Chapter 38: Meeting

After greeting Cheng Jingling, Li Jinsheng set his eyes on the king snake again, and took the initiative to greet with a smile: "The little snake is also there." ”

"Li Jishi," Wang Snake arched his hand casually, and said in greetings: "I didn't see you in Weili yesterday, did you just come back today?" ”

"Well," Li Jinsheng nodded and said, "I just returned to Weili from Guojiagou in the morning, and I was reporting to Yuan in the arrest room, when I heard that Gu invited Yuan to come and drink." I heard that there is good wine and good food, so I didn't have the cheekiness to follow, hehe. ”

In fact, according to the original plan, Gu Jinlai really didn't want to call Li Jinsheng, and the two of them have never had much friendship. It's just that when Li Jinsheng reported to Yuan Xulin, he happened to meet.

Gu Jinlai thought that he would be Cheng Jingling's superior leader in the future, so he just let Cheng Jingling know him in advance, so he brought him by the way.

Li Jinsheng also knew that he was added temporarily, but he could be a man and speak, and only said that he took the initiative to come to eat cheekily, so as not to embarrass Gu Jinlai and Cheng Jingling.

"Come, come, sit inside, sit down!" Seeing that everyone had come in, Gu Jinlai and Cheng Jingling began to beckon a few people to sit down.

Cheng Jingling noticed that several people, including Yuan Xulin, were very polite when they greeted King Snake.

It stands to reason that apart from him, King Snake has the lowest rank here, but everyone treats him as if he is at the same level.

I don't know if it's because of King Snake's high strength and strong ability, or because he has an unusual background?

Several people sat down at the table, and those who sat at the top of the main seat did not need to say that the ancient and modern times came. Cheng Jingling sat to his left, with the king snake beside him. On the right side of ancient and modern times, Yuan Xulin, Bai Shan, Wang Pengchao, Jiang Zhihui, and Li Jinsheng sat in turn.

After determining the position, Cheng Jingling did not sit down directly, but went to the stove room to serve all the remaining dishes to the table, and several people at the table chatted separately first.

The highest status among them is the arrest of Yuan Xulin by Jinyi.

Yuan Xulin is tall and thin, his baldness is a little serious, his nose is small and his eyes are small, he is about the same age as ancient and modern, but his spirit and spirit look much better than ancient and modern.

Bai Shan was a short and fat middle-aged man, with a sausage mouth, a long scar from the left side of his face to the base of his ear, dark skin, thick limbs, and a slightly bulging belly.

Yuan Xulin, Bai Shan, and Gu Jinlai didn't know what they were talking about, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time.

Next to him, Wang Pengchao and Jiang Zhihui were together and whispered, looking at the serious expressions of the two, they should be talking about work.

Wang Pengchao, the warden of the prison department, is tall and strong, with the same dark skin as Bai Shan, but with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looks quite righteous and majestic.

Jiang Zhihui, the left minister of the government, is dressed as a weak scholar, with fair skin and a handsome face, a short beard hanging down on his chest, his eyes are bright, and the corners of his mouth are often smiling, and he looks like a very kind person at a glance.

Li Jinsheng, who was sitting at the end of the table, was not familiar with Wang Pengchao and Jiang Zhihui, and was too far away from Yuan Xulin from Gu Jinlai and Yuan Xulin, and he couldn't talk to anyone for a while.

Fortunately, there was a king snake on the other side, and the two chatted without saying a word, which was not too embarrassing.

Knock Knock Knock –

The knock on the door sounded again, and Cheng Jingling, who was just about to serve the last two dishes, hurriedly opened the door, only to see Bai Qianqian and Liu Qingyan, who had already changed their clothes, two beauties standing at the door.

Bai Qianqian changed into a plain white brocade skirt, her hair was recombed into a weeping moon hairpin, and her face was just a light powder on her face that was enough to be amazing, and Tingting stood in the blue-gray alley, like a white lotus blooming on the silt, swaying in the wind.

"Big brother, I'm back again!" Liu Qingyan happily greeted Cheng Jingling.

"Welcome to Yanyan," touching Liu Qingyan's head, Cheng Jingling looked at Bai Qianqian again, made a gesture of please, and said, "Please come in, Aunt Bai, grandpa, they just arrived." ”

"Hmm."

Responding gently, Bai Qianqian took Liu Qingyan by the hand and walked in slowly.

With the arrival of Bai Qianqian, the somewhat noisy dining table gradually quieted down.

Yuan Xulin and the others all looked at Bai Qianqian's mother and daughter, showing a kind smile, and at the same time quietly paying attention to the reactions of the past and the present.

Walking to the dining table, Bai Qianqian bent over and said softly to everyone: "Qianqian has seen all uncles, adults, Uncle Gu, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you still well?" ”

Bai Qianqian looked at the eyes of the ancient and modern generations, the ancient and modern times were already with tears in their eyes at this time, looked at Bai Qianqian, and then looked at Liu Qingyan, and responded tremblingly: "Okay...... It's okay, Qianqian, this is Yanyan, I ......"

"Yanyan, this is your grandfather, called grandpa." Bai Qianqian bowed her head and said to Liu Qingyan.

"Master, grandpa......" Liu Qingyan hid half of his body behind Bai Qianqian, stared at the ancient and modern with big ignorant and curious eyes, and called timidly.

"Hey! Good granddaughter, come to grandpa and let grandpa take a good look at you. Gu Jinlai answered, and happily opened his hand to let Liu Qingyan pass.

Liu Qingyan hesitated, but shook his head.

In the end, it was Bai Qianqian who took Liu Qingyan's hand and walked to Gu Jinlai's side.

Gu Jinlai gently held Liu Qingyan's white and tender little hand with his rough big hand, and the tears finally couldn't stop flowing.

In fact, after careful calculation, it is Liu Sheng's father-in-law and Liu Qingyan's grandfather in ancient and modern times, and it stands to reason that Bai Qianqian should also call him a father.

But because Bai Qianqian's father is a close friend of Gu Jinlai, Gu Jinlai can be said to have watched Bai Qianqian grow up, Bai Qianqian has been called Uncle Gu Jinlai since she was a child, and even Liu Sheng was introduced to Bai Qianqian later by Gu Jinlai.

Therefore, even if Liu Sheng recognized Gu and Jin as his godfather later, Bai Qianqian still called him Uncle Gu according to his own habits.

I haven't seen each other for nearly eight years, they are uncles and nephews but they are like father and daughter, and they have a thousand words to tell in their hearts, but they don't know where to start, and they don't want to make a fool of themselves in front of everyone, so the scene was a little silent for a while.

At this time, Cheng Jingling happened to serve the last two dishes on the table, and the sixteen dishes on a table were all counted.

"Aunt Bai sit," pulling out the two chairs next to the king snake, Cheng Jingling broke the quiet atmosphere and invited loudly: "Come, sit here." The dishes are all ready, hurry up and eat, they are all hungry for Yanyan. ”

After arranging for Bai Qianqian's mother and daughter to sit down, Cheng Jingling lifted the wine jug and began to pour wine one by one.

In the end, Cheng Jingling, who was busy with his work, finally sat down and looked at the past and the present.

Although today is a banquet organized by Cheng Jingling and Zhang Luo, in the final analysis, it is still the home field of ancient and modern times, and he is the most senior present, so it is reasonable that he should mention the first glass of wine.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, he was not stage frightened in ancient and modern times, he picked up the wine glass with a slightly trembling hand, and said loudly: "All of you here today are my good friends from ancient and modern times. The first thing, Lao Gu and I recognized a godgrandson, Cheng Jingling! ”

Speaking of this, Gu Jinlai stretched out his other hand and compared it to Cheng Jingling, and Cheng Jingling also took the opportunity to raise his glass and salute everyone.

Then Gu Jinlai continued: "We are both lonely people, although we are not related by blood, but in the future, we will rely on each other like our own grandchildren. If my grandson encounters any difficulties in the future, please also ask your friends to look at my old face and help, I thank you here first! ”

After speaking, Gu Jinlai raised his glass and drank it all, and Cheng Jingling followed him to drink.

"Big Brother Gu still speaks so bluntly and openly! Don't worry, your grandson is my grandson, with the relationship between the two of us, nothing to say! ”

"Ancient, no problem, we'll see you later!"

"I recognize this nephew of Jing Ling, don't worry!"

Everyone else at the table was also very appreciative, and they raised their glasses and drank the first glass of wine together.

Cheng Jingling got up and filled the wine for everyone in turn, and when he walked next to Li Jinsheng, Li Jinsheng asked him for another bottle of wine, and said with a smile: "Jing Ling, go back and sit, you don't have to get up to serve the bureau, we just pour the wine ourselves." You go over there, just take care of Gu Gu and Yuan to arrest, and leave it to you Uncle Li and me here, and I will definitely take care of it for you! ”

After that, he also patted Cheng Jingling's arm and motioned for him to sit back quickly.

After Cheng Jingling returned to his seat, Gu Jinlai raised his glass again and said: "The second thing is that Lao Gu and I have been hiding all these years because of some irreparable things, not daring to go out, resting on my laurels, and being a coward!" I have snubbed all my old friends and relatives, and I ask you to forgive me! I did the second cup of old age, which is considered to be an amendology for everyone! Alright, let's start eating and see how my grandson is doing! ”

The words fell, and he drank another glass of wine, and then took the lead in eating a mouthful of food.

After everyone drank a glass of wine, they all moved their chopsticks, and the atmosphere on the wine table instantly became eager.

Cheng Jingling remembered that Liu Qingyan said that he wanted to eat fish, so he first used chopsticks to clip a large piece of fish meat and put it on Liu Qingyan's plate, and then sandwiched a piece for Gu Jinlai.

"Thank you, big brother!" Liu Qingyan saw the fish and meat he was thinking about, and his eyes were crooked with a smile.

After dipping the dipping sauce, Gu Jinlai put the fish meat in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, fresh Yuequlin, I haven't eaten it for many years." The sauce is made with Qianqian, right? I tasted it in one bite. ”

"Yes, Aunt Bai came to help early in the morning. Thanks to her, I wouldn't have been able to prepare so much by myself. Cheng Jingling responded.

Bai Qianqian didn't take credit, waved her hand and said: "Forget it, I didn't help much, I just followed the washing of vegetables and preparing materials, which were all chores." The dishes are all stir-fried by Jingling, and the taste is really good, much better than what I made. ”

All of you here are people of status and well-informed, but at this moment, there are many dishes on the table that have never been seen.

Yuan Xulin raised his chopsticks and went to a dish with a golden and attractive color, thinking that it was a vegetarian dish, but after putting it in his mouth, he took a bite of it, the outside was crispy and the inside was tender and fragrant, and under the crispy appearance was a fragrant and tender piece of meat.

He couldn't help but light up in his eyes, pointed to this dish and asked Cheng Jingling, "Xiao Cheng, what is this dish called?" How? The old man had never eaten it. ”

Cheng Jingling glanced at the dish and replied with a smile: "This is called pot wrapped meat, I researched it myself, does it taste okay?" ”

Naturally, the pot wrapped meat was not invented by Cheng Jingling, but he learned it by the way when he was training in a certain world.

But no one in this world will, he is the first to create, then he said that he invented it himself, and naturally no one will refute it.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and their eyes looked at Cheng Jingling with some surprise, only the expressions of Wang Snake and Bai Qianqian, who had known about this for a long time, did not change.

Baishan is obviously a glutton on the table, and he enjoys his appetite very much, and he has basically eaten all the rare delicacies from Tiannan and Haibei. When I usually go out to a banquet, I basically drink a lot of wine and eat less food, and I am already tired of eating the food in the restaurant.

But on the table today, there are many dishes that Bai Shan has never seen before.

I tried to eat them one by one, and the taste was very novel and delicious, and at this time I had just drunk two glasses of wine, but I had already eaten a lot of dishes.

After hearing Cheng Jingling's answer to Yuan Xulin's words, Bai Shan pointed to the dishes on the table that he had never seen with chopsticks, and said in disbelief: "These dishes are all studied by you?" ”

"Yes," Cheng Jingling smiled and replied as a matter of course: "If you can't eat good before, you will be hungry." I watched them cook, so I followed along, researched on my own, and was foolish. Then I researched these dishes, all of which were according to my own taste, and it was the first time I invited someone else to eat them, and I was afraid that they would not be in line with the taste of the elders. ”

"Delicious, delicious!"

Bai Shan put a large piece of meat in his mouth, gave a thumbs up and praised: "With your skills, opening a restaurant must be full every day, I didn't expect you to be a cooking genius." ”

Compared with the gobbling up of these vulgar martial artists, Jiang Zhihui is much more elegant in eating, chewing slowly, but he also praised: "It's really good!" Bai Dianying is right, with your craftsmanship, if you go to open a restaurant, you will definitely be able to make money every day! ”

"I said you could do it!" At this time, Yuan Xulin spoke up and quipped: "Jing Ling will be the mainstay of our anti-martial guards in the future, and you actually asked him to open a restaurant?" He went to open a restaurant, and our anti-military guard lost a talent, which of you can make up for it? ”

"Hahaha, Yuan's arrest makes sense!"

"It's our gaffe that we'll punish ourselves!"

There was a cheerful atmosphere at the wine table.

But after hearing Yuan Xulin's words, Wang Snake said very seriously: "Jing Ling is indeed a condescending talent to open a restaurant, with his talent, he will definitely have some achievements in martial arts in the future." You still don't know, there is no one to lead the way, it is because he peeked at the guards to practice martial arts, blindly cultivated and practiced the martial arts that he stepped into. Moreover, he is also born with divine power, and his muscles and bones are far stronger than those of martial artists in the same realm. With such talent, as long as you don't practice martial arts, no matter what you do, it's a waste of talent. ”

Oh?

If you practice blindly, you can become a martial artist!?

If this sentence was not uttered by Wang She's mouth here and now, and the ancient and modern times also nodded with a look of approval and triumph, several people must have thought that this was a fantasy!

This time, everyone looked at Cheng Jingling with even more surprised eyes than just now, including Bai Qianqian.

Bai Qianqian had long guessed that Cheng Jingling's martial arts talent would definitely be extraordinary, but she didn't expect that he would be so talented!

became the focus of the wine table, Cheng Jingling was a little embarrassed, so he scratched his head and smirked.