My Courtyard Refuge

Birthday

Seeing his mother and wife entering the door, Xu Dong hurriedly stepped forward to take the sack from Yang Lina’s hand. The sack looked heavy, but it was really heavy when he touched it. He couldn’t help but wondered:

“What is it, why is it so heavy?”

“It’s potatoes. I bought twenty catties.” Yang Lina replied casually.

“Why…why do you buy so much at once?”

Xu Ma turned her head and explained actively: “Recently, the price of vegetables has risen sharply. Potatoes are durable. Buying more can save some money.”

“You really know how to live!” Xu Dong smiled wryly.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are foods that he never wants to touch again in his life. After all, he ate them for nearly ten years in his previous life, not every day, but every meal.

At that time, I didn’t think there was any problem. After all, I was very happy if I could eat enough. It’s just that after being reborn, I don’t know if things will turn against each other. Anyway, I feel nauseous when I see it.

Xu’s mother gave her youngest son a hard look. Who the hell, shut up if you can’t speak.

Xu Dong quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Yang Lina took the opportunity to raise the convenience bag in her hand, and said for her husband: “We also bought a turbot, which will be braised in soy sauce at night. It must taste very good.”

The dinner was very sumptuous, with fish and meat. Mama Xu also chopped a whole dried goose to make a hot pot. Although the goose meat was a bit fatty, it tasted really great.

Satisfied with wine and food, Xu Dong suddenly patted the dining table, which immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

“Hey, Dad, Mom, Nana, I have an idea I want to discuss with you.” Xu Dong said looking at several people.

“Speak up if you have something to say! “Xu’s mother is always strong.

“Well, isn’t it the birthday of Keke and Lele the day after tomorrow? I want to hold a party for them at home.”

“What… body?” Mama Xu didn’t understand.

Yang Lina explained: “Mom, Dongzi is talking about a birthday party.”

The Keke sisters are very happy. Many students in the class have held parties, and they have also participated in several parties with good classmates. Naturally, they also want to have their own parties.

“Is this necessary?”

After all, Xu Ma is a person who is used to frugality, and she has always disapproved of such fancy things.

The twins paled.

Xu Dong immediately persuaded: “Mom, many students in Keke’s class have held birthday parties. If our family doesn’t hold a birthday party, it will embarrass your granddaughter, and the two of them may be excluded by their classmates.”

“Is there such a saying?” Mother Xu was taken aback.

Yang Lina assisted and said: “Mom, it is indeed possible, and it doesn’t cost much to hold a banquet, why don’t you hold one?”

“Grandma…” Lele grabbed Mama Xu’s arm and said coquettishly.

Coco grabbed Dad Xu’s arm like a model:

“Grandpa is the best! Grandpa…”

Father Xu surrendered immediately, and said with a smile: “Okay, don’t shake it, grandpa agrees!”

Seeing that the whole family agreed, Madam Xu agreed, and the birthday party was scheduled for the evening of April 10.

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In a blink of an eye, April 10th arrived. From two o’clock in the afternoon, Xu Ma and Yang Lina began to process the ingredients needed for the birthday party.

Xu Dong specially found ribbons and balloons, and decorated the courtyard a little bit, so that the atmosphere will be there.

After school, before five o’clock, the Keke sisters came back with three good friends.

The three students were a boy and two girls. One of the female classmates had been to the courtyard several times before, and she knew Mama Xu and the others.

In addition to the three classmates, Xu Ma also invited Wang Xiujuan’s family, but they haven’t arrived yet.

It was rare for the granddaughters to celebrate their birthdays, and Dad Xu also got off work early, and prepared a birthday present for the two of them, which were two identical phones and watches.

“Students are welcome to visit our house.” Xu Dong greeted him standing in the yard with a smile.

“Hello, Uncle!” Several classmates were very polite.

Xu Dong led everyone into the living room, turned on the TV, turned around and left, as an adult, he was not enough to play with the children.

As soon as Xu Dong left, Ke Ke picked up the snack box on the table and distributed snacks to the students.

“This is delicious, I guarantee you haven’t eaten it before.”

Everyone said it was delicious. One of the male students said that he hadn’t touched snacks for two months, which aroused the sympathy of the other two female students.

“Does your family have no money to buy snacks?” Lele asked curiously.

The male student curled his lips: “It’s not that I don’t have money, but I can’t buy it even if I have money. The supermarket has already sold out.”

“Lele, where do you get your snacks?” A female classmate asked immediately.

Lele thought for a while and explained: “My family used to run a convenience store, maybe it’s leftovers from the store!”

In fact, Xu Dong purchased all the snacks in advance, and there are more than a thousand boxes in total, which is a very considerable quantity.

After a while, Wang Xiujuan also arrived, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Zheng Yan, and her grandchildren. The whole family was present except the host.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the birthday banquet officially started. The banquet was in the buffet mode, and the dining place was under the grape arbor.

Xu Ma and Yang Lina made a total of ten dishes, namely potato chicken nuggets, braised rabbit meat, braised goose, braised pomfret, fried donkey meat, steamed ham, sugar mixed tomatoes, green pepper fried bacon, fried cabbage and seaweed ham soup.

Drinks include red wine, beer, cola and orange juice.

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The staple food is rice and steamed dumplings.

Not to mention a few classmates, even Wang Xiujuan was stunned by this situation. Meat is hard to find in the market now. I didn’t expect it to be so rich here.

Even if their family has internal channels, they can only eat a meal of meat every two days, and the meat is less than half a catty.

“Old Zhang, your family is really hiding something!”

Mother Xu explained with a smile: “These are the only ones left at home. Didn’t I sell air-dried chicken before? These are all leftovers from the sale.”

It was only then that Wang Xiujuan suddenly remembered that the other party seemed to have sold dried goods, and it was said that they were quite popular in nearby restaurants.

“No wonder! I said why your family has so much meat!”

Originally, Wang Xiujuan wanted to take the opportunity to ask if she could spend money to buy some meat back, but after thinking about it, she still didn’t ask. She is a face-saving person, and her skin is not thick enough.

Xu Dong saw that the children couldn’t wait to hold the dinner plates, and quickly announced: “Don’t talk about it, let’s start eating right away, otherwise it won’t taste good if it gets cold.”

“Wow……”

After eating the buffet for more than an hour, all the food was wiped out. The adults and children were full, drinking tea one by one with cups of water.

Fifteen minutes later, Xu Dong personallyI drove the three students home one by one, and each student also gave a large bag of snacks.

When she got home, Madam Xu was seeing off Wang Xiujuan’s family, as if she was still forcing something into their hands.

After all the guests had left, Xu Dong immediately asked: “Mom, what did you give Aunt Wang just now? It’s such a big bag, isn’t it all meat?”

“It’s up to you, Mom sent things for your own good, just wait.” Xu Ma said vaguely.

Xu Dong was confused when he heard this, why did he have anything to do with him?