Chapter 188: Erxiao Alliance
"Summer? See you in Beijing? Looks like you've made an appointment to meet, and I'm wondering if I should go to your house for a few days in the summer. I like your little courtyard. The smile that Zhou Xiaoli had just shown disappeared again, and her speech became a yin and yang tone.
"I'll go to Gale first, the English communication between them is not very fluent, and I will help the translator translate." Hong Tao didn't have good knowledge, so he quickly used a trick to escape.
"Your English is not very good, I think I'll go over and take a look, I should be fine as a translator, right?" As soon as Zhou Xiaoli saw that Hong Tao was about to escape, she immediately followed closely, and the two of them came to Gail's house together.
"Yo, come to the guest, hello hello, you are the leader of Hong Tao, oops, I heard Hong Tao talk about it, it's better to meet than to be famous, at first glance, it's a strong woman, come, sit." Boss Liu was sitting in the living room drinking tea with Gail, and when he saw Hong Tao and Zhou Xiaoli coming in, Boss Liu naturally got up to greet the guests, and said in an official tone, and at first glance he was a person who had seen the world.
"Mr. Liu, you are too polite, you are a successful person with a successful career, my surname is Zhou, Zhou Xiaoli, Xiao of Dawn." Zhou Xiaoli did not show weakness, her aura immediately changed, and the scene became a little solemn.
"Oh, Miss Zhou's Chinese is too authentic, if Hong Tao hadn't told me in advance, I wouldn't have heard that you were a foreigner, my surname is Liu, Liu Jianqiang, ah, Xiaomei, come down, come to the guest, that's my daughter, Liu Xiaomei, also Xiao Xiao, you are about the same age, talk more." At this time, Hong Tao learned the full names of Liu's father and daughter for the first time, and his daughter's name was nothing, it was decent, but his own name, which was really inspirational.
Liu Xiaomei walked down the stairs, walked in front of Zhou Xiaoli, and shook hands with everyone. They got to know each other very politely, and then began to greet each other, as if the Hong Tao around him was air, and no one looked at him, not even the afterglow.
"Brother Liu, don't cook at noon, Gail and their family don't have anything to eat, he often goes to my place to eat, I get you a Chinese meal at noon, and I have only eaten meat for the past two days. I can't even digest it. Hong Tao wished that they would ignore themselves, it would be good if they could talk together, so that she would not have to trouble herself if she had nothing to do.
"Well, you are tired at noon, let's go to the city to eat in the evening, I have a treat, I asked Mr. Gale just now, he knows that there is a good restaurant." Boss Liu seems to be quite satisfied with Old Gale's house, and his interest is also quite high.
At noon, Hong Tao cooked by himself. fried a few Chinese dishes, stuffed a pot of rice, and invited Old Gail and Liu's father and daughter to eat together. It may be that I am really not used to Western food these days, and everyone eats very fragrant lunch. The last dish had to end with the rice running out, and the most popular dish was Hong Tao's own braised salmon.
In Toronto's wet markets, there are many kinds of salmon sold, and the prices are not expensive. And the bigger the fish, the cheaper the price. However, if this kind of salmon meat is eaten raw only as sashimi, Hong Tao's stomach really can't stand it, and he is uncomfortable eating raw and cold fish all the time. So he came up with a way, which is to use the cooking of domestic braised fish to make this kind of fish, and the result is quite good, which has become Hong Tao's own dish.
"Oh, Hong Tao, your skills are really good, now there are not many boys of your age who can cook, and even fewer can have this skill. Alas, the only regret in your brother Liu's life is that he doesn't have a son, I'm not taking advantage of you, this is the truth, of course, Xiaomei's daughter is not bad, but the psychology of not having a son is not steady. "Boss Liu is full, and the nonsense begins to increase again, and Hong Tao and Liu Xiaomei are not very satisfied with these words.
Hong Tao doesn't have the habit of recognizing his godfather here, it's okay to call an uncle or uncle, and it's really uncomfortable to be someone else's son, even if it's used for an analogy, it's crooked; Liu Xiaomei listened to her father say in front of so many people that her daughter was not as good as her son, it was strange that she could be happy, and it was not easy to vent her anger on the spot, needless to say, it had to be recorded on Hong Tao's head, who asked Boss Liu to take him as an analogy, without him, there would definitely be no such thing.
There is no need to look at Miss Liu's eyes, Hong Tao also knows that he has been shot lying down for the Nth time, and that cold murderous aura has already exposed how angry Liu Xiaomei is at this time. If you have more debts, you don't have to worry about it, and if you don't bite it, Hong Tao is shot several times every day, and he has slowly gotten used to it.
According to Hong Tao's judgment, whether Zhou Xiaoli is really jealous or jealous, at least she will not give Liu Xiaomei any good face, yin and yang weirdness is her tradition, and she is very skilled in scolding people without saying dirty words.
But as soon as the two of them met, they just had a little bit of aura when they looked at each other in the air, and then they actually chatted with me one by one, and the conversation was very speculative. Although he couldn't hear what they were whispering, Hong Tao saw the cold beauty smile more than once, could this be a brine and tofu one thing? Or do you and this Liu Xiaomei face each other?
After the meal, Liu Xiaomei proposed to go to the city to purchase some daily necessities, Zhou Xiaoli naturally accompanied her, and the two of them drove away in Zhou Xiaoli's car, and the house was finally a lot calmer.
Originally, Hong Tao wanted to send some fresh venison to that Zhou Dajiang, but the last time he was sick was thanks to the medicine sent by others. But Zhou Xiaoli drove away, and she didn't want to trouble Old Gail to drive her, so she had to give up.
Boss Liu's ability to fool people is first-class, he saw that he couldn't communicate with Old Gale in language, but the two of them lived under the same roof, so they couldn't stare at it every day, so he came up with an idea to teach Old Gale to play Chinese chess.
This time Hong Tao had something to do, the two old men put on the chessboard, Hong Tao first explained the general rules to Old Gail one by one, and then wrote English with stickers and pasted them on the chess pieces, so that Old Gail could recognize each chess piece.
Fortunately, old Gail himself can play chess, and there is no problem in his comprehension ability, and soon he will be able to basically play chess according to the number of Chinese chess, as for the degree of chess strength, it will have to rely on his own brain to calculate, Hong Tao can only play Chinese chess, not to mention any ability.
After losing 2 games, Old Gail quit, and he proposed that he couldn't just play Chinese chess by himself, but also let Boss Liu play chess with him, so that it would be fair. So Hong Tao changed to a chess coach and taught Boss Liu to learn the basic rules of chess.
If you don't say that you can do more, Hongtao chess will also be able to play, and the level is similar to that of Chinese chess. So with Hong Tao's explanation and help, Boss Liu lost 3 games in a row, and then he quit, and the two of them played Chinese chess in turn.
The two old men are very happy to play, you will win two games in a while, you will win two games with him, you give me a cigar to taste, I will give you Bao Yuxi to smoke, the more you play, the more energetic you are. But Hong Tao sat on the side, not only had to correct the wrong moves on the chessboard, but also had to be responsible for helping them translate the content of the chat with each other.
After a while, Old Gail talked about what he saw and heard when he was a soldier, and after a while, Boss Liu talked about his interesting business stories, although it was also quite attractive, but Hong Tao's language level was not so bright, and ordinary life conversations could also fool the past.
This afternoon is called a tired, the brain is all mushy, but I saw the two old men playing and chatting very well, just like the two old friends, Hong Tao even if he was tired, he endured it, who is kind-hearted, just do good deeds to accumulate virtue for the next life.
Compared with Hong Tao's desperate stay up time, Zhou Xiaoli and Liu Xiaomei had a much more relaxed and comfortable afternoon this afternoon. It wasn't until more than 4 o'clock that the two of them returned to Old Gail's house, only carrying their own small bags in their hands, talking and laughing, full of red light, it seemed that this shopping mall was good. (To be continued......)