Brunch with Xiao Nong, tea with Lu zong, ye xiao with Haiwei and young people

Xiao Nong pinged me at 8am to eat something but it was a bit early for me so I said to meet a bit later for brunch and we ended up eating jiaozi at my place because why not? 

Lu zong had pinged me yesterday to go to his house to eat tea this evening as his daughter and niece wanted to practise English with me. Of course I couldn't refuse but despite brunch I somehow didn't manage to get a siesta despite having had a couple of beers. I did stop the beers but it doesn't half make you tired. But when I might have got an hour's shut-eye Lu zong sent me a voice message at 4.40pm to tell me to come over now. I sent one back to say I'd be 15 minutes or so, stupidly thinking I could get a micro-sleep but of course it didn't materialise.

Then I remembered that I had to perform at the Bangxu concert tomorrow and pinged Li Kun to see if I could use the wireless transmitter I'd used to good effect the other week. Of course I could, and I could pick it up later.

To be fair it was a lovely family meal, with not too much beer at all, and although his daughter couldn't make it, Lu zong's niece's English wasn't terrible at all, so I think I justified being there.

I made sure I bought a box of cherries to bring to the meal

Lu zong's house with a couple of uncles getting ready for the meal

But of course Haiwei had also invited me to a meal at 8.30pm to meet his elder son's girlfriend. I couldn't leave quite so early but compromised at 8.45pm and wasn't held back too much other than a couple more ganbeis.

I was really tiring by now. I so could have done with a siesta but I was too polite meeting Xiao Nong earlier. Andge even texted me saying he didn't know how I did it. But I knew I only had to hold out a couple of hours and bed would be my reward. As it was Haiwei had booked a place in Jiangbin Lu that I'd not been to before. It was really cool with a lot of young people...well young in the sense that they had boy/girlfriends that would likely become spouses in the coming months. Haiwei's eldest was there but his girlfriend wouldn't be for a good hour or so as she was coming back to Pingguo from another town.

Lovely meal with the young people at Jiangbin Lu

I tried to keep awake but drinking beer and it somewhat worked. I got up and ganbei‘d every one around the table, but doing couples as one made it easier. Eventually Haiwei's eldest's girlfriend turned up, so I managed one with her (a ganbei) even though she said she didn't drink. She's a rather pretty young lady by all accounts. By 11am I was really flagging so made my excuses and drove back home to Waipo's. Back home I managed a single zoom with the lads but was pretty much asleep by 12.30am for a change.

Haiwei's eldest's girlfriend turned up (yes in the middle)