Chapter 131: Captain Gail
For Hong Tao's artistic processing, 2 children and Zhou Xiaoli both agreed very much, so the four of them began to take photos around the giant panda in different poses. As a result, a toss, and a few children in the vicinity were recruited, some of them knew the panda, and some didn't know what the panda was, anyway, the children like to join in the fun, the more children, the more attractive, several parents also had to stand on the sidewalk, endure the cold wind and watch their children play here, as long as the children are happy, they are a little cold and admitted.
After completing all the work, the time was close to 11 o'clock, he got up so early in the morning, he didn't eat breakfast, and he did several hours of physical work, Hong Tao was so hungry that he was close to his back, and he found a chance to get rid of the entanglement of the children, and pulled Zhou Xiaoli to slip home.
"Yoko-sama." Before he could get out of the lawn of the captain's house, there was a cry behind him, and Captain Gale was standing on the porch, waving at the side with the big pipe in his mouth.
"Hello Captain Gale, is there anything wrong with you?" Zhou Xiaoli stepped forward to greet the old captain, Hong Tao stopped, shrunk in the cotton suit and shivered, he was sweating just now, and now the breeze is blowing, and there is no food in his stomach, how cold it is.
"You are so powerful, the captain said that he would invite us to his house for lunch, this is all your credit, you can not only earn money, but also eat mixed rice, I will rely on you to feed in the future." After a few minutes, Zhou Xiaoli ran back and pulled Hong Tao to make a gesture of worship while walking home.
"The old man is so lonely, he and the two children probably have nothing to say, you don't understand this, you are still young." Hong Tao said with a smile, but he was telling the truth, this situation is not only in places where there are few foreigners, but also in domestic people, especially in those high-rise residences, no one knows anyone when the door is closed, and those retired old people lose their original social circle in an instant, and there are not many people who can really reintegrate into a new social circle, and their old age is no longer a problem of material civilization, but a serious lack of spiritual communication.
After going home and taking a shower, changing into clean clothes, and taking a bottle of red wine, Zhou Xiaoli and Hong Tao returned to Captain Gale's house, and at this time, the children playing around the giant panda were gone, and they should have been dragged home by their parents for dinner.
It was Captain Gale himself who opened the door, and it was the first time that Hong Tao had come close to the veteran. He has a long beard, just like Marx in the photo, but the beard is not black, it is gray, and the flesh on his face is already a little loose, but the gray-blue eyes are quite bright.
"Welcome to my house as a guest Chinese boy, please come in." The old man was very gentlemanly and helped Zhou Xiaoli take off his coat and put it on the hanger, and then stretched out his hand to Hong Tao.
"Hello, Mr. Captain, how do you know that I am Chinese?" Hong Tao held the old man's hand, really TM strength! Like a big bear's paw, thick and big.
"That panda, China!" The old captain pointed to the big snowman outside.
"Oh, hey, you've been to China?" Hong Tao thinks this old man is very interesting, although he doesn't like to laugh, but it is not difficult to contact.
"No, I've been to Taiwan, but I haven't been to China, do you smoke?" The old captain led Hong Tao and Zhou Xiaoli to sit down on the sofa, then picked up a wooden box and handed it to Hong Tao, which contained several cigars thicker than his thumb.
"Xie Lu Xie, I'll smoke this, I haven't smoked a cigar." Hong Tao actually wanted to try it, but he really didn't know how to smoke that thing, I heard that smoking it was not the same as ordinary cigarettes, and he didn't want to be too conspicuous when he came to be a guest for the first time.
"Miss Yoko told you about me, my name is Gail. Burcock, an old veteran, you just call me captain like they do, I love life on the sea. After lighting a cigarette, the old captain began to introduce himself.
"My surname is Hong, my name is Tao, and I am Zhou ...... Oh, Miss Yoko's colleague, well, it's kind of a fishing gear business. Hong Tao also introduced himself.
"Oh, do you like fishing?" The old captain seemed to be happy to hear this, and it seemed that he should also be a fellow believer.
"He's a master of fishing, and he's won championships in China and Japan, so he's amazing! Wait for me. Zhou Xiaoli interjected on the side, and then suddenly ran out of the house.
"This is amazing, I want to compare with you, I am also a master of fishing, and old Gale is also very powerful." When the old captain heard Zhou Xiaoli's words, he was immediately unhappy, and he also stood up and walked upstairs, Hong Tao found that his leg seemed to have a problem, and his right leg knee could not be bent when walking.
"Hey, what's this called, just talk and leave." Hong Tao didn't know what they were doing, so he had to sit on the sofa and turn his neck to look at the old captain's living room.
The layout of this living room is exactly the same as Zhou Xiaoli's living room, but the decoration style is completely different, the floor is covered with a thick carpet, several large pieces of wood in the fireplace are burning, and the walls are all wooden, the most surprising thing for Hong Tao is that on his head, there are 2 huge antlers, compared with the antlers he bought, he is like a baby antlers, the most different thing is that the antlers of others are with a deer head, and the whole deer head is cut off from the neck, just hanging on the wall, The big deer eyes seem to be staring at Hong Tao, which is really a bit infiltrating.
Zhou Xiaoli almost entered the living room with Captain Gail, and even the things in each person's hand were almost the same, all of them were a thick photo album.
"Damn, this is an aircraft carrier formation! Kitty Hawk!" Hong Tao took Captain Gale's photo album and flipped through it, the first few pages are photos of Gale when he was in service, one of which is he is standing on the deck to inspect the sailors, and the background behind is an aircraft carrier is moving on the sea, judging from the CV-63's side, this is the only aircraft carrier in the United States with its home port abroad, the Kitty Hawk, which is also the capital ship of the Seventh Fleet, and participated in the Gulf War.
"Mr. Captain is from the Seventh Fleet?" Hong Tao was a little surprised, although Canada and the United States basically wear the same pair of pants, but they are still two countries, and they don't know how to mix up with the navy, right?
"This is 1992, and my ship is responsible for escorting the Kitty Hawk to the Persian Gulf, but unfortunately my ship is a supply ship and cannot fight." Speaking of his service career, the old captain immediately became talkative, pointing to the photo while explaining to Hong Tao what the names of the other ships in the photo were, who the captain was, which ship was the most powerful, and which ship was prone to breakdown.
"Here's the fish you caught! Oh my God, it's beautiful! Now I kind of believe Yoko-sama's words, you're a master. When Old Gail saw the swordfish that Hong Tao and Yae had caught in Okinawa, he was not only a little surprised, but he looked at the photo and then at Hong Tao, as if to compare whether this young man was the person in the photo.
"This is in Okinawa, where else did we go to the US military base, but there are no military rolls, you can't buy things in it, where things are really cheap." Hong Tao began to tell Old Gail about their experience of fishing for sailfish again, and after the last time, he also expressed a little regret, when they did go to the US military station in Okinawa, where there is a living area that tourists are allowed to enter, but you can't buy items inside, the things inside need military rolls to buy, the price is less than one-third of the outside of the base, and it is cheap.
"I've anchored here, it should be '94, it's a pity I didn't have anywhere to fish, but it doesn't matter, I don't have to run that far, I know where to go better." Old Gale looked at the name of the base on the photo and was sure he had been here.
When a fishing fan who likes the military and a fishing fan who retired from the army get together, there are too many things to talk about, an old man and a young man lying on the coffee table with their heads together, turning over the two photo albums and comparing them, and when they can't say clearly, they will let Zhou Xiaoli be the translator plus the referee, Joan and Bloom sat on the side for a long time and no one cared about it, and the little boy's mouth was pouted into a pig.
Just as Old Gail and Hong Tao were arguing over what a fish liked to eat and how to fish for it, a fat middle-aged woman came into the living room, and finally interrupted the argument between the two people, this lady was the old man's daughter-in-law, Joan and Bloom's mother, her name was Kayla. Burcock, who just arrived in Toronto today, has been cooking in the kitchen all the time, and now he is here to call everyone to dinner.
PS: Today I received a reminder from readers to "don't play old", and add a new chapter. In addition, you are too ruthless for the big holidays......!!!