In September, from Pembroke to Essex, the whole island of Great Britain was clear, and the cumulonimbus clouds seemed to have finally decided to leave for the summer holidays in Eastern Europe, and the weather was sunny for several weeks.

Katie gave her internal nomination victory speech before the end of the summer break in Parliament, and she will have to stand one last shift in South Glamorgan before she wins the election and resigns as a member of the South Glamorgan County Council.

It's just that even if she is going to work in London, she is still Lin Yilong's main assistant.

Speaking of which, in the United Kingdom, not counting the part-time members of the county council who Katie was elected before, even part-time councillors are not few. As an opposition faction that is unlikely to get any executive positions, Katie doesn't have a lot of time, so she still helps Lin manage his firm's schedule and work schedule through email and online office software. Even if they return to live in London, the weekend dates between the two will not change much – the Great Western Railway has been speeding up this year, and it takes only three hours to get from Cardiff to London – whether it's Katie to South Wales or Lin Yilong to Kingston, there are no obstacles.

After receiving the nomination, in addition to the meeting with the Whigs and the formal reception of the staff of Katie's new office in her own "office", there were other social occasions to attend, such as Lin Yilong's small celebration of the "Farmers' Club" for Katie.

Lin Yilong decided to keep a low profile. Katie has almost secured to become the "Parliamentary Baby" (i.e. the youngest member of the House of Westminster). The endless "investigations" of the press brought about by this title will definitely expose her life to the deep camera, which is quite "world-watching". Whether it's the Farmers' Club, the Corinthian Hotel, or even the Savoy Hotel next door to the Riverside Street apartments, Lin Yilong had to put his autumn get-together with friends at a British restaurant called "Big White" near Finchley Road Station, and although there are a lot of dignitaries and dignitaries in the vicinity (located in the southwest of Hampstead, where the powerful are gathered), there will not be many people who will not come here for dinner, and those people prefer to eat in Mayfair or the restaurants in the City.

"If it's a normal party, we'd be best in the club, but then Katie would have to sit across from me instead of the guest of honor. Lin Yilong explained his original intention of this invitation with a smile before the meal, "So I swapped places with my 'dear' a little bit, so that she could also feel a little bit of what it was like to be an inviter." ”

The culture of table seating in England is so immoral (by Mark Twain, "Million Pounds") that in modern times, even the round table of an ordinary dinner party has to come up with some tricks. Just as Lin Yilong always sat in the main seat when dining in his own restaurant, and the Yeon sisters always sat at the other end of his table, the seats were always in a similar order: the guest of honor always sat to the right of the host (both men and women), and the second guest sat to the right of the spouse of the guest of honor, and then separated from each other according to the gender seats, making it difficult to have a situation where one side was a man or one side was a woman.

With the exception of seating, every participant in a social gathering seems to have an obligation to please the host and other banquet attendees. Lin Yilong and his "friends" of the Farmers' Club were still counted as superficial friends, and since that was the case, the other guests in the room would naturally cheer for Katie.

"We're colleagues from now on. Mr. Fisk, as the guest of honor, sat on Katie's right hand side, holding a wine glass to greet Katie on the chair, "And they are close friends of the same alliance." ”

Katie and the other guests pushed the glass and changed the lamp, and Lin Yilong laughed opposite Katie, pretending to be very interesting.

"I now feel like Her Majesty the Queen when she visited the 'Reform' club. Katie smiled as she accepted Mr. Fisk's compliment, "I remember that at that time, the club deliberately blurred His Majesty's gender in the name of 'Gentleman of the Monarch' and allowed her to enter the exclusive premises of men. ”

"The Palace of Westminster has always been the exclusive preserve of men, and even the vicinity of the Temple Church (i.e., the four major bar-houses) used to be exclusively for men, but now it has changed?" replied Mrs. Fisk, "and the boundaries between men and women are only getting smaller and smaller. ”

Several wives didn't think so, and Katie's impression of the "Mrs. Group" was a vase that wasn't exactly a vase - even if they were the same - because Lin Yilong didn't completely hide Katie and his "romance", Katie's origin was because of Lin Yilong, and she knew each other because of Lin Yilong. As for Katie's career, it is a pity that she also relies on Lin Yilong "quite helplessly".

Although Lin Yilong's garden was already full of saffron, he still wanted to plant some other flowers and plants in the welcoming place in the front yard of his estate, and Mr. Fisk and Mr. Merck, who sat on either side of Katie, were "educating" with a cold joke that only politicians could understand Katie had to know a few things she needed to know about going to the Palace of Westminster, and it turned out that Mr. Merck's girlfriend and Mrs. Fisk, who were not very familiar with her, were very uncomfortable.

Mr. Merck has been dating his girlfriend for two years, and the female companion who Lin Yilong first met with Katie at the charity dinner two years ago was not the same Miss Walter who is now at the dinner table. Naturally, they had no way of knowing how long Miss Walter would be at their feast. Katie was more acceptable to Mrs. Hovey and Mrs. Fisker thanks to Lin Yilong's investment in her: at least in the eyes of others present, it was impossible for the two to break up unless one of them paid a huge price that they could not afford to pay.

Dinner started at eight o'clock and ate for nearly two hours until 10 o'clock before saying goodbye to each other. Mr. Howe and Mr. Merck took care of Lin Yilong, who did not drink, and was very restrained at the dinner table, so they had to go out to drink a second round like a young man, and the autumn gathering of "friends" was over.

"I have some doubts about the prospects of the alliance between the Whigs and the Tories. "Rather, the alliance between the Whigs and the Tories was a necessary step in the existence of the Labor Cooperative League as the 'great enemy,' and history tells us that such an alliance could not last long, especially the Whigs, who were either annexed as they did in the seventies and eighties, or gradually marginalized as they did before World War II." Combined with some of the things I know, that's it. ”

"So ......"

"So, Katie, you don't have to join a purely social Farmers Club like I did, after all, your constituency and the demands of the Farmers Club members are still different. Lin Yilong's tone was a little gloomy, "In the future, there is no need to be too enthusiastic in Westminster Parliament, I believe you understand this better than me." ”