Chapter 96: Christmas Eve
The competition that day seemed to have nothing happened, and the days continued to pass, and Jiang Hai was also living a life of drunkenness and dreams every day. Of course, this adjective was just a sore force imposed on him by Xu Wei, Fu Yuan and others.
Jiang Hai would rather replace these four words with "boring boredom". Logically speaking, in his impression, there are many entertainments for rich people, such as bullying women, bullying women, bullying women, bullying women, etc., important things need to be said three times, and then it is not very important. Go out and pretend to be 13, go racing a car, betting a bet, drink alcohol, or go over and over the line, sucking something illegal, etc., cough, don't misunderstand, there are too many illegal things in the United States. First of all, Red Bull is illegal, and cough syrup is required to be purchased by hospital prescriptions. Ordinary people don't have to buy it in pharmacies.
In Jiang Hai, the life of rich people should be... in a car, pulling a few girls in the car, drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, and going to Las Vegas for a few days... Well, except for drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, the others are still reliable.
But unfortunately, Jiang Hai's personality destined him to be unable to do so.
His daily routine is very simple. He gets up, washes, and if it snows, he goes out to help shovel the snow. If it doesn’t, he will punch at home and have lunch. He goes down to fish by the river. But since the last time, his activity has changed again, that is, to build a basketball court, indoors!
Jiang Hai was really too bored and had nothing to do. In fact, when he was in the Ice City, he had nothing to do in winter. He stayed at home and watched anime and TV. The day passed.
But he is not the only one who is bored, so every now and then, his friends will come to him to play with.
But after I arrived in the United States, it seemed that he was the only one idle person in the whole world. There were many people in his manor, but they all had something to do. Occasionally, they were more willing to stay at home during a break. There was no way, there were no peers, and the only people who were the same age were Bell and Harriman, but Harriman was unlikely to play with him.
As for Bell, this is a crazy military enthusiast. Kough, the crazy original soldier. As long as he rests, he has to take out the guns he collected and take them all. Some people said that it is normal to deal with guns. If he doesn't manage them at any time, the gun will break. But the problem is that there are too many guns, including more than twenty, rifles, submachine guns, pistols, hunting rifles... Almost so Jiang Hai knows that he has all the guns here, and even antique guns. It will get dark after he finishes it, and he will go out to play.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Hai kept thinking that when he recruits people again, that is, when he recruits sailors and winemakers, he must not find the old man anymore, and he still needs to find a few more young people, otherwise he would be too bored.
Fortunately, if he lives alone, he will have to be crazy! As for making friends in the town, Jiang Hai said he is not very interested.
Jiang Hai is a dull and sexy person, who is the kind of person who is willing to talk, talk, and make friends with him, then he will be very happy to talk, talk, talk, and make friends with him. However, if he is asked to take the initiative to make friends with others, it will be difficult.
As for bars and other occasions, to be honest, if no one took him there, he would probably never be able to go there in his life.
Fortunately, his attention has been diverted recently, and he has moved to the construction of the basketball court.
Since Jiang Hai had the idea of building a basketball court at home, he told Robbins the next day.
Regarding Jiang Hai's idea, Robbins said that there was no problem. If you want to build a basketball court, you don't have to wait until the spring is over before starting construction. Just change a warehouse. At worst, just build a warehouse again.
Jiang Hai's manor was originally built for the trinity of animal husbandry, fishing and wine.
And these three things, no matter which one is, have separate storage space, so what wine needs is naturally the cellar.
Beef and fish require some cold storage. These cold storages can be transformed into a basketball court with a little renovation. After all, in Robbins, there is no need to build something that you play with. There is originally electricity, water, and heating here.
It only takes a small part of it to renovate, create a shower room, and then lay some wooden floors in the place where the basketball court needs to be built. It is a bit troublesome, but it is actually not troublesome.
As for the basket, it is the simplest thing. You can buy it. One basket is not two or three hundred dollars. It is also responsible for the delivery and installation. Jiang Hai just needs two venues, which is really convenient.
Jiang Hai didn't care whether he was particularly beautiful in his own independent basketball arena. At least he had a place to play basketball for him now, and the lights must be very bright before they can be completed.
Since they have decided to build it, the subsequent things will be much simpler. Although Jiang Hai doesn't know how to do it, Robbins and others are all skilled in the hands of the jeans. During the rest time, they first helped Jiang Hai build the walls and separate rooms that should be smashed, and then customized a batch of large floors and install the floors, so Jiang Hai will do it himself. As for the ceiling lights and the renovation of the inner room, Robbins and others will naturally help.
Before they knew it, another five days passed by. According to Jiang Hai's estimate, in another three or five days, his basketball court was probably going to be completed. But today, although they were resting, they did not go to the basketball court to continue working.
Because today is the "legal holiday" of the American people, Christmas Eve!
In the United States, Christmas is the same as the Spring Festival in China, and it is a day for family reunion.
On the 23rd, Jiang Hai had already given the employees a holiday, but in fact, only Bell was the only one who left the manor. There was no way. The employees in Jiang Hai Manor actually had no place to go.
Harriman has no family anymore. Burke Daller and Edward Anderson are both divorced, and their families are very distant from them, so they have no family anymore. Robbins never mentions his family's affairs, and I think he doesn't have much contact. After all, if there is a family, Jiang Hai will not be the only one who comes here, but a family will be waiting here. As for the Philipmons, they have no family, but they have children, and their children will have to come back to see them. So after Jiang Hai announced the holiday, only Bell went home to celebrate the holiday. Jiang Hai's holiday is not short, and he can wait until January 2 before coming back.
As for the others, Jiang Hai directly announced that it was divided into two waves. The Philipmon family naturally wanted their family to celebrate the festival together. Jiang Hai and the bachelors will celebrate the festival at Jiang Hai's house tonight. As for tomorrow's Christmas, we will go to his villa together. Of course, these people have to pack up when they leave.
Early this morning, the entire manor seemed very busy. Early on, Robbins and the others went to Jiang Hai's forest with Filimon. Each of them cut down a pine tree and came back. This is the Christmas tree. Mrs. Filimon had already prepared it for Christmas because no one had children in this manor, so there was no need to prepare Christmas gifts.
As for Jiang Hai after getting up, he prepared what they would eat tonight with Harriman, Burke Daller and Edward Anderson. Compared to the full set of food made by Mrs. Philipmon, Jiang Hai and the others did not have such skills.
So they could only be their best. For a moment, although the residential area was in chaos, the festive atmosphere gradually made Jiang Hai feel a hint of warmth.
Christmas Eve is a continuation of Christmas. According to legend, the origin of this festival is because of Jesus, which is believed in by Westerners.
According to legend, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born to the maid Mary by a virgin. God sent an envoy Gabriel to tell Jesus his father in a dream. Well, his nominal father, Joseph, told him not to want Mary pregnant before marriage, but to marry her, and then named the child Jesus. He knew what Jesus' nominal father thought. Anyway, he agreed, it might be because he loved this woman too much. However, when Mary was about to give birth, a young moth appeared in the ruling Roman government at that time.
They began the census and asked all the people to apply for household registration in Bethlehem. Joseph and Mary had to obey. God was too long, and it was the butcher knife of the Romans, which was closer to them.
So they arrived in Bethlehem. It was Christmas Eve when they arrived. They did not find the hotel to rush for the night, and spent the whole night in a horse stele. The first half of the night was Christmas Eve, and in the second half of the night, Jesus was born, which was Christmas.
Of course, the church is different and the birthdays are different. Catholicism is today and Orthodox Church is January 7th.
As the world's largest sect and second largest sect, the US imperial government is obviously very good at doing things. The winter vacation time is from mid-December to mid-January. No matter which sect you believe in, you can celebrate the festival during this period.
Jiang Hai is a standard atheist, uh, it should be right. Even if he believes, he will never believe in this kind of foreign religion.
In China, there are many people who celebrate this foreign festival, but basically this festival is not for Jesus’ birthday, but for the day of convention and confession. In other words, Christmas Eve is actually not safe at all.
Of course, the United States has to spend more serious time. In fact, Christmas Eve, Christmas and Carnival Nights are different every night. Christmas Eve is spent with your family, you cannot go out to play with others, and no one will go out to join this day. Christmas is spent by family relatives and friends and friends, so there can be outsiders. Carnival Nights are actually the day to go out to play. In fact, Jiang Hai didn’t know much about these before, and these were taught by Robbins.
Just as everyone was preparing to celebrate the festival in the room, the sound of the car whistle also sounded.
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Chapter completed!