19.1 Thanksgiving Saints of New York City
When Du and Suzuki Sawa are more than a month apart and show their love for themselves at NYU's beautiful school, time flies very quickly. At least, that's how the two of them came. So it was the end of the semester, which was the end of November. Because at this time, it will be a very, very important program for the people of Tang Guo - Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day is a unique festival in Tang Country, and at this time, Tang Country will also gather as a family like the Spring Festival in Dongzhou countries. Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday of November every year, and the holiday generally lasts from Thursday to Sunday. At this time, many student clubs in Tongguo University will organize a Thanksgiving dinner for foreign students, or help them connect with Tongkoku families to spend Thanksgiving together. Last year and the year before that, Du Ping's Thanksgiving Day in Tongguo was to participate in the Thanksgiving dinner organized by the school. After Thanksgiving, winter break is about two weeks away. Since it is considered that during the winter vacation, people need to spend important programs such as Christmas and New Year's Day, so the school has set aside more than a month of holiday time for the majority of students.
The advent of Thanksgiving also means another fact that has to be faced, that is, Suzuki Sawa, needs to go back to his aunt's house and share this important show with this old woman who has never been married.
Du Fair, "What, you're going back to Los Angeles City to spend Thanksgiving with your aunt?"
Suzuki Sunwa, "Yes. My aunt is very pitiful alone in the soup country, and I have spent Thanksgiving with her every year in the past few years. And Sand Feather has been taken care of by the girl in Tang Country for the past few years, and the girl treats Sand Feather like her own daughter, and Sand Feather can't abandon her for her own sake!"
"So that's the case?"
Do you want to participate in the Thanksgiving dinner held by the school again this year, like the previous two times?
"If that's the case, how about I go to my aunt's house with you?"
Sunaba Suzuki, "This ......"
Suzuki Sanda didn't agree, and after Du Fair's repeated urging, Suzuki Sanda finally voiced his concerns. Suzuki's aunt has always been celibate, and she has already decided to dedicate her entire years to God. In other words, it is a celibate, fanatical, and religious believer who belongs to the extermination master. So, Suzuki Sawa's aunt has some hatred for men, especially young men.
"I see. β
Suzuki Sawa bowed, "I hope Fair Jun can understand! But she's very kind and very, very nice to Suzuki Sawa. β
Du Pingping, "It's really not going to work this time?"
Suzuki Sand Feather, "Sand Feather hasn't told her about having a boyfriend yet. Sand Feather hopes that after her aunt has a certain amount of psychological preparation, Fair Jun will appear in front of her again. β
There is a very much feeling of a spare tire, and this feeling makes people very insecure.
Suzuki Sawa bowed again, "I hope Fair Jun will understand! They hope to appreciate Fair Jun's talent and character, but in the face of his aunt, Sand Feather has not yet found the method and timing of how to communicate and express himself. β
With that, it feels better again. At least the future father-in-law and mother-in-law still know and approve of this matter. In this way, Du Ping's sense of security has been steadily restored.
"Okay, no problem, please try to accompany your aunt and have a good Thanksgiving holiday!"
Suzuki Sawa, "Thank you!"
The two embraced each other again. Then, in the case of reluctance, Du Ping sent Suzuki Sand Feather away at the school gate. Because Aunt Suzuki Sawa had come to pick up Suzuki Sawa in person, according to Suzuki Sawa's request, Du Ping was only hiding inside the school gate like a thief, staring at their joints and leaving.
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Susan Regan, the head of the Rose Camp Girls' Association, showed up at Du Fair's side, calmly accompanying Du Fair as Suzuki Saba got in her aunt's car to pick her up. A middle-aged woman, feeling that she is about thirty-five to forty years old, has the image of an old-fashioned glasses old woman like Du Ping's imagination. Black like a nun's robeγIf it weren't for the lack of a head hat, Du Ping even thought that a monastery came out of the mother.
Susan waited quietly until Du Ping withdrew his gaze before she began to say hello.
Susan, "Hello, Du Fair!"
"Hello, Susan. β
Susan, "I'm glad you remember me." β
Du Fair," Minister Susan said with a smile. β
Susan, "I really don't understand, the social culture of your Eastern country, in our soup country, girls are very young and their families will encourage them to do some social activities. So it's too normal to have a boyfriend, what's so embarrassing about it, it's the same as spy work. β
"This is my respect for my girlfriend, in the East, respect is actually a kind of love, and there is also giving, giving is also a kind of love." For us, selfless dedication and respect is a very noble quality and is very respected. β
Susan, "It's a cultural generation gap. β
"Yes, it's a cultural generation gap. But I think that in a long-term love, without respect and selfless dedication, it cannot be eternal. It's all the same in that country. β
Susan, "Like, there's some truth. β
"Philosophy knows no borders. β
Susan, "Forget it, don't say these useless words. When I saw you, I suddenly remembered something. β
Du Ping, "What's the matter?"
Susan, "You don't seem to have any activities on Thanksgiving?"
"No, I'm going to attend the school-organized Thanksgiving dinner. β
Susan, "What kind of group meal?"
"Yes, very interesting. β
Susan covered her mouth and chuckled.
"What's wrong?"
Susan, "I didn't expect you, Du, to be fair, you're still Mr. Duckbill." Even if the mouth is dead, it is still so hard. β
"Thank you for the compliment. β
Susan, "I'd like to invite you to my family's Thanksgiving dinner and give me some face, Mr. Duckbill!"
"I'm probably going to be busy that day. β
Susan, "Don't forget, the influence of Camp Rose in the school, I want to know what you did that day, there will be a lot of people who will be happy to report back to me." You don't get along?"
"Well, to be honest, I don't want to go. β
Susan, "I'm a recognized beauty, and it's so sad that you're doing that. β
Du Fair, "It is precisely because you are a beautiful woman that I want to be more clean and self-conscious when the bell is away." β
Susan, "Haha...... Ha...... Are you trying to force me to do a trick?"
Du Pingping, "What trick?"
Susan, "Do you remember the last time you got drunk at our house?"
Susan looked at Du Fair with a smile, and was not in a hurry to wait for Du Fair to recall everything that had happened. That night when Daniel and Henrila went to drink and drink, he woke up in a strange room, and then saw Susan, who had just come home from school.
Du fair, "Did I owe you a favor again?" β
Susan, "It depends on what you think. β
Du Pingping, "Do you want to use this favor?"
Susan, "Of course not! Now it seems that Du Fair's favor is still so precious." β
"Then what are you going to do?"
Susan, "I'll call Daniel Regan." Detective 1st Class Daniel Regan, my older brother. If he invited you to our family's Thanksgiving dinner, would you decline? Let me tell you a secret, the Reagan family is a cautious guy. If you refuse, it means that you will annoy two Reagan people at once! No, it could be three, four, five. Because my father, Frank, and my grandfather, Reagan Sr., have seen you. Are you scared or not? haha...... Ha ......"
Du Pingping knows the situation of Susan's family, Susan not only has an older brother who is a first-class police detective, but also a father who is a police chief, a grandfather who has retired from the police chief, and an older brother who is attending a police academy. This is a police family, and most of the people in the family are engaged in police-related work. This is a traditional police family that gathers in New York City and is very powerful in the police system. To be honest, Du Ping didn't want to offend them, especially just because of some small things.
Du Pingping, "It's really a little difficult!"
Susan, "Alright, I'll pick you up at your dorm room at 4 p.m. on Thursday." Don't be late!"
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It was the middle of the night, and Du Ping was not fully awake that day, and he was in a hurry to leave this strange aspect. There hasn't been much exploration and research into the building. When I came to the home of arguably some of the most powerful people in New York, I found that it was just an inconspicuous two-story building in an ordinary upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Grandpa sat in a rocking chair and shook while looking at Du Ping with great interest. Susan's older brother, who is still in the police academy, is constantly practicing the use of police crutches in the courtyard, and Susan is helping her mother prepare dinner.
Well, another place called Du Ping's surprise that Susan, who was like a princess at school, had to prepare a meal at home. As in the previous families in the East, women were responsible for housework, while men did nothing.
Grandpa came to Du Ping's side with a wine bottle in his hand.
Grandpa, "I've heard of you. β
Du Fair, "Yes. β
Grandpa, "Need a whiskey?"
Du Fair, "I ......"
Before Du Ping refused, Grandpa said again.
Grandpa, "Are you supposed to be 18?"
Du Fair, "Yes. β
Grandpa, "Then no problem!"
A glass square cup, pour a third of the orange liquid and send it to Du Ping's hands.
Grandpa, "Whisky from the mountains of Suguoger, the best whiskey in the world!"
The old man held the wine bottle in his hand and looked at Du Ping expectantly. Du Ping had no choice but to take a shallow sip.
Grandpa, "How's it going?"
Du Fair, "Very good!"
In fact, Du Ping couldn't drink this foreign wine at all.
Grandpa, "Of course, the whiskey in the Golshan Mountains is the best whiskey in the world! By the way, are you Susan's boyfriend?"
Du Ping, "Ahem...... Cough...... Ahem......"
Du Pingping, who was not mentally prepared, was choked by his own saliva all of a sudden. Cough cough incessantly. A glass was handed to Du Ping's hand.
Grandpa, "Take a sip and you'll be fine." β
Du Fair, "Ahem"
After drinking it in one gulp, Du Pingping found that what his grandfather handed to him was not water, but whiskey. So I choked again, but the miraculous thing is that after coughing twice, I really didn't cough anymore.
Grandpa, "Gehr's whiskey cures all diseases! No problem, trust me." β
At this time, Du Ping had already begun to feel a little dizzy, probably due to the fact that he drank too much wine just now.
Du Fair, "Thank you!"
Grandpa, "Okay, you haven't answered me yet, are you Susan's boyfriend." β
Du fair, "No. I have my own girlfriend, but not Miss Susan. β
Grandpa, "Good!"
Grandpa happily patted Du Pingping's shoulder with his big hand, which looked very dry, but was actually very powerful, and made Du Pingping feel painful.
Grandpa, "Regan's girl, how can your boyfriend be a strong and powerful Caucasian guy, if it's a Gehr person, it's even better!
Well, Du Fair was despised by this lovely white old man.
Grandpa, "Do you like to watch baseball?"
"It's okay! The Dongliuqiu people are also very fond of baseball." β
Grandpa, "Do you like that team, are you a fan of that team?"
"What I like is the superstar team of Dongliu Hidden Horses, I have watched their games since I was a child. β
Grandpa, "Tell you, boy, trust me! The Yankees are the best! It has a history of more than 100 years, and it also has the most famous historical events in the history of Tongguo sports. He has won 27 of the 40 World Series games, and the Yankees are the only team in Toni to have a player selected for every defensive position to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame......
At the mention of his favorite baseball team, Grandpa Susan's eyes began to light up.
Grandpa, "Susan!"
Susan's voice came from the kitchen.
Susan, "What's the matter?"
Grandpa, "Bring me my baseball cap!
Grandpa's face turned to Du Pingping, revealing the kind smile that is common on the salesman's face.
Grandpa, "Boy, be a Yankees fan! Trust me, you can't be wrong! The most important thing is that the Reagan family has always been a Yankees fan, historically!"
By this time, Susan had arrived at the two of them with a blue, old-fashioned baseball cap that looked decades old. Grandpa took the baseball cap and put it on Du Ping's head at once.
Grandpa, "My most beautiful granddaughter, Susan, is also the biggest fan of the Yankees! And, boy, you're so handsome in a Yankees hat!"
Susan looked at the two with a smile and complained about her grandfather.
Susan, "Grandpa, are you bullying people again?"
Grandpa, "How is this bullying? I'm just introducing the best baseball team in the country, not the best baseball team in the world, to this lovely young man." You see, we've got a lot of consensus. The Yankees are the best!"
Du Pingping could only cooperate with his grandfather, leaving a stiff smile.
Little by little, Daniel's wife came and joined in the kitchen preparations. Daniel, who called Du Pingping, who still hangs in nightclubs after work, turned out to be married. The kitchen suddenly became a world of three women, and the men were not allowed to enter at all. But two of Reagan's most important members of the family, New York Police Chief Frank Reagan and his son, Daniel Reagan, have not been seen. And the family seems to have become accustomed to this, and no one is in a hurry.
I'm not in a hurry.
Du Ping comforted himself in his heart, and his opposite had been replaced by Susan's second brother, and James Regan, who attended the police academy.
James, "Well, how did you find the clue!"
Out of longing for the future of the police career, this James Reagan is very interested in Du Pingping's recent cracked Manhapur corpse mutilation case, and despite the fact that it is dinner time soon, he pulls Du Pingping to talk about the details of the case.
Are you sure you want to tell this kind of thing now? Or in front of women and girls, when dinner is about to be served, tell this kind of story about the kind of meat that makes people into cubes like food?
Du Ping looked at James suspiciously, and did not speak for a long time. But the hot-blooded young man in front of him didn't seem to understand Du Ping's eyes at all, and his eyes were still full of expectation. However, it seems that grandpa understood.
Grandpa, "James, this is not the place to talk about things. β
"I think so too. β
When Du Pingping thought that this topic was going to end here, his grandfather suddenly put forward a suggestion that Du Pingping did not expect.
Grandpa, "Let's go upstairs to the study! There's a bottle of my treasured whiskey, and it's great to have a drink and listen to the exciting story! That's a very good offer! Let's go now! Linda (Frank's wife), Susan, Naomi (Daniel's wife), we're going to the study for a drink, and Frank and they'll come back to us." β
Susan appeared here, looked at her two family members, and looked at Du Pingping.
Susan, "Du fair, they didn't bully you, did they?"
Grandpa, "Let's not talk much better together, we're about to go upstairs to distribute my treasured bottle of whiskey! I'm old and I don't have a good brain. β
Susan, "Du fair, you come and tell me." β
"It's okay." β
Grandpa, "That's it, you heard it, we're going upstairs for a drink, if there's nothing to do, don't bother us, we're going to talk about some men's conversations." Don't eavesdrop!"