"Zekai, are you still working overtime?" Xia Zekai had just answered the phone when he heard his wife Luo Xiyun ask on the phone.

Xia Zekai shook his head back and forth in a circle, and when he moved his slightly numb neck, he heard a slight "click" sound. He said, "I'm too busy. I'll go back in a while."

"I haven't cooked yet, do you want to eat something?" Luo Xiyun asked him.

Xia Zekai didn't think about what to eat, so he said habitually: "Daughter-in-law, whatever you want, you can do it as you see fit!"

"You are so annoying. You tell me to do whatever I want." Luo Xiyun scolded him. This is the most annoying thing to say.

This put Xia Zekai in a dilemma. If he could think of something to eat, he would tell Luo Xiyun directly instead of just saying 'whatever'.

After thinking for a while, he said: "How about we stop doing this at home at night and go out to eat something."

Luo Xiyun refused directly: "Forget it, I'll do something myself and go out to eat every day. How clean do you think it is?"

There was nothing to say. After hanging up the phone, Xia Zekai pinched the base of his neck with both hands and pressed hard for a while to relieve the numbness caused by bowing his head for a long time. Then he packed up his desk and arranged the items neatly.

Went downstairs.

When he walked to the second floor, he discovered that the lights were still on in the main office area in the east, and many people were busy inside. He thought that all these employees knew that they had taken the initiative to work overtime, which was really good!

When I came out of the office building, as expected, Wang Yi and Cui Xiaofeng were already waiting below.

Xia Zekai said: "Xiao Wang, Xiao Cui, let's go back to the community."

Although we walked late today, there was an advantage. We had missed the peak traffic jam perfectly. Except for a few traffic lights where we had to stop, the rest of the road was smooth.

When we got back to Ziyu Garden Community, it only took a little over half an hour, which was much faster than usual.

After asking Wang Yi and Cui Xiaofeng to go back and rest early, Xia Zekai took the elevator directly upstairs.

When he opened the door, a smell of meaty smell hit his face. Xia Zekai swallowed subconsciously and shouted: "Daughter-in-law, make something delicious!"

"I made a pot of stew!" Luo Xiyun said.

She said: "I looked at the steaks, pork chops and a piece of venison that had been in the freezer for a while. If I didn't eat them anymore, they would become useless, so I just put them all in the pot to stew."

"No wonder, it smells pretty good!" Xia Zekai said.

"This tastes much better than seafood chowder."

"Dad, you didn't come to pick me up today, and mom didn't come to pick me up either. My sister and I came back with our second mother." As Tongtong spoke, tears of grievance flowed out.

Xia Zekai was stunned when he heard what his daughter said.

He was so busy that he forgot the time, and his wife also forgot the time when she was in love.

No wonder my tone was so aggressive when I called him just now, and no wonder I was cooking so late today.

At this time, Xia Zekai felt a little lucky that he and his second brother lived upstairs. Usually when the other brother had something to do, there would still be someone to help each other pick up and drop off the children.

"Daughter-in-law, you are too busy." Xia Zekai asked her.

Luo Xiyun said 'hmm' and said: "Our company has scheduled a move in these two days, and I was so busy that I forgot to call you to ask..."

After he finished speaking, the girl asked him angrily: "How come you forgot about it!"

This is a bit unreasonable!

Xia Zekai originally wanted to yell with her, but seeing that Tongtong was so wronged, he felt guilty and self-blame took over, and he didn't want to argue.

"Tongtong, this is Dad's fault. Dad apologizes to you and your sister. I promise that I will never be late again." Xia Zekai also raised his fingers and swore to the sky.

Tongtong believed it at that time, with a satisfied smile on her chubby little face: "Well, Dad, I forgive you, but... you have to buy toys for me and my sister."

"No problem, tell dad what toys you want and I will buy them for you." Xia Zekai confirmed by patting his chest.

Buying toys was not a big deal, but his daughter wanted a plane and he would find a way to buy it for her.

He asked: "Tongtong, what toys do you and your sister want?"

"I...I don't know!" Tongtong thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out.

She was not stupid, so she turned to her sister and asked her: "Sister, dad said he would buy us toys, what toys do you want?"

The girl hummed "Hmm", scratched her scalp with her little hands, winked and thought for a while, but couldn't think of anything.

Seeing this, Xia Zekai simply said: "Don't even think about it. Dad is going to the capital next month. I will take you there together. You can see if there are any toys you want to buy. Dad will buy them for you."

"Okay!" Yatou and Tongtong were both overjoyed.

The two of them held Xia Zekai's hand, raised their toes, stretched their heads upward and said, "Dad, I'll give you a kiss as a reward!"

When Xia Zekai heard this, he quickly squatted down and lowered his head.

"Bah"

"Bah!"

The two sisters kissed Xia Zekai on the face, then giggled, and Xia Zekai also laughed happily.

After waiting for another half an hour, Luo Xiyun finished the pot of stew. The smell became even more fragrant. Xia Zekai felt really hungry now, and he couldn't wait any longer.

Yatou and Tongtong were also hungry. They both shouted, "Dad, I'm so hungry!"

"You know you're hungry, but if you don't wash your hands quickly, you want to eat all the germs in your stomach." Xia Zekai said to the two of them.

Luo Xiyun also said with a straight face: "Look at your little black paws, wash them quickly, put some hand sanitizer and rub them well."

"Oh!" The two sisters hurriedly ran to wash their hands.

Luo Xiyun asked Xia Zekai, "Zekai, have the decorations in the villa been repaired?"

She was very busy these days, so she didn't go over to visit.

Xia Zekai nodded: "I took a look in the morning. The two sets of small-area ones have been finished and are being ventilated and dried. The set of 1,500 square meters has to wait, but there are only a few details left to deal with. Next time

I will definitely be able to finish my life by the beginning of the month."

"By the way, you should contact Boss Ren in the next few days and ask her how the furniture is being made. If it is done, please send it over sometime."

Luo Xiyun nodded in agreement, and she wondered: "How come the decoration is so far ahead of schedule?"

Xia Zekai was also puzzled as to which link had gone wrong as it was at least half a month ahead of schedule.

He asked after thinking about this. Luo Xiyun was suddenly stunned and said, "Zekai, I may know the reason."

"You know?" Xia Zekai was even more puzzled. Is it true or false?

Luo Xiyun told him something.

It turned out that when Luo Xiyun was renovating the office area of ​​Kaiyun Investment, when Luo Xiyun went over to see the progress of the decoration, she told Zhang Guolong that if the decoration could be completed in advance with guaranteed quality, she would give them extra red envelopes.

"I also told Mr. Zhang at the time that if the villas finished their work ahead of schedule, they would also be given red envelopes. Could this be the reason?" Luo Xiyun said.

Xia Zekai understood everything. He said, "When you said that, it made sense to me. That's probably what happened."

Then he laughed: "Sure enough, money is the best motivation."

Luo Xiyun rolled her eyes at him and said: "I have promised, and they have indeed completed the work ahead of schedule. Don't forget to cash in the red envelope when the time comes."

"OK!" Xia Zekai took the chopsticks and took out a few pieces of good meat from Yatou and Tongtong's small bowls to dry.

Then he went to the kitchen to pour some vinegar and sesame oil, and ate it with the meat. He liked this bite.

"Dad, it's so sour." The girl smelled the vinegar and frowned.

Strangely enough, Xia Zekai could drink vinegar as water and nibble on ginger, but Yatou and Tongtong both missed this talent perfectly.

Xia Zekai also spared no effort to promote his hobby. He pushed the small bowl in front of the two girls and said, "Try some of it, it's really delicious."

"Eh..." Tongtong said in a long voice, with a look of disgust on his face. People who didn't know better thought it was such an unpalatable thing.

Luo Xiyun said: "Hurry up and eat it by yourself."

"Dad, you are so disgusting. You actually ate something so disgusting, vomiting..." Tongtong stretched his little head forward and made a show of vomiting.

Xia Zekai raised his hand and was about to hit her little head, but the child reacted quickly and retracted immediately.

She stuck out her tongue proudly and shouted: "Dad, you can't hit me."

Luo Xiyun almost covered her face. She wondered, Tongtong, why are you deliberately looking for trouble?

After dinner, Xia Zekai went to clear away the dishes and chopsticks. Luo Xiyun, the girl, and Tongtong were doing questions with books. When they saw him coming out, Luo Xiyun asked him: "Have you really planted vegetables in the yard?"

Xia Zekai nodded: "We have to plant vegetables. I have cultivated a 200-square-meter small vegetable garden behind the villa and planted many kinds of vegetables."

Luo Xiyun nodded and said: "That's good. At least you can eat with confidence, but a 200-square-meter small vegetable garden is not enough."

Xia Zekai was speechless and said, "You really treat that little vegetable garden as a vegetable basket project."

However, he talked about the idea of ​​fruit trees, and also said that he would take a look at it when he had time in two days, buy a few fruit trees, and bring them back.

"Dad, what is a fruit tree?" the girl asked curiously.

Xia Zekai gestured to her and said, "It's a tree that can grow fruit. We can grow apples, pears, figs, peaches, jujube trees, and many, many more."

Tongtong's eyes immediately lit up, and she said excitedly: "Dad, then we can secretly get the jujube tree from grandma's house."

She stretched out her hand and gestured: "When the time comes, you can eat a lot of dates. Grandma's dates are so sweet. I like them very much."

When Xia Zekai heard what she said, he couldn't help laughing on the spot.

Luo Xiyun also said a little funny: "Tongtong, I think your grandma loves you as a child in vain. Why are you always thinking about stealing your grandma's jujube tree?"

Tongtong was unhappy, and she said confidently: "Huh, I didn't steal it, I asked dad to take it."

Xia Zekai gave his daughter a like, I want it!

…

Early the next morning, when Xia Zekai sent them to kindergarten, Teacher Kaixin stopped him at the door of the kindergarten: "Mr. Xia, are you free this Saturday?"

"Are we going to rehearse?" Xia Zekai asked.

Seeing Teacher Kaixin nodding, he said, "Okay, I'll come over then. What time will it be?"

Teacher Kaixin said: "The time period is from nine to eleven in the morning."
To be continued...