My Manor

That day's competition was as if nothing had happened. Life went on, and Jiang Hai was living a life of drunkenness and dreams. Of course, this adjective was something Xu Wei, Fu Yuan, and the others sourly imposed on him.

Jiang Hai would rather change these four words to "boring." Logically speaking, in his impression, rich people have a lot of entertainment, such as bullying women, bullying women, bullying women, bullying women, etc. Important things should be said three times, and then the less important things, such as going out to act like a fool, racing, gambling, drinking, or crossing the line and taking something illegal. Cough, don't get me wrong, there are so many illegal things in the United States. First of all, Red Bull is illegal, and cough syrup can only be purchased with a hospital prescription. Ordinary people can't buy it in pharmacies.

In Jiang Hai's opinion, the life of a rich person should be... racing a car, pulling a few girls in the car, drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, and going to Las Vegas for a few days... Well, except for drinking Red Bull and cough syrup, everything else is pretty reliable.

But unfortunately, Jiang Hai's personality destined him to be unable to do so.

His daily routine is very simple. Get up, wash up, if it snows, go out to help shovel snow, if not, do some boxing at home, then have lunch, and go out to fish by the river. But since he didn't catch any fish last time, his activity has changed again, which is to build a basketball court, indoors!

Jiang Hai is really too bored; there is nothing to do. In fact, when he was in Ice City before, he had nothing to do in winter. He stayed at home, watched anime, watched TV, and the day passed.

But he is not the only one who is bored, so every now and then, his friends will come to play with him.

But after arriving in the United States, it seemed that he was the only idle person in the world. There were many people in his manor, but they all had things to do. Occasionally, when they had a day off, they would rather stay at home. There was no other way. There were no peers. The only ones who were considered the same age were Bell and Harriman, but Harriman was unlikely to play with him.

As for Bell, he was a crazy military enthusiast, ahem, a crazy former soldier. Whenever he had a break, he would take out his collection of guns and take care of them all. Some people said that it was normal to take care of guns. If they were not taken care of for a long time, the guns would break, but the problem was that he had too many guns—more than twenty, including rifles, submachine guns, pistols, and shotguns. He had almost all the guns that Jiang Hai knew, even antique guns. By the time he finished taking care of them, it would be dark. What was the point of going out to play?

It was precisely because of this that Jiang Hai had been thinking that when he recruited people again, that is, when he recruited sailors and winemakers, he must not look for old men anymore. He had to find a few young people, otherwise, he would be too bored.

Fortunately, he can live at home. If he stays at home all the time, he will go crazy! As for going to town to make friends, Jiang Hai said he is not very interested.

Jiang Hai is a person of dull and coquettish personality. If someone takes the initiative to talk to him, he will be very happy to talk to that person, but if he takes the initiative to make friends with others, it will be difficult.

As for bars and other occasions, to be honest, if no one takes him there, he probably won't go there in his life.

But fortunately, his attention has shifted again recently, to the construction of a basketball court.

Since Jiang Hai had the idea of building a basketball court at home, he told Robbins about it the next day.

Robbins said there was no problem with Jiang Hai's idea. If he wanted to build a basketball court, he didn't need to wait until spring to start construction. He could just modify a warehouse. At most, he could just build a new warehouse at that time.

Jiang Hai's manor was originally built for animal husbandry, fishing, and wine.

All three items have their own storage space. Wine naturally needs a cellar.

Beef and fish require some cold storage. These cold storages can be turned into a basketball court with a little modification. After all, in Robbins's opinion, there is no need to build something too luxurious for his own playthings. There is electricity, water, and heating here. It only needs a small modification to build a shower room, and then lay some wooden floors where the basketball court needs to be built. It sounds a bit troublesome, but it is not troublesome.

As for the basketball hoop, it is the simplest thing. You can buy it. A basketball hoop is not two or three hundred dollars. They are responsible for delivery and installation. Jiang Hai only needs two venues. It is really convenient.

Jiang Hai doesn't care whether his own independent basketball hall is particularly beautiful or not. At least now he has a place to play basketball. In addition, the lighting must be very bright.

Since the decision has been made to build it, the following things will be much simpler. Although Jiang Hai can't do it, the cowboys like Robbins are all good at doing it. Taking advantage of the rest time, they helped Jiang Hai build the walls and separate rooms that needed to be demolished, and then ordered a batch of large-sized floors. Jiang Hai can do the installation of the floors by himself. As for the ceiling lights and the renovation of the interior, Robbins and others will naturally help.

Unknowingly, another five days have passed. According to Jiang Hai's estimation, his basketball hall will be completed in another three or five days. But today, although they rested, they did not go to the basketball hall to continue working.

Because today is the "legal holiday" of the American people, Christmas Eve!

In the United States, Christmas is the same as the Spring Festival in China. It is a day for family reunion.

As early as the 23rd, Jiang Hai had given his employees a holiday, but in fact, only Bell really left the manor. There was no way; the employees in Jiang Hai's manor actually had nowhere to go.

Harriman has no family. Burke-Dale and Edward Anderson are divorced, and their families are very estranged from them, so they can be regarded as having no family. Robbins never mentions his family, and it seems that he doesn't contact them much. After all, if he had a family, when Jiang Hai came here, he wouldn't be alone; a family would be waiting here. As for the Philemon couple, they have no family above them, but they have children, and their children have to come back to see them. So after Jiang Hai announced the holiday, only Bell went home to celebrate the holiday. Jiang Hai's holiday this time is not short; he can wait until January 2nd to come back.

As for the others, Jiang Hai directly announced that they would be divided into two groups. The Philemon family will naturally celebrate the holiday with their family, and Jiang Hai and the other bachelors will celebrate the holiday at Jiang Hai's home tonight. As for Christmas tomorrow, everyone will go to his villa together. Of course, these people have fun, but they have to pack up when they leave.

Early this morning, the entire manor seemed very busy. Robbins and the others went to Jiang Hai's forest with Philemon. Each of them cut down a pine tree, which became the Christmas tree. Mrs. Philemon had already prepared all the things needed for Christmas decorations. Since no one in this manor had children, there was no need to prepare Christmas gifts.

As for Jiang Hai, after getting up, he prepared what they were going to eat tonight with Harriman, Burke-Dale, and Edward Anderson. Compared to the full set of food made by Mrs. Philemon, Jiang Hai and his friends did not have such skills.

So they could only make what they were best at. For a while, although the residential area was in chaos, the festive atmosphere gradually made Jiang Hai feel a little warm.

Christmas Eve is a continuation of Christmas. It is said that the origin of this festival is because of Jesus, who is believed by Westerners.

It is said that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born by a virgin, Mary. God sent the messenger Gabriel to tell Jesus' nominal father, Joseph, in a dream, not to abandon Mary because she was pregnant before marriage, but to marry her and name the child Jesus. God knows what Jesus' nominal father thought, but he agreed anyway, and it may have been because he loved this woman too much. However, when Mary was about to give birth, the ruling Roman government at the time had a moth.

They started the census, and all people had to go to Bethlehem to register. Joseph and Mary had no choice but to obey. God was too far away, and the Romans' butcher knife was closer to them.

So they arrived in Bethlehem. It was Christmas Eve when they arrived. The two could not find a hotel to spend the night, so they spent the night in a stable. The first half of the night was Christmas Eve, and in the second half of the night, Jesus was born, which was Christmas.

Of course, different churches have different birthdays. The Catholic Church celebrates today, and the Orthodox Church celebrates on January 7.

As the world's first and second largest denominations, the US government is obviously still very good at doing things. The winter vacation is from mid-December to mid-January. No matter which denomination you believe in, you can celebrate the holiday during this period.

Jiang Hai is a standard atheist. Uh, I think so. Anyway, even if he believes in it, he can't believe in this kind of foreign religion.

In China, many people celebrate this foreign festival, but it is not a day to celebrate Jesus' birthday, but a day to have sex and confess love. In other words, Christmas Eve is not peaceful at all.

Of course, in the United States, people celebrate Christmas Eve more seriously. In fact, Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Carnival Eve are all different. Christmas Eve is spent with family, and you cannot go out to play with others, and no one will visit on this day. Christmas is spent with family and friends, so outsiders can come. Carnival Eve is actually a day to go out and play. In fact, Jiang Hai didn't know much about it before, and these were all taught by Robbins.

Just as everyone was preparing to celebrate the holiday in the room, several car horns rang.