Before meeting the "friends" of the Farmers' Club, Mr. Fisk would take her wife and Katie Lin to hold a small party "between the two families" – rather a year-end party for a few Durham University alumni.

Forget to mention that the year-end party took place at the Oval Stadium in Kensington – these Durhams somehow loved cricket.

Mr. Lin didn't know anything about the rules of cricket, and he knew a little bit about baseball — terms like running bases, touches or strikeouts — because he grew up watching Touch. In Lin Yilong's impression, cricket is an aristocratic sport, which is purer than the "aristocratic blood" of tennis.

The cricket game was relaxed and inviting, and there were even salmon snacks and champagne at the box table that Mr. Fisk had booked.

The box for a cricket match is somewhat similar to the big box that the theater rents to someone else. Not by one person or by a group, but by many gentlemen and ladies, three tables are placed in front of the transparent glass and surrounded by chairs at the back.

The two ladies, seated in chairs closer to the sides of the glass, left the seats in the back for their lovers to chat.

"What the year is. Mr. Fisk asked.

"It's a bit of a loss of interest. Lin Yilong replied, "I made a little money in the first half of the year on the 'Foster Group', which is about 13.5 million pounds." ”

"You mean the diving market in March?" asked Mr. Fisk.

Lin Yilong neither denied nor admitted it.

Foster Group, a London-based transport company, operates buses, railways and other public transport businesses. The company was heavily indebted after buying a long-haul bus company "across the pond", and in order to maintain its debt rating, Foster had to seek a £615 million capital injection from stockholders in early May 2013. As a result, the stock price of Foster Group plummeted, losing 35% of its market value in just 20 days, which made countless investors fail, but also made short sellers make a profit, and it seems that Lin Yilong is one of them.

"Have you ever missed?" Mr. Fisk asked.

"Maybe, I'm not God. Lin Yilong laughed at himself, "Even if the information is accurate, there is no guarantee that the market will rise and fall as you imagined." ”

"Be careful, if I were a financial investigator in the treasury, I wouldn't ignore you. ”

"It doesn't matter, anyway, if it's just an investigation, I can't find anything, after all, I don't go out of the door, and I don't go out of the second door. Lin Yilong spoke very indifferently, as if there was really nothing to worry about.

"Then you're pretty happy. "Don't pretend you don't care." ”

"Okay. Lin Yilong replied, "I just had a lot of things to do a few days ago, and then I suddenly became idle, and the pressure was not very adaptable." ”

Katie sat aside and pouted alone, obviously because Lin Yilong had been unrestrained in the past few days with the Yeon sisters and herself—or rather, they were unrestrained—so that she was a little unrefreshed.

"You're going back to Aberdeen for the summer?" asked Lin Yilong.

"No, I've got a nice house on the outskirts of Scarboro now, and Ella is going to live there. Mr. Fisk replied, "I'll go there on Friday, after I'm done with the Ministry of Agriculture." ”

"The House of Commons will give MPs 45 days off in the summer so that they can go to their constituencies to get close to voters, and Mr. Fiske, who is not a majority of the MPs, will also use this time to get more votes for his faction and learn about "people's livelihood".

"Yes, I was able to go back to Scotland for a stay in the last week of the 45-day holiday with Ella's parents. Mr. Fisk said of his timetable, "Then, all this time, I should be in North Yorkshire meeting with voters and various committee representatives." ”

"That's good. Lin Yilong didn't know what to expect, "Well, I'm also thinking about staying there in the summer, although we can't enjoy the fun of hunting, we can still go there to eat some fish and chips." ”

"Viterbi?" asked Mr. Fisko.

"I don't know, I've just watched "The Highest Scale", and if it weren't for this show, I wouldn't know where Viterbi was. Lin Yilong replied, "I don't know if the fish and chips there are delicious!"

Soon, Mr. Fisk gave Lin Yilong a lesson in North Yorkshire, until he was interrupted by Katie's "Good shot!" roar.

"How the hell is this thing played?" Lin Yilong asked.

"A defender pitches the ball, an attacking player hits the ball, knocks it out, and then runs back and forth with two poles, and that's a point. ”

"Similar to baseball?" said Lin Yilong, the distance of the two poles running back and forth is almost the same as a baseball going from home plate to first base, and leaving the longest first base to third base vacant. If you follow this point of view, except for the difference between the batting racket and the number of people on the court, the gameplay is really not too far.

"Yes, it's like baseball!" interjected Mrs. Fisco happily.

"It's confusing. Lin Yilong shook his head, "Except for pitching and batting, there is no similarity at all, and even the number of people is different." ”

"It's a little different from baseball, cricket isn't just a three-up, three-game game, it's a team of 11 people and you know that a team is all out. Katie tried to develop Lin Yilong into a cricket fan, but eventually gave up, and now it is Mr. Fisker who is very patient with him.

"It wasn't very long. Lin Yilong complained, "And you also have to consider the rest time and afternoon tea time, this day is not finished." ”

"Yes, under the official MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) rules, the official match generally lasts for three days. Mrs. Fisk helps her husband and school sister with their unfinished cricket literacy project, "Even cricket fans like us don't last long, and it's a good afternoon to come and have some free time." ”

"Okay. Lin Yilong couldn't understand why a cricket match would kill time, but looking at the champagne in front of him (Lin Yilong had white grape juice with sparkling in front of him) and the salmon snack that he had eaten half-eaten, Lin Yilong probably understood a little bit about the style of the middle and upper class of 19th-century Britain.

It was tea time for the cricket match, and Mr. Fisker and Lin Yilong had to go separately to prepare for tonight's party, so they said goodbye and went separately to prepare.

"I figured out what we're going to do for our trip in January. Lin Yilong looked at Katie and spoke.

"What to do?" Katie looked at him inexplicably, not knowing what Lin Yilong was thinking.

"Circumnavigating the world!" Lin Yilong said.