We were pressed for time, so we found a small stir-fry restaurant that served food quickly.
Pei Shuo took the menu and ordered. Before ordering, he asked Jiang Minghao, "Brother, do you have any taboos?"
They often eat together, and they all know what each other doesn't eat.
Jiang Minghao was drinking water. He put down the water glass and said, "No."
Pei Shuo handed the menu to Jiang Suichu again, "You can order whatever you want to eat, Suisui."
Jiang Suichu shook his head and said, "Just do whatever you want, I won't choose."
She has little appetite.
After saying this, she clearly felt a direct gaze coming from the other side.
It was Lu Zhinian, with a faint smile on his lips.
She was stunned for a moment, then realized what his expression meant, so she just pretended not to see and picked up the water glass to drink.
When she was a child, she was as picky as Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian curled his lips when he saw her dodging.
"Okay, I'll take my order then." Pei Shuo quickly ticked a few dishes and a soup on the menu, and then said to the waiter: "Don't put the coriander."
Lu Zhinian doesn't eat coriander.
Waiter: "Okay."
Just as the waiter was about to leave, he was stopped again.
Lu Zhinian: "Please don't let Jiang go."
Waiter: "Aren't you going to let it go?"
Lu Zhinian: "Yeah, I won't let you go."
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment and looked at him.
Just then, he also raised his eyes and looked over, "Why, do you like ginger now?"
"..." She just didn't expect that he would actually remember that she didn't like ginger.
"That's right." Pei Shuo looked at Jiang Suichu, "I almost forgot, Suisui doesn't eat ginger."
Tang Mi: "Sui Sui, don't you eat ginger?"
Jiang Minghao also glanced at her. She never said that she didn't eat ginger. But after thinking about it, I realized that it would be good for her to have a stutter in her situation. Who cares what she likes to eat or not.
Jiang Suichu said a little embarrassedly: "It's not that I don't want to eat it, I just don't like the taste of ginger."
When she was a child, she wouldn't eat anything. If there was ginger in a stir-fry dish, she could smell it. No matter how delicious the dish was, she wouldn't touch it.
But later on, no one would take care of her preferences, whether at her grandma's house or her uncle's house. Like it or not, she had to eat or starve.
Over the years, I have gradually become accustomed to the taste of ginger, but I still don’t like it very much.
It turns out that there are still people who remember her preferences. She held the water glass in her hand, feeling sour in her heart.
Speaking of this, Pei Shuo thought of what happened when he was a child, pointed at Jiang Suchu and Lu Zhinian, and said to them: "When I was a child, I was very picky about food. I wouldn't eat this or that. At that time, Aunt Yuan had to cook twice a day to cook. I still remember that in Dayuan Kindergarten, these two people didn’t like to eat and didn’t dare to throw it away for fear of being discovered by the teacher. They put it all into my bowl. I don’t know how much they ate for them.”
"You must bear at least half of the responsibility for me getting so fat when I was a child."
Pei Shuo spoke exaggeratedly, livening up the atmosphere. Trying to break the strangeness of so many years through what happened when I was a child.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "Why do I remember that you were as fat as a gas tank when you first moved to the compound?"
"Really?" As he spoke, he raised his chin at Jiang Suchu.
When Jiang Suichu talked about things that happened when he was a child, he relaxed and smiled unconsciously as he watched the two bickering. Lu Zhinian suddenly looked over and asked her. She was stunned for a moment and nodded seriously.
"Yes!"
Pei Shuo was really fat when he was a child, and his eyes were squeezed into slits by the flesh.
So Jiang Suchu couldn't believe it when he first saw Pei Shuo.
Pei Shuo: "..."
Pei Shuo looked embarrassed and pretended to be hurt: "Sui Sui, you are not kind."
Jiang Suchu was a little confused. He looked at him and blinked: "What's wrong with me?"
Pei Shuo: "Ever since I was a child, I would only stand by A Nian's side and bully me with him."
Jiang Suchu: "……."
Does she have it?
She looked at Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian was picking up a glass of water and drinking water. When he saw her looking over, his eyebrows raised slightly.
That expression seems... very useful?
Everyone was amused.
The atmosphere at the table became lively, and everyone chatted while eating when the food was served.
Tang Zi glanced at Jiang Minghao and asked, "Are you two cousins?"
"Cousins?" Jiang Minghao frowned slightly, glanced at him, and said coldly: "No."
Tang Mi: "Hey~, didn't Sui Sui say that you two are brother and sister?"
"Really?" Jiang Minghao slowly looked towards Jiang Jiang Suichu.
Several other people were a little confused when they heard this. They slowed down and looked at Jiang Suchu.
Jiang Suichu was staring at the freshly cooked boiled shrimps, hesitating whether to pick one, but he didn't want to eat them when he thought of peeling them.
Lu Zhinian sat opposite her, taking in all her little movements. Seeing her tangled expression of wanting to eat but not wanting to dirty her hands, she curled up her lips helplessly, reached out and picked up a few shrimps into her bowl.
"Um...we are actually neighbors." She gave up the boiled shrimps and poured half a bowl of soup while drinking and explained: "Most of the people in the village have the same surname, so we are from the same clan. In addition, we are all from the same generation, so we are calculated according to seniority. They are also brothers and sisters.”
Almost all names in the village are based on seniority. For example, Jiang Minghao and Jiang Mingjie were both given the name Ming. Jiang Suchu was born in Yun City. Her parents felt that the word Ming was not suitable for a girl. In addition, Aunt Shu Yuan had already chosen the name before she was born, so there was no word Ming.
Jiang Minghao is two years older than her, so he is called brother according to his seniority.
Tang Mi understood: "Does that mean you two are not related by blood? Not even relatives?"
Jiang Suichu nodded. Strictly speaking, this is the case. Even if their ancestors were from the same family, they would have already released five servers by their generation.
Tang Zi glanced at the two of them: "You two have a good relationship. Are you...a couple?"
After he asked this question, several glances came to him.
"Ahem, cough, cough." Jiang Suichu was frightened by these words while he was drinking soup, and suddenly choked and blushed.
"Sui Sui, are you okay?" Tang Mi patted her back.
"It's okay, it's okay." Jiang Suichu waved his hand and was about to get some water when a nice hand handed him a glass of warm water.
Jiang Suchu took it and looked at Lu Zhinian, "Thank you."
Tang Mi turned around and glared at Tang Zi: "What are you talking about?"
Tang Zi glanced at her and frowned: "I'm just curious, just asking. Why are you reacting so hard?"
"I...I didn't!" Tang Mi turned her head with a guilty conscience and pretended to eat the food: "We are good students at first sight, how could we fall in love prematurely?"
As she said that, she looked at Jiang Suichu: "Really? Suisui."
Lu Zhinian also glanced at Tang Zi lightly, and then his eyes fell back on Jiang Suichu's face.
Jiang Suchu was frightened by what he saw, and explained: "No, we grew up together. He is like my brother, he takes care of me a lot, and I am very grateful to him."
In Jiang Suichu's heart, Jiang Minghao has always been regarded as his brother. She didn't say this, she knew he understood, so there was no need to say anything.
In fact, this was the first time Jiang Suchu said this that day. Neither of them were exposed people and would never say such disgusting words. So when Jiang Suichu said this today, Jiang Minghao was a little...how should I put it, a little surprised and embarrassed.
He looked over just as Jiang Suchu looked over. Their eyes met in the air, they both paused, and then looked at each other and smiled.
Very understanding.
Several people's eyes wandered around the two of them, each thinking.
The words "Growing up together since childhood" touched the hearts of Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo at the same time. If what happened back then had not happened, they would have grown up together.
Lu Zhinian, who had been silent, finished peeling the last shrimp in the bowl and filled a small bowl with shrimp meat. With his long hands, he crossed most of the table and placed the bowl of shrimp meat in front of Jiang Suichu.
His movements were natural, as if he had done it many times.
Jiang Minghao glanced at the bowl of shrimp meat, raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't have much reaction. Not to mention Pei Shuo, he was just a little surprised, and then he thought of something and immediately felt that there was nothing wrong. On the other hand, Tang Mi and Tang Zi almost dropped the chopsticks in their hands. Is this still the self-possessed and dignified Young Master Lu? Lu Zhinian, who had a slight mysophobia, actually peeled shrimps for others and even peeled a bowl of them silently.
If you live long enough, you can see everything.
Tang Zi and Tang Mi thought so.
Lu Zhinian took out a few tissues and wiped his fingers clean. When he saw the burning eyes of the two people, his expression was calm and calm.
Looking up, he saw Jiang Suichu still looking at him blankly. He raised his chin and motioned for her to eat the shrimp.
"Look what I do, eat shrimp."
"...Oh" Jiang Suichu's face became hot when he said this, and he quickly lowered his head to eat the shrimp.
How did he know that she wanted to eat shrimps and peel so many for her?
Lu Zhinian picked up the water glass on the table and raised it to Jiang Minghao, "In lieu of wine, I offer you a toast."
Jiang Minghao put down his chopsticks and looked at him, "Respect me?"
"Well, I respect you." Lu Zhinian glanced at Jiang Suichu and said solemnly: "Thank you for taking care of Suisui these years."
In fact, when Jiang Suchu was a child, it was difficult for him to get along with others. Perhaps it was because her parents were busy with work and did not often accompany her, and often entrusted her to the care of neighbors in the compound. Since she was a child, she had a strong sense of self-protection and would not easily become dependent on anyone. When she was a child, he was the one she relied on the most, and his home was the place that made her feel the most secure.
Lu Zhinian could see that she now felt dependent on Jiang Minghao. Although he didn't know where this sense of dependence came from, it was not difficult to know that over the years, he should have helped her when she needed help the most and accompanied her when she needed companionship the most.
So, even though he was a little jealous of her dependence on him, he still wanted to sincerely thank him.
Jiang Minghao was actually a little puzzled by his move. In his opinion, they just met Jiang Suichu when they were young, so they had no position and no need to thank him specifically.
But Lu Zhinian's tone and demeanor clearly told him that he had a strong position!
He suddenly felt that Lu Zhinian's words might not be complete. What he actually wanted to say was: "Thank you for taking care of our family Suisui these years."
Jiang Minghao suddenly wanted to laugh. Why did he feel like he suddenly became an outsider?
Lu Zhinian's hand was still raised, steadily, not shaking at all.
Jiang Minghao looked at him, chuckled, then held the can and touched his cup lightly.
"You're welcome."
After all, in his opinion, this was just a matter between him and her, and no one else needed to thank him. Of course, he never thought of asking her to thank him.
Just as he was about to put down the cup, Pei Shuo also picked up the cup, "Brother Hao, Sui Sui's friend is my Pei Shuo's friend. I also thank you for taking care of Sui Sui over the years. From now on, you will be my Pei Shuo's good friend. What's the matter? If you need it, you can say hello, and I will be obliged to do so."
"..."
This time Jiang Minghao really laughed out loud. He smiled, nodded and touched Pei Shuo's cup, "That's easy to say."
After taking a sip, he looked at Jiang Suichu: "Have you known each other since you were children?"
From the previous conversation, he probably guessed that Tang Mi and Tang Zi had not known each other before.
Jiang Suchu was still stunned, lost in what Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo had just said. She didn't expect him to thank Jiang Minghao for her in two meetings. There was no need for the two of them to do so.
She glanced at the two people across from her and nodded slightly, "Well, I lived in the same compound when I was a kid."
He didn't say much, but Jiang Minghao understood.
Jiang Suichu had told him things about her childhood in Yun City before, and the ones she mentioned the most were her two good friends who lived in the compound.
She never said their names, just replaced them with mindless and unhappy.
His eyes turned between Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo, and he was basically sure that Lu Zhinian was unhappy as Jiang Suchu said, and Pei Shuo was brainless.
Should I say it or not, the description is very appropriate.
