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During the summer vacation after graduating from high school, I spent some time at a relative's house in Italy, and the English penetration rate in Italy is not high, so my relatives asked my friend's daughter Bella to teach me Italian.
I learned some basic phrases and taught Bella some Chinese, and she slowly became interested in China, and one day a few years later, Bella said that she was going to study in China, and I invited her to come to Wuhan to play with me.
When I went shopping with her, she looked at the roadside vendors and asked me curiously, "Your pizza is so strange, why can you eat it directly?"
I couldn't help but laugh, and then I explained, and it dawned on Bella that she tasted it with great interest and praised the unique taste of "pizza".
I did very well in the college entrance examination that year, so I wanted to relax, my parents gave me a sum of money to play with my Italian aunt, she is in her forties, she has been working abroad for many years, and it is commendable that she likes us juniors very much, especially me.
I flew to Rome after completing the formalities, and when I met my aunt, she gave me a big hug, and my aunt said that my uncle had returned to China, and there were only two of us left in the house, and a Labrador puppy named Bubbles.
My aunt made me Italian pizza and pasta, and my aunt shrugged her shoulders and said, "I've tried my best to make it for you according to the taste of the country!"
My aunt asked me where I wanted to go, and I thought for a moment and said, "But it's a Roman holiday spot!" When I was a child, I watched Audrey Hepburn's "Princess of Rome", and I was deeply impressed by the romantic day trip of the princess on the run, and the other movie was the beautiful town of "Life is Beautiful".
I also took out my little note and said, "I'm going to the square where Princess Anne went, and the Trevi Fountain!"
After a long day's rest, my aunt said to take me to the subway to the filming point in the movie, and my heart was about to fly out along the way, just like standing in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour for the first time, imagining the scene of Hong Kong's peak filming.
I wanted to dress up nicely so that I could take pictures, but my aunt reminded me not to take too many valuables, just take some cash and a camera, and bring some change, and try to dress as simple as possible.
My aunt said helplessly: "There are a lot of thieves here, near the station, near the church, be careful, the toilets here are basically not free, 1 or 2 euros, and food, although not necessarily a tip, but there is a head fee of a few dollars!"
When I asked me what a capitation fee was, my aunt said, "If you take it out to eat, you don't have to charge it, and you need to pay more for it!"
I kept my aunt's words in mind, on the way to the subway, some of the roads were bumpy, the ground was not very clean, some of the houses were very low, and some of them looked very old.
My aunt said that many old buildings here, although they have a retro atmosphere, are not very comfortable to live in, and many places are very humid.
"You know what? It's the first time I've seen an elevator that needs to be closed manually!" said my aunt exaggeratedly, "After manually closing the door, the elevator starts, and you have to remember to close the door when you go out alone!"
It sounded like it was interesting, but my aunt said, "It's a slow pace here, some shops open at 10 o'clock, 12 o'clock, and some open at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and they close early, and they close from 3 to 7 o'clock!"
My aunt took me to the National Museum of Ancient Art, where Princess Anne stayed in the movie, and we went to the Place de la République to see the beautiful fountain.
I went to the ancient Roman Forum again, and when the male and female protagonists met, my aunt was still near the Plaza de España and bought me a very expensive ice cream.
I spent a few days here sightseeing, and I wanted to get to know the daily life of the locals more than the famous sights.
My aunt said that she had a friend whose daughter Bella was about the same age as me and had good English, so she asked her to play with her, and we hit it off at first sight, and the two girls soon began to communicate happily.
Bella saw me drinking hot water and said in surprise: "Your aunt is also Chinese, why don't you drink hot water?" I said: "Maybe she has been here for too long, if you go to China, you will find that everyone drinks hot water, because boiled water is more hygienic and friendly to the stomach!"
I ate Western food such as pasta outside, and my stomach had already protested, so my aunt made me Chinese food and asked Bella's family to eat.
But the strange thing is that Bella arrived almost an hour late, and my aunt said: "The concept of time here is not strong, it is normal to be late, even the train will be late!"
My aunt made us oily noodles and fried noodles, and everyone had a great time, and Bella said, "Your aunt cooks a lot of delicious food, and we used to eat her dishes!"
In those days, Bella used to teach me Italian, and the basics were not a problem to go out to ask for directions, and to buy things and find money, she took me to his house for olive oil noodles.
I said, "If you have a chance, you can go to China to play, and I will take you to eat delicious food!" Bella happily agreed.
When I chose to work in Wuhan after graduating from university, one day, Bella said that she was going to come to China for graduate school, and a few years ago she told me that she was learning Chinese, saying that it was too difficult, and I encouraged her.
When I heard that she was going to study in China and I said that you could come to Wuhan to play with me, Bella asked me, "Is it close to you by car from Beijing?"
I couldn't laugh or cry: "1000 kilometers, if it takes 12 hours to drive!" Bella left me a wow voice, I suggested that she could take the high-speed train, and it would be there in a few hours.
Bella followed my advice, I opened my mouth to pick her up on the high-speed train in advance, and Barra came out and said excitedly: "It's incredible, is this China? It's not at all what I imagined!"
She said that it was her first time to take the high-speed train, it was so spacious and comfortable, and the staff was very good, Bella said: "I have only eaten Chinese food before, I know that Chinese make clothes in our place, although I also learned some Chinese, but I was still surprised!"
She chattered in the car: "I thought that the streets in China were very narrow, and the people were very thin, and they didn't go in the direction until they came!"
I said, "That's because the reports you're reading aren't fair enough, so I think it's still very backward!" Barra nodded, still very excited, I ordered her a quick snack and licked her stomach, and told her to stay in the hotel and rest before going out.
Bella asked me, "Are you particularly familiar with this place?" and I said, "I'm not from Wuhan, I'm just working here!"
After Bella had a day off, I took her out for breakfast, and the first delicious meal was of course hot dry noodles, and we walked to an old shop, and when we saw that the store was full of people, Bella said, "It must look delicious!"
She watched curiously as the boss fished out the noodles, poured sesame seeds, capers, and chili oil, and then rolled them up with chopsticks and stuffed them into her mouth and chewed them in a big mouthful.
She couldn't help but say, "Why is this kind of noodle so hard?" I said, "I want this kind of chewy, it tastes delicious! I have that kind of noodle in my hometown that is very rotten and soft, and that is a different texture!"
I said, "There's so much to eat here, just wait to get fat!" I bought her siu mai, took her beef noodles at noon, and took her to the supermarket.
Looking at the dazzling array of fruits and snacks, Bella exclaimed one after another: "You are so happy!" I said: "Because we are a big place, we are rich in products, and delicious food from all over the country is transported, and the Chinese have always paid attention to eating!"
Bella said, "It's a lot like us, we both love food, but you seem to be better!" She looked at the supermarket selling all kinds of cooked food, and asked if it was delicious, and I said, "You can buy some and try it!"
I took Bella to eat soup dumplings, and she said she wanted to drink coffee, so I took her to a coffee shop on the side of the road, and Bella said, "I didn't expect that there are so many coffee shops here!"
We went to the Yellow Crane Tower, climbed the tower and overlooked the beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River, and I introduced to Bella that this is a source of inspiration for many poets, leaving a lot of poems, and it was painful to memorize them when I was in elementary school.
Bella said: "Then I will definitely learn Chinese in the future!" I nodded: "If you learn Chinese well in the future, you will be able to understand a lot of interesting Chinese history and culture!"
We had a very leisurely time, although we also did a travel guide, but basically as we wanted, I took her to make a ferry, enjoy the scenery on the shore, and luckily, we saw the finless porpoise frolicking in the distance.
Bella asked me what a finless porpoise was? I said, "There are only 1,000 animals in the world that are more precious than giant pandas!" Bella opened her mouth in surprise: "Am I so lucky? I saw them the first time I came here!"
Later, we went to East Lake, where we went boating to watch the fish, but unfortunately we missed the cherry blossom season, so we didn't go to Wuhan University.
But the most important thing in the past few years is to "eat", I took Bella to eat three fresh bean skin, paste soup powder, glutinous rice wrapped fritters, anyway, no matter what she ate, Bella ate it with relish.
I took her to the Jiqing Street Night Market, and I said that it was the location of a movie, adapted from Chi Li's novel, and the heroine was a hawker selling duck necks.
Bella said, "When I have a chance, I must see this movie and the novel!" We ate a lot of food, and finally ordered a bowl of sour plum soup to eliminate food, Bella asked, "What kind of drink is this, it is very delicious!" I said, "When you leave, I will give you one!"
At its funniest, when we went out shopping during the day, Bella pointed to a distance and said, "How strange, can you eat your pizza like that?"
I couldn't help laughing when I saw it, it turned out that it was a person eating Xinjiang baked naan, I didn't say a word and took her to a nearby store, looking at the "flatbread" on the table.
I said, "This is not pizza, this is a special delicacy in Xinjiang, with sesame seeds on top, it's delicious!" We watched the process of the Xinjiang guy sticking the dough cake in the oven and baking it.
Later, we bought two, and I only felt a milky smell in my mouth, which was very delicious, and Bella gave me a thumbs up: "It's delicious!"
Every day in China, Bala is very happy, she said that she is excited to think that she will soon come to Beijing to study, and I hope that she can have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture, so that more and more foreigners will not be misled by the media anymore.
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