Mister Legend

Chapter 45 New York, New York

The house that Raul rents is located in Queens, New York, adjacent to Flushing. The price is much cheaper than Manhattan, and the supporting facilities are complete, and the security is also guaranteed. It is a very suitable place for human living.There are many Chinese here. On the way to the shopping center in Manhattan, Li Modi, who was sitting in the car, saw a lot of compatriots on the side of the road. It seems that the number of them is no less than that of white skin. It seems that the old Americans were indeed "colonized" by the Chinese people. "The trend.

No decent Chinese person celebrates Christmas, at least Li Modi thinks so.Now in China, foreign festivals are more popular and valued than traditional festivals. This is really funny. No wonder a country related to sticks has applied for the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival as their heritage.Other festivals are fine, but Christmas?This festival is a festival of the western church. If it is a person who does not believe in Christ, why should he celebrate his birthday?Therefore, in Li Modi's eyes, this festival has changed in China, and it has become an excuse for business promotions and some people to deceive "first blood", rather than its original meaning.

The Lauer family are devout Catholics, and Christmas is their most important festival of the year, so they naturally attach great importance to it, just like the Spring Festival for the Chinese people.Li Mudi came to him for vacation on this day, and if you don't believe in the church, you have to celebrate the holiday, so let's treat it as a grand banquet.This time I came to Manhattan not to go shopping, but Raul ordered a suit in a suit shop there before, and I was going to wear it when I attended the dinner party.The order was made a month ago, so Li Moody couldn't participate together, and of course he couldn't afford it. A handmade suit costs 129 dollars, and it's a brand he hasn't heard of (in fact, he knows Armani). , This is too extravagant for the current classmate Xiao Li.After picking up the suit, I took a few children to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and then went back home.Before leaving, Li Mudi bought a set of light gray casual suits at an H&M on Seventh Avenue, the total cost was only [-] dollars, and he also gave two pairs of socks as a gift. After searching on the mobile phone network, he found that the price was more than half of that in China, which is really profitable.

As I said before, there are all kinds of facilities in Queens, and naturally there are large shopping malls. What they are going to is probably the largest shopping mall in New York City - Queens Center, which is connected by a sky bridge on the second floor There are two buildings, Macy's to the east and JCPenney to the west, which also contains nearly 10 specialty stores and catering stores.When they got to the parking lot, Guinness and his wife Laura had been waiting for [-] minutes.After a group of ten people said hello, they rushed into the building in a mighty manner. This time, they really went shopping.Going shopping on Christmas Eve, that is, Christmas Eve, is like going to the New Year’s Fair in a town in an underdeveloped area in China. There are people everywhere!The two wives took Guinness to buy ingredients for dinner, while Raul and Li Moody led five "Russian doll"-like children to buy the most important thing for Christmas - presents.The gifts prepared by the children are very simple, just buy one for each person; as the head of the family, Raul has to prepare one for everyone; Li Moody, who is a guest, is not a believer, so it is possible not to prepare gifts, but in the future I have to eat and drink at my friend's house for a week, and it's such an important day, so I decided to buy some small gifts for Maman, Laura and the five children as a way of showing my heart.

Li Modi has not experienced such a lively family dinner for a long time. Fortunately, before time travel, relatives can always find opportunities to get together.But after combining the FM system, I came to Spain, and I can only contact my family members in China occasionally through phone calls and online videos. Although my parents are not far away from me, they are not able to stay together often due to busy work. How can the atmosphere of individual dining be compared with so many people together.Seeing the five children playing happily with each other, Li Modi suddenly missed his relatives in China, his cousins, cousins, nephews, and nieces... Before he knew it, he got drunk, who said red wine Not drunk?

The next morning, Li Modi was woken up by the little princess Maria. She liked the gift that this uncle from the Celestial Dynasty gave her very much, and came over happily to thank her.After accepting a kiss from the little angel, Li Modi shook his dull head, went to the bathroom to wash up, and went back to the guest room to check the presents.What Raul gave was a tie, the brand was unknown; what Maman gave was a tie clip, what a mess!The gift that Guinness and Lola gave together was a Montblanc pen, which made Li Moody complain. The agent gave the player a signature pen as a gift. This is the custom of the last century!
On Christmas Day, the Raul family and the Guinness family will go to a nearby church to do some religious services—wrong, sorry, it’s a church service, and Li Moody will stroll to the playground under the Queen’s Shopping Center to play all morning game.Originally, he planned to see if he could go to watch the NBA's Christmas game live. Unfortunately, the record of the New York Knicks in the past few years has been so poor that they were not able to qualify for the Christmas game this year.Of course, even if there is a competition, Li Moody may not be able to afford the crazy fare.

After the Christmas holiday, there are usually a few days of working time before New Year's Day, but the family is still very leisurely.Raul’s La Liga promotion ambassador didn’t have to go to work, and he didn’t have many activities throughout the year; while Maman had his own partner fashion company, but he was even more of a hands-off shopkeeper, focusing on taking care of his family; the children were at this time It's the school holiday, there are many holidays in western countries; Guinness is the big boss of the brokerage company, so he can rest if he wants to; Moody Li is on winter break.So everyone is like the Chinese National Day or the Spring Festival holiday, a group of people play everywhere, parks, museums, shopping malls, squares, and visited several major scenic spots in New York.

In the blink of an eye, it was the night of the penultimate fourth day of 2015, and the important reason why Li Mudi was tricked into coming to the United States finally began.Donald Trump, a real estate tycoon, well-known "big-mouthed angry youth", and one of the Republican party's presidential candidates, will hold a charity dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York on this day. Well-known celebrities from all walks of life around the world People and high-level elites will be involved.

Although this charity gala is to raise funds for some children with intractable diseases in the United States, in essence, Trump is taking the opportunity to expand his network, prepare for the Republican primary election that will start in February next year, and solicit votes. The people present really have all kinds of industries.The influence of the sports world in the United States is very huge. Trump will naturally not let go of this big ticket warehouse, but most of the local sports elites are black athletes. They are influenced by Ao Guanhai and prefer the Democratic Party, so Trump In the sports circle, except for the white people who only account for a small proportion, the only ones who can win over are those influential foreign athletes.Guinness and Raul are naturally not to be missed. In addition, Li Moody's new manager pointed out several sports stars who attended the dinner, such as several white big names from the New York Yankees baseball team and the New York Giants football team. Unfortunately, Neither sport was very popular in China, and Li Moody knew nothing of these familiar names to New Yorkers.

Trump led his family to appear together before the dinner officially started, and Li Moody finally saw one of the goddesses in his dreams—Ivanka, and was so moved that he almost cried.As the hosts, Trump and Ivanka gave short but affectionate speeches respectively, which received warm applause from the guests.More than ten minutes later, the dinner party officially entered the network communication link. The buffet table and the waiters walking back and forth in the hall provided everyone with countless delicious food and champagne. Everyone was looking for someone to chat with and expand their social circle.This environment made Li Moody very uncomfortable. Suffering from stranger phobia, he declined the invitation of Guinness and Raul to talk to someone together, and then entered the mode of being incompatible with the surroundings. After roughly looking around, he found that I didn't know anyone, so I came to the dining table alone and started eating.

The American buffet really didn't suit Li Moody's appetite, and he was not used to drinking champagne, so he had to eat snacks and orange juice, which made him happy.When everyone was hurrying to communicate and hand out brand names to each other, there was such a strange thing here who was eating all the time, which caught people's attention involuntarily.After stuffing two small donuts in one bite, someone suddenly patted Li Modi's shoulder from behind, which startled him, turned around and saw that it was Beckham.Since David retired, the two of them have settled in the United States. The family has appeared in major media magazines from time to time, and they are considered to be one of the most famous people in the world.When David was playing in Real Madrid, Li Mudi had just graduated from university in Tianchao, and the two of them had no job intersection, but they met several times through the relationship between Raul and Qi Zu, and they were called friends.Victoria was just talking to a group of fashionable people. After a long time, David felt a little bored, so he left his wife and came to the dining table to take a rest, only to find this weird foodie.

Meet old acquaintances in other lands!Li Modi was very excited to see Beckham, hugged him vigorously, and finally opened up the chatter box, making Beckham's brain ache when he planned to come and hide.Fortunately, Victoria followed after the conversation, making Li Mudi, who was not familiar with her, shut up in an instant, and rescued her husband who was already in a daze.

Victoria is a very cool woman, she doesn't have much enthusiasm for strangers or people she doesn't like, but for the sake of her husband, she still exchanged a few words with Li Modi briefly.After learning that she and Ivanka knew each other, Li Modi made a rare bold move, and tactfully asked Victoria to introduce him.The result was very good, Moody Lee fulfilled the main wish of this trip to the United States, shook hands with the goddess and took a group photo.The selfie of the two appeared on his twitter and ins immediately, and got a lot of likes from many people. For a while, he felt relieved and had nothing else to ask for.

An hour later, the charity auction, the highlight of the dinner, started. Naturally, there was no such thing as Li Moody with a flat wallet, so he still secretly ate and ate at the dining table, and he ate his stomach directly. This time, it's a joy that begets sorrow.

Leaving the Four Seasons Hotel, Li Moody's trip to the United States has come to an end. Tomorrow, after spending another day in New York, he is going to fly back to Mallorca to welcome the arrival of 2016 with his parents.

(End of this chapter)