Chapter 70: Milia's Cultivation Plan
At Smith Farm, a grim-faced Tom sat in the hall.
It was the first time since the birth of Tom that Tom had returned to Smith Farm, and looking at his family excited about the festive atmosphere, Tom could only sit in the corner and wait for the boring day to pass.
Tom hates Christmas the most, because for Texas workers, it's okay to have no holidays all year round, but Christmas has to be a day off.
For religious reasons, Tom had to shorten his working hours at Christmas, and he could not use this to reduce his wages for the day, which was a big loss.
Tom looked at the white people celebrating Christmas in front of him, and couldn't help but miss the Chinese laborers and black slaves.
Chinese workers only need to give dumplings for the New Year.
Black slaves are better to use, what a bullshit Christmas, as long as you stop working, you can go directly to the "cotton engine fuel" - whip, and you can work indefinitely.
Perpetual motion machine in human beings - Black Slave.
"Let's sing hymns together."
"Okay, yes, let Father Martin start."
"Then let's sing "Celebrate the World."
"Okay."
This Christmas, Tom's mother, Penny, donated a lot of supplies to several churches in the neighborhood.
For this reason, the church sent the priest who had been to Rome, Martin King, to Smith Farm to accompany the church's biggest benefactor to celebrate Christmas.
Led by Penny, everyone gathered around Father Martin and waited for Father Martin to take the lead in singing Christmas hymns.
"The whole world rejoices, and prepares..."
"The whole world rejoices, and the Savior descends!"
"The earth receives her king......"
“……”
"The Lord's love is wonderful,"
"The Lord's love is wonderful,"
"The love of the Lord, the love of the Lord is wonderful and inexplicable."
The whole family of the Smith family, led by the priest, sang this song "Celebration of the World" together.
Tom still sat in the corner of the hall, his mouth wide open, and he finished singing the carol "with tears in his eyes".
Boring Christmas.
Seeing the whole family doing all kinds of religious activities together, Tom wanted to leave.
"Ah~"
Tom, who yawned, saw tears streaming from the corners of his eyes because he was grateful to the Lord, and looked at the pocket watch in his hand again, and found that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
"It's not early, it's time to go back to the Smith Building to take a shower and sleep, Milia, let's go......"
"Brother... You said you wanted to give us a gift every Christmas..."
Before Tom could get up, a mature girl appeared in front of Tom and stopped Tom.
It was Amy, one of Tom's twin sisters, who came up and held out a small hand to Tom and asked Tom for a gift.
The other three younger sisters also came over and held out their little hands together to ask Tom for gifts.
Tom thought: Oh no, since the year he traveled back in 1865, he started to give Christmas gifts to his four younger sisters, and he also gave them in 1866, and there are so many things close to Christmas this year, why did he forget it?
Tom was now thinking about how to fool the past.
"This..."
"Amy, Mia, Rena, Alice, come over here and give you Christmas presents this year."
"Thank you, Sister Miria."
Milia walked out of Tom's side and took out four beautifully wrapped gift bags for his four sisters.
The four younger sisters looked at the gifts in their hands excitedly, they actually found out that their brother didn't take the gift this year, and they specially discussed that they would come together to ask for a gift, wanting to embarrass their brother.
The four of them hated Tom's gifts the past two years - all sorts of additional questions.
Seeing that Tom didn't take the "gift", of course the four of them had to take the initiative to "attack".
In the imagination of the four sisters, Tom was embarrassed because he didn't prepare a gift, and said in unison, "I finally don't have to write additional questions this year!" ”
Unexpectedly, the "prospective sister-in-law" took out a gift, and the four little girls felt that the gift given by the sister-in-law should not be the same as the previous year.
The four hurriedly opened the gift in their hands, and it was so well packaged, what was it?
The four younger sisters opened the gift, it was four sets of "10,000 Selected Math Questions" written by Tom not long ago when he was not busy, and the four fourteen-year-old girls instantly changed their excited eyes just now to murderous eyes, and stared straight at Tom.
In the hearts of the four of them, this time the "prospective sister-in-law" sent the textbook, which Tom asked the "prospective sister-in-law" to send in order to "bully" them, and the packaging was so good that he deceived the four adolescent beautiful girls.
Tom was also a little puzzled, looking at the well-bound "10,000 Selected Math Questions", wondering when he had told Milia to do it?
More than that, Tom always felt that Millia had been making small things lately that he wouldn't have done before.
Especially in terms of life, Milia will "take matters into her own hands" on several occasions to prepare various small activities for Tom.
It's just that these little gestures are very good for Tom, and Tom doesn't care.
After playing with his four sisters for a while, Tom inadvertently looked at Father Martin, who was explaining the Bible to the Smith family, and Tom looked unkind.
Milia quickly noticed the change in Tom's complexion, and took the initiative to pull his four sisters away.
The four younger sisters also felt the change in their brother's momentum, so they left with the "prospective sister-in-law".
Tom gestured to John, who understood and walked over to Tom's side.
"John, when that stick leaves our house, invite him to my office, I have something to talk to him."
"How please?"
John knew that Tom had just looked at Father Martin's eyes that were not good, and he used the word "stick" to describe the priest once, so he specifically asked how to invite this "stick".
Tom took out his golden fake cigarette, took a few puffs of filtered air, calmed down, and put on a "harmless to humans and animals" and "peaceful and friendly" faces.
"It's barely my mother's friend, so let's follow my friend's request."
"After all, I'm also a devout Catholic."
"How can you abuse the clergy?"
Tom smiled and patted John on the shoulder, went to say goodbye to his mother, Penny, and left Smith Farm, got into the carriage, and drove towards Smith Tower.
Tom is going to deal with the affairs of the Hero Company and calculate how long the Hero Company can hold out in this current situation.
"Tom, look, do you want me to adopt a few orphans, or find a few female colleagues who have clean families?"
"Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?"
In the carriage, Milia sat next to Tom and asked Tom this question coldly.
"I was pregnant before, and I haven't recovered yet, I thought, why don't I help you find a few more maids?"
"I know what you're worried about, I thought, if you don't find a few children to raise from an early age, you won't have to worry about illness."
"If you're in a hurry, I'll find a few female colleagues who are about the same age as me, and find a doctor to have a good examination for a while, just like when I first met you."
"I've got in touch with the doctor."