As a popular folk delicacy, hot pot is popular all over the country. China's hot pot has a variety of colors, hundreds of pots and thousands of flavors. A kind of tableware made of metal or ceramic that combines a pot and a stove. Put charcoal fire in the stove to make the pot soup boil to cook the dishes, and eat them as they are cooked. In the Qing Pan Rongma's "Ji Sheng • New Year's Day in the Emperor's Year", there is: "To the pot to offer food." Such an account.

The above comes from the almighty Baidu Encyclopedia.

For the people of my big foodie country, hot pot is a kind of thing that everyone loves, whether it is red soup or clear soup or mandarin duck pot, it is a supreme enjoyment, especially in summer, eating hot pot with air conditioning is the most correct way to eat hot pot.

But the hot pot must be cooked to the point that it can no longer be cooked to eat together, this cooked probably means that you can wear clothes that you plan to wash today but feel that you can wear them for another day, don't care about each other's hunger, support the wall and support the wall out of no image, you can hold the chopsticks and look at the mutton just thrown into the pot with green light, and even you can judge who is the one who ate more fish balls by the taste on the clothes. It's like a bunch of people dressed in professional attire sitting in a reserved Haidilao that doesn't want to do anything but eat...... That can only be called a dinner, not hot pot.

As a foodie, Lin Ran summed it up like this.

So when Fang Chi, who was lonely and went back to Yancheng alone, and didn't want to stay at home alone, followed behind Lin Ran, turned left and right to a hot pot restaurant in a small alley, he actually felt very novel.

"You look at it, and then I'll see if there's anything to add." Lin Ran opened a piece of toffee and threw it into her mouth, and said hello to the waiter who came to help them order, "Ice milk." ”

Fang Chi looked at the menu and asked her, "Do you come often?" ”

"Well, this shop has been open since I was even born." Lin Ran opened the dishes and chopsticks in front of him, and said without raising his head, "His things are super delicious, definitely not worse than any hot pot outside." ”

After ordering a few things, Fang Chi handed the menu back to her: "You can continue to order." But I always thought you lived in Yancheng since you were a child, and you only went back to Sioux City in high school. ”

"When I was a child, I spent the winter vacation in Yancheng, and I didn't go back until the day before school started, but after high school, the time was tight, and I never came back." Lin Ran didn't even look at the menu, so he reported a series of dishes that were going to be thrown into the pot.

After ordering the food, Lin Ran suddenly remembered something and asked Fang Chi, "Can you eat spicy?" ”

After seeing the man nod, Lin Ran thought about it for a while and then asked for the mandarin duck pot: "Forget it, their red soup is too spicy, and it is estimated that people who have not tried it are not mentally prepared." ”

Hearing this, Fang Chi frowned: "Didn't Mo Zhi say that your stomach is not very good, eat less stimulating food." ”

However, Lin Ran, who had an explosion of foodie nature, had completely ignored him.

When the hot pot came up, it was really a contrasting mandarin duck pot, on one side was a clear soup with only green onions and ginger, and on the other side was a spicy pot that didn't look much scary, looking at Fang Chi who seemed to have written "It's called too spicy" expression, Lin Ran reminded himself while pouring ice milk: "It's all peppercorns and chili peppers down here, don't blame me for not reminding you, this is the more it is cooked, the spicier it gets." ”

Seeing that she was completely drinking ice milk as ice water, although Fang Chi didn't want to ruin her interest, she still reached out and replaced her cup with tea: "Drink this when you can't stand it anymore, I don't want to send you to the emergency room in the middle of the night." ”

…… It is estimated that it will have to be cleaned up by Mo Zhi.

Lin Ran shrugged his shoulders and reluctantly agreed to Fang Chi's words.

When the bottom of the pot began to churn, Lin Ran's whole person seemed to be energetic again, as if something had pressed a switch to turn on the foodie attributes, and his eyes lit up and threw mutton shabu into the half of the scarlet soup.

Then put down the empty plate and start throwing corn into the soup pot.

Fang Chi really felt that if he dared to touch the food that Lin Ran put in the pot, he would be bitten on the neck by this girl who was completely rampant, and she would not let go of her mouth even if she died.

When she was halfway through eating, Lin Ran took a chopstick of enoki mushrooms and put them in her seasoning plate, because it was too hot, so she couldn't put her mouth in her mouth for the time being, and said to Fang Chi casually: "I just remembered, after you told me that day, the Qin family really contacted me and said that they wanted to pay for me to modify the jade." ”

Although it was a word of doubt, Lin Ran said it in an affirmative sentence in her very indifferent tone.

Fang Chi guessed that Lin Ran would talk about it, after all, this was too normal for a businessman like the Qin family: "Yes, they have also contacted me...... It is said that the current head of the Qin family also wants to find someone to contact you. ”

Lin Ran slowly finished eating the handful of enoki mushrooms, and reached out to pick up a plate of mushrooms: "It's worthy of their ......."

It's not because she has a different view of the Qin family, it's just that it involves the previous farce...... Lin Ran couldn't help but want to say a few more words.

Because several elders of the Qin family are really a litter of foxes, and since an incident a few years ago, Lin Ran's subconscious felt that he really couldn't let these foxes who had become spirits continue to plague the world.

After that farce, except for Zhu Yunxi, there was no one in the Qin family to contact her, Lin Ran was not clear, her mobile phone number was changed to a local number when she arrived in Yancheng, and WeChat never added strangers.

She immediately frowned slightly, but what else could the Qin family do?

After thinking about it for a while, there was no result, Lin Ran simply let go of these thoughts, concentrated on eating hot pot, packed up her things and prepared to go back after settling the account, and in the afternoon Mo Zhi asked her to go to his company headquarters for a trip, saying that she was looking for her because of something.

Anyway, even if Fang Chi didn't tell her, if there was really something, Mo Zhi would give her some news.

After separating from Fang Chi, at an intersection, she lowered her head to split the tangled headphone cable, and waited for the red light by the way, at this moment, several people in suits and leather shoes passed by her. Suddenly, a man stopped, turned his head suddenly, and the force made people wonder if he had twisted his neck, and looked at Lin Ran who was standing there in disbelief: "Lin ...... Lush? ”

Lin Ran's tangled hand in the tangled headphone cable paused for a moment, raised his eyes and glanced at the person who came, obviously recognizing who it was, but he didn't react for a while, what was the name of the person in front of him: "...... are you?"

"Gu Xi, you don't remember me? It's so unconscionable. The man frowned and looked at Lin Ran, and then he reacted, and it was a little wrong to stand and talk on this cold day, "Let's go, sit in the coffee shop in front and go." ”

Lin Ran, who was a little stunned, was pulled by the man and walked a few steps before he completely reacted: "...... What's that...... I made an appointment to meet...... I'm going to be late......"

However, given that her voice was too low and the man was too excited, this weak resistance was pitifully drowned in the man's series of questions: "Why did you come to Yancheng?" Are you in college now? Where to stay? ”

Lin Ran answered one of the questions slowly: "Well, freshman year." ”

It wasn't until he sat in the coffee shop that Gu Xi calmed down a little, he beckoned the waiter to order a cup of Blue Mountain elegantly and gracefully, and then asked Lin Ran opposite: "Do you still want a latte?" ”

"No, just give me milk pudding." Lin Ran didn't even flip through the menu in front of her, "I have a cold, and I'm drinking medicine." ”

Lin Ran actually looks simple, but since she became sensible, she seems to have not spent a day between tense nerves. Even now that she is away from the mess in Sioux City and returns to her grandparents who really love her for the New Year, Lin Ran still feels as if she has slept for a long time.

In this dream, although her stepsister often makes trouble for her, on the whole, life is still calm and waveless, even as light as boiled water, and the pain that once hurt is deeply buried in an unknown corner of her heart. Even when Gu Xi, the son of his father's comrade-in-arms a long, long time ago, was also a part of the events of the year, standing in front of him so alive, it made Lin Ran feel particularly trance-like.

Only at this time did Lin Ran remember in a daze, it had been so many years.

I once thought that the pain that I would never forget for a lifetime has passed so many years.

The milk pudding and coffee came up quickly, even when it was time to order and serve things, the waiter glanced at Lin Ran, who was dressed a little too casually, several times. But the girl still showed obvious that she was more interested in the dessert in front of her than in talking to Gu Xi, and after Gu Xi took a sip of coffee, she continued the question just now: "Didn't you say...... Want to go back to Yancheng to go to university? ”

Lin Ran didn't care about the image and swallowed a spoonful of pudding in one bite, but in such a disregard for the image, the girl's movements still have a no-brainer and elegance, which is not acquired, but completely from the good education that has been there since childhood.

Then she gently put down the small dessert spoon without making a sound of colliding with the dishes: "Something happened when I was about to take the college entrance examination, and it was also because of my own reasons, I felt that it was good in Sioux City." ”

A hint of surprise and a hint of incredulity flashed on Gu Xi's face, and then he opened his business card box and handed Lin Ran a beautifully printed business card: "I have a project in Sioux City, and it is estimated that I will stay for a long time, if you want, I can arrange an internship position for you, and I can also protect you, how about it, do you come?" ”