Chapter 28 American-Style Community Gatherings

"Father, I invited a neighbor over tonight, is that okay?"

Demi was helping her father carry the oven to dry, and at the same time asked her father about inviting her neighbor Kim Hyun-tae to the evening barbecue.

"Oh, that's great. More people make it more lively. Anyway, if you don't invite me, I will invite many neighbors. It's no problem."

Demi's father is a typical middle-aged Caucasian male with dark brown hair and big black-rimmed glasses. He is also in good shape. He has no beer belly or fat on his body. He looks like a person who usually pays attention to exercise.

There is a very strange phenomenon in this part of the United States, that is, fat people are generally poor people, while people in the white-collar class or even the rich class rarely appear fat, and they will maintain a good figure.

This phenomenon is somewhat opposite to that of the East.

In the East, fat people are mostly rich people, and thin people are poor people.

In fact, the reason and reason for this is also very simple. Rich people can spend money on fitness to keep in shape, but poor people certainly don’t have the money to go to fitness to keep in shape.

Moreover, rich people can buy expensive organic food, while poor people can only eat cheap inorganic food or junk food. Of course, they cannot compare with rich people or even white-collar workers.

Demi's father was wearing beach shorts and a black T-shirt, the standard casual attire for most American family men.

Demi's mother also wore jeans and a T-shirt, nothing too out of the ordinary.

Speaking of the dress of most people in the United States, they are very casual and casual, even those rich people will go out in such clothes.

Therefore, Americans are always joked by Europeans, saying that Americans dress in a rustic way like country bumpkins.

In this regard, the Americans did not take it to heart either, and did as they felt comfortable, and did not care about other people's opinions and views at all.

Of course, this means that in leisure time, when going to work or attending important dinners and parties, Americans still wear formal clothes.

Generally speaking, when at home, everyone will dress casually.

"Dad, the neighbor I invited was only 16 years old and already a father."

Demi was still a little girl after all, so she finally couldn't hold back and told her father about it.

"Huh!? Is he a bad boy?"

Obviously, Demi's father was wrong, thinking that Kim Hyun-tae was a bad boy.

Demi shook her head quickly and explained: "It's not what you think, Dad! There are very complicated reasons for this. Anyway, he is a good boy, and you will understand when you see him."

snort!

The father was very noncommittal about his daughter's explanation.

Having a child at the age of 16 is not what a bad boy is!

In short, before meeting Kim Hyun-tae, Demi's father had preconceived and regarded Kim Hyun-tae as a bad guy.

At this time, Kim Hyun-tae came to the backyard of Demi's house.

After all, the two are neighbors, and they are only a few steps away, not far at all.

Standing outside the fence built by Demi's family with white-painted wooden slats, Kim Hyun-tae hugged his daughter in one hand, raised the beer in the other, and greeted Demi and his father.

When Demi saw Kim Hyun-tae, she immediately left her father behind, then led Kim Hyun-tae in, and came to her father.

"Hi sir, I am William King, you can call me Jin, I live next door, we are neighbors."

Kim Hyun-tae put the beer down, Demi took the beer aside, Kim Hyun-tae extended his hand to Demi's father, and introduced himself at the same time.

Although he wanted to give Kim Hyun Tae a cold face, Demi's father responded out of politeness.

"I am Nat Harlan, Demi's father,

You can call me Mr. Nut, and over there is my wife, Anna, and my oldest son, Jack. "

Nat has two children, one son and one daughter. The eldest son is Jack, who is already in college, and the daughter is Demi, who is still in ninth grade.

And his wife Anna is a full-time housewife.

Following Nat's introduction, Kim Hyun-tae greeted both Anna and Jack.

"Come on boy, help me carry this grill over there." Nat was not surprised at all, and began to tease Kim Hyun-tae, but this is also a normal American personality, so Kim Hyun-tae is not used to it. , after all, he has lived in this time and space America for almost a year.

Holding his daughter in one hand, Kim Hyun-tae put one hand on the handle of the oven, and Nat and he moved the oven to the edge of the garden and put it away.

"I hear you're already a father of a child, and you're only 16 yourself?"

After putting down the grill, Nat basically didn't have to do the rest of the work, and the children or his wife basically took care of it, so Nat was free, so he just chatted with Kim Hyun-tae about it .

According to the forged life experience of the alien primary school student, Kim Hyun-tae answered Nat, and after listening to Kim Hyun-tae's response, Nat understood all the "everything", and finally changed his impression of Kim Hyun-tae.

That's why Nat realized that there are some complicated factors in it, not what he imagined.

"It's hard work, alone with a child."

Mr. Nat, who has changed his opinion of Kim Hyun-tae, and his tone of conversation with Kim Hyun-tae unknowingly softened a lot and became a lot more friendly.

"It was quite hard work. After all, I was still a student at that time, and I was really powerless to go to school and take care of my children at the same time." Kim Hyun-tae continued to answer Nat based on the forged experience of an alien elementary school student.

“So I had to drop out of school and work two jobs a day to support myself and my children. And the orphanage, I had to leave.”

Following Kim Hyun-tae's narration, Nat raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder as if empathizing with him.

"Everything is for the child. If I were you, I might make the same choice. Maybe I'm not as good as you."

Mr. Nat sympathized with Kim Hyun-tae's experience.

"It's nothing, Mr. Nat. My economic conditions have improved a lot now, much better than a few months ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to live in this community." Kim Hyun-tae smiled at Nat.

"Oh? What's going on here?"

Nat looked at Kim Hyun-tae curiously.

Kim Hyun-tae smiled and said to Nat: "It's not a big deal. A novel I wrote in my part-time job was picked up by California Culture Publishing House and published. The royalties of the novel after publication freed me from financial pressure. chant."

Oh, I really can't tell that this boy is still a writer!

This time, Nat had to take a look at Kim Hyun Tae Ko.

"Really, you really worked hard."

Nat said to Kim Hyun-tae very sincerely.

Kim Hyun-tae sighed and said: "There is no way, people are forced out. I have to work hard to succeed, otherwise there is no way to change my destiny. Besides, I have a daughter, and I have to work hard for her Is it right? Generally speaking, my luck is not wrong, the novel was chosen, otherwise I don’t know how long I will struggle.”

"It's because of your good writing that the novel was chosen. It has nothing to do with luck. I think you are a little humble." Nat interjected at the right time.

While the two men, one big and one small, were chatting, Demi, her mother and brother had already prepared the barbecued meat and other things, so Demi came over and interrupted the chat of the two men.

"Dad, Jin, everything is ready over there, go and chat while you barbecue."

Hearing this, Mr. Nat looked at Kim Hyun-tae: "Come on, boy, let's go over there and have a chat."

"Come on! Just let me take care of the baby. I'm good at taking care of children." Demi volunteered to hug Coco.

Seeing that his daughter wanted to take care of Kim Hyun-tae's daughter, Mr. Nat laughed and said to Kim Hyun-tae: "Leave the child to Demi, there is no problem. My daughter will always use her spare time to help some people in the community look after the children Earn pocket money, so she's pretty good at babysitting."

Now that Mr. Nat has said so, Kim Hyun-tae has no reason to refuse, so he handed the little guy to Demi.

After the little guy was held in Demi's arms, he began to giggle non-stop, and at the same time, his two little hands began to caress Demi's well-developed chest.

"Haha, the little ones are like this. Demi touched her mommy like this when she was a child." After all, he raised two children, so when Mr. Nat saw Coco's behavior, he showed nostalgia on his face. The look of the past, and then exposed her daughter's background, making Demi suddenly blush.

Fortunately, Demi really has a lot of experience in taking care of children, so she also knows that most children of Ke Ke's age will be like this, and she is not angry.

Smiling apologetically to Demi, Kim Hyun-tae followed Nat to the dining table.

Nat introduced Kim Hyun-tae to his family, and at the same time told his family that Kim Hyun-tae was still a young novelist, which attracted his wife Anna and son Jack, and even Demi showed unexpected expressions.

Nat's wife, Anna, is very enthusiastic and keeps calling Kim Hyun-tae to eat. The eldest son, Jack, is a shy boy who doesn't like to talk very much.

Because Demi has to take care of Coco, her attention and energy are all on the little guy.

On the contrary, Kim Hyun-tae and Mr. Nat chatted very vigorously here.

As the barbecue dinner at Nat's house began, Mr. Nat asked his son Jack to invite all the neighbors around, and the invited neighbors also happily brought their wives and children to the Nat's house. backyard.

According to Mr. Nut, he likes how crowded it is!

In this way, more and more people.

At the same time, Kim Hyun-tae was introduced to the neighbors by Mr. Nat as usual, letting everyone know that now they have a little writer, a single dad, and a 16-year-old boy neighbor.

The next thing was simple, everyone ate barbecue and drank beer, a bunch of middle-aged men began to act recklessly, among them was a 'young man' like Kim Hyun-tae.

However, Kim Hyun-tae has been accepted by these middle-aged men. After all, according to Nat, he is already a father, so he cannot be treated as a boy.

This statement has won the agreement of all middle-aged men who have become presumptuous due to the effect of alcohol.

Therefore, Kim Hyun-tae also became a part of the carnival middle-aged group.

On the contrary, the wives brought by those guys gather together to chat about gossip, for example, whose wife in the community is cheating, whose husband has a mistress outside, etc. In short, the housewives in the white community mainly chat The topics are basically gossip and gossip, which is a bit boring, but they never tire of it.

The children are playing wildly around, playing and playing with each other.

It was a very happy night, and it also allowed Kim Hyun-tae to understand the life of the American community a little bit, and began to integrate into it a little bit.

Even because of drinking too much alcohol, Mr. Nat took Kim Hyun-tae and a few good neighbors to the strip club next to the community after the party, and made a lot of jokes...

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