She raised an eyebrow: "No wonder my dad has been bringing home so many fish these past few days. It turns out they weren't caught from the river. Someone was deliberately sending him fish."
Caught red-handed cheating, Wei Qinglou was stunned for a moment. After a brief pause, he seemed to realize, "Uncle Zhu is your father?"
Zhu Jiayu smiled at him, her smile seemingly harmless: "You don't know? I thought Lord Wei, with his vast influence, knew everything."
Wei Qinglou moved his hand, which was hidden by his wide sleeves, "I only found out today. I suppose this is fate."
“Oh,” Zhu Jiayu nodded, “Then our fate is indeed quite deep. Among so many people, it is you and my father who became fishing buddies. It is truly rare.”
"So, the private kitchen in Luoying Lane was also the place you took my father to?"
Wei Qinglou hummed in agreement and said softly, "If you don't like it, I won't take him next time."
Zhu Jiayu was both amused and exasperated: "It's not like a brothel or a theater, what's there to like or dislike? You really like that chef's skills?"
Wei Qinglou looked into her eyes and returned her words: "It's not a matter of liking or disliking."
“My grandfather and he were old acquaintances. He used to take me to his courtyard for meals, and I got used to it.”
So that's how it is. Zhu Jiayu finally understood that Gu Jinshu's reason for going to Luoying Lane was probably also for Wei Qinglou.
"Oh, Ayu's here?" Zhu Congjian returned and saw a young woman standing next to Xiao Wei. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was his Ayu. Seeing the two of them like this, he couldn't help but smile and say, "It seems you two already know each other, so I don't need to say anything more, right?"
Zhu Jiayu glanced at Wei Qinglou with a half-smile before saying, "Why don't you tell me, Father, how old is your fishing buddy? Is he married? Who are his family members? Is he a businessman or an official?"
She naturally knew more about Wei Qinglou than her father did, and she only said this to tease Wei Qinglou.
Zhu Congjian also saw through her intentions, and was so angry that he glared at her and said, "Why do you need to know so much!"
Nobody asks these questions the moment they meet; it's not like we're looking for a partner.
Wait... Could it be that Ayu has finally realized her feelings and fallen for Xiaowei?
As he was thinking, he saw Xiao Wei bow to his daughter and answer her question politely: "Miss Zhu, I am nineteen years old this year and am not yet married. My grandfather is still alive and my parents are both alive. My elder sister is married and my younger brother is in the army. I was fortunate enough to enter the officialdom and am now a minor official with no job."
Zhu Jiayu: ?
If you have the guts to answer, why can't you tell the truth? Both your parents are alive, but what were their statuses? Your eldest sister married out of the country, but who did she marry? Your second brother joined the army; shouldn't he be a junior general by now? And you yourself, the Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review is just a lowly, idle official? If this gets out, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review will probably grab you by the leg and ask if you have any conscience!
Zhu Congjian, unaware of these intricacies, listened and nodded in agreement: wasn't this kind of comfortable, modestly wealthy family exactly the kind of good family he had been searching for?
Seeing that he was about to call him "son-in-law," Zhu Jiayu felt a headache coming on. She glared at Wei Qinglou and tugged at her father's sleeve: "Dad, didn't you say you were going to take me out to eat? Isn't it time?"
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