Chapter 164 I Can’t Say It

Watching the little guy raise his green eyes, curl his lips, and gossip so much, Chen Afu was helpless. This little thing is sometimes very naive, and sometimes very cunning. Today, I found that it has a slight delusion.

She glared at it and said, "What nonsense are you talking about. I have made it clear to you long ago that he and I are from two different worlds. We are one in heaven and one in hell. How can we be together? The gap between Liu Xudong and me in the previous life was not so big, and I was left behind so miserably. If I live again, I will not be stupid enough to fall in the same place and try to climb up the ladder again. Besides, he seems to have a woman he likes, and maybe he will get married soon. Alas, little Yan'er will have another stepmother, poor child."

As Chen Afu said this, he shook his head helplessly, broke off one-fifth of the wood chips, put the rest into the purse in the space, and left the space. When leaving the space, I heard Jin Yanzi saying stubbornly behind me, "No way, I'm an emotional psychologist, how could I have misjudged someone..."

Chen Afu went to the warehouse again, brought out two large pieces of frozen mutton, and asked Xue Dagui to plane the mutton. The slices of meat planeed in this way are not only much thinner than those cut with a knife, but also curled, which is beautiful and easy to pick up.

The chicken soup has been boiled thick, Chen Afu stir-fried the hot pot ingredients, and then added the chicken soup to continue boiling. Of course, when adding the chicken soup, the Yanchenxiang residue was also added.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and heavy snow was falling from the sky. The fragrance wafting out of the kitchen window made people stop and breathe hard.

Old man Zeng smelled the increasingly fresh and fragrant smell and said, "God, I've lived so long, and I've never smelled such a fragrant smell."

Chen Afu and others were busy in the kitchen. She saw the snowflakes getting bigger and bigger outside, and she was even more delighted. This is the best weather for hot pot.

There are not many dishes now. The only meat dishes are mutton rolls, shrimps, pork balls and fish balls. The vegetarian dishes are cabbage, bean sprouts, lotus root slices, mushrooms, vermicelli and bean curd. In order to eat hot pot at home and entertain guests, Chen Afu specially asked people to make four homemade charcoal stoves and four square tables with hollow centers with iron sheets.

The Chen family couldn't afford silver frost charcoal, so Aunt Luo asked people to go back to Tangyuan to get some.

A hot pot table was set up in the upper hall, and Chen Ming, A Lu, Da Bao and Luo Guanshi accompanied Chu Lingxuan to eat. There were two tables in the east room, one hot pot table, Wang accompanied Aunt Luo, Wei, Song Mama, Zeng Aunt and Mu Aunt to eat. There was another table that was not hot pot, but some braised dishes and braised dishes. This was for the children, and Chen Afu accompanied them to eat. A hot pot table was set up in the back room, for the male servants to eat, as a welcome to Zeng Laotou and others.

There were the fewest people in the hall, but the most dishes were prepared. There were six large plates of mutton rolls, four plates of fish balls, four plates of pork balls, and some vegetables, but it was still not enough. They asked someone to dig six more large plates of mutton rolls and wash two small bowls of vegetarian dishes. In the end, when all the meat and vegetables were gone, they put down their chopsticks.

Except for Dabao who ate his small belly to his heart's content, the other people at the table hardly touched the mutton rolls. Of the twelve plates of mutton, except for Dabao who ate half of it, the rest almost all went into Chu Lingxuan's stomach.

Chen Afu occasionally came out to check, and his heart was twitching, for fear that he would eat too much and suffer from gastroptosis.

Chu Lingxuan finished eating and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a silk handkerchief with great satisfaction. Chen Afu, who came out, smiled and said, "Master A is really thoughtful. The food he prepared is always irresistible. This hot pot is much more delicious than the one I had in the Hongyun Hot Pot Restaurant in Beijing. My grandfather will come here from Beijing to celebrate the New Year in a few days. My grandfather likes food the most. When the time comes, please ask Master Chen to make more hot pots like this for him to make him happy." Chen Afu nodded in agreement. He felt a little funny in his heart, and didn't know whether to make it for him or for the old Marquis Chu. Chu Lingxuan said to Steward Luo again, "This time I brought back ten fat sheep from outside the pass from Dingzhou. You can send two tomorrow... No, keep one at home and send the rest." Steward Luo bowed and agreed. Chu Lingxuan stood up to say goodbye. Mother Song took a small silk quilt to wrap Chu Hanyan. Chu Lingxuan took Chu Hanyan from Mother Song and held her in his arms. A group of people went out. Chen Afu asked Shanzi and Xue Dagui to send Dahu and his sister home. I don't know when the heavy snow stopped. There was a thin layer of white snow on the ground, and the sky was dotted with twinkling cold stars, which made the sky even colder and brighter.

After leaving Luyuan, the wind was even stronger. The cold wind swept across the empty fields, across the dead branches covered with ice and snow, and whistled past his ears.

Perhaps because his daughter was close to his chest, Chu Lingxuan felt unusually warm in his heart. For many years, even on summer nights, even if there were many people around him, he felt empty in his heart, extremely lonely and lonely. But at this moment, his heart was not only warm, but also strangely satisfied...

"Auntie, Dabao." Chu Hanyan called in his ear.

Chu Lingxuan stopped and looked back. There were two figures, one tall and one short, standing at the gate of Luyuan. Under the clear light, the two figures were looking towards them.

Seeing that they turned around, the short figure raised his arms and waved to them.

"Hehe..." Two clear smiles sounded in Chu Lingxuan's ears.

This is my daughter's laughter! My daughter can laugh out loud.

Chu Lingxuan was very excited when he heard his daughter's laughter for the first time. He looked at his daughter and saw her smiling at the two people in the distance. She whispered, "I like it, Auntie... Dabao."

Chu Lingxuan was happy and a little hurt, and asked, "My daughter doesn't like daddy?"

Chu Hanyan hugged his neck, retracted her gaze, and touched his cheek with hers, saying, "I like... daddy."

Chu Lingxuan laughed out loud and said, "My good daughter, daddy likes you too."

"I also like... auntie, Dabao." Chu Yan said softly, and urged again, "Daddy, say..."

Under the clear light, the little girl looked at him with sparkling eyes, full of expectations.

"Uh... um..." Chu Lingxuan looked back at the two figures again, and said to Chu Hanyan's ear, "My daughter, daddy is a man, some things are hard to say."

Although Chu Lingxuan did not say what the little girl wanted to hear, his hot breath blew into her ears, itchy and hot, making her feel very amused, and she giggled twice.

Chu Lingxuan saw that the little figure was still waving at them. He looked at it for a while before turning back and walking towards Tangyuan.

It was not until Chu Lingxuan and his daughter passed the dead trees and could no longer see their figures that Dabao put down his raised hand.

Chen Afu smiled and said, "We can't see them anymore, it's time to go back."

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