Chapter 155: From Luxury to Frugality

That afternoon, Gu Xingzhao saw the uncle and nephew of the Xu family off.

When leaving, Xu Shisan got into the car first, but saw that his uncle was reluctant to get in, so he honked the horn several times.

Gu Xingzhao looked at Xu Ci'an, wondering why he didn't leave yet. Could he be staying for dinner?

Xu Ci'an asked slowly, "Miss Gu has a good relationship with the uncle Lu inside?"

Gu Xingzhao looked suspicious. Why did the young uncle from the Xu family ask Uncle Lu for no reason? "Better than my own father."

Xu Ci'an hesitated for a moment, "I heard that he will pass away in a few days, Miss Gu, why don't you spend more time with the people around you."

After leaving behind such an ambiguous remark, Xu Ci'an got into the car.

The second half of the sentence he didn't say was that if you don't spend more time with the people around you, it might be difficult to see them again in the future.

Gu Xingzhao took his words to heart. That evening, she invited Lu Bingwen to her house for dinner. She bought a lot of meat and vegetables, put on an apron, and took out her frying pan that she had rarely used all year round, ready to show off her cooking skills.

Lu Bingwen was waiting in the living room. He seldom came to the second floor. After all, it was the girl's own residence, and the furnishings looked complete.

Hearing the sound of "ping pong pong" coming from the kitchen, he stood up from the sofa several times, walked to the kitchen door, raised his hand and knocked on the door "Xiao Zhao, how about letting me do it?"

He knew very well how good Gu Xingzhao's cooking skills were.

Through the glass door, Lu Bingwen vaguely saw that in the kitchen, Gu Xingzhao had prepared all the vegetables and meat. There were seven or eight bowls filled with chopped green onions, coriander, minced garlic, and various seasonings such as cornstarch, oyster sauce and starch. It looked quite presentable.

At this moment, Gu Xingzhao was busy looking at recipe tutorials on the Internet while heating up the pan and adding the ingredients.

Hearing Lu Bingwen's voice, she held a spatula and shouted to the glass door outside the kitchen, "Just sit and wait. It won't take long for me to cook a few dishes!"

Seeing that she was in such a good mood today, it was really hard to interrupt her.

Lu Bingwen sat back on the sofa. Soon, the smell of cooking came from the kitchen, accompanied by the occasional cough of the little girl. He was silent for a while and took out his cell phone.

An hour later, Gu Xingzhao came out of the kitchen. The two sat face to face on the sofa, eating three meats, one vegetable, and a soup on the table.

After a busy day, she was really hungry and finished a bowl of rice in one go.

Lu Bingwen poured a bowl of soup and placed it next to her. "The food in this restaurant is pretty good. We also have the lotus root and pork bone soup that you like. If you're hungry next time, just call and order food instead of going into the kitchen."

"Okay." Gu Xingzhao smiled and felt a little embarrassed. He originally wanted to cook a meal himself, but he didn't expect that in the end, the meat was burnt and the vegetables were burnt, and none of them were edible.

Fortunately, Uncle Lu was well prepared and ordered takeout in advance, otherwise I would have nothing to eat tonight.

Lu Bingwen picked up two more pieces of meat and put them in Gu Xingzhao's bowl, "Eat more meat, you've become thinner."

"When I'm not around, there will be no one to watch you eat. You really need to eat less junk food like instant noodles. It's not good for your health."

Gu Xingzhao nodded while eating. Looking at Lu Bingwen's nagging, he felt that he was becoming more and more like the old man.

As she thought about it, she laughed out loud. It was nice to have someone nagging in her ear.

Lu Bingwen just watched her, knowing that no matter how much he said, it would go in one ear and out the other.

He knew that young people nowadays had their own way of living, but if he didn't give her more instructions now, no one would give her instructions in the future.

He sighed, "Don't take what I say now lightly. When I'm not around, you'll be alone."

Gu Xingzhao was drinking his soup and blinked when he heard this. "Aren't you only going to be gone for a few months?"

Lu Bingwen was so worried when he was only away for a few months. Wouldn't he be even more worried if he couldn't see him for a year or two?

Lu Bingwen was choked and didn't say anything else, fearing that Gu Xingzhao would notice something strange.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

Because the event was well organized, the customer flow of Gu Xingzhao's new supermarket continued to grow. The characteristics of the second floor also attracted many travel bloggers and local internet celebrities to visit the store. It was even featured in the local news, and business is booming.

Because she had to keep a closer eye on the family in the early stages, she would go out early and come back late every day. When she was busy, she would only have time to deliver some daily necessities and food to the Lu family every two days.

The supermarket business stabilized, the income was stable, and she could finally relax.

Having won the previous lawsuit, Lei Ping paid 250 yuan in compensation for mental damage and publicly apologized on all social platforms.

This lawsuit caused a brief stir on the Internet only because an insider revealed that the lawyer fees alone for Gu Xingzhao's lawsuit amounted to tens of thousands of yuan, while the compensation was only two hundred and fifty yuan.

These two hundred and fifty yuan made my university classmates laugh like crazy.

On the contrary, Lei Ping attracted a lot of attention online because of this incident. She started live streaming almost every day. In just half a month, she became a small internet celebrity with a beautiful and sweet voice and more than 200,000 followers.

The Internet seemed to have no memory, and gradually, no one mentioned the lawsuit anymore.

Guan Shun's lawsuit is still going on. It is said that Gu Chengzhang has pushed all the responsibility onto them, the mother and the son, and the couple has become enemies. Because of this, many problems have been exposed in the previous company's business, including tax evasion and even misappropriation of funds. He is bound to go to jail.

Gu Xingzhao had heard some of these things, but he didn't care much and didn't listen to them in detail. Anyway, they would have nothing to do with him in the future.

Lu Bingwen had set out on his trip more than a week ago. Although he kept saying that she didn't need to see him off, Gu Xingzhao went anyway. Unfortunately, she didn't meet him because Lu Bingwen left early. After that, he would send her some photos of the scenery along the way almost every day.

Because she was busy with supermarket business, Gu Xingzhao almost never went to the Antique Street. Instead, Xu Shisan would come to see her from time to time, occasionally bringing her a luxurious Xu family-brand lunch, and sometimes inviting her to the Xu family's old house for a meal or a midnight snack together.

Sometimes I would run into Xu Ci'an, and gradually, we became closer.

Gu Xingzhao discovered that Xu Ci'an was a very mysterious person. It was said that he would read books in the attic or feed the fish every day. He rarely went out and had almost no other social activities or hobbies.

Xu Shisan said that he was as indifferent as a chrysanthemum, had no pursuits, and was a very boring person.

During this half month, Gu Xingzhao's life did not have many ups and downs, but it was different in ancient times.

Because the ancestor came less often, the Lu family not only had less delicious meals, but the people who kept watch at night also had no special stove to cook for them, even with the mascot Lu Xingyao.

Lu Yang originally volunteered to keep watch for the special kitchen, but half a month went by without a single meal, which made him very depressed.

Maybe it was because he had been eating like crazy before, and now there was not much to eat and it was bland and tasteless. Xu found that her husband had actually lost some weight!

This gloomy atmosphere enveloped the Lu family. After all, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.