Contributor: Lao Zhang, the owner of the bubble tea shop (Disclaimer: This article is not my own experience, but the real experience of the contributor)
I opened a bubble tea shop next to a university in Xiamen, and it was here that I met a girl from Pakistan.
On that day, I was doing inspection work in the store, and I met a Pakistani girl who was inconvenient because of oral communication, so I helped her out. Later, we gradually became friends, and we kept in touch with her during her visit to China.
However, what I didn't expect was that when she left, she actually left a sentence that I never expected: Why are Chinese so stupid? How can Chinese make money so easily?
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I am an authentic Henan native, I was admitted to a college in Xiamen in college, and then I stayed in Xiamen to start a business and opened a bubble tea shop next to my alma mater.
Our small shop is a small shop with a national style theme, which is characterized by promoting traditional Chinese culture, and many customers are only patronizing for the unique decoration style of our store and the highly restored Chinese characteristic drinks.
In the beginning, I helped out in the store every day, taking care of the business of the store with the clerks, but then the business in the small store got better and better, and I gradually became the shopkeeper.
In addition to coming here every day for random inspections, the rest of the time is thinking about how to further expand my own industry.
It was the May Day holiday, and I thought there should be a lot of people in the store, so I ran to the store to help, hoping to help others reduce their workload.
When I entered the store, I was immediately attracted by a beautiful girl, who looked very similar to the Xinjiang people in our country, spoke English, and danced with the clerk there.
Seeing me walk up, the clerk who ordered the food was like grasping a life-saving straw and hurriedly asked me for help, and after the exchange, I learned that the little girl was from Pakistan.
I happened to see that the decoration of our store was very ancient and elegant, so I wanted to come in and drink a cup of milk tea. At first, I heard that it was a foreign friend, and then I heard that it was Pakistan, a friendly neighbor from the mainland.
I immediately asked the clerk to prepare a special drink, and when she asked me about the price, I waved my hand and told her, "It's okay, friends from afar, you can drink, this is my treat." ”
After listening to what I said, the little girl was also very moved, and after drinking it, she praised the milk tea for its deliciousness, which was the most delicious milk tea she had ever drunk.
We talked a lot, and I told her a lot about my original intention to open the store and the furnishings of the store, which revealed a strong Chinese element.
Listening to me say this, the little girl is more eager to travel in China, but because of the language problem, she is also very worried about whether she will encounter more problems in the next trip.
In order to help her solve these problems, I actively used the traditional Chinese virtue of helpfulness and offered to be her guide for this trip to China.
The little girl was very happy, I drove to the hotel where she had settled, asked her to tidy up, waited for her outside the hotel to clean up, and then took her to the snack street in Xiamen and invited her to eat Chinese snacks.
I am a hospitable person, and I take great care of my friends from afar, after all, I am a foreign friend.
It is not easy to love Chinese culture so much and come to China with great difficulty.
I introduced her to the snacks here, and the little girl was very excited to see the variety of snacks, she said that she had never seen such a bustling snack street in Pakistan.
In some areas, even a bite of food is a problem, let alone being able to eat such a delicious snack. She also told me that she had a friend who also went to college in China.
When she heard about the prosperity and beauty of China, she even thought that her friend was bragging, but now it seems that China is not only prosperous and beautiful, but even far more than her friend said.
I also told her about China's development trends in recent years, telling her about our country's subways, airplanes, and feared aircraft carriers.
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"I've heard for a long time that China is very, very powerful, and now it seems to be even more powerful than I thought," she shouted happily, looking at the group of people around her, looking at herself, and hurriedly lowered her head.
"Why do you think they're all looking at me?" I explained to her, because in the eyes of everyone, she was a friend from all over the world, and they didn't know where she was coming from, and they didn't know what she was talking about.
But everybody welcomed her and felt happy that you were coming to China, so they just looked at her.
"Really?"
"Really, the Chinese are very hospitable!" she became even happier when she heard my words, and greeted everyone who looked at her warmly.
Many people who passed by greeted her directly when they saw her, and they also smiled back and waved at her, although everyone's eyes were full of surprise, but they still respected her very much.
Some people even stepped forward and hoped to take a photo with her.
"They want to take a picture with you, is that okay?"
"Oh, of course, I want to take a picture with him too, can you help me?"
I took a serious picture of the two of them with my mobile phone, and she was full of excitement when she watched me take a clear photo.
"Is China's mobile phone so powerful? I really didn't expect him to take pictures more clearly than Apple's mobile phones. ”
"Of course, this is our country's own developed camera chip, which has been applied to many mobile phones!"
"It would be nice if one day Pakistan could be like this!"
"The relationship between China and Pakistan is that of a brother and an iron brother. We're going to help Pakistan get richer, too!" she smiled as she looked at me.
"You Chinese are so nice and kind. ”
Chatting and chatting, we walked to the door of an antique photography museum, and looked at the colorful Hanfu displayed inside, her eyes were full of golden light.
"Wow, this dress is so beautiful, is this for wedding photos?"
"No, this is our traditional Chinese costume, which is called Hanfu. Hearing me say that, she became even more interested.
"I always thought that I could only wear such beautiful clothes when I got married. After listening, he looked at it with a longing expression, "It should be expensive, right?"
"Do you want to shoot? Actually, you can try it. I'll take you to experience our traditional Chinese culture, let me ask you to shoot it!"
"Ah, how embarrassing it is, you have invited me so many things, and I have nothing to repay you!"
"Of course you have something to repay me!" I looked at him and smiled.
"What do you want to do?" Seeing her frightened expression, I helplessly lifted my forehead.
"Don't think about it, I just regard you as a good friend, and I hope that when you can return to Pakistan, you can do a good job of promoting Chinese traditional culture. ”
"I will definitely promote the traditional culture, after all, China is so beautiful, and I hope that more Pakistani people can come to China to study, and they can come to China to have a good look at this beautiful river and mountain." ”
When I entered the Hanfu shop, I picked out a costume with the most traditional Chinese characteristics and gave it to her, and invited a photographer to take pictures.
"Wow, how did this photo print so quickly, and the picture quality is also very good!"
I pointed to the stall next to me with a small electric car with printed photos, "Right there, your photos can be printed in a minute." ”
"Is it so advanced?"
"Of course, we have everything here, it's just an ordinary operation!"
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After hearing me say this, the envy in his eyes became even heavier, and looking at her beautiful appearance in Hanfu, her heart was pounding with excitement, and her face was ruddy.
"I didn't expect me to look so good in this dress!"
"This is our traditional culture, in fact, a long time ago, everyone in our country wore clothes like this!"
When I checked out at the time, when she heard that this set of shooting would cost more than 1,000 yuan, she was a little overwhelmed: "It's so expensive, I didn't expect China's consumption level to be so high." ”
After saying that, she sighed, "I really don't know how to thank you!"
"If you want to thank me, help us promote China's traditional culture, and hope that more people can understand China and support China. ”
She spent three days in China, and on the third day I dropped her off at the airport, where she took the liberty of asking me a question.
"May I ask you a question?"
I looked at her and laughed, "Say it!"
"Actually, I have never understood why the Chinese are so stupid, how can their money be so easy to earn?" I was stunned and looked at her in front of me.
"In fact, there are a lot of poor people in Pakistan, they are not willing to spend money at all, no matter what they have to do by themselves, I really envy China, China is full of rich people. ”
I laughed softly, looked at her with a look of admiration and said, "In fact, China's development is inseparable from the efforts of every Chinese people, and everyone's efforts have contributed to the prosperity of today's China." ”
"In fact, Pakistan is also a hard-working country, I believe that the cooperation between the two of us will get better and better in the future, and I also hope that you can spread the traditional Chinese culture to your country. ”
We both left our contact details and I put her on a plane to Pakistan.
Three days later, I received an email from her and found a video she had compiled recording the bits and pieces she had seen in China for the past three days.
In the end, she said with emotion: China is a perfect country, a country that no one can match, being able to be in China will be the happiest thing for a person, and I hope that our future will be as prosperous and powerful as China.
I couldn't help but cry at the end, and he expressed his gratitude to me at the end of the email, and at the same time expressed his love for China.
If I have the opportunity, I also hope to be able to come to China, and I also hope to be able to know more about traditional Chinese culture, and my videos have been loved by many Pakistani people.