34 Breaking up
This meeting was just to talk about Amy's life and experience in London, including the work of an actor that Katie was very interested in.
"I really can't help you. After a night of polite but distant awkward conversations, Lin Yilong and Katie sent Amy home. Katie found that although Amy was not sophisticated, her head was still very bright: during the conversation between the two, Katie's clever traps were easily dodged by Amy, although she was temporarily powerless to fight back, but it was not an "unprepared battle", at least her own information had been fully excavated by Amy - and the information she knew was public.
"It's nothing, but now Katie has figured out my inappropriate aesthetic standards?" Lin Yilong asked.
"Nope!" Katie shook her head. After a lateral analysis of the Yeon sisters, Amy, and herself, Katie found nothing.
"Don't you think that if you use me as a reference, you are all more or less taller than me?" Lin Yilong said.
"This ...... Well, when you think about it, it does. Katie frankly admitted.
Back home, Katie's nanny had already lulled Polly and Sally to sleep, and Katie didn't disturb her daughters when she entered. After putting the nanny home and welcoming Lin Yilong into the door, the two lowered their voices and made love.
"The sisters only sleep and eat. Lin Yilong said, "Fortunately, I don't need to explain to them what happened for the time being." ”
"What about Tanya and Natasha?"
"They come home with me every day. Lin Yilong said, "I hope Polly and Cellly and Daddy don't love their fathers like their sisters." ”
"It's the nature of children, there's no way around it. ”
"That's right. Lin Yilong replied.
Katie's clean-up staff and babysitter for the children are not alone, with the former only doing full cleaning on Tuesdays and Fridays. Although Katie is not a waste of wood, she has to pay attention to her children, her own work, and her responsibilities as "Lin Yilong's supervisor", and she has no time for herself. So in addition to the precinct meeting, Katie put down many other social activities, and went back and forth between her home, the councillor's office and the Palace of Westminster at 3 o'clock every day.
Lin Yilong saw that Katie's life was so busy, so he became a nanny for his daughters on Saturday, freeing Katie and letting her take a breath and enjoy the fun of cricket.
With the experience of raising Tanya and Natasha, Lin Yilong did not catch the blind when he took care of Polly and Sally, and everything was progressing in an orderly manner.
"How nice! Wave to Daddy!" Katie said goodbye to Lin Yilong at the door of the apartment with a stroller on Sunday morning.
Lin Yilong also left after cleaning the kitchen, and took the train to London, not to see Amy, but to meet his cousins who were about to end their purchasing career.
Father Lin and Mr. Yeon teamed up to do their old business in Talbot Steel again, resulting in Lin's mother's purchasing business being handed over to Lin Yilong's cousins. Because of Lin's strict distinction between "relatives" and "partners", the cousins had to pay for the attic next to Paddington Station at their own expense – with the result that most of the proceeds from daigou went to the end of not the accounts of the two men, but the accounts of the landlords.
"Now that the policy is getting tighter and tighter, people are often found out when they pass through the airport, and the gains outweigh the losses. Lin Yilong's eldest cousin talked about the reason for the decision at the dinner table, "Every month, I find that when Dongdong and I (Lin Yilong's little cousin's milk name) have an income of less than 6,000 yuan, it is not interesting to do such a job against jet lag, forget it." ”
Lin Yilong's two cousins are not much different from Lin Yilong's faces and figures, and the three of them are blood relatives at first glance. Because of the domestic economic growth, the enthusiasm of Chinese people to buy overseas has increased, and each of them has to make a round trip between Heathrow and the capital airport once a week to process orders.
The cousins were brought to the UK by Lin's mother to work in the daigou industry - Lin Yilong can get very good flight prices through a travel agreement on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can also guarantee their business visit visas.
"I suggest you keep doing it. Lin Yilong persuaded, "After all, if you are an illustrator, you only have an income of less than 4,500 a month, and 6,000 is at least a little better than 4,500, not to mention anything else, meals are free." ”
Lin Yilong has applied for a Mastercard platinum card for his two cousins - in addition to tax refunds and card discounts, VIP service in the airport lounge is also a benefit that can be enjoyed, and VIP rights can generally enjoy buffets and airport bathrooms, so from an economic point of view, he really hopes that the two cousins will continue to do it.
"Brother Long also thinks about it for us!" The eldest cousin is also about to be thirty years old, and he also has his own concerns, "Now the family is very tight, I remember that Brother Long didn't want the blind date to stay in the country, and I didn't want to either, but the purchasing agent is ......like this."
"Then find someone who is fluent in English and work with you to continue this business!" Lin Yilong didn't agree with the two of them returning to China like this, and engaging in purchasing agents made the two of them relatively inexperienced, "Why don't I help you find two?"
"Farewell!" replied the eldest cousin, "Dongdong and I think it's time to close our current business." ”
"You can decide for yourselves. "It's impossible for Lin Yilong to interfere too much in the lives of his cousins, they are also adults after all.
In the past, when Lin's father and mother and cousins partnered together, each person could accumulate 1,000 pounds per month, but now even if they have two cents less, no one will help them with the tax refund application, resulting in a backlog of orders, in addition, the weak pound and the active exchange system of the motherland have led to a sharp decline in the cousins' income, and now each person only has a net income of about 800 pounds, which is not even as good as the waiters who greet them in the LHR and PEK VIP lounges every day.
"Anyway, it's good to go back to China and wander around. Lin Yilong saw that his cousins had made up their minds, so he decided to bless them, "If the country is really not open, they are all family members, and eating back grass is nothing, I can continue to help you find the kind of one-person apartment in Kingston on the Thames to continue to work, anyway, you have all your passports and visas, you can come and go as you want." ”
"Hmm. The eldest cousin nodded.
"Actually, my brother wants to go to Neon to partner with their classmates to do purchasing agents, he graduated there and is more familiar with Neon. With the help of the toilet time, the second cousin Dongdong said in private, "I will partner with him to try it for two months, but it really can't be done, I will go back and forth to London by myself." ”
"The door on my side is always open to you. Lin Yilong said, "How long will it take for you to be optimistic?"
"Half a year. The second cousin replied, "Moreover, I feel that my brother's purchasing support time on the Edo side will be shorter than that." ”
"It's a deal. Lin Yilong said.