Free Web NovelChapter 2260: Chapter 2260: Competing for Favor
It was past six o’clock in the afternoon, nearly seven, and Junior Xie hadn’t called back. Lau Jingyun and He Xiangyu exchanged glances and sighed inwardly: Junior Xie Wanying was probably too busy to come back to Teacher Lu’s house for dinner.
Sitting across from them, Teacher Lu sighed directly, having long had a premonition that her new favorite would be quite a busy person. Now that it’s true, the inability to come and eat makes her miss her terribly.
With the last dish served on the table, tonight’s chef Zhang Huayao completed his task and invited everyone to start the meal, saying, "No need to wait, let’s eat."
Teacher Lu asked her son, "Did you save any food for Yingying?"
They subsequently learned that Student Xie likes fried rice.
"I’ve saved two full bowls of fried rice for her, keeping them warm in the rice cooker," Zhang Huayao replied to his mother.
"Is the fried rice you saved for her any good? Let me try a bit just to make sure," Teacher Lu said with concern.
This mother of his has pampered Student Xie to the extreme. Zhang Huayao grumbled his way to the kitchen, full of complaints, "I’ve never had this treatment; you’ve never taste-tested my food as your son."
"You’re in your forties, and you’re jealous of someone in their early twenties, aren’t you ashamed?" Teacher Lu habitually bantered with her youngest son.
"Mom, I will always be your son," Zhang Huayao replied.
In her son’s eyes, a mother will always be a mother. Just as in a mother’s eyes, a child should always be a child.
Listening to her forty-something-year-old son endlessly vying for favor in front of her, Teacher Lu rolled her eyes repeatedly, noticing her three grandsons were about to laugh their heads off.
"Grandma, eat some vegetables," prompted by their father’s gaze, Zhang Tian’an and Zhang Tianxing, the two brothers, helped their grandma by putting food into her bowl.
Zhang Shuping offered a bowl to grandma, ladling soup for her.
"You eat yourselves, grandma’s teeth aren’t good, can’t eat much," Teacher Lu told her grandsons not to busy themselves with giving her food but rather to take good care of the guests, saying to the guests present, "You eat to your heart’s content, if there isn’t enough, he’ll make a few more dishes, after all, he has nothing to do at home now."
Only Teacher Lu, his mother, could casually command Boss Zhang to work.
Hearing the instruction, Lau Jingyun and He Xiangyu picked up their chopsticks, eating carefully while keeping an eye on the bosses at the table. In fact, they both wished they could be called away by an outside call like Junior Xie to escape.
Dining with the bosses brings a lot of pressure. The bosses seemed not to eat much, watching others eat instead.
Fu Xinheng hadn’t hurried to pick up his chopsticks, as one of the surgeons of this former patient, observing the teacher’s dining conditions as a patient.
With too many dishes and meat given by the grandsons, Teacher Lu pushed some of the food aside, slowly picking up grains of rice, almost counting each grain as she ate, clearly having little appetite.
The teacher’s condition seemed a bit off. Lau Jingyun and He Xiangyu noticed from the side, feeling a knot in their hearts.
Perhaps it was the aftermath of the previous serious cold that devastated Teacher Lu, who was already weakened post-surgery. Or perhaps Teacher Lu’s health had already been declining before the cold, and the cold exacerbated this trend. It’s just that Teacher Lu’s cheerful and strong personality always gives everyone the illusion that she is much better.
Whether the patient’s condition is good or bad, the attending doctor knows best. The attending doctor has all the test report results of the patient’s body in hand and will never be fooled by some appearance. The current attending doctor for Teacher Lu would be her son, Boss Zhang.
As for others, they could only detect some abnormalities from observing the teacher eating at a time like this.
