Not far away, there was a square table set up at the barbecue stall. It wasn’t very big, but it wasn’t small either, with one person seated on each side. The table was already laden with a variety of grilled items.
There were chicken wings, grilled beef, grilled corn, grilled pork ribs, grilled eggplant... Basically, they ordered a serving for five of almost every item available at the barbecue restaurant. The table was already not very big; now, it felt like it couldn’t hold anymore, with some of the plates even stacked on top of each other.
Lu Yulin sat opposite Song Qiao, while right next to him sat Chu Munan and Mu Shinian. Initially, he wanted to sit where Chu Munan was seated, purposely trying to keep Chu Munan away from his aunt, but when he came back from ordering, they had already settled in their seats.
Only then did he realize what Chu Munan meant by letting him order anything and paying for it.
Angered, he went ahead and ordered one of everything from that barbecue stall, causing the owner to look at him as if he had seen a god.
Lu Yulin was somewhat puzzled; he had looked at the menu too, and the prices of these items weren’t expensive. Each skewer cost only a few bucks, with the most expensive item, a fish, costing less than twenty dollars. The entire table of food amounted to around two or three hundred dollars.
He really couldn’t understand why the owner was so thrilled as if seeing a god.
Having grown up in the Lu Family, as the young master, everyone in the Lu Family treated him like a little ancestor, pampering him with everything handed to him, and living a spoon-fed life. How could he possibly understand the lives of those at the bottom of society? Official source ıs 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽
Especially those who depend on street stalls for a living, whose incomes are incredibly unstable, sometimes earning a few hundred a day, and sometimes none at all.
So when Lu Yulin ordered such a large spread, the owner was naturally overjoyed.
Lu Yulin was chewing on a skewer of grilled vegetables and fruits, his third one. The taste was good; initially, he didn’t have high hopes, but after eating, he realized the food here was no worse than those in restaurants, probably only differing in hygienic conditions.
Chu Munan was sharing funny stories from his university days with Song Qiao, who was listening intently while eating the barbecue and occasionally burst out laughing.
After finishing the skewer, Lu Yulin, with a skewer stick poking through the meat in his bowl, looked gloomily at Chu Munan and his aunt, utterly baffled if his aunt didn’t realize this man had ulterior motives?
Or did his aunt realize it and also fell for this man, wanting to be with him and planning to ditch his uncle?
After all, he had attended his uncle and aunt’s wedding as the eldest nephew just over a week ago, so he had seen and heard everything that happened there, including the annoying Murong Rui’s comments.
But regardless of whether those events were true or not, he still disliked Murong Rui and liked his aunt.
His aunt was beautiful, had a good temperament, and was very kind to him. Most importantly, his aunt was Mu Shinian’s cousin, so... he just liked his aunt.
However, seeing his aunt getting along so well with Chu Munan now, it was hard for him not to think otherwise.
Thinking this, Lu Yulin suddenly got a shock, his gaze falling directly on Song Qiao and Chu Munan, looking peculiar.
Hopefully... it was just him overthinking.
Just as he was about to continue eating barbecue skewers and continue watching Chu Munan, out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone walking towards them from a distance. Lu Yulin was immediately startled and then delighted, swiftly standing up with an expression of excitement.
Lu Yulin’s excessive reaction made everyone at the scene turn their eyes towards him. Song Qiao, slightly surprised, asked subconsciously, "Yulin, what’s wrong?"
Lu Yulin glanced at Song Qiao, then at the man slowly approaching them, and said with surprise, "Aunt, it’s uncle coming."
Song Qiao naturally knew who Lu Yulin’s uncle was, and even Mu Shinian immediately looked up towards her back and obediently called out, "Brother-in-law."