Residents of Japan and South Korea prefer the opposite of European preferences in terms of living conditions, and they prefer well-equipped and functional communities rather than houses with separate courtyards.

This is particularly evident in housing prices.

For the same 30 pings (about 100 square meters) house, the price of the community built by the developer is definitely much more expensive than the apartment building (fourth and fifth floors) rebuilt by ordinary people, and even two or three times more expensive. The price that Lin's mother obtained by selling her apartment ten years ago was about 1.3 billion, while it only cost 5 billion yuan (about 3.5 million pounds) to buy a residential building six times the size of the original apartment. For comparison, the penthouse suite (90 pyeong, 300 square meters) in Hanyanglin Park next door is sold for 15 billion yuan.

Therefore, it is not so much that Lin Mu spent 5 billion to buy a mansion, it is better to say that she is just renovating the old residential buildings where civilians and even poor people live, nothing more.

As an alternative to not being able to drive, Lin Yilong provided his daughters with foldable electric bicycles as a means of transportation, and then asked Xiuyan and Su Yan to visit their grandparents, and he took the other four daughters to familiarize themselves with Lin's mother first.

"Actually, if you change the architectural style here, it's the main street of India. Lin Yilong rode his bicycle and complained to the dense shops and narrow streets on both sides of the street, "Then, my feeling when I came here is that everything can become a church." ”

"Really?"

Of course, many of them are doctrines that the regular church does not agree with. Lin Yilong explained, "In the scriptures, only the savior is the only one, and the others are tyrants. Therefore, just wearing a layer of cross, naturally it will not get any recognition, but it is not legally forbidden to falsely claim the church, so it is retained. That's why the whole family goes to church on weekends, but only Dad doesn't go. ”

“......”

"Let's go to the supermarket and buy breakfast. "After showing my daughters around the nearby subway station, snack shops and other facilities, they arrived at the largest supermarket nearby. Lin Yilong told his daughters: "Otherwise, tomorrow I will only be able to eat cold seaweed rice balls for breakfast." Your dad and I once came out early in the morning from my grandmother looking for breakfast and found the opening of a fast food restaurant. ”

"But fast food restaurants are open at noon!"

"It's such a painful experience that I asked you to prepare breakfast!" Lin Yilong said, "I'm here for the next few days for Xiuyan and Su Yan to accompany you to take a good look." ”

After shopping and eating a meal of ginseng chicken soup at the place recommended by Amy, Lin Yilong took his daughters to greet Xiuyan and Su Yan.

Mr. and Mrs. Ren now live in an apartment building near the subway station, not too far from Mrs. Lin's house, and Mr. Ren works at a bank waiting to retire, but retirement seems to be in sight because the country's retirement age has been postponed.

After so-yeon and so-yeon had finished dinner, they simply helped their grandpa clean up the kitchen in imitation of their mother Amy's filial piety, when they heard that Lim Eui-ryong and the other sisters were downstairs, ready to say goodbye to their grandpa.

"No, let them come up and sit. Mr. Ren said, "We are also elders, and we always have to give a meeting gift." ”

Lin Yilong took his daughters upstairs, because considering the possibility of visiting Amy's parents' house, he bought a box of six bottles of Budweiser beer, which was regarded as a souvenir for Mr. Ren.

Although his appearance has not changed much, the years have still left traces on Mr. Ren's body, his temples have almost become mottled, and his hands and feet are not so dexterous. Although he was 10 years younger than Lin Mu, he could already feel the twilight aura he exuded.

"You're here!" Mr. Ren said.

"Yes, come and see you, sir. Lin Yilong said, "It's not bad in Hanyang Market these months?"

"That's it, nothing special. Mr. Ren replied, "Your parents are still in good health these days?"

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Mr. Ren asked Amy about her life, but he couldn't say anything else about it.

Amy took out a fixed amount of money every month to support her parents, and several times wanted Suyan So-yeon's grandparents to move to the UK. But in the end, Mr. Ren did not accept his daughter's suggestion and continued to work in the bank, but every Christmas he took the child's grandmother to London to see the three people with whom they were related.

Even though Mr. Ren hates Lin Yilong a little, he can still maintain friendship with Lin Yilong's family on the surface.

"When we come to Hanyang, we are half the hosts. Mrs. Ren said, giving Tanya and Polly two 5,000 yuan bills in their hands, "It's not a lot of money, but that's what it means." ”

The daughters looked at their father with a consultative gaze, not quite understanding these things.

The daughters have mostly inherited their mothers' language skills, such as Tanya and Natasha, whose mother tongue is Russian, supplemented by English, French and German, Polly and Selly are native English with French, Russian and Spanish, and Su-yeon and So-yeon are native Korean speakers supplemented by English, French and Russian — all of whom also speak a little broken Mandarin to a greater or lesser extent, but only to order food in restaurants and shops.

"Since it's a gift from the elders, it's not good to excuse yourself, so take it. Lin Yilong said, "Just thank you." ”

Leaving Su-yeon and So-yeon's grandmother's house, the bicycle team turned and returned to Lin's mother's house.

With the help of Lin's mother, Suyan and So-yeon began to be Korean teachers for Lin Yilong's other daughters, Tanya and they started learning the 24-syllable alphabet, and they had already learned definite clauses and complex grammar before going to bed, although they were not so quick to communicate with the locals, but they had greatly advanced to the level of ordinary foreigners studying the preparatory department for three months - thanks to the many loanwords in this language, with the vocabulary foundation of English and Chinese, they can avoid the vocabulary list that requires a lot of time to memorize.

"Anyway, why does Grandma's accent sound a little different from her sister's?" asked Polly, discovering that Lim's mother's spoken pronunciation was completely different from Suyeon's.

"Because your grandmother's previous teacher was from Gyeongsang-do. Lin Yilong said, "Gyeongsang Dao people speak very badly, not the standard tone, but your grandmother learned it from him, and Su-yeon and So-yeon learned the standard tone, but because Amy spoke with a little Jeolla accent from her ancestors, it sounds a little different." ”

"A bit like the difference between St. Petersburg and Tambov?"

"No, because the southern accent is not so bad, what better is the difference, let me think about it......"

"What is the difference between the North and South West England?" Sellie prompted.

"It should be the accent difference between North England and East London. Lin Yilong compared, "I guess if we really get together, if we talk about their respective accents, it is estimated that the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth." ”

"Understood. ”