Seven Crowns

At Kate's house, Armand, the mayor of the town, told the curious Lu Wenbin about the history of Dietfort.

The origins of the self-proclaimed Chinese people in Dietfort are no longer identifiable, and historians can’t find any clues. Everyone only knows that this town has celebrated the Chinese New Year since 1928.

In the past, I couldn't figure out the Chinese lunar festivals, so in February everyone discussed and selected a day to celebrate the New Year.

Now that international standards are in line, information is circulating, and the specific dates of Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival are known, the dates of the Chinese New Year celebrations for the townspeople of Dietfort are synchronized with those of China.

On New Year's Eve, it is also popular among the townspeople of Dietfort to eat reunion dinners. Fireworks are set off after 24:00 in the morning, red envelopes are given to children for New Year's Eve, and dumplings are eaten during the Spring Festival.

From the first day of the Spring Festival, there will be a five-day town parade and carnival. The townspeople will wear Chinese-style clothes to participate in the carnival, which is called "Bavaria's Chinese Carnival".

At that time, many European tourists and overseas Chinese from other places will come to visit, and they have already turned from local folk activities into the form of tourism festivals.

Before the parade begins, the townspeople will choose a local high-ranking person to be the emperor, and the mayor of the town, Armand, has to be demoted to the emperor's minister and obey the emperor's command.

Also choose the queen, concubine, prince, princess and so on.

Afterwards, everyone carried the emperor in a large sedan chair to start the town parade, praying for blessings, and singing the Bavarian Chinese national anthem.

After being cultivated, spread and inherited from generation to generation, the townspeople have an innate affection for China.

This is a European town where all the people are highly skilled, worship China, yearn for China, and set Chinese as the official language.

If the Chinese are beautiful, bright, and European, Lu Wenbin will feel disgusted, despised, and despised, but among Europeans, Lu Wenbin will only feel a deep joy.

Of course, judging from what Lu Wenbin has seen and heard, the residents of this small town simply like Chinese culture, and have no political issues involved, so they are not as disgusting as domestic elites.

This is probably the reason why the German government did not restrict Dietford from making Chinese the official language of the town, because this is just a local folk hobby and does not involve political interests.

Lu Wenbin also understands why Kate's ideal since childhood was to find a Chinese boyfriend, or even marry a Chinese, and her parents have a high degree of acceptance of Lu Wenbin's daughter's Chinese boyfriend.

Of course, the biggest possibility is because of Lu Wenbin's current fame, income, height, appearance, etc.

If Kate found a forty-five-year-old, beer-belly, low-income Chinese uncle as her boyfriend, Armand and Mary would beat each other out.

At lunch, the Kate family really used chopsticks, including Milo, which were very slippery, no different from the Chinese.

After lunch, after a lunch break, Kate and Milo took Lu Wenbin to visit the town in the afternoon.

Naturally, Lu Wenbin's identity was also recognized by the fans in the town.

Originally this is a small town in Bavaria near Munich. Most of the fans in the town like Bayern Munich. Hoffenheim should be considered Bayern's competitor this season.

But because of Lu Wenbin's Chinese identity, not only did he not receive hostility from these Bayern fans, but everyone came to take pictures with him, ask for autographs, etc.

When Milo proudly announced that Lu Wenbin was his sister's boyfriend and Dietford's son-in-law, a few people even switched camps on the spot to support Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim.

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After returning from shopping, it is estimated that after the early morning in China, Lu Wenbin called his parents to say New Year's greetings and told them what he had seen and heard in Dietfort.

Hearing that their son's girlfriend Kate's family celebrated the Chinese New Year, Lu Chongxin and his wife were also very surprised for a while. They asked questions for a long time and chatted with Kate for a while before hanging up.

In the evening, Kate's family had a reunion dinner, and Lu Wenbin also cooked to help cook two simple Chinese dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes and shredded potatoes.

It's too difficult for him.

Then, when eating, the table is a hodgepodge of Chinese and Western food.

However, no one cares about the dishes, everyone cares about the atmosphere of this New Year.

After the reunion dinner, after packing up, I started to prepare the dumplings for the next day.

Because they have to participate in the parade the next day, they may not have time to make dumplings, so the Kate family usually makes dumplings the day before and put them in the refrigerator. The next day when they are hungry for the parade, they go home and cook them.

However, when making dumplings, he almost made Lu Wenbin laugh.

Probably because she didn't know the Chinese dumpling recipe, Kate's mother Mary was going to wrap garlic and German sausage in it.

Although Lu Wenbin is not very good at cooking, he usually knows a little bit about watching his mother make dumplings.

Therefore, Lu Wenbin chopped the fat and thin pork into minced meat, and added an appropriate amount of ginger and garlic powder, sesame oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, eggs, chopped green onion and other condiments to make meat stuffing and handed it over to Kate and her daughter for wrapping dumpling.

After the dumplings were made, at around 23:00 in the evening, everyone cooked a few for supper.

After 24:00 in the evening, Milo took out a few boxes of fireworks that may have been bought in the Chinese store, and the family ran to the open space in front of the villa and set off.

At this time, the whole town was filled with fireworks and firecrackers rising into the sky, illuminating the entire night sky, the crackling sound of firecrackers resounded throughout the town, and a New Year's festive atmosphere permeated the town.

After the fireworks were set off and everyone greeted each other, Lu Wenbin took out a big red envelope and gave it to Milo. Milo was really excited, and he liked Lu Wenbin even more.

Celebrating the New Year until one o'clock in the morning, the family fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Lu Wenbin was still in a daze when he was awakened by the sound of gongs and drums beating outside.

Lu Wenbin opened his eyes, but found that Kate was already getting dressed.

"Get up, Mom's dumplings are about to be cooked, let's go to the parade after eating the dumplings!" Kate shouted to Lu Wenbin excitedly.

Lu Wenbin was refreshed, and he was no longer drowsy.

Lu Wenbin is still very interested in the New Year's carnival in this European town.

After dressing and washing, and going downstairs to eat dumplings for breakfast, Lu Wenbin received a New Year's call from the club's chairman, coach, and teammates, and was very pleasantly surprised.

The teammates also told Lu Wenbin that the club's official website sent a congratulatory letter to congratulate him on a happy New Year, and many fans left messages to wish him.

Lu Wenbin used Kate's computer to log on to the club's official website and saw that there was indeed a congratulatory letter congratulating Lu Wenbin for a happy Chinese New Year in the name of the club. In the message area below, countless fans gave Lu Wenbin their New Year's greetings, which made Lu Wenbin feel warm.

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Dietfort's Bavarian Chinese Carnival will last for five days, and Lu Wenbin is going back to the club to participate in the game, so naturally he and Kate won't be able to stay that long.

On the day of the Spring Festival, Lu Wenbin followed Kate to see the emperor, concubines, officials, soldiers, bearers, etc. dressed in nondescript clothes, listened to the emperor's prayers, watched the dragon dance, lion dance, Peking Opera, stilts and other performances, and talked to Yuanyuan. Fans among the foreign tourists who came to see the Chinese Carnival in Bavaria kept signing autographs and taking photos with overseas Chinese, and were also interviewed by several reporters who heard the news.

After playing until the afternoon, after returning home and eating dumplings, Lu Wenbin and Kate drove back to Rhine-Neckar County with the blessings of the Armands.

This year's New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, although I could not spend it at home in China due to work reasons, but I also had a very happy time.

What Dietford saw and heard completely diluted Lu Wenbin's homesickness.

The next step is to pack up your emotions and go all out to hit the Bundesliga championship or even the Triple Crown!

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