Chapter 39 - Christmas, 30 dollars!
Benny, a programmer, always thought that Christmas was December 25th, but when he became Benny Hammond, he realized that Christmas does not refer to a specific day, but a real season.
If there weren’t for the Angerville Manor, which brought so many funerals to Hawkins, Hawkins would be more lively than it is now.
As far as Benny has seen, many homes have been decorated since Thanksgiving. Benny also digs out a lot of lanterns and other decorations from the storage room.
Many of these decorations were even left by Benny’s grandfather’s generation, and they are about to become antiques.
But this is also the custom of Christmas.
The decorations will not be thrown away. They accumulate from childhood to youth, to old age, until they enter the grave, and if they can, they will be passed on to the next generation. According to legend, there will be more and more decorations, comparable to a family of groceries. shop.
In line with the idea of going to the countryside, Benny followed the neighbors around and decorated them from a few days after Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is the fourth week of November, and Christmas is December 25, which is almost a month away, so the decoration is not in a hurry. Hang a lantern today, post a Christmas tree card tomorrow, make a fence the day after tomorrow, and decorate a little every day, and it’s almost the same day by Christmas.
Benny and Hope came back after cutting the Christmas tree, and it was already afternoon.
Hope put the Christmas tree into Benny’s pickup and pulled Will and hurriedly left.
With the help of 11, Benny fixed the cypress in the doorway, surrounded it with a new low wooden fence, and then turned out the pile of old antiques to pick and choose, from which he selected some still-seeable garland heels. The lanterns, combined with the newly bought garland lanterns, decorate the Christmas tree, and then mysteriously take out a few tightly wrapped gift boxes and hang them on the tree, and the larger ones are piled up under the tree. The Christmas tree is considered to be The decoration is complete.
According to Hawkins’ custom, on Christmas day, we have to drink eggnog, eat turkey, mashed potatoes and other Christmas dinners. Benny can’t be troubled by Christmas dinners, he is a cook, and making these is a piece of cake. When it came to eggnog, it made him guilty.
No matter how he adjusts it, the eggnog tastes very poor.
Seeing that the time was getting late, Benny had to give up trying for the time being.
the next day.
After sending 11 to school, Benny was about to continue trying eggnog, but stopped at the door.
He found that there was no festive atmosphere in the bar next door.
After thinking about it, Benny found that the neighbor next door seemed to be alone all the time. Thinking that the two families would be neighbors for a long time in the future, he invited Sam to the house to spend Christmas together.
Sam hesitated at first, but after Benny begged him to teach himself to make eggnog, he finally nodded and agreed.
Time passed, and it came to Christmas day in a blink of an eye.
The entire Hawkins town is completely plunged into a festive carnival atmosphere. There are Christmas songs everywhere, red and green festive dresses everywhere.
Benny, 11 and his neighbor Sam sat at a large dining table made up of several dining tables on the first floor. They said good wishes to each other and began to enjoy the Christmas dinner.
The food on the table is made by Benny himself. In addition to turkey, mashed potatoes, bread, and desserts, there are also a large number of Chinese dishes that Benny has improved according to his taste. The drinks are sponsored by neighbor Sam. In addition to drinks, there are also special Drinks prepared for 11.
The three of them chatted and ate, and when the sky got dark, snowflakes floated outside.
Six pm. The three of them cleaned up briefly and came to the town square, which was already full of people.
Here, Christmas celebrations will be held, in addition to the mayor’s speech, there will be free food provided by the government.
As soon as he arrived at the square, 11 couldn’t wait to get together with a few friends and sneak into the crowd to play. Benny found Hope and Joey in the crowd, stepped forward and greeted them. Seeing that the two were about to stick together, he witty returned to Sam and stopped disturbing them.
At 6:30, the mayor finally finished his long talk, and the celebration officially began.
Although this year’s mayor’s speech was as stinky and long as in previous years, the townspeople gave a lot of face and did not interrupt his speech. This was mainly due to the establishment of Hawkins’ own hospital he had proposed before, which brought it to everyone. The convenience.
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In a bachelor apartment, the living room was filled with junk food packages in a mess, a few cockroaches lay motionless in the corner, and a line of ants lined up neatly to transport a piece of fried chicken residue back to the cave.
There is no light in the room, only the computer screen on the table, which provides a little light to the dark room.
Suddenly, the computer screen flickered, and the oil-stained keyboard began to jump automatically. As the keyboard jumped, lines of text quickly swept across the screen.
After a long time, the keyboard stopped jumping and quieted again.
The door of the bedroom was hidden, and the light from the computer screen penetrated the crack of the door, drawing a straight line in the bedroom.
Slap–
The switch in the bedroom was turned on, and the warm yellow light filled the room with an ambiguous atmosphere.
Accompanied by a long sigh, a man in a linen robe, his limbs tied to the bed in the shape of fire, fell soft.
The woman riding on the man rolled over and got out of bed, rearranged her leather jacket, and pulled out the makeup mirror from her bag to fix her makeup.
“Chuck, I really don’t understand. It’s Christmas, why do I pretend to be God?”
The woman complained while applying makeup.
The man moved his arm, raised his head and smiled at the woman, without saying much.
“300 dollars. Thank you.”
The woman put on her makeup, stuffed her lipstick and makeup mirror into her bag, and turned her head and said.
“The wallet is in the drawer. Take it yourself.”
Chuck said lazily.
He had just gone through an unusually energy-intensive battle, and now he didn’t even want to move a finger.
The woman seemed to come often, opened the drawer, skillfully took out three banknotes, shook them in front of Chuck, and stuffed them into the leather jacket.
“Today is Christmas, so the price has increased. My lovely Chuck.”
The woman leaned over and kissed Chuck’s chest deeply, leaving a red lip mark, and she swayed away.
The bachelor apartment was quiet again.
After a long time, Chuck snapped his fingers, and the **** handcuffs tied to his limbs fell off automatically.
Chuck turned over and sat by the bed for a while, picked up his glasses and put them on, walked out of the bedroom to the computer screen, and looked at the automatically typed text on the computer screen with a look of surprise on his face.
He sat on the chair, and after reading all the text patiently, he pressed the delete key.
However, the written text has not been deleted and is still intact.
This situation caused Chuck to frown deeply. He glanced at the last paragraph, licked his fingers, and tapped on the keyboard.
“On Christmas Eve, the people who reveled in the square were scattered. The adults took advantage of the festive atmosphere and returned to the room to express their love. The favorite gift is stuffed into the Christmas stocking.
There was a noise in the fireplace, and a figure carrying a bag came out…”