In the base of the night watchman, today is a day of rest.
Since the end of the SAT test, Li Jie and Peter have more free time. Especially Li Jie, he is now a person who can freely control his time.
Originally today Li Jie needed to deal with some things at home. Because a girl moved into the newly moved home, there are many things to be dealt with when Lan arrives.
Originally Li Jie needed to deal with these things, but he was forcibly pulled over to make lunch at noon today. Today there are not many people in the base. Frank and Damon are out. They need to return at night. Zeng Chu and Barbara did not know where to go.
Only Peter and Li Jie and Mike and Mindy were in the base. It was Mindy who forced Li Jiela back for lunch. Although this little girl sometimes does something special, she is generally an obedient and sensible child.
In addition to the cute appearance, she is the mascot within the team. So when Mindy made such a small request, Li Jie was really not able to refuse her small request.
"Isn't it too early to have lunch now? Mindy?" Li Jie looked at his watch, and it was only ten o'clock in the morning. But Li Jie's lunch preparation and processing are all done. If you start making lunch now, you will have lunch at 11 noon.
This time seems a bit too early, after all, everyone basically eats breakfast at eight o'clock.
"No, hurry up and start! I'm starving to death." Mingdi said this to Li Jie while tinkering with her schoolbag.
"Are you going out? Why are there so many comics in your schoolbag?" Peter, who was disassembling and maintaining his spider launcher with Mike, glanced at Mindy's direction.
It was not the textbooks that saw her stuffing her schoolbag. It's a variety of comics she collected.
"I'm going to a friend later, and I promised to lend her the comic." Mindi replied casually, but this sentence attracted the attention of the three adults in the base.
"Mindy? Wait! Are you serious?" Li Jie heard Mindy's words in the kitchen and ran out in a hurry, saying something incredible: "You mean you made a new friend?"
"Mike, you touch my forehead to see if I have a hallucination with a fever?" Peter said to Mike sitting next to him.
Mike did n’t touch Peter ’s forehead, but touched his and Peter ’s arteries with his hand: “The pulse beat is normal, and there seems to be no signs of invasion by psychedelic drugs. It can rule out the possibility of being attacked by psychoactive drugs. "
"You're enough!" Mindy couldn't stand the fools. She shouted loudly: "Is it strange to make a friend?"
"No, no! Of course not! This is very good, very good. I mean, this is normal! Are you right, Spider-Man!" Li Jie said quickly.
"Yeah, yeah. Everyone needs friends! That's good!" Peter's words drew a nod of approval from Mike next to him.
As the youngest girl in the team, Mindy is undoubtedly the most protected and caring presence. Everyone regarded her as her junior. For Mingdi's growth and education, everyone is at heart.
Although Mindi has been to school for almost a year, no one has ever heard of who she has made friends with. She also never talked about school matters, and occasionally rolled her eyes.
Everyone knows that Mindy is very smart, and her cleverness and knowledge have opened a huge gap between her and her peers. This has kept her in a state of no friends and loneliness.
For this kind of thing, Frank once broke out with Damon more than once.
Know that once a person has no friends, life will be in an incomplete state for a person. Especially when this person is very capable.
Mindy is undoubtedly a very capable girl, but this abnormal growth is very detrimental to her. The missing link in life may be an important part of the whole life break.
Do n’t forget that quite a few super villains were born out of incompleteness in their lives. Li Jie does not believe that a person who grew up in a long-term torture or even inhuman environment will become a normal person, let alone a hero.
Almost all superheroes are indispensable in their growing environment is that they have a relatively complete life, or at least have a complete life.
Because only to experience such a complete life will people be inspired to protect this kind of life. People who live too lonely and self will not understand this state.
Even if it is a superpower, in Li Jie's opinion, the kind of person who is only for self is not worthy of the name of a hero.
So everyone felt very happy that Mindy had made a new friend, and the questions about her new friend came one after another.
Li Jie: "Your friend is a girl? How old are you?"
Mingdi: "Girl, thirteen." This is the truth.
Peter: "Is it your classmate?"
Mingdi: "Not a classmate." This is also the truth.
Mike: "When and where did you meet?"
Mingdi: "On my way to the bookstore to buy comic books." This is still the truth.
Mindy knows how smart this group of guys are, so she doesn't plan to lie about Laura's affairs at all, because that will soon be pierced. Mindy chose another way, which is to tell only part of the truth.
Don't disclose everything, including details about Laura and her acquaintance, these things don't need to be detailed. Mindy only needs to skip a little bit, then other people will automatically fill out a picture in their minds.
Mindy, with long blond hair, went to the comic book store in Long Go after school, and then met an equally cute girl, both of whom like to read comics. Misleading the thinking of others. This is something learned from Damon ’s investigative science and psychology.).
So these two children became friends because of the comics. OK! A complete picture of brain complement has been formed in the minds of three adults.
"Okay! You are too annoying. My own friends don't need you to care so much, sirs!" Mingdi complained to Li Jie and others impatiently.
Li Jie and his colleagues looked at each other for a few times and found that this matter still had to let Mindi himself free. After all, this is her first friend of the same age, if too much control may be counterproductive.
Mingdi ate fast at lunch, but didn't eat too much. She found several lunch boxes in the refrigerator and began to fill the lunch boxes with food.
"What are you doing, Mindy?" Li Jie watched Mindy put a large roast lamb into the lunch box, and then took out a lunch box to prepare the Italian seafood soup.
"I said to her, I know a guy who cooks very well. I promised to bring her some food to try. I don't think you should mind, right?" Mindi kept talking but didn't stop. . She filled another cheddar baked hummus and tortillas.
"Well, as long as you are happy." Li Jie now understands why today Mingdi called him to make lunch early in the morning. And also required to make a variety of dishes. After a long time, is this going to show off to new friends? Li Jie felt like he was being used by this little guy.
Forget it, she is happy. This is just a trivial matter. Mindy found a big bag to put the lunch box in, and carried a schoolbag full of comics on his back and was ready to go out.
But before going out, she made a special statement: "I have confessed to you that I have new friends. She is just a little girl. I don't allow you to follow me in any way! If your problems make me lose this friend , I will ask you to settle the bill! "
Mindy waved his little fist with words, threatening everyone fiercely. Li Jie and others all understand this, after all, Mingdi's friend is just a 13-year-old girl. They believe that Mindi should be justified in making friends.
"Do I need to tell Frank and Damon?" Peter said as he watched Mindy leave the base.
"Don't worry, wait until they come back." Mike said to himself with a bowl of seafood soup.
"Yeah, it's a happy thing. We still don't want to interfere too much with Mindy. She is not the same as the average little girl." Li Jie took a piece of tortilla and agreed with a bite.
Voila! The highest level of lying is actually confession! You don't need to deliberately compose complicated and subtle lies, because as long as lies are flawed.
And you need more lies to make up for this flaw, which will only cause more and more flaws and more and more lies. There will eventually be a day of dew.
The wise liar never tells lies, they will always tell only part of the truth. Because they are telling the truth, there is no flaw in what they say. But because the truth they tell is always part of the whole thing.
But this part is likely to guide your thinking to a completely different direction from the whole event. This is the cleverness of a true liar!
The above knowledge was learned by Li Ming from Li Jie, which Li Jie learned after dealing with Rocky. Loki, who held the real sword, never lied, he only told the truth. But he can still confuse people and compile false things.
I have to explain that Di is a good student. She fully absorbed the knowledge Li Jie taught her, and applied what she learned to the teachers as soon as she turned around.
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There are many abandoned small docks along the Hudson River in New York. These piers were first built for transit between New York Harbor and inland rivers. But in the mid-to-late twentieth century, after the function of the New York Harbor quayside became more and more perfect, this small inland waterway quay lost its function.
Mindy placed Laura near a small dock area. This is a desolate community with a small population. This kind of community originally existed to serve the surrounding small docks. When the pier was abandoned, the place lost its vitality.
Except for some elderly people, most people have left here now. Now there are many empty houses left here, and before joining the night watchman. The base of Mingdi and Dad is here. Apartment in an old building.
The base also has comprehensive security measures, and Mindy feels that it is much better to place Laura here than she lives in an abandoned factory warehouse. Anyway, since joining the night watchman, they have not used this base.
Through fingerprint and pupil recognition system, Mindy entered the room. Laura is doing hygiene in the room. Because I haven't lived for nearly a year, the whole room is covered with thick dust.
When Mindi brought Laura in that day, the two little girls spent quite a long time just cleaning out a bedroom, which was the one where Mindi slept.
But the whole house was a bit too big, and the two girls couldn't get all the hygiene done quickly. So Laura can only clean the entire house in a few days.
And now the cleaning is almost over. The whole house has been cleaned by Laura.
"Hey! Laura!" Mindy's voice revealed joy. Laura, who was taking care of the table in the living room, was very happy to see Mindy appear. "Good noon, Mindy!"
"How is your stay here? Are you still used to it?" Mindy put down his hand and his backpack, and walked over to Laura's back and put her hand on her shoulder.
"Very good, seriously. This is the most comfortable place I have ever lived in." Laura said seriously. Contrast her previous life in Mexico, and her displacement afterwards.
Mingdi provided her with a very good shelter from the wind and rain. Mindy smiled on Laura's face.
"Oh by the way, did you eat it at noon?" Mindy remembered his lunch.
"I went to buy a sandwich." Laura Nunu said, Mindy saw a confluence sandwich on the table. She pouted: "Forget the dry and stupid sandwich. I brought you something delicious."
Talking, Mindy opened the lunch boxes one by one. It includes grilled lamb chops with rosemary, Italian seafood chowder, baked hummus with cheddar cheese, and tortilla staples.
"Look, I brought you delicious food. I don't know if you like it, but you say you are Mexican, I guess you must like this tortilla!" Tortilla is a staple food in Mexico and also Mindy Deliberately take care of Li Jie.
"Come on! Let's have lunch first!" Mindi came here from the base at exactly 12:20 noon. It happened to be lunch time, she had already calculated it. So she asked Li Jie to start preparing lunch early.
"This is made by a guy in my family who is good at cooking. I think you should like it." Mindy pressed Laura near the chair in front of the table. Helped her to arrange the lunch box, even she prepared a disposable spoon and other tableware.
"Don't you eat?" Laura glanced at Mindy.
"I've eaten it already, so you can eat it with peace of mind." Mindy urged Laura to eat lunch quickly.
Mindy didn't know much about food. She didn't know that things like lamb chops and seafood soup would smell fishy after they were cold. Every time she eats steamy after Li Jie finishes, she feels delicious.
So she asked Li Jie to make these two dishes. But now that more than an hour has passed, the lamb chops and seafood soup are already cold. The smell of filth will come back again.
Laura doesn't like the smell of lamb or the smell of seafood soup. But she didn't say anything, she ate a little bite.
Although the lamb has a savory taste, the seafood soup is a bit fishy, and the cold baked baked hummus does not have the aroma when it is hot, although the cool corn tortillas are not crispy at all. But Laura was still eating very seriously, whether she liked it or not, she ate all these things.
Because this was specially prepared by Mindy for himself, and it took a lot of effort to bring it over. Although it did not suit Laura's taste, she smiled and said, "It tastes good."
Mingdi said happily: "Right! Right! I said that our family's cooking skills are great!" Li Jie, who was packing up tableware at the base, suddenly sneeze.
"By the way, I brought you a lot of comics. If you are bored, you can read it." Mindy poured all the comics she brought on the couch. She introduced to Laura: "These are me Favorite superhero comics. Marvel ’s comics are better than "Haibolong". "
"Really?" Laura hadn't seen any comics before, nor did she have any chance of touching entertainment products. These things are new to her.
"Yes, I can lend you all the comics I have read." Mindy nodded seriously. She looked at Laura with her head tilted, which made Laura feel a little strange.
"What's wrong with Mindy?" Laura was not used to Mindy staring at herself.
"Your clothes should have changed to Laura ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Mindy found that Laura seemed to have only two sets of clothes changing. Although it was clean, it looked a bit old.
"Really?" Laura never paid attention to these things.
Mindy took Laura's hand: "Let's go girl, let's go buy some beautiful clothes for you! I heard those girls mentioned some stores in school that specialize in girls' clothing. They all went there and bought Clothes, let's go around. "
Mindy was a little excited because she actually wanted to go to such a store for a long time. It's just that other girls go shopping together, and it always feels weird to go in alone. And the store that specializes in clothing and accessories for little girls would be strange if you let the big dad accompany you.
And Laura never really went to the store. Every time she gets money, she only maintains her life to a minimum. She had seen the beautiful clothes in the windows on the street, and she wanted to wear them too. But she never really walked through the doors of those stores.
"Let's go girl! After watching the clothes, we can still watch a movie in the afternoon. I know there is a theater re-showing" Harry Potter ". Do you like it?" Mindy will go out holding Laura's hand.
For Laura, everything Mindy brought her was something new. Whether it is food or the house where I live now. There are also the comics she brought, as well as the clothing store and movies that she plans to take herself to.
For Laura, she never experienced these things. Like the world-famous movie series "Harry Potter", she hasn't even heard it before.
"Thank you, Mindy." Laura whispered. Only her voice was audible. She watched Mindy pull her little hand. Laura confirmed at this moment that the girl in front of her would be her lifelong friend.