When Lin's mother learned that the number of guests greatly exceeded the target, she was very calm and said, "You just don't have experience. It is common for the number of guests to exceed the initial estimate. You will know it after holding a few more banquets."
Lin Wei and Zong Shao really had no experience in hosting wedding banquets. When they got married, it was actually the parents of both parties who were responsible for inviting the guests. Lin Wei also had to invite classmates and friends. Zong Shao really didn't know anyone in Shicheng, and those who attended his banquet were actually his mother's colleagues and neighbors.
Not to mention Ruirui at that time. Zong Shao only had so much vacation time, and it was too hasty to hold the banquet before he returned to the military camp. He was too busy, so it was a normal full-month banquet and Zong Shao did not participate.
Lin Wei was at home, but her focus was on her two children. The people who took care of this matter were mainly her mother-in-law and her biological mother, and her experience was almost non-existent.
Lin Wei said: "I don't know when the next time will be."
There are so many reasons to hold a banquet these days, and she and Zong Shao are not the kind of people who would invite all their relatives and friends for a small event. Maybe next time I will have to wait for Mingming Ruirui’s graduation party, but that will be more than ten years later, too far away, so let’s just hold this party first.
Thinking of this, Lin Wei asked: "Do you think there is anything else we should pay attention to?"
Mother Lin said, "That's all. By the way, remember to prepare more food for the banquet. Half a table, that should be enough."
"Prepare half an extra table?" Lin Wei showed hesitation. Everything else was easy except the meat dishes.
"The main concern is that there won't be enough food. If we want to do it well, we'd better prepare more," Lin's mother knew Lin Wei's concerns and thought for a while before saying, "Don't we need to put chestnuts, potatoes and other side dishes with chicken and duck? Put more, and also prepare enough vegetarian dishes. If more people come, there won't be a shortage of food."
"Will the number of people exceed this number?"
"Of course. In my hometown, wedding banquets usually have one person bringing two people. But some people just don't realize it and bring a few more people. What can you do?"
Every place has its own rules for holding a wedding banquet. The amount of gifts to give and the amount of people to bring are all customary. When the host prepares the banquet, they usually follow the old rules.
But there are always some people who like to take advantage of others. Even if they don't give much money, they still bring their families along to drink. Although such people are not aware of it, the host family cannot argue with them. On the one hand, the other party has given a gift, and on the other hand, it is a happy occasion, so they can only prepare more dishes to avoid not having enough to eat in the end.
Lin Wei thought about it and said, "I'll talk to Zong Shao when he comes back."
Zong Shao was not too embarrassed after hearing this, because the number of people increased, so he was careful when he went to the vegetable market to find Lao Xu in the evening. After asking clearly how many pork shanks and offal were available every day, he directly reserved all for that day and agreed to pay tomorrow. Plus, you can add side dishes to chicken and duck, so it’s easy to prepare half a table of extra dishes.
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The day after her confinement, Lin Wei returned to work.
Lin Wei and Zhang Lan agreed that she would work until after the full-month banquet before leaving. Plus, her mother was at home, so she didn't bring the children to school on her first day back to work.
Huang Aiyun was disappointed to see her coming to school alone. She said, "I thought you would bring your child with you."
During Lin Wei's confinement period, Huang Aiyun and several others went to visit her as a group. Of course, in the end, it was not only a few people from the office who went to her home, but also several people from other offices.
Huang Aiyun is a face control freak. When he saw that Lin Wei's daughter was pretty, he hugged her and refused to let go. Knowing that Lin Wei was coming back to work today, she was quite looking forward to it, thinking that Lin Wei might bring the child over.
The result is no.
Lin Wei said: "Don't bring it over these few days. Wait until after the full moon banquet."
Hearing Lin Wei's words, Zhao Yanhua asked, "Did you invite your nanny to the full moon party?"
Lin Wei nodded and said, "Yes, please let her take care of me until the end of my confinement as we agreed before, but there are a lot of things going on at home these days, so I'll keep her for a few more days."
"How is her work?" Zhao Yanhua asked again.
"Very good, meticulous work, and good cooking." Lin Wei said and then asked, "Do you want to hire a nanny too?"
Huang Aiyun asked, "Why do you hire a nanny?"
Hiring a nanny is actually a very sensitive matter these days. It's not that you absolutely cannot hire one, but if you hire a nanny for a long time without any reason, you will inevitably be criticized for being petty bourgeois and having an improper lifestyle.
Therefore, these military wives in the family quarters will generally only hire a nanny for a period of time when they are pregnant and giving birth, and there is really no one at home to take care of them.
Like Lin Wei, because she took longer than others to hire, people also talked about her behind her back.
However, because Lin Wei had just been to the hospital before hiring a nanny, and she only hired one for two or three months longer than others, it was not a big problem, and those people just talked about it a few times.
But if you just hire a nanny to take care of you at home for no reason, that’s hard to say, so Huang Aiyun asked one more question.
Although Zhao Yanhua did not answer after hearing this, a bit of shyness appeared on her face, and her hand unconsciously rested on her stomach. Lin Wei had just given birth, and when he saw her like this, he suddenly asked, "Are you pregnant?"
"Really?" Huang Aiyun looked at Zhao Yanhua in shock, "Are you really pregnant? When did it happen?"
Zhao Yanhua said: "It was just found out a few days ago, and it has been more than a month."
After hearing what Zhao Yanhua said, several other teachers in the office started asking questions. Huang Aiyun looked up at the office for a while and whispered to Lin Wei, "Does our office have good feng shui?"
"What?"
"Look, there are so many teachers in the school, but this year you and Teacher Zhao are the only ones who got pregnant one after another, and they are both from our office. Isn't this good feng shui?"
Lin Wei: "... stop being so superstitious."
Huang Aiyun came back to her senses and said awkwardly, "I was just saying it casually. I just thought it was a coincidence."
As they were talking, the bell for class rang, and everyone in the office got busy, packing up their lesson plans and textbooks and heading to the classroom.
Lin Wei and Huang Aiyun left together, but they were stopped as soon as they walked out of the office door and continued to ask her about the nanny.
Lin Wei did not specifically praise Zhang Lan. She only told Zhao Yanhua truthfully about her work situation in the past few months, and said that if she planned to hire Zhang Lan as a nanny, it would be better to talk to her before taking up the job to make sure that the other party was suitable in all aspects. After all, everyone's situation is different. She thinks Zhang Lan is a good person and works hard, but Zhao Yanhua may not think so after hiring her.
She was willing to tell Zhao Yanhua about Zhang Lan's work situation, but she didn't want the two of them to not get along and start blaming her.
After hearing this, Zhao Yanhua said, "Then I'll wait and see in a few months." She would definitely hire a nanny after she was eight or nine months pregnant, and it was not certain whether her mother-in-law would come, so she asked now just to get peace of mind.
Lin Wei nodded, and walked into the classroom of Class 2, Grade 4 separately from them.
After only not seeing each other for a month, the children didn't change much. They were just a little excited when they saw Lin Wei, and their voices of greeting were particularly loud.
Looking at the smiling faces below, Lin Wei also smiled. After they finished greeting each other, she smiled and said, "Hello, classmates. Long time no see."
"Teacher Lin, long time no see!" the children said.
After he finished speaking, a child asked, "Teacher, are you coming back to teach us?"
One child took the lead, and the other children also asked: "Teacher, will you ask for leave in the future?"
"Teacher, have you finished giving birth to your baby?"
"Teacher, is the baby a boy or a girl?"
Although many of the questions asked by Xun Feng had nothing to do with study, Lin Wei answered them one by one: "I will be back to attend classes. I don't think I will take a long vacation in the future. The baby was born a month ago, it's a girl..."
After answering the children's questions, Lin Wei picked up the textbook and started the class. Although she had taken a month's vacation, she asked her substitute colleague about the progress yesterday, and also took the time to familiarize herself with the content to be taught today and prepared the lessons, so the two classes in the morning went smoothly.
But Lin's mother was obviously worried that her daughter would not be able to adapt to work after such a long vacation. When she saw Lin Wei coming back, she asked, "How was the class?"
"It went smoothly." Lin Wei said.
“Are the students obedient?”
"They are all very well behaved."
"What about your unit leader? Did he say anything?"
Lin Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm just asking for leave, I'm not a miner, what will our leaders say? Don't worry, mom, our principal is very strict with words."
Mother Lin breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "I'm just worried about you."
"I understand, but I will take care of the work matters," Lin Wei said.
Seeing her daughter so confident, Lin's mother stopped asking questions and smiled as she talked about the child: "She woke up once before you came back. I changed her diaper, made some milk powder and fed her. She fell asleep after she was full."
"Have you washed the diaper?"
"Let's wash it. Xiao Zhang and I are the only ones here. Can we keep this little work until you come back?"
"Yes, Mom, you're the best." Lin Wei said flatteringly, and then asked where Mingming Ruirui had gone.
Mother Lin said, "I'm upstairs looking after my sister. Little Shitou is there too."
Hearing this, Lin Wei said, "I'll go upstairs and take a look," and went to the master bedroom on the second floor.
In the master bedroom, three children were kneeling on the bed around the baby. When Lin Wei walked to the door of the second-floor room, she heard Xiao Shitou ask, "How can your sister sleep so well? It's been daybreak for a long time and she's still sleeping."
“You don’t understand!”
After my sister was born, I had clearly heard the elders talk a lot about newborn babies. Now I felt that I was a well-educated person, and my self-confidence was overflowing. Whenever I heard my friends ask questions and I knew the answers, I would say "you don't understand" and then start to explain: "All children are like this, they need to sleep all day..."
I got stuck while talking and couldn't remember how many hours my mother was talking about. I mumbled, "Many, many hours. I would wake up only when I was hungry and go back to sleep only when I was full."
Although Mingming didn't explain it clearly, Little Stone didn't understand it at all. In addition, he believed Mingming's words very much, so he vaguely realized it and said, "So that's how it is."
"Of course, when she grows up a little, she won't be so sleepy, but she doesn't understand anything now and can't play with us yet."
"Then when can she play with us?" In fact, Xiao Shitou didn't have much expectation on whether his sister could play with him, but when it came to this, he would habitually ask this question.
"She can only play with us when she's as old as us." Mingming said, "Do you know how old we will be when our sister grows up to be as old as us?"
After asking, he specifically said to his brother who had not spoken a word, "Don't tell me the answer."
Ruirui, with his hands supporting his face and looking at his sister, said "oh", thinking that he had not intended to give the answer.
Little Stone counted on his fingers and asked uncertainly after a while, "Eight years old?"
"Wrong, it's nine years old!" Mingming knelt straight and said, "We are four and a half years old now. It will take four and a half years for our sister to grow up to our age. Four plus four equals eight, and half a year plus half a year equals one year. Eight years plus one year equals nine years!"
Xiao Shitou's learning progress was the same as Mingming's. He had never learned decimal points. In addition, Mingming was four and a half years old, four and a half years old, and eight years old one year old. The two units of measurement were mixed together, which made him dizzy and confused.
Seeing that he was dizzy, Mingming explained it again and then asked, "Do you understand?"
"I don't quite understand." Mingming scratched his head and said honestly.
Mingming's eyes widened: "How come you don't even understand this? I understood it after listening to my brother explain it once!"
Little Stone was very ashamed and lowered his head.
"Don't bully Xiao Shitou." Lin Wei walked in and patted Mingming on the head, then said to Xiao Shitou, "Don't listen to what Mingming said. Ruirui explained it very clearly, so you understood it right away. It's normal that you didn't understand it right away because he didn't explain it well."
After hearing this, Little Stone was relieved, it turned out that he was not that stupid.
Mingming couldn't believe it and asked, "Did I not speak well?"
In fact, Mingming's explanation was not bad, and anyone who understood could understand it, but Xiao Shitou didn't understand it in the first place, and he became even more confused by his beating around the bush. Naturally, his explanation was not good either.
But in order to take care of her son's self-esteem, Lin Wei said: "It's not bad, it's just not clear enough. If you don't believe it, let Ruirui explain it again and see if Xiao Shitou can understand it."
Mingming was calmed down, but he didn't understand what he hadn't explained clearly, so he asked his brother to repeat it.
Ruirui used decimal points to explain to Xiao Shitou. The content was a little beyond the syllabus, but it was actually easier to understand than Mingming mixing the two units of measurement together.
Seeing Xiao Shitou suddenly realize what's going on, Mingming was shocked. It turned out to be his problem.
Seeing Mingming hanging his head, Lin Wei softened her heart and said, "In fact, it's not entirely due to your contribution that Xiao Shitou can understand. If you hadn't explained it twice as a foundation, he wouldn't have understood it so quickly."
Little Stone also agreed after hearing this: "Yes, actually now that I think about it, I understand what you said."
With the consolation from his mother and Xiao Shitou, Mingming quickly cheered up. He said, well, he is so smart, how could Xiao Shitou not understand anything he was saying!
Lin Wei: “…” Confidence is a good thing, but isn’t her son a little too confident?
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After returning to work, Lin Wei set the alarm again and was forced to maintain a regular schedule.
It was a little difficult for her to get up in the first two days, but the situation got much better after three days, so she didn’t stay in bed for long on the day of her daughter’s full moon celebration and basically woke up as soon as the alarm rang.
But even so, Lin Wei is still the last one to get up in the family.
Lin's mother and Zhang Lan had already been busy in the kitchen. Zong Shao also brought back pork shanks and offal from the market and was squatting in front of the faucet to wash them.
Even Mingming and Ruirui had finished their breakfast and were blowing bubbles with a half-broken straw in their hands.
Seeing Lin Wei coming out, Ruirui approached her brother, dipped the straw into the ink bottle in his hand, then turned around, puffed up her cheeks and blew towards her.
Seeing his brother's actions, he clearly followed suit and even walked closer to Lin Wei.
Just then, a sea breeze blew in, pushing colorful bubbles in front of Lin Wei. Her brows relaxed and she reached out to poke them one by one. Soon, most of the bubbles blown by the two children disappeared.
Seeing that the bubbles were about to be popped, the two children blew them even harder, and the playfulness subtly turned into a competition.
Lin Wei only needed to pop the bubbles with her hands, but the brothers needed to use their lung capacity to blow them. Soon they were out of breath, and the situation was going in a downward trend.
Lin Wei didn't give in at all. She was almost crying in anxiety. When she saw her grandmother coming out, she complained, "Grandma! Mom has popped all our bubbles!"
Seeing her grandson's eyes turn red with anxiety, Lin's mother scolded her daughter angrily: "How old are you? You are still competing with children. Can't you just give in to them?"
"……OK!"
Lin Wei said this, and when she saw Mingming's smug expression, she couldn't help but put her hands on his head, rubbing it and saying, "You're going to complain again, aren't you?"
Mingming told Lin Wei the answer with his actions. He opened his mouth and yelled, "Grandma! Mom is bullying me and my brother again!"
Ruirui, who was not affected by the war but was dragged into it by her brother, said: "?!!"
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