To celebrate the safe return of her children and grandchildren, his mother, Lin Yulian, was in high spirits. After exchanging pleasantries with them, she began arranging the evening banquet and busied herself in the Ruyi Lotus Palace's kitchen.
Liu Changxu had also intended to help with the cooking, but his mother chased him out of the kitchen.
Left with no choice, Liu Changxu sent Lian'er, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue, all of whom knew how to prepare spirit cuisine, inside to help.
This time, his mother, Lin Yulian, did not refuse. With the five women's help, a sumptuous spread of exquisite spirit cuisine was ready by dusk.
Looking at the exquisite, tempting dishes covering the white jade table, Liu Changxu marveled inwardly. After twenty years apart, his mother's skill in preparing spirit cuisine had clearly improved considerably. Most of the dishes had reached second-tier top-grade.
To accommodate her grandchildren, whose cultivation was only at the Qi Refinement stage, his mother, Lin Yulian, had also specially prepared several first-tier supreme-grade dishes.
Having gone more than twenty years without eating his mother's spirit cuisine, Liu Changxu had dearly missed its flavor.
After sampling several of her dishes, Liu Changxu praised her repeatedly:
"Mother! Your spirit cuisine tastes wonderful."
"As long as you like it!"
Although Lin Yulian knew her son was deliberately flattering her, she was still delighted.
The whole family sat around the jade table, enjoying the food to their hearts' content and cheerfully discussing amusing things that had happened over the years!
Naturally, the most frequent topic was how Liu Changxu's children and grandchildren had been doing.
"Xu'er, during the years you were away, Yue'er and Feng'er both took concubines and gave you more than thirty grandchildren. Of course, neither of them has formally taken a wife yet.
"Only Yi'er