When Xu Jianguo returned home, the children were already up, and with the help of Fu Bo, Du Yu and Xu Xiaoshi, the new house had been cleaned up.
After walking around upstairs and downstairs and looking at the familiar items, Xu Jianguo nodded with satisfaction.
When he arrived at the study on the first floor, he found that the photo of himself with the Big Mister and the Little Mister had been hung in a prominent position. Below this photo, there were many photos of his family.
Among them are photos of Funiu, Wenwen and Lele when they were young, as well as photos of Daya and Erya when they first came to the house, and family photos taken when the family went out for a trip.
It is said that you eat dumplings when you get on a boat and noodles when you get off, so today the first meal the family had in their new home was noodles. Braised beef noodles with fried eggs soaked in soup, and crispy and delicious pickles, made both adults and children very satisfied.
After breakfast, Du Yu and Xu Xiaoshi were responsible for cleaning up the dishes. Fu Bo was assigned a new task by Xu Jianguo, which was to make a simple renovation of the bathroom on the second floor and install the toilet and shower.
Daya was still sitting on the sofa, reading quietly. Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian had not yet told her about her identity as a librarian at Jingzhou University. The couple planned to give her a surprise when they took her to handle the formalities.
Erya and Funiu were running around the house with Wenwen and Lele, and Xiaohei and Erhei had also found their new place to bask in the sun in the yard.
Xu Jianguo brought Wen Sitian to the study on the first floor. The couple needed to carefully study the issue of room allocation for the children.
As the little ones in the family are getting older, the previous accommodation method is definitely not feasible, especially for Daya. After all, she is already 28 years old and is a real girl. She definitely needs her own independent space.
As for the other four little ones, Wenwen and Lele are still young, so they are easier to deal with. The most difficult ones are Erya and Funiu.
The two girls are young, but they are already 12 years old this year. If they were in the countryside, they would be able to get married in two or three years, so Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian are really worried.
The couple sat down on the two single sofas in the study. Xu Jianguo took out paper and pen from the space and quickly drew out the two-story floor plan of their house. Then the two began to study on the drawing.
In the meantime, they ran outside the yard to take a look, then went up to the second floor and looked at every room carefully. From time to time, they would gesture at the ceiling and write something on paper.
Half an hour later, Xu Jianguo put down his pen, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and said, "Oh, the house is still too small!"
"You are just used to a good life. When we were at the base before, some families had seven or eight children, and they lived well too, didn't they?" Wen Sitian said, giving Xu Jianguo a look.
Xu Jianguo nodded, grinned, and asked, "Wife, what do you think of this distribution?"
Wen Sitian picked up the blueprint, looked at it, nodded, and said, "I think it's okay!"
"Okay, then I'll tell Uncle Fu in a minute, and we'll start after he finishes the bathroom!"
"Um!"
Based on the couple's on-site investigation and careful research, they finally made a bold decision.
That is to remove part of the ceiling on the second floor, then add a staircase, and make a three-story structure inside, so that the two little ones Wenwen and Lele can live in the attic, and then convert the study on the first floor into a bedroom for the couple to live in, so that each of the three girls can have a room of their own.
At around nine o'clock in the morning, Fu Bo had finished installing the new toilet and shower. After Xu Jianguo checked them, he was very satisfied. He then handed him the two floor plans and told him some of his ideas.
After taking the blueprint, Fu Bo took a look at it and said that he would find Xu Shisi to study it. Then he flashed into the space.
Xu Jianguo looked at his watch, then picked up his bag, took Wen Sitian and left home, preparing to go to the logistics department to handle the transfer of relations and the procedures for the children to go to school.
After giving some instructions to the little ones, the couple walked outside hand in hand. Then Xu Jianguo drove a jeep and asked for directions along the way to the location of the logistics department.
Since Chen Jin had already made arrangements in advance, the cadres responsible for receiving Xu Jianguo and the others were very enthusiastic. They did not need to intervene throughout the whole process and simply left with Xu Jianguo's military officer certificate and transfer order.
The couple waited in the reception room for about forty minutes before the cadre who had been there before came back and returned Xu Jianguo's military officer certificate to him. He also handed him a file bag containing the children's school and kindergarten admission certificates, as well as Daya's certificate and letter of introduction for her employment at the Jingzhou University Library.
In addition, the file bag also contained a red-covered and two blue-covered certificates, which were the exclusive credentials for family members to enter and exit the compound.
Xu Jianguo opened the file bag, took out the things inside and looked at them one by one, then opened the six certificates and checked the information inside. He found that there were no photos on the blue-covered certificates belonging to Wenwen and Lele.
After asking, I found out that because the two children are still young, according to the entry and exit regulations of the compound, they need to wait until the children are ten years old before attaching photos, and blue-covered certificates cannot be used to enter and exit the compound alone. They must be accompanied by someone holding a red-covered certificate.
Xu Jianguo was very satisfied and agreed with this point, because it was for the protection of children. After all, in this era, beggars are rampant, and because there are no surveillance and sky eyes, if a child is abducted and cannot be caught and stopped on the spot, then the possibility of finding the child back is basically zero.
After putting everything back into the file bag, Xu Jianguo and Wen Sitian stood up to express their gratitude, then left the logistics department and drove towards the kindergarten.
The couple spent nearly two hours running around the kindergartens, primary schools and junior high schools in the compound, completing the admission procedures for their four children. They also agreed on a registration time with the teacher and collected their textbooks before driving back home.
When Erya, Funiu and Wenwen got their brand new textbooks, they immediately cheered. On the contrary, Lele, who got nothing, pouted and looked a little unhappy.
Xu Jianguo looked at his daughter's pitiful appearance and felt a little amused and helpless. He thought to himself, "Silly daughter, your days of studying are still ahead of you. Why are you in such a hurry now?"
In the end, it was Wenwen, the older brother, who stepped in and gave Lele a set of picture books from his collection, which made the little girl smile brightly again.
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