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The next day, on the morning of the Spring Festival, Zhou Chao and his family of three, Lala and Charlotte, stopped a taxi at the entrance of the community and rushed to their hometown in the countryside in the suburbs of the city.

More than forty minutes later, the car stopped next to a large house surrounded by a large wooden fence.

The house is a traditional large rural tile house. It sits north and south, backed by mountains, and has a small garden in front and behind the house. However, it is not big, only about one acre. It is quite small, and it is bare and large. Not far away, there is a small river that penetrates the village, but the river water has dried up a few years ago. Now there is only black mud that is wet with snow and water, garbage and some sewage that comes out of nowhere.

Zhou Chao paid for the car and Lala with his family. Charlotte got out of the car, walked into the yard and walked into the house on the frozen land and the path.

The first thing that caught my eye was a kitchen with a little dim light, with a short black-haired old lady busy inside.

"Grandma." Zhou Chao shouted.

"When will I come back?" The old lady stopped her work and looked at Zhou Chao's family who kept walking into the house and said with a smile.

"I came back yesterday." Zhou Chao replied. Then he turned around and crawled into the Dongda House next to him with the things he had bought. Then an elderly man with gray hair but strong spirits and a rosy and healthy complexion appeared in everyone's sight.

"grandfather."

"dad."

Zhou Chao and Zhou Chao's father shouted one after another.

"I'm back." The old man sat on the chair without moving, and said in a low voice.

"Dad, this is the wine Dacheng bought for you, brought back from abroad." At this time, Zhou Jianguo stepped forward and put a bottle of red wine and two bottles of white wine in his hand on the desk beside the old man and smiled.

When the old man who heard his eldest grandson bought him good wine, he reached out and took the bottle and looked at it. Of course, he was not picking something, but just wanted to see what foreign wine looked like.

"It's quite expensive." After a moment, the old man put down the bottle and asked.

"It's okay, it's not expensive." Zhou Chao said vaguely. He didn't dare to tell the truth and reported the value of the wine. Although the old man would not say anything at that time, he would definitely not be thinking about waiting and trying it later like he is now. Instead, it would be stuffed into the cabinet and stored as the wine was.

Sure enough, the old man didn't say anything else, looked up at the others, then suddenly felt stunned, with an inexplicable look on his face.

"Grandpa, this is Lala, this is Charlotte. It is a friend I met when I was in the United States. Because I wanted to experience the Chinese New Year, I came back from the United States with me this time to celebrate the New Year here." Zhou Chao, who noticed the old man's expression, quickly introduced.

"Hello, Grandpa." Lara shouted with Charlotte.

"Okay, okay." The old man who came to his senses quickly replied, "Go to the kang, it's warm."

Zhou Chao smiled and pulled Lala and Charlotte onto the kang. Zhou's father and mother were the same. Then, while watching the idol drama played on TV that they were filmed in unknown places, they started to chat freely.

However, since I said that I was bringing two people to experience the Chinese New Year, it was naturally impossible to just sit in the house. So after staying for half an hour, Zhou Chao took Lala and Charlotte away from the old man's house, wandered around the village, and walked down the door to his familiar relative's house.

In this process, Lala and Charlotte, as foreigners, were naturally surrounded by villagers. Similarly, the Zhou Dynasty, who brought the foreign girl back, was unable to be missed by relatives and brothers interrogated and interrogated, and asked about their relationship with Lala and Charlotte, which made Zhou Dynasty feel a headache and helpless.

Fortunately, it is not as popular as in the early years, and the novelty of foreigners is not as enthusiastic as it was in the early years, so after the initial liveliness, everyone scattered their own tactfully, gathered together in groups, playing mahjong and poker to pass the daytime.

"Zhou Chao, your relatives are all in love." After the crowd dispersed, Lala turned her head and looked at Zhou Chao and smiled.

"It's very enthusiastic, but it seems that it's too enthusiastic, which scared me." Charlotte said in English with a bad Chinese look of lingering fear.

"Haha..." Zhou Chao could only laugh dryly and didn't say anything.

Then the three of them left the house again, found a piece of open space with no grass stomping around, took out all kinds of firecrackers bought in the city, and set them up randomly on the open space.

"Ding! Bang!"

"Shiyou...bang!"

"Crack...crack..."

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang..."

In just a moment, the ground was made of black and red, covered with fragments of firecrackers. At the same time, the light white smoke filled the air, emitting a smell of gunpowder.

"Haha, it's so interesting, so interesting, is there any Zhou Dynasty? I still want to play." Lala said excitedly.

"It's really fun, Zhou Chao, give me another step." Charlotte also said immediately.

"Yes, yes, good, good." Zhou Chao, like a logistics supporter, took out the cannons from the space bracelet and handed them to the two of them, and said helplessly. There is no way, who made him over the age of playing with firecrackers, and he had long lost the passion of using all his pocket money to buy cannons.

After several hours, it got dark.

Zhou Chao was already crazy when he stopped calling. Lala and Charlotte, who were about to degenerate into naughty children, led the two back to the old man's house. It happened to be the scene where the family was making dumplings.

"Zhou Chao, what are Auntie and the others doing?" Lala asked curiously.

"Make dumplings." Zhou Chao said with a smile.

"Make dumplings?" Lala and Charlotte said in confusion.

"I'm back, let's go to the kang. I'll be able to eat dumplings after waiting for two hours." Seeing the three of them entering the house, the old lady greeted.

"Can I help you with the bag?" Lala walked to the panel and asked as she looked at Zhou's parents and mother who were busy.

"What's wrong with that?" the old lady smiled.

"That's great. Grandma, teach me how to pack it." Lala said happily.

"Go and wash your hands first." Zhou Chao reminded.

"Oh." Lala didn't say anything after hearing this, and immediately ran to the aisle, washed her hands with clean water in the basin, then wiped it dry with a towel, and returned to the house. The old lady smiled and handed a piece of dough to Lala, and then demonstrated to Lala how to wrap dumplings.

"Look, you should put the sink in the skin like this, then pinch the edges, press the seams, and then squeeze them harder."

Then, a big dumpling with flower-cut edges appeared in the eyes of Lala and Charlotte, who was also curious.

"Wow, grandma is so awesome," Lala shouted. Then she followed suit and made a dumpling.

"Ah, it's cracked." Lala shouted.

"If you lose too much, you should be less." Wang Xiuying pointed out.

"Oh." Lala tried again, but the side still opened again.

"You have to pinch this way..." Wang Xiuying demonstrated.

Finally, at the third time, Lala's dumplings were made. However, compared with those made by others, Lala's dumplings were like children who were not full, with a shaggy belly and a bad look.

"Yes, keep working hard." Zhou Jianguo, who was driving the dumpling skin, smiled.

"Hehe." Lala smiled happily with encouragement and continued to struggle. Then Charlotte, who was watching casually, was not willing to fall behind, washed his hands and joined the dumpling army.

Not to mention, Charlotte is Charlotte, a person with a lot of talent in cooking. After trying four or five, her dumplings were made in a decent manner, no different from others.

"Charlotte is so awesome." Lala, who was still fighting against shape, pouted. But then Lala became excited again, and she was still angry without giving up until she made dumplings.

Seeing this, Zhou Chao was so happy. He smiled and sat on the kang and watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV bored. It wasn't that he wanted to watch this, but at this time, there was nothing else in the country except this, and you didn't have a channel to change. As for the Internet... Well, when I returned to my hometown, Zhou Chao put away the neural connection device, so in addition to surfing the Internet on mobile phones, he was also in the dark.

In this way, the laughter and joy created by Lala, the sound of programs played on TV, and the crisp sound of firecrackers sounded from time to time. Time came at 11:40 pm, and several plates of dumplings were placed on the dining table.

"Eat it." The old man picked up the chopsticks and said.

The others did not hesitate and immediately picked up the dumplings and enjoyed them.

"Wow, it's delicious!" Lala said happily.

"Yeah, yeah." Charlotte, who had bite but didn't swallow it at the end, nodded and agreed.

"If you taste good, eat more." The old lady picked up a few dumplings and put them on the middle of the small plate in front of Lala and Charlotte.

"Thank you grandma." "Thank you." The two of them thanked.

Then time flies and comes to 12 o'clock.

"Grandpa, Happy New Year." Zhou Chao turned his head and said to the old man amid the 'Happy New Year' shouts of the Spring Festival Gala hosts on TV. The old man smiled and was very happy.

"Happy New Year, Grandma." Then, Zhou Chao said to the old lady again.

"Haha, OK." The old lady said happily, then stood up, walked to the clothes hanging beside her, took out a hundred-dollar bill from the old man's pocket, and handed it to Zhou Chao for "giving."

"Grandma, no need, I'm so old, I'm still getting New Year's money." Zhou Chao said embarrassedly.

"Take it." The old lady stuffed the money into Zhou Chao's hand and said.

"Thank you, my nanny." Zhou Chao said helplessly, and put the 100 yuan in shame.

"Happy New Year of Grandpa and Grandma." At this time, Lala and Charlotte's New Year greetings also sounded. This time, the old lady simply picked up the old man's clothes from the clothes, took out all the money, took out two red bills and handed them to Lala and Charlotte.
Chapter completed!