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The door opened, and Cui Yuqin and Lu Junxiong stood outside the door one after the other, carrying two large bags of fish and vegetables in their hands.

"Dad, mom."

Lu Yuxing beckoned them to come in, Tang Tang shrugged his shoulders and hid behind him.

"Hurry up, mom won't be able to carry it anymore." Cui Yuqin was wearing a linen coat, and her black hair was combed tightly against her forehead, with some sweat dripping out, "Let's come here today to have a good meal, just treat it as an early meal." It's the holidays."

"Well, the house is well cleaned up." Lu Junxiong looked at the clean and tidy living room with satisfaction. "Okay, we'll have a good time."

"Just cleaned up, you guys come in first." Lu Yuxing took two pairs of slippers, took the food from the two of them, and turned around

At this moment, he bumped into Tang Tang.

"Hey!"

Tang Tang fell two steps back and couldn't stand still. He was about to hit the shoe cabinet, but Lu Yuxing stretched out his arms and hugged him.

The two people at the door saw that there was still a young man at home, and they were stunned for a moment.

"Well... this is my friend." Lu Yuxing released Tang Tang, coughed twice in embarrassment, and introduced: "I happened to be playing at my house today, so let him have dinner together."

Tang Tang was originally shy, but now his face turned red.

"Hello, Uncle and Auntie." He stood in front of Lu Yuxing and bowed respectfully, "My name is Tang Tang, and I am Lu Yuxing's classmate."

Lu Yuxing was also made a little nervous by him.

Tang Tang appeared in the entertainment news several times a while ago. After being widely reported by the unscrupulous media, his image in front of the public is not good.The media used the psychology of hatred of the rich to fabricate him into the image of a rich young man who relied on his father to join the group. This kind of thing did not cause much hatred.

Cui Yuqin was the first to react. She looked at Tang Tang slightly, with a smile on her face.

"Hey, hello, you are the child Yu Xing said, go to Canada to celebrate the New Year together?"

Probably all mothers like this kind of beautiful and obedient children, and Cui Yuqin has a good impression of Tang Tang.She took Tang Tang's arm and led him to sit on the sofa with a smile. "Come on, stop standing here, let's go in and talk."

"We are a family here," said Lu Junxiong, obviously not paying attention to entertainment news.Seeing Tang Tang rubbing his hands nervously, he comforted him, "Just treat it as if you're at your own home tonight."

Lu Yuxing heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the three of them enjoying themselves, "Then you talk, I'll cook."

"Can you cook again?" Cui Yuqin patted him on the back, "I've grown taller again, hey, what do you do with such a big guy? Look at Tang Tang, how attractive you are."

Tang Tang was sitting down on the sofa with Lu Junxiong, and when he heard this, his hands began to feel awkward again, not knowing where to put them.

"Live alone, you have to learn how to cook." Lu Yuxing skillfully threw the frozen octopus onto the cutting board, "Okay, you go sit on the sofa."

Cui Yuqin stared at him for a while as he cut the fish.

"Be careful," she murmured, shaking her slightly curly bangs, "this is the first time I've watched you cook."

"Understood." Lu Yuxing deliberately slowed down, "You go."

In the living room, in front of the TV, Tang Tang sat on the single sofa, glanced awkwardly at Lu Junxiong from the corner of his eye.

"Uncle, let's eat some fruit."

He held back for a long time, finally choked out a word, and brought the plate in front of Lu Junxiong.

Cui Yuqin paced over, resting her hands on the back of the sofa.

"You don't have to be so afraid of him," she smiled, and reached for a grape, "Yu Xing's father is the director of the hospital, and he's used to putting on airs as a leader, but he's actually not that serious."

Lu Junxiong took the grape from Cui Yuqin's hand, carefully peeled off the skin, and stuffed it into his wife's mouth.

"Tang Tang? Which word is it?" He asked with a kind smile on his square face.

Tang Tang gestured in the air, "The door of the gate means a pillar." He touched his neck shyly, "Maybe my father hopes that I can be the pillar of the family."

"What does your family do?" Cui Yuqin came over and sat beside Lu Junxiong.

"Jewelry business." Tang Tang replied, "If I had known that my uncle and aunt would be here for dinner today, I should have brought some greetings."

He glanced at the kitchen behind the sofa from the corner of his eye. Lu Yuxing was so absorbed in cooking that he didn't hear their conversation.

"The jewelry business is good, and it makes a lot of money." Cui Yuqin looked at Tang Tang, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it. "How old are you? What major are you studying? Do you think there will be many girls in school chasing a beautiful child like you?"

Tang Tang was a little confused by her series of questions, and answered one by one like an intern interviewing for the first time.

Speaking of being pursued by a girl, he touched his flushed face and glanced in the direction of the kitchen.

"There are no girls chasing after me..." He rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Girls nowadays like Ah Xing's one."

"Him?" Cui Yuqin was a little disbelieving, "I always feel that he is getting older and older, don't you young people feel bored?"

With a bang, there was a loud noise in the kitchen.

"It's okay." Lu Yuxing was a little embarrassed, bent down to pick up the vegetable sink that fell on the ground, "You two continue to chat."

Lu Junxiong reprimanded: "Be careful, I will deduct your rice for dinner!"

Tang Tang tried his best to hold back his laughter, but was glared at by Lu Yuxing.

This delicate topic opened up the conversation between the two elders, and Tang Tang became less nervous.Lu Yuxing was cooking in the kitchen, and he could vaguely hear laughter coming from the living room, as if they were chatting happily.

At dinner time, Tang Tang helped clean up the tea table, spread the bright yellow checkered tablecloth, and went to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

When entering the kitchen, Tang Tang closed the sliding door smoothly.

"Thank you." With a smile on his face, he wrapped his arms around Lu Yuxing's waist from behind, and patted the pink dog on the apron. "Are you hungry?"

"What were you talking about just now?" Lu Yuxing asked as he put the last fried pork dish on a plate.

"Let's talk about you." Tang Tang hugged his waist, freeing one hand to help him hold the plate. "Auntie is talking about when you were in junior high school."

Lu Yuxing has learned cooking skills from famous teachers, even if he only learned [-]% of it, it is still enough.Tang Tang glanced at the delicious three-flavored soup and roasted pig's trotters, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Ah Xing, can I eat some secretly?" He quietly picked up the chopsticks and poked a certain pig's trotter.The golden sauce, sprinkled with scallions, flowed with his movements.

Lu Yuxing took his hand and turned him around, leaned over and took a bite on his mouth.

"Go," he handed the plate to Tang Tang, "Be a waiter obediently."

He responded to Tang Tang skillfully, and even he didn't realize that the relationship between them became more and more natural, as if it should be so.

In the living room, the political news was on the TV.After Tang Tang served all the dishes, Lu's parents and Lu's mother showed surprised expressions on their faces.

"Yu Xing..." Cui Yuqin couldn't believe it, "You did all of this?"

Lu Yuxing wiped his hands, took off his apron, and came out of the kitchen.

"Oh, this semester I'm helping the teacher with a food documentary," he made up a lie casually, "During the field investigation, I learned from the chef for a few days."

Tang Tang got up to help him untie the string around his waist, and skillfully hung the apron on the hook on the side of the refrigerator.

Lu Junxiong watched his actions calmly, and the expression on his face changed slightly.

"Really?" Cui Yuqin still had some disbelief in her eyes, she tasted a piece of fish, "It's really good..."

She chewed twice, and her eyes suddenly became a little wet.

"That's great," she murmured, "I didn't expect that I could eat dishes made by you."

Lu Yuxing stood by the sofa, looked down and saw the strands of white hair on Cui Yuqin's head.

He and his mother have only been together for 30 years.Of course, if it wasn't for an accident, it might take longer.

Looking back on those 30 years, he never cooked a dish for Cui Yuqin himself.Thinking of this, Lu Yuxing felt mixed feelings.

"Uncle and aunt, do you drink milk?"

As if sensing the change in the atmosphere, Tang Tang came out of the kitchen with a smile.

He took four bottles of iced milk from the refrigerator, the glass bottles jingled, and the air was mixed with some sweet aroma.

"Come on," Lu Junxiong raised his glass and touched Tang Tang's cup, "We will leave the trip to you during the Spring Festival. You guys had a good time in Canada, remember to take some photos and come back."

"What do you care about so much?" Cui Yuqin wiped the corners of her eyes and joked with a smile, "Tang Tang is not your son."

"Then admit one." Lu Junxiong didn't admit defeat, and waved his hand at Tang Tang, "Son, come and call your parents, I see that your Auntie Cui is still seeing you."

"...Ah?" Tang Tang blushed again, holding his rice bowl motionless.

Lu Yuxing was a little embarrassed and coughed.

"Dad, Mom, don't make things difficult for him."

"What's so difficult?" Cui Yuqin and Lu Junxiong fought each other, "I will come to see you at school in the future, and I will also have Tang Tang."

The tips of Tang Tang's ears were red, and his eyes wandered back and forth between the two elders.

Lu Yuxing saw it from the side, and resisted not going over to kiss her.He thought for a moment, then hooked Tang Tang's calf under the table.

"Then recognize one," he also teased Tang Tang, "If you don't recognize it, you will suffer."

Under the table, Tang Tang moved his legs away angrily.

He took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked at Lu Junxiong seriously.

"……dad."

He turned to Cui Yuqin again.

"mom……"

"Hey!" Cui Yuqin smiled, "Good boy."

After eating a meal, Tang Tang always blushed nervously, unable to taste the food.Whatever Cui Yuqin asked him, he answered.The couple didn't make a fuss when they knew his current job, they just encouraged him to do a good job.

Chatting until nine o'clock in the evening, Tang Tang washed the dishes and chopsticks, and the two of them sent their parents home together.

Lu Yuxing hailed a taxi at the school gate, and after saying goodbye to them, Tang Tang didn't intend to leave, and walked home with him.

Hong Kong City is like spring all the year round, but the evening wind in winter is still a bit freezing.

Lu Yuxing tied a thin scarf on Tang Tang, tightly wrapped his mouth and nose, and went for a walk on the playground hand in hand.Tang Tang was a little shorter than Lu Yuxing, and when he held him in his arms, passers-by saw him as a girl, and no one paid much attention to him.

"Ah Xing." Tang Tang stuffed his hands into Lu Yuxing's pocket, "Let's leave the day after tomorrow."

Lu Yuxing counted the days in his mind, "Well, there are still five days before New Year's Eve. Do you want to go there early to do business?"

"It's not for business." Tang Tang stopped walking, tiptoed sideways, and touched Lu Yuxing with the tip of his nose, "I'm traveling with you. After the Chinese New Year, there are so many relatives at home, how can I have time to date?"

His exposed eyes flickered. "Let's go to Niagara Falls."

Lu Yuxing smiled and pinched his nose.

"Tangtang, you can easily make me think too much." A smile appeared on his stern face, "Do you know that Niagara is a holy place for honeymooners?"

Tang Tang stared at him blankly, lowering his eyes, as if recalling some bad memories.

"...Let's talk about it then."

The author says:

I checked on the Internet, and it seems that honeymooning in Niagara was a fashion in those days...