Chapter 447: Fried Pork Belly with Chili

Chapter 447

Lan Er's cooking skills were good in one aspect.

More importantly, the chili peppers the Mo Family had planted in the fields had matured over the past few days.

At present, the chili peppers were still green instead of having turned red, but using them to stir fry dishes did not affect the taste. On the contrary, there was a different texture.

Over the past few days, dishes made with green chili peppers appeared on the Mo Family's dining table almost every meal.

Although the chili peppers were spicy, they went extremely well with rice. The family members sweated profusely from the spiciness every day, yet they could not resist the craving for this taste.

The Mo Family had been running a cold rabbit meat business for over half a year. The sisters-in-law all knew that one of the most important seasonings for cold rabbit meat was chili peppers.

Seeing that the chili peppers had matured, everyone was curious why the ninth younger sister had not let them be harvested.

After asking, they found out that the chili peppers would gradually turn red after growing for a period of time. By then, picking and sun drying them meant they could be stored until next year when the chili peppers matured again.

Understanding the reason, the sisters-in-law then gave up the idea of immediately going to pick chili peppers.

Anyway, the vegetables grown on their own land could be eaten casually by the family, and there was such a large quantity that not only could they be used to feed the family, even selling some was fine. There was absolutely no need to worry that there would be no chili pepper seasoning to make cold rabbit meat next year.

On this day, in Old Lord Mo's courtyard, a stir fried dish of green chili peppers and pork belly had also been prepared. Everyone was about to start eating when Yu Er's voice sounded from outside the door.

"Old Madam, Master Meng is here."

When she heard Meng Huaining had come, Mo Hanyue shyly lowered her head and sat behind her eldest sister-in-law.

There were seven days left before their big wedding day.

Since settling the wedding date with her, Meng Huaining had not come to visit. If he had not been caught up with all kinds of matters, he would have come to see his future little wife earlier.

Following Lan Er's words, Meng Huaining had already walked into the main hall.

He was about to pay his respects to Old Lady Mo when he noticed an elderly man with innate dignity sitting beside her. Not only that, on either side of the elderly couple sat two middle-aged men with unfamiliar faces.

Meng Huaining was stunned. His first reaction was to look towards Mo Chuhan.

"This is our father," Mo Chuhan introduced.

Father?

Meng Huaining reacted quickly. Without overthinking, he hurriedly knelt before Mo Qing and Old Lady Mo.

"Junior pays respect to Old Duke."

Mo Qing was not unfamiliar with former Minister Meng at all. After all, the two had been colleagues in court for many years.

Although one had been a civil official and the other a military commander, they were both loyal and righteous people and had good impressions of each other.

As the grandson of Minister Meng, his character must also be quite good.

Especially after he returned to the northwest, everyone in the family, including his wife, had praised what an outstanding young man Meng Huaining was.

Now seeing the man standing before him, his etiquette done extremely properly, Mo Qing found it somewhat difficult to pick faults with him.

Then looking at his own precious daughter hiding behind her eldest sister-in-law while sneaking glances at Meng Huaining from time to time - if there were not so many people present, this girl would certainly find him to plead not to bully this young man.

Before meeting Meng Huaining, Mo Qing had thought of countless ways to make things difficult for him.

Now seeing his daughter's pleading gaze, in the end, he softened.

To put it bluntly, it was because he could not find faults with the other party, so he had no way to attack...

Although he had given up the idea of trying to make things difficult for his future son-in-law, Mo Qing still did not look very happy.

He pointed at an empty seat at the table and said, "Since you've come at the right time, have a meal with us!"

Facing his future father-in-law, Meng Huaining was still somewhat cautious. However, he deliberately concealed the nervousness he felt.

After greeting the elderly couple again, he obediently sat down in the seat Mo Qing had designated.

Old Lady Mo knew that her husband was being difficult with their son-in-law, so she introduced Meng Huaining to the eldest son and second son in order to ease the atmosphere and deflect everyone's attention.

That stubborn old man had been told countless times that their future son-in-law was an outstanding young man that the whole family looked favorably upon, yet he still would not approve of him.

Well, if he was unwilling to be polite to the young man, Meng Huaining could simply ignore him...

Seeing that his mother-in-law was bailing him out, Meng Huaining gave her a grateful smile.

At the same time, he also confirmed his previous guesses.

The sons of the Mo Family who had died were now all alive.

This was the first time meeting two uncles, so Meng Huaining naturally could not escape having to greet them properly.

Unlike their father, the eldest and second eldest brothers smiled and nodded at him.

Meng Hui Ning's mind which had previously been full of thoughts was soon distracted by the enthusiastic offering of stir fried pork belly with green chili peppers from the Mo brothers.