There was a middle-aged handsome man next to him, and he had a little appreciation for the girl who just passed: "It's a coincidence, my son is also at Imperial University, and he is also the top student in the college entrance examination in our Imperial Capital."

Li Muwu was not convinced when he heard it: "Does your son know how to fish?"

Xi Changbo was stunned for a moment, and he looked back subconsciously, just in time to see his son coming from the street corner with his schoolbag on his back, and he quickly waved to him: "Junjie, come and catch a fish for Dad."

Xi Junjie came back with Zhen Zhen today, just because Ming Bei and Wang Xinwen were also on the bus, they didn't dare to sit together blatantly.

Xi Junjie came over and called out, "Dad!" and said hello to the person fishing next to him, "Hello, uncle."

"Oh, this is your son, so handsome." Among the words that Li Muwu lacks, this is the only word that praises a person's good looks, but looking at Xi Junjie's face again, Li Muwu felt that the word just now was not enough, he thought After thinking about it, he added: "I'm almost catching up with my daughter."

Xi Changbo smiled and patted Xi Junjie on the shoulder: "This is my son, majoring in French in the Spanish Department of Imperial College." He pointed to Li Muwu and Xi Junjie and said, "This is your Uncle Li, who lives in our country. Next door, his daughter is also at your Imperial University."

Xi Junjie's eyes lit up as soon as he heard it. This must be Li Mingzhen's father. He instantly burst into a bright smile and greeted him diligently: "Hello, Uncle Li, my name is Xi Junjie."

"Ah! Hmm!" Li Muwu looked at the delicate young man in front of him and didn't know how to answer. When he was in Beicha, he was called Second Uncle when he went out. It was the first time he heard such a solemn title as Uncle.

When Xi Changbo saw his son smiling at his father more enthusiastically than he was at himself, he was a little puzzled.

Xi Junjie was about to show his goodwill in front of Li Muwu, but who would have thought that his father would destroy him just after saying a word, his face instantly turned black like the bottom of a pot, looking at the familiar expression, Xi Changbo breathed a sigh of relief: "No Wrong, this is my son, and he has been virtuous since he was a child."

Li Muwu was approached by such a good-looking young man and felt uncomfortable. Seeing the Xi family's father and son looking at each other, he quickly breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what, Lao Xi, didn't you say that your son can also fish? Let him show his hands to us."

Thinking of how Zhen Zhen had shaken a group of people just now, Li Muwu couldn't stop his pride rising up.

Xi Junjie glanced at Li Muwu, took the fishing rod from Xi Changbo's hand, put on the fish food and got off the rod, Xi Junjie didn't know what to do, and could only stare at the water in a daze.

Xi Junjie has been a very self-disciplined person since he was a child. Whether he was abroad as a child or returned to the imperial capital in his teens, Xi Junjie strictly followed the plan no matter what he did. Pastimes like fishing were never on his schedule. Inside. Xi Junjie seriously thought about it, and it seems that only Li Mingzhen has made himself an exception over the years.

Thinking of the girl he liked, a smile appeared on the corner of Xi Junjie's mouth. Li Muwu's eyes flickered at his smile, and he looked into the water doubtfully: "Is this catching a fish?"

"DiDi..." Suddenly, a car with a photo of the army drove over from the side of the river. Seeing the familiar numbers on the license plate, Li Muwu didn't want to go to see Xi Junjie fishing again, and immediately picked up the fish. Rod: "My brother is here."

Li Muwen also saw Li Muwu and a few familiar faces next to him from the car. The car stopped, and Li Muwen got out of the car and greeted the people around him. The people living around here, except for Li Muwu's family, who are serious ordinary people, the rest are high-ranking officials who have retired. Don't look at the usual happy fishing together, watching and playing well, but there is a little behind everywhere. energy.

Li Muwen's ranks in the army are also very high now. Although these people have retired, they are not from the army, but after all, their connections are still there, and they know a little about Li Muwen. sentence.

The car had stopped at the gate of Lao Li's house, and Xue Wenhua got out of the car and waited for Li Muwen with a smile on his face, carrying a handbag. Li Muwen didn't know them very well either, so after saying hello, he asked Li Muwu to go home together. Seeing Li Muwu happily carrying the fishing rod, Li Muwen asked him with a smile, "I've caught a month's worth of fish, have you caught two?"

Li Muwen told Li Muwen with a gesture: "I didn't catch them very much. Zhen Zhen just caught two, a carp this big, and a catfish that long, and it was said to be stewed with eggplant at night."

Li Muwen remembered that he had eaten such a dish when he was in Beicha. It was exactly this month that he took seven or eight-year-old Li Muwu to a small ditch on the side of the mountain to catch a two-pound catfish. The vegetable garden happened to have a lot of eggplants. Mrs. Li stewed catfish and eggplant together in a pot. After so many years, although I can’t remember the taste, I still remember the feeling of eating that pot of vegetables. . Although my life is better now, I can't see many dishes I ate in my hometown before. All kinds of stews in small towns can't be on the table in a place like the imperial capital. Especially Xue Aihua is a person who loves face very much, and he pays more attention to it. These.

Suppressing the messy mood, Li Muwen's face brought a bit of aftertaste: "I haven't eaten it for many years, and I will try this dish again."

Walking to the gate, Li Muwu called out to his sister-in-law, and Xue Aihua nodded with a polite smile on his face: "Are the children back?"

"We've just arrived home, and I'll walk with you." Li Muwu said as he entered the door.

Now that the old lady has finally arrived at the imperial capital, Li Muwen has to come to the courtyard every week as long as he is not very busy with work, sometimes by himself, sometimes with Xue Aihua.

One of the two guards carried two roast ducks from Quanjudeding, and the other followed behind with a box of hairy crabs. Mrs. Li was listening to the radio in the yard. Seeing Li Muwen and a group of people came in through the Chuihuamen, she immediately smiled and waved: "Come here? I thought you would be here tomorrow. Wen Wen, hurry up to the kitchen and tell Zhen Zhen to cook two more dishes."

Li Muwen smiled and said, "Don't be too busy, I brought roast duck and crabs, let's fry two more vegetables."

There is a table and four chairs in the yard. The one that Mrs. Li sits on is specially customized by Li Muwen. She can lie on top of it and rock it back and forth. It is best to enjoy the coolness in the yard in summer.

Wang Xinwen led the guards to take the things to the kitchen. Zhen Zhen had just stewed the catfish in the pot. When she heard that the uncle brought roast duck and crab, she quickly washed her hands to pick it up. The roast duck has been sliced, neatly packed in the box, with a little heat, a box of sauce and a box of lotus leaf cake, even the shredded green onion and cucumber are neatly placed in the box.

Put the sliced ​​roast duck on the plate, below is the meat with the bright and crispy duck skin on top, and set up two plates of roast duck, Zhen Zhen washed her hands and went to unpack the box of crabs.

When she opened the foam box, there were a dozen or so hairy crabs with claws tied inside, Zhen Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up, she picked up one of them, and started with a heavy one, the weight alone knew that the crab must be very fat.

Fresh crabs do not need to add too many seasonings. They only need to be steamed and they are very delicious. Take the crabs to the bottom of the faucet and brush them, and put them in the steamer with their stomachs up. There is a big steamer in Lao Li's house, with two floors up and down, and eight on the first floor, just in time for a box of crabs to be placed. In the pot over there, the catfish is simmered until it is seven or eight minutes cooked. Zhen Zhen put the eggplant in it, and here, the onion and ginger are shredded to make the dipping sauce.

Wang Xinwen and Xie Yanan were both pregnant, Zhen Zhen would take over the kitchen as long as she was at home, and only let them help out. Nowadays, the vegetables in the garden are all fresh and fresh. Pick a pot of cucumbers and persimmons, and you can eat them directly with water. However, thinking that my aunt is here today, and she brought a big pot, it looks bad. Xie Yanan cut the foreign persimmons into pieces and put two spoons of white sugar on them; shredded cucumbers and cabbage leaves, and put some fried minced meat and blanched them. The vermicelli is placed on the head, drizzled with chili oil, and it is ready to be mixed when eating.

Zhen Zhen has quick hands and feet, and practiced cooking with Mr. Zhang every day during the summer vacation, and packed a large table of dishes in less than an hour. Now that the temperature at night was a bit cold, Mrs. Li simply instructed Mingxi and Mingbei to carry the big table to the front hall, and moved a lot of chairs over there.

A large pot of steamed crab was accompanied by a dish of ginger vinegar, and Zhen Zhen also scalded a pot of rice wine and warmed it in hot water. Mingxi, Mingbei, Xie Yanan, and Wang Xinwen helped bring the dishes to the table. Mrs. Li led her two sons and daughters-in-law to sit down first.

Li Muwen washed his hands and helped Mrs. Li peel a crab and handed it to her: "Mother, try it, is it fresh?"

The crab in Li Muwen's hand was full of crab roe, and he raised a granddaughter who could eat it. Mrs. Li's mouth also opened up. She didn't dip in vinegar, but first took a big bite of crab roe. When they were at their most plump, Mrs. Li took a bite and nodded, "It's delicious, fragrant!"

Li Muwen looked at my mother's delicious food, and said quickly, "I still have it at home, or my mother will go back and live with me for two days, and I will call you to move in. Mother has not lived in my house before."

Xue Aihua's expression did not change at all when he heard the words, and he nodded in agreement, "There is a nanny at home to cook and clean up the house, you can just go and enjoy yourself."

Mrs. Li took a sip of warm yellow wine and waved her hand with a smile: "Mother knows that you are filial, but Mu Wu and I are used to living, so we should not be used to this changing place."

Xue Aihua looked at Li Muwen's unavoidably lost expression, only smiled lightly and did not speak.

In fact, Xue Aihua is not a stingy person, but he is used to being clean all his life. When there are too many people in his family, he will panic. When Mrs. Li first came to the imperial capital, the courtyard had not been cleaned up, and she also lived in Li Muwen's house for a few days. In those few days, Mrs. Li felt very tormented, and she didn't know that Xue Aihua was not filial, but it was the first time her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law met in so many years, and they were very polite and distant from each other.

Fortunately, after only staying for a few days, Mrs. Li led the second child's family to move into the courtyard, which was a complete sigh of relief. Mrs. Li has lived with Li Muwu and Wang Sufen for a lifetime, and they are very opposite to each other in terms of temperament, personality and living habits. It is no exaggeration to say that in Mrs. Li's heart, Wang Sufen is basically equivalent to the existence of her own daughter.

Li Muwen said these words more than once. Seeing Mrs. Li's unwavering attitude, she could only smile helplessly.

Xue Aihua used to be a military doctor in the army. Although she is now retired, her years of practice have made her pay great attention to health care. She doesn't eat cold things like crabs. She doesn't move when she looks at the messy pot of stewed eggplant with catfish. The roast duck is greasy and the cold salad is too cold. Fortunately, Zhen Zhen cooked a pot of red dates, lotus seeds and red bean porridge. , Xue Aihua drank a bowl of porridge and ate some stir-fried vegetables, but finally she was not hungry.

Xie Yanan and Wang Xinwen were pregnant, and Zhen Zhen wouldn't let them eat crabs, but other dishes were fine. It was the first time that Wang Xinwen had eaten roast duck in the imperial capital for so long. Xie Yanan held a lotus leaf cake in her hand and gently taught Wang Xinwen how to put roast duck on the cake.

After Xie Yanan did not wrap the roast duck, Wang Xinwen took a bite. The crispy duck skin and the sweet noodle sauce with moderate sweetness tasted just right, and the shredded cucumber and scallion inside just solved the greasy roast duck, allowing Wang Xinwen to finish one. Can't wait to pack the second one later.

The two sisters were eating roast duck while talking and laughing in a low voice, looking at Xue Aihua with warm eyes. With hot tea in hand, Xue Aihua smiled reservedly with Wang Sufen: "Yanan and Xinwen seem to have a good relationship."

Wang Sufen raised her head, glanced at her two daughters-in-law, and immediately said with a smile on her face: "Not only the two of them, Osmanthus and Xiaoxi have always been very good. When they were in Beicha, a few children came back for the New Year and robbed them of any work. Just do it, no one pushes the three or the four, they are all honest people.”

"Sincere people..." Xue Aihua murmured over and over again, a little dazed. She had never paid attention to the virtue of honesty before, that is, when choosing a daughter-in-law, she always looked at the family education, rules and behavior. Although the two daughters-in-law met Xue Aihua's requirements, it was always the same whether it was a concubine or a mother-in-law. Too much over the rules, not enough affection for each other. Looking at Li Muwu's family, Xue Aihua always felt that his family lacked a bit of fireworks.

Li Muwen held the wine cup, and Mrs. Li and Li Muwu touched the wine cup, and then drank it in one gulp, then took a chopstick and ate the fish with relish: "It's still the same flavor!" I don't know whether Li Muwen drank too much or really remembered his childhood: "It's the smell of catfish stewed with eggplant made by my mother when I was a child."

Madam Li was holding crabs in her hands and looked at Li Muwen cheerfully: "Eat more if you like, this is what Zhen Zhen caught from the river in front of her after school."

Li Muwen was delighted when he heard it, and looked at Zhen Zhen with a very loving expression: "I didn't expect Zhen Zhen to have this skill. I knew you were good at hunting before, but I didn't expect you to be able to fish."

Zhen Zhen smiled at Li Muwen while hugging the roast duck: "Master, you also know about our family. When I was a child, I didn't have much to do, so I went up the mountain and down the river."

"Really." Li Muwen laughed: "If I hadn't heard from your mother, I wouldn't have guessed that you were so wild just by looking at you. By the way, how are you doing at Imperial College?"

Although Li Muwen came to eat every week, he also asked about his nephew and niece's studies at the beginning of school. Xue Aihua also raised his head and looked at Zhen Zhen with a little concern.

As for her husband's younger brothers, the only thing Xue Aihua could look at was the Li Muwu family, because the five sons and daughters of the Li Muwu family were all promising, uniform college students.

Picking up the wet towel on the table and wiping her hands and mouth, Zhen Zhen smiled very happily: "Very good, after the school started, I applied for multiple majors at the same time, majoring in journalism, minoring in French and economics. ."

When Zhen Zhen took two more majors, she went home and mentioned it, but Mrs. Li and the others didn't understand it, so they didn't take it seriously if they told them not to be tired. A professional can't take into account the time when it sounds bad. Now that she has won the special scholarship, Zhen Zhen is no longer hiding.

Sure enough, when they heard that Zhen Zhen took three majors, both Li Muwen and Xue Aihua frowned: "Although all three majors are very good, how can you balance them? Don't be greedy."

"The three majors have common courses in common, mainly economics and French. Part of the courses will be self-taught. If you can't, you will ask the professor twice a week. Fortunately, you haven't missed too much." Zhen Zhen said with a smile, but she With a little pride on her face, Mrs. Li saw it through at a glance: "How was the final exam last semester? Did you come back first for the milk test?"

Zhen Zhen replied immediately: "Journalism is the first, French is second, and economics is fourth. Because my grades in all three majors are good, the school gave me a special scholarship."

"Super class?" Madam Li opened her eyes wide and asked excitedly, "Is it better than first class?"

"Yes!" Zhen Zhen stretched out three fingers: "There are only three people in the whole school."

"Oh my god, she is indeed my granddaughter!" Mrs. Li immediately raised her glass: "Let's do one for our female champion."

Li Muwu was the first to cooperate with Mrs. Li and raised the wine glass: "Tomorrow I will have something to say when I go out fishing. Today I said that Zhen Zhen was the first place in the college entrance examination in our black province, but the old Xi next door was not convinced and said that his son The first place in the imperial college entrance examination, this time my daughter has won a special scholarship, she should be able to crush his son."

"Next door... Lao Xi..." Zhen Zhen looked at the direction of Xi Junjie's house subconsciously with a black line on her face.

Li Muwu slapped his thigh: "It's his family. I saw his boy today. He looks very good-looking and warm. He pulled me and called him Uncle Li, which made me stunned." Seeing Zhen Zhen's strange expression, Li Muwu picked up a cucumber and took a bite: "Hey, no, you both learn French, so do you know his kid? Did he get a scholarship?"

"I know!" Zhen Zhen replied with a smirk: "He is a first-class scholarship, but he won the first place in the French major."

Li Muwu was a little worried after hearing this: "Then what am I going to do tomorrow?"