ABSTRACT

AMY Xiao Fang, how old are you this year? XIAO FANG I’m thirty-two years old. AMY Really? You look about twenty-five. XIAO FANG I’m flattered. How old are you? AMY I’m twenty-one years old. XIAO FANG You are really young. In that case, I should be ‘old Fang’. AMY Excuse me. Please say it slowly. XIAO FANG I should be ‘old Fang’. AMY No, no. You are ‘young Fang’. (five minutes before the train arrives at Beijing, they say goodbye) XIAO FANG I’m so pleased that I’ve got to know you, Amy. AMY Me too, Xiao Fang. XIAO FANG Goodbye, Amy. AMY Bye, Xiao Fang.