Chapter 2: Emily (I)
For the upcoming summer vacation, Chu Zhongtian does not plan to go home, he chooses to continue to stay here to work and make money. This saves money on round-trip airfares. From London to Chengdu, round-trip air tickets plus taxes are at least more than 7,000 yuan. For the average working family, this is not a small amount that passes in the blink of an eye.
And the summer vacation is not within the limit of 20 hours of part-time work per week, so he can take advantage of these three months to make money.
The Dons Bar, where he worked, opened at 11:30 a.m., and he had to rush to the bar before it was ready to open. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the bar was temporarily closed, and Chu Zhongtian went to the "MacChina" Chinese fast food restaurant to pick up the order after finishing his work, and then ran to distribute it. At five o'clock in the afternoon, he would return to the Dons Bar to get ready for the opening at half-past five, and then he would be busy until the bar closed at eleven o'clock in the evening, and then he would spend another twenty minutes, cleaning up and waiting for the drinkers to drink the rest of their glasses and send the reluctant drinkers out of the house, before closing.
By the time he returned to his rented apartment, it was past twelve o'clock in the evening. Yang Yang, a fellow villager who shared a house with him, had already rested, Yang Yang was a good student with a regular schedule and rest time, in addition to solving problems for Chinese students, his time was basically spent on studying, and he didn't need to go out to work, because his family conditions were many times better than Chu Zhongtian's. After the holiday, as soon as Yang Yang returned to China, he was the only one left in the apartment.
Wash all the glasses, wipe them with a soft dry cloth and look carefully in the sun to make sure there is not a trace of dirt on them. Then he took down the wooden chairs stacked on the table one by one and placed them on the side of the table. The stools in front of the bar are all set up according to the business hours. When he had done that, the boss, Colin John, moved his fat body down the stairs.
"Good morning, Chu...... Heh-"
Boss John yawned.
"Good morning, boss. You didn't sleep well, look at you like this......" Chu Zhongtian greeted in English.
"Ah......h How could I possibly sleep well at the thought of Wimbledon's fate? Can you understand, Chu? He glanced at Chu Zhongtian, who was preparing for the opening of the store.
"I understand, boss." He wasn't trying to comfort his boss, he was. When I think of Sichuan Quanxing, many Sichuan fans are estimated to have moist eyes. So he is particularly able to understand the psychology of the Wimbledon fans.
But the boss obviously took Chu Zhongtian's words as a general comfort, he just smiled bitterly, and sat on the stool again in a daze.
Chu Zhongtian ignored him, the sentimental boss, and walked straight to the door of the bar, turning the sign hanging on the doorknob from "close" to "open", the time was not bad, and the minute hand of the wall clock on the wall was just pointing to "6".
This is a small bar, except for the boss, the only person who invited is Chu Zhongtian. He is hardworking and capable, so the boss has no intention of hiring people anymore. After all, if you hire one more person and pay one more person's salary, the capitalists will naturally save costs as much as they want.
A busy day starts at this time.
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Emily stood in front of MackChina's store, looking through the bright glass window. The waiters in uniform are busy, and there is already a table of customers eating in the restaurant. There were many people with black hair and yellow skin, but she didn't find the face she had seen yesterday.
She took out the list in her hand and confirmed it again, it was indeed this Chinese fast food restaurant. In fact, "MacChina" is quite famous in Wimbledon. Because just last year, this fast food restaurant had a lawsuit with McDonald's. McDonald's believes that the first two letters of McChina are infringing and will mislead consumers into thinking that the Chinese fast-food restaurant has something to do with McDonald's, the world-renowned fast-food chain.
MackChina's boss explained that he took the mc prefix to mean "son of so-and-so", just like the prefix that Scots names have.
As a result, the English High Court accepted his interpretation, holding that the prefix mc did not cause misunderstanding and that there was no intent to deceive. On the contrary, the High Court held that McDonald's was in violation of the law by trying to greedily monopolize all words related to the English word prefixes mac and mc. Mr. Frank Yuan, a Chinese immigrant, should be allowed to set up fast-food restaurants named after "mcchina" that sell fast food other than hamburgers, pizza and KFC fried chicken.
The lawsuit took the already thriving fast-food restaurant to another peak in popularity, and now Mack China's first chain has opened in the city of London, and, interestingly, a McDonald's diagonally across from them......
Emily stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, then was targeted by the enthusiastic clerk in the store.
"Welcome!" He shouted in thick accented English, "Do you need any help, miss?" β
He wanted to ask Emily if she had ordered something to eat. Emily nodded, "Yes, I need help!" Do you have a boy named 'Chu Chongdian' here? He's about five feet ten inches......" Emily gestured, trying to make her as clear as she could.
But the Chinese waitress still didn't know who she was talking about. I had to drag another colleague here. As soon as the man heard it, he understood: "Oh, it's looking for Chu Zhongtian, right?" β
Emily nodded.
"He's not with us."
"But I see he's handing out this ......," Emily showed the list in her hand.
The other party didn't answer, just nodded: "He's just in charge of dispatching orders." The rest of the time, he worked in another bar. β
"Do you know which bar it is?" Emily asked politely.
The other party frowned and thought for a moment, and then said to Emily, "I vaguely heard him mention it...... Seems to be called Dangs? Dangs Bar. β
Hearing the name, Emily's eyes lit up at once. With a smile on her face, she thanked the two enthusiastic Chinese waiters and said goodbye.
Looking at Emily's bumpy back, the two Chinese waiters got together and laughed: "Chu Zhongtian is amazing, it's only been less than a year since he came to the UK, and he has been a British girl." good_job (well done)! β
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Emily stood in the doorway of the Dons Bar, looking at the carved windows and doors and iron railings, as well as the large polished glass windows. Looking in from the doorway, you can see heavy oak tables and chairs, as well as dark brown, brightly painted bar counters, and rows of shiny glasses.
All of this is familiar and nostalgic for her. Of course, the most familiar thing is the sign hanging above the door, which reads "dons_pub". This is the "Dangsi Bar" in the mouth of the Chinese waiter, but it is actually "Dons Bar".
She had a wonderful time here for five years.
Today is Saturday, the best day for the bar business. However, it has only just opened, so there are not many people in the bar. Emily strode in and walked straight to the bar. At the door, she had already seen the yellow-skinned face, and she was sure that the Chinese boy in front of her was the "Chu Zhongtian" in Yang Yang's mouth.
"What do you want?" Chu Zhongtian saw that a guest was coming, and asked habitually.
"A pint of Guinness stout, thank you." Emily finished ordering the beer very skillfully, and sat on the high stool in front of the bar, watching Chu Zhongtian pour the wine with interest.
He placed the glass with the Guinness harp logo underneath the tap, tilted it up, and then opened the tap, and the foam poured down on the harp logo. When the wine reaches the harp mark, turn off the faucet and set the glass aside.
At this time, another guest had already come to buy wine. He asked for a very ordinary light beer, and Chu Zhongtian poured it for him very skillfully and handed it to him.
After finishing his work, he turned around and picked up the glass again, waited for a while, and then put it under the faucet, turned the faucet small, and then it was all white wine foam. Let the foam flow all the time, bulging just a little higher than the mouth of the cup, and it seems to flow down the wall of the cup to the outside at any time.
After doing all this, he put the quilt on the table: "Your Guinness." β
Emily placed four pound-dollar coins on the table, then picked up the huge cup and filled half it in one go. She couldn't help but let out a comfortable moan from the cold alcohol, and then wiped the wine foam from her mouth. Not only the dΓ©cor and the name of the bar have not changed, but also the taste of the beer.
She was not in a hurry to drink the next half of the cup, but gently touched the cold wall of the cup with one hand, and made a pillow with the other hand, pillowing her chin, she just lay on the bar and looked at Chu Zhongtian and smiled.
Chu Zhongtian was a little hairy by her. Although the other party is a beautiful woman, he doesn't know it, a strange beauty stares at himself and laughs after drinking, his first reaction is that the woman is drunk. If this woman wants to fight with herself after she gets drunk, will she refuse righteously or will she talk about it later? But then again, this woman is really beautiful...... He has blonde hair, a tall and straight nose, a smooth forehead, and no blemishes on his fair skin, nor freckles and other things that are common to Western girls. But the most eye-catching thing is her moist red lips and lake-blue eyes, the moist red lips are slightly open, as if to tempt to sin, but the lake-blue eyes seem to reflect the surface of the lake in the sky, pure and immaculate.
Just as Chu Zhongtian was being looked at by Emily, a voice sounded from the other side.
"Aha! Who's this? Our princess, Emily, is back! β
A man suddenly stood up in front of a table diagonally across from him, holding a wine glass and walking towards the bar with his arms outstretched. This man Chu Zhongtian also knew, Albert Bent, a retired old man who often came here, came here to ask for a pint of stout when he had nothing to do, and then chatted with his old neighbors, who was also a Wimbledon fan. His voice caught the attention of the other drinkers in the bar, who only then noticed a slender figure lying in front of the bar.
And so they were amazed.
"Emily, really?"
"Princess Dons!"
"Ha, good afternoon, Emily!"
"Is the sun really coming out in the west today? Or am I dazzled? I actually saw Emily, Princess Dons! β
One of the people who heard the sound was Emily Stein, who was lying on her stomach. She straightened up and saw the man walking towards her. A big smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"Uncle Bent, you're older than the last time I saw you." She laughs.
"Ahem...... The last time you saw me was three years ago, can you not be old? Old Bent sat down beside Emily. More people crowded over and greeted Emily, who returned the salute and called out their names.
Chu Zhongtian naturally knew these people, but he was surprised that if the strange woman in front of him could recognize everyone present, why didn't he have any impression at all? He's been here for almost a year, and with his good memory and earnest energy, he's recognized every familiar customer here. The only person in front of me is not in my memory.
Seeing Chu Zhongtian's somewhat puzzled look, Bent next to him patted him on the shoulder: "This is our 'Princess Dons' Emily Stan." She moved three years ago, and before that it was her second home. β
Uncle Bent was introducing Emily to Chu Zhongtian, and Emily was looking at Chu Zhongtian with a smile on the side.
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect that the blonde beauty in front of him would have such a reputation, he took another look, and found that the other party was also looking at him, so he hurriedly wrote and looked away embarrassedly.
"I heard our princess is coming!" The fat boss Colin John's loud voice rang out outside the crowd, and then Chu Zhongtian saw the boss squeeze in with great effort, and then gave Emily a warm hug. "I haven't seen you for a few years, but it's more beautiful......"
Emily, who was held in the arms of Boss Fat John, smiled and said, "You're fatter than before, Uncle John." I can't even hold you. β
"Why did you think you came to me? You've been gone for three years, and I thought you had forgotten about us. The boss's words were echoed by many people, and everyone coaxed.
Emily didn't explain, she raised the wine glass in her hand and said very boldly, "Then I'll invite everyone to have a drink!" β
"Good!!" Everyone agreed loudly, of course it would be a good thing for someone to invite them to drink, not to mention that the person who invited them was still their princess, how could they not agree?
Boss John laughed so much that his facial features were almost crowded into a heap, like a dog ignoring buns in Tianjin. "Emily, you're really good at settling accounts, you drink with me, can I make you pay for it?"
Emily sticks out her tongue playfully
So Boss John waved his hand to Chu Zhongtian: "Give each person a pint of dark beer, and the account will be mine." β
Chu Zhongtian was busy.
Emily sat on a barstool and chatted with everyone.
"Did you read yesterday's news, Emily?" Uncle Bent asked.
Emily nodded, no smile on her face. Everyone who was happy because of her arrival just now couldn't laugh, and the bar was quiet for a while.
"The FA's decision to hold a three-man meeting shows that Winckelman guy is not far from success......" Boss John sighed next to him. I've loved Wimbledon since I was 10 years old, and I didn't expect to lose her ...... when I was 61."
"Can we raise money to buy the club?" Someone asked suddenly.
Everyone turned to look at him, and he seemed to feel that he had said something wrong, and scratched his head again and sat down.
Emily, who had been listening, suddenly said, "We don't have the money to buy Wimbledon, we can set up a Wimbledon ourselves." β
This sentence made her the focus of attention of the audience, and even Chu Zhongtian, who had been busy pouring wine for the drinkers, couldn't help but glance at it.
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ps, wahaha, we're close to the second place on the new book list now! You don't want to look up and see someone else's juju, right? So let's work hard, let's explode!
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In addition, about the name of the protagonist, there is actually a small easter egg, but I didn't expect it to be guessed on the first day of uploading...... I was such a failure.
Well, the little easter egg of the name goes like this:
There was a primary school teacher who handed out the test papers, shouting a lot of "Lin Danda, Lin Danda", but no children came up to get the test papers, and finally the teacher asked: "Which child has not received the test papers, please come to the front." β
I saw a little boy walking up to the teacher very aggrievedly: "Teacher, my name is not Lin Danda, my name is Chu Zhongtian." β
Let's write "Chu Zhongtian" vertically, separate the "Chu" up and down, and then write the "Zhong" in small points, next to the lower half of "Chu", and write the "Tian" up and down separately, so that the "one" on the head of the "Tian" is next to the "Zhong", see what the name is?
Therefore, the nickname of our protagonist Chu Zhongtian is "Lin Danda"!
PS2, there is a change at six o'clock in the afternoon, so stay tuned~~~!
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