Sure enough, ten minutes later, I heard the sound of a car outside the door. I guess the guests were about to arrive and the food would be here soon.

"Jingze." Liu Zhaosheng called softly.

Liu Jingze understood and stood up immediately: "I understand, godfather." After that, he walked out, obviously to greet Feng Xueru and others. Lan Quancong hurriedly followed.

Su Tiantian sometimes really admires the tacit understanding between father and son. They can understand each other's thoughts with just a short word or a slight glance. This is the case between Liu Zhaosheng and Liu Jingze, and also between Liu Liangjie and Liu Jingze. No wonder Liu Zhaosheng and Liu Liangjie both dote on Liu Jingze. This son is indeed considerate.

After a while, five guests came in and the food they had prepared was also brought in and placed on the dining table.

Su Tiantian did not find it strange to see Feng Xueru and Liu Jingze arm in arm. The two had worked together in business before and had quarreled before. The current situation was called "disagreement in appearance but not in heart". Life is like a play, and sometimes the person who greets you with a smile is not necessarily a friend.

What made Su Tiantian feel strange was that there was something wrong with these five guests. Why was Zhang Xiuli here, and where was Feng Xueshao's legendary girlfriend?

Feng Xueshao and Lan Quancong put down the gifts. Su Tiantian guessed that Lan Quancong offered to help on his own initiative. He was a considerate and polite person who understood the ways of the world.

When Sister Qiong saw Liu Zhaosheng, she called out enthusiastically, "Azhao, I'm sorry, there was a traffic jam, so I'm late."

Feng Xueru, Feng Xueshao, and Huang Jieling called him "Uncle."

A faint smile appeared on Liu Zhaosheng's lips, and he said, "I'm glad you're here."

Zhang Xiuli greeted them openly: "Good evening, Mr. Liu, good evening, Tiantian. I heard from Xueru that Tiantian should be here tonight, so I shamelessly followed her to dinner."

That being said, Zhang Xiuli certainly didn't come here just to eat. Seeing through it but not saying it out loud, Liu Zhaosheng said with a smile: "Mrs. Huang is here, welcome, welcome. Come, let's sit down and eat. Acong, pour tea for everyone."

Zhang Xiuli stepped forward, took Su Tiantian's arm and said, "I want to sit with Tiantian."

Su Tiantian said: "Okay."

At the rectangular dining table, Liu Zhaosheng sat at the head seat, with Liu Jingze, Su Tiantian, Zhang Xiuli, and Lan Quancong sitting on his left, and Sister Qiong, Feng Xueru, Huang Jieling, and Feng Xueshao sitting on his right.

Feng Xueru took a look at the dishes on the table and realized that there were not only the dishes he ordered, but also other extra dishes.

The dishes he ordered were:

Roast pork and pigeon

Dried Scallop and Winter Melon Soup

Steamed Grouper

Steamed large shrimp

Stir-fried beef ribs with Chinese kale

Cabbage heart soaked in soup

Diced Cashew Summer Nuts

Taro Braised Pork

Dry Pot Beer Duck

Braised sea cucumber with shiitake mushroom

The additional dishes are:

Steamed Abalone with Garlic and Vermicelli

Boiled large shrimp

Roasted Pork with Sour Ginger

Sweet and Sour Orange Ribs

Tomato Stewed Beef Brisket

Matsutake Pigeon Soup

Feng Xueru prepared more dishes, ten in total, with five extra dishes and one soup. Two or three of these five dishes were sweet and sour. You can guess who they were prepared for, but some dishes were repeated, such as: roast pork and prawns.

Feng Xueru asked directly: "Jingze, have you prepared food as well?"

Liu Jingze said as he picked up some food for Liu Zhaosheng, "I asked Yanxin Hotel to deliver it. Last time, Tiantian said the food there was delicious, so I placed an order. I added 100 yuan to have it delivered to my door, but then Brother Bin called and scolded me."

"Brother Bin?" Feng Xueru asked in surprise. Feng Xueru came from a poor family and relied on the Huang family to develop here. He didn't know some people.

Zhang Xiuli said: "Brother Bin is the general manager of Yanxin Hotel. Yanxin Hotel is the largest hotel in the next town. No, it is the largest hotel in the four surrounding towns."

Speaking of Yanxin Hotel, Feng Xueru certainly knew about it. He had been there several times, but he really didn't know which hotel's general manager Huang Jiekang and Liu Jingze knew. It seemed that the Huang family sometimes had reservations about him.

In fact, he was overthinking it. It was because there was nothing that needed to trouble the general manager, Brother Bin, so Huang Jiekang did not introduce them to each other.

Liu Jingze said, "Sister-in-law Xiuli, guess how Brother Bin scolded me?"

Zhang Xiuli said nonchalantly, "Tell me about it."

Liu Jingze said: "He said, what a Liu Jingze, just as lazy as Huang Jiekang, delivering food to your door, delivering food to your door, can't you come over to eat, support me, listen to some songs and soak your feet? You two are henpecked, so why don't you ask my wife to accompany your wives, okay?"

Zhang Xiuli was so angry she laughed: "I just didn't feel like cooking for the past few days, so Jiekang called their catering manager to place an order. He didn't even call Brother Bin, but he ended up calling Jiekang to chatter. The door-to-door service is their selling point."

Liu Jingze said, "Next time, I'll invite Brother Jie and the others to have a drink with Brother Bin and see if he dares to say that. In fact, there are some small matters that I don't want to ask him for help at all. Last time, my godfather stayed at their hotel for a few days, and I didn't ask him for help. Whether I ask him for help or not, there is a VIP price."

Zhang Xiu Li said: "Jie Kang also said that he wanted to go out for a drink with Brother Bin, but he has been too busy recently. Brother Bin's business is booming, and he is actually busy too. There were a lot of wedding banquets in August, and there were also many guests staying in the hotel."

Sister Qiong felt very uncomfortable when she saw Liu Jingze and Zhang Xiuli chatting and laughing freely, as her two sons seemed unable to get a word in at all.

She looked across at Su Tiantian peeling shrimp for Liu Jingze, then looked over at Feng Xueru peeling shrimp for Huang Jieling. Anger welled up in her heart, and her tone was a bit harsh: "A Ling, how do you behave as a wife? Look at Tiantian, she's taking the initiative to peel shrimp for her husband, and what about you? You have to imitate a Confucian in everything you do."

It's no wonder that Sister Qiong is like this. After she came to live in Yanpu Town, she found that her eldest son, whom she had always been proud of, had no dignity as a husband in front of his wife. Although the two brothers of the Feng family told her many times that she should coax and pamper Huang Jie Ling and not scold her, she was not happy in her heart and had been indignant for a long time.

As soon as she finished speaking, the atmosphere in the room seemed to freeze and became extremely awkward.

Su Tiantian actually didn't mind Sister Qiong calling her Tiantian (Sister Qiong seemed to have forgotten that her son called Tiantian Mrs. Liu). After all, she was the younger generation, so people could call her by her name. But she didn't want to become the reason for the quarrel between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Huang Jie Ling was obviously angry and wanted to say something, but looking at Zhang Xiuli's eyes, she was actually contrary to her usual behavior of not being able to tolerate any grievance. She held back and kept silent, but her expression looked very aggrieved.

Feng Xueru was obviously anxious, and whispered, "Mom, what are you talking about?

Su Tiantian put the peeled shrimp into Liu Jingze's bowl, wiped her hands with a paper towel, and said slowly: "Auntie, you misunderstood. Usually my husband helps me peel shrimp. Today I ate at five o'clock in the afternoon and I'm not hungry now. I peeled a few shrimp for my husband because I was in a good mood."

Zhang Xiuli smiled brightly. "Yes, Jingze has always been responsible for peeling crabs and shrimps. After all, Jingze's uncle is from the Kuoshan Ren family, known as the Seafood King, and he is very familiar with seafood. It's normal for a man to peel shrimps for his wife. Jiekang often peels shrimps for me too."