Chapter 1400 - 1427: Ever-Changing
Chapter 1400: Chapter 1427: Ever-Changing
Lu Xingshen drank the herbal soup as usual; today, the shop had changed flavors again, making medicinal cuisine.
For the past two months, the soup delivered every day had been different—sometimes fish soup, sometimes chicken soup, and occasionally pork bone soup. The ingredients and seasoning varied greatly, and it tasted different each time.
Lu Xingshen had a habit of staying up late, often suffering from stomach aches. Drinking the delivered soup made him feel noticeably better, and he was more energetic at work.
Having been a chef ten years ago, he enjoyed simmering soups, so he loved drinking them as well.
No one but his parents knew about this habit, yet the cook from the shop matched his taste perfectly.
Lu Xingshen carried the empty food container outside to hand it to Xiao Wu, but heard Xiao Wu on the phone in the corridor.
"Miss Jiang, Dean Lu has already drunk it, yes, you’re welcome."
...
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Wu felt the atmosphere around him suddenly drop.
He turned around to face Lu Xingshen, whose face was as ominous as a storm about to break, and was frightened to the core.
"Lu, Dean Lu, why are you out here?"
Lu Xingshen curled his lips, icy cold, "Who were you talking to? Which Miss Jiang?"
Xiao Wu was scared to death and held his breath, barely maintaining his composure as he replied, "No, there’s no Miss Jiang..."
"Do you take me for a fool?" Lu Xingshen’s eyes were sharp and fierce,
"Speak, tell me everything—who made the soup? Was it Jiang Tian?"
The fact that Jiang Tian was married to him was a secret in the entire jurisdiction.
Only Xiao Wu, who had been with him for five years, and his personal driver knew this, and Lu Xingshen only knew one person with the surname Jiang—Jiang Tian.
Xiao Wu knew he couldn’t hide it, so he closed his eyes and admitted his mistake, "I’m sorry, Dean Lu, I didn’t intentionally keep it from you. It’s just that you often work late into the night, which is bad for your health, and Miss Jiang happens to know how to nourish the body, so I asked her to make the soup for you..."
"You asked her to make the soup? Do you have such influence?"
Lu Xingshen’s eyes were deep and swirling, "Did she suggest it herself? Xiao Wu, I have told you before, you are not to betray or hide anything from your superior. Especially my work situation, you must not utter a word to anyone, did you take my words to be wind against your ears?"
With that, there was a snap as the food container shattered on the ground.
Xiao Wu trembled and stammered, "I-it was your mother who called, I didn’t dare not to say it, Dean Lu, please forgive me."
"My mother?"
The temperature in Lu Xingshen’s dark, cloudy eyes completely disappeared.
The next day, Jiang Tian immediately went to the nursery to see her son as soon as she got up. Lu Zhou was already six months old; for the first three months, Liu Qian had specifically taken leave to help her take care of Lu Zhou. Only after Lu Zhou’s hundredth day did she resume work tirelessly.
However, worried that Jiang Tian couldn’t handle taking care of the baby alone, given that Aunt Zhang was only responsible for cooking, they hired another nanny, Aunt Jiang, to look after the child.
"Zhouzhou."
Jiang Tian entered the room and saw her son was already awake, wearing a bib and sitting in the rocker.
Aunt Jiang was feeding him formula; Jiang Tian’s body was weak, and her milk had dried up last week, so Lu Zhou could only have formula supplemented with solid food.
"Mama... Mama..."
Little Lu Zhou’s chubby hands waved like lily pads, his white, soft face featuring large eyes resembling Lu Xingshen’s, smiling with curved eyebrows—it was simply beautiful and delicate.
Her son had a strong learning ability, and Jiang Tian loved urging him to call people. Although he couldn’t pronounce "mama" fully yet, occasionally he could manage a single syllable.