My Courtyard Refuge

: New Year’s Eve

“Grandma, we are back, come and have a look, Dad bought us a bird.”

As soon as he entered the yard, Lele shouted loudly holding up the newly purchased birdcage.

“Really!” Xu Ma came out of the kitchen with a smile, holding a bowl in her hand, exaggerating: “Well, what kind of bird is this? It looks so… handsome!”

Mama Xu originally wanted to say, “You are so beautiful”, but seeing that the bird is dark and not sensual, it has nothing to do with beauty, so she quickly changed a word when she got to the point of her mouth.

“This is myna, and he can speak human language when he grows up.” Lele proudly showed off.

Not to be outdone, Keke introduced the bird cage, “Grandma, mine is a canary, isn’t it beautiful?”

“It’s really weird and beautiful!”

It was the first time for Xu’s mother to see such a beautiful bird, so she couldn’t help but take a second look.

Lele was in a hurry: “Grandma, starlings can talk.”

“Okay, mynah is also a good bird, grandma fried fish balls for you, come, see if it’s delicious?”

After Xu’s mother finished speaking, she fed each of the three little guys a fish ball one by one.

The fish balls were charred on the outside and tender on the inside, very elastic. Ma Xu praised while eating:

“It’s so delicious, grandma, I want to eat more.”

Just as Mama Xu stuffed a fish ball into her grandson’s mouth, Ke Ke and Lele also said “more”, and within a short while, the fish balls in the bowl were all gone.

The three little guys quarreled and wanted to eat.

Yang Lina hurriedly said, “Okay, dinner is about to come, and there are a lot of fish balls in the hot pot.”

“Mom, are there any big lobsters tonight?”

As soon as she heard about having dinner, Lele immediately remembered the big lobster that she ate last night, and she still can’t forget it.

Yang Lina shook her head, “Not tonight, but tomorrow night.”

“But I want to eat tonight.” Lele began to be willful again.

“Come on, Dad will take you to hang the bird cages.”

Seeing that his wife’s expression was not right, Xu Dong immediately dragged the Ke Ke sisters and Ma Xu into the glass room.

“Dad, where is the bird cage hanging?” Lele quickly forgot what happened just now.

Xu Dong observed it for a while, and said, “Just hang it under the water tower, where the sun won’t shine.”

“Uh-huh…”

After finding the rope, Xu Dong quickly hung up the two birdcages.

Not to mention, with the sound of birds chirping, the glass room looks more energetic, making people feel like they are in the outdoor wilderness.

Xu Dong decided that he would ask Dad Xu to make a reclining chair later, and come here to relax and feel the nature when he has nothing to do.

…

The next day, New Year’s Eve, Dad Xu still had to go to work, and it was said that there was no holiday during the Chinese New Year.

After breakfast, the whole family started to get busy, preparing to give the courtyard a thorough cleaning.

Xu Ma and Yang Lina are mainly responsible for cleaning the interior. The weather is dusty and dusty, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated in several unoccupied rooms.

The outside, or more precisely the roof, can only be left to Xu Dong.

The roof is installed with solar tiles. If there is too much dust covered, it will definitely affect the power generation efficiency. Previously, Xu Dong basically cleaned it every two months.

The main reason is that there is no electricity limit here in Yanjing, and there are not many opportunities to use solar power to generate electricity.Come down, only seven or eight times at most.

The roof of the first floor was easy to clean. A feather duster was tied to a long bamboo pole. Xu Dong stood directly on the glass roof of the yard and finished it in less than half an hour.

The trouble is that the second floor is too high, and the slope of the roof is too gentle, and the long bamboo poles cannot reach it.

Xu Dong thought of a way before, that is to dispatch the drone and use the strong wind generated by the drone itself to blow off the dust. The effect can only be said to be unsatisfactory!

“It’s flying.” Lele clapped her hands and cheered.

“Stay inside and don’t come out.” Xu Dong reminded again.

In his past life and this life, he has only operated drones a few times in total, and he is not very skilled in technology, so he is afraid of danger.

Ma Xu is a boy, looking at the drone, he couldn’t take his eyes off: “Uncle, can I try it too?”

“No, you’re too young.” Xu Dong flatly refused.

“Oh…” Ma Xu said disappointedly.

“Why don’t you be discouraged, when you go to high school, the old uncle will give you a drone directly.”

“Really? Thank you, uncle.”

“Of course it’s true. Ask Ke Ke and the others, when will my words stop counting?” Xu Dong laughed.

Lele rushed to answer: “Dad knows what he says!”

After cleaning the roof, Xu Dong then went to the basement. After more than a year, the warehouse also accumulated a lot of dust.

Fortunately, there is no other garbage in the basement except dust.

Xu Dong directly dismantled a sweeping robot. After it was fully charged, it cleaned all the two floors of the warehouse.

As for the dust on the product packaging, the workload was too much, and he couldn’t do anything about it. Anyway, it was all vacuum-packed, and the dust couldn’t get inside.

After a busy morning, I finally had a lot of leisure in the afternoon.

After lunch, the Keke sisters took Ma Xu to the Champs Elysees community next door to meet their classmates. There were more children there and it was much more lively than at home.

At four o’clock in the afternoon, Xu Dong had just posted the Spring Festival couplets, but the three of them finally came back, sweating profusely, but smiling brilliantly.

Xu Dong poured a glass of strawberry juice for each of the three. The strawberry juice was freshly squeezed out with a juicer, and the children especially liked it.

However, the production of strawberries is limited, and some honey and water are added to the juice, which does not affect the taste very much.

===Section 84===

“What are you playing?”

“We played radish squats, and there were one, two, three wooden figures.” Lele took a big sip of strawberry juice after speaking.

Coco immediately added: “There is also rubber band jumping, my sister and I can dance very well.”

“Xiao Xu, are you having fun this afternoon?”

“happy.”

Ma Xu was really happy. In his hometown, except for going to school, his mother locked him in the house all day long and didn’t let him go out casually.

Firstly, the law and order outside is not good, and I am afraid that children will have accidents; secondly, when going outdoors, I will sweat, not only need a lot of drinking water, but also washing clothes is a troublesome thing.

“Just be happy. Don’t stay at home all the time. If you have nothing to do, let your cousins ​​go out to play.” Xu Dong encouraged.

In the previous life, due to the common neglect of the parents and the school, a large number of homeboys and homegirls were cultivated, which caused a series of social problems.

Even Lele is no exception.

When she grew up, Xu Le was not as lively as she is now. In her previous life, except for going to school, she usually didn’t leave the door, and this was an important reason why Xu Dong was willing to indulge her children.

“I see.”

Ma Xu nodded seriously. Obviously, he is very satisfied with life in Yanjing.

At six o’clock in the evening, Dad Xu finally came back. According to the tradition of their hometown, the father and son completed an ancestor worship ceremony in the living room.

No firecrackers were set off, and no paper was burned. After all, the yard was closed, so fresh flowers were used instead.