Chapter 19: Raccoon Town: Old Friends

After Linda danced the last tap, her face was covered in sweat and tears of happiness. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info In the applause of her husband and the laughter of her children, she felt that she was standing on the stage of the best theater in the world! She conquered the provocative audience! It was the most dedicated performance she had ever put in, and it was also the longest she had ever performed, and she danced for almost an hour straight! There is no break in between! She's a dancing genius, and today she's proving it all with her prowess! She took a step forward, then bowed deeply to the audience applauding her!

Shen Chong smiled and hugged his daughter on his lap.

"Shout! Catherine! Say! Good! Here comes one! "My daughter doesn't have to be fluent in English to learn it again.

"Okay, don't jump, I don't feel sorry for the broken floor, you should rest, we're all hungry! It's noon! ”

"Yes! I'm hungry too! And it's not your average hunger! ”

Linda said as she changed her dancing shoes, and the family returned to the house. In the dining room, they found themselves happy too soon! Everything in the house is new, including the refrigerator, which is empty, and there is not even a biscuit or a grain of rice in the house. Maybe even a rat hiding somewhere in the house feels a sense of despair for food.

"Looks like we're going out to eat again." Shen Chong said and closed the refrigerator.

"Nope! No, I want to eat this meal at home, this is our new home! I'm not going to eat outside! I'm going to enjoy my first meal. Linda said and sat on the sofa, looking out the window at the raccoon mountain in the distance, giving people a feeling of enjoyment.

"Okay, I'll order takeout!" As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Chong found that he still hadn't turned his mind! Who am I calling?! I'm still a new resident, and I don't even know where the restaurant takeaway phone numbers are! I knew that I would like to have an order card with Boss Chen of Sichuan Vegetable Garden! Looks like I'm going to have to go on a personal run.

"What do you all want to eat? Burger, pizza, or Chinese food? Shen Chong asked.

"Pizza bar! We haven't eaten in a long time! Linda said to Shen Chong with a smile.

"Good! Pizza! ”

Shen Chong put on his coat and drove his old Buick to the pizzeria on Raccoon Street!

After a while, Shen Chong drove to a pizza shop, parked the car and walked into the store, and asked the waiter for three pizzas he wanted to buy, and he was about to pay when suddenly! I feel that the back waist is violently pushed up by something hard! Shen Chong's mind rushed out of the sentence that is often in the movie: "Hand over the money!" Rob! This time it's a little different, it's "Shen Chong!" "The voice? The waiter just looked at it, and then went about his work! Still snickering?

Shen Chong turned around and looked! Short-sleeved work shirt, checkered waistcoat, muscular torso, bald head in a baseball cap, big nose, blue eyes, a voice like a bell, a face that now looks a little old, and a small earring on one ear.

"Ahh It's you! Henry!! I didn't want to see you here! You're alright! I didn't forget me! Shen Chong said with a smile!

"Unexpected! Unexpectedly! Thank God! I didn't expect to meet you here! Sink! Sit down! Moni's loaves are mine! No! Add two more flatbreads! Beef! Coke wants a 2-liter oversized cup!! ”

"You're welcome! Thanks a lot! Next time, I'll treat you to our Chinese Sichuan cuisine. ”

"How? 92 years of farewell, don't come to the same? I thought you had returned home. It seems that it has also taken root in the United States? ”

"Yes! By the way, why did you come here? There must be a reason, right? The two of them chatted and found a place to sit down.

Shen Chong took a look at this store, the decoration is good, there are many customers, and there is nothing to say about hygiene, etc., it must have some strength to open a store on this street.

"I want to change the environment, I've been standing at the counter for more than 10 years, and you've been here for almost 10 years, and I'm tired of it! Finally got through to the manager! In 94, the company opened a branch here, the road was far away and a little off, at that time the business was not very good, others did not like to come, I came down. I moved my family here last year. That's right, Shen! Are you married? Henry asked.

"Married, of Irish descent. My daughter will be three years old at the end of 98. ”

"Alas! Oh time! It's almost 2000 years in the blink of an eye! I got married before you, look! Henry said, pulling out a picture from his breast pocket.

Shen Chong saw that it was a group photo of Zhang's family of three in front of a house, and in the middle was a little boy, and the child looked to be 5-6 years old.

"What a great lad! She was? ”

"She's a Spaniard and a dancer! I chased her for a year, but I couldn't catch up! Ate so many of my pizzas for nothing! I'm angry! And then, hey, hey! Henry smirked and said nothing.

"Well done! Henry! Bless you all! Shen Chong patted Henry on the shoulder!

"What are you doing! You want to go there! Shen, it was all blown! But that day she was sick, and there were no relatives around me, so I took care of her just like in the movie, and we got married later! Hey, you're bad at learning! Sink! It's rare! Henry said and patted Shen Chong.

"You circle me! So that's the case? Shen Chong said and twisted his aching shoulder.

"She's dancing very well! Now teach dance at Raccoon Town High School! Latin! And Furminger! What are you doing here? Play? Be careful lately when there have been disappearances of tourists in the mountains. ”

"I heard that, didn't it say on TV that there were bears? I'm not here to play, but to settle here! Be your companion! Hehe, next month my bookstore will open called 'Fate' Bookstore! Can people get together only if they are destined to get together? ”

"That's good! From now on, they will be neighbors! Good name! By the way, you can give my son a Chinese name too! Boy, look at it and give it one! Henry was serious.

"Don't! Henry, it's not that I don't give you a child, I want to think about it, okay? When choosing a name, you should think more about the child's life! I went to flip through the books, and I'm telling you when I've chosen. All right? ”

"Good! I'm waiting! ”

The meal ordered by Shen Chong is ready.

"I'm leaving, Henry! Otherwise, they would have starved to death! After speaking, Shen Chong picked up the meal bag and was about to leave!

"Wait! Sink! It's a meal card and coupon! There are also drink rolls! The bookstore is open, so don't forget to order my Henry's pizza for lunch! ”

"Thank you! I know! Good bye! Henry! There's a chance to talk! Shen Chong picked up the lunch bag and rushed out.

Driving the car, Shen Chong accompanied the smell of pizza in the car, thinking that he could meet an old friend in this mountain town, and he really remembered it in his heart. It's not like I'm back to the time when I went to school and worked.

At that time, I was still studying at university, and working part-time was the experience of most Chinese students. I lived in Mr. Fox's house for nearly half a year at that time, and Mr. Fox was very good to himself, and it can be said that he was not ordinarily good! He said that he was a classmate of his grandfather when he was young, but Shen Chong always felt that this was not good, so he moved out anyway. Come back to see him every Saturday and sometimes cook a few Chinese dishes for the old man.

In those few months, my impression of the United States was really good. In addition, I have the foundation laid by my grandfather in the early years of English, and my grandfather's understanding of American folk customs and national conditions at that time, it can be said that I have had a very casual time.

Go to school, read, get out of school, review, and chat with the old man Fox on the sixth day.

Many international students are very fond of having a foreign relative, but Shen Chong always feels that this Mr. Fox is always supportive of his grandfather's past in the United States, but he doesn't care about it. Grandpa's generation was nothing more than studying in Europe and the United States, and then giving up the preferential treatment and returning to China to serve the new China that was just born at that time.

Soon, Shen Chong found his first job as a pizza delivery, and this Henry was the cashier at the time.

The two have a good relationship! So good that Henry once said, "Shen! If you were a woman, I would marry you!" ”

Henry looked at Shen Chong, who was driving away, turned back to the salesman and said, "Are the 60 beef pizzas and 30 liters of iced Coke ordered for those volunteers ready?" They're about to! ”

"There are still 4 missing! Roasting! You wait! I'll send it right away! The salesman replied.