Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 452

Chapter 452: Chapter 341: Zhang Guofu’s Housewarming

At the end of February on the lunar calendar, Guo Fu planned to move into the county town and invited everyone to a housewarming party.

On Monday, Guo Fu informed his two younger brothers in advance to come over and help out over the weekend.

After discussing with Zhang the Second, National Day felt that the housewarming party wasn’t so simple. Their elder brother had been working for several months, and he had already established some social connections with his colleagues.

When the day arrived, besides relatives and friends, there would be at least a table of colleagues. The two didn’t heed their elder brother’s suggestion. Who would eat if there were only four or five tables?

Starting from Thursday when Mr. Zhang came to the city, National Day would head over there after work. The three brothers sat down to discuss, and the task ended up being taken on by National Day.

With Zhang Meili’s experience from last time, National Day arranged for a master chef, letting his father and eldest brother directly negotiate and present him with a list for him to prepare.

By the weekend, after a string of firecrackers, Mr. Zhang led Guo Fu’s family into their new home.

Five rooms, enclosed by earthen walls with a decent-sized courtyard. When Zhou Jiao and the kids arrived with Lin Juhua and first saw the new courtyard, they thought it looked quite nice.

This time, Guo Fu left the east room directly for their parents, with Xi Zi’s room right next to it. The couple stayed with their children in the west room, occupying two rooms.

By this time, a stove had already been built in the courtyard. The master chef and his apprentice had begun preparing the dishes. With Zhang Meili and her sister joining to help, the courtyard was soon filled with wafts of enticing meat aromas.

Huang Cuilan happily took Ping’an and pulled her two sisters-in-law into the main room. Inside, Mother Zhang was already chatting with relatives from the Huang and Zhang families.

Zhou Jiao and her sister-in-law greeted everyone. After handing the child over to Mother Zhang, she went into the courtyard. Seeing National Day coming towards her, she smiled, wondering what he had been busy with since he rushed over at dawn.

"Where’s the son? It’s too noisy here, why don’t you rest in your parents’ room?"

Zhou Jiao chuckled softly, "It’s fine. I’ll just stand here for a while. Mother is holding Ping’an; with Xi Zi there, there’s nothing to fear. About the gift, just like second sister-in-law, according to the warm house gift big sister-in-law gave us last time, wouldn’t it be too meager?"

Seeing so many people coming and going, National Day couldn’t say much, so he whispered back to her, "Listen to Mother. I’m free now, let’s go out for a walk."

Zhang Meili saw from afar that Zhou Jiao was about to walk over but was pulled away by her younger brother. Hearing her younger sister tease Xiao Wu, she hurriedly tugged at her. With so many people around, making jokes about her family’s little brother wouldn’t do. Nowadays, who wouldn’t be respectful when they see their Xiao Wu?

Zhang Meihao noticed and quickly changed the subject. As several cousins, including Zhang Qingshan, came over, the two sisters who were visiting as guests were also sent back to their room.

Other than that, Old Zhang’s family had nothing but a large number of people. By noon, even the two cousins brought their husbands and children over, making Mother Zhang secretly grateful for her youngest son’s preparations in advance.

Wave after wave of guests arrived, and the women began to follow Mother Zhang into the bedroom.

Originally, Mother Zhang planned to bring old quilts to the eldest’s house, but when National Day found out, he directly brought over a set of new quilts from his old home.

He figured that the courtyard in his village probably wouldn’t be lived in by his parents often. Should the new quilts be left to mold?

Seeing a group of people come in, Zhang Meihao quickly invited them onto the kang and pulled Zhang Meili outside. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she whispered in Zhang Meili’s ear, "Sister, Xiao Wu has prepared new quilts, does this mean that our parents will live with big brother in the future? Why don’t they live with Xiao Wu?"

"Silly! Does Xiao Wu lack quilts? There are more people here; I’ll tell you later." Zhang Meili finished and glanced at the crowd—seeing Aunt Huang scrutinizing the room, she secretly laughed, as her parents wanted to first station themselves at the eldest son’s house. Did she really think that because the daughters live close to their parent’s house, they could insert themselves into Old Zhang’s affairs?

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