Chapter 173: Virtuous Lady Design
After many years, Mother Chen actually risked her life for this very satisfied son-in-law and set foot in the kitchen again.
Even Chen Lai was shocked when he saw this scene.
In the past, my mother was busy at work, so most of the food at home was brought back from the employees. Even if she was cooking, only my father would often set foot in the kitchen for so many years.
However, she hadn't cooked in more than ten years, and she didn't even know where the kitchen utensils were, making a lot of noise.
From the time Gu Yan entered the village until now, he never expected that the person who was most hostile to him would be Chen Lai, who had always said in front of him that he had the best temper and the gentlest father. From the moment he entered the village and sat down until now, he had always kept a serious face.
Staring at him, his gaze was like a laser scanner, looking him up and down, as if he was looking at a liar or a scumbag.
He mentally re-counted his past glorious "accomplishments". Whether it was out of sincerity or not, he had indeed done such things as wandering around flowers and spending huge sums of money to make Beauties smile. Which club had the prettiest girl, which underground club had the prettiest girl?
The beauty queen at the midnight show looks good, and he is a pretty girl. Even if he still retains some of his own bottom line and has not slept with her, only he knows that this is not a man's virtue.
Which father would be willing to hand over his daughter to such a man?
He began to fidget, scratching his ears and cheeks, touching his hair, nose and ears, feeling uneasy all the time. He tried to reflect on himself, from head to toe, whether it was his clothes or which sentence he said wrong, what was exposed?
The secret contest between two men, one old and one young, is still going on. Of course, in Chen Lai's eyes, it is simply the result of his father's powerful unilateral psychological offensive.
"Peng!" A loud noise came from the kitchen.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Lai rushed to the kitchen, only to see his mother covering her hands as if the thermos bottle had exploded.
"Auntie, are you okay?"
Gu Yan took the opportunity to leave his seat and ran away, but was suppressed by Chen's father's eyes.
He had just stood up and was about to leave, but he retracted his feet very obediently. He kept his legs together, put his hands on his knees, lowered his head, and sat on the small bench, rubbing the pants on his thighs back and forth.
The security man standing on the platform like a wall of people behind him stood expressionless.
"Dad, the kettle is broken, and Mom's hand is lying on it."
Along with the sound of running water, Chen Lai's anxious voice came from the kitchen.
"Really? Hurry up and rinse with cold water!"
Father Chen was willing to stand up, folded his arms, and stared at Gu Yan for a long time. He turned around, took three steps and then two steps, and trotted into the kitchen to check on his wife.
"I've been burned like this, but you still have the leisure to sit there, motionless?"
Mother Chen held up her red hands and rinsed them under cold water. She turned around and heard Father Chen's footsteps coming in, and complained.
"Then what are you doing in the kitchen when you have nothing to do? Aren't I always here to cook? Why are you messing around when you have nothing to do?"
"Is it okay? Go to the hospital for a checkup?"
"What kind of hospital should I go to if I'm celebrating the Chinese New Year? Just wipe off the ointment and it'll be fine. You can cook the food!"
Feeling that the pain was no longer so painful, Mother Chen turned off the faucet with a look of displeasure, and Chen Lai held the burned hand, acting like an old Buddha who was being served. She shouldn't have done the kitchen work in the first place.
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"Remember to clean up the floor."
"You don't have to worry about it, just go and rest!"
Father Chen rolled his eyes at his wife angrily from behind.
"Dad, be careful and don't prick your hands!"
"It's okay, girl."
Before Chen's mother left the kitchen, she winked at Chen's father. Chen's father nodded impatiently. Only their decades of tacit understanding as husband and wife could solve such a riddle.
The mother and daughter went into the room to apply ointment, leaving only two men with tense relations in the living room and kitchen.
"Uncle, let me help you!"
"Need not!"
Despite Chen's father's cold refusal, Gu Yan still used his usual shameless skills to grab the cleaning tools from Chen's father's hand and clean them up very quickly.
Father Chen stood there, a little surprised.
This young man is pretty quick at what he does, and he shouldn't be a pampered young man at ordinary times.
"Is the mop the one you use to dry outside?"
After cleaning up, he looked up again and asked.
"Um."
"Okay, then you can go out first and I'll handle it!"
Finally, when he got the chance, Gu Yan had to seize the opportunity to show off his performance. Within ten minutes, he not only cleaned up the broken pieces of the thermos and the boiling water flowing all over the floor, he even got rid of the entire Chen family kitchen as a bonus.
The floor was all cleaned up. What impressed Mr. Chen the most was that he paid great attention to details. Not only did he wash the mop handle, but he also cleaned up the fragments of the thermos bottle liner on the cleaning tools.
This level of meticulousness is something Chen Lai can never achieve.
He is also a person who knows how to do things.
Slowly, he changed his mind about this boy who looked very unreliable.
"Uncle, what do you think?"
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his elbow and asked with a slight breath.
"Are you tired after doing so much work?"
Father Chen's tone was somewhat dissatisfied.
Gu Yan shook his head repeatedly.
"No, I'm not tired."
He looked at the pile of fresh vegetables and meat piled in the kitchen with great insight, and immediately suggested.
"Let me help you cook! I'm pretty good at cooking!"
Just kidding, he has hunted rabbits in a small closed mountain village and cooked with a large stove. The indoor conditions with gas are already very good.
"You are a guest, how can I let you cook?"
Father Chen coughed twice and pretended to shirk the responsibility.
"There's nothing inappropriate. Just wait and eat with Auntie!"
He took off his apron and put it around himself very familiarly, then turned around to handle the vegetables first.
Father Chen stood aside with his hands behind his back, like a leader reviewing his work. Looking at Gu Yan's skillful skills, he was convinced that this young man was not bragging.
"Boy, to be the son-in-law of our Chen family, the first step is to be able to cook."
"Because the women in our Chen family never cook."
"Oh~"
Gu Yan was busy with his hands and listened carefully to the teachings of his elders.
Washing vegetables, packing seafood, cutting meat, grilling garlic, cooking and spooning, all done in one go. Father Chen didn't help you from beginning to end, he just listened to what you said and watched like a professional supervisor.
More than an hour later, eight dishes were placed on the table, including meat and vegetables, as well as fish soup, which looked very good.
Even Chen Lai, who was sitting down, was a little unbelievable.
She really couldn't connect this tall man wearing an apron with the playboy Gu Yan.
"You did all this?"
Gu Yan rolled his eyes at her and subconsciously attacked her.
"nonsense!"
After being suppressed by Chen's father's eyes, he immediately became friendly and flattering.
Chapter completed!