Pei Ji'an's expression was not very good, and Lu Nong also realized that he had violated a taboo.

Eavesdropping would be regarded as a spy in a military family like the Pei family. Although Lu Nong had no intention of doing anything, the mere act of eavesdropping was very sensitive.

Or maybe I haven't adopted modern thinking yet, Lu Nong is upset. I need to be more careful in the future, but...what should I do now?

"Do you eat candy?"

She suddenly had an idea and reached out to take out the candy she had just bought today and handed it to Pei Jinan.

Pei Jinan lowered his head. A White Rabbit milk candy was lying quietly on his white and tender little hand, looking delicate and cute.

He picked up the candy as if possessed.

Lu Nong made a unilateral and happy decision: he accepted her candy and nothing happened.

Anyway, it is impossible to be embarrassed!

"Let me check on Xiao Huai," Lu Nong quickly played the role of a normal person and asked nonchalantly, "Did he disturb you?"

Pei Ji’an: “…”

I was about to say something, but I caught a glimpse of Lu Nong trying hard to look confused: "Why don't you answer my question? I don't understand a word you're about to say."

Pei Ji'an swallowed what he wanted to say and said calmly, "No."

"I don't know what you're talking about...huh?"

Lu Nong's heart almost burst. He was too careless. Pei Jinan's expression just now clearly meant he wanted to lecture him.

"That's good, that's good, haha." You cunning old man!

A smile flashed in Pei Ji'an's eyes. He made way and led Lu Nong into the study.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw little Gu Huai lying on Pei Jinan's desk, staring at a picture book intently, and he didn't even notice his mother coming.

This scene was beyond Lu Nong's expectation. She thought little Gu Huai would cry and Pei Ji'an would coax him with a cold face. However, the more he coaxed the child, the less he accepted his cold face. In the end, she was at a loss...

The picture is absolutely beautiful, but it’s a pity that it was not realized.

At this time, Pei Ji'an walked to Lu Nong's side, looked at Gu Huai with her, and said to Lu Nong in a rather serious tone:

"Xiao Huai is very self-sufficient and smart. He can learn the characters taught to him in one go. I suspect he has a photographic memory."

"oh."

Lu Nong had a lukewarm reaction after hearing this. After all, he was the villain boss with the highest IQ in the novel, so it was not surprising that he had been different from others since he was a child.

Besides, both of his mothers (the original owner and Lu Nong) have photographic memories. This skill is becoming increasingly common, so wouldn’t it be useless if it wasn’t inherited?

This reaction might be too bland. Pei Jinan turned his head to look at Lu Nong, his eyes deep and meaningful.

After a while, Lu Nong realized what was going on and clapped his hands twice, saying perfunctorily, "That's really great."

Pei Ji'an rubbed his brows, "Are you here just to see Xiao Huai? Or do you want to take him away?"

"Yes, I just want to see if he is well behaved. If he is well behaved, I will feel relieved."

Lu Nong concealed his sinister intention of wanting to see the excitement and answered Pei Jinan politely.

It was impossible to take Xiao Huai away. She was going to the kitchen to make some of her favorite desserts. She would not refuse someone to help her take care of the baby.

"It looks like Xiao Huai really likes the picture book. Since he likes it, let him read it for a while. I'll go get some strawberries for you guys to eat."

It was only after they walked out of the study that Lu Nong came to her senses. Pei Jian's last question seemed to be asking her to leave?

“……” Her strawberries were wasted.

After going downstairs, Lu Nong divided the strawberries brought back from Li Garden into two portions, brought one portion upstairs to the study, and told Pei Jinan that only one or two could be given to Xiao Huai.

The other portion of strawberries can be used with White Rabbit milk candy to make White Rabbit strawberry ice cream!

It is said that Lu Nong learned how to make desserts thanks to her ex-boyfriend, who was a food blogger who made desserts and was well aware of the truth that "if you want to capture a woman's heart, you must first capture her stomach."

Since the day he started pursuing her, he would make a kind of snack for her every day. He would also take photos and edit the recipes of these desserts and post them online, and @ Lu Nong to confess his love to her.

Lu Nong would sometimes take a look at it, and then it would naturally enter her mind.

I never thought that one day I would have the opportunity to make it myself.

As for the food blogger, well...he became Lu Nong's ex-boyfriend two months later.

It’s not Lu Nong’s fault. After eating desserts for two months, one day she found that she had gained ten pounds. She learned her lesson and decided to break up.

The food blogger was heartbroken, and finally posted a Weibo post saying "I still don't understand women well enough. Desserts can make or break them," as a summary of his failed love.

After seeing this, Lu Nong felt a little guilty and privately bought advertising for the food blogger. Dongfeng helped him become famous, which was considered as spiritual compensation for him.

When I arrived at the kitchen, Aunt Wu had already soaked the bird's nest. It takes about three or four hours for the bird's nest to soak. I probably won't be able to make it in time for dinner, and I don't know if I can make it in time for a midnight snack.

Lu Nong gave Mother Wu a bear hug. Mother Wu loved her so much, hahaha. She would prepare whatever she wanted to eat without her having to ask.

Mother Wu pushed Lu Nong away with disdain, but an indelible smile hung on her lips. She was making honey-juiced pear balls, a traditional dietary supplement and also a special snack from Shandong cuisine.

Shandong cuisine has been developing in Beijing since the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and even became imperial cuisine. Therefore, most chefs in well-known families in the north know a thing or two about Shandong cuisine.

Mother Wu is an expert at this, as she once learned the cooking skills from a Shandong cuisine chef.

The method of making honey pear balls is simple. Wash the pears, peel them, remove the cores, cut them into thin shreds and set aside. Then add egg white, starch and flour to the pear shreds one by one and knead them into small balls.

Put the meatballs into the oil pan and fry until golden brown, then take them out and color them with fondant. Simmer on low heat until the sauce thickens and add honey when appropriate.

It would be perfect if osmanthus flowers were sprinkled on the dish, but unfortunately the osmanthus flowers are not in bloom at this season.

As soon as the honey-glazed pear balls come out of the pot, the sweet aroma tempts Lu Nong's taste buds from all directions.

Pears have the functions of promoting salivation, moistening the throat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, but they are also cold in nature. Lu Nong himself cannot eat too much of them, so he mainly wanted to make this dish for little Gu Huai.

Every child has one or two delicious dishes that are engraved in their memory during childhood. When they grow up and look back on them, they are the taste of home, mother and relatives.

Gu Huai didn't have it in the novel, but Lu Nong hoped he did.

Lu Nong washed his hands, and while Aunt Wu was preparing other dishes, he peeled a dozen pieces of White Rabbit candy and placed them in a pot. He took out the milk from the refrigerator and poured it into the pot, stirring on the lowest heat to cook the candy and milk into a candy sauce, which he then poured out and let cool.

Then, add the egg yolks to the milk over low heat, stirring as you pour. Finally, pour in the toffee sauce and stir until it becomes thick.

Divide it into several portions, pour it into the glass goblet that Mother Wu brought out from Li Yuan, pour the diced strawberries on top, and finally cover it with a layer of clean cotton cloth and put it in the refrigerator to freeze.

During this period, Mother Wu also prepared braised pork and sweet and sour cherry meat, and served them on elegant and beautiful porcelain plates. They were very beautiful, with good color, aroma and taste.

Finally, put it into a large pot and keep it warm before serving.

Sweet and sour cherry meat is said to be the predecessor of sweet and sour pork loin, while another theory is that it is a traditional delicacy of Suzhou cuisine. It was first created in Jiangsu and was introduced into the palace during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. After being cooked, it is shaped like a small cherry, with a rosy color, tender meat, soft skin, and a salty and sweet taste, which is very suitable for drinking.

The braised pork is made from pork belly with pork skin. The pork skin is gelatinous, while the pork belly is red and fat, one gelatinous and the other soft. Lu Nong picked up a piece of meat and ate it with the salty and sweet juice, and both his taste buds and mouthfeel were satisfied.

What’s even better is that the texture of pork in the 1960s was much better than that of later generations, and it was perfect for making braised pork. If it is served with a bowl of white rice, even a god would not trade it for something else.

Apparently, Mother Wu had foresight, as the rice in the clay pot was now emitting a sweet aroma.

There were still two vegetarian dishes and a soup missing. The vegetarian dishes were made into coral cabbage and roasted eggplant according to Lu Nong’s idea. As for the soup, since there was not enough time, I only made a simple vegetable soup.

It took more than two hours to prepare a meal, and Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming came back from running without knowing when.

After the exercise, both of them were exhausted and hungry. When they smelled the aroma coming from the kitchen, their mouths watered.

So he would wander around the kitchen door from time to time, and when he saw Lu Nong eating a piece of braised pork, he wished he could take his place.

Lu Nong was also nervous. Knowing that the two of them were greedy for meat, he refused to let them in to eat. He picked out another piece, put it into his mouth slowly and chewed it carefully with an exaggerated expression.

Pei Zheng: “…”

Shen Jiming: “…”

Pei Zheng took a deep breath. He couldn't offend Lu Nong at this moment. If he offended her too much, what would happen if he had no food to eat? After all, Wu Ma was hers. (Since he knew Lu Nong's age, he couldn't even say the word "stepmother" to tease her.)

So he nudged Shen Jiming with his elbow and signaled with a fierce look, it's all your fault for being so mean and insisting on offending her.

Shen Jiming: “…” He didn’t expect that Aunt Wu’s cooking would be so delicious. He was too careless.

After all the dishes were ready, Lu Nong finally took care of (called) the two people, asking one of them to serve the dishes to the table while the other went upstairs to call Pei Jinan and Gu Huai, and also called Xiao Zhou who was still busy assembling the bed, desk and bookcase.

Yes, the bookcase and desk that Lu Nong wanted are finally finished.

Originally, after measuring the size, the bookcase and desk could be purchased ready-made, but Lu Nong made a small request for the desk. She wanted a minimalist-style desk similar to IKEA, with only four legs under the solid wood board and no drawers, so it took a little more time.

After everyone arrived, Mother Wu didn't want to sit at the table, but Lu Nong forcibly pulled her and pressed her into the chair next to him.

Except for Lu Nong and Wu's mother, everyone else was shocked when they saw the dishes on the table.

There are four dishes, one soup and one dessert. Both the presentation and the serving are very particular. Even the plates used to serve the dishes are very beautiful. There is not a trace of vegetable juice or soup on the edge of the plates. It is as exquisite as it can be.

Not to mention the aroma that hits your nose and makes you swallow your saliva.

Is this a dish? Is this something they can eat?

Pei Zheng had lived a frugal life since he was young. Occasionally, he could go to a state-owned restaurant with his grandparents to have a good meal. However, compared with the meals that Wu Ma had made into works of art, they were simply not up to par.

But seeing that Lu Nong and Mother Wu looked normal... Pei Zheng fell into deep thought. His stepmother, bah, Lu Nong, seemed to be really something.

After expressing his feelings, Pei Zheng put his arms around little Gu Huai and looked at his father Pei Ji'an eagerly, waiting for him to tell him to eat.

It smelled so good that not only Pei Zheng, but also Shen Jiming and Xiao Zhou looked towards Pei Jinan unconsciously.

Pei Ji'an twitched his lips and said, "Let's eat."

At the command, everyone just lowered their heads to eat, no one was being polite, because the food smelled so good that there was no time to talk.

Pei Zheng picked up a piece of braised pork and a piece of rice, mixed them together and put them into his mouth.

Why is the rice better than usual?

If Lu Nong knew what he was thinking, he would say, of course, adding some glutinous rice to the rice makes it taste much softer and more glutinous.

Lu Nong picked up a pear ball and sweet and sour cherry meat and put them into little Gu Huai's bowl. Little Gu Huai's rice was different from everyone else's. He ate the omelette rice that Wu's mother made specifically for him. The egg fried rice was wrapped in an egg pancake and sprinkled with sesame seeds on the outside.

Pei Zheng, this shameless man, actually secretly took a bite of his brother's food. After finishing it, he looked at Mother Wu with shining eyes. I don't know what he was up to.

"If it's not enough, there's more in the pot. There's enough meat rice." Mother Wu was very happy that everyone liked the dishes she cooked. Even Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming, whom she didn't like before, became more pleasing to her.

Pei Zheng immediately climbed up the pole, gave a thumbs up and praised, "Mother Wu, your cooking is so delicious. Can you cook again tomorrow?"

"Sure, why not?" Mother Wu smiled happily.

Pei Zheng then looked satisfied and continued to eat.

After the meal, everyone was full and plump, even the kids were full.

Mother Wu got up and went to the kitchen to get out a pot of digestive tea made with tangerine peel and malt, and poured a cup for everyone.

This meal directly established Mother Wu's position in the Pei family as someone who could not be offended.

Everyone goes back home at night.

Pei Jinan went to the study. After Lu Nong washed up, she did not wait to do her daily skin care. She excitedly took out the carved box she brought from Li Yuan, and took out the passbook Pei Jinan gave her, the money she had saved before, and the jade jewelry given by her aunt from the dressing box, and piled them on the bed.

Lu Nong took a deep breath. Ah, this is the fragrance of money.

Hehe, she currently has quite a lot of wealth.

Twenty small yellow croakers, a set of jade jewelry, and two pieces of fine warm jade.

In terms of cash: the pension from the deceased husband plus the savings of the original owner totaled 350 yuan, the current husband gave 5,300 yuan in family savings, cousins ​​gave 3,000 yuan, and sold the job for 800 yuan, so the total salary is 67.5 yuan.

Today I bought vegetables, meat and various other things and spent thirty-five dollars of the original owner's saved change.

After all the calculation, all the money added up to 9,482.5 yuan, which is rounded to 10,000 yuan!

She became a millionaire in the 1960s.

Lu Nong laughed so hard that his mouth couldn't close, and he rolled around on the bed.

Pei Ji’an: “…”

Noticing the sight from the door, Lu Nong quickly stood up, quickly grabbed the pile of things on the bed into his arms, and looked at Pei Jinan vigilantly, "What's mine is mine, don't even think about taking my money!"

Pei Ji'an didn't covet it. He was just surprised that his young wife's uncle's family was indeed extraordinary. Just the pile of gold bars that were so dazzling that it hurt the eyes were not something that ordinary people could have.

Fortunately, I married him, otherwise I would be guilty of possessing the jade and could not escape the bad fate.

"Put it away, and it's best not to take it out again in the future." Pei Ji'an instructed calmly.

Lu Nong slowly put the things back into the box like a hamster, leaving only the passbook and some change that Pei Jianan gave her.

The change is her salary, and the passbook Pei Ji'an gave her was obviously for her to use for household expenses. She cannot treat it as her own. As for Gu Weiguo's pension, it will be left to little Gu Huai in the future as a thought, and it cannot be touched.

The mechanism casing was locked immediately after it was closed, and no one in the world could open it except Lu Nong.

In order to prevent Pei Jinan from coveting her property, Lu Nong planned to sleep with the box in her arms tonight.

That night, after applying all kinds of cosmetics, Lu Nong really went to bed with the box in her arms, and fell asleep with her back to Pei Ji. Less than ten minutes later, she fell asleep peacefully.

As for the wooden box that I held tightly in my arms before going to bed, it had fallen under the bed.

Pei Ji’an: “…”

midnight.

Pei Ji'an looked at the woman rubbing against him, sighed, and pulled down her shirt that was up to her collarbone. In the chaos, he touched somewhere soft and it loosened up like a needle.

But after being released, the woman started to behave dishonestly again.

Pei Ji'an had no choice but to restrain her with his hands and hold her in his arms, and only then did he calm down.