Picking up George on Gezeya Street and taking him to Linna's house, Zhang Lisheng contacted him to screen the female companion he hired through posting and video on the Internet.

"Miss Maddie, I'm Zhang Lisheng, are you ready?"

"Oh, I'm ready to go.

Mr. Zhang, let me confirm to you, you hired me for three hundred yuan tonight, just to be your nominal prom companion, you don't have to do anything else, and I can go home after the prom, right?"

"Of course. ”

"You're indeed a student at Lobic Middle School, and the prom we're going to isn't some weird prom, but Lobich's high school New Year's prom, isn't it?"

"Of course. ”

"You're going to pay me as soon as we meet, right?"

"Of course. ”

"Okay, pick me up at Madison Fat Chicken Burger, just north of Conandy Street. ”

"Okay, I'll be there right away. ”

Mr. Zhang, who was only two blocks away from Conan Street, turned on the satellite nav and turned around to a fast-food restaurant with a sign drawing of a long-haired cartoon chicken that could be found everywhere on the streets of New York.

After parking the car, Zhang Lisheng braved the wind and snow to walk into this fast food restaurant that was tired by the wind and snow and had a depressed business, and saw two girls wearing ridiculous chicken combs standing boredly behind the cash register, chatting with a person wearing a long-haired chicken doll costume outside the counter.

The three of them heard the doorbell ring, and at the same time shouted "Welcome to Madison Fat Chicken Burger." ”

Zhang Lisheng was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "I'm Zhang Lisheng, and I'm here to find Miss Maddie." ”

"You're Zhang, Mr. Zhang, oh, you can't tell from the video and phone calls that you're so thin, no, so young.

Hello, I'm Maddie. The long-haired doll chicken stared at Zhang Lisheng for a while, and said in a relieved voice.

"You don't look like you look in the video. Zhang Lisheng looked at the doll chicken in front of him that was two heads taller than himself, and said with a somewhat bitter face.

"Maddie, in skinny boys are men too, I think you're still too adventurous. A girl behind the cash register, buried behind the fat doll chicken, whispered.

"Cindy, that boy is so thin that I can lift it with one hand, don't worry.

This is three hundred meters, with it, I can pay for my father's tooth treatment," the doll chicken stretched out his paws, turned around and made an 'ok' gesture to his friend, and then looked at Zhang Lisheng apologetically and said, "Mr. Zhang, I didn't expect you to come over so quickly."

Sorry, I have another ten minutes before I get off work. ”

"It doesn't matter. Zhang Lisheng nodded understandingly, found a table by the window of the fast food restaurant and sat down.

After a while, the doll chicken brought a cup of steaming fruit Zhen, "I'll invite this cup." ”

"Thank you. ”

Drinking orange juice, looking out the window at the flying snow and hurried pedestrians, ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye.

Inadvertently, a tall girl with long blond hair, beautiful eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and a small blue dress walked up to Zhang Lisheng and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, I'm off work, we can go." ”

Zhang Lisheng turned his head and looked at it a few times in dismay, the beautiful girl in front of him was even more beautiful than in the video two days ago, "You have changed your clothes really much." ”

Maddie rolled her eyes at his teasing and didn't speak, and the two walked out of the fast-food restaurant.

Before leaving the house, Maddie's two friends with cockscombs were still shouting behind the counter, "Maddie, remember to call us when you get home in the evening."

If our phone doesn't ring at 12 o'clock, it will be reciprocated. ”

"Your friend seems to care about you. "Out of the door, Zhang Lisheng said casually when he walked towards the 'explorer' with Maddie.

"Yes. Maddie smiled awkwardly, "How do we get to Lobich, by subway or taxi?"

"I drove. Zhang Lisheng said as he opened the door of the 'explorer' and got into the car.

Maddie sat in the passenger seat in surprise. "I thought you skipped a grade to go to high school, but I didn't expect you to be 16 years old like me and get your driver's license. ”

Zhang Lisheng didn't speak, took out 300 meters from his pocket, and handed it to Maddie, "Say that you will pay first." ”

"Thank you.

I want to say that this 300 meters is the easiest money I have earned this year.

It's also a kind of 'part-time job', and there's nothing unethical, right, because we don't do anything but go to the ball. ”

"Of course. Zhang Lisheng replied casually, started the RV, and drove towards Lobic Middle School.

Unbeknownst to him, a pre-owned black Ford car drove up the crowded streets of New York as the 'Explorer' slowly blended into the traffic.

On the car, a young man wearing an old black and gray denim strap, staring closely at the SUV in front of him, with a weird smile on his face, said to himself, "I finally caught you, boy."

I'm going to break your bones one by one tonight and make the perfect Christmas present. ”

The lights of Lobitch Middle School are twinkling tonight, and a Avenue of Fame runs half the campus from the street to the school auditorium.

The rude, baggy boys of the past look like the gentlemen and ladies of the future in their formal gowns, politely holding their blue-lipped female companions, and strolling along the red-carpeted Avenue of Fame.

After Zhang Lisheng picked up George and Linna, he came to the street outside Lobic Middle School.

Seeing a pair of handsome men and women set off by the lights from afar, Zhang Lisheng stopped the car and looked at George in the back seat wearing a dress and bow tie, "George, do I have to wear a suit to the New Year's ball?"

"Of course, man, you wouldn't be without a suit.

Hell, I thought you weren't wearing it because you were afraid that the pure wool dress would wrinkle. ”

"Oh, no wonder my mom reminded me to wear formal clothes today, but I wore a shirt. Zhang Lisheng said and opened the car door and walked out.

The snow that had been falling for two days had stopped, but the air was even colder, and a small white mist was a light breath.

"Man, listen to me, the store hasn't closed yet, you might as well go and grab a finished dress and put it on.

You don't lack this little money.

And as long as they are not stupid, no one will go to the New Year's ball with a canvas bag on their back.

I'm afraid you'll have to say goodbye to your 'toad baby' for a while. George followed and got out of the car, looked at Zhang Lisheng, who was wearing a black cotton wool jacket with a backpack, and pouted.

"I can store my backpack in the 'storage area', and there is no need to buy a dress, don't you see that there is also a classmate over there who is not wearing a dress. ”

"That guy is a nerd.

Oh sorry, I forgot you too. George said helplessly, "Maddie picks up your employer, let's go."

He's never listened to persuasion, and you'll have to dance with this rude slaughterhouse owner for a while. ”

The conversation along the way allowed Maddie to establish a preliminary friendship with George and Lina, and also made the girl realize that the skinny boy in front of her, who had spent 300 meters to accompany her to the New Year's ball, really had no other intentions, and it was entirely because of his eccentric personality that he could not invite a dance partner.

She smiled and grabbed Zhang Lisheng's arm and teased: "George, maybe the moment of dancing with Li Sheng will become the most memorable time in my life."

Your friend's Frankenstein-like personality may one day lead him to unimaginable achievements. ”

"I have no doubt about that. George politely took Linna's hand and blurted out: "This guy will definitely become the new favorite of Manhattan in more than ten years."

I just don't know if Lu Dao is in the capacity of the 'slaughtering king', or as a biological scientist, or, uh...

Let's go, the prom is about to begin. ”

The four of them walked on the red carpet together and walked to the school auditorium with hundreds of pairs of men and women.

Outside the Lobby Middle School auditorium, the entrance has been completely decorated to look like a classic Broadway ballroom.

Outside the gate, the tall black security guard hired by the student union stood expressionlessly at the only entrance to the fence pulled up by the red thick velvet rope, shaking his flashlight and carefully checking each invitation card, so that some fishers in troubled waters no longer even had the idea of trying, and ran aside in frustration.

Coming to the front of the auditorium and waiting in line to enter, Tina was stunned for a moment and whispered, "Oh, that's not fair.

My family lives in a neighborhood near Chinatown, and they go to the same public school, but your Lobic New Year's Ball is so grandiose that it's even more exaggerated than in the movies.

When our school held a New Year's ball, we just pulled up a string of old lanterns outside the auditorium, and the only drinks and snacks offered were orange juice and animal biscuits. ”