At seven o'clock in the morning, before daybreak, the farm became bustling again. The old people came to the canteen with their lunch boxes. The old man was wearing a navy blue cotton coat and pants, holding a lunch box in his right hand, standing behind Lu Bairen.
"Elder!" Old Wei looked at a familiar yet unfamiliar face and hurried forward, calling out, "Why are you here at the farm?"
Lu Shiyi held Hanhan in his right hand and held Su Jin's little hand with his left hand. She was carrying a green schoolbag.
She took out two lunch boxes from her bag, which also contained a bottle of porridge specially made for Hanhan and a bowl for him to use.
Lu Shiyi dragged a baby chair over from the corner.
"I made one specially with wood and put it in the cafeteria to use when preparing for dinner parties." Lu Shiyi looked like he needed praise.
"Ayi, go and get our breakfast. I'll wait for you here!" Su Jin took Hanhan and put him in the baby chair.
The family members looked at Su Jin's actions and were curious about the chair. Several families had children about the same age as Hanhan, and they were still held by their mothers while eating.
Su Jin took out a set of wooden bowls and spoons from her bag and poured vegetable porridge from the can.
Lu Shiyi cooked the porridge according to Hanhan's size. The family members looked at Hanhan holding the spoon and eating the porridge mouthful by mouthful, and they all felt a little disgusted with their own little brat.
Lu Shiyi came back with breakfast for two, and Lu Bairen and the elders also came over and sat down. Lu Bairen looked at Hanhan's elegant eating manner and a smile appeared on his face.
"Elder, is my grandson eating politely?" Lu Bairen looked at the elder with pride. "Don't keep saying that our Lu family is all barbarians!"
Lu Bairen has been with the elder for many years. The elder always felt that Lu Bairen was too straightforward. Both Lu's father and Lu Shiyi were a bit arrogant when they were young. If it weren't for the years of tempering, Lu Shiyi would probably have the same temper as Lu Bairen.
"It's OK. It's because Xiao Jin has a good temper. Han Han has the same temperament as Xiao Jin." The elder ate millet porridge with a multi-grain steamed bun in his right hand. He felt that eating and sleeping here were more comfortable than in the capital. "I'll go to the fields with you later."
"It's winter, so why are you going to the fields? You'll be nailing boxes at the activity center, and then you'll be planting vegetables in everyone's house. Is your small kitchen ready?" Old Liu glanced at the elder. "Send Qishe and Achang into the mountains. You must need more firewood. The mountains are closed due to heavy snow. Don't expect others to bring you food!"
Mr. Liu has been here for nearly 10 days and is more familiar with the situation on the farm. He came at the right time, while the elders came a little late.
"We'll take as much as we can get. If that doesn't work, we'll go to Old Lu's!" The elder decided to rely on Lu Bairen. "Lu Shiyi can't let us old guys starve, right?"
After saying that, the elder and Mr. Liu ate their food slowly and leisurely. Su Jin looked at the scene in astonishment. To her, they were all respected big men, so how could they still cheat?
"You two are such scoundrels! It wasn't enough that you relied on me for food back then, and now you're even relying on my house." Lu Bairen immediately became annoyed. "You're good at handicrafts, so start making toys for Hanhan. Lao Liu, you better grow vegetables."
The old man died for unknown reasons. He used to grow crops in the fields, but only his fields did not grow crops, and he was laughed at by many old comrades for this.
"Okay, I can't argue with you." The elder immediately became dispirited when he heard Lu Bairen mention growing vegetables.
Lu Shiyi whispered to Su Jin about the elder's "great achievements", reminding her that in order to avoid running out of vegetables at home, it would be best not to let the elder get close.
"Old man, don't do the work of nailing the vegetable boxes. There must be a lot of things to do in the office!" Su Jin found an excuse for the old man and asked him to stay in the office. "Grandpa and Grandpa Liu are retired, let them do the work."
"That's right. We two retired old men can definitely do the job for you!" Grandpa Liu promised happily when he heard Su Jin praising him.
Hanhan ate porridge and chuckled at the great-grandfathers.
Many family members envied Su Jin for being able to chat and laugh with the old men. When they met the old men, they were all very reserved, fearing that it would bring bad influence to the family.
"Hanhan eats really well!" The elder took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped Hanhan's mouth. "Can we still have egg custard today?"
"Eat!" Hanhan nodded, "I'm hungry!"
Hanhan felt that he was not full, and there was still half a bottle of vegetable porridge in the can next to him.
"I brought a lot of food here, and I asked Qi She to make some egg custard." The elder sneered at Lu Bairen, "Now that you're a great grandfather, you must remember to feed your children instead of just eating for yourself."
Lu Bairen was choked by the pressure and gulped down two mouthfuls of millet porridge.
"I'm greedy, or you?" Lu Bairen retorted again.
The three old men started arguing with each other. Liu Chuchang sat aside, pretending to be deaf. Yang Bo and Qi She remained silent.
"That's how they are. They came after you for trying to stop the fight!" Lu Shiyi whispered to Su Jin, "Once they get bored, they'll stop arguing."
Su Jin laughed inwardly when he heard what Lu Shiyi said. Lu Shiyi and Liu Chuchang were just like that.
The family members saw the three old men arguing, and some of them pushed the team members next to them, asking them to come over and mediate, but no one moved.
The members of the Excalibur team had seen this scene before. A few years ago, the three old men had a fight in the Excalibur team.
The team members were nervous for several days, thinking that the three old men were not getting along and would cause trouble.
That afternoon, the three old men happily went to a meeting together to curse people. After seeing this a few times, the team members no longer took similar things to heart.
After breakfast, the family members rushed home to buy cotton-padded clothes for winter. As the children grew up year by year, some of them had modified adults' clothes.
"Wife, the elder just took this set of cotton clothes and a military coat." Lu Shiyi was thinking of going to the logistics department to get the cloth and cotton, but in the end he still had to ask Su Jin to help him make it.
"Follow the example of the old men on the farm and get two more sets of cotton-padded clothes and cotton," Su Jin hummed, "and ask Qishe if their quilts are thick enough!"
Su Jin wanted to use the sewing machine at home. It might not be enough time to make a quilt, but it would be enough to make a cotton-padded jacket. If that didn't work, she could just cover the quilt with the cotton-padded jacket.
Lu Shiyi agreed, and Qishe brought a small bowl of egg custard from a distance and placed another bowl in front of the elder.
"The doctor told you to eat an egg every day. I borrowed the bowl from Lu Tuan. Hanhan's is his special bowl for eating egg custard." Qi She borrowed bowls and chopsticks from Lu Shiyi in the morning and asked him to take out the small wooden bowl.
The elder looked at Hanhan eating with a smile on his face, and his appetite also improved.
"Lu Tuan, the elder will have to eat these things in the future, please!" For the first time, Qi She didn't need to give a long speech, and the elder ate obediently.
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