Alice, who had her head exposed at the warehouse window, still looked at Laura who was crossing the second floor of Grande in the backyard with a confirming expression.
"It's lunch!" Laura shouted again, "Hey, can you come over and talk!"
Alice disappeared from the window, and after a while, she walked out of the warehouse and entered the Grande. When she passed Zach, who was shaking his wine glass at the side door of the office, he blinked in search of something.
Laura's current Parker Elementary School nursery project is the key to Zach's completion of Falcon's commission. Since the last ribbon-cutting ceremony, Zach has discovered that the divide among West End's third generation is greater than he thought, and things have stalled.
Grande has been waiting until Laura's project has made some progress and can force those West Side kids to stay together honestly, and Zach will think of a way. Laura came here at this time. Is there any progress
Zach nodded, without making any expectations, and motioned for Alice to go ahead, while he slowly swayed behind. Let’s listen to what Laura has to say first.
"Alice! You are going to save me this time! You are going to help me!"
"What's wrong, don't worry." Alice pulled her friend and said, "Speak slowly."
Laura pulled Alice, and naturally, the two girls sat cross-legged on the bed comfortably. Zach walked past Alice's door with a wine glass in hand. Our vampire was not shameless enough to join in the conversation between the girls. Zach wandered over to Grande's entertainment room, sat down on Old Hank's new sofa, and looked around.
"You remember Teacher Trisha, right?!" Laura was a little excited and obviously anxious.
"Remember." Alice was so anxious, trying to slow down her speaking speed to balance Laura's impatience, "What's wrong with Teacher Trisha?" Alice's ability to get along with her friends is getting better and better.
"We are going to worship today! Remember! Teacher Trisha has the habit of bringing children to worship together!"
The lunch that Trisha came to Grande was brought by Laura after church. A few children came by the way. The situation at that time can show that this is a good teacher who is responsible for the children. It is gratifying that she has retained this habit.
"Remember." Alice smiled, "She brought a few students to Grande before."
Zach couldn't see Laura's face, but he could clearly hear Laura's annoyance, "Yes! It's because a few of her students came to Grande last time! They ate the lunch you cooked here!"
Alice obviously couldn't keep up with Laura. "What's wrong? Don't they like the lunch I made?"
"It's not that I don't like it! I like it very much!" Laura shouted.
Zach in the recreation room discovered something interesting while 'eavesdropping' on the conversation between the girls. The old TV in Grande where Papa Midnight appeared has been replaced, as has the TV cabinet, which must have been made new by old Hank. Well, that's not the point. The point is that Zach found some new video tapes in the cabinet under the TV cabinet.
The slightly fancy box was stamped "Cook's Kitchen Collector's Edition Volume 1" and was obviously purchased by Alice.
However, there are two faces printed on the cover poster, the slightly chubby Cook. And the new female host. What's her name? As Alice's brother, Zach was very considerate and selectively forgot her name.
Zach, who had nothing to do except eavesdrop on the girl's conversation, randomly picked out a "Collector's Edition" that no one except Alice would read, and stuffed it into the VCR. I looked at a bunch of buttons and hesitated for a moment, then pressed them. Fortunately, normal playback started on the screen.
"Alice! I'm sorry for you!" Laura began to apologize.
"Well..." Alice had no idea where this apology came from. "Have I forgiven you?"
"Alice!" Laura seemed to take a picture of the soft and comfortable bed, "I'm serious! Please forgive me sincerely first. I'll tell you again!"
"Oh okay, I forgive you."
Zach raised his eyebrows, looking at the young Cook standing alone behind a pile of ingredients on the screen, and started the introduction of this program. The content looks familiar, Zach thought, it seems to be the content of a program from a long time ago. By the way, the situation of "Cook's Kitchen" is a bit bad. Isn’t this kind of thing only available for shows that are about to end
"Today is Sunday." Laura emphasized the matter again, "Originally, I thought I should be able to rest today. At least there would be fewer children than usual, so, just..."
"Do you need someone to take care of those children?" Alice finally understood a little bit. "Do you need help?"
Hey, Alice should have neglected to accompany what Laura had shouted when she first arrived, a lunch for more than 40 people.
"No, there is no shortage of people..." Laura's tone was a little evasive, "Oh Alice! Just listen to me, okay!"
"Oh." Alice, who was confused again, decided not to speak.
"Anyway, I thought I could rest today! So I gave the teachers a day off!" Laura is the boss of this project, well, she has the right to do so. "I planned to let the Kepler guys come clean. "Those third-generation young masters and ladies in the West District, Laura's tone was irritated again, "They usually just play and don't do anything. I originally wanted to let them do something! After all, this is us together. It’s the right project to do!” Yes! Just name it!
Zach looked at the familiar content on the screen and became a little bored. Then he looked at a bunch of buttons, hesitated, and pressed one tentatively. Zach pressed the right button, and the picture on the screen began to fast forward.
"But I didn't expect that all the children would come!"
This is entirely Laura's fault. Does Pai Siying's environment look like those parents would have time to take care of their children on Sunday? Well, it’s not her fault, she’s a West Ender after all.
"Those guys from Kepler are of no help at all!" Laura's tone was full of annoyance, "Okay, Kepler worked hard and could barely control the guys from the junior high school (Junior High School in the West District), but there are still those guys The younger ones, like Falcon's siblings, just know whether it's intentional or something, and they just know how to make crazy noises with a bunch of kids! Just now, there was no one to take care of them!"
As if sensing her friend's annoyance, Alice spoke up, "Isn't there an adult? Can't those teachers who are on vacation be called back?"
Laura's tone completely dropped, "Alice, it's not like you don't know. Kyle raised money from the church to pay the teachers' salaries, which is not much at all. Didn't I tell you about the situation at Parker Elementary School before? Maintaining It’s already very difficult. Many teachers are relying on summer vacation to work. I’ve already let my vacation go. I can’t come back... "
Yeah, let a sixteen-year-old rich girl kidnap adults who need to run for a living in the name of charity? This requirement is too difficult.
"Teacher Cui Sha is better." Laura's tone softened, "She's here, plus a physical education teacher, just two adults, taking care of more than forty people..." The softness was too much, and turned into depression, "Noisy Children... Falcon's siblings and Kepler kept fighting against each other. Hey, they were leading everyone out of control... "
Zach raised his eyebrows here, hearing something interesting. It seems that the scene described by Laura is that Kepler tried to manage. Falcon's siblings should have stood on the side of the third generation in the West District to assist, but they did not do so. Instead, they deliberately sabotaged it and took advantage of their age. , causing trouble with the children of Parker Elementary School of the same age.
But Zach himself is in crisis. He stared at the screen where the picture was stretched into strips and changed rapidly, and looked at the two arrows that kept flashing on the upper right. His fingers hesitated confusedly on the row of buttons on the video recorder. Zach didn't know how to stop fast forwarding.
A finger reached out from Zach's side and pressed on a square button, "Press this." Brian blinked behind Zach, "Stop." Then he pressed play again, "This is play. .”
Zach tilted his head, "Are you good at using this kind of technology product?" He frowned slightly. "I didn't find anything like this in your house."
"It was very boring when I was in the nursing home. The only entertainment was the movie night every Friday." Brian raised his eyebrows, as if remembering the past, "Lip was always the one chosen to play the movie. He let Secretly let me play next to you..."
Zach was nodding. Suddenly stopped, "Lipp? You mean Philip." This guy whose whereabouts were mysterious, so mysterious that he actually appeared in the vampire's dream induced by Valmina, appeared again.
"Yeah." Brian raised his eyebrows, "Do you know Lip?"
"So." Zach waved his hand and opened his mouth to ask something, but closed his mouth again. Because Laura over there continued to talk, Zach wanted to concentrate on 'eavesdropping' on the content related to the commission that he was interested in, and did not want to be distracted by another thing that he was also very interested in. This priority allocation is very reasonable, Laura will not be in Grande all the time, and Brian has no intention of leaving just yet.
Laura's tone was a little comforting, "Then Teacher Cuisha came up with a way to take everyone to church. Even the most disobedient children at least know that no noise is allowed in church." So idealistic and naive. Thoughts.
Imagine two adult teachers taking a large group of uncontrolled children to church. I really don’t know where Laura’s comfort comes from.
"Then, and then, hey." That little bit of comfort was still retained, "Although the effect is very poor, very poor..." Laura's voice weakened, "I thought we were going to be kicked out of Mary Church, but it's okay. The priests and pastors understood us and gave us the choir hall to rehearse a quick song for the children, promising that if they rehearsed well, they could perform at the end of the service... "
Zach raised his eyebrows while watching the Cook's Kitchen show that was playing normally again but still with old content.
From the perspective of controlling children, this method is very good. It allows noisy children to have a goal. Children who have something to do are naturally much easier to control. However, it is impossible for Zach not to care that it is Mary's Church and a choir. God knows what reasons those demons helped Laura!
"Huh -" Alice took a long breath, with a smile in her tone, "It seems that your troubles have been solved. Then I will continue to organize the... warehouse." Alice seemed to have completely forgotten that Laura had just arrived. What he said at the time, he specifically asked for her forgiveness, "By the way, then why are you here looking for me?"
Laura probably glared at Alice, "Alice!"
"Huh?" Alice still hasn't understood why Laura rushed to her for help.
"Alice." Laura took a deep breath, "Listen to me, it's like this. The children who have finally stabilized can finally talk properly."
"kindness."
"Then there was a child who had been to Grande last time and talked about the lunch that Teacher Trisha brought to Grande."
"kindness."
"Then the other children at Parker Elementary School were very envious, because those children who came here said the lunch was delicious and the best lunch they had ever eaten."
"Oh, thank you."
"Alice! Listen to me!"
"oh."
"And Kepler said the same thing."
"Yeah." Apparently at this point, Alice hadn't noticed anything was wrong, so she responded blankly. Naturally, Kepler also ate lunch made by Alice. The time she skipped school because of her broken love, she had the misfortune to bump into her father Smith, but it did not affect this playful girl who gave Alice a lot of love. Chef's review.
"Then Falcon's siblings started to rebel."
"Oh..." Alice stretched out her voice hesitantly, with an ominous premonition.
"The two sides started arguing..."
"This, this is it..."
"Then, then..." Laura's voice became tense, "One of the Falcon siblings stared at me and said, 'Sister Laura! I don't believe anyone can cook lunch better than the chef in our manor! Kepler is here Liar! She knows how to lie!' On the other side, there were more than forty children looking at me eagerly and asking me, 'Is that really the most delicious lunch?'... "
Obviously, Laura couldn't withstand the pressure.
"Laura." Alice's voice suddenly became calm. In the scene that Zach couldn't see, Grande's sister took Laura's hand and said sincerely, "I can bake cookies for forty people. , but I can’t make lunch for more than forty people, Grande’s kitchen is only so big…”
Zach left Brian, who was watching in rapt attention, and when he stood at the door of Alice's room, he saw Laura grabbing Alice's hand that was about to let go, looking pitiful and pleading.
Zach smiled, "Fortunately, it's early enough now." Zach winked at Alice, admiring the tacit cooperation, "They are just kids again. In total, they are only about twenty adults."
Laura turned around and glared angrily at the guy who made no secret of eavesdropping on all the conversations between her and her friends.
"I'm helping you, Laura." Zach tilted his head.
Laura was shocked and immediately turned to face Alice, "Yes Alice! Zach is right! In fact, there aren't many!"
"Then we have to start preparations now..." Alice reluctantly agreed, "I still need everyone to help."
"Yeah! Everyone is here to help!" Laura couldn't wait to pull Alice to her feet.
Zach turned around and knocked on the door of the entertainment room, "Brian, come and help." Not only Brian, the 'guest', but also Louise, Danny, and even old Hank all wanted to help.
At Zach's call, Brian took out the video tape, turned off the video recorder, walked to the corner of the entertainment room, and stopped moving.
Zach frowned, "Brian, did you hear that?"
There was no movement.
"Brian?" Zach walked into the recreation room, "I said..."
Brian's body moved, hiding against the wall and standing with his back to Zach in another corner, as far away from Zach's corner as possible.
Zach's expression became complicated, and he thought for a while, "Ryan?"
The body in the corner shook. Zach stopped and frowned, this was such a moment!
"Hurry, hurry up!" Laura had already pulled Alice and ran into the corridor. "Zach! Don't you want to help?" The shout came into the entertainment room.
Zach twitched the corners of his mouth and whispered, "Stay here, don't move, or you will bear the consequences." He exited the room and locked the door. (..)