Chapter 256 Important Moment

The dining room and living room are decorated in a elegant and joyful manner. The walls are covered with beautiful paper-cuts and concentric knots. The vases on the table are filled with fresh white lilies and red roses, which complement each other and have a fragrance. The family and guests sit at three tables, laughter and joy. Sunday on September 28 may be just an ordinary day for others; but for Wang Yang and Jessica, both of them think this is a life that will remember for the rest of their lives because they are officially engaged.

According to custom, the engagement banquet was held by the woman and was held at Alba's house. Their close relatives were naturally present, and several close friends were invited to witness this happy moment. Danny, who had just taken a bath and beautified the day before, had a fluffy hair and a bow-tie headband, felt joy walking around; Joshua held a new DVD machine in his hand and recorded the little things of the engagement banquet in a directorial manner.

Cathy Alba, who was pushing a three-layer big cake in the camera, appeared in the camera. Joshua asked the camera to follow her and smiled and said, "Now you can see a beautiful woman, my fiancée's mother! She pushed the engagement cake out, and the engagement ceremony is about to begin!" He swept the camera to the guests, pointed it at a black-haired man, and said, "This is someone Yang, and this is my sister Jessica. Stop talking nonsense, listen to what my dad has to say!"

I saw Wang Yang wearing a not-so-formal black jacket and trousers, with a magnificent face and a tall and upright body that looked tough and handsome; Jessica next to her was wearing a bright long dress with long curly brown hair draped down her shoulders, her pretty face was light makeup, and her happy smile with a slightly exposed white teeth, which definitely amazed the audience.

The two stood up from the chair with a smile on their faces, and stood firmly on the left side of the engagement cake with their fingers. They looked at each other and then looked at the relatives and friends in the seat in front. Grandpa and grandma, grandma and grandpa, with different skin colors and the same smiles; Joshua holding a DV, Zachary, Eileen, Roland, and parents holding a digital camera, who were responsible for taking photos; Mark Alba stood on the right side of the cake.

Looking at his parents and everyone, Wang Yang suddenly felt a little nervous. He was about to make a life promise again, this time in front of her and her most important family and good friends! He couldn't help but hold Jessica's hand, and also felt a little regretful: "Old man Wu, how good would it be if you were sitting there now?"

"God." As the pace at that moment got closer, Jessica suddenly felt very nervous, and her heart was inexplicably excited and trembling with happiness from time to time. She was about to officially become his fiancée, and soon Jessica Mary King. She looked at her grandmother and grandmother, and then at her mother, and her happy smile gradually became full of intoxication.

"Today, now, my daughter is going to get engaged." Mark Alba glanced at her daughter, and there was nothing majesty of the former soldier, and her black eyes were full of tenderness. She looked at Wang Yang, who was dragging her daughter's hand, and smiled: "I remember the first time I saw Yang on Jessica's 17th birthday..." As he said, he suddenly felt a rush of his mind, and he remembered something vaguely.

A little boy with a sly smile said to him when he picked Jessica up from school, "Hey, you are Jessica's father, I am her good friend! I want to take her there..." Because Jessica lowered her head shyly and didn't dare to speak, he fiercely said to the little boy: "Did you bully her?" The little boy was stunned: "Oh no, am I like a bully? I protect her. Why are you so fierce?" He said unbelievably: "I have always been like this, don't tease my daughter! I'll take her home now!"

The little boy smiled awkwardly and scaredly, and stepped back: "By bye, Jessica! Go to the movie next time."

"In Los Angeles." Mark Alba added, looking at the tall and mature Wang Yang, and smiled: "In San Francisco, I saw Yang for the first time. He was still a child. I remember that he asked my daughter to go out to see a movie, as if he was destined to hand her daughter over to him in the future." The family and relatives suddenly chuckled, and Dad Wang (darwin-wang, Wang Dewen) also translated it to parents who were not very good in English. When the parents-in-law heard it, several old people also smiled happily.

Wang Yang couldn't help but laughed in great interest. He didn't remember this, but Jessica said, but why did he run away in panic? Jessica smiled and held his hand tightly. She remembered this because she almost completely regarded him as her boyfriend at that time. That morning he said enthusiastically, "We'll go to the movie after school." Then she looked forward to it all day, watching the movie again, and meeting his father again...

As a result, because of her shyness, she had to go home in a depressed mood. After explaining the next day, he said, "Your dad is indeed very fierce, but it's been a long time! I know your dad is called men's menopause, so you have to take your time." In the end, before she could go to see a movie, she moved to Los Angeles.

"Either in San Francisco or Los Angeles, he is a little boy, and my daughter is also a little girl, but 5 years have passed." Mark Alba looked at the two of them tightly holding hands, and took off their childish smiles. A long-standing voice spiraled around: "Jessica and I are just good friends." "Then keep taking good care of her! Remember, don't let her suffer any harm." "I will." He smiled with emotion: "I watched them fall in love, they grew up, and now they are getting engaged."

Cathy looked at her daughter's smile and felt very, very happy. It was the most sincere and innocent smile. What made a mother happier than this? She thought it was not.

She knew how happy her daughter was at this moment. Those tender crying: "Mom, I don't want to go to Los Angeles, I want to stay here." "Nothing, I just... no letter." Those distressed confessions: "I want to have that child, he is very disappointed." "Mom, will he be bullied in prison? I'm so annoyed!", "I was so angry by him! Haha, he lied to me to break up, and almost forgiving him!" Those happy laughs shouted: "Liongate Company is going to release Yang's movie!!", "Yang proposed to me! Mom, I agreed!"...

"Our sons are all going to get married." Wang Luosa tilted her head and said to Dad Wang next to her. Wang Dewen nodded silently with a smile. Both of them had a mood of rushing time and a good mood. From a baby like a flour ball, who could only cry loudly, to a naughty and wild child who was hard to tame, to a boy who talked about movies, basketballs, and riding bicycles all day long.

He started dating his first girlfriend, and soon broke up, saying, "This is a mistake, she is not what I want." Later, he learned guitar and fell in love with a girl who was playing a band. He was chased and broke up. He thought he was going to marry his new high school girlfriend, Helen, but fate is fate.

"This guy..." Mother Wang, Dad Wang looked at her son with a bright smile, and suddenly felt a little reluctant and happy, remembering his angry words: "Don't worry about me, maybe I won't get married or not fall in love in the future. I'm a homosexual! You have to be mentally prepared for this." There was also a shy laugh on the phone: "Mom, I have a new girlfriend, her name is Jessica, and she is a beautiful Latino girl. I just tell you that I feel different this time, maybe she is that girl."

Son, she is that girl! Wang Luosa smiled softly and said, "He is getting married."

"This is a new union of two families, one Chinese family and one Mexican family." Mark Alba looked at the in-laws, two white Asian Latins, and smiled, "This may be relatively rare."

What is rare is not inter-ethnic marriages. Now 7% of marriages in the United States are inter-ethnic, while the proportion of Chinese male surnames (second generation and above) born in the United States intermarriages with women of other ethnic groups reaches 52.8% (data in 2006), among which the proportion of wives is the highest, followed by Asians (the proportion of Japanese people is the highest), followed by Latinos and Africans. Naturally, everyone is not very clear about these specific numbers, but they only rarely see such combinations in life.

"There were white people who scolded me, and you stinky trash should go back to Texas and Mexico." Mark Alba's topic suddenly became serious, and the family just kept a little confused smile. Cathy clasped his hands together. Looking back on those difficult days, he also sighed a lot. Mark Alba continued: "There are also Chinese people who scolded me, and he called us 'Old Mo', thinking we are all scoundrels. I also know that some Mexicans scold this and that."

Jessica couldn't help but frown. What was Dad talking about? This was her engagement banquet! Although she knew that Dad would definitely have a kind and beautiful real intention, she still felt a little anxious. Wang Yang, who noticed her mood, tightened his soft hand and gave her a safe smile.

"I'll tell you a joke made up by white people: How do you know that Asians have moved into your community?" Mark Alba just said it, and everyone smiled softly. This is a very classic racial joke. Except for a few friends, everyone is a family of marriage. The joke is naturally harmless, but it has a kind of self-deprecating fun. Mark Alba gave the answer: "When Mexicans start buying car insurance."

This joke is mainly about two bad racial labels: "Asians have poor driving skills" and "Mexicans are dirty and poor", so when they meet Asians, even the poor Mexicans have to buy insurance.

"What are these? Bad things." Mark Alba looked at his anxious daughter, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed and loving. This was the blessing draft he had prepared for more than half a month! But what is important is the following. Looking at the smiling people, he said seriously: "If everyone follows these concepts, these prejudices and hostility, each of us will not be here! Why did the Lord arrange us here? What did He give us to make us a family?"

Mark looked at his gentle wife, and a smile gradually emerged on his serious face, saying, "Friendship, understanding, tolerance and love. Love is regardless of the color and race. Love can change prejudice, change hostility, and change everything. Love has brought me and my wife Cathy to this day, and there is still..."

He turned to look at Jessica and Wang Yang, and smiled and said, "Today my daughter is engaged to the person she loves. I believe they will be the same. No matter what difficulties and conflicts they encounter in the future, they will tolerate and understand each other, face them together, and solve them together."

"Yes!" Jessica smiled sweetly, feeling moved and affirmed in her heart. She knew how much she loved him! Wang Yang also nodded solemnly and promised: "Mark, we will."

A warm blessing and applause suddenly rang loudly. Cathy, Dad and Mom Wang took the photo the most forcefully, and everyone was moved and happy. As long as they truly love each other and cherish each other, there would be no thorns in the road of love and marriage.

"Hey! Did you see it?" Joshua swept the dv camera lens over everyone's smiles, then turned around and pointed it at himself, widened his eyes and said excitedly: "Wow! My dad is like a philosopher tonight, Gua Gua Gua Gua, the first time I saw it! But tell you, he was actually a naval soldier before." He hurriedly asked the dv monitoring screen to return to the cake in front of him, and the most important moment is coming!

Mark Alba looked at Wang Yang and said in a solemn tone: "Yang, you are a good man! I feel very relieved to hand over Jessica to you, and continue to take good care of my daughter and make her happy." Just as on the Thanksgiving night, Wang Yang looked at him calmly, without any evasion and dodging, nodding and smiling: "I know, I will take care of her for the rest of my life." In front of his family and best friend, a hint of shyness flashed through Jessica's proud smile.

"That's good!" Mark Alba's face was full of relief. He looked at his daughter, his eyes full of loving and tenderness, and called out: "Jessica."

Hearing this familiar call, Jessica suddenly felt upset, her eyes suddenly wet, biting her trembling lips. Mark Alba smiled and said, "My daughter, Dad wish you happiness forever, may the Lord be with you!" Cathy prayed silently: "Jessica, Yang, Mom also wishes you happiness forever, may the Lord be with you." Dad Wang, Mom Wang also blessed in her heart: "Yang, I wish you and Jessica forever,"

Under the blessing of everyone's smiles and gazes, Wang Yang let go of her hand, took out the red ring box from her pocket, opened it with a ticking sound, took out the silver engagement ring, which was only inlaid with small gems, which was convenient for wearing. He looked at her wavy eyes, felt the strong love, and put the ring into her left ring finger with a smile: "I love you."

"I love you." Jessica's tone trembled, and she was immersed in the wonderful feeling of happiness that was about to melt. Her fingers felt trapped by a ring, which seemed a little heavy, but that little bit of heavy made people so peaceful and so happy.

The two hugged each other and kissed each other gently. Everyone at the table suddenly burst into applause and laughter. Zachary pressed the camera shutter, leaving these beautiful moments; Joshua pulled the focal length of the dv, and he went to help a few years ago, and the scenes of breaking the dv machine were right in front of him. I really didn't expect these two guys to get married! He laughed and said, "Yang, Jessica, you are so handsome!!"

Listening to these happy voices, Danny also swung his tail excitedly, and immediately saw Jessica and Young shook hands and smiled and cut the big cake with a knife. They also forked a small piece of it and sent it to each other's mouth. Danny's tongue rolled and licked, but still dripping dripping on the floor.

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Chapter completed!