It was almost noon, and Xiao Yifei finally ended his first horseback riding experience. Suppressing the excitement and excitement in his heart, he gathered 7 employees of the racecourse, and like the winery, they still talked briefly and began to give out red envelopes one by one.

When everyone gets the year-end bonus, they all glance at the numbers, then put them in their pockets, and then start to open the red envelopes.

Xiao Yifei was giving the female knight Sophia a red envelope, who knew that she didn't look at Xiao Yifei when she got the red envelope, but looked past his ear, and then Xiao Yifei felt that there was movement in her ear. Turning his head, the horse's nose with two large holes almost poked in the face. It turned out that the horse he had just ridden had also come to join in the fun.

Xiao Yifei raised his hand and touched the horse's neck, pushing its face away:

"Don't mess around."

After a few people finished distributing the red envelope, Xiao Yifei found that it hadn't moved at all, and was still tilting its head behind him, blinking at him with big eyes.

"You're not asking for a red envelope, are you? It's not your share. ”

Looking left and right, there was a circle of square straw bales on the edge of the field.

"Is that for it?"

Lawrence hurriedly took the reins.

"No, that's to protect the left and right and remind the horses, that's the boundary of the performance venue. After each training, we take them outside to the stockyard to rest. ”

Xiao Yifei understood, it turned out that it was not meant to be eaten. Maybe the horses are also wondering, how did they finish training today, how did these two-legged monsters run away and ignore me?

Santa Claus is finally done, and he is about to go back to make lunch only to find out that Blacknose doesn't know when he has run away.

Follow Lawrence to the stockyard and see Blacknose playing with the foal. The foal sees her mother coming. also trotted all the way to his mother, and the black nose naturally ran with it. When he runs, he is not honest, and he always wants to jump up and ask for the tail of the foal. Doesn't it know that such an action can easily scare a horse into kicking it? With its small size, one kick can kill your dog.

On the way home, Wang Nan was still very excited, and continued to talk about her experience and experience. Ignoring the fact that the audience next to him was also a rookie who had just ridden a horse for the first time. And Xiao Yifei automatically entered a state of praise, and his mouth was wrong.

As Xiao Yifei walked, he wondered if he should buy some smaller transportation, it was two kilometers to walk from his home to the winery, and he had to drive a big circle, neither of which was inconvenient.

After the meal, Wang Nan, a "terminal patient with champagne poisoning", began to shout to buy champagne again:

"Which winery are we going to buy wine at the Berg Winery in the afternoon, shall we?"

"No, it depends on your performance in the past few days."

"Hmph. Won't I go by myself? ”

"How are you going to get there yourself? You don't even know the name. ”

"There's a road under my nose, I don't know how to ask."

Xiao Yifei scared Wang Nan:

"You know the horse farm we just went to is next to the Napa River, right?"

Wang Nan was confused by Xiao Yifei's question, thought about it, and nodded.

"Do you know what's on the other side of the river?"

Wang Nan shook his head.

"That's the Tamiflu Rehabilitation Center, you get the idea."

"Rehab center?"

"Yes, it helps people get rid of alcohol and drug addiction."

"You mean ......"

"yes, I'm careful every time I pass by."

Wang Nan stared at Xiao Yifei with wide eyes. As if trying to see from his face whether he was deceiving people and scaring her. Xiao Yifei continued:

"You don't believe it? Why don't I find the phone number from the Yellow Pages and call and ask? ”

Wang Nan heard Xiao Yifei say this. Apparently some were intimidated.

"Okay, don't be afraid, the day after tomorrow, I'll accompany you to buy champagne the day after tomorrow, and you can work honestly for the next two days."

After the meal, Xiao Yifei took Wang Nan and Black Nose to the vicinity of Bee Hill. Ngapoi: They are pruning the vineyards here. She should be able to do the job.

David was here to supervise the work, and Ngapoi leaned next to him, trimming and white. Wang Nan saw the Bee Hill Villa in the shade of the trees, and asked curiously:

"Hey, who's this? How can it be in the middle of your vineyard? ”

"That's the winery, too, and I lived there the other day."

"Really? I'll take a look. ”

Seeing that she was going to the place where she used to live, Blacknose followed her with a fart.

Xiao Yifei took out his tools and followed Ah Pei to prune the grapes. After a while, Wang Nan came back:

"I saw a float, are you going to participate in an event or did you just have an event?"

"Floats? What floats? ”

"You don't know?"

Xiao Yifei felt that this matter should have something to do with David. David was also curious about Xiao Yifei's question, and asked rhetorically:

"Didn't you get me ready to take part in the Tractor Lighting Parade?"

"Calistoga Lighted Tractor Parade?"

"Yes, this is our traditional show in Calistoga, which is held every year as a tribute to the agricultural tradition of Calistoga. Families renovated their antique tractors and trucks and dressed them up as beautiful floats for parades. ”

I see, no, when did I let him do it?

"Boss, have you forgotten, Greg said he asked you, and you agreed."

Xiao Yifei thought about it, it seemed that there was such a thing. When he went to pick up Wang Nan and them that day, Greg said something about the tractor, he thought it was a broken tractor used in the vineyard, but it turned out to be an antique tractor.

When Xiao Yifei came to the Bee Hill parking lot, he found a strange-looking tractor appearing in front of him.

Not to mention the colored lights on the tractor and the trailer, there are actually two antlers on the tractor, and there is a deer mouth in front of it, and the two headlights become eyes. Needless to say, this represents the reindeer that pulls Santa Claus.

Since the front of the car was changed to a deer, the trailer was naturally changed to a sleigh for Santa Claus. Xiao Yifei instantly understood. No wonder David asked himself if he wanted to be Santa Claus in the morning, and it turned out that he was talking about Santa Claus sitting on a trailer.

"Who's Santa Claus?"

"It used to be Bo, or you came, the boss."

This is too fake, obviously insincere. Xiao Yifei shook his head:

"No, I'll take a picture of you, and you asked if you were going to be Santa Claus in the morning?"

"Nope. I drove and Eric was Santa Claus. ”

"So you're the 'reindeer' pulling the cart, hahaha."

"That's Eric cheating, I was supposed to be Santa Claus."

These two old men are so old, and it is estimated that the others will not be able to compete with them.

"Don't complain, just win it back next year. When does the cruise take place? ”

"It was supposed to be held on the first Saturday night of this month, that is, on December 5, but a certain god (scripture) was moved to this evening, and it is said that there was a problem in planning the time."

"Drive the tractor well at night, and I'll take a few more pictures for you."

Since the winery is going to participate. And what about the horse farm? They must also participate in this kind of national event. Xiao Yifei came to the racecourse, Lawrence and they really wanted to participate, and they had already made a float, but they were just put in a garage, Xiao Yifei had never been here at all, so he didn't pay attention.

It is said that since Xiao Yifei has purchased the horse farm, Lawrence should inform Xiao Yifei about this. But when Xiao Yifei bought it. Their floats are almost finished. Xiao Yifei himself said that he was in charge of the affairs of the racecourse. So they make their own decisions about these little things.

Lawrence: Their creativity is also very poor, and it is actually Santa Claus's set, but here they are replacing the tractor front pull trailer with a horse-drawn trailer.

"Your idea is too simple."

Wang Nan muttered beside him:

"Then you name one."

"Let's just talk about it, let's not talk about Chinese mythology that they don't understand. You see, we can use the kind of caravan that we used to open up the west, right? And also. Isn't every fairy tale a prince and princess, so let's not get Santa Claus, but a prince and princess. ”

Lawrence said embarrassedly:

"Boss, we've already done this a few years ago."

Poof, Wang Nan laughed out loud.

Xiao Yifei sighed in his heart. It seems that Lawrence felt that there were too many red envelopes in the morning.

"Then let's just be ruthless, get some armor and cavalry guns of European heavy cavalry, and make a cosplay. Think about it, the mighty knights in armor, holding glowing spears and wielding these glowing swords, are very majestic. ”

It's a pity that Lawrence interrupted Xiao Yifei's fantasy:

"Boss, we're Arabian horses."

The implication is that we have to cosplay and dress up as Arab cavalry to be professional. So the mighty heavy knight turned into a masked light cavalry, and the style of painting changed abruptly. It seems that Lawrence doesn't get too many red envelopes, and he also thinks that the position of the head of the horse farm is too low to be worthy of his identity.

Wang Nan laughed out loud without giving face.

"Okay, let's think about it slowly next year, anyway, God (scripture) said that next year's date will be restored, and there is nothing to do with this bad woman next to me."

Tomorrow Christmas, Christmas Eve, the winery closes early.

By 4 p.m., the floats at the wineries and businesses were almost all set off to Roger Community Park, north of Callistoga Middle School, where the floats began to check in. Wait until 6 o'clock, the floats start to form and they will leave in half an hour. Xiao Yifei and Wang Nan did not continue to wait for them, and went directly to Lincoln Street, the main venue of the parade. The shops on both sides of this street will also prepare some small snacks at the door for people to taste for free.

Since he knew that the tractor would be cruising again at night, Xiao Yifei immediately asked an acquaintance to book a place on Lincoln Street.

Wang Nan began to follow Xiao Yifei stupidly, and when she looked up at the name of the store, she immediately became angry:

"You didn't tell me that there is Chinese food here."

"Didn't I say that? Then I forgot. ”

Of course, this Chinese restaurant is "Su Yuan", a Chinese restaurant opened by the daughter of the owner of Su Yuan in the capital, but unfortunately Xiao Yifei was too busy when he went to the capital last time and did not go over to see it.

"Xiao, are you sitting upstairs and watching? They were all upstairs and there was a good view. ”

"No, I'll just watch it at the door, it's more crowded."

"Okay, I'll keep two stools for you."

"You're busy, we'll do it ourselves."

Because to be busy preparing free food. Boss Tian was not polite.

"I knew there was Chinese food here, so I wouldn't eat the food you cooked, it's hard to eat."

The people who have eaten Xiao Yifei's cooking are Li Qinglin, them and Xiao Yifei's family, and he doesn't know his true level of cooking:

"Is it really unpalatable?"

Wang Nan nodded:

"yes, it's hard to eat."

Could it be that those who used to say that they cooked and ate delicious food were lying to themselves? That's right, Li Qinglin can't wait for Xiao Yifei to cook every day. He must have said that it was delicious, and Xiao Ya and his family must have lied to themselves that it was delicious. No wonder at home my mother doesn't want him to cook.

Wang Nan saw Xiao Yifei frowning as if he was unhappy, and thought for a while:

"Actually, it's not unpleasant, I lied to you, it tastes good."

When she said this, the mayor of the town diagonally opposite began to speak through a loudspeaker, and Xiao Yifei didn't hear what she said clearly.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing."

The mayor of the town briefly said a few words to celebrate the harvest, and then introduced today's judges, including Congressman McThompson of Napa District, Diana Ken, the director of Napa District 3, and others.

The parade begins. The convoy of tractors that had been waiting for the Lincoln Road intersection to start immediately. The first, of course, is a police car. It flashed red and blue lights and ran past, and below it was the official convoy.

Xiao Yifei's position is very good, and the judges' seats are opposite the side, and the speed of each float will slow down when it arrives here. The first few are not bad, they are all old antique tractors from the 60s of the last century. These old antiques are well maintained, they are all driving on their own with black smoke, and the colored lights on them are flashing and flashing. The trailer in the back is a mess with Christmas trees. There are floats, and there are even tractors pulling tractors. Of course. There are several of the Monterena winery tractors and Santa's sleighs.

When the float from the Monterena Winery comes by, Santa Eric stands on the sleigh and waves, occasionally grabbing a handful of candy from his pocket and spilling it on both sides of the audience. And David was not willing to be lonely, he actually let go of the steering wheel, stood up, and waved to the audience in a chic manner. It's a pity for his enthusiasm. It attracted a burst of exclamations from the crowd. And this "reindeer" has no wisdom after all, and he doesn't give him face, so he immediately deviates from the direction, so he has to sit down in a hurry and continue to control the steering wheel.

His embarrassed appearance made the surrounding audience laugh, and Xiao Yifei, who was also angry, itched his teeth. If something happens to this guy, the winery will be out of luck.

The vehicles of the convoy behind are all odd. There are old tractors, new tractors, pickup trucks, and big trucks, all of which are equipped with colorful lights and flashing as they go. These cars are equipped with speakers, playing all kinds of Christmas songs, and there are basically Santa Claus on the car, and Santa's movements are very simple, just waving. If you watch too much, you feel that it is too repetitive.

Xiao Yifei said proudly:

"Look, everyone is so uncreative, next year I will definitely think of a good idea to shock everyone."

After all, it is already winter, although it will not snow in Calistoga basically, but the temperature is really cold at night, Wang Nan put on the down jacket.

"I'm going to see what you can come up with."

Xiao Yifei himself was stopped by a float first.

The float is actually very simple, it is the front of the tractor, which also has two glowing antlers, and the trailer behind it is also very ordinary, that is, a small flatbed truck, which is generally dragged by an all-terrain vehicle in the winery, pulling tools or a box or two of grapes. What is amazing is the skill of the tractor hand, on the not wide road, dragging 11 glittering small trailers, in which sit a child with a red hat, the whole float is like a swimming fish, the road as flowing water, sometimes in a circle, sometimes walking in an S shape, in which to play comfortably, used for the real applause of the audience.

Wang Nan also applauded again and again:

"This one is beautiful and so flexible."

"You say this doesn't look like a dragon lantern in our country?"

"It's really a bit like, why don't you get a dragon next year and do it like this?"

"No, I'm going to think of one myself."

If the first one is only attracted by technology, then the next one is by styling. An excavator rumbled in, the bucket of the excavator was removed, and the light hydraulic arm was decorated as a Christmas tree, standing tall. There was also a car dragging a small shiny house on a flatbed truck and drove slowly.

At this moment, a burst of light suddenly appeared behind him, and a flame rose into the sky, enough to be as high as a two-story building.

Just as everyone was exclaiming, a strange float arrived. Xiao Yifei took a closer look, and it turned out to be the float of the hot air balloon sightseeing company. They got the device used to heat the balloon to a trailer, and when they pressed a button, the device emitted a burst of fire. I usually don't think that at night on the flat ground, I found that the flame of the hot air balloon could rise so high.

After a few more cars, there were animals from Roger's Ranch, including horses, cows, and some dogs, but the dogs were so weak that Santa Claus had to follow behind.

The procession was paraded towards the carnival, and on the trailers towed by tractors and cars, there were many people standing in different costumes, and some even carried bands to the trailers, playing as they went.

The whole parade lasted for more than an hour, which opened the eyes of Xiao Yifei, who had never participated in this kind of activity, and said that gringos would play, and Xiao Yifei only saw it thoroughly today. If you think about it, it makes sense, even if the average grower has 10 acres of vineyards, it is worth about two million. Even if you don't sell it, you can make tens of thousands of dollars in profits a year, so you naturally have money and leisure to toss these things.

Not only did the "old hat" Xiao Yifei enjoy watching, but the audience on both sides also burst into bursts of laughter and cheers from time to time throughout the parade. Xiao Yifei clicked countless photos, while Wang Nan swayed around with a camera.

At the end of the parade, the list of winners of this parade was announced, and basically some antique tractors at the beginning won the ranking, and Xiao Yifei's two floats did not see a single hair. Not only Xiao Yifei's, but also some other well-known companies such as Stirling Winery, Nestle Mineral Water, and Arozhu Winery did not win awards. (To be continued......)

ps: Two chapters in one, I won't be updating it today