"Grandpa, look, these are the new clothes I bought you for the New Year." The girl excitedly handed the handbag she was carrying to Xia Weicheng.
After hearing this, Xia Weicheng was so happy that he opened his mouth from ear to ear and asked her: "Girl, you are so good, how do you know what size grandpa wears?"
"I don't know, but daddy does." The girl said firmly: "But I bought this for you with my saved pocket money."
"There are also clothes for grandma!" The girl handed another handbag to Zhou Yinghong.
She urged: "Grandma, please try it on quickly and see if it looks good or not."
The smile on Zhou Yinghong's face became brighter and brighter: "Oh, you girl is such a good girl."
"Hey, grandma, hurry up and try it!" the girl urged.
Zhou Yinghong couldn't resist her granddaughter's persuasion and took out the clothes from her handbag. It was a coat. It looked a bit like fur. The specific material was unclear.
Zhou Yinghong tried it on. It is light brown and has three-quarter sleeves, which is especially suitable for the elderly.
"Grandma looks great in it, don't you think so, Tongtong?" the girl shouted with a smile.
"Well, it looks good. Dad has a really good eye for choosing clothes." As Tongtong spoke, she also took out the clothes she bought for her mother: "Mom, this is what I bought for you."
Luo Xiyun was moved by this sentence and felt that there was something wrong with her previous view of Tongtong.
She quickly put down the water glass in her hand and carefully took the knitted sweater from Tongtong's hand. The dress was not very expensive, but Luo Xiyun felt it was too heavy in her hand.
She raised her hand and placed it on the little heads of Yatou and Tongtong sisters, and said with a smile: "You two are good children."
"Hey, mom, this is what my sister and I agreed upon, and we also bought it for my younger brothers and sisters." Tongtong, wanting to show off, took out a few gadgets from another handbag and handed them to Qingyu.
, three siblings, Chenchen and Jingling.
These are several small dolls, but they look very silly no matter how you look at them. Even so, the three siblings jumped up happily after taking them.
Luo Xiyun was puzzled and asked: "Didn't you buy it for dad?"
"I bought it. Mom, didn't you see a new scarf around dad's neck?" Tongtong said, pointing to a brown scarf around Xia Zekai's neck.
Only then did Luo Xiyun notice that her husband had an extra scarf around his neck.
It should be said that her husband has never worn a scarf before, and I don’t know what he thinks this time.
"Then whose idea was this?" Luo Xiyun was curious and asked, pointing to the scarf around her husband's neck.
When their mother asked this question, the two sisters pointed at each other and said with a smile: "Mom, my sister and I thought about this together. Isn't it beautiful?"
What else could Luo Xiyun say? It wasn't around her neck anyway.
Xia Zekai didn't care. He tightened his scarf and said, "In such a cold day, wearing a scarf is quite warm."
Well, Luo Xiyun didn't say anything else. She felt that if the sisters bought her husband a piece of cloth, her husband would say hello.
Luo Xiyun was in a better mood now. She asked the sisters: "What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
"Mom, I just drank a large cup of milk tea. I'm not hungry now." The girl shook her head. He didn't want to eat.
Tongtong also shook his head: "Mom, I don't want to eat it either. Let's wait until we eat together in the evening."
"That won't work. What's the use of a cup of milk tea? You have to eat, otherwise you won't be allowed to drink milk tea in the future." Luo Xiyun didn't want to listen to the two of them.
The two sisters twisted their bodies back and forth, moaning and groaning endlessly.
Seeing the two of them like this, the good mood Luo Xiyun had just accumulated disappeared immediately. It turned out that the two of them had not changed at all.
"Don't mess with me. I'm going to cook. Come over and eat later. No one will eat less." Luo Xiyun ended the topic with such force.
After their mother left, Yatou and Tongtong immediately gathered around their father to complain.
The girl said: "Dad, you see mom is not being unreasonable at all. I'm obviously not hungry?"
"That's right, I'm not hungry either. If I eat too much, I'll gain weight easily, and it will also affect the speed of my punches." Tongtong extended his hand and kicked his legs.
Xia Zekai couldn't stand it anymore: "You two go play with your younger brothers and sisters. Don't make your mother angry here."
"Sister, sister, let's play hide and seek." Qingyu yelled.
She enjoys playing this game very much.
Hearing the third sister shouting to hide and seek, Chenchen and Jing Ling also came over.
"Hide and seek." The brothers shouted loudly.
Tongtong originally didn't want to play such a mentally retarded game, but her naughty eyes wandered back and forth, and she didn't know what good idea she thought of. Finally, she said, "Okay, you hide it, and I'll find it."
"Come on, hurry up, hide yourself." Chenchen had already run away.
Siblings Qingyu and Jingling also ran away.
When Tongtong saw that her sister was still around and hadn't moved, she asked her, "Sister, why don't you hide yourself?"
"Where should I hide? Do you want me to hide my head like the fourth child and expose my butt like an ostrich for you to find?" The girl pointed at her brother who was hiding behind the door with half of his body exposed:
"Am I stupid too?"
Tongtong also wanted to laugh when she saw this scene, but she said: "Idle time is idle, just play."
As he spoke, Tongtong asked: "Are you all hidden?"
"Hide it, sister, let's find it." Someone shouted at the west corner.
After hearing this, Tongtong quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth to prevent herself from laughing.
She pointed to that place and said, "Sister, do you think they are fun? I have already found two of them before I even started looking."
The girl felt that it was quite interesting now. She said: "You look for them first, and I will hide them too."
Hearing what his sister said, Tongtong nodded: "You go ahead, I'll go find them first."
After saying that, Tongtong ran towards the little ostrich sticking out its butt behind the door.
When she got there, she pretended to be blind and searched all over the place. It seemed that she couldn't find anyone. She even shouted in a serious tone: "Oh, where have they all gone? Why is it so difficult?"
"Hehe, sister can't find me." Chenchen, who was hiding behind the door, smiled proudly.
Tongtong: “??”
What should I do? I met a stupid brother, and I was very distressed.
She left anyway and went to find the other two elsewhere.
The old couple Zhou Yinghong and Xia Weicheng watched their five siblings having fun, watching from the side without interfering.
Seeing that his son had not left yet, Xia Weicheng asked him: "Zekai, did your brother and the others say when they would come?"
"It hasn't been decided yet, but it's already the 18th of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year is only a few days away. I guess they will be there soon," Xia Zekai said here.
According to the normal corporate rest time, the holiday usually starts on the 27th or 8th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the top day only lasts for 10 days.
Xia Weicheng and Zhou Yinghong, the old couple, also miss their younger son. Hearing what the boss said, Xia Weicheng smiled and said, "Okay, we don't have much time left. Let's buy some New Year's goods in the past few days and prepare when we come back."
There were really a lot of people there by then.
Xia Zekai agreed, and he was preparing to go shopping in the next two days.
He didn't pay attention to the youngest next to him who was shouting, "Sister, you idiot, I'm hiding here and you can't find it", and went directly to the kitchen to help his wife.
Jiang Ningning is also helping his wife here, packing up the sea fish and a few dishes.
Seeing him come in, Jiang Ningning nodded and said hello. Luo Xiyun also asked him: "Why don't you look at them outside."
"They're just playing it by themselves. They're just playing hide and seek. What's the point of looking at it?" Xia Zekai took the celery from his wife's hand and plucked off the leaves.
He said: "Daughter-in-law, let's go buy some New Year's goods in two days and prepare in advance."
"Okay." Luo Xiyun agreed.
"Zekai, there's something I forgot to ask you. Will you be going to the Spring Festival Gala?" Luo Xiyun said.
Xia Zekai did not answer her directly, but asked instead: "Do you want to go?"
"Why should I go? This year, the whole family is here to celebrate the New Year. We can't both be away by then. You can go when the time comes. I will greet you at home." Luo Xiyun said this.
When Xia Zekai heard what his wife said, he said, "If you don't go, then I won't go either."
"Why are you so willful? It's not easy for you to have such an opportunity." Luo Xiyun said to him.
But Xia Zekai didn't care. He said, "I will get this opportunity if I want it. There is nothing rare about it."
Luo Xiyun glanced at him sideways: "It's up to you, that's all!"
Xia Zekai laughed for a while and said nothing else.
Waiting for them to finish cooking and come out to call the girl to eat together, Tongtong was still holding a piece of bread in his mouth and searching hard: "Oh, where are you? I can't find any of them."
The little ostrich that stuck out its butt behind the door and had been hiding for more than 20 minutes was still complaining: "Sister, you are so stupid. I have been hiding for so long and you still can't find me."
"That's right, I've seen my sister several times." Jing Ling, who was hiding in the corner, also started to mutter. Seeing his sister eating bread there, he was also greedy.
But he is a good boy who abides by the rules of the game. He must not go out until he is found.
When Xia Zekai saw this, he collapsed for his son.
Look at Tongtong wandering around there, he doesn't look like he's looking for someone.
He finally understood that this second guy was really annoying.
After Luo Xiyun came out, she still didn't understand what was going on, so she asked her husband.
Xia Zekai said: "Tongtong has such a good eye. She has been hiding until now, but she didn't find any of them. She is still in the mood to eat bread."
Luo Xiyun was furious when he heard this: "Tongtong!"
The sound was harsh and scared away the birds in the trees.
As soon as Tongtong heard her mother's voice, she looked back at the expression on her face and ran away.
If you don't run away, you'll be beaten.
Sure enough, after the sisters finished their homework, the family was in a frenzy during the winter vacation.
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Later, Xia Zekai and his wife specially took two days to buy some things together, including food and toys for the children.
In a few days, the brothers and sisters from Qicheng will come together, and the dozen or so children in the family will be very excited just thinking about it.
At this time, over in Qicheng, the end of the year was approaching, and Xia Zejiang, Xia Yunhui, and Xia Yunfei were also busy with work at the end of the year.
Comparatively speaking, the eldest brother Xia Yunfei finished his work the earliest and stopped driving on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.
The second brother Xia Yunhui, because he mainly takes orders from Kelan Chemical, he actually has no time to rest until the end of the year. He is thinking about going to the capital in a few days, so he still has to arrange the work here before leaving.
good.
Jiaze Packaging Box Factory Co., Ltd., Xia Zejiang is arranging tasks for people in the company.
Because Jingtong Development Co., Ltd. is rushing to work this year and has no rest time, Jiaze Packaging Box Factory, as a downstream packaging material supplier, also has no rest and continues to work overtime production.
Comparatively speaking, what's better about them is that they are not reluctant to give up money. All kinds of overtime pay are implemented according to the standards without any discount, or even higher than the given standards, and other benefits are also quite generous.
Some employees who want to take a break can also choose to take a break. Those who are far away from home and want to go home for the New Year will be reimbursed by the company for the round-trip ticket costs after reporting.
Those who choose to work overtime in the company will receive a daily New Year subsidy of 200 yuan in addition to normal overtime pay. In this way, more people are willing to choose to work overtime.
"Everyone, our meeting today will basically cover these things. After everyone goes back, they will make publicity to employees in each department. During the Chinese New Year, we will first ensure the safety of employees."
"The restaurant provides free extra meals and must ensure that employees eat and drink well."
"In addition, during the Chinese New Year, the managers on duty should also take it seriously and not fool me just because I am not in the company."
Xia Zejiang talked one by one.
His expression was extremely serious at this time, and the immature student look of before could not be seen from him.
Everyone below would nod to show their understanding every time he said something.
In fact, they don't dare to play any tricks.
Nowadays, the best company in Qicheng is Jingtong Development Co., Ltd.
But few people know that the treatment of Jiaze Packaging Box Factory Co., Ltd. is second only to Jingtong Development Co., Ltd.
They can work as department managers here, and they don't want to lose their jobs for no reason.
Compared with long-term benefits, salary income, and bonuses, how much can you gain from playing tricks?
Mainly, it makes me nervous.
After work, Xia Zejiang returned to Century Garden.
As soon as you enter the door, you can smell the aroma of home fried goods.
"Jiayi, did our mother explode something again?" Xia Zejiang guessed it immediately.
Before his wife could reply, his father-in-law Shen Qishan said: "Zejiang is back. Aren't you going to go to your elder brother's place in the capital in a few days? Let's buy some New Year's goods first and then bring them over together."
"Dad, what did my mother fry? It tastes so good!" Xia Zejiang looked like a glutton.
Shen Qishan burst out laughing and said, "What else can I have? Fried meat, fried pork ribs, and some fried saury."
"You've been eating it for several years and you still haven't had enough."
Hearing what his father-in-law said, Xia Zejiang quickly shook his head: "Dad, my mother's cooking is so delicious, how can I eat enough? Even if I eat it for another 30 years, it won't be enough!"
"Oh, I've lived half my life, but I can't live as clearly as you." Shen Qishan became happy.
The next moment, he brought out a plate of saury and handed it to his son-in-law: "Zejiang, hurry up and try the saury that's just come out of the pot."
Tang Wanqiu, who was frying pork ribs inside, was very happy when she heard her son-in-law say this. She felt that there was nothing wrong with just doing some work.
