If he went directly, he would reach the town where Yin Shulan was in about a day, but going directly would be too obvious.
He planned to take a slight detour, stay somewhere else for a day, and then pass through a city near Yin’s town. Using someone else’s body, he would hide the money in a place for Yin Shulan to retrieve.
This would probably take three days, right after Yin Shulan completed her translation work.
Anyway, this period would also contribute points to the game, so it was definitely not a waste.
Thinking about it like this, experience cards were truly great items.
At noon, on the high-speed train, Xia Yu ate an ordinary boxed lunch that wasn’t very tasty and started to regret it.
He shouldn’t have eaten it so early; he should have left it for Tuo Gu Yu to eat.
At one o’clock, he logged into Yin Shulan’s account.
Yin Shulan had already arrived at the town by then.
Arriving at the chemical plant, Xia Yu waited by the roadside with the boss and his three “executives.”
At 1:45 PM, a black car pulled over, and a white man and a Chinese man got out.
The white man was middle-aged, named Victor; the Chinese man was quite young, surnamed Ye.
Victor got out of the car and smiled, speaking in Russian to Ye the interpreter: “Once again, I’m troubling you.”
Ye the interpreter also smiled: “Mr. Victor, don’t worry. We’ve worked together so many times, you know my capabilities.”
“Hahahaha,” Victor warmly patted Ye’s shoulder.
After closing the car door, Ye looked around and, upon spotting Xia Yu’s group, came over and asked: “Are you people from the chemical plant?”
The boss and his three executives could barely understand Mandarin. They enthusiastically nodded and helped Victor carry the suitcase.
Ye then looked at Xia Yu, who was using Yin Shulan’s body. Yin Shulan’s appearance was that of an ordinary rural elderly woman.
“May I ask who this is?” he asked the boss.
Xia Yu answered himself: “I’m the interpreter.”
“Interpreter?” Ye smiled. He looked at the boss. “Perhaps there was a slight misunderstanding in communication. I am Mr. Victor’s interpreter and part-time driver. You don’t need another interpreter; ordinary interpreters only create obstacles in our communication.”
Ye, wanting to prove himself, continued: “You can now talk with Mr. Victor—for example, where are our accommodations? What’s the schedule?”
The four men nodded stiffly, and the boss spoke: “GG&^^$＊(＊$$.”
Ye frowned: “Sorry, maybe because the road was steep, I have a bit of tinnitus. Could you repeat that?”
The four men understood Mandarin, after all, they also watched TV dramas and browsed the internet, but when it came to speaking Mandarin, they were completely at a loss.
What came out of the boss’s mouth was the local dialect.
“GG&^^$＊(＊$$.”
Ye took a step back.
Who am I? Where am I? Why can’t I understand what they’re saying?
He turned to Victor: “Sir, are we really in District One? Did we take a wrong turn?”
“You didn’t take a wrong turn; it’s just that these people speak their local dialects,” Xia Yu interjected in Russian.
His pronunciation was even more accurate than Ye’s.
Victor couldn’t help but look at him.
“Oh, I see,” Ye sighed in relief. It wasn’t his problem after all. He looked at the four men again and asked: “Can you speak Mandarin?”
This time, he half-guessed and half-understood the boss’s words: “Can’t.”
Clutching his fists, Ye couldn’t accept it.
Looking at Xia Yu and recalling his earlier boast that he alone would suffice, Ye’s face burned with embarrassment.
“No problem, Ye driver probably has never been to such a remote little town before?” Xia Yu responded magnanimously. In reality, however, his words were laced with sharpness.
He was only magnanimous with little girls. Since Ye had offended him just now, he naturally wanted to retaliate a bit.
These three words, “Ye driver,” pierced Ye’s pride. He wanted to explain to Xia Yu that he was a professional interpreter who only drove part-time, but recalling that he had only understood one sentence from the boss—”Can’t”—he could only accept this title with a flushed face.
He felt somewhat relieved, at least he had the identity of a driver besides being an interpreter; otherwise, wouldn’t he be completely useless?
At this time, Victor and the four men had more or less realized that Ye was completely unreliable and that only Xia Yu could serve as the interpreter.
The two sides began to communicate.
“My employer says he will arrange accommodation for you at his home,” Xia Yu translated. “The town’s hotel is small and dirty, unsuitable for habitation. He has already tidied up his small courtyard.”
“Oh, a Chinese small courtyard, I’m very curious!” Victor didn’t seem displeased.
The group first went to the boss’s courtyard. It was a standard rural courtyard with two rooms, east and west. There was even a statue of a Buddha in the hall, which delighted Victor.
People do not only feel happy when they encounter advanced things; they can also find joy in backward places.
Just like in Xia Yu’s previous life on Earth, many people liked to travel to Cambodia.
After letting Victor put down his things and take a shower, the boss took Victor around. In the evening, they arrived at the best restaurant in the town.
Seven people sat at a table, eating the dishes served.
“Mr. Victor, this is a famous pastry in our district—the white jade dumpling. Please try it,” the boss personally brought over two plates of dumplings.
One plate was placed in front of Victor, and one plate was placed in the center of the table.
This meant Victor could eat one plate alone, while the others shared the other.
After Xia Yu translated, Victor curiously picked up a dumpling: “I’ve eaten this in Afang, but this one is different from the ones in Afang.”
Of course it was different! When this plate of dumplings was served, Xia Yu couldn’t even recognize them!
White jade dumplings were famous for their appearance, aroma, and taste. Because they looked like jade and were created by a person named Yan Baiyu, they were called white jade dumplings.
But the white jade dumplings in front of Xia Yu now—did they even deserve the name?
Although he was mentally complaining, Xia Yu still picked up a dumpling. Just for daring to call itself a white jade dumpling, he had to taste it.
After just one bite, he frowned.
Undoubtedly, it was fake. The boss must have been scammed.
Victor, who also took a bite, frowned: “This dumpling completely lacks that chewy texture. It should be… should be…”
Victor couldn’t think of the exact words for a moment.
“The dough on the outside is too loose, and the flour is probably also substandard,” Xia Yu added.
“Exactly, exactly!” Victor’s eyes lit up. He continued: “And this filling…”
“This isn’t the special octopus, just ordinary octopus,” Xia Yu said again.
“Exactly, exactly!” Victor looked at Xia Yu as if he had met a kindred spirit.
He was also a foodie, and now that he had met someone who shared his interests, he couldn’t help but want to chat.
“When I was in Afang, I also ate green jade dumplings and red jade dumplings…”
The boss and the three others, listening to the conversation through Ye the driver’s translation, were stunned watching a 60- or 70-year-old village woman and a well-dressed Russian gentleman chat from white jade dumplings to the dumpling family, and then to expensive pastries, even discussing steaks and red wine.
Ye swallowed hard and asked the boss: “Who is this old lady?”
They were talking about delicacies Ye had only heard of. It was normal for Victor to have eaten them, but how could this rural old lady seem to have eaten even more than Mr. Victor?
The four men looked at each other in confusion.
They didn’t know either; they had just randomly found this old lady from a newspaper advertisement.
After the meal, although the dishes weren’t great, Victor was still very happy. It’s rare to find a kindred spirit in life. If it weren’t for the old lady’s advanced age, he would have even considered pursuing her.
The next day, Xia Yu accompanied Victor to the chemical plant to get down to business. Victor had come to use a new machine, which had shown abnormal performance in mountainous areas, so engineer Victor came to investigate.
The problem was successfully resolved within a day.
On the third day, the group climbed the nearby mountain together.
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