On the morning of January 22, Ada woke up from her sleep and looked at the alarm clock beside her bed. There were still five minutes until the alarm went off.
Ada turned over and wanted to sleep a little longer. Winter sleep is always particularly good.
But after sleeping for less than a minute, she forced herself to turn over and get up, and rubbed her face on the bed to wake herself up.
"You can't sleep now, Ada. You need to get up. There are important things to do today."
"Mr. Smart is a person with a strong sense of time. You can't be late. Get up!"
She immediately got up, put on her clothes, and washed herself in the bathroom. Then the alarm clock on the bedside rang.
It's 4 a.m. Pacific time, it's January, it's still dark, and the city has yet to wake up.
Of course, a Lakers player was probably enjoying the early morning view of Los Angeles.
Ada came out of the room and made some food in the kitchen, waking up her father who was sleeping upstairs.
Marcella Andolini came down the stairs in her pajamas. Seeing her daughter getting up so early and working in the kitchen, she scratched her head and asked, "Ada, what time is it? Are you going to work so early now?"
Ada took out the bread from the toaster, spread butter on it, and put the fried eggs on the plate.
"I have to pick someone up at the airport today. The flight is at 5:30... I have to hurry up, it's almost too late."
"Oh my god, why are you still responsible for picking up people? Don't you work in the media department? Your manager asked you to do this kind of chore again, right?"
"Dad, it's still dark, why don't you go get some sleep?"
"Yes, you also know that my daughter is going to work for others before dawn! You have to get up early and come back very late. Have you sold it to the team?"
"Dad~ This is my job. I always have to work? Why do you always have so many opinions on my work... By the way, where are my pair of leather shoes? Where did my leather shoes go?"
"Are you talking about that pair of high heels? I threw them away. Don't you think it would be uncomfortable if they were too high? It's not good for your feet. And you are the secretary of the basketball team, why would you wear those shoes? You should wear sneakers, sneakers are best for you.”
"Dad! Those are my shoes! God, why did you throw away my things? It's unreasonable. Forget it, I won't argue with you, I'm leaving. You go back to sleep, I'm leaving !”
Ada finished her breakfast hastily, took a pair of older high heels and put them on, took her briefcase and drove away in a hurry.
Marcella followed behind, holding a thick woolen coat in her hand, and rushed out the door shouting: "Wear a thick coat! It's cold! Wear more... Shete..."
Ada's car had disappeared into the early morning mist, leaving only a string of red shadows.
Marcella shook her head and murmured: "Girls are outside, why don't you wear more clothes!"
In fact, Ada's clothes are not revealing, just very decent professional clothes.
It's just that in the father's heart, his daughter always wears too few clothes.
In Marcella's heart, Ada has always been the sweet, well-behaved Italian girl from the past.
She was very obedient when she was a child. She would listen to whatever her father said. Until she graduated from college, Ada followed Marcella's teachings and studied hard.
This is not an easy thing in the United States. Too many young girls enter the rebellious stage early, skipping classes, falling in love, fooling around, and some even take drugs.
The daughters of many of Marcella's friends gave the family a lot of headaches. At this time, Marcella always smiled and said nothing, thinking that her daughter was obedient and that she would be a beautiful traditional Italian girl in the future.
But everything has changed since Ida started working with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Ada is no longer so obedient. She always has her own ideas and always says "Mr. Smart XXX".
Marcella originally thought, does Ada like Smart and fall in love with him?
In order to help Smart, he also used resources to affect the outcome of the Clippers game.
It's a pity that Smart didn't appreciate it. Instead, he hooked up with Hollywood female stars and didn't take his daughter seriously at all.
Seeing that her daughter was a little sad and depressed, Marcella once persuaded Ada to quit her job and stop working at the Clippers.
Ada didn't listen at all, but instead worked harder, leaving early and coming home late every day, and communicating with her father less and less.
The caring little cotton-padded jacket in the past began to leak air. Marcella felt that it was unbearable, but she had no choice.
There is no chance for women to stay in college, and Marcella knows this truth.
But why does Ada like that little yellow guy Smart?
He had always hoped that Ada could marry an Italian, take care of her husband and raise children at home, and be a virtuous housekeeper and a traditional Italian woman like his mother.
Now it seems that she is drifting away on another road.
At this time, Ada drove her car through the early morning fog in Los Angeles and headed towards Los Angeles International Airport.
Her task today is to pick up a basketball kid from China who is going to the United States for a trial training and to live for a period of time.
Ada wants to solve the boy's life problems in the United States just like he did when he was Min Congda's life assistant.
The flight was at 5:30. Ada arrived at the airport at 5 o'clock. She never dared to be careless about time.
After parking the car, she waited patiently in the departure hall, holding a plastic sign in her hand.
Printed on it is the Los Angeles Clippers icon and two large Chinese characters: Lu Yuan.
"Lu-Yuan~"
Ada looked at the information of this Chinese boy named Lu Yuan and whispered his name.
The child in the photo is very young. He is 15 years old and has just entered high school. He comes from a small town in southern China.
He is only 183cm tall. He participated in the training camp organized by the Clippers in the summer of 2011. He showed outstanding talent in the training camp and was selected to come to the United States for further study.
For Chinese players, the only ones that impressed Ada the most were Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi.
Wang Zhizhi once played for the Clippers for a period of time, but he did not perform well at the end of the bench.
In the impression of most Americans, Chinese players can only come and play inside.
Moreover, except for Yao Ming, the inside players are all soft and slow, and cannot be compared with American players at all.
Not to mention the outside players, Sun Yue once played for the Lakers for one season and could not adapt to the intensity of the NBA at all. He was a bench among the bench.
But Mr. Smart ordered that this hometown friend should be well entertained. Maybe he really is a rare basketball genius from China.
At half past five, the flight from Shanghai to Los Angeles landed, and Ada was waiting at the exit with a sign.
Most of the passengers on this flight were Chinese tourists coming to the United States from China, so all the people who came out were Chinese faces.
For Ada, it is really not easy to distinguish the person she is looking for. People are face-blind to foreigners.
The tourists' faces were a little sleepy after taking a long flight, and many of them were yawning.
At this time, Ada noticed a young man, looking around with his eyes rolling, looking full of energy among a group of tired people.
"It's him!" Ada's heart immediately sounded.
"Hey! Lu! Lu!" Ada waved towards the boy and shouted loudly.
When the boy heard the sound and saw the sign in Ada's hand, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He ran through the crowd to Ada, stared at the sign to confirm, and said, "Hello, I am Lu Yuan, from China. I came to the United States to play basketball."
Some people died, but not completely...
