My Courtyard Refuge

Family Gathering

After having lunch at Zhao Jian’s house, Xu Dong left with the same gift.

The 1,000 catties of grain last time, Zhao Jian exchanged a lot of good things from him, and this time a considerable part of it can be regarded as “returning to the original owner”.

Back home, with rare free time, Xu Dong was going to take the children, including Ma Lingling, to the cinema to watch a movie.

As for the people coming from my hometown, because the railway system has temporarily adjusted the timetable, it is estimated that they will not arrive until after five o’clock in the evening.

When he came to the movie theater, Xu Dong found that there were not many people watching the movie, which may be related to the film schedule.

This year’s Spring Festival file is particularly deserted. Of the seven films released, six are old films, and the main theme films alone account for half of the country.

The only new movie was an animated movie. Xu Dong lost interest when he saw the name of the movie. It was too young, and he probably didn’t even like Ke Ke and the others.

With the continuation of the drought, all domestic industries are in depression, and the film industry is no exception.

And most importantly, in order to respond to the spirit of saving, the higher authorities have greatly reduced the number of filmings for the whole year.

Those who can get a share are basically large state-owned factories.

Suddenly, Lele took Dad’s arm and shouted loudly:

“Dad, Dad, I want to watch Frozen 2.”

“Frozen 2? Haven’t you watched it?” Xu Dong asked curiously.

“I want to watch it again!”

“How about you, do you want to watch “Frozen 2″?” Xu Dong asked while looking at the others.

Coco is naturally in favor of it.

Ma Lingling also nodded and said, “Let’s just watch “Frozen 2″. The rest are nothing to watch.”

As for Ma Xu, he really wants to watch “Operation Blue Ocean”, but unfortunately he is so soft-spoken and can only follow the crowd obediently.

When he came to the self-service ticket vending machine, Xu Dong bought five cinema tickets. The twins are already big children. Last year, they were 1.2 meters tall, so they have already bid farewell to children’s tickets.

Fortunately, the ticket price is not expensive, only 25 yuan per ticket.

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After a movie, for a full hundred minutes, Xu Dong dealt with Keke and Lele the whole time, and he couldn’t play with his mobile phone, so he almost fell asleep watching it.

The movie ended, and it was almost time. Xu Dong called his family, and then took the children directly to the high-speed rail station.

Anyway, there are many seats on the big run, and it can definitely fit.

When they arrived at the exit of the high-speed rail station, Xu Dong and the others waited for about half an hour, and finally received a call from Xu Ting.pedestrian.

“Mom, mom, we are here.” Ma Lingling waved her hands vigorously.

After exchanging pleasantries, Xu Dong stepped forward to take the suitcase from the elder sister, and then glanced at the eldest family following behind, he couldn’t help but wondered:

“Hey, why didn’t brother-in-law come?”

“Oh, I just received the notice this morning that your brother-in-law and his unit have started work ahead of schedule.” Xu Ting sighed.

Xu Dong frowned subconsciously. It seemed that the whole country was racing against time, and the situation was getting worse and worse.

“Let’s go, everyone, get in the car, we’ll talk about it when we go back.”

On the way, Ma Lingling took her mother and whispered, the eldest and the eldest were very quiet all the time, hardly speaking.

The eldest niece chatted happily with her younger siblings, and giggled from time to time.

Back home, everyone was very excited, but there was no crying scene as imagined, and everything seemed peaceful.

===Section 86===

Xu Ting took her sister-in-law and teased the triplets together. They hadn’t seen each other for more than a year. Tan Aifang looked at the three nephews who were getting bigger and bigger, and felt very uncomfortable.

Although the father-in-law and mother-in-law are also very kind to Jingyi, they are still somewhat patriarchal after all.

The brother-in-law and his wife didn’t plan to have a second child at first, and they didn’t know what promise the old couple made, so they had triplets.

Since having three grandchildren, the focus of the father-in-law and mother-in-law has almost moved to the uncle’s family, and later moved to Yanjing together.

At first, I thought “out of sight, out of mind”, but I didn’t expect that there would be a big flare, which caused a severe drought across the country, and their family’s life became difficult.

In the past year, the family had to rely on the mother-in-law’s “relief” to live a better life, which is embarrassing.

“Dabao, do you still recognize your aunt?”

Dabao’s child looked confused, and Yang Lina laughed and said, “When you came last time, he was only over one year old, how could he remember?”

“Our Dabao is smart, isn’t he Dabao?” Xu Ting continued teasing.

When Dabao heard someone calling him, his smiling eyes almost narrowed, and he kept shouting: “Dabao is a good baby!”

“Haha, yes, our Dabao is a good baby.”

At this time, it was rare for Tan Aifang to open her mouth, and said something sincere: “Nana, you take care of Dabao and the three of them so well!”

Seeing that my brother-in-law’s family is getting better and better, not only my brother-in-law has joined a big state-owned enterprise, but even my father-in-law has opened a big company, and the gap between the two is getting bigger and bigger.

People, you have to compromise with reality.

“I really didn’t spend much effort, it’s all thanks to my mother!”

Yang Lina replied neither hard nor soft, after all, she still has a little grudge in her heart.

“Mother-in-law is enjoying the blessings by following you.” Tan Aifang said this, which meant that she was completely subdued.

Xu Ting quickly echoed:

“Of course, look at this small yard, and even built a glass room, so you don’t have to worry about eating vegetables in the future. Nana, the watermelons you sent to Lingling before were also grown here, right?”

“Yeah, don’t look at the size of the glass house, but there are a lot of things to grow.”

After Yang Lina finished speaking, she pointed to a plate of strawberries on the table and introduced:

“There are also strawberries planted in the glass house. There are more than 100 trees in total, but the output is not bad, and the strawberries at home have never been lost.”

Xu Ting said enviously, “It makes me want to build a glass house.”

“It can also be built indoors, but it consumes a little more power.” Yang Lina replied seriously.

Xu Ting quickly waved her hand: “I’m just talking about it. There is not enough drinking water at home. How can there be extra water for growing vegetables?”

After chatting a few more words, dinner finally started.

It was a rare family reunion, and Madam Xu worked tirelessly to prepare a large table of meals, which was even richer than the New Year’s Eve dinner.

It was an eye-opener for Xu Ting. No wonder the two children are always clamoring to come to grandma’s house. These little days are no worse than before the drought!

“Mom, you’ve done too much, haven’t you?”

“It’s a rare time for you to come here. Mom will make up for you. Seeing how skinny you all are, it makes me worry.” Mama Xu said distressedly.

“Grandma still loves us the most.”

Xu Jingyi said happily, on the way here just now, she chatted with her two cousins ​​about daily life, she was really envious.

“Jingyi eat more, you are the thinnest in the family, and I don’t know how your mother cooks?” Xu’s mother complained, after all, she was the granddaughter who was brought up by herself, and she really felt distressed.

Xu Jingyi hurriedly explained for her mother: “Grandma, you blamed my mother wrongly. Didn’t I go to college? The food in school is not good. My mother is afraid that I will suffer, so she often comes here to send me delicious food!”