Fortunately, it's summer. Lin Wan borrowed two tables and placed them in the courtyard. A few kids were watching TV inside the house.
Lin Wan fried some little shrimps for them to snack on.
Sister-in-law Zhang and Sister-in-law Liu came over to help around four o'clock. Lin Wan didn't prepare much, mainly because there were a lot of people, so she prepared more of each dish.
For today's gathering, Lin Wan specially asked Aunt Gui to roast some lamb and beef for her at the shop.
The kids were easy to manage; just steam some rice for them and make a couple of soup dishes to leave inside, not even needing supervision. They were all older kids; Pidan was already in fourth grade. Sister-in-law Liu's two sons were in third and second grade, respectively.
"Why hasn't Sun Yu come?" Sister-in-law Liu noticed Yang Wei had arrived but hadn't seen Sun Yu.
