After another three days, Dowgel, a lawyer in Bozeman, and Michael, an accountant, finally completed the registration of the farming and animal husbandry company, and after the formalities were completed, Reese drove to Bozeman to pick them up and take them back to Koizumi Villa.

A few days later, after Dougal signed the formal employment contract to Joy and others, Michael, the accountant, began to calculate the social security benefits to be paid to them. Under Fu Ya's advice, Pei Pei simply called all the remaining six cowboys to be hired, signed a long-term employment contract for them, and then asked the accountant Michael to pay social security benefits to everyone.

The future staff of Koizumi Villa were all in place, and Pei Pei also took the time to give them and the family members who accompanied them to live in a spiritual hint one by one.

It only took Dougal and Michael two days to complete the signing of the employment contract and the payment of social security benefits, and then there were related matters such as year-end tax returns that Michael, as an accountant, needed to deal with, but these did not need to be worried about Peipei, the boss. She left all the trivial things to Fu Ya and Reese, and she took her beloved horse "Triple Crown", and followed Thomson, and the two of them soaked on the track every day to train.

After all the trivial matters related to contracts and taxes were taken care of, Dougel and Michael hurried back to Silicon Valley, while Peipei and Reese Fuya continued to stay at Xiaoquan Villa.

Time passed imperceptibly, and everyone at Koizumi Villa ushered in the first Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving should be regarded as an ancient holiday created by the American people, and it is also a holiday for Americans to gather together as a family, so the American people always feel very cordial when they mention Thanksgiving.

The origins of Thanksgiving go all the way back to the beginning of American history. In 1620, the famous ship "Mayflower" arrived in the Americas laden with 102 Puritans who could not bear the religious persecution in England. In the winter of 1620 and 1621, they encountered unimaginable difficulties. In the midst of hunger and cold, only about 50 migrants survived the winter. At this time, the kind-hearted Indians brought the immigrants the necessities of life, and specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fish, and grow corn and pumpkins. With the help of the Indians, the settlers finally reaped a good harvest and celebrated the harvest day. In accordance with religious traditions and customs. The immigrants set a day of thanksgiving to God and decided to invite the Indians to celebrate the festival together in gratitude for their sincere help.

There was no fixed date for Thanksgiving in the beginning. It was a traditional custom until 1863, when President Lincoln officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. It was not until 1941 that the U.S. Congress officially designated the last Thursday of November as a fixed "Thanksgiving Day".

Americans also have a habit of calling the Friday after Thanksgiving "Black Friday." On this day. Various stores across the United States sell items at a discount, thus. The American people also jokingly call this day "Shopping Day".

So, on this day, the cowboys are on holiday, and John's engineering team is temporarily suspended. The town of Big Wood also ushered in the annual Thanksgiving Carnival.

As Chinese immigrants, the Li family has not had a Thanksgiving custom in the past few years, and it is Christmas every year. Because of the influence of the surrounding atmosphere all the time, the Li family will occasionally be interested. Spend the so-called "New Year" in the United States.

Early in the morning, the county lord took Fu Ya with great interest, and under the leadership of the two groups of families of Lorna and Elena, a group of people drove to Damu Town, preparing to participate in the annual Thanksgiving carnival in this town with a total population of only 1,700 people.

As for Reese, as a native of the United States, she also has her own parents and family, so the county lady not only gave her a vacation, but also reimbursed her round-trip ticket and let her go home to spend the holidays with her family.

There was a float parade in the town at ten o'clock this morning, and Izumi Lodge also participated in the float parade, and the county lady contributed her red wrangler, and Joey, Danny, and Thomson spent a total of an afternoon decorating the car.

Pei Pei's red wrangler was completely unrecognizable at this time, and it was surrounded by a large paper shell, which was designed in the shape of a large red carp according to the requirements of the county lord's mother, and a string of balloons was tied to the fish's mouth, as if the fish was spitting bubbles. The scales on the body of the fish are outlined with golden paint, and the fins on the lower part of the belly of the fish just cover the tires.

This float was driven by Joey, Pei Pei happily pulled Fu Ya and Luo Na to sit on the float, led by this carp float, and the big guys drove behind the carp float and drove all the way into Damu Town.

At this time, ribbons fluttered on the streets on both sides of Damu Town, and all kinds of dazzling stalls were placed everywhere on the originally empty streets. The annual Thanksgiving Day attracts all the ranchers and ranchers around the town, who set up their own stalls or bring their families and friends to browse the various stalls.

Only a few times a year do these ranchers and ranchers live away from the town, managing their own pastures and farms, and their pastures or farms are at least a few hundred acres apart, and it is during these festivals that they bring their families and friends to the town for good neighborliness.

Joey drove the carp float and led everyone directly to the central square of the town, where countless floats of all kinds of strange shapes gathered. The boat-shaped float is a relatively common shape, and there are more peculiar saucer shapes, bird shapes, bison shapes, etc., and even some people put the Halloween pumpkin shape out, it is estimated that the family is lazy, and the pumpkin cardboard used on Halloween last time was not thrown away, this time it was directly fixed on the body, and it was used again.

Among the many strangely shaped floats, the most striking is the old Tofer's float. The ostentatious old guy drove an oversized trailer with the exterior of the trailer dressed up as a pirate ship, showing off that he had placed his helicopter on the trailer.

The helicopter was packaged in the shape of a strange turkey, with two large bird eyes taped to the front windows on either side of the helicopter, and two wide paper turkey wings on either side, painted yellow and yellow, with the rotors on top. They are all dressed as turkey feathers, colorful, and the tail of the helicopter is pressed with three long tail feathers to make a nondescript peacock tail feather.

And Old Topher himself, at this time, was standing on a tall trailer with a brown-red cowboy hat on his head and a pirate version of a black blindfold in one eye. He has a pipe in his mouth. From a distance, he saw the floats of several people coming over, and he waved hello in the direction of Peipei's float.

Before they could say hello, a cowboy with tied sleeves walked over. Joy was handed a number plate in the driver's seat, and the number was 26, which meant that the carp float of Koizumi Villa was in the 26th position.

Joey got out of the car and talked to Danny and the other cowboys for a while. It was decided that the big guys would disperse, and those who wanted to ride the float parade would sit on the carp cart. If you want to visit the stalls, park your car in the central square and go to the stalls by yourself. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the big guys gathered in the central square and drove back together.

The cowboys park their cars, and Danny takes his wife, Elena, and the two. After walking up to Pei Pei and saying hello, the young couple went to the stall. Thomson followed the other cowboys and walked around the town with great interest.

It was the first time that Pei Pei had paraded on a float. So, she pulled Fu Ya and Rona together. Three women followed Joey, waiting for the official march to depart.

It didn't take long for ten o'clock to arrive, and under the command of the cowboys who helped to maintain the order of the sleeves, Old Tofer's oversized float was in the first place and started slowly, until more than ten minutes later, it was the turn of the carp cart of Koizumi Villa.

The parade of floats starts from the center of the town square and will circle the town before returning to the center.

Pei Pei sat in the passenger seat, Fu Ya and Luo Na sat in the back seat, and followed the float in front of them slowly along the streets of the town.

Looking at the front and rear of other people's floats are modified with pickup trucks or trailers, people can stand in the rear car compartment singing and dancing and waving ribbons, Pei Pei and a few people huddle in the small compartment can only kick their eyes with envy, jealousy and hatred.

"Joey, how much does a trailer cost? We will also use trailers for next year's float parade. Pei Pei looked at Joey on the side with a stinky little face.

"Usually a brand new trailer is only three or four thousand dollars is enough. However, I don't think it's cost-effective to buy a trailer for the parade of floats, I can buy a crawler tractor, which can be used as a trailer, and the tail can be equipped with a climbing plow and can be used for ploughing, and the price is not expensive, you can buy a good one for about 5,000 dollars. Joey replied.

When Pei Pei heard that it was so cheap, she stretched out her hand without looking back, "Aya, pen!" ”

Fu Ya hurriedly took out a pen from her small satchel and handed it over.

After taking the pen, Pei Pei took out the check book from her pocket (space), made a few strokes, signed a check for five thousand dollars, closed the cover of the pen, and handed the pen back to Fu Ya in the back seat, Pei Pei folded the check diagonally and stuffed it into Joey's jacket pocket, "Ah, a check for five thousand dollars, take the time to buy the tractor you said and come back." It's still the old rule, if there is a surplus of money, it will be used as a reserve. ”

Joey patted his chest pocket and replied with a smile: "There is no need to take time, tomorrow is Black Friday, there are discounts on shopping, I will go to the agricultural machine sales company in Bozeman City tomorrow, and I can drive the tractor back on the same day." ”

The float was still moving slowly, Pei Pei sat on the car, looking at the various roadside stalls on both sides of the street outside the car window, she couldn't hold back her curiosity, just as the car passed by a stall dressed as an Indian, she quickly patted Joey who was driving, "Stop!" Stop it! ”

Joey looked in the rearview mirror, reached out and gestured to the car behind him, pulling over to stop the float.

Pei Pei hurriedly opened the car door and jumped out of the car, beckoning to Fu Ya in the back seat, Fu Ya also hurriedly got out of the car, Pei Pei said to Joey in the driver's seat: "You continue to tour the streets, I will go shopping with Fu Ya at the roadside stalls, and we will contact us by phone in a while." ”

Joey gestured "OK" to Peipei and turned to his wife to ask, "Rhona, would you like to get out of the car with you and go to the stall with Miss Pell and them?" ”

Rhona thought for a moment, but shook her head, but instead got out of the car and changed to sit in the passenger seat, Joey smiled, and with a push of the handgear, the carp cart drove into the float line again. (To be continued)