Chapter 2 Emily on
For the upcoming summer vacation, Chu Zhongtian did not plan to go home, so he chose to stay here to work and make money. This would save money on air tickets. From London to Chengdu, round-trip air tickets plus taxes are at least 7,000 yuan. For ordinary working families, this is not a small amount that goes by in a blink of an eye.
Moreover, the summer vacation is not within the limit of working hours for 20 hours a week, so he can make money while he is doing well in these three months.
The Duns Bar where he works opens at 11:30 in the morning, and before that, he had to rush to the bar to prepare for the door. At 3:00 in the afternoon, the bar temporarily closed. After finishing his work, Chu Zhongtian went to the "Mac China" Chinese fast food restaurant to collect orders and then ran to distribute it. At 5:00 in the afternoon, he returned to the Duns Bar to prepare for the opening at 5:30. Then he would stay busy until the bar closed at 11:00 in the evening, and spent another twenty minutes, while cleaning, waiting for the drinkers to drink all the remaining wine in the glass and send the reluctant drinkers out, so that they could close the door.
When he returned to the apartment he rented, it was already past twelve o'clock in the evening. Yang Yang, a fellow villager who shared the rent with him, had already rested. Yang Yang was a good student with regular schedules. In addition to solving problems for Chinese students, his time was basically spent on study. He did not need to go out to work, because his family conditions were many times better than Chu Zhongtian. After the holiday, as soon as Yang Yang returned to China, he was the only one left in the apartment.
Wash all the glasses, wipe them clean with a soft cloth, and place them in the sun to see carefully to make sure there is no dirt on them. Then he took down the wooden chairs piled on the table one by one and placed them next to the table. The high stools in front of the bar were all placed according to business hours. When he finished doing this, the boss Colin John moved his fat body down from the upper floor.
"Good morning, Chu...he——"
Boss John yawned.
"Good morning, boss. You haven't had a good sleep. Look at you like this..." Chu Zhongtian greeted in English.
"Oh..." As soon as he said this, Boss John's brow frowned, and he sat down on a high stool. "When I think of Wimbledon's fate, how could I sleep well? Can you understand, Chu?" He glanced at Chu Zhongtian who was preparing for opening a store.
"I can understand, boss." He is not comforting the boss, it is indeed the case. When he thinks of Quanxing, Sichuan, many Sichuan fans nowadays probably have their eyes moist. So he is particularly able to understand the psychological feelings of Wimbledon fans.
But the boss obviously took Chu Zhongtian's words as a kind of comfort. He just smiled bitterly and sat on the stool and stared blankly.
Chu Zhongtian ignored him, the sentimental boss, walked straight to the bar gate, and flipped the sign hanging on the door handle from "close" to "open". The time was no shortage, and the minute hand of the wall clock on the wall just pointed to "6".
This is a small bar. Apart from the boss, Chu Zhongtian is the only one who hires. He is hardworking and capable, so the boss has no intention of hiring someone again. After all, hiring one more person requires paying another person's salary, so the capitalist will naturally save costs.
A busy day starts from this time.
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Emily stood at the door of McChina's store, and she looked inside through the bright glass window. The waiters in uniform clothes were busy, and there were already a table of guests in the store eating. There were many people with black hair and yellow skin, but she did not find the face she had seen yesterday.
She took out the order in her hand and confirmed it again. It was indeed this Chinese fast food restaurant. In fact, "Mac China" is quite famous in Wimbledon. Because just last year, this fast food restaurant had a lawsuit with McDonald's. McDonald's believes that the first two letters of McDonald's infringement will mislead consumers and make them think that this Chinese fast food restaurant has something to do with McDonald's, a globally renowned chain of fast food giants.
The boss of McChina explained that he used the mc prefix to refer to "Son of So-and-Some", just like the prefix that the Scottish name has.
As a result, the British High Court accepted his explanation, believing that the prefix of mc would not cause misunderstandings and had no intention of deceiving. On the contrary, the High Court believed that McDonald's tried to greedily monopolize all words related to the prefixes of the English word Mac and mc, which violated the law. Chinese immigrant Mr. Frank Yuan should be allowed to establish a fast food restaurant named after "mcchina" (McChina) and sell fast food foods other than hamburgers, pizza and KFC fried chicken.
That lawsuit pushed the fast food restaurant, which was already very prosperous, to a peak in popularity. Now Mike China's first chain has opened in downtown London, and interestingly, there is a McDonald's diagonally across from them...
Emily stood at the door and hesitated for a while, then was targeted by the enthusiastic clerk in the store.
"Welcome!" he shouted in English with a strong accent, "What help do you need, Miss?"
He wanted to ask Emily if she wanted to order something. But Emily nodded: "Yes, I need help! Do you have a boy called 'Chu Chongdian' here? He is about five feet and ten inches..." Emily gestured, trying to make it clearer as much as possible.
However, the Chinese waiter still didn't know who she was talking about. He had to drag another colleague over. The man understood as soon as he heard it: "Oh, is he looking for Chu Zhongtian?"
Emily nodded.
"He's not here with us."
"But I saw him sending this..." Emily showed the order in her hand to the other party.
The other party did not answer, but just nodded: "He is only responsible for dispatching orders. At other times, he worked in another bar."
"Do you know which bar it is?" Emily asked politely.
The other party frowned and thought for a while, then said to Emily: "I vaguely heard him mention it...it seems to be called Dance Dance Bar."
When Emily heard this name, her eyes lit up suddenly. She smiled on her face, thanked the two enthusiastic Chinese waiters and said goodbye.
Looking at Emily's convex and convex back, two Chinese waiters gathered together and smiled: "Chu Zhongtian is amazing. He has only been in the UK for less than a year and has been to the UK girl. Good_job (good job)!"
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Emily stood at the door of the Duns Bar, looking at the carved doors and windows, iron railings, and large glass windows with frays. Looking in from the door, you can also see thick oak tables and chairs, dark brown, painted bars, and rows of shiny cups.
All of this made her familiar and missed. Of course, the most familiar one was the sign hanging above the door, which read "dons_pub". This is the "Dangs Bar" in the Chinese waiter's mouth, but it is actually "Dons Bar".
She had spent five years here.
Today is Saturday, and it is the best day for the bar business. But it has just opened now, so there are not many people in the bar. Emily walked in and walked straight to the bar counter. At the door, she had seen the yellow-skinned face. She was sure that the Chinese boy in front of her was the "Chu Zhongtian" mentioned by Yang Yang.
"What do you want?" Chu Zhongtian asked habitually when he saw a guest coming.
"Pinto Guinness (Guinness) dark beer, thank you." Emily finished ordering beer skillfully, sat on the high stool in front of the bar, watching Chu Zhongtian pouring wine with interest.
He put the glass with the Guinness harp logo under the wine faucet, tilted the wine faucet, then turned on the wine faucet, and the foam poured down, just hitting the harp sign. When the wine reaches the harp sign, turn off the faucet, hold the cup up and put it aside.
At this time, another customer had already come to buy wine on the side. What he wanted was a very ordinary light beer, and Chu Zhongtian skillfully prepared it for him and handed it to him.
After finishing this, he turned around and picked up the cup again, waited for a while, then put it under the wine faucet, and turned the wine faucet into smaller sizes. At this time, all the wine foam came out. Let the foam flow continuously, just a little higher than the mouth of the cup, and it seemed to flow outside along the wall of the cup at any time.
After doing all this, he put the quilt on the table: "Your Guinness."
Emily placed four coins worth one pound on the table, then picked up the huge cup and poured half a cup in one breath. After drinking the cold alcohol, she couldn't help but let out a comfortable moan, and then wiped the foam on her mouth. Not only did the decoration and the name of the bar not change, but the taste of the beer did not change.
She didn't rush to drink the next half cup, but just gently touched the cold cup wall with one hand and made a pillow with the other hand, pillowing her chin. She just lay on the bar and watched Chu Zhongtian smile.
Chu Zhongtian felt a little embarrassed by her. Although the other party was a beauty, he didn't know him. A strange beauty stared at him and laughed after drinking. His first reaction was that this woman was drunk. If this woman wanted to have a fight with him after getting drunk, would she refuse or would she say it in the future? But then again, this woman is really beautiful... with golden hair, tall and straight nose, smooth forehead, no flaws on her fair skin, and there were no freckles and other things that are common to Western girls. But the most attractive thing is her wet red lips and lake blue eyes, with moist red lips slightly open, as if it was tempting to commit crimes, but the blue eyes of the lake seemed to reflect the lake surface in the sky, pure and flawless.
Just as Chu Zhongtian was watching Emily, a voice sounded from the other side.
"Ahhh! Look at who this is? Our princess - Emily is back!"
A man suddenly stood up in front of a table diagonally opposite, held a wine glass and spread his arms, and walked towards the bar. Chu Zhongtian knew this man. Albert Bent, an old customer who often came here, was a retired old man. He came here to have a pint of stout beer, and then talked to his old neighbors, and was also a Wimbledon fan. His voice attracted the attention of other drinkers in the bar, and they only noticed a slim figure lying in front of the bar.
So they all became amazed.
"Is it really Emily?"
"Princess Duns!"
"Ha, good afternoon, Emily!"
"Is the sun really coming out from the west today? Or am I dazzled? I actually saw Princess Emily!"
The person who heard the sound was Emily Stan. She stood up and saw the person walking towards her. A bright smile suddenly appeared on her face.
"Mr. Bente, you are older than the last time I saw you." She said with a smile.
"Well... the last time you saw me was three years ago, how can you not grow old?" Old Man Bent sat down next to Emily. More people rushed over and greeted Emily. Emily returned the gifts one by one and called out their names.
Chu Zhongtian naturally knew these people, but what surprised him was that if the strange woman in front of him could recognize everyone present, why would he have no impression of him? He worked here for almost a year, and with his good memory and seriousness, he had already recognized every regular customer here. The only person in front of him was not.
Looking at Chu Zhongtian's somewhat puzzled look, Bente next to him patted his shoulder: "This is our 'Princess Duns' Emily Stan. She moved three years ago, and this was her second home before."
Mr. Bente was introducing Emily to Chu Zhongtian, while Emily was smiling at Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect that the blonde beauty in front of him would have such a reputation. He took a look at him again and found that the other party was also looking at him. He quickly wrote again and moved his eyes away embarrassedly.
"I heard that our princess is here!" The fat boss Colin John's loud voice rang out around the crowd, and then Chu Zhongtian saw the boss squeeze in with great effort and then gave Emily a warm hug. "I haven't seen each other for a few years, and I'm even more beautiful..."
Emily, who was held in her arms by the fat John boss, smiled and said, "You are fatter than before, Uncle John. I can't even hug you."
"Why are you thinking about coming to me? After you left for three years, I thought you forgot us." The boss's words were echoed by many people, and everyone started to cheer.
Emily didn't explain, so she raised the wine glass in her hand and said generously: "Then I'll treat you to a drink!"
"Okay!!" Everyone agreed. It would be a good thing if someone invited him to drink, not to mention that the person who invited him was their princess. How could he not agree?
Boss John smiled so much that his facial features were almost crowded, like the Goubuli bun in Tianjin. "Emily, you really know how to settle the score. If you drink with me, can I ask you to pay for it?"
Emily sticks out her tongue mischievously
So Boss John waved to Chu Zhongtian: "Give each person a pint of stout beer, and make my account."
Chu Zhongtian is busy.
Emily sat on a barrestle and chatted with everyone.
"Have you read yesterday's news, Emily?" asked Mr. Bent.
Emily nodded, with a smile on her face. Everyone who had just been happy because of her arrival couldn't laugh anymore, and the bar became quiet for a while.
"The FA decided to hold a three-person meeting, which means that Winkelman is not far from success..." Boss John sighed next to him. "I started to like Wimbledon since I was ten years old, but I didn't expect that when I was sixty years old, I would lose her..."
"Can we raise funds to buy a club?" someone asked suddenly.
Everyone turned their heads to look at him, and he seemed to feel that he had said something wrong, so he scratched his head and sat down.
Emily, who had been listening, suddenly said: "We don't have the money to buy Wimbledon, we can set up a Wimbledon ourselves."
This sentence made her the focus of attention of the audience. Even Chu Zhongtian, who had been busy pouring wine for the drinkers, couldn't help but give a glance.
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PS, hahaha, we are now very close to the second place in the new book list! No one wants to see other people’s ju flowers when they look up, right? So everyone work harder and make a big splash!
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In addition, there is actually a small easter egg about the protagonist's name, but I didn't expect it to be guessed on the first day of uploading... I was so failed.
Well, the little easter egg with this name is like this:
A primary school teacher gave the test paper and shouted a lot, "Lin Danda, Lin Danda". No children came to get the test paper. In the end, the teacher asked: "Which child has not received the test paper yet, please come in front."
I saw a little boy walking to the teacher with aggrievedness: "Teacher, my name is not Lin Danda, my name is Chu Zhongtian."
Everyone write "Chu Zhongtian" vertically, separate the "Chu" from top to bottom, and then write "Zhong" small dots next to the lower half of "Chu", and write "Tian" up and down, so that the "Yi" on the head of "Tian" is next to "Zhong" to see what its name is?
Therefore, our protagonist Chu Zhongtian’s nickname is “Lin Danda”!
ps2, there is another update at 6 pm, so stay tuned~~~!
Chapter completed!