Chapter Ninety-Six: Christmas Eve
That day's game, as if nothing had happened, the days were still going on, Jiang Hai was also doing a life of drunkenness and dreams every day, of course, this adjective was just Xu Wei, Fuyuan and others who were sour and imposed on him.
Jiang Hai prefers to replace these four words with ' It's boring', it stands to reason that in his impression, there are a lot of entertainment for rich people, such as bullying women, bullying women, bullying women and bullying women, important things to say three times, and then not too important things, go out and pretend to be 13, go racing a car, gamble, drink, or cross the line, to smoke something illegal or something, cough, don't get me wrong, there are more illegal things in the United States, first of all, Red Bull is illegal, and cough syrup can only be purchased with a hospital prescription, and ordinary people don't have to buy it in pharmacies。
In Jiang Hai's view, the life of a rich person should be...... Racing a car, pulling a few girls in the car, drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, going to Las Vegas for a few days...... Well, aside from drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, the rest is pretty reliable.
But it's a pity, Jiang Hai's character doomed him to be impossible.
His daily routine is very simple, get up, wash, if it snows, go out to help shovel the snow, if not, just punch at home, and then eat at noon, go down to the original activity is to go to the river to fish, but since the last time, after not fishing, his activity has changed again, that is, to get a basketball court, indoor!
Jiang Hai is indeed too boring, he really has nothing to do, in fact, when he was in Bingcheng before, in winter, he didn't have anything to do, he stayed at home, then watched anime, watched TV, and the day passed.
It's just that he's not the only one who is just as boring, so every once in a while, his friends will still come to play with him.
But after arriving at the American imperialists, it seems that he is the only idler in the whole world, there are many people in his manor, but they all have something to do, and occasionally have a day off, they prefer to stay at home, there is no way, there are no peers, the only ones who are the same age are Bell and Harriman, but Harriman is unlikely to play with him.
As for Bell, this is a crazy military enthusiast, cough, crazy former soldier, as long as he rests, he has to take out his collection of guns and take care of them all, some people say that it is normal to take care of guns, and if you don't take care of them for a long time, the guns will break, but the problem is that he also has some too many guns, more than 20 of them, rifles, submachine guns, pistols, shotguns...... Almost all the guns that Jiang Hai knows here, and there are even antique guns, and when he finishes taking care of them, it will be dark, and he will go out to play a fart.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Hai has been thinking that when he recruits people again, that is, when he recruits sailors and winemakers, he must not find an old man again, and he must find a few more young people, otherwise he will be too bored.
Fortunately, if he lives in his house, if he wants to be alone, he will have to go crazy! As for going to town to make friends, Jiang Hai said he wasn't too interested.
Jiang Hai is a sullen person, and he belongs to the kind of person who takes the initiative to talk, talk, and make friends with him, then he will be happy to talk, talk, and make friends with this person, but if he takes the initiative to make friends with others, it will be difficult.
As for the occasion of the bar, to be honest, if no one takes him there, then he is unlikely to go in this life.
But fortunately, recently his attention has shifted to the construction of the basketball court.
Since Jiang Hai had the idea of building a basketball court in front of his home, he talked to Robbins about it the next day.
Regarding Jiang Hai's idea, Robbins said that there is no problem, if he wants to build a basketball court, he doesn't need to wait until the spring to start construction again, just change a warehouse, and just build a warehouse again.
Jiang Hai's manor was originally built for the integration of animal husbandry, fishing, and wine.
And these three things, no matter which one they are, have separate storage space, and the wine needs a cellar naturally.
Beef and fish need some cold storage, these cold storage can be turned into a basketball court with a little modification, after all, in Robbins's view, there is no need to build too luxurious things for his own play, there is electricity, water, and heating here.
All it takes is a small makeover, a shower, and then some wooden flooring where the basketball court needs to be built, which is a bit of a hassle, but it's not a hassle.
As for the basket, it is the simplest thing, you can buy it, a basket is not two or three hundred US dollars, and it is also responsible for home delivery, plus installation, Jiang Hai has a venue, just get two, it is really convenient.
Jiang Hai doesn't care if it's particularly beautiful, at least there is a place for him to play basketball now, and the lights must be very bright.
Since it has been decided to build, the rest of the things will be much simpler, although Jiang Hai can't do it, but Robbins and their cowboys are hands-on little experts, taking advantage of the rest time, they first helped Jiang Hai to build up the walls and separate rooms that should be smashed, and then went to order a batch of large floors, install the floor, just let Jiang Hai get it himself, as for the lights of the ceiling and the like, as well as the renovation of the inner room, naturally Robbins and them helped.
Unconsciously, another five days passed in a hurry, according to Jiang Hai's estimate, there were three or five more days, and it was estimated that his basketball hall would be completed, but today, although they rested, they did not go to the basketball hall to continue working.
Because today, it is the 'official holiday' of the American imperialist people, Christmas Eve!
In the United States, Christmas is the same as the Spring Festival in China, it is a day of family reunion.
As early as the 23rd, Jiang Hai had already given the employees a holiday, but in fact, Bell was the only one who really left the manor, there was no way, the employees in Jiang Hai's manor actually had nowhere to go.
Harriman has no family, Burke Dahler and Edward Anderson are divorced, and the family is very estranged from them, so they can be regarded as having no family, Robbins never mentions his family, and he doesn't think about it very much, after all, if there is a family, then when Jiang Hai comes here, it will not be just him, but there is a family waiting here, as for the Philippons, they have no family on them, but they still have children, and their children are going to come back to see them, so after Jiang Hai announced the holiday, only Bell went home for the holiday, Jiang Hai's holiday this time was not short, he could wait until January 2 and come back.
As for the others, Jiang Hai directly announced that it was divided into two waves, and the Philippon family naturally wanted their family to celebrate the festival together, and Jiang Hai and the bachelors, they would celebrate the holiday in Jiang Hai's house tonight, and as for tomorrow's Christmas, then everyone would go to his villa together.
Early this morning, the whole manor was very busy, early, Robbins and they went to Jiang Hai's forest with Philemon, and one of them cut down a pine tree and came back, this is the Christmas tree, the things to be decorated for Christmas, Mrs. Philemon has already prepared, because in this manor, no one has children, so there is no need to prepare Christmas gifts.
As for Jiang Hai, after he got up, he prepared what they were going to eat tonight with Harriman, Burke Dahler and Edward Anderson, compared to the full set of food made by Mrs. Philmont, Jiang Hai and they did not have such skills.
So they can only do what they are best at, for a while, although the residential area is noisy, but the festive atmosphere gradually makes Jiang Hai feel a trace of warmth.
Christmas Eve is a continuation of Christmas, and according to legend, the origin of this holiday is because of the belief in Jesus in the West.
Legend has it that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin to a mother Mary, and God sent a messenger Gabriel to tell Jesus in a dream that his father, well, his nominal father, Joseph, told him not to want Mary because she was pregnant out of wedlock, but to marry her, and then named the child Jesus, and the ghost knows what Jesus thought about his nominal father, and he agreed anyway, probably because he loved this woman too much, but when Mary was about to give birth, the ruling Roman government at that time had a young moth.
They started the census and asked all the people to go to Bethlehem and declare their household registration, but Joseph and Mary had to obey it, God was too old or the butcher's knife of the Romans, and it was closer to them.
So they arrived at Bethlehem, and when they arrived it was Christmas Eve, and they did not find a hotel to spend the night, but spent the night in a stable, and the first half of the night was Christmas Eve, and in the second half of the night, Jesus was born, which was Christmas.
Of course, birthdays vary from church to church, with Catholics on January 7 and Orthodox on January 7.
As the world's largest and second largest sect, the US imperialist government is obviously still very good at doing things, and the winter vacation time is from mid-December to mid-January.
Jiang Hai is a standard atheist, uh, it should be, anyway, even if he believes, he can't believe in this kind of foreign religion.
In China, there are many people who celebrate this foreign festival, but basically this festival is not to celebrate Jesus' birthday, but the day of dating and confession, in other words, in fact, Christmas Eve, is not peaceful at all.
Of course, there are many serious things to live in the United States, in fact, Christmas Eve, Christmas and Carnival Eve, every night is different, Christmas Eve is to spend with the family, you can't go out to play with others, and no one will go to the door on this day, Christmas is spent with relatives and friends of the family, this can be an outsider, and the carnival night is actually a day to go out to play, in fact, Jiang Hai didn't know much before, these are all taught by Robbins.
While everyone was in the room preparing for the holiday, several car horns rang out.
**************
Today's second update, sent in a row!