After texting Mi Zhen at night, I turned off my phone and fell asleep. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info wanted to take another look at yesterday's note, but the moment he opened the drawer, he saw his father's ID photo in the center. I struggled to hold back my tears and quickly closed the drawer with a thud.

When I woke up the next day, it was not early, and the hour hand was about to point in the direction of 9. I quickly jumped out of bed, and after a brief wash, it was like running out.

"Do you have to work overtime today?" When I opened the security door, my mom happened to be back from a workout outside.

I shook my head: "It's a private matter. But I might be back a little later today. ”

"Is your boyfriend trying to comfort you?" Mom's gaze looked, how to say, there seemed to be some surprise. Maybe it's because I go out too often these days.

"It's just too impossible." I looked at my mother a little speechlessly, "As for my relationship, let's talk about it later." ”

The third visit to Mi Zhen's residence was already quite familiar, and when she was about to report the purpose of the visit and the residents to the community security guard, Mi Zhen came back from outside the community with a shopping bag. When she saw me, she beckoned me and asked me to come over and help her share the weight on her hands.

"Why are you letting me buy so many things?" As the two of us walked into the elevator, Mizhen asked me with a tilt of her head. Probably thinking that the contents were a little heavy, she strangled a red Dao on her hand.

I checked the contents of the bag with my peripheral vision, the ingredients I texted her yesterday. Mi Zhen did buy it all the same, but it looked like it was expensive, which made me secretly breathe a sigh of relief. "Don't you have a wet market here?" I couldn't help but ask, was it really a little distressing for her, although it seemed like she would never worry about such a thing.

Mi Zhen nodded: "Yes." But in the morning, I wanted to eat ancient cakes, so I went in the opposite direction to the vegetable market, and there happened to be a supermarket over there, so I bought it in the supermarket by the way? What's wrong? Can't you buy these things in the supermarket? ”

"Yes." I endured the heartache and said, "It's a bit expensive." ”

Mi Zhen wanted to say something, 'ding', the elevator door opened, and a man with square-rimmed glasses walked in, he glanced at Mi Zhen, and then looked at the rising numbers after the elevator door closed, scratched his head and said, "Ah, when I saw Miss Mi Zhen, I forgot that I should go downstairs." ”

The man's sensual words and greasy expression gave me goosebumps on my arms, Mi Zhen gently shook the bag, telling me not to complain on the spot, and then, when the elevator reached the floor where Mi Zhen lived, I was the first to jump out of the elevator, and Mi Zhen stumbled out of the elevator because of the shopping bag she was carrying with me.

"The air conditioning in the elevator is cold, right?" Mizhen gloated behind me.

"yes, yes, I've always had goosebumps." I turned around and pointed to the elevator: "Can you follow some good people around you, that gold-rimmed glasses just now, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a well-dressed beast, Sven scum." ”

When I turned around, Mizhen didn't react and almost bumped into me. She patted her chest, as if she was frightened: "Can you not brake suddenly, I saw that you suddenly stopped, startled." Think you've seen something! ”

"Are you afraid that Su Baichang will come to you?" The only person or thing I could think of that surprised Mi Zhen had something to do with Su Baichang.

Mi Zhen moved her mouth and didn't speak again, just took the key to open the door, I could see that my words made her unhappy, and after I hesitated how to coax her, Mi Zhen spoke first: "I'm not afraid that he will find me, but now is not the right time for me to show up." ”

"And when is the right time?" I asked her sneeringly.

Mi Zhen squatted on the ground and began to sort out the shopping bags, she put the vegetables in the stainless steel vegetable pot, raised her head and smiled at me: "At that time, you will naturally know!" But now should you help me deal with all the things you asked me to buy, I haven't done these things before, are you asking me to buy so many things so that I can cook for you? But I really can't cook. Mi Zhen spread her hands and made an innocent look.

I sighed, resigned myself to taking the vegetable bowl from her hand, and put it in the sink to wash: "How dare I ask you to cook something for me to eat." I was very upset about leaving you alone in the subway yesterday, and it was also my fault to yell at you on the street. You shouldn't lose your temper anyway, so I'm going to cook for you today as an atonement. By the way, you help me. I opened Mi Zhen's cupboard and took out a soup bucket from it, "Two-thirds of the pure water in it." ”

Although Mi Zhen wanted to ask me something, she saw that I went to clean up the beef bones she bought again, so she suppressed her doubts and obediently went to fetch water. The beef bones that Mi Zhen bought are pure bones that have been cut into sections and shaved off the tendons in the supermarket, and they only need to be rinsed with water to directly put them in the basin to remove the blood foam. I put the cleaned beef bones in another stainless steel basin and put about half a basin of water. After the beef bones were gone, they were put on the gas stove and boiled. "Help me skim the foam, turn off the heat when it boils, and if there is foam, put it into the empty bowl I just put next to it, and when I wash and cut the vegetables, you can turn off the heat."

I've been keeping my head down and dealing with the expensive vegetables that Mi Zhen has bought. Because of the boiling of beef bones, the whole kitchen was filled with a stuffy smell even when the windows were open, and soon a thin layer of sweat appeared on my forehead, and I wiped it with my hands, and I looked back at Mi Zhen, only to see that she was fighting with beef bone soup. Maybe the eldest lady hated cooking for the first time, and her movements looked very stiff and clumsy, completely lacking the elegant posture of a pictorial girl when they met for the first time. She also sensed that I was looking at her, and put on a distressed look at me, "I can't do it." She gave up her last resistance and put the spoon in the empty bowl, as if she was never going to do anything again.

I washed off the stale leaves that stuck to my hands with clean water, picked up the spoon and finished the work that Mi Zhen had not finished. When the gas stove was turned off, Mi Zhen kept clapping her hands and praised: "Zhizhi is so virtuous." ”

I continued to silently do the unfinished process. By the way, I put the soup pot that Mi Zhen had just poured pure water back on the gas stove.

Mi Zhen knew that she couldn't help much, so she poured me a cold drink. I took a big sip from her hand and sighed contentedly, "It's so cool." ”

"In the summer, you still need to drink cold soda to enjoy it." Mi Zhen also took a sip, and then narrowed her eyes in satisfaction like a cat.

"However, it is better to drink less of this unhealthy drink. In fact, homemade drinks are more relieving of the heat. You can go to the Chinese medicine store to buy some bamboo leaves, raw land, reed roots, tongcao and other herbal herbs, boil herbal tea and drink, if you feel that the taste is not good enough, add some rock sugar as a spice. Herbal tea is mainly able to clear heat and remove fire. Of course, there are also some herbal tea herbs that can eliminate moisture in the body, if you don't know the prescription, Chinese medicine stores usually have a good herbal tea bag, take it home and put it in the pot to boil and drink, which is very convenient. ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as my words fell, Mi Zhen frowned, and refused with a bitter and sad look: "Don't, I've drunk it, and it doesn't taste good at all." A friend in Guangdong cooked it for me before, and it tasted so strange and super bitter. After saying that, she stuck out her tongue and told me with an expression how bad the herbal tea she had been exposed to.

I put the processed vegetables on a plate, put the boiled beef bones in the soup bucket where the water had been boiled, closed the lid and turned on the gas stove again. While brushing the several stainless steel vegetable basins used to cook soup and wash vegetables before, he continued to come up with an idea: "So let you add rock sugar, honey is also fine, but you have to wait for the herbal tea to be brighter before adding it will not destroy the nutrients in the honey." "It's true that herbal tea tastes bitter, but adding some rock sugar or honey can at least mask some of the bitter herb taste.

"Does that smell weirder?" The expression on Mi Zhen's face was still a look of disgust.

"After eating, I will accompany you to the Chinese medicine store at the door to buy the medicinal herbs, and cook a small pot for you in the afternoon, I have cooked it myself, I think the taste is okay." I suggested, and Mizhen looked at me with a smile and nodded, kind of relieved.

"Zhizhi, you haven't told me yet, what are you going to cook for me?" Mizhen stood next to me trying to lift the lid of the soup bucket, curious about what was going on inside.

"Don't move." I hurriedly stopped her, "The temperature of the steam is very high, it will burn." Hearing me say this, Mi Zhen immediately took her hand back.

After tidying up the counter, I washed my face with water to cool myself down, "I'm just cooking ramen today." ”

Mizhen's eyes widened the moment she heard me say this: "Isn't it just a soup bag and some other stuff and then put the noodles in it?" How can there be" She didn't finish speaking, and then she was automatically silenced.

I knew she wanted to say that the steps I had prepared were too cumbersome, but I didn't blame her for anything, after all, there were really many people who complained that the steps I made to cook noodles were too cumbersome. I patiently explained, "You're talking about easy fast food ramen. In the past two days, I have seen that you always order takeout to eat, or cook your own unhealthy food such as instant noodles, so I want to help you improve your diet. Today, a friend from Jiangsu actually taught me this method, but he usually simmers chicken soup to cook noodles. But I prefer the taste of beef bone broth, so I improved it myself. ”

With that, I put on my apron, put the sliced carrots and diced celery into the preheated oil pan and copied them for two minutes, and then poured them into the beef bone broth that had been boiled.

"This is boiling beef bone broth, because celery and carrots are not easy to cook, so it is better to pass the oil first, and the carrots will be more nutritious if they are oiled. Now, let's put some more sliced oyster mushrooms, and after that, put in the sliced corn as well. That's why I want you to go to the morning market to buy ingredients, which will be fresher. ”

"Isn't the supermarket fresh?" Mi Zhen watched as I put the same ingredients into the bubbling beef bone broth.

"It's fresh, it's just too expensive. The money saved must be saved, and the money saved can be used to buy more good things to eat and do more interesting things. I put the lid on the pot again and said with a smile, "This is what my father told me before he died." Including this soup, it is also a taste that my father likes. Although everyone cooks noodles, and the noodles may be made with the same type of noodles, the soup ingredients are different, and the taste will be different. It's like the White Snake necklace you told me, in fact, there are too many necklaces made of white gold and diamonds, which are not unusual, and there are not a few necklaces older than the White Snake. But the furnishings are different because of the stories that happened behind him. I wanted to know these stories, and I wanted to know the story between Dad and it, and to learn more about Daddy, which is why I wanted to find it. ”