Even though it is winter vacation now, Lu Youxi is not idle and is still busy with the little pink book.

After work in the evening, when Zhou Shuyan and I walked into the house, we smelled the aroma of frying food.

"Mom, what are you frying?" Lu Youxi asked as he walked into the kitchen.

As soon as he entered, Lu Youxi was shocked.

Wow, every available space in the kitchen is filled with pots of fried food.

There are fried twisted dough sticks, fried smiley faces, fried spring rolls with red bean paste, fried pancakes, and fried Sanzi.

There are also fried fish, fried meatballs, fried shrimp chips, fried lotus root chips, and fried mushrooms.

Fried fish is divided into fried yellow croaker and fried knife fish.

The fried meatballs are divided into fried radish meatballs and fried celery meatballs.

Fried mushrooms include fried pine mushrooms, fried enoki mushrooms, and fried oyster mushrooms.

"Mom, did you blow all this up today?" Lu Youxi asked in surprise.

Because she remembered that she hadn't had it since she went out yesterday until this morning.

"Yes!" Liu Yushu looked at the kitchen full of achievements and smiled happily, "I'll fry all the fried food today, and I'll start making all kinds of braised food tomorrow."

"Mom, it would be great if you could take your time. It's so tiring to rush out all day." Lu Youxi said as he came forward to rub Liu Yusu's waist.

Liu Yusu stood in the kitchen all day today, and her waist was really sore. After Lu Youxi rubbed it a few times, her brows relaxed.

"I think it would be too wasteful to fry it over several days, so it's better to fry it all in one day," Liu Yushu explained. "It will be ready tomorrow. I will braise the meat over low heat and I will just sit and watch the fire."

Today, even the lunch boxes for Internet cafe customers include fried fish as the meat dish.

In the next few days, the lunch boxes of Internet cafe customers will depend on what she has prepared that day.

"You blew up so many." Lu Youxi said.

"It's the Chinese New Year, it's lively." Liu Yushu explained with a smile, "Also, during the Spring Festival holiday, everyone is on vacation, and there are no vegetables for sale in the market. I can only buy them and cook them first."

"Fried food is easy to store. I fried it twice and it was crispy. The outside is protected by oil, so it is not easy to spoil. The winter in the capital is dry and cold, so I put it on the balcony to dry naturally. You don't need to heat it up when you eat it. You can eat it directly. It is chewy and crispy. If you heat it up and cook it again, it will taste different."

"I also ordered pig stomach, pig skin, pig trotters, ox tongue, beef brisket, beef tendon, free-range chicken, and chicken feet from the stall owner," Liu Yushu said. "Chicken feet are cheap now, so I ordered a lot. I'll braise the chicken feet for you as snacks when the time comes. I'll braise some of the pig's feet and keep some for pig's trotter jelly. I'll also make pig skin jelly and chicken jelly from the pig skin and free-range chicken. I'll keep two more and fry them and then roast them for you to eat."

“So much to do!”

Liu Yushu smiled and said, "You couldn't eat these at home in previous years. This year, we are celebrating the New Year here by ourselves, and there is no one to supervise us. I made them all for you."

As she spoke, Liu Yushu's expression dimmed a little. She grabbed Lu Youxi's hand and said, "This New Year's Eve, you can't spend it at home. But it doesn't matter. It will be the same when you come back later. Anyway, there are so many delicious foods, all saved for you!"

"These are all freshly fried today. Let's try them tonight and enjoy something fresh." Liu Yusu adjusted her mood and said happily.

While eating, Lu Youxi said, "Mom, don't be busy these two days. Don't you still have to take care of the lunch boxes for the Internet cafe? Wait until the weekend, when our company is closed, and I will braise with you at home."

"No, what should I be busy about? I just put whatever I have in mind for the meat dishes in the lunch box. It's not a big deal." Liu Yushu said, "All the stewed dishes are made from the same pot of soup, and the more the soup is stewed, the more delicious it is. Our pot is small, so we can't stew so much in one day. I can use the soup tomorrow after I finish stewing. And the soup will have more meat flavor, so it will be even more delicious when I stew other things with it."

While eating, Lu Youxue suddenly blurted out, "Sister, can you not celebrate the New Year at home this year?"

Liu Yushu laughed and scolded, "Your sister comes home quite often, not just on New Year's Day. Besides, your brother-in-law always comes home with your sister, but he rarely goes back to his in-laws' house."

Zhou Shuyan has done a great job.

When Liu Yusu mentioned it in the kitchen just now, Lu Youxi realized the seriousness of the matter.

Although she and Zhou Shuyan are not getting divorced for the time being, they are still in the dating stage.

And Xu Jingmin also knew that they were not a real couple.

It would be inconvenient for her to go home with Zhou Shuyan to celebrate the New Year.

As a result, her family now thinks that she is going to her husband's house to celebrate the New Year, and she won't be able to explain why she comes back.

It's impossible for her to spend the New Year alone when all her family members are here, right? This is too pitiful.

Lu Youxi didn't expect that he would encounter unsolvable difficulties in this regard.

Just when Lu Youxi was thinking about how to solve this problem, he heard Zhou Shuyan say: "I have discussed it with my mother. During the Chinese New Year, we will celebrate together."

"Our two families will celebrate together?" Liu Yusu was surprised and happy.

Zhou Shuyan nodded, "I have already booked a restaurant for the New Year's Eve dinner. You don't have to be busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. Let's sit together and have a good meal."

"Anyway, during normal Chinese New Year, there are only my mom and I at home. This year, with Youxi here, there are only three of us, so it's not very lively. It would be better if we can get the whole family together and have more people and it's more lively."

Liu Yusu and Lu Zhenguo were a little hesitant at first, but when they heard Zhou Shuyan say that he had even booked a hotel, they finally agreed without any psychological burden.

In fact, in previous Chinese New Years, because Grandpa Zhou was there, even though Zhou Shuyan’s father was no longer around, they would still celebrate the holiday together with Grandpa Zhou.

But Zhou Xueyi was there to annoy people, and Xu Jingmin was really impatient to deal with Zhou Xueyi.

This year, after listening to Zhou Shuyan's plan, everyone agreed.

She also told Mr. Zhou directly that she didn't want to eat at the same table with Zhou Xueyi and they would not be together during this year's Spring Festival.

Mr. Zhou couldn't do anything about Xu Jingmin.

This daughter-in-law is a straightforward person.

Xu Jingmin never argues with Zhou Xueyi and is a generous and filial person.

After Zhou Shuyan's father passed away, Mr. Zhou felt even more distressed for Xu Jingmin.

She also said that it didn't matter to her whether she moved out to live on her own, returned to her parents' home, fell in love, or remarried.

If Xu Jingmin remarries, it will not affect the cooperation and friendship between the Xu family and the Zhou family, and Mr. Zhou will also prepare another dowry for her.

(End of this chapter)