Chapter 250: One-year-old
July 1st is the two little ones’ one-year-old birthday, and it happens to be a Sunday.
Su Tingqian and his wife came over early in the morning with the gifts they bought, big and small. Lu Xiaolan also took a day off on purpose to celebrate the two little ones’ first birthday.
Before, Lu Xiaolan wanted to pay for living expenses, but Su Mo refused, so Lu Xiaolan spent the money on buying vegetables and the two little ones. Last month, when she was on vacation, she went to the department store early to buy the most fashionable fabrics, and made a new set of clothes for each of the two little ones, and also made two pairs of cute cloth shoes.
Li Yue'e also made a new set of clothes for each of the two grandchildren and sent them to them, and they were received two days ago.
Lele was so happy to see the new clothes, and when he learned that they were sent by his grandmother, he kept saying that he wanted to talk to his grandmother.
After the two children went to the nursery, their language talent was further developed. Not long ago, Su Mo took the two children to call Li Yue'e, so Lele knew that he could talk to his grandmother through this little thing.
At noon, Su Mo gave the children to Su Tingqian and the others, and took the "three-legged chicken" to the Western restaurant of the Yangcheng Hotel to pick up the cake she had ordered. Some time ago,
Su Mo had some unfinished work, so she took the materials home. There happened to be a picture of a cake on the picture album sent from abroad. When Lele saw it, he wanted to eat it.
Su Mo promised him that she would buy him a cake when he turned one year old.
There is a western restaurant in Yangcheng Hotel. Su Mo often goes there and is familiar with the leaders there. So she asked for his connections and ordered a cake from the chef of the western restaurant.
Cakes were rare and expensive at that time. A cake that might be at most three pounds in later generations cost Su Mo 18 yuan.
But since she had promised the child, she couldn't break her promise. It was a pity that there was no oven, otherwise she would have made it herself.
Lele heard that her mother had gone to get the cake, and it had already gone bad. She didn't want to stay in the house, so she stood outside the gate and waited.
The sun in Yangcheng in July was scorching, which made Mo Yurong feel distressed. She took a hat and put it on him to block the sun.
The three kids next door heard Lele talking about the beautiful cake. Although Lele didn't explain it clearly, seeing him drooling, he thought it must be delicious, so they also waited at the door to see if they could try one.
The two kids next door always have delicious food every day. If they can drool, it must be something very good.
When Su Mo came back with the cake, she saw seven or eight children lined up at the door.
Su Mo: ...
There are so many people, I don't know if it's enough.
Su Mo is not a stingy person. Although she didn't have a close relationship with other people in the family compound in the past two months, she got along well with them.
Since all the children were here, there was no point in sending them home, so she let them in together.
When the paper box containing the cake was opened, the children exclaimed at the colorful, white and delicate cake, and the sound of slurping their saliva became louder.
Lu Xiaolan had been a teacher in the nursery for two months and was very good at dealing with children. She immediately instructed the children to line up to prevent any of them from spoiling the cake.
After Su Mo instructed the children to say Happy Birthday to the two little ones, she cut the cake.
At this time, it was not a good idea to have a ceremony of singing Happy Birthday and blowing candles, as it was too high-profile.
Su Mo cut half of the cake and shared it with the children. The rest was kept for the family to eat later.
When she went to see Zhang Zhen last month, he said he would come today, so he had to leave a piece for him.
Zhang Zhen's library is not in the same district as Su Mo's. It's a bit far away and there's no direct bus. After changing buses, you have to take a tricycle to get there. It takes two or three hours to get there.
In order to save the old man from trouble, Su Mo didn't ask anyone to come over on weekdays and weekends. His family went to see him once a month .
After the children took a bite, they were all very surprised. Their eyes sparkled. Some of them were eager to show off and squinted their eyes to enjoy it, which made Su Mo laugh.
The texture of this cream was probably the first time they had eaten it. It was sweet, soft and fluffy, and had a milky flavor. The children all liked it.
Some ate fast and some ate slowly, but the portions were not large and they finished it in a short while. Fortunately, there were no naughty children here and they all had good tutoring. After eating, they all thanked Su Mo politely and went home.
At lunch time, Zhang Zhen arrived, and Xiao Ding was also with him.
Su Mo saw Zhang Zhen carrying a lot of things, and hurried to take them. She guessed that he went to the department store first, bought some things and then came here.
Su Mo found that the elderly seemed to like buying clothes very much, and Zhang Zhen bought two sets of clothes for each of the two children, as well as a lot of toys and several picture books.
The lunch was very rich, with chicken, duck, fish and pork. After the meal, Su Mo cut the remaining cake and gave each of them a piece.
Lele loves sweets, and he ate more than one piece, and his belly was bulging.
He strolled around, patted his belly, and said to Su Mo: "Mom, I'll buy you a cake for my next birthday."
The adults all laughed when they saw him like that.
Zhang Zhen and his friends didn't stay long either, and they hurried back home in the afternoon. Su Tingqian and his wife had dinner before returning to school.
After eating the cake, the group of children couldn't stop thinking about it, and after returning home, they started to make a fuss for their parents to buy one. The parents had never seen such a thing, and the children kept making a fuss, so in anger, they made a meal of stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat.
When Su Mo sent her parents to the car, she heard the crying of children in many houses, especially next door, where three children were crying loudly.
The next day, when Su Mo came home from work, a parent came to ask her where she bought the cake she had eaten yesterday. The child was clamoring for it, and asked if she could buy one for her.
After Su Mo told him the price, the parent left with an awkward smile, and went home to give the child another meal.
This thing cost almost 20 yuan, and she was reluctant to eat it all in one meal.
In mid-July, the center issued tasks to various departments, requiring them to follow up with the goods that needed to be exported from various export manufacturers.
Last year's autumn trade fair broke the 1 billion US dollar turnover, but because of problems such as delayed delivery, the turnover of this year's spring trade fair was still a little short of 1 billion.
The second leader was under such great pressure and mobilized national resources to support the trade fair. The center director and the Yangcheng government did not want to disappoint the leader, so they made every effort to prepare for another comeback in the fall.
Most of the products Su Mo had followed before were from Haishi, so this time she was assigned to go on a business trip to Haishi.