The Su family mansion was built by my second grandfather, after decades of painstaking effort, to fulfill his childhood dream. There were few antiques in the house, but they were well-preserved, like the antique porcelain vase in the corner, which was covered with a glass cover to protect it from dust and breakage, and no need to worry about it being damaged by the tabby cat that jumped up and down.
When people said that Second Grandfather was a prodigal son, Su Ling was the first to disagree.
"Grandpa, did you come here today specifically to mourn Second Grandpa?" Su Ling asked, "Second Grandpa's grave is on the north side of Phoenix Mountain. If you want to visit the grave, I'll go to the village store and buy some paper money, candles and incense."
Old Master Su's anger was like being poured with cold water, and it was extinguished before it even emerged.
Su Ze helped him sit on the mahogany chair and said to Su Ling: "Grandpa is old, it may be a bit difficult for him to go up the mountain."
Su Ling turned his head to look at the sky outside and nodded, "That's right, the sun is so strong now, it's really not suitable to go to the grave."
He opened the cat bag and let out the tabby cat. The tabby cat jumped out, stretched, and walked gracefully to the doghouse in the corner of the living room. King was sleeping soundly with his belly exposed. It slapped him with its claws without any hesitation. King woke up with a startled look, barked several times, and pounced on the tabby cat. The tabby cat jumped nimbly and ran out of the house. The local dog ran after him.
A cat and a dog ran past Mr. Su's feet, scaring him.
"...What kind of thing is this?"
"It's a cat and a dog. They are still young and lively. I hope they didn't scare grandpa?" Su Ling asked with concern.
Old Master Su frowned, leaning his hands on his cane. He didn't have a deep impression of his grandson, Su Ling. He only knew that he was spoiled and crybaby when he was a child, but when he grew up, he studied art and took an artistic path, which was completely different from the other descendants of the Su family who took the business path.
Old Master Su has always disapproved of people who cannot play a role in the family's interests, so he almost forgot about this grandson. Now, after meeting him and just a few minutes of contact, he found that he is not a pure beauty.
With just a few words, he can offend people at every turn, yet make it impossible for people to refute him. He seems quite scheming.
With a light snort, Mr. Su asked coldly, "You have guests at home, and you can't even make tea?"
Lidya Su said calmly: "I'm just going to make tea, Grandpa and second cousin, please sit for a while."
Without waiting for their response, he turned and went to the kitchen.
Su Ze sat next to Grandpa Su and said with a smile: "Xiao Ling's personality is just like this, Grandpa, please don't be offended."
Old Master Su said with a straight face: "I don't know what he has learned from others outside in the past three years. He even lost the etiquette he learned in the Su family."
Su Ze pondered and said, "His partner is the head of the Lin family. I believe the rules of the Lin family are no less than those of the Su family."
"The Lin family?" Old Master Su's drooping eyelids twitched. "The kid from the Lin family is too young. It's still unknown whether he can hold on to his position."
Su Ze lowered his eyes. "Grandpa is right."
Lin Feng?
A year and a half ago, they had clashed in a bidding meeting, and he was defeated miserably. Although he won the project in the end, it was the other party who made him win.
Seeing Su Ling looking so energetic today, doesn't he look sick?
Su Ling took out the special-grade rain and dew tea, brewed a pot with superb skills, placed it on the tray together with the teacup, and carried it back to the living room.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting." He placed the tray on the coffee table, picked up the purple clay teapot, poured tea into two white porcelain cups, and handed them to Grandpa Su with both hands. "This is the rain and dew tea grown by my second grandfather. Please try it."
Old Master Su took the white porcelain cup, smelled the fragrance of the tea, relaxed his brows, took a sip, and nodded with satisfaction.
"good."
Su Ling also poured a glass for Su Ze.
"Thank you." Su Ze took the tea and looked at the clear tea in the cup and asked, "Is this the Phoenix Mountain Rain Dew Tea that has been very popular recently?"
Su Ling sat across from them and slowly poured himself a cup of tea. "Does my cousin know?"
"I occasionally check Weibo to read the news." Su Ze took a sip and narrowed his eyes slightly. "It's really delicious."
Su Ling smiled and said, "Second Grandfather has been growing tea with the villagers for twenty years, and now the tea plantation has become large-scale."
Mr. Su said, "If he is willing to go to the city with me, why should he be a tea farmer in the countryside?"
Su Ling sighed: "Maybe this is what it means when everyone has their own aspirations!"
"Bang--"
Old Master Su placed the teacup heavily on the coffee table on his left.
There's no point in chatting today. Every word this grandson says is unpleasant to the ear and it's simply infuriating.
Su Ze said to Su Ling tactfully: "Xiao Ling, Grandpa is old..."
Su Ling looked innocent. "I don't mean anything else. Second Grandpa probably prefers living in the countryside, so he chose to stay in the old house. There's not much else to do in the countryside, just farm work. I've lived here for a few months and learned how to grow vegetables, transplant rice, and harvest rice. It's a bit hard work, but it's a great sense of accomplishment to reap the fruits of my labor. By the way—"
He put down his teacup, stood up and said, "I refined some fragrant rice. I gave it to some friends when I went back to S City last time. I still have five or six bags left at home. You can take two bags back and try them."
Under the surprised stares of Grandpa Su and Su Ze, Su Ling nimbly carried out two fifty-kilogram bags of rice from the small warehouse next to the kitchen, threw them on the floor of the living room with two "bangs", patted the rice bags, and his eyes sparkled.
"We raise rice fish in the fields, and the rice they grow is very fragrant." Su Ling looked up at the antique clock hanging on the wall, "Oh, it's eleven o'clock. I'll go cook for you."
Mr. Su: ...
Su Ze: ...
Lin Feng drove a black car and slowly parked it in the parking space of the basketball court. He unbuckled his seat belt, turned off the engine and got out of the car. He passed by the luxury car blocking the gate of the courtyard, frowned, opened the gate, avoided two cats and dogs chasing each other, walked into the living room, and saw two guests sitting inside drinking tea.
Su Ze heard the noise, turned to look at the tall man at the living room door, and stood up in surprise.
"Hello, Mr. Lin." He put down his teacup and politely stepped forward to extend his hand.
Lin Feng stepped over the threshold, and Bo Lan couldn't help but shake his hand. "Hello, Mr. Su."
Su Ze smiled and said, "Mr. Lin is very busy. It's such a coincidence that I can meet you here today."
Lin Feng said: "Mutual, mutual."
Releasing his hand, Su Ze turned sideways and introduced: "This is my grandfather. Grandpa, he is the head of the Lin Group, Xiao Ling's partner, Lin Feng."
Old Master Su sat still, raising his eyelids and examining Lin Feng with a piercing gaze. "He has some of the demeanor of old man Lin when he was young."
Lin Feng said calmly: "Thank you, Mr. Su, for the compliment."
Old Master Su hummed twice and said nothing more. He had nothing to say to the Lin family boy, and even if Old Man Lin came, he would not bother to talk.
Lin Feng didn't care. He took off his stuffy suit, put it on the mahogany chair, and walked towards the kitchen naturally.
In the kitchen, the range hood was buzzing. Su Ling was busy cutting meat, stewing fish soup in the pot, and soaking vegetables in the sink.
Lin Feng came to the sink and helped wash the vegetables.
"Ah? You're back?" Su Ling put the cut meat on the plate.
"Hmm." Lin Feng's movements as he washed the vegetables were much more skillful than before. The freshly picked vegetables were very fresh and tender. He broke open the leaves and rinsed them repeatedly under the faucet, especially at the base of the stems, where there was a little mud and sand hidden, which needed to be cleaned thoroughly.
Su Ling turned off the induction cooker, opened the lid, and the aroma of fish immediately filled the air.
"Did you see any guests?"
"Um."
"Any ideas?"
Su Ling took out a soup plate from the sterilizer and poured the milky white fish soup into it.
Lin Feng washed the vegetables and turned off the faucet. "No one comes to the temple for no good reason."
Su Ling shrugged. "Yeah! If it can alarm the old man, it must be a big deal."
In fact, he could roughly guess the purpose of his grandfather and Su Ze coming here today.
There is a follow-up to the last kidnapping incident.
After Grandpa Bai regained consciousness in the hospital, he told the police that the murderer was his grandson, Bai Wenxi. After three days and three nights of investigation, the police caught the suspect in a hotel in a remote town.
After Wen Xi was arrested, he firmly denied the crime. It was not until Grandpa Bai was discharged from the hospital and came to the detention center that Wen Xi's spirit suddenly collapsed, tears streaming down his face, and he confessed to his grandfather.
Grandpa Bai was very disappointed and left with a sigh and a shake of his head.
Wen Xi was depressed and his defenses were broken, so he confessed his crimes truthfully.
Lost in jealousy, he was drunk and raped by Li Ting and Shen Wei. Instead of reporting the incident to the police, he allowed himself to fall into depravity, blaming all the blame on Su Ling. He used sexual favors to instigate Li Ting and the others into a kidnapping plot. When the kidnapping failed, Li Ting and the others fled, leaving him home. His grandfather's words spurred him to murder, leading to a catastrophic mistake.
Wen Xi cried bitterly and regretted it, but it was too late.
He begged Grandpa Bai to forgive him and save him, but Grandpa Bai remained unmoved.
"A crime is a crime. There's no point in begging me. Leave everything to the law."
Wen Xi cried and made a fuss in the detention center, but it was of no avail.
When his father, who was far away in Country M, learned that his son had committed a crime in Country Z, he flew over without stopping with his lawyer to defend his son.
Su Ling didn't ask or pay attention to what happened next, or how Grandpa Bai would handle it. However, due to Wen Xi's confession, Li Ting, Shen Wei, Su Dan and others became wanted criminals as accomplices. This made several major families in S City lose face, and they hated not only Wen Xi, but also Su Ling.
Su Dan wasn't considered a promising descendant of the Su family, but he had a capable mother. She was adept at the act of crying, making a scene, and then threatening to hang herself. Grandpa must have been fed up with her annoyance, so he sent Su Ze to find him here.
To be honest, Su Dan committed a criminal case, and the prosecutor was the procuratorate. The victim had no right to withdraw the lawsuit, so there was not much point in them coming to find him.
"If you don't like it, you can ask them to go back," said Lin Feng.
"Uh..." Su Ling said while washing the pot, "After all, the guests have come from far away, so we have to treat them to a meal!"
After washing the pot, he nudged the man with his shoulder: "Go, entertain us in the living room."
Lin Feng pursed his lips, washed his hands, and left the kitchen reluctantly.
Su Ling raised his eyebrows and continued cooking.
In the living room, three men sat on mahogany chairs, staring at each other.
The weird atmosphere lasted for more than half an hour, until Su Ling finished cooking and called for dinner, and the three men finally walked to the restaurant.
Su Ze saw the sumptuous lunch on the Eight Immortals Table and asked in shock: "These... were all made by Xiao Ling?"
"Yes!" Lidya Su took off her apron and said with a smile, "I don't know if it suits your taste, so I specially made a few more dishes."
The three fresh vegetables, boiled shrimp, sweet and sour pork ribs, stir-fried lotus root slices, shiitake mushrooms and cabbage, egg and cucumber, as well as the milky white crucian carp soup in the middle, are all so delicious and mouth-watering that they make people's appetites grow.
I really can't believe that the most pampered young master of their Su family is such a good cook.
Su Ze had a complicated expression.
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