Chapter 98 - Qing Shi

Jing Mansion.

"Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister-in-law. Grandpa, Grandma, Daddy, Mommy, big brother, second brother," Mo Xi and Jing Mo Chen greeted.

"Little Xi, you are back!" Yang Shu Ling jumped up from her seat excitedly and went to hug Mo Xi.

"Mm!"

"How's your mini-honeymoon? Is my son great?" Yang Shu Ling asked eagerly.

Mo Xi's face turned red when she heard Yang Shu Ling's questions, and she didn't know how to reply so she faced down to avoid eye contact.

Yang Shu Ling thought that Mo Xi was quiet because Jing Mo Chen wasn't very good at doing it, "Little Xi, I'm sorry! We should have sent Mo Chen to the hospital for a check before you two got married. Aye… Now that you two are married already and he… he… aiya… It's mom's fault for not being careful enough! Mom ruined your happiness!"

Mo Xi was stunned by what Yang Shu Ling said and she replied instinctively, "Mom! Mo Chen is great! You didn't ruin my happiness!"

The moment those words left Mo Xi's mouth, Mo Xi really felt like banging her head on the wall. She turned her head to the side as she sucked in a deep breath and her eyebrows scrunched up.

Jing Mo Chen chuckled and went to hold Mo Xi's waist, "Thank you, Mrs. Jing, for complimenting me! I will work even harder in the future!"

Jing Mo Chen's rubbed circles on Mo Xi's waist as he held her and squeezed her waist tightly for a second.

"NONONONO! Don't need to work harder! You are doing very well already!" Mo Xi shook her head and hands rapidly when she felt Jing Mo Chen squeezing her waist.

"Not bad! Mo Chen, seems like little Xi is very satisfied with you!" Jing Cang joined in the conversation.

Everyone in the living room laughed when Mo Xi's face turned red once again.

Mo Xi quickly went to the kitchen with the groceries and started to wash and cut up the ingredients. The servants in the house wanted to help, but Mo Xi said that she wanted to prepare the dinner on her own. Hence, the servants couldn't do anything but to stand at the side and looked at Mo Xi as she cooked. They were worried that Mo Xi would get injured and they wanted to help her whenever needed, hence standing at the side was the best way to look after Mo Xi without distracting her. The only thing they could do was to help cook the white rice.

Although Mo Xi seldom cooked, she was still able to cook very well. When she was in Country Y, she would cook once in a while when she needed some alone time to think or when she felt like cooking. In order to suit the taste of all of them, Mo Xi decided to prepare both western and eastern food.

She cut up some chicken and took out a stew pot. She filled it with some water and added in the herbs needed for the herbal chicken soup. She then cut up some prawn and cracked a few eggs to make prawn omelet.

She sliced the carrots, cabbage, and red cabbage thinly and placed them on a plate. She then made the sauce for coleslaw with mayonnaise, apple cider, and pepper. After whisking the sauce, she poured the vegetables into the bowl of sauce and stirred them together before placing them in the fridge.

She then cut up some ginger and scallion to make a simple steamed fish with light soy sauce and moved on to prepare sweet-and-sour pork with diced pineapples, cucumber, and red capsicum.

Next, she cut up some mushrooms, chopped up the garlic and sliced the salmon into bite-size pieces. As she boiled the spaghetti noodles, she stir-fried the mushrooms, garlic and added in some lemon juice before she cooked the salmon. Once the noodles were cooked, she took out the salmon and placed them on different plates and tossed the noodles with the sauce. She then placed them on the plates with the salmon. She then moved on to prepare a roasted chicken, pork chop, wedges, and fries.

Lastly, she stir-fried some chopped garlic with green beans, and snow peas with cashew nuts, carrots, and chili.

After she finished cooking everything, she then placed the food on the plates properly and asked the servants to help her bring the food out. The servants were still gaping as they were stunned from how well Mo Xi could cook. When Mo Xi was cooking, they could already tell how good the food would taste because the fragrance was extremely alluring.

Mo Xi chuckled and started to bring the food out and after a few seconds, the servants started to bring out the food as well. After bringing all the food out of the kitchen to the dining room, Mo Xi returned to the kitchen and placed some food on the kitchen table. Whatever food that was in the dining room were all present in the kitchen. Mo Xi prepared more food for the servants and since the servants would eat at the table in the kitchen, Mo Xi placed them on the kitchen table.

"My dear sister, where did you learn to cook all these from?" Lu Jin Xiao asked curiously as he gulped when he looked at the food placed in front of them.

"I learned it on my own. I had to learn how to be independent, so I learned how to cook on my own when I was in Country Y. However, I don't cook often since I often eat with London and the others. London often cooks for us and I only cook occasionally when I need to think about some case or things, or when I feel like cooking."

"So, you didn't learn how to cook from other people?!"

"Nope."

Lu Jin Xiao and the others had their mouth hung open and Mo Xi just chuckled.

"Let's start," Jing Cang said.

As they started eating, grandpa Lu and grandma Lu suddenly stopped.

Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu's eyes were filled with tears and their lips tightened.

"Grandpa, grandma, what's wrong?" Mo Xi could tell the emotions grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu had at the moment.

"Nothing. It's just… This taste reminded me of Qing Shi…" Grandma Lu said as a drop of tear rolled down her face.