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In the early summer season, there are almost all kinds of dishes, and the variety is dizzying. Li Huatong is responsible for selection, and Xu Ruobin is responsible for carrying things. According to the menu that has been prepared a long time ago, spinach, lettuce, enoki mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, white tofu, white radish, winter melon, etc., come a little bit of the same, and after a while, Xu Ruobin is already full of big bags and small bags. After buying all the vegetables, the two of them rode to Gu Haoyu's house.

Gu Haoyu has a well-proportioned figure and a delicate face, but he didn't expect to be a typical foodie. I haven't talked about a girlfriend yet, because he loves to eat, he spends a lot of his spare time studying cooking, so that the five bodies worshiped by these kitchen rookies are on the ground, and everyone respects him as a master.

When Li Huatong and Xu Ruobin arrived, everyone was already busy. When it comes to eating hot pot, Master Gu's knowledge should be popularized. He said that the taste of hot pot mainly depends on the recipe, and the recipe determines the taste of the whole hot pot. Many hot pots only have a salty taste, but what is in his hot pot is fresh, fragrant, spicy and slightly numb.

At that time, hot pot base in supermarkets was rarely seen. Xu Ruobin smiled and urged him: "Master Gu, everything is ready, are we going to operate?" Li Huatong glanced at the raw materials in the kitchen, good guy, he can name Pixian bean paste, dried chili, ginger, garlic, green onions, rock sugar, star anise, cinnamon, cumin, etc., and some can't be named at all, I can't help but admire Gu Haoyu from my heart. The master put on his apron and sleeve cover and began to operate it himself. Pixian bean paste finely chopped, dried chili pepper into a pot of boiling water boiled, take out and grind into mushrooms, ginger shredded, garlic peeled and peeled into cloves, green onions knotted, rock sugar crushed, star anise, sannai, cinnamon broken into small pieces. , wok on the stove, after the fire is boiled, pour in vegetable oil to heat, put in butter to boil, put in ginger, garlic cloves, green onion knot and stir-fry, then put in Pixian bean paste and glutinous pepper, turn to low heat and fry slowly, until the watercress water is fried dry, fragrant, and then put in star anise, cinnamon, cumin, etc., continue to fry over low heat, until the color of the spices in the pot becomes darker, put in rock sugar, etc., slowly boil over low heat until the water completely evaporates, the end of the pot is off the fire, cover and boil until the raw materials in the pot are cooled, that is, the hot pot base. Master Gu also had a narration while doing it, and Xu Ruobin was stunned and stunned. After coming to their senses, they stretched out their thumbs one after another to express their infinite admiration. It's just that when the soup was ready, when the master looked around again, he found that except for Li Huatong who was washing vegetables, several other boys had already gone to the living room to talk about the world situation. Master Gu shook his head and said, "You can't teach a child!" made Li Huatong laugh.

The most lively is of course when eating hot pot, where the boys drink beer and chat. In addition to sincerely praising Master Gu's superb cooking skills, the jokers crossed the sea and showed their own magical powers. Li Huatong took advantage of the chaos to consciously incarnate himself as a dedicated and diligent waiter, constantly shuttling between the living room and the kitchen, serving dishes for a while and removing dishes for a while, busy and happy.

When they get drunk, the boys can't control their tongues. Li Huatong vaguely heard some hidden things that he would never have heard in the past.

Li Yunfei, who always said that he was a passerby, talked about his girlfriend in college, and the two had a very good relationship, but because he couldn't stay in the same city during the graduation season, he was finally forced to break up. It wasn't long before the girl he loved was married to another woman.

Gu Haoyu, who is a superb cook, is always sad every time he mentions his grandfather. When he was 7 years old, his parents divorced and remarried, leaving a young boy in the care of his grandfather. Grandpa always kept the best things for him to eat, even when he was hungry. When Gu Haoyu graduated from college and wanted to cook the best food in the world for his grandfather, the old man died of malnutrition.

Li Huatong sat in the kitchen, in a melancholy daze.

Suddenly, Li Yunfei shouted at Li Huatong. She stood up, shook her head, sobered herself up, and walked briskly to the living room.

Li Huatong knew that this was Li Yunfei's speech. "Li Huatong sit down, everyone listen to me. He stood up, holding a wine glass, his eyebrows fluttered, and he opened his mouth to come: "I'm Li Yunfei, you Gu Haoyu, and you Xu Ruobin、、、、、、 we are not heroes, but we are also seven-foot men." Today we get together to eat hot pot and drink beer, this is our fate. We are friends, best best friends. He suddenly put down the wine glass, put one hand on Xu Ruobin's shoulder, and the other hand on Gu Haoyu's shoulder, raised his head impassionedly, and continued to speak: "The great leader Chairman Mao once said as early as 1957、、、、、" Several boys suddenly began to shake their heads and recite in unison: "The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis, it is yours." You young people are full of vigor and prosperity, like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and hope is pinned on you. The others stopped, and Li Yunfei continued: "So, friends, let the past fuck pass, our Confucius looked at the mighty and surging river on the river bank and said, "The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night." But everyone still has to believe in the words of the great leader Chairman Mao: look at the past, count the romantic figures, and look at the present. Everybody's done!"

It seemed that he was really drunk, and after giving a speech, the wine in the cup was poured into his mouth, and several people were lying on the table with all the strength of the wine. Li Huatong stabbed Xu Ruobin, shouting his name, while secretly surprising in his heart, this guy has always been gentle as jade, but today he has changed his polite appearance in the past, and turned into a bold and righteous man, which Li Huatong has never seen.

Xu Ruobin blocked it with his hand, and muttered a dream: "Tongtong, don't make trouble!" and continued to sleep. Li Huatong is a little strange, Xu Ruobin called her Li Huatong, and also called her Xiaotong with her family, but never called her "Tongtong". Could it be that wine makes men more gentle. Li Huatong suddenly had a tender sweetness in her heart, she looked at him with love, reached out to his armpit and scratched it a few times, haha, he finally woke up. He rubbed his eyes vigorously and got up, but staggered before finally standing firm. He woke up his master, Gu Haoyu, and woke up the other two people. It was late at night, and it was almost impossible to clean up the mess, so everyone apologized to Lao Gu one after another, and then said goodbye and went home.

Even though it was early summer, the late night wind still carried a slight coolness. The cool breeze was blowing, and Xu Ruobin was much more sober at this time. Along the way, he rode calmly, carefully bypassing the small bumps in the road under the street lights, trying not to let the car bump. Li Huatong sat in the back seat, making fun of Xu Ruobin's drunkenness just now, while secretly recalling the gentle "Tongtong don't make trouble" in his heart.

With great happiness, Li Huatong returned to his hut, dreamless all night, and slept until dawn.