However, Mrs. Xu turned around and couldn't see her son. She hurriedly and suspiciously found the door, shouted twice, and saw him walking out of the verandah as if he was coming.

"I just went to take a quick break."

Facing his mother's inquiring gaze, Laishun made a perfunctory remark and then deliberately changed the subject: "Mom, have you heard anything?"

Mrs. Xu did not doubt that he was there, so she lowered her voice and said: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the young master is making trouble to collect Xiangling - the maid with the rouge mark between her eyebrows."

"turn out to be……"

Just at this moment, a servant girl came out and said it was my wife who invited me.

Both mother and son stopped talking and followed the maid into the living room.

Unexpectedly, after entering the door, she saw Aunt Xue standing in the middle of the living room waiting. Mrs. Xu was flattered and hurriedly took a few steps forward and bowed deeply, saying: "It's your fault, it's your fault, how dare you bother my wife to welcome me?!"

"I was the first to lose my courtesy. I bothered you to wait outside for a long time. It's time to greet you."

Aunt Xue smiled warmly, stepped forward and mixed Xu, then held her arm and smiled: "It's funny to say that the Xue family also has some industries in Jingmen Mansion, and the harvest is getting smaller and smaller every year.

Sending such old seafood here..."

Mrs. Xu hurriedly said: "Speaking of which, I feel ashamed. We should be filial to you, but instead you worry about us."

"No matter what you say, you will get angry!"

Aunt Xue pretended to be angry and straightened her face, then smiled kindly and said: "The things are not worth much, but I specially invited the chef from Qinghong Tower to fix them since dawn. I don't know what tricks they have."

Taking advantage of the old days of greetings between master and servant, Lai Shun seemed to be bowing and standing behind him in a polite manner, but in fact he had already taken a look at him furtively.

Aunt Xue is wearing a long dress of white silk lined with black silk moiré today. Even the brocade is lavender. Her whole body is pure and graceful, which perfectly matches her status as a widower.

If this were applied to Xiang Ling or Ying'er just now, there would probably be no ups and downs.

However, she managed to squeeze out a gourd-like outline from the looseness.

Not much to say.

But at a glance, one can understand why she became a widow at such a young age!

Talk less.

As the saying goes, a wife is worth more than her husband, not to mention that the Lai family has now jumped to a new level as a whole?

Mrs. Xu originally wanted to sit on the chair on the left, but Aunt Xue pulled her to the Arhat bed and sat opposite her across a small kang table.

When her master and servant gathered together, it was inevitable that they would talk about trivial matters from the past.

Lai Shun stood by and became a transparent person. Only when it came to showing off the baby, he would be called upon to answer some non-nutritious questions.

Fortunately, it was said to be a luncheon, but in fact it was just after ten o'clock in the morning, and the table setting had already begun.

A total of two screens were placed in the hall, and a large screen was unfolded in the middle to separate Aunt Xue, Mrs. Xu and Laishun, so that they could only hear each other's voices but not see them.

In this way, it is already an expression of extreme intimacy.

An ordinary foreigner would never want to have dinner with Aunt Xue in the same room. Because of Lai's family background, Laishun had received life-saving grace from Aunt Xue, so he was able to make an exception.

Because there were two sets of bowls and chopsticks placed on Laishun's table, he originally thought that Xue Pan would come to accompany him, but he didn't expect that he was nowhere to be seen after waiting around.

I saw two swimming crabs as big as the lid of the pot on the table, and other shrimps, ginseng, squid, abalone and other items were also of a size rarely seen in later generations.

He was so greedy that he couldn't help but pick up the ivory chopsticks and grasp the crab claws with some effort, thinking that he would have to use the strength of sucking to twist them off.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they struggled, the crab claws fell off, and the seemingly complete claws also cracked from the middle, revealing the empty interior.

Laishun was stunned for a moment, then he realized that the crab had been taken care of a long time ago, so he used his chopsticks to poke at the swimming crab a few times, and sure enough, he turned up a large piece of crab shell from the middle of the bowl.

You can see that the crab paste inside is overflowing and firm, with some beautiful lines vaguely piled up, and the mist exudes a fresh fragrance.

Looking at the huge portion, you can tell that it must be the crab paste and crab meat from several crabs, all concentrated in one place.

Lai Shun was about to grab some to taste when a woman's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Lai Shun, you might as well open the other crab first and see if it's better to eat it separately or eat it together."

When I looked back, I saw four cooks wearing aprons approaching me at some point.

Two of them were holding trays filled with various tools, probably all used for peeling shells.

However, the seafood that Qinghonglou's chef had cooked did not actually require them to process it any more, so they did not come forward to serve it, but just reminded them loudly.

Coming to obey Shan Ruliu, I immediately picked up another big crab, only to find that there was no trace of crab paste or crab meat inside, but there was a belly full of rice with a slight green sheen.

"This is the new green rice. Because it comes from the greenhouse, it is more than two months earlier than the early rice. This bowl alone is equivalent to hundreds of kilograms of ordinary rice."

Tsk~

How can this be eating crabs?

He is clearly swallowing gold!

There are only two tables outside here, plus the fee from the chef of Qinghonglou, it will cost dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver!

Unfortunately, I was the only one at this table, and there were only two women in it. I was afraid that most of them would be wasted.

At first, I didn't think anything of it, but suddenly I remembered that I must conquer Chai Dai in the future, and I felt that the table full of white money had a deep relationship with me.

In order to waste less, he simply picked up the ones that looked valuable at first glance, lifted up his back molars with his cheeks, and started chewing.

…………

At the same time, in the adjacent ear room.

"Brother still refuses to come forward to accompany me?"

After hearing Ying'er's report, Xue Baochai frowned slightly and looked helpless. Sometimes she really wished she could turn into a man, so as not to have to place her hope in her brother and be disappointed every time.

"He's just a little steward."

When Ying'er saw this, she said angrily: "It's already a great grace for my wife to enjoy the meal, so why do I need to force the young master to accompany me?"

Ever since she discovered that Xiang Ling seemed to be having an affair with Lai Shun, her opinion of Lai Shun had plummeted.

Because Ying'er saw Lai Shunsheng's evil-faced face, it was inevitable that she would judge people by their appearance.

I heard that Lai Shun was quite scheming, but Pian Xiangling was the most innocent and ignorant, so I guessed that she must have been deceived by Lai Shun!

Although Xue Baochai noticed that she was a little emotional, he only regarded it as redressing the injustice for his brother.

So he explained: "You don't know. After a few days, I will take charge of the tire shop in Beijing. My mother and I have discussed that my brother should also go and experience it, so today I want to lay the groundwork first."

bedding……"

"This, I'm afraid this is inappropriate?!"

Before Xue Baochai could finish speaking, Ying'er had already exclaimed in surprise.

When she thought about it, Lai Shun and Xiang Ling had an affair, and Xue Pan begged Xiang Ling but couldn't get it. When these two collided, wouldn't it be impossible to deal with the thunder and fire?!

"What's wrong?"

Xue Baochai was suspicious this time and looked at Ying'er in confusion, waiting for her to give an explanation.

"this……"

Ying'er hesitated for a moment, and then said stumblingly: "We have so many shops, why do we have to go to the tire shop? Firstly, the young master can't make the decision, and secondly, if something happens...

…”

"It's precisely because the Duke's office and my uncle are both shareholders, that I'm not afraid of my brother's mischief."

Xue Baochai interrupted her chattering and asked curiously: "What's wrong with you today? You're so secretive and hesitant. We are just like sisters on weekdays. Is there anything else you can hide from me?"

"This...I..."

Ying'er was also in a dilemma.

Worried that Xiang Ling had been deceived, she also hoped to save Xiang Ling with the help of Baochai, but she was also afraid that Xiang Ling had already lost her virginity to Na Laishun.

I'm afraid that not only will she not be able to be saved, but a huge uproar will occur!

After being in a dilemma for a long time, Ying'er suddenly knelt down in front of Baochai and begged: "Miss, please stop asking, please let me understand the matter thoroughly, and then report to you!"

Baochai vaguely noticed something, and the look on his face changed several times, and finally he sighed: "Well, there are a lot of messes in this house, and it's not like you."
Chapter completed!