"Well, a snack for you." Su Qingluan pushed the food box in front of Mu Xingzhi.

"It's ...... Mung bean cake? Mu Xingzhi stared at the pale yellow pastries, a little playful, but he only picked up a piece and played with it between his slender fingers, and did not rush to put it in his mouth.

Su Qingluan didn't know what he was hesitating about, thought about it from his own perspective, and roughly imagined the possibility of "hesitation", so he explained: "Rest assured, this snack is not very sweet." ”

As we all know, "not very sweet" is the highest level of evaluation for foods like "pastries", Su Qingluan took it for granted that Mu Xingzhi didn't like sweets very much, but he couldn't think of any good excuse to refuse, so he told him this very intimately.

However, it was obvious that she guessed wrong, because after Mu Xingzhi listened to her explanation, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Qingluan, I naturally believe in your craftsmanship." As he spoke, he put the piece of mung bean glutinous rice cake in his hand into his mouth.

It was the first time for Su Qingluan to watch Mu Xingzhi eat so closely. To be honest, in her previous life, she followed her master to help in the back kitchen, and in the end, she was able to take charge on her own.

The chef opened a private restaurant, and the people who came were usually his former comrades-in-arms and family and friends of his old comrades-in-arms.

Because some of the old comrades-in-arms have changed jobs, some are still in the army, and there are people of all professions, so the people brought in are all three-minded and nin-class.

Although Su Qingluan is in the back kitchen most of the time, occasionally when everyone is curious about the master in charge or the master wants to show off her as a proud protégé, she will let her come out of the back kitchen to meet and chat with everyone.

Frankly speaking, Su Qingluan has not seen all kinds of second and third generations with some backgrounds, and some people are even that "generation" themselves. Among them, there are many noble sons and ladies from scholarly families or wealthy families.

But Su Qingluan watched coldly, according to her memory, she had the impression that no one could achieve such an elegant state of "eating" such a cheesy action.

Originally, this kind of pastry-like thing, even if Su Qingluan added glutinous rice flour and lard as a binder and lubricant, but after all, it didn't have the same malleability as mochi, so there would still be some slag.

Needless to say, children like their own younger siblings often eat a mess on the table. Even adults like myself and my parents eat more carefully, and it is still difficult to avoid spilling out residues.

But Su Qingluan looked at Mu Xingzhi, even though he had wide robes and big sleeves, there was no food residue on the hem of his clothes when he ate. Not only that, but the tiny food crumbs that were originally splashed and dropped everywhere seemed to have been cast some kind of magic, and they didn't leak out of Mu Xingzhi's mouth at all.

Not only that, Su Qingluan also found that when Mu Xingzhi was eating, the chewing action was not very obvious - in short, if he didn't observe carefully, he wouldn't even notice that the other party was eating, of course, the behavior of tapping his mouth, which is very rude to ordinary people, would be even more unlikely to appear on Mu Xingzhi.

Mu Xingzhi ate a piece of mung bean glutinous rice cake, took another sip of tea, and said with a smile: "This cake is delicate and soft, the filling is rich in floral fragrance, it is worthy of being from the hands of Qingluan, the sweetness is not greasy, the floral fragrance is not tasteful, even if you look at the capital, it is also a treasure." ”

When he said this, he pronounced the words clearly, and there was no embarrassing situation where the food residues "flying" everywhere as he spoke, and even the two soft lips did not get on the pastry......

Wait, isn't it nice for her to stare at people's lips like this...... Su Qingluan silently retracted his gaze.

In this way, after Su Qingluan looked at it for a while, he couldn't help but sigh: "In the past, I always felt that the phrase 'action, sitting and lying down has its own demeanor' was exaggerated no matter how I said it, but looking at your every move, I finally believed this sentence, I have never seen a beautiful painting when eating." ”

Su Qingluan's praise was sincere, but he didn't pay attention to praising a big man for being "good-looking", and the other party might not be happy.

However, although Mu Xingzhi frowned invisibly, he knew that Su Qingluan was just simply praising him, and he might not have the pickled thoughts of those unbearable people he had encountered before, so he quipped without a trace: "In this case, you can draw a portrait of me and take it as a thank you gift to me—doesn't it mean that you should thank me so much for helping you in your spare time?" ”

Su Qingluan blinked: "I can paint you a portrait, but it doesn't need to be a thank you gift - even as a friend, I can give you a painting, and it's not a difficult problem." But the banquet that was promised as a thank you gift will have to wait. ”

"Oh? Could it be that Qingluan is going to start busy with the business of Na Xie Mansion again? ”

Although he asked, Mu Xingzhi knew that this was impossible—although the informant he sent out did not specifically monitor the situation of Su Qingluan and the Xie family, he also knew that according to the footsteps of the Xie Mansion, the batch of jam should have just arrived in the capital in the past few days, and maybe those nobles had not found time to taste it.

Su Qingluan waved his hand: "I hope that business will be prosperous, but I always have to take a breath - not to mention that it is estimated that the jam should have just arrived in the capital at this time, and when these nobles finish eating, it is estimated that it will be ten days and a half months later." ”

Although it is also possible that this jam is not popular at all, so I will stop it, but if such a discouraged thing is out of "auspicious" considerations, Su Qingluan will not say it.

"Actually, this time, in addition to wanting to thank you for your constant help, I also have a friend who helps me day and night. Even though I paid for it, she did much more than I paid – and she even fell ill for taking care of me. ”

Su Qingluan is definitely not the only one who pays Liu Yunniang, and it doesn't mean that except for Liu Yunniang, no one works seriously and responsibly.

But Su Qingluan understands that it is absolutely not necessary for a person who is "serious and responsible in his work" to be as good as Liu Yunniang - as long as Mu Xingzhi does not rest, Liu Yunniang will not rest; Whether it is Liu Yunniang's job or not, as long as Su Qingluan needs it, she will definitely help; and taking care of her sick at the risk of infection.

None of these is the level that needs to be done between the "worker and the employer".

can do this only because Liu Yunniang regards Su Qingluan as a friend.

And Mu Xingzhi, to be honest, Su Qingluan was not sure what this man's position was for her, but it was obvious that she had been helped a lot by him, and the chat between the two was also very speculative. At least from Su Qingluan's point of view, she really regards Mu Xingzhi as a rare "confidant" in this world.

It is precisely because of this that for these two important friends, Su Qingluan's "thank you gift" does not want to hastily take a pastry or a painting to pass away.