Chapter 4231 Old friend?
Seeing his father and brother coming over, Baby Luo became excited.
"Everyone is here, let's eat!" She shouted happily.
So Wang Cuilian opened the lid of the pot and took out bowls of hot dishes, and Blacksmith Luo's hot pot also started to burn.
Today’s hot pot main dish is meatballs and meatloaf. This is made for the New Year. Because the portion is large, I have already started eating it during the twelfth lunar month.
Yang Ruoqing picked up the long serving chopsticks, put the washed cabbage and vermicelli on the plate beside her into the hot pot in an orderly manner, and scalded them together to eat.
"Mom, New Year's Eve is tomorrow, what will our family eat on New Year's Eve tomorrow?" Luo Baobao asked Yang Ruoqing while eating hot meatballs.
Yang Ruoqing was picking up food for Chen'er and smiled when she heard this.
“I’m eating meatballs right now, and I’m just wondering what I’m going to have for New Year’s Eve dinner tomorrow?”
“I won’t tell you now, I’ll keep it a secret for now, and I’ll give you a surprise then. ." she said.
Luo Baobao said: "Mom, can you reveal a little bit?"
Yang Ruoqing smiled and shook her head deliberately, looking mysterious.
Baby Luo curled his lips, unhappy.
Wang Cuilian on the side said quickly: "You must have meatballs and meatloaf. This is a hometown dish in our area. You can't miss it on New Year's Eve."
"You must have candied dates too. Yes, it’s sweet! Well, there are also glutinous rice balls and other things, so we can be reunited all year round..."
Blacksmith Luo also added: "Don't let the fish fall, there will be more every year."
Wang Cuilian nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes..."
Chen'er also said with a smile: " Grandpa, Grandma, it’s not even New Year’s Eve yet, and you’ve already said auspicious words?”
Tiejiang Luo and Wang Cuilian both laughed.
Baby Luo asked Chen'er: "Brother, what do you want to eat on New Year's Eve?"
Chen'er said: "I don't have anything special in mind. As long as it is home-cooked by my mother and grandmothers, I like to eat it."
He has been eating delicacies from the mountains and seas since he was a child, and it is not unusual at all.
Going home for the New Year is to enjoy reunion and family happiness.
On New Year’s Eve, the New Year’s Eve dinner is also to have a home-cooked family taste. As for the dishes, it is not the focus.
"Sister, is there anything special you want to eat?" Chen'er also asked.
Luo Baobao bit the end of his chopsticks and thought about it seriously, and said, "There's nothing special I want to eat. I have a good appetite and I'm not picky."
"It's just that every New Year's Eve, we have the same dishes. It’s a bit boring to eat it the same way.”
Chen'er smiled gently, "Every year the flowers are the same, but every year the people are different. In fact, these dishes that you feel tired of eating now will wait until you grow up. When you think back to your childhood, When you think about your hometown, these dishes that make you tired of eating now will become something that worries you."
Baobao Luo tilted his head and listened in a daze.
Although she is a smart child, based on her current age and experience, she simply cannot understand the profound meaning contained in Chen'er's words.
But everyone else at the table understood.
Yang Ruoqing looked at Chen'er lovingly and said: "I, Chen'er, have really grown up and become sensible, and I still have such feelings."
"However, no matter when , no matter where, there is Your parents' place is your home."
Wang Cuilian also said quickly: "Your mother is right, and we are here. Whenever we want to eat home food, we can come home and take a look! "
Chen'er nodded.
"Come on, son, let's eat some meat pie. Mom beat it with her own hands." Yang Ruoqing said.
Chen'er smiled slightly, took a bite of the meat pie, chewed it carefully, and felt warm in his heart.
"Mom, I want it too, I want it too!" Luo Baobao stretched out his bowl in front of Yang Ruoqing. Yang Ruoqing smiled and gave Baobao Luo a piece of meat pie.
Then he invited Blacksmith Luo and Wang Cuilian to eat.
The whole family enjoys the sumptuous dinner in full swing around the gushing hot pot. The north wind blows outside the house. On this winter night when water drops turn into ice, the family affection makes everyone feel like they are in spring.
After eating, he returned to the house and closed the door. Yang Ruoqing quickly grabbed Luo Fengtang: "How is it? What's going on over there with Chen'er? I paid attention to him when we were eating before, but I couldn't figure out anything from his face. Famous!"
Luo Fengtang said: "You made a mistake this time, there is really something wrong."
"What's the matter?" Yang Ruoqing asked.
Luo Fengtang said: "Chen'er's grandfather seems to be ill."
"Sick? What's the disease? Is it serious?" Yang Ruoqing asked repeatedly.
Luo Fengtang shook his head: "I didn't say anything clearly in the letter, I just said a few words, to the effect that I am sick and hope to see Chen'er."
"Meet one person? Or the last time? Otherwise I will be sick. Is it serious?" Yang Ruoqing was a little worried.
"Otherwise, why would we let Chen'er go back to meet him?" she said to herself.
Luo Fengtang said: "Chen'er said that his grandfather has never been well since he can remember."
"I usually look fine, but in fact I have a hidden disease. I have to take medicine almost every month for twelve months a year."
"He once asked his grandfather what the disease was and whether it would happen. Will it be life-threatening?"
"But his grandfather told Chen'er not to worry, saying that he would live until he saw Chen'er get married and have children."
"So this disease, let's face it. People are elusive,” he said.
Yang Ruoqing was also confused.
"What about Chen'er? When will he go back to see his grandfather?" she asked again.
Luo Fengtang said: "Chen'er hasn't said anything yet. He said he will come to discuss it with us in detail later."
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "Well, no matter how you say it, it will be fine. We have to go back and take a look. After all, Chen'er was raised by him, and he is probably Chen'er's biological grandfather..."
" Grandfather?" Luo Fengtang turned his head and looked at Yang Ruoqing in shock. .
“What do you mean?” he asked.
"Why can't I understand?" he asked again.
Although he and Yang Ruoqing had analyzed and speculated a lot about Chen'er's grandfather's identity many times before, the result was that he was either rich or noble.
But I never connected this grandfather with ‘that person’.
"Qing'er, please tell me clearly what's going on!" He said in a deep voice and asked again.
Yang Ruoqing looked at him with a complicated expression and said: "There are some things I have never dared to say to you. In fact, Chen'er's grandfather is probably your grandfather who has been missing for many years. If you don't see him alive, you won't see his body. My biological father!”
Luo Fengtang's figure suddenly swayed, and his expression became particularly ugly.
He bit out a few words from his lips: "Where's the evidence?"
Yang Ruoqing said: "Chen'er came back from the capital last time and brought us New Year's gifts, some of which The gift was prepared by his grandfather and asked him to hand it over to us."
“What I gave to my mother is a comb.”
“The comb is engraved with two lines of poetry, two lines of love poems. My mother said that it was the love poem between them. The oath when love reaches the depths..." "What oath?" Luo Fengtang asked.
Yang Ruoqing thought for a moment and read out softly: "May you be like the stars and I be like the moon, and the light will shine brightly every night..."
"Star? Moon? Ha..." Luo Fengtang sneered, his whole body stiff. He sat down, then raised his hands to cover his face and leaned over...
(End of this chapter)