Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

Watching Li Dongfang leave, Sha Zhu hummed a little tune happily, knowing that since Li Dongfang said so, Xu Damao would be severely punished. He also looked forward to Xu Damao's wedding tomorrow.

In the evening, Li Dongfang lazily lay on a lounge chair in Lou Xiao'e's yard. Behind him, Ding Qiunan slowly massaged his head. Liu Lan sat beside him and occasionally put a grape into Li Dongfang's mouth.

The three people were chatting about the interesting things that happened in the steel mill.

At this time, Lou Xiao'e came out of the house, saw this scene, and came over, sat on Li Dongfang's legs and said, "You really act like a landlord now, you really know how to enjoy yourself."

Li Dongfang put his hand on Lou Xiaoe's leg, stroking it slowly, closing his eyes and saying slowly: "I'm exhausted these past few days. I've worked so hard for the country, and you're not allowing me to enjoy myself?"

"Bah! I'd never trust you. You've wasted so much effort on me. Why don't I believe you?" Lou Xiao'e said as she turned around, sat astride Li Dongfang's legs, and massaged his chest with her hands.

"Are you giving me a massage, or are you taking advantage of me?" Li Dongfang opened his eyes and looked at the hand moving on his chest.

Lou Xiao'e didn't care and said with a smile: "Of course it's a massage. Was your strength too weak? " Then she punched Li Dongfang's chest twice with her little fist.

"Ah! It's over, it's over, you hurt me..." Li Dongfang suddenly twisted his body and almost pushed Lou Xiao'e off him.

While the two were fighting, an angry voice was heard saying, "Da Mao, say it to me again?!"

When Lou Xiao'e heard the voice, her eyes lit up immediately. She jumped off Li Dongfang and ran towards the backyard.

Li Dongfang didn't understand what was going on for a moment, so he looked at Liu Lan and asked, "What happened? Ezi is so excited."

Liu Lan shrugged helplessly and said, "Ladi is watching the child do homework."

Li Dongfang was a little puzzled and asked, "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Ezi's reaction, right?"

Ding Qiunan burst out laughing and said, "You'll know when you listen. It's really fun sometimes."

Upon hearing this, Li Dongfang stood up half-believingly and walked to stand next to Lou Xiaoe, and a roar was heard.

“你再给我好好算算，10加2等于12，10加8等于多少？”

"How much?! How did you calculate it equals 13?!"

"You have 10 steamed buns, and I give you 8 more. How many steamed buns do you have now?"

"What did you say? I can't hear you, speak up."

"There are too many steamed buns. I can't finish them all. It will be wasted if I can't finish them..." The last sentence was said in Damao's voice with a crying tone.

Hearing this, Li Dongfang couldn't help but think of his own childhood, which was also spent in a certain shadow, so he walked over and said, "Child, teach him slowly, don't be so excited."

"Hmph!" Liang Ladi didn't originally have such a bad temper, but she was obviously very angry.

"Da Mao, what did you think about the question just now? Can you tell me about it?" Li Dongfang said with a smile.

"I...I was thinking that I eat two steamed buns a day, Ermao eats two, Sanmao eats one, and we only eat five a day in total. Ten steamed buns are enough for us to eat for two days. I don't want any more if you give them to me." Damao said in a low voice.

"Look how sensible the child is." Li Dongfang felt that Damao's words were quite sensible, so he said to Liang Ladi.

Seeing that Liang Ladi was still sulking, Li Dongfang said to Damao, "We are doing the test now, so we don't need to consider whether to eat or not. Just calculate 10 steamed buns plus 8 steamed buns. How many steamed buns are there in total?"

Da Mao snapped his fingers and said, "There are two more."

"Hiss~~!" Li Dongfang took a breath, calmed down his shock, and asked patiently, "Why are there two more?"

Da Mao held up ten fingers and said, "Look, this is ten, then add eight, 1.2.3..."

As Damao counted, he curled up his fingers one by one. When he counted to eight, there were only two fingers left.

"Hehe, at least I didn't tell you that ten fingers are not enough, right?" Li Dongfang coughed awkwardly and looked at Liang Ladi.

Liang Ladi glared at him and said, "Get lost, stop making trouble here."

Li Dongfang glanced at the pitiful Da Mao, gave him a helpless look, and walked out embarrassedly.

Seeing Lou Xiao'e standing at the door looking at him, covering her mouth and giggling, Li Dongfang suddenly felt that he was too easy to talk to, so he took two quick steps, bent down, carried her on his shoulders, and went straight back to Lou Xiao'e's room.

The next day, Li Dongfang came out of Liang Ladi's room, had dinner and went to the airport.

After looking at the condition of the fuselage, he summarized the experience with the engine assemblers, and then talked about some of the subsequent assembly content, asking them to familiarize themselves with it first and see if they could figure out the precautions in advance to reduce the possibility of mistakes in subsequent work.

Today was a relaxing day. Li Dongfang returned to the courtyard early in the afternoon. He couldn't miss the big drama of Xu Damao's wedding. Moreover, he also played some unknown role in it, which made it even more worth looking forward to.

In those days, getting married was not as complicated as in later generations. If there was a betrothal gift, it would be given. If there was not, it would not be given. The two families would discuss it, and then the man would go to the woman's house to pick her up, and at most he would bring some clothes and quilts.

As for ceremonies and worshipping in the hall, they were all omitted. Relatives and friends just gathered together for a banquet and that was it.

Since it was a weekday, Xu Damao's banquet was scheduled for the evening.

When Li Dongfang returned to the courtyard, he saw a wedding character pasted on the gate, and other things... there were also some scattered cannon shells on the ground, and nothing else.

Although Li Dongfang had never attended other people's weddings since he came to this era, he had seen them from afar. It was obvious that Xu Damao was a bit perfunctory and there was not much of a festive feeling at all.

Entering the yard, I saw that the aunts and sisters who were unemployed at home were very busy. The tables, chairs and benches for the banquet had already been set up. Of course, they were of various styles and colors, as well as bowls and plates.

This can be considered a feature of this era. When neighbors encounter such things, they borrow from each other.

Li Dongfang stretched his head and looked at the people who were picking up the dishes. Everyone smiled back at him. After all, Li Dongfang had fought for benefits for them, and as long as they came to help, they could sit at the table and eat.

I also took a look at the dishes. Most of them were vegetarian, but there was some fish. There were not many of the highly praised fatty meats, but it was pretty good, right? It depends on who you compare it with. If you compare it with the Jia family's, it is much better.