Chapter 260: Spring Festival
The Chinese New Year's Eve meal is made quickly, after all, some major foods have been prepared in advance, and then some green vegetables, braised pork and other relatively simple dishes form a table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
A large table that can seat more than 20 people, and the Xu family, Aunt Wu, bodyguards, Aiben and others are also sitting on the table.
Before eating, a few firecrackers were put off, the firecrackers were bought in Chinatown, and the crooked nuts did not have the habit of setting off firecrackers, so they were not produced, and the firecrackers were all produced by the Chinese themselves.
Now most of the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised on Carney Farm have been sold out, and only some breeding cattle are left, and they live a long distance from the villa, and the sound of firecrackers does not affect them.
As for other people's farms, they are further away from the villas, and the area of Carney's farm can be ranked among the top three in Ambo Town, even if it is divided by American farm standards, it is a large farm.
Of course, the Xu family applied for firecrackers and fireworks in Ambo Town in advance.
The Anbo town government knows the habits of the Xu family, and the Xu family does not set off many firecrackers and fireworks every year, so it will promise the Xu family every year.
Xu Qing and his father lit the firecracker fuse with their own hands, and a crackling sound sounded, Xu Qing and his father ran back to the villa quickly after lighting the fuse.
Xu Qing saw the hairball occupying in front of the villa gate, looking at the firecrackers with great interest, the other pets had already hidden, they were afraid of the sound of firecrackers, and only the hairball freak liked it.
After warning the hairball not to get close to the firecrackers, Xu Qing entered the villa, he was not worried about the hairball being injured by the firecrackers, the hairball guy is very smart, extremely sensitive to danger, and knows what to do and what not to do.
Xu Qing and his father sat back at the table, everyone raised their glasses to celebrate the Spring Festival, and then they ate and drank.
The people who eat are all familiar with each other, and they are all people who have a close relationship with the Xu family, and there is no tension, strangeness, laughter, and laughter.
There is already a Spring Festival Gala, but American time is different from Huaxia time, and Xu Qing and they can't see the Spring Festival Gala.
Xu Qing doesn't care if she watches the Spring Festival Gala or not, but her grandparents will definitely watch the Spring Festival Gala, the first half of their lives are in China, although the second half of their lives will be spent in the United States, but Huaxia can take root.
Grandparents watch the Spring Festival Gala every year to relieve homesickness, which seems to be quite hypocritical, but it is also true.
For the first generation of immigrants such as grandparents, most of them miss Huaxia very much.
They came to the United States for various reasons, and they couldn't survive in China, they were persecuted, etc., but most of them will miss China in the end.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the fireworks began.
Xu Qing, Sophia, the bodyguards, and Eben each lit fireworks, and with the sound of swishing, bright fireworks soon burst into the air, and the fireworks ended in a few minutes.
Old man, dad, Xu Qing began to send red envelopes to other people, Xu Qing's red envelopes were 2,000 US dollars, not much money, just to create an atmosphere.
After sending the red envelope, Xu Qing's phone did not stop, and people kept calling him to congratulate him on the Spring Festival.
can know that his private phone number is basically a heavy person, Xu Qing can't turn off the phone, so he has to keep repeating it in connecting, calling, and hanging up.
Fortunately, the caller also knew that Xu Qing would receive a lot of calls today, and they all hung up the phone after saying a few words to Xu Qing.
After more than an hour, Xu Qing finally calmed down, it was now 10 o'clock in the evening, and everyone who should have called had already called.
Many people called to congratulate the Chinese New Year, but there were almost no text messages.
Text messaging was developed in 1992, but it didn't catch on immediately, and now many people don't know how to text much, and it will take a year or two for text messages to become popular.
It's late at night, it's time to go to bed, the Xu family does not have the custom of keeping vigil, and Chinese New Year's Eve is at most later than usual.
Xu Qing and Sophia fired the first shot of the new year, welcomed the new year, and then fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Xu Qing got up to set off firecrackers, and the custom of the Xu family was that firecrackers would be set off on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day morning.
After the firecrackers are set off, breakfast is prepared, and after breakfast, Xu Qing and Sophia are ready to go to Trevor's farm, while Grandpa and the others will stay at the farm to receive guests.
Because of the influence of the Xu family in Ambo Town, many people will visit during the Spring Festival, and grandpa and they naturally have to receive these people.
Xu Qing doesn't care, he is still a student, he doesn't need to receive guests, and most of the people who come to visit are grandfathers, fathers, and their generation.
Well, in fact, Xu Qing is afraid of trouble, and it has always been a boring thing to receive guests in such a polite manner.
All kinds of chatting blowing, it's really boring.
In fact, with Xu Qing's development in the past two years, many of the people who came to visit were with people of the same generation as Xu Qing.
They may want their juniors to get closer to Xu Qing, not to tie Xu Qing, but to get closer to Xu Qing, so why not do it.
Xu Qing also didn't want to receive guests for this reason, what to talk about with those people of the same generation, looking at their restrained appearance, talking about anything would not be smooth, it was better to avoid it in advance.
These people of the same generation can also breathe a sigh of relief, and they don't want to be dragged by their elders to visit their homes and feel ashamed.
Trevor's farm, Rikani Farm, is not very far, more than 20 minutes by car.
Xu Qing had already told Trevor before he came, so Trevor was waiting for Xu Qing at the door, and the two met and hugged.
Trevor's villas are worse than the Xu family's villas in terms of area and decoration luxury, and Trevo's overall net worth is about 10 million US dollars, of which farms account for most of the net worth.
Therefore, most of Trevor's net worth is fixed assets, no wonder Martin will be hit hard after being cheated out of Trevor's million-dollar business.
A million dollars is probably the bulk of Trevor's cash.
There was no one else in Trevor's house except a few servants, and his wife died young, and only Martin had one child, and Martin was not around.
Trevor was very happy with Xu Qing's arrival, he knew that today was the first day of the Chinese New Year, and usually the people who the Chinese visited on the first day of the Chinese New Year were either more important or more intimate.
Xu Qing was the first to visit him on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which shows that Xu Qing still regards him as the uncle who had a good relationship with him before.
Everyone sat down on the sofa in the living room, and Trevor specially made green tea for Xu Qing and Sophia instead of coffee.
It is said that it is the first day of the Chinese New Year, and it is in line with etiquette to make green tea for Xu Qing and them.
Well, Trevor obviously misunderstood Chinese etiquette, but Xu Qing didn't correct it, of course it would be better to be able to drink tea.
There is everything in the chat, international events, celebrity gossip, anecdotes, and parents have short conversations.
Xu Qing's chat level is higher than before, and chatting for an hour or two will not leave the two sides without topics to talk about.
In the end, Xu Qing asked Martin where he was now, and Trevor hesitated a few times, but still told Xu Qing that Martin was in Los Angeles.