Build a Garden in Your Heart
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On the train to Hue, I just raised my camera when a dark, thin old woman came up to me and asked me: "Are you Chinese?" She spoke in Chinese. She said that she guessed that I was Chinese when she saw me from a few rows away, because Vietnamese would definitely not take pictures of such an ordinary carriage. She said excitedly: "That's great. I haven't met a Chinese for a long time, and I haven't even had the chance to speak Chinese." But if she hadn't spoken, I wouldn't have been able to tell where she was from at first glance - her clothes looked similar to The old Vietnamese woman in the carriage was not much different; she asked me "how to get to Laos", and the map she carried with her had place names like "Saigon" and "Vientiane" on it, which made me mistakenly think that she was from Taiwan. Later I found out that she learned it from overseas Chinese in Ho Chi Minh City - she didn't even know that "Laos" is called "Laos" in China.
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