Zhou's mother got up and went to the kitchen to help. With the father and his two sons coming back, they had to prepare more food.

After hurriedly preparing dinner, Guo Xuehua was about to go home.

Zhou's mother stopped her and said, "We haven't eaten yet!"

"I'm not eating anymore. It's already seven o'clock. My child's father should be waiting."

Zhou wanted to signal his mother to stop stopping him. After Guo Xuehua left, Zhou's mother sighed, "This is too much of a pampering for men."

"Maybe she was thinking of others! There's a cause for every effect, we'll see later! Let's eat quickly! It's my fault that Dad suddenly came back today."

Father Zhou smiled awkwardly and said, “Didn’t I think it was vacation time and I should hurry back?”

"Okay, let's eat!"

Aunt Wang was not in a hurry. After finishing her meal, she slowly went home.

Liu Hui couldn't help but ask Zhou Xiang, "What happened to your elder brother Zhou Niao?"

Zhou wanted to ignore him, but then he thought he would ask someone else.

"When he was little, he had a fever that damaged his brain. His intelligence should be around that of a seven or eight-year-old. Okay, from now on, you are not allowed to ask around."

Liu Hui nodded vigorously, and the aunt was unhappy.

Because Zhou Hua's room was given to Liu Hui, Zhou's mother came back to sleep with Zhou Xiang and cleaned up the room where Guan Zanli had originally slept and gave it to Zhou Hua.

"Oh! I really want to live in the new building. It's so troublesome to change rooms here all the time."

Zhou Xiangxiao asked, "How did you live in those four dilapidated houses before?"

Mother Zhou paused, "Yes! In the past, two or three people slept in one bed, but now we are used to having one room per person. This building is envied by others, and I actually complain that it has not enough rooms.

I am becoming more and more extravagant.”

"How can this be called luxury? It's just one person sleeping in a room. This way, everyone can have their own privacy."

"Maybe! I feel so comfortable living with Guan Zanli. I always feel like if I do something, she'll know."

"It's almost time. You and Dad pick a moving date so we can send out invitations in advance. Dad said that we're only sending invitations this time. We won't be receiving ordinary acquaintances without invitations."

"Didn't you say it smelled like paint?"

"I didn't say I'd move in right away! Let's choose the end of November or the beginning of December!"

"Well! Your dad and I will pick a good day."

The next day, Guo Xuehua still came to work at 7 o'clock, his face looking normal.

After breakfast, Zhou's father said he wanted to go see the new building. Zhou didn't want to go, so he asked his mother to take them there and to appreciate the curtains at the same time.

Zhou Yu carried the two little ones to the second floor, and she also wanted to go and take a look.

So, only Zhou Xiang, Aunt Wang, and Guo Xuehua who lived downstairs were left at home.

Liu Hui also went there. He felt that he could never get enough of looking at that courtyard no matter how many times he looked at it.

"Auntie Wang, why don't you go and see it?"

"It's close, so I can visit it every day."

When a large group of people came back, Zhou Niao was the first to run upstairs, "Sister, all six rooms are the same."

Zhou Xiang nodded, "Yes! They are all the same. Which one did you choose?"

"I want to live next door to you."

"No, you have to occupy the North Building. Our initial plan is that the three units in the North Building will be for you men, and the three units in the South Building will be for us women."

"Why?"

Zhou Xiang whispered in his eldest brother's ear for a while, and Zhou Niao nodded, "Okay! I'll occupy the north building, and I want the one in the middle."

"That's great. I plan to take the middle unit in the south building."

"Haha, we are facing each other."

"right!"

Zhou Hua came up right after him and sat down on the other side of his sister. "Then I'll sit on the west side, and Dad can live on the east side."

"Whatever ideas you have for the room, go ahead and tidy it up! It's mostly finished, only the duvet cover and quilt are left."

At this point, he turned to his mother who was coming upstairs and said, "I've already reserved the quilt and mattress."

Mother Zhou nodded. "It's good that you made the reservation. I was so busy that I forgot about it. I just remembered it when I went to see the house."

"Sister Guo seems to be very efficient. If she can use a sewing machine, ask her to help you sew the quilt cover."

"Okay! After you leave for the holidays, there will be too many people at home every day and it will be difficult to do anything."

Zhou Xiang nodded, "Yeah! I get it, you're tired of us, so take these two away who don't bother you."

Zhou's mother nodded at her and said, "You're always talking nonsense."

Zhou Niao bent down and picked one up, "Jianjian, call me uncle."

"Brother, can you tell the difference?"

"Yeah! I looked at their ears."

"They'll have to wait until next year before they can call someone."

"Next year! That's too late. I still want to take them skateboarding!"

"Then, we'll have to wait a few more years."

Zhou Niao put down what he was holding, "It's not fun!"

"Yeah! It's not fun when you're little. It's fun when you can run and jump."

After playing with them for a while and seeing them yawn, Zhou's mother and Aunt Wang took the two little guys to the third floor.

After their mother came back, she actually hid on the third floor. She was just trying to be lazy!

Zhou's father called Zhou Xiang downstairs. Zhou Xiang came down lazily and asked, "What?"

"Your mother and I chose November 19th, the 28th day of the ninth lunar month. What do you think?"

"I don't understand these things, but these days have nine and eight, which sounds good."

"So this is the date?"

"Okay! You buy the invitations and write them!"

"Then write down the name of the person you want to invite."

Zhou Xiang wrote down the names of Song Yuanqing, Xiao Mingxian, Zuo Youcheng, Liu Xuewen, and Zhou Yizhou to his father. "These are the ones, but you need to prepare two or three more tables, in case someone comes who you didn't invite and you can't refuse them."

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