The daily life of American TV agents

Chapter 426 Pritchett's Family Gathering ([-])
"Two idiots~ You just wait for your stupid looks to appear on this year's Christmas card~" Hayley laughed wildly with her hips on her hips. It must be said that she also followed Ron's example.

He learned a lot from Ron bullying Sheldon.

"You!" Luke glared at his eldest sister angrily, while Ron rolled his eyes and went downstairs. He was speechless to these two little ghosts of the Pritchett family. Why are they so cute?

With this IQ, I will say goodbye to bicycles in this life~
Ron walked out of the house and came to the backyard. He saw Jie holding two checks standing by the oven, looking left and right, and couldn't help but joked: "Hey, Jie, be careful, don't burn the checks, if you don't want can give to me."

"Haha, you may not believe it, I almost forgot that I paid the down payment for Claire and Mitchell when they bought the house, and they even returned the money to me just now," Mr. Jie said with great comfort: "I finally saw money back from my two gnawing children."

Don't believe the nonsense that marketing accounts say that Americans don't care about the old, and children move out of their parents' homes to work independently to earn tuition fees as soon as they grow up.

In fact, except for those poor families who really can't afford their children's expenses, American parents will more or less give their children some financial help.

As we all know, tuition fees in the United States are quite expensive, and most Americans spend their entire lives repaying their college loans, but what most people don’t know is that most American families, such as middle-class families like Pritchett and Dunphy , as long as they can afford it, they will take the initiative to pay for this part of the tuition expenses.

As for the children of ordinary families, the high tuition fees coupled with even higher interest rates have already opened up the gap with the rich families since they have not stepped into the society.

Don't you want to help as their parents?It's not that I don't help, I really can't help.

"Congratulations, do you want to accept the money?"

"How is it possible, believe it or not, it won't be long before they start to regret it right away, or maybe they've started talking bad about me now."

Jie obviously understood his children's temper very well, showing the expression of an old urchin: "Wait, Ron, why don't you do me a favor and listen to what they are talking about behind my back? In order to facilitate their discussion , I will bask in the sun by the swimming pool outside later, you go and get close to them."

"Shouldn't it?" Ron picked up the check and looked at it, expressing that he couldn't understand: ""

"Of course, as for Ron, you don't understand, if they are as successful as you, they might not take this little money seriously, but unfortunately they are all mediocre," Jie said meaningfully.

"To be honest, sometimes I really envy George. His children are all excellent, and each one can stand alone. George Jr. has monopolized almost all the tire business in Texas, which is a good business. Never short of money to spend.

Missy helps her husband run a restaurant in almost every state in the United States. I just took Gloria to eat at the restaurant in Los Angeles a few days ago. The service is great. Each of you three has brought the family together forever The ability to unite.

Even if it's Sheldon, it's okay to take care of yourself, but looking at the few in my family... oh~"

Jay sighed regretfully.

Although Mitchell's job is a relatively high-income lawyer in the United States, his level is relatively average. In most cases, he is working as a legal consultant in the company, or a public prosecutor who specializes in defending criminals, that is Saul The kind of lawyers I did when I first debuted, this kind of lawyers actually don’t make much money.

Although generally speaking, the income is higher than that of the average American, but don't forget that there is a husband/wife Xiaoka in his family who can spend money, and gays are twice as talented in spending money as ordinary women.

So much so that he and Xiaoka had almost no savings, and the money he just paid back came from an inheritance that Xiaoka had just inherited from his dead uncle.

As for Claire, a novice who has just transformed from a housewife to a strong woman, if she hadn't worked in Pritchett's own company, Ron felt that no one would dare to hire someone who had been out of touch with the workplace for a long time to hold an important position in the company.

In fact, even the down payment that Deng Fei made to Jie just now, a large part of it is the bonus that Jie loves for his daughter.

Therefore, in general, there is really no one in the second generation of the Pritchett family who can fight. Compared with the Cooper family, they are simply weak.

Of course, Ron definitely couldn’t say that, and he still had to be modest: “It’s not as good as you said, but Claire and Mitchell are actually pretty good, I don’t think they are the ones who will talk about you secretly behind your back.” Kind of people."

Jie Leng said abruptly: "Do you want to take a gamble? Just bet that they will speak ill of me behind my back."

"What do you want to bet?" Ron was a little confused by Jay's sudden gambling addiction.

"Just bet on her."

Ron followed Jay's gaze, and Alex, who was held in Claire's arms, broke away from his mother's arms unhappily, and ran to a corner depressed: "If you lose, help me to comfort my dear How about the granddaughter? Speaking of which, she was admitted to Sheldon's school."

"What if you lose?"

"Then I'll lose you the new Thunderbird I bought." Jie pointed to the red convertible sports car parked outside the garage. This car was much more valuable than the plane that Ron gave Jie.

Anyway, the worst case is just to comfort a little girl. Ron has always been the best way to deal with girls, and he doesn't pay for it. Ron simply agreed: "Deal."

Jie found a sunny place and opened the deck chair to lie down, put on sunglasses and enjoy the sunbath to his heart's content, while Ron walked towards the two groups of people who gathered together with champagne.

"Isn't today the day Alex passed Caltech? Why does she look a little unhappy?"

"She said she didn't decide to go to Caltech, and that's fine. If she really goes to a guaranteed school, the tuition fee will be higher." The old father Phil complained worriedly.

"Don't worry, it won't happen. She just punished me by saying that. Besides, don't worry about the money, and my bonus~" Claire said proudly.

But in exchange for Phil's silence, Claire immediately realized something was wrong after being married for many years: "Wait a minute, what did you do?"

"Did you pay my dad back too?" Mitchell said excitedly.

"Yes, but it hasn't changed anything. Jay still doesn't like me." Phil said in frustration.

"Well, it turns out that you paid back the money just to please Jie." Ron suddenly realized that Phil has been trying to build a good relationship with his father-in-law since he got married, but Jie has always been lukewarm to him.

"Please, don't do it for nothing, Phil, you'll never get on with Jay."

"Why?" Phil asked puzzled.

"Imagine what would you do if Hailey's doctor boyfriend fucked up her belly and planned to marry her with a ball?"

"I'll throw the bottle on his head!" Speaking of his daughter, Phil suddenly became murderous: "Oh my god, please, Hailey is pregnant?! I'm going to kill that kid."

"Calm down, Phil, calm down, I'm just making an analogy." Ron held down Phil's hand that was holding the wine bottle and was about to fight, and glanced in Jie's direction with some satisfaction in his heart.

Look, the solution is as simple as that, as long as I divert the topic, they won't speak ill of you behind your back, so Thunderbird is...

Unexpectedly, just as Ron came up with this idea, he immediately turned around.

"Don't be angry with Phil, Claire, he is not the villain here, he is!" Kaka glared at the sunbathing Jie indignantly: "Look at him, lying there, as if he is the king of the whole world Yes, what kind of father would take money from his children."

"That's right, he doesn't need it, he lives in this palace," Mitchell pointed to the big villa behind him, and condemned together: "And our whole family shares a bathroom the same size as his cloakroom, I know , I even measured it with my feet.”

"Okay, what about me?" Xiaoka echoed with deep sympathy: "I received the news of my uncle's death, with tears in my eyes, and he stole my inheritance, but I became Sinners who bought two fur coats."

Mitchell opened his mouth wide in shock: "What?! You bought two pieces!"

"Hi! I can wear that coat for three seasons!"

The quarrels here are getting louder and louder. Even if Jie really falls asleep under the sun, there is a high probability that he will be woken up, not to mention that he is still thinking about the bet with Ron, so he just got up and came in front of everyone.

"Hey, I just remembered an interesting thing. The money you returned to me was just enough for me to buy that Thunderbird. How about it? Isn't it funny? Hahaha~"

Jie toasted to everyone triumphantly, and secretly winked at Ron, with an expression that seemed to say: How are you?I won, right?
"Ron, you haven't finished talking about the comprehensive parameters of that plane to me just now, come on, continue to tell me about that plane, how high can it climb?"

"Its maximum flight altitude can reach 12000 meters, but limited by the law, I suggest that it is best to fly only in open airspace within 1000 meters. If you want to fly higher, you have to apply to the Aviation Administration... "

Ron and Jay walked sideways while chatting about the plane, until they couldn't hear them talking: "Well, I lost the bet, where is Alex?"

Jie pointed to the garage: "There, let's go together."

In the garage, Alex was sitting in Jay's new car, opening a bottle of tequila and about to pour it into his mouth.

"Useless child."

Jie suddenly spoke, and Alex paused: "You're right, I can't anesthetize my problems with alcohol."

"You could have done it, but there's water in there," said Jay, pushing his arm up against Ron, which meant it was your turn.

"Yes, that's right, Hailey and I just replaced all the tequila with water in order to punish Luke and Manny who stole the wine, and we made up a story about 'there are worms in the wine', now Luke C. and Manny are having an ice bath treatment, it would be fun if you went up there to see."

"Not interested." Alex put the wine up to his nose and sniffed suspiciously, then re-corked it.

Ron hit a snag, and then he remembered that the premise of his ability to deal with girls seemed to be based on the premise that the two sides could establish an ambiguous relationship. He was no better than his clever niece. Jay has more ideas.

Jay glared at Ron: "That's it?"

Ron could only bite the bullet and open the car door, and sat next to Alex: "I just heard from Claire that you plan to give up Caltech?"

"Please! Don't tell me how good that university is. I'll graduate in two years. I'll get a Nobel Prize or something. I'm not a genius like Sheldon!"

Alex looked crazy, like a kitten.

"Correction, Sheldon University only studied for one year as an undergraduate, and in the second year he has already started to study the content of postgraduate studies, and has conducted theoretical physics research with a well-known Ph. Bell Award."

In fact, it stands to reason that some of Shelton's research projects funded by Ron have already reached the level of winning a Nobel Prize in Ron's opinion, but these projects are all military projects.

Considering that Aideen still has a lot of support in the scientific community, and the results of the Nobel Prize must be made public, Ron does not want Aideen to kill himself one day with the weapon he developed with his own money.

So I can only wrong Sheldon for the time being. Anyway, he is so smart, and sooner or later he will produce achievements enough to win the Nobel Prize in the non-military field.

"Do you think it's helpful to tell me this?" Alex rolled his eyes at his uncle.

"No, it just makes you more stressed."

"That's right!" Alex became excited, "What if I'm the stupidest student there? Someone has to be the stupidest one, and I can go there and be the stupidest one and have a nervous breakdown... "

Ron cast a rescue look at Jie: I can't help it, why don't you come?

"You will go, I understand you." Jie patted her on the shoulder from behind: "You have grown up and never flinched from challenges. Now I can lie to you and tell you that everything is easy."

"That might be better." Alex's face softened a little.

"No, everything will be difficult, but you and I both know that this is what you have to do."

"Because if I'm wrong, I'll regret it forever." Alex nodded: "Yes, I know."

"Ron, let me drive," Jie and Ron changed seats, "Come on, I'll take you for a drive, there are some things I want to show you."

"Hey, you're not going to take us to the slums to show her how lucky she is?" Ron rolled his eyes, Jay's means are nothing more than that.

"My dad stopped playing with us when we were kids."

"Hush~" Jie started the car and drove to the gate of the villa. Claire and Mitchell were still regretting and arguing about repaying Jie's money, but they changed the place from the swimming pool to here.

"This family needs a leader, and I will always grow old. I can't be that leader forever. Only you can do it."

"Can I really do it?"

Alex was a little worried. Jay put the crowned birthday hat on her head, as if performing a coronation ceremony: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Besides, if one day I am really gone, you Uncle Ron will help you too, won't you, Ron?"

For a moment, both pairs of eyes focused on Ron, and now Ron finally understood the meaning of the bet between Jie and himself.

(End of this chapter)