Chapter 762 Mid-Autumn Festival: A Night of Reunion
Chapter 762 Mid-Autumn Festival: A Night of Reunion
The topic of gene recombination was dropped, and the system exhibited a sense of dejection, as if it had failed in its sales pitch.
However, Jiang Xiaoqi wouldn't allow him to continue speaking, so he was forced to mute himself.
The Jiang family's Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet was extremely exquisite. The head of the Jiang family's kitchen, who is also Li Mo's mother, has made rapid progress in her culinary skills over the years.
Especially after Jiang Xiaoqi provided a variety of seasonings and spices, and of course, the recipes purchased from the system also played a significant role.
Therefore, the six sons-in-law were quite happy to be able to return to the Chiang family home for a reunion dinner.
They're not old-fashioned; they don't have any rules about holidays having to be spent at the husband's house.
This led to the husband's family getting used to it. They couldn't do anything about it; the food they brought back from the Jiang family was always so delicious that they felt obligated to help.
The Jiang family cook's excellent culinary skills made her six sisters' husbands' families much easier to talk to.
The men sat at one table, the women at another, and the children at yet another.
Jiang Xiaoqi actually wanted to sit at the children's table, but she couldn't help it because her nephews and nieces were too cute.
Those chubby little faces, I really want to pinch them one by one.
The system seemed to have recognized Jiang Xiaoqi's idea and was eager to bring up the "sending the child plan" again.
Jiang Xiaoqi stopped him with a sharp look and he shut down his microphone again.
After eating and drinking their fill, no one went home under the cover of night; instead, they all stayed overnight at the Jiang family's house.
The courtyards where the six married daughters used to live have all been preserved, and there are people who clean them regularly so that the young ladies and their husbands can stay there directly when they return.
All of this was arranged by Jiang Xiaoqi. Sometimes, even the landlord Jiang would marvel at how meticulous his grandson was.
Sometimes this thoughtfulness even surpasses that of ordinary women.
The eldest sister, Jiang Xiwen, is now a mother of three, and the second sister, Jiang Xiyue, has a son and a daughter.
The third and fourth sisters each had a son, while the fifth and sixth sisters had twins (one a boy and the other a girl) and twins (the other just gave birth to twins).
Jiang Xiaoqi prepared valuable gifts for all eleven juniors.
There are imported treasures, as well as custom-made clothes made of precious fabrics, and of course, boxes and boxes of toys suitable for all ages.
The children were naturally overjoyed to receive the gifts. Except for the four who were still breastfeeding, the older ones all lingered around their uncle, Jiang Xiaoqi.
"Uncle, what is this?"
"This is a little windmill. When you run, it will spin along with you."
"Uncle, what about this? What is this?"
"This is a little rocking horse. Come on, let your uncle carry you up to sit on it."
"Uncle, uncle..."
Jiang Xiaoqi answered every question the children asked with great patience.
The older sisters and their husbands stood by, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. This seventh brother was truly the king of the kids at that moment.
What's remarkable is that the seventh brother is incredibly patient with their children, even more so than they, as parents, are.
Children this young are at the age where they love to ask all sorts of questions. Sometimes, when they get annoyed by all the questions at home, they will simply run away.
The main problem is that sometimes the questions children ask are too tricky, and the children genuinely don't know how to answer them.
For example: Why is the sky blue? Why is sunlight so dazzling? How can you tell if an ant is male or female? Why doesn't my baby close his eyes when he sleeps?
Who will tell them how to answer these questions?
They were watching their seventh brother being bothered by the children, actually hoping to find the answer.
If the seventh brother were asked these strange questions, how should he answer them?
After all, the seventh brother was intelligent from a young age, passed the imperial examinations and became the top scholar, and is now the youngest third-rank official in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Minister.
They thought that maybe their seventh brother really did know the answers to these bizarre questions.
But after waiting for a long time, the children didn't ask a single strange question; they just stared at their big box of toys and asked all sorts of questions.
"Wife, our son has changed his ways. Why isn't he curious about why the stars twinkle today?"
"Hmm, he's not only no longer curious about the stars, but also about the moon. The moon is so round today, and he doesn't even ask why it wasn't round before."
"Yes, my son asked me yesterday why the sea is blue. I told him it's because the sky is blue."
Who knew he'd immediately ask me why the sky was blue? How was I supposed to answer that?
"Haha, brother-in-law, just tell him it's because the sea is blue!"
Okay then~ let's make it an infinite loop~
He's good for nothing, but he's number one at fooling kids!
Li Haisheng grew up by the sea, and to be honest, he really couldn't answer that question.
The main problem is that I've never thought about it in this way before.
"Haha, brother-in-law, you've got to be kidding me! The child is just young, not stupid!"
You can fool people, but they still know it.
Dong Jin was speechless. How could his brother-in-law say such a thing as fooling the child?
"Exactly, exactly. You think this is like when we were kids? We were so easy to fool back then."
Xiao Ming chimed in.
"Haha, that's you! I was a child prodigy when I was young!"
Tan Hao felt that he was quite smart when he was young, cough cough, only slightly less so than his brother-in-law.
Tan Hao recalled the time when the two of them competed in reciting texts to win the house, and it felt like it was just yesterday.
Time flies! In the blink of an eye, they've all become parents and uncles.
"You've got to be kidding me!"
If we're talking about child prodigies, we have to mention our seventh brother. He was such a little adult and a clever little devil when he was young.
You should know that both my father and grandfather were forced to continue taking the imperial examinations because they were manipulated by my seventh brother.
"If it weren't for Seventh Brother, our Jiang family would probably never have achieved today's glory."
Jiang Xiwen spoke the words that had been in her heart for many years: "Hmph, without my brother, the Jiang family would probably still be stuck in a small place, just being landlords."
"What my eldest sister said is true. I remember when we were little, my seventh brother was really incredibly smart. There wasn't a single child as clever as him out of a thousand or ten thousand."
Jiang Xiyue immediately echoed, and the other four sisters also nodded vigorously.
Of the six sons-in-law of the Jiang family, only Li Haisheng and Tan Hao knew Jiang Xiaoqi earlier; the others only met him after the Jiang family had produced scholars, provincial graduates, or even imperial scholars.
So I wasn't very familiar with Jiang Xiaoqi when she was a child, but now that I hear it, I don't doubt it at all.
After all, it's impossible for an ordinary person to become a high-ranking official before the age of twenty.
Nowadays, the brother-in-law is the most important person in their six families, and they dare not question him, nor would they dare to question him.
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