"Old Lu, who are you talking to?"
Shen Yaqin heard Lu Yunhai talking to someone, so she quickly came out of the kitchen and looked up. To her surprise, she saw the old man in the yard.
She was slightly surprised, then called out, "Dad, have you had breakfast? If not, stay home and eat with us."
"Hey! Good, good, good!"
Upon hearing this, Huo Zhongqing immediately concealed the sadness in his eyes and responded with a smile. Then he glanced towards the hall and asked, "Isn't Ling Xiao up yet?"
He remembered that the kid had already finished his work and gone home yesterday.
At that time, he was discussing something with his old leader at his home. Old Xie and Old Gu were also there. However, when that brat Lu Lingxiao arrived, he completely ignored his own grandfather.
To spite him, she even called him "godfather" repeatedly, in such an affectionate way that he almost couldn't resist hitting her.
He knew the kid was doing it on purpose.
I just want to see him get angry!
Shen Yaqin replied to him in a serious tone, "Isn't it because there's been too much going on these past few days? Ling Xiao has been busy outside and hasn't had much rest. When he got home last night, I saw that he had dark circles under his eyes. Since we don't have to go out today, I let him sleep in a little longer."
Grandpa Huo nodded, then changed the subject, "Yunhai, come in and talk to me for a while. I remember there's a chess set in the old house, is it still there? Let's take it out and play a few games together."
He had finally realized that Ling Xiao was already married and had a family.
As the saying goes, "A warm bed with a wife and children is the perfect place to be." Lu Lingxiao was in the prime of his life, with a beautiful wife at home. How could he possibly get up so early in the morning?
"Okay, I'll go back to my room to get it," Lu Yunhai replied with a smile.
Finally, he looked at Shen Yaqin and said to her, "Yaqin, please go and make some more dumplings. Our family will have dumplings for breakfast."
"Okay, I got it. I'll go knead the dough and chop the filling right now." Shen Yaqin couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, but still nodded in agreement.
The old man has always loved dumplings, and Lu Yunhai suddenly asked her to make dumplings because that's what the old man likes.
Shen Yaqin and Lu Yunhai have been married for twenty-nine years. She knows Lu Yunhai's character and personality better than anyone else.
Over the years in the countryside, although he said he didn't want to know about the old man's affairs or care about his health, he actually kept it in his heart all the time.
Especially after learning from Xiao Zhao's letter that the old man asked him to send money, tickets, and living supplies to their family every month, Lu Yunhai's resentment towards the old man Huo had already dissipated.
Shen Yaqin sighed and turned to go into the kitchen.
She took out the flour and meat, and then began to knead the dough and mince the meat.
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"I think I heard my parents talking. Are we having guests?"
As Feng Zhiyi spoke, she reached for the watch on the bedside table and glanced at it. It was 6:05 in the morning. So early, and there were already guests at the door?
"The only person who could come to our house at this time is that old man," Lu Lingxiao said with absolute certainty.
"You mean, the person who came is...?"
"Hmm." Lu Lingxiao's tone was indifferent. He hugged and kissed his wife repeatedly without looking up. "Besides him, who else would come to visit someone's house so early in the morning?"
Only that old man would do something like that.
"Then let's get up quickly. We have guests at home, and it's not good for us to stay inside without going out." As soon as Feng Zhiyi heard that the person who came was actually Grandpa Huo, she prepared to get up.
As she grabbed her clothes and put them on, she patted Lu Lingxiao on the shoulder. "I know you're angry, but he's still your grandfather, an elder. You two haven't seen each other for so many years. Now that he's come to our house, you should at least go out and say hello, shouldn't you?"
An elder? That's clearly just an arrogant old man!
Lu Lingxiao muttered silently in his heart.
But what can we do?
His wife has spoken, how can he really just stay put?
Lu Lingxiao reluctantly got out of bed. If he could, he really didn't want to go out. Wouldn't it be better to stay in the bedroom and enjoy some time alone with his wife?
It has to smell delicious!
But that old man, instead of staying in the perfectly good No. 2 compound, insisted on coming to our house early in the morning to disturb our peace and quiet.
After Feng Zhiyi finished tying her hair up, she turned around and saw Lu Lingxiao leaning against the door frame, pouting and looking unhappy. She couldn't help but twitch her lips.
She got up, walked over, cupped his face, and kissed him. "Okay! Cheer up. If you keep this long face, people might think we had a fight."
"Whenever I think about how a good morning was ruined by that old man, I feel depressed." Lu Lingxiao muttered gloomily.
"No matter what, he is still my grandfather, dear."
Feng Zhiyi raised her lips and said, "Besides, didn't you say before that although he seemed to ignore you and had a bad relationship with you over the years, he was actually secretly collecting evidence for you all along?"
Although the old man's actions were not very obvious, and the extent to which he could help Lu Lingxiao was very limited, because if he were too obvious, it would easily arouse Jiang Peizhen's suspicion, so the old man Huo did it little by little, in secret.
But he did help.
You can't deny everything he does just because he didn't help much, right?
"Wife, let's go out." Lu Lingxiao quickly composed himself, took Feng Zhiyi's hand, and left the bedroom.
Zhizhi is right. Although their family has lived in the countryside all these years, they have lived a very peaceful life and have never been disturbed by anyone. All of this is thanks to Grandpa Huo.
Because he was the one who shielded his family from all troubles in the capital and kept all dangers within its borders.
So even though he still harbored some resentment towards the old man, he had to admit that the old man had indeed helped him a lot over the years.
After the two of them entered the courtyard, Feng Zhiyi sent Lu Lingxiao to the living room, while she went to the kitchen to help.
Shen Yaqin was making dumplings when she heard the noise. She subconsciously looked up and went outside, where she saw Feng Zhiyi.
She asked with a smile, "You're up? It's still early, why didn't you sleep a little longer?"
"I woke up, so I got up." Feng Zhiyi smiled at Lu's mother, then went into the kitchen to wash her hands before standing next to Lu's mother and picking up dumpling wrappers to start making dumplings.
"Mom, besides dumplings, do you need me to prepare anything else for breakfast?"
"There's pumpkin porridge cooking in the pot, and I've steamed ten steamed buns left over from yesterday. I'll stir-fry a couple of green vegetables later, and that should be about it." Seeing that Feng Zhiyi was making dumplings, Shen Yaqin picked up a rolling pin and started rolling out dumpling wrappers.
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