Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.
At this time, Wen Sitian and Daya had already finished their nap. The two sisters-in-law were whispering together. Xu Jianguo, who was reading a book nearby, pricked up his ears and listened, and found that they were discussing whether the third child of the Xu family was a boy or a girl.
Xu Jianguo smiled. The couple had discussed this issue before. As a father, he didn't care whether it was a boy or a girl. On the contrary, Wen Sitian was very determined to have a boy.
People say that sons are closer to their mothers. Xu Jianguo initially thought that was the reason. But when Wen Sitian said that the reason she liked boys was because there were more females than males in her family, Xu Jianguo was immediately confused. He looked at his silly wife with a helpless expression.
After checking the time, Xu Jianguo put down the book in his hand, said hello to his aunt and sister-in-law, and left the space and returned home.
He was going to drive to pick up the four little ones from school, so dinner would naturally be left to Du Yu and Xu Xiaoshi.
Du Yu was the one staying at home at the moment. Seeing Xu Jianguo appear in the living room, she asked, "Master, is there anything I should pay attention to for dinner tonight?"
Xu Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "It's getting cold, let's have hot pot tonight!"
"OK!"
"Prepare two bases, mushroom and spicy. You can prepare the meat and side dishes as you see fit. There are ten of us anyway."
"yes!"
After Xu Jianguo finished speaking, he left home and drove towards the children's kindergarten.
While on the road, Xu Jianguo looked at the back seat of the car through the rearview mirror, and suddenly he had the idea of modifying the car.
There are seven people in the family now, big and small. If you count Xu Laosan, who is pregnant with Wen Sitian, there are eight people in the family. A jeep like this definitely cannot accommodate them all.
"What can I do? I really miss the MPVs of later generations!" Xu Jianguo thought to himself.
Seeing that he didn't have any good transformation plan in mind, Xu Jianguo simply stopped wasting his brain cells and prepared to hand this difficult problem over to Xu Shisi.
After parking the car in front of the kindergarten, Xu Jianguo did not open the door and get out because it was still some time before school was over.
He sat in the car, opened the window, lit a cigarette for himself, and waited slowly.
More than ten minutes later, a crisp bell rang, and Xu Jianguo opened the car door and got out.
After waiting at the kindergarten gate for a while, I saw the teacher leading the little kids in the class out in a row, and Lele was among them.
Ever since the little girl walked out of the classroom, her big eyes have been looking outside, and she saw her father at a glance.
However, the little guy did not run out without permission, but still obeyed the teacher's instructions and lined up to walk out.
As soon as he stepped out of the kindergarten gate, Lele couldn't wait to shout "Goodbye, teacher!" to the teacher, and then ran towards Xu Jianguo with his short legs without waiting for the teacher's response.
Xu Jianguo picked up his daughter with a smile on his face, and the father and daughter staged a scene of father-daughter interaction at the gate of the kindergarten. Finally, with the little girl giggling, the two walked towards the primary school next door.
Soon, Erya and Funiu arrived as scheduled on their bicycles, and then Wenwen, carrying a small schoolbag, also walked out of the school.
The five people walked towards the jeep. Xu Jianguo used the trunk of the car as a cover to store the two bicycles into the space. Then he asked everyone to get in the car and drove home.
There was naturally some chatter on the way. When Xu Jianguo said that the three elders of Su Dingshan would come to their house for dinner in the evening and that they would be eating hot pot, cheers broke out in the car again.
It is true that people of the same family tend to be similar. Even though there are so many people in the family and at least half of them are not related by blood, everyone's taste in food is absolutely super similar.
Noodles, stuffed food, sweets, hot pot, barbecue, seafood... Of course, there are slight differences when it comes to eating spicy food. On the one hand, there is the Bashu King faction represented by Wen Sitian, Daya and Erya, and the Zha Zha faction represented by Xu Jianguo, Funiu, Wenwen and Lele.
Soon, the car stopped outside their yard. The four children only knew that Xu Jianguo was going to pick up the three elders, so they got out of the car obediently.
Wen Sitian and Daya, who heard the sound, had already walked out of the house. Xu Jianguo waved to them and left.
By the time he and the three old men returned home, Du Yu and Xu Xiaoshi had already prepared everything and returned to the space.
After Su Dingshan and the others entered the house, everyone stood up and greeted the three old men. The three men naturally responded with kind smiles on their faces.
Afterwards, the three old bachelors gathered around Wen Sitian and reminded her of things to pay attention to in daily life. Xu Jianguo rolled his eyes and thought to himself, you three have never even been married, yet you are so familiar with the precautions during a woman's pregnancy.
Looking at the three amiable old men in front of her, Wen Sitian naturally agreed with a smile on her face, and then asked them to sit down quickly.
In the winter when the temperature is more than ten degrees below zero, being able to get together with family and friends to eat a steaming hot pot can definitely provide people with the greatest sense of satisfaction and happiness.
It wasn't the first time for the three old men to come home for dinner, so there was no need to pretend to be polite. They all sat down at their seats.
Because there were so many people, today's dinner was naturally divided into two tables. Wen Sitian did not sit at the big table today, but sat with the children. They all used small hot pots, so they could all choose their favorite flavors.
Xu Jianguo and the three old men naturally chose Jingzhou's unique mushroom soup pot. After he poured two taels of medicinal wine into everyone's cup, dinner officially began.
There was already a local heater and a kang in the room, and they were eating hot pot. After a while, Wang Huaian took the lead in unbuttoning his cotton jacket and took it off. Then Su Dingshan and Wu Tianlong followed suit.
Everyone was sweating profusely after the meal and felt extremely satisfied.
After dinner, since the children still had homework to do and Wen Sitian was pregnant, the three old men urged them to go upstairs and rest.
After Wen Sitian led the children upstairs, the four of them continued to eat and chat.
During this period, Wu Tianlong told Xu Jianguo that the logistics department sent people to deliver the coal this afternoon. Their director personally led the people there, and it was not just their two families who were delivered coal. The coal for all the old cadres' homes was replenished.
Before leaving, the director of the logistics department kept apologizing to the three old men, saying that he had not done his job well.
Xu Jianguo thought to himself that no matter who came, they would have to apologize. They didn't prepare enough coal for the old cadres in such a cold weather, and they had to wait until it was out of stock to call for it. This is nonsense!
At around nine o'clock in the evening, after dinner, Xu Jianguo drove the three old men back home and then returned. As soon as he entered the house, the phone in the living room rang.
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