While John was at the Weidemeyer house trying to figure out how to get Van Vliet to be appointed chief of staff for the division, Adele was hurrying home after attending a fundraiser organized by the 4-H Club (a nonprofit youth organization run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture) for vocational education for rural youth. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Tomorrow John will be home. In order for her husband to enjoy a warm and comfortable family life as soon as he returns, Adele still has a lot of preparation to do tonight. Although Grandma Susan and the maids can do many things for them, Adele does not intend for them to interfere.

The last time John came back for Christmas, because she was busy with charity activities, Adele did not prepare a Christmas Eve dinner for her husband for the first time after marriage. For this reason, Adele has always felt a little guilty in her heart. This time, she is ready to cook herself and prepare a hearty French meal for her husband to make up for it.

As soon as she approached the door, Adele took off her coat and went straight to the kitchen: "Mary, did you buy the salmon I bought you in the morning?" ”

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Rudolph, the owner of the fish shop, said that the salmon would not be available until tomorrow morning. Mary was baking a cookie for little Ella to take to kindergarten tomorrow, and when she heard Adele ask her, she quickly replied.

"It's terrible. Once the salmon custard is ready, it needs to be frozen in the refrigerator for at least three hours before it sets. If John came back for lunch, he wouldn't be able to make it. Adele said with some disappointment. This salmon custard is one of John's favorite French dishes, but unfortunately it can't be made.

"It doesn't matter, ma'am. The fish shop was stocked at 5 o'clock in the morning. I've already booked with Boss Rudolph to go to the store tomorrow morning at six o'clock to pick up the salmon. "Mary has been serving at John's house for almost 10 years, and she is still very thoughtful and meticulous.

"That'll do fine." Adele nodded. Then she thought that it was only February, and it was not dawn at 5 o'clock in the morning, so she told again: "I will tell the driver in a moment and let him give you a ride." ”

Mary was about to excuse herself, when little Ella ran in: "Mary, is the brownie (a chocolate chip cookie) I want to bring tomorrow ready?" ”

"Ella, why haven't you slept yet?" Adele looked at her watch, "It's already past ten o'clock." You're going to kindergarten tomorrow. ”

In the past few days, Adele has been active at night and comes back late. Little Ella takes advantage of her mother's absence and often plays until late before going to bed. At this moment, she was playing alone in the room and was hungry, so she came down to find Mary to get some biscuits to eat, but she didn't expect her mother to come back and be arrested.

Little Ella stuck out her tongue naughtily and began to play coquettishly with her mother: "Mom, I'm hungry and can't sleep." I'll just eat three, or two. I'll go back to sleep after eating. ”

"Okay, I can only eat two pieces, and after eating, I will go to brush my teeth and sleep, do you hear it." Adele pinched Ella's little face, turned around and took two cookies from the baking tray waiting to cool, and asked Mary to heat up half a glass of milk.

Little Ella muttered as she ate the still hot brownie crispy cookies in her mouth, "Mommy, is Daddy coming back tomorrow?" ”

"yes, do you miss him?" Adele asked, touching little Ella's head.

"I don't want to. This bad dad forgot my birthday. As soon as Little Ella mentioned this, her eyes turned red with grievances. From childhood to adulthood, John treated her as a liver baby, and would carefully prepare gifts for her every birthday. As a result, this year, John just called her in the evening and said happy birthday to her. As for the birthday gift that little Ella has been looking forward to for a long time, there is not even a shadow. The little guy has been haunted by this, and even wonders if his father will not love her if he has a younger brother.

In fact, little Ella really wronged John. Although he now has a "biological son", he still loves little Ella just as much. This year's birthday present was a pure accident. During that time, he was busy with the final exams and couldn't spare much time. Second, there was an unexpected incident that disrupted his arrangement, so that he had no intention of choosing a birthday gift for his daughter.

Speaking of which, that sudden incident was not a big deal. But because of the involvement of Adele, John was temporarily thrown into a trap and almost messed up. Now, if someone asks John what he has done over the years that he regrets the most, John will not hesitate to tell him that he is trying to make Adele a "strong woman in business".

Before John made this "stupid" decision, Adele was a standard good wife and mother plus a young woman. In addition to teaching her husband and children, taking care of the family, when she is free, she usually stays at home to study, raise flowers and paint. Even if I go out, I usually go to an art exhibition with the wives in the community, attend a cultural salon or something.

Although their married life has been a little dull over the years, it can be regarded as warm and sweet, and John and Adele are very satisfied with it. Their "happy" love life has always been the envy of many "ladies and wives" on the East Coast. However, after John tried to get Adele involved in the management of FedEx, things quickly went off track as he expected.

Although Adele did a good job during her tenure at FedEx, many employees of the company still "miss" their beautiful and kind chairman of the supervisory board. But Adele was clearly not interested in the work, and the endless schedules of statements, documents, and meetings put a lot of psychological pressure on her.

Originally, John never thought about how Adele must be. Having her as chairman of the board of supervisors of FedEx was just an attempt. If Adele really doesn't want to do it anymore, John doesn't mind letting her go back to the family.

But what John didn't expect was that this short work experience actually made Adele change so much. In particular, he arranged for Adele to build a staff canteen and improve employee welfare as a breakthrough into the company, which made Adele begin to become interested in charity activities.

At the beginning, Adele's "philanthropy" was limited to FedEx, and the project was just to help the families of workers with difficulties pay for medicine and tuition, and organize some cultural and recreational activities for employees. The expenses for a year were only a few thousand dollars, and John didn't take it seriously.

Later, when France was defeated, Adele was reunited with the French group. This time, she didn't just donate some money, she almost didn't make her home a stronghold for French expatriates during her pregnancy.

Later, Adele was dragged into the water by Mrs. Churchill and plunged headlong into the big puddle of water to help the "English guest boy". Even with little Eric in her belly, she often goes out to work for those "British guest boys". After the birth of little Eric, Adele became even more Bengali, as if she was not the chairman of the FedEx Supervisory Board, but the director of the Vanderbilt Education Foundation.

Although John doesn't like Adele's change very much, he is still tolerant and understanding of his wife. Even if Adele took the whole family to spend the holiday with a group of British children without consulting him on December 24 last year, John didn't care too much. In his opinion, there is nothing wrong with Adele liking charity, just spend money to gain prestige. This is common among the mistress of a family like theirs.

However, John apparently thought the problem too simply. After Adele's reputation as a "philanthropist" (in fact, people are stupid and have a lot of money) spread, various organizations and groups came to her door one after another.

Some time ago, when John was not at home, Adele was fooled into attending a rally calling for better rights for women, black and minority workers, and donated $500 to an organization called the American Youth Congress. How did she know that the organizers behind this rally had the shadow of leftist socialists. Adele was so stupid to send herself to Hoover.