A foreign city, dear you

Finally I heard the shout "dinner is ready."

Good guy, due to all the trouble between father and son, dinner started an hour later than usual.

However, looking forward to it.

Stir-fried carrots, meat and green vegetables, these are Cao Lanshan's stir-fried dishes.

The greens are simple and look pretty good.

The carrot slices were a little burnt black. This was because Cao Lanshan turned on the fire when he saw that the carrots were not cooked properly. But it doesn’t matter, I can make do with it. The important thing is that he can get a sense of accomplishment, which helps his heart open.

The fish from Cao Xueqian is about to be served.

"Here comes the pickled fish." Cao Xueqian shouted and came out of the kitchen carrying the dishes.

"Sauerkraut fish? You actually make pickled fish?" Ye Lian was surprised.

"Can't you think of it?" Cao Xueqian was stunned.

"Okay, okay. You just want to be quiet and make a blockbuster." Ye Lian rarely makes pickled fish, usually fried or steamed.

"I also have two brushes." Cao Xueqian said and put the bowl on the dining table.

"You're really out of breath after praising you for being fat?" Ye Lian laughed. She stared at the fish and asked doubtfully, "Are you sure this is pickled fish?"

"What's wrong?" Cao Xueqian was confused.

"Why is your pickled fish so black?" Ye Lian asked.

"Sauerkraut is dark."

"Where is the sauerkraut black?" Ye Lian seemed to have never seen black sauerkraut.

"It's in the refrigerator."

"Really?" Ye Lian muttered, walking towards the refrigerator. Ye Lian remembered that there was no sauerkraut in the refrigerator. She took out a bag of pickles and asked, "Is this the one?"

Cao Xueqian turned back: "Yes."

"Haha," Ye Lian burst out laughing: "Where is this pickled cabbage? This is pickled cabbage. I bought it to try making braised pork with pickled cabbage."

Cao Xueqian's mouth formed an "O" shape.

"I said it didn't look like sauerkraut, but dad was still so confident, haha." Cao Lanshan also found it funny.

"You are not sure, why don't you ask me?" Ye Lian couldn't laugh or cry.

"Dad said he wanted to show off his skills to impress you."

"This is really surprising. It turns out that you can't tell the difference between sauerkraut and pickled vegetables." Ye Lian looked at Cao Xueqian in surprise.

Cao Xueqian realized that he had overturned and laughed to himself: "Chef Cao is Chef Cao, who created the original pickled fish. I asked why the sauerkraut in the pickled fish I had eaten outside was different. I thought it would be fine after cooking. It’s the same.”

"Haven't you seen pigs running?"

"I've seen pigs running, but I've never seen pickles running."

"Ha ha--"

Start eating.

Looking at the bowl of so-called "pickled fish", the three of them couldn't help laughing.

"Why do you think of making pickled fish?" Ye Lian asked.

"When I saw this grass carp, I was reminded of pickled fish. If you cook grass carp without adding pickled cabbage, then the dish will have no soul."

"Really? Fish without pickled cabbage has no soul, so this fish with pickled cabbage is..." Ye Lian smiled, but did not finish the sentence for fear of offending Cao Xueqian too much.

"This fish with pickled vegetables is just for fun." Cao Xueqian took over the topic and laughed at himself.

"Haha, you said it yourself, I didn't say that." Ye Lian laughed and quickly clarified.

"Dad, it's okay. Anyway, your courage is commendable." Cao Lanshan was also very happy, but he did not forget to comfort his father.

"That's right, your courage is commendable." Ye Lian agreed, and supported it with practical actions, bravely picking up a piece of fish.

"How is it? This soulless fish?" Cao Xueqian asked Ye Lian.

Although Cao Xueqian doesn't usually cook, he likes to call certain indispensable condiments in certain dishes the "soul" of the dish.

For example, he would say that bitter melon without black beans has no soul; beef without celery has no soul; duck without ginger has no soul...

"It's okay, but it doesn't taste good." Ye Lian smiled and resisted frowning.

"A fish without a soul?" Cao Lanshan repeated what Cao Xueqian said and said with a smile, "Why does this sound a little scary?"

Haha, aren’t we talking about soulless dishes? Why are you talking like a fish without a soul?

A fish without a soul?

What would that look like?

It seems really weird.

"Okay, let's eat and eat. Don't talk about 'soulless fish'. You won't dare to eat it after a while." Ye Lian suggested.

In this meal, one dish was a little burnt and one dish was soulless, but there was a lot of joy.

The most rare thing is that Cao Lanshan also has a long-lost smile on his face.

Ye Lian observed Cao Lanshan and thought about how to get him to express his feelings in this harmonious atmosphere. It seems that there is no suitable entry point.

"Son, do you know Lin Yunping?" Cao Xueqian suddenly asked Cao Lanshan while eating.

"Lin Yunping?" Cao Lanshan raised his head: "She's from our school, and she seems to be from the next class. What's wrong?"

"He said he ran away for no reason last night and hasn't come back yet. The parents were so anxious that they called the police."

"How do you know?" Ye Lian asked.

"The neighbor group is talking about this matter." Cao Xueqian glanced at his phone from time to time.

"A female doll? That's really worrying." Ye Lian was not among the neighbors.

"I heard that her mother suspected that she had a puppy love at school and scolded her. Then she was so ashamed and angry that she ran away at night." Cao Xueqian forwarded the information from the neighbor group.

"Really?" Ye Lian was surprised: "This girl has quite a temper. It's really dangerous to run away in such a bad temper. However, her mother is also the same. She needs to communicate well with her children. Puppy love is not a scourge. Guide her well and face it with her children. Right to solve it.”

"Maybe it wasn't puppy love at all." Cao Lanshan interjected: "Maybe her mother overheard something and suspected her of puppy love. Then she was wronged and couldn't clear herself up, so she ran away."

"Why do you say that?" Ye Lian asked.

"Because there are a few students in our grade who don't study at all in school, and they are obsessed with gossiping about other people's opinions, especially about matters between male and female classmates.

"As long as they see two male and female students getting close to each other, even if they are in a normal relationship, they will arrange it in a weird and eccentric way to make it look real, causing a lot of mental pressure on the male and female students in question."

Ye Lian didn't expect Cao Lanshan to say so many words at once. It seemed like he had been holding these words in his mind for a long time, and he was quite annoyed.

Ye Lian's heart moved, could it be...

"No way? Are they so boring?" Ye Lian deliberately provoked Cao Lanshan.

"You don't believe it? There is such a person in our class." Seeing that Ye Lian didn't believe it, Cao Lanshan was really anxious to prove it.

"Who is it?" Ye Lian asked.

"Li Fanzao, he was like a dead person in class, but after class, he became very active in a ghostly manner. He was either whispering to this person or whispering to that person, and then he said some inexplicable words, bursting into laughter, and the other one was talking to him. It's unlucky for those who have to endure the strange looks from one pair after another, as if they have really made a mistake."