“Meng Xinguo is still young. Marriage can’t be rushed. Let him wait patiently. If he’s too hasty, the person he chooses might not be good. We have to take it slow.” Lu Chen thought of Meng Xinguo’s honest appearance and teased, “He’s suited to find someone understanding, but understanding people might not be interested in him!”
Meng Xinguo was from the countryside and had little education. He had only attended a literacy class in the army. The girls who were educated had an artistic flair for life, which Meng Xinguo did not understand, so they were definitely not suitable to be together.
"Sigh, that's all we can do." Xu Qianli's head started throbbing whenever he mentioned the men in the army. "I'm in charge of ideological work, and I have to worry about the lifelong happiness of thousands of people, like a mother hen!"
"More like a matchmaker!" Lu Chen complained.
"Hey!" Xu Qianli looked at Lu Chen, not wanting to continue talking to him.
Back home, the children had already washed their hands and were waiting to have dinner.
"Think about it, Daddy's back?" Xu Qianli called out his daughter's nickname as soon as he entered the courtyard.
Hearing her father's call, Xiangxiang looked towards the door and saw that her father had returned.
I happily stood up from the stool, tripped over it, and sat back down.
"Dad..." Xiangxiang, who is a year and a few months old, is still not very good at walking. Whenever she sees her dad, she wants him to hug her.
As soon as Xu Qianli came in, he picked up Xiangxiang and kissed her little face hard, saying, "I missed you so much, my Xiangxiang!"
Just imagine showing those little teeth, all all smiles.
Danian watched his uncle holding Xiangxiang and said, "Uncle, Dad said you can't kiss Xiangxiang."
"Why? I'm her father." Xu Qianli became anxious upon hearing this, looking at Lu Chen and saying, "Lu Chen, what kind of crooked and evil teachings are you giving her? You're misleading her, do you know that?"
“I said, men and women shouldn’t touch each other. Da Nian sees that you’re a man, so it’s not normal for you not to kiss a woman,” Lu Chen retorted after washing his hands.
"Nonsense, why can't I kiss my daughter?" Xu Qianli looked at her one-year-old child with immense joy.
Xu Qianli is a strict political commissar in public, but a doting father at home.
I really like my dad, and I love spending time with him every day.
Li Xiaoxiao came in with chopsticks and saw that Xu Qianli had come back and was holding his daughter without washing his hands.
"Hurry up and wash your hands. Look at you, you've been working and training with a bunch of men in the external team all day. There are a lot of germs on your hands. Xinlan said that you can't hug Xiangxiang if you don't wash your hands. Hurry up and wash them."
Liu Xinlan is a doctor. Thinking about how she used to get angry, Liu Xinlan was very worried. Every time she wanted Xu Qianli to hold the child, she would ask him to wash his hands first. She felt that he smelled of sweat and was always crawling and rolling on the ground with those men, which would gradually introduce bacteria.
Xu Qianli immediately realized what was happening and put Xiangxiang down.
"Right, right, I forgot to wash my hands." Xu Qianli went to wash her hands, and after washing them, she came back in and picked up the baby's complementary food to feed the baby.
“Xinlan has had so many surgeries lately, I don’t get to see her every night. She puts my daughter to sleep, so the time I spend with her is so short!” Li Xiaoxiao sat down, looking at Xiangxiang, who spends most of her time with her grandmother. Every morning, her mother has already left and hasn’t returned by bedtime.
“Xinlan has been quite busy lately. She’s going to Beijing for training these few days with some doctors from the hospital, so she might be separated from her mother for a long time!” Xu Qianli doesn’t seem to be like Liu Xinlan, but that’s just the nature of her job.
Imagine watching your dad feed you, looking at him with a happy smile, not understanding what your grandma meant.
Xu Qianli coaxed the child to eat, saying, "Xinlan is a doctor. With advanced medical technology, she definitely needs to learn. I understand."
Li Xiaoxiao didn't complain about Liu Xinlan's work; she could understand. It was just tough on the child, who would forget what her mother looked like after not seeing her for so long.
Lu Chen took out a roasted chicken, and Da Nian, smelling the aroma, excitedly said, "It smells like roasted chicken."
Shen Qiaoyue looked at Da Nian's happy face.
“Yes, didn’t Da Nian want to eat a big chicken leg? So Dad brought back big chicken legs for Da Nian and Xiao Nian.” Lu Chen said as he opened the roast chicken.
Xiangxiang smelled the roast chicken and happily clapped her hands, saying, "Big chicken leg, big chicken leg, Xiangxiang... wants one."
“Everyone gets a big chicken leg, it’s all a big chicken leg, no rush.” Lu Chen first tore off a whole big chicken leg for the youngest child, Xiangxiang, and then tore off a whole big chicken leg for Xiaonian.
"Thank you... Susu..." I thought about it and realized I still couldn't speak properly. I wanted to say thank you, Uncle.
"You're welcome, eat up." Lu Chen responded gently to Xiangxiang's sweet, childlike voice.
Da Nian stared so intently his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and his mouth was practically watering.
After the younger sisters finished giving them out, the Lunar New Year finally arrived. Looking at the juicy chicken legs, they smelled delicious.
"It's delicious, thank you Dad." Da Nian happily thanked his father.
On the Little New Year, one should squint their eyes and enjoy the food to their heart's content.
"Let's give the big one to Auntie." Lu Chen was going to give the remaining chicken leg to his wife, but since she said so, he was determined to give it to his aunt.
"I don't need it, give it to Xiaoyue, she's so tired from work every day." Li Xiaoxiao didn't eat it either, how could she compete with a junior for a chicken leg?
Shen Qiaoyue said, "Auntie, you've lost weight. Next time Uncle comes back to visit you, he'll definitely say I've neglected you. Hurry up and eat, there's still plenty of chicken."
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