Chapter 267: First Birthday Banquet
You can’t push all the wine-setting matters to your wife and parents.
On June 27th, Lu Weiguo also took a day off.
Plus, the 28th was a day off, so he could still handle it.
Early in the morning on the 27th, as the wake-up call rang, Lu Weiguo and Shi Tingyu woke up, and Lu’s father and mother also got up.
After handing the child to his parents, Lu Weiguo drove Shi Tingyu to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.
Last night, the family counted the number of people invited and the number of dishes, and made a list. Today, they needed to buy the ingredients.
The two went out with an empty car and returned home with a full car of ingredients.
After buying the things, the family worked together to put the ingredients in different categories and deal with what needed to be dealt with in advance.
The family was busy and happy.
Early the next morning, Lu Weiguo went to the next door and Feng Wei's house to borrow tables and long benches.
Nowadays, all the tables are big square tables. Two people can sit on each side of the four-sided table. Sometimes when there are many people, one more person can be squeezed in at the four corners.
Shi Tingyu's house has one, but they estimated that the people invited this time will have to sit at at least three tables.
The table next door was carried home by Lu's father. The
big square tables are made of solid wood, which is not light. It was also because of Lu's father's good physique that he didn't need help.
It's just that Feng Wei's house is still a little distance away from Shi Tingyu. She originally thought that she would go over to help, but she didn't expect that Lu Weiguo looked at her as soon as she said it.
Lu Weiguo took a look at her small body and said, "Wife, I can do it myself."
Shi Tingyu rolled her eyes at him, looking down on her small arms and legs.
Seeing this, Lu Weiguo smiled and left. Not long after, he came back carrying a large square table.
He carried the upside-down table on his shoulders with both hands, revealing the muscles on his arms. He carried it from Feng Wei's house to his own home without breathing hard.
Shi Tingyu couldn't help but sigh at her man's good physical strength. No wonder every time he hugged her, it was as light as holding cotton.
After getting the table back, Lu Weiguo ran a few more times to borrow a bench. Shi
Tingyu also went to borrow a stove from next door.
This is the case in family courtyards. Everyone borrows tables, chairs, tables, chopsticks, stoves, etc. to do things.
Now there are two stoves in the house working at the same time, and there is one stove and two pots in the kitchen, so I can keep busy even if four of them are working at the same time.
Shi Tingyu was already experienced in entertaining guests, and with the help of Father Lu, Mother Lu and Lu Weiguo, it was not as busy as expected.
Sister-in-law Zhang next door came to take action early.
As time went by, more and more people came, but only two children came. One was Damao from next door, and the other was Li Dongsheng, the third battalion commander of the 723rd Regiment, and Li Kang, the son of Liu Caixia.
Li Kang is six years old this year, not much different from Da Mao in age, so the two started playing together.
But soon, Damao was unwilling to play with the other party.
Mrs. Zhang asked, "Why don't you play with Kangzi?"
Damao pouted, "I don't want to play with the guy who snatched my candy!"
For the sake of these two children, Shi Tingyu took out the milk candy at home to treat them, giving each of them a small handful. As soon
as Shi Tingyu left, Li Kang tried to snatch Damao's candy. Fortunately, Damao was not a person who waited to be bullied. He slapped the other's hand and ran away.
At this time, Li Kang was crying beside his mother.
Liu Caixia asked and found out that her son actually wanted to snatch other people's candy and almost fought.
At this time, Mrs. Cao next to her stepped forward to stop her, "Sister-in-law, the child is still young, you can't beat the child. After all, it's a good day for Captain Lu's family."
Liu Caixia listened to Mrs. Cao's words and finally took her hand back.
This sister-in-law Cao is the daughter-in-law of Cao Kun, the battalion commander who was transferred here to take over after Lu Weiguo was promoted to the head of the regiment. She happens to live next door to Li Caixia's house.
The relationship between the two families cannot be said to be very close, but they can talk to each other.
Because when Cao Kun first came here, he invited Lu Weiguo and his wife, and this time Shi Tingyu and his friends were invited back.
Seeing that Liu Caixia did not beat the child, contempt flashed in Sister-in-law Cao's eyes.
Liu Caixia did not notice the other's eyes, but felt a headache when she looked at her son.
She was admitted to Jinling Normal University, and she did not have much time to take care of the child, so she brought her idle mother-in-law to take care of the child.
But her mother-in-law was a domineering person, and she spoiled the child without limit. It has only been a few months, and the child has become lawless.
If she dared to hit the child on weekdays, the old lady would fight with her.
Some time ago, I heard that the old lady had a dispute with Cao Saozi because of a little thing about the child.
If she was not really busy, she would have wanted to send her mother-in-law back. Now she can only wait for her summer vacation to calm the child down .
Li Dongsheng's family has some background in the army, and Liu Caixia is also a relatively shrewd person. She doesn't think much of Cao Kun, who is almost 40 years old and has become a battalion commander.
So she didn't take the previous disagreements between the two families to heart.
But she didn't take it to heart, but someone else did.
Seeing Li Kang's acting like a big shot, Cao Saozi couldn't help feeling relieved.
Because both families lived close to each other in a tube building, her family could always hear Li Kang's mischievous behavior. That day, she was cooking in front of the corridor door, and Li Kang ran wildly in the corridor, bumping into her and breaking the two eggs she had just taken out.
She just said a few harsh words to the other party, and the old lady of the Li family heard it.
Good guy, she poked a hornet's nest, and the old lady of the Li family scolded her, as badly as she could, and Li Kang next to her laughed very loudly.
Due to the background of the other family, she dared not speak out, and in the end, the old lady of the Li family patted her butt and left. As for the two broken eggs, she didn't say anything, let alone compensation.
Food is so expensive now, and she prepared those two eggs for her child.
At that moment, she was really heartbroken.
She thought, let it go on like this, sooner or later this child will be accustomed to become a lawless waste, and then let him dig a big pot.
Thinking of this, Cao's wife finally felt better.
Thinking about the guidance she gave Li Kangshi from time to time when she saw him alone on weekdays, Cao's wife felt relieved.
Isn't it necessary to get used to the child? Then she will lend them a hand.
With many people helping out at home, Shi Tingyu can serve the dishes much faster.
Shi Tingyu and Lu's mother's cooking skills are impeccable, and some big dishes and hard dishes are handed over to Shi Tingyu to cook.
The fragrance can be smelled from a long distance, not to mention the people in the yard.
They have deeper expectations for today's meal.
Shen Shen saw so many people at home for the first time, and he was a little crazy.
This uncle carried him around, and that uncle took him for a run. The whole yard was noisy, full of Shen Shen's childish laughter.
Even Li Jian has a job to entertain guests in colorful clothes, shaking hands, lying down, crawling in from time to time to make the waiting time less unbearable.