In the room, Tang Qiao was half lying on the bed resting, sleeping next to him.
After Chen Zhen entered, he handed the gift in his hand to Tang Qiao.
Tang Qiao took the box and opened it to take a look. It was a round, resizable gold bracelet with several "Fu" characters of different sizes carved on it, and two "Fu" characters were connected by vines.
The branches and leaves on the vine are carved vividly, and the word "Fu" on the bracelet follows the vine from the outside to the inside, and it looks like it is wrapped around the bracelet. The style is very beautiful and the meaning is also very good.
After Tang Qiao looked at the bracelet, he put it in the box, then smiled and said to Chen Chen: "Thank you, Brother Chen, this gift is very beautiful. I like it very much, and I'm sure you will like it too."
Shen Yu is still young now, and Tang Qiao plans to wait until Shen Yu is older before bringing him up, so he will put him up for now.
Chen Chen didn't answer Tang Qiao's question. Instead, he asked Tang Qiao in confusion, "Second brother-in-law, so it's all the same? It's all like this...huh?"
Although Chen Zhen didn't finish his words, Tang Qiao understood what he meant. Tang Qiao had heard from Shen's mother that when Shen's eldest sister-in-law Shen Fang was born, Chen Zhen was only 12 years old.
At that time, Shen Zhen was very dissatisfied with Shen Fang's ugliness. He said that Shen Fang was too ugly and was not his nephew. He also said that he wanted to return him and asked Mrs. Shen to find him a good-looking nephew.
When Shen's mother heard this, she was so angry that she slapped him several times on the back, saying that all new children are like this, and it will be fine after a few days.
Chen Zhen didn't believe it at first, until a month later when Chen Fang grew whiter and plumper, and then he experienced Shen Xiang, Shen's sister-in-law, and then he slowly accepted it. Now he didn't say the word "ugly" out loud, which was good enough.
"No matter who it is, it's the same." Tang Qiao said with a smile.
Chen Zhen nodded upon hearing this, and then said, "How is your health?"
Tang Qiao knew Chen Zhen's curiosity was piqued again when he heard this, so he smiled and said, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt much, it will be fine soon."
After hearing this, Chen Zhen nodded secretly and stopped talking about this topic.
Just as the two finished talking about this topic, Shen's mother came in. She was afraid that Shen Chen would do something incredible again, so she followed him to see.
After entering the room, seeing him sitting quietly by the bed watching the child, she put her worries to rest. However, she still asked Tang Qiao uncertainly, "He didn't say anything unpleasant, did he?"
After hearing what Tang's mother said, Chen Zhen was unhappy and said, "Mom, I'm grown up now. I won't be as ignorant as I was when I was little."
"When you were young and ignorant, you didn't care about age at all, okay?" Mother Shen rolled her eyes at him and said.
After hearing this, Tang Qiao suppressed his laughter and said, "But this time, Brother Zhen has really grown up and didn't say anything unpleasant."
"Mom, you heard everything, please don't wrongly accuse me." After Tang Qiao finished speaking, Chen Zhen immediately said.
After hearing this, Mother Shen glanced at Shen Zhen and ignored him. It was best that she didn't say anything unpleasant.
After a few people chatted for a while, Shen's mother and Shen Zhen left the east wing. Tang Qiao had spent a lot of energy and needed to rest more.
After leaving the house, Shen's mother said to Shen Chen: "Let's have lunch here at noon. Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can have a reunion dinner in advance."
"Okay." Chen Chen nodded and said.
At noon, Shen Zhen prepared a very sumptuous meal and also specially made a soup for Tang Qiao to replenish his blood and energy so that he could nourish his body.
After dinner, seeing that the weather was fine, Second Brother Shen took the child out and asked Shen Yu to meet He Jinshu and recognize his third uncle.
Shen Yu's face looks very much like Shen Erge, but his eyebrows and eyes are like Tang Qiao. At this moment, he is sleeping soundly with his eyes closed, looking very well-behaved and cute.
Looking at such a well-behaved child, He Jinshu couldn't help but stretch out his finger to hook Chen Yu's little hand. At the same time, he was also imagining in his heart, if it was Chen Yu, he wondered who he would look more like in the future.
However, this fantasy may not come true for two years.
After staying at the Shen family for a while, He Jinshu and Shen Zhen took a few cans of wine back home.
As Chen Chen walked along the road, he said to He Jinshu, "Ah Shu, why are they so ugly when they first come out? Will those who come out in the future also be this ugly?"
He Jinshu has never seen other people like this, but he heard from Shen's mother today that all those who have just been born are like this, and they will be fine after they grow out in a few days.
So he comforted Chen Zhen and said, "It doesn't matter. As long as she looks good when she grows up, that's all."
Chen Zhen thought about it and it made sense. Chen Fang used to be so wrinkled, but now he is six years old and has become a handsome boy. It doesn’t matter if he was ugly when he was young, as long as he looks good when he grows up.
Moreover, judging from the looks of both him and Ah Shu, Chen Zhen felt that Sheng Yang would never be able to have a child who was too ugly.
The next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. Chen Zhen had asked He Jinshu to make a list yesterday, and then gave it to Uncle Wen early in the morning and asked him to take two servants to go shopping. There would definitely be a lot of people buying things today, so he didn't want to join in the fun.
There were a lot of things to do this year, and it rained heavily for several days in a row, so there was no time to go to the town to buy ingredients. Therefore, I didn’t make mooncakes. Chen Chen directly asked Uncle Wen to go to the town to buy some mooncakes to eat.
By the way, I brought some pickles and wine to the town's storekeeper Qian and foreman Liu as holiday gifts for them.
At 3 p.m., Uncle Wen and two servants came back from the town. Seeing this, Chen Chen asked someone to move things into the kitchen, and then began to prepare the reunion dinner in the evening, with Aunt Wen helping him.
Uncle Wen followed Chen Zhen's instructions and took the two pounds of meat and two bags of snacks he had bought, as well as a chicken, to the 12 children on the mountain. He then took Li Mo home for dinner.
For dinner, Chen Zhen planned to make a roast duck, a braised pork elbow, a boiled chicken, a braised pork, a spinach with egg sauce, a sweet and sour fish, a cold mushroom salad, a braised pig's trotter, and finally a mutton soup.
8 dishes and a soup are enough for the whole family to have a delicious meal.
When the meal was halfway done, He Jinshu asked Aunt Wen to take the food to the back to cook, while he stayed in the kitchen with Chen Chen to cook.
While helping Chen Chen, He Jinshu said to him, "Remember to serve the offerings separately for tonight. We will worship my parents first then."
"Okay, I understand." Chen Chen nodded. He Jinshu had already told him about this last night. He also asked Uncle Wen to buy the things for the worship today. He would worship with him in the evening.
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