Seeing Li Jie carrying large and small bags, An Jie, who was standing at the door of the yard, immediately waved to the three of them.
Then, she immediately stepped up to greet him.
However, just after Anjie took a few steps, a figure suddenly rushed in front of her.
Jiang Dehua rushed forward and stopped An Jie who was about to go out.
"Sister-in-law, you haven't given up yet, so you can't see the wind."
In Dehua's philosophy, people who are in confinement are absolutely not allowed to go out. Originally, Anjie thought of the entrance to the courtyard, but she didn't agree.
But in the end she failed to turn An Jie around and took a step back.
After saying that, Jiang Dehua immediately walked out of the courtyard gate and rushed towards Li Jie. When she got closer, a very enthusiastic smile appeared on her face.
"This...is this brother-in-law?"
Jiang Dehua's tone was a little uncertain. She was the kind of person who couldn't hide things in her heart. Then, she sighed.
"Brother-in-law, you have changed so much. If I hadn't seen you today, walking on the road, I wouldn't have dared to recognize you."
With that said, Jiang Dehua took a step forward and said enthusiastically.
"Give me the stuff and I'll carry it."
"No, I'll be home soon."
Li Jie took a step back slightly, smiled and shook his head.
"Oh, are these An Ran and An Nuo?"
Seeing Li Jie's refusal, Jiang Dehua didn't care, and her attention quickly shifted to An Ran and An Nuo.
"Have you grown so big?"
An Ran and An Nuo were a little shy. Seeing Jiang Dehua reaching out to touch their faces, the two sisters took a step back.
At the same time, the expressions on the faces of the two sisters were exactly the same, with a bit of curiosity and a bit of timidity in their eyes.
Li Jie glanced at the two sisters.
"An Ran, An Nuo, call Auntie."
"Hello, aunt."
After hearing what their father said, the two sisters started to call for help.
"Haha, hello to you too."
Jiang Dehua chuckled, silently retracted his hand, and then turned around.
"Brother-in-law, I will take you to my third brother's house first."
"Hey, it's right there."
After walking for about a hundred steps along the path paved with bluestone slabs, everyone arrived in front of the Jiang family courtyard.
At this time, Li Jie suddenly noticed someone standing on the roof of the building next to Jiang's house. He saw a woman with slightly darker skin standing on the top floor, cracking melon seeds and looking at the group of them.
After seeing several people approaching, the woman waved and shouted loudly.
"Dehua, do you have a visitor at your house?"
"ah."
Seeing the woman on the top floor next door, Jiang Dehua nodded with a smile.
"This is my third brother's brother-in-law. They came to see my sister-in-law today."
Hearing this, Zhang Guiying's eyes lit up.
Jiang Defu’s brother-in-law?
As for Chinese people, when guests come to their home, they always have to prepare a good meal for the table, and usually invite someone to accompany the guests.
Their Lao Wang (Wang Zhenbiao) and Jiang Defu are not only working colleagues, but also neighbors in life.
If Jiang Defu wanted to invite someone to accompany him, their Lao Wang should be among those invited.
If Lao Wang goes, she and her children will most likely be invited there.
After all, the guest also had two children with him.
These days, no one has much hope, even if Zhang Guiying's husband is the director of the military's political department.
Of course, Zhang Guiying was not the kind of person who couldn't figure things out at all. They had to wait for Lao Jiang's invitation before they would have the nerve to visit.
After watching the group of people enter the house, Zhang Guiying quickly went downstairs along the ladder, and then slipped into the kitchen with a twist of her steps.
Walking into the kitchen, Zhang Guiying immediately put away the meat on the chopping board.
This piece of meat is their family's last quota this month. I originally planned to make dumplings as an extra meal tonight, but when I saw someone from Lao Jiang's family coming, I thought I would treat them to dinner.
Zhang Guiying, who is accustomed to careful calculation, will naturally not chop the meat into pieces anymore.
Keep it and eat it next time.
In the following time, while Zhang Guiying was busy doing housework, she would look up at the sky from time to time and count the time in her mind.
But after waiting and waiting, she never heard the knock on the door, nor did she hear Dehua's unique loud voice.
She didn't wait until the sun was about to set.
Seeing that it was almost dinner time, Zhang Guiying glanced at the courtyard wall, stamped her feet, then got into the kitchen and took out the piece of meat again.
It was already this time. If the Dehua family wanted to invite them to dinner, they would have done so long ago.
According to the rules on the island, if you want to invite someone to dinner, you will definitely notify them in advance and will not wait until three or four in the afternoon.
If you ask someone to eat at three or four o'clock, that's not an invitation.
Wang Zhenbiao's family and Jiang Defu's family are neighbors. There is only a wall between the two families. If something happens next door, you can hear it immediately.
After a while, Zhang Guiying in the kitchen heard the noise coming from next door, and people rushed to Jiang Defu's house from time to time.
Zhang Guiying counted them carefully and found that there were three people in total. Listening to the chatter coming from the yard next door, she knew two of them. They were the leader of the first regiment and the director of the logistics department.
Benedict!
Benedict!
Benedict!
Listening to the laughter coming from next door, Zhang Guiying couldn't help but increase the intensity of chopping the meat.
Angry.
Since we have called people, why not call them home?
"what happened?"
At this time, Wang Zhenbiao's voice suddenly reached Zhang Guiying's ears.
Zhang Guiying was not a person who could hide things. As soon as her husband came back, she immediately found her backbone and complained.
"Lao Jiang's family has guests today. They invited others but didn't invite us. Do you think he did this, right?"
"You and he are colleagues or neighbors. How can we do things like this?"
Listening to his wife's complaints, Wang Zhenbiao showed a hint of embarrassment on his face.
What his wife said was correct, but there were some situations that Zhang Guiying didn't know about.
Zhang Guiying, like Jiang Dehua, also came from the countryside, and so did Wang Zhenbiao at first. But as his position became higher and higher, he increasingly felt that he and his wife had nothing in common.
Day by day, my wife only knows that the family is a family. Even if I talk to her about work matters, she doesn't understand.
Therefore, as time passed, Wang Zhenbiao no longer talked to Zhang Guiying.
In this way, Zhang Guiying would naturally not know about the friction between him and Jiang Defu at work.
Humans are very strange creatures. If his wife didn't complain in his ears, Wang Zhenbiao probably wouldn't care about it.
But listening to his wife's complaints, he gradually felt a little uncomfortable.
Everyone is a neighbor, so Jiang Defu should invite him, even though he most likely won't go.
But whether to go or not is one thing, and whether to invite or not is another.
'Lao Jiang's handling of this matter was not honest. How could anyone do such a thing?'
'Didn't I just say a few words to him, but what about doing this?'
As he thought about it, Wang Zhenbiao couldn't help but feel a little angry.