Living in a Siheyuan

What happened in the Intermediate Court had no impact on Li Ping'an, he didn't even know about it.

The two of them had a warm meal, and Li Pingan held the two children while listening to the radio and teasing them. Yu Li virtuously cleaned up the dishes, and from time to time looked at the three of them playing, revealing a sweet smile.

At twelve o'clock, Li Pingan set off a string of firecrackers in the yard. This represented the passing of another year and the coming of a new year. This year was the 61st year, and it was also the saddest year.

The next day, after breakfast, Li Pingan went to the courtyard to wish everyone a happy new year and gave candies to children when he met them.

Starting in the afternoon, he started to visit relatives and friends on his bike to wish them a happy new year.

There are more people this year. We have to go to Director Wang's house, Zhou Changming's house, Liu Zhiwei's house, and Li Huaide's house. We also have to go to several other colleagues' houses. He might be promoted to deputy section chief this year. He also has to build good relationships with his subordinates.

He brought tea produced in the space, a large piece of venison, and some fruits to each family. These things were what everyone needed most. He was also warmly received by each family.

Especially when he went to Li Huaide's house, it was his first time this year. After all, Li Huaide was his supervisor, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would be in the future. It was estimated that Li Huaide would have a firm grasp on the logistics.

When Li Huaide saw what Li Ping'an brought, he was also secretly surprised at how many tricks he had. These things are too hard to come by now. Especially fresh fruits. Most leaders' families only have a small quota. It seems that Li Ping'an will have to be squeezed more in the future.

After all the people had finished running, it was time for dinner, and Li Pingan finally returned home.

Although someone invited him to dinner, Li Pingan still felt more comfortable eating at home with Yu Li and the children.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Li Pingan took Yu Li and Haoran Haoyu to Yu's house.

When they arrived at Yu's house, the two children were warmly welcomed, while Li Ping'an and Yu Li were ignored.

Everyone in the Yu family gathered around the two little ones. Yu Linhai gave each of them a big red envelope, but Yu Li put it into his pocket as soon as he turned around.

At noon, they had a lively meal at Yu's house. In the afternoon, both children fell asleep, so Li Ping'an took them home.

In the evening, the door was knocked open, and Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e came back with happy faces.

The two of them were carrying a lot of stuff, and there was a driver following behind them, also carrying a lot of stuff.

Li Pingan looked at it and said blankly, "Are you two planning to move into my house? Why did you take so many things?"

Yu Li also came over to look at them.

Xu Damao was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He put the things on the table and said happily: "Ping An, I'm going to be a father. Ezi is pregnant! How is it? Are you happy?"

Lou Xiao'e also nodded to Li Ping'an implicitly.

Yu Li happily took Lou Xiao'e's hand and said, "Oh, this is really a happy event. Xiao'e, you finally got what you wanted."

Yu Li knew that Lou Xiao'e liked children and had always been envious of her own children. Now that her sister had a child, she was also very happy.

But if she knew that this sister was pregnant with her man's child, I wonder what she would do?

Li Pingan was also very happy. After half a year of hard work, they finally had a child. Looking at the maternal glow radiating from Lou Xiaoe, one could tell how happy she was now.

"Congratulations, Brother Damao! Let's have a few drinks tonight to celebrate."

Li Pingan looked at the happy Xu Damao and sighed in his heart. "I'm sorry, buddy. It's your fault. Since you care so much about the child, I will treat you well in the future."

Xu Damao said happily without knowing anything: "That's right, we must have a few drinks!"

Yu Li smiled and said, "Even if you're pregnant, you won't have to move, right? Are you planning to leave Xiao'e at my house?"

"My mom and Ezi's mom wanted her to live over there, didn't they? But Ezi didn't want to, saying she was used to living here. She has you, Yu Li, to chat with her here, and she's too bored over there. She insisted on coming back."

"So my mom and her mom prepared some food for us to bring back. Now they're all here! We'll eat at your house anyway, so it's no trouble to move the food here and there. We can just leave it at your house and eat it slowly."

"Ezi's mother said you've worked hard, Yu Li. She also said she'll give you 20 yuan a month as subsidy, so I brought it all to you."

After saying that, Xu Damao gave Yu Li twenty yuan.

Yu Li quickly declined, "What's the point? Xiao'e came to accompany me and help me take care of the children. Do I have to give her money too? Put it away quickly."

Lou Xiao'e took the money, stuffed it into Yu Li's hand and said, "Sister Li, take it. Just use it as money to buy food in the future. Let's buy more good food in the future. I need more nutrition. If you don't take the money, do you want to starve me and the child?"

Yu Li rolled her eyes at Lou Xiao'e and said, "When have I ever starved you? When have you ever eaten less than me? I feel like I've made you fat when you were at my house." After saying that, she burst into laughter.

Li Pingan watched from the side. Although he brought back many vegetables and meat, most of them were cooked by Yu Li. He respected Yu Li's choice. Whether she accepted it or not, it was Yu Li's contribution.

Finally, Yu Li could not resist the persuasion of Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe and accepted the money, but she said that she would use the money to buy good food for everyone to eat together.

At that moment, Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e packed up the things they had brought back.

There are really a lot of good things. There are four cans of malted milk, which is hard to buy, as well as some dried meat, bacon, dried abalone, sea cucumber, etc.

She even brought a lot of good cigarettes and alcohol. Seeing Li Ping'an's puzzled look, Lou Xiao'e whispered that she brought these specially for Li Ping'an from her father.

Xu Damao had gone to the courtyard to show off. He gave cigarettes and candies to everyone he met. Soon, the whole courtyard knew that Lou Xiaoe was pregnant.

This grandson even went to Sha Zhu's house to show off. One moment he asked He Daqing and Qin Huairu why they didn't give Sha Zhu a brother or sister? The next moment he asked why He Daqing wasn't in a hurry to have a grandson.

This made Sha Zhu and Wu Tingting in the room angry. Sha Zhu wanted to go out to deal with Xu Damao several times, but was stopped by Wu Tingting.

Xu Damao stood at the door and boasted for a long time, but when Sha Zhu didn't come out to respond, he lost interest and returned to Li Ping'an's house with some regret.

Yu Li didn't let Lou Xiao'e do any work, and she had to be careful in the first three months. Lou Xiao'e just did some simple things.

In the evening, there was a table full of delicious food at Li Ping'an's house, and Xu Damao and Li Ping'an started drinking.

Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e were eating while watching the children.

Xu Damao was so happy after drinking that he asked, "Ping An, do you think this is my son or daughter?"

"Who knows? We'll know when the baby is born. It's the same for boys and girls. I just want a daughter."

"If it's a son, they can be good brothers. If it's a daughter, I'll let her choose between Haoran and Haoyu to be my son-in-law. What do you think? Wouldn't the relationship between our two families be even closer this way?"

Seeing that Xu Damao was a little drunk, what he said scared Li Pingan and Lou Xiao'e.

You can figure that out. They are brothers, siblings.

Li Pingan laughed and said, "That won't do. If my daughter looks like you, my son will hate me to death."

Yu Li laughed without knowing it.

Lou Xiao'e said quickly: "Then let's become godparents. From now on, I will be Haoran Haoyu's godmother. You two will also be the godparents of my child."

Yu Li agreed and said, "That's fine. When they grow up together, they will be brothers and sisters."

Xu Damao agreed to this, and thought it was good to have two godsons. Li Pingan's two children were not a big deal to anyone.

So just like that, Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao became the godfather and godmother of Li Haoran and Li Haoyu.

Lou Xiao'e happily picked up Haoyu beside her and said, "Haoyu, godmother didn't bring anything today. Tomorrow godmother will bring a good gift for each of you two brothers. Come, call godmother!"

Now these two little guys can learn some simple words.

Li Haoyu held it in for a long time before yelling, "What... are you doing...!"

This soft and tender voice melted Lou Xiaoe's heart. She quickly hugged him and kissed him with love.

Xu Damao also happily dipped a little wine with his chopsticks and said, "Come on Haoran, call me godfather and I'll give you something good to drink."

As a result, Yu Li, who was standing nearby, took Li Haoran away.

"You are such an unreasonable godfather. You just took him to be your son and you want to train him to be a drunkard like you two! Go drink your wine."

The four of them ate, drank and played with the children together happily.

The drinking party ended at midnight when both children fell asleep.

Lou Xiao'e was coaxing her child to sleep inside. When she came out, she saw, as expected, Xu Damao was lying on the table again and couldn't get up.

Lou Xiao'e shook her head helplessly and looked at Li Ping'an.

Yu Li also said, "Ping An, what are you still in a daze about? Hurry up and help get Xu Damao back. Xiao'e is pregnant now, so she needs to take care of herself. If you don't get her back, who will?"

Li Pingan was also speechless about his silly wife. Wasn't she forcing her husband to deliver the goods to the door?

There was no way out, Li Pingan had no choice but to happily carry Xu Damao and follow Lou Xiaoe.

When they arrived at Xu Damao's house, Lou Xiao'e threw the unconscious Xu Damao onto the bed and then turned around and hugged Li Ping'an.

She said happily, "Ping An, I finally have our child. You don't know, I vomited when I saw fish on the night of the 30th. When his mother said I might be pregnant, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night."

"We went to the hospital on the morning of the first day of the new year and found out that I was pregnant. I was so excited that I wanted to tell you the good news right away."

"But my family wouldn't let me go out, so after I went to my house the next day, I couldn't wait to come back. I just wanted you to know that we have a child as soon as possible."

Li Pingan also hugged this silly woman. Now her heart was on him and the child. Li Pingan felt that he owed Lou Xiaoe a lot.

The two hugged and talked for a while. It was getting late, so Li Pingan persuaded Lou Xiaoe to go to bed early. He also went home.

He will have more children in the future. How should I persuade the Lou family to leave here? Should I do it now, or wait a few years until I can look after the children myself?