Tang Zhao has seen on the Internet before that some culinary experts don't think that hot pot is a traditional delicacy, and that expert thinks that hot pot is just a side dish cooked and eaten in a hot pot bottom, and there is no technical content at all.

"Maybe he doesn't want to travel to Sichuan in his life, otherwise he will inevitably be beaten."

When listening to Tang Xuan talk about this matter, Qin Zheng added casually.

At this moment, they are preparing to make a hot pot to eat at home.

Tang Zhao moved the induction cooker to the dining table, and then put a mandarin duck cooking pot on it.

"You even have a mandarin duck pot at home, I really didn't expect ......"

Qin Zheng showed an incredible look when he saw the mandarin duck pot.

"After all, my family is very idle, and occasionally I can have a better experience when I cook hot pot at home."

Tang Zhao put the hot pot base of spicy butter and tomato into the two sides of the mandarin duck pot respectively, and then filled the kettle with hot water.

The ingredients have been neatly placed on the table, and the vegetables have also been washed by Qin Zheng himself.

"Tang Zhao, this bud is so fragrant, I'm a little hungry, let's eat the bud first."

"Actually, you don't have to emphasize the name bud...... You can also call it the ...... of corn."

Tang Zhao looked at Qin Zheng helplessly, and then handed the hot sticky bud rice on the table to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng doesn't care about her cute girl image, she nibbles on corn with both hands, and is as cute and cute as a little hamster.

It didn't take long for large and small bubbles to start pouring up in the boiling pot, and the originally clean and transparent pot was also dyed with the color of the hot pot base.

Tang Zhao put the vegetables on the table into the pot one after another, and the udon noodles into his tomato pot.

Qin Zheng cooperated with Tang Zhao and freed his hands to put the hot pot meatballs and beef and mutton rolls into the cooking pot.

The two of them cooperate tacitly, and they don't need to communicate with words much, just like old friends for many years.

Qin Zheng's dipping sauce was mixed by herself in the kitchen, and there were all kinds of bottles and jars in the cabinet in Tang Zheng's kitchen, which contained all kinds of condiments.

Tang Zheng's dipping sauce is simple, with crushed peanuts in sesame sauce and sugar, so that Qin Zheng's two eyebrows are almost twisted together.

"Tang Xuan, your dipping sauce is really special......"

"Everybody has different tastes, and I actually like that. The last time I ate hot pot with everyone, it was because the hot pot restaurant had a pre-prepared dipping sauce, so I used it casually. ”

Qin Zheng looked down at his oil dish, and then at the unpretentious sesame sauce in front of Tang Zhao, and the whole person's expression was indescribable.

"It's okay, I'm pretty tasty."

As he spoke, Tang Zhao took out a piece of mutton from the tomato pot on his side, dipped it in sesame paste with crushed peanuts and sugar, and sent it to his mouth.

Qin Zheng turned into a shocked emoji in seconds.

"It's nothing, the last time I ate barbecue, I dipped the barbecue in the cheese in the golden cheese small steamed bun, and it was sweet."

"Tang Zhao, I seem to know why your family opened a cake shop......

Although Tang Zheng's preferences are a little different, Qin Zheng still chooses to respect Tang Zhao's taste, the homemade hot pot in front of the two of them is no different from the one in the hot pot restaurant, and when shopping in the vegetable market just now, Qin Zheng paid for some ingredients, and the total cost of this family hot pot is actually quite cost-effective.

"The money spent on eating hot pot once in the store can be eaten several times at home. And the house is not particularly noisy, and there is no need to worry about the special surprise suddenly sent by the enthusiastic hot pot staff. ”

"The main reason is that Qin Zheng is so lazy, you must be more willing to order takeout than cook by yourself."

"What's the matter, isn't it just hot pot, what's the big deal, I often eat hot pot at home."

"Self-heating small hot pot, right, I saw it last time I went to your house, there is a promotional pack in the corner of your room, buy six boxes and get one box free, right?"

“……”

Qin Zheng was speechless for a while, so he could only roll his eyes at Tang Yu with his mouth flattened.

Tang Zhao shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, with a smug expression on his face.

The matter of letting Qin Zheng eat deflated made him feel very comfortable, and Tang Zhao now even felt that bullying Qin Zheng had become some kind of bad taste for him.

However, Qin Zheng usually makes Tang Zhao deflated in school, and they are at most even, so Tang Zhao has no sense of guilt.

It didn't take long for Tang Zhao to feel that the udon noodles were cooked, so he thought about serving a small bowl each to Qin Zheng and himself, which could be regarded as a staple food.

At this moment, Qin Zheng's phone rang with a cheerful ringtone.

Qin Zheng was still nibbling corn, and when she saw the video call invitation displayed on the screen of her mobile phone, her whole expression changed slightly.

"It's my mother calling, my aunt must have called her, otherwise how could she think of me."

Qin Zheng complained in a low voice, his mouth pursed slightly, and he felt a little unhappy when he thought of his workaholic mother.

She will transfer from Suzhou and Hangzhou to Shencheng, and there are more or less reasons for the lack of family care on weekdays.

Since her family is busy with work and has no time to take care of herself, she might as well change her life in a different place, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and her parents can't take care of it.

"Then take it, your mother also cares about you."

Tang Zhao was concentrating on putting shrimp slides into the pot, and casually replied to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng listened to Tang Xuan's words, put down the corn, picked up the mobile phone, and connected the video call.

As Qin Zheng expected, at this time, her mother was still in the office, and the lights around her seemed to be bright, and it was estimated that all the staff of the entire department were working overtime.

"What are you doing, have you eaten?"

Qin Zheng's mother on the other end of the phone is a middle-aged working woman, wearing a black suit, short hair, shrewd and capable.

"I'm eating."

Qin Zheng replied, his tone flat.

"What are you eating?"

"Bud rice, and hot pot. Do you know the bud rice, it's corn. ”

Qin Zheng held up the corn on the side and showed it to her mother through the screen, and in order not to make her feel that she was eating shabby, she deliberately aimed the mobile phone screen in her oil dish for a few seconds.

"I don't think your surroundings look like you're eating in a hot pot restaurant, and this isn't your home, whose house are you in?"

"At Tang Zhao's house, I eat hot pot at his house."

"Who is Tang Qiu, who sounds like a boy when he hears his name?"

"It was my classmate, the seat next to me, the first person I knew in the class. Come to Tang Zhao and say hello to my mother. ”

Qin Zheng suddenly flipped his phone over and pointed the front camera that was on a video call at Tang Zhao.

Tang Zhao was fishing udon noodles from the hot pot to eat, he raised his head, and Qin Zheng and her mother were staring at him on the phone screen.

That's a very temperamental woman, the type of strong woman at first glance.

At this moment, she is sitting upright in the office chair on the mobile phone screen, with her arms crossed and overlapped in front of her chest, looking at the mobile phone on the desk in front of her.

There was no smile on her face, and even when she saw Tang Xuan, her expression was a little serious.

Tang Yu was stunned for a moment, the udon noodles were not clamped, and they fell into the hot pot.

He looked down at the udon noodles that had been rolled back into the pot, then looked up at Qin Zheng's mother, ignoring the soup splashed on his hands, and barely squeezed out a polite smile.

"Hello Auntie, I'm Tang Chao, and I'm Qin Zheng's classmate......"

Tang Zheng maintained an embarrassed smile, but Qin Zheng's mother did not reply immediately.

She looked at Tang Zhao for a long time, and she recognized Tang Zhao's appearance, and nodded lightly.

"Hello, I'm Qin Zheng's mother. I would like to ask, are you living together? ”

This time it wasn't just udon, Tang Zhao's hand slipped and even the bowl fell into the pot.

There is an idiom called a thief's weak heart.

Normally, when ordinary people face this problem, they must immediately deny it, which is a normal phenomenon.

But Tang urged him to be a thief, and in the face of Qin Zheng's mother's problem, he subconsciously thought of the night he shared the bed with Qin Zheng, so he slipped his hand and even dropped the bowl while he was nervous.

Tang Zhao hurriedly picked out the small bowl from the pot with chopsticks, trying to keep the smile on his face normal.

"Auntie, are you kidding, we're still high school students, how can we do that kind of thing, hahaha...... Qin Zheng, she, it's just a hot pot at my house when you get home from school, don't think about it......"

"What do you do at home?"

"...... of opening a cake shop"

"It's okay, the kind that is self-employed with a small business? Or do you already have a chain of branches for your own brand? ”

"At the moment, there is only one cake shop, and there is no semicolon ......"

Tang Zhao was a little confused by a series of questions, but considering that the other party was Qin Zheng's mother after all, he still had the most basic courtesy.

"It's okay, the pace of life in Shencheng is not so fast, and naturally there is not so much pressure. If it really doesn't work, we will have more dowry on our side at that time, so as not to have too much financial burden when the two of you live in the future. ”

"Uh-huh."

Tang Qiu smiled and agreed, until the moment his mind kept up with the speed of the other party's expression.

There was a great earthquake in the world of Tang Xuan.

"Auntie, I don't have that kind of relationship with Qin Zheng, you misunderstood......"

Tang Zheng's explanation looked pale and weak in Qin Zheng's mother's eyes.

"I don't know my own daughter yet, she can go to your house to eat hot pot with you, is it because there is no hot pot restaurant in Shencheng anymore?"

"No, Auntie, you listen to me, in fact, we ...... after school today"

Before Tang Yu finished speaking, the mobile phone in front of him was taken away by Qin Zheng.

"My hands are sore after lifting for too long. That's the mother first, don't talk about it, we're going to eat hot pot, bye-bye. ”

After the video call was unilaterally hung up by Qin Zheng, she continued to nibble on corn like a nobody, and by the way, she fished out some boiled hot pot balls from the pot to eat.

"Qin Zheng, is this good, your mother misunderstood the relationship between us......"

"Misunderstanding is misunderstanding, she is in Suzhou and Hangzhou, I am in Shencheng, how can she manage me. I'm a good girl at home, and now I'm going to rebel and do something for a while. Didn't she think we were living together, and I made her think that her work was more important to her anyway than who her baby daughter slept with. ”

Hearing Qin Zheng say this, Tang Zheng's face became even more ugly.

As the so-called speaker has no intention of listening, he is a thief.

Seeing the change in Tang Qian's complexion, Qin Zheng also thought of what happened before, but her beautiful and delicate face was still light and light.

"It's okay, I won't tell my mother about the fact that Tang Xi slept in the same bed with me."

"Don't say that, it's like I'm seducing a girl from a good family!"

"Originally, Tang Xuan, the vicious big bad wolf, held me helpless like a sheep in the palm of his hand and couldn't break free, so I could only be forced to submit to ......"

Qin Zheng looked aggrieved, looked at Tang Yu with a pitiful gaze, his tone was extremely exaggerated, and his arms were also blocked in front of his chest to try to protect himself.

Tang Yu only felt speechless, glanced at Qin Zheng, and signaled that she could stop acting.

"Your mother misunderstood our relationship, and this will be a big problem sooner or later. If you don't explain it clearly now, if she comes to visit you in Shencheng in the future, it will be even more difficult to explain at that time. ”

Tang Zhao was worried about this, but in fact, it was because he was a thief.

Qin Zheng looked indifferent.

"Maybe it won't have to be explained then."

She placed the corn cob in her hand on the table, satisfied.

“……”

Tang Zhao had a complicated expression on his face, and after taking a deep look at Qin Zheng in front of him, he got up from his chair and stood up.

"This bowl just fell into the pot, I'll go get another ......"

"Well, go ahead."

Tang Qiu's temporary departure to the kitchen was a bit of a deserted escape.

Looking at Tang Zheng's back walking towards the kitchen, the corners of Qin Zheng's mouth showed a sly smile.

Silence is better than sound at this point.