On the matter of moving, Sun Hao said that he wanted to discuss with me, but in fact, he didn't give me a chance to refuse at all, and when he came, he had already pulled the furniture to my building. The two of us worked hard all morning before we finally stuffed the belongings into the two-bedroom apartment we had just rented. I washed up casually, moved the futon from the original room, picked a well-ventilated and well-lit room, and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already night, and Lu Xue had already prepared a table of dishes, which was very hearty. Braised pork ribs, moderately spaced, neatly placed, but the color is a little light, but when placed on a pastel plate, it reveals a kind of elegance and delicacy. Stir-fried melon slices, the oil is very little, the heat is a little light, the golden eggs and the emerald melon slices are scattered on the plate, more like gold and jade on a jade plate. The sweet and sour fish is heavier and heavier, covering the color of the fish itself, and the soup is more like a live fish from a distance, swimming in the plate. The only normal dish on the table is the minced eggplant, the two eggplants are staggered, the meticulous knife work, the scattered minced meat and the dark red soup color make it look more like a dish, if you only look at these, but the emerald green eggplant has deeply trampled on its honor as a "dish". Looking at such a sumptuous table of dinner, I suddenly felt a little full, what a table of dishes! It's clearly a table of art, which is what we call our mouths.

"Brother Xiaoshan, you woke up, just about to start eating, I was about to call you." Lu Xue was unbuttoning her apron and smiled when she saw me.

I nodded, turned to Sun Hao and asked, "You eat like this every day?" ”

Sun Hao shrugged his shoulders and whispered, "You'll soon get used to the feeling of being half full every day, trust me." ”

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Today's dinner should be the most difficult meal I have eaten in my life, every time I raise chopsticks but hesitate, unconsciously, subconsciously I have imprinted the fear of destroying the work of art, simply close my eyes, but every time I fall down. Sun Haohe, like him, didn't pick up vegetables much, and ate slowly. On the side, Lu Xue smiled lightly and held the dishes from time to time, with elegant gestures and precise chopsticks, and each dish would not have much impact on the original layout of the plate. The artwork is still a work of art, but the original realism is slowly changing, until it becomes abstract, and Sun Hao and I resolutely raise our chopsticks. As Sun Hao said, after eating a meal, he is only seven points full, and he can't say it, and he can't say it, which makes people very entangled.

After dinner, Lu Xue soaked a pot of Tieguanyin, sat in front of the TV and tuned to the variety show she loved to watch. "Voice 13 is a bit small, can you turn it up?" She asked, smiling.

I shook my head, "I also had a TV in my old room, you can go back and watch it." ”

"You didn't pay the cable fee for that TV, I'll watch it here." Lu Xue shook her head.

Sun Hao poured a cup of tea and handed it to me, "Xiaoshan, what do you usually do at night?" If you don't watch TV or the Internet, aren't you bored at all? ”

"Recently, I've been making black pearls with Xiao Yin." I said.

"Black Pearl?"

I nodded, and was about to answer, when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and Lu Xue hurriedly got up to open the door. "Is Brother Xiaoshan here?" The voice of a somewhat immature little girl came from outside the door. This little girl is Xiao Yin, Sun Hao and I happened to meet Xiao Yin's grandmother when we moved, and I told me about the move by the way. Xiao Yin's grandmother is an old man in her sixties, she is very kind, I always call her Grandma Lin, this should be the surname of his husband's family. A few years ago, her son and daughter-in-law decided to go abroad to work in order to have a better life, so only the two grandchildren were left in the family.

"Yes, you're Xiaoyin, let's talk about you just now." I heard Luxue smile in reply.

"What do you say about me?" Xiao Yin's voice was a little restrained.

"Say you're beautiful, and say you're a very well-behaved little girl."

"How can there be, my sister is beautiful." Xiao Yin's voice was a little shy.

"Brother Xiaoshan, can you start doing it today?" Xiao Yin walked into the house and asked excitedly.

I nodded, and said to Lu Xue, who was about to close the door, "Don't close the door, leave a gap." Then he turned his head to look at Xiao Yin, Xu was in an anxious mood, she was still wearing a school uniform, a little dirty, her shoulder-length hair was a little scattered, and her delicate little face was full of expectation. For a ten-year-old, anticipation is their whole world.

"Xiao Yin, have you thought about it? Although we only make models, each model has a life and a soul after passing through the hands of the producer, have you thought about it? Do you want to be mediocre or do you want to be a boutique? I asked.

"Can we try to do it first?" Xiao Yin was a little nervous when she heard my words.

I smiled and shook my head, "Do it or give up, without trying, whether it's a model or a life." ”

"Master Yoda's famous words, you memorize them quite well." Sun Hao laughed.

I didn't care about Sun Hao's teasing, I still looked at Xiao Yin's little girl's eyes a little flustered, rubbing the corners of her clothes in her hands, after a while, she suddenly raised her head and said firmly, "Make a boutique, my parents mailed me a model from a long distance, I must make the best one, put it on my desk to accompany me to learn and grow, as if my parents were by my side." ”

I nodded and said, "According to the retro method, we first need to deeply carbonize the hull parts, and then brush them with cooked tung oil several times. Although we have done deep charring experiments, the success rate is only 70%, which means that we have the potential to lose 30% of the parts. ”

"I've thought about it, Brother Xiaoshan, let's get started." Xiao Yin's appearance was a little eager to try, I shook my head slightly, and sighed slightly in my heart, the probability is academic, not gambling.

I took out a large casserole and put it on the battery stove to adjust the temperature, slowly put in some hull parts when the casserole rose to 90 degrees, took the thermometer and measured it carefully, and slowly lowered the temperature when the temperature of the casserole rose to 200 degrees, so that the temperature remained between 190 and 200. Seeing me and Xiaoyin busy in the kitchen, Sun Hao and Lu Xue were also interested, and they also squeezed into the kitchen to watch with relish.

About half an hour later, I turned off the battery stove and added a glass of cold water to the casserole, accompanied by the sound of water vapor quickly diffused, Sun Hao and others were nervous, and after the water vapor dissipated, I carefully took out the parts inside, the parts have changed from the original wood color to dark brown, the texture is more obvious, fortunately the parts are not deformed or cracked, the tension on Xiao Yin's original face suddenly dissipated, revealing a look of pride in winning the bet.

I shook my head slightly and put away the parts. Then wipe the casserole, turn on the battery stove again, heat up the casserole, put the parts, adjust the temperature, and then cool down with cold water, when the water vapor is about to dissipate, Xiao Yin can't hold back her excitement and hurriedly picks up the casserole, Xu was burned, her hand trembled violently, the casserole fell to the ground with a snap, it fell to the ground, it was torn apart, and the parts were scattered all over the place, Xiao Yin was stunned for a while, Lu Xue nervously grabbed Xiao Yin's hand, rubbed it, blew it, eagerly checked, and said some, it didn't hurt, it didn't hurt, not afraid, and so on. I crouched down and picked up the scattered parts, fortunately most of them were in good condition, and the rest of the problems were not too big, just repair them, the biggest problem was a gangway, which was completely broken into two sections. Xiao Yin looked at the gangway in my hand, tears fell instantly, turned around suddenly, cried and ran towards the door, and when she ran to the door, she stopped suddenly, turned to the corner, covered her little face with both hands, squatted down, her shoulders loosened, and sobbed aggrievedly.

I sighed, and was about to go over when I was stopped by Lu Xue, only to see her slowly walk to Xiao Yin's side, slowly sit down, hold her knees with both hands, and say softly, "Who hasn't broken something important when they were young, and who hasn't been sad and self-blaming and afraid." ”

Xiao Yin didn't speak, but still sobbed quietly.

"When I was younger, about five or six years old, I remember my mom always liked to organize her jewelry box, but she never allowed me to touch it, I remember that she had a very, very beautiful jade bracelet, and every time she picked up that bracelet, she was always so careful, so full of happiness. I've always thought that a bracelet with magical power can make the person who gets it happy. But my mother never let me touch it, she said it was passed on by her grandmother to her mother, and her mother passed it on to her, and she said that when I grew up, I would give it to me when I had a sweetheart. ”

Xiao Yin stopped crying, looking at Lu Xue aggrieved and a little timid.

With memories and happiness on her face, Lu Xue slowly narrated, "Although my mother said so, I still wanted to hold it in my hand, and I wanted to think about it very much, until one day, my mother went out to buy groceries while I was napping, and I was the only one left in the house, maybe it was the sound of the door closing when she went out that woke me up, maybe I didn't fall asleep at all." Anyway, I got up and pulled out the bracelet I had been fascinated by, the emerald green bracelet in my hand, cool, slippery, it felt as if I was holding my own happiness. I danced with joy, and I was too excited, and tragedy struck, and the bracelet hit the window edge and fell apart. ”

"And then?" Xiao Yin asked nervously.

"I was so scared, I felt like the end of the world was coming, and I hid myself in the closet and didn't look at the pieces as if nothing had happened. Then my mom came back from grocery shopping. ”

"Does she blame you?"

Lu Xue shook her head slowly, still softly and softly, "No, my mother took me out of the closet, looked at me with a smile, held me in her arms, and she said to me that no matter how much mistake I made, no matter how important something I broke, she would look at me, watch me get back up, watch me smile again, watch me find the right way." ”

"Then you haven't made mistakes since?" Xiao Yin asked hopefully.

Lu Xue shook her head, "Since then, I am no longer afraid of making mistakes, I am no longer afraid of being lost, I know that I will find the right way, although I lost the bracelet, I know that I will definitely get my happiness." Lu Xue muttered in a low voice, as if she was saying to Xiao Yin, and as if she was talking to herself, her eyes were full of longing.

I leaned against the kitchen door frame and watched Lu Xue whisper happily, looking at her eyes that floated deep into the kitchen behind me, scattered and focused with longing and anticipation. At that moment, I suddenly felt that she was very beautiful, and at that moment I seemed to be back to the young man I used to be.