Han Ning has received a good etiquette education since she was a child, and when she saw Yang Jiekai's impeccable gentlemanly invitation action, she subconsciously stretched out her hand, but as soon as she reached halfway, she suddenly thought of something, and shrank back like lightning, looking at Yang Jiekai looking at herself with a smile, she actually felt a little embarrassed, twisted her head to the side with a red face, and muttered, "If you want to eat yourself, who wants to eat with you, I'm not hungry." ”

Yang Jiekai smiled, didn't care about Han Ning's performance, but turned around, picked up the metal tray, walked over again, and gently put the tray down on the coffee table in front of Han Ning.

"Please dine." Yang Jiekai said softly, while speaking, he gently opened the lid of the tray, he may have spoken to Han Ning in such a tone for so long, he always looked like a hanger on weekdays.

Han Ning also felt that Yang Jiekai suddenly spoke to him in such a tone, which felt a little weird, but before she could think about it, she smelled a rich sweet fragrance.

Instinctively turning his head and glancing at the things on the tray, Han Ning was suddenly stunned, and after seeing the contents of the tray clearly, he said suspiciously, "Fruit cake?" ”

Wang Ma didn't expect that Yang Jiekai had been tinkering for a long time today, just to make a fruit cake, and she looked at Yang Jiekai with a puzzled face.

Yang Jiekai nodded and said with a smile: "I accidentally ate your birthday cake last time, and I have always felt a little sorry in my heart, but I don't know where you bought the cake, so I made one for you by myself, although it will definitely not be exactly the same, but it is also a fruit cake, or you taste it first, see if it suits your appetite, if you don't like to eat, I will make it again, I will make several other kinds of fruit cakes, I used to be abroad, I knew a pastry master, and I learned a few hands from him, I haven't made a cake for a long time, and I don't know if it's good or not......"

Yang Jiekai said, suddenly stopped.

Han Ning's eyes were slightly red at some point, and her autumn eyes were full of tears, looking at the fruit cake on the coffee table and biting her lip.

"Hey...... Don't cry, don't you like the smell, if you don't like it, I'll throw it away and make a new ......" Yang Jiekai said, reaching for the tray.

"Wait a minute!" Han Ning opened her mouth to stop Yang Jiekai, gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "I'll taste it......"

Yang Jiekai was stunned for a moment, then with a flattered expression, he turned his head and rushed towards the kitchen, and after a while, he rushed out of the kitchen again, holding a knife and plate in his hand, and carefully cut a piece for Han Ning and put it on the plate.

Han Ning took the plate, gently forked a small piece with a fork and put it in his mouth, and just chewed it a few times, his complexion suddenly changed.

"How is it, isn't it delicious...... Yang Jiekai saw Han Ning's expression, thinking that the other party didn't like to eat, and hurriedly asked a little nervously.

After Han Ning swallowed the cake, she looked up at Yang Jiekai with an incredible expression, "How can you make this kind of cake?" ”

Yang Jiekai didn't know why the other party had such a reaction, scratched his head and said, "Didn't you just say, when I was abroad before, I knew a pastry chef, so I learned a few ...... from him."

"This kind of cake can only be made by the Nordic Winkel family in the world!"

Before Yang Jiekai could finish speaking, Han Ning interrupted.

Now it was Yang Jiekai's turn to be incredible, and after listening to Han Ning's words, he looked at the other party with a surprised face and said, "You also know the Winkel family?" ”

Han Ning nodded, "The Winkel family can be said to be the oldest pastry family in the world, the first was the royal pastry chef of a certain royal family, and then after the destruction of that kingdom, the craft has been passed on, until now, the Winkel family is the world's leading pastry family, and the pastries they make are unique in the world!" ”

Yang Jiekai didn't know why this woman knew so much about the Winkel family, but he still made a confused look and said, "Winkel family? I've never heard of it, but I just made it with an ordinary pastry chef. ”

Han Ning didn't see that Yang Jiekai was lying, and he didn't doubt it too much, because he definitely wouldn't believe that Yang Jiekai would know someone from the Winkel family, he just thought that Yang Jiekai was lucky and happened to meet a pastry master of the Winkel family.

As for why Han Ning knows so much about the Winkel family, it is because when she was young, every year on her birthday, she would always eat a cake brought back from abroad, I heard that this was her mother's favorite cake, and when she grew up, she knew by chance that this kind of cake came from an ancient foreign pastry family called the Winkel family.

But she hadn't eaten this cake for a long time, and the members of the Winkel family didn't know why, so she never made another cake, so she had to order a similar cake from a slightly identical pastry shop abroad for her birthday every year, but it never tasted like that.

Today, after many years, she tasted this cake again, and when he first asked about the taste, it felt familiar, and then it occurred to her that this taste was the taste she had been absent for a long time.

The taste of Winkel's cake is also the taste of her memories of her mother.

Yang Jiekai carefully cut a piece for Wang's mother, and didn't forget to cut a piece for himself, so he ate it with satisfaction, but his eating appearance was really a little vulgar, which made Han Ning feel secretly distressed, how could such a good cake look like eating steamed buns?

After seeing Yang Jiekai's eating appearance, Han Ning had a deeper understanding of the idiom "cow chewing peonies".

Yang Jiekai didn't expect Han Ning to like this kind of cake so much, so he made it a little smaller before, and after a while, a small cake was eaten clean by the three of them.

Han Ning was still satisfied, obviously not enough yet, but she was embarrassed to ask Yang Jiekai to do it, but she just pouted on the plate and didn't speak.

How could Yang Jiekai not be able to see through Han Ning's thoughts, and took the initiative to go to the kitchen to work again.

After Yang Jiekai entered the kitchen, Han Ning's eyes showed a hint of playfulness in which the plan had succeeded, while Wang Ma on the side smiled happily.

Half an hour later, Yang Jiekai once again held out a larger fruit cake, and this time without saying hello, Han Ning took the initiative to walk to the table.

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing Han Ning pick up the knife to cut the cake, Yang Jiekai suddenly shouted loudly, and when he saw Han Ning and Wang Ma's puzzled looks, he smiled and said, "Don't you think something is missing?" ”

Han Ning was stunned for a moment, and wondered, "What's missing?" ”

Yang Jiekai said with a smile: "I accidentally ate your birthday cake last time, I made up for you today, although it was late, but it was not in the way, since you have a birthday today, do you have to sing a birthday song before eating the cake, make a wish or something." ”

Before Han Ning could speak, Yang Jiekai turned around and ran to the utility room to rummage for a while, and when he came back, he had a thick white candle in his hand.

"I didn't think about it so much today, I forgot to buy birthday candles, so let's use this instead!" Yang Jiekai said with a smile as he put the thick candle on the cake, clapped his hands and said, "It's all right, the cake is there, the candle is there, you make a wish!" ”

"But ......" Han Ning saw the thick white candle and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yang Jiekai waving his hand, "Don't be, although this candle is a little thicker, bigger, and uglier, it means something, make a wish!" Yang Jiekai said, took out the lighter and was about to light the candle.

The mother on the side couldn't hold back any longer, and said, "Uncle, but this candle is used to sweep the tomb during the Qingming Festival!" ”

"Ah......" After listening to Wang Ma's words, Yang Jiekai's eyes suddenly widened, and then he realized that this thick and big white candle looked a little wrong, he grew up abroad, and he didn't know much about these customs and rituals in Huaxia, so he didn't think about it so much just now.

Although he has always been informal, it is absolutely impossible to light such a candle on someone else's birthday.

After thinking for a while, Yang Jiekai patted his thigh and said, "There is!" After finishing speaking, he went back to the kitchen and took out a fruit knife, pulled out the thick candle, and with a slight shake of his wrist, the fruit knife quickly flipped in Yang Jiekai's palm, and in a burst of knife light, wax chips splashed everywhere.

In less than half a minute, the candle that had been delicate and small appeared in his hand, inserted it into the cake, and said with a smile: "This is down!" ”

Han Ning came back to her senses, Yang Jiekai's juggling-like knife technique just now made her stunned, and after glancing at the candle that had been delicately processed, she was suddenly stunned, and her eyes turned slightly red again.

The candle in between, was engraved with a few beautiful cursive letters: Happy birthday to Miss Han Ning.

Wang Ma very thoughtfully found three crystal goblets, opened a red wine, and turned off all the lights in the room.

All that was left in the room was the soft candlelight.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you—"

Yang Jiekai smiled and clapped his hands and sang, and Wang Ma also hummed, humming, her eyes turned red, she couldn't remember how many years she hadn't been like this......

"Happy Birthday!" After singing the birthday song, Yang Jiekai whistled, laughed and applauded with Wang Ma.

"Daughter-in-law, make a wish!" Yang Jiekai smiled and looked at Han Ning with tears in his eyes.

Han Ning wiped the corners of her eyes, folded her hands, and made a wish with her eyes closed.

Yang Jiekai didn't know what Han Ning's wish was, but Wang Ma knew very well what Han Ningxu's wish was......

A cozy candlelit dinner with cakes, candles, and wine.

After this warm candlelit dinner, Wang Ma went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Yang Jiekai stretched his waist and prepared to go back to his room to rest.

"Wait a minute." Han Ning called Yang Jiekai.

Yang Jiekai turned around and said softly, "Is there something?" ”

Han Ning smiled lightly, "Thank you today." ”

Yang Jiekai also smiled, but did not speak, turned around and walked into his room.

After returning to the room, Yang Jiekai lit a cigarette, exhaled a long puff of smoke, and half-lay at the head of the bed, his eyes closed, as if thinking about something.

Is this what home feels like?

Yang Jiekai's abnormal behavior today is actually related to his mood today, he longs to have a home, a warm and simple home, he is a chilling night owl, but he is tired of flying, he just wants to return to the nest now.

"Xiao Ning." Mother Wang washed the dishes, and saw that Han Ning hadn't gone upstairs yet, so she said gently: "Uncle looks a little different today." ”

"Oh, what's different?" Han Ning said casually.

Wang Ma smiled, "Today, you only look like a little couple, and the little couple should live like this." ”

This time, Han Ning didn't show disgust, nor did she blush, but stood up, smiled at Wang Ma, and turned around and walked upstairs.