Chapter 212 American Spring Festival
"We're back in Los Angeles tonight!" When Gaffrey sent Qin Yang a text message, Qin Yang was practicing spoken English conversation online.
For Qin Yang, returning to Los Angeles is something she has been looking forward to for a long time. New York, on the other hand, is more of a cursed place for her.
Because she was afraid of reporters, she was afraid to recreate the scene of being surrounded by reporters that day.
It was 3:50 a.m. when the plane landed at Los Angeles International.
"Let's find a hotel to rest in the nearest place!" Gifrey suggested.
"I still want to go back to the dorm!" Qinyang Road
"Well, well! Then I'll call Susan to pick us up by car! "Gifrey said!
"Don't, let's take a taxi back by ourselves!" As soon as he heard that Gifrey said that he was going to call Susan to pick him up, Qin Yang immediately objected. Maybe that's a woman's intuition!
Shortly after arriving at the U.S. branch, Qin Yang clearly saw hostility on Susan's face. As for the reason for such hostility, Qin Yang still couldn't figure it out.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, let's take a taxi back!" Gifrey Road
When Qin Yang appeared at the company on time at half past eight the next day, everyone was surprised! Because, according to the "information" Susan got before, it would be at least a day or two before she returned.
However, when they saw Qin Yang's two dark circles under the cover of light makeup, they seemed to understand something.
"Sister. You don't think you have called our mom in months! She said she misses you a lot, by the way, why does she keep calling your phone off? I'm dying! ”
Qin Yang, who has not been on QQ for a long time, received a message from his sister Qin Yue as soon as he went online!
Qin Yang looked at the time of the message, it was actually a week ago! A week ago, she happened to be in New York with Gifrey!
So Qin Yang replied: "Recently, I went to New York to collect wind, and ah, the United States rarely uses China's QQ!" For his sister Qin Yue, Qin Yang felt that there were too many things he wanted and had to explain!
After looking at the Beijing time on the Internet, I estimated that my sister should not have fallen asleep yet! So Qin Yang took out the latest mobile phone that Ji Furui gave her more than two months ago, and dialed the phone number of her sister Qin Yue, who was far away in China!
"Sister! You're alright! What Qin Yang didn't expect was that as soon as he opened his mouth, his sister actually asked like this!
"Nope!" For his sister's sudden questioning, as well as the more than a month since he was hospitalized, Qin Yang's heart was still somewhat empty.
"But why can't I get through to you all the time ago? I called your former colleagues in your company, and they only told me that you were transferred to the United States, and they didn't know anything else! Therefore, I know that even asking them is in vain! During that time, my mom and I were really worried about you! ”
"I've been on a business trip for a while! It's not very convenient to use the Internet and make phone calls in the United States!" Although Qin Yang himself knew that such an explanation was too far-fetched, he still said so.
"Sister, if you're not used to it abroad, come back!" After typing this line, Qin Yue specially added three surprised expressions to the back!
These three expressions made Qin Yang look at it with a deep meaning!
Qin Yue told her sister on the phone that she was now paying close attention to English!
"Sister, if I get a full scholarship to go abroad, but I can't even speak English in the end, how sad it would be!"
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My sister is really sensible! Qin Yang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Hanging up his sister's phone, Qin Yang made another call home! The mother was worried at first, but she finally said: "I heard your sister say that international calls are expensive, and if you have nothing to do in the future, you should try not to call back!" ”
"Your ...... for the New Year this year"
When the mother just said the first half of the sentence, she didn't want to hear the "doodoo" busy sound in the earpiece in the next second.
Qin Yang knew that her mother wanted to ask her if she wanted to go back for the Spring Festival this year!
When Qin Yang called up the call record, he often looked at it, only to find that the call time of the phone call he had just made to his mother was exactly one minute and fifty-nine seconds!
Qin Yang continued to dial the phone, but his mother stopped answering no matter what! So, Qin Yang had no choice but to give up!
In fact, whether to go home for the Spring Festival or not, Qin Yang already had a plan in his heart!
As soon as you go home for the New Year, it means no less than 10,000 yuan in travel expenses! To this day, he still owes Hao Lili 18,000 yuan!
Although Hao Lili never asked once, Qin Yang always felt that he was a little unhappy to owe others!
Therefore, once she has more money, she will take the initiative to return some!
"Come on, come on, good afternoon, everyone, long time no see! Let's start with a short meeting! Gifrey stood radiantly in the middle of the room and shouted to the busy crowd!
This guy, he should have dozed off all morning! No wonder the mental state is so good! Qin Yang thought to himself!
So, everyone in the office quickly gathered together!
Although it is said to be a meeting, it is actually just some trivial things!
This kind of meeting is completely open or not! Therefore, there are many times when Qin Yang doesn't understand why the leaders are always happy about these meetings that can be held or not!
After returning from New York, Qin Yang compiled all the materials collected in New York into a series of materials!
At noon when there were only ten days left before the Chinese New Year holiday, Ji Furui suddenly called Qin Yang into his office!
"Suny, we have a business plan to write about financing the apparel market!"
"Can I do something?" Qin Yang hurriedly asked!
"Do you remember all the stuff we did in New York?"
"Well, remember, I've put it all together in a series and made a backup of the electronic documents!"
"That's great!"
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Before coming to the United States, Qin Yang always thought that the New Year had always belonged only to Chinese! However, what she did not expect was that the carnival and joyful atmosphere of the New Year in American cities was by no means weaker than that of the Chinese.
At home, as he grew older, Qin Yang felt more and more that in addition to the meaning of the New Year for reunion, all that was left was boring sunbathing! In Xizhen Village in the southwest, even on such an important day as the Spring Festival, there are no entertainment activities! Unless it's people entertaining themselves!
However, due to the fact that people in their hometowns are generally less educated. Therefore, the only entertainment for the Spring Festival is that adults just gather together to chat.
The children took the three or five yuan of New Year's money given by the adults to buy snacks to eat. When they grow up, the girls and boys feel that everything is bland, because they don't like the short chatting in the parents!
As soon as the Spring Festival was over, Gifrey flew back to England to reunite with his parents. Even at the last moment before the holiday, Qin Yang, who decided not to go home for the New Year, never told Ji Furui about his decision.
So, until the holiday, Gifrey seemed to be so busy that he forgot the question he had asked Qin Yang.
Not to mention Susan, after work on the day of the holiday, she couldn't wait to go home and stay with her parents. She once politely invited Qin Yang to her house for the Spring Festival, but Qin Yang politely refused!
Qin Yang didn't know the real Spring Festival situation in the United States. Therefore, in order to avoid being hungry and unable to buy something to eat during the holidays, Qin Yang simply hoarded more than a dozen buckets of instant noodles.
The time in the United States is much later than in China! Therefore, compared with China, it is still Chinese people who celebrate the Spring Festival.
So, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve Beijing time, Qin Yang stared at the beating of time on the computer, and still dialed the phone at home at 23:58 Beijing time.
"Sister, Happy New Year!" It was Qin Yue who came to answer the phone, and Qin Yue said to Qin Yang on the phone.
"I still have a few hours here, it's still daylight, and I'll call back, just like New Year's Eve with you and our mother!" When he said this, Qin Yang suddenly felt that there was something in his throat that was clogged.
"What, Xiaoyue, did your sister call back?" For a while, Qin Yang heard his mother's voice and footsteps outside the microphone.
Qin Yue turned on the landline phone at home on speakerphone.
"It's already fifty-nine points!" Mother Jiang Cuilian looked at the time displayed on the landline phone screen!
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"Mom, it's the Spring Festival soon, let's close our eyes and shout: "Three, two, one......."
While counting down to 321 with his mother and sister opposite, Qin Yang also heard the sound of firecrackers in his hometown to welcome the New Year at 0:00 in the morning through the landline.
By the time Qin Yang opened his eyes, the phone had already been cut off! She knew that, according to her mother's habit, any phone call that would cost more than two minutes would be strictly controlled within one minute and fifty seconds.
At this moment, it is four o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles! The day was as gloomy as a sad middle-aged woman, and the weather in Los Angeles was very similar to the city of Chengdu, Sichuan, China! Qin Yang sometimes thinks so.
I slept until I woke up naturally, practiced speaking English for most of the day, and added that New Year's Eve phone call with my mother and sister just now! At this moment, Qin Yang felt that his stomach was singing about the empty city plan!
Looking at the dozen or so buckets of instant noodles on the stacked table, I don't even have the motivation to go out alone and find a Chinese restaurant to eat a bowl of egg fried rice!
So, on the day of the beginning of the Spring Festival in China, Qinyang, who was far away in the United States, instant noodles and boiling water and the book "English Speaking Practice" became her best partners.
Eight hours later, Qin Yang ushered in the Spring Festival in the United States alone!
To her surprise, however, just as she was about to prepare to give herself a countdown to New Year's Eve on the time in Los Angeles by herself, the phone on the table vibrated happily.
Who will call at this time?
It can't be that he still remembers that he didn't go home for the New Year! However, I didn't tell him that I wouldn't go home for the New Year or that I was going home for the New Year!
Qin Yang suddenly thought of Ji Furui! At the same time, Qin Yang knows more clearly that there are not many people who can know that she is New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, USA. Could it be that my sister called? Qin Yang thought in his heart.
But when Qin Yang picked up the phone, he found that the person who called was neither Ji Furui nor his sister!