護花近衛 - 第298章 關學民的私心 - 墨香閣

alty or too sour, or else too sweet; in short, not one had a normal flavor. Before taking each dish off the heat, Guan Xin would randomly add one more seasoning, and only then would it leave the wok. Watching Guan Xin bustle in and out, Guan Xuemin was delighted at heart. Such a virtuous, lovely, gentle, refined, well-read, and sensible granddaughter should surely make Wei Zhao linger and forget to leave, no? Then, if he came to their home a few more times, all those difficult medical questions of his could be answered one by one! And if he could become his granddaughter's husband, the Guan family could be assured of a hundred years of flourishing prosperity! Though the Guan family's present standing could rival the great clans, and even the heads of those clans treated the Guans with great respect, Guan Xuemin knew very well that it was all because of him! He was Doctor Guan, and so they elevated the Guan family's status. Everyone has their day of birth, aging, sickness, and death; to know a divine physician was to have a guarantee for one's life—this too was why the Guan family's standing had risen so swiftly these past years. But once the day came when Guan Xuemin was gone, the Guan family's standing would plummet. A Guan family without its divine physician would be no different from any ordinary minor clan. Though Guan Xuemin was not the sort to care about fame and profit, he could not help planning for his children and grandchildren. Especially this granddaughter—Guan Xuemin worried all the more. Finding her a good home had become the burden on his mind. Seeing Wei Zhao, Guan Xuemin thought of Guan Xin. If his granddaughter truly could be with Wei Zhao, the Guan family's prestige would not decline with his passing, but would advance another step! Guan Xuemin knew very well—what sort of divine physician was he? Wei Zhao was the one! And twenty years ago, that divine physician he had met... that was a true divine physician! His eldest son's family had already settled in Yanjing, living in comfort and wealth. His younger son and daughter-in-law were busy with business in another city, and only their daughter Guan Xin remained at his side. As for his two sons' lives, Guan Xuemin had nothing to fret over. The eldest son had little ability; he had merely borrowed Guan Xuemin's connections to make a good deal of money over the years, enough to support his family for a lifetime. For this eldest son, Guan Xuemin held little affection. Having tasted life in high society, the man was unwilling to return to this small place, Songshan, and came back only once a year at the festivals, which disappointed Guan Xuemin greatly. The younger son came back often and was upright by nature, only a little rigid. In business he relied on his own ability and never once traded on Guan Xuemin's name outside. By rights, with such a temperament, without background or backing, the younger son should have suffered in society—but his luck was good. In his early years he had met a benefactor, a legendary figure with connections reaching every corner. Sadly, this man too had vanished from everyone's sight in the same year as the divine physician who had once guided Guan Xuemin, becoming a legend... "Xin-xin, no need to cook so many dishes! Enough to eat is fine!" Watching his granddaughter run back and forth, bustling about, preparing a table of fine delicacies, Guan Xuemin grew a little puzzled. Had his granddaughter truly grown up? Had she begun to care about her own lifelong matter, wanting to show herself off before this young man of outstanding talent? "Oh... almost done, there is still one sweet-and-sour carp, it will be out of the wok any moment!" Guan Xin said with a smile, while secretly thinking: sweet-and-sour carp? I will let that young man of outstanding talent taste sweet-and-sour mustard carp.