Red apricots make spring

Chapter 234
During the family banquet in Lu's family at night, Rourou cooks for herself. The dishes are not many, but everything is exquisite.Lu Fenglin was a little startled when he entered the table, but he couldn't bear to put down his chopsticks.

He didn't have much contact with Wenrou. He used to hear Lu Chenzhou praise Wenrou's delicious dishes, but he just laughed along with it. He didn't think so, thinking that his father would praise him no matter what he did as long as he had meat to eat. .It wasn't until now when she saw the eight exquisite dishes and one soup on the table that she realized that her father hadn't praised her, and that if she hadn't been immersed in cooking skills for several years, she wouldn't be able to cook these dishes.

"Not bad, not bad, better than Yu Chu's." Lu Chenzhou said, making an exception and kept scooping up the bowl of whitebait and water shield soup, which made Ruan a little surprised.

"Grandpa, don't you want to eat big meat today?" Ruan took the bowl and scooped one for him.

"En." Lu Chenzhou answered, buried his face in the bowl, raised his face after a while, and sighed: "This soup tastes the same as Qi'er's. It's fresh and smooth. I haven't tasted this taste for many years. It's..."

I see!At the same time as being gentle and dazed, thinking of Luo Qi's identity, she couldn't help but meditate silently.

Hearing this, Lu Fenglin also took a bowl, tasted it, and nodded in silence.This soup is better than his mother's. It would be an exaggeration for Lu Chenzhou to say that it tastes the same. But the deliciousness in the old man's memory is unmatched by others no matter how good it is. Now gentleness can be praised. Already rare.

Shen Mengan sat on the side, didn't eat food, just stared at Wenrou intently, didn't hide it at all, and Lu Ce was a little annoyed when he saw it, so he took a chopstick of snowflake chicken for him and said calmly: "Brother Shen Shi Have a taste of Clumsy Jing's craft."

The word "Clumsy Jing" was extremely harsh to Shen Mengan's ears. He snorted, pulled aside the vegetables that Lu Ce had picked up, and gasped, "I don't like chicken!" He took a big chopsticks of spicy tripe and stuffed it into his mouth viciously. Gentle raised his eyes just in time to see it, but it was too late to stop him. After taking a light breath, he saw Shen Mengan's face suddenly became very strange.

The tip of the tongue is numb and spicy, people who tasted it for the first time would not find it delicious, but the table was full of people looking at it, Shen Mengan didn't swallow or spit it out at the moment, he hesitated for a long time, and finally swallowed it wholeheartedly down.After coughing violently a few times, he felt a burning pain in his mouth, and stretched out his hand to pour the glass of wine in front of him into his mouth. Who would have thought that not only did not relieve the burning pain, but the feeling became more intense, and immediately Grabbing his own neck, he struggled and said, "Water...give me water..."

The maidservant at the side hurriedly fetched water for Shen Mengan, and he poured down several cups of cold water in one go, before he was relieved a bit, and when he was sitting there wiping the tears choked out by the spicy food, he wanted to die!
"Brother Lu...you're too cruel! What's in this dish? You're trying to embarrass me..." Shen Mengan moved her head closer, gnashing her teeth next to Lu Ce's ear.

"Who told you to take such a big mouthful..." Lu Ce was also a little speechless, "It's not my fault."

Lu Chenzhou didn't seem to hear what they were talking about, and he pointed to the spicy tripe and said: "There is pepper in this dish, so you can't eat it in your house, right? Come, eat more."

"Hey——" No matter how messed up Shen Mengan was, he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of his elders, and he was too embarrassed not to accept the hospitality, so he had to put a chopstick in the food dish with a bitter face, but he didn't dare to eat it.

"Eat, you're welcome!" Lu Chenzhou urged with a smile, "My grandson's daughter-in-law is a first-class cook."

Hearing Lu Chenzhou praise herself like this, the black line is so black, she almost blush for him, and seeing Shen Mengan's bitter face and Lu Chenzhou's kind smile, her heart can't help but move.Hey, isn't this old man trying to trick him on purpose?She stole a glance at Lu Ce, thinking that if there is a grandson, there must be a father.But although she felt sorry for Shen Meng'an, she was inconvenient to open her mouth to help him out. Thinking about the troubles he created for herself in the past, she only regarded him as "paying off the debt"...

Just when Shen Mengan was about to put the spicy tripe into his mouth again with a tragic expression of "the strong man will never return", finally Lu Fenglin couldn't stand it, and rescued him: "Meng'an, are you going How long do I live here?"

Shen Mengan secretly said that she was lucky, put down her chopsticks, wiped the sweat from the tip of her nose, and said, "I... I don't know for sure, if Shi Bo thinks it's inconvenient for me to live here..."

Lu Fenglin waved his hand and interrupted him: "I wish you could come and stay longer, but if your father asks about it, I will always have something to say to him, or he will still think that I am holding on to his son."

"Uncle Shi." Shen Mengan hurriedly said, "Don't tell my father that I live here."

Lu Fenglin glanced at Lu Ce, shook his head and said with a smile, "You children, you always don't let your parents worry about it. You must know that your parents are doing it for your own good. Even if there is a huge conflict, you should..."

"That's all right, all right, what are you teaching the kids to do when you're having dinner?" Lu Chenzhou spoke displeasedly, interrupting Lu Fenglin's next long speech, then smiled and said to Shen Meng'an: "I heard that the princess and the Holy Majesty had a falling out. Is it? What is it for this time? Let’s listen to it, so as to relieve boredom.”

This old man must be crazy, and too gossip!But Ruan is also curious why Shen Mengan suddenly came to live in Lu's house, saying that she wanted to hide from the princess, but the princess always pestered him like this, if the old emperor didn't have any plans in his heart, he wouldn't believe it if he killed her!Therefore, she also looked at Shen Mengan very curiously, waiting for him to say.

Shen Mengan saw that Wenrou wanted to hear it, so she didn't care about making a fool of herself. The Holy Majesty found out that Princess Anning had been sent to the sky prison privately, and the father and daughter narrated another quarrelsome story, and finally said with a wry smile. : "My father said that the Holy Majesty is not in good health recently, and he is busy taking medicine for recuperation. I am afraid that he will not have time to discipline the princess for a while, so let her stay at our house for a while, and it would be good to return to the palace after the Holy Majesty's anger subsides. But I..." He smiled awkwardly and said, "I couldn't stand the princess' temper, so I came out to hide."

After listening to his words, Lu Fenglin shook his head and said: "I heard from Mr. Zhan, the head of the inner court, that the princess was busy getting someone to take her back as soon as she left the palace, but was stopped by the imperial concubine, who advised the emperor to say that the princess is making a fuss if she is idle in the palace. Anyway, she's getting married soon, and she won't have a chance to mess around in the future, so let her go out for a while, and let her relax, with hidden guards guarding her, so she can't make any mistakes. Besides, she's not in the palace, and the Holy Majesty can't see her For the sake of purity, so as not to get angry."

"The princess is going to get married?" Shen Mengan didn't know the news. He raised the amount with his hand, and said happily: "Okay! Very good! God finally opened his eyes!" As he said, he drank three glasses in a row excitedly Wine, and filled the glass with joy to toast Lu Chenzhou.

Lu Fenglin glanced at him, but smiled and said nothing.

Lu Ce didn't know the news, he felt relieved at the same time when he was surprised, but when he saw the look on his father's face, he suddenly realized something, glanced at the cheerful Shen Meng'an, showing a little bit of unbearable expression, hesitant to speak.

Lu Ce and Wen Rou were present at the table, and Shen Mengan's noise added to the fun, and finally the dullness of sitting and eating with Lu Fenglin in the past was relieved. Lu Chenzhou had a very good meal and even got drunk.At the end of the banquet, Lu Ce was about to send Wenrou back to Wutong Pavilion, when the two were having a quiet conversation, he suddenly said, "Ce'er, send Mengan back to rest first, Rou'er will accompany the old man to have a word."

"Grandpa, you—" Lu Ce didn't forget what the old man said during the day, and he was somewhat dissatisfied with his domineering way of talking with Wen Rou all day long to relieve boredom.

"What's wrong with the old man? If I tell you to go." Lu Chenzhou stood up smiling and waved at him, then said to Wen Rou: "Rou'er, you come with the old man."

"Yeah." Rourou said goodbye to Lu Fenglin and Shen Mengan, smiled at Lu Ce, and walked outside with Lu Chenzhou.

At that time, the bright moon was in the sky, and the Qinghui was everywhere.

Lu Chenzhou was silent, just paced and walked slowly ahead, Wen Rou had just drank a few glasses of wine, and now he was following behind Lu Chenzhou, walking in the garden and being blown by the wind, the wine was a little drunk, and he was dizzy, It seems that I can no longer feel the passage of time, and I don’t realize that there is nothing wrong with walking quietly like this. I just feel that the moon is very round, and the fragrance of the soil and grass in the garden is also very fresh. When I walk, I feel like I am stepping on a pile of cotton On the ground, he was so light that he couldn't feel his own weight, and his mood suddenly became relaxed and happy.

I don't know how long he walked until he could see Ting Taoxuan from a distance, Lu Chenzhou stopped, patted the tree trunk beside him with his hand, sighed and said: "Rou'er, there is one thing that the old man has already told you. I want to ask you a question, but don’t lie to the old man, just tell the truth.”

Wen Wenwen blinked her eyes with some doubts and said: "Grandpa, just ask, as long as I know, I will definitely not deceive you, old man."

Lu Chenzhou nodded, stood with his hands behind his back, looked up at the moon for a while and said, "You, like Qi'er, come from that place, right?"

As soon as the words came out, the gentle body trembled, and for a moment, it seemed that even the alcohol all over his body had dissipated, and there was a thin layer of sweat on the tip of his nose, and he became sober.

She didn't understand why Lu Chenzhou suddenly asked such a sentence without thinking, and did this sentence really mean what she understood?She looked blankly at Lu Chenzhou's serious face with a look of expectation, and murmured: "Grandpa, I don't quite understand what you said..."
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(End of this chapter)