Yunding Ranch

The Day After Chapter 426
Once the snowball fight started, everything fell into chaos.Not only Lu Li and Cole, but Teddy, Hulk and other little guys also participated in it. Shouts and growls were heard endlessly. They were still rolling snowballs and having snowball fights, but soon it turned into blowing snow, like fetching water. It's like a battle, throwing snowflakes at the opponent continuously, without any attack power, it's not so much a fight as a play.

In the end, there were snowflakes in the hair and clothes of the two of them, and they were soaked inside and out.Cole was better, fully armed, not too exaggerated; Lu Li was basically wearing pajamas, with a coat casually thrown over, and then went downstairs, and now his whole body was almost buried in the snow.

However, Lu Li didn't feel the cold. On the contrary, his whole body was hot now, he was panting and out of breath, and the joy and joy were rampaging in his chest.He is very sure that he still likes snow, especially the weather after heavy snow, even if he just listens to the sound of his footsteps creaking in the heavy snow, his mood will be involuntarily cheerful.

The war is over, Lu Li's whole body is in the shape of "big". Lying in the snow, looking at the tall sky, every time he breathes, every pore of his body can feel the cold and piercing breath, which is incomparable. You can really and truly feel the softness and firmness of the snow. This feeling seems to go all the way from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.

The smile at the corner of the mouth rose involuntarily, and then rose again. The smile spread from the corner of the mouth to the eyes, and the whole person became cheerful.

"Do you need to clear the snow before going to work today?" Lu Li was a little bit reluctant, but he also knew that when it snowed and played in the snow, it was extremely enjoyable, but after everything was over, tidying up and dealing with it was difficult. Incomparably troublesome.

This isn't New York, and without a dedicated cleaning crew or professional snow plows, handling a ranch of this size is no easy feat.But Lu Li wasn't sure what would happen to the snow if it wasn't cleaned up.

"Yes, we need to clear a passage." Cole gave an affirmative answer. Like Lu Li, he lay in the snow like a child, and then stretched out his hands and feet in a "big" shape. He leaned back and looked at the passage beside the beech forest, "Then...uh, and then I don't really know how to deal with it. You know, Texas hasn't had such a heavy snowfall for many years. It melted in a few days, directly flowed into the valley, and collected into the lake. But, such a thick snow..."

Cole was also a little dazed, reaching out to grab the snow, not quite sure what to do next.Sure enough, at this moment, a well-informed old cowboy is still needed to take on the important task.

"Do you think it's more reliable for us to rent a snowplow, or to sprinkle salt on the entire ranch?" Lu Li is even more of a layman, and he can only rely on his snowplowing experience in New York to make an opinion. Don't know if it's suitable for ranch.

Cole pursed his lips, "I'll ask later..." He originally wanted to talk about Ronald, but then he remembered what happened last night, and his voice paused, "Robert, Robert should know what to do .” Robert and Liz of the Marshall Valley Ranch next door are of the same generation and should have experienced such a special season.

"Before we clear the snow, let's have another snowball fight!" Lu Li said with a smile, his tone became excited again, "Call Justin and Brandon over here. Tony and Randy, for sure It's a pity that you can't see such heavy snow in Los Angeles."

To be precise, it almost never snows in Los Angeles.

"Of course it's okay." Cole couldn't help laughing, "However, I think you'd better take a shower before playing snowball fights again to avoid catching a cold."

"Okay, okay." Lu Li replied repeatedly, "After taking a shower, we started to unwrap the presents. Today is finally Christmas, and the presents can finally be opened, right?" After speaking, Lu Li sat up and grabbed the gift with both hands There was a big pile of snow, and it landed on Cole's face with a splash. Before Cole could react, he stood up and ran away in big strides.

Cole closed his eyes and didn't speak. The smile on the corner of his mouth grew bigger and bigger, but with a little helplessness, and then he felt Teddy's warm tongue licking the ice scum on his cheek, "Teddy Teddy, this is not delicious." Cole said helplessly, then hugged Teddy's neck, sat up again, and looked in the direction of the main house. Lu Li's figure had long since disappeared, leaving only Down the swinging door.

Cole couldn't help but shook his head again, and rubbed Teddy's wet golden hair, "Let's go, we have to take care of it, or we'll get sick. This is not good news."

For the first time, Lu Li knew that the bathroom of the rancher's house was a high-end "snow room". From the window, one could see the endless white snow.It's a pity the windows are too small for a mansion like that, laying in the bathtub, sipping champagne and looking at the view.Lu Li seriously considered whether he should simply redesign the decoration.

He absolutely did not admit that this was conceived for the sake of watching the snow scene.

After bathing, the whole body exudes smoke, as if walking out of a fairyland, just after a fierce snowball fight, and then took a super hot bath, all muscles stretched, This feeling is really wonderful.

After changing his clothes, Lu Li couldn't wait to run downstairs. He first found Bucky, Teddy, and a few other little guys at the bottom of the stairs. He prepared presents for them last night. The first thing to do today is Just unwrap presents for them.In fact, Lu Li originally wanted to play a prank. He learned from the comedy "Mr. Bean" and prepared weird gifts for his pets——

For example, prepare a small bow tie for the doll, or throw the doll into the washing machine. After washing and shrinking, prepare a small box again as its bed; or it is the eyes hidden in the Christmas stocking... The doll's eye patches are put back on.

and so on.

But in the end Lu Li gave up and prepared brand new cat litter for Bucky, bone toys for Teddy, and different gifts for Hulk, Grape, and Grapefruit—but, after unwrapping the presents, After that, they immediately got confused and played together.However, they are happy.

After unwrapping the little ones' presents, it was finally Lu Li's turn.

The lights above the Christmas tree were still shining, but the reflection of the white snow outside the window was too intense, and the brilliance of these lights could not be seen.However, the gifts piled up under the tree can still easily attract attention. Before sitting down to unwrap the presents, Lu Li first hung the doll decorations from Lily's house yesterday on the top of the tree, took a step back and looked at it, and was satisfied. sat down.

"Gift time!" Cole also finished washing and walked down, his tone involuntarily becoming brisk, "Whose secret friend are you? Could it be mine?"

In previous Christmases, although the process of unwrapping presents was pleasant, it lacked some surprises.Like this year, the focus is not on the value of the gift, but to speculate on the intention of the recipient of the gift, if it is like mud.It's boring to choose a standard gift; it's better to choose something outlandish and outlandish, even if the person doesn't like it, that kind of surprise is part of the holiday atmosphere.

Although there were only Lu Li and Cole in the room at this time, and a group of little guys, but thanks to the rules of exchanging gifts secretly, the sense of anticipation still boiled up.Whether this surprise is a surprise or a joy.

Lu Li didn't wait for Cole, and directly tore open the package. It was a rectangle the size of a shoebox, wrapped in Scottish plaid wrapping paper, and looked very attentive. After shaking it for a while, you could hear the sound of a crash inside. .The mood of anticipation continued to rise irresistibly.

After opening, the surprise was revealed.

In the shoe box is a pair of playing cards from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, not the exquisite ones, but the ordinary ones made in the Yiwu Small Commodity Market, and then...a pair of mahjong, all jade-colored mahjong, Suddenly, the entire shoe box was full.

No wonder, no wonder when I picked up the shoe box yesterday, it felt extremely heavy, and the dull sound of the collision was unrecognizable.No matter how Lu Li thought about it, it would be mahjong and poker.

Confused, Lu Li raised his head to look at Cole, and said dumbfoundedly, "Is he sure this is a gift for me? It's not for everyone in the ranch?"

Whether it's poker or mahjong, it's not clear: the entertainment methods of the cowboys suddenly become richer, and Lu Li can already foresee the scene where he is teaching everyone how to play mahjong;That scene reminded Lu Li of the lively scene at home every year during Chinese New Year.

"I think it must be Tony who gave me the gift!" Lu Li said firmly.

"Are you sure?" Cole's voice came next, with a helpless smile in his words, and then Lu Li looked over and burst out laughing.

At this time, Cole was holding an inflatable doll in his hand, which had not yet been inflated. The whole plastic doll was completely flat, and the flat cheeks with red lips and white teeth looked like characters in "Memoirs of a Geisha"; there was also an inflatable doll next to it. Barrel, the manual type.

With such a combination, the sense of joy exploded immediately, Lu Li burst into laughter, and Cole even had a broken smile on his face. Although he expected that pranks would be inevitable, this gift is definitely...ingenious, "I I think this is what Tony sent me."

Lu Li didn't know immediately, the mahjong and inflatable dolls really looked like Tony's handwriting, or was it Randy?
"Hey, if I had known about my gift, I would have been more ruthless. Inflatable doll, this is really too fierce, and I am really too kind." Lu Li looked up to the sky and sighed, and glanced at Cole out of the corner of his eye.Already laughed out loud in my heart.Innocent Tony.

(End of this chapter)