Chapter 455 Christmas and New Case
The Christmas vacation is coming in a blink of an eye. Because of Emily being targeted, Jack’s original holiday travel plan can only be scrapped. Fortunately, he doesn’t really want to go on a regular basis. Rushing to a resort like Hawaii during the holidays.
During the May Day and National Day holidays in his previous life, he still remembered the huge crowds of people.
This year’s Christmas, Jack chose to continue making dumplings for everyone. After all, as the saying goes, if Christmas dumplings are not dipped in vinegar, Santa Claus will beat the reindeer.
Okay, this is just a spoof by netizens in the previous life of Seris, but in addition to the traditional roast turkey that is not very delicious no matter how you cook it, various kinds of dumplings are indeed appearing more and more. On the American Christmas table.
Jack didn't know whether the Seris people in this world would give each other apples on Christmas Eve, but as long as it was not extreme, diversity was indeed a manifestation of social progress.
In addition to the traditional roast turkey, Jack also made the roasted stuffed capon, pandoro bread and panettone bread that Italians must eat at Christmas, which moved an old Italian man to the point of being moved.
In addition, there are foie gras and steaks from France, large pig trotters and sausages from Germany, beef meatballs from Switzerland, nougat from Spain, and the tree trunk cake that is essential for Christmas in the United States. Gingerbread man.
Last year’s Christmas was relatively deserted for Jack, and he finally went to make dumplings with the old Hunters. In comparison, this year’s Christmas was a little too lively.
Everyone had set the location of the Christmas reunion night at his house early. The Wolf brothers drove their same model of "Mammoth" and transported Christmas trees, fake snowmen and various decorations in advance. It took a whole day to decorate Jack's house with bright lights.
"I feel it's necessary to buy a bigger house." Jack counted the number of people at the banquet with a headache, and then found that the house, which originally seemed quite big, could not accommodate it.
This Christmas, not only John and Tim, the old LAPD buddies, will bring their families to participate, but members of the BAU group who are also mainly lonely people will also participate, plus the Wolf brothers The large family, including Mr. and Mrs. Hunter and an old man in his 80s, totaled about 30 people.
Fortunately, there are only three baby babies who can't talk yet, Angela and Wesley's son, the Hotchner family's son, and Braxton and Aaliyah's daughter.
Jack couldn't imagine how busy this big family would be in a year or two, when Tim and Lucy got married and had children, and John brought another old tree to bloom.
"We have a small farm next door for sale, priced at $1.2 million. Maybe you can advance your dividends in the next few years."
Chris still didn't say much, but when he did speak it was very heartbreaking. Jack admitted that his heart was severely moved, but his reason stopped him.
Although he has a very good relationship with the two brothers now, this is not how favors are used. Running a small farm in California, especially near Los Angeles, is basically a game for the rich. He will lose money every year. A sum of US$50,000 to US$60,000 is already considered a good business operation.
Jack's current legal income is hundreds of thousands a year. It's not that he can't afford a small farm worth 1.2 million, but he has no time to run it. The cost of hiring workers on Brother Wolfe's farm alone for a year is Nearly 200,000, and other expenses are only a lot more.
Only relying on the output of the small farm, even with the dividends from the trading company, Chris can only maintain a balance of payments on the books, and it is impossible to support a large family.
But the Wolf brothers have plenty of ways to launder their gray income. Jack has no gray income now. He can’t take a road trip when he has no money. Let’s see if he can catch those random horror movies?
It seems that some horror movies are really profitable, especially those that take place in Europe. Jack withdrew his distant thoughts, but did not reject Chris's proposal. He just said to think about it, in case he turned around and really wanted to watch it. You might even make a fortune.
After this particularly lively Christmas, Hotchner's body has basically recovered. Jack got him some deer antlers from Chinatown and taught Mrs. Hotchner, Hallie, how to stew chicken soup with American ginseng for him to drink. .
He didn't know the effect, but Harley's complexion was obviously much better.
Zoe and Maureen were unable to spend Christmas Eve with Jack like last year, but on Christmas Day, Jack met two beauties who cosplayed as Santa Claus at Zoe’s house, Hu Tian and Hu Di for a whole day. Another new thing happened after the year. Jack unexpectedly saw a familiar face from his previous life.
The agent of Red's starlet girlfriend helped her find a bodyguard to take care of her daily travel safety. So at a party, Jack met Liam Neeson, who looked to be in his early 50s.
This made Jack quite nervous for a while, and he began to desperately recall the various "rescues" that this boss had filmed.
Liam Neeson was his favorite action movie actor in his previous life besides "Gorda Statham". However, after thinking about it, he really couldn't think of any movie in which this big shot had done this. Someone else's bodyguard.
Since I have watched most of Liam Neeson's famous action movies, Jack, after much deliberation, I can't think of a character who looks similar to Red's girlfriend Lila. I won't worry about it anymore.
After all, there were many things that were more worthy of his worries. As time came to January, there was still no movement from Emily's old terrorist lover, but everyone in the BAU did so at Rossi's request. The level of alert was further raised.
Because intelligence came from the CIA, although Ian Doyle also appeared in Europe for a time, he still stayed in Mexico most of the time and was fighting fiercely with several large DU trafficking groups in South America.
According to Rossi’s comprehensive intelligence judgment, during this period, Ian Doyle raised at least tens of millions of dollars in funds, some of which he earned as mercenaries for the DU cartel. Sometimes they simply sell arms in person.
Jack once suggested simply taking the initiative to attack, but first of all, this Doyle is elusive and elusive. If he misses a hit, it will be enough to alert him. If he hides secretly again, Emily can still hide. Not for a lifetime?
Think about how many resources were used to dig out this guy, and how much price Emily paid.
The second problem lies with the CIA. Nowadays, there are undercurrents among the DU drug trafficking groups in South America, and another large-scale drug war is likely to break out. Both the CIA and DEA departments are paying close attention to these groups. every move.
But they don't want to cause trouble and take the initiative to trigger this war. After all, orderly drug trafficking is a large and stable source of revenue for the CIA.
Some things can only be understood by everyone who understands them. For example, wherever there is oil, mold will easily grow. On the American continent, as long as you leave the US border, the CIA will be found wherever there is drug trafficking.
Overseas drug kingpins are the exclusive domain of the CIA. Without the cooperation of the CIA, it would not be easy for the FBI to do something in Mexico.
Time passes in this slow torment. In recent days, the climate in Los Angeles has also become harsh, and a historic rain, snow, and storm disaster is occurring here.
Since January, northern California has been hit by winter storms one after another. In some areas, the rainfall in the past three weeks is even equivalent to the rainfall in a whole year under normal circumstances.
Disasters such as floods, tornadoes, mudslides and landslides occur frequently, causing the already fragile local infrastructure to be overwhelmed, and large-scale power outages often occur.
Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles, is quite troubled. It just experienced a large-scale wildfire last year and became the hardest-hit area again this year. Some areas were destroyed by mudslides and mountains. The landslide completely destroyed it.
While the public is still paying attention to the president's recent announcement that California has entered a state of emergency, a new case has also been put on the desks of the BAU team.
"Just last night, two homes caught fire in Orange County, killing both families." Jiejie posted two sets of photos on the screen.
Come and order monthly tickets, I fell out of the monthly ticket list, 嘤嘤嘤~~~
(End of this chapter)