The two children were immediately won over, calling him "brother" affectionately.
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Xu Milu returned to the kitchen with the potatoes. Old Liu was wiping his hands, waiting for her to chop vegetables. When he saw her come in, he suddenly said something out of the blue:
"How about we visit Grandpa Cui's house after the New Year?"
Xu Milu understood.
Logically speaking, Cui Shengguo should have returned to Beijing two months earlier, but he deliberately delayed in Ningcheng for more than two months, all for the sake of Xu Milu, this "little cabbage". In the end, he even directly implicated his apprentice Li Ning. How could Xu Milu not know such a straightforward intention?
“I understand what you mean. I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. I really want to learn cooking from Grandpa Cui. I don’t expect to learn a third of it, but I’d be happy to learn even a tenth or a twelfth of the skills.”
Xu Milu picked up a kitchen knife and began slicing potatoes into shreds on the cutting board. Compared to her naive and inexperienced self six months ago, her expression now held a touch more maturity.
"But this apprenticeship ceremony must be grand, and we can't let Grandpa Cui bring it up. I've been so busy lately that I'm thinking of bringing the apprenticeship gifts and making a formal visit after the New Year. That would show that we're being respectful, wouldn't it?"
When Cui Shengguo first proposed to take her on as his apprentice, Xu Milu was thinking about how to conceal the source of the ingredients. In addition, she was unsure of Cui Shengguo's character and harbored some reservations.
However, after spending time together, Xu Milu also discovered that Cui Shengguo was a cooking fanatic who couldn't resist any good ingredients and wasn't a bad person at all.
In addition, Xu Milu realized that her cooking skills still needed improvement. The current booming business of the store depends entirely on the quality of the ingredients, but if we really talk about cooking skills, she is far inferior to Li Ning.
Old Liu's face was full of satisfaction:
"That's good, that's good. What you said makes perfect sense. It's not right to visit someone's home during the New Year to ask for a master's apprenticeship, disturbing their family's reunion. I'll call Old Cui tonight and let him know."
He's been so focused on his granddaughter lately that he's practically exhausted all his knowledge. Old Liu understands that he can only teach Xu Milu so much; there's nothing else he can teach her.
But as he spoke, he couldn't help but bare his teeth:
"No, I'm going to call him now. You keep cooking, and let your mom see how good your skills are—hey, if the old man finds out about this, he'll be ecstatic!"
As he spoke, the old man skipped out the door, looking as if he had been relieved of a great burden.
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