"Hehe, can you please let me go first?" Xu Jianguo said.
"No, unless you promise us that you will take us to eat sweet and sour pork and stir-fried pork slices after we arrive in Ice City!" Funiu continued.
Little foodie Lele didn't understand why everyone treated his dad like this at first, but when he heard about sweet and sour pork and stir-fried pork slices, his big eyes suddenly lit up.
Although she didn't know what these two names meant, since the word "meat" was in them, it must be something delicious.
So the little girl immediately hugged Xu Jianguo's neck tightly with her arms and begged, "Daddy, Daddy, I want to eat too! I want to eat too!"
Xu Jianguo thought, isn’t it just a meal, is it really that serious?
"Okay, okay, I promise I will take you there at noon today. However, should we have breakfast first? I'm still hungry!" Xu Jianguo said.
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt his whole body relax. Then he saw Wen Sitian leading the four little ones walking quickly towards the kitchen. Lele, who was still in Jianguo's arms, saw this and immediately became anxious. He hurriedly urged his father to go over quickly.
"So, love will disappear, right?" Xu Jianguo complained in his heart as he smelled the aroma of soy milk coming from the kitchen, then he hugged Lele and chased after her.
It was a little after eight in the morning. Since Xu Jianguo had made arrangements in advance, Du Yu and Xu Xiaoshi had already prepared breakfast for the whole family.
Moreover, when Xu Jianguo called Ma Guoliang, he also said that he would go directly to the train station to pick them up, so there was no problem of other strangers picking them up. In this way, even if the staff at the train station did not find Wen Sitian and the children later, they would think that they had been taken away.
Today's breakfast was very rich. There was a large table filled with soy milk, porridge, fried dough sticks, buns, fried eggs, fried ham and other foods, all of which were the family's favorites.
When the little foodies saw so many delicious foods, their eyes immediately lit up. After Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian picked up their chopsticks first, the five little ones started eating like crazy.
Even Daya, a girl with a calm and quiet personality, was happy to have breakfast with her brother and started eating with big mouthfuls.
After breakfast, the whole family sat in the yard to digest the food for a while, and then Xu Jianguo took everyone back to their room in the guesthouse.
When the group appeared at the front desk, the girl in charge of check-in looked at Xu Jianguo in confusion. She really couldn't remember when these people entered the guesthouse.
Xu Jianguo took Wen Sitian's letter of introduction and their marriage certificate and handed them to the girl at the front desk, then opened a six-person room for them.
He reserved the room for himself to stay in with Wen Sitian at night, and the six-person room was for the five little ones. Ever since Lele was old enough to understand, the little girl had been extremely envious of her brother who could sleep on the same kang with her aunts every day. So after begging her mother for a long time, she was finally allowed to not sleep with her parents.
Speaking of this, I have to mention that as the children grew older, Xu Jianguo had discussed with Wen Sitian that they would wait until the weather got warmer and then build a partition on the kang in the west room to separate Wenwen, the only boy.
In fact, according to Xu Jianguo's current level, if he were placed in other places, the housing allocated to him would definitely not be so small. However, the climate conditions in the Dawali base are rather special, and the structures of all the houses in the family area are the same. Although this fundamentally avoids the problem of some people being picky, for other cadres whose families have more people, the housing conditions are quite tight.
He had thought about building another house in the yard, but Wen Sitian did not agree. She even rejected the idea of building a partition in the west room.
Later, the couple came up with an idea. When the children grew up a little, they would go to the space courtyard every day. Even if Xu Jianguo was not at home, it didn't matter. Either Fu Bo or Du Yu could take them in and out of the space at any time.
In this way, the space in the west room will not become cramped due to partitions, and the children will have their own independent space.
Xu Jianguo thought about it and felt that what she said made sense, so he nodded in agreement. However, he still had to talk to Fu Bo and prepare to tidy up several rooms in the courtyard. It would be best if each child had a separate room.
After completing the check-in procedures, Wen Sitian put the key to the new six-person room into her shoulder bag, and then the family left the guesthouse and walked towards the nearby Central Avenue.
On the way, Xu Jianguo took out his Seagull camera under the cover of his shoulder bag. When he came across some beautiful buildings, he would ask Wen Sitian and several children to take pictures of them.
Since today is a weekday, there are not many people on Central Avenue at this time, but the various state-owned stores on both sides are still open to welcome customers. The family walks around, stops, and looks around, which is very pleasant.
As they walked, an old building with a light yellow exterior came into their sight. Xu Jianguo looked at the plaque "Dongfanghong Department Store" hanging on the outer wall of the building, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.
Speaking of the Dongfanghong Department Store, many people may not know it, but if you mention its other name, more than 80% of the people in Longxia Country should know it, that is Qiulin Company.
Qiulin Company was founded by Ivan Yakovlevich Qiulin of Sulian in 1867. Its earliest name was Qiulin Trading Company. It was taken over by many people until October 1953, when it was handed over to Longxia State for a fee and was managed and operated by Longxia people.
As the storm began, the original Qiulin Company was renamed the East is Red Department Store in 1966 under the leadership of the Bingcheng Revolutionary Committee.
But even after changing the sign, people from the local area and even from all over the country who come to Ice City still call it Qiulin Company, which shows that this name has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The reason why Xu Jianguo knew so much was due to his memories from his previous life. When he was doing labor reform with his parents on a farm in Northeast China, he heard the farm guards talk about the Qiulin Company.
"Come on, wife, I'll take you to visit Qiulin Company!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
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