Pushing the cup and changing the glass, staggering, every Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is always with infinite happiness, family members speak the language of blessings to each other, watching the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner broadcast by CCTV, the atmosphere is more warm under the baking of fine wine and food, and the strong taste of the year is rapidly sublimated at this moment.

At the beginning of the day, the messy cups and plates were cleaned up, Elena and her mother stayed at home to make dumplings, and the men in the family had to go to their respective elders' homes to do it, say blessings, bring a year's greetings, and even sit down to continue drinking.

Of course, it has become a tradition for Chinese to sit together as a family to watch the Spring Festival Gala, although every year they will complain that the Spring Festival Gala is not good enough, and when the time comes, they always have to sit down to watch the Spring Festival Gala together, and judge the show, this year Elena feels new about everything, bringing a strange and joyful atmosphere to everyone.

At midnight, as the big bell in the Spring Festival Gala rang, the men ran out one by one, took out fireworks, firecrackers, and dyed the night of the New Year to the fullest, the fire trees and silver flowers never sleep, thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring, fireworks soaring, firecrackers shaking the sky, heralding the arrival of the new year, condensing the expectations of hundreds of millions of Chinese people and even Chinese people around the world for a better new year, although the haze weather, PM2.5 issued an alarm, but let it go to hell at this time.

Eat dumplings on the first day of the new year, cook dumplings at five o'clock in the morning, usually lazy in the bed and refuse to get up, but in this year everyone will be energetic, after eating dumplings will go to the elders' house to pay New Year's greetings, just like this to string relatives, aunt's house. Uncle's house and aunt's house are indispensable. Cars have sprung up on the streets of the village at this time

"Elena, how do you feel?" The New Year's greetings have come to an end, and the journey has finally come to an end, Zeng Gong looked at Elena who was a little distressed and asked with a smile.

"Everyone was so enthusiastic that it made me lose a lot of weight. Elena touched her somewhat round face and sighed softly.

"No matter what, you are the most beautiful in my eyes. Zeng Gong comforted affectionately.

"I hate it, people are talking about business, what do you do with these red envelopes?" Elena pushed away Zeng Gong's head and took out a handful of red envelopes and put them in front of him. I ran out of ideas for a while.

"Accept it, what else can you do, after we get married in the future, like little nephews, little nieces, little nephews, and little nieces have to give red envelopes, in our China, this is called a gift exchange, think you can get these red envelopes for nothing, I think I won't see red envelopes after I was ten years old." Zeng Gong spread his hands and said helplessly, looking at the red envelope in Elena's hand. Inexplicably a little envious.

"It's really not rare, just give it to me. Zeng Gong stretched out his hand to Elena to ask for a red envelope.

"Go, I'll give these red envelopes to my mother. Elena knocked Zeng Gong's hand away and put the red envelope away again.

"Mom, I won't ask for your red envelope. These red envelopes represent the good wishes of the elders, and at the same time, they are a favor for you, and yours is yours. No one else can replace you. Zeng Gong shook his head, although some customs have disappeared with the acceleration of the pace of people's lives. But there are some customs that cannot be changed.

Elena nodded, although she didn't understand what Zeng Gong was saying. But in the future, if you want to be a daughter-in-law in China, even if you don't understand some customs, you must at least respect them.

"How about we go back the day after tomorrow?" Zeng Gong said suddenly.

"So fast? I heard my mother say that the Lantern Festival will be over and the Spring Festival will be over, why should we go so early." Elena said unsatisfactorily, although for Zeng Gong the New Year has been numb, everything is according to plan, going home for the New Year is just a reunion, but for Elena everything is so fresh, she doesn't want to leave so early.

"I've been away from the ranch for too long, I'm a little uneasy, and there's a lot of mess that hasn't been dealt with yet, and Sanders, Ryan, Adolf have all called me. Zeng Gong raised his eyes to the sky, although he was once rich, at this moment he suddenly felt that people in the rivers and lakes could not help themselves.

"Okay. Elena said regretfully, in fact, the elder Morgan had already urged her to go back in the United States, just trying to find an excuse to stay with Zeng Gong. "But I may not be able to accompany you to the United States, I'm going straight to Europe, I have a sister who is getting married, and invited me to the wedding. ”

"When?" Zeng Gong's eyelids jumped, although he knew that Elena would leave him sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

"Probably after the Lantern Festival, I want to go over and prepare in advance, I haven't prepared the gift yet. Elena said with some chagrin.

"How about the small items I got at the auction?" Zeng Gong asked with concern, except for the rhino horn cup that was auctioned, the others were some small objects of thousands, at most tens of thousands, Zeng Gong felt that as a wedding gift, he could still get his hands on it, especially the piece of Hetian green jade carved from the acacia flower jade pendant, which should be very suitable for the occasion.

Elena shook her head, although Zeng Gong told her stories about his harvests, but there is a big cultural gap between the East and the West, she still can't understand it, and Westerners basically have no love for jade and the like, gifts, preferably ruby sapphires or cat's eyes and other jewelry.

Zeng Gong nodded, he also knew that the gap between the aesthetics of Westerners and Orientals was still very large, and he was not reluctant, so he asked casually, "Are you going to the capital with me to take a plane, or do you act alone?"

Anyway, there is a branch in the capital, and when someone drives the car to Quancheng, there is no need to worry about this.

"Let's do it together. Elena thought about it and said, although she really wanted to stay here until the Lantern Festival, since Zeng Gong decided to leave, it was not good for her to stay here forever.

Zeng Gong doesn't care, the reason why he is in such a hurry, in fact, there is another reason, that is, he bought a batch of brown horse chickens in Jin Province, since he ate it in Longcheng, he felt that the meat of this thing was good, so he asked Liao Fantuo to buy a batch, and now he is staying at the customs in the capital, he has to go over to go through the relevant procedures, although it is very simple to hand over this matter to Qian Hui, but he can't always not show up.

The next day, Zeng Gong packed his luggage early in the morning, and drove the car away in the reluctant eyes of his father and mother, several times Zeng Gong wanted to stop the car and stay, but in the huge ranch, dozens of people relied on themselves to eat, or had to leave, and secretly made up his mind that during the summer vacation in the summer, he must take the family to the United States to have a good time. (To be continued.) )