(Min Jing breaks Jack's inner thoughts)
Min Jing: Come on, grandma is calling you inside the house.
Jack: Oh, I am coming.
Jing's grandma: tell him to come in la, he must have food after what Chen did, Haiya, still don't know why he did it.
(Jing's grandpa talking in Mandarin Chinese with Chen's grandpa)
Jing's Grandpa: 更正确地教导你的孙子，他说服了他的朋友购买了鬼屋。( Teach your grandson more properly lah he convinced his friend into buying the haunted house.)
Chen's grandpa: 他做了什么！！( He did what!!)
Jing's grandpa: 是的，他这么做了。(Yes he did that.)
Chen's grandpa: 我过来狠狠地骂了他一顿，可怜的美国男孩在这期间必须受苦。(I coming over to give him a huge scolding poor american boy has to suffer in between.)
Min Jing:你完蛋了( your screwed)
Hao Chen:我知道(I know)
Jack: Why did your grandma give me so much food?
Min Jing: They are showing kindness, in return for the rude act of Chen as he tried make you buy the house.
(Chen's grandparents arrive)
Chen's grandpa:你去美国读书了怎么能这样呢，你个傻瓜，我夸我孙子是村里最聪明最有钱的，还立了个牌子，上面写着"村里首富爷爷奶奶家"，这是多么羞辱我们，我打电话给你，告诉你这是多么愚蠢的工作，他们养了一个孩子，我告诉他们只给你吃中国菜和健康食品，但他们想融入文化，并让愚蠢的通心粉和奶酪不足为奇你的结局太愚蠢了。(How could you do that even after going and studying in america, you dumb, I used praise that my grandson, smartest and richest of the village, I even made a sign saying" House of the Richest man's grandparents in the village" and this is how dishonour us, I am calling your and telling what a stupid job, they did raising a kid, I told them to only feed you chinese and healthy food but they wanted to assimilate in the culture, and made that stupid Mac and Cheese no wonder you ended so dumb.)
Chen's grandma:确实如此啊，马上给他父母打电话，可是等等，那个男孩在哪里，我买了一些扁肉（武夷山馄饨）希望他能原谅我们，但他可能不能原谅我们，因为你妈妈结婚了。一个在美国工作的人，温度和食物一定弄乱了他的大脑，或者他父亲那边的那些愚蠢的基因一定让他变得愚蠢(that true lah, call his parents right away, but wait where is that boy, I bought some Bianrou(Wuyishan wonton) hoping that he would forgive us, but he possibly can't for such a grave crime, this happened because your mom married a man with a job in america, the temperarature and food must have messed with his brain, or those stupid genes from his father's side must have made him dumb.)
Jack: Why are they all screaming at Chen?
Min Jing: Well, they are scolding him cause he was the one who convinced you into buying the house>
Jack: Oh, wait what is that in your hands?
Min Jing: These are Bianrou or Wuyishan wontons>
Jack: They are giving me so much I can't finish it.
Min Jing: You have to, eat the food cause you have jobs like cleaning the house to appease the ghost and then we have to give offerings, then if the ghost is pleased then it will appear before us and tell us its problem, and ask us to solve it, if we don't the person who has bought the house or is about to buy the house will die, so eat more you won't have time.
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Echoes of The Tea Hills
AdventureJack Curtman, a hardworking employee in company in Texas, takes a break to tour a tea plantation on the hills of Southern China and finds the ideal vacation house while on his trip, but he does not know one thing. The house is haunted by 19th Centur...
