How long has it been since they last saw each other?
The first thing you said to him when you met was about food?
Helpless, Lu Xingci still took her older brother back to her dormitory.
He drove his company car over, and it took him about forty minutes to get there. Lu Xingci's treatment was quite good; he had a one-bedroom apartment, though it wasn't very big.
For a bachelor like him, this space was more than enough.
Once inside, the house was warmer than outside, with a brazier burning in the room. Lu Xingye put down his luggage and opened his backpack to show him.
“After I bought the ticket, I met Yanyan. She knew I was coming to see you, so she told me to visit her before I left. This is all the food she prepared for you, all the good stuff.”
As he spoke, Lu Xingye opened the document himself without Lu Xingci having to look it up, and introduced each item to her one by one.
"This is cured pork, this is braised beef, and this is hot pot base..."
Lu Xingye opened the box, revealing the solidified hot pot base inside. Lu Xingye proudly showed off, "Look, this is all oil. Yanyan made it herself. She said that if you take a piece out and boil it in water, it will make hot pot. It's especially fragrant."
Lu Xingci took it and looked at it. "It looks similar to lard. This is good stuff."
Seeing the cured meat and beef, Lu Xingci smiled, "My sister really loves me. I haven't even finished the ones she sent me for the New Year, and she brought me more."
Lu Xingye was taken aback. "She already sent it to you before?"
Lu Xingci raised an eyebrow. "What? Didn't she give it to you during the New Year?"
Lu Xingye got angry just thinking about it. "I gave it to them, why didn't I? Yanyan came to our house to pay her respects on the first day of the Lunar New Year. She brought a lot of New Year's goods. The things she prepared for the New Year's visit were definitely different from what you have, which is all meat. But she also prepared beef jerky and the like. That beef jerky was so delicious. I didn't even want to eat it. I only ate a few bites. Then my parents had a fight. I went out with my dad and said a few words. When I came back, my maternal grandparents' family came. My uncle ate the whole bag of beef jerky and complained that it wasn't enough and that he wasn't full. That made me so angry."
Lu Xingye looked around and said, "Do you have a pot? Let's try this hot pot."
Lu Xingci was speechless. "You're eating hot pot so early in the morning?"
Lu Xingye laughed, "Just want to try it, there's no rule that you can only eat it at noon, right?"
have to!
Lu Xingci didn't say much. He went to get a clay pot, put it on the stove, and scooped some hot pot broth into it.
I also soaked some dried vegetables that Meng Fuyan had prepared.
"Come over and help me with this. You can tell me about things at home."
"I'm going to brush my teeth first."
Lu Xingye went to the bathroom to wash up, then came back and sat by the stove. The two brothers sat around the stove, cooking hot pot and talking about things at home.
"Second brother, what do you suggest we do? We can't just watch Mom and Dad get divorced, can we? It's not good for anyone!"
Lu Xingci cut some beef and put it in the pot to cook. At this moment, he had taken off his thick cotton-padded coat and was only wearing it on his body. Underneath, he was wearing a gray sweater. He rolled up his wrists to reveal his well-built arms. He used to be a soldier, but he has now retired from the front-line troops and is temporarily doing research.
Lu Xingci is the most refined of the three Lu brothers, with a strong scholarly air about him. At this moment, he is wearing glasses and a watch on his wrist.
The hot pot water was boiling, steaming continuously. He lowered his eyes, and even Lu Xingye, his older brother, couldn't quite tell what he was thinking, thanks to his glasses.
Lu Xingci said, "As long as we don't want to, Mom and Dad won't get divorced."
Lu Xingye was taken aback. "Huh? Are you sure? I know Mom doesn't want a divorce, but she's acting like she's determined to fight to the death. Dad can't accept her behavior, and if this goes on for too long, they might really get divorced."
Lu Xingci calmly analyzed, "Dad never thought about getting a divorce. He has always been a good father. He probably didn't have any ulterior motives in the marriage. As for Yanyan and Yunji... they are not Dad's children."
“I know! Dad told me too, that’s not his child…” Lu Xingye paused here, looking at his younger brother with some confusion.
"Second brother, you...do you know something? Why are you so calm?"
Lu Xingci glanced at him. "What do I need to know? You could guess that, okay? How could Yanyan and Yunji be Dad's illegitimate children? Don't you even know what kind of family the Meng family is?"
Lu Xingye was somewhat suspicious of his attitude, but did not press him for details. "I already said that a family like the Meng family would never allow Aunt Meng and Dad to have that kind of improper relationship. To put it bluntly, if Yanyan were really Dad's child, when Aunt Meng was pregnant, Grandpa Meng would have found a way to make Mom and Dad divorce. How could Yunji have been born later?"
Lu Xingci's lips curled into a barely perceptible smile, tinged with sarcasm. "We all know it's impossible, but Mom doesn't believe it, right?"
"Yes, no matter how I explain, she won't believe me."
Lu Xingci said, "It's not that she doesn't believe it, it's that she doesn't want to believe it. The Meng family is the local tyrant of Changning City. The Qin family used to be good, but they are no match for the Meng family. Our mother... is probably a little jealous of Aunt Meng, but she can't compare to her. Now that she's dead, if she still can't compare to her, how painful would that be?"
"So, it's better if you don't bring this up. Once you do, she'll be even less willing to believe it. Only if Yanyan and Yunji are both Dad's illegitimate children can she completely nail Aunt Meng to the pillar of shame. Aunt Meng and Dad are both wrong, only she is not wrong, only she is the victim."
Lu Xingye: "..."
It took him a while to realize, "So...it turns out it was my fault after all?"
Lu Xingye sighed helplessly, "I had no choice at the time. She kept making such a fuss. If it got out and someone with ulterior motives caught her doing something wrong, how could Dad and Yanyan face anyone in the future? Dad probably wouldn't even be able to keep his job."
Lu Xingci sneered, "It's because Dad is too good that Mom has no more scruples."
Lu Xingye was startled and glanced at his younger brother. "Second brother, if Mom heard that, she'd probably fight you to the death."
Lu Xingci didn't respond to his words, but instead said, "You came to me because you wanted to solve a problem, right? I actually have a solution. Do you want to hear it?"
Lu Xingye immediately listened attentively.
Looking at his elder brother's expression, Lu Xingci curled his lips, a slightly wicked smile appearing on his refined face. "Have Dad find a way to fire everyone in the Qin family who has a job, and send all the younger generation to the countryside."
"When only my uncle is left in the family, he must have gotten into a lot of fights and brawls before, and probably bullied men and women too. We should find a way to send him to jail for a while, terrify the Qin family, make them beg for help everywhere but to no avail, and finally spend a lot of money to get him out. Then Dad should send him to the countryside, the more remote the better, and exhaust the Qin family so they won't dare to cause trouble anymore."
Lu Xingye was dumbfounded!
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