Xiang Hai wiped his hair casually after taking a bath, and then went downstairs to help. When he came to the living room, he saw that his drawing box had been opened, and his four legs were propped up on the floor, and a half-painted frame was placed on it. The frame of the picture is full of greenery, and it looks like a sunflower at the door.

"What are you going to eat today?" Xiang Hai came to the kitchen door and stretched out his head to look at the busy Lin Yilan.

"Just mix bitter gourd, stir-fry garlic sprouts, and stir-fry a tiger skin green pepper. Eh, are you going to help? ”

"You forget, my strength is also very strong," Xiang Hai rolled up his sleeves to wash garlic sprouts, green and red peppers, and a small piece of ginger, all of which were clean and cleaned on the plate. Lin Yilan blanched the bitter gourd and put it into cold water, took it out after cooling, and poured salt on it

, soy sauce, and a little vinegar, Xiang Hai reached out to take the plate and stirred.

Lin Yilan turned his hand and began to chop garlic sprouts, and after cutting two knives, he suddenly remembered, "Oops, I forgot to cook porridge." You go and wash some rice and cook the porridge, and the spoon for cooking rice is full of two spoonfuls of rice. ”

"Okay." Xiang Hai put the well-mixed cold bitter gourd on the small coffee table. Add two spoonfuls of rice to the rice cooker, wash it and add some water to it, "Is this water okay?" ”

Lin Yilan stretched out his head and looked at it, "It's not enough, it's not enough, add so much." Well, okay, okay. Do you eat pumpkin? There is also a small pumpkin in the refrigerator, so you can put a little bit of it if you eat it. ”

"I'll get it."

Xiang Hai took out the little golden pumpkin from the refrigerator and slapped it twice in his hand like a basketball, feeling slightly heavier. He washed under the faucet, scraping slowly with a peeling knife. Lin Yilan cut all the vegetables, stacked them on the plate, took the small pumpkin from Xiang Hai's hand, divided it in half with a knife, removed the seeds inside, cut it evenly into small pieces on the cutting board, put it in the rice cooker and turn it on, and cover it.

"In order to maintain the taste of the dish, we will wait for the porridge to cook before stir-frying."

Lin Yilan took out two cups, poured out two cups of rose tea from the transparent glass teapot, and came to the living room to sip slowly.

"You've got a good drawing."

Lin Yilan was suddenly a little embarrassed when she saw the oil painting she forgot to put away, but people also saw it, so she asked generously, "Where is it good?" ”

Xiang Hai's slender finger pointed at the fine reflections on each green leaf, "Well, the reflective blending and shadows are good, and the color of the green leaves is good, but the fat is not enough, and the color is not full and smooth." ”

"Fat?"

Xiang Hai smiled slightly, put the teacup in his hand on the coffee table, picked up a tube of dark yellow pigment and squeezed it on the palette, opened the turpentine, and took a few drops to mix with the pigment. After mixing the pigment and oil with a spatula, the fluffy brush resembles a white skirt and gradually stains the dark yellow material. In the middle of the shift, dark yellow toes fell on the green canvas, and then stepped on a circle of dark yellow ripples, and then spread out in a large area. This is repeated, and there are more than a dozen large dark yellow dots on the canvas.

"Adding the right amount of turpentine can make the pigment smoother and more colorful

Plump, but be careful not to use too much. Come on, you try. ”

Lin Yilan took the bright yellow pigment, squeezed it on the palette, dropped three drops of turpentine, and smeared it left and right with a small spatula, fully integrating the pigment and turpentine. She took the paintbrush handed to the sea, fully dipped the paint on the palette, and added rows of bright yellow petals to the small dark yellow circles on the canvas.

Xiang Hai touched his chin and nodded: "Very good."

"Where's the good?" iChi Literature ~ Better, Newer and Faster

"It's much better than the kindergarten kids! Ha ha! ”

Lin Yilan rolled her eyes at him. At this time, there was a buzzing sound from the rice cooker, and the porridge was already boiling. She put down her paintbrush, quickly returned to the kitchen to wash her hands, and began to stir-fry. Xiang Hai couldn't help much, so he continued to take the brush and smear it on the canvas. When the sound of Lin Yilan adding water to the empty pot sounded, he just put down the brush, took out the brush bucket, rinsed the brush several times, and then used waste newspaper to absorb the excess water and put it on the edge of the easel to dry.

He went into the kitchen to wash his hands and help serve the food. It wasn't until he finally sat down at the coffee table and drank a sip of the long-lost pumpkin porridge that he exhaled comfortably and chewed a garlic sprout with a smile: "Hey—I'm finally back."

Lin Yilan ate cold bitter gourd, and when she saw him with emotion, she couldn't help but feel proud.

Xiang Hai's meal seemed to have become extraordinarily large all of a sudden, and not only did he drink more than half of the porridge, but he also wrapped almost all the three dishes. Lin Yilan just pitifully gnawed on a few pieces of bitter gourd, and they were kind enough to leave it for him.

Xiang Hai patted his belly with satisfaction, he wiped the thin sweat on his forehead, and squinted at the bright sun outside.

"Lin Yilan, do you like lotus flowers? Let's look at the lotus flowers. ”

"Where are the lotus flowers?" Lin Yilan also wiped the sweat from her forehead

"Well, look in memory."

Half-pushed and half-done, Lin Yilan wore a straw hat on his head, closed the gate, and locked the fence.

The two sat on their bikes and cheered excitedly under the sun. All the way south. The weather was too hot, but I didn't meet too many people, and the embarrassing behavior of the two was not watched.

Pedaling the bicycle vigorously towards the sea, there was finally some cool breeze blowing on the excited faces of the two. Lin Yilan held a straw hat with one hand, and held the thin iron frame of the broken bicycle with the other, making a sharp turn towards the sea, she screamed and tightened Xiang Hai's waist.

Xiang Hai laughed, and the speed of the car became happy again.

Lin Yilan puffed out her mouth, and just wanted to reason with him, she heard Xiang Hai say, "It's here, you see-"

She looked at it, and sure enough, she saw a pool of green lotus leaves, slowly swaying in the wind. The water-red lotus flower, shy and timid, blooms, like a woman in a pink dress, standing on the blue water surface and swaying from side to side, only the small toes are dotted on the ripples, swaying from side to side with the breeze, free as the wind.

The two looked at each other, the bicycle was lowered to the side of the road, and the two children ran down the concrete steps with a cheer. I thought there was no one down there,

Unexpectedly, a chair was placed in the shade by the river, and an old man with Erlang's legs crossed sat on it.

The man held up an umbrella, opened a watermelon, and was digging with a spoon to eat. As soon as I saw the two of them coming, I didn't eat the watermelon, and immediately made a straight face: "Why are you here?" Did you come to pick flowers too? ”

Xiang Hai immediately smiled: "How can it? Old man, respecting the fruits of other people's labor is the foundation of people, we are not here to pick flowers, just to see the scenery. ”

"Look at the scenery? What's so nice about this. Either here to pick flowers or to touch fish. You can't go inside, so just touch it on the side. ”

"Fishing?" The two glanced at each other, and Lin Yilan asked, "Old man, there are still fish here." ”

"Where there is water, there are fish, and if you look at the footprints over there, they are all secretly touched by people while my old lady is not here. Oops, don't say that my old lady is stingy, there are mussels under the water, and screws, whoever touches it is whoever's. It's impossible to make money by touching it, so just have fun. ”

Xiang Hai nodded hurriedly, "Eh, thank you!" ”

The old man continued to hum a little tune, shaking his head and eating watermelon.

"Do you like to eat mussels? And screws. ”

"It's done."

Xiang Hai hooked his body and poked his head into the water to look into the water, and there were really a lot of screws lying on the river. The mussels didn't look at it much. He took off his shoes cleanly, and his white feet slowly stepped into the mud, hunched over to maintain his balance.

The old man saw that the young man had gone down, and kindly reminded him, "Beware of some broken wine bottle dregs or something, and some children are ignorant and throw them in." ”

"Hey—"

Xiang Hai gave a long answer. Lin Yilan followed him forward: "Beware of whether there will be some glass slag or something under the water."

"Well, I'm on the lookout......"

As he spoke, his face suddenly changed, as if he had stepped on something under his feet. Lin Yilan nervously yelled at him, "Did you step on any glass slag?" Come on, let's go to the hospital. ”

Xiang Hai didn't say a word, took out a hard semi-circular thing from under his feet, held it in his hand, washed it with river water, and smiled with a mouthful of big white teeth, "It's okay, it's a river mussel." ”

He threw the mussel in his hand on the bank, Lin Yilan leaned over to look, the mussel's shell had a uniform arc from large to small, the edge was flat, the middle was bulging, and the two sides of the mussel shell were tightly closed. She poked it with her hand, a little cold. Before she could react, she threw another one at the sea. Then came the 2nd, then the 3rd.

Slowly, he occasionally threw screws upwards, large and small. After touching a handful, he threw it up, and Lin Yilan was responsible for picking up the screws together.

He saw that the mussels at his feet were almost as good as the screws, so he called the man up. Xiang Hai washed his legs and feet by the river, put on his shoes, and the two asked the old man for half a watermelon shell, filled with river mussels and screws.

Halfway through, Xiang Hai's mobile phone rang, he took out his mobile phone, looked at it, and handed it to Lin Yilan, "You take it." ”

Lin Yilan took the phone, glanced at a string of numbers on the screen, and pressed the answer button, and there was a man's rough voice, "Hey!"

I'm going to come to you for the Dragon Boat Festival, hurry up and buy good food to welcome me. ”

Lin Yilan was full of question marks, and asked cautiously, "Xianghai, he's a little busy now, may I ask who you are?" ”

The life over there was quiet, and he asked tentatively with some uncertainty, "Sister?" ”

“…… Boss Xu Jiang? ”

"Oh, yes, it's my brother and sister, I said why is this sound so good! That's right, I'm going to go to you for the Dragon Boat Festival. Be sure to prepare food and drinks for us, and if we don't enjoy eating, we'll continue to disturb the two of you. ”

Lin Yilan had a big head, covered the microphone of his mobile phone, tilted his head and asked, "Brother Xu Jiang said that he was going to come over for the Dragon Boat Festival, isn't the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow?" He was so sudden. ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, he knows my address here, but I didn't expect him to post it with such a dead face."

"That's fine. There are not many dishes in the refrigerator, do you want to take a detour to the supermarket to buy some? ”

"He loves pancakes and green onions, so I have to buy him some on the street."

Xiang Hai looked righteous and awe-inspiring, turned a corner as he spoke, and rode down the street.

Lin Yilan didn't make a sound here for a long time, and Xu Jiang scratched his head in wonder, "You won't be so stingy, you have to hang up the phone as soon as you hear that I'm coming......"

(End of chapter)