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Chapter 98, Admiration (please subscribe!)

In the kitchen, pork, beef, fish and chicken are always the protagonists, and winter dishes such as white and radish are indispensable.

After a while, the table was full.

Stir-fried yellow beef, pork ribs and winter melon soup, double-cooked pork, fish tofu, Kung Pao chicken, Xiangxi grandma dishes, winter bamboo shoots and lamb, and a large bowl of cauliflower.

Finally, the refreshing sour radish.

Yu Guanzhi couldn't help, so after washing the bowls and chopsticks, serving the food and serving the wine, he just sat by the side and watched him come and go.

When eating, she especially likes twice-cooked pork, grandma's vegetables, and mutton with winter bamboo shoots, and she also eats more sour radishes.

She said: "After so many years of New Year's Eve dinners, you are the one that suits my taste the most. You have successfully overturned my nostalgia for only eating Huaiyang cuisine in the past."

Lu An took a spoonful of fish tofu for her with a spoon: "Actually, this fish jelly is the essence. I really like this tune. You can try it."

Yu Wanzhi said: "I can tell, you were very careful when cooking the fish yesterday, and the other dishes are more or less properly seasoned.

But you only put salt and fish fragrance leaves in the fish, not even oil, it seems that you are after the milky white fish soup. "

Lu An nodded: "When I was young, my family was poor. Every Chinese New Year, fish jelly is the dish I look forward to the most. I don't have to eat the others, but I must have a bowl of fish jelly. I just rubbed my mouth on the edge of the bowl. , It’s really delicious to the depths of the soul.”

Yu Wanzhi prefers to eat fish.After all, she lives in Shanghai and relies on the rich fish resources on the seashore. However, she used to eat steamed and boiled fish. She has never eaten fish jelly, and this is the first time she has seen this kind of fish flavored leaves.

She tried to put a spoonful into her mouth with a spoon, and pursed her beautiful red lips. Later, her eyes brightened, and she said with a smile:
"No wonder you only put Yuxiang leaves, this is the soul, it's really delicious."

In the custom, it is called breaking the fifth day of the fifth day.

Before the fifth day of the lunar new year, it is easy not to visit other people's houses, because the host's house has to send you things.

It's okay if I meet a generous family, I don't care about a drawer of peanuts and melon seeds.

If you encounter someone who is stingy, then you can't tell how they will arrange you behind the scenes.Calling you ignorant is light. If it is serious, they will say that you came to ask for things on purpose and call you a "beggar".

After dinner, the two decided to take a walk along Taohuaping Street to digest food, and just went out to meet Li Dong's family to pay New Year's greetings.

Seeing Lu An and Yu Wanzhi pressing the road side by side, Li Dong's happy face just a second ago turned into a coffin shop, and the words "I'm broken in love again" were written in the sad eyes looking at the two.

"Li Dong, happy new year, everything goes well."

"Brother, happy new year, I wish you a happy love."

Lu An grinned, but didn't break Li Dong's mind.He took Yu Wanzhi around for a while, but he didn't dare to stay outside for long, the woman's bones hadn't recovered yet.

After nine o'clock, the sound of firecrackers subsided a lot, and the two took the opportunity to go home to catch up on sleep.

For the next two days, both of them were reading books, and one was reading textbooks on the table of the Eight Immortals, preparing for the college entrance examination.

One is reading classics on the sofa, watching A Dream of Red Mansions.

In the middle, Yu Wanzhi suddenly asked him: "Lu An, how is your level of Chinese painting?"

Lu An didn't speak, but came to the bedroom and simply sketched a "Spring River Picture".

Handed it to her: "how is it?"

Yu Wanzhi looked at it carefully for a long time, and finally said, "It's better than I imagined."

Then she asked: "Can I take this painting with me? I suddenly thought of an elder and let him see it."

Thinking of the 5 sets of whiteboards and the contracted partnership between the two, Lu An generously gave them to her directly.

The third day of the first month.

During breakfast, Yu Wanzhi said: "The first lottery for stock subscription certificates is March 3. You'd better have a BB machine so we can contact you."

Lu An felt that this made sense, "Sure, I'll handle it in a few days."

After the meal, they packed up their things, and the two left Guifei Lane.

When it was time to part, Yu Wanzhi said: "Thank you for letting me have a special year, see you next time."

"Okay, goodbye, good wind."

Hurriedly rushing to the station, Lu Ann searched with uncertainty, and sure enough there was a bus.But it only goes to Liudu Village, and you have to change trains later.

"Master, how much does it cost to go to Liudu Village?"

"Buy it now, 25."

This is a robbery, Lu An slandered in his heart, he had no temper, obediently counted the money and got on the car.

But the car is good, new car, the oil smell is not strong.Since he came early, he also picked up a front passenger seat.

It took nearly 2 hours to get to Liuduzhai, and it took another 40 minutes to transfer to Jianhua, but someone was repairing the road.But judging from this efficiency, it is estimated that it will not be completed in ten and a half months.

After much tossing, it was past noon when he returned to the town, so he called home first, and when he learned that the elder sister and younger sister were at the sister-in-law's house, he was not in a hurry to go back.

So I turned around and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.Walking around inside, he took two packs of candy, two cigarettes, two bottles of wine and a firecracker, and came out with the bag.

Passing by the place where the meat was sold, he asked the butcher to pick up another 5 catties of meat.

The Meng family's hometown is not very far from the town, about 3 miles away. Although the walk in the snow is slow, it takes 20 minutes to arrive.

From a long distance away, I saw a bunch of little kids playing firecrackers gathered around the gate of Meng's house. Among them was a familiar girl who wanted to say hello, but unexpectedly, she threw a firecracker at me.

Tsk, the county magistrate's prestige in front of the door, his mother really can't serve her.

Seeing that the firecracker was at his feet, Lu An pretended to be frightened, seeing that the group of brats were laughing happily, and even scolded him for being cowardly.

Meng Wenjie just came out to take out the trash, so he threw the dustpan away when he saw him, and hurried over to pick up the gifts, chattering:

"Why did you come back? Qing Shui still wanted to go to your house today. If you hadn't gone to Baoqing, she would have already gone."

Afraid that the brother-in-law might be suspicious, this time Lu An didn't dare to ask Sister Qingchi first, "Where is Qingshui?"

Meng Wenjie turned back to the second floor and muttered, "Play cards with some aunts on the second floor."

Glancing at the window on the second floor, Lu An lit the firecracker and followed into the yard.

Hey, it's not the right time.

The Meng family is worthy of being a big family. Many relatives came here today. As soon as he entered, everyone inside looked at him, whispered to each other, and talked a lot.

One of the older men even handed over a cigarette: "Lu An, Gong Xi Fa Cai! Come, have a cigarette."

Lu An is inexplicable and has a strange heart.

He is not particularly unfamiliar with these people, they are old faces, after all they often come to Meng's house.At the beginning, out of politeness, these people would ask who he was, but after learning about his family background, they changed their appearance, and when they met again at Meng's house, they just glanced at him, forget it How can you take the initiative to talk to me like now?
Not to mention the fucking cigarettes.

In the past, although Lu An didn't feel inferior in the face of these people, he was more or less uncomfortable. After all, those who were able to enter the door of the Meng family at the beginning of the year were all direct relatives of the Meng family, and they all sought out under the protection of Meng Zhenhai. Get a job, either supply and marketing cooperatives, or post offices, or banks.

These units may not be enough for the Meng family, but once you go out, it is quite a decent job, and it also needs to be superior to others.

What's more, it is also to walk with the nose facing the sky.

Because she often suffers from the cold in Meng's house, and because she is often treated as a transparent person, Lu Yan, who has a strong temper, stopped coming to Meng's house after paying homage to Meng's house for two years.

Even though the five members of Meng's family treated her well, she still didn't want to come here again. She was so angry that those people ignored her and cried.

In the next ten years or so, Lu An was the one who walked around. This is why the Meng family treated him very well, but they treated Lu Yan relatively indifferently.

Although I know that Lu Yan is a little girl, I don't care about it, but people's hearts are full of flesh, there will always be relatives and estrangements, and they will always favor those who have close contacts with them.

Originally, according to his youthful nature, the cigarettes brought to him would not be a bird.

But the current Lu An is no longer the Lu An of the past. Due to the presence of so many people watching and Meng Wenjie around, he would stretch out his hand and not slap the smiling face. He also replied a Happy New Year.

The people in the room are different, not the same as before, don't talk to him, take the initiative to talk to him, wherever he looks, all he sees are smiling faces, no matter men or women, old or young, flowers are growing on his face, Laughing so blooming, it almost made him laugh so poorly.

All the slick men take the initiative to smoke for Lu Ann and get close,
There was also a middle-aged aunt staring straight at him, and finally said: "Lu Ann, are you in love?"

Lu An looked at the other side in a daze.

The middle-aged aunt's operation in the next second made him even more confused. He saw that she swiped to the right, pulled a young woman next to her, and introduced enthusiastically:
"My youngest daughter, Qiqi, just graduated from technical secondary school this year and works in the IRS."

A room full of people: "."

LuAnn: "."

Damn it, he recognized this Qiqi. In his previous life, before he read the book, the other party never said a word to him, but today, hey, she is still shy.

This is really a change in the morals of the world, and he has become confused.

There were many people in the main room, and Lu Ann exchanged pleasantries all the way, his mouth was almost stiff, and his papery smile was about to shatter.

Fortunately, Meng Wenjie stepped forward in time and dragged him upstairs.

When he came to the corner of the stairs, Lu An laughed at himself: "Help me see my face, isn't it more beautiful than before?"

Meng Wenjie laughed when he heard it, and told him: "It is rumored everywhere that you made a lot of money by painting, and now you are the most popular person in the town."

"That's right, no wonder people want to betroth their daughters to me." Lu Ann said.

Meng Wenjie reached out to pat him on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "If Qing Shui hears this, I, the eldest brother, will not be able to protect you."

Wuyang Wuyang downstairs was crowded with people, and there were many people upstairs.

But those who can drink tea and chat on the sofa on the second floor are basically Meng Wenjie's aunts and uncles, who are considered the closest group of the Meng family.

"Hey! Look who's here, come, let Auntie take a good look." Li Meng poured him a cup of tea with a smile, and then joked like this.

She has liked Lu An since she was a child, and I won't say much about the reason. In one word: she has a good face and suits her temper.

Li Meng used to tease him with "handsome man".

"Auntie, Happy New Year!"

Then he also joked: "Don't look at it like this, anyway, you won't be able to run away in the future."

Li Meng was overjoyed to hear that, she knew about his little daughter's affair and never objected.

She even told her husband Meng Zhenhai half-truths in private: "If Lu An is successful in the future, promise him clean water."

At this time, Meng Zhenhai would ask: "What does it mean to be promising? What is your standard for being successful?"

Li Meng said without hesitation: "Go to university."

In the concept of their generation, being admitted to a university is a promise.

After all, for college students these days, the distribution of graduation bags really makes people look up to them wherever they go, and they are popular wherever they go.

Hearing Madam's standard, Meng Zhenhai often remained silent.

Li Meng teased and asked: "Why, you don't like it? This is the son of your best friend, and you treat him like this?"

Meng Zhenhai shook his head: "It's not that you don't like it, it's that you are too one-sided and in a hurry. Whether it's Lu An or Qing Shui, at that age, you haven't seen a bigger stage. You may not be able to do it in the university in the future." will come across more suitable ones. And”

Li Meng asked: "And what?"

Meng Zhenhai said: "I have been observing these years, Qing Shui is more active, Lu An is more introverted."

Li Meng reacted: "You mean that Lu An might change his mind in the future?"

Meng Zhenhai didn't refute or admit it.

Li Meng patted the table, "He dares, if he has the guts, I won't allow him to enter Meng's house."

Whenever this happened, Meng Zhenhai would laugh and say, "Here, come, your quick temper is here again."

After saying a few heartfelt words to Li Meng, Lu An greeted the other people on the sofa one by one.

Looking around at the end, he didn't see Sister Qingchi, but he saw Meng Qingshui who was looking at him eagerly. The latter was playing cards and couldn't leave, otherwise he would have come here early in the morning.

Feeling those eyes full of strong emotions, Lu An secretly sighed, walked over and asked:

"Did you win today?"

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