After tending to the flowers and plants, Mrs. Shao came out of the greenhouse and saw her son sitting in the pavilion waiting for her dinner. She deliberately teased him, "Oh, what a rare guest. Didn't you say you had an appointment tonight and wouldn't be at home for dinner?"

Shao Lin hurriedly stood up and walked forward, "There will be plenty of opportunities for socializing in the future. I'm sorry that you've been away for so many days. I'll just accompany you to have a good meal tonight."

Mrs. Shao sneered at herself, "An old jasmine tree can be exchanged for your dinner, which is worth it."

"Mom, am I that kind of person? Even if you're unwilling to give up, I'll still come over to eat with you. I heard from Sister Hua that you cooked shad soup in your kitchen tonight. I haven't had it for a long time, so I came over to try it."

Sister Hua smiled and continued, "The soup should be almost done. I'll go get you a bowl."

"One bowl is not enough, I need two bowls at least. I want to drink two bowls."

Madam Shao gave him a reproachful look, then turned to Madam Hua and told her, "Bring the pot over directly and let him drink as much as he wants!"

Mrs. Hua smiled and retreated.

The food had already been laid out on the dining table in the pavilion, so even though the weather was hot, there was no need to worry about the cold.

Shao Lin wiped his hands with a towel and personally wrapped a piece of roast duck in a lotus leaf pancake for Mrs. Shao.

"You eat yours, I'll eat my own."

Mrs. Shao glanced at her son, picked up the wrapped roast duck and took a bite.

The pancake is soft and chewy, the roast duck has crispy skin and tender meat, mixed with sweet noodle sauce, shredded green onions and cucumber, it tastes salty and sweet, and is extremely delicious.

"Mom, how is it? My cooking skills are good, right?"

Mrs. Shao glanced at her son and said, "It's OK."

Shao Lin smiled, wiped his hands with a towel, picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of jade tofu to eat.

After years of socializing and entertaining, he was tired of eating the rich food. Compared to Mrs. Shao's love of roast duck, he preferred some home-cooked dishes.

"This tofu is well made, with a strong bean flavor. Did you marinate it yourself?"

Mrs. Shao swallowed the roast duck in her mouth and wiped the corners of her mouth with a towel before speaking, "A few days ago, my great aunt asked someone to send me some soybeans from the countryside. This morning, Sister Hua ground soybean milk and made a few pounds of tofu with the rest. She sent most of it to other courtyards, and the rest is all on this table."

Shao Lin laughed, "No wonder there's tofu on the table tonight."

After a while, Mrs. Hua brought up the whole pot of shad soup.

Shao Lin stood up and served a bowl to Mrs. Shao first, and then served himself.

The soup has been cooled beforehand, so it is now slightly hot, just right for drinking.

Mrs. Shao tasted the saltiness and signaled Sister Hua to add some pepper. She said to her son, "You don't have to be so attentive. It's just a flower tree. I'm tired of looking at it after more than ten years. I can dig it up so I can plant something else and change my eyes."

Shao Lin put down the bowl of soup in his hand, and a rare look of seriousness and gratitude appeared on his elegant face.

"Mom, how could I not understand you? You have always been sentimental. Every flower and plant in this yard was carefully cultivated by you. The love and effort you put into them are immeasurable. I want to thank you, your grandma, on behalf of Momo..."

"puff……"

The last word, "Grandma," made Mrs. Shao spit out the soup that she had just drunk.

Mrs. Shao has been dignified and elegant all her life, so how could she have ever been embarrassed like this?

"Mom, what's wrong? Is the soup too hot?"

Sister Hua took the soup from Mrs. Shao's bowl with one hand and handed a towel to Mrs. Shao to clean up her mess with the other hand, but she looked at Shao Lin with uncertainty.

grandmother?

That Miss Momo is actually the granddaughter of the Madam? Oh, this is a big mistake.

She put the towel down and looked up at her son, "When did you recognize another daughter?"

Shao Lin was stunned by the question, and then he realized that he seemed to have forgotten to tell his mother about his daughter's life experience.

He patted his forehead lightly, "Mom, I was so happy that I forgot to tell you that Momo is my daughter, my biological daughter. Did you misunderstand me at noon?"

Mrs. Shao sneered, "What do you think?"

Sister Hua couldn't help but interrupt, "Master, you excitedly took out a photo and said you wanted to take someone back to the Shao family, but you didn't make her identity clear. It's no wonder that Madam misunderstood."

Shao Lin's expression was so strange that it was almost distorted. "Mom, you think too much of me as a beast. No matter how horny I am, I wouldn't look for someone so young."

"You didn't explain yourself clearly, and you blame me?"

Shao Lin raised his hands in surrender. "Blame me, blame me, Mom. It's all my fault. I, ah, I really didn't expect you to think this way..."

Afterwards, Shao Lin recounted his past with Huang Zhiqiu without hiding anything.

Mrs. Shao had never liked Yuan Jia in the first place. When she learned that Yuan Jia had deceived everyone just for the sake of wealth and fame, she, who had cultivated herself for many years, could not help but fly into a rage.

"That Yuan girl is so bold that she dares to play tricks with this matter. I will not let her off!"

Rather than being angry, Mrs. Hua was more concerned about Shao Yian's identity.

"Master, Master Yi An..."

"I was confused just once in my life. Momo is my daughter, so Yian cannot be my blood relative. Don't call Yian Master from now on."

Mrs. Hua quickly said yes, but Mrs. Shao became angry again when she heard it.

"How ridiculous! Not only did she impersonate someone else, she even dared to claim that this bastard outside is a descendant of our Shao family! How ridiculous!"

After much consolation from Shao Lin and Sister Hua, and after she drank a bottle of tranquilizing oral liquid, Mrs. Shao finally calmed down.

"Alin, bring the photo over here so I can see it."

At noon, she was so busy sulking that she didn't even look closely at her granddaughter's appearance in the photo.

Sister Hua quickly took the photo album from Shao Lin’s study.

It’s a thick book full of Yun Mo’s photos.

Mrs. Shao flipped through the pictures one by one. The more she looked, the more she liked them.

The reason was simple. The little girl was not only good-looking, but also looked very much like her and her son. Moreover, she had clear eyes and a spiritual aura all over her body. No elder would dislike such a girl.

"Alin, how old is she this year?"

Sister Hua, who was looking at Yun Mo's photo, smiled and said, "Madam, you are so happy that you are confused. She and Yi were born in the same year as Ms. Yuan's son, so she is also 19 years old."

Mrs. Shao suddenly realized, "Yes, A-Lin, you mentioned this at noon. She just finished the college entrance examination?"

"The reason I stayed there for so many days was to accompany Momo to take the college entrance examination. I am a very incompetent father and missed too many opportunities to accompany her growth."

Mrs. Shao patted her son's hand in comfort. "This is not your fault. It's all Yuan's fault. When I first saw her, I felt that she was vain and frivolous, with bad intentions. If I had asked someone to investigate her background, we wouldn't have been deceived by her for 20 years!"

Mrs. Shao smiled bitterly, "Mom, don't take all the responsibility on yourself. What does this have to do with you? It's my own fault."

(End of this chapter)