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"Chief Xu, I have to take care of my grandson at home, so I won't go." Gao Yuemei declined.

"Bring the kids with you!"

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"No, no, it's too much trouble."

Xu Dong quickly changed his approach: "Sister Gao, I brought a lot of ingredients from home. You also know that I can't cook and can't handle it by myself. Can you come over and help me?"

Facing the benefactor's request, Gao Yuemei could not refuse at all, so she could only sit on the Daben with her grandson in her arms.

More than half an hour has passed since we returned to Sanhejiayuan Community, and it's almost lunch time.

"Sister Gao, the ingredients are in the kitchen. Please wait a moment while I find someone to come and help you take care of the child."

"No need, just let him watch TV in the living room."

Gao Yuemei advised. .

"It's no problem. This person is our former neighbor. I originally planned to invite her to come with me."

Xu Dong waved his hand and knocked on the neighbor's door next door.

"Xiaoyun, are you at home?"

The door opened soon, and Xiaoyun looked surprised:

"Uncle Xu, are you back?"

Xu Dong smiled and nodded: "This time my uncle wants to treat his colleagues to dinner again, but there are many chores at home and we are short of manpower. Xiaoyun, can you come over and help my uncle? My uncle will treat you to dinner at noon."

"Okay, uncle, wait for me for a while, I'll change clothes." Xiaoyun said excitedly.

"Hurry up. After changing your clothes, come directly to your uncle's house. The door is unlocked." Xu Dong warned.

"Uncle Xu, I understand."

In less than five minutes, Xiaoyun came over in clean clothes. Compared with the beginning of the year, the little girl was a little thinner and tanned, but overall she was still healthy.

Xu Dong introduced Xiaoyun to Sister Gao, and then "threw" Xiao Zhangtao directly, letting the little girl hold her brother and watch TV in the living room.

Immediately afterwards, he went into the kitchen, washed an apple, cut it in half with a knife, and gave each of the two children half.

"Here, eat the apple."

"Thank you Uncle Xu."

Xiaoyun was so happy that her eyes almost narrowed.

Xu Dong gently patted the heads of the two children.

The apples were not grown at home, so he was not so generous, not to mention that the small apple trees in the vegetable garden had long been picked by the children.

There was also an episode.

Dabao is very "smart". When everyone had finished eating their apples, he secretly hid one to keep for the New Year.

As a result, in less than a week, the apple shriveled up to the point of being deformed. Because of this, the little guy was laughed at by his second sister for a long time.

Closer to home, in fact, he brought these apples back from Zhiyi Factory yesterday. They are all the best red Fuji apples. The whole box is full, weighing about twenty kilograms.

According to Mr. Tan, they are both a thank you gift and an apology gift.

Xu Dong couldn't shirk it, so he simply paid for it. He spent a total of 5,000 yuan, which worked out to 250 yuan per catty, which was definitely a high price.

But he had no intention of swallowing this batch of apples.

Zhiyi Factory also said that this is a thank you gift.

Since it was a thank you gift, everyone should have a share. After all, everyone contributed to this fire accident, and he had no shame in taking all the credit on himself.

Besides, it’s just a box of apples, not that bad yet.

Therefore, when he just set off from home, he specially brought ten kilograms of apples to serve as after-dinner fruit, so he took the opportunity to give back to everyone.

…

Half an hour later, with the cooperation of Xu Dong and Gao Yuemei, both hot pots were ready.

One is spicy hotpot and the other is seafood hotpot.

Exactly the same as last time.

Only the side dishes are a little different. This time, in addition to dried shrimps and dried seafood, there are three more pounds of whale meat.

The dried shrimps and dried seafood are only one pound each.

Including whale meat, there are five kilograms of meat dishes in total. If it is averaged on each person's head, he can get about half a kilogram, which is enough for everyone to enjoy.

Next, Xiang Xin and others arrived one after another in just ten minutes, as if they had made an appointment.

Except for Director Li and Director Cao, everyone else did not eat breakfast, so when they saw such a sumptuous lunch, they could not hold back, and they all shouted to hurry up and start eating.

Before eating, Xu Dong scooped up two bowls of vegetables and took a loaf of bread, asking Xiao Yun to help look after Xiao Zhang Tao while eating.

Little Zhang Tao is about to be five years old and has long since learned to eat on his own. This is good for today's children. They basically eat whatever they have and are rarely picky eaters.

Two children have just been arranged here.

Director Li has already poured the wine. Except for Gao Yuemei, everyone wants to drink today, especially Xu Dong, who cannot escape.

"Come on, let's raise a toast together!"

After Director Li finished speaking, he was the first to pick up the wine glass.

Director Cao, as the highest-level leader at the scene, then spoke of the toast:

"Today's meal serves two purposes."

He paused and continued:

“First, congratulations to our Security Department for winning collective first-class merit, as well as one individual first-class merit and six individual second-class merit, setting a company record.

Second, I hope that Comrade Xu Dong can continue his efforts and lead his colleagues in the Security Department to work hard and achieve greater success. I also wish you all a bright future. "

"Thank you, Director!" everyone said in a hurry.

"Okay, I hope that next year, the year after, and the year after that, Lao Li and I can still drink your celebration wine. Don't let us down." Director Cao waved his hand.

Xu Dong smiled bitterly and said: "Director, you are planning to kill me. It was good luck in the fire this time and I only suffered a minor injury.

If I come here a few more times, my life will definitely be in danger. Please stop putting pressure on me. We have many children at home, so be careful to block the door of your house. "

"Look at what you said, you actually dare to threaten me?"

Director Cao pretended to be angry.

"Haha, just do what you can, I don't ask you to go all out." Director Li smiled and shook his head.

"Thank you, Uncle Li. Uncle Li still cares about me."

Director Cao coughed: "Okay, no more nonsense, let's drink together!"

"cheers!"

"Bang...bang...bang..."

After drinking twice as much wine, everyone picked up their chopsticks and reached for the hot pot. Fatty whale meat slices were everyone's first choice.

"It really tastes like meat!"

"It's so powerful, it's so enjoyable."

Now that it was so delicious, no one cared about how hot it was or how good it looked. There were chopsticks flying all over the table, and soon there were not many whale meat slices left.

Xu Dong helped Director Cao and Director Li grab a piece of whale meat each, but he didn't even eat a bite. He really couldn't stand the faint smell.

"Xiao Xu, why don't you eat?"

Director Cao asked curiously.

"Hey, before you guys came, I had already eaten it secretly, so I won't steal it from you." Xu Dong casually found a reason.

"Boss, how could you do this? There are so few whale meat slices to begin with." Xiang Xin teased.

Their family bought thirty kilograms of whale meat in one go last time, but they haven't finished it yet. Maybe out of guilt, she only took two or three chopsticks.

"What? If I taste it, do I still want to report it to you?" Xu Dong said angrily.

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