Chapter 232

The hot pot restaurant for dinner tonight was chosen by Han Juyou. Liu Muye followed her navigation and arrived at a university town.

Today is the weekend, and the university town is very lively, with groups of college students going out for shopping.

At Liu Muye's suggestion, Han Juyou made a reservation in advance, so after arriving at the restaurant, the three of them had their meal without waiting.

When ordering, seeing Liu Muye and Han Juyou looking at their phones, Chen Menglian asked curiously: "Why doesn't this restaurant give you a menu?"

"Mom, all the restaurants in shopping malls now use scan codes to order food, and few have menus." Han Juyou put the phone in front of his mother and said, "Look, quickly, what do you want to eat."

"So that's it..." Chen Menglian looked at it for a few times, waved her hand and said, "I don't know how to order, so you guys should do it."

"Okay, then... do you want to eat the mutton rolls?"

"Yeah, you order it, you don't have to ask me." Chen Menglian folded her hands on the table and looked at her daughter with gentle eyes.

Liu Muye also ordered some dishes, which were some of the things he and Han Juyou liked to eat when they usually went out to eat hot pot. He didn't know what Chen Menglian liked to eat, so he didn't order them and let Han Juyou order them.

After ordering, the mandarin duck pot base with mushroom soup and butter was quickly served on the table. After a while, other dishes were also served one after another.

Chen Menglian pointed to the bowl of red jelly-like object and asked: "What is this? It looks a bit scary."

"This is fresh duck blood. It is suitable for cold pot. It will be very tender after being cooked." The waiter on the side was holding the bowl of fresh duck blood and explained to Chen Menglian, and then asked, "We need to put the duck blood in the pot now." ”

"Okay." Han Juyou nodded.

"Would you like spicy hot pot?"

"Yeah, okay."

After the duck blood was put into the pot, the waiter removed the plate with blood on it, and then said to the three of them: "If you need anything, call me anytime."

After the waiter finished speaking, he went to do other things.

After the pot boiled, Han Juyou cooked a piece of mutton roll for his mother and put it into her bowl: "Mom, the base of this hot pot is delicious, and the hotpot roll is delicious. Liu Muye and I came here before Once.”

"Well, it's delicious." Chen Menglian ate the meat rolls brought by her daughter and praised, "These seasonings in restaurants are so heavy now, and they taste spicy after being rinsed."

Chen Menglian looked at the bowl of thinly sliced ​​mutton rolls stuck on the ice, as if recalling something.

She chatted with Han Juyou about the past with some emotion:

"My mother's family was poor when she was a child, and she never ate in a restaurant. When I was on a blind date with your father, your father took me to a restaurant once. The food we ate was mutton in a copper pot. There was ordinary boiled water in the copper pot, and the mutton was tender lamb. , fresh meat, slaughtered on site, sliced ​​in front of you, sold by the pound, a plate of meat for a pound, seems to be ten yuan a pound, very valuable, at that time the mutton in the market seemed to be only seven or eight yuan a pound …”

"But the freshly killed mutton is tenderer than the ones on the market. Roll it in the pot, take it out when it changes color, wrap it in dipping sauce and eat it. It's very fragrant and full of flavor."

"I remember that in hot pot restaurants at that time, tables were still shared, and the copper stove pots had to be charged for charcoal. Some people couldn't afford to pay alone, so they shared tables with other people who ordered hot pot. If you shared tables, the store would There is a copper partition stuck on the hot pot to prevent the meat from going to other people's side. Sometimes it is also common to have seven or eight men doing manual labor around a small pot. "

"Your father's salary was high at that time. He took me and we ate at the same table instead of sharing a table. We ate more than 100 yuan for that meal. There were seven or eight mutton plates on the table. That was the first time I ate meat. Until you’re full.”

"The hot pot has been cooking, the heat in the pot is coming out, and the view on the opposite side has become blurry, but I still remember your father's big and bright eyes... He was full of energy at that time... It’s obviously so…good, it’s harmful—!”

Chen Menglian let out a long sigh, her cloudy eyes filled with emotion about the past.

So many years of wasted time have long since made her completely disappointed. Of course she will not forgive Han Tianming, this hateful bastard. She said this with some emotion, lamenting the changes in human nature and the passage of time.

Yes, people will change.

Listening to Chen Menglian's story, the saddest thing was not Han Juyou, but Liu Muye.

What he just wrote down with a few random strokes turned into someone else's miserable life.

Sometimes, Liu Muye even wonders whether he might also be a tragic supporting character in a certain writer's work, whose role is to set off the great and upright image of a certain awesome protagonist.

If so, what he wants to do most right now is to break through the dimension, grab the keyboard, and rewrite the miserable first half of his life.

After the three of them were silent for a moment, Liu Muye was the first to speak: "Humans are inherently complicated animals. He has done his own evil and is not alive. God will accept him. Auntie, don't think too much about it. These things have nothing to do with you."

"I've seen it through a long time ago and let it go, but I thought about it again and complained." Chen Menglian raised her hand and slapped her other hand, and said with an apologetic smile, "I really do, too. Why are you talking about this on such a beautiful day? It’s such a waste of time, haha.”

After Chen Menglian finished speaking, she laughed aloud and got over the matter with a smile.

Because Chen Menglian was recovering from her illness, Han Juyou didn't dare to let her mother eat too much spicy food, so most of the time, she accompanied her mother to cook vegetables in a mushroom soup pot.

Chen Menglian had a good appetite today. She ate a lot of food and drank a little drink.

During the meal, in order to liven up the atmosphere, Liu Muye always deliberately provoked Han Juyou. The scene of the two people playing and fighting made Chen Menglian grin, revealing two rows of neat teeth, and laughed out loud.

This was the first time Han Juyou had seen her mother laugh so... so unbridled... since she was a child!

Han Juyou suddenly remembered that her mother was also a girl.

Yes, she should have laughed so happily, and she could have lived freely, but...

However, it's okay.

From now on, there will be no shackles on her mother, and she can live as herself again.

Han Juyou thought, tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, but a smile rose at the corners of her mouth - those were happy tears.

After eating hot pot, Liu Muye drove Chen Menglian back to the rented house. After instructing the nurse a few words, he drove Han Juyou back to school.

On the way back to school, the smile on Han Juyou's mouth never fell, and she was humming a song happily.

Liu Muye remembered that she had asked herself a question.

She asked: "Liu Muye, when do you think you are the happiest?"

Liu Muye said: "I don't know, because... I seem to be looking for the answer to this question."

"It's okay, I will accompany you to find the answer to this question."

"Why?"

"Because you have helped me find the answer."

Han Juyou said, grinning at Liu Muye, she looked at him, her eyes full of love.

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