Lin Yilong's family and Yeang's family went their separate ways after that meeting, but they agreed to spend Christmas together.

Lin's father and mother have retired, Nadia and Vera are on winter vacation, Mr. Yeang's sick leave has not been completed, and Mrs. Yeang directly took a long leave to take care of her husband, if Lin Yilong himself is fine, this will be it.

Nadia and Vera take the Yeons on outings in places like Bath, Stonehenge and Oxford, while Lin Yilong takes his parents to London, which Lin's mother will never forget.

Father Lin had never been to London, and he really wanted to see the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, especially the Buckingham Palace Guard Changing Ceremony. As for places like the British Museum and the National Gallery, Father Lin's opinion is that you can go and just watch the excitement.

The lunch on the first day was set in London Chinatown, which Lin Yilong had retained, just because Lin's father had never been here, and Lin's mother, who had been here, had an equally bad impression of it.

But it seems that because she has spent so much time in the "isolated" Bracken Yard, she feels that London's Chinatown is less chaotic.

"By the way, what are the people who come here to retire do?" asked Lin's mother in Chinese, she came to London with Lin's father to retire. Although they are teaching English now, there will always be an end of the day, if it is just for their mobile phones, computers and TV set-top boxes, no matter how fresh the air is, in Lin's mother's opinion, it is not as good as in China.

"I don't know. Lin Yilong replied, "You might as well ask your classmates and friends what they do abroad, it is estimated that it is no different from that in China." ”

"Then do you have any old age universities or anything like that?" Lin Mu asked, "For example, where you can teach singing and piano?"

"Probably not. Lin Yilong shook his head, "In addition to tourism, there are usually two places for the elderly here, one is a volunteer of the church, and the other is a volunteer of a charitable organization. ”

"I'm retired! just to stop doing these jobs. Lin's mother explained, "I don't volunteer in China, so can you expect me to volunteer somewhere else?"

"Then I don't really have much to suggest. Lin Yilong shook his head and thought for a while, "Why don't you go out on a trip with my father?"

"The places you want to go are all in the country. Mother Lin replied.

"Do you think the place next to our house can catch up with the scenery over there?" Lin Yilong didn't understand why all the people on vacation were concentrated in the scenic spots.

"It's raining too much!" Lin Mu's excuse was very strong.

"What about the summer?" Lin Yilong asked rhetorically.

"Let's talk about it. Mother Lam knew that she knew very little about the Bracken Farm, or how little she knew about Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, and she had come just in time for the rainy winter, and everything was feeling bleak.

"The old people I see in the city center are really old, aren't there any younger retirees?"

"Old lady, your current retirement age is not the retirement age of the British!" Lin Yilong persuaded, "The current retirement age of the British-63 years old for female employees and 64 years old for male employees, 18 years old is almost the same, both to 65 years old." You see, the supermarket staff in front of our house are all about 60 years old. ”

"It's miserable. Father Lin interjected on the side.

"It's not over yet, the Ministry of Finance plans to postpone it to 66 years old in 2020, 67 years old in 2028, and 68 years old in 2035. Lin Yilong added, "So, father and mother, you can go happily." “

"Then I'm going to have to find something to do. Lin Mu said, "What should I do now that the English class is over?" ”

Their conversation happened to be overheard by a nearby table of "seniors", and a good-looking wife came up to them and "Amway-style marketing" to Lin's father and mother in a somewhat distorted Mandarin to a 'retiree' club based in the UK.

"But my parents live in Wales. When this lady said dryly, Lin Yilong complained on the side.

"We are a Chinese community covering the whole of the UK. "We care about the health of retirees and can get free haircuts at designated barber shops." ”

Although the brochure was written in Chinese Traditional, Lin Mu was a little eager to join it.

"I'd let my parents think about it, but we live in Wales after all and can't afford to spend 10 hours a week commuting to and from Wales. Lin Yilong replied, and then very politely asked her to leave.

"Why didn't you let me go?" out of politeness, Lin Mu suddenly asked in Russian.

"Old lady, you don't believe in religion!" Lin Yilong said, "Why bother for this thing?"

"That's too, let's try it and see how good it is!"

"If you want to try it, why don't you find one in Wales?" Lin Yilong said, "I remember there was one next to the language school, and the fee was not expensive." ”

"Charges?" Mother Lin's face suddenly changed, "Doesn't Britain encourage the elderly to exercise and fitness?"

"Encouragement!" Lin Yilong replied, "You can now take the old man's bus card and go to the publicly-funded gym and sports center, and you can enter the stadium for free, but then again, there is no special for Chinese, the population is still a little small over there, and if you need to use these facilities without barriers, you have to know English." ”

This meant that I had to work hard to learn English. Lin Mu said, "I remember that in addition to the public gym next to the language school, there is also a church next to it that does not charge money." ”

"Yes, but the purpose of the church is to always develop believers in terms of business. Lin Yilong came to popularize the common sense of the church to his parents, "The church may not occupy wealth, whether it is Protestant or old, whether it is Eastern or Western, and its operation and maintenance cannot be subsidized by finance, but needs to be continuously provided by the congregants." ”

"But we're just going to see there, not being preached!" Lin Mu said.

"It's okay, it's just the beginning. "In the beginning, they will provide some refreshments or food made by the members to get together, because there is no need to pay for the refreshments and food, and then they will talk to you about some topics especially social and moral aspects - because your 'friendship' needs to be strengthened by communication, and then you will be willing to express some of your opinions, and they will try to adjust the doctrinal interpretation to match the moral views of the church." In the third stage, when you have exchanged some opinions, of course, you will feel that 'what I am doing is very consistent with God's will,' and you will start to try to believe and start to participate in classical training classes and so on, and after participating in this big beach activity, you will feel that this form is very good, and then you will become a believer, and some of your parishioners will contribute money and effort to maintain the church.

"So, at the end of the day, it's just a matter of the length of time to attract, and it's always going to work. Lin Yilong concluded.