There are not many "reverse pensions" like Lin's father and Lin's mother.

Even in Western countries, most of them retire from their own places of residence and find a warm and cheap area to live in - at least for the British, the Spanish islands of Mallorca and the Canary Islands, Portugal's Macaronesian Islands and the Caribbean are very good choices, and it is also a good consideration to retire to the countryside, such as the countryside of Oxfordshire, Somerset and Warwickshire, and there are also those who can't afford to stay in the city- But even so, most people follow a principle: because their retirement income is much lower than their work income, they will choose to live in a place where economic pressure will have as little impact on them as possible, which is the so-called "shun pension";

As a result, after Lin Yilong's mother felt several "retirement activities" opposed by Lin Yilong on Christmas Eve, she gradually changed her attitude, and many of these people in the retirement rally were born and raised in the British Chinese circle, and many were immigrants who took advantage of a certain year's rally to move here. Even if there are retirees like them who have retired from the company and come to the UK to "enjoy the blessings", they are in the upper echelons of the country who don't know how high they are. If you only mix with these Xiangjiang people, the cultural clash still exists and you feel out of place. If Mother Lin hadn't survived a period of frustrating cultural conflict at the beginning of her transition from home to abroad, she would have felt that she would not have been able to move an inch.

Lin Mu finally returned to the computer in her spare time and followed the drama on the Internet.

As for Father Lin, there are no such problems, and according to the rhythm of his life, he is accompanied by Lin Yilong to museums and Buckingham Palace, play chess online, and go to bars to experience British culture.

After about 10 days on Riverbank Street, the Yeon family almost ended their trip in the north of England, and Lin Yilong returned to the forest farm with Lin's father and mother.

The area around the forest farm is covered with snow, but the interior of the forest farm house is warm like spring, and it has a special Christmas atmosphere.

When Mr. Lin arrived home, he received a few Christmas cards — he had never received similar congratulatory letters from private individuals during the Christmas period, except for the usual Christmas cards from the Riverside Street Apartment Management Company and the Middlesex Bank during the Christmas period — from several of his partners, McGonagall, Alex and Niels, from fellows at the Farmers' Club, from vendors like Mr. Gordon and Mr. Treveng, and from other financial partners like Stewart.

The spread of modern lifestyles has made British people rarely write letters except for relatives and friends, and most of the few letterheads are commercial letters or advertisements, if you write and send a Christmas card by hand, it usually means "I care about you". Since "courtesy is still reciprocated", you have to respond to such "intimacy" on the one hand.

The usual way to give back a Christmas gift.

Christmas gifts and the like are easy to solve, for partners who have been working together for a while, it is enough to give some inexpensive whisky or a case of sherry from a spirits store, for suppliers and business partners, sending a greeting card back is enough to congratulate each other on a prosperous business, but the 'friends' of the farmers' club have to think a lot.

There is a year to buffer against this - Lin Yilong, as a new member of the Farmers' Club, does not need to respond to such a wish in the first year, because apart from the phone, he has no access to the members' private address books, and does not know the specific addresses of Merck and Hovey, and even Fisk's Scottish Forest Farm that he has visited cannot accept personal gifts from foreign "partners" because of Lin Yilong's foreign status - in this case, a few personal phone calls can save Lin Yilong from bothering.

In addition to these gifts for social interaction, as an employer, the workers of the forest farm also need some gifts, especially if the income of the forest farm is good this year.

If you look at the finances of the farm, you will find that the farm is in a very balanced balance of income and expenditure – the cost of labor, free meals, tools and necessary appliances more than offset the income from truffles, honey and wasabi – but a closer look reveals that things are not so simple: the "board members" on the salary scale, not only are the parents and sisters of Lin and Ye Ang receiving their salaries, but even the language training of Lin and the college tuition of the Ye Ang sisters are also recorded as "education and training expenses" Reimbursement from the company's account.

These expenses are legally justified but are not supported from a business and tax perspective. If the tax department asks Nadia if the material science she is studying has a practical effect on the actual work of Bracken Tree Farm, you can't ask Nadia to say, "Cook dinner for the other members of the board of directors of the forest farm." This kind of non-nutritious answer.

Since Lin Yilong is unable to obtain the same income relief from Her Majesty's treasury as the people, he can expand the expenses of this legal person on the bills payable and recover a little tax loss for himself.

As a forest farm owner and the owner of the company, Lin Yilong is not very competent, except for his employees who have seen him during interviews, the rest of the time when they see Lin Yilong most often is when he rides a motorcycle from home to the gate of the forest farm, knowing that Lin Yilong is their boss, and that's it.

Unlike the quieter atmosphere of last year's annual meeting, this year's meeting at the Bracken Tree Farm was attended not only by scientists who left in September, but also by workers who had worked in the mines of West Gramorgan, who remained physically fit even if they did not continue to do heavy physical work. When Lin Yilong entered the site of the annual meeting held in a cafeteria in Swansea, he was a little apprehensive.

"Without further ado, we have had a good harvest this year, and as a year-end bonus, I would like to give you a bonus in my personal name to thank you for your dedication to Bracken Tree Farm, and I hope you can have a happy Christmas and New Year. Lin Yilong's speech was as simple as possible, "But before I accept it, I have to make two more disappointing statements about the inopportune bonus money: first, the bonus money is given by me personally and is not counted in the presumed terms of the employment agreement, and second, the amount of the reward is the same for everyone, there is no discrimination and inequality, and in addition, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year." ”

"Merry Christmas!" all the forest farm workers present raised their drinks and drank them.