"Yes, Lai, tell me about the New Year customs in your hometown." Qingchuan Yu hopes that everyone's attention will be on Lai, so that he and Feng Guling can avoid telling similar stories and being exposed. p>
Fangtani Rei opened a bottle of old wine and was pouring wine for everyone: "Come on, come on, let's all try the whiskey we bought the year our group was first established. It tastes great."
Yu Jiang glanced at him: "Have you drunk this bottle of wine?"
"Ah, have you ever drank it?" Shitani Rei suddenly realized, "I just said that the lid is so easy to open, but it doesn't matter, it is strong liquor anyway."
Shui Wulian was shocked: "Can I still drink whiskey that has been unsealed for three years?"
Morohoshi picked up the glass and looked at it carefully: "What kind of whiskey is this? Canadian whiskey?"
"It's bourbon!" Toru Amuro looked angry.
"Oh." Zhu Xingda responded softly in a casual tone, "It seems that this bottle of wine is really not drinkable. The taste of bourbon has changed to Canada."
Toru Amuro: "..."
He always felt that Zhu Xingda was acting strangely, but he had no evidence.
"Hey, Lai, don't change the subject. Tell us about your past." Yu Jiang forced the topic back to where it had drifted.
He really wanted to hear how Akai Shuichi made up stories about Japanese families in the Showa era.
The four members of the whiskey group looked at Moro Hoshida with bright eyes that hinted at expectation, making him unable to refuse.
After thinking briefly, Moro Hoshida slowly said: "Actually, I didn't grow up in Japan."
"Ah?" x4
"I lived in England with my parents when I was a child." Zhu Xingda dropped another heavy blow.
"Ah??" x4
"Wait a minute, aren't you the same as Papert?" Qingchuan Yu immediately grasped the point, "Tell me where you all live. Maybe they are very close."
"It's not necessary." Before Zhuxing could say anything, Yu Jiang coldly rejected Qingchuan Yu's proposal.
Qingchuan Yu glanced at him suspiciously.
Yujiang's attitude today is a bit strange.
Zhu Xingda drank the spoiled bourbon in his glass in silence. After a while, he followed Yujiang's words and said: "It's really not necessary. For a person with a distinctive personality like Papert, if we met, I would definitely be the first to do so."
Recognize it with your eyes.”
Yu Jiang was startled, then lowered his eyes and said no more words.
"Don't be so cryptic, Rai." Toru Amuro drank some wine and became more interested, "What about having a distinctive personality? You clearly want to say that Papet has a weird temper and is withdrawn, right?"
"Bang——"
The iron fist sanctions from Yue successfully silenced Toru Amuro.
There is no way, although everyone present can beat Yu Jiang, but as long as Yu Jiang is still their immediate boss, they will not be able to compete with him head-on.
"So how do the British celebrate the New Year?"
"What year is it? The British celebrate Christmas just like the Americans."
As soon as Shui Wulian finished speaking, Yu Jiang and Zhu Xingda's faces darkened at the same time, and they said in unison: "Please don't say that British people are the same as Americans."
"Besides, do you know that Christmas actually originated from a pagan festival?" Yu Jiang curled his lips, "At that time, they had to sing naked and eat human-shaped cookies."
"Don't describe it in such a... vivid way. It's not a human-shaped cookie, it's a gingerbread man." Zhu Xingda corrected Yu Jiang's statement while giving Shui Wu Lian Nai popular science knowledge, "The reason why Christmas is determined to be on October 1.
February 25th is not the so-called birthday of Jesus, but is related to John, the bishop of the Roman Empire at that time. Therefore, Christmas revolves around the European continent in both its origin and development."
Shui Wu Lian was helpless and speechless.
She knew that the British and Americans had always disliked each other, especially the British, who thought they were superior to the Americans. But she did not expect that this phenomenon would become widespread in the organization.
Yu Jiang was slightly surprised by Zhu Xingda's cooperation. He looked at Zhu Xingda——
Under the dim light, the outline of Zhuhoshi's big face was much softer than before. He stood alone by the door, not too far away from the rest of the whiskey group, as if he had always been away from everyone.
Zhu Xingda's expression was indifferent, looking at the empty wall, he must be in a daze, but from the perspective of other people, they would just think that he was thinking about life.
Akai Shuichi felt Yu Jiang's gaze - who could ignore that slightly burning gaze?
In fact, Akai Shuichi is not as calm as he appears now.
What he just said should be enough to convince the whiskey team, especially Papert, that he is a Japanese who grew up in England, right?
In this way, even if they suspect his identity, they will only focus on investigating MI6 and the Japanese police, and this kind of investigation is bound to yield nothing.
"Ah! It's almost midnight! Is there a fireworks display in Tokyo today?!"
In the silence, someone suddenly roared, and the originally heavy atmosphere suddenly became lively.
"Let's go to the roof to watch the fireworks."
“Don’t forget to bring New Year’s dishes and wine!”
"We might run into the gin group again when we go out like this."
"Oh, it doesn't matter, just let them be jealous!"
Everyone was noisy, pushing each other and climbing towards the roof of the base.
The organizational base on New Year's Eve is as deserted as most office buildings in Japan. After all, most of the peripheral members who are stationed here live in Tokyo, so of course New Year's Eve is spent at home with their families.
As for the expatriate members of the headquarters such as the special operations team, except for the whiskey team, most of them, like Gin, are working overtime on New Year's Eve and have no time to disturb the whiskey team's carnival.
All the members of the Whiskey Team are young people under the age of thirty, and the youngest Mizuno Reina is only twenty-five years old, which is the time when one should sing loudly and laugh wildly.
When they climbed to the top of the building, the New Year's Eve fireworks had just burst into the dark sky.
I saw streaks of fire exploding into gorgeous fireworks in the sky, and the flickering residual light slowly fell like meteors until it merged into the night.
"Why is that song called "Autumn Cherry Blossoms"?"
"If you ask who knows Japanese songs, you should sing "Let it bleed" at this time"
"Do you know what the generation gap is?"
"爱よりも情よりもはやくあなたに出 meet ったいたずらが..." The familiar melody of "Little Bits of Dream" sounded, and this time there were no surprises. All members of the whiskey group began to sing.
This song is so popular that none of them who have lived in Japan for three years can't sing it.
But——
"Your singing is really terrible! Shut up!"
Just because you can sing doesn't mean you can sing well.
The fireworks in the distance became more and more brilliant in the passionate singing of young people, and the atmosphere gradually reached its peak. Everyone was fully immersed in the indulgence of New Year's Eve, not summarizing the past, not worrying about the future, just enjoying the present. p>
It wasn't until the dawn of dawn tore a bright hole in the sky that the whiskey group, who had been playing all night, dispersed, leaving behind food residues and swaying bottles on the ground.
They would not have thought at that time that this would be the last gathering of all members of the whiskey team.
Soon, this legendary team that has dominated the organization's task completion rate for three years will fall apart.