Lu Jinnan put the photos picked up by Lu Xiao on the tea table, pointed to them and said, "You know about this?"
Ye Cheng and Lu Xiao stayed together almost every day. Secretary Zhang said that they had to accompany each other even to eat and go to the bathroom. Some people in the company teased them that they were better brothers than brothers.
Ye Cheng couldn't shake her head, and admitted, "I'm sorry, Grandpa."
Lu Jinnan sighed heavily, and looked at him disappointedly, "I thought you were a good boy who wouldn't lie, so let me say something like this."
Ye Cheng silently lowered her head and didn't answer.
"Tell me the truth, does Lu Xiao not like this girl, or does he already have someone he likes outside?"
Lu Jinnan observed his expression, as if he had noticed something.
Ye Cheng hesitated a little, at this moment, Lu Jinnan's cell phone rang.
He glanced at the screen, connected it to his ear and said, "Hey, Xiao Li, what's the matter?"
At the same time, he waved to Ye Cheng and signaled him to go out.
Ye Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and left the room.
I don't know what Meng Li said to Lu Jinnan, he went downstairs to say hello to Lu Yuelin and Ye Cheng, and then hurried out.
Lu Yuelin made an invitation gesture and said, "Xiaoye, there is no one else at home, let's have dinner together."
Except for banquets, family meals and activities are all in the old building at the back.
The old building is different from the previous ones, and is more inclined to ancient buildings.
There are pavilions, terraces and pavilions, eaves and walls, and the spring water in the garden is tinkling. The aunt led them through the corridor. There was a pond in the yard. From this section of the road, the light was much darker than that in the front yard.
Ye Cheng looked at the other side of the pond, and there was the ancestral hall.
Lu Yuelin didn't care about his eldest nephew at all, and politely asked Ye Cheng to sit down at the round dining table, waiting for the chef to serve the dishes one after another.
In her previous life, Ye Cheng had hardly been alone with him, and now she felt awkward everywhere.
Lu Yuelin, on the other hand, had a good taste, introduced the dishes enthusiastically, and asked him, "What did Xiaoxiao do wrong? Did she miss the account, or did she lose her temper and annoy the customer?"
Ye Cheng's face was light, and he said: "Uncle asked this, is he feeling sorry for his nephew? Or, I picked some dishes and put them in a bowl, and you sent them to him? He will definitely thank you."
Lu Yuelin was choked, and rubbed his nose embarrassingly: "It's not that I don't want to give him food, the old man won't let him, what can I do?"
According to the rules of the Lu family, it is not allowed to eat in the ancestral hall, which is disrespectful.
To put it bluntly, they punish you to kneel and starve you.
Lu Yuelin found out that it was impossible for Ye Cheng to reveal the news, so he picked up the crab legs of the king crab and gnawed them.
After a meal, Ye Cheng wiped her mouth and said, "Uncle Lu, I heard from Grandpa that Auntie is happy?"
"Huh? That's right, I've just been pregnant." Lu Yuelin put down her chopsticks and said cheerfully.
Ye Cheng said: "Congratulations, by the way, it's best for pregnant women to take some folic acid."
"What?" Lu Yuelin didn't know why.
Ye Cheng didn't say any more, got up and left.
In the afternoon, he finished processing all the documents in the study, and then wandered around the kitchen with his pockets in his pocket.
The chef with a beer belly chatted happily with him and gave him a few pieces of snowflake crisps.
Lu Jinnan came back during dinner, his face looked clouded.
No one at the dining table dared to make a sound, even Lu Yuelin, the idiot, restrained himself a lot and ate his food in silence.
Lu Jinnan returned to his room after eating halfway, leaving only Ye Cheng and Lu Yuelin staring. Ye Cheng couldn't eat anymore when he saw him, so he found an excuse and slipped back to the room.
Every time he came to the old house, he lived in the guest room facing the south.
The clock passed eleven o'clock, and the house was silent. Lu Jinnan's sleep quality is not good, so at night, no one walks around in the house.
Ye Cheng took out the snowflake crisps given by the chef, found the bagged milk that he didn't drink at noon from under the pillow, and went downstairs in the dark in a familiar way.
He first found the refrigerator, only to find that there were no leftovers in it.
So I opened the kitchen cabinet again, except for all kinds of unprocessed ingredients, not even instant noodles...
Fortunately, there was still some tremella porridge in the pot that my aunt hadn't finished drinking. He filled it with an empty mineral water bottle and walked carefully towards the ancestral hall.
Ye Cheng is very familiar with the old house, the only thing hindering him is that the surrounding is too dark.
In order to match the buildings in the backyard, even the chandeliers in the corridor are imitated ancient lanterns.
When the wind blows, the lamps and shadows shake, which is very creepy.
He wrapped the blanket around his body tightly and walked quickly to the ancestral hall.
Through the crack of the door, the smell of burning incense wafts from inside.
Ye Cheng endured the discomfort, and quietly called out at the door: "Lu Xiao, Lu Xiao?"
— no response at all.
This dog thing, probably fell asleep again.
He had no choice but to push the door and enter, silently saying "I don't want to disturb, I'm sorry, I'm sorry".
The thick wooden door made a creaking sound, which was particularly harsh in the silent night. The howling of wild cats came from the pond, and the water dripped down.
The light from the ancestral hall shone over, and Ye Cheng was terrified, and rushed in resolutely, shouting as he ran, "Lu Xiao!!"
Lu Xiao was dozing off while sitting on the futon, when she vaguely heard a familiar voice calling her.
He opened his eyes in a daze, and a figure ran into his arms.
"Ah, can't there be a light at the door!"
Lu Xiao: "..."
"Why did you come here?" He looked at Ye Cheng in surprise, "No, how did you find this place?"
Ye Cheng took a deep breath, tried to calm down her beating heart, and said speechlessly, "Can't we catch that wild cat at home and have it sterilized? It comes here several times a month."
Lu Xiao was a little confused.
Ye Cheng shook the bag in his hand and said, "You're hungry, I brought you something to eat."
He turned around and put his palms together and said, "Ancestors, you don't want your little great-grandson to starve."
"Pfft—" Lu Xiao couldn't hold back and laughed.
When they were punished to kneel together for the first time, Lu Xiao hid a roasted sweet potato in his pocket with experience, and took it out for Ye Cheng to eat at night. At that time, Ye Cheng was still very well-behaved, and said embarrassedly: "Didn't grandpa say that eating is not allowed in the ancestral hall?"
Lu Xiao peeled off the skin of the sweet potato, gave him the meat, gnawed the meat on the skin, and said vaguely: "He said that on purpose, just to make us hungry. My father and uncle ate them all, and the ancestors couldn't bear us. hungry."
"As expected of the daughter-in-law of our Lu family, she's really clever." Lu Xiao laughed, picked up the snowflake crisps and took a bite.
He was hungry all day, and his mouth was full of scum.
Ye Cheng looked at him, as if seeing Lu Xiao in his memory.
No matter how old you are, you are still as childish as ever.
He couldn't help wiping his mouth with his hand and said, "Sloppy."
Lu Xiao handed the half-bitten Snowflake Cake to his mouth, and said, "It's Master Qiao's handicraft. I have loved this since I was a child. You should try it too."
"I'm not hungry." Ye Cheng avoided his hand, but his stomach growled.
How could he eat at night, and now his stomach began to strike.
Lu Xiao laughed out loud, so frightened that Ye Cheng blushed and covered his mouth.
As a last resort, he ate a mouthful of Lu Xiao's hand. Unexpectedly, it tasted really good. Even he, who doesn't like sweets, thought it was delicious.
But sweets are sweets after all, and Ye Cheng gets tired of eating after a few bites.
But there is a kind of hunger that makes your husband think you are hungry.
When Lu Xiao heard his stomach growl, she insisted on sharing the rest of the white fungus porridge with him equally.
Ye Cheng was about to vomit from the boredom, and resisted saying that she didn't want to eat it.
In order to "coax the disobedient wife to have a good meal", Lu Xiao suggested that they guess the game, and whoever wins should have a sip of white fungus porridge.
"Why don't the losers drink?" Ye Cheng said, "I don't want to drink at all, okay?"
Lu Xiao followed the good advice: "Okay, then let's drink if you lose, come on."
He rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his right hand with great interest.
Ye Cheng: "...you are so boring, can you drink it by yourself?"
"No, dear, don't make trouble."
"..."
So the two rock-paper-scissors, whoever loses will take a sip of white fungus porridge, just like this, one sip after another, and finish the bottle.
Ye Cheng took a full stomach, felt his stomach and felt that he was about to vomit.
"I'm going back to sleep, good night." He dragged his body and stood up.
Lu Xiao tugged at the corner of his clothes: "Let's continue guessing games. If you win, I'll sleep with you in the ancestral hall. If you lose, I'll sleep with you in the ancestral hall."
Ye Cheng finally couldn't bear it anymore, and kicked their little great-grandson in front of the ancestors, "Get lost!"
Early the next morning, before the chickens in the cage crowed, the sound of "whooping and drinking" sounded outside.
Ye Cheng opened her eyes drowsily, knowing that it was Lu Jinnan who was jogging in the morning.
When he first lived in the old house, he didn't know about Lu Jinnan's habit.
Because there were guests at home that day, I had to get up early. He was tortured too much the night before, and after brushing his teeth with his eyes closed in the morning, Lu Xiao forced him to drink milk again.
Ye Cheng didn't like drinking milk in the first place, and her rebellious heart moved faintly. When Lu Xiao turned around, she angrily opened the window and poured the milk down.
The consequences can be imagined, as soon as Lu Jinnan walked out of the gate, he was splashed with milk all over his head.
In the cold and twelfth lunar month, Lu Jinnan was running around the yard wearing a Chinese tunic suit.
When he ran to the gate of the ancestral hall, he stopped to see his precious grandson.
Lu Jinnan pushed the door open and stepped in, only to see his grandson lying on the blanket, stretched out in a sleep, drooling, with cake crumbs on the corner of his mouth.
On the dark blue coat, a few pieces of white fungus porridge had solidified.
Lu Xiao turned over, rolled to Lu Jinnan's feet, tugged at his trousers and said, "I'm so sleepy, baby, sleep a little longer."
Lu Jinnan: "..."
Five minutes later, chickens and dogs jumped in the yard.
Lu Jinnan took a broken branch and ran after Lu Xiao all over the yard.
"You brat! I'll make you reflect, you're eating and drinking! You're still dreaming about that obscene dream!"
"Grandpa! I was wrong! If you have something to say, don't do it! I'll go, why are you running so fast..."
The aunt stood by the door with a broom to watch the excitement, and greeted Ye Cheng who had just come downstairs with a smile: "Student Xiaoye, wake up, the master is doing morning exercises, do you want to come together?"
Lu Yuelin rushed out from the room on the first floor, mouth full of toothpaste foam, and asked while putting on his clothes: "What's the matter, what's the matter, I heard the earth-shattering outside early in the morning."
"Ouch, old man, that's a peach tree that I've planted for almost ten years. Why don't you use a feather duster to beat it." Master Qiao in the kitchen squatted beside him with a big belly and said regretfully.
After some fuss, in the tea room.
Lu Xiao obediently lowered her hands and knelt in front of Lu Jinnan.
Ye Cheng stood aside awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
Lu Yuelin poked his head at the door, but was thrown out by Lu Jinnan with a teapot, "Go away!"
The tea room became quiet again.
Ye Cheng secretly touched Lu Xiao with his foot, signaling him to admit his mistake.
Lu Xiao looked stubborn and turned her head away angrily.
Seeing this scene, Lu Jinnan's eyes became deeper.