Chapter 259: Free High-quality Listening Lesson
That morning, Wang Heng slept in bed until he woke up naturally, and upon getting up, he found that the states of his three roommates were a bit outrageous.
Wang Ke, Tang Hexing, Fu Hanwen—these three were all sitting properly at their desks, seriously doing problems. Although he was too far away to see the content clearly, Wang Heng didn’t need to think to guess that they were definitely doing English problems.
Ha, they were really cramming.
Wang Heng got out of bed, brushed his teeth, washed his face, put on clothes, and also sat at his desk, but he didn’t rush to review English like his roommates. He opened his computer, clicked on the betting website, and first checked the income from last night’s competition.
The group stage had already gone through more than a dozen matches, and Wang Heng had only bet on three of them so far, but the funds he had put in there had already doubled from two million RMB to over four million. The one where the defending champion Spain upset was particularly rewarding, accounting for the bulk.
He first withdrew this money, confirmed that the redemption channel was smooth and unobstructed, then opened two new accounts on this website, and divided the money into three portions to invest.
“This year’s Messi King should be very reliable at least until the finals, right?” Wang Heng muttered softly, glancing at the hamster in the cage nearby.
The hamster at this time picked up a dried earthworm, examined it for a while, hesitated and put it down, then picked up a sunflower seed.
Wang Heng used the money in the first account to bet on the Pampas team winning their next two matches outright, and Messi being the best player in both of those matches.
Then with the money in the second account, he bet on Netherlands and France advancing from the group stage. The third account bet on Germany and Baxi advancing from the group stage. These two accounts were very safe bets, wouldn’t earn much, but he couldn’t remember clearly what the outcomes were for many other teams in this World Cup, so he played it safe. There would naturally be plenty of doubling opportunities once the knockout stage arrived.
After getting all these things done, Wang Heng browsed the betting website idly and couldn’t help but start fantasizing about the happy life after the World Cup ended. Think about it, with tens of millions in funds in his account, what would be the first thing he would do?
Buy a house, buy a car, start a company?
Add investment to fof?
Look for any good investment opportunities on the market, like doing mihoyo of the three collapses?
Just as Wang Heng was indulging in his fantasies, his mobile phone ringtone suddenly rang. He answered the call and heard Ye Xun’s voice, slightly shy:
“Hey, senior, are you free tomorrow?” The young girl paused, then asked again, “We said we’d do tutoring, can I come over tomorrow?”
Wang Heng: “Tomorrow won’t work, I have to take CET-4.”
Ye Xun: “Is it the CET-4 Exam?”
Wang Heng: “Yeah, so no time tomorrow, the day after.”
“Then the afternoon after tomorrow,” at this point, Ye Xun seemed a bit curious, “How’s your English, senior? Got certainty?”
Wang Heng smiled: “It’s okay, anyway, the money’s paid, whether I have certainty or not, I have to go take the exam.”
Ye Xun: “Sounds like you’re still very humble, senior… I heard programming uses English, so your English level should be pretty good, right?”
Wang Heng: “Strictly speaking, programming doesn’t use English, but languages like C, Java, python, etc. It just borrows words from English, but the way of thinking is completely different from speaking English. So it’s very normal for a veteran coder of many years to not speak English well and only say ‘are-you-OK’ when opening their mouth.”
“I see,” Ye Xun asked again, “So senior, what part of English do you think is the hardest? Vocabulary, grammar, or listening? Oh right, is there listening in the CET-4 Exam?”
Wang Heng: “Yes, and for me, the hardest is listening. Vocabulary and grammar, I think I have no problem.”
After saying that, he only heard the young girl’s breathing.
Ye Xun on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, as if suddenly thinking of an idea, her breathing suddenly became a bit rapid. Consequently, Wang Heng also got a bit nervous.
Suddenly, the young girl spoke a string of fluent English.
After reacting for two seconds, Wang Heng understood what she meant—”Me speaking English to you over the phone, just like now, as practice, what do you think?”
Wang Heng: “OK…”
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In the year since his rebirth, the longest record for a long phone call with a girl was set.
The call with Ye Xun lasted a full two hours or more, and except for the first few minutes, the rest was almost entirely English conversation. At first, it was back and forth, with the two chatting about some common topics in life.
However, expressing in a non-native language was still too unfamiliar for Wang Heng, and after twenty minutes, he couldn’t think of anything else to say. After that, it was Ye Xun continuously narrating various trivial matters from daily life, as well as all sorts of news events and opinions in English.
From time to time, Wang Heng would interrupt her, saying he didn’t understand some word or phrase, and then Ye Xun would give an explanation…
All in all, this two-hour experience was just like a one-on-one lesson with a foreign teacher.
After wishing Wang Heng smooth success on tomorrow’s exam, the parched-throated Ye Xun finally hung up.
Wang Heng put down his mobile phone, shook his head, feeling a bit tired too.
At this time, Fu Hanwen came over: “Teacher Wang, have you started chasing blonde girls?”
Wang Heng: “I’m just learning a foreign language…”
Fu Hanwen winked: “Got it, got it, not just chasing girls, but also practicing oral English on the way, killing two birds with one stone.”
Wang Heng’s phone call volume wasn’t loud, and he had been at a certain distance from his roommates earlier, so he was very sure they hadn’t heard Ye Xun’s voice, and countered: “How did you know it was a girl I was chatting with?”
Tang Hexing on the other side suddenly said: “The tone you were speaking in just now was quite different from your usual tone with us. So gentle, you absolutely can’t say it wasn’t a girl you were chatting with, or we’d have to question your orientation.”
Wang Heng couldn’t help but frown: “Was my tone that gentle just now?”
Fu Hanwen slapped his thigh: “My god, you can’t feel it yourself!”
Wang Ke, who had been silently memorizing phrases, suddenly interjected: “I got goosebumps.”
Fu Hanwen sighed: “As expected of Teacher Wang, even if he got cut off by a younger sister, so what? Keep at it, chasing further and further.”
Wang Heng: “Okay, it was indeed a girl just now, but she’s not a foreigner either.”
Fu Hanwen raised an eyebrow: “So who is it? On a workday with free time to chat with you for so long, it shouldn’t be Sister Lu, so is it someone we’ve met?”
Wang Heng: “…Never mind, she’s a foreigner.”
The roommates grew even more curious.
Tang Hexing hurriedly asked: “From which country? What’s her name?”
Wang Heng lied without blushing: “Amiya, she comes from an island nation.”
Fu Hanwen analyzed seriously: “Island nation, speaks English, so probably British?”
Tang Hexing: “Not necessarily European, could also be New Zealand…”
Wang Heng smiled without saying a word.
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