Chapter 586: Christmas gift

On Christmas Eve, Aldridge finally coaxed Burt and Earl to sleep. They rarely spend the night with their grandparents. Although there are specially prepared rooms for them, the dazzling toys are all grandparents. Too much love for them, but unfortunately the unfamiliar bed is not used to sleep, and it is not until the eyelids are fighting that it is too sleepy to lean to the head.
Aldridge was not sleepy yet. On the night of the game day, he had always slept late. He walked up to the balcony of the villa and planned to blow cold air on it to smoke a cigarette.
As a result, he found that Barnett and Andrew had already stood side by side on the balcony, smoking and chatting. As soon as he joined, Andrew in his pajamas and Christmas hat, obviously dressed, immediately went to get beer and food, and said that he should keep the three brothers together. Gather together.
Barnett readily agreed, and finally stared at Aldridge with a smile.
Aldrich thought: yeah, everybody grows up and has their own careers. It is true that they gather together and stay away from each other. It is rare to be able to chat together and talk.
He will not disappoint naturally.
"Hey, you sent me the cruise ship, is it a bit off?"
Aldrich knows that a cruise ship is nothing in Barnett's eyes. His worth has exceeded 10 billion, and the Internet bubble collapsed? This is indeed the case in the stock market, but in real investment, his assets have not shrunk much. In particular, this round of bubble burst is also his preparation for the next stage of integrating resources to take off.
Barnett hadn't answered yet, and Andrew said angrily: "My grass, brother, you have been eccentric since you were a child! I gave Aldridge a cruise ship, me? Why is it a sports car?"
Barnett said helplessly: "I don't know what he likes. Of course, it's best to give gifts. Isn't your favorite collection of sports cars? Tell me, how many cars are in your garage? Can you go to the car show? Is that right?"
Andrew took a sip of wine and suddenly laughed again, saying, "23 top sports cars, and limited editions. After 20 or 30 years, maybe they are out of print! I mean, you should send me at least 10 cars. A sports car, not one."
"Okay, you come back and make a list for me. I will ask someone to send it to you."
Barnett didn't care about the money at all. As the eldest of the brothers, he was like this since childhood. He always gave what the two younger brothers wanted.
Aldrich spit out smoke and hit Barnett's shoulder, saying, "I haven't answered my question yet."
Barnett sighed: "Audric, is it interesting to ask? Why can't you be like Andrew? Just accept it, you are always like that, it's very out of the ordinary, it seems that we must open the distance between us ."
Aldridge was really choked and speechless.
When he received a huge gift of 200 million US dollars, he felt at first that the gift was too heavy to receive.
Finally, I thought of a crappy reason to cover up, Aldridge reluctantly said: "The problem is, I don't use this thing very much, I still have to invest a lot of money every year to maintain and so on."
In his personal consumption, the largest annual expenditure is now the construction of small islands and daily expenses in Australia. Now, he has to bear another cruise ship. Thinking about it, it suddenly makes people very stressed.
The cruise ship is ready, but where does it stop? No need to manage? No need to clean up and maintain? No maintenance required? The cost of starting once is not low.
Barnett pressed Aldridge with one hand and smiled: "The maintenance cost of the cruise ship is hung under the name of a company in the offshore financial center. You don't have to worry about it. I think you should hire a butler to help you Take care of these matters, just like you are on a small island in Australia, you can’t ask everything in person, right? You pay for it, and you want to relax after work, then just enjoy the ready-made, you don’t have to aggravate yourself burden."
Aldridge grinned and said to Andrew: "Look, the big boss just talks differently."
Andrew didn't laugh, but mocked: "It's not that he is different, the strangest thing is yourself."
After he finished, he rolled his eyes.
Aldridge was helpless and despised!
Think about it, it is time to ask someone to take care of these trivial matters.
The three brothers talked about it, Barnett’s business situation in the United States, and a little princess added to his family. Andrew’s personal problems, it’s not always fooling around alone? When it comes to Aldridge, his situation is the most complicated. The status quo is simply very happy. There is a kind of family, but there is still a role like "ex-wife" appearing from time to time.
Aldridge also felt a headache when it came to it.
On average once a month, Melanie will appear in front of him. On the surface, he is not directed at him. Visit the two sons or take them out to play. Aldrich needs to be accompanied.
Barnett seemed to care more about fame, and vaguely reminded Aldridge that it would be best not to make a reputational mess.
Andrew laughed and scolded Aldridge for being unaware of the blessings. There were two women around him robbing him. How many men could not envy him.
"Ah, not to mention you anymore, go and drive to blow out outside."
Andrew’s proposal, Barnett and Aldrich didn’t even want to go, but they couldn’t hold back the Hall’s old erhu, who was entangled. The three brothers changed their costumes and went downstairs. Although Andrew rarely came back to live here, the villa’s garage There are really a lot of his cars here, of course, that doesn't belong to the collection series.
Aldrich and his elder brother thought they were driving a sports car, and as a result, Andrew had thrown helmets on them.
Aldridge and Barnett wanted to cry without tears.
This winter, Christmas Eve, let's go out for a ride on a motorcycle?
Why not make up some of Arthur's dogs as fawns? Hang them on the line, drag a seat behind, and we pretend to be Santa!
Not to mention, the three of them drove out on motorcycles, and laughed and laughed along the way.
The long-term feeling keeps coming up.
When he was young, Barnett had a broken motorcycle. When nothing happened, the eldest brother was carrying two younger brothers on the street, and at the time, he felt chic and happy.
Now, they are driving high-end motorcycles, and they dare not dare to go up in speed. The more wealthy they are, the more they sacrifice their lives.
Even so, the three seemed to have returned to their boyhood, traveling freely on the street, aimlessly, forgetting everything, and simply enjoying the pleasure and joy brought by speed.
...
It was crazy to play in the evening. Aldridge got up late on Christmas day. When he went to bed together, he received Christmas gifts.
Bout's injury left him at least two and a half months away.
After a hundred days of injury, Bout hurt his arm again. Two and a half months is just a conservative recovery date. It is another matter to be able to play the game and deal with key battles.
Aldridge did well to realize Bout’s reimbursement in the second half of the season.
The sun was shining today, and Aldridge had no plans to travel. When he got up, Ewen had already come to Arthur. In the afternoon, he walked to the lawn in front of the villa, sitting on a swing and holding a laptop to work.
Burt and Earl are playing football on the lawn, Ewen and his sister-in-law are chatting, Aldridge is desperate, and now he will start looking for the main goalkeeper in the second half of the season.
He first picked up the phone and called Boas.
"Hi, Velas, Merry Christmas."
"Uh, Merry Christmas, is Bout's injury not optimistic?"
"guessed?"
"Well, the team needs a reliable goalkeeper, right?"
Part of Boaz’s job is to update the player profile system that the club has established over the years, but also his personal hobby.
"Let’s ask for it. First, the goalkeeper I bought must have strength and experience. Second, I don’t buy this goalkeeper for a long time to replace Bout. When Bout’s injury comes back, I will investigate his State, as long as the competitive state can be restored, Bout will still be the main goalkeeper. Third, the price is not too expensive, I don’t want to cause controversy during the winter break."
Aldrich’s three requirements, the first one has nothing to say, the second, he really hasn’t thought of taking this opportunity to replace Bout with a better world-class door in the future, everyone is emotional, Bout It’s trustworthy. The strength limit is really difficult to match the god-class goalkeeper, but Millwall has never made irreparable mistakes in key battles in these years. If he was eventually abandoned by the team because of his injury, according to his age, sure It is impossible to accept a substitute anymore, so Aldrich, whether rational or emotional, is just looking for a firefighter, and then he can substitute Bout in the future. The third requirement is to avoid external pressure caused by the transfer and avoid becoming the focus.
"Okay, I will select the shortlist and send it to you as soon as possible."
"Uh, hard work, goodbye."
Aldridge hung up the phone and searched for suitable candidates on his computer.
To be honest, the number of suitable candidates he can find in his memory at this stage is almost zero, because what can be remembered are basically some famous people, especially the position of the goalkeeper, which is not conspicuous in itself. Several people, both capable and able to come off the bench, are really scarce.
Andrew got up later than Aldridge. Now, he came out with two cups of steaming coffee in his pajamas. He still wears a Christmas hat on his head. Is this deliberately vulgar?
He handed a cup of coffee to Aldridge, then sat down on the swing next to him, glanced at Burt who was playing football with his feet, and laughed: "Your son seems to be a professional player in the future, um, I acted as an agent for him and packed him into a big star."
"You'd better stay away from my son, I don't want them to be damaged by you."
"Humph, are you qualified to say me? When they really start to understand things, they don't know how to explain what happened to you and Chisholm."
"Don't force me to pour coffee over your head."
"Hey, joke, joke."
Aldridge took a sip of coffee and suddenly turned to look at Andrew solemnly.
Andrew was startled and said, "Would you really want to pour me with coffee?"
Aldrich shook his head and said, "Help me, contact the gunmen on Fleet Street, and fire all over to criticize Millwall."
Andrew froze, exclaiming: "Ah?"