As night fell, the surrounding wilderness shrouded in darkness looked colder and colder, but the villa of the owner of the farm was brightly lit, and the atmosphere was warm and lively.
The delicious food prepared for a whole day was sent into the restaurant one after another. When the women brought a freshly roasted turkey to the table, everyone began to enter the restaurant.
The villa's main dining room, which is rarely used, is finally full today.
Jeffrey sat at the head with a smile, looking at the big and small people lined up on both sides of the long dining table with a satisfied face. Looking at the three little guys, Emma, Hawaii and Kevin, the old man couldn't help but make up his mind, and took the time to urge his son to have more children as soon as possible.
Emma is always the most lovable little guy in the crowd. Seeing that everyone is seated, she immediately finds the most important person in the restaurant, looks at Jeffrey with bright eyes, and said crisply: "Grandpa Jeffrey, Shall we pray?"
"Of course," Jeffrey nodded with a smile. If it wasn't for Emma sitting a little far away, she would like to reach out and touch the little girl's head.
Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. Therefore, although men and women in the restaurant have different beliefs, it does not prevent everyone from clasping their hands together, praying before meals, and giving thanks for everything that needs gratitude.
After praying, Jeffrey picked up the table knife and distributed the turkey meat to everyone himself, and the sound of cups, plates and dishes resounded in the restaurant.
After dividing the turkey, Jeffrey noticed that Eric had put several pieces of roasted venison on his plate, and with a smile, he pushed the large porcelain plate full of roasted venison on the dining table towards Eric. Then I looked at Joanna who was sitting next to Eric: "So, I heard from Eric in the afternoon that Xia Xia dropped out of school after only one month in school?"
Joanna nodded, poured a glass of fruit juice for her daughter carefully, and replied: "Yes, we put Xia Xia in the first grade at the beginning, but the teacher said that Xia Xia always behaved very disturbed in class. Can't concentrate, then tried to put her with third grade kids, still the same. I consulted an education expert, and they said it was because Xia Xia was too smart to be with her peers. Forced In this case, the child will even suffer from anxiety attacks after a long time, so I have to temporarily let her drop out of school."
"It's a good thing to be smart," Jeffrey said, "However, it's not good for a child to be out of contact with his peers for a long time, and he will become out of gregarious in the future."
"When there are group activities in school, I always take Xiaxia there," Joanna replied, but her expression was still a bit distressed: "It's just that the effect is not very good, Xiaxia is not interested in what the children like to do at all. "
"Joan, you don't need to be so worried at all. Geniuses always have to be different. I hope my Daniel can be as smart as Xia Xia," Emily said suddenly across the table, and turned around as if she didn't hear her at all. The grown-ups talked about their own Hawaii, with a look like a wolf grandmother: "Xia Xia, how about marrying our family Daniel in the future?"
The little girl was originally immersed in her own world, and her eyes wandered over the things she was interested in in the restaurant from time to time, quickly practicing an interesting theory in her mind.
Colorless, transparent, crystal, cylinder, container, silicate, no fixed melting point... this is very simple.
male, director, billionaire, 265 billion, activist investor, playboy, English, actor, Chinese, high school student, orphan, screenwriter, 28 years old, cleanliness, lack of aggression, conservative personality, writer, mature, family-oriented, responsible … After patiently collecting a full hundred keywords, the little girl suddenly discovered that there were too many contradictory elements in her father, which was completely illogical.
But, um, it seems that it can be disassembled, divided into two people, or three people
It seems that it is not quite right.
The little girl was thinking seriously, and her interest became more and more intense. She didn't intend to answer the boring question of Aunt Emily on the other side. However, noticing the gentle gaze of his mother looking at him, he had no choice but to pull himself together, but shook his head unceremoniously and refused: "No."
"Why not?" Emily was not discouraged at all, she turned to Eric and said, "Your father has already agreed."
Eric smiled and shook his head, and said, "It's only if Daniel can impress my family, Xia Xia. I don't intend to interfere with my daughter's relationship."
Hearing Eric's words, Emily looked contemptuous and said, "This is the most obvious lie I've heard growing up."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then, Chris, Joanna, and Drew, who could understand the subtext of Emily's words, couldn't help laughing. Even the usually quiet twins lowered their heads to hide their faces. smile.
Although he was confused, Jeffrey also laughed with everyone. Daniel, who had just turned one year old and was watched by Emily, heard the laughter around him, and he also joined in the fun. The atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly It was even more lively.
Only Eric touched his nose helplessly. It seemed that Jealous-Daddy, the 'stain in life', could not be erased in this life.
After Jeffrey laughed, he noticed the embarrassment on Eric's face. Seeing that the venison on his plate was almost eaten, he personally picked up a few pieces and put them on Eric's plate, and offered to help change the subject: " The wild deer meat is really good, if you like it, we can hunt some more tomorrow and you can take them back, the wild deer around here are almost flooded in recent years, and they often come to the farm in groups to eat crops."
Eric nodded with a smile and did not refuse.
In fact, he wanted to make a few bottles of deer blood wine, but thinking about the possible reactions of everyone, he had no choice but to give up, venison is also good.
After the lively dinner, it was still early, because it was the countryside, and it was impossible to go out to participate in various Thanksgiving activities like in the city.
So Jeffrey suggested that everyone watch a movie together. Although he has been retired for several years, there is no shortage of private screening halls in Jeffrey's villa, but there are not enough seats. There are only eight seats, but it also happens to make everyone more crowded. A few, plus a few makeshift chairs, and everyone huddled together.
Jeffrey searched in the copies of the movies he had collected, and what he came up with was the first "Home Alone" directed by Eric himself. This movie is a bond that everyone can get together. Watching, everyone seemed to be full of interest, with a touch of memory.
It was lively until late at night before everyone took a rest.
Eric unexpectedly woke up a little early in the morning, and it shouldn't be too early, but Virginia beside him still hugged him quietly. Although I was used to three people sleeping together in East Hampton, since I was a guest at Jeffrey's house, I couldn't be too blatant.
With the faint morning light coming in through the curtains, he looked at the beautiful sleeping face of the woman beside him, wondering if it was because he ate too much venison last night, Eric became more and more interested, so he leaned forward and kissed her.
Virginia unconsciously responded to the man's kiss. It wasn't until Eric couldn't help but slid down and took a soft bite on the bulging lump on the woman's chest that Virginia woke up and stretched out his hand with a smile. Pushing Eric away and looking at the alarm clock beside the bed, the woman got up and sat up, saying, "It's already eight o'clock, it's time to prepare breakfast."
Eric wanted to drag Virginia back to bed, and said: "Joan must have woken up, we won't say anything later."
"I don't want to be laughed at." Virginia rolled her eyes at Eric, reached out and took the BRA and began to put it on her body. The woman had been satisfied last night, and she didn't have much desire at this time, she just looked at Eric Rick put his arms around his waist and looked like a little boy begging for candy. Virginia softened her heart, but quickly found another reason, saying: "I still have to wake Kevin up, children often wake up. It’s not good to sleep late, and you won’t be able to change it when you grow up.”
Eric reluctantly let go of the woman and lay back on the bed, saying: "When Kevin grows up, he will doubt whether he is your own."
Virginia quickly got dressed, got out of bed and took a hair rope to simply tie up her hair, lowered her head and kissed the angry little man's face, and said with a smile: "As long as it's your own, that's fine. I'm going to be my stepmother."
"Go away, go away," Eric waved his hand in disgust: "I must tell my son that he must never eat the apple you gave him."
"Hehe," Virginia said with a smile, "How about I ask Drew to come and accompany you?"
"Forget it," Eric stretched vigorously, sat up suddenly, and said, "I'll get up too."
Eric and Virginia walked out of the bedroom together. The villa seemed very quiet. Joanna, Emily and the twins were already up and busy in the kitchen. Joanna and the twins were fine, and Emily was obviously in a good mood. The appearance of a hard-working daughter-in-law who didn't get enough sleep and had to support herself.
The old man didn't sleep much originally, but Jeffrey drank a few more glasses of wine last night, so he didn't get up at this time either.
After saying good morning, Virginia went to wake up the little ones, while Eric walked out of the villa alone.
Today's fog is very thick, looking around, it has become blurred more than ten meters away. Perhaps because of the fog, the temperature is not so low, but the country house surrounded by fog suddenly gives people the feeling of being in an isolated island.
This kind of weather is definitely not suitable for going out for a run. Eric stood in the open courtyard and simply stretched his body. The three pit bulls raised by Jeffrey have accepted Eric and his group in the past two days. He walked out of the villa and got out of the kennel one after another, circling excitedly, obviously wanting to be taken out for a walk.
"It's a perfect atmosphere for a horror movie."
Chris' voice sounded behind him, and Eric turned around and said, "Yeah, but it's just because we've lived in the city for too long, and most of the country is like this."
Except for a few metropolitan agglomerations along the coast, the population density in other parts of North America is actually very low. Many inland towns are larger and often have only one or two thousand people, and villages and towns composed of seven or eight families can be found everywhere.
Chris smiled, and sat down on the open-air bench in the courtyard with Eric, and said: "I received an email from Boston last night, and they have negotiated settlement terms with several major record companies. , we basically don’t have to pay any price, we just need to strengthen the blocking and filtering of pirated music resources.”
Before the IPO, several major record companies relied on Yahoo’s imminent listing and urgently needed to resolve litigation disputes, and proposed a series of harsh conditions to Yahoo for the infringement lawsuit of Internet pirated music, which eventually led Yahoo to give up the idea of reconciliation with major record companies before listing .
After the success of Yahoo's IPO, several major record companies immediately lost their confidence. The other party also knows that after Yahoo loses its grip, if this kind of wrangling lawsuit continues, the possibility of them wanting to take advantage is very low.
Moreover, if an agreement cannot be reached with Yahoo to encircle Internet piracy as soon as possible, the longer this matter drags on, the more detrimental it will be to the record industry, so the attitude immediately softened. The two sides quickly reached a settlement agreement.
Although restraining music piracy on the Internet will affect the sales of Fireflyer's MP3 player, it is actually in the fundamental interests of the entire industry, including Firefly Electronics. If the recording industry goes into complete decline due to piracy, the market for portable players will no doubt shrink dramatically as record companies lose their incentive to produce original music.
Therefore, several major record companies took the initiative to lower their stance and propose a settlement, and Yahoo also showed a very positive attitude.
However, Eric couldn't help laughing when he heard what Chris said: "Last night? Didn't Emily drive you out of the bedroom?"
Last night, after watching the movie, it was past ten o'clock, and it was lively for a while, and it was already past eleven o'clock when we left. Although Eric himself often works late into the night, on this special day, it is really hard for him to imagine Chris checking emails after eleven o'clock.
Chris spread his hands and said, "Emily has no reason to drive me out of the bedroom, because she was also holding a laptop at the time."
"Okay," Eric laughed, and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the sample of this Victoria's Secret show yet. How is the editing progress?"
In the past two Victoria's Secret shows, because of the continuous compression of the time difference between the show and the TV broadcast, the quality of the TV version of the show inevitably declined. In order to make up for this, LTD once again relaxed the production time of the TV broadcast version of this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and the specific broadcast time is scheduled for the beginning of next month.
Chris shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this, you can ask Emily later."
Eric and Chris chatted casually for a while, Joanna came out of the villa, greeted the two to prepare for breakfast, and the two got up together and returned to the villa.
While enjoying a brief break from work in rural Maryland, after only three days at Jeffrey's farm, everyone had to leave on Sunday morning.
The private plane took off from Frederick's airport and landed at Eric's private airport on Long Island. Chris and Emily took their son directly to Manhattan, and Eric sent the women and children back to East Hampton, and then returned to Los Angeles with the girl after half a day.