Chapter 35 third quarter

Cheng Shaozhong did not expect Kawashima Taro to send him a Christmas gift anyway. On Christmas morning, like every member of the family, he first opened the presents piled by his bed one by one.What Brown gave him was a stethoscope, and he immediately understood the connotation of this gift—in the new year, he would start to ask the door of Western medicine, and his adoptive father was blessing him.The gift that Homan gave him made him feel hot. It was a beautiful artistic photo of Sophia-it seemed that she had made it clear that she would give him her daughter.The gift Mike gave him was the keys to the old Lincoln—he got his dad a new Buick and gave it to him because he was going to start school this year.The gift Sophia gave him made him inexplicable and puzzling - it was a curvy and short, somewhat dull hair.In addition, he received Christmas cards from Tang Renjie, Fang Zhiwu, James, Mary and others.Among them, Kawashima Taro's gift was a photo of a Japanese document that was not very clear, and another letter written in English.The words were very illegible, Cheng Shaozhong couldn't read most of them, so he went to Sophia to help translate.

Sophia translated the content for him as follows: First of all, Kawashima thanked his propolis for helping him cure venereal diseases and restore him to health before seeing his relatives.Secondly, he has already applied for a patent on the use of propolis as medicine in his own country. Then, Cheng Shaozhong will infringe his patent right if he uses propolis to treat diseases in the future, because he applied for an international patent.Although the process of obtaining approval will be very long, he asserts that he has declared it before Cheng Shaozhong. The reason why he said this with confidence is that although the poor Chinese first discovered and used it as medicine, they did not know how to apply for a patent. This is China. The price of human stupidity is also the price he paid for Cheng Shaozhong to take away his lover.He Chuan Dao made a bad mouthful of this.

Cheng Shaozhong doesn't understand what a patent is, but he understands what Chuan Dao means: only Chuan Dao has the right to use propolis to treat diseases in the future, and besides, no one in the world has this right.If his understanding is correct, he thinks that Kawashima is nonsense—not to mention how many generations of things the Chinese have used, he, a Japanese, has no right to stop it, but he has the right to stop it. How can he do it?Will Cheng Shaozhong tell him when and where to use propolis?He felt that Kawashima's character was very bad.At that time, he asked himself for propolis only as a souvenir, and did not say that he had a venereal disease that needed to be treated, which showed that he was dishonest.Coupled with the strange talk about the patent issue, Cheng Shaozhong thought that Kawashima was dishonest and ridiculous.

However, when Sophia took out the letter from Kawashima to her again and introduced the contents to Cheng Shaozhong, Cheng Shaozhong’s above-mentioned view of Kawashima immediately changed again—Sophia told him angrily that the Christmas gift Kawashima gave her was a A piece of pubic hair, the one she transferred to Cheng Shaozhong.Kawashima said in the letter that he had secretly kept it when he was in bed with her, and now he is returning it to her, indicating that he has never touched a single hair of her hair. Only then did Cheng Shaozhong understand what Sophia's Christmas gift was about.Looking at the pubic hair again, I knew it was Kawashima's own.Because he had bathed with Kawashima and slept with Sophia, he had a clear impression of their body hair of different colors.Therefore, on the one hand, he was moved by Sophia's confession to him on this matter, and on the other hand, he was extremely angry that Kawashima took advantage of this sacred festival to travel thousands of miles to spread hatred and engage in such extremely vile pranks.From Kawashima's genius creativity, which is difficult for ordinary people to imagine, he felt a kind of creepy thing that is rare in human beings.Only then did he see the true nature of Chuan Dao, it is too kind to just regard him as dishonest and ridiculous, but in fact he is not human at all, he has no human taste at all, he is a real animal!Even worse than beasts! ——How can such a charm grow in a human group?This is something he has never experienced in his life. It seems that too simple is not enough, this should be taken as a lesson!

Full of anger, Cheng Shaozhong tore up the photo of the Japanese document and the letter from Kawashima to Sophia with the pubic hair in it. He felt that he was tearing up Kawashima's human skin camouflage.Then, he took the initiative to kiss Sophia for the first time, which made Sophia very excited. She hugged Cheng Shaozhong's head suddenly, and tears of humiliation burst out of her eyes.Cheng Shaozhong took out his handkerchief again, and gently wiped away Sophia's tears.He admitted that she was a good girl, and he decided to marry her as his second wife—as for Chengmen’s family rule of not taking concubines, he would explain it clearly to his relatives. understand.At the same time, he secretly told himself to find an opportunity to express his affection and sincerity to Sophia to his adoptive father and Homan as soon as possible, so as to expressly thank Homan for giving him Sophia's photo for his painstaking efforts.

After the whole family gets up to meet each other, the first thing is to thank each other for their gifts.The gifts Cheng Shaozhong gave everyone were brought from China.What Brown was given was an old mountain ginseng of the eighth grade—the seventh grade is ginseng, and the eighth grade is treasure.Brown was well aware of the value of this gift. When he was in China, he had hoped for a while that Cixi or Emperor Xuantong would reward him with an eighth-grade old ginseng like the old imperial doctor Cheng Hanqing, but he had no such luck. He is desperate.Now, what Cheng Shaozhong gave him might be a gift from the Chinese imperial palace, so he held it in his hand and was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.Cheng Shaozhong's gift to Homan was a complete piece of snake head incense, which is the ultimate product of precious Chinese medicinal musk.Musk is gradually formed by the interaction of various insects attracted by the smell of the musk deer's navel secretion when the musk deer turns over its navel and sleeps in hot summer days.Snake head incense is at the later stage of musk formation. Occasionally, poisonous snakes are attracted by its scent. When they put their heads into the musk deer's navel, they are suddenly caught by the musk deer's navel and suffocated. Form this snake head incense.Due to the accidental conditions for its formation, it is extremely rare. Of course, its medicinal effect is also very significant.These are all gifts from the emperor that the old imperial doctor Cheng has collected for many years. Before leaving, Cheng Shaobo asked his younger brother to bring them over and over again, and used them when he needed them.Cheng Shaozhong's gifts to Sophia and Mike are Golden Boy and Jade Girl.It is specially made for a son and a daughter in the adoptive father's family.The golden boy is of course made of pure gold and weighs one or two whole.The Jade Girl is carved with Burmese emerald jade.Both are about two inches high, in the shape of a flying apsaras, with vivid eyebrows and exquisite carving skills. There is a red thread on the top of the head for easy hanging.For Mike, it was a fifty-gram piece of pure gold, and for Sophia, it was of course an exquisite and expensive ornament under the necklace.It should be said that these four gifts from Cheng Shaozhong are not only genuine, but also have Chinese cultural characteristics, which more appropriately express Cheng Shaozhong's sincere gratitude to his adoptive father and his family for their sincere treatment.

The whole day was spent in an atmosphere of welcoming and sending off, and congratulating each other.Homan used all her kitchen skills to feast the whole family, but Cheng Shaozhong didn't taste anything special about all her favorite creations.However, he still praised it seriously, which made Homan very happy for a while, and even said that when he had the opportunity to go to China, he would show his hands to Cheng Shaozhong's family and let them have a good time. In the evening, Cheng Shaozhong accepted Sophia's request to accompany her to an open-air concert.The Browns couldn't go together because they needed to receive guests at home, while Mike drove a newly acquired Buick to find his girlfriend for a tryst.Open-air concerts are held at the amphitheater on the west bank of the Potomac River.It was a majestic, luxurious building on a slope not far from the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.Surrounded by green lawns, you can occasionally see groups of swans perched on the lawns near the Potomac River.

The performing unit is the United States Federal Symphony Orchestra.According to Sophia, this is the most advanced symphony orchestra in the United States.Cheng Shaozhong doesn't understand what a symphony is, and he doesn't understand the difference between a high-level symphony and a non-high-level symphony. Anyway, he accompanied Sophia to celebrate the festive season. Sophia said yes, and he always answered: "Yes!" When they arrived, the performance had already started, and the stage was full of musicians in costumes, each with a musical instrument of a different shape (later Cheng Shaozhong discovered that they also had the same one), and they were playing a warm, cheerful and humorous piece, Sophia It is said that the song is called "Jingle Bells", and it describes the situation of Santa Claus driving a six-deer sleigh all the way forward.Next, a chorus came up and sang a song. Sophia told Cheng Shaozhong that the song was called "Santa Claus Is Coming".Cheng Shaozhong listened carefully to the lyrics to the effect:

let me tell you, Santa Claus is coming. He knows who is naughty and who is best, He also knows whether you are playing or sleeping late. Santa Claus is coming, You have to be a good baby. ... Cheng Shaozhong and Sophia were watching intently, when suddenly Cheng Shaozhong's shoulder was grabbed from behind.