Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

"Uncle Cai, auntie, Uncle Chen, auntie."

"Xiao Kun, Jing Ping, we haven't seen each other for almost a year, right?"

"Almost. How are you? Are you all right?"

"I'm fine."

Little Zongzi smiled and said, "Hello, Grandpa and Grandma."

"Little Zongzi has grown this tall, Pingping and Little Yumi have also grown taller."

"Hehe... Grandpa and grandma, let me introduce you. This is my cousin Xiao Li, from my aunt's family."

"Hello, grandparents."

"Hello little one."

Mr. and Mrs. Cai and Mr. and Mrs. Chen came back from their daughter's (daughter-in-law's) factory. They couldn't stay idle at home, so they went to their daughter's (daughter-in-law's) factory every day to help with cleaning and other things.

Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping were chatting with Mr. Cai and Mrs. Cai, and Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen in the yard, while Xiao Zongzi and a few other little guys were playing and fighting in the yard.

"Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Grandma, I'm back."

A little boy about five or six years old ran into the yard carrying a schoolbag. Yang Yukun waved at the boy and said, "Feihong, is school over?"

"Uncle Kun, Aunt Jingping!"

"Not bad, you can even recognize your Uncle Kun and Aunt Jingping."

"Of course, Uncle Kun, Aunt Jingping, why are you here at my house?"

"Why, you don't welcome us to your house for dinner?"

"Uncle Kun, that's not what I meant. I welcome you to my home."

"I haven't seen you for a year. You've grown so tall." Yang Yukun patted Chen Feihong on the head. The boy has grown a lot taller than a year ago.

"Brother Feihong."

Xiao Zongzi also knew Chen Feihong and greeted her after seeing her.

"Little Zongzi, Pingping, Little Corn." Chen Feihong didn't know Hou Li, so he asked Little Zongzi, "Who is this?"

"My cousin, his name is Hou Li, he is from my aunt's family." Little Zongzi said: "Xiao Li, this is Brother Feihong."

"Hello, brother Feihong."

"Hello."

Cai Xiaoli came out of the house and said to her son, "Go wash your hands and face, and get ready for dinner."

"Okay, what delicious food is my dad making? It smells so good. I think I can smell grouper."

Chen Feihong hung his schoolbag on a chair and ran to the pool in the yard to wash his hands and face.

"Dad, Mom, Xiaokun, Jingping, dinner is ready, let's eat."

"Xiao Kun, Jing Ping, let's go inside and eat."

"okay."

"Little Zongzi, Pingping, Little Corn, Xiaoli, you little guys, stop playing and have dinner first."

"coming."

The grouper feast was ready, and Cai Xiaoli invited her parents, parents-in-law, Yang Yukun, Xu Jingping and others into the house.

"Wow, all grouper." Chen Feihong saw a table full of grouper. He loves grouper the most.

Chen Zhihua brought over two bottles of Maoqiong wine and said to his son, "Go and help get the dishes and chopsticks."

"okay."

Chen Feihong ran to get the bowls and chopsticks and took the initiative to help pour wine for the adults.

"Xiao Kun, Jing Ping, come on, pick up your chopsticks and try this grouper feast I made today."

"good to eat."

"Fresh, extremely fresh."

"Xiao Kun, you are an expert. Come, let's have a drink together." Chen Zhihua was very happy to get Yang Yukun's affirmation. His grouper feast was not in vain.

"Let's have a drink together, Uncle Cai, Auntie, Uncle Chen, Auntie, I wish you all good health."

"Thank you."

"cheers."

Several people clinked glasses together. Cai's mother and Chen's mother couldn't drink alcohol, so they drank coconut milk instead.

Xu Jingping doesn't drink white wine either. He usually drinks Jieyuhua rice wine and various fruit wines made by Yang Yukun at home. Now he also drinks coconut milk.

"Eat slowly and be careful with the fish bones."

Seeing that the little ones had finished eating, Yang Yukun put two large pieces of fish into their bowls.

The bones of grouper are large and small, but if you eat too fast you may get pricked accidentally.

"Xiao Kun, Jing Ping, I offer you a glass of wine, thank you."

Cai Xiaoli filled the wine glass and raised it to toast Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping.

Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping helped her so much and helped her factory get through the most difficult period, but she never had the time to say thank you to them.

Xu Jingping said, "Sister Xiaoli, please sit down. There's no need to be so formal between us."

"When the factory was slow to develop sales channels, I was so anxious that my hair was falling out. It was you who brought my factory back to life."

Chen Zhihua said: "I can testify to this. At the beginning, the goods produced by Xiaoli's factory filled up the entire warehouse. We couldn't sell them, so we could only sell them in our store and a few friends' stores.

Seeing that the goods had been produced but there was no market for them, Xiaoli couldn't sleep all night and lost a lot of weight during that period."

When Cai Xiaoli first said she wanted to start a business by opening a beverage factory that mainly produced coconut milk drinks, Chen Zhihua chose to support her without hesitation.

Chen Zhihua saw with his own eyes Cai Xiaoli busying around every day. It was not easy to run a factory.

Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes, and the products cannot be sold after they are produced. Not only Cai Xiaoli can't sleep well, but Chen Zhihua also has a headache.

If it weren't for the help from Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping, the factory would not have been able to sustain itself for long and would have most likely gone bankrupt if sales had not been opened.

If the factory goes bankrupt, it will be a huge blow to Cai Xiaoli.

This was also the reason why Chen Zhihua spent a lot of money to prepare such a large grouper feast to entertain Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping today.

"Xiaokun, Jingping, I'll drink this glass of wine." Cai Xiaoli drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp.

"Sister Xiaoli, please go slower."

Yang Yukun drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and Xu Jingping drank a bowl of coconut milk.

After eating and drinking, everyone sat together chatting, while a few kids watched TV nearby.

Tonight, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping will stay at Cai Xiaoli's house with the little ones.

Originally, the two of them planned to take Xiao Zongzi and the others to stay in a hotel, but Cai Xiaoli's family said that they had an empty room at home and there was no need to spend money on a hotel.

Cai Xiaoli made the bed and said, "Xiao Kun, Jing Ping, tonight you two will take Ping Ping and Xiao Yumi to live in this room, Xiao Zongzi will live in this room, and Xiao Li and Fei Hong will live in the same room."

"Got it."

"Dad, Mom, look, the moon and stars are out, nice stars."

“Can you count how many stars there are?”

"One, two, three, four, five... so many, so many, too many to count."

"Ding ding ding..."

"Dad, your phone is ringing."

"Let Dad see who it is." Yang Yukun picked up his mobile phone and answered the phone: "Lao Zhang, have you had dinner? We are still in Coconut City. Yes, we didn't go home today. We are at Xiaoli's house and Haixiu's place. We will return to Yangcheng early tomorrow morning."

The call was from Zhang Bei.

I figured they should have arrived in Yangcheng by now, so I called them to ask about the situation. Unexpectedly, they didn't go back to Yangcheng, but were still in Coconut City.

If Cai Xiaoli and Chen Zhihua had not urged them to stay, they would have taken a boat to Xuwen at two o'clock and set off from Xuwen at three o'clock, and would have almost reached Guangzhou by now.

After finishing the call with Zhang Bei, it was already past 9:30. They had to leave for Yangcheng early tomorrow morning. Cai Xiaoli and Chen Zhihua had to be busy tomorrow, so they all went back to their rooms. (End of this chapter)