The Welsh countryside is quiet during Christmas, with no shops open and even few taxis.

Lin Yilong's usual practice during Christmas is to buy a lot of convenience food and drinks in advance and stay at home, even when the Yeang sisters left him alone in his Riverside Street apartment during Christmas because they went to take care of the Yaang couple. As a result, this year is still the same.

Lin's father and mother were persuaded by friends in China to take a car to Bicester Village with the Yeang family, who were also "instigated" by their relatives, early in the morning after Christmas, commonly known as Packing Day, and left him alone in the Bracken Forest Farm.

During the Christmas season, the only places that can open their doors are Chinese restaurants in the heart of large towns like Swansea, so Lin Yilong became the only customer of a Chinese restaurant in the coastal residential area.

The achievement of the "Single Dog" of the game Earth Online had been taken by Lin Yilong before he met the Yeang sisters, and now it is very rudimentary for him to deal with the hot pot buffet alone.

"Have you ever been here?" a chef with a Teochew accent of Mandarin walked up to Lin Yilong and asked, "I feel like I've seen you here." ”

"Well, I was a regular here seven years ago. Lin Yilong was busy putting meat in his mouth, and his speech was a little slurred, "At that time, our classmates worked part-time here and often came, and you are still insisting." ”

"It's not easy to do business. The chef replied, "There's a lot of competition, and there are already more Chinese restaurants on the other side of the city center." ”

"Can you go on with that day?"

"I've got to get by, or I'll be able to do something. The cook said, "You know St. Helena." ”

"Well, it's a whole bunch of places that sell Indian curries. Lin Yilong replied, "What?"

"Indian curry is not selling well now, and when I went to buy the ingredients, I found that there were no more houses. The cook said, "The economy is coming to an end." ”

"This can happen in a town like Swansea that relies on student consumption!?" asked Lim Yilong, and it is understandable that industrial towns like Mastach or Brijend are in decline, but it is not quite right that a central city like Swansea, which relies on the service industry, is also in a recession. ”

"It's not a good year. The chef still complains about the economic situation in Wales, without considering the feelings of the customers in front of him, "and the cost is a lot higher." ”

Lin Yilong does not drink high value-added drinks such as fruit juice when he eats self-service hot pot, and specifically asks for some carbonated drinks and iced black tea with low added value.

"Then why don't you go back?" Lin Yilong asked, "Go back to China to do offshore trade." ”

"It's hard to go back to China now, I have some friends who know what a month's salary is after they go back to Hong Kong!?"

"Let me think about it, about 20,000. Lin Yilong compared Bonnie's income and estimated the possible amount, "It should not be much different from a full-time job here." ”

"Up to HK$10,000 a month. The chef revealed the answer.

"10,000 Hong Kong dollars, enough for something. Lin Yilong exclaimed, "I can't even pay the rent." ”

"yes, but it can't be helped. The chef responded, "I'm going back, it's harder than I'm living, how can I go back." ”

"It's really ......," Lin Yilong sighed, then looked at the very deserted Zuo Jin, and shook his head.

In fact, it is not that students do not come here to eat Chinese food, but that there are more choices, because of the influx of a large number of domestic students in the past two years, the locals have also begun to pay attention to the consumption of international students, and the use of Chinese characters has appeared at the meat counter in the market. In contrast, restaurants that only serve Chinese food are the first to be hit.

However, the impact is something that needs to be considered.

The retail and catering industries of consumer goods and the distribution links attached to them are very easy places for university students to gain work experience, and if these places cannot be maintained, it will be even more difficult for students to find part-time jobs. It's easier for an employer like Lin Yilong to negotiate and get the best labor consideration. The shortage of night shift staff in the forest farm can be well replenished, and even the forest farm work can be used as a stepping stone to lure law undergraduates who need legal internships to fill it.

Thinking of this, Lin Yilong didn't say anything, concentrating on dealing with enoki mushrooms, fresh shrimp and fatty beef slices that had been soaked in the sesame sauce dish for a long time.

When checking out, Lin Yilong found that he had an extra 6 pounds of running water in his bill, although it may be a little contrary to his usual character, but he unexpectedly left without any objections.

Then, as if to exacerbate Lin Yilong's loneliness at Christmas, he ran into the person he had been trying to avoid, the heroine he once had a crush on to Katie in Xiangjiang, his former high school classmate Han Yuxi.

Han Yuxi doesn't seem to have changed much from Lin Yilong's memory except that her face has become more rounded: thin eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, high nose bridge, and thin lips. It doesn't look pretty at first glance, but it's a very intriguing type — or rather, not the type that Lin Yilong hates — that gives people a simple feeling, but it was she who tried to step on two boats during Lin Yilong's courtship stage, and was revealed by a classmate who knew Lin Yilong well but was at odds with her.

She was wearing the clothes of the waiter on duty, and when she recognized Lin Yilong, she was a little surprised.

It seemed that she wanted to say something very much, but she couldn't say anything, after all, she hadn't seen her for nearly 7 years.

Lin Yilong smiled completely sarcastically and tidied up the motorcycle leather jacket on his upper body.

It is a lie to say that Lin Yilong has no joy in his heart. He may give up on this relationship completely, but some of the scars in the depths of his memory will not disappear so easily, especially when he sees the sharp blade that caused these scars again, and subconsciously hurts hotly.

"Yo, long time no see. Lin Yilong said in English, showing the alienation and frivolity in his tone, but the words made Han Yuxi in front of him unable to say anything, "What wind is blowing you back to Swansea again?"

The woman in front of her did not speak.

"I'm glad to see you here. "It's still English.

"What are you happy about, are you happy that I'm down like this?" Han Yuxi shot back angrily, not in English.

"No, as a former classmate, I feel very happy to find out that there are old people here. Lin Yilong also switched back to Chinese, and there was no schadenfreude hidden in his tone.

"Especially during the Christmas period. In order to increase the level of irony in his language, Lin Yilong specially added such a sentence.

The tears in Han Yuxi's eyes gushed out like spring water.