After Mr. Li finished speaking, he looked at Li Jiakang with pride and then said goodbye.

After Sun Xiu gave them the red eggs, he pulled Li Jiakang, who looked reluctant, and sent everyone out the door.

After returning to the house, Li Jiakang glared at everyone, "Why didn't you speak up for me just now?"

Everyone looked at each other, waiting for the leader Sun Xiu to speak.

Sun Xiu did not let everyone down and said directly, "I can't stand your name. If it's even a little bit off, I'll grit my teeth and agree, but what about this? Even an illiterate person would choose Wenbo after hearing it."

Everyone quickly agreed, "Yes, Dad, your name is terrible."

Hearing everyone say this, the anger on Li Jiakang's face dissipated a lot, but he still said unwillingly, "But I think the name Manliang is quite good. Isn't everyone short of food now?"

Sun Xiu glanced at him and asked, "Do we need any?"

“There shouldn’t be any shortage.”

"So what's missing from our family?"

Li Jiakang was stunned. He felt that his family didn't lack anything. "What's missing?"

Sun Xiu said angrily, "Scholar, among the children, only Xiaoju hasn't started school yet. It's hard to tell how her grades will be in the future. But these kids are only at the junior high school level at most. Xiaomei is the only one who is a good student in our family now. Don't you want another one?"

"Can this name turn people into bookworms?"

"I don't know, but at least the name Wenbai has a good meaning. It has both the character 'wen' and the character 'cypress' in it. It's really nice and suitable for our eldest grandson."

Li Jiakang:...

He could tell that this was a trick.

But he also understood everyone's determination and knew that the name he chose would never be adopted.

Although he was not very educated, he could still hear the difference between the two names.

So he replied gloomily, "Forget it, Wenbo is Wenbo."

Hearing this, everyone else smiled, and Li Ping and others secretly gave Sun Xiu a thumbs up.

Sun Xiu also smiled and said, "Okay, we've been tired all day, let's go back and rest."

Everyone responded and returned to their rooms.

After Li Ping returned to his room, he sat by the bed and looked at the sleeping child happily. Then he said, "The child's name has been decided. It's Li Wenbai. Grandpa specially asked someone to pick it out."

Hu Guilan hummed, "That's a nice name."

"How could it not sound good? Dad even argued with Grandpa just over the naming."

"Ah? Our dad wants to name the child too?"

"Well, he named it Manliang. We didn't agree. He was about to get mad at us, but Mom gave Dad a good talk and the matter was finally over."

Hu Guilan: ...

"Wenbo is still the best. You know what, our son is very well behaved. In the afternoon, he only eats and sleeps, and rarely cries."

Li Ping grinned, "That's a relief for us. We've been tired all day, let's go to sleep."

After saying that, he went to bed.

Except for the occasional crying of children at night, everyone slept soundly.

When I woke up in the morning, Sun Xiu and Li Mei also prepared the meal.

Because the child was crying at night, everyone let Hu Guilan rest for a while.

During the day, Hu Guilan's mother also comes to help take care of the child.

Originally everyone said it was not necessary, and Hu Guilan also felt that she was capable of doing the work.

But Mrs. Hu disagreed, saying that she had nothing to do at home and had to come over to help take care of the baby.

In the end, Sun Xiu and the others had no choice but to agree.

No matter what, the child is still young, and it is a good thing to have an experienced person to take care of him.

The family was not idle at night either. Li Ping and his friends also came over after hearing the news.

After everyone left, everyone went to see Xiao Wenbo.

And little Wenbo was still sleeping soundly.

No one dared to make any noise.

Li Ju looked timid and wanted to touch the baby's face with her fingers, but stopped when she was about to touch it. She did this several times without daring to touch it, which made everyone laugh.

In the end, it was Hu Guilan who put her little hand on it.

Li Ju touched her face and quickly retracted her hand, then continued to laugh.

Two days later, Li Xu went to attend Su Weidong's wedding.

It was not much different from Li Qiang’s previous wedding ceremony.

The biggest difference is that this time each person on the table only has a steamed bun and some pickles.

But no one complained. Everyone knew that the situation was even more serious now, and it was already very difficult to come up with these foods.

The next day at lunch, Xiao Jianping was still talking about this matter, "Old Su, your family is really generous. You dare to treat everyone to a meal in this year."

Su Weidong also smiled bitterly. "There's nothing we can do. Everyone else did this when they got married before, so it would be unreasonable for us not to do it. We really don't have the conditions now. Even this amount of food took a long time to save up at home."

Xiao Jianping grumbled, "Your family is just too concerned about reputation. These days, no one would say anything even if you don't invite everyone to dinner."

"Okay, this matter is not up to Lao Su to decide. Besides, if you were getting married, your family would most likely do the same." Li Xu also said quickly.

Xiao Jianping groaned, "My family wouldn't do that."

Li Xu smiled but said nothing.

Sometimes you can't just not do something if you don't want to.

In particular, many people feel that face is more important.

In the afternoon, Liu Gang said to Li Xu again, "Labor Day is in two days. The factory workers in the county will have a gathering and entertainment activities. Do you have any performances to offer?"

Labor Day is also one of the rare holidays.

However, people need to participate in various celebrations, gatherings, cultural and entertainment activities.

But everyone is so hungry that they can hardly walk. How can they still participate in this?

"Uncle Liu, is everyone up for it?"

"I still have the energy to participate, but not to perform. The higher-ups told us to ask if anyone wants to perform, so I thought of you."

"No." Li Xu answered decisively.

"Alright, forget it if there's none. I guess the situation in other units is similar."

really.

On Labor Day, everyone walked around the street listlessly.

Then someone sang a red song and won applause.

There was only this one show, and after he finished, everyone went home.

After arriving home, everyone in the Li family sat in the yard to bask in the sun and chat.

The sunshine in May is already quite warm.

Especially this year, it is a bit too warm.

Everyone took off their cotton coats early and put on long-sleeved clothes.

Now after being in the sun for a while, I want to change into summer linen clothes.

However, fearing of catching a cold, Li Xu gave up the idea.

As they were chatting, Li Mei asked, "Dad, Mom, are we still going to hold the celebration for Wenbo's full moon?"

Before the two of them could speak, Li Ping replied directly, "No, it's not a good time to hold a full moon celebration now. Let's just do it as usual."