Chapter 128: Can You Cook?
Divided part of the special food to her roommates, and Mei Yali gave Hua Zhikang, Su Jingting and Mu Jingchen one each.
Hua Zhikang, who got the things, was all surprised, of course, at least ninety percent of Su Jingting's surprise was because Mei Yali asked the three of them to eat together at the same time.
She likes Hua Zhikang, which is not a secret in the whole N-Da, but few people know that she and Hua Zhikang actually have a relationship in private.
They are real childhood sweethearts who have been in the same school since they were children, elementary school and high school and even have been in the same class for a few years, although Hua Zhikang rejected Su Jingting's confession, but in private, he has never rejected Su Jingting's approach.
His gentleness gave Su Jingting the courage to continue, but in Mei Yali's eyes, Mei Yali only felt that he was extremely cruel.
In her opinion, the neat rejection and estrangement may indeed make Su Jingting sad for a while, but after this period has passed, Su Jingting will at least not continue to have unrealistic expectations for Hua Zhikang.
She will take her eyes off Hua Zhikang, and there will be a chance to fall in love with other people again, instead of holding a little bit of gentleness like a mirror like now, and never willing to give up.
Turning her eyes away from Su Jingting's face, who was smiling like a blooming flower, Mei Yali sighed silently.
"Think Brother Zhikang is too much?" Mu Jingchen, who was sitting beside her, covered her lips with her left hand as if unintentionally, and then quickly asked.
A low, almost inaudible sound came into her ears, and Mei Yali was slightly stunned.
She glanced at Mu Jingchen, then took out her mobile phone and sent him a text message - she didn't talk about the abilities of the two of them in front of Hua Zhikang and Su Jingting.
"Don't you think?"
Mu Jingchen didn't seem to expect to be able to operate like this, and after reading the text message for about ten seconds, his slender and flexible fingers pressed it on the phone.
"I think he's pitiful."
At first glance, Mei Yali thought she was wrong.
She subconsciously confirmed it, and found that it was indeed Mu Jingchen who sent it, so she glanced at Mu Jingchen suspiciously.
Mu Jingchen didn't mean to solve her puzzles, he moved his fingers lightly, sent the words "see for yourself", and then put the phone directly on the table.
Mayali was confused, completely unsure of what this guy wanted to see.
She subconsciously paid attention to the interaction between Hua Zhikang and Su Jingting, but perhaps because she had a preconceived impression of Hua Zhikang's "central air conditioning", she didn't see anything from Hua Zhikang that needed to be "pitiful" by others.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the end of May, and Mei Yali, as usual, went to Mu Jingchen's house on Saturday afternoon to tutor him in Chinese classes.
Although Mei Yali can now rely on her face to enter and exit their community freely, Mu Jingchen still waits at the door of the community to greet her every time.
Because the two are now relatively good friends, Mei Yali is not disgusted with his thoughtfulness and carefulness.
The two entered Mu Jingchen's house, and Mei Yali found out that Grandpa Mu, Grandma Mu and Mother Mu were not at home today.
She asked Mu Jingchen, "Why are you at home alone?" ”
Mu Jingchen nodded, "My father and my mother went shopping with my grandmother, and now my grandmother has an incomprehensible terrifying desire to buy everything for little babies." ”
Mei Yali laughed when she heard this, "Expectant mothers should be like this." ”
Mu Jingchen's heart moved, "Have you seen a lot of expectant mothers? ”
Mei Yali realized that she almost said the words "Many of my colleagues have given birth to a second child", she coughed, "My relatives, as well as the relatives of my former classmates, after they became pregnant with a child, they all looked similar to Grandma Mu at this time, and their minds were full of the little bun in their stomachs." ”
Mu Jingchen raised his eyebrows slightly and did not continue the topic.
The two of them spent two hours staring at his schoolwork, and then Mayali was ready to get up and take his leave.
"Wait a minute, I'll go out too." Mu Jingchen took out a bunch of keys from his schoolbag, "My grandfather and they are all eating out tonight, so I have to prepare dinner by myself." ”
Mei Yali was very surprised, her two eyebrows raised high, "You know how to cook?" ”
"What's that look on your face?" Mu Jingchen raised his hand and knocked on her forehead, "If you don't believe it, you can stay and eat together later." ”
Although Mei Yali ate and drank at Mu Jingchen's house because of Mu's mother's kind invitation, she really hadn't eaten the food cooked by Mu Jingchen.
To be exact, she probably hasn't eaten any of the men's food except for her dad and the male chef in the restaurant.
In all the relatives of the family, the cook is almost exclusively women, while the men mostly share less skillful tasks such as washing vegetables and dishes, washing and drying clothes, cleaning the house, and physically demanding tasks such as carrying and lifting.
Like her father, only when she is not at home, her father will be promoted from being a hand-off to being in charge.
Seeing her move, Mu Jingchen's eyes bent, and he rarely showed a smile that was slightly larger than the arc of a smile, "Then I'll go pull vegetables now, and you wait for me for a while." ”
Mei Yali subconsciously repeated, "Pulling vegetables? ”
Mu Jingchen nodded, "My grandfather is not in good health and went home early to recuperate, but he is an idle person, so my father got him a piece of land for him to grow vegetables." ”
When Mei Yali heard this, the vegetable patches she had seen in this community suddenly came to mind.
She asked Mu Jingchen, "Isn't it possible that one of the vegetable plots in your community I saw before belongs to your family?" ”
Mu Jingchen shook his head, "My family is on the south gate, didn't you walk through the east gate before, it was planted by several other old couples who lived in our community." ”
When Mei Yali heard this, she immediately became interested, "Then I'll go too." ”
Mu Jingchen's smile became a little thicker, and he took a neat plastic bag folded by Mu's mother from the shoe cabinet at the door, "It's okay, you can just choose some dishes you want to eat by the way." ”
Mei Yali nodded and happily followed Mu Jingchen to Grandpa Mu's vegetable field, and from a distance, she saw those green vegetable leaves swaying in the wind.
"Now you can eat cabbage, water spinach, leeks, spinach, chrysanthemum, radish, cucumber, green beans, which do you want to eat?" Pointing to the vegetable field that belonged to his family, Mu Jingchen asked Mei Yali with a light smile.
Mei Yali was not polite to him, "I want to eat spinach, chrysanthemum and radish." ”
Mu Jingchen nodded in understanding, and then walked over and plucked some spinach, chrysanthemum, and radish out.
In addition, he plucked a handful of shallots and picked two peppers.