Chapter 53: The Great Crisis!!
Lu Ming slowly returned to the dormitory, humming a little song and taking brisk steps.
"Eh, where did you go", Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong had just finished cultivating at this time, and when they saw Lu Ming coming back from outside, they couldn't help but ask.
"Went out and bought something"
"What did you buy", Wang Dong ran to the front, took Lu Ming's hand, looked around left and right, and rummaged through his pockets again.
"I bought some food, what else can it be", Lu Ming looked at Wang Dong in front of him who was sniffing like a puppy, and couldn't help chuckling, looking at the girl's cute appearance, his hand involuntarily stretched out into the air, wanting to pinch her face.
When his hand reached out and was about to touch his face, Wang Dong looked at the approaching palm, closed his eyes, his face was red, and his eyelashes trembled slightly.
Lu Ming looked at Wang Dong's appearance, stunned for a moment, froze in place, as if the tips of his fingers were scorched by charcoal, and quickly withdrew his hand and took two steps back.
"What are you doing? How strange is it", Huo Yuhan jumped out of bed at this time, put on his shoes, looked at Lu Ming's stiff smile and Wang Dong's red face and closed eyes, and asked suspiciously.
"It's okay, it's okay", Wang Dong lowered his head, his voice was small, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Inexplicable", Huo Yuhan muttered quietly.
"Don't worry so much, let's go sell grilled fish, Huo Yuhao will do more today", Wang Dong hurriedly diverted the topic, his face was still a little flushed, and he spoke incoherently.
"I have something to do today, you two go", Lu Ming responded, scratching his head, and was a little embarrassed to speak.
"Huh? Why are you going? Huo Yuhan asked suspiciously.
"It's a bit of a private matter", Lu Ming smiled awkwardly.
"Inexplicable", this time it fell to Wang Dong muttering, "Yuhao, forget if he doesn't go, don't care about him, let's go, don't give him grilled fish", after speaking, he also gave Lu Ming a fierce look, gritted his teeth and stuck out his tongue, and made a grimace.
"Goodbye", Lu Ming looked at the broken Wang Dong, obviously he looked cute, but he had to pretend to be fierce, but he looked even more cute, which made Lu Ming a little crying and laughing.
"Goodbye", Huo Yuhan responded to Lu Ming, and Wang Dong stuck out his tongue.
When the people were finished, Lu Ming exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the old man in the cabin was not there, so it was estimated that he hadn't eaten yet, so he went out to deal with things.
After looking around at the few people outside, Lu Ming slowly pushed open the creaky door, and then quickly got in, and the door slammed shut.
Today is his birthday, he misses Old Man Lu's jade soup, he hasn't felt anything before, and his birthday seems to be no different from ordinary days for him.
But since he saw the little cherry blossom today, the vaguely dead memory suddenly came to life and began to attack him.
He began to miss everything that had passed, and he wanted to quietly create a small place to experience that feeling, to experience that feeling of being quiet, not having to think about anything, of not having any stress.
He didn't want Moon, Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong to know that today was his birthday, the sense of participation was a terrible thing, when a person participated in your important day again and again, he became that indispensable person.
He didn't want to have any indispensable person, the pain of losing Old Man Lu and Moon's deception crucified him like an instrument of torture, forever suffering the pain of the wound and the suffocation of the sun.
Slowly take out the materials from the bracelet and clean them, some are cut into sections, some are sliced, some are crushed, some rice is soaked in water, some rice is boiled first and then washed to remove the starch, and some rice is slightly fried on a dry pan.
He didn't know the proportions of the various materials, so he could only keep experimenting to get close to the taste in his memory.
Carefully take out a small part, put it in the pot according to the process and simmer, put a notebook next to it, and carefully record the proportion of this time with a pen.
Because Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong might come back soon, he could only speed up, take out the four pots of different sizes, put them on the shelves, and the total soul power urged the flames, and marked the four pots with numbers, and boiled them in different proportions, and boiled a small bowl in each pot, which took less time.
There was a knock on the door, which startled Lu Ming, "Who", Lu Ming closed the kitchen door, wiped his hands with a towel, and opened the door.
Outside the door was a delicate-looking girl, not good-looking, but very attractive, short, with big eyes, black hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a long green dress, which seemed to be carefully dressed.
"Eh, Tang Yuyan, is there anything wrong?" , Lu Ming usually doesn't pay much attention to this ordinary little girl, the little girl doesn't like to talk.
"I have something to tell you", the little girl pursed her lips, her hands clutching the corners of her clothes.
"Huh? Come in and say", although Lu Ming was confused, he still opened the door, he couldn't delay for too long, the amount of boiling in each pot was only a small bowl, and it was inevitable that the porridge would boil after a long time.
"You sit here and wait for a while, I'm going to see my meal", Lu Ming moved a chair for the girl and poured a glass of water.
Opened the kitchen, hurriedly walked in, extinguished the fire, lifted the lid of the pot, a large amount of white mist rose with the aroma, Lu Ming waved his hand, took out four small bowls of porridge, took out a small soup spoon, and took a small empty bowl.
I dug out a spoonful of porridge from each bowl and poured it into the bowl, and tasted it separately, the proportions were not right, and the taste was not right.
"It's so fragrant, does Lu Ming still cook?" The girl's timid voice came from outside.
"Yes, I'm experimenting with a recipe right now, but it doesn't work very well, none of these tastes right, do you want to try it?" , Lu Ming held the tray, and there were four small bowls in it, probably like the soup that southerners eat with their meals, each bowl is only one or two hundred milliliters, a little bit, and a loss.
"Is that okay?" , The girl's eyes lit up, and her voice was glutinous and small.
"Of course you can, if you throw it away, it's wasted", Lu Ming smiled at her, and handed her a small spoon.
"Hmm, it's so fragrant, it's delicious," the girl tasted and exhaled white heat.
"You eat slowly, don't be in a hurry, oh, by the way, what are you looking for me", Lu Ming sat on the chair opposite the girl and asked.
The girl's face became flushed, she couldn't speak with a whimper, she drank two mouthfuls of porridge, looked at Lu Ming's puzzled eyes, and held back a few words, "Or...... Otherwise, you go and experiment with the formula first, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry."
"Okay, then I'll go and experiment with the formula first, you drink the porridge first, drink it slowly, don't burn it, look at your blushing."
Lu Ming didn't care about the girl's weird reaction, after all, Tang Yuyan belonged to the kind of extremely introverted person in the class, blushing when she said a few words to others, inferiority, and cowardice.
Go back and fine-tune the ratio that is closest to the taste, divide it into four proportions, brush the pot clean, put the ingredients of different proportions into the pot again, and boil slowly.
There is very little water and ingredients in the pot, and many of the ingredients have been processed, so it doesn't take too long to boil.
Lu Ming carefully controlled the heat, and the four fires in the kitchen were gasped at the same time, which was small and occluded, and after a while, Lu Ming had fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
Tang Yuyan outside quickly finished drinking the porridge, looking at Lu Ming's figure, she didn't know what she was thinking, her face was flushed, she kept taking deep breaths, cheering herself up, and kept muttering in her mouth, not knowing what she was talking about.
Looking at the heat, this pot of porridge should also be cooked, also poured into four small bowls, each tasted a mouthful, when tasting the third bowl, the eyes lit up, the taste was already very close, just a little worse, to the fourth bowl, the taste was far worse.
Lu Ming looked through the window and looked at the sky outside, it was already slightly dark, the breeze was a little cool, and it was estimated that there would be no time to make a second bowl.
Lu Ming wrote down the extremely close ratio, and boiled another pot of porridge with this ratio.
Then he brought out the four bowls of porridge on a tray and turned on the soul guide lamp in the room, and the soft light drove away the darkness of the room like a legion.
"Do you want to taste it, my experiment is very close, do you want to guess which one is correct", Lu Ming smiled mysteriously at the girl.
The girl was stunned for a moment, her face flushed again, and she nodded, making an inaudible voice, "I want to try."
The girl's usual amount of food is not large, how to say that so much porridge adds up to eight or nine hundred milliliters, and when she tastes the fourth bowl, it is obvious that she is full.
At this time, Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong happened to come back from selling grilled fish, saw the light of the cabin, and just wanted to push the door to enter, they heard Lu Ming's voice.
The two of them were also curious about what Lu Mingshen was doing mysteriously today, so they carefully picked up the window and looked at it secretly.
"If you can't drink it, forget it", Lu Ming looked at the girl's reluctant appearance, persuaded him, and took the porridge from the girl's hand.
"Well, do you mind if I drink what you're left of?" After all, it can't be wasted, although he doesn't think there is anything wrong with eating with a child in a bowl, but he still asked, so as not to offend others.
The girl was stunned for a moment, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she stammered, "No...... It's fine".
The two people outside looked stupid, Huo Yuhan almost rushed in, but was stopped by Wang Dong.
"What are you stopping me for", Huo Yuhan muttered quietly, with a little sadness and anger in his voice.
"Don't worry, don't worry, it's not over yet, keep watching, keep watching", Wang Dong hurriedly used his soul power to support a barrier to block Huo Yuhan's voice, and whispered a few words in Huo Yuhan's ear, she was also inexplicably a little irritable, and wanted to rush up and give Lu Ming two punches, but she wanted to continue to know what would happen next.
"Which one do you think is the right recipe", Lu Ming finished the porridge in the bowl in one gulp, rubbed his hands, and asked.
"This one, right?" , The girl pointed to a bowl and said to Lu Ming.
"Huh? Is this one better? The girl pointed to bowl number one, and there was still a lot of insertion in the answer he thought was correct.
"No, no, that's this", the girl looked at Lu Ming's expression, knowing that she had made a mistake, so she changed her choice.
"Poof...... Don't guess, don't guess, the correct formula is indeed not as delicious as the ratio you said", Lu Ming was made a little bitter by the girl, and waved his hand, "The reason why this recipe is precious is only because it is a familiar taste to me, and it is not even more delicious."
"By the way, can you tell what is going on now?"
"This ...... This, Lu Ming, I like it...... Like you, can ...... Can you be my boyfriend", the girl's voice was very small, and she lowered her head when she spoke, not daring to look up.
But how could this voice hide from the two-ring great soul master outside, and there was also a spiritual soul master close to the two rings.
This time, Wang Dong couldn't sit still, and almost broke in, but was stopped by Huo Yuhan.
"Don't worry, let's continue to watch and see what kind of moth he can make", Huo Yuhan's voice was already a little cold, and he gritted his teeth when he spoke.
Lu Ming was blindsided all of a sudden, he never thought that the girl would come to him to confess, and he didn't remember what he usually said to her?
He pondered for a while, searching his mind for words to say without hurting a girl's heart.
He thought it was ridiculous, after all, where did a child know anything about love and love, he had only known each other for three months, and you said he liked me without even saying a few words? Don't make a fuss!
But you can't laugh at this moment, what is in front of him is not a big girl, but a girl with an extremely introverted and inferior personality, he can't hurt a child like this.
"Tang Yuyan, can you tell me how you fell in love with me?" , Lu Ming pondered for a while, and decided to start from the source and tell the child that the hazy feelings of youth are not called love, it is just a good impression of the opposite sex under the effect of adolescent hormones.
The girl choked suddenly, her lips squirmed for a long time and she didn't say anything.
"Don't be nervous, drink saliva", Lu Ming looked at the girl's embarrassed appearance and comforted her.
"This ...... You may ...... Probably don't remember, in two ...... ...... 2 months ago"
The girl stammered and looked up at Lu Ming, her face was red, Lu Ming nodded, motioned for the girl to continue, and slowly she became fluent.
"Two months ago, I was bullied by my classmates in the dormitory, and then ...... Then you pass by, stop them, and don't let them do it again."
And then ...... Then, we had dinner together, and it rained a lot that day, and you sent me back to the dormitory, and before parting, I said, 'You are a very nice person like my friend when I was a child', and you replied, 'In a bad fate, there will always be someone who will shelter you from the wind and rain', and from that moment, I ...... Just ......"
The girl paused after speaking, and mustered up the courage to say the second half, "I like you."
Lu Ming was speechless after hearing this, buddy is just kind-hearted, he can't see those hard things, and he made others like me with this unintentional move? As for that sentence, it's just that the second disease has flare up for a while.
"Do you know me, just say you like me", Lu Ming scratched his head, not knowing how to refute the unreasonableness of this sentence, because the little kid's liking is often because he looks right, he can rely on this to refute the other party and tell her that this is not called love.
Who knew that this little girl seemed to have quite a good reason, and he could only find a rebuttal from other places.
"I know that you live in that dormitory, I know that you like to drink meat porridge and xiaolongbao with a little pickled vegetables for breakfast, I know that you like to cook and read, I also went to the library to borrow the books you have read, and read them every night, there is a ...... of "General History of Douluo Continent"
Lu Ming listened to the girl chanting a large list of book titles, he knew, it's over, this girl knows him very well, except for some experiences, no one knows, this girl knows him well.
He listened slowly, until the girl finished saying the last word by word, and after pondering for a while, he slowly held back a few words.
"This, I'm sorry, I think it's too hasty, we've only known each other for three months, at most we have a good feeling, not a liking"
Lu Ming spoke slowly, his voice was very soft, but it was like thunder in the girl's ears, making the girl more and more lost, and her head buried lower and lower.
"I still like you, but this kind of liking is limited to the love between classmates, and it's not necessarily a good thing to be a boyfriend and girlfriend, in case you can't even be friends after breaking up"
Lu Ming looked at the girl's face, and immediately changed his tone to comfort, and at the same time gave the girl a step down.
As he spoke, Lu Ming suddenly felt a chill behind him, as if some beast was staring at him, ready to move, waiting for the opportunity to come up and tear himself to pieces.
"I think you also love me among classmates, far from the kind of love that lovers like", Lu Ming's last voice fell, and the final verdict was issued for the whole incident.
The girl's face was a little better after hearing Lu Ming's words, but she still lowered her head, gritted her teeth, and didn't say a word.
At this time, Moon outside also gradually returned, leaning on a cane, looking at the two people outside with some doubts.
Wang Dong had an angry look on his face, gritting his teeth and looking at the people inside through the window, Huo Yuhan was a mixture of grievance and anger, mixed with a little bit of coldness.
Moon saw the situation in the room at once, looked at the expressions of the two people outside, understood what was happening, and couldn't help but smile a little maliciously on his face, and sat on the chair at the door without calling the two.
The two of them were so carried away by the anger that they didn't notice Moon's arrival, and they were all focused on the room.
"Well, shall we hug you?" , The girl spoke slowly, and said this sentence with a sense of loss, with a little inquiry.
Lu Ming looked at the girl's face, opened his arms and smiled at her, "Of course, today is my birthday, so it should be given to me as a birthday gift."
The girl slowly hugged it, hugged it very tightly, and lasted for two or three seconds before letting go, "Then, I wish you a happy birthday, goodbye, your porridge is delicious", it was clear that the girl's arms should be warm, but Lu Ming felt a burst of coldness, and even felt like the tip of a knife pointing at his back.
Then the girl let go of Lu Ming, stood up, walked out, and showed a wry smile at Lu Ming before leaving, beckoning.
The two people outside the window hurriedly hid, but Moon was motionless, "Goodbye, old man", and the girl said hello to the old man.
A breeze blew outside the window, carrying the moonlight into the house, blowing Lu Ming a little cold, he walked over and closed the window, went to the kitchen to lift the lid of the pot, a hot breath with a familiar and unfamiliar aroma dispelled the cold of his body.
He swallowed, took out a bowl, took a sip while it was hot, closed his eyes and quietly experienced the long-lost taste.
But a loud clash of doors pulled him out of his aftertaste.
It is estimated that Huo Yuhan Wang Dong and the old man came back, and he hurriedly took out all the porridge, a total of four bowls, and brought it out on a tray.
"Eh, what's wrong with you, why are you like this?" , Lu Ming looked at Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong, and asked suspiciously.
Originally, the two wanted to lose their temper immediately, but they remembered that today was Lu Ming's birthday, and the old man was still watching behind them, so they restrained a little.
The two didn't say a word, they just sat on the chair and looked at Lu Ming viciously, Huo Yuhan also threw the chair that the girl was sitting on just now, making a huge collision sound, which startled Lu Ming.
Moon walked in slowly from behind, giving Lu Ming a self-begging look, leaving him confused.
Lu Ming said that the porridge was placed on the table, took four spoons, and handed them to a few people, "Come and taste it."
Huo Yuhan and the others still didn't speak, and they didn't drink the porridge, staring at Lu Ming deadly.
"What's the matter? What upset you? Lu Ming asked with concern.
"Dear classmate Lu Ming, you can enjoy your dinner first", Wang Dong gritted his teeth and said a sentence, which made Lu Ming feel like a severed head meal.
"Well, it's delicious", Moon was normal, and complimented.
However, no matter how Lu Ming looked, he felt that Moon's eyes were strange, and even felt a little ill-intentioned.
He took a careful sip, exhaled the hot air, closed his eyes, and a slight smile appeared on his face.
Drinking porridge quietly, the cabin was depressed and scary, like the dark clouds before the rainstorm, like the rumbling sound before the eruption of a volcano, but Lu Ming was immersed in his own world and did not experience this depression at all.
It wasn't until he drank the porridge that he got out of this feeling, and looking at the two people in front of him, cold sweat flowed down unconsciously.
"Yes...... Isn't it delicious for me to cook, it's almost cold", Lu Ming sneered, and slowly said this tentatively.
"It's delicious, but we don't dare to eat it, after all, someone doesn't tell us on his birthday, who knows if we will be angry if we eat it, do you say yes, Wang Dong", Huo Yuhan looked at Lu Ming with resentment, and spoke like eating a jar of sauerkraut, and the sour anger pierced Lu Ming with sarcasm.