"The pillar of the city?" Xia Zekai laughed after hearing this. He waved his hand: "Your surname is too strong. I don't dare to take it!"
When Xia Zekai asked for his name, the lobby manager quickly said: "Hello, Mr. Xia, just call me Jia Tao."
"Okay, Manager Jia, let's order some food." Xia Zekai said politely.
Taking the tablet from Jia Tao, Xia Zekai ordered some dishes, then handed the tablet to his wife and parents, asking them to order a few of their favorite foods.
Finally, he said to Wang Yi: "Xiao Wang, today is the Chinese New Year, please order more dishes, don't save me."
There were more than a dozen people like Wang Yi, Wu Jialei, and Cui Xiaofeng who had been following Xia Zekai. After hearing what the boss said, Wang Yi directly asked Jia Tao about the set meal. The set meal he ordered was more trouble-free.
Then he asked Jia Tao to open a room next door. Wang Yi and Wu Jialei stayed behind and guarded the door of Xia Zekai's room. The others ate quickly and came over to work after eating.
They are very skilled at this, and no one is polite. They all know that finishing the meal quickly and saving time is the best way.
"Zekai, call your brother this afternoon and ask him where he is going to celebrate the New Year." His mother, Zhou Yinghong, suggested.
Xia Zekai nodded and said he understood.
In previous years, his uncle and his two brothers came to his place to celebrate the New Year. The main reason was that his grandfather still lived here and was the backbone of the family. But his grandfather is gone now. In theory, his uncle has now become the senior member of their family.
biggest.
"Dad, why don't we go to my uncle's place to celebrate the New Year at noon tomorrow?" Xia Zekai asked his father.
Xia Weicheng thought for a moment and said, "Can your uncle's side accommodate so many people?"
This is really a problem.
His uncle usually lives in Zhoucheng District. It is a small house of more than 70 square meters. Just counting the area of the apartment, it may only be more than 60 square meters. It is more than enough for the uncle to live alone, but if so many of them come there, it will be really difficult.
You may not be able to sit down.
"Dad, why don't you come to our house to celebrate the New Year, let's have a good time together, and then go back to our respective homes in the evening." Xia Zekai had an idea in his mind, and he said, "I'll tell the eldest brother and the second brother later."
"Call Zhao Ting, Lao Qi and the others. They are usually busy and can't get together. It's just a good time to get together during the Chinese New Year."
Listening to his son's words, Xia Weicheng didn't say anything else.
The cuisine masters of Shandong and Sichuan cuisine hired by the Blue Horizon Hotel with high salaries are quite good. Zhou Yinghong and Xia Weicheng said they are delicious.
Several little ones also shouted that it was delicious. His wife and mother kept putting dishes they could eat into the three bowls of Qingyu and others. Xia Zekai felt very satisfied when he saw each person scooping the food into their mouths with a spoon.
"Zekai, let's not forget that the food cooked by the master chef in this hotel is indeed very good, which is different from Qicheng Hotel." Luo Xiyun commented.
There are only so many famous hotels in Qicheng that you can count them all on one hand.
It's almost as good as the two of them if they don't share all their treasures.
"It's really good." Xia Zekai praised.
In the middle of the process, they were asked to continue eating. Xia Zekai took a bottle of beer and went to the next room to find Wang Yi, Cui Xiaofeng and the others for a drink.
Among these people, Wang Yi and Cui Xiaofeng have been following him for four years. Wu Jialei and Geng Yuqin have been following Xia Zekai for three years. Then there are the eight people selected from the company's security team in the third wave.
They have been following Xia Zekai for two years.
Xia Zekai knew in his heart that his family could live peacefully now because these people had put in a lot of effort, both covertly and covertly.
Therefore, Xia Zekai has never been stingy with them. After all, they are the ones who protect the safety of his family.
"Everyone, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. You all worked hard last year. I am very grateful. I wish you all a happy and good New Year." After saying that, Xia Zekai drank the glass of wine.
The dozen or so people in the room drank water instead of wine. They didn't dare to be careless. After drinking, they would always react slowly. If something happened, they would be in big trouble.
"Xiao Wang, starting from tomorrow, it will be the same as in previous years. You will schedule your work and let everyone go home and reunite with their parents for two days. I won't talk about this." Xia Zekai mentioned.
Wang Yi nodded. Ever since he and Cui Xiaofeng started working together, they would go home to celebrate the New Year. This has never changed.
"Tonight, I will send you another red envelope. In addition, I have prepared some New Year's goods for you. Everyone should bring a copy when they go back."
"You have been with me for several years, and you are still single. This is not good. It makes it seem like I won't let you get married."
"Let me tell you, if you have someone you like and want to get married, just let me know. I will definitely not delay your life-long event."
"If you really can't find the right one, I'll find a way to organize a blind date for you."
"Xiao Wang, you are responsible for leaving a place for them all at Jingtong Security Co., Ltd."
Listening to the boss talking there, everyone in the room was very excited. It turned out that the boss had thought about it for them.
This freed them from worries and made them think that even if the bullets were coming, they would still dare to block them.
After Xia Zekai finished his bottle of beer and returned to the next room, Wang Yi replaced the wine with tea, raised his cup and said, "Brothers and sisters, the boss treats us with sincerity, and we all know it in our hearts, let's do it!"
…
Yatou and Tongtong were very energetic and wanted to go back to Yintai City to play after eating.
There is nothing else to do today, so just go.
Leaving his wife to look after the children, Xia Zekai started busy calling his brother, two cousins, cousin and cousin-in-law, and asked them to come to his place for a gathering at noon tomorrow.
Several people agreed, and said that Xia Zekai's villa would only be able to accommodate the whole family when the time came.
The call had just ended, and Xia Zekai was about to put away his phone and chat with the little ones. The car suddenly stopped moving. Xia Zekai glanced forward. He hadn't reached the traffic light yet, but there was already a traffic jam ahead.
"Xiao Wang, what's going on?" Xia Zekai asked.
Wang Yi said: "Boss, there may be an accident ahead."
"Find someone to go down and see what's going on. If that doesn't work, go to another intersection," Xia Zekai said.
But when he looked to the left and right, they were both blocked, and he realized that his words were in vain. His car didn't have wings and couldn't fly out at all.
Wang Yi called Liu Changzheng in the car behind him and asked him to go down and take a look.
A few minutes later, Liu Changzheng called Wang Yi. He said that six cars rear-ended him, and various parts were scattered all over the floor. One of the cars was hit so hard that its body lay across the road.
Police cars and ambulances have arrived, and the traffic police are spreading out to clear the traffic flow.
But today is New Year's Eve. At this time, many people drive out to play. The traffic volume is too heavy and it is difficult to clear the traffic.
Wang Yi was driving on speakerphone, and both Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun heard it. They frowned subconsciously. Upon hearing this, they knew that there must be someone braking suddenly or speeding, and they couldn't react in the end.
I don’t know what the personnel situation is like.
But Xia Zekai didn't worry about that. There were professional traffic police and hospital emergency personnel at the scene, so he couldn't help.
Xia Zekai and the others moved forward slowly following the traffic flow, but more than ten minutes passed and they still did not move a few meters.
Fortunately, when the traffic police saw that it was not possible to continue like this, they called for a tow truck and towed several cars away. After the road was cleared, this section of the road quickly became smooth again.
When passing the accident scene, Xia Zekai took a look outside and saw that even the metal barrier in the middle had been broken. There were still a lot of debris on the ground that had not been cleaned up. He could also imagine the brutality of the collision between several cars.
"Dad, where's the car?" Tongtong stood up and looked outside and asked.
She was still thinking about taking a look, and Xia Zekai told her: "Those are all bad guys trying to steal the road, and they were all taken away by the traffic police."
"Hey, you, they are really miserable." Tongtong screamed strangely. She suddenly pointed to a place outside and asked, "Dad, what is that red thing?"
Xia Zekai was stunned for a moment and looked in the direction of his daughter's finger. Only then did he realize that there was a pool of blood on the ground that had not been cleaned up. It was quite dazzling.
Looking at the area of the pool of blood, Xia Zekai was silent for a while. During the Chinese New Year, this kind of thing should be a tragedy for several families.
Luo Xiyun seemed to understand something. She sighed and said, "Let's go home and come out to see the night view at night."
"I don't, why." When Yatou and Tongtong heard their mother say this, they disagreed.
But when Luo Xiyun stared at them, the two sisters became honest and didn't say a word.
Xia Zekai thought for a while and said, "Then go home and rest for a while, and watch the lanterns in the evening."
"Okay, let's look at the lanterns!" the girl responded as she stood up.
After Wang Yi heard this, he turned around at the intersection ahead and drove towards the Ziyu Garden Villa area.
I was quite energetic when I didn't want to play, but Yatou and Tongtong all fell asleep in the car when they were about to get home.
This made Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun quite helpless. Luo Xiyun both said: "Honey, do you think they did it on purpose?"
"Okay, don't worry about whether they did it on purpose or not. Just put them in and sleep for a while. There will be more trouble at night." Xia Zekai said.
"Okay!" Luo Xiyun was already carrying Qingyu upstairs.
Zhou Yinghong and Xia Weicheng carried Chenchen and Jing Ling respectively and followed them upstairs.
Only Xia Zekai looked worried at the girl and Tongtong who were lying on the seats.
She has become a big girl and cannot be held. With a bad smile on his face, he woke up the two sisters: "Girl, Tongtong, wake up, we are home, you two go upstairs.
sleep."
"Dad hates it!"
…
The next day is the Spring Festival.
Xia Zekai got up early and watched Wang Yi and others cleaning the house. He also followed suit for a while and exercised.
I got into a car accident yesterday afternoon. My mood was affected and I went home directly.
But in the evening, I accompanied Yatou, Tongtong and the other five to watch the lanterns in the park outside. I wanted to come back early, but none of the five of them agreed. In the end, they had no choice. They played until they all started to feel sleepy, and then they came back.
, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.
By the time Xia Zekai finished his work and was ready to go to bed, it was already midnight.
"Xiao Wang, you will take Sister Jiang to the farmer's market later to buy some meat, vegetables, and seafood for dinner," Xia Zekai said.
A group of brothers will come over soon, and there must be a lot of people including the children. They don't plan to eat at home, so they can just go to the hotel.
Wang Yi nodded when he heard what the boss said. He was already familiar with this business and knew where to buy good things.
What Xia Zekai didn't expect was that his brother Xia Zejiang and his sister-in-law Shen Jiayi came over just after eight o'clock.
The little niece Xia Rongting was nestled in her mother's arms, looking at the uncle in front of her, her big clean eyes rolling around, she was so cute.
"Tingting, come here and let me hug you." Xia Zekai stretched out his hands towards her.
Maybe it was because they didn't see each other often, but when the little girl saw Xia Zekai hugging her, she was so frightened that she started crying.
Xia Zekai was embarrassed, but Luo Xiyun pushed Xia Zekai away. When she brought little Rongting over, the little guy stopped crying immediately.
"Why, Tingting, you are still sexist." Xia Zekai said to her.
But the one-year-old little guy couldn't understand it at all, so he stared at Xia Zekai with a pair of innocent eyes, not knowing what this guy was talking about.
"Brother, where are our parents?" Xia Zejiang asked without seeing his parents.
Xia Zekai pointed to the west and said: "We played too late last night, they haven't gotten up yet!"
"Oh." Xia Zejiang responded.
He took advantage of yesterday to go to the construction community in Zhoucheng District and visited his mother-in-law's house.
Today he plans to spend the whole day at his brother's place to celebrate the New Year.
"Brother, what's for lunch? I'll choose the food first." Xia Zejiang asked, he was quite positive.
Xia Zekai waved his hand: "There are too many people, so I won't eat at home. I'll go to Lanhai at noon."
He just asked Wang Yi to call Jia Tao, the lobby manager of the Blue Horizon Hotel, and booked a large room with four tables in one room.
At that time, everyone will get together and it will be lively.
Not long after his younger brother and his family came over, the second brother also came over with his family.
When he saw Xia Zekai, the second brother joked to himself: "I thought I came early enough, but Zejiang you came even earlier."
"Brother, I have arranged my work. I have nothing to do at home, so I came over in advance." Xia Zejiang said.
"Tingting, let me hug you." Xia Yunhui saw his niece Xia Rongting and turned his attention to the child.
But in the same way as Xia Zekai, when this little guy saw Xia Yunhui trying to hug her, he was so frightened that he crawled directly into his mother's arms.
"Hey, you, she's still afraid of me. That's not okay. Tingting, let me take you for a run." Xia Yunhui said.
"Yunhui, don't scare Tingting." Second sister-in-law Dong Fei nagged him and pushed him aside.
"Zekai, let me ask you something." Xia Yunhui asked him.
Xia Zekai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Brother, what's going on?"
"Do you know if there are any villas for sale in this community?" Xia Yunhui has been looking at villas recently, but after looking around, he found that the environment is either too remote, or the price is not ideal, and this is Ziyu.
The villas in the garden villa area generally meet his requirements.
Hearing what his second brother said, Xia Zekai said directly: "Brother, I still have a set in hand, but the area is a bit small." Xia Zekai said.
His apartment has been vacant. If my second brother needs it, I can sell it to him.
Xia Yunhui really didn't know about this. He couldn't react: "You bought three sets here?"
"Well, I happened to have some spare money, so I bought a few more sets." Xia Zekai said.
