Chapter 607: Something Happened (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) Please Vote for Me at the End of the Month!!!
The banquet was held in three days, and Kai stayed at Duke's house for three days. The hotel was not very good, and it was not as good as a friend's house. →
Emily was very excited when she learned that Kai was going to attend the White House state banquet and wanted her to be her female companion. She held the basic history books about the White House all day long, looking for people to popularize things about the White House, and worrying about what to wear on that day.
Of course, this was another form of her showing off. In less than a day, all of Emily's friends and classmates knew that Emily was going to attend the White House state banquet. Children don't have a clear understanding of such things at all, they just know that it is amazing. So Emily became very popular all of a sudden, and even this little girl brought many of her friends to her home, wanting to see what the uncle who took her to the White House state banquet looked like.
Duke was very helpless about this, fearing that these children would disturb Kai. He also criticized Emily severely.
But Kai spoke for Emily.
Children should be like this. Being too well-behaved and obedient will make people feel distressed. It would be better if Emily was a little more childish.
Next is the issue of dresses. Emily insisted that she must have a beautiful little dress to attend the state banquet. However, Emily was sensible and knew that her father's birth certificate was in a bad state. So the little girl decided to make an evening dress for herself.
The material was the curtains of her own home...
Duke knew nothing about this at first. When he came back from shopping, he found that the curtains of his home had been taken down.
In the living room, Kai and Emily, one big and one small, actually cut the curtains into a mess with scissors.
Duke didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had never seen his superior like a child so much before. Should he be proud of this?
As it turned out, Emily obviously did not reach the level of being able to make an evening dress with curtains. She made only a blue skirt for Emily's little bear out of three curtains, and the workmanship was quite bad.
But Kai praised Emily's talent.
Kai didn't mean to fool people, but he really felt so.
He was not a supporter of happy education, and he encouraged and supported everything. On the contrary, he always thought it was stupid. Many people like to talk about how good Chinese education is and how they should learn from the UK and the US. It is true that Chinese education definitely has its own problems, but is Western education really as good as they say?
Not necessarily. Chinese education may have problems of this or that kind. But it has one advantage that other Western countries absolutely cannot match, that is fairness!
It is open to all classes in China! And it treats everyone equally, only looking at scores, not people.
And what about the West?
The most obvious examples are Japan and the United States (although Japan is not a Western country, their educational ideas are completely Western).
In Japan, school management is loose, a large number of interest clubs are set up, and class time is very short. The courses taught in high school are of no help to college entrance examinations. If you want to get into a good university, you must take extracurricular tutoring. Therefore, there are not only many tutoring classes in Japan, but also very profitable. → What if you don’t go to cram school? It’s very, very difficult to get into university! Because high school courses don’t teach so much content needed for university entrance examinations...
Are Japanese students happy? Too happy! But what’s the use? This leads to the social discourse power always being in the hands of a few elites.
Japan is a capitalist society. Their elites want class solidification. The elites will always be elites, and the common people will always be common people.
Although the United States is different from Japan, the results are the same. Children from the lower and middle classes do not have good teachers in public schools. Happy education prevails and they can't learn anything at all. Children from the upper and middle classes go to private schools, enjoy the best educational resources, and receive the most rigorous elite education.
Children educated in two ways are of course completely different.
The most obvious example is the class division in the United States. Those elites and the lower and middle classes have completely different ideas. (The most obvious example is the attitude towards Emperor Chuan)
So Kai really thinks Emily is indeed talented. Anyway, when he was this old, his hands-on ability was definitely not so strong. Strong hands-on ability is definitely an excellent talent. Unlike today's children, they can't even change a light bulb and need a lover to change it.
In order to reward Emily, Kai decided to sponsor Emily so that she could buy a favorite evening dress. The maximum amount of this sponsorship is three hundred dollars!
Don't think Kai is stingy. In fact, no matter how expensive the evening dress is, it's a small matter for Kai. It's just that he didn't want Emily to develop a bad consumption concept. In fact, Duke felt that three hundred dollars was a bit too much.
In order to make Duke agree to accept Kai's sponsorship, Emily agreed to a series of jumps, such as she had to get all A's in the next exam, otherwise the three hundred dollars would be deducted from her pocket money!
Emily agreed to the conditions, so she happily dragged Duke to buy a little dress for herself. She originally wanted to drag Kai to go with her. But Kai refused very firmly.
Kai could accept shopping with a little girl.
But if he went with Duke and the children, he would not be willing.
After all, it is not uncommon for homosexuals to adopt children to form a family these days. Kai didn't want to be looked at with strange eyes, it would test his nerves too much.
Just when Kai was lying on the sofa watching TV alone.
Suddenly, a piece of news was interrupted.
The state banquet has undergone a huge change.
This time, the president will host two heads of state for a groundbreaking banquet.
One was naturally the former Indian Prime Minister, and the other was very unexpected, the President of South Korea. →
South Korea's status has always been critical, but because of the existence of Japan, South Korea's status is not as important as imagined. And there is also the existence of North Korea, so the United States's attention to South Korea cannot be said to be bad, but it is definitely not as important as Japan.
So the sudden banquet for the South Korean President at this critical juncture did surprise many political observers.
So a bunch of people were analyzing why the government was doing this at this time.
Kai didn't care much about this, so he just changed the channel casually.
He didn't expect that because of this South Korean President, a series of things would happen later.
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The day before the state banquet, Kai couldn't stand Emily's pleading, so he decided to take Emily to the White House first and decided to familiarize himself with the venue first. Although Kai didn't understand, what was there to be familiar with in this kind of thing.
Kai guessed that this was Emily cheering up her father.
Because today was Duke's interview time.
Early in the morning, they drove to the White House.
That's right, the interview location was in the White House.
The White House is not just the president's office and residence. It is very large, and there are many ancillary buildings beside it, including the Secret Service's office.
After Duke drove his daughter and eldest son to the White House, he went to the Secret Service alone, while Kai had called Margaret a few days ago, and she gave a positive response. So overall they are still very confident about this interview.
Unexpectedly, half an hour later, Duke came back with a normal look. Emily did not ask Duke about the result, but clamored to go to the bathroom.
So the two men could only take Emily to find the bathroom.
After Emily left.
"They refused..." Duke said frustratedly.
Kai was puzzled and a little angry about this. They had said it well yesterday, why did they do this today?
Kai was ready to call Margaret to ask clearly.
But Duke stopped him.
"It seems to be my own problem..." Duke said with a slightly embarrassed look.
"What do you mean? What did you say that you shouldn't say?" Kai stared at him and said.
"Tsk... How should I put it..." Duke was even more embarrassed: "The person who interviewed me was a supervisory agent... She's Carol Finnity."
"Who is that?" Kai was not very familiar with the Secret Service. He only knew that there was a supervisory agent named Banning in the Secret Service. What a cocky guy.
"My high school girlfriend..."
Kai didn't understand. This shouldn't be too bad, right? It's easier to get things done with acquaintances.
Duke continued with difficulty: "I was her first love..."
"So what?" Thinking of Duke's previous behavior, Kai felt bad.
"When we broke up, it was a bit ugly... She caught me and the cheerleader..." Duke made a very subtle expression as he said: "Well, especially that girl is her bestie..."
Kai whistled.
He really had nothing to say.
Can he blame Duke? It was a mess many years ago.
Let alone blame others. If you were that Carol Finnity, what would you do?
Seeing that Kai was not angry, Duke also relaxed. After all, things have come to this, what else can he do?
"She said I was too poorly educated, so she rejected me."
"Tsk... your luck... is second to none." The Secret Service is not like the Army soldiers. As long as you are healthy, you can join. Anyway, most of the Army soldiers are cannon fodder and worthless. The Secret Service protects the president and dignitaries, and poor students are not qualified to protect them.
Others say that it is reasonable and well-founded, even if Margaret comes.
Although there is no saying that the harem cannot interfere in politics in the United States, the president's wife is generally similar to the mascot. It is estimated that no president will do anything to a Secret Service agent because of his wife's pillow talk.
The president cannot do whatever he wants.
So when the other party has a reason, Kai has no choice...
"What should we do now?"
Kai is a little worried about Emily. As for Duke... He is a grown man and will not starve to death anyway, so why worry about him?
"Why don't you come to Los Angeles with me? Being a policeman is a bit tiring and the salary is not as much as the Secret Service, but it is not bad." Kai asked.
"It's the only way... Emily needs to move to another school. I wonder if she will be sad." Duke is actually quite responsible, but he is a little careless.
"It's okay. Emily is a good kid. She can adapt." It seems that this is the only way to do it now. Kai could only comfort her like this.
While the two were discussing, on the other side, the South Korean president had arrived at the White House.
Benjamin and Margaret greeted him at the White House gate according to etiquette.
The arrival of the South Korean president this time seemed very sudden, and there was not even enough time for the White House to make adequate preparations, especially today was a visiting day.
Originally, today's visiting day should have been cancelled, but no one expected that the South Korean president would notify the United States for some reason, saying that no special arrangements were needed, and even the visiting day was not cancelled...
It is probably to appear close to the people.
The presidential cabinet and the staff group had a lot of controversy about this. Some people did not agree with this arrangement. After all, security issues are very important. Mainly cabinet members.
And the staff needs to consider not only the personal safety of the president, but also help the president win over voters.
That’s right, the staff mainly serves the president, and they care more about the president’s approval rating. So that the president can be re-elected smoothly. Even though the president’s term has just begun.
In the end, under the guarantee of Walker, the chief agent in charge of the president’s security in the Secret Service, the resolution was passed, and the visiting day would not be cancelled.
There were only some protective measures when the South Korean president arrived.
It was not easy for two big men to block the door of the women’s restroom, so they waited outside the corridor outside the restroom.
From a distance, they could see President Benjamin and an Asian with a pig kidney face entering the White House reception room from the gate.
And there were many people wearing black suits and sunglasses standing in the crowd around.
“It seems that the South Korean president is visiting today.” Duke tiptoed to take a look.
“It seems so.” Kai didn’t care. He had never heard of this South Korean president.
The South Korean president was not as nervous as the security personnel of both sides. Instead, he kept waving to the people around him.
"What is this idiot doing? Is he being targeted?" Kai asked in disbelief as he watched the South Korean president's suffocating operation.
Public figures like them should be careful when they are exposed to the public like now. It is best not to stop and give the target time to shoot.
"You don't know?" Duke asked in surprise.
"Know what?"
"This guy is facing corruption charges in his own country. Now he has come to the United States. It is estimated that he wants to use the power of the US government to suppress domestic opposition. Now he must appear to be close to the people so that Americans will have a good impression of him." Duke's analysis is very reasonable.
"You have done your homework well." Kai is still not very interested in this.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the stupid South Korean president finally left with the White House staff with satisfaction.
Emily also came out.
She clamored to visit the White House.
Kai and Duke naturally disagreed.
But a few minutes later, when the three people followed a tour group and listened to the guide's nonsense. Suddenly, a group of secret agents rushed into the White House from all directions and ran towards the direction of the president.
Kai and Duke looked at each other and immediately felt something was wrong.
"Something happened!" Kai grabbed Emily and pushed her into Duke's arms. Then he ran to the window.
In the sky, a large AC130 military aircraft was launching jamming bombs!
"Fuck! Something really happened!"