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At noon, after Xu's father came back, lunch officially began. Reading

Xu Dong had already told us last night that the food should be as simple as possible, especially the meat dishes. Just make a braised dried shrimp and a fried fish fillet. That would be enough.

In the future, their family's standard of entertaining guests will basically follow this. Being too ostentatious will not only make the guests uncomfortable, but also have a bad influence.

In addition, the children have also been told in advance.

The reason is very simple, that is, good friends should not show off, otherwise little Enya will feel uncomfortable.

Finally, the twins, including Ma Xu, nodded solemnly.

The food was served. Although it was very low-key, Aunt Zhang was still shocked.

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The standard of this meal is not worse than before the drought. It has basically everything that should be there.

"Auntie, would you like some white wine?" Xu Dong knew that the other party could drink, but just didn't drink much.

Aunt Zhang waved her hand quickly: "No, just like the children, drink soy milk."

Xu Dong didn't force her and poured a large cup of soy milk for Aunt Zhang. In order to keep a low profile, he didn't even make the strawberry juice and watermelon juice that the children had every day.

"Come on, let's raise our glasses together. Let's welcome Aunt Zhang and little Enya to our home." Everyone drank soy milk.

"Cheers!" The children were very excited.

"Enya, come and try the fish fillet, is it delicious?"

Putting down the cup, Xu Dong first picked up a piece of fish fillet for little Zhang Enya. The little guy was a little restrained, and the chopsticks in his hand were only focused on eating rice.

"Thank you, Uncle Xu!" The little guy smiled sweetly.

Xu Dong pinched the other party's little face: "Eat quickly, uncle's house is also your home, don't be polite, look at your sister Lele, the chopsticks are about to fly."

Lele didn't care at all, and also imitated his father and picked up a piece of fish fillet for Aunt Zhang.

"Grandma Zhang, eat fish fillets. Fish fillets are very tender. Even if you have bad teeth, you can eat them. My grandma loves fish fillets the most."

"This child is really polite."

Xu Dong glanced at his youngest daughter. He finally understood that Lele's emotional intelligence was definitely the highest among the children. This child was thick-skinned and sweet-mouthed. She might not be worse off than Keke in the future.

At the dinner table, Xu Dong asked about the follow-up situation in Qindao. Since he came back, he rarely paid attention to the news there.

Aunt Zhang introduced: "There are fewer illegal immigrants, and the places where refugees were previously accommodated have been demolished. The city has returned to normal.

In the past two months, food rations have become less and less, and many people have become fishermen again, which is much better than working. Some people specialize in smuggling kelp from the South Dynasty and have made a fortune.

Alas, if your uncle Zhang was not old, I would want him to go out and try his luck. In this world, honest people can only starve."

Xu Dong really didn't expect that Aunt Zhang's thinking was so open. This group of people, including Xu's father, probably experienced the roaring 1980s and were more enterprising than young people.

"Where did they buy their fishing boats?" Xu's father asked curiously.

The country has stopped even producing cars now, so there is no reason to let go of small fishing boats. This thing is actually not very useful. It is better to specialize in deep-sea fishing.

"Some are the original old fishing boats, and some are imported from the South Dynasty and Nisang." Aunt Zhang replied.

Xu Dong was puzzled: "Well, why do they want to sell their fishing boats? Isn't it good to fish by themselves?"

"I also heard from those crew members that South Dynasty and Nisang are in urgent need of gasoline now. They can't drive the boats even if they have them. It's better to sell the boats to make some money, and then import some necessities from our country."

"Is it so scarce?" Xu Dong said in surprise.

"Of course, South Dynasty is still at war, and Nisang is not much better. The big earthquake that happened last month was said to be eight or nine magnitude, and we felt it there."

In fact, the main reason for the lack of oil in the two countries is that the major oil-producing countries are now in trouble. Compared with the previous two years, the current oil production is less than one-fifth.

What's more serious is that the four parties headed by the United States, Daxia, the European Union and the bear directly divided up the international crude oil production, and other countries can't even get a sip of soup.

As for Daiying, it returned to the embrace of the European Union a few months ago.

"Why didn't it report it in the news?" Xu Ma interrupted.

Xu Dong speculated: "The higher-ups probably don't want to cause panic. After all, Nesang is quite close to our country, so it will be affected to some extent."

"Will there be no earthquake here?" Xu Ma said nervously. The big earthquake forty years ago had a great impact on their generation.

"It's okay, Mom! As the capital, Yanjing rarely has earthquakes here, so don't worry too much." Xu Dong comforted.

At least before 2030, there will be no big earthquakes in China. On the other side of the ocean, there will be a big earthquake a few years later, but the west coast has already declined, and the loss is not great.

Apart from that, there are no big earthquakes in the world.

"That's good." Xu Ma said with relief.

After lunch, Xu Ma pulled Aunt Zhang to chat about family matters, and finally called Aunt Wang, and several people played mahjong.

On Xu Dong's side, he took a few children out for a crazy circle. First, he went to the zoo to see the giant pandas, then visited the former imperial palace, and finally went to the amusement park to play until dark.

In short, the itinerary was full, and he didn't get home until 8:30 in the evening.

"Why did you come back just now?" Yang Lina complained.

"Aren't Keke and the others about to start school? It's a rare opportunity, let them have fun!"

"Did you send Enya back to the hotel?" Yang Lina asked.

Aunt Zhang didn't stay for dinner, and returned to the hotel at six o'clock. Yang Lina specially packed some snacks for her.

"Sent her back. I wanted to bring her back for dinner, but unfortunately there was no time, so I had to send her back to the hotel first."

"When we leave tomorrow, I'll prepare more snacks for you, so you don't have to go hungry when you come back late."

Xu Dong smiled bitterly, "It was a mistake this time. I didn't expect there was no restaurant outside."

"Of course there is no food. There is not enough food. Who would be willing to eat outside now? I guess you are the only one." Yang Lina said unhappily.

In fact, there are still restaurants, but they are not open to the public. They are all state-owned guesthouses.

Xu Ma heated up the food, and Xu Dong and the children immediately wolfed it down. They were crazy all afternoon and were really tired and hungry.

"Where are you going tomorrow?" Yang Lina asked again.

"Mom, Dad is going to take us to climb the long wall tomorrow." Lele answered quickly.

Yang Lina frowned and said, "It's so hot, why climb the long wall? You'll get sunburned to death."

Xu Dong smiled and said nothing. Climbing the long wall was indeed his idea. According to the memory of his previous life, the long wall will not be open to the public from next year.

Due to the lack of vegetation and the sharp drop in groundwater, the long wall is at risk of collapse at any time, so the only choice is to close the scenic spot.

As a Daxia person, Xu Dong doesn't want his children to have regrets.

If it's far away, it's fine, but it's right at the doorstep, so it's really unreasonable to go there.

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