The villas in the Lakeside Moonlight community have similar room layouts; the biggest difference lies in the decoration style of each owner.
As a woman and a comic book professional, Peng Yuanyuan's villa is decorated in a cute, anime-style theme.
The first floor mainly consists of the living room, kitchen, and maid's room.
Of course, now that Aunt Chen has been dismissed, the original locations of the nanny's room and Gao Siming's tea room have been turned into storage rooms.
Peng Yuanyuan explained that there was nothing to see on the first floor, so she led Qin Wen upstairs.
Qin Wen had long known that her perceived rival in love was a cartoonist, and she had long wanted to visit her studio and perhaps exchange drawing skills.
Recalling Peng Yuanyuan's general introduction, which stated that the second floor contained bedrooms and studios and the third floor was a storage room, Li Nan lost interest.
After exchanging glances, Qin Wen and Peng Yuanyuan went upstairs, while Qin Wen made an excuse to wander around downstairs and in the yard.
Peng Yuanyuan had no suspicions and let Li Nan go as he pleased.
In the Lakeside Moonlight residential area, each villa is about forty meters long and wide, and the houses are twenty meters wide and long.
In the courtyard, Peng Yuanyuan also transplanted several evergreen trees that bloom in spring, and the rest were some shrubs that didn't require much care and flowers that bloomed all year round.
Li Nan wandered around the perimeter of the house twice but found nothing unusual.
So she went back to the kitchen and caused trouble for Gao Siming.
"Any discoveries?"
Gao Siming asked as he sliced the beef to remove the sourness.
“I didn’t check upstairs, but I looked outside twice and there was nothing unusual.”
Li Nan glanced at the stairwell next to the living room, but there was no sound, so she continued, "Actually, I didn't know what to look for, I just looked around based on my intuition."
"If it really had anything to do with her, she probably wouldn't have put those things in such a conspicuous place."
"Yes, but just looking at it like this, we probably won't find anything!"
"Don't be too ambitious; being able to eat is good enough!"
"Hey, Brother Gao, you go ahead and get busy, I'll go out and take a look!"
"Get out of here, get far away from me!"
Li Nan strode back to the living room with an air of indifference, and just as she was about to lie down on the sofa, she suddenly noticed something unusual on the balcony outside the French windows.
It was a glass box, about the height of a person; to be precise, it was an empty fish tank!
He suddenly remembered what Peng Yuanyuan had said a few days ago when she left the An Ding Si dormitory: she would come back to feed the fish.
The fish tank is here now, but where are the fish inside?
Li Nan quietly noted down this suspicious point and took several photos from various angles with her phone.
He returned to the sofa, pretending to be nonchalant as he waited for the feast.
Before long, the kitchen was filled with the aroma of spicy hot pot. Gao Siming called out, "Li Shazi, are you really here as a guest? Hurry up and bring out the dishes!"
The aroma wafted up from downstairs to the second floor, finally catching the attention of the two beautiful female painters in the studio.
"Wow, I didn't expect Gao Siming to be so skilled! It only took him a short time to finish!" Peng Yuanyuan praised him, taking in the aroma in the air.
Qin Wen was a little puzzled, "Sister Peng, weren't you two a couple back then? Didn't you ever eat the food that Brother Gao cooked?"
"Hehe, that was all back in my student days. Who knew he could cook back then!"
Peng Yuanyuan seemed to have come to terms with the relationship, and continued, "If he had won me over through my stomach back then, who knows if he would still be in my grasp now!"
Looking at Peng Yuanyuan's smile, Qin Wen was momentarily dazed. From their first encounter under the ginkgo tree until now, she had always been infatuated with her white moonlight.
Unfortunately, the one he had at the time already had a beautiful woman by his side.
Time has passed, and she is now a wife. Her former lover and her former partner have drifted apart and become like strangers.
Is this a good ending?
About ten minutes later, Li Nan's voice came from downstairs, "Lululu, dinner's ready!"
"Li the Fool, what do you take us for!"
...
Although this meal was called hot pot, its quality far exceeded that of a typical hot pot meal.
Gao Siming reprocessed the pig's feet soup, filtering out the soybeans, leaving the pig's feet at the bottom, and using the broth as a hot pot stock.
One sweet and one spicy, and that's what makes a hot pot with two separate broths.
The tender beef was rinsed to remove the acid and then sliced thinly. The pork belly and fish were also sliced in the same way, making them easier to cook in the hot pot later.
The chicken, fish head, and fish bones have been blanched to remove any scum, and the soup is currently simmering on low heat, just in case.
All the other vegetables were washed, plated, and placed on the stool, ready to serve.
Besides these, there's also today's main dish: matsutake mushrooms from the highlands, which have been sold for thousands of yuan per kilogram in the market.
Clean with a soft scrubber, refrigerate for one hour, remove from the refrigerator, slice, and arrange on a plate.
Dip it in the same sauce used for sashimi, and the matsutake mushrooms taste absolutely amazing when eaten raw.
Two boxes of matsutake mushrooms, weighing only two kilograms, were half gone in Li Nan's stomach within half an hour of the meal starting.
"Li the Fool, aren't you afraid of getting poisoned this time?" Gao Siming recalled the whole roasted lamb from Yinghuadu's hometown last time. On that day, Li Nan was actually afraid of the delicious local chicken and mushroom soup.
"Hehe, matsutake mushrooms aren't poisonous, otherwise how could you eat them raw?"
As Li Nan spoke, she stuffed another matsutake mushroom into her mouth.
Watching her husband eat, Qin Wen felt a headache coming on and deliberately said, "Hmm, tonight's feast seems to be missing something?"
Gao Siming smiled upon hearing this. Tonight there was fish and meat, and he naturally knew that there was no wine. But in this situation, would Li Nan dare to drink?
Peng Yuanyuan didn't know Li Nan's alcohol tolerance. Last time, they ate the big bone soup in a hurry and forgot about it. It was only when Qin Wen brought it up today that she remembered. She realized that she hadn't been a good host and had forgotten about it.
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