At noon, Lin Yilong took the Yeang sisters to the center of Cardiff to eat the so-called "lobster and burger set", and Lin Yilong ate two portions of a Boston lobster and burger with fries and vegetable salad. It's not a valuable food, but it can take the sisters away from childcare and other chores—even for a few hours, which are precious to the sisters.

"My weight loss career has gone down the drain. Lin Yilong looked at the dishes in front of him and said with emotion, "There is so much meat for breakfast, and lobster and cheeseburger for lunch, this calorie must be off the table." ”

"It's okay, as long as you exercise properly, it's fine. Nadia smirked wickedly.

Just when Lin Yilong and Sister Yeang were interacting very happily, Amy, who was hooking lobster meat with a long stick, frowned, and carefully observed Sister Yeang beside Lin Yilong with her spare eyes.

The relaxed atmosphere of the three's conversation made Amy jealous. She felt that Lin Yilong was still a good talker, but the relationship between her and Lin Yilong was not close enough to the situation between him and Sister Yeang, at least not yet.

Suddenly feeling that the lobster meal was becoming very unpalatable, Amy paid her bill, hastily finished lunch, and returned to the hotel.

Later in the evening, Amy received a text message from Lin Yilong, asking her to "watch" him and Katie's English afternoon tea in a teahouse that was not easy to find the next afternoon.

The so-called "tea time" actually has two meanings: in the 19th century British aristocracy, this is also the so-called impression, the 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. snack is called "afternoon tea" - because the interval between the aristocrats' lunch at 12 p.m. and dinner at 8:30 p.m. is too long, which is a compromise add-on, and there is also a meaning for the working people at the bottom that it is dinner between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., because the miners and factory mechanics at that time called lunch "dinner" , so the extra in the back is naturally the afternoon tea meal, which is still called "afternoon tea", and the time of eating is called "afternoon tea time". This divergence of different meanings of the same word was very prominent in the forties and fifties after the end of World War II, because the World War II and various social reforms after World War II made the boundary between the top and the bottom less clear, and as a result, a very sad situation arose- Originally, the words of the working class were closer to the previous upper class, and the various usages of the previous upper class were combined with various folk terms, so that in modern times, it is impossible to accurately distinguish which person belongs to the upper class of society just in terms of the use of words, but it is not very intuitive to judge the background of this person by pronunciation or accent.

Lin Yilong and Katie certainly tried to recreate the way the British upper class was in the 19th century.

"So, this Christmas, I'm going to the Caribbean with my parents. Katie said of her Christmas plans, "Just like in previous years, I won't go back to Northern Ireland and go to the tropics to soak up the sun." ”

Katie is a very organized person in everything she does, because in the past two years, Lin Yilong has spent this period of time from Christmas to the end of February, and he will always bring her to even less social occasions. The price paid for the exchange was that during Christmas, Katie would either go back to Northern Ireland to spend time with her parents, or stay alone on the Bonas waterfront to write her New Year's resolutions. If it's certain that Sister Yeang will trap Lin Yilong during Christmas, then it might as well plan a vacation with her parents.

"At least it's much more meaningful than what I did, do you plan to rent a villa or stay in a hotel?" Lin Yilong asked.

"I saw the other day that there is one kind of all-inclusive resort on the Internet. Katie pointed to her phone screen, "I'm looking for something similar, it's easy to worry about." ”

"If you're really going to the Caribbean, go to the Cayman Islands. "If you go to the Cayman Islands in the name of my agent, you can buy round-trip business class tickets for you and your parents in the name of an expedition with a non-tax-free quota, and you can also apply for a small amount of external consultant for your parents, without spending your parents' money or tying up your quota." ”

"But I could have applied for an employee travel allowance!" Katie honestly objected to Lin's suggestion, "If I had continued to get the 'practical' benefit of reimbursing travel expenses from my accounts like this, would I have been interviewed by the IRS for such a hotel bill?"

"It's a necessary effort, especially for people who aren't very familiar with the Cayman Islands. Lin Yilong replied, "So, as long as you don't go on too private trips, these venerable gentlemen sitting in the office will not be diligent enough to investigate you." ”

"In that case, I'm also enjoying a little bit of employee benefits. Only then did Katie happily decide to adopt Lin Yilong's arrangement, "Go to the Caribbean Sea to dispel the haze." ”

"Is there any place you want to see after the New Year?" Lin Yilong asked the question.

The main reason why Lin Yilong was idle in the first two months of the whole year of the "work plan" was not because of his personal idleness, but because in the first and second months of a financial year, there was very little exciting news - such as various financial reports and annual reports - although there were quarterly reports for the winter, but on the contrary, the predictable situation after the Christmas holidays did not require special attention. Market movements caused by other uncontrollable social conditions will become mainstream, rather than having absolute power to influence the general trend of the economy – just rest and wait for March to December, when trading and information are more active.

"There was a time when I thought you would choose a hotter place to spend the winter, like the Maldives or the Caribbean. Katie suggested, "Late January and early February happens to be a good season for skiing. If I had to choose, I would go to the Alps. ”

"Skiing?" Lin Yilong repeated the word, Lin's mother had torn her cruciate ligament due to a skiing accident, and Lin Yilong often broke his foot in his youth, which caused some psychological disorders, "It sounds dangerous, I have some psychological shadows about skiing." ”

Katie then gently tries to convince Lin to go to Switzerland, and the whispered witticism of the two makes Amy, who is sitting not far from the two of them, constantly adding small sandwiches to her mouth, feel very tired.

In the hotel room, sitting in front of the writing desk that doubles as a dresser, he brings up the photos of Nadia, Vera, and Katie that he took when no one was looking, and Amy's three photos of herself and her phone in the mirror.

Sure enough, Amy is still more satisfied with the appearance of the person in the mirror, although it still looks too young, but over time, the person in the mirror will be more standard and elegant.

Just as Amy was reveling in her delusions to boost her morale, Lin Yilong sent another invitation to have breakfast on Sunday morning.