23. Eggs were given (sorry, it's late)
April 20, the annual Easter Day.
From before dawn in the early hours of the morning, Kevin Hughes, the owner of the 'Hughes convenience store' on the side of the main street of the town, heard a lot of noise at the intersection next to him, as if someone was manipulating something.
Considering that it was Easter, Hughes didn't think much about it, and he guessed that it should be government workers and volunteers installing some props.
Seeing that the time was a little past five o'clock, Hughes also got up from the bed, and his wife opened her eyes in a daze and asked, "Honey, why do you get up so early?" ”
Hughes kissed his wife on the cheek dotingly, and said, "Silly girl, I have to put chocolate in the eggs on their beds while the children are not awake." ”
After getting dressed, Hughes quietly entered the small bedroom with the gifts for the children, and looked at the two sleeping children, he smiled in a low voice of satisfaction: "What two angels, thank the Lord for giving them to me and Vivian." ”
As soon as Qiē was ready, Hughes opened the door of the convenience store without having anything to do, so that the noise coming from the street was even louder, and he went out to take a look, and was immediately surprised.
I saw that the previously deserted and lonely streets became very lively, and the sky over the entire intersection was almost filled with easter eggs!
These eggs are balloons with a radius of about 20 centimeters, colorful and colorful, floating in the air and blown by the wind, like a sea of eggs.
At the side of the intersection, there was a young man Hughes who didn't know who was debugging the speaker equipment, and the noise was coming from it.
In addition, a few people continue to inflate the egg balloons with air pumps, but they stuff something into them before popping them up each time.
Hughes was looking curiously when he heard someone calling him, "Kevin, I'm bothering you, aren't you?" I'm sorry about that. ”
Following the voice, Hughes realized that it was Attorney Auerbach, the legend of Farewell Town, who was talking to him, and hurriedly said, "Oh, Mr. Auerbach, you are so polite, nothing, I am just curious what this is doing." ”
Auerbach walked over with a smile, pulled up the young man on the ground and said, "This is Qin, the grandson of Old Qin, hey, Qin, this is Kevin, the basketball player in our town." ”
Naturally, it was Qin Shiou who debugged the speaker just now.
Qin Shiou shook hands with Hughes, the latter was more than 1.9 meters old, about 30 years old, with thick bones, solid muscles, and especially slender legs.
"You're Qin? Ha, man, you've been a hot topic lately, you're from mysterious China, aren't you? Welcome, welcome, welcome to Farewell Town. Hughes laughed, "But I want to know, what are you guys up to?" ”
Qin Shiou introduced himself, and then said: "This is a good activity in our China, called smashing golden eggs, as for what it does, then please forgive me, this can be kept secret." ”
Hughes didn't care, laughed, and stepped forward to help Qin Shiou debug the speakers.
It wasn't until six o'clock that there were more people on the streets, and the weather was fine today, and the morning sun was surging, which quickly swept away the cold left by the night in the far north.
As people took to the streets, convenience stores in various malls were opened, and sweets related to chocolate custard were placed in the most prominent places, and all kinds of sweets were placed on the shelves when looking through the windows.
Qin Shiou celebrated Easter for the first time, and he was very curious about Yiqiē, so he went to Hughes's convenience store.
Hughes enthusiastically brewed him a cup of coffee, and seeing that Qin Shiou was interested, he introduced him to the candy for sale: "There are about two kinds, the small one is called Fang Dan candy, which is one inch long, it has a layer of chocolate on the outside, and a sweet and soft dough on the inside, and the price is only 10 cents." ”
"The other is an empty egg, which is the guy in front of you who is similar to a duck egg, but in fact, there is nothing in it, just a chocolate shell, if you want to eat it, you can break it and eat chocolate chips."
Qin Shiou understood for a while, and when he went out, he saw some children curiously surrounding the intersection to see the floating balloon pile, so he bought a bunch of fonde candy and chocolate eggs, walked over and distributed them to the children, and these children were immediately elated.
There is little activity on Easter morning, and after lunch, the Easter parade begins when the weather warms up.
The town of Farewell was relatively small and had a small population, so the procession was small, only fifty or sixty people, dressed in robes and carrying crosses, walking barefoot through the streets, cheering at the onlookers every time they passed the doors of their homes.
Auerbach introduced to Qin Shiou that the marchers pretended to be Christian historical figures and sang hymns to celebrate Jesus' resurrection.
After the procession circled the main street of the town, it went to the church at the easternmost end of the town, and Auerbach explained to Qin Shiou: "Next, the congregants go to the church to be baptized, and then put on their new robes, celebrate the new birth of Christ, and then clean their dwellings, which is a bit like your New Year." ”
Qin Shiou smiled: "Yes, it is indeed very similar." ”
The two walked towards the church together, and the road was littered with lily petals, mostly musk lilies, and the fragrance of this flower was so strong that the whole street seemed to be turned into a garden.
The closer they got to the church, the more crowded the crowd became, and suddenly a young man in his twenties walked up to Qin Shiou and handed over a red egg.
Qin Shiou thought that this was some kind of gift, so he took it in his hand, Auerbach laughed, and hurriedly leaned into Qin Shiou's ear and whispered: "This is a show of love egg, man, are you sure you want to accept the show of love from this cute young man in front of you?" ”
As soon as he heard this, Qin Shiou was almost scared to pee, do you have this saying next door? He hadn't found it on the Internet before.
As a pure master, Qin Shiou's sexual orientation was naturally fine, so when Auerbach finished speaking, he immediately returned the red egg to the young man.
The young man looked disappointed, and Auerbach squeezed his eyes at Qin Shiou, and said, "This is a handsome guy, boy, looking at his eyes, they look like sapphires; Look at his skin, it's as smooth as satin......"
Qin Shiou saw that the white young man was still looking at him, so he helplessly put his hand away and said, "Sorry, man, I am Chinese, we can't intermarry with foreigners, otherwise I will be expelled from the family." ”
The white young man left in disappointment when he heard this, Qin Shiou wiped his cold sweat, damn it, has his charm reached the point of killing both men and women? Why didn't I find it in China before?
The church in Farewell Town is not small, covering an area of more than 2,000 square feet, with a pointed roof with a cross on it, and the main body of the building is made of wood, which looks unique.
However, this church must be quite old, and there are traces of repair in many places on the exterior walls, and some of the colored windows are broken, which can only be repaired with colored paper.
When you walk in, you can find more problems, such as the tables and chairs are old, and the Bible paintings on the walls are faded.
When he entered the church, Auerbach stood up solemnly, and he lined up with Qin Shiou to be baptized, and when the latter stood under the statue of Jesus, he crossed his fingers with his hands and ten fingers, and began to pray with his eyebrows bowed:
"Jesus God must bless me, bless me with the ability of the heart of the ocean not to disappear, bless me with more money in the future, as long as I earn the first 100 million in my life, I will definitely come to reshape your golden body - ah, no, it is to renovate the church for you."
Seeing Qin Shiou praying with his eyes closed devoutly, the priest in charge of the baptism smiled, but if he knew what this kid was thinking, it was estimated that he would directly smash Qin Shiou's brain with the baptism basin.
After the baptism, it was the beginning of the Easter event, Qin Shiou and Auerbach returned to the intersection of the full road, where a host stage had been erected, and the background of the host stage was a word with many strokes.
¥¥¥¥ Today, a buddy who was a soldier in Beijing asked for leave and went out of the barracks, and had a meal with him to recall the bullshit years of the year, so it's a little late, sorry, I'm very sorry~!