Chapter 284 Nut Candy
Shen Jiazhou knocked on the door while carrying a bunch of fruits, and soon he heard footsteps approaching from inside.
He thought that since Cancan had come with his loyal follower, Wen Shuqiao should be cooking.
The corners of Shen Jiazhou's mouth curled up slightly, and his eyes fell on the word "Fu" pasted on the door. When he came two days ago, he and Wen Shuqiao pasted the Spring Festival couplets together, which were exactly the same as the couplets on his door.
The next second, the tightly closed door in front of him opened, and Cancan said happily with a little face: "Uncle, you are back."
Shen Jiazhou walked in, and Cancan even put slippers in front of him.
"Uncle, let me carry it too. I'll help you carry the sweet sugarcane!" Cancan's eyes were fixed on the bag of sugarcane in her uncle's hand.
Shen Jiazhou handed him the sugar cane and reminded him, "Wash your hands before eating."
Cancan agreed and immediately ran to the living room with the sugarcane in his hand. His loyal follower rubbed Shen Jiazhou's legs as usual, greeted him warmly, and then left without any reluctance.
...Hiss, what a familiar scene.
Shen Jiazhou walked in wearing slippers. Wen Shuqiao was still sitting at the dining table making dumplings. He put the fruit down and asked while rolling up his sleeves, "Do you have any more dumpling wrappers? I'll make some too."
"No need." Wen Shuqiao said, "There are only two left, so you don't have to wash your hands."
Shen Jiazhou glanced at the dining table. There were several plates stacked diagonally, with rows of cute small dumplings on them. Of course, there were also a few very prominent, odd-shaped "dumplings". One could tell whose work it was at a glance.
He said yes, rolled up his sleeves, and walked straight into the kitchen: "Then I'll go wash the vegetables."
But when I walked into the kitchen, the vegetables had been washed and neatly arranged, and the pot was smoking and something was steaming.
Shen Jiazhou carefully lifted the lid of the pot and found a steamed fish.
Wen Shuqiao in the living room raised his voice, "Turn off the fire, the fish should be cooked."
Shen Jiazhou covered the lid and turned off the fire.
Then he walked out and asked, "Is there really nothing I need to do?"
Wen Shuqiao was just wrapping the last dumpling. He looked at it and said, "Please help me clean up the table. I'll cook."
There were only three of them, so Wen Shuqiao didn't prepare many dishes. After all, it would be bad if there were too many leftovers.
Shen Jiazhou listened and started to prepare the table. Cancan came over with a big strawberry in her hand. Shen Jiazhou asked as he cleaned it up, "Have you washed it?"
Cancan opened her mouth and then closed it again, ran to the kitchen, stepped on her little stool to wash the big strawberry clean, then opened her mouth and took a bite.
The sweet juice burst in her mouth, it was so delicious that Cancan narrowed her eyes.
Wen Shuqiao glanced at him and then asked, "Is it so delicious?"
Cancan nodded: "It's super delicious, auntie, you can eat it later!"
My aunt is busy cooking right now, so of course I have to concentrate!
Cancan had just walked to the kitchen door while biting a strawberry when Shen Jiazhou came in with a plate of dumplings. Cancan turned sideways to let her uncle in, and did not forget to say to him, "Uncle, how long are you on vacation? When can we go out and play together?"
Shen Jiazhou had said before that after he was done with his work, he would take him and Wen Shuqiao out to see other scenery.
Shen Jiazhou thought for a moment and said, "Going out to play on the second day of the New Year? How about taking you to Aunt Mingxue's house first?"
Yu Mingxue was also very busy. She had set an engagement date with Gu Xingyuan. After attending the house-warming ceremony on the 3rd, she flew abroad to handle work.
Gu Xingyuan originally wanted to go with them, but everyone had a lot of work to do before the New Year, so he could only watch Yu Mingxue leave him.
Shen Jiazhou has been too lazy to review Xingyuan's news recently. Whenever he does, he will say something corny like "I miss someone," "I think about someone," and "My heart has flown to someone."
Too lazy to listen.
Cancan wowed: "Okay, okay, uncle, I want to go play with Aunt Mingxue!"
Shen Jiazhou said, "I know, I know. Get out of the way. I'll put the dumplings down."
Cancan followed Shen Jiazhou around the kitchen like a little tail. He took every step Shen Jiazhou took, munching on strawberries with his little mouth, not missing a word of what he was saying.
Shen Jiazhou stood next to Wen Shuqiao, actively waiting to be assigned work.
The specifications of this house are not as good as Shen Jiazhou's two-story apartment, and the kitchen is much smaller. Wen Shuqiao is not short, and Shen Jiazhou is even taller. Add to that Cancan and the cake lying on the ground, and there's no telling when the milk jumped onto the refrigerator.
It became crowded in an instant.
Wen Shuqiao said helplessly: "You guys go out first, I feel like there is no place to stay in the kitchen."
Shen Jiazhou turned his head and looked at Cancan: "Go out and eat your strawberries. My aunt and I are going to cook."
Cancan said: "I helped too! I helped to scrape the potatoes and peel the garlic!"
The garlic my aunt bought this time was super difficult to peel, but he peeled it super cleanly. My aunt even praised him as the little prince of peeling garlic!
He's a prince! Yoho!
The system clicked its tongue: [I don't quite understand. What's so great about this? ]
It's obvious that my aunt is just bragging! Only a little idiot like you would believe it!
Cancan was too lazy to pay attention to the system, and he really didn't like what the system said.
Wen Shuqiao said, "It's not necessary now, all of you go out and don't bother me."
It’s just cooking, very simple.
Shen Jiazhou had no choice but to hold Cancan's hand and walk out of the kitchen.
There was a rumbling sound coming from the kitchen from the range hood. Shen Jiazhou took a look and thought, it seems that I have to practice my cooking skills in the new year.
I feel a little guilty about always bothering Wen Shuqiao to cook.
Cancan said, "Uncle, can you please take care of Milk's cat litter box?"
It stinks, he doesn't want to deal with it, and he doesn't want his aunt to deal with it either.
Shen Jiazhou pinched the tip of his nose and said, "You only know how to order people around."
Having said that, I still went to take care of the hygiene.
After everything was done, Cancan added more food to the two little guys, then squatted between them and watched them eat.
Suddenly thinking of something, he turned around and said to Shen Jiazhou who was also squatting beside him: "Uncle, you can sleep here with me tonight. I have put your clothes in my closet. It's clean!"
Shen Jiazhou pinched the back of his neck: "Okay."
He stayed here for a few nights and left a few sets of clothes here. He would rest for a night, go back to pack up tomorrow, and then go back to the Shen family for a hypocritical reunion dinner.
The uncle and nephew whispered something to each other, and Cancan pulled him to look at the photo album again, but before they sat down, Shen Jiazhou heard the range hood in the kitchen turned off, so he stood up swiftly and went to the kitchen to help serve the dishes.
Wen Shuqiao was stunned for a moment when she saw him coming over so quickly, but Shen Jiazhou had already taken the dish from her hand and turned back to the restaurant.
She turned around, lowered her eyes, and seemed to be thinking about something, then silently went to get the dishes and chopsticks.
If Shen Jiazhou likes to serve the dishes, let him do it. Besides, Shen Jiazhou has been acting weird lately, so she doesn't know what to say.
The dishes were all on the table, and a bottle of rare champagne that Shen Jiazhou had sent earlier was specially opened tonight.
The room was warm with the air conditioner on, and I put some ice in the wine, which made it taste different.
Shen Jiazhou said: "They like to drink like this in the summer, it's quite interesting."
He pushed the champagne with only one or two ice cubes to Wen Shuqiao's hand: "Want to try it?"
Wen Shuqiao's alcohol tolerance was average. She looked at the wine in the glass. In fact, she only had one or two sips. This was considered a sip. "Thank you."
Cancan's cup was filled with sweet freshly squeezed orange juice. He raised his own cup and said, "Let's toast, aunt and uncle. We will celebrate the New Year together in the future."
He loves Chinese New Year! He stays at home with his aunt every day! Hehehehe!
Shen Jiazhou raised his glass and said, "I wish you a happy new year."
Wen Shuqiao also raised her glass, as if she was infected by them. This was her first New Year in this world, and also the only New Year with someone by her side.
The cups collided with each other and made a crisp sound. Wen Shuqiao withdrew his hand, lowered his head and took a sip.
What Shen Jiazhou said was indeed right. Adding some ice cubes made the temperature of the wine lower. This wine was a bit sweet and tasted like a real drink.
She raised her head and finished the wine.
Seeing this, Shen Jiazhou looked at her and said, "More?"
Wen Shuqiao shook his head: "No, I'll just taste a little bit and drink the orange juice."
She glanced at the wine glass next to Shen Jiazhou, and her mind automatically recalled the incident when Shen Jiazhou was drunk and blacked out.
After hesitating for a while, he reminded her: "You should drink less too. This orange juice is also delicious."
"Don't worry." Shen Jiazhou put some fish meat in Cancan's bowl: "I can drink a lot, and this wine has a low alcohol content. I will sleep with Cancan tonight and not drive."
He spent a long time selecting in the wine cellar before choosing three wines suitable for Wen Shuqiao.
Wen Shuqiao knew that the alcohol content of the wine was not high, and after hearing what Shen Jiazhou said, he stopped trying to persuade him. After all, holidays are supposed to be about having fun.
Cancan ate the fish in the bowl. When he heard his uncle say this, he turned his head and said to his uncle earnestly, "Uncle, the phone said that if you want to be healthy, you can't drink or smoke."
Shen Jiazhou put some more food in his bowl, then looked at Wen Shuqiao who was sitting opposite him and said with emotion: "Now that you have grown up and gone to kindergarten, your speech is indeed different."
I still remember that at the beginning, Cancan liked to use reduplication of words, and sometimes his expressions were a little unclear, but now he can express himself very clearly when speaking a long string of words.
Wen Shuqiao also looked at Cancan who was sitting next to Shen Jiazhou. She smiled and nodded: "Yes, your ability to express yourself is much better now."
More importantly, his personality has become much more cheerful, but sometimes he can be too cheerful and become a little noisy.
But that's how kids are.
Cancan roughly understood that her aunt and uncle were praising her, and nodded: "That's right!"
He is just different!
After everyone finished their dinner happily, Shen Jiazhou was the one who cleaned up the mess as usual. When he came out of the kitchen, Wen Shuqiao and Cancan were curled up on the sofa watching cartoons.
He glanced at it, showing no interest in the cartoon, but sat down anyway.
Cancan saw him coming, climbed from her aunt's side and sat in his arms, and enthusiastically explained the current plot to him.
Shen Jiazhou hummed a few times, then turned his head slightly to look at Wen Shuqiao beside him.
Wen Shuqiao was leaning on the sofa, covered with a thin blanket, with a gentle smile on his face, his eyes fixed on the TV screen.
But Shen Jiazhou knew that her ears were on them.
As he watched, Shen Jiazhou felt that his heart, wrapped in flesh and blood, began to lose control again, beating non-stop.
"Uncle, when you come back from your hometown, can you buy me some candy? During the Chinese New Year, my aunt allowed me to eat sweet candies. I want to eat the candy you bought me last time, the one with nuts in it. I'm a child, so I need to eat more nuts."
Shen Jiazhou was brought back to his senses by his words. He pinched his mouth with his index finger and thumb: "You are good at making excuses for yourself. Who's child eats nuts with candy?"
Cancan let him pinch her, and after Shen Jiazhou let go, he continued, "We have to eat together! Uncle, you are not a child, you don't understand. You have pinched my mouth, remember to buy it for me!"
Wen Shuqiao laughed at the side, and Cancan immediately said, "Auntie laughed, which means that Auntie also agreed to buy me nut candy."
Shen Jiazhou glanced at Wen Shuqiao again, but Wen Shuqiao still didn't look at him.
His heart slowly calmed down, he held Cancan tighter in his arms, and finally hummed, "I understand."
Isn't it just sugar? Buy it!
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The Shen family's New Year's Eve dinner was scheduled for six o'clock in the evening. Shen Jiazhou stayed in the Jade Courtyard until the afternoon before leaving for his apartment. He took his time changing his clothes, and when he drove to the old house, there were already quite a few cars parked in the yard.
Shen Jiazhou drove the car in, found a suitable place to park, and then entered the reception room.
Before I even stepped in, I could hear laughter and joy inside.
He walked in and everyone turned to look at him.
Shen Jiazhou silently resigned from Shen's and sold his stocks. Other people in the Shen family had many complaints about him, especially because he gave the position of president to Second Uncle Shen.
During this period of time, except for Uncle Shen who was smiling so hard, no one else was having a good time.
At least when Shen Jiazhou was in power, they could still have some meat to eat. Now it was Second Uncle Shen's turn, but the meat has become smaller and everyone needs to scramble to eat it.
Who would be willing to do this?
Others had very complicated feelings towards Shen Jiazhou, feeling both hatred and longing for him.
Longing for him to come back.
Shen Jiazhou took off his coat, and immediately a servant came over to take his coat and hung it aside.
I don’t know if it’s because of the Chinese New Year or because he’s been taking tonic medicine to keep himself alive during this period, but Mr. Shen looks rosy-cheeked today and speaks very fluently.
Shen Jiazhou walked up to Mr. Shen and said softly, "Grandpa, I wish you a happy New Year."
Mr. Shen smiled and nodded: "All good, all good."
Then, Second Uncle Shen, who was sitting next to Old Man Shen, also smiled and said, "Jia Zhou, why are you back so late? Let's sit down and chat, dinner will be served soon."
Shen Jiazhou shifted his gaze from Mr. Shen to him.
Uncle Shen continued: “I’m chatting with the old man, let’s sit together for a while.”
In previous years, Shen Jiazhou always sat next to Mr. Shen.
Shen Jiazhou hummed: "You guys chat."
The smile on Uncle Shen's face became more genuine.
Shen Jiazhou found a seat at the very end and sat down. As soon as he sat down, he leaned back in the chair and looked at his phone, as if he had really just come back for a meal.
Everyone else looked at each other.
Everyone hoped that someone would start a conversation, but unfortunately, no one took the initiative until the meal started.
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