Sweet and soft little girl, this is the first thought that popped into Ms. Shen Qiongyao's heart when she saw Xu Chunqiu shrinking behind her son.

This is simply the appearance of the girl she dreamed of, but unfortunately she only gave birth to Lu Xiu, a pig's trotter.

"Eh, you're not the ...... last time"

She looked at it fixedly, and then remembered that this girl was the one she saw at Lu Xiu's house last time, and she remembered Xu Chunqiu's name.

"It's Xiao Xu, right?"

Ms. Shen Qiongyao turned sideways to welcome them in, and was very happy to bring Xu Chunqiu slippers, a pair of soft flesh-pink slippers with rabbit ears on them.

She finished taking the slippers for Xu Chunqiu, took the little girl's hand and turned her head away.

Lu Xiu put down the things in his hand, and inexplicably had a feeling of falling out of favor.

"Mom, don't I have one?"

He lowered his head and opened the shoe cabinet, and found that his slippers were gone, probably because he had not been home for too long, and the housekeeping aunt had put them away.

Shen Qiongyao didn't look back: "What kind of slippers are you wearing, it's not that there is no floor heating, it's naked." ”

Lu Xiu: I only see the newcomer laughing, but I don't see the old man crying, who is the big pig's trotter in the end?

"Alright, don't poke that, come in. ”

Lu Xiu casually took a pair of his father's slippers and wore them, and silently followed him upstairs.

The Lu family's house is very large, the elevator in the garage only leads to the first floor, Ms. Shen Qiongyao took them up the stairs, the furniture is all mahogany, the handrails of the stairs are carved with delicate flowers, there is a platform between the two floors, where a small table is placed, on which is placed a bottle of bald plum, and a painting is hung on the wall.

It is a flower and bird picture of Ren Bonian, a painter of the late Qing Dynasty.

Xu Chunqiu stopped, his gaze almost glued to the painting.

The direction of the branches, the posture of the birds, and the finishing touch of a little red, she can remember that painting for a lifetime.

She had seen a fake of this painting in the storefront of Xu Lao in Liuli Factory, and the one hanging on the wall now was undoubtedly genuine.

Shen Qiongyao saw her stop and saw the painting along her line of sight, she explained: "This is when Lu Xiu was a teenager, his father took him to the auction house to buy it. ”

"The dead child had to buy it, saying that it was related to this flower. ”

Shen Qiongyao recalled the past scene and said eloquently: "At that time, we all thought it was fake, but we didn't expect that it was actually Ren Bonian's authentic work when it was later identified. ”

"It's just that the extra flower above was added by a later person, and according to the composition analysis of the dye, this one should have been added during the Republic of China. ”

Xu Chunqiu nodded in a daze, she unconsciously touched her eye sockets, and the scene of Young Master Lu pinching the thin wolf and drawing on her face jumped in front of her.

She seemed to remember the soft touch and the temperature of his fingertips when he rubbed the rouge with his thumb, and Young Master Lu's gaze fell on her, as if he was about to melt her.

Unexpectedly, after going around and around, this painting still returned to Lu Xiu's hands.

"What's wrong?" Shen Qiongyao asked her with concern.

Xu Chunqiu shook his head and obediently grabbed her arm: "It's nothing, Auntie, you continue." ”

When they went up to the second floor, it was just in time for dinner.

Lu Xiu's father was sitting on the sofa holding a book to read, and Xu Chunqiu politely said hello.

Lu Zongru got up from the sofa and nodded at her.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was on the table, the housekeeping aunt was busy serving dishes from the kitchen, Xu Chunqiu saw that she hurriedly took the handle to help get the dishes and chopsticks, and she just moved and asked Ms. Shen Qiongyao to press back.

"Sit down, it's the first time you come to the house, don't worry about that," Ms. Shen Qiongyao glanced at her own son, "You go." ”

Lu Xiu resigned himself to the kitchen and got the dishes and chopsticks.

The housekeeping aunt made a table full of dishes, and Xu Chunqiu was embarrassed to sit down, so she also got up to help move the dishes and set the dishes.

Taking advantage of the cooking, she found that the housekeeping aunt had made a plate of mapo tofu, and she was a little surprised for a while.

Isn't he incapable of eating spicy food?

Xu Chunqiu secretly glanced at Lu Xiu, and then quietly moved it away from Lu Xiu.

Shen Qiongyao was also a little unhappy when she saw the plate of mapo tofu, and she said to the nanny with some reproach: "I don't know if he came back today, let's remove that plate." ”

It turned out that he really couldn't eat spicy.

Xu Chunqiu saw that Lu Xiu's living habits were the same as in the past, and he felt an indescribable joy in his heart, as if after so many years, he was still the same.

As soon as the table opened, Xu Chunqiu only felt as if everyone at the dinner table was serving her dishes, one chopstick on the left and one chopstick on the right, and it didn't take long for her bowl to be sharp.

Xu Chunqiu lowered his head and pulled the dishes in the bowl, only to see Ms. Shen Qiongyao smiling and holding a small piece of pig's trotters into her bowl.

"Come on, eat more, you kid is too thin. ”

She hurriedly waved her hand: "No need Auntie, I really don't need it." ”

Halfway through the meal, the housekeeping aunt brought the freshly braised red crab.

Xu Chunqiu was about to reach out to help dismantle the crab, but Shen Qiongyao held his hand: "You don't have to move, let them dismantle." ”

Lu Zongru consciously dismantled the crab for his wife, Lu Xiu glanced at Xu Chunqiu's face, and also took a crab to dismantle it.

Ms. Shen Qiongyao nodded with satisfaction: "This kid's other advantages are not genetic, but he will hurt people like his father." ”

Lu Xiu dug out the crab roe for her, and the crab meat was put on her plate, Xu Chunqiu lowered his head and poked it with chopsticks, and his eyes suddenly became a little red.

Is this home?

It's so warm.

......

Outside, the crackling sound of fireworks and firecrackers sounded, and the Spring Festival Gala on TV was almost over.

"Xiao Xu, it's not early, wash up and go to bed early. ”

Xu Chunqiu originally planned to leave after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but when Shen Qiongyao said this, she was a little shaken again.

The apartment was cold, she was the only one, and she was a little reluctant to feel the warmth here, so she simply stayed in the good way.

Before going to bed, Ms. Shen Qiongyao arranged for her to sleep in the same room with Lu Xiu as a matter of course, and led her into Lu Xiu's room without saying anything.

After she left, Xu Chunqiu pulled Lu Xiu's clothes and couldn't help asking, "Your house is so big, don't you have a guest room?"

When she went later, she found that the other rooms were used for other purposes, cloakrooms, body rooms, and even a separate piano room, and Lu Xiu occasionally played the piano.

But this house is so big, it is a little inappropriate to have no guest rooms.

Lu Xiu said helplessly: "If you sleep in the guest room, my mother will definitely think that we are quarrelling." ”