Whenever guests come in, the birthday boy immediately greets them with words of welcome, and gives each of them a handful of melon seeds, peanuts and candy.

Ye Wanying was cooking in the kitchen. Ye Chenyang often helped his mother with these chores at home, so he was very fast at picking vegetables and chopping them. Therefore, he didn't ask Li Lianchang's sister-in-law to help.

The old political commissar and his wife were the first to arrive. Grandma Yu even made a winter cotton-padded coat for Tuanzi by hand, which was bright red and very festive.

Originally, Grandma Yu was going to help with the cooking, but Ye Wanying persuaded her not to. So she just sat on the sofa and played with Tuanzi from time to time.

The second person to arrive was Li Hu's wife, Bai Aiping. She came early to see what she could do to help. Although the head of the troupe's family didn't mention it, everyone was used to the women helping out when someone had something to do or needed to go out for a meal.

Bai Aiping brought several pomelos with her when she came. She must have brought them from her hometown when she went back some time ago.

But when Bai Aiping arrived in the kitchen, she saw that almost all the dishes were already plated and prepared. Seeing the young man rapidly slicing meat on the side, she instantly understood:

"Yingying, is this your younger brother?" she asked with a smile.

Ye Wanying nodded: "Yes, that's right. What's wrong, sister-in-law?"

Bai Aiping covered her mouth and laughed again: "How old is your brother? He looks quite capable, and he's tall and handsome too. I was just thinking that if we're meant to be, I could try to set him up with you."

Pfft, another one who's about to kiss his own younger brother. Sure enough, Ye Chenyang paused in his slicing of meat.

Ye Wanying naturally understood that her foolish younger brother didn't want to be in a relationship so early, so she said to Bai Aiping, "Sister-in-law, my brother is still in school. He's only in his first year of high school. It's too early."

Bai Aiping was immediately surprised: "Oh, only in the first year of high school? That's really early. You can worry about that in a few years. The most important thing now is to study hard."

Ye Chenyang finally breathed a sigh of relief and continued slicing the meat on the cutting board.

Time flew by and it was around six o'clock in the afternoon. Gao Dan had already returned first. After all, it was his family's turn to host the dinner, so he couldn't be the last to come back, could he?

Instructor Zhao returned with Gao Dan. On the way, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, boss, do you know that the new military doctor has arrived?"

"Oh? So fast? Wasn't it supposed to take a while longer to arrive?"

Zhao Shuai chuckled: "The matter was finished ahead of schedule, boss. How about we guess who it was?"

What a perverse sense of humor...

Gao Dan glanced at the instructor beside him: "Why should I guess? We'll know who it is by tomorrow at the latest."

That makes a lot of sense.

"No, boss, I just had some free time and wanted to give you a hint. We all know that guy!"

After climbing the stairs, Commander Gao glanced at his instructor again: "If you have so much free time, why don't you go and pull up the weeds downstairs in our office building?"

Aren't you bored? If you're bored, then go pull some weeds.

Instructor Zhao's heart skipped a beat: "Hey, boss, let's forget about it then!" He didn't want to pull weeds at all; he had pulled plenty of weeds when he was a soldier.

During their conversation, the two men arrived. The first thing they saw upon entering was the old political commissar sitting on the sofa. Gao Dan and Zhao Shuai immediately saluted him.

"Greetings, Commander!"