After washing the dishes, Yue Ban ran from the front room into the canopy, "Boss, I put the washed dishes on the edge of the sink." She stood behind Huo Bai and said, and after speaking, she walked to the place where she was sitting before, and put down her sleeves all the way.

Huo Bai was standing by the oil pot at this time, and he nodded casually, "It's hard work." ”

Sitting back at the table, Yueban pursed her lips as she looked at the saury, which was already cold again, and the rain outside the canopy was falling heavily.

Yue Ban picked up the disposable plastic cup from the table, reached out and hugged the glass wine barrel on the table to fill a glass for herself, the white rice wine swayed slightly in the transparent cup, and a unique aroma of wine wafted into her nose.

She tightened the lid of the barrel and put it aside, picked up the cup and took a sip carefully, she had only drunk beer and rice wine for a month and a half when she was so big, but she had never touched rice wine and didn't know what it tasted like.

The first sip, Yue Ban felt that the taste was a little sweet, she looked down at the cup carefully, and found that there were still some white broken rice grains in it.

"How is it?" Huo Bai put a few meat balls that had just come out of the pot on a plate and placed them in front of her.

"Sweet. Yueban said softly while holding the cup.

Huo Bai smiled, looked at the plate of saury in front of her that had not been touched at all and asked, "The fish is cold, is it still hot?" ”

Yueban shook his head slightly, "There's no need......"

"Are you still going to eat it?"

“…… Don't eat ......"

Huo Bai used a toothpick to stick a steaming, golden meat ball and took a bite, "Don't you like saury the most?"

She tugged at the corners of her mouth, her voice a little dry, "I've never liked saury." ”

"Oh. Huo Bai didn't care much and continued to eat meatballs.

"Aren't you curious......"

Huo Bai glanced at her, "I'm not curious." ”

Yueban looked at the cup in his hand and was stunned, "Hmm...... Can I say that?"

Huo Bai turned his back to her, "You are free, when I don't exist." ”

Then she seemed to suddenly open the chatterbox, chattered and chattered, drank two sips of rice wine from time to time, and Huo Bai sat quietly and listened.

"I don't like it, and there are other people who like it, like to eat grilled saury with mint leaves and squeezed lemon. Yueban smiled bitterly, "Actually, I always wanted to tell him that it wasn't delicious at all, but he thought it was delicious in the world." ”

"As he said, I am not in the same circle as him, and I know that I have always been unconvinced, so I want to integrate into his life circle. ”

Yueban's eyes were hazy and looked at the cup in his hand, as if he was stuck in a memory.

"I ate whatever he liked, and I changed my major when he changed my major, and I never had a cat since he hated cats. ”

"I've spent a lot of my time with him, even if ...... He had no idea. ”

Yueban laughed out loud suddenly, "I was wishful thinking that I was closer to him. ”

"Then he said he liked slim girls, so I tried to lose weight. ”

"I also knew that his attitude towards me was no different from that of everyone else, that I was not treated differently by him, but that he was the only one who did not look at me in a strange light. ”

Yueban picked up the cup and took a big sip, "The way he looks at me is as important as how important I am, you know...... What was it like to be taken seriously for the first time?"

Her voice was choked.

"At that moment I really felt that I had seen an angel, who was sent by God to save me, and it turned out to be ...... It's all just my wishful thinking. ”

Reaching out and wiping his eyes, Moon and a half took a deep breath and continued.

"I confessed to him, and even though I knew that it was impossible to succeed, I still went with a kind of confidence that I didn't know where it came from, and I thought that it would be good to be rejected by someone like him. ”

Yue Ban suddenly fell silent when she said this, and just when Huo Bai thought that she didn't plan to continue, she said with a trembling voice.

"Later...... The school was full of rumors, and he didn't have a good face when he saw me again, it was worse than seeing a stranger, I was angry, but it was useless to be angry...... After all, I'm to blame ......."

"Who made me ......"

She gritted her teeth and continued.

"Who made me a person who didn't even have a chance to shout the word indecent. ”

Huo Bai could clearly hear that she was crying in the middle of the month.

"I regret ......"

"I regret it very much! Why do I think that person is good in everything, there are no shortcomings, I regret that I liked him for three years, I regret that I forced myself to like things I don't like for him, I regret that he became not like myself...... If...... If only there were regret pills in the world......"

Moon Half choked up, tears running down her cheeks and falling into the cup in her hand.

"I wouldn't have been so uncomfortable if I hadn't met him. ”

She drank the last bit of rice wine in her glass.

“…… I hate saury the most......"

Huo Bai reached over the tissue box on the table and handed it to Yue Ban, "Wait." He walked out with the plate of cold saury.

Yueban didn't know what Huo Bai asked her to wait for, she didn't have the mood to think, she was sitting on the stool, holding the tissue box, crying constantly, not crying, she just cried silently, and from time to time she choked a few times because she cried too fiercely.

"Taste it. ”

Huo Bai walked back with a saury that looked charred and crispy.

Yueban wiped her face with a tissue, looking at the saury in front of her in a daze, her voice was a little hoarse, "I don't eat saury." ”

"It's not a good habit to waste food, and it's okay to taste it, maybe you'll like it. Huo Bai took off his apron and put it on his lap.

Yueban shook her head and stopped again, and after thinking about it, she still reached out and took a pair of chopsticks from the cutlery frame.

The chopsticks poked at the fish, making a 'click' sound.

Picking up a piece of fish, Yue Ban stuffed it into her mouth, her mouth was full of salty, spicy and fragrant, and the taste was not at all like the saury she had eaten before, and she found that she did like the taste as Huo Bai said.

Chopsticks after chopsticks, except for the head and tail of the fish and the bone in the middle, there was nothing left on the plate.

Yueban pinched the chopsticks, looked at the fish bones in front of him, and suddenly laughed, "It's the first time I've eaten fish so clean." ”

Huo Bai reached out and pinched a meatball and stuffed it into his mouth, "It's not that you don't like saury, it's that you don't like its original method, so why don't you try it in a different way." ”

"Boss, thank you. ”

Huo Bai raised his eyebrows, "You're welcome." As he spoke, he ordered the plate of meatballs on the table, "Do you want to eat supper?"

Yueban put down his chopsticks and shook his head, and said with a smile: "No, boss." She paused, squeezing her fingers a little embarrassed, "That'...... Can I be your regular employee?"

"Aren't you still interning?"

"I ......"

Huo Bai stood up with the plate of meat balls, "You've eaten all the saury, what are you afraid of." ”

Yue and a half didn't speak, she watched Huo Bai walk back to the stove, and sat in place for a while before leaving, when the rain in June came, it was loud, but when she left, it was silent.

Huo Bai stood under the warm yellow light of the food stall and watched Yueban walk into the unit door opposite.

The hanging clock shows two thirty-four.

Huo Bai stretched, reached out and patted his face to sober himself up, and then picked up a rag to wipe the oil stains on the stove from the fried meatballs little by little.

After cleaning up the stove, Huo Bai took a broom, dustpan and mop, cleaned the food stall inside and out, and put away all the tools after cleaning.

He took away the plastic round table and replaced it with a long folding table, and the large freezer standing next to him was also taken back.

The already empty food stalls were even emptier.

At this time, Huo Bai took out a large pot and began to cook porridge, he was open until five o'clock in the morning, so there were often nearby residents who came to him to buy breakfast, but he did not necessarily provide breakfast every day.

Maybe yesterday it was noodle soup, today it was porridge, and the day after tomorrow it became tofu soup with oil sticks, maybe when he was happy, that day he would serve claypot rice.

After the pot was boiled, Huo Bai adjusted the low heat, put in the flavorful meat foam, and finally stirred it with a big spoon, covered the lid and left a gap, Huo Bai threw his hand away.

Then Huo Bai took out another dark casserole, and he was ready to treat himself.

This time of day is when Huo Bai is in the best mood.

Put the casserole on the side of the briquette stove, use a spoon to rip a full spoonful of lard, put it in the pot and melt it on high heat, wait until the lard is completely melted, and then add the ingredients he left in advance and stir-fry slightly.

After stir-frying the ingredients, Huo Bai reached out and put the fried meatballs into it, and then put in rock sugar, soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, star anise, bay leaves and a bowl of water, and then covered it and waited for it to simmer slowly.

Huo Bai walked into the façade room and took out a briquette stove, he didn't like to eat rice made with a rice cooker, he liked to use a briquette stove to slowly simmer the rice little by little.

After more than thirty minutes of rice stewing, Huo Bai took the cloth and brought the rice pot off the fire, and a rich aroma of meat came out of the dark casserole on the side.

Huo Bai didn't care about the casserole for the time being, he took a big spoon and opened the porridge pot and stirred it, if he didn't stir it from time to time, the porridge would stick to the bottom of the pot, and it would taste mushy.

Re-put the lid on the porridge pot, Huo Bai turned the heat to the minimum, and the faint flames stretched freely under the porridge pot.

Huo Bai took out the rice bowl and put the rice in the rice pot on the stove, and then the dark casserole was also held by him and placed on the other stove without fire.

The two briquette stoves were each put on a tea hanging by Huo Bai to boil water.

Lifting the lid of the pot, the strong fragrance was fragrant, Huo Bai took the chopsticks and picked up a meatball and blew it and began to eat his breakfast, after a busy day, he could finally sit down and eat a meal with a heart.

After sacrificing his five internal organs temple, Huo Bai stood up and walked around the food stall twice, as the saying goes, after eating, walk and live to ninety-nine.

When he returned from the circle, he found a long-haired woman in red high heels and slightly revealing clothes leaning against the bracket of his canopy.