Yu Li mercilessly exposed her: "Alright, alright, she thinks your bag is too tacky and too old-fashioned."
Lou Xiao'e, puffing out her cheeks in anger, exclaimed, "Yu Li, what are you saying? This is LV!"
Lou Xiao'e got angrier and angrier as she spoke: "If you're so capable, show me something that's neither old-fashioned nor outdated?"
Yu Li scoffed, "Who carries around a bag all day for no reason? Like they're collecting electricity bills."
Collecting electricity bills...
Lou Xiao'e felt that all the self-cultivation skills she had practiced over the years were just a joke. Meeting Fatty and Yu Li made her defenses crumble. She decided that when she returned to Hong Kong, she would confront that so-called master!
Lou Xiao'e asked Yu Li angrily, "These are gifts I specially brought back for you and Chen Yan from Hong Kong. Do you want them?"
Chen Mengqi volunteered to be Yu Li's mouth mouth: "Does Auntie have some too?"
"Yes, your mother and your aunt are among Mommy's few friends."
"..."
While we were talking, the second dish arrived.
Chen Mengqi went to get the food again, bringing two conch-shaped plates to serve the two mothers.
"This dish is called 'Double Ear Stir-fried Conch Meat,' where 'double ear' refers to elm ear and wood ear, that's it."
Lou Xiao'e pinched her cheek. It was so tender, full of collagen, just like fresh conch meat.
"You're not even going to talk about the special features of this dish or what techniques were used to cook it. Just mentioning the name of the dish is enough to show that you're deliberately favoring your mother!"
Chen Mengqi chuckled and said, "Mommy, don't worry, my mom has never eaten this dish before either."
Yu Li had never eaten this dish before. She picked up a piece of conch meat and tasted it carefully. This thing probably doesn't absorb flavor easily, so Fatty added egg liquid and stir-fried it together.
If Sichuan cuisine is about using oil to its fullest potential, then Shandong cuisine is about using cornstarch to its fullest potential.
The main ingredient of this dish is sea snail, sea snail...
As Yu Li was pondering, she heard Lou Xiao'e say, "The conch shell gently opens its shell, and the sound of the tide echoes in its long murmur."
After he finished speaking, he looked at her with a smug expression.
Yu Li was a step too slow and had no choice but to accept the punishment. She picked up her glass and drank it all in one gulp, then showed Lou Xiao'e the bottom of her glass.
Chen Mengqi chimed in, adding to the atmosphere: "It's a tie now, one to one!"
There are four types of white wine glasses at Qili Pavilion.
Crystal glasses are the most commonly used.
Secondly, there are traditional ceramic cups;
Another type is the silver wine glass, which is actually 304 stainless steel plated with silver. It's made by Stardew Valley and comes in large quantities. This is generally used to entertain important guests, so you won't feel bad if it gets stolen...
Another type of creative cup is made by craftsmen in Dongliulichang who imitate the exquisite vessels such as the "Nine Dragons Cup," "Luminous Cup," "Jade Cicada Wine Cup," and "Wooden Cup."
For example, a pair of "butterfly cups" are used to drink alcohol. The alcohol must be scalded with boiling water and then poured into the cups, making the butterflies painted on the cups appear as if they are about to take flight...
Today, Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e used ceramic cups. The ceramic cups are small and exquisite, and each cup contains only 3 qian (a unit of weight), just enough to whet their appetites.
After drinking, they became more talkative. Yu Li took the initiative to ask Lou Xiao'e, "Haven't you gotten married all these years?"
Lou Xiao'e said with a bitter expression, "I've explained this so many times. Love arises without warning, and deepens with time..."
Yu Li thought to herself, "So what Fatty said was true. Feelings really do deepen over time."
Lou Xiao'e was also filled with emotion: "When I was a girl, I never believed that love could make the living die or the dead come back to life. I thought it was all a lie."
Yu Li retorted, "I disagree with your point of view! You and Fatty both studied philosophy, so can't you even control your emotions by understanding and managing them? Yet you still did things that wronged me. What does that prove?"
Lou Xiao'e gave a bitter smile: "Yu Li, you're right, I really did wrong you. At that time, our family was on the verge of falling into an abyss at any moment; I just wanted to go crazy, I didn't care about rationality, dogma, or morality, I just wanted to live for myself for once!"
Lou Xiao'e is, in fact, a complete romantic.
Not only her, but her mother Tan Yali is too; their family seems to produce this kind of thing in abundance.
In the latter half of the TV series, Lou Xiao'e's treatment of Sha Zhu went beyond being kind; it was downright groveling.
And her mother, upon seeing Sha Zhu's father He Daqing, practically couldn't walk straight; her underwear was even stained...
What the heck is this?!
Especially at the end, Tan Yali was actually able to sit at the same table and eat with Liu Haizhong.
This person has truly been moved by love; they can even let go of the hatred that led to the destruction of their family.
Just as Zhou Haiqin analyzed, Lou Xiao'e and her fat man admired each other, and then the fat man saved her family's life. The admiration plus gratitude turned into love.
And this love lasted for 17 years.
Lou Xiao'e preferred to endure immense pressure from her family rather than marry a wealthy businessman as a concubine.
In short, Lou Xiao'e had wronged Yu Li, so she simply punished herself with another cup: "This cup of wine is my apology to you; if you are still not satisfied, let the child go out, I will kneel down and pour you tea, and call you sister!"
Yu Li downed her drink in one gulp: "You're so beautiful, I won't forgive you!"
After a couple of drinks, they really opened up and started talking.
Besides being love-struck, Lou Xiao'e also has another problem: she becomes a chatterbox when she drinks.
In a sense, she and Xu Damao really are "birds of a feather flock together".
Both of them are equally obsessed with romance, and both become incredibly talkative after drinking...
Lou Xiao'e brought up the old topic again: "Yu Li, please think carefully about my suggestion. I plan to gradually move the family business back home, and I'm optimistic about our future development!"
Yu Li was genuinely surprised: "So you're giving up your business in Hong Kong?"
Lou Xiao'e shook her head: "They only know how to speculate on real estate over there now, and the real estate market has been monopolized by several major families. My family has no room for development. Rather than staying there and waiting to die, we might as well look north to China and make a big splash! I have a large sum of money in my hands now, and I don't care about two or three million. I'll invest in you, and I won't participate in the operation. I'll just send an auditor, and everything else will remain the same as it is now."
Listen, can you hear what people are saying?
The veins on Yu Li's hands bulged. She and the fat man had worked hard for several years to open Qili Pavilion, but in Lou Xiao'e's eyes, it was not even worth a fraction of what she had achieved.
It's really not a big deal to lose two or three million!
Yu Li suddenly had an impulse: since there were no outsiders in the private room, why not just go all the way and do it...
Seeing that Yu Li remained silent, only her chest rising and falling rhythmically, Lou Xiao'e looked down at her own and thought to herself that her previous guess was correct; that fatso really did like this type!
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