"Why did you go so long?" Charles asked with a light smile when he saw Pepe coming back.

Pepe pouted and said, "A few words of greeting at the door." ”

At this time, the music on the dance floor gradually slowed down, Lilian and Jimmy giggled off the dance floor, and when they saw Pepe, Lilian put her arm on her shoulder, "Honey, go, accompany me to the dressing room." ”

Then, without waiting for Pepe to refuse, he dragged Pepe all the way to the dressing room

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The next day, after Pepe got up early in the morning, said hello to his family, and drove to Chinatown with his youngest brother Xiaohao to see Mr. Peng.

After having lunch at Mr. Peng's place, she sat in the hall and helped to be the little doctor again.

In the midst of his hectic work, Pepe also forgot to look at the time. No sooner had he seen off a patient than Pepe was about to take a break when a call from Charles came.

&――nbsp; "Pell, are you home now?" Charles asked.

"No, in Chinatown, my master's shop." Pepe replied.

Charles had always heard Jimmy talk about Mr. Peng's acupuncture shop in Chinatown, but he had only heard of it. "Your master? The master who taught you Chinese medicine? I heard that he was a miracle doctor from China. ”

Pepe smiled and said modestly: "This is also too exaggerated!" My master doesn't have any miracle doctors, but he doesn't even have a license to practice medicine in the United States, only an acupuncturist's license. By the way, did you call me for something? ”

"Huh, you forgot? Didn't you say that you would transfer a few of the Indian handicrafts you brought back to me? I'll pick you up in Chinatown in a moment, and I'll bring you a Christmas gift in return. Charles said with a smile.

"Ahh "Sorry, sorry! I remember! Hehe, I didn't have those things with me. It's all at home. You don't have to pick me up. I drove myself, huh'

Pepe raised his hand and looked at his watch, then continued with his phone in his hand: 'I'll be ready to go home in a moment, Charles, why don't you come straight to my house in an hour?' ”

“okay！” Charles replied.

After hanging up the phone with Charles, Pepe returned to the backyard of the "Peng's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hall".

Xiao Hao fought for more than ten minutes. After waiting, Pepe explained to Mr. Peng, took Xiaohao out of the "Peng's Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hall", and drove back to the house in Malibu.

As soon as he returned to the house, Xiao Hao went back to his room and played games. It didn't take long for Charles to arrive.

Pepe beckoned Charles into the living room and called Aunt Jean to prepare tea for the guests. Then she said "Wait a minute" to Charles, and went upstairs to her room.

Pepe rummaged through all the remaining Indian artifacts. Pick and choose, this is reluctant. That love.

In the end, she decided to leave behind two of her favorite handicrafts: a set of bone bows and arrows and a large ornament carved with a pack of steppe wolves.

In addition to the two beloved items, there were still a lot of remaining Indian ornaments, and Pepe tried a few times and found that she couldn't carry them all downstairs in one go, so she decided to carry them downstairs in two parts.

She first picked up a few ornaments that looked large at first glance, and went downstairs to the living room, where Charles was already enjoying the coffee prepared by Aunt Jean.

"Charles, come and help me get a hand." Pepe shouted at Charles.

Charles hurriedly put down the coffee cup in his hand, got up and stepped forward, and took the large handful of objects in Pepe's arms.

"You pick it first, I'll go upstairs and pick up the rest." Pepe shook his hand and said to Charles.

"I'll go with you, you have to make two more trips." Charles gently placed the ornaments on the coffee table, and then smiled at Pepe.

"Okay, I'm cheaper for you, so I can take the opportunity to visit the beautiful woman's boudoir!" Pepe nodded, joking with Charles.

The county lord's mother, who has lived in the United States for many years, has actually long regarded the concept of male and female defense that she was taught in her previous life inappropriate. And even in the previous life, the status of women in the Tang Dynasty was much higher than that of all later dynasties. In the years when Pei Pei was a Piao, the most scornful thing was the Taoist theory advocated by the Taoist scholar Cheng Yi for women during the Song Dynasty, "starvation is a small matter, and a loss of festival is a big thing".

If it is said that Cheng Yi saw that there were strong neighbors in the north outside the Song Dynasty at that time, the shame was raging, there were monks and believers who were extravagant with each other, social chaos, and moral chastity values were abandoned and forgotten, and his remarks in response to the helplessness of reality, although Cheng Yi, the county lord at that time, could not agree with Cheng Yi imposing these social responsibilities on women, but she was still able to put herself in her shoes and understand.

But what made the county lord the most eye-catching was the so-called physicist Zhu Xi of the later Southern Song Dynasty. This false Taoist took it as a tool for himself to win public opinion, and widely publicized and advocated it, which led to many tragic endings such as hunger strikes, swallowing gold, hanging themselves, and jumping into wells.

From the point of view of the county lord's mother, Zhu Xi, a false Taoist, is not upright. Ming evidence is that after he became the prime minister, his daughter was widowed less than a year ago and hurriedly remarried. At such a speed, even if you get it today, after deducting the days of mourning for your ex-husband, it is still at the level of flash marriage.

Not to mention Zhu Xi's stealing with his daughter-in-law. The love incident and the "Nani as a concubine" incident! With the daughter-in-law's "stealing. Some descendants said that this may be a rumor forced by Zhu Xi's political enemies, and future generations will not be able to distinguish whether it is true or false. However, the incident of "Nani as a concubine" was personally confessed by Zhu Xi himself to the emperor at that time.

Therefore, the county lord Niangniang, who grew up in a capitalist society in this life, very much identified with the Italian political thinker - Niccolì. Machiavelli's remark about the government is dirty!

Later generations even extended this remark: The political zhì family is dirty!

Of course, these thoughts are just some cranky thoughts after the county lord's mother was reincarnated in this life, and after reading too many books in middle school.

Now. It was only after she agreed that Charles, a gentleman, would go to her boudoir to help with the ornaments. There was just a flash of thought under the joking words she blurted out.

After taking Charles upstairs into his boudoir. Pepe pointed to the various Indian artifacts piled up on the computer desk, large and small, and said to Charles, "Everything is there." You can carry me downstairs. ”

Charles swept Pepe's boudoir around, and found the bone bow and arrow and wolf pack wood carving ornaments that Pepe had put away on the sofa for her private collection, "These two carvers are very good!" Charles walked over and picked up the quiver on the couch and played with it.

"I can't give you these two!" Pepe hurriedly stepped forward, snatched the quiver from Charles's hand, and after putting it back in its place, she pulled Charles back to the computer desk, pointed to the pile of large and small objects, and said, "Only these are you can choose!" ”

Charles smiled. patted the top of the girl's head in front of him, and before Pepe could wave it away, he withdrew his hand, turned around and picked up the ornaments, and took the lead out of the girl's boudoir.

Back in the downstairs living room, put all the objects in his hand on the coffee table, Charles was not in a hurry to choose, but picked up the cowhide bag he brought and placed on the sofa, took out a beautifully wrapped gift box from the bag, and handed it to Pepe.

"It's a Christmas gift in return. Open it up and take a look. Charles said to Pepe with a smile.

Pepe took it and curiously opened the wrapping paper of the gift box, which turned out to be a Barbie doll.

Open the box and take it out. This Barbie doll is a rare oriental doll with black hair and black eyes, and she also wears a set of beautifully made royal blue embroidered Hanfu.

With this one in his hand, this is already the sixth Hanfu Barbie that Pepe has received from Charles.

"Thank you! Charles, I love it! Pepe played with the latest Oriental Barbie doll and smiled.

"If you like it!" Charles smiled faintly.

"Originally, you were only allowed to pick three things, for your sake of being so intimate, you are allowed to pick one more!" The county lord pointed to the various handmade ornaments placed on the coffee table and said generously.

Charles looked at the cute smiling face of the girl in front of him, "Hehe, then I thank you for your generosity." He couldn't help but tickle his hands, and smiled and reached out to flick the girl's head.

"Charles-" The girl cried out angrily, and flicked Liuhai on her forehead, "Do you want to try my Chinese kung fu?" Pepe raised his fist at Charles.

Charles ignored the small fist stretched out in front of him, sat on the sofa with a smile, and picked up one ornament after another and picked it up.

Pepe looked at Charles's calm smiling face, and withdrew his small fist angrily, "You pick slowly, I'll go to the kitchen and make myself a cup of cocoa." ”

Pepe walked into the kitchen and shouted "Aunt Jean", Aunt Jean had just finished baking cookies, saw Pepe come in, and took a plate and let Pepe take it out to serve the guests.

When Pepe returned to the living room with cocoa and cookies, he saw that his old lady had come back at some point, smiling and chatting with Charles.

"Grandma, grandpa didn't go out with you, what about others?" Pepe walked over, placed the tray on the coffee table, and sat cross-legged on the couch.

"Your grandfather went to Kangmei, saying that he was picking up the young man named Austin last night." The old lady replied with a smile.

When Charles heard this, he quietly raised his eyes and looked at the old lady.

"How can you run to the company to pick up people?" Pepena was puzzled, she had personally experienced the series of divine turns last night, and she hadn't heard her grandfather say that she would ask someone to the company.

The old lady smiled and continued to explain: "When you went out in the morning, your grandfather had a phone call with the young man named Austin, and it was said that Kangmei was going to negotiate with Austin's company today about a listing counseling agreement or something else, and your grandfather said, just wait for the negotiation to end, and go directly to Kangmei to pick people up." ”

As she spoke, the old lady got up and shouted to the kitchen, "Ah Qin—"

Aunt Jean poked her head out of the kitchen.

"I told you to go to the Chinese supermarket in the afternoon to buy everything, have you bought all the things?" The old lady asked.

"Don't worry!" Aunt Jean replied with a smile as she made an OK gesture before retracting her head back into the kitchen.

When Pepe was talking to the old lady just now, Charles had been sitting on the sofa, looking very attentive and picking on the coffee table.

At this time, he seemed to have made a choice, and took three exquisitely carved ornaments and a unique pendant and said to Pepe with a smile: "Little Peel, that's it, you calculate, how much money I want to give you?" ”

In Lao Mei, many couples have clear accounts between them, not to mention that Pepe and Charles are just friends. Besides, this is not a gift, Charles also said at the beginning that he asked Pepe to resell it to him by way of a sale.

Therefore, Pepe didn't be polite to Charles, she did a quick mental arithmetic, and after removing the odds, she reported a whole number to Charles.

Charles nodded, took out his wallet, counted a few Franklins and gave them to Pepe.

Then, with a frown, he looked at the four items he had chosen, looked up and said to Pepe, "Little Peel, can you do a favor?" Find me a bigger bag, I didn't drive here, these four things are not light, I'm afraid I won't fall when I carry it all the way back. ”

“okay！” Pepe staggered towards the kitchen, shouting as she walked, "Aunt Qin, help me see if there are any bigger bags in the kitchen?" ”

When he saw the girl's back disappear into the kitchen, Charles turned his gaze to the old lady on the side and smiled at the old lady, "Maria (the old lady got a foreign name after coming to the United States), do you have any guests tonight?" No wonder I smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen as soon as I arrived. ”

As he spoke, Charles lowered his eyelids slightly, with a hint of loneliness, and said, "My parents called me in the afternoon and said that they had made a temporary appointment with someone and had a dinner invitation tonight." Little Jimmy went out in my car again in the afternoon, and I heard him say that he had asked a girl to go to the movies and would not come back for dinner. Alas~ Tonight, I will be the only one at home to have dinner. ”

The old lady, who couldn't see the handsome guy's grievances, immediately spoke: "Don't go back for a while, you have dinner at my house!" ”

A smile appeared on the corner of Charles's mouth, and he looked at the old lady with sincere eyes and said, "Great, Maria, thank you for the invitation, I haven't eaten at your house for a long time, what's the dish tonight?" ”

When Pepe came out of the kitchen with a big bag, he heard the old lady enthusiastically introducing Charles to the various home-cooked dishes he had prepared tonight. (To be continued......)