Hearing this, Lin Yue put down the shovel, looked back at her face and said, "Are you following my mother's advice to persuade me, or do you also think I should marry Chen Tingting?"
"me……"
In fact, she regretted this sentence after asking, because from a moral point of view, she believed that Brother Lin really should marry Chen Tingting. The two families knew each other well and had grown up together. It was not too much to say that they were childhood sweethearts, and they had waited for him long enough. It’s been ten years, and now it’s neither good nor bad. How embarrassing.
But thinking about it calmly, her brother Lin also had a reason not to get married. The reason was that Chen Tingting was pretty and had a good personality, but he was even better, so good that he could blind most women.
Finally, it's a personal emotional standpoint. I don't know why, but she knows she shouldn't and it doesn't make sense, but she still covets the feeling of being pampered like back then - as long as she says she wants to eat the food he cooks, Lin Yue She would put down what she was doing to cook the meals she wanted to eat. Just now, he told people at Shuangwu Group that he would not work today and then turned off his cell phone. This incident gave her the illusion that nothing had changed, as if she had returned to her childhood.
If he gets married, will he still make her favorite fried noodles, carefully prepare gifts on important holidays, and give her more patience and love than others? Work, family, children... no matter which aspect will consume his energy, one will ebb and flow, and the time devoted to her will naturally be less.
At this time, the indicator light of the electric pot cooking noodles next to it went out. Lin Yue turned around to fish out the noodles. Qiu Yan took the opportunity to leave the kitchen and returned to the restaurant to sit down.
She didn't know why, but she found that her heart was beating very fast, as if she had escaped from danger.
Afraid?
Are you afraid because of the question of whether to marry Chen Tingting?
What's wrong with you? Obviously when Chen Yulian told her this matter last night, she still thought it made sense and felt aggrieved for her sister Tingting.
"The noodles are ready. If you don't like shredded carrots, I won't put them in. Remember to mix the fried sauce evenly."
Lin Yue walked out of the kitchen and put the bowl of noodles on the dining table.
She looked at the bowl of noodles with red tomatoes and shredded green cucumbers on both sides. There was an egg cut in half in the middle, and on top there was bright diced meat sauce, dotted with some chives.
"Well, let's just eat it."
She remembered that Lin Yue said this when he made fried noodles for her for the first time.
At that time, she had just come to Yiwu from Beijing and was not used to the flavor of the food here. She only ate a little bit at each meal and lost four or five pounds in half a month. Qiu Yingjie was so anxious that she slapped the table and forced her to eat, but she just wouldn't. Eat, shouting for mom, grandma, grandpa. The father was under great pressure due to divorce and work, so she couldn't help but say a few harsh words. She felt aggrieved and burst into tears. Qiu Yingjie couldn't coax her. Not good at coaxing.
Lin Yue happened to be on a business trip to Beijing and brought back some local specialties. He wanted to give some to Qiu Yingjie. After all, this eldest brother had also studied in Beijing for several years. When he walked in, he saw her crying. When he asked, he found out that she was not good at food. She was scolded for not eating because she didn't like it, so he volunteered to make fried noodles for her.
When it was ready and served to her, she complained about the lack of noodles and said that there are many things to pay attention to in authentic fried noodles. Why eat hot noodles when the weather is cold? If you eat cold noodles when the weather is hot, you should eat the noodles with the head and tail cut off in early spring. The bean sprouts are tender when eaten. It would be perfect if you could add some vinegar sauce left over from the pickled Laba garlic during the Chinese New Year. When summer comes, it will be fresh garlic paste, cucumber shreds, blanched peas and leek segments. If you have properly preserved toon leaves, cut them into pieces and sprinkle some on them, the taste will be unmatched by even a god.
"Why don't you move Kuai Zi?"
"Ah, um..."
She agreed, opened the diced meat sauce slightly, picked up a mouthful and put it in her mouth.
"I haven't done it for so many years. What do you think? Is it still the same as before?" Lin Yue pulled up a chair and sat down next to her.
Qiu Yan's eyes turned red when he heard about it, and he felt that the noodles in his mouth were slightly sour and slightly bitter.
For an ordinary child, no matter how kind others are to him, if he hasn't seen each other for nine years, he will still feel alienated when they meet again. What's more, Lin Yue doesn't make many phone calls. Birthday gifts, books, postcards, etc. are just kind of... The fact that he still remembered her and was willing to share every detail of his life with her did not make her forget it. What really made her feel that he had always loved and cared for her was a bowl of noodles in the Cantonese restaurant downstairs.
Just as Lin Yue told her when she was at the train station, the Cantonese boss can indeed make Beijing fried noodles. It tastes a little different from what he makes, but generally the taste is not bad. She will go over and order a bowl every few days. After going to college, she even took a two- or three-hour drive home just to eat fried noodles. When she was in elementary school and junior high school, she was simple-minded and simple-minded, and didn’t think much about it until she was admitted to high school... During her sophomore year in high school, she suddenly realized I have a question. The noodle pattern of fried bean paste noodles in Cantonese restaurants is weird, because the noodle pattern is different in each season. In early spring, there are bean sprouts and radish tassels, during the Chinese New Year, there is laba garlic, and in late spring, there are shredded cabbage. , there are the first crop of toon sprouts, fresh peas, and green garlic. In summer, there are more noodles, such as cucumber shreds, lentil shreds, diced tomatoes, and bell pepper shreds. But after entering autumn, the most impressive thing is The side dish on the left side of the dish is chive sauce.
At first she thought it was normal that the boss owned a restaurant and cooked Chinese food, and that the noodles were rich. But now she thought about how this was possible! The boss is from Cantonese. People in the south don’t eat Chinese toon very much, let alone the tenderest and freshest first crop of Chinese toon sprouts. Cantonese people don’t eat chive sauce either. They prefer sand tea sauce and sour plum sauce. After eating it for so many years, she I didn’t even see the option of fried noodles on the menu. In other words, the boss had only made this dish for her for so many years.
In her senior year of high school, her boss, who was already familiar with her, couldn't resist her questioning and told her the story behind the incident.
A few months before she and Qiu Yingjie went to the United States, Lin Yue came here and helped him solve a very difficult matter. In exchange, he needed to receive a special customer--provide her with fried sauce. Therefore, Lin Yue handed over the old Beijing noodles to the boss hand in hand, and some noodles that are only available in the north, such as laba garlic, pickled mustard greens, chive flower sauce, toon sprouts, etc., were also made by Lin Yue at home. My friend brought me to the United States and it lasted for ten years.
ten years.
How many decades are there in life?
Therefore, even though they had been apart for ten years and had not had many phone calls, it did not affect the relationship between the two. Every time she ate that bowl of noodles, she would feel that Brother Lin had never been far away from her life.
Lin Yue noticed the change in her expression: "Why are you still crying? Could it be that what Lao Yu did was not authentic?"
Lao Yu is the owner of that Cantonese restaurant.
She tried her best to suppress the emotions in her heart and forced out a smile: "Maybe... it tastes exactly the same as when I was a child. You can't help it."
After finishing speaking, he paused and said, "Actually, Lao Yu has made it very delicious, but there are still some differences."
"It should be because the noodles are cooked differently." Lin Yue said as he stood up and walked into the kitchen.
Qiu Yan thought for a while, and it was true. Lao Yu's noodles didn't have the texture he did.
"In fact, kneading dough is also a skill, but because it is not as complex as knife skills and spoon skills, noodles are not the main dishes of major cuisines, so people don't pay much attention to it." He Walking out of the kitchen, he placed a bowl of hot noodle soup on her right hand.
Jajangmyeon with noodle soup.
There is a saying in the north to use the bowl where the noodles have been eaten to drink the soup, which is called the original soup and the original food.
The first time she ate noodles with soybean paste after coming to Yiwu, she ate too quickly and choked. Lin Yue could only get another bowl of soup for her to drink, so the habit stuck, causing Qiu Yingjie to get angry more than once. She complained that she had to wash one more person's bowl for a meal of fried noodles.
Qiu Yan nodded and recalled some movies and variety shows about cooking. There was indeed nothing better than kneading dough.
"Brother Lin..."
She hesitated to speak.
"Um?"
"I……"
Dongdongdong...
A sudden knock on the door interrupted their conversation. Just as she was about to stand up, Lin Yue pushed her back, said "eat noodles", and walked over to open the door.
Appearing across the street was a familiar face.
"How did you come?"
Yang Xue didn't answer the question and walked directly into the room. She looked first at the living room and then at the dining room. After making eye contact with Qiu Yan, she walked over and sat down.
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"The phone is turned off and I don't come back home. It's really hard to find you."
This was said to Lin Yue, but her eyes kept staring at Qiu Yan, which made the little girl feel scared.
Last night, when Chen Yulian asked her to persuade Lin Yue to marry Chen Tingting, she took the opportunity to ask about Yang Xue. Qiu Yingjie took her to the United States before Yang Tianci died, so they only knew that Lin Yue threatened to marry Yang Xue I don’t know what Luo Yuzhu meant by his last wish at the Chamber of Commerce venue yesterday.
Chen Yulian told her that before Yang Tianci died, he asked Yang Xue to promise in front of relatives that she would not marry Lin Yue in this life, and she agreed, so it was impossible for these two people.
Qiu Yan couldn't understand, if it was impossible, why was she chasing him so closely?
"You didn't turn off the phone just to make fried noodles for her, right?" Yang Xue glanced at the noodles in the bowl, and then at the soup next to her: "Speaking of which... I haven't had lunch yet."
Qiu Yan looked embarrassed, because Lin Yue ordered noodles for one person, and there is a saying that the visitor is the guest. Judging from yesterday's meeting, Yang Xue was still his partner no matter how bad he was.
"Li Ming told you I was here?" Lin Yue changed the subject.
Yang Xue put her bag on the dining table: "Don't blame him. I threatened him to go to Chenjiacun to find your mother if he didn't tell me where you were. He was forced to have no choice but to tell me the address of Qiu Yan's house. .”
Lin Yuexin said that's right. The affair between him and Yang Xue was rumored to be quite mysterious. Chen Yulian was determined to bring him and Chen Tingting together. If Yang Xuezhen really wanted to go to the village, it would be great fun. What would Chen Tingting's mother think? How will the villagers discuss this matter behind their backs? Based on the principle of choosing the lesser of two evils, Li Ming made the right choice.
"So why are you looking for me?"
Yang Xue said: "Chen Jianghe is about to leave for Spain. I thought he would arrange the company's affairs before leaving, but I didn't expect it to be earlier."
When Qiu Yan heard that it was about Chen Jianghe, he quickly put down his kuaizi and listened carefully.
Yang Xue glanced at her, smiled slightly, and continued to talk to Lin Yue about the matter: "When do you think it's a good time for me to go there?"
"Don't worry, just wait a few days. Fernand will definitely contact you. Only by provoking a war between you can he reap the benefits, right?"
"Okay, that's up to you. I'll go over when Fernand calls."
Listening to their conversation, Qiu Yan figured out something about Yang Group's robbery of Yuzhu Group's partners... It seemed that Lin Yue had known about it for a long time.
"Brother Lin, this matter... do you and your godfather... have to fight to the death?"
Yang Xue said: "Little girl, do you think Luo Yuzhu would let him go if there was a similar opportunity?"
This question stumped her. For a president like this, if there was a chance to kick Lin Yue to death, could Luo Yuzhu be so generous?
Lin Yue looked at Yang Xue with a smile, making her look very uncomfortable and a little panicked.
It was her own choice to attack the Yuzhu Group. Firstly, she eavesdropped on the conversation between Yang Tianci and Luo Yuzhu, and the phrase "your daughter is only worth 500,000" made her very unhappy - she couldn't marry. It is one thing to marry Chen Jianghe, but it is another thing to be disgusted by others. You must know that she and Luo Yuzhu have never met before. It was Yang Tianci's idea to recruit Chen Jianghe as his son-in-law. If you refuse, just refuse, mocking someone you have never met. That's too much.
The second reason is that the Yang Group and the Yuzhu Group are in a competitive relationship. The competition in the domestic market has extended to the point of comparing who has more showrooms and whose showrooms are more impressive. Now both parties have the intention to open up the European market, and the confrontation will also follow. To upgrade, since there will be a day of close combat sooner or later, it is better to cut the knot quickly... When Jin Li semi-retired and Lin Yue had the greatest influence on Shuangwu Group, he used his power to crush his opponents in one fell swoop.
So this was not something he asked Yang Xue to do at all, but Yang Xue wanted to drag his strong men to kill Chen Jianghe and Luo Yuzhu.
However, when talking about this matter today, it turned out that he instigated Yang Xue to attack Luo Yuzhu.
What's the meaning?
Yang Xue and Qiu Yan have never met before, and there is no need to care about her opinion. So there is only one possibility, which is to test who she stands between Brother Lin and Luo Yuzhu. Although doing the same thing as Luo Yuzhu, but There is an essential difference - Luo Yuzhu only wants Qiu Yan to be her daughter-in-law, and Yang Xue... Even if she meets Qiu Yan for the first time, a woman's intuition is very scary when it comes to the person she likes. of.
Qiu Yan didn't know what was going on, so he raised his head and lowered his head several times.
It was obvious that she didn't know how to deal with this either.
The conflict between Lin Yue and Luo Yuzhu is deep and basically unsolvable, but Chen Jianghe is innocent. Before Luo Yuzhu, he had a very good relationship with Lin Yue. The key is that Chen Jianghe cannot change Luo Yuzhu, and he cannot give up this woman, let alone The two also have a son, Chen Lu.
Qiu Yan feels that he is quite sober in the world, and he was able to handle the relationship with his classmates well after studying in the United States. But now he is at a loss when faced with this problem.
Dongdongdong...
There were rapid footsteps in the corridor, and then the soft sound of a key being inserted into the keyhole.
card~
The door opened and a person appeared in her field of vision.
"Wang Xu?" She stood up and said with a look of surprise.
Today's matter... was really up and down again and again. She just wanted to have lunch in peace, stay alone with her brother Lin for a while, talk about how she had been doing these years, and then ask him how he was doing. Passed, what was the result? First there was Yang Xue, who was chasing after her to talk about work, and now there was Wang Xu, who came to disrupt the situation.
One thing she regrets very much now is not getting the key back from Wang Xu.
"Qiu Yan, why didn't you tell me if you wanted to eat fried noodles? There's a Korean fried noodles restaurant on Danxi Road. It's delicious."
At a glance, Wang Xu saw the white porcelain bowl in front of her, which contained unfinished noodles. He remembered that when she was a child, she said more than once that the noodles made by Uncle Lin were delicious. Now she brought Lin Yue to the old house to make fried noodles instead of coming with him to see if Chen Jianghe and Luo Yuzhu were taking good care of the house. This made him feel left out and very unhappy.
Qiu Yan didn’t know what to say, Korean fried noodles on Danxi Road? Even if the master of fried noodles came and opened his shop downstairs, she would only eat what Lin Yue made.
"Wang Xu, you came to me...what's the matter?"
"You didn't go home last night. I was worried about you."
"Didn't I call Aunt Zhao and ask her to tell you to sleep at grandma's house that night?"
"But your pajamas, change of clothes, and toiletries are still at home."
Yang Xue looked at the young man talking incoherently at the door and thought he was ridiculous.
"Wang Xu, please go back first, I'll be fine." Qiu Yan tried hard to control his displeasure and said with a smile.
"Qiu Yan, my dad is going to Spain today. Why don't you go see him off on the afternoon flight?"
"My godfather came back after discussing business. It's not like we haven't seen him for a long time."
"Then...how long will it take for you to go home?"
"Wang Xu, I am an adult and I can handle my own affairs."
"Qiu Yan, listen to me, he is a liar. Everyone in Chenjia Village knows it."
"..."
Lin Yue had always been calm, and he didn't show any anger even when he slandered him like this. However, after a few seconds, his expression changed.
Because there was a sound of footsteps outside.
He said with a sullen face: "Did you find this person?"
people? who?
Qiu Yan and Yang Xue were stunned for a moment, not understanding what he meant by this sentence.
It wasn't until the footsteps approached and a face came into view that they knew why Lin Yue had changed like this.
It's Chen Tingting.
