Chapter 14 Food Delivery
"Go ahead, go ahead. Yaya is at our house, don't worry!" Xu Mei waved her hand and let Li Luo go and get busy.
Li Luo found an aluminum lunch box in the cupboard. On it was a thin character "Ling" engraved. It looked like it was written by Ling Zhuoqun. The handwriting was just like the person, as handsome as Ling Zhuoqun himself.
Li Luo arranged the rice, and covered it with a layer of neatly stacked pork belly, and placed a few small rapeseeds on the edge. The braised eggs were placed in the space around the rice.
Perfect bento!
After cleaning up, Li Luo carried a small basket and placed the lunch box in it. She also put on a small hat to avoid the scorching sun.
After learning the address from Xu Mei, Li Luo walked along the muddy path and found the location of the farm.
From a distance, Ling Zhuoqun, wearing a white shirt, could be seen sitting among a group of men with their shirts lifted up high, listening attentively to their conversation.
"Brother Ling, I heard from Erzhu that you have a wife? I heard that she came to you on her own. Didn't you say she ran away before?" The dark-skinned man at the side said, wiping the sweat off his face with his old man's shirt.
"That's not her. This girl is the real daughter of the Lin family." Ling Zhuoqun explained with a smile.
"I heard that she's a city dweller, Brother Ling, aren't you afraid that she'll run away?" the man continued teasing.
Ling Zhuoqun's eyes suddenly turned cold and he glanced at the man. The man knew he had said something wrong, so he suddenly fell silent and started eating.
"Hey? It's almost noon, why hasn't Aunt Wang brought the meal over yet? Brother Ling, you're not hungry, are you?" a younger man nearby said again.
"Maybe something happened at Aunt Wang's house and they delayed him." Ling Zhuoqun looked up at the sun. He had eaten so much for breakfast this morning that he wasn't very hungry yet.
"Wow, whose daughter-in-law is that coming to deliver the meal? She's dressed up like a flower, looks like a fairy, and wears a little hat. She's nothing like the yellow-faced woman in our family."
The man at the edge was the first to see Li Luo and exclaimed in surprise.
There was a burst of exclamations, and the men around were like a boiling pot of excitement. They put down their lunch boxes and stretched their necks to see what the fairy the man was talking about looked like.
Li Luo carried the basket and carefully walked around the mud, came in front of a group of men, and walked straight towards Ling Zhuoqun. The men's eyes kept following Li Luo's movements.
It was not until Li Luo stood in front of Ling Zhuoqun that Ling Zhuoqun stood up in surprise. It turned out that the fairy these people were talking about was actually her!
He originally thought that even a fairy would not be as pretty as Li Luo at home, but who would have known... the fairy would actually stand in front of him.
The men around him looked jealous and nudged Ling Zhuoqun with their elbows: "What's wrong, Brother Ling? You already have a sister-in-law, but you don't want to introduce her to us?"
Li Luo lowered her head, two blushes on her face. She was still a little uncomfortable being surrounded by so many men's burning gazes: "I'm here to bring you food."
Li Luo put down the basket, took out the lunch box from it, and handed it to Ling Zhuoqun.
When he looked up, he saw Ling Zhuoqun's gentle eyes, looking at him with a smile. Li Luo was stunned for a moment. When he realized that he was distracted, he coughed twice and stood up straight.
"It's you who came to deliver the meal. Where's Aunt Wang?" Ling Zhuoqun looked behind him, and there was indeed no sign of Aunt Wang.
"Aunt Wang didn't come today. If Sister Xu hadn't reminded me to bring you food, I'm afraid you would have gone hungry today." Li Luo took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead and explained.
Ling Zhuoqun calculated the days and it was almost time to send money to Aunt Wang's house. No wonder Aunt Wang had been a little lax in the past few days. He should send some meat to Aunt Wang's house today as a way of thanking Aunt Wang for taking care of the children in the family for the past year.
It's really troublesome.
"Thanks a lot."
Ling Zhuoqun used his shirt sleeve to wipe the sweat off Li Luo. Li Luo lowered her head shyly: "Someone is watching us." "Try it, how does this piece of meat taste?" Li Luo's eyes were sparkling, as if the twinkling stars in the night were crushed in her eyes.
Ling Zhuoqun opened the lunch box, and the aroma of meat wafted out immediately. The men in the farm all came over to look at it with envy. The neatly arranged pieces of meat, as well as the braised eggs and vegetables, made it obvious that this was a carefully put together meal.
They work terribly in the farms, and not only do they have to use their wages to support their wives and children, but the meals they eat are also bland. How can they eat as well as the big bosses?
Sour and sour.
The men who had originally agreed to remain single together felt like they were stabbed in the back when they saw Ling Zhuoqun marry such a beautiful wife.
"Brother Ling, you are so mean! You have such a beautiful sister-in-law, and you are planning to keep her as a mistress?" Several bachelors strongly condemned and accused Ling Zhuoqun.
"This is Li Luo, my wife. Let me introduce her to you all. From now on, she will be the proprietress of our breeding farm." Ling Zhuoqun generously introduced Li Luo to everyone.
Afraid that Li Luo would be nervous, Ling Zhuoqun secretly held Li Luo's hand.
Li Luo also calmed down and nodded to everyone: "Hello everyone, it's our first meeting. Please take care of me."
"Brother Ling, don't you see how bright the sun is outside? You work in an office, why don't you bring your sister-in-law in quickly?" Chen Yuejin, who was standing by, said anxiously.
"That's right, sister-in-law, this tender meat of yours cannot be exposed to the sun. Let's take sister-in-law to the office and sit for a while."
Under everyone's urging, Ling Zhuoqun was indeed afraid of exposing Li Luo to the sun, so he picked up the basket, put the lunch box away, and took Li Luo to the office.
After arriving at the house, Ling Zhuoqun opened the windows for ventilation. Although he often opened the windows, he felt that the weather was much hotter than usual today.
Li Luo looked at Ling Zhuoqun's tie, which was still tightly fastened around his neck, as if it had not been pulled by the man at all. Even though the man was sweating profusely, he did not take off his tie.
"If it's hot, you can take off your tie." As he said that, Li Luo stepped forward and planned to help Ling Zhuoqun untie it.
Ling Zhuoqun stood up obediently and bent down so that Li Luo could reach his neck.
Li Luo felt amused and said, "Thank you, you are so thoughtful."
After taking off the tie, Ling Zhuoqun could finally breathe freely. Every time he felt annoyed, he wanted to pull the tie, but thinking that it was Li Luo who tied it, and thinking about the atmosphere at that time, he put his hands down involuntarily.
Just unbuttoned the wrist.
Li Luo unpacked the meal and placed it on the coffee table: "After you eat, put the lunch box in the basket and bring it back to wash it in the evening."
"Don't just stand there, come and try my cooking." Li Luo clasped his hands together, sat on the chair, and waited for Ling Zhuoqun's comments.
Ling Zhuoqun had tasted Li Luo's cooking skills before, and he was not sure how much better it was than Aunt Wang's. When he tasted the melt-in-the-mouth pork again, he found that the girl in front of him was like a buried treasure.
The deeper I dig, the brighter her light becomes.
"Well-cooked, delicious, with good color, aroma and flavor." After swallowing the food, Ling Zhuoqun looked into Li Luo's eyes and said slowly.
(End of this chapter)