Chapter 16: Breakfast
led his younger brother downstairs, and there were still a few suitcases in the living room that he had thrown there before going out yesterday, and Li Peipei pulled his younger brother around the messy boxes and walked into the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Li Zhoufangmei was standing in front of the stove, the pan in front of her made a "Zrazla" sound, Li Zhoufangmei stretched out the shovel, a poached egg came out of the oven, glanced at the two little guys who walked in, and said with a smile: "Ash, go and see if your daddy and mommy are up?" Just say what grandma said, let them hurry up and have breakfast. After speaking, he knocked another egg into the oil pan.
"Obey ββ!" The bear child stood up and took a breath, and after gesticulating, Deng Deng ran out of the kitchen.
Then, Li Zhoufangmei turned down the stove a little, picked up a plate from the stove on the side, placed a stack of freshly baked bread slices on the plate, and handed it to her granddaughter, "Pei Pei, do grandma a favor, bring this to the restaurant for grandpa." β
"Oh!" Lord Pei took the plate and turned to leave the kitchen.
Lord Pei carefully walked into the dining room with a plate, only to see that his grandfather was already sitting at the table in full dress, with a cup of coffee in front of him, and a newspaper in his hand was flipping through it.
"Grandpa, help me pick up the plates." Lord Pei shouted as he held up his plate.
Li Yi just closed the newspaper in his hand, got up and took the plate, put it on the dining table, and then picked up his granddaughter and stuffed it into a children's dining chair.
"What is your brother doing?" I poured a glass of milk for the little girl and put it in front of her.
Lord Pei took a sip of milk, "Ash went and told Daddy Mommy to get up." As he spoke, he stretched out his paw to the plate and grabbed a slice of bread.
Li Yigang rolled up the newspaper and tapped directly on his granddaughter's paws, "Where did you lose the table manners!" β
The lord of Pei put down the slice of bread stupidly, withdrew his paws, and pretended to say, "Got it! Watch out next time! β
At this time, Li Chenghua walked in with Li Peizhi in his arms, followed by his wife Qin Wanyu.
"Old Bean, early-"
"Daddy, morningβ" The couple greeted the old man.
Li Chenghua put the little guy in his arms into another children's dining chair, and moved Xiaozhi's chair to his daughter to let the two children sit next to each other, and then leaned his face to his daughter, kissed the pink little face of the county lord of Pei, and then looked up at the old man and asked, "What about Mommy?" β
"Make breakfast in the kitchen." The old man opened the newspaper and looked at it.
Li Chenghua walked to the old man's left hand side, pulled out a chair, and sat down at the table. There was a plate of bread on the table, a pot of coffee, and a few newspapers in English, and I picked up one of the newspapers and poured myself another cup of coffee.
"Ayu, you go to the kitchen and take a look, and help Mommy by the way." Li Chenghua opened a newspaper and took a sip of coffee.
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Zhou Fangmei had already walked over with a pot, "You don't need Ayu's help, breakfast is ready, I'll just get it today, Ayu, there's a plate of poached eggs in the kitchen, you go and bring it over." Qin Wanyu answered and walked towards the kitchen.
Li Zhoufangmei put the pot on the table, opened the lid of the pot, and put a bowl of cereal porridge for the two eldest men in the family and put it in front of them. "Don't read the newspaper yet, put it away, and have breakfast first."
"Grandma, I don't want porridge, bring me a slice of breadβ" cried the precious grandson.
The old lady poured a glass of milk for her grandson, picked up two more slices of bread, and put one on the plate in front of her granddaughter, and then sat down.
"It's really not good to have no maid at home, Ayu is pregnant again now, you two are busy going out to talk about business, the two children are still so young, besides, although this house is smaller than the old house in Hong Kong, it is still very laborious to clean upstairs and downstairs. Why don't you ask Wang Laohu from last night, how about introducing a helper over? Li Zhoufangmei nagged.
Qin Wanyu walked in with a plate and just heard it. "It's true that there is no servant at home, but don't bother Boss Wang too much. Ah Hua, if you don't call and ask, he happened to be introduced by someone to come over, even if not, contact the housekeeping company, after all, I have just met people, and it is not good to ask people for help with this kind of small thing. β
Qin Wanyu put the plate on the dining table, scooped a poached egg for her son and daughter and put it in the bowl, and then sat down next to her husband.
Li Yi just closed the newspaper, put it in his hand, and said, "Eat first, and discuss these things after eating." β
The family had a lively breakfast
After eating.
Free the two little ones from the children's table and chair and let them play on their own. Li Zhou Fangmei led her daughter-in-law to clean up the table, and the patriarch Li Yigang walked out of the dining room with his son and entered the study.
Closing the door and isolating the noise of the children in the living room, Li Yigang took out a box of cigars from the desk drawer, first took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, lit it, and handed the lighter and humidor to his son.
"Your mommy is used to being an old lady in Hong Kong, and the family really needs to find a helper. Your wife is right, such a trivial matter, don't bother Boss Wang, you directly contact the housekeeping company, entrust them to find a live-in helper, and find a driver by the way. The utility room hasn't been stacked up yet, so it's packed up and left for the driver to live in. The guest room on the first floor was packed out and given to the domestic helper. You'd better settle these things within three to five days. After arranging the family first, we can focus on the outside business. β
Li Chenghua took the humidor, took out a cigar, took it in his mouth, lit himself on fire, and took a puff of cigarette.
"Daddy, I can understand if you hire a helper, but why get another driver? Everyone in the family can drive, and it only takes a few days to get a driver's license here, even if Ayu has a big belly in the future, isn't there still a mommy. Li Chenghua wondered.
Li Yigang smiled, and didn't directly pick it out, testing his son and asking, "What do you think of that old man Peng last night?" β
"That old Chinese medicine doctor? The words are good, the medical skills are a little capable, what else can you think? Li Chenghua was puzzled.
The old man looked at his son with eyes that hated iron but not steel, "Not bad? A little capable? You kid really don't know how thick the sky is! Knocked on the table and continued: "You Lao Dou was in the mainland when I was young, at that time your grandfather was still an official of the Kuomintang, I was fortunate to meet a few folk national arts masters with your grandfather, that Master Peng is already seventy years old, but he looks only in his early fifties, radiant, vigorous qi and blood, strong legs and feet, at first glance is a national arts master, in your mouth is only a little capable?" You, you still lack a little bit of people! β