Rangoon, India Street.
"Hello, I'd like to find Miss Shantanu."
Just like many historic Chinese and overseas Chinese settlements around the world are called Chinatowns.
This Indian neighborhood, which is only adjacent to the Irrawaddy River on the west side of the city, had already been settled here by Indian Sikhs wearing turbans following the British during the colonial era in the 19th century.
The whole street has an Indian style.
In addition to hearing exotic ethnic songs here, you can see Indian-style lotus lanterns floating far away on the Irrawaddy River, and buy authentic Bombay hand-made curry rice and Indian flying pancakes. In addition, many gold stores have been opened.
When Gu Weijing walked into a gold store with a sign in Hindi.
The guy from Mumbai behind the counter was holding a book with a white tiger printed on the cover and reading it with gusto.
Gu Weijing recognized it as hitetir, his classmate Shantanu’s favorite extracurricular reading.
This is an eerie and dark Indian version of The Pursuit of Happyness. It tells the story of a low-caste wage earner who relies on "bloody entrepreneurial spirit" to counterattack. It is considered to be the most popular popular film in India today.
Netflix also adapted it into a TV series, which is as popular among Indians as Shanghai Tang among the Chinese community in the 1980s and 1990s.
The reason why Gu Weijing understands this book so clearly is because he was assigned to the same study group as Miss Shantanu in the English Literature Inquiry Course at school, and obtained the honorary title with this book. The book that won the Booker Award has made a special report on the theme.
Monashantanu, onashantanu, she is Gu Weijing’s classmate in a private international high school.
As you can tell by her last name, this female classmate’s family is quite wealthy.
Having been classmates and good friends with Mona for so long, Gu Weijing is still confused about India's extremely complex caste system.
It is different from the general concepts of Brahman and Kshatriya mentioned in high school textbooks.
When it comes to the breakdown of castes in India today, there are actually thousands of them.
Mona told Gu Weijing that her surname is Shantanu, which comes from the golden king in traditional Indian mythology. It has the same origin as Shantanu, the famous Indian president of Adobe, a company with a market value of 100 billion US dollars. .
This is a typical upper caste.
Just like this glittering name, Mona’s father runs a gold jewelry store in Yangon. He can earn a net income of about 100,000 US dollars a year, which is considered high anywhere in the world. good.
She is very beautiful and is Gu Weijing's good friend in school.
Yangon is relatively chaotic. Gu Weijing is not yet an adult. If he wants to sell some gold, the first thing he thinks of is this female classmate whose family owns a jewelry store.
The guy from Mumbai who is looking after the store has clearly been fully involved in the story of the wage earners’ counterattack. There are even customers who come to the store.I don’t even know the door.
Gu Weijing rapped his knuckles on the glass plate on the counter several times.
"Oh, welcome, young master."
The Mumbai boy finally came to his senses. He hurriedly hid it under the counter. When he raised his head, he found that it was not a customer or the boss checking the post. , and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at the young man opposite for a moment and recognized that he was a school friend of a young lady who had been to his home several times.
"You are here to see Miss Mona, right?"
"Can you ask your employees to stop calling me Master? This makes me feel uncomfortable."< /p>
Mona's room is a large bedroom on the second floor behind the gold shop, facing the Irrawaddy River.
When Gu Weijing walked into the house, Mona was standing in front of the drawing board on the balcony, drawing towards the Irrawaddy River outside the window.
The winter temperature in Yangon is not cold. The girl seems to have just taken a shower, with her hair wet and tied behind her head.
She was only wearing a bathrobe, and her smooth calves were exposed under the white cotton robe. The sleeves of the bathrobe were folded up at the wrists and fixed with a pink clip.
The sunshine coated her jade-like arms with gold powder. The three gold bracelets on her white wrists jingled like bells with the movement of the paintbrush on her wrists. sound.
"He is our coachman and servant, and looking after the store is just his temporary job. You are my classmate. If he doesn't call you Master, what will he call you?"
Mo Na asked in a calm tone without looking back.
The caste system in India is not just as simple as the level of social wealth, but also a strong bond of clan power.
According to some social surveys, there are still more than three million professional servants in India.
Even big cities like Mumbai and Bangalore have special low-cost maid hotels for them to stay when they follow their masters on business trips.
The intuitive translation of the caste of the boy who is looking after the store is the coachman.
He was brought by Master Shantanu from the Indian countryside to help in the shop in Myanmar. His father was the driver of Master Shantanu, and his grandfather was the driver of Master Shantanu’s father. His great-grandfather made a living by driving a horse-drawn carriage for the Shantanu family.
It can be said that the family history of this Mumbai boy over the past few hundred years is a history of service to the local rural lords Shantanu family, which is terrifyingly stable.
Gu Weijing did not reply. The figure of the girl painting in the sun was soft and delicate, but the slim curves exposed at the collar and neck of the white bathrobe made him blush a little.
"Yeah"
Mona didn't hear the answer for a long time, so she turned her head and saw Gu Weijing's shy face.
"Alas, I have never understood what you Chinese people have to be ashamed of."
The girl turned around, put down her brush, and walked out from the balcony, generously Fang De hugged Gu Wei"Welcome to my house, boy."
"I asked you to go out to watch a movie after the Chinese New Year, but you have been busy. I thought we would have to wait until school started to see each other again," she said.
Mona sat cross-legged on her big pink bed, patted the place next to her and motioned for Gu Weijing to sit down.
Gu Weijing sat next to the other party.
The fragrance of the girl's shampoo and the faint smell of bathaaabodyorks scented candles that had been burned in the room lingered in his nose, making his nose itchy.
He has known Miss Mona beside him for a long time.
Yangon is not Paris. There are actually only a few schools offering international art classes. If parents want their children to learn art, there are not many choices for parents.
When he first met Mona, he was still in elementary school.
At that time, Mona was just a little girl with a red auspicious mole between her eyebrows.
They went to the same elementary school, the same junior high school, and the same high school together.
Mona has also grown from a little girl to a big girl.
She is the most popular girl in the school. She is beautiful but not withdrawn, cheerful but not arrogant. She is not only a member of the cheerleading team in the school, but also the female president of the student union. She is considered a popular figure in the school. .
Gu Weijing has always been Gu Weijing.
He is definitely not the hateful and disgusting guy in school. He is not the kind of weirdo or idiot who has no friends and only reads books. But he is also not the tall and handsome heartthrob of the school football team. He can't Do cool break dances that will make the girls cheer at the dance.
He just immersed himself in his own painting world and painted with peace of mind.
Gu Weijing himself may not be able to tell clearly about the exact relationship between himself and Mona.
Logically speaking, a girl can invite you to her room without any scruples. No matter how you say it, this should be a very special relationship.
But Gu Weijing has been doing this all these years. When he was in elementary school, they would discuss homework together, and Mona would sometimes come to his house. Both parties acted very naturally.
If they are just friends, or the girl's male best friend,
Both parties have some affection and ambiguity in their hearts.
yboyfriend is the word Mona often calls Gu Weijing in school, and it is also the positioning of their current relationship.
This term is more ambiguous than aefriend, but far less clear and straightforward than artister.
Foreign schools are relatively open to the feelings of male and female students.
The most outrageous legend circulated in the school is that nine years ago, a fourteen-year-old senior participated in a Boy Scout summer camp to study in Europe during the summer vacation. During the camping process, his young love made a senior boy fall in love with him. The Hungarian girl in my grade is unexpectedly pregnant.
I heard that the woman took the initiative.
And it seems to be because of familyDue to religious reasons, the woman gave birth to the child and became a father at the age of fifteen.
But foreign schools are not as open as many people imagine.
Especially in the prestigious private local high schools like Gu Weijing and the others, boys who want to sneak into the girls’ dormitory, or girls who want to sneak into the boys’ dormitory, and wild mandarin ducks who mess around on campus are all Will be fired.
Although it may not be considered a scandal, things like this will affect the enrollment financial report, and the school board will not care.
In addition, the school has an encouraging attitude towards the emotions of adolescent boys and girls.
Regular sorority dances for boys and girls are also held.
This is also an old tradition in private schools. They need to learn not only knowledge, but also life.
If you can't find a boyfriend or girlfriend throughout your school years, in the eyes of foreign parents who send their children to international schools, you will be seen as an oser, and they will question the school's teaching philosophy.
In Gu Weijing’s school, the students’ definitions of opposite-sex friends are roughly divided into the following categories.
The word aedyfriend means I have a friend, he or she is male or female, that is, an ordinary friend of the opposite sex.
The word girlboyfriend has a slightly ambiguous relationship. A person can have many friends of the opposite sex.
But generally speaking, unless you have a particularly fancy way of playing, a boy or a girl can only have one boyfriend or girlfriend.
There are two ways to write this word in writing, one is boyfriend and the other is boy friend. In English culture, the former means male lover and the latter means male friend.
The next level up is artist, which means lover.
In school, if you hear someone introduce their lover as an artist, it means that they may not be just playing around, but are about to reach the point where they want to live together or talk about marriage.
Perhaps due to cultural influence, Gu Weijing felt that Miss Mona was like an erratic elf.
Sometimes he feels that the other person is very close to him, so close that he can hear the heartbeats of both parties beating together. Sometimes he feels that the other person is far away, acting distant and unpredictable.
At least when it comes to dealing with relationships between men and women, he is not as comfortable as other girls. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft