Lin Yanyu felt embarrassed to be called out, and felt a little awkward. She called out to the two of them, "Come on, the food is ready. Come sit down and get ready to eat."

Chen Ermu immediately sat down happily opposite him, saying, "Good, good, I haven't eaten the food cooked by big brother for a long time. Ermu likes the food cooked by big brother the most!"

Lin Yanyu had seen Ma Xigui several times and was familiar with him, but this was the first time she saw Chen Ermu. At first, she thought he was as tall as an iron tower and was scared inside, but when she heard him speak in a naive and childish voice, the fear in her heart slowly dissipated.

Under Chen Ermu's eager gaze, Li Yanqi took out the roast chicken from the two pouches, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and sliced ​​the roast chicken into a large bowl like a show of skill.

"Brother, I want to eat chicken legs."

Chen Ermu looked at the chicken legs in the bowl with longing, his saliva almost flowing out, but he was very obedient and did not reach for his chopsticks.

"Besides eating, drinking and pooping, can you think of anything else? I asked you to watch the prisoner, but you went to poop... and let the prisoner escape? You made me clean up your mess, and if you do it again next time, I won't let you eat my chicken ass."

Chen Ermu lowered his head and picked at his fingernails, mumbling: "Big, big brother, I don't dare anymore."

"It won't happen again."

Li Yanqi took a pair of serving chopsticks and put the chicken legs and wings into the bowls of the other four people.

Ma Xigui put the chicken drumstick in his bowl into Li Yanqi's bowl and said, "Brother, I don't like eating chicken drumsticks."

"Now is not the time when we are starving to death and have no food to eat. There is no need to give in to each other. Just eat."

He passed the chicken leg to Ma Xigui and filled two bowls of wine for himself and Li Zhaofeng.

He picked up a chicken neck and put it in his mouth to chew on.

Noticing that Lin Yanyu was looking at him, he smiled, picked up another piece of fat chicken and put it in her bowl.

"I advise you to eat quickly, or you won't be able to eat anything later."

Lin Yanyu looked closely and saw that the chicken legs and wings in Chen Ermu's bowl had turned into chicken bones, and he was using chopsticks to pick up the chicken in the bowl.

"Zhou-Zhou Ji's roast chicken is really, really, delicious."

"Oh? Didn't you just say that you like my cooking the best? So what do you think is better, the roast chicken or the food cooked by my brother?" Li Yanqi's bad nature started to play tricks on him again.

Chen Ermu was not good at talking to begin with, and after racking his brains for a long time, he still had no idea how to answer, and he even forgot to eat the meat in his mouth.

"Big brother is bullying!"

Lin Yanyu glanced at the bad guy with a reproachful look and complained to him: "Can't everything be delicious? Don't bully others during meals, drink your wine!"

Chen Ermu was not happy with Lin Yanyu at first. He felt that his elder brother had liked her for so long but she had never been close to him and had taken up so much of his elder brother's time, which made him very resentful.

But now Lin Yanyu was speaking for him, like children taking sides, and the two of them were now on the same side.

"Yes, yes, they are all delicious! Thank you, sister-in-law. My brother always bullies me."

Li Yanqi was reported by his younger brother, looked at by Lin Yanyu with a reproachful gaze, and Ma Xigui added fuel to the fire. Although he was always sharp-tongued, he did not refute. He just drank wine one sip after another and clinked the bowl with Li Zhaofeng from time to time.

The gentle wind blows through the leaves in the yard, making a rustling sound, like a gentle song.

*

On the way home, Lin Yanyu touched her bloated belly and felt a little jealous.

"I didn't expect your cooking is so delicious. I'll let you cook from now on. How about that?"

"You little idiot, you haven't even married yet and you've already assigned me tasks? What benefit do you get from me cooking?"

Lin Yanyu was not fooled this time. She rolled her eyes and said, "Isn't this what you should do? If you don't cook for me, I will punish you by making you sleep on the street and letting the whole Yunlong County laugh at you."

"You're so good! We in the county government all say that the county magistrate is henpecked. You're even scarier than the county magistrate's wife. At least the county magistrate has never slept on the street."

"Humph."

Lin Yanyu crossed her arms across her chest to show her disdain, and suddenly the beads on her wrist hit her chest.

"Did Li Zhaofeng really work as a bodyguard in the past?"

"Yeah, what's the matter? Although he can't even beat a beggar now."

Then, Li Yanqi glanced back and gossiped, "His wife who ran away with someone else some time ago came back to look for him, although he chased her away."

"Like this..." Lin Yanyu groped for the coral in the bead string on her wrist.

"He just gave me a bracelet as a gift, look..."

Then, she pointed to the amber in the pearl bracelet and asked him, "Do you remember this?"

Li Yanqi looked at the amber left and right as if he had presbyopia.

"It looks familiar."

Lin Yanyu glanced at him and said unhappily, "Why don't you take a closer look?"

Li Yanqi exaggeratedly acted as if he had suddenly realized something.

"Oh, I remember now. Isn't this my thing? I thought I had lost it a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to be picked up by this damn old man."

This exaggerated acting left Lin Yanyu speechless.

"Honestly, have you ever thought about finding your biological parents?"

Li Yanqi put his hands behind his head, smiled and shook his head, and said casually: "Biological parents, haha, this thing is too illusory."

"If you want to talk about earlier times, I did have that experience. When I was chased by dogs and beaten by beggars, I once thought that my father was a great hero who could suddenly appear and drive away all those who bullied me. When I was in pain, my mother could hold me in her arms and comfort me. Or my father was the richest man who could give me endless buns to eat when I was starving to death. But those were all fantasies from a long time ago. Now..."

Li Yanqi smiled and shook his head, "No more."

Lin Yanyu felt a pang of discomfort in her heart.

"Then if your parents show up and say they want to recognize you and give you a complete family, will you still recognize them?"

Li Yanqi shook his head decisively.

"No, they were not here when I was weak and pitiful and needed their protection. I have suffered so much, so is there any need for them to exist now?"

Lin Yanyu was shocked by his carefree and insightful attitude, thinking of the suffering he had endured over the years.

The pity in her heart gushed out like a spring, and she couldn't help but reach out and touch his wet hair. The black hair was like silk, cool and itchy when it brushed across her palm.

How could Li Yanqi miss the opportunity to beg for mercy? He climbed up the pole and put his head in her hands.

Lin Yanyu smiled and stroked it a few times as if rolling a snowball.

The most basic requirement for a master is to have keen perception and insight.

Li Yanqi suddenly turned his head, looked in one direction, and stood up straight with a sullen face.

Lin Yanyu seemed to realize something and turned her head as well.

At the corner of the alley leading to his house, a long-lost figure stood there, swaying.

"Sister Yanyu?"

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