Chapter 37: Red Wine Lamb Chops
"Say what others want to hear, and do what pleases others." Cheng Ze sighed, scratched his hair, and continued, "My mother said that it was my adoptive mother, and she said that I look good with long hair, and in order to cater to her preferences, I have long hair for more than 10 years, and I can wear a short ponytail at the longest. ”
"Wearing a ponytail doesn't affect your appearance." Summer suddenly interjected.
"Haha-" Cheng Ze laughed so much that tears were about to flow out, "Senior sister's thoughts have always been very ...... It's peculiar. ”
He looks so good when he laughs! Summer heart said.
Gollum –
It was the sound that came out of Narusawa's stomach.
At noon, they found some quick-frozen food in the refrigerator and dealt with it, and now there is no other way than to wait for Zhang Fei and them to bring back the food.
Summer suddenly thought that Cheng Ze felt irritable, could it be because he was hungry? She got up and pulled out four or five rectangular pieces of chocolate from her backpack.
"Do you want to eat?"
"Hmm."
In the summer, he quickly finished eating a whole plate of chocolate, and Cheng Ze picked up the outer package and looked at it, and said admiringly: "More than 80 grams." ”
Summer has unpacked the second piece.
"What's wrong?"
"You like chocolate so much, I'll give you more on Valentine's Day."
Summer didn't speak, but secretly looked forward to it in her heart.
The two sat cross-legged on the bed facing each other, quickly destroying the chocolates, and Summer couldn't get enough of sniffing the tin foil that wrapped the chocolate.
The inexplicable feeling of anxiety disappeared with the feeling of satiety, and the two fell into a situation where they didn't say a word.
The hour hand quickly pointed to 6 o'clock, Cheng Ze looked at the bright moon outside the window, and muttered: "I am so quiet and don't like to talk, I am the real me, and it is really difficult for you to let my senior sister get along with me like this." ”
Summer smiled lightly, this is also the real her, she is also afraid that Cheng Ze will get along with her like this and feel bored.
Cheng Ze said this first, what a blessing.
The biggest difference between Summer and Cheng Ze is probably that Cheng Ze will wear a mask to blend into the crowd, while Summer will not, she always remembers what her father said to her when he left, as long as she works hard to reach a certain height, she can change everything, control everything, and have the ability to survive independently without pleasing others.
"Merry Christmas, summer." Cheng Ze was still staring at the moon, his side face was impeccably beautiful, and his dark blue eyes were even deeper with his dark blue eyebrows, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you for all the Christmas, as well as Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's ......"
He turned his head to stare at Summer, and said melancholy and affectionately, "Please don't abandon me, even if it's just your friend." ”
Something struck Summer's heart, and she heard the sound of the wall of timidity and self-esteem in her body collapsing.
I'm not in the kind of relationship you think you have.
He's mine......
Summer thought I'd just say it.
"How long can your enthusiasm last this time?"
The light in Cheng Ze's eyes dimmed little by little, like a dark cloud covering the starlight.
Summer turned her face away and bit her lip as she felt like she had fallen from a great height.
What I want to say is not this sentence, obviously not this sentence!
"Narisawa ......"
Cheng Ze interrupted her with a chuckle: "It's okay, as long as the words come out of your mouth, no matter how hurtful I am, I can swallow it." ”
At 7 o'clock in 10 minutes, Cheng Xiaolan crossed her arms and tilted her head to look at Zhang Fei and his party who were rushing in, her eyes were like the teaching director glaring at the students who did not return at night.
The others took off their shoes and slipped into the house, pretending not to see her.
Only after Zhang Fei hung up his coat, he asked her with a smile: "Are you hungry?" ”
"What do you say? I was so concerned about eating enough that I forgot that there were three people starving here. ”
"I didn't forget, and we're hungry too." The two entered the house as they spoke, "After sending Miao Miao on the plane, I hurried back, and some sections of the snow were not cleared in time, and the car really didn't dare to drive fast." ”
"They took refuge abroad?"
"I've already booked my ticket to the Maldives."
"Why do you eat the rest of the wedding banquet at night?" Cheng Xiaolan stood in front of the Christmas tree, and saw Feifei and Da Zhuang taking out boxes the size of lunch boxes from environmentally friendly shopping bags.
"I went to the supermarket before I came, and we ate hot pot at night."
Cheng Xiaolan pursed her lips, sat on the sofa, and said, "The smell can't be dispersed for three days." ”
Hearing the bustling sound downstairs, Narusawa and Summer walked down the stairs one after the other.
"Sister Tian'er, eat hot pot at night." Kim Yeon smiled and raised the big green shrimp in her hand.
"I'll come, I'll come, the shrimp are still with ice, it's too cold, you go and get them candy to eat." Zhang Fei pushed Jin Yan out of the kitchen.
"Aze, just sit there and wait to eat, don't squeeze into the kitchen." Seeing that Cheng Ze rolled up his sleeves to help, Zhang Fei pointed to the red carpet in front of the fireplace and said.
Nari Ze smiled, walked over to the fireplace and sat down.
"Sister Tian'er, you can taste the candy here, it's delicious, I secretly stuffed several boxes into my bag." Jin Yan gave the delicate handicraft gift to Summer and touched her ears again, "The ears are not red anymore." ”
"Hmm." I just ate so much chocolate, and I can't eat candy anymore in the summer.
"I look at the hand, the back of the hand is also ......" Jin Yan found the gold bracelet, her eyes glared like copper bells, "This is ...... It's ......"
"This ......"
"Can I wear it?"
Summer took off the bracelet, Jin Yan happily held it in her hand, and after watching it for a while, she put it on her wrist and went to find Zhang Fei.
"Look, how pretty."
Zhang Fei was washing vegetables, tilted his head slightly and glanced at the bracelet, and then said with a smile: "Aze bought it for the summer." ”
"Hmm." Kim Yeon pursed her mouth.
"I'll go to work after the exam, and when school starts, I'll work as a tutor, well, will I try to buy you a line before the summer vacation?" Zhang Fei began to wash the squid.
"You don't have to buy such expensive ones, even gold-plated ones." Kim Yeon reluctantly took off the bracelet and gave it back to Summer.
"Don't you really need our help?" Seeing everyone busy in the kitchen, Summer asked.
"How can you let the patient work?" Liu Tao set up the mandarin duck pot.
"It's not that serious, I'm fine." In the summer, I don't want to be like Cheng Xiaolan, sitting on the sofa and waiting for someone to serve.
"If Cheng Ze doesn't find you in time, you'll freeze to death." Liu Tao said with a grim face.
People always heal their scars and forget the pain, stay in the warm villa, and in the summer have forgotten what it was like to almost freeze to death on that snowy night.
"Go and rest, I'll call you later." Zhao Fei placed the beef and mutton around the mandarin duck pot in turn, she was still wearing a bridesmaid dress, and the makeup on her face was a little spent.
"Sister Tian'er, what are you doing running out? Chasing that food delivery guy? Jin Yan remembered to ask about this.
Cheng Xiaolan and Cheng Ze's eyes swept over at the same time.
Summer nodded slightly.
"Why? You know him, who is he? Do I know each other? ”
"He's ......" Summer swallowed the following words, and it was not yet possible to say that if he could not be found, it would only be empty joy in the end.
"Her ex-boyfriend." Cheng Xiaolan saw that Xia refused to speak, so she replied in a sharp voice.
"Nonsense, my sister Tian'er doesn't have an ex-boyfriend, and she has never been in love." Kim retorted loudly.
Summer heard the laughter of Liu Tao and several other people, as well as the laughter of Da Zhuang, who was being fried lamb chops, which was masked by a "zila".
"Sister, are you really helping me explain?" Summer blushed and sat down in front of the fireplace without saying a word.
Cheng Ze immediately leaned closer to her, and his whole body was much more relaxed, as if he was suffering from some serious illness, but he was suddenly told by the doctor that it was a misdiagnosis.
"How do you know she doesn't?" Cheng Xiaolan said disdainfully, and continued to play with her mobile phone with her head down.
"I said no, no, I don't know, who she usually gets close to." Kim Yeon replied.
"I'm afraid you'll rob it, so I don't want you to know, haven't you heard of fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-girlfriends." Cheng Xiaolan's eyes still didn't leave the phone screen.
"Yo, it seems that you have done a lot of things to rob other people's boyfriends."
Cheng Xiaolan put down her phone when she heard this, raised her head and looked at Jin Yan with fierce eyes.
Jin Yan also folded her arms and looked like she didn't flinch.
Summer put her hands on her forehead, in her opinion, the least worthwhile thing to do is to be more serious about something than someone who is different from the three views, and ignoring it is the best response to the other party.
"Do you have a headache?" A breath gently blew behind Summer's ear, and she almost hit Narusawa's face when she turned around.
Narizawa's healing smile was reflected in Summer's panicked pupils.
"Do you have a headache?" Cheng Ze asked again, and reached out to touch her forehead, like a player going to catch a basketball.
"It doesn't hurt." Seeing that the slender and beautiful hand was about to envelop her, Summer swallowed her saliva and slowly moved back, and suddenly, a faint aroma of wine mixed with the rich smell of meat wafted over, and the two turned their heads to look at the kitchen together.
Da Zhuang opened the lid of the pot, and the heat was thick.
"It should be red wine mutton, you have a mouthful." Cheng Ze put down his hand and looked at Da Zhuang's busy back with a smile.
This red wine lamb chop is specially made by Da Zhuang for summer, the lamb chop is cooked in a pressure cooker by the hotel chef in advance, and now it is simply cooked with red wine and other ingredients.
"You taste it, the lamb chops have been stewed in a pressure cooker, the taste may be worse, the mutton is hot, if it is not delicious, eat more today, next time I will use fresh lamb chops to make it for you, no thanks." Da Zhuang personally brought the red wine lamb chops to Summer, then wiped his hands with an apron, and sat next to Zhao Fei.
Zhao Fei patted him on the shoulder and said, "After driving for a long time, are you tired?" ”
Da Zhuang's two eyes blinked vigorously at the same time.
"Thank you, brother." Cheng Ze said gratefully.
Da Zhuang opened the wine and smiled at Cheng Ze, the smile in his eyes seemed to say, "Little thing." ”
The heat in the bowl wet the eyes of the summer, it has been a long time no one has cooked for her, all these years she has cooked for her mother, Li Lijuan did not go downstairs, she personally brought it to the second floor, at first boiled noodles in white water, and then tomato scrambled eggs, shredded potatoes, tofu soup......
No matter how unpalatable the food was, Li Lijuan never complained, and always stuffed it into her mouth like a controlled robot.
The last time I ate Li Lijuan's cooking was in the summer college entrance examination, she got up early to prepare for cooking, but saw that the kitchen table was full of nutritious breakfast.
"Take the college entrance examination today, eat more." On this day, Li Lijuan's head was not a mushroom, and it was back to normal for the time being, she unbuttoned her apron, put it on the stool, and then silently picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and ate expressionlessly.
This is the first time that mother and daughter have sat down to eat together since they moved here.
Don't you ask me how I'm studying and where I'm going to take the exam?
Although she can't see the color, the woman in front of her can be described as skinny in the eyes of summer, of course, she can't see the white hair on Li Lijuan's temples, and she can't see the bloodshot blood covering her eyes.
Such a rickety figure reminds Summer of her elderly grandmother, and after only a few years, her mother has become like this, and she can't ask what she wants to ask, and words like "thank you for making me breakfast" are also stuck in her throat.