Before today, Tao You had almost never touched baking, and the most experience was to go to the hand-baked fun shop in the mall to make a semi-finished cake, which was basically prepared by the clerk, at most she folded two cake embryos and smeared the cream twice.

She focused on squeezing the piping bag in her hand, and the shape of a few biscuits was squeezed crookedly, not to mention making other complex shapes, on the other hand, Song Xiaoan next to her did it very handy, and all kinds of tricks came at hand.

She also knew how ugly she was doing, so she hurriedly squeezed a row and handed over the tools to Song Xiaoan.

"Xiao An, you······ Do you often go to Jian Lan Xuan?" Tao You washed his hands, propped himself on the table, stood next to Song Xiaoan and watched, and asked without a beginning.

Song Xiao'an's movements were gentle and careful, and after making a simple bear pattern, he straightened up and shook his arm, "Yes, the books over there are cheaper than other bookstores, and there are more variety."

「······ Especially comics." She took advantage of Song's mother to walk away, and booed excitedly, "I don't know where the boss got so many latest comics, and there are many full sets of ancient classic versions!"

"There are so many that I can't even see them, and I want to get a set of each one!"

"It's a pity I don't have enough pocket money, and I don't dare buy it back." Song Xiaoan frowned and complained, "In the utility room upstairs, a small half of it is piled with my comics, and my mother even specially changed the door lock, just a key!" Hidden in the master bedroom somewhere I don't know." She clutched her chest in pain.

"A new set of comic ······ has recently been released"

Speaking of what she was interested in, Song Xiao'an's mouth couldn't stop, Tao listened quietly, as long as Song Xiaoan didn't lead the topic to herself and Song Yimian, she was relieved.

Half an hour later, the first biscuits are placed in the oven. The timer on the baking tray ticked, and the warm light outside the window slowly shifted and tilted.

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"Delicious, delicious." The biscuits are baked, and the warm, creamy sweetness fills the house.

"Song Yimian, do you eat cookies?" Song Xiaoan carried a small plate of biscuits and pushed the door in, "It's delicious."

"Bang!" Song Yimian quickly closed the wardrobe at the same time that the door was pushed open, leaving a little corner of clothes sandwiched in the door.

"What are you doing sneaking around?" Song Xiaoan watched Song Yimian's movements curiously and put the plate on the table.

"You don't knock." Song Yi rubbed his hair, frowned and said with some irritation, "Say it a few times." It's not like I was a kid anymore."

Song Xiaoan pursed his lips in disgrace and said perfunctorily, "Pay attention next time."

"Do you eat cookies?" She picked up the plate again and asked Song Yimian.

Song Yimian turned around and flattened the wrinkled corner of the bed, and asked without answering, "Is the portion made by Xiao You ready?"

"It's loaded, it's loaded." Seeing that Song Yimian didn't mean to eat biscuits, Song Xiaoan picked up the plate and held it in his arms to eat it himself, dragging his voice and said, "When you get out of the oven, you will separate it, and you will send it over in a while, you can put a hundred hearts!"

In the evening, when the third batch of biscuits was put into the baking tray, Tao's father called to urge, saying that there were guests coming to the house in the evening, and very important guests, so Tao You hurried back to help clean up the house.

On the phone, Tao's father didn't say who was coming, she didn't recognize it, which made Tao You a little suspicious of the authenticity of this guest.

But then Tao's mother sent a message and bought some nuts and fruits on the Internet and sent them over, so that she would remember to sign for them for a while.

If it weren't for the fact that there were really some important guests at home, it would be impossible for Tao's mother to buy so many fruits directly online. She would rather go to the vegetable market to buy it at the evening market, which is more cost-effective.

Tao's father and Tao's mother haven't gone home yet, there is no way, Tao You can only say hello to Song's mother, pack up and hurry home.

However, when she packed up her things, Song Yimian was not in the living room, she guessed that he should have gone back to the room, and hesitated for a few minutes between whether to say hello to him, and finally didn't bother him, what if he did······

"For a moment

I'll leave it to you to deliver the cookies." Song Xiaoan picked out the biscuit she had deliberately left on the plate and couldn't tell what shape it was, broke it into two and forcibly stuffed it into Song Yimian's mouth, solemnly patted him on the shoulder, and handed over this important task to him.

"You did that?" Song Yi chewed on the biscuits, "The taste is average······

"This is what Sister Xiao Yu did." Song Xiaoan grinned.

Song Yimian glanced at Song Xiao'an, and honestly reached out to take a biscuit again, and took a small bite, as if he hadn't tasted it just now, "Well, the taste is okay."

"This is what I did, only the one just now was made by Sister Xiaoyou." Song Xiaoan kept a fake smile and laughed a little tired.

Song Yi reluctantly chewed a few times and swallowed, "······"

"I'll have to ...... in a moment," Song Yimian wanted to make an excuse to show that he was too busy to deliver cookies.

After an afternoon, he had a gut feeling that maybe now was not the wise time to meet Tao You.

But he forgot his instincts and wasn't very accurate.

Song Xiaoan didn't give him a chance to refuse, and after Song Yimian swallowed the biscuits, he said, "If you eat the biscuits, you promise me, you can go after eating."

"She's in a bad mood today." He still didn't hit the muzzle.

Song Xiaoan crossed his hands on his hips and asked speechlessly, "So what?"

"She's in a bad mood, shouldn't you go to her? Your mouth is so good-looking, it's not for you to be dumb."

"Just your little secret," she poked Song Yimian on the shoulder, "I know everything." She said, glancing at the dictionary in the corner of the table, "Melon coward."

"Isn't it good to follow your heart?" After she finished speaking, she left the room and let Song Yimian think alone, "Isn't it more efficient to communicate directly when there is something? Haven't you always been focused on efficiency?!"

Song Yimian raised his hand to wipe the biscuit residue from the corner of his mouth, and said unconvincingly, "There are many kinds of efficiency."

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Dad Tao said that the guests at home are not fake, and they are still two very important guests.

If there were no them, Father Tao and Mother Tao would not have known each other, and there would have been no Tao You.

Commonly known as - matchmaker.

However, their arrival was really sudden, and Tao's father and Tao's mother were not much earlier than Tao You received the news.

They originally meant that they hadn't seen each other for many years, and the two families would just go out for a meal together, but Tao's father and Tao's mother were hospitable, and after a meal's persuasion, they invited them to the house.

When Tao You had almost cleaned up the house, Tao's father also got home from work early, still carrying a lot of cooked food and a box of old wine in the warehouse.

As soon as he entered the house, he didn't even have time to take a sip and rest, so he went straight into the kitchen with the bag.

"Xiaoyou, come and give me a hand." Father Tao was smiling, and he forgot to ask Tao You what he did at Song Yimian's house this afternoon.

"You took the dishes to the balcony and washed them." Dad Tao was in a good mood and tied his apron, handed Tao You a whole bag of vegetables and two large basins, and drove her to the balcony to clean up, "Wash it up."

"Who's here today?" Tao You asked curiously while holding the vegetable basket.

Dad Tao still wanted to keep it mysterious, put the fish into the pool, and waved his hand with his back to Tao You, "You'll know when it's time to arrive."

- Engage in such a mystery.

Tao You couldn't guess who could make Tao's father so happy, so he raised his eyebrows helplessly and went to the balcony with the vegetable basket.

In early spring, it was still often cloudy and rainy, and today was a rare sunny day.

The pool on the balcony faces west, and there is no other building outside the window, except for a few large trees that are about the same height as the floor of her house, with a few loose leaves, and some buds on the branches, and in the summer, the branches are luxuriant and green, and watching the sunset through the cracks in the leaves is another kind of peaceful atmosphere.

As the sun sets brightly, the rising half moon in the east looks so unremarkable.

A large area of orange-red sunset, centered on the half-sunset, is sent in all directions

A distinctively warm glow illuminates the gray-blue façade, which is refracted through the half-open glass windows onto the silver pool.

The sound of the water rushing on the green leaves of the vegetables stirred up layers of small splashes.

After washing half of the dishes, Tao You straightened his pantothenic waist, looked at the sunset not far away and exhaled, and then bent down to wash the vegetables non-stop.

The sunset and sunset during this period of time only exist in a few blinks of an eye.

By the time Tao You had washed all the dishes and was about to go back to the kitchen, it was already completely dark, and the kitchens of each family were lit up.

All kinds of aromas emerge from the open and ventilated windows, meet and wrap in mid-air, creating a unique, homely, taste, plain and warm.

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When Tao's mother and they arrived home, Tao's father was stir-frying vegetables in full swing, and Tao You was helping to chop vegetables on the side, and took a look at the full insulated cabinet next to him.

Boiled pork slices, beef stew with radish, ground three fresh, prawns, abalone...... There is also fish soup stewed in the pot.

It's all hard dishes.

Seeing Tao Youzhi, he swallowed his saliva back.

It seems that today's guests are very important.

Tao You thought silently in his heart.

"Come in, the shoe covers are here."

When Tao You finished cleaning up the cutting board, Tao's mother also came back after picking up people.

"Tao Hong! Tao You! Come out of here!" Tao's mother put down her bag in the hallway and yelled at the kitchen.

"They've arrived." Dad Tao held a spatula in one hand and wiped it on his apron with the other, and walked out with Tao You, "Go say hello, remember to call uncle and aunt."

"Old Tao!" When the uncle saw Dad Tao, he shouted angrily.

This voice shouted out all the thoughts that had been missing for so many years.

"Old Xu!" Dad Tao also greeted him, "Sister-in-law, I haven't seen you for many years."

"Fat." Dad Tao looked at it, without the slightest politeness.

Uncle Xu was not annoyed, he laughed, and patted Daddy Tao's stomach through his apron, "Let's laugh in fifty steps and laugh in a hundred steps, your belly is also good."

After the two finished greetings, Father Tao pulled Tao You to his side, "Tao You, call people, Uncle Xu, Aunt Wen, they are Dad's great benefactors."

"Without them, I wouldn't know your mother."

Tao You had a very official smile on his face, "Uncle Xu, Aunt Wen."

"It's all grown so big."

"This is my daughter, Xu Haojing. We hung out together when we were kids, and I don't remember." Uncle Xu patted the long-haired girl on the side.

"Jingjing, the eighteenth change of the female university! I remember the last time we met, my hair was short and small." Father Tao looked up at the girl who was half a head taller than him appreciatively, "Now it's really a big girl."

"Hello uncle and aunt." As soon as Xu Haojing opened her mouth, she was a unique and magnetic mellow contralto.

"Xiao You, long time no see." Xu Haojing pushed the gold-rimmed half-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, bent down her good-looking eyebrows, pursed her mouth, and the shallow pear vortex at the corner of her mouth was revealed, with a bit of gentleness and well-behaved. There is not a trace of pink on the white face.

Sven is tender, the big sister who grinds the ears of the contralto! Anyone who doesn't get confused when they see it.

"Long time no see, Jingjing...... Sister." Tao You looked up slightly in a daze and looked at the girl in front of him who was covering most of the light.

I inexplicably remembered Sister Zhou Yu in my heart.

Xu Haojing and Zhou Yu are both gentle beauties, they are very gentle and lovely when they laugh, generous and graceful, but there are two extremes of temperament that cannot be said.

Tao's mother pulled Aunt Wen into the house, and beckoned Tao You and a few others, "Come and sit in the living room, don't stand there."

Dad Tao also hurried back to the kitchen, "Wait a minute, I'll just stir-fry two more dishes."

"There's fruit on the table."

"Tao You, give it to them." Dad Tao instructed Tao You,

Close the kitchen door to block out the sound of stir-frying.

Xu Haojing didn't see anything outside, and sat down on the sofa with Tao You, "You are now, a sophomore in high school?" She counted her age in her head.

"Hmm."

Tao's mother couldn't do without studying, "Tao You, your sister Jingjing is studying very well, and she is majoring in chemistry at S University, so you can ask her for advice."

Faculty of Chemistry.

The ranking of S University in the country may not be as high as that of Yan University, but the Department of Chemistry of S University is the top existence among the top in the country, and it is the tip of the chemical pyramid that is difficult to see with the naked eye. Many of the chemistry students who came out of S University were directly accepted by the research institute and participated in various heavyweight research and inventions. There have also been several national treasure chemists.

It is said that in order to ensure the quality of students entering the Department of Chemistry, S University spends a lot of energy and money on recruiting students every year. Especially the dean of the Department of Chemistry, it is said that he is a stubborn old man who does not eat hard and soft, and he is not afraid of offending people, and only speaks based on strength.

It's a place where you can't get into any relationships, and the college entrance examination scores are even more ridiculously high, and you still need a certain amount of competition experience and good grades.

The students who take the college entrance examination to enter the chemistry department of S University are already the elite among the top students, but the elite of the few elites enter the college in advance through special tests as early as the summer vacation of the second year of high school, and are personally taught by several heavyweight professors and deans.

This test has always been conducted by the dean and several professors of the graduate school together, written tests and interviews, and at the same time, the results of the competition in previous years must be presented.

The top 15 students who have passed all the tests and competition results will be ranked from high to low.

Despite the limited number of places available, hundreds of students with a passion for chemistry flock to the test each year.

This also gave more opportunities to many poor disciples who were extremely talented in chemistry.

It is said that the dean used to be a disciple of the poor sect, and he was favored by the former dean's insight and gave him the opportunity to learn.

Therefore, he attaches great importance to this test, he is over half a hundred years old, and he will still personally invigilate the exam and interview every year, and he has to hold a meeting with several professors to discuss half the punctuation mark clearly, and he will not give any chance to cheat at all.

Do your best to be fair and equitable.

Tao You couldn't help but glance at Xu Haojing a few more times, with a look of adoration in his eyes.

She didn't know how Xu Haojing entered the Department of Chemistry of S University, but no matter which one it was, it was an extraordinary existence.

"She, studying is too worrying." Mother Tao seemed to explain to Uncle Xu and Aunt Wen as if she wanted to confirm something.