As night fell, the darkness of the surrounding wilderness seemed colder, but the villa of the owner of the farm was brightly lit, and the atmosphere was warm and lively. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a long day of preparation, the dishes are brought into the restaurant, and when the women carry a freshly roasted turkey to the table, everyone begins to enter the restaurant.

The villa's main dining room, which is usually rarely used, is finally full today.

Jeffrey sat down at the head with a smile, looking at the large and small people lined up on either side of the long dining table, looking satisfied. Looking at Emma, Hawaii and Kevin, the old man couldn't help but make up his mind in his heart, and took the time to urge his son to have more children as soon as possible.

Emma is always the most likable little guy in the crowd, and when she saw everyone sitting down, she immediately found the most important person in the restaurant, looked at Jeffrey with big eyes, and said crisply, "Grandpa Jeffrey, are we going to pray?"

"Of course," Jeffrey smiled and nodded, if it weren't for Emma sitting a little far away, she would have reached out and touched the little girl's head.

Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday, so although the men and women in the restaurant have different beliefs, it does not prevent everyone from clasping their hands together and starting to pray before the meal to give thanks for everything that needs to be thankful.

After praying, Jeffrey picked up the knife and personally distributed turkey meat to everyone, and the cafeteria also heard the soft sound of cups, plates and dishes.

After dividing the turkey, Jeffrey noticed that Eric had put several pieces of roast venison on his plate, and smiled and pushed the large porcelain plate full of roast venison on the table in front of Eric, before looking at Joanna who was sitting next to Eric: "So, I heard Eric say in the afternoon that Xia Xia dropped out of school after only one month in school?"

Joanna nodded, carefully poured a glass of juice for her daughter next to her, and replied: "Yes, at the beginning, we put Xia Xia in the first grade, but the teacher said that Xia Xia always behaved very uneasy in class and couldn't concentrate at all, and then tried to let her stay with the third grade child, it was still the same." I consulted with an education expert, and they said it was because Xia Xia was too smart to be around her peers. If you force this to happen, the child will even suffer from anxiety after a long time, so I have to temporarily withdraw her from school. ”

"It's good to be smart," says Jeffrey, "but it's not good for a child to be out of contact with his peers for a long time, and he will become unsociable in the future." ”

"When there are group activities at school, I always take Xia Xia over," Joanna replied, but her expression was still a little distressed: "It's just that the effect is not very good, Xia Xia is not interested in what the children like to do at all." ”

"Joan, you don't need to worry so much at all, geniuses always have to be a little different, I hope my Daniel can be as smart as Xia Xia," Emily on the other side of the table suddenly said, and turned to Hawaii, who didn't seem to hear the adults talk about herself at all, with a wolf grandmother's face: "Xia Xia, how about marrying our Daniel in the future?"

The little girl was immersed in her own world, and from time to time her eyes wandered over the things she was interested in in the restaurant, quickly practicing an interesting theory in her mind.

Colorless, transparent, crystalline, cylindrical, container, silicate, no fixed melting point...... This one is simple.

Male, Director, Rich, 265 Billion, Activist Investor, Playboy, English, Actor, Chinese, High School Student, Orphan, Screenwriter, 28 Years Old, Cleanliness, Lack of Aggression, Conservative Personality, Writer, Mature, Family-oriented, Responsible...... After patiently collecting a full hundred keywords, the little girl suddenly found that there were too many contradictory elements in her father, which was completely illogical.

Still, well, it seems that it can be taken apart and split into two people, or three people?

Seemingly, it's not quite right.

The little girl thought about it seriously, and her interest became more and more intense, and she did not intend to answer Aunt Emily's boring question on the other side. However, noticing that his mother was looking at him gently, he had to cheer up, but he unceremoniously shook his head and refused: "Don't." ”

"Why not?" Emily was not discouraged, but turned to Eric, and said, "Your father has agreed. ”

Eric smiled and shook his head, "This only needs Daniel to be able to impress my family Xia Xia, I don't plan to interfere in my daughter's relationship." ”

Hearing Eric's words, Emily suddenly looked disdainful and said, "This is the most obvious lie I've heard when I've grown up." ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then Chris, Joanna, and Drew, who could understand the subtext of Emily's words, couldn't help but laugh, and even the usually quiet twins lowered their heads to hide the smiles on their faces.

Although confused, Jeffrey also laughed with everyone, and Daniel, who was just a year old who was just turned one year old by Emily's side, heard the laughter around him, and also joined in the laughter, and the atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly became a little more lively.

Only Eric touched his nose helplessly, it seems that Jealous-Daddy's 'stain on life' can't be erased in this life.

After Jeffrey laughed, he noticed the embarrassment on Eric's face, saw that the venison on his plate had almost eaten, and personally put a few pieces on Eric's plate, and took the initiative to help change the topic: "Wild venison is really good, if you like, we can go and hunt a few more tomorrow for you to bring back, in recent years, the surrounding wild deer have been a little overflowing, and often run to the farm in groups to gnaw crops." ”

Eric smiled and nodded, not refusing.

In fact, he wanted to make a few bottles of deer blood wine, but thinking of everyone's possible reaction, he could only give up, and the venison was not bad.

After the lively dinner, it was still early, and because it was the countryside, it was impossible to go out for various Thanksgiving activities like in the city.

So Jeffrey proposed that everyone watch a movie together, although he has been retired for several years, there is naturally no shortage of private screening rooms in Jeffrey's villa, but there are not enough seats, only eight, but it also happens to make everyone more tightly crowded, plus a few temporary chairs, everyone gathers together.

Jeffrey searched among the copies of the film he collected, but what he came up with was Eric's first "Home Alone" himself, which was a perfect bond that everyone could come together, and when they rewatched it after many years, everyone seemed full of interest and a faint memory.

It was lively until late at night, and everyone rested.

Eric unexpectedly woke up a little early in the morning, and the time should not be early, but Virginia next to him was still quietly hugging him. Although it is customary to sleep with three people in East Hampton, since he is a guest at Jeffrey's house, he naturally can't be too blatant.

With the faint morning light that came through the curtains, he looked at the delicate sleeping face of the woman beside him, and wondered if it was because he had eaten too much venison last night, Eric became more and more interested, so he kissed him.

Virginia unconsciously responded to the man's kiss, until Eric couldn't help but slide down, holding the bulging lump on the woman's chest and biting it gently, Virginia woke up, smiled and reached out to push Eric away, looked at the alarm clock at the head of the bed, the woman sat up and said, "It's eight o'clock, it's time to prepare breakfast." ”

Eric tried to drag Virginia back to the bed, saying, "Joan must be up already, we won't say anything later." ”

"I don't want to be laughed at," Virginia glanced at Eric, reached out and took the BRA and began to wear it on her body, the woman had been well satisfied last night, and she didn't have much desire at this time, just looking at Eric hugging her waist and looking like a little boy begging for candy, Virginia's heart softened, but she quickly found another reason, and said: "I still have to call Kevin to get up, it's not good for children to sleep lazy often, and they won't be able to change when they grow up." ”

Eric reluctantly let go of the woman and lay back on the bed, saying, "Kevin will definitely wonder if he is your own when he grows up." ”

Virginia quickly got dressed, got out of bed and took a head rope to tie her hair up simply, lowered her head and kissed the little man who was in an emotional mood, and said with a smile: "As long as it's your own child, I'll treat myself as a stepmother." ”

"Go away, go away," Eric waved in disgust, "I must tell my son that he must not eat the apple you gave him." ”

"Hehe," Virginia laughed, "or should I let Drew come and accompany you?"

"Forget it," Eric said, stretching hard, shutting up sharply, "I'll get up too." ”

Eric and Virginia walked out of the bedroom together, the villa seemed very quiet, Joanna, Emily and the twins were already up and busy in the kitchen, Joanna and the twins were fine, Emily obviously looked like she hadn't slept enough and had to support her diligent daughter-in-law.

The old man's sleep was relatively small, but Jeffrey had a few more drinks last night, and he didn't get up at this time.

After saying good morning, Virginia went to wake up the little ones, and Eric walked out of the villa alone.

Today's fog is very large, and as far as the eye can see, it has become blurry more than ten meters away. Perhaps because of the fog, the temperature is not so low, but the country house surrounded by fog suddenly gives people the feeling of being on an isolated island.

This kind of weather is definitely not suitable for going out for a run, Eric stood in the open courtyard and stretched his body simply, Jeffrey's three pitbulls have accepted Eric's group in the past two days, seeing him out of the villa, one after another out of the kennel, very excited to turn in circles, obviously want to be taken out to slip his legs.

"It's a great atmosphere for a horror movie. ”

Chris's voice sounded behind him, and Eric turned around and said, "yes, but it's only because we've lived in the city for too long, and that's mostly the case in the countryside." ”

With the exception of the coastal metropolises, the population density in other parts of North America is actually very low, and many of the larger inland towns often have only one or two thousand people, and villages and towns of seven or eight families abound.

Chris smiled, sat down on the open-air bench in the courtyard with Eric, and said, "I received an email from Boston last night, they have negotiated settlement terms with several major record companies, and we basically don't have to pay any price, we just need to strengthen the blocking and filtering of pirated music resources." ”

Before the IPO, several major record companies put forward a series of harsh conditions to Yahoo for an infringement lawsuit for pirated music on the Internet, relying on the idea that Yahoo was about to go public and urgently need to resolve litigation disputes, which eventually led Yahoo to give up the idea of reconciling with the major record companies before going public.

After the success of Yahoo's IPO, several major record companies immediately lost their confidence. The other party also knows that after Yahoo loses its constraints, if this kind of lawsuit continues, the possibility of them wanting to take advantage is very low.

Moreover, if an agreement could not be reached with Yahoo as soon as possible to encircle and crack down on pirated music on the Internet, the longer the matter dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to the record industry, so the attitude immediately softened, and on the basis of some conditions that had been agreed by the two sides before Yahoo's IPO, the two sides quickly reached a settlement agreement.

Although the suppression of Internet pirated music will affect the sales of Fireflyer, an MP3 player owned by Firefly Electronics, it is actually in the fundamental interests of the entire industry, including Firefly Electronics. If the record industry goes into complete decline due to piracy, and record companies have no incentive to produce original music, the market for portable players will undoubtedly shrink significantly.

As a result, several major record companies have taken the initiative to lower their profile and propose reconciliation, and Yahoo has also shown a very positive attitude.

However, when Eric heard Chris's words, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Last night, Emily didn't kick you out of the bedroom?"

After everyone finished watching the movie last night, it was already more than ten o'clock, and it was lively for a while, and it was already past eleven o'clock when they dispersed. Although Eric himself often works late into the night, on a special day like this, he really can't imagine Chris checking his email after eleven o'clock.

Chris spread his hands and said, "There's no reason Emily to kick me out of the bedroom, because she was also holding a laptop." ”

"Okay," Eric laughed and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the sample of this year's Victoria's Secret show, how is the editing progress?"

In the first two Victoria's Secret shows, because of the continuous compression of the time difference between the holding of the show and the TV broadcast, the quality of the TV broadcast version of the show inevitably declined. In order to make up for this, this year's Victoria's Secret show, LTD once again relaxed the production time of the TV broadcast version, and the specific broadcast time is scheduled for the beginning of next month.

Chris shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, you can ask Emily later." ”

After a casual chat between Eric and Chris, Joanna came out of the villa and beckoned them to get ready for breakfast, and the two got up together and returned to the villa.

While enjoying a brief break from work in rural Maryland, Jeffrey's Farm was only three days before everyone had to leave on Sunday morning.

Private jets take off from the airport in Frederick City and land at Eric's private airport on Long Island. Chris and Emily rushed to Manhattan with their son, and Eric first sent the woman and the children back to East Hampton, and then spent half a day before returning to Los Angeles with the girl.