Chapter 1620

Flying Speed Chinese.

Lao Qi:...

"Do you find this interesting? Where is your backbone? Didn't you say that anyone can live without anyone else, and that you wouldn't compromise with anyone?"

"You have always kept your word; are you going back on it now?"

Nianyin asked: "Tell me the truth, is there someone else?"

Lao Qi did not hesitate: "No, I am not such a sordid person. If there were someone else I liked, I would tell you honestly."

Nianyin said: "Then I cannot sign even more. Give me some time, let me see if I can change. If I cannot change, then you can bring up the divorce again."

"I will sign it then, I promise I won't pester you."

Lao Qi:...

His jaw dropped in shock.

Nianyin wants to change?

Has the sun risen from the west?

But he agreed.

Deep down, he knew that divorce was not the ultimate solution to the problem, but merely a powerless resistance after being completely disappointed in the marriage.

If Nianyin could change, it was also a result he was willing to see.

Nianyin cooked a meal for her husband herself.

Although they were all home-cooked dishes, they were made quite well, and they were all things he loved to eat.

His wife still remembered his preferences; Lao Qi ate an extra bowl of rice more than usual. This was the long-lost taste of home, the taste of love.

While Nianyin was cooking, Lao Qi was not idle; Nianyin handled the ladle, and Lao Qi helped in the kitchen by picking vegetables, washing rice, and chopping the chicken.

It had been many years since they had done this; they had done it when they were first married.

Back then, they also spent more time apart than together, but both of them cherished the time they had together immensely. Whenever they had the chance, they would cook together, just like they were doing now.

But later, when they had more time together, that feeling disappeared.

Today's meal was exceptionally delicious. The spicy stir-fried chicken still had the original flavor. Even though she hadn't been in the kitchen for a long time, her skills hadn't faded at all.

Lao Qi said while eating: "This is what our son likes to eat most, just like me."

Nianyin remained silent. She owed Yulong even more than she owed Lao Qi.

From the time her son Yulong was small until he grew up, she didn't know what he liked to eat, what he liked to play with, or what his hobbies were.

Lao Qi suddenly said: "Why don't you make another plate, and we'll go deliver it to Yulong? The school isn't far anyway, it'll be just in time for dinner."

Nianyin wanted to say that she had to go to the hospital to see Mother in the evening.

But her husband's eager gaze made her unable to bring herself to say what she wanted to say.

"Okay," she agreed.

There was no more chicken at home, so the two of them went to the vegetable market together to buy a live chicken. The chicken vendor slaughtered and cleaned it, then put it in a bag. When they returned, they cooked together again, chopping the chicken and starting to stir-fry.

There weren't enough star anise.

Nianyin instructed Lao Qi: "Go buy some star anise."

"Alright."

Lao Qi was sent out, and Nianyin seized the time to call Mother: "Mother, how are you feeling?"

"I am very well."

Hearing that Mother was well, she felt slightly relieved.

She said guiltily: "Mother, I'm afraid I can't come to see you today."

Ji Yingjie said: "I wasn't planning on having you come anyway. Just stay home and be good. You don't need to come over for these few days. I have nothing going on, I am doing fine here. If something comes up, I will look for you."

"Mm."

After hanging up the phone, the star anise had been bought back.

The spicy chicken was finished, packed into a thermal container, and the two drove toward Yulong's school.

When Yulong saw his biological parents at school, the look in his eyes was no less than Columbus discovering the New World.

He looked very nervous and asked: "What's the situation? Why are you here? Did something happen? What's wrong with my mom and dad?"

His first reaction was actually to worry about Gu Zhihao and Shi Yuke.

The two were speechless; it showed just how unqualified they were as his biological parents.

"They are fine, we just missed you and came to see you." This was said by Lao Qi.

If Nianyin had said it, Yulong would have had goosebumps all over.

"They are fine, are you two okay? No, wait, there must be something wrong with you two."

"Why don't we go to the hospital and check it out? Wherever there's a problem, we'll get it checked; we can't let it drag on..."

Lao Qi:...

Nianyin:...

Their son was very sensible, but his way of showing concern was not very endearing.

If it were any other time, Nianyin would have scolded him directly, reprimanding her son for not knowing how to say nice things and for cursing them, and then mother and son would have started arguing!

For many years, it had always been like this.

But in the few days since Ji Yingjie had woken up, she had instilled too many different ideas into Nianyin's mind, and Nianyin had taken them to heart, so she didn't make a sound.

Lao Qi directly held out the food container and said: "This is what your mother made for you. When we were eating lunch, I mentioned that you also like spicy stir-fried chicken, so your mother went to the market specifically to buy a chicken, cooked it, and brought it over. Do you want to try some?"

Yulong continued to stare: "You ran all the way here just to bring me a dish?"

Years of habits are not so easily changed.

Nianyin said stiffly: "Is that not allowed?"

Better late than never to mend the fold.

"Fine."

Yulong smiled, a very sunny smile.

This was the first time Nianyin had seen her son smile, and he smiled so beautifully.

The family of three went to the Cafeteria and ordered a few more dishes, three bowls of rice, and had a reunion meal.

Yulong almost finished the spicy stir-fried chicken all by himself.

"Is it that good?" Nianyin asked, puzzled.

Her cooking was not too bad, but it was not very good either.

What was wrong today? Both Lao Qi and Yulong looked as if they had been starving for three days, wolfing down the dishes she had made.

"It's delicious, especially delicious." He continued eating without even lifting his head.

If it came to delicious food, with a Divine Chef for an adoptive father at home, what kind of delicacies had he not eaten?

But the significance of this dish was different; it was made by his biological mother, so he felt it was exceptionally delicious.

What was delicious was not the chicken itself, but the love, care, and concern contained within it.

These were the best seasonings in the world, a flavor that even the most skilled chef could not replicate!

Having received an affirmative answer, Nianyin blurted out, "I'll bring you more next week."

Really? The two of them stared at her in unison.

She steeled her heart and said, "Of course it's true, I keep my word."

After the meal, the family of three walked around the campus, treating it as a post-meal stroll; it was the first time Yulong had ever walked with his biological parents since he had grown up!

He always felt it was abnormal for his biological parents to come see him together; it wasn't a holiday or a festival, so something must have happened.

He asked again, "Is everything alright with you two?"

Lao Qi said, "Everything is fine."

Nianyin said, "Something happened."

"But it's good news, your grandmother has woken up."

Yulong blurted out, "A curse really does last a thousand years."

"Is that any way to talk?" Nianyin glared at her son in displeasure.

Even Lao Qi felt that this remark was not very appropriate, although he thought the same thing.

Yulong changed his tune quite quickly: "I misspoke, let me say it again, I meant it's really great that she could wake up."

A classic case of saying the opposite of what he meant.

Nianyin was displeased: "It was your grandmother who told me to spend more time with you, and you actually talk about her like that; it's too much."

"She let you come back to spend time with us? Did the sun rise from the west?" Yulong did not believe it at all.