"You're welcome. You should go to the hospital quickly; the old man looks a bit dehydrated."
Yu Huailin knew this wasn't the time to talk, so he repeatedly asked for Gu Mingyue's address.
"No need, it was nothing, I'll be going now."
Gu Mingyue was terrible at handling these kinds of situations, so she quickly left a message and rode away on her bicycle.
Yu Huailin watched her retreating figure with regret, and after getting into the car, he met the old man's disdainful gaze.
As the car drove towards the hospital, Yu Zhongqing felt increasingly that he couldn't count on his grandson.
"He has such a handsome face, but what a wonderful girl he is. If she could be my granddaughter-in-law, I would have no regrets when I see your grandmother in the future."
Yu Huailin smiled helplessly, "Grandpa, isn't your back hurting? How come you have the leisure to care about this?"
"Back pain won't stop you from finding a partner. Find out where that girl is from; she saved me, so we should go and thank her."
Yu Huailin understood this without him having to say it.
On the other side, Gu Mingyue returned to the family compound with the braised pork she had bought.
"Yueyue is back."
Lu Limin was carrying two fish, and he hadn't changed his clothes yet, so he had obviously just returned.
"Wow, Grandpa, did you catch these fish?"
Lu Limin proudly held up the fish in his hand, "How about it? Not bad, right? A great start to the day, I caught several. These two are the biggest, we'll make fish soup with them later."
"The fish you caught probably came from some ditch; they all smell of mud."
Xia Huiying likes to eat fish, but she doesn't think much of the fish her husband catches.
I don't know what kind of luck he has, but the fish he catches always have a muddy, fishy smell that he can't get rid of, and he feels uncomfortable for several days after eating them.
Xia Huiying waved her hand and said, "I'm not eating it, and you shouldn't give it to Yueyue either. If she gets an upset stomach, it'll be your responsibility."
Lu Limin pursed his lips, somewhat disagreeing with her opinion, "It's not as exaggerated as you say, I think it's great."
"I'll make it later. It'll taste great with the pancakes on it."
Without even changing his clothes, Lu Limin carried the fish directly to the kitchen.
Aunt Liu was somewhat surprised when she saw him come in.
What are you doing here?
Lu Limin picked up a basin, threw the fish into it, and searched everywhere for tools to prepare the fish.
When Aunt Liu heard that he was going to cook fish, she gathered the ingredients for him, left the kitchen, and went to the yard to say to Xia Huiying, "The fish that Comrade Lu cooked last time still smelled good for several days. Why are you making fish again this time?"
Aunt Liu was too embarrassed to say that the smell of his cooking was so awful that even the stray cats in the residential compound avoided it.
Xia Huiying: "Never mind him, let him do whatever he wants. Yueyue brought back braised pork, let's go to the vegetable garden and pick some vegetables. I dare not eat what he makes, and you shouldn't eat it either."
Xia Huiying repeated herself, worried that they might feel unwell after eating the fish.
This piqued Gu Mingyue's curiosity; she wondered how bad the fish must taste to make them so afraid.
The Lu family lived in a two-story building. The front yard was a simple little garden, and the back yard was planted with a lot of vegetables.
It is very suitable in terms of both living conditions and aesthetics.
Xia Huiying maintains the frugality of the older generation, feeling that it would be a real waste not to grow vegetables in such a large yard.
If she had the chance, she would even like to plant vegetables in the front yard as well, and be overjoyed when the harvest season comes.
However, it wasn't just the two of them living in the house; she knew that her daughter-in-law liked flowers.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law each manage their own yard—one in the front and one in the back—and neither bothers the other.
The bok choy that just sprouted in the garden was very fresh, and there was also water spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, and everything else you could want.
“We have enough fish to eat. Let’s go back. The old man should have finished cooking the fish by now. Let’s see how well he does it.”
Xia Huiying didn't believe that Lu Limin could make something delicious.
Sure enough, I could smell a burnt odor even before I entered the door.
"Oh dear, what's burnt?"
Aunt Liu exclaimed and ran to the kitchen with small, quick steps.
Lu Limin was dealing with the evidence against him, and everything was fine when he first started frying the fish.
But for some reason, the fire suddenly flared up. Before he could stir it, the fish skin stuck directly to the pot, leaving a thick layer of blackened crust.
Before they returned, Lu Limin quickly tidied up the kitchen and opened all the windows to let the smell dissipate.
Lu Limin saw Aunt Liu appear in the kitchen, and his hands moved faster. "Why are you back so soon?"
"If you don't hurry, you'll set the kitchen on fire."
Xia Huiying complained from behind.
Lu Limin muttered, "It's not that exaggerated."
Xia Huiying ignored him, circled the kitchen, and finally found the remaining fish in the trash can.
"You old man, you're such a waste of food! How could you throw away such good fish?"
Although we can't eat it all, it's good to feed it to stray cats. It looks a bit burnt, but maybe the stray cats will have an appetite and eat it all this time.
Lu Limin thought it was too late to throw it away; in the end, they still discovered that he had failed at making fish.
Gu Mingyue didn't dampen the old man's enthusiasm, and comforted him with a smile: "Grandpa, we picked some bok choy, and it'll taste pretty good if we stir-fry some greens and eat them with braised pork."
With Gu Mingyue offering a way out, the old man readily accepted.
"Yueyue is right. I love braised pork the most, and the bok choy helps to cut through the richness."
He quickly washed the pot in his hand, shook his hand, and said, "Well, you guys eat first, I'll go change my clothes."
After saying that, she went upstairs without looking back, as if someone was chasing her.
Xia Huiying waved her hand dismissively in the air, "We need to issue an order from now on to keep the old man out of the kitchen. If this continues, all our pots and pans will be ruined."
Who will suffer?
When Lu Lin returned from rehabilitation at the hospital, he immediately sensed something was wrong as soon as he entered the gate.
As soon as he entered the residential compound, he smelled a burnt smell. He never expected that after searching for a long time, he would find that the smell was coming from his own house. This smell was too strong.
He glanced into the kitchen, where Aunt Liu was cooking. Given Aunt Liu's culinary skills, such a small mistake shouldn't have happened.
"We'll be the ones who suffer."
Lu Lin kept sniffing the air. "Why is there still a fishy smell? Could it be...?"
He glanced upstairs with a suspicious look. "Could it be that my grandfather is cooking again?"
Gu Mingyue gave him a thumbs up, "That's amazing, congratulations on guessing correctly."
Lu Lin's face turned ashen instantly. "How about we go out for lunch today?"
He was clearly recalling the old man's heroic deeds.
It's not terrible to make something that tastes bad, but it's something you should really avoid if you insist on making something that tastes bad.
Gu Mingyue chuckled, "Grandpa just went upstairs to change his clothes in a huff. I brought back some braised pork, let's eat braised pork."
Lu Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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