Seeing that his wife seemed a little dazed, Sun Zhengguo asked her with concern.
"Honey, are you alright?"
"No, no, no, what could be wrong with me? I was just thinking about my wool coat."
Ning Xiaowei gave a casual answer, but she regretted it the next second.
Sun Zhengguo said seriously, "It's good that you're alright. I didn't ask Sister Wu to cook for us today, so let's go to Quanjude for Peking duck later."
"Ah~!" Ning Xiaowei exclaimed in surprise. Eating roast duck was another considerable expense.
She had originally wanted to persuade them to eat at home, but seeing the expressions on her sons' faces, she decided not to say anything more.
Let's just eat it once! We've already spent the majority of the money, there's no need to worry about this little bit more.
So, the group walked to Quanjude, ordered two roast ducks and some side dishes, and spent a total of 18.6 yuan.
"Eat up! What are you waiting for?"
Seeing the sliced duck being brought over, Sun Zhengguo raised an eyebrow at his sons.
The three sons didn't stand on ceremony and started rolling up the duck meat in the pancakes.
However, the three boys were somewhat filial. After wrapping the duck meat, they first gave it to the two elderly people, and then to their younger sister.
Just as the family was enjoying their meal, four people walked in from outside.
One of the middle-aged couples appeared to be husband and wife, as they were walking very close together.
The other young couple could be their children, or perhaps their son and daughter-in-law.
This is a very normal thing, after all, it's perfectly normal for people to come and go in a restaurant.
But things just happened to be so coincidental. Sun Shujie happened to know the young girl among them; she was his classmate, Jiang Yulan.
Jiang Yulan also saw Sun Shujie at this moment. After exchanging glances, the two of them lowered their heads as if they had done something wrong.
They had originally planned to pretend they didn't know each other, but reality seemed to have played a joke on them.
The middle-aged man, who was about to order food, happened to see Sun Zhengguo and happily walked over.
"Director Sun, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to run into you here."
Upon seeing the person who came, Sun Zhengguo put down the rolled pancake in his hand with embarrassment, stood up and was about to reach out when he felt it was inappropriate and withdrew.
"Excuse me, Director Jiang, my hands are oily."
As he spoke, Sun Zhengguo introduced his family, and after Director Jiang greeted them, he also introduced himself.
It turns out that this Director Jiang's name is Jiang Yuan, and he serves as the director of the Xinjiekou Subdistrict Office.
After the introductions were finished, Director Jiang suddenly thought of his family and beckoned to his wife, Li Hongmei, and their two children.
“Hongmei, this is the Sun family, the director of the Mechanical Research Institute. You should be familiar with them, right?”
"Of course it's familiar."
Li Hongmei also works at the Xinjiekou Subdistrict Office as the director of the Women's Federation. In fact, she knows Sun Zhengguo.
Moreover, she not only knew them, but the two had met many times.
"Grandpa, Grandma, Director Sun, Director Ning, hello! These must be your children, right? They look very promising."
"You're too kind, Director Li. I can't compare to you. Are those your twins standing behind you? I heard they both got into top universities?"
Sun Zhengguo reciprocated by praising the other party's children.
"Hehehe!" Li Hongmei covered her mouth and chuckled, "Director Sun, you don't know, do you? Actually, my Yulan and your son are classmates."
“Yes, yes, yes!” Jiang Yuan turned to his children and said, “Yulan, Yushu, why don’t you greet people?”
"Hello Grandpa and Grandma, hello Uncle and Aunt!" the two children greeted in unison.
"Okay, okay, you're all good kids."
...
After exchanging pleasantries, the Jiang family went to order food and eat. However, since there were quite a few people from both sides, they did not sit together and were quite far apart.
Ning Xiaowei became increasingly uneasy, so she asked her son, "Uncle Jie, was that girl named Yulan your classmate? Why didn't I see you two talking?"
"Mom, she's a girl, and it's really embarrassing to run into her in this kind of situation. Why should I go and cause trouble?"
Her son's explanation seemed reasonable, but something about it didn't quite add up, and Ning Xiaowei couldn't quite put her finger on it.
Unexpectedly, the second son suddenly revealed, "Mom, don't listen to your eldest brother. That girl named Yulan might be my future sister-in-law."
"What?"
Sun Shukang's words shocked everyone, and the entire table turned to look at Sun Shujie.
Ning Xiaowei looked surprised. "Son, is this true?"
Grandma also started making irrelevant comments, "I knew it! No wonder that girl looked so friendly, she's my great-granddaughter-in-law."
Like Sun Zhengguo, Grandpa smiled without saying a word, feeling that the little tiger in the family had finally come to his senses.
Hearing his family's words, Sun Shujie became anxious and glared fiercely at his younger brother.
“Sun Shukang, don’t talk nonsense. You’re ruining that girl’s reputation. Be careful her parents come after you.”
"Hey! Big brother's getting anxious, he's getting anxious."
After teasing his elder brother, Sun Shukang did not stop there, but continued his analysis.
"Mom and Dad, think about it yourselves. My older brother always greets acquaintances. When has he ever distinguished between men and women? So there's only one truth: he's trying to cover up the truth."
Ning Xiaowei felt that what he said made sense.
"Uncle Jie, what exactly are you trying to hide? Your parents aren't old-fashioned. If you feel it's right, then go ahead and talk to her! I think that girl from earlier was quite nice."
After Ning Xiaowei finished speaking, Sun Zhengguo, fearing that his son might have some thoughts, also spoke up.
“Son, your mother is right. As long as you don’t do anything outrageous, your parents will support you.”
"Alright, alright, even if that's true, okay? Let's eat."
Sun Shujie readily admitted it because he heard his parents' attitude.
It's important to know that many children of high-ranking officials don't have romantic relationships; they mostly choose marriages based on arranged marriages.
Therefore, he was hesitant to speak up until he was certain of his parents' attitude.
On the other side.
The roast duck for Jiang Yuan's table had already been served, and the group chatted as they ate.
Li Hongmei had a question in her mind, so she asked her daughter.
"Yulan, don't you know that Uncle Sun? I think he's a nice young man, why haven't you two spoken to each other?"
"Mom, it's possible that both sets of parents were there, so we were too embarrassed to say hello. We're not usually like this in class."
Hearing her daughter speak so casually, Li Hongmei didn't think much of it and casually asked another question.
"So what's your relationship like usually?"
Hearing her mother ask this question, Jiang Yulan blushed slightly.
"Mom, what kind of relationship do we have? We're just ordinary classmates."
Upon hearing this, Li Hongmei didn't ask any further questions, but felt a pang of regret.
With such a beautiful and academically excellent daughter, how could that guy not be tempted?
Jiang Yuan shared the same thought as her; today's encounter was purely by chance.
He brought his family along to greet them, partly out of politeness, and partly to see if there was any possibility of that happening.
As it turned out, he was overthinking it; his daughter and the other man had no chemistry whatsoever, and they hadn't even exchanged a single word.
Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, why worry about that! With such an outstanding daughter, why would I worry about her not getting married?
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