Volume II: Chapter 19: A Christmas Story

The training continued, and the time was set to Christmas Eve 2007.

When Makqin was not the current Makqin, his daughter-in-law was not his daughter-in-law at that time, but just his girlfriend, and one of the things he was very annoying about was Christmas Eve.

He didn't understand that so many Chinese can't remember that no one has celebrated their own festivals, a Western festival is the same as the domestic New Year, if the circle of friends does not post something, it means that you have failed this festival.

Accompany your girlfriend to eat, watch movies, go shopping, and pop by the way, a rhythm for Mao He and Valentine's Day?

This must be a conspiracy of merchants!

Female pot friends need to have a reason to be romantic, go shopping, and have a bright and bright bang, so for a while, Mackin has always felt that the excitement of a woman's holiday is basically equivalent to a certain desire.

But since he came to England, his perception has changed, because Christmas here is really the New Year......

So the great idea of inviting Isabella to a Chinese Christmas was a plan, and in the end it was in vain~

British people celebrate Christmas, no different from Americans, Christmas trees, roast turkey, baked potatoes, bread sauce, cranberry juice, port wine, etc., anyway, Mackin thinks that there are no dumplings delicious.

Especially the leek egg filling......

Every year, Peter would take the whole family to his hometown for Christmas, his parents were in the country, and this New Year was still a reunion, especially after Angel.

I have to train for the game tomorrow, and Mark Qin will definitely not be able to go this year, unless he asks for leave, Peter didn't agree, he is not British in the first place, this festival doesn't matter to them, and if he takes a leave at such an important time, it is really not a matter of taking the future seriously.

After noon today, almost everyone in the UK will get off work on vacation, and the transportation department, restaurants, supermarkets ......, and they will not have to sit in the car.

Makqin was bored, so he asked Elmer and Valle to pass the time at Tony's bar, an old bachelor who was just right for entertaining three young bachelors.

As a result, Elmer went home, leaving him and Valle alone.

Three men drank low-alcohol fruit wine and stared at the light bulbs in a daze, the TV was playing a low-quality movie, chattering crookedly like a yellowed gramophone film, and there were still seven or eight tables in the bar, cramped spaces, mottled walls.

This bar has no name, regular customers call him Tony's Bar, and it is only recently that he learned that Tony and Harry are actually half-brothers, and this bar is the only property left by his father.

There is no chat together, Ma Qin actually likes this rhythm of life very much, there is no Weibo, no Twitter, no smartphones, and no people who take a crossbar to tie a mobile phone to take pictures everywhere.

For celebrities like them (for Mao I think of white clouds and black soil), no one knows where you go unless the paparazzi follow you, and if it's a few years later, maybe he'll be posted on the Internet as soon as he leaves the house.

Jobs didn't know if he had done a good or bad thing.

"Tony, isn't it a little too boring for you to spend your life like this," Valle said, looking at the light bulb boredly.

Tony swept away the rest of the wine in the glass, turned the glass, smacked, and said, "Boy, when you're my age, you'll know how rare these leisurely days are."

Mark drank the fruit wine diligently, nostalgic for the taste of the year, ignoring Tony's stubble, people are old in their hearts, even if they are still in the prime of life, they can't smell the smell of vitality, they like to look at the old photos and live in the past.

People are very strange, maybe today you like to be lively, tomorrow you want to return to the mountains and forests, there are a lot of beautiful things, some people like to treasure it, some like to forget, the final picture is a comfortable.

Tony is living comfortably, Valle is still facing the rising sun, and Tony who is sitting and watching the sunset certainly has no common language.

"Click", the door of the bar opened.

There are still people besides them at this time? Makqin was surprised and looked back.

The visitor was wearing sunglasses, long golden hair, carefully groomed at first glance, wearing a lady's felt hat and a long black wool coat, which wrapped his body tightly.

She took off her gloves, sat down and poured herself a glass of wine, and spat out the warm words: "Tony, you are still the same"

No way! Tony, who has known each other for several years, finally transforms late at night and reveals the true face of the boss.

After sitting in this broken bar for so many years, no woman has ever looked for Tony, and today a noble lady actually came, and Makqin wondered if the hidden plot was triggered.

"Hey, hello, Mark", the lady took off her glasses and greeted Mark with a smile.

Convex, he and Valle's eyes widened, Valle can stuff a duck egg in his mouth, it's a little familiar~

"Catherine Rowling, nice to meet you", she held out her hand.

The Phoenix Cup, which was just released, he also went to see it with Isabella......

Mack Qin turned his head to look at Tony with his mouth open, like looking at a negative man, no way, this legendary woman's early experience is too famous.

"It's not what you think", Tony took out the demeanor of the boss, "just a neighbor when I was a child"

Nothing more......

"Hello, Catherine, I didn't expect to meet you here, I've seen every Harry Potter film", Mackin shook her hand and said, Valle also nodded with a chick peck.

"Thank you, Tony and I are old friends and he helped me a lot in my most difficult times", says Catherine with a smile.

Hey, there's still a helping hand in distress, hey, wasn't her brother-in-law who helped her?

But now is not a good time to gossip, he politely chatted with her for a few words, and then pulled Valle to quickly give way.

"Don't you have to spend time with your children this year?" , When they left, Tony looked at her and said casually.

"The kid went to his father's, I came to you to be quiet, I haven't seen you for so long, I didn't expect you to be guarding this bar", she said, looking around.

"I didn't expect you to find it here", Tony got up and walked to the back of the bar, "Still old tastes?" ”

"Uh-huh~"

……

Everyone who is inconspicuous around you may be the protagonist of fate at a certain time, hiding too many past and stories, and when they emit a dim light one day, they will instantly become taller.

Makqin and Valle parted ways, one went home and the other continued to wander to write their own stories.

He began to call Merry Resmoss one by one in alphabetical order on the way, and when he got to the door, he felt a little lonely.

There was no Dimin's slapstick, no Peter's jokes, he held his phone in one hand and took out the key in the other, ready to open the door.

"Click", the door opened from the inside.

When two people get along, there will always be a scene that will make you feel at home, whether it is a trace of hair shining in the morning sun, it may be the sweat of cleaning the house, or the appearance of her wearing an apron waiting for you to come back......

"Merry Christmas, dear!" Isabella leaned against the door and smiled slyly at him.

He was stunned for a moment, and then, as if smiling all over his body, he expertly put his arm around her shoulders and walked into the room.

A colorful hairpin pinched up the long gray hair, a creamy turtleneck, skinny jeans, and a pair of cotton slippers around the apron, are concentrating on stirring Sarah on the countertop of the open kitchen~

Mark Qin slowly hugged her from behind, rubbing her neck, making her dodge for a while, "Mark, don't make trouble~"

"How do you know I miss you", he sniffed her obsessively, "Now I want to eat you~"

"It's no fun to eat me", she turned around and threw Sarah into his arms, "Only Sarah can eat now"

He held the Sarah basin and looked at her expectantly.

"Hey, I can't stand you", he stood on tiptoe and pecked him lightly on the side of his mouth, "It's going down."

Seeing that he was still unsatisfied, he angrily pushed him out of the kitchen, "Let's go, I haven't eaten dinner yet~"

Two people nestled in the sofa, one with a wooden fork, and Mark Qin held a salad basin in his arms that was about to catch up with the small basin.

You feed me, I'll feed you, this is the right way to open a knife and fork!

"Is it delicious?"

"Uh-huh, super, what kind of meat is this?"

"Turkey, I also put shredded beef"

"Cher, you Sarah will be able to feed me in the future"

"Cut, who scarcely feeds you"

"Then I'll feed you and raise you for nothing"

Isabella rolled her eyes and nested a little tighter in his arms, the British version of the Christmas Gala was playing on the TV, and Mackin felt that his bad taste had become heavier and heavier in the past two years, as if he had returned to the mentality of liking to complain wildly when he was in school.

Is this youth? Is it true that the more things that can be accepted, the older the mental age?

If you don't go anywhere, I'll guard your house until you're old.

"Mark", Isabella leaned her head on his shoulder and whispered to him, he held the basin in one hand and the girl in the other, only feeling that life is like this, what more can a husband ask for.

"Huh?" , he replied as he watched the talk show on the TV.

"Will you ever love me?"

His thinking is like a motor in "Suzhou River", he likes the love at that time, like boiling soup on a simmer, the longer it is fragrant, unlike everything that is fast food now.

"Of course!"

Then she would continue to ask, will it be forever? He will answer, of course!

"I will always love you", she said.

"Crunch", he stopped the water spinach leaf in his mouth and hugged her a little tighter, "Cher, is there something wrong with you?" ”

She shook her head in his arms and said dreamily, "Mark, let's get married."

"Gollum", Mark Qin swallowed hard, careful of his liver fluttering with fright, "Okay... Good... Okay"

"Poof", she raised her head with a smile and a smug look, "Look at you, your heart is beating fast"

MMP, author, you're sick! Mark Qin asked the sky speechlessly.

Kissing her to death was the only way he could vent his shame, and Isabella jumped to her feet and pushed his mouth open, looking like you wouldn't have succeeded.

"Cher, you've learned badly", he slumped on the sofa with his hands and played a scoundrel.

"Hmph, I'll try it out as soon as I try it, look at it scares you", she said coquettishly, crossing her waist.

"The conscience of heaven and earth~", he wanted to cry without tears, "Why don't you go into the cave room tonight, hehehe", he jumped up.

"Ah~", she screamed, turned around and ran......

The chicken, the dog jumped ......, and the two finished playing with a little fun, and they also gnawed and touched, and they were tired of nesting in the sofa to consume electricity.

Isabella lay in his arms, playing with the corners of his clothes, her little face flushed, and she didn't know if she was kissing or tired.

He rubbed her hair, smooth and smooth, and couldn't put it down, "Cher, is there something unhappy?" ”

"Hmm", she snorted from her throat, "Mom and Dad are divorced, and it's the first Christmas we haven't been together"

He was stunned for a moment, "Why?"

"Mom said that Dad's business ...... If something goes wrong, he's afraid that if something happens, the debt will affect us," she said, humming.

"Huh?" I see, "Then they are fake divorces, it's okay", this thing is normal in our Gadado.

"I know it's fake," she sat up, and said solemnly, "But shouldn't the whole family share weal and pain?" If not, is it still a family? ”

"Fool", he took her into his arms, "they have you and your brother, they may be in another way to share the weal and pain, for them, you are good, the family will be good"

"Is that really the case?" She raised her head in his arms, "Will you do this to me in the future?" ”

"No, in our place, it's all the daughter-in-law who takes care of the accounts, so I'll never go bankrupt", he gently shook her and said a truth called happiness.

Everyone is managing the happiness in their hearts in their own way, and if you find it, everything will be fine.