Since Lin Zitan received a call from Lin Shanshan and learned that Lin Guodong did not come to the United States at all, he was really relieved in his heart.

In fact, he was not afraid of Lin Guodong and what would happen to him after they came, what he was most afraid of was that Lin Guodong's going to the United States would cause a financial burden to his parents in China.

Anyway, he also used the method of winning the lottery to call Lin's mother more than 3 million yuan, if nothing else, there should be no problem for the old couple to support the elderly.

In the past two years, because of the unreliable president, the immigration policy has changed again and again, and many people who have already applied for or have applied for a green card have a feeling of being insecure at all times, so those mainland compatriots who have been smuggled here are even more insecure.

The first thing that was troubled was Xiao Cheng, who finally talked about a girlfriend in China, but before he started to apply, the immigration policy changed.

There is also Xiao Zheng's mother-in-law, who has already signed immigrant visas, but she didn't dare to buy air tickets to fly over because of the epidemic, and later because of the suspension of flights, the visas that had already arrived were also delayed and invalidated.

Among the crowd around Lin Zitan, the one who was most anxious about the green card was Zhuang Yijun's mother, Zhuang Ning.

Fortunately, Zhuang Yijun married Frank and got a marriage green card in advance, otherwise it would have taken many years to get a permanent residence card, that is, a green card.

But even if Zhuang Yijun gets a green card, it doesn't mean that Zhuang Ning can get a green card together, and after coming to the United States for so long, Zhuang Ning's identity still hasn't been done.

Although she also got a C08 card that was renewed every two years through her own efforts, she still didn't have the security of a green card.

Speaking of which, Zhuang Ning's luck is already much better than that of many people who are illegally staying in the United States, and as soon as she arrives here, someone arranges a place for her to live, although she only lives in a bachelor apartment with Zhuang Yijun.

But she didn't have to suffer the hardships that Li Manrui had endured back then, she didn't have to go to work in a restaurant, and she didn't have to go to a massage parlor to suffer that humiliation.

Of course, Zhuang Ning, as a foreign language professor, also has some ability, although she will be somewhat lacking in spoken English when she first arrives in the United States, but she has enough vocabulary and can communicate with foreigners without barriers in less than three months.

As soon as Zhuang Ning arrived in the United States, he was arranged by Li Manrui to work in their charity, from teaching assistance at the beginning, to slowly becoming the backbone of the teaching force inside, and finally almost becoming the second-in-command of administrative management.

A few years ago, when Li Manrui experienced family changes, it was also thanks to Zhuang Ning's sharing of work and emotional comfort that Li Manrui slowly walked out of the haze.

Therefore, since Li Manrui knew that Zhuang Ning had the intention to look for another person, she secretly helped her find a reliable candidate.

It's a pity that Zhuang Ning is also a high-spirited person, and she wants a decent job, and she wants people to apply for a green card for her as soon as she gets married.

It's just that most of the people with status and status in the United States have really not much access to, and they are the small bosses of private companies, but Zhuang Ning can't look down on them.

I finally met a man who was a professor at a local university in Pennsylvania, and the pandemic raged before he got married.

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It's time to celebrate the festival once a year, and like the tradition of previous years, Zhuang Ning's mother and daughter came to Li Manrui's house to celebrate the Spring Festival together.

This time, Frank returned to California early because of work, and Zhuang Yijun attended their family dinner with Zhuang Ning, along with the professor who had been chasing Zhuang Ning.

Zhuang Ning means that she wants everyone to check her again, especially Li Manrui's parents, who remarry at this age, more or less want to go together to the end, so Zhuang Ning asked for more.

There were many people at this dinner, and Lin Zitan did not choose to do it himself, but spent money to find a private chef and specially came to the house to make a large table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

In order to make the atmosphere more enthusiastic, Li Manrui also prepared a hot pot!

Zhuang Ning introduced to everyone that the professor named Lu Ming was a widower, and his wife died of illness three years ago, leaving behind two newly adult children, a son and a daughter.

Lin Zitan was the first time he saw Zhuang Ning's professor's boyfriend, so he expressed deep respect for him and his identity, let him and Zhuang Ning get started, and he entertained him very seriously.

According to Chinese customs, the New Year is to give the children New Year's money, even abroad, the Chinese compatriots still follow this tradition, so before the meal, Li Manrui sent all the children's red envelopes.

From the two twins to Annie Li, even Lin Zitan and Emma, who have already got married.

When it was sent to Zhuang Yijun, she still shirked it routinely, and said that she was an adult, and she didn't want it if she got married, but she couldn't resist Li Manrui's enthusiasm.

Li Manrui said that unless Zhuang Yijun also gave birth to a child, then the New Year's money would be given directly to the child.

Zhuang Ning gave three small ones as usual, and since she brought someone this year, she thought about asking Professor Lu to send another one, and also gave her a long face, so she stuffed a few red envelopes and asked Professor Lu to send one too.

Who knew that Professor Lu didn't seem to understand, stuffed the red envelope into his pocket, and never took it out again.

Because the room was full of people, Zhuang Ning was not good at getting angry in public, so she suppressed this matter, but it could be seen that she was a little depressed all night.

Li Manrui is actually not very familiar with this Lu Ming, she was introduced by a Chinese friend, and she was originally introduced to her.

But as a woman who has been married three times and has not kept her happiness, Li Manrui is determined that she will never build her happiness on her dependence on men, so she directly introduced this person to Zhuang Ning.

At the dinner table, Professor Lu Ming has been discussing the current situation with Lin Zitan, what is the Sino-US trade war, immigration policy, and what the future politics is going to, which is completely the communication habits of domestic people.

Lin Zitan has been in the United States for a long time, and he knows very well that foreigners will never talk about these controversial topics easily when they meet for the first time, so in order not to let Professor Lu be alone, he chatted with him without a word.

Lin Zitan knows that many Chinese people are very concerned about these major issues, after all, these things are closely related to the living space of Chinese Americans.

It's just that because of habit, Lin Zi usually doesn't talk about these things except with people he trusts very much! So he tried to change the topic.

"Professor Lu, how long have you been in the United States?" asked Lin Zitan pretending to be inadvertent.

"Ten...... It's been more than ten years!" The professor said with his glass in his hand, barely cheering up.

"Then you must have passed the civics exam by now, right?" Lin Zitan asked again.

"Morning ...... I had already taken the exam, and I was ...... before my wife died. I took the test. ”

"I'm really sorry for your wife's death, and you must be sad too, right?"

Lin Zitan habitually apologized for mentioning the deceased.

"Ahh......h It's really painful, but life always has to pass, right, no, I met Xiaozhuang, and ...... She will accompany me~" As he spoke, Professor Lu stretched out his left hand to wrap his arm around Zhuang Ning.

Zhuang Ning pushed him embarrassedly, but he unexpectedly hugged Zhuang Ning in his arms without restraint, which made the scene very embarrassing. Everyone saw that this Professor Lu had obviously drunk himself!

Lin Zitan looked at the third bottle of red wine with only one bottle left in front of the professor, and smiled helplessly.

These are still the stocks in Mack's cellar, and they are usually opened for a big dinner like this to enjoy one or two.

Zhuang Yijun also seemed to feel that this Professor Lu was a little embarrassed, so he excused himself to go to the toilet, got up and left his seat early.

Not long after the dinner that day, I heard Li Manrui gossip that Zhuang Ning and Professor Na Lu had broken up.

Lin Zitan couldn't help but ask the reason, Li Manrui said: Zhuang Ning thought he was too stingy, and said that if it wasn't for the green card, he would have broken up with him a long time ago!