30 Claim A Family Connection (2/2)

”Scrambled Eggs With Tomatoes please.” The two spoke in unison.

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The old master came and went in a hurry.

He didn't cook anything but had instead investigated a family connection with the Jiang family.

Professor Li's father was the uncle of the old master!

Not only was the Jiang family surprised, but even Professor Li knew nothing about it beforehand. In recent years, Li Mingyi had been very confused, sometimes sober, other times confused. When he was confused, he would ramble about his eldest son, his wife, Beiping City and Taifeng Restaurant. When he was sober, he refused to say anything.

It was Professor Li's wife who had told him that Li Mingyi would always talk about Taifeng Restaurant and the Salix Leaf-shaped Steamed Bird's Nest Soup a while ago, and that had led him to look everywhere for someone to cook it for Li Mingyi. Before he had found Jiang Feng, he had also found many others. Every time Li Mingyi would shake his head, he would not even taste the food.

If it wasn't for the fact that the old master had come to A City when Li Mingyi was sober, they wouldn't have recognized each other as well.

After the fall of Beiping, when Jiang Weiguo was a child, he had fled the south with his father and several elder brothers. Along the way, he had experienced man-made disasters, wars, floods, pestilence, and his father and brother had died of diseases one after another. His memory of his relatives had become very vague, but he vaguely remembered that he had a little aunt who had married a rich young master of Beiping City.

When Li Mingyi was young, he was the rich young master. He had suffered much during the War with Japan as well. He had two sons and a daughter with his wife, and his family was happy. But in his old age, he had experienced the pain of losing his son, his daughter and his wife. 50 years later, he had only his youngest son left.

After more than half a century, the two old men had finally met again.

Jiang Feng only knew that he had gone to class for a day, the old master had come and gone, and he had more relatives in his family.

But Jiang Feng didn't understand one thing.

”Why didn't grandpa finish making the dishes before he left?”

”The old master said that there was no longer any need for that.” Jiang Jiankang said, ”Both of them were so happy. It was no longer important whether he cooked or not.”