Today is New Year’s Eve, and we’ll be having the reunion dinner tonight.
Before that, they need to prepare what’s necessary.
The stir-fried dishes can be cooked just before dinner, but some dishes require materials and procedures to be prepared in advance.
Moreover, some soups need to be simmered for a long time to get the flavor right.
There are many people in the family who can cook, and there’s even someone dedicated to making desserts, so the busiest place in the house becomes the kitchen.
Little Pei Jing can’t really help much, but he’s well-behaved and helps pass things when he can.
Such a sensible Pei Jing really melts Jiang Ran’s heart.
Because they not only need to prepare food for the evening but also for lunch, and with eight more people added, it’s actually quite busy.
Luckily, there are many people.
With tasks divided among several people, they could also chat while working, making it less tiring.
Finally, the lunch preparations were almost done, and it was indeed time to eat lunch.
Pei Yang sat on the living room sofa, expressing his thoughts aloud.
"Being a cook is really not easy!"
He’s still in the learning phase, and there’s actually quite a lot he needs to do every day, so this amount of work doesn’t really count.
When he opens his own store in the future, he’ll probably be even busier than now.
He only sighed because, even though it’s a holiday at home, he’s still so busy, prompting him to reflect.
Pei Baoshan heard him and glanced at Pei Yang but didn’t say much.
He himself doesn’t have much affection for his brother’s family.
It was the first time Pei Yang learned he had an uncle.
How much affection can there be for relatives one just met?
Insisting on having some, seems a bit forced.
With these thoughts in mind, Pei Baoshan calmly withdrew his gaze.
About twenty minutes later, Wang Cuilan brought Pei Baoshu’s family back.
They had all changed clothes and washed up nicely, looking more pleasant than before.
You can’t say that just by changing clothes and taking a bath a person changes, but they definitely looked better.
After all, they are blood relatives, and there’s still some resemblance in their looks.
But often, a person’s temperament greatly influences their appearance.
Jiang Ran’s gaze quickly swept over them, finally settling down calmly.
"Now that you’re back, let’s eat," said Pei Baoshan.
Whether these people were hungry, Pei Baoshan didn’t know.
But having been busy all morning, he himself was truly hungry.
What Pei Baoshan didn’t expect was that these people seemed hungrier than he was.
Xu Yufen grinned widely, "Being able to eat as soon as we came back, that’s great! Second brother, I’m not saying this, but your meals all day are on time, unlike us, we used to only have two meals and couldn’t eat freely."
Jiang Ran, "..."
Listening to Xu Yufen’s words, Jiang Ran couldn’t quite discern what he felt inside.
Isn’t three meals a day the most normal thing?
It’s not like twenty years ago when times were hard, as long as you work diligently, maybe not rich and wealthy, but having three meals a day shouldn’t be difficult!
Both Pei Baoshan and Wang Cuilan frowned at her words.
But it was clear they didn’t want to say more to Xu Yufen, so they just stood up and headed to the kitchen.