After coming to the living room and asking Laura to chat with the four elders, Shi Lei confessed and began to go into the kitchen to prepare dinner for everyone.

Everything is ready-made, and Shi Lei already has a draft in his heart, so this meal will come much faster to prepare.

The indispensable roast turkey, almond pudding, gingerbread hut and corn porridge are essential for Christmas, and then there are the traditional chicken, duck and fish in China, Shi Lei has a choice of a few.

What must be there is the chicken produced in the pasture, and Shi Lei boiled the broth with two chickens as a condiment for cooking food. Don't say it, the taste is indeed much more delicious than ordinary chicken soup, and it is worthy of being even more delicious chicken than the dragon bird.

With such a broth, I came to the soup greens, and I also made a simplified version of Buddha jumping over the wall with one person and one cup, appropriately reducing the proportion of meat dishes, and adding a few more vegetarian ingredients, which is more suitable for old people like Mr. Huang to eat.

Other dishes are also based on this principle, try to be vegetarian as much as possible, with a small amount of meat food to play a role in decoration.

There is only one exception, and that is Shi Lei's favorite braised pork.

Shi Lei deliberately selected a variety of pork with skin, but in the process of cooking, he still added some quail eggs, asparagus, small greens, etc., which played a role in concoction.

After the pot is released, the various ingredients are sorted into different yards and placed in a round porcelain plate, surrounded by concentric circles, and then poured some soup to polish it, which can be regarded as having all the color, flavor and flavor.

Seeing this dish, Shi Lei almost couldn't hold it. Fortunately, I finally thought of the elders who were outside. Shi Lei, who was worried about his image, finally stopped stealing a little.

I can't stop thinking about it, and I just haven't put it into action.

The fish is fresh fish from an artificial lake. While the fish was still alive, Shi Lei made some modifications to it to give it a delicious taste similar to that of puffer fish, boiled it with chicken broth, and finally stewed it with some lamb from the pasture.

The taste of this pot of "fresh" soup firmly grasped Shi Lei as soon as he opened the lid of the casserole, so that he finally couldn't help but lift the spoon and take a sip. The extreme freshness with a little milky fragrance instantly captured all of Shi Lei's taste buds. In the end, Shi Lei can only be described as delicious.

Just when Shi Lei was still savoring this incomparable fresh taste, the figure of Old Man Huang appeared behind him, accompanied by the old man's strong voice.

"Oh? What kind of soup is this stone, it smells good. Bring me a bowl to try. "The old man didn't think of himself as an outsider. didn't say anything else hypocritically, just went straight to the point.

This old child and old child, the older he gets, the more pure his mind becomes? Shi Lei thought about it with some tears and laughter, but he didn't dare to pause at all.

"This is fresh soup, the name of the soup is just a fresh word, grandpa just helped to taste it, to see if it can afford this fresh word." Shi Lei also tactfully gave the old man a cover, so as not to make the old man's face look bad.

As he spoke. Shi Lei directly took a bowl to the old man and brought it to the dining table. After the old man took his seat, Shi Lei hurriedly shouted that everyone should come over for dinner.

Except for a roast turkey. Because the turkey is too big, you have to wait a while to get better, and there is an improved version of the Buddha jumping over the wall, and you have to simmer for a while, other meals have already been served, and the fresh soup is just the last dish, which can be regarded as the finale prepared by Shi Lei.

"Come on. Everyone tasted this fresh soup made of stones, and it was really a soup made with fish and sheep as the main ingredients. I tasted it, and the taste was indeed very delicious, and it seems that the ancestors did not make words casually when they made them. Taste it. "The old man doesn't hesitate to praise him.

With the old man taking the lead, everyone let go of eating and drinking, and the old man told a few allusions in simple terms from time to time, or laughing and scolding, or ridiculing and teasing, every bit of it was easy for everyone to listen to it interestingly, and made an interesting popularization of the origin of Christmas.

Shi Lei saw that the time was almost up, so he went to bring out the big dish of turkey, and the old man Huang took the knife to share the chicken for everyone to eat, and the old man smiled and did it well, look at his skillful appearance, Shi Lei secretly felt that the old man estimated that he was also a foodie.

Shi Lei brought out the Buddha jumping over the wall that had been simmering for several hours, and one person and one cup of vegetarian pot based on various fungi could just relieve the greasy.

These two dishes have undoubtedly been unanimously praised by the elders led by Mr. Huang. At the same time, it also indicates that according to tradition, the most important time of this dinner party is to make a toast.

Out of respect for the elders, Shi Lei, a junior, of course had to be humble and leave the opportunity to Mr. Huang, the old man seemed to be really happy with Shi Lei today, and he didn't pretend to be modest, but took over the errand and took the lead in standing up and lifting wine.

The dinner had almost come to an end after that. Let the old man and them move to the living room to drink tea and rest, and Shi Lei continued to clean up the mess in the restaurant.

Shi Lei quickly returned to the elders, and after chatting with him for a while, Shi Lei, who felt that it was almost the same, took out all kinds of gifts that had been prepared a long time ago, and presented them to the elders, and the gifts for Laura were of course taken out when the two of them were alone.

"I made a suit for my parents, grandparents, and grandparents, all of which I designed and made myself, and let you see if I have made any progress in the past year." After Laura, she took out all the clothes she had made for everyone and handed them to the elders one by one.

"Well, I, as an elder, also have to have a return gift, these two gifts for you two children, take it."

After the old man finished speaking, he took out two small cloth bags and handed them to Shi Lei and Laura respectively. Grandma Huang and Colin and his wife also took out gifts for the two juniors.

"Can I open the gift now?" Laura gestured, ready to open the gift in person.

After getting permission from the elders, Laura opened the elders' gifts one by one and looked at them. And I sincerely expressed my gratitude to all the elders.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Shi Lei also opened the gifts of the elders one by one. The other gifts are okay, and they are relatively common. However, what the old man gave surprised Shi Lei.

"Old man, I can't accept this gift, it's too precious, you should keep it for yourself."

Shi Lei looked at the bloodstone seal material in his hand with some nervousness, such a thing can no longer be measured simply by money, because it is a treasure that cannot be found. There is something that money can't buy. Shi Lei timidly put the seal in front of the old man.

"Take it, this side is full of bloodstone. It can be regarded as the dowry I gave to Laura in advance. I'll start by saying that as long as you stay with Laura, this bloodstone will belong to you for as long as you want. In other words, it's actually something for Laura. It's just for you to keep it. The old man said without warning.

"This is indeed too precious, I'd better put it with Laura for safekeeping, when Laura and I really become a family, this seal will not be divided between each other." Shi Lei still insisted on saying.

"Well, that's fine. This seal was brought by me when I came to the United States. I experienced that bloody era, and then for some special reasons, I had to come here, and I took this bloody seal with me, which can be regarded as a souvenir of the motherland.

Now the motherland has become rich and powerful. I also hope that she will never experience that blood again. ”

The old man sighed a little embarrassed, and finally glanced at the bloodstone seal with nostalgia, and resolutely put it back in the cloth bag and handed it to Laura.

"Oh well. I'll keep it for now. Grandpa, when do you need it, ask me again. Laura saw that Old Man Huang was resolute, and got Shi Lei's signal, so she took the stone first.

"What are you saving? Old man, I am half of the people who have been buried in the ground, these things will be yours sooner or later, what's wrong with giving you a few years earlier. The old man is greedy for it, and I'm an old man who is still indifferent to things.

Besides. Isn't there a saying that the world is ours? It's yours too, but it's going to be the grandchildren in the end. The old man said freely.

When he said the last sentence, Shi Lei and the others also amused the old man, and laughed together.

After everyone finished reading the gifts, Shi Lei chatted with several elders for a while. Seeing that Grandpa Huang was a little tired, Shi Lei hurriedly took a few elders and took a look at the rooms arranged for them.

Bidding farewell to the elders who went back to the house to rest, Shi Lei and Laura also returned to the master bedroom. Neither of them has prepared any gifts for each other.

Closing the door of the master bedroom, Shi Lei couldn't wait to pick up Laura and throw her on the big bed.

"Have you prepared a gift for me? What is it? Take it out. Shi Lei suppressed Laura and said.

"Did you prepare a gift for me? Besides, you held me down, how can I get it for you, you idiot. Laura asked rhetorically.

"Oh, I forgot." Shi Lei hurriedly moved his body away and hugged Laura instead, "Of course, I prepared a gift for you, I did it myself, and I made it carefully, are you looking forward to it." Shi Lei joked with some stinky fart.

"Mine is also made by myself. Where, here you go. Laura said as she pulled out a very delicately wrapped gift from the inside pocket of her dress. Shi Lei also concocted the same method, and also took out a box and handed it to Laura.

"I opened it." After Shi Lei finished speaking, he carefully opened the package layer by layer, and found that it was a very beautiful wallet inside, with beautiful carvings on the surface, and a beautiful picture, take a closer look, isn't this Laura.

Feeling Laura's intentions, Shi Lei quickly took out the original wallet, first put Laura's wallet photo into the new wallet, and then put other bits and pieces in it, and happily looked at it carefully before putting it in his pocket.

Over there, Laura had also seen the gift from Shi Lei. This is a comb of rosewood, Shi Lei used a piece of rosewood that he brought with him when he returned to China last time, and made a comb of zuò by himself.

There is Shi Lei's carefully carved on it, an elderly couple holding hands and strolling in the sunset, from the old couple looking at each other and smiling on the side faces, it can be vaguely seen that this is Shi Lei and Laura when they are old.

There is also a sentence engraved on the back of the comb, a lyric that Shi Lei likes very much, "The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you."

"Stone, it's good to have you." After reading it, Laura said to Shi Lei very emotionally.

"It's also my greatest blessing to have you. We have come all the way, although there are no magnificent waves, just plain and happy, but you have already entered the bottom of my heart and become an indispensable part of my body and mind. Shi Lei gave Laura an affectionate kiss. (To be continued)