Xu Mu's words were dismissed because of Lu Feng's choking cough. He glanced at the person on the chair with some regret, and stuffed the candied fruit into his mouth.
When Lu Feng was seen by Xu Mu, his heart froze. He didn't dare to eat the candied fruit that he handed over, so he pursed his lips and shook his head.
If her father knew that he had promised the young master to marry him because of his appetite, his legs would have to be interrupted by her.
Unless the Lu family is forty years old and has no descendants, they are not allowed to have servants. Generally, when the daughters grow up to fourteen or five years old, the family will arrange a servant in the house, and the bastards start to play with men at the age of twelve or three...
But these are not allowed in the Lu family. Lu Feng didn't dare to use his two legs to compete with her mother's hand. Although she didn't look good, she knew a few things very well.
Xu Mu really didn't mind that Lu Feng didn't agree, took the candied fruit to tease her, and smiled as she leaned back on the chair to dodge.
Li shi came out of the back kitchen and saw this scene. His son, who has always been introverted and not close to strangers, is holding candied fruit to feed the Lu family's daughter... His brows suddenly frowned, and his eyes were somewhat disapproving.
After Zhang's illness was cured, he returned to "Sweet Baiwei", and Li went to the back kitchen and rarely showed up. Ji Ruan is a woman after all, so she can't go to the kitchen with other men, she can only stay outside to help.
Because Zhang Shi cares about his son, he often asks Ji Ruan a few words without a trace. Ji Ruan liked Mrs. Li, and did not dare to neglect Mrs. Zhang. Even if he was talking nonsense, he would always answer any questions. She answered the question with her mouth and her hands were busy, but she always glanced at the cotton curtain in the back kitchen.
When he saw Mr. Li came out with the cakes, he immediately went up to him, hurriedly reached out to take the tray in his hand, and said, "I'll come, I'll come."
When his fingertips accidentally touched Li's hand holding the tray and hadn't taken it back, Ji Ruan felt a sense of sex in his heart, and hurriedly looked at Li, for fear that he would offend him.
Li Shi's expression was light, his face was calm, and he retracted his hand as if he didn't feel it, without even looking at Ji Ruan.
Ji Ruan felt a little disappointed, and reached out to take the tray. Seeing that Mr. Li was still standing there and did not go back, he noticed that he was looking elsewhere.
Ji Ruan followed his gaze and saw that Lu Feng and Xu Mu were playing with each other, his eyes softened and he looked at Mrs. Li, "Candied Fruit and Xiao Feng are having a good time, children should be It's good to have a playmate."
"The candied fruit is also nine years old." Mrs. Li frowned. In two years, he will not be considered a child. It may not be a good thing to be so close to Lu Feng...
It's just that these words can't be told to Lu Feng's aunt Ji Ruan.
Li looked up and glanced at Ji Ruan, who was looking at him intently, and an inexplicable emotion slipped through his heart. He calmed down, let out a breath in his chest, and said slowly, "I have something to tell you, come and cook later."
Hearing Li's proposal to talk to him alone, Ji Ruan's happy mood just cooled down a little. Looking at Li Shi's calm face, Ji Ruan clenched her hand holding the tray a little bit, lowered her eyes, and said, "Okay" after a while.
Rather than drag it on like this without hope, it is indeed better to talk about it.
Handing the tray to Mrs Zhang, Ji Ruan followed Mrs Li to the back kitchen.
Mr. Zhang looked at the two people who entered the back kitchen one after another, and sighed helplessly. His gaze stayed on the thick cotton curtain that blocked the situation inside for a while, and then placed it on the cake in his hand.
Children and grandchildren have their own plans for children and grandchildren.
What Li Shi said to Ji Ruan in the back kitchen, I am afraid no one knows except the parties involved.
Zhang Shi only knew that when the cotton curtain was lifted, only Ji Ruan came out from inside, his eyes met his, and he smiled bitterly, but didn't say anything.
Seeing Ji Ruan's expression, Mrs. Zhang still didn't understand anything. She reached out and patted the back of her hand comfortingly. She turned around and wanted to wrap some cakes for her, so she could go back to rest early this morning.
Ji Ruan shook his head, "I'm busy with business, I'll just close the door and leave as usual." Then he came over to help with the work.
Today is the same as usual, but tomorrow may not come.
Mrs. Zhang sighed in her heart. Ji Ruan didn’t say that she looked good, but her status was not low. Now she has lowered her worth to help in the shop. .
"I was poor when I was a child, and I couldn't even afford to eat." Ji Ruan set out the cakes with clips and chatted with Mrs. Zhang, "I am the only one living with my brother who is only five years older than me. , so he was not born with wealth and honor." Naturally, he was not as good-faced as those wealthy children.
Only if the two are happy can they last for a long time, Li Shi is unwilling, and she will naturally not force the other party because she is rejected and loses face.
She went to the frontier with Lu Jun, and from an ordinary soldier to the current position of general, she naturally had pride that she couldn't let go of. He won't beg for pity because he can't get a man, and he won't lose his original quality of self-cultivation.
It's just a lie in my heart to say that I'm not sad. She saw Li Shi at a glance, and the throbbing that came from the bottom of her heart was something she had never experienced in her more than 20 years of life, so how could she not feel uncomfortable.
On the way back, Ji Ruan didn't speak, Lu Feng looked at her for a while, and didn't say anything nonsense to her. If the person beside her was the same age as her, Lu Feng might have a bad idea with her, but after all, this person is her aunt who is ten years older than her, so it's not good for him to say some words.
Ji Ruan didn't go to "Sweet Baiwei" for several days in a row. People in Lu Mansion either stayed in the study and read books, or they learned martial arts with Lu Jun. Because she didn't go out, Lu Feng couldn't go out and wander around, and could only be soft-hearted by his own mother's training.
Xu Mu didn't know what happened at first, but seeing that his father was often distracted, he guessed something.
In the back kitchen, the steamer on the pot was still smoking, and the fire on the stove was so weak that it was about to go out. Xu Mu put down the cotton curtain he opened and walked over, squatting aside to add firewood to the bottom of the pot.
Suddenly, there are more people around to bring Li Shi back to his senses. Seeing that he is burning a fire, he can be distracted. For a while, his face can't be hung with embarrassment.
"Dad," Xu Mu squatted on the ground and put his hands on Mrs. Li's warm knees, almost lying in his arms. He raised his head and asked him, "Why hasn't Aunt Ji been here for the past two days?"
Li's eyes flickered, and she twitched the corners of her mouth and said, "She is not hired by us to work. If something happens, she will not come. Besides, we have nothing to do with her, how can we always trouble others to help."
Saying that, Mrs. Li reached out and touched Xu Mu's eyebrows, and said with a smile, "You didn't want to ask Aunt Ji why she didn't come, you clearly wanted to ask the daughter of the Lu family why she didn't come?"
Xu Mu rolled his eyes and introduced his wife and owner to Mrs. Li in a cheerful tone, "Dad, her name is Lu Feng. Maple Leaf's Feng."
Li shi reached out and touched Xu Mu's warm face, which was reflected by the firelight, and frowned slightly, "Candied fruit, the Lu family's door is too high, and we can't climb it. You are still young, but there is one thing Dad wants you to remember. , I would rather be a poor man’s husband than a rich man’s servant.”
Li Shi seemed to remember something, his eyes dimmed for a moment, and then the expression in his eyes disappeared, and his voice was as gentle and firm as before, "Daddy will find a good family for our candied fruit in the future, so that candied fruit will not be wronged."
Xu Mu blinked, as if he didn't understand what Mr. Li was saying, but he actually understood the problem between him and Ji Ruan through Mr. Li's few words.
There must be a reason why his father said these things to himself inexplicably. The biggest reason may be that his father encountered these problems.
Xu Mu lowered his head and bit his fingers, thinking that his father didn't care about Ji Ruan, but that they were too different from the Lu family.
Xu Mu recalled his previous life, Ji Ruan was Lu Feng's aunt, but when he married Lu Feng, the other party had been living in the frontier all the year round and seldom returned to Beijing, so he only met her once during the Chinese New Year.
In the impression, the other party is very good, and there is no contempt or dissatisfaction for his nephew-in-law who has a low profile and shows up to open a shop, but at that time she was also nearly thirty years old, but she was still alone and did not have a family.
The father of the Lu family used to nag about this in his ear. He couldn't remember the specific words, but the general meaning seemed to be that Ji Ruan didn't want to get married, and he also said that he didn't meet anyone who wanted to get married...
Xu Mu was most impressed by this sentence, because he rarely met people who were unwilling to start a family because they couldn't find someone they liked. At that time, the Lu family's father also said that there were feelings everywhere, and when Ji Ruan returned to Beijing, he even asked for it. She said dear, but in the end this matter ended without a problem because Ji Ruannian returned to the frontier.
Ji Ruan seems to have been transferred back to Beijing in this life. According to Lu Feng's words, Ji Ruan will serve in Beijing in the future.
Now that there is no war on the frontier, it is normal for Ji Ruan to return to Beijing. Moreover, at this time in my previous life, I was still in Lingnan with my father, so I naturally didn't know that Ji Ruan had served in Beijing.
Xu Mu thought, Ji Ruan should not be the kind of family that pays attention to the door, so did Dad misunderstand something? When Lu Feng wanted to marry him, the Lu family's father did not object. After all, with the Lu family at that time, it was possible to marry a prince group leader. Therefore, the Lu family and Ji Ruan should not be the kind of people who take a fancy to their family background.
"Father," Xu Mu thought about his words. Trying to use a tone that is only at this age, tilting his head and asking Li Shi, "You don't like Aunt Ji, is it because she wants you to be a servant?"
If this is the reason, Xu Mu thought, then he really saw Ji Ruan wrong.
Seeing Li Shi's eyes flashing, Xu Mu didn't seem to want to talk to him about this topic, so he could not help but put his arms around his waist, rubbed against his arms, and acted coquettishly with his father in a soft voice, "What do you say? , no matter what, you still have candied fruit."
Hearing this, Mrs. Li's frown loosened, the center of her brows stretched out, hugging Xu Mu in her arms, and said with a smile, "It's really Daddy's baby."
The author has something to say: Little Theater
Crazy all the way: You are Daddy's baby, what's mine
Sweet confection: I am your sweet confection
Crazy all the way: how to prove that you are sweet
Sweet Dessert: ... (bewildered)
Crazy all the way: (pulls off his clothes, serious) I'll give it a try
Sweet Dessert: (slapped open with a slap)... If you want to eat soft tofu, just say it, why bother
Crazy all the way: _(:зゝ∠)_