-handed either, a lot of fruit and vegetable seeds that he’d never heard of before were spread over Vegetable Garden Island, all sneakily ’spit’ in whilst out and about.

Of course, those ’harvests’ were things others didn’t know about, and his known gains were books.

There were several cookbooks, mainly about seafood, but also other ones, including steak. Plus some popular science books, introducing marine fishes—absolutely children’s books, with illustrations.

Also, some books introduced to Yan Fei by Guo Jingya, about economics and enterprise management and two related to the catering industry. She said that these books are hard to buy in mainland China and advised him to buy and read them.

Reading more is good, so buying it is buying it, but the price of books here, like the price of those tapes, is high, not just ordinary high, it’s practically robbery. A bag full of books actually cost thousands of dollars, yet if it were in Sancha River, this amount of money would suffice to pay for several students for their entire high school life—Yan Fei, who would become a high school student after the summer holiday, reasoned it this way.

But spending a lot of money also has its advantages, the two of them took out their books and started to read on the plane—these expensive books and tapes should be used, otherwise, it wouldn’t do justice to the amount of money spent on them!

Yan Fei, resembling a serious student, was engrossed in a textbook on Japanese.

Miss Xiaoyan was puzzled, "Weren’t you the one who hated foreign languages? Why are you so diligent today?"

"People change!" Yan Fei said with an enlightened face, leaving Xu Xiaoyan both amused and exasperated. "I’ve grown so much from this trip, and I think I need to look further into the future..."

"Of course, learn a foreign language by all means! But can’t you master English first? At least you can use it when you get to high school and score a few extra points on your university entrance exam. Don’t tell me you still expect to be admitted to university again with exemptions in the future?"

"I have to learn English; Japanese is also necessary. For a genius student like me, it’s no problem to learn two languages at once. Besides, I’m not looking as far as England now, isn’t Japan closer to us?"

Xu Xiaoyan was at a loss for words, one learns a foreign language for these reasons? She recalled the nickname of this genius student - Yan Sanfen. But now was not the time to discourage him, she held back her laughter and asked, "Can you really learn this way?"

Yan Fei argued confidently, "Isn’t there Chinese annotation below? If I can’t even learn like this, what kind of foreign language would I learn?"

"Can you read it?" She looked down upon him. "You won’t even listen to the tapes, you just want to learn that way?"

"Can’t I memorize it first?" Yan Fei was exuding confidence. "Recognize it first, and then slowly learn the pronunciation. Isn’t it because I have such a good memory?"

"Forget it, you stick to your plan!" Xu Xiaoyan was speechless because of him. She replaced the cassette in the iPod. "If you want to learn, then learn well. A good memory doesn’t account for learning like this. What are you studying? You can’t even speak it, what use is it to remember? If you need to interact with foreigners in the future, you won’t be asking them to communicate with you using pen and paper, would you?"

As far as Xu Xiaoyan was concerned, Yan Fei was always open to advice. He obediently plugged the headphones into his ears, turned the book back to the first page, and began to study earnestly.

Actually, Xu Xiaoyan still had doubts, but seeing him take the initiative to study, she thought as long as he was willing to learn, it didn’t matter what he’s learning. Nor did she care why he wanted to learn Japanese. She only hoped that he could maintain his sudden interest for a little longer and not just toss everything aside after the flight.

Who would have thought, Yan Fei’s persistence this time was quite strong, Xu Xiaoyan watched him while quietly reading her book, until they were about to land, he was still sincerely flipping through the book studying.

However, Yan Fei was a bit bothered by her; he took off his earphones and asked, "Aren’t you studying anything yourself? Why are you always looking at me?"

Girls are just naturally advantaged, she didn’t need to answer his question, a side glance was enough to solve the problem: "I’m supervising you to see if you’re studying earnestly, go on!"

No more studying could be done, they were preparing to exit the plane.

After exiting the plane and getting on the bus, Yan Fei was still very serious, with headphones in and textbook in hand, even mumbling to himself under his breath. He looked every bit the scholar.

Miss Xiaoyan silently noted down the date in her heart, even remembering the time they got on the plane, prepared to idle her time observing just how long he would study.

Contrary to Miss Xiaoyan’s expectations, this time Yan Fei’s ’study endurance’ was quite high, he continued studying until they got off the bus. Especially when he met their ’welcome party’ Heizi and Old Ou, he confidently greeted the two with Japanese: "Koni kuwa..."

The two of them were dumbfounded at that moment: "Brother Fei, what are you saying?"

"You don’t understand this?" Yan Fei looked down on them. "Forget it, uneducated people like you, we have a generational gap, even if I said it, you wouldn’t understand. Let’s go!"

He hopped on his motorcycle with his wife, kicking up the dust as he sped off, leaving the two still dumbfounded on their own motorcycles!