Chapter 106: Christmas (I)
After harvesting the wheat, Zhang Yun planted 3,000 acres of millet, 1,000 acres of corn and other crops.
In fact, the main thing about growing these is to breed parrots. After the millet is shed, it is millet, which should be considered the most common food for parrots.
Especially for those small parrots, the bite force is not as strong as that of large parrots, and too large food to swallow, millet is the most suitable.
And millet with chaff, as well as ears of grain that have just been harvested from the ground, are more suitable for parrots. The chaff contains nutrients that millet does not have, and when parrots eat the ears of grain, they absorb the nutrients in the chaff.
For parrots, corn is not only a food, but also a fruit. A pair of parrots can eat an ear of corn every two days. On average, it takes a few days to eat all the grain in one acre of land.
By the time the corn is planted, the time is gradually entering late December. If it is in the country, now the weather has cooled down and it is entering winter. In Australia, however, it's a hot summer, and people don't want to go out.
But in December, there is one of the most important holidays in the West, Christmas, which is almost comparable to the Chinese New Year in China.
In the Nordic countries, it has already begun to snow heavily around Christmas, so you can eat Christmas dinner on the stove and watch the colorful snow outside the window. Wait until you're done eating, going sledding, and having a snowball fight, and that's the right Christmas.
But don't even think about it in Australia, because it's summer. Even hiding under the air conditioner can make you sweat hot, and it's a good thing not to give you a rainstorm, let alone colorful snowflakes.
Zhang Yun began to prepare for Christmas. Before that, he went to XN to pick up his sister. For such a major holiday, even XN University will have a holiday, so that students and teachers can go home to spend Christmas with their families.
I went to the parrot bird shop first, and when I saw the boss coming, Jack smiled very brightly and asked, "Boss, why do you have time to come, do you want to give me a holiday?" Christmas is two days away, which is even more important than the Chinese New Year in your country. ”
Since opening this shop, Jack has been more active than anyone else, staying in the bird shop every day and helping to guard the store.
It's not that he's a prodigal son looking back and knowing how to be motivated, it's that Liz is looking at the shop from here. So Jack, who has been hanging on his son, Baba came here for the beauty.
For this kind of person who picks up girls with a salary, Zhang Yun will not give him a good face. While it's true that the store needs two people to watch, you're doing it too obviously.
"Yes, I'm here for a holiday. Liz starting tomorrow, I'll give you five days off and come back after Christmas. And it's paid time off. ”
"Thank you, boss." Liz happily grabbed his arm and shook it twice, very close. Jack's eyes were red when he saw it, why didn't he have such a good treatment after he had been here for so long.
"Boss, what about me!"
"Of course you stay to see the store, how can the parrots in the store be fed for a long time."
"Ahh For the West, Christmas is even more important than the Chinese New Year. For such an important holiday, let me stay and guard the store, and pit me. How do you spend the Spring Festival in your country? A Spring Festival is busier than a war, and everyone wants to go home for the New Year.
I'm not convinced!
"Boss, you can't do that. There aren't a lot of parrots in the store, otherwise I'll send them back to the farm first. Jack said almost pleadingly.
Zhang Yun was just joking, seeing that he agreed like this, let him transport the parrots back to the farm. At the same time, he was given five days off.
When he came to XN University, Zhang Yun saw his sister and said with a smile, "Let's go, old sister, go home with me." ”
"Are you going?"
Looking at the beautiful scenery of Liangchen who was packing his luggage, Zhang Yun asked.
The two shook their heads. "Let's go home for Christmas."
"Okay, see you after Christmas."
Zhang Yun felt a little lost in his heart, but he still said with a smile. He knew in his heart that he hadn't come that far with the beautiful scenery, so how could people go to Christmas with him. But I just ask with the idea of what if.
Then Zhang Yun drove his sister to the market to buy a Christmas tree. As a standard Western country, Australia's Christmas trees are not as few as in China, they are all made of plastic, and it is good to have that look.
The two hang out at the market. Many are real pine trees, planted in pots and perfectly pruned. It took two or three years for the gardener to grow them, and then transplanted them into pots and sold them.
After using it, it is moved out as a bonsai, and it can be used again next year.
Zhang Yun chose a Christmas tree more than two meters high, and below it is a simple flower pot, which just rightly highlights the tall and heroic appearance of the Christmas tree.
Back home, the two moved the tree to the living room and began to dress up the tree.
Zhang Yun is going to hang some apples, pine cones, tie red silk knots, tie colorful candies, sweet apricots, cute baby bears and other toys on the tree, as well as small gift boxes.
The first thing to plug in is a treetop star. The treetop star is a star that is inserted into the Christmas tree, just like the crown of the Christmas tree.
With the decoration of the treetop star, the Christmas tree with the "crown" will be quite fairy. The treetop star can also charge and glow, twinkling and dazzling.
Then there are the snowflakes. The entire Christmas tree was covered with snowflakes. When Zhang Xin came down and clapped his hands, looking at the Christmas tree full of snowflakes, he felt that something was missing. couldn't help but cast a puzzled look at Zhang Yun.
Who knew that Zhang Yun directly took out strings of snowflakes, and Zhang Xin suddenly realized. Run over and grab it and hang it in the room. There was a feeling of heavy snow in the room.
No way, if it's in the northern hemisphere, it's snowing heavily, and of course there's that atmosphere for Christmas.
Australia is located in the southern hemisphere, and it is a hot summer day, so where do the snowflakes come from, so they have to use snowflakes as flakes.
The decoration is also indispensable for apples and rubella. The ornaments of apples and ruby are also called kugels, which brought the fruit of original sin to Adam.
As the fruit of wisdom in the Garden of Eden, the apple symbolizes the fruit that brings forth abundant fruit or happiness and joy. As the tree of life that brings eternal life in the Garden of Eden, ruby sometimes symbolizes eternity.
The evening of December 24th, Christmas Eve.
They hadn't been involved in Christmas seriously, so they didn't know anything about gifts, legends, or rules. You can only do what you have heard.
Two people spend Christmas together, if it's a couple it's good, light candles and drink red wine, and have a candlelit dinner. You and I are nong, and finally the two become one in bed.
However, now one is an elder brother and the other is a little sister, and it doesn't mean anything.
Zhang Yun can only try to deceive Meijing next year.
Special days require special dishes, and Christmas dinner is never without turkey and beer.
This tradition comes from the United Kingdom. Christmas in the UK is also a celebration of beer. Who made Australia a former British colony. There are many similarities between the two.
Sitting opposite, next to him was Brother Monkey, and Zhang Xin helped him dress up very handsomely. He wore a peaked cap on his head and a waistcoat on his body, and squatted on a chair to look decent. It's just that Brother Monkey is very short, with a sharp beak and cheeks, and his two eyes are spinning, which looks very funny.
Paw holding the fork, staring at the two of them, waiting for the meal to start eating fruit.
Seven Up and Coke flew in from outside, happily landed on the table, took a small square step, took an apple from the fruit bowl with their paws and began to nibble. It's so cute.
Now it's gone. Why should anyone else have fruit to eat, and I will suffer from the cage?
With a click, he opened the cage and ran out, flying to the table to grab the apple. But look up, two purple and blue macaws several heads taller than it, so brave and ruthless, Dabai Mingzhi closed his mouth and ran to the side to eat fruit.
Only Zhang Yun looked at the bottom of the cage, and the password lock that had been dismembered was distressed. You rabbit cub is so unbehaved, it's okay to be idle, and you destroy me every day.
Originally, the key lock that Zhang Yun used for Da Bai's cage was that Da Bai could fill the keyhole with grain, and then pour water on it, and it was a paste, and Zhang Yun couldn't even insert a key into it. I can only cut it with iron tongs helplessly.
Now it has been replaced with three sets of combination locks, and there is no keyhole, so you don't have to worry about being blocked. Dabai is also difficult to open, after all, there are a total of 1000 combinations, and even people want to open it without knowing the password, let alone Dabai.
But even that didn't work. As long as you are anxious and want to come out, it won't take long, only a moment of effort to bite the password lock and divide the corpse, and then escape from the cage in a grand manner.
Zhang Yun couldn't be angry, but he was helpless.