Gu Sheng cooked a large table of food and brought it out with Zhang Shuyang. Xie Wan looked at the delicious dishes and thought that Gu Laowu's cooking skills were quite good.
The brother and sister, Sweet and Sour Pork and Little Tangyuan, who were preparing to eat, were particularly well-behaved. They sat quietly at the table without making any noise or making any noise.
Zhang Shuyang asked curiously, "Are these two children so obedient?"
You used to dislike your dad, but now you are so well-behaved in front of Gu Sheng
Little Tangyuan held the bowl and said honestly, "We are very good."
Pot-Boiled Pork nodded: "I love mom and dad the most."
Xie Wan laughed: "Pingping, your two children change their expressions very quickly."
Gu Sheng pinched the two kids' faces and taught them a lesson: "You two only know how to bully my wife at home."
Little Tangyuan shook his head: "No."
"Neither have I."
Zhan Aiping kicked him and said, "Don't talk nonsense. How can a child ride on my head?"
Gu Sheng said: "Wife, you are just hard on the outside but soft on the inside."
Qin Lu tasted a few bites of the food and found that Gu Sheng's cooking was even better than her husband, Teacher Zhou's. Zhang Shuyang and Xie Wan beside her also tasted it and said, "Pingping, your husband's cooking skills are not simple. The food is better than that of other restaurants."
"I used to think that Mr. Zhou from Qin Lu's family cooked the best food, but now your husband is the man who cooks the best food I've ever seen! How long have you been practicing?"
Gu Sheng: "After my wife got pregnant, I was the only one who cooked. I couldn't bear to let her do it."
Xie Wan said, "You're not here?" Compared to ordinary men, soldiers spend less time at home.
Zhan Aiping: "What else can I do? I can just cook for myself."
Little Tangyuan said: "Mom's cooking is delicious too."
Zhan Aiping was moved and said, "Daughter, you finally said something fair."
Guo Bao Rou said: "But Dad's cooking is better."
The meals cooked by my mother are ordinary homely meals, the meals cooked by my father are rare luxuries, and as for the radishes and vegetables sent back from the cafeteria, they are the enemy’s artillery fire.
It would be really painful not to have luxuries and to have to endure enemy fire.
Qin Lu said, "It seems like you two have a pretty good relationship. Could it be that we are here and you two are just pretending?"
Qin Lu is well experienced in this matter. She and her husband, Mr. Zhou, were a well-known loving couple. Even though their feelings have faded and they are about to divorce, they still act as loving as usual in order to save face in front of outsiders.
Gu Sheng said: "Why don't you just ask the people in our compound? Can you pretend for three or four years?"
Xie Wan smiled and said, "The neighbor next door to your house said that Pingping is a virtuous and considerate daughter-in-law, and also said that you go home every day to discipline your daughter-in-law."
Gu Sheng: “…”
"I go home every day to discipline my wife?" Gu Sheng glanced at Zhan Aiping, "Wife, how dare I do that."
"Everyone in our family with the surname Gu listens to her."
The sweet and sour pork on the side sighed quietly, like a little adult.
Zhan Aiping: "Why are you sighing as a three-year-old child?"
The eldest son always acts like an old man.
Guo Bao Rou asked: "Will I become like my father in the future?"
Zhan Aiping laughed: "Don't think too much."
Little Tangyuan said happily: "Then I will become like my mother!"
Gu Sheng said: "Don't think too much."
Salty and sweet brother and sister: "..."
Xie Wan said with a smile: "Your two kids are very smart."
Zhou Ting was eating with her bowl and chopsticks. She saw that the sweet and sour pork brother and sister were not very happy. She should have praised her for her beautiful dancing, but other adults were talking about the little brother and sister.
That younger sister can dance too, and she dances even better than her.
Zhou Ting couldn't accept that she couldn't be the center of attention.
Zhou Ting looked at Qin Lu and said, "Mom, I want to go home!"
Qin Lu forced a smile and said, "What?"
Qin Lu: "She is homesick. Can mom sing a song for you?"
After that, Qin Lu opened her voice and sang a cappella song "Jasmine Flower". Zhang Shuyang and others were very considerate and kept saying that she sang well, which made Qin Lu happy.
Like her daughter, she wanted to be the center of everyone's attention. Qin Lu couldn't help but look at Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng was looking at Zhan Aiping beside him.
"Zhan Aiping, why don't you sing a song too? Your daughter dances very beautifully. How about this, you sing and let your daughter dance to your singing." Qin Lu pretended not to know that Zhan Aiping's singing was out of tune and unpleasant, and suggested with a smile.
Zhan Aiping: "I won't sing anymore."
"Give me some face, it's rare for us old friends to get together, you're so pretty, you must be able to sing well."
Xie Wan tried to smooth things over: "How about I sing one?"
She knew that Zhan Aiping's singing was really awful.
Gu Sheng said: "I'll sing."
Gu Sheng didn't sing anything else but "Jasmine Flower", the song that Qin Lu had just sung. His voice was gentle and mellow, and his deep voice made people's bodies tremble slightly.
My daughter Tangyuan also danced happily.
Qin Lu's face didn't look good. Gu Sheng had just said that he wanted to sing the same song as her, and she was a little self-indulgent. But as soon as Gu Sheng opened his mouth, anyone with ears could hear that he sang better.
This made her feel very uncomfortable. The words of praise from Zhang Shuyang and others just now were like a loud slap in her face.
Xie Wan continued to smooth things over. She laughed twice: "Gu Laowu's fourth brother is a soloist in the art troupe and has a great voice. Pingping, your husband is no worse than his fourth brother."
Zhan Aiping said: "Yes, I think he should become an arts soldier."
Little Tangyuan said: "My dad sings lullabies so well."
"Really?" Everyone else was shocked. It turned out that it was the father who sang a lullaby to the child at home
Little Tangyuan said: "But he loves to sing for his mother."
"Pingping, I'm beginning to envy you now." Xie Wan looked at Zhan Aiping. She was really envious of her man because he was handsome, had a good family background, was good at both housework and singing.
Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng were arm in arm. She looked around and glanced at Qin Lu. She smiled provocatively, "There's no point in being envious. This is my man."
"Some people, take care of your eyes."
Qin Lu was actually flirting with Gu Sheng while she was singing. Did she really think he didn't notice? Zhan Aiping didn't expect that a married woman could be so shameless.
As soon as Zhan Aiping said this, Qin Lu's expression changed immediately, "We won't eat this meal, Tingting, go with mom."
Qin Lu was making a fuss about leaving and no one stopped her. But when Qin Lu walked outside, she regretted it and her face looked extremely ugly.
But she wanted to save face and couldn't go back, so Qin Lu gritted her teeth and took her daughter to stay in a guesthouse. She came here this time to find a new husband after the divorce. She couldn't use her cousin's husband's relationship because she had been showing off in front of her cousin how considerate her husband, Teacher Zhou, was in the past few years, which had annoyed her cousin behind her back.
Now if she continues to use her connections to find a husband who is a mid- to high-level military officer, she would be slapping herself in the face.
After Qin Lu left, Xie Wan asked, "She reacted so strongly, was she angry out of shame?"
Xie Wan saw through Qin Lu's thoughts. She was very surprised and said to Zhan Aiping: "I really didn't see it. She usually has a good relationship with her husband. I envy her..."
Xie Wanren was stunned. She felt that her own cognition was overturned.
Zhang Shuyang sat aside and laughed at her for being so stupid. In the Zhou family, it was always Teacher Zhou who was attentive to Qin Lu, but no matter how considerate this man was, he could not warm the heart of a person.
Qin Lu is ambitious and she just looks down on men like this.
"Her teacher Zhou is so nice to her. Other teachers envy her—" Xie Wan thought of the loving look of Qin Lu and his wife in front of her. She was completely overwhelmed.
Why did the world suddenly turn upside down
Zhang Shuyang said, "Mr. Zhou is good in everything except career. It's better for a man to be ambitious, otherwise women will dislike him."
Xie Wan: "…How come?"
Zhan Aiping said: "People probably always tend to ignore what they have."
Just like when she was a child, she disliked Ai Feihong for not being gentle to her and not having the care and companionship of an ordinary mother, but she did not let the wind and rain blow away like a shaky lotus leaf, but was like a cold iron umbrella that made her fearless of the wind and rain.
Xie Wan shook her head: "She will regret it."
"Everyone has their own aspirations." Zhan Aiping looked at Xie Wan and felt that her eyesight was not very good. Zhang Shuyang was her fiancé, but Zhan Aiping saw the shadow of Captain Luo in this man.
(End of this chapter)