He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

Lu Sheng and Lu Yan planned to go shopping before going back, and so did Liu Qingyan and Chu Tiankuo.

Lu Yan reminded Liu Qingyan: "Your father has probably gone back. You can go back now to find out what he said."

Lu Sheng was shocked: "What? Your father is here?"

Chu Tiankuo was also shocked.

Liu Qingyan quickly made a shushing gesture: "Don't tell me, don't tell me... Look, this is why I won't tell you."

Lu Sheng suddenly realized why Lu Yan asked him to give up the limelight opportunity to Chu Tiankuo. Chu Tiankuo was also shocked and broke out in a white-haired sweat, but now he was even more grateful that Liu Qingyan didn't tell him, otherwise he would have been under great pressure today, and he probably wouldn't have performed so well and wouldn't have won the first place.

Liu Qingyan: "I'm not going back right now. I have to stay outside for a while before going back, otherwise it will look like I can't wait..."

"Okay, then you two can go shopping, and you can go back later." Lu Yan said, "Lu Sheng, let's go."

"You're not going shopping again?" Lu Sheng asked.

Lu Yan wrapped her fur collared cloak tightly: "Go home, it's a bit cold."

Liu Qingyan suddenly grabbed Lu Yan: "Wait!"

Lu Yan stopped.

"If we don't leave and the carriage doesn't leave, why will you two ride?" Liu Qingyan said, "Isn't it a bit crowded for Song Bowen to pull the four of you in a carriage?"

Lu Yan and Lu Sheng looked at each other, ah...

"Okay, then let's go shopping with you." Lu Yan said.

Liu Qingyan held Lu Yan's arm: "Stop wandering around. If I don't go home, I can't just stay here. Why don't we go to Luji together?"

A few people went to talk to Song Bowen and Xue Zhuoyuan, and then went to Luji together.

When we arrived at Luji, it was almost time for dinner. Of course, Chu Tiankuo and Liu Qingyan couldn't leave, so they planned to have another meal.

Lu Yan asked several people: "What do you want to eat?"

Liu Qingyan shivered: "I've been freezing all afternoon and want to eat something warm."

Lu Sheng and Chu Tiankuo also nodded.

If it's warm, it must be hot pot, but Lu Ji doesn't have mutton at the moment, and Lu Yan doesn't want to buy it, so she thinks of another meal, small pot rice noodles.

Small pot rice noodles is one of the many ways Yunnan people eat rice noodles. The main method is to boil the rice noodles in a small pot over a charcoal fire. When eating, you will be sweating profusely and it will ward off the cold. Lu Yan didn’t have rice noodles, and Lu Yan only had sweet potato noodles, so she planned to make a small pot of sweet potato noodles.

Boil water in a small pot, add minced meat, cook until the minced meat turns white, add bean sprouts and chopped sauerkraut, add sweet potato powder after boiling, add salt, sugar, soy sauce, pepper to taste, if you like spicy food Add a little more red oil chili and a handful of leeks cut into sections, and you're ready to eat. In fact, it is best to use Yunnan's specialty sour pickles here. The taste is different from the pickles used by Lu Yan, but Lu Yan didn't have any, so she made do with it.

In this way, a pot of sour and spicy sweet potato noodles is ready. The broth is rich and the powder is smooth. As the steaming heat slurps into your mouth, beads of sweat come out of your nose. Sure enough, I no longer felt cold all of a sudden.

"It's delicious." Liu Qingyan was so moved after eating: "I wish my mother could be half as good as you."

Lu Yan raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "Your father is the magistrate of the county, but your family doesn't have a cook?"

Liu Qingyan smiled bitterly: "The main reason is that my mother likes to cook. She also likes to force my father and I to finish the food after cooking."

Lu Yan: "..."

Then there's no way. If there is a cook, and if Liu Qingyan really likes it, she can go to Liu's house to chat with the chef and teach him. But usually the magistrate’s wife does the cooking, so forget it.

Lu Yan laughed twice, but there was nothing she could do.

Chu Tiankuo answered: "It doesn't matter, I have a cook at home, and my cook is pretty good."

Lu Yan nodded quickly: "That's good. If you need it in the future, you can send me the cook and I will help you train him."

"That's great." Chu Tiankuo was overjoyed and looked at Liu Qingyan with bright eyes: "When we get married, I will definitely let you eat well every day."

Liu Qingyan's face turned red and she slapped Chu Tiankuo: "What are you talking about? Don't talk nonsense!"

After eating and lingering in Luji for a long time, the two of them finally went back. Liu Qingyan finally got on the carriage despite being annoyed.

When he got home, the lights in Liu Hongtu's study were on. Liu Qingyan gently opened the study door and walked in.

Liu Hongtu looked up from his book and saw his daughter looking at him expectantly, and couldn't help but laugh.

"Why, you're not avoiding me anymore?" Liu Hongtu asked deliberately: "You didn't come back until this time after playing outside. I thought you didn't care about my opinion of him at all?"

Liu Qingyan stamped her feet: "Oh dad, stop teasing me. Did you really go there today? Why didn't I see you?"

"I really went, I was in the attic, and I saw the whole process of your poetry contest clearly." Liu Hongtu said, "I asked the owner of the plum garden to keep quiet. Only Lao Sun knows, and his grandsons don't even know." Know."

Liu Qingyan pretended not to care: "Okay... Then I'll ask you by the way, what's your impression of Chu Tiankuo?"

"Chu Tiankuo, you are quite clever and quick-witted. You can write poems well, and you are worthy of being elected as a candidate. But..." Liu Hongtu deliberately spoke in mid-sentence and looked at his daughter anxiously.

Liu Qingyan was so anxious that she stamped her feet: "Dad! Why didn't you finish what you said! But what?"

Liu Hongtu laughed loudly and stopped teasing his daughter: "Okay, okay, it's nothing, but dad likes him. If he is interested, he can let his family come to visit, and the two families can make friends first."

Just as Liu Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief, she heard Liu Hongtu speak again.

"But..." Liu Hongtu stroked his beard: "I still remember when he was a child a few years ago. At that time, he was the third child in our county. I summoned him. I still remember it. At that time He is still a little chubby. When you first told me about him, I was worried that he would become obese as he gets older, but unexpectedly he has lost a lot of weight now."

Liu Qingyan glanced at her father in surprise: "Good guy, he really guessed it."

Liu Hongtu was confused: "What did you guess?"

"He said he wanted to lose weight a few months ago. I didn't take it seriously at the time. I said I didn't care. He said he just didn't want people to use being fat as an argument for our incompatibility." Liu Qingyan said: "He has been He has indeed lost a lot of weight, and he continues to work hard and will become even thinner in the future.”

Liu Hongtu raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that there was such a connection behind it. However, this also proves that Chu Tiankuo really cares about his daughter, and is not just talking about it, and this person is quite capable of action. It is easy for a thin person to gain weight, but it is not easy for a fat person to become thinner. He can do this, It certainly took a lot of effort. Liu Hongtu thought about it and became more satisfied with Chu Tiankuo.