Chapter 543: Marry a wife and forget your mother?
Lin Manling and her family were also there.
Lin Manling and Bai Moli were sitting in the living room chatting with Lin Manli, Bai Ming and Wang Ya were cooking in the kitchen, Lu Jiahe had not come back yet, Lin Manli called him and he said he was on the way.
After greeting each other, Lu Jingyou took Su Jiaojiao's hand and sat down on the sofa. He poured her a cup of hot water and took out some candy from the candy box for her to eat.
Lin Manli walked over to Lu Jingyou and sat down, smiling and saying, "I've wanted you to bring Xiao Su back for dinner for a long time, but since you two can't meet before your wedding, I didn't ask you. You should come back often in the future."
Then she said to Su Jiaojiao, "Xiao Su, this will be your home from now on. You can come back whenever you want. Don't be restrained."
"Okay." Su Jiaojiao agreed.
As they were talking, Lu Jiahe came back with a small cake in his hand. He said he bought it for Su Jiaojiao: "I heard from the old lady that Xiao Su loves cakes from May Bakery the most, so I bought one. I wonder if Xiao Su likes it."
"Thank you, Dad. I like it very much." Su Jiaojiao took it and put it on the coffee table. It was a small double-layer cake, very delicate, with a layer of fruit on top. The cakes baked in May are very popular. They are all made fresh, and you have to queue when there are many people.
Mrs. Lu bought it for her once when she lived in Jinyuan, and she said it was delicious.
Maybe it was because Old Lady Lu mentioned this to Lu Jiahe that Lu Jiahe remembered it and went out of his way to buy it for her.
Based on this point alone, Su Jiaojiao felt that Lu Jiahe was a very considerate man, but he had a cheerful personality and was often scolded by Mr. Lu, making him seem marginalized at home.
Bai Moli curled her lips.
What I mean is, no one else can eat it!
"Brother-in-law, you bought a cake for your daughter-in-law because you knew we were here?" Lin Manling asked Lu Jiahe seriously.
"Everyone's eating together." Lu Jiahe laughed. "I just passed by May Bakery and saw a lot of people queuing up. I thought Xiao Su would like it, so I went over and queued for a while. Luckily, I got one. This was the last cake they had. Otherwise, I would have waited in line for nothing."
"Don't you like queuing?" Lin Manli felt complicated when she saw Lu Jiahe actually queued up to buy a cake for Su Jiaojiao. She felt that Lu Jiahe was too good to Su Jiaojiao, and in comparison, she, the mother-in-law, was outshined.
Wait, since when did their family have to depend on Su Jiaojiao’s mood to live their lives?
"Dad, what are you doing in the east city?" Lu Jingyou also went to May Bakery to buy a cake for Su Jiaojiao.
"I transferred my shares in Landaohui." Lu Jiahe took off his coat, went to the kitchen to greet Bai Ming, and then came over to sit down. "Your grandfather is old, and you live in the suburbs of Beijing and rarely come back. I want to spend more time with him."
"Alright." Lu Jingyou nodded. "My grandfather asked you to exchange the Blue Island money a long time ago. The dance hall business has been difficult these years. It's not as good as before."
"Yeah, hotel food and beverages are better." Lu Jiahe, wearing a red shirt with dark patterns and beige corduroy pants, still looked very stylish.
Bai Ming is a good cook. He specially made squirrel fish and coconut chicken, which looked very good. The rest of the dishes were fried by Wang Ya. She also made dumplings, saying that the filling was prepared by Lin Manli.
"Then today's dumplings must be delicious." Lu Jiahe said to Lu Jingyou and Su Jiaojiao with a smile, "Your mother can't do anything else but make dumplings, and I love the dumplings she makes."
"You're just enjoying this privilege because of my son. If he hadn't come back, you wouldn't have been able to enjoy it." Lin Manli prepared a dipping sauce for Lu Jingyou. "I specially had someone bring back the aged vinegar you love from western Shanxi."
Then she said to Su Jiaojiao, "Jingyou likes to dip his dumplings in aged vinegar, not rice vinegar."
Su Jiaojiao smiled but said nothing.
Whether Lu Jingyou likes aged vinegar or rice vinegar, he can decide for himself. Why would Lin Manli tell her?
She didn't need to remember this.
Bai Ming and Lu Jiahe were drinking, but Lu Jingyou refused, saying that he would just drink some orange juice. He poured a glass of orange juice for Su Jiaojiao, added some hot water, and then handed it to her, saying that she couldn't drink cold water.
Lin Manli said she couldn't drink cold drinks either, so she asked Wang Ya to heat them up for her.
Lin Manling and Bai Moli looked at each other and drank the cold orange juice in their glasses silently.
While Lu Jingyou was chatting with Lu Jia and Bai Ming, he was picking up some food for Su Jiaojiao and almost feeding it into her mouth.
Lin Manli saw this and felt very embarrassed. It was true that a man forgets his mother after marrying a wife.
Lin Manling and Bai Moli were even more jealous, especially Lin Manling. How could Su Jiaojiao, a country girl, marry Lu Jingyou, and be so pretentious as to ask Lu Jingyou to take care of her?
Lu Jingyou was raised in the Lu family since he was a child. Others have always indulged him, and he has never taken care of others. But now he is busy serving Su Jiaojiao, picking up dishes and pouring water.
Su Jiaojiao accepted Lu Jingyou's care calmly and ignored their gazes. Lu Jingyou was her husband, and how they got along was their business and had nothing to do with others.
Bai Ming and Lin Manling both worked at Jiahe Group. Once Jiahe Group went bankrupt, Bai Ming also lost his job.
Now Bai Ming and Lin Manling run a clothing store in Wudaokou together, and their income depends entirely on the profits from the clothing store. Lin Manling dislikes Bai Ming for not working, saying that he is not enterprising, and the couple quarrels all the time.
Lu Jiahe promised to find a new job for Bai Ming and said they would talk about it after the New Year.
Bai Ming said he didn't want to go to work anymore and wanted to do some business, so he asked Lu Jiahe if he had any good projects.
Without waiting for Lu Jiahe's reply, Lin Manli said slowly, "He's busy with his own affairs, so how can he introduce you to any projects? If he were that capable, he wouldn't have transferred Blue Island Hui."
"These are two different things." Lu Jiahe was most annoyed when Lin Manli exposed him in front of his relatives. "I sold Blue Island Hui not because I couldn't manage it well, but because I didn't have much energy. I don't want you to spend all day shopping and feel annoyed."
"Who spends all day shopping?" Lin Manli fumed. "Even if I do, I'm spending my own money."
"Alright, alright, stop arguing." Lin Manling hurried forward to mediate. "My daughter-in-law is still here. Aren't you afraid of her making fun of you?"
Su Jiaojiao frowned.
She didn't say anything, so how did the topic come to her? It turned out that Lin Manling was targeting her.
Lin Manli then fell silent.
"Xiao Su, your mother-in-law only has Jingyou as her son. She has always liked girls. Now that you are here, you are both a daughter-in-law and a daughter." Lin Manling continued, "You must treat your mother-in-law well and be filial to her as if she were your own mother."
"I would like to treat my mother-in-law as my own mother, but I'm afraid she won't agree." Su Jiaojiao said lightly, "I do nothing in front of my mother. My clothes are washed by my mother, and my shoes are brushed by my mother."
"Yes, my mother-in-law is very hardworking and does everything herself." Lu Jingyou echoed, "When we went home today, my mother-in-law prepared the meal early. She made all the dishes that Jiaojiao and I like."
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