Xu Damao's Thirty-Six Stratagems in Siheyuan

After the eighth day of the first lunar month, Lou Xiaoe, Tan Yali, Xu Nian, Bai Wenting, and Bai Wenming went directly to Hong Kong, while Xu Ning flew directly from Kyoto to Britain. Lou Xiaohui, Xu Jun and his wife and Qi Huan set off for the United States together.

Xu Damao has already reached an agreement with Qi Huan and is preparing to transfer Ren Jian from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles. This will ensure that Xu Jun and his wife can be closer, or go to college in the same city.

As for Qi Huan and Lou Xiaohui's love journey, the matchmaking has been completed and the subsequent development depends on them alone.

Xu Damao finally had time to spend some quality time with Fang Xiaoru. Fang Xiaoru had a lot of work to do in the lab and teaching recently, so she hadn't really spent any time alone with Xu Damao. Before the Spring Festival, the Lou family came back to celebrate the New Year, so they didn't have time to deal with other things.

"Da Mao, you now have many wives and concubines, and many children. You are a typical successful person. Why don't you express your gratitude?"

"Lady Hero, please stop making fun of me. It's not easy for Xiao'e and the others. In fact, I owe her. After so many years of wandering outside, being both a father and a mother, and also being someone's daughter, it's not easy. Fortunately, I got through it. It's really fortunate that her eldest sister is better, otherwise it would have been very difficult. Alas, one may be glorious in front of others, but only know the sweetness and bitterness behind others. Just like her, my mother-in-law, who was someone's second wife and had no say. Fortunately, my father-in-law did not forget about them when he divided the family property and gave them some. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable. She would be isolated and helpless, like meat on the chopping board, at the mercy of others."

"Hey, let me ask you something. You poured out a lot of it. Is this your speech?!"

"Xiao Ru, generally speaking, everyone is fine now. If your parents had not bowed their heads and had insisted to the end, what do you think would have happened? Wait till the clouds clear and the moon appears, wait till the flowers bloom. We are all fine, and we have reached the age of knowing the destiny. Look, Shuying is almost in high school, what else is there that you can't figure out? Why are you still jealous? You have been busy for the past six months. Don't be so busy in the future. Take your time with your carbon fiber research project. Huo Huo will provide you with the latest results one after another. There is no need to stand on the shoulders of giants, so why bother climbing the ladder yourself?"

"This project is now a national key scientific research project. What if your good big child no longer provides it in the future? We have to make preparations for both situations. It is better to have it ourselves than for others to have it. We have to take the first step. There is no other way."

"It's up to you. If you are really busy, let Shuying, Hanhan, and Dandan live together in Dongsi."

"You don't need to worry about Shuying. I'll send her to Tsinghua High School right now. I'll just let my brother and sister-in-law take care of her in the future. My parents like Shuying very much, and they usually exercise and practice martial arts together. It's a happy thing to have fun in old age, right? Don't worry about her. She will eventually fly away when she grows up. Didn't my son fly away? Although he graduated for several years, does he come to visit his grandparents now? As his biological mother, will he miss me? No! Some things are in our bones, and it's almost impossible to change them. It's more realistic if you miss me."

"Hehe, I'm glad you understand. Go to Dongsi more often after get off work in the future. Meifang is working in Fuxingmen and managing a restaurant, so she's pretty busy. I'm the most free."

"Okay, I get it. But, Xu Damao, you really have to say it, after being nourished by you, I feel like my whole body is full of gas, full of energy, it's magical. Just for this, I will go to Dongsi more often and let you write gas stations non-stop. Hahahaha."

Xu Damao suddenly said "female hooligan." He also laughed. This silly woman, the metaphor is quite vivid. Now he seems to be like a gas station, injecting new vitality into people. After his care, it feels like full blood revived.

It's just a gas station. He also likes the feeling of making others look forward to it, just like the arrogant people in later generations who would drive a Ford F-150 Raptor to a gas station and say: "Fill up with 98# gasoline."

After a new climax of life, life gradually returned to normal, except that He Yuzhu's eldest son He Jianxin held a wedding banquet for his family in a restaurant that year, and then things returned to normal.

I go to work from 8am to 4pm, cook for my kids, review their homework, sort out my personal belongings, read Buddhist scriptures, and look at Chinese medicine books to supplement my knowledge. Another half year has passed in a flash.

With the arrival of summer vacation, Xu Damao made a travel plan. He took a train from Kyoto, all the way to Qinhuangdao to see the sea, then went to the Shenyang Imperial Palace, to Changbai Mountain, and finally to Harbin. The planned travel time was 20 days.

Xu Damao, Fang Xiaoru and their six children set off together.

The fun along the way and Xu Damao's fascinating commentaries made Fang Xiaoru feel quite puzzled.

"Xu Damao, have you been here before?"

"Apart from Beidaihe, I've never been to other places."

In fact, Xu Damao has never been to any place except Beidaihe, but Xu Damao has really been there. Not only has he been to Harbin, he has also been to Mohe, and even to Russia, and to Lake Baikal, which used to belong to our country.

By the way, it was because a man from Northeast China wrote a song called "On the Shores of Lake Baikal", which led to a team-building trip to Russia for five days organized by the district government where Damao was located.

In addition, Xu Damao is really familiar with the history of the Qing Dynasty. He knows the rise and growth of the Jurchen tribe in detail and tells the story in a very interesting way.

"Xu Damao, did you really graduate from high school? Why do I feel like you are even better than the top students in the history department of Peking University?"

"Thank you for the compliment, my wife. History doesn't have to be learned in university. There are plenty of materials in the library. If you say so, I graduated from Kyoto University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. There are many students who graduated from traditional Chinese medicine universities with better medical skills than me. Is that right? Sometimes academic qualifications do not represent ability, and no academic qualifications do not mean no culture. Liu Bang, a commoner, founded the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years; Zhu Yuanzhang, a beggar for generations, established the Ming Dynasty in the East...

I am a genius, there is no way, I can’t stop it.”

It’s true that interesting words and good bragging actually arouse children’s competitive spirit.

This trip was both precious and extraordinary. The children learned knowledge, gained insights, and established sisterhood. Xu Damao enhanced the relationship between husband and wife, father and son, and the biggest gain was that he harvested a lot of high-year wild ginseng in Changbai Mountain in Northeast China. This was his ultimate goal of taking this route. Before the price of wild ginseng in Changbai Mountain increased, he harvested a batch of high-quality wild ginseng. It cost him nearly 60,000 yuan of savings.

"Da Mao, aren't you afraid that someone might snatch your bag? Why are you spending money so lavishly?"

"Oh my god, we are the only team in this world. If someone is blind enough to come and rob us, he is just blind. Let alone a few, even if there are dozens, they are just a bunch of chickens and pottery dogs. Our daughter Shuying can handle twenty of them alone, which is more than enough. I have already searched for wild ginseng in most of the Chinese medicine stores in Beijing. This time, I was able to find so many genuine wild ginseng, which is a guarantee for the health of my family. When I return to Beijing, I will recuperate your parents and ensure that they live a long life."