While he was doing this, it was time for dinner. Zhang Chi asked Lao Xu to wash his hands and eat with him.
When Lao Xu arrived at Jingjing, he went to see what the workers were eating for lunch today, compared the two to see which one was better, and finally decided to eat at Zhang Chi's place.
When asking people to eat, they naturally have to cook. Zhang Chi had just rolled up his sleeves when his cell phone rang. He took it out and found that it was his mother-in-law calling.
"Hey, Auntie, isn't the restaurant busy now?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.
Gu Ying heard Zhang Chi's voice and said with a smile: "What are you busy with? If you're not busy, come here quickly. Open the door. Your uncle and I are at the door."
Zhang Chi was surprised when he heard this and asked: "Is it true or false?"
As soon as he said this, the sound of a trumpet came to his ears, and Zhang Chi knew that the uncle and his wife had really arrived at the gate of their ranch.
So Zhang Chi shouted into the room: "Merika, uncle and aunt are here."
After saying that, he quickly walked out of the house while answering the phone, got on the four-wheel motorcycle in the door and rushed towards the entrance of the ranch.
When I got to the door, I found that my uncle and aunt had opened the door themselves and drove in in their car.
Zhang Chi said quickly: "Uncle, mother-in-law, you didn't tell me in advance when you came, I'm here to prepare."
Zhang Youliang, who was driving, smiled and said to his nephew: "What are you getting ready? There is no shortage of food and drink at home. Your mother-in-law heard that her niece-in-law was pregnant, so she wanted to come over and have a look."
Zhang Chi immediately said: "You see what you said, we should go see you and my aunt, but now Melika seems a little sleepy all day long, I thought about going there in two days...".
Zhang Chi immediately explained that he and Melika had really discussed going to see his uncle and aunt, but just as Zhang Chi said, Melika was like a sleeping beauty, getting sleepy at every turn, so
No date was set for a while.
"It's normal to feel sleepy, but it's not as sleepy as you said. It's just that you're a little tired. Why is Melika like this?"
Auntie is a little worried.
The couple didn't say they regarded Zhang Chi as their son, which was a bit false, but they really took care of Zhang Chi's nephew, and they took care of him very carefully. Now that Melika is pregnant, she is a little bit of a swindler.
Black appearance.
Zhang Chi continued: "I went to the hospital to check that there was nothing wrong. All the physical indicators were very good, but I was just a little sleepy. I didn't feel it at first, but now it's becoming more and more obvious. I have to sleep for ten hours a day."
A few small ones, otherwise my eyelids will almost stick together...".
While talking to his aunt and uncle, Zhang Chi led the two elders to the front of the house.
"Why does the house seem to have been moved?"
As soon as his uncle Zhang Youliang got out of the car, he felt that the house was not in the place where he came last time, so he asked his nephew with a bit of doubt.
"You have such a good memory. It used to be over there. Now isn't there a big house built over there? It turns out that this small house was moved here," Zhang Chi introduced.
"Then, what is the house over there used for?"
Zhang Youliang was quite curious. His nephew hadn't been here for almost a few months, and suddenly everything changed.
"Instead of the cowboys' dormitories, there are only three or four dormitories built now," Zhang Chi said.
"Are you going to build three or four cowboy dormitories on this ranch and prepare for tourism?" After hearing this, Zhang Youliang thought that his nephew was planning to engage in tourism.
Zhang Chi shook his head: "It's nothing. How can I be in the mood to worry about this now? It's going to be a headache if there are so many new people all of a sudden."
Zhang Youliang and Gu Ying were delighted when they heard this.
Gu Ying said: "You kid, why are you complaining to us? How many people outside are trying to trouble you? Just talk about this at home. If you go out and say it, be careful not to get beaten."
At this time, Melika came out, followed Zhang Chi's instructions, and called out with a smile: "Uncle, aunt".
"Oh, just don't come out and go back to the house."
As soon as Gu Ying saw it, he immediately said goodbye. When he reached the door, he stretched out his hand and pulled Melika back into the house.
Melika was a little confused. She turned around and glanced at Zhang Chi subconsciously. When she saw Zhang Chi smiled and nodded, she followed Gu Ying into the house.
When there were only two people left, Zhang Youliang looked at the pasture and sighed: "This year, my uncle and aunt came here, as well as your parents. Seeing the prosperity here, I don't know what's going on in my heart."
How happy I am."
Zhang Chi said with a smile: "I am very happy now. I ask for a video every day. If they don't look at Melika twice, they feel like they have done less today."
"I've been like this since I got older. I don't have anything to worry about now. I've passed the time to know my destiny. I don't think about my children and grandchildren. What else can they think about? You need to talk to Melika about this.
Don't be upset, just appreciate the old man's mood."
Zhang Youliang is now a little worried that the American girl Melika will stubbornly use her American habits to see the family ties between Chinese people.
If you do this, then there must be problems between interracial couples. Not at the beginning. Love can be greater than everything. In the end, life becomes peaceful. Then the differences in habits, especially between China and the United States, many things are in harmony.
Individual concepts may become the trigger for marriage.
This is why Zhang Youliang and his wife hope that their son will marry at least a child from a Chinese family, rather than a pure American.
It is nonsense to talk about integrating into the United States. How to integrate? At least Zhang Youliang and others do not think about integrating. They are not as good as some young people today. As soon as they arrive in the United States, they say that they have forgotten all their Chinese.
Now they only speak English. In their hearts, they think they are Chinese from beginning to end, and the nationality piece of paper actually proves nothing.
"I understand, and so does Melika. It's not like she has never stayed in China, so she knows a little about our habits," Zhang Chi said.
"That's good, that's good. The life between husband and wife is actually very simple. The most important part is to understand each other. Even if the other party sometimes makes some small mistakes, you must have a tolerant attitude. If the two of you are
If people are like this, then their lives will be comfortable," Zhang Youliang said to his nephew.
Originally, the old couple was overjoyed with the marriage between Zhang Chi and Melika, but it was definitely impossible to say they were not worried. The two of them had seen many Chinese-American marriages, and it was not often that they ended up.
Aunt Phil, who knows her husband's family so well, is even rarer.
But what they didn't expect now is that these two people have only been married for a long time and have children, so this matter will be different in the eyes of the older generation.
Zhang Youliang was giving life lessons to his nephew when suddenly his aunt's voice came from inside the room.
"Lao Zhang, Zhang Youliang, stop standing outside and come in quickly to cook," Gu Ying said loudly.
When Zhang Youliang heard this, he immediately responded loudly: "Okay!"
"Uncle, please don't do it. I'm just doing it here. Now that you're here, I'll go catch another fish."
"What kind of fish are you fishing for? We brought it with us."
As he spoke, Zhang Youliang pointed at the back of the pickup truck behind him.
Zhang Chi went over to take a look and found that the entire back compartment was full of things, half of which were vegetables, and the other half was a fish tank. There were about seven or eight kinds of fish in it, and there were about five or six of each kind.
Zhang Chi looked straight at him.
Zhang Youliang said with a smile: "I heard that Merika likes to eat fish, so I went to your Aunt Phil's house to buy some. You see, these are not available in China, but they taste very good, and the fish has no bones.
, there is a big bone in the middle of the whole fish, and the meat is still fresh.”
"This...this is too much," Zhang Chi said with a bitter look on his face.
Zhang Youliang smiled and said: "If you can't eat it, just keep it. I told you to move it down together later. When you finish eating, you can send the things back to me."
"You said you had nothing to do and why did you buy these? You will only use them a few times."
Zhang Chi thought that his uncle bought this fish box because Melika wanted to eat fish.
Zhang Youliang said: "Then you are wrong. This fish box is not bought for you. It was bought in our store. It is being renovated now. You have to return it to me when it is half repaired."
"Ah, the store has been renovated?" Zhang Chi was a little surprised.
Zhang Youliang said: "There is no decoration, just a small change. The current decoration has been used for more than ten years, and it is time to change it."
"That's right." Zhang Chi nodded in agreement.
The decoration of the store has really taken more than ten years now, and it seems that it is more than that. When Zhang Chi came to the United States, the uncle's small restaurant had just opened in less than a year. Now Zhang Chi is about to be thirty.
How many years have you thought this has been, at least thirteen or fourteen years?
"How is the current restaurant?" Zhang Chi asked.
Zhang Youliang was still about to answer, but Gu Ying's voice came from the room again: "Hey, what about you two? Why haven't you moved even after talking for a long time?"
The uncle and nephew looked at each other and smiled, then went into the house together and started to prepare the meal.
While waiting for it to be almost ready, Zhang Chi told his uncle about inviting Lao Xu to have dinner with him.
"Hurry up, we are here uninvited. Hurry up, it will be fun to eat with one more person," Zhang Youliang said with a smile.
So Zhang Chi went to invite Lao Xu again. Lao Xu was really embarrassed to come and eat together. If there weren't Zhang Youliang and his wife, Lao Xu wouldn't be polite. But now that they have these two, Lao Xu feels that he can't eat with him anymore.
It would be a bit embarrassing to go.
Zhang Chi couldn't invite him, but after Zhang Youliang went to invite him once, Lao Xu finally came. If he still didn't come, then Lao Xu would be too arrogant.
Zhang Chi's craftsmanship is good, so Zhang Youliang's craftsmanship is naturally better. Zhang Chi learned this craftsmanship from Zhang Youliang, and he is not very successful.
So Lao Xu was full of praise for this meal.
Zhang Chi must have thought that Lao Xu was flattering him. It was certain that his uncle was good at his craftsmanship, but it was definitely not as good as what Lao Xu had praised him for, because according to Lao Xu, his uncle should be doing state banquets instead of running a small business in the American countryside.