Chapter 8: LaBeouf and Liu Han
LaBeouf was a well-known boxer in his youth, but he eventually managed to leave his country, where he had gained a lot of fame, because his wife was a Jew, and the Orthodox Christians had been very discriminatory against Jews since the time of Tsarist Russia.
After a lot of hardships to come to the United States and settle in Los Angeles, LaBeouf and his wife have given birth to two beautiful daughters, and the wife has also shown the wisdom of the Jews and successfully became a very famous lawyer, LaBeouf, who is engaged in boxing coaching, loves his two daughters who are nearly ten years apart, but what he never expected is that his eldest daughter Nasha finally chose a tall and handsome Oriental. LaBeouf is not discriminating against Chinese, on the contrary, the grandfather of RaBeou's husband and wife also received help from Chinese in World War II and lived in China for a period of time, Dr. LaBeouf is just quite disgusted with the political system of this oriental motherland, or because of his own experience, so he is not optimistic about this political system, and it can even be said that because of his love for his daughter, he owes no favor to this oriental, and what he didn't expect is that his daughter finally left the United States for this oriental, This made him even more angry with this Oriental, and he felt that next time he met this Oriental, he should let this kid have a good taste of his "Iron Fist of the Don River".
At the end of September, LaBeouf received a call from his daughter, saying that he would come to see him in mid-October with the Oriental who had not drunk vodka for half a year, and that LaBeouf was ready to practice his fists that had not yet grown old, and that he wanted to let the Oriental feel the enthusiasm of the descendants of the Don Cossacks.
Los Angeles is at its coolest in October, a city on the edge of the Pacific Ocean that has risen from oil, but is world-famous for Hollywood, and it's also a sports city. The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics allowed Chinese on the other side of the ocean to know and understand this "city of angels", and generations of legendary superstars of the Los Angeles Lakers made this already star-studded city even more star-studded.
At Los Angeles International Airport, LaBeouf, his wife and youngest daughter, who had just arrived at the airport parking lot in his car, were ready to pick up his eldest daughter and son-in-law who had returned from the distant ocean across the ocean.
LaBeouf took out a pair of boxing gloves from the trunk when he got out of the car, and his lawyer's wife said helplessly: "Honey, are you really going to give our daughter and son-in-law a 'surprise'?" ”
LaBeouf, with a gloomy face and a wordless, walked straight to the airport.
Li Rui and Nasha took a long vacation, and after painstakingly obtaining a passport and visa for Liu Han to go to the United States, they flew to Los Angeles via Shanghai. After more than 12 hours of flight, Li Rui and his entourage did not know that their father-in-law had prepared a big gift for themselves, and of course, LaBeouf did not expect that his daughter would also prepare a "big gift" for himself. Li Rui plans to settle Liu Han in the United States first, and when everything goes well, he will return to China to do the aftermath work, and he is also ready to find a job as a coach in the United States.
Liu Han, who was flying for the first time, was very excited, and spent most of the twelve hours looking at the sky outside the window, and he was very curious about how this big iron guy flew into the sky.
When LaBeouf saw the tall Li Rui dragging the suitcase into view, he put the boxing gloves on his hands, but when he saw the beautiful belly slightly bulging figure next to Li Rui, he couldn't help but walk up quickly to give his daughter a big hug, completely forgetting the boxing gloves on his hands at this time.
Nasha saw her parents and sister also burst into tears with excitement, but when she saw LaBeouf with red eyes and gloves walking over quickly, she was a little scared, she was afraid that her father would really beat her husband, so Nasha hurried a few steps to Li Rui's body to block Li Rui.
"Dad, did you just finish training?" Nasha, who hugged LaBeouf tightly, said something that embarrassed LaBeouf.
"You little bad chick, is this what you surprised me?" LaBeouf, who still had gloves on his hands, didn't dare to hug his daughter too hard, for fear of hurting his little grandson.
Getting together again after four years is always full of tears of joy, and Liu Han, who watched all this, also remembered his grandmother, he had never seen his parents, so he felt that his grandmother was his only relative, and now his grandmother is gone, which makes Liu Han can't help but have a sour nose.
"Oriental boy, I originally planned to surprise you on the spot." As he spoke, LaBeouf raised his fist, which was still wearing gloves.
"But for the sake of taking good care of my daughter, I'll forgive you, who is that kid behind you?" LaBeouf raised questions about Liu Han's identity.
"LaBeouf, he's the second reason why I'm coming to the U.S. this time, the first one is because of Nasha." Li Rui wisely put Liu Han in a secondary position.
"His name is Liu Han, he is an orphan, he has a great basketball talent, and I want to take him to George's to try."
"Hi, hello, my name is Liu Han, and I am eighteen years old this year." Liu Han duly greeted the LaBeouf family in English, which also had some local accents.
"Let's go, let's go home." The return of his daughter made LaBeouf feel good.
When everyone wanted to take the car, there was trouble, LaBeouf's Cadillac only had five seats, and Liu Han wanted a total of six people, and finally LaBeouf's wife Lily asked LaBeouf to take Liu Han to take a taxi home.
"Boy, what's your name, it's hard to remember your Oriental name." LaBeouf, who was sitting in a taxi with Mr. Liu, asked in English, which still has a strong Russian accent.
"Oh, my name is Liu Han, you can call me Han, Mr. LaBeouf." In fact, Liu Han only understood the first half of the sentence.
"Your English is so ugly, boy, you have to study hard in the United States in the future. Do you play basketball like that guy from Li Rui? As soon as LaBeouf finished speaking, the taxi driver burst out laughing.
"Well, yes, sir, I just started learning basketball with Uncle Li not long ago." Liu Han only understood the second half of the sentence this time.
"I like basketball, but I don't like the Lakers, they're so, and I like the Detroit Pistons, that's the men's team. Seriously, the NBA is getting worse and worse now, it's not tough at all, men should be tougher, like rocks, and everyone who dares to touch me will be killed. You know the Detroit Pistons, right? I see you're pretty strong, you know boxing, right? Boxing is a man's sport, and you should go to boxing to help you be tougher on the court later on. LaBeouf's series of words with a thick accent directly blinded Liu Han, and he basically didn't understand what it meant. However, Liu Han remembered the trick given to him by Li Rui, and Li Rui instructed Liu Han to say "Pardon?" directly when he encountered all the words he didn't understand in the United States.
“Pardon?”
"Whew, ****--, I knew that Li Rui's kid would definitely teach you to say that. The first time I saw him, he was just like you, a pardon sentence by sentence, damn it, I couldn't help but want to beat him up when I thought of it. ”
“Pardon?” Liu Han continued to ask.
"OK, OK, Stop, I won't ask you any more at this point, but you have to remember that this is the United States, you have to abide by the laws and rules of the United States, and don't make trouble for yourself and Li Rui, understand?"
"Pa, yes, Mr. LaBeouf." Liu Han looked at LaBeouf's raised fist and held back the words that followed.
LaBeouf's home is a standard American-style middle-class villa, with a three-story white house with a small garden and a simple basketball hoop in the afternoon.
By the time LaBeouf and Liu Han's taxi arrived at LaBeouf's house, the others had already arrived.
"Sixty dollars, sir." Said the Indian driver who drove the car.
"Your English is worse, Indian boy." LaBeouf is a man of grudges.