Chapter 754 A Guest Arrives
The couple had a good plan, but on Friday night, when the weekend was approaching, their plans were disrupted.
At the dinner table, Lu Yuanzheng announced that there would be guests visiting his home the next day at noon.
He also said that Lu Miao's cooking was delicious, and asked her to prepare two decent dishes to entertain him.
Lu Miao hesitated to speak.
Thinking that the person who could make him ask for a treat was most likely not an ordinary person, he swallowed his words and asked:
"Is there anything you can't eat?"
"In the past, there was nothing to eat. We even ate tree bark and Guanyin soil."
Lu Yuanzheng waved his hand and jokingly said with a rare smile:
"What's so inedible? Just watch and make it."
Lu Miao nodded, "I understand."
Putting the house-hunting aside for the time being, Lu Miao focused on matters at home first.
The market was so crowded and messy that small cars couldn't move.
The next morning, Fu Jingyou put a military coat on Lu Miao and covered him tightly.
He rode his bicycle to accompany her to the market.
There are not many leafy vegetables in the north in winter, but we have some grown in the shed in my yard, so I don’t have to worry about the “vegetarian” in the meat and vegetable combination.
The winter solstice was approaching and pork was hard to buy in the market, so Lu Miao bought some beef brisket, beef and mutton.
The lamb chops were not expensive, so she bought some, and also ordered a silver carp weighing four or five pounds.
There are a lot of frozen goods in the seafood market, but if you want to buy them, buy live and fresh ones.
Lu Miao generally wouldn't buy frozen food unless he had nothing else to eat.
This time it is the case.
After taking a look around and weighing a few pounds of shrimp, Lu Miao decided to go back.
She was the head chef today, and she was afraid that if the guests arrived early, she would not be able to make it in time.
Tang Mei and Fu Jingyou surrounded her to help her cut and wash the vegetables.
When Lu Yuanzheng saw this scene, he had something to say.
Fu Jingyou is a man, a son-in-law, so how can it be ridiculous for him to always follow his wife in the kitchen?
Normally, the young couple would just improve their own meals and cook their own meals, and he wouldn't say anything to them.
But what is the situation now?
Whenever the girl in his family goes to do something, his son-in-law must follow her.
As a father, Lu Yuanzheng would definitely be satisfied when he saw his son-in-law treating his daughter well.
But after spending so much time together, he had already seen through Fu Jingyou's true nature.
This son-in-law is good in every way except that he has no opinion of his own in front of his wife.
Spoiling people to the point of being unruly, like...
Lu Yuanzheng waved his hand and told his son-in-law not to interfere.
Afraid that his spoiled girl would get angry, he unbuttoned his cuffs, rolled up his sleeves, and took over his brother-in-law's job, picking leafy vegetables in the greenhouse.
Lu Miao shook his head, speechless.
Fu Jingyou smiled helplessly and went to coax a few children.
There are so many big and small things to do at home. If you are not allowed to do this, just do that.
What was unexpected was that Lu Yuanzheng was usually quite decisive in other matters, but now he was just picking vegetables, and he pulled the leaves longer and shorter.
Not only did he do a terrible job, but he also always failed to pay attention to what was happening behind him and stepped on several lettuce seedlings.
Lu Yuanzheng was thinking to himself that he must pay more attention later.
A moment later, he stepped on another plant and simply waved his hand and let it go.
This job is not something he can do.
After leaving the greenhouse and putting the handful of vegetable leaves on the kitchen table, Lu Yuanzheng waved his hand and asked Fu Jingyou to go.
Tang Mei looked at the long and short leaves and couldn't help but nag Lu Yuanzheng. After a while, she asked Lu Miao:
"You said your father is getting more and more crazy as he gets older?"
One old one is more annoying than several young ones.
"Maybe it's menopause."
Lu Miao answered casually.
I can't think of a better explanation.
Even though we didn’t buy much ingredients, we managed to cook quite a few dishes by noon.
Beef brisket stewed with potatoes, stir-fried beef, stir-fried lamb with green onions, braised lamb chops with sauce and boiled fish fillets.
A plate of boiled shrimp and a bowl of shrimp and egg soup.
There are also two plates of crispy green vegetables.
The middle part of the long table was filled to the brim.
The guests arrived at the right time. When the food was almost served, there was a knock on the gate.
The person who came was a middle-aged man who was about the same age as Lu Yuanzheng, and he was holding a child about the same age as Shi An.
Lu Yuanzheng came out of the main hall and chatted with people along the way.
Lu Miao looked around curiously.
Tang Mei nudged her and reminded her:
"This is Principal Nie from the Hebei Wing Liberation Air Force School. He was also your father's comrade-in-arms. You were young when you met him, so you probably don't remember him. Just call him Uncle Nie..."
Lu Miao nodded, and he had an idea in his mind.
Just as Lu Yuanzheng and Nie Jinpeng approached, she nodded and smiled sweetly:
"Uncle Nie."
"Uncle Nie."
Fu Jingyou shouted along with her.
"Hey, hey."
Nie Jinpeng responded twice, turned around and glanced around before praising:
"Is this Xiaobao? I haven't seen him in years. He's grown so big now."
"You're the mother of several children, aren't you?"
Lu Yuanzheng responded with a smile, inviting his old friend to go into the house, while putting his arm around his son-in-law's back and instructing them to sit down at the table together.
Judging from his attitude, Nie Jinpeng knew Fu Jingyou's identity without any explanation.
Nie Jinpeng understood it tacitly, and praised Fu Jingyou several times, saying that Fu Jingyou was "also a good boy."
Isn’t it?
People with broad shoulders, long legs and narrow waists would have been considered Jinyiwei in the past.
Nie Jinpeng nodded repeatedly, believing that Fu Jingyou was indeed a tough and good young man.
Father-in-law Lu Yuanzheng was so happy that he took out the two bottles of Lao Baigan he had prepared.
Nie Jinpeng waved his hand and said, "Hey—I drove here today, so I have to get down to business. I won't drink any more."
"Okay, okay, that's fine too."
Fu Jingyou sat on one side, entertaining the guests with his father-in-law.
The children's legs were too short to sit safely on the benches, so they were placed at a small table nearby.
At home, we don’t really care about men and women sitting at different tables or not allowing women to sit at the table when guests come.
However, the men were chatting and Tang Mei was in the kitchen and couldn't come out for a while.
Lu Miao felt awkward sitting alone, so he took a small stool and sat down at the small table, concentrating on taking care of the children.
The Nie family's children are very outstanding in appearance.
She has thick and long eyelashes, dark eyes like obsidian, and thin red lips on her wheat-colored face.
With his slightly messy black short hair, he is cute and looks like a young wolf that has just jumped out of its den in spring.
The only thing that makes people sigh is that she is thin.
Too thin.
Compared with the other little round faces next to him, the child from the Nie family has a thin face and a chin as big as a melon seed.
Besides being thin, he also lacks energy.
Hei Lingling's eyes were just black, without any lively luster. With his brows slightly furrowed and lips pouting, he looked like a dull little piece of wood.
This feeling seems familiar.
Lu Miao vaguely felt as if he had seen it somewhere before.
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