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Chapter 683 He didn't threaten you, did he?

"Mom and Dad, has our house been renovated?" Lin Mo asked as he returned to the living room.

The changes at home were so great that it was hard for him not to notice.

Liu Ruyan was also a little curious upon hearing this, after all, it wasn't like she hadn't been to Lin Mo's house before.

Although she had only been here once, and Lin Mo's parents were not home when she came, it still counts as a visit.

When I last visited, Lin Mo's home was decorated in a very ordinary way. Although it was very clean, the furniture inside looked quite old.

But this time it was different. Although the size of the house did not increase, it was completely renewed. Everything that could be replaced was replaced, and some unnecessary things were even removed. The house actually felt much more spacious than before.

"Oh? Renovation? No, it's just that some things in the house were old and we replaced them with new ones," Old Lin said with a smile.

Lin Mo: →_→

“I was just back at the beginning of last month, and it wasn’t like this then!” Lin Mo retorted.

Comrade Lin: "Ahem, it was changed just two days after you left!"

"Are you sure you call this exchanging some things?" Lin Mo asked, pointing to a house he couldn't recognize at all.

In response, Comrade Lin chuckled and remained silent. Upon hearing this, his mother, Zhou Min, spat and said, "You're just pretending. So what? You suddenly say you're bringing your girlfriend back for the New Year. That's too short a time. If you had told me two months in advance, I would have replaced the entire floor."

Lin Mo: "If I had told you six months in advance, you could have just bought a new house, and the renovation would have been enough!"

Zhou Hui: "Six months in advance? Then you should do it in advance!"

"Uh, it's pretty good, looks nice." There was nothing he could do; he was just benefiting from the situation anyway, so what was there to complain about? He then continued, "By the way, the environment in our community is pretty good now, have you changed property management companies?"
I noticed the neighborhood is much cleaner now, and there aren't even any illegally parked cars downstairs anymore; there's a huge empty space!

Upon hearing this, Comrade Lin smiled wryly and said, "Your mother woke me up at four o'clock this morning to clean the neighborhood. Otherwise, do you think it would be this clean?"

Lin Mo: ? ? ?
"Huh? What about the parking space?"

"I'll go find someone to deliver eggs and cigarettes to each house, and they'll move them!" Old Lin whispered.

Lin Mo:
Sure enough, you can never imagine how much your parents will value it when their son brings his girlfriend home.

Fortunately, he lived in the city, not in the countryside; otherwise, given his parents' attitude, they might have built a separate toilet for Liu Ruyan.

While dealing with Lin Mo's mother's concern, Liu Ruyan listened intently to the conversation between the father and son, a smile involuntarily creeping onto her lips.

Although her family's financial situation was average, she truly felt the importance placed on her.

"Oh dear, Yan Yan~ why are your hands so cold, and you're wearing so little?" Zhou Min, Yan Yan's mother, said with concern.

Liu Ruyan lowered her head and smiled somewhat shyly, "I'm fine without Auntie, the clothes inside are quite warm!"

"Wait a minute, Yanyan? What kind of name is that?" Lin Mo complained.

This was the first time he had ever heard his mother use a reduplicated word. As her own son, he had never been called "Momo" before. But it was best not to call her that either, as it sounded like a chat app.

Hearing this, his mother, Zhou Min, glared at him and said, "I'm willing, it's none of your business. Today, for the sake of what you did, I'd better shut my mouth and not force me to slap you when I'm happiest!"

Lin Mo:
Well, what else is there to say? Call him whatever you want. Even "Yan Yan" is more cheesy than he's ever called her that.

"Oh dear, look at my memory! I was so happy! Come on, come on, come and eat. Auntie doesn't know what you like to eat, so please make do with this."

As she spoke, Liu Ruyan was pulled by her mother to sit down at the dining table. The table was covered with plates, and when they were uncovered, Lin Mo's eyes went black. King crab, lobsters as long as his forearm, fish, homemade fried potato balls, braised pork, stir-fried pork heart, and other dishes that were only eaten during holidays.

"Wait a minute, a king crab, a lobster this big? Mom? Are we rich?" Lin Mo asked, his eyes wide.

Although these things were quite ordinary to Liu Ruyan, this was the first time in his life that he had seen them on his family's dining table.

Hearing this, Zhou Hui glanced at her son, took a deep breath, and said, "Eat if you can, otherwise sit on the sofa and wait until Ruyan and we finish eating before you come over!"

Lin Mo was speechless, choked by the words.

These things aren't so rare anymore. Although they're just a county town, some seafood shops still have them, but they're not something that ordinary families can afford.

The ingredients alone for this meal must have cost several thousand.

Of course, while these are relatively expensive, they are still within his understanding.

But there was a dish on the table that he didn't recognize no matter how he looked at it. It was something that looked like ice cream, with blueberry sauce on top and a layer of snow-white underneath.

Then he pulled his father aside and whispered, "Dad, what is this? This is the first time in all my years that I've ever seen ice cream served on a table."

Upon hearing this, Old Lin rolled his eyes at him: "Get lost! This is called blueberry yam puree. Don't even mention you, I've only seen it once in all these years. This is the second time, made by your mother!"

"What? My mom has this skill too? How does it taste? Is it good?" Lin Mo asked with some concern, after all, he knew a little about his mother's cooking skills.

Besides, it's not Wednesday today, so he's never heard of this thing before. If it were Wednesday, he would have understood it at a glance.

"The taste is undeniable. As for this dish, the process is extremely complicated, and it will never be served except on extremely important occasions."

To put it simply, my friend's son got into Tsinghua University this year, and I saw him on the table once.

Lin Mo:
"So you're saying my mom made all of this?"

"How could that be? Apart from the one you mentioned, I did everything else. I almost worked myself to death!" Comrade Lin said helplessly.

Hearing this, Lin Mo felt relieved, since her father's cooking skills were obviously more trustworthy than her mother's.

"What are you saying? Are you going to eat or not? Come over here right now!" Zhou Min, Zhou's mother, shouted.

Seeing this, the father and son quickly went forward and sat down at the dining table, and Liu Ruyan then enjoyed the same treatment Lin Mo received at her home.

His mother kept putting food on Liu Ruyan's plate, saying things like, "Oh dear, look how thin you are, eat more!"
Don't be shy, just tell Auntie what you'd like to eat and she'll make it for you!
Come and try Auntie's cooking, see if it suits your taste!

Seeing this, Lin Mo and his father immediately stopped eating, while his mother focused on serving food to Liu Ruyan, barely eating a few bites herself.

In the end, Liu Ruyan felt embarrassed and repeatedly urged, "Auntie, please eat too, I can get it for myself!"

"It's okay, Auntie will peel shrimp for you. Try this crab. Auntie will pick the biggest one. Eat more. Auntie is happy to see you eat. Oh my, girl, you are so beautiful."

"To be honest, I still can't believe you've taken a liking to my son. Tell me the truth, he didn't threaten you, did he?" Zhou Min asked curiously.

Lin Mo:
Liu Ruyan: ? ? ?

"Oh? No, really, no, little Mo is excellent too!"

Although the two were talking, the amount of meat in Liu Ruyan's bowl increased at a visible rate, and soon it was all Maojian (a type of apricot).

Lin Mo listened from the side and felt terrible. Did he think that having an excellent girlfriend was necessarily a threat?
(End of this chapter)