Chapter Twenty-Four: Accepting Followers......

The snow was already thick on the streets, but fortunately the snowplows patrolled the streets from time to time, clearing a barely recognizable road. Walking in the thought of such a typical British style, it is like being in the world of "Jane Eyre", and then coming to the world of Dickens in a trance.

The world is shining brightly now.

In the snow along the road, many families have already set up Christmas trees, and those who are anxious even turn on the Christmas lights decorated on the trees. And almost all the windows of the house are decorated with colorful lights, flashing and shining small bulbs, which reflect the magnificence of each house and decorate the whole city with dreamy colors.

It is said that the bitter cold of England was deeply remembered by Dickens. An Feng didn't feel the Dickensian cold at this time, he had already put on the newly bought down jacket. However, An Feng is not a person who feels that others should be warm because he is warm, he turned around and tugged at Argyle's coat, greeted him, and said, "Hey, Argyle, in our hometown, we have to wear new clothes in the New Year, this is festive." Let's go to the supermarket, and I'll give you a new set of clothes as a New Year's gift. ”

In the kitchen just now, An Feng asked everything that should be asked. It turned out that Argyle's parents had died, his brother had lost contact, and an older sister had gone to Portsmouth to work as a hostess. Now he lives with his aunt. Homeschooling like his is free and receives a small amount of government handouts each month. But now that school is on vacation, the aunt doesn't care about him, as long as he goes home every other day to eat and sleep.

However, Argyle always had enough to eat, and he ate too much. For this reason, he had to find some food on his own, such as going to the boxing training gym to make human punching bags to earn some tips, such as going to the baseball gym to be a catcher, going to the football hall to be a sparring player, and so on.

He is said to be extremely famous in the sparring industry today, because of his height, athletic vision, and instinctive reflexes, but unfortunately, he has a mastery of tactics...... He has little tactical comprehension. In addition, he is too ugly to quit to be a star, so no matter how good an "off-the-field player" he is, he is a miscellaneous person after all, and no one is tempted to train him to become a star.

On closer inspection, Argyle is not short of money. For example, today he earned 40 pounds - Huang Yaqing's consumption. Coupled with the pocket money he earned as a sparring partner today, it is also a lot of money on the whole, and sometimes, he earns even more than his aunt. But Argyle doesn't know how to settle accounts, he spends money without a plan, and he is always soft-hearted, and he never remembers the money he lent out, nor does he remember to ask for it, so he never saves his savings, so he is always short of money to spend.

But tonight was Argyle's fullest meal...... Well, when was the last time he was full, Argyle doesn't remember anymore. He remembered that today, tonight, the little man An Feng stood on the stool, sweating like rain and constantly cooking vegetables for him, and he had been cooking for two hours, and he ate six pieces of steak weighing half a catty, and also ate three fish, ten breads, and a large pot of vegetable salad.

That's good. Argyle has always had a headache with brain-using work, and now this kind of life is simply heaven - let An Feng do the brain-using work, he just needs to do what An Feng says to eat his stomach...... Oh, full like never before.

There are still new clothes to wear.

There is a reward for paying, and Argyle can understand this. An Feng bought him two sets of new clothes up and down, inside and out, and asked him to help carry some things by the way, which is a matter of course. Carrying a large pile of things that An Feng had bought around and back, the two returned to the hotel together, Argyle went straight to bed, and An Feng began to wrap the gifts - in fact, he removed the boxes of the gifts, then put a note on each small gift, and then mixed them into a packing box.

After the gift was wrapped, An Feng took out the newly purchased miniature tape recorder, put a large number of rented video discs into the video player he had just bought, and began to screen the lines.

Tom Cruise's voice is so distinctive, just Dustin Hoffman's. An Feng recorded excerpts from the videotape as needed, packed up the tape recorder, climbed into bed with peace of mind, and went to sleep.

The next day, everyone woke up late. Before An Feng could open his eyes, Dr. Zhou had already run over, and his expression seemed to be very satisfied. But both parties tacitly agreed not to talk about Lan Yu, Dr. Zhou sat at An Feng's bedside and asked in a deep voice: "You say, will the law firm open today?" ”

"You give a call first......" An Feng replied sleepily.

"But I've heard that legal fees are expensive," Dr. Zhou hesitated.

"You must also be hired, this is a legal procedure", An Feng covered his head with a quilt.

Dr. Zhou suddenly saw the packed boxes on the floor and was curious: "You actually received a Christmas present?" Who sent it? ”

"No one", An Feng couldn't sleep anymore, he threw off the quilt and sat up: "This is a gift for the family, although they can't receive it for Christmas, but they should be able to receive the parcel before the New Year, so it should be my New Year's gift." ”

Dr. Zhou laughed: "You earn so much money, you don't want to send some to your family, I remember you once said that your family's financial situation is not good." ”

"I'm afraid that the seedlings will grow...... It's not a good thing for poor people to get rich, I'm afraid that they will have money to learn badly, or be targeted by bad people", An Feng said calmly: "Before leaving, the family left a deposit of 300,000 yuan, but I don't want to keep this money at home, I asked them to go to the capital to buy a school district house, I hope they spend all the money in their hands, and then rely on the rent income for a long time."

In this way, they don't have much cash in hand, and they won't learn badly. The family has a small amount of rent income, and the financial situation has changed...... I don't want my family to know that I'm rich in the future, and I hope that 'change' will come quietly, subtly. And not suddenly. ”

Doctor Zhou coughed: "I'm even more sophisticated than you villain, so let's do it, I won't send money to my family." I left a lot of money for my family when I left, and when I first arrived here, I sent money to my family, and they would think how easy it was for me to earn money...... You wait a while, wait for me to go to the street to buy some gifts, and let's send the package together. ”

At this time, Argyle was awakened by the sound of talking, he got up to greet Dr. Zhou, and then went to the bathroom. When his back disappeared, An Feng reminded Dr. Zhou: "You go to the supermarket to buy gifts, the things that are too expensive in the specialty store, they don't understand the preciousness now, and the supermarket goods are enough." ”

"So, let's make an appointment with a lawyer now, and then drop by ......"

An Feng interrupted Dr. Zhou's words: "Dr. Zhou, we are rich now, and you adapt to the identity of a rich man." This is the UK, in the movie, the foreign lawyer is the door-to-door service, you make an appointment with the lawyer, and then, when he is not here, go to buy gifts, send parcels, ......"

"That makes sense", Dr. Zhou didn't delay at all, and immediately hung up the phone to the lawyer. As for the meeting place, the hotel is not suitable, so you can only set up a rental house.

Hanging up the phone, Dr. Zhou was in a hurry to buy gifts, and before going out, Argyle walked out of the bathroom with wet hair and changed into the new clothes An Feng bought. Doctor Zhou tilted his head, looked at Argyle and then at An Feng, and asked, "This big man, what are you going to ...... Well? ”

"I'll arrange it", An Feng anxiously urged Dr. Zhou: "Hurry up, many supermarkets only work for half a day today, and the post office is also ...... Why don't you wait for me, buy something and go straight to the post office. You leave the room key and I'll clean up the house. ”

"This ......", Dr. Zhou hesitated for a moment, and replied kindly: "You...... Wait a little longer and then pass, a quarter of an hour, a quarter of an hour you go over, I'll go to the supermarket first...... I'll go first. ”

What An Feng didn't tell Dr. Zhou was that there must be a lot of people sending greeting cards at the post office today, and as hotel guests, they could send the package to the main station, and the main station would be responsible for sending it. For such hotels, the post office has a door-to-door postman, so you don't have to wait in line and don't have to worry about it yourself.

There is another door-to-door delivery service in the UK - in 1983, that is, the year An Feng was born, in view of the inability of various networks to communicate with each other and ensure information sharing, the TCP/IP protocol of the network was established internationally. Since then, it has been customary for suppliers to place their products online for customers to pick up and then accept orders from customers over the phone.

The only regret is that at that time, the pictures could not be posted on the Internet, and customers could not see the products intuitively. However, for those who have used a certain product and know the details of the product, it does not matter much whether they look at the picture of the product or not.

An Feng delivered the package to the main station, and then led Argyle back to the rented apartment. When he pushed the door in, he thought that the house would be very messy, and the dishes used last night, the bottles that he had drunk, and the dirty kitchen would all be waiting for him to clean up. Unexpectedly, the room he saw was very clean, the dirty dishes had been put into the cupboard, the stove was polished, the old dining table, sofa, and bed were carefully covered with new tablecloths, table runners, wine glasses, dishes and chopsticks were polished—everywhere revealed the carefulness of a woman.

This was done by Lan Yu, not by Dr. Zhou.

Dr. Zhou is not a bag, and when he was in China, Dr. Zhou's own dormitory was also very clean and tidy, and it can be seen that he is a careful and tidy man. But Dr. Zhou went to the hotel too early, unless he didn't sleep all night and tidied up the house all night, so that it could have such an effect.

This should be the workload of two people, and the real situation is likely to be ...... Forget it, adults don't mix, children don't mix.

An Feng picked up his mobile phone and began to call Argyle's aunt. After the phone was connected, An Feng called Argyle and asked him to say hello to his aunt first, and then took the phone and pressed the tape recorder, and then the tape recorder played Dustin Hoffman's steady voice: "Hello, ma'am, I think I have something to discuss with you." ”

An Feng pressed the pause button of the tape recorder, and the tape recorder was dumb.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and Argyle's aunt was a little overwhelmed by the title "Madam", and the polite, but distinctly aristocratic tone on the phone, made her very awe-struck. She needed to calm down before she could answer, "Yes, sir, I await your orders." ”

"Your nephew Argyll, yes, I know the custody is with you, and I need you to do me a small favor...... Well, during Christmas...... I need a chaperone, a fit-bodied chaperone, someone recommended your nephew to me...... Argyle, don't care who referred me to him, he's here with me right now, I mean Argyle......"

This dialogue is intermittent, because this passage An Feng is all picked from the east and put together a sentence from the west, in order to cover up the incoherence of the sentence, An Feng deliberately added an ambient sound, one moment is the sound of a car, and another is the sound of drinking tea and swallowing water.

"My lawyer will be coming to you later, and I want you to sign a document agreeing to my temporary take-in of Argyle, and of course, you will receive a compensation...... £200, what do you think? ”

The doorbell jingled, and An Feng pressed the fast play button and adjusted the audio track to the sound that had been recorded earlier: "My lawyer is here just now...... If you agree, I'll ask him to come to you later. ”

An Feng hung up the phone regardless of it, raised his chin at Argyll, and Argyle ran to open the door with a smile.

A young man in his twenties, walking with a sense of jumping, walked into the room, saw that there were only two children in the room, one of the children was very ugly, he hesitated, and asked unconvincedly: "I received a commission, the address is here, am I in the wrong place?" ”

"The client is ......" An Feng calmly said Dr. Zhou's English name, and the young man opposite quickly nodded: "I'm Steven Edmond, trainee lawyer, may I ask, where is my client?" Can I visit him? ”

An Feng grinned and replied calmly: "Your client has gone to send greeting cards, you know, during this time period, the post office is always overcrowded." ”

As soon as Yu Feng changed, An Feng continued: "But you won't wait in vain, it just so happens that I have two commissions...... Actually, I also need a private lawyer, and I hope to hire him for a long time to handle my personal affairs......"

"Oh," said Steven Edmund, who had just entered the bar and was still innocent, joking: "Your personal affairs? Do you have a lot of personal matters? ”

An Feng nodded, and replied in an adult tone: "A lot, a lot...... But, can I trust you? ”

Working as a private lawyer doesn't require much effort, and most of the time it's just a consultant who provides professional legal advice to employers. To really start a lawsuit, the employer needs a professional lawyer, for example, a lawyer who is good at inheritance rights, tax law, etc. Criminal cases are also found to be more specialized in the field of criminal law.

Thus, in this line of work, most lawyers take the position of "private lawyer" as an extraneous bargain, and one person accepts seventeen or eighteen people at the same time, and then accepts their advice 24 hours a day - and that's it.

Steven got serious: "You...... I mean you, do you have the right to dispose of your deposits? ”

An Feng showed off his credit card—the one he had set up on the corner of the alley a few days ago.

Steven immediately bowed: "I am willing to follow your arrangement, may I ask, what can I do for you?" ”