After returning to the Security Bureau compound, Xu Jianguo and the other two did not go home, but drove directly towards the children's kindergarten without stopping.
By the time they arrived at the kindergarten, the little girl had already finished school. She was standing next to the teacher at the kindergarten door, looking around with her big eyes at the parents who came to pick up their children, trying to find the shadow of her family.
After parking the car, Xu Jianguo and his wife and Daya got out of the car and walked towards Lele.
Who would have thought that as soon as the three got off the car, the sharp-eyed Lele saw his parents and aunt who came to pick him up. A happy smile suddenly appeared on his originally uneasy face, and he ran towards the three with his short legs.
The sudden scene made the teacher standing next to her unable to react. He immediately wanted to reach out and pull her, but the little girl was too fast and the teacher couldn't even touch her.
However, when the teacher looked in the direction where Lele was running, the tension on his face immediately relaxed.
"Dad, Mom, and Auntie!" Lele ran and shouted, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
When everyone saw the happy expression on the cute little girl's face when she saw her family, they all couldn't help but laugh along.
Xu Jianguo took the lead, walked over quickly, picked up Lele who was running over, and then turned around twice on the spot, making the little girl giggle.
Xu Jianguo, who had not been home for three days, was extremely fond of his daughter and kept kissing her delicate little face, which made Wen Sitian and Daya very upset. They really didn't want to pay any attention to the father and daughter.
After waiting for a while, the bell for the end of get out of class rang at the primary school separated from the kindergarten by a wall, so the four of them headed towards the school gate again.
After waiting for a long time, Wenwen didn't come out. Instead, Erya and Funiu, who came to pick up the brother and sister from school, came.
Not long after the two girls arrived, a man carrying a small backpack walked out of the school gate.
When he saw that his whole family came to pick him up from school today, he was extremely happy.
Although Wenwen usually likes to hang out with his aunt Funniu, among all his family members, he still likes to be with his father the most.
When they were at the Dawali base, Wen Sitian once secretly asked Wenwen when Xu Jianguo went to Jingzhou to see the old woman. The little guy gave a very simple answer. His father was his idol, and when he grew up, he wanted to become a soldier like his father to defend his country.
When Xu Jianguo knew that he was his son's idol, he felt so proud that he wanted to set off a string of firecrackers with a million bangs in the base if he was not afraid of the bad influence.
The family left the school amid the envious gazes of the onlookers and walked towards where the jeep was parked.
Considering that there would be many people sitting in the jeep in a while, and the two girls' bicycles had to be stored in the space, Xu Jianguo deliberately parked the car on the small road beside the kindergarten.
Therefore, when the family came to the jeep, there were not many people on the road. In addition, it gets dark early in winter, which also provided cover for Xu Jianguo.
After putting Erya and Funniu's bicycles into the space, he asked the whole family to get in the car, then started the car and drove towards the gate of the compound.
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For dinner today, Xu Jianguo booked a table at the Kaorou Ji Restaurant in Shichahai, where he had the famous Zhizi barbecue in Jingzhou City.
The predecessor of Kaorou Ji Restaurant was a "barbecue stall" beside the Yinding Bridge in Shichahai, Jingzhou, which is what we now call a roadside stall. It was founded in 1848.
The so-called iron barbecue is named after its unique iron grill. When eating barbecue, diners stand around the stove, with one foot on a long bench and the other foot on the ground.
Holding the seasoning bowl in one hand and the long bamboo chopsticks in the other, put the thinly sliced beef and mutton, add onions and coriander, and grill them on the grill.
When the meat is cooked, eat it with condiments. You can also eat it with pickled garlic, cucumber strips, and hot beef tongue pancakes. It has a unique flavor.
Especially in the cold autumn and winter seasons, a meal of freshly grilled barbecued meat can make people sweat profusely and feel refreshed all over.
This method of barbecue was originally a special delicacy of the nomadic people outside the Great Wall. Later, it was introduced to Jingzhou with that perverted dynasty and has continued to this day.
When Xu Jianguo and his group walked into the restaurant, the hall was already crowded with people.
Originally, two years ago, this time-honored restaurant was still in a state of public-private partnership, but as the country abolished this policy, the restaurant officially became state-owned.
As soon as he entered the door, a waiter came up to greet him with a smile on his face. Such service attitude made Xu Jianguo stunned and a little uncomfortable. Apart from the Bian Yi Fang in Xianyukou, this is another state-owned restaurant with a service attitude worthy of praise. It is really a breath of fresh air among state-owned restaurants.
Because Xu Jianguo and his group consisted of seven people, the waiter arranged them in a private room on the second floor.
When you walk into the room, the first thing that catches your eye is a large round table in the center of the room, and a black iron grill with a diameter of about one meter on the round table. Under the grill is the place where the fire will be made later.
This special way of dining was something Wen Sitian and the children had never experienced before, so everyone's eyes were full of curiosity.
After settling a few people, Xu Jianguo followed the waiter to the lobby downstairs to order food.
When he looked at the menu hanging on the wall and ordered the dishes, the waiter next to him was already standing there in stunned silence.
"Comrade! There are only seven of you. Can you finish it?" the waiter asked uncertainly.
"Don't worry if you can finish it. Besides, look at the military uniform I'm wearing, I definitely won't do anything to waste food!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"Okay, okay!" said the waiter, swallowing his saliva.
After Xu Jianguo paid the bill and went upstairs, the waiter quickly walked towards the kitchen, found the restaurant manager, and told him what had happened.
When the director took the receipt from the waiter and took a look at it, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. He thought to himself that he had really met an expert. Seven people, three adults and four children, actually ordered all the meat in their restaurant, which added up to 20 kilograms, and that didn't include pickled garlic, melon strips, cow tongue biscuits and various side dishes.
"Have you paid enough money and bills?" asked the director.
"Well, that's enough!"
"Then what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and serve the food!"
"Huh? Oh, okay, I'll go right away!"
After waiting for about half an hour, as the firewood under the grill burned more and more vigorously, the instant plate of various parts of beef and mutton, as well as side dishes and dipping sauces were delivered to the private room.
When the half-meter-long bamboo chopsticks were handed to Wenwen and Lele, the two little ones' tender faces immediately fell. It was really that today's tableware was a bit too unfriendly to them.
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