Chapter 460 - 442 Eel and Tofu Soup
Xiu Juan’s and her husband’s fight, worthy of a Wudang martial arts showcase, could be hidden from their family, but by the next day, everybody outside was secretly spreading the word. There were all sorts of stories; Ye’s mother couldn’t stay out of the loop when she was out and about.
In the evening, when she returned home, Ye’s father was wearing an apron and stir-frying dishes, while Ye’s mother helped by picking vegetables on the side. It was inevitable that she brought up the incident as a joke to tell Ye’s father, "That Xiu Juan is no longer young, but she still has such a temper. I heard she beat her man until his head was bleeding, they even called an ambulance, and the police showed up too."
"Seriously? An ambulance and the police, that’s quite the commotion. We’re just next door, how come we didn’t hear anything?" Ye’s father was skeptical.
"Have you forgotten? We weren’t home yesterday afternoon, we went out shopping for clothes with your son-in-law, remember?"
Just thinking about how Gu Feng insisted on buying a whole bunch of clothes for them despite their objections, and even gave her a set of jade jewelry, made Ye’s mother incredibly happy, feeling extremely warm and affectionate towards him.
For her, a son-in-law’s filial piety was a hundred times more comforting than her daughter’s, "Right, Xiaoman mentioned last night that our son-in-law also loves the loach tofu soup, which is your specialty. Our daughter loves it too. Have you got it ready?"
"Of course, it’s ready. Look, it’s still keeping warm there. Something both our daughter and son-in-law like, how could I forget."
Even the loaches had been personally selected by Ye’s father who went to the market early in the morning, fearing Ye’s mother wouldn’t pick the good ones, and then he had raised them in sesame oil for a whole day. So Ye’s father was quite disdainful when Ye’s mother asked such a question.