Chapter 278 Gu Dong’s Invitation List
"You can think about what dishes you want to eat on your birthday and tell me." Yu Hui looked at Gu Dong and said.
Gu Dong said happily: "Okay."
On the way to school, Gu Dong was discussing with the two brothers Yu Jianshe and Yu Lixin who to invite to his birthday party.
"Aren't Sun Xiangdong and Li Qiang from your class on good terms with you? You can invite them," Yu Lixin suggested.
"Who do you want to invite?" Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin ran up from behind, one holding Gu Dong's shoulder and the other holding Yu Jianshe's shoulder.
Gu Dong: "Brother Wu Chao, Brother Jia Lin."
Yu Jianshe: "Gu Dong's birthday is the day after tomorrow, and he's thinking of inviting someone from the class to attend his birthday party."
When Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin heard this, they looked at each other and immediately said, "Gu Dong, don't forget to treat us for your birthday."
"That's right." Zhang Jialin agreed, "We're good friends. Don't worry, we won't eat for free. We'll prepare a birthday present for you."
If you attend someone's birthday, you must prepare a birthday gift.
Gu Dong: "I will definitely treat you. I originally planned that if I didn't see you at school, I would go to your house after dinner and treat you."
Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin were both nice to him. Last time, he went to the toilet without looking at the road and bumped into a senior student. The senior student wanted to attack him, but Wu Chao and Zhang Jialin helped him.
Wu Chao patted Gu Dong's shoulder happily, "Gu Dong, from today on, you are my half-brother."
Gu Dong: “…”
Can half-brothers still be biological brothers?
After lunch, Gu Dong went to school and wrote four invitation letters very formally before class started.
One for Sun Xiangdong, one for Li Qiang, one for his deskmate Liu Xiaozhu, and one for Li Dongdong.
Li Dongdong is the most pitiful person in their class. He wears dirty clothes that don't fit him, is late every morning, looks pale and thin, and always has injuries on his body.
Li Dongdong's mother died of illness when he was very young. His father found him a stepmother, but the stepmother was not good to him. Not only did she make him do a lot of work, she also beat him often.
He is late every morning because he has to take care of his younger brother and sister born to his stepmother.
As soon as his stepmother came into the family, she gave birth to a younger brother for him. His younger brother is three years old now, and his younger sister is just one year old.
As they both have stepmothers, Gu Dong feels very sympathetic towards Li Dongdong, so he wants to invite him to his birthday party so that he can have something good to eat.
"What is this?" Li Dongdong, who had just sat down at his seat, asked when he saw Gu Dong coming over and putting a note on his desk.
Sun Xiangdong, who was following behind Gu Dong, said, "This is Gu Dong's birthday invitation. It's his eighth birthday this Saturday. I invite you to his house for dinner. Gu Dong's mother cooks delicious food."
Sun Xiangdong was enthusiastically promoting the product to Li Dongdong. In his opinion, it was their blessing to be invited by Gu Dong to attend his birthday party.
Li Dongdong looked up at Gu Dong. His eyes, which looked particularly large due to sunken eye sockets caused by malnutrition, showed five parts of surprise, three parts of confusion, and two parts of puzzlement.
He didn't get along very well with Gu Dong. It could be said that he didn't get along well with any of his classmates. He was a transparent person in the class who was not very popular with the teacher.
He didn't understand why Gu Dong invited him.
"Thank you for your invitation, but I still won't go. I don't have the money to buy you a gift, and I don't have the time to go because I have to take care of my younger siblings at home. Besides, my parents won't agree to let me go."
His younger siblings cannot be sent to daycare on Saturdays and Sundays, so he has to take care of them at home, even though his stepmother doesn't have to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
"You don't need to prepare a gift," Gu Dong said. "Just come. You haven't even gone home to tell your parents, so how do you know they won't agree to you attending my birthday party?"
"That's right, go back and ask your parents first."
Sun Xiangdong didn't want Li Dongdong to miss the opportunity to eat the meal cooked by Gu Dong's mother. After all, this is something many people can't even ask for.
Li Dongdong hesitated as he looked at the invitation in his hand. After a long while, he spoke again, "Then I'll go back tonight and ask my parents."
As soon as the school bell rang, Li Dongdong rushed out of the classroom with his schoolbag on his back.
He had to hurry to the nursery to pick up his younger brother and sister. If he didn't take them home before his stepmother got off work, he would be beaten and scolded again.
After taking his younger siblings home, Li Dongdong did his homework while looking after them.
When his stepmother Pu Xianglan returned home, she first looked at the two children, glared at Li Dongdong who was lying on a stool doing homework, and then went to cook.
In the evening, the Li family ate egg noodles. Four eggs were put into a pan and fried into golden fried eggs on both sides. Then water was added to boil. When the water boiled, the noodles were cooked in it. The noodles cooked in this way had a milky white soup and were very delicious.
There were four eggs. Pu Xianglan put one at the bottom of her husband's bowl, one in her own bowl, one and a half in her son's bowl, and half in her daughter's bowl.
My daughter is still young and can’t finish one.
There was no fried egg in her stepson's bowl. In her opinion, she was extremely kind to be able to marry into the Li family and become a stepmother, and to give her stepson something to eat.
When the weather got cold, the Li family also ate in the kitchen.
Pu Xianglan shouted, "It's time for dinner," and all the Li family members went into the kitchen.
Li Zhuang picked up his daughter and walked into the kitchen, smiling and asking, "Are we having egg noodles today?"
Pu Xianglan took her daughter from his arms and rolled her eyes at him.
The family sat down to eat. Li Zhuang glanced at the table. When his eyes passed over his eldest son Li Dongdong's bowl, he paused for a moment, then moved away silently.
Except for the youngest daughters Sisi and Dongdong, their bowls were full of noodles. The youngest daughter could not eat so much because she was still young. But although Dongdong had a bowl of noodles, it contained more soup than noodles. He did not have as much noodles as the three-year-old Tiantian.
They all had eggs in their bowls, Tiantian even had one and a half in his bowl, but Dongdong had none.
Li Zhuang looked at his wife who was eating noodles with a bowl, opened his mouth, but then closed it again.
If he said at this time that Dongdong was not full because of the lack of noodles and there was no egg in the bowl, they would not be able to eat dinner.
For the sake of his family's stability, he couldn't say it, and he had to say it.
There was not much noodles in Li Dongdong's bowl, and even though he ate very slowly and carefully, he still finished it the fastest.
He was very satisfied with his dinner today. Although he didn't have eggs, the noodle soup also tasted like eggs.
Li Dongdong put the empty bowl on the stove and started feeding his sister.
"Dad." Li Dongdong spoke while his sister was chewing.
Li Zhuang sipped his noodle soup and looked at his eldest son and asked, "What's the matter?"
Pu Xianglan's face turned serious and she said in a harsh tone, "What's the matter? He must want you to buy him something again."
Upon hearing this, Li Zhuang frowned.
"No," Li Dongdong explained hurriedly, "Gu Dong from our class has a birthday this Saturday, and he invited me to his house to celebrate. I wanted to ask you if I can go."
Before Li Zhuang could say anything, Pu Xianglan shrilly asked, "Why are you going? Don't your younger brothers and sisters need someone to look after them?"
Your last name is Gu?
Li Zhuang suddenly thought of Gu Huai, the commander of the special forces regiment who has been very popular in the army recently.
"What does his family do?"
Pu Xianglan saw that Li Zhuang did not object, but instead asked what Li Dongdong's family did for a living. It was obvious that she was on her son's side, so she kept glaring at Li Zhuang.
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