Rural life in America

Chapter 103 Christmas is coming (Subscribe for the third watch!)
It's time to start preparing for Christmas, and you have to get ready.

Christmas is a very important holiday in the United States, unlike when Zhang Hao gave an apple on Christmas Day when he was in China, or saw a Christmas tree in the mall on Christmas, it was Christmas.

Why is there no Christmas atmosphere in China? At most, some young people like to join in the fun.

But it's different in the United States, especially now that Christina is also on the ranch, so naturally I need to prepare more.

Lying on the bed, Zhang Hao asked, "Honey, shall we buy a Christmas tree or cut down a tree and decorate it ourselves?"

Christina was flipping through the book, and was crazy with Xi Xi all day long, or else she was just teasing the dog, lolling about Luobo, or just remembering to read before going to bed.

But 10 minutes before I picked up the book, I immediately regained my spirits when I heard Zhang Hao’s words, “Of course we are going to make a Christmas tree ourselves! Am I mistaken, our ranch is at the edge of the forest! If we go to the mall to buy everything Back, that would take a lot of the fun away. Believe me, it doesn’t matter if our own Christmas tree isn’t pretty enough.”

There is no need to worry about the Christmas tree, but Zhang Hao has other questions, so he asked again, "Are you going to do midnight mass? We are not Christians, but if you want to do midnight mass, I will accompany you to church."

Christina thought for a moment, then said, "I'm not going to midnight mass, but I'm glad to hear your answer. I'm so happy, my dear."

Zhang Hao grinned, and he remembered something very important, so he continued to ask, "Then how should we prepare our Christmas stockings, should we put them on the Christmas tree or hang them on the bedside?"

This is indeed a very important and critical question, very important.

Because Christmas stockings are used to hold gifts, they are children's favorite things. At night, they hang their socks by the bed and wait for the next morning to receive gifts.

But there are also many families who don't do this, they will put Christmas stockings under the Christmas tree.

Christina thought for a while, and then made a decision, "I don't think it should be placed by the bed. Xixi is still young, and she will definitely not know where the Christmas stocking is. And I want to enjoy the whole family unwrapping presents together." Fun, it'll be sweet and happy."

Christina's suggestion was very good, and Zhang Hao also thought it must be interesting for the whole family to gather and unpack the gift boxes.Also because Xixi is too young now, this little girl will definitely not understand why there is a Christmas stocking next to the bed.

Zhang Hao gently put Christina on his shoulder, and asked a little curiously, "Honey, what gift did you prepare for me?"

Christina said arrogantly, "This is a secret!"

Zhang Hao didn't give up, he directly held Christina down, and asked with a wicked smile, "If you don't give me a satisfactory answer, you will be tortured by me."

Christina proudly puffed out her chest, and said provocatively, "Haha, I'm not afraid of you, I won't say it!"

The two started to fight happily, and it soon turned into a large-scale, unsuitable plot for children; but this kind of thing, that is, the two of them knew about it and enjoyed it.

Christina still kept her mouth shut, no matter how teased Zhang Hao was, she just kept silent.As for Zhang Hao, although his physical strength is very good, his self-confidence is bursting, and his physical fitness is getting better and better, but it is really difficult to completely gain the upper hand in such things.

So what are you talking about, there are only exhausted cows!
In the middle of the night, the two of them embraced each other and slept together, it was a sweet night; it was just that there was something wrong with it, Christina didn't read a book properly, and Zhang Hao didn't figure out some arrangements for Christmas.

But these small details do not need to care, there is still a lot of time.

I was still planning to sleep in. What if I don’t sleep in in winter? But I couldn’t sleep in. The door was knocked early in the morning, and Xixi’s anxious voice came from outside the door, "Dad, Mommy, The baby can't get in, open the door."

"Xiaohao, open the door quickly! I'm a baby!"

Zhang Hao woke up and quickly put on his clothes. Christina also put on her clothes in a hurry; then Zhang Hao jumped out of the bed and ran to open the door.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw Xixi, and the little girl hugged her father's thigh all at once, "Dad, the door won't open."

With such a cute daughter, don't think about being quiet in the morning; but it's still good, at least the little girl has learned to sleep by herself now, and she doesn't have to cling to her father now.

Nothing went wrong. Although it took a little time, the family of three managed to get out of the meal.

During the meal, Zhang Hao said, "Dad, Mom, Christmas is coming soon, just tell me what Christmas gift you want. My son has a bad eye for choosing gifts. Don't blame me if the gift doesn't suit you if you don't say it." "

Zhang Jianye said without thinking, "What gift do I want, and I don't celebrate Christmas."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Xiu poked her in the back and gave her a wink, "You're stupid or something! You don't want gifts and others want them, and you don't want to be sensible on the first Christmas."

They all speak Chinese, so Christina was a little confused; but Zhang Jianye knew that it was true that Christmas was not celebrated before, but now it must be celebrated.Not only because this is America and Xixi likes to celebrate festivals, but also because of Christina!
Christina basically didn't understand it, because it was all in Chinese, and she felt that she had to strengthen her Chinese learning; she was also confident, because she could naturally learn better in a Chinese learning environment.

Of course, she also had some expectations, looking forward to Zhang Hao's father being able to learn English well, otherwise it would be more difficult for the family to communicate.

Christina doesn't understand much Chinese, but Xixi knows it. The little girl put down the little spoon, looked at her grandpa and said, "Grandpa is stupid, grandpa is so stupid!"

Zhang Jianye wiped his mouth with a smile, then stood up to feed Xixi. Although the little girl did it herself before, she basically didn't feed it into her mouth.

"Grandpa is a big idiot, we Xixi are the smartest. Now the idiot grandpa is here to feed you, you eat obediently, and then we go out to play."

Xixi opened her mouth wide, and ate a spoonful of rice in one bite. The triumphant little girl took a bite of the rice and remembered something again, "Grandpa isn't going to play, grandpa is herding cattle."

Zhang Jianye laughed all of a sudden, not to mention Zhang Jianye, Zhang Hao and Yu Xiu also laughed; except for Christina who was a little dazed, she still didn't understand much.

Yu Xiu laughed a little and said, "You heard me, your little granddaughter has said that you are going to herd cattle. You just work hard, go herding cattle well, and save some money for your little granddaughter to buy toys."

Zhang Hao explained to Christina with a smile, and Christina also laughed, she thought such a morning was very interesting.

Xixi doesn't know what the adults are laughing at, but she doesn't need to know that much. When she sees everyone laughing, it's good that Xixi laughs too. She is the one who laughs the most.

After eating breakfast happily, Zhang Hao started to get busy.

Carrying an ax and Christina into the mountain, anyway, there is a mountain behind the house, and there are trees everywhere; the little follower Xixi didn't come, she was caught by her grandma and wanted to stay at home.

But Luobo and the white lion and white tiger followed, these three guys will never be left behind; as for Huahua originally wanted to come with them, but it was caught by Xixi and had to stay at home to practice flying.

Luobo and the others were running happily, while Zhang Hao and Christina were holding hands and picking trees.

Zhang Hao kicked a North American spruce and asked, "How about this tree? I think it's good, it looks great, and it has a triangular shape."

Christina shook her head and denied, "It's too big. We need to choose a tree less than two meters long, and then trim it. We need to keep searching, and I believe we will find this tree."

Going to the mall can quickly get a Christmas tree for tens of dollars, but it takes a lot of time to find it in the mountains, and you may not even be able to find a beautiful fir tree.But it doesn't matter, because what Zhang Hao and Christina care about is the process, not necessarily the result.

Although spruce can grow up to 60 meters high and nearly two meters in diameter, Zhang Hao and Christina only need a small tree.The two of them walked around the mountain all morning, and after careful selection, they finally found a satisfactory tree and cut it down.

With his girlfriend by his side, of course Zhang Hao wanted to show off his strength and ability, and he was indeed praised by Christina.Then the two of them carried the tree back home. After pruning, it was only about 1.5 meters high, at most it was a trunk with a thick bowl mouth, which was completely enough.

The tree was carried back, but the Christmas tree was not finished at all, and we still needed to buy colored lights and some colorful decorations.

Not only do you need to decorate the Christmas tree, but you also need to prepare Christmas presents; this is a relatively large project, and it is definitely not an immediate decision.

Zhang Hao and Christina took Xixi and ran to Klamath Falls again. They needed another big purchase.

Xixi pointed to the pink piglet on the shelf and said, "Dad, Peppa."

Zhang Hao smiled, put on the hat of Xixi's coat, teased the little girl and said, "Xixi is also a little pig, cute little pig. Let's go to the mirror and take a look. Peppa is the same, with a piggy nose."

Xixi immediately laughed childishly, the little girl shook her head, put her head in her hands and said, "I am also Paige, I like Paige the most."

Xixi really likes Peppa, it's Xixi's favorite cartoon, no wonder the little girl likes pink piggies, because those little piggies are all cute Peppa in Xixi's eyes.

Choosing Christmas gifts for Xixi, choosing Christmas gifts for parents, and of course Christina's Christmas gifts are also indispensable.

So Zhang Hao is still very busy, but he is very happy to be so busy. He likes the fun of preparing Liverpool for his family, and of course he hopes that these gifts can be liked by his family.

(End of this chapter)