The four of them sat down, and Su Ling showed his hospitality by picking up the serving chopsticks and serving food to Mr. Su.
"What do you like to eat, Grandpa? The potatoes in this three-fresh dish are stewed very soft. Would you like a piece?" He picked up the potato and placed it on the small plate in front of Grandpa Su. "I cut the lotus root slices very thinly. The taste is crisp. Want some too?"
In all his life, this was the first time Grandpa Su had eaten a meal cooked by his grandson. Even though this grandson had severed ties with the Su family, the blood ties were still there, and eating a meal cooked by his grandson himself was somewhat touching.
He picked up the potato and put it in his mouth.
The stewed potatoes are soft, sweet and tasty, and very suitable for the elderly. After all, they are over 80 years old and have a mouth full of dentures, so they can't eat hard food.
"Well, not bad, your skills are much better than Xiao Liu's." Grandpa Su rarely praised.
Xiao Liu is his nanny and nutritionist, who can only make bland soup that is tasteless.
Su Ling said modestly, "The vegetables grown in my own garden are all natural organic vegetables. They are freshly picked and tender. If Grandpa likes them, please eat more. By the way, this crucian carp is wild fish. Its meat is firmer than farmed fish. Stewed with yam, the soup is delicious, and it can strengthen the spleen and stomach and promote digestion."
Su Ze, who was sitting opposite, watched Su Ling serve a bowl of soup to his grandfather, and his grandfather's usually serious expression softened a little.
He seemed to be lost in thought.
After Su Ling finished taking care of Mr. Su, he found that Su Ze had not yet started eating, so he asked, "Is the food not to your second cousin's taste?"
Su Ze came back to his senses and said with a smile: "No, it's just that there are too many dishes and I don't know where to start."
Su Ling pointed at the shrimp in front of him and said, "These are wild stream shrimp. They were still alive and kicking when I put them in the pot. I originally wanted to make them crispy, but I ran out of flour, so I just boiled them. But the taste is no worse than crispy, you can try it."
Su Ze couldn't refuse the kindness, so he picked up a stream shrimp, peeled it, dipped it in minced garlic, sauce and vinegar, and put it in his mouth, which aroused his taste buds.
"Delicious!" Su Ze praised it generously.
In recent years, it has become popular for city dwellers to eat at farmhouses in the countryside. The freshest ingredients, through ordinary cooking, can rival the skills of chefs in five-star hotels. No wonder my cousin and his wife are so happy living here!
He subconsciously looked at President Lin, and then he was stunned.
President Lin slowly peeled a plate of shrimps and considerately placed it in front of Su Ling. He took out a tissue to wipe his fingertips and said to Su Ling in a gentle tone, "Baby, eat shrimps."
Lidya Su turned around and smiled naturally: "Thank you, husband."
Goose bumps suddenly crawled up Su Ze's arms and spread all the way to his buttocks. He was so embarrassed that he could hardly sit still.
After Mr. Su finished drinking the crucian carp soup, his brows were furrowed.
What a sight it is for two grown men to be so sticky with each other!
But the couple had no self-awareness at all. During the meal, you helped me pick up the dishes and I helped you serve the soup. The meal was so sweet.
Su Ze gritted his teeth and quickened his eating pace.
After dinner, the guests returned to the living room. President Lin put on an apron and cleaned up the dishes, while Su Ling continued to chat with the guests.
After eating and drinking his fill, Mr. Su looked much more energetic than before, and he spoke with more energy.
"I didn't know about your severance of ties with the Su family until half a year later. Your father was always decisive and made the decision privately without consulting anyone else."
Upon hearing this, Su Ling clasped his hands together and said calmly, "Dad thinks that my marrying a man would bring shame to the Su family. Rather than being called a beast by him, it's better to break off the relationship and live in peace."
Mr. Su rapped his cane on the ground, obviously finding his son's call of his grandson a "beast" too unbearable to hear. However, regarding his grandson's insistence on marrying a man, Mr. Su shared his son's stance.
"Two men being together is ultimately against moral principles. Feelings are the most unreliable thing. When you're older, you'll realize how wrong your current behavior is."
"Society is developing, times are progressing, and same-sex marriage has long been legal. Grandpa is old and needs to keep up with the times." Su Ling said seriously, "Lin Feng and I have a good relationship, so you don't need to worry about it."
"Cough cough cough——" Old Master Su pointed at Su Ling and coughed angrily.
Su Ze, who was standing next to him, was startled and quickly went over to pat him on the back. "Grandpa, how are you?"
Su Ling picked up the teapot, poured a cup of warm tea and handed it forward.
Su Ze took the tea and fed it to Old Man Su. After Old Man Su recovered, he glared at Su Ling sternly.
"If I ask you to divorce the boy from the Lin family right now, would you agree?" he asked.
Su Ling's face darkened, and he frowned and said, "Have you forgotten that I have long severed ties with the Su family? I respect you as an elder and call you grandpa. If you are unreasonable, then I'm sorry, you are not welcome here."
Su Ze said disapprovingly: "Xiao Ling, no matter what, grandpa is still grandpa after all."
Su Ling sat steadily on the chair and said calmly: "I don't like others to dictate my life."
"Okay, okay, okay!" Old Master Su sneered, "Do you really think that with the support of the Lin family kid, I can't do anything to you?"
Su Ling sighed and asked, "What do you want to do to me?"
Old Master Su looked around the living room, his face stretched long, and he threatened: "I can take back the right to use this house."
Su Ling frowned, spread his hands helplessly, and said, "If I remember correctly, you and Second Grandfather separated sixty years ago, and this house has always been under Second Grandfather's name. Before Second Grandfather passed away, he hired a lawyer to write a will, designating me as the heir. Now the land certificate and property certificate have been changed to my name, and it has nothing to do with you anymore, so you have no right to take back the house."
Second Grandpa must have been a very careful person when he was alive. His will was clearly written, without any ambiguity. In addition, his property was clearly listed and all the documents were complete. After Su Ling got it, with his death certificate and will, it was easy to adopt him.
Now that grandpa wants to blackmail him with the right to use the house, it seems a bit self-righteous.
"Aren't you afraid of going to court?" Mr. Su asked with narrowed eyes.
"Lawsuit?" Lin Feng stood at the door of the restaurant and said coldly, "Lin Group's lawyers are waiting for you at any time."
Old Master Su banged his cane hard. "The Su family's affairs have nothing to do with your Lin family!"
Lin Feng sat down on the chair next to Su Ling and held Su Ling's hand. "I am his partner. His business is my business."
Seeing the tense atmosphere, Su Ze quickly tried to smooth things over: "Grandpa, the doctor told you not to get angry, otherwise it's bad for your health. Xiaoling, you are my grandson, and this will not change no matter what. If you have something to say, talk to me nicely and don't make me angry."
"I'm just telling the truth." Su Ling has lived in the Su family for more than 20 years and knows the character of the Su family members very well. No matter whether they are big or small, they all like to bully the weak and take advantage of their strength. So when getting along with them, you must not be weak, you have to be tough.
Looking at Old Master Su, who was pissed off by him, Su Ling said, "Just say what you want to say. Don't beat around the bush. If it has anything to do with Su Dan, please go back after visiting Second Grandpa's grave!"
This time, Old Master Su was really pissed off by Su Ling, and his breathing became rapid, almost unable to breathe. Su Ze was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He kept comforting him, patting his back, and hurriedly taking medicine from the bag and feeding it into his mouth. After a while, he finally caught his breath.
Su Ze turned around and looked at Su Ling reproachfully. "Xiao Ling, no matter what Su Dan is, he is still related to you by blood."
Su Ling raised the corner of his mouth and looked at him with his chin in his hand.
Are you finally done pretending?
"Second cousin, you are a smart man. You shouldn't want to be used as a tool, right?"
Old Master Su breathed heavily and said in a hoarse voice, "Your Third Uncle only has this one son. Do you have the heart to send him to jail?"
Su Ling gripped Lin Feng's hand tightly, suppressing his anger. "Su Dan is your grandson, and isn't Su Qi your granddaughter? She's a girl, being kidnapped by these kidnappers. How terrified and dangerous must she be? If I had been a moment later that day, who knows what terrible things would have happened to her! I treat Su Dan as my cousin, but does he treat me as his brother? The person they really want to kidnap is me! Where do you get the confidence to think I'm such a saint as to treat someone who wants to harm me as a brother?"
Old Master Su coughed a few times and said, "Weren't you and Su Qi fine in the end?"
Su Ling laughed in anger. "That's just our good luck."
Su Ze advised: "Xiao Ling, take a step back and the world will be brighter."
He hadn't expected Su Ling to be so stubborn, completely disregarding his family's feelings. But thinking about it carefully, Su Ling did have a stubborn temper. Otherwise, he wouldn't have so stubbornly chosen to study art, and he wouldn't have severed his family ties for love.
Su Ling looked at Su Ze leisurely, and said in a negotiating tone: "Second cousin has such a broad mind, are you willing to give up your current position?"
Su Ze was stunned.
He is the tacit heir of the Su family. After running the business for so many years, how could he be willing to give up his position?
Su Ling saw his resistance and said with a smile, "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. What do you think, second cousin?"
Staring at Su Ling's pretty face, Su Ze felt complicated.
Who misled people into thinking that Su Lingguang only has a face but no brains?
If he was really a straw bag beauty, would the Chinese painting master Zhang Qianyi take a fancy to him and accept him as his last disciple?
Painting requires aura. What is aura? It is personality!
I don’t know who his personality is like, it’s different from anyone else in the Su family.
Old Master Su stared at the radiant Su Ling, his expression dazed. It was as if time had flown back over sixty years, and the person before him had become Su Lan. His younger brother and the Bai family kid were close, so close that they shared the same blanket at night. One morning, he went into the room to wake his younger brother and found them both shirtless, with strange marks on their chests. He immediately flew into a rage and called them disgusting.
Later, the young man from the Bai family fled the country with his father. The younger brother stood alone at the village entrance every day, hoping and waiting for the postman to deliver the letter. However, Shixi Village was such a remote village, there was not even a mailbox, so how could the letter be delivered?
When he was young, he was dismissive of his brother's so-called feelings. After his parents passed away, he moved his family to S City. He asked his brother if he was willing to leave. His brother shook his head and said he wanted to wait for someone here.
Waiting for someone who will never come back!
How ridiculous!
Since my brother doesn't want to leave, let him stay here and fend for himself!
It had been sixty years since we last met.
The person Su Lan had been waiting for all her life had no news. Sixty years later, he passed away alone.
As the older brother, he only learned about his brother's death last month.
Since he got older, his health has been declining day by day. He has been in a nursing home for two or three years and only this year was he able to get out of bed and walk. Then, after receiving the news of his younger brother's death, he fell ill again. Even if the third daughter-in-law didn't come to make trouble, he would still go back to his hometown.
The first time he saw Su Ling, he almost made a mistake.
Lidya Su looks so much like Lidya Su.
Not to mention their looks, their temperament and personality are 80% similar. They both have a kind of dedication to love without hesitation, and even their preference for men is exactly the same.
Lidya Su made the right choice by choosing Ling Su as her heir.
"Where is your second grandfather's tomb? Take me to see it." said Grandpa Su.
"Grandpa?" Su Ze was a little surprised. Didn't Grandpa care about Su Dan anymore?
Old Master Su waved his hand and told him not to mention it again.
His attitude was different from before, and not only Su Ze was surprised, but even Su Ling was confused by him.
Old Master Su stood up with the help of his cane and looked at Su Ling calmly. "Didn't you say you were going to the store to buy paper money and incense? Let's go together."
"……oh."
There were many elderly people in the village who were as old as Grandpa Su. When they learned that Grandpa Su had returned, they all appeared out of nowhere and talked to Grandpa Su. The village chief also came and wanted to scold him, but when he saw that Grandpa Su was trembling and needed his grandson's support to walk, he swallowed his words.
Su Ling took Lin Feng into the grocery store, bought paper money, candles and incense, and took Old Man Su to the cemetery in Beishan.
Old Master Su stayed on the mountain for more than half an hour. He could not bear the sun any more and was helped down the mountain by Su Ze and Su Ling.
Back at the Su family's old house, Su Ling made him a pot of tea. After drinking the tea, the sun was about to set, so he got up to leave.
Looking at the old man's hunched back, Su Ling couldn't help but call out, "Grandpa..."
Old Master Su stood by the car door, turned his head to look at Su Ling and Lin Feng standing side by side, and said, "Since you have inherited your second grandfather's inheritance, you should manage it well. Whether to sever ties with the Su family or not is not up to your father to decide."
Su Ling was stunned.
Old Master Su got into the car and closed his eyes to rest. Su Ze closed the car door, said goodbye to his cousin, started the car, and drove away from the Su family compound.
Looking at the luxury car going away, Su Ling leaned on Lin Feng's shoulder and murmured in confusion: "They just... gave up?"
He thought his grandfather would disregard his feelings for Su Dan, but it turned out to be a case of much ado about nothing, and in the end, nothing came of it.
Lin Feng put his arms around his shoulders and kissed the top of his head from the side.
"I once heard Grandpa mention that when he was young, Mr. Su was also a strong-willed man, decisive and cunning, and he carved out a niche for himself in the business world of S City. Even though he's older now, he's not senile or confused. He sees things clearly."
Su Ling puffed up his cheeks and said, "I don't care whether he sees it clearly or not. As long as he doesn't cause me any trouble in the future, everything will be fine!"
Lin Feng looked at the car that was almost out of sight in the distance and said, "I don't think so."
The luxury car drove onto the national highway and headed towards Liuxian Town.
Su Ze held the steering wheel with both hands, hesitated for more than ten minutes, and finally couldn't help but ask Mr. Su in the back seat.
"Grandpa, if Auntie San asks, how should I answer?"
Old Master Su closed his eyes and looked tired. When he heard his grandson's question, he raised his eyelids.
"Let her figure it out on her own."
"But..." Su Ze hesitated, "Aunt San knows that we are here to see Su Ling."
Old Master Su snorted coldly, "I'm visiting my deceased brother's grave. What does it have to do with Su Ling? From now on, all of you younger generations should behave yourself and stop causing trouble for others. Su Ling is now considered part of your second grandfather's branch."
"Yes, grandpa." Su Ze replied with lowered eyebrows.
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