Chapter 814 I don't know what to write
When the three children saw Shen Yulin, they all came forward and asked with concern.
"Mom, it's okay. Okay, the food is almost ready. Go get some bowls and chopsticks. Also, let's eat!"
Hearing the three boys' concern, Shen Yulin's heart couldn't help but feel warm. She rubbed the three little guys' heads with her jade hands and said gently.
"Okay, Mom, let's go now!"
As a foodie, Xiao Zhibei couldn't help smelling the fragrance in the house. When he heard his mother's words, he immediately ran to the kitchen.
In less than ten minutes, the whole family sat down at the dining table. On the table, seven Sichuan dishes were neatly placed: spicy tofu, spicy chicken cubes, spicy rabbit head, husband and wife lung slices, boiled pork, twice-cooked pork, and fish-flavored pork shreds. Next to the dishes, there was a clean dustpan with no less than twenty white steamed buns on it.
Each dish was sprinkled with some red peppers, which made it look delicious. The people watching couldn't help but drool as they looked at the delicious food on the table! Even Shen Yulin was no exception.
"The last dish, 'Boiling Cabbage', is here!"
As a voice sounded, Zhou Tian came out of the kitchen holding a ceramic pot, looked at them and said with a smile: "No, my wife, Xiaobei, why don't you eat?"
As he said that, he put the last dish on the table and sat down next to Shen Yulin.
"You, the head of the family, haven't even come to the table yet, how can we eat first!"
Shen Yulin couldn't help but glance at her husband and said guiltily that if the children hadn't reminded her just now, she would have been impatient to have a taste.
"Hey, what's the big deal? We don't have so many rules at home. Okay, let's eat, Xiaobei, Xiaoxi and Xiaodong. You're all starving. Come on, try what dad made today."
Zhou Tian smiled when he heard it, but didn't care. Instead, he spoke to the three children with concern.
"Got it, Dad!"
Hearing his father's words, Sanxiao immediately picked up the chopsticks in one hand, took a steamed bun with the other, and began to eat it voraciously.
But after taking a few bites, the three little ones' faces changed and they waved their hands in front of their mouths, saying, "It's so spicy, so spicy, Dad, I want some water, give me some water!"
Seeing the three little guys looking like they were irritated by the spiciness, Zhou Tian immediately stood up, poured them a cup of water, placed it next to them and said with a smile: "It's so spicy, will you eat it in the future?"
"Eat it, it's spicy and numbing, so delicious, but a little too spicy to bear!"
Zhou Zhibei first picked up the boiled water and took a few gulps. He then felt a little better and immediately said, while the other two also drank the water and nodded in agreement. Obviously, although Sichuan cuisine is very spicy, it is also very satisfying, which made the three little guys very satisfied.
"You greedy bastards!"
Zhou Tian couldn't help but laugh at the way the three little guys ate, so he returned to his seat and turned to look at his wife who was eating happily. Although his expression showed some disgust, he couldn't help feeling satisfied in his heart.
After all, his goal was achieved, which is a good thing.
There were eight dishes and more than twenty steamed buns. By the time they finished eating, all eight dishes were gone, and only eight steamed buns were left. Zhou Tian was frightened by this, fearing that the children would get sick.
However, he felt relieved after seeing the three children start to clean up the dishes and go to the kitchen to wash up after eating.
Turning his head to look at his wife who was rubbing her belly, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Now I understand what the saying 'young brat, eating me to death' means!"
You know, the dishes and steamed buns he prepared would be enough for the whole family to eat for several days if it were an ordinary family, but in their family, they were eaten up by three boys in one meal.
Each child ate at least five large steamed buns. It's scary to think about how much they ate. This is equivalent to the amount of a rural laborer. Fortunately, his salary is high. If it were an ordinary family, raising seven children of this size would be a nightmare.
"Nonsense, do you think the expenses at home are low? Just to support these eight children, I doubt it. If it weren't for my salary and dad's, your salary alone wouldn't be enough!"
Shen Yulin couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard what her husband said. Of course, what she said was a bit exaggerated, but although it was indeed expensive to raise eight children, it depended on what kind of family it was.
Her family could still afford to raise eight children.
This is also what she has always been proud of. After all, she has eight children. Whenever her colleagues ask about her family situation, as long as she mentions her own children, she will immediately be greeted with waves of envy from her colleagues.
Especially, among the eight children, seven are half-grown boys, which makes some colleagues in the unit who don’t have sons envious and even want to cry.
In this era, sons are the most stable source of a family. If there is no son in a family, it would be a disaster. Of course, needless to say, in this era, even in Zhou Tian's previous life, the idea of favoring boys over girls was still rampant in the world.
It doesn't mean that daughters cannot inherit the family business, but the rules passed down from ancient times emphasize blood ties and family relationships.
In the past life, didn't people always say that the child born could take the mother's surname? But you have to know that this would easily split the blood relatives of the previous generation, thus causing family discord.
One is from a different family, the other is from your own family. This doesn’t mean that you can treat all of their children equally. This is true for a family, let alone a clan.
Zhou Tian naturally knew that what his wife said was a bit exaggerated, but he did not point it out. After all, this was just a little interest between the two of them.
In the afternoon, after seeing that Shen Yulin had recovered, Zhou Tian did not ask for leave again, but went back to work.
After all, his position and the work of the Fifth Research Institute did not allow him to rest for so long. Whether it was the improvement of submarine-launched cruise missiles, the research of underwater missiles, or even the aerospace courses, he needed to stay in the institute all the time.
In a blink of an eye, another two months have passed. As the Chinese New Year is getting closer, Zhou Tian’s Fifth Research Institute is getting busier and busier.
A few days ago, he had already handed over the New Year's goods to his father-in-law Shen Jie. It was not that he was unwilling to prepare it himself, but he really did not have the time.
As the progress of various projects of the Fifth Institute was getting faster and faster, the entire institute was in a busy state. Some researchers were even too lazy to go home and lived directly in the institute's dormitory.
December 15th.
On this day, accompanied by a powerful roar on the waters off the coast of the South China Sea, cheers instantly spread throughout the entire fleet.
On the fleet, a middle-aged man in a blue and white military uniform looked at the scene that seemed to be the end of the world, and a trace of crystal tears suddenly appeared in his determined eyes.
"We succeeded, we succeeded, Taozi, did you see it? We finally succeeded, and from now on we have a weapon to intimidate the enemy, and we no longer have to swallow our anger!"