Nina's attendance at the banquet represents the openness of the relationship between Magic7 and the governor's family.

This makes perfect sense, and for some people it even comes out of nowhere.

After the Christmas holidays, the executives exercised their options.

This Christmas, Evan had an ordinary life, there were no special surprises, and the gifts he gave were all happily accepted.

On Christmas Eve, Evan and Audrey went to church to see a ballet, which was organized by Mrs. Selena, which made up for last year's regrets.

The only fly in the ointment is that there is no snow to create an atmosphere on Christmas Eve this year.

On Christmas Day, after the five siblings divided the gifts, Virginia went out. Evan knew she was going to meet her classmates.

As for Evan himself, he went to Chester's house, and when he came back, he stayed at home and was "bullied" by his twin sister in turn.

The reason why she wasn't with Audrey was because she also made an appointment with a friend today.

She's going shopping with Carol.

Evan thought that Audrey and the others would meet Virginia in a store by accident.

Sacramento's business district is also small.

Albert and Carl arrived at the house near noon, and they were left at the mansion to have lunch with the Warrens.

In the afternoon, the bored Evan and Robert compete to twist the Rubik's Cube, and are defeated by Robert, who knows how to do it. Evan thus loses Robert a Rubik's Cube, plus a blank "check".

Seeing this, the twins also have to compete with Evan. Evan deliberately did not agree, and was suppressed on the couch by the two of them. In the end, Evan had to "reluctantly" agree, and as long as the sisters played and sang a song to him, he would also give them a "check".

The sisters immediately high-fived and then played and sang a Christmas song to Evan with great displeasure.

However, Evan was not annoyed by this, this was deliberately sent out by him.

When the sisters had finished their performance, Evan sat down at the piano and played it in a way that Dora had never heard before.

After only listening to a short paragraph, they knew that it was a good piece of music.

After about four minutes, when Dora was about to start asking, Evan didn't stop, but continued to play from the beginning.

With the first practice, this one is obviously much smoother.

At the same time, to the sound of the piano, Evan began to sing.

"When I was young

I'd listen to the radio

Waiting for my favorite songs......"

Evan's voice is not very good, and he has no special singing skills, but as soon as the lyrics came out, Dora and Dorothy were deeply intrigued.

As soon as the song was finished, Dora and Dorothy stood up to Evan and begged him to record the score and lyrics.

Nina, who didn't know when she came to the piano room, let out a "uh-huh" to stop the sisters from messing around.

She looked at Evan and asked, "New tune?"

Evan nodded.

"The song is good, it's good, but the lyrics come out of your mouth, which is a bit out of place. ”

After a small comment, Nina left.

Dora didn't care if she violated the rules or not, and as soon as Nina left, she grabbed Evan's arm and shook it.

"Hurry, hurry, or I'll knock on your door at six o'clock tomorrow morning. ”

While shaking, Dora threatened.

In the face of this pediatric threat, Evan smiled contemptuously and said, "Dora, your trick is useless, let's not say that you can't get up at six o'clock by yourself, let me tell you, at school, I get up before six o'clock every day!"

The sisters were shocked when they heard this, and Dorothy even covered her mouth and looked Evan up and down carefully, as if to confirm whether the person in front of her was her brother.

He hadn't gotten up before seven o'clock.

Although the tricks of the past were useless, Dora was not a person who would give up easily, she rolled her eyes, grabbed Evan's arm and said, "You just gave me a 'check', and now I ask to cash it!"

"Are you sure?" Evan wanted to make her think about it, "You know, I said this 'check' could grant any wish, as long as I could." ”

Dora nodded violently, not at all remorseful.

In her mind, Evan's so-called "check" was not something precious.

After thinking about it, Evan sighed, pinched Dora's face, and said, "Forget it, I'll give it to you this time!"

Dora said: "No, I can use it when I say it, I won't use it in the future anyway, hurry up and write it, I'll get you a pen!"

With that, Dora hurried to Earle's study and asked him for paper and pen.

Evan shook his head helplessly.

After finishing the lyrics and composition on the piano cover, Evan gave up his seat, and Dora eagerly sat down.

Evan did not disturb his enthusiastic sisters, and as he left the piano room, Earl called him into the study.

Earle's study is small in space, with a desk, a few sofas and bookcases taking up most of the space, and black-and-white photographs of previous illustrious governors hanging on the wall, as well as Earle's own photographs.

When Evan came in, Earl, who was sitting at his desk, took off his glasses and asked, "Old Frisman, is it okay?"

Evan walked over to his desk, took a Reynolds ballpoint pen from Earl's pen holder, and replied, "Don't worry, there's no problem at all." ”

"Old Freesman just lacks a little fame, not technology. ”

"That's good!" Hearing Evan say this, Earl nodded in relief, as an old friend for decades, he didn't want his son to pit the old man.

Earl put his glasses back on, and Evan asked, "What are you looking at, Kumon?"

"It's a holiday, it's a break, and you should pay attention to the combination of work and rest. ”

Earl didn't hear Evan's advice, "This is from your Uncle William Noland, I need to see it." The chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, Mr. Robert Taft, wants to go under the knife against the Wagner Act and is seeking opinions from all sides. ”

Instead of asking the chairman what he wanted to do, Evan asked, as always, with an uninterested expression, asking, "Is there anything else?"

Earl waved his hand, and Evan pursed his lips, consciously silent, and left without inserting the ballpoint pen back.

As Evan left the study with the pen in one hand, Earl glanced up at the pen holder, then at the door, and shook his head slightly.

Ballpoint pens are a hot commodity right now, and although they are expensive ($12.5 a Renault in Evan's case), they are selling well and have been crazied by consumers for the past two years.

However, at this time, the ballpoint pen was not very mature, and the ink performance and nib performance were not good enough, so recently the ballpoint pen market has shown signs of saturation, and consumer interest has dropped significantly.

The first commercially produced ballpoint pen was invented by the Englishman Birco, who launched a brand called Birome. Evan's Renault is a product launched by American entrepreneur Milton Reynolds after using the Birome ballpoint pen himself and thinking it had a great future, so he redesigned it to circumvent Biro's patent.

However, Evan didn't know any of the above, and he took the ballpoint pen for fun and did it casually, and secondly, he thought about whether to make ballpoint pens and post-it notes into a stationery product line in the future.