Chapter 345: Birthday Dinner (3)

Jiang Feng followed Zhang Guanghang to see how he managed to buy vegetables with gestures and broken sentences, but to his surprise, Jiang Feng discovered that Zhang Guanghang's Chinese was quite good; he even knew some uncommon vegetables and could name the colloquial terms for silk gourd and rutabaga.

Given the level of Chinese that Zhang Guanghang exhibited while shopping, it was impossible for him not to know the Chinese names for grouper, coral trout, and matsutake mushrooms.

Jiang Feng had reason to suspect that Zhang Guanghang's occasional outbursts of French were purely an excuse to call Xia Mushi "grandpa."

With a standard European face, speaking fluent Beijing dialect, every vendor, whether they recognized Zhang Guanghang or not, was enthusiastic. Thinking he was too young to pick vegetables, they volunteered to help, giving and delivering along the way, showing the warmth of the Beiping people to a foreign friend.