After saying goodbye to Laura and the three of them reluctantly, Shi Lei returned to the kitchen full of enthusiasm and worked hard for the grand project of dinner. You must know that Laura's parents also came at night, which made Shi Lei feel like he was about to meet his parents for the first time.

Time passed unconsciously in the busy, and Shi Lei, who had just made preparations, had to clean himself up and come to the door of the main room to prepare for the arrival of the guests.

What made Shi Lei a little happy and a little nervous was that the first one to arrive was Laura's family, and it seemed that they were ready to see if there was anything they needed help with Laura's suggestion. Besides, these new neighbors who came are all friends of Laura's family, and Laura also needs Laura to introduce Shi Lei.

Seeing Laura's parents for the first time, Shi Lei couldn't help but be a little nervous, like a hairy-footed son-in-law who turned back to the door.

Laura's father, Colin Wong, is a professor of economics at UCSB, has his own independent practice room, and is one of UCSB's flagship figures.

He has the temperament of a traditional Chinese literati, and when he chatted with Shi Lei, he didn't have much arrogance, and he didn't take out the posture of three sessions, but he made a few jokes with Shi Lei.

After chatting with Shi Lei for a while, Colin admired Shi Lei's erudition and knowledge, and said that he was very curious about the father who could cultivate such a child, and he must have a good chat next time he saw Shi Lei's father.

Laura's mother, Emily Wong, is a UCSB art professor and former well-known fashion designer, who later came to the school to teach in order to take care of Laura, and is obviously a typical good wife and mother. Laura studied fashion design with her mother, Emily.

Shi Lei's first meeting with his parents in disguise seems to be relatively successful.

Laura's parents are very fond of Shi Lei, and they also hinted in their words that they do not object to the two of them dating, because they also like Shi Lei under a more traditional education, especially Shi Lei's attitude towards love and marriage is very consistent with their ideas, which makes them more at ease.

Shi Lei was also completely relieved, and from Laura's parents, it is not difficult to see why Laura is so considerate and kind. And with the approval of Laura's parents, Shi Lei can also pursue Laura with confidence.

After a pleasant conversation, other guests began to arrive. Shi Lei had no choice but to get up to greet him, and Laura stood in front of the door with Shi Lei very considerately, introducing the guests to Shi Lei one by one, but she became more and more like the hostess of the ranch.

The guests who came were all familiar with Laura, including Tracey and her two barrister parents, Lulu and his real estate parents, and other guests, Laura highlighted a few.

As the proud Chinese UCSB principal Yang Zuyou is an old friend of Laura's family, and this time it seems that he wants to come to find the new local tyrant Comrade Shi Lei, of course, for the construction of the school.

Ms. Santa Barbara, a strong woman who is now the whip of the Republican majority, is a good friend of Laura's mother, conservative in politics, and a traditional person in life. Of course, as a political figure, she does not mean to have a good relationship, after all, the most indispensable thing for running for election is the support of rich people.

In addition, there were several other farmers and ranchers in the vicinity of the ranch, most of whom had been in business with the past, such as Tom Rancher, who dealt in the horses. There are also some who were originally close to the Stone Ranch, of course, mainly because they were familiar with Hanks.

The guests brought some small gifts with beautiful packaging, such as large bottles of wine in delicate handmade wooden boxes, which were beautiful and thoughtful, but not very expensive.

Fortunately, Shi Lei had prepared a lot of small gifts with Chinese characteristics before, so he didn't have to worry about having nothing to give them back, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

After Shi Lei put away all the invitations and welcomed all the guests into the house, under Shi Lei's signal, tonight's party was officially started.

Because it is the nature of a family gathering, the atmosphere is very relaxed, everyone drinks drinks, eats the food carefully prepared by Shi Lei, and when walking around, Shi Lei inevitably praises Shi Lei's food is very delicious, and the young people are also like Shi Lei's expectations, playing in a bunch by the heated pool, and some are doing barbecue by themselves.

Most of the elders such as Principal Yang and Ms. Santa Barbara talked and laughed in a low voice around Laura's parents, talking about topics of interest such as politics and economics, and Shi Lei, as the host, was indispensable to accompany and chat.

Fortunately, Shi Lei often accompanies his father to talk about these things, and Shi Lei himself usually cares about these topics, so he has some talking points, but as the topic deepens, Shi Lei can't cope with it, so he simply runs to the side of Hanks and the ranchers.

Hanks and Tom Rancher were happily discussing the operation of the ranch, the price of livestock, and so on, and of course Shi Lei had to mix it up. Of course, it is inevitable to test each other to see if there is any impact on their own ranch, after all, they are also competitors. However, after knowing Shi Lei's business direction and plans, they were relieved, and the smiles on their faces seemed much more sincere.

After leaving Hanks and a few other cowboys to accompany these ranchers, Shi Lei finally came to the pool and stayed with Laura and the other handsome guys and beauties.

Most of these young people are familiar with each other, after all, Santa Barbara is not that old, plus the living atmosphere here, there are few young people, and most of them have been classmates, so there are still a lot of common topics.

It wasn't just Laura and a few of her girlfriends who stayed here, but also a few kids from a nearby farm. Some of them work as cowboys on their own ranches, and some study at UCSB. They are all about the same age, so Shi Lei quickly played with them.

Hearing Laura say that everything eaten here was made by Shi Lei, they said that they were all surprised, admired Shi Lei, and of course praised Shi Lei.

When Shi Lei went to the barbecue grill to start grilling lamb skewers for everyone, Laura and other beauties even went to the guest room to change into swimsuits, jumped directly into the heated pool and started to play in the water.

Looking at Laura's good figure, Shi Lei almost burned all the lamb skewers, and in order to maintain his reputation, Shi Lei simply solved this part of the meat skewers by himself.

Seeing the beautiful scenery in the pool, Shi Lei was in no mood to continue the barbecue, so he ran back to the main room, changed into swimming trunks and jumped into the pool to interact with Laura.

Shi Lei's more perfect figure now made the beauties in the pool exclaim, and then they all laughed and laughed, and unceremoniously went up to take advantage of Shi Lei, this one went up to pinch his arms, that one went up to touch his chest muscles, and some rubbed Shi Lei's thighs while people were not paying attention, which made Shi Lei feel a little embarrassed and a little hot-blooded.

It was Laura who came forward to persuade this group of perverted women to go back so that Shi Lei would not be embarrassed, of course, in this way, Laura was inevitably made fun of by these dissatisfied guys, but it made Shi Lei feel that they were like matching the two.

The two of them almost finished the wedding, which made Shi Lei snicker, so he didn't care that Laura kept giving him a look, until Shi Lei looked at Laura's pitiful expression and picked a topic again, diverting their attention.

The handsome guys next to him were a little envious when they saw Shi Lei's good fortune, and a few people who felt that they were in good shape also went to change into swimsuits and play in the pool.

After a while, Shi Lei and Laura were left alone in the corner of the pool, well, it seems that they still have more eyes, after all, the mouth of eating people is short, and after being entertained by Shi Lei, they have to make it convenient for Shi Lei to create zào, at least they can't be light bulbs all the time.

Shi Lei and Laura were a little embarrassed for a while, and then Shi Lei still mustered up the courage to chat with Laura, talking about interesting things about their respective schools and some strange classmates.

Shi Lei inevitably took the opportunity to complain to Laura, saying that he and Laura had not seen each other for a day, and Laura's eyes were crooked with a smile, revealing full of love inside and out, Shi Lei also looked at Laura affectionately from time to time, and he had already quietly held hands under the water.

Seeing this situation, Shi Lei already understood that Laura also had love for him, and now he was about to find out the relationship, but Shi Lei considered that there were still so many people today, and it was not a suitable day for confession.

Laura over there closed her eyes, ready to offer her first kiss, but she didn't expect to wait for a while and didn't feel Shi Lei's action, she opened her eyes with a little disappointment, and met Shi Lei's affectionate eyes.

Shi Lei smiled lightly at Laura, Laura hammered Shi Lei a little shyly, and the two continued to chat very tacitly, with a tacit feeling.

When everyone was almost finished, Principal Yang and the others began to say goodbye and leave, Shi Lei hurriedly called Laura, and went to the door to bid farewell to the guests, and at the same time handed over the exquisite Chinese special gifts that the cowboys had already prepared.

Principal Yang and Ms. Santa Barbara watched Shi Lei pull Laura to stand at the door to see off the guests, and patted Shi Lei with deep meaning and gave an encouraging look, it seems that the two of them have a good impression of Shi Lei.

Jack Lee was full of spring breeze when he left, and I heard that there were already several people interested in cooperating with him.

By the time the guests were almost gone, Laura and her family were left in the main room.

Seeing that the main room was somewhat wolf-like, Laura said very gently that she would stay to help clean up the mess, but Shi Lei was not willing to let Laura suffer, and said that she would find a housekeeping company to solve it tomorrow, waiting for Laura to listen to Shi Lei's words, and after sitting next to her parents meekly, Shi Lei took out the gift that had been picked out for Laura's family a long time ago.

Shi Lei prepared a new-style cheongsam embroidered by Suzhou for Laura, and a screen embroidered by Shu and a set of ancient porcelain jewelry for her mother Emily. And Shi Lei prepared a little more for Colin, a set of high-end porcelain tea sets, a hand-carved bamboo pen holder and a box of top-quality Longjing tea.

After bidding farewell to the reluctant Laura and her parents, Shi Lei, who faced the mess at home alone, also felt a little clueless, and finally simply cleaned up some leftovers and poured them into the food bowls of each dog as their supper.

As for the rest, just leave it to the housekeeping company tomorrow, after being busy with the preparation work for so long, Shi Lei is also a little tired.

Shi Lei, who was lying on the bed, couldn't help but call Laura again, first asked if she had arrived home, and then began all kinds of sensual love words, and reluctantly hung up the phone after half an hour of phone porridge.

After ending this sweet call, Shi Lei chatted with his family on the Internet again. Nowadays, chatting with family members is basically once a day, so that parents don't always worry about it.

After finally ending the chat with his family, Shi Lei couldn't resist Zhou Gong's call, and went with peace of mind.

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