Chapter Twenty-Nine: Peaks and Loops
I really don't know whether to be happy or sad about the fact that I accidentally took the flower to Yaoyao's favorite flower.
I feel like she is a rich treasure, and every moment I spend with her seems to bring me different surprises, which makes me want to get closer to her and get to know her.
It's just that when she said these words, the expression on her face was obviously a little lost, although it was only a flash, but I still managed to capture it.
I guess when she saw the hibiscus flower in my hand, she was a little expecting that I would know about it and what it meant, and even chose to give it because she knew it.
And the consequence of my reckless behavior was to drag her, who was still in high spirits, into an emotional trough. I suddenly regretted it a little, and I felt a little heartache, but it was too late to say anything more.
"I'm sorry, I apologize to you for my reckless behavior, maybe I tried to show myself too much, and it turned out to be self-defeating." Looking at her gradually recovering face, my heart became heavier and heavier.
I was still smug about my unintentional willow planting just now, but at this time, it was like being poured from my head by a basin of cold water, and my heart was cold.
She smiled lightly and said, "It's okay, why are you wrong when you gave me flowers, you didn't give me chrysanthemums, I'm already going to steal fun." ”
The more she tried to exonerate me, the more I felt like a clown, my own selfishness being put in the spotlight and magnified infinitely. The guilt and self-blame in my heart made me dare not look into her eyes, lowered my head and kept rubbing my palms, as a solution to my dilemma.
"Aren't you going to eat? Let's go, where to eat, I'm dying of hunger. ”
Probably seeing my embarrassment, she quickly adjusted her emotions, and then said to me in an exaggerated tone. As soon as she said this, I nodded heavily as if I was on the verge of amnesty, and said, "Well, let's go, it just so happens that I'm hungry too." ”
"Last time you invited me to dinner, today I invite you to take you to a restaurant that you won't forget if you eat it."
After saying that, he got up and led the way in front. She jumped up and down all the way, picking up the trinkets from the roadside stalls and gesturing on herself, and then running to the food stalls to smell the steaming food.
Anyway, it didn't stop for a moment, and I just followed her closely, still blaming myself for what had just happened.
I watched her hold the hibiscus flower I brought in her hand, and carefully protected it in front of her like holding a rare treasure. I didn't dare to have a moment of peace in my heart, and I kept falling into the mood of self-blame, and I couldn't extricate myself for a long time.
Finally, after walking around and around with her for almost half an hour, she stood in front of a small shop with no face.
Then he signaled that I had arrived at my destination, and looked at the slightly cramped shop, and I cast an inquiring look. She smiled at me, then paced up to me, motioning for me to bow my head and whisper.
"You don't have to look at their shop is not big, the food is delicious, look at the boss to open the store in this kind of place, you should know his strength. If the boss is willing to change places, he doesn't know how long the queue will be every day. ”
I saw that she looked serious, not like she was joking, and the small restaurant was full of diners as if to prove to me the truth of her words. Seeing that I was beginning to take a serious look at the shop, she continued.
"I've only been here with my aunt and uncle once, and I can't forget the smell of his house, if it weren't for the fact that it's too far away, I would definitely come every day. If you don't believe it, I'll try it later, I'm sure you'll be like me, and you won't forget it after eating it once. ”
Her words made me have to take a serious and careful look at this really inconspicuous small shop, and visually inspect the small store of about 20 square meters. There was a large countertop at the door, and a huge pot was bubbling hot.
Two middle-aged men and women in their forties were busy behind the counter, and the man skillfully put all kinds of skewered ingredients into the pot and cooked. The woman took the cooked ingredients he handed over and put the various seasonings on the countertop into it.
I silently calculated in my heart, a dozen seasonings, and it only took a few seconds for her to put them all into the bowl. The movements are fast and give me a feeling of dazzleness.
Looking at the movements of the two people with a shocked face, Yaoyao showed a victorious posture on her face, and the expression was clearly asking me: "How is it, believe me now." ”
I didn't respond, as a Sichuanese, I was nourished by all kinds of food since I was a child. So I'm almost never picky about what I eat now, because no matter how picky I am, I can't pick out the taste of home.
When I first arrived in Shenzhen, I was starved for three days looking at the boiled cabbage and potatoes in the canteen, and finally I was driven by the need to survive and barely ate the food that was as difficult to swallow as pig food.
In the days that followed, I slowly adapted to this way of eating to meet the needs of survival, and my taste buds were so numb that I couldn't make any distinction between food and taste.
Follow Yaoyao into the store, where there are two rows of huge freezers against the wall, which are full of various ingredients. The yards were neatly placed, and it could be seen that the boss had put a lot of thought into it, which gave me a little confidence in Yaoyao's words.
There were two rows of four tables in the middle of the shop, and the tables were already filled with young men and women who looked like they didn't know each other.
Each of them had a large bowl full of ingredients in front of them, and then each of them carried a small bowl and kept picking up vegetables from the large bowl.
The appearance of Yaoyao and I in this small store caused a lot of commotion, and looking at the hot eyes focused on Yaoyao, I already understood a general idea.
With a tall figure and a delicate face, although she wears a wide sweatshirt, she still has no way to hide her slenderness.
I have been paying attention to the goodness and goodness of her heart for the past two days, ignoring this fact, and at this time their eyes reminded me.
Obviously, I am a typical blind eye, and I don't know the true face of Lushan. The enthusiastic gaze of these people greatly satisfied my little vanity, and I leaned closer to Yaoyao, declaring my sovereignty to them.
Seeing that the eyes of the diners had already taken off Yaoyao and continued to feast on the food in front of them, I withdrew my warning gaze from them like a victor.
There was still no one in the store, and it seemed that the whole store was silent, except for the sound of them snorting as they ate.
I can understand that the boys eat roughly, but seeing those girls also stuff food into their mouths regardless of their image, it makes me have to think about it seriously.
Seeing that the store was full of people, Yaoyao ran over and whispered a few words to the boss, and then the boss put down the work in his hand.
When I went to the inner room and moved a table to the open space at the door, I noticed that there was a stroller at the door of the inner room, and a child was sleeping soundly in it.
No wonder the people who ate didn't speak, it turned out that because of this, I had to give a thumbs up to the behavior of this group of diners.
Yaoyao took two plastic baskets for vegetables and handed them to me, squeezed them into my ear and whispered, "Take whatever you want, don't be polite to me." ”
That heroic, I didn't know that I thought it was the princess of the Middle Eastern oil king family to experience life, so I bumped into it.
Based on my attachment to food and my judgment of the consumption level of this store, I made a prank choice, listened to the advice of our "little princess", and did not be polite to her.
When I took all the ingredients in the freezer and walked to the boss with a basket full of vegetables in both hands, I seemed to see his rich inner activity from his shocked expression.
And when I caught a glimpse of the basket that belonged to Yaoyao next to him, I could understand why the boss's expression just now was so exciting.
I think the boss has already put some labels on the two of us in his heart, and looked at Yaoyao, who was already sitting at the table at the door, and was seriously cleaning the dishes and chopsticks.
She seemed to sense my gaze, threw a weird smile at me, and beckoned me to pass.
After I sat down beside her, she looked at the two huge baskets next to the boss and said with a smile, "How is it, are you scared by me?" Don't worry, I'm very confident in my appetite, trust me. ”
After saying that, there was another ill-intentioned smile, which made my back chill, and a creepy feeling came to my heart.
The boss has begun to skillfully put the various ingredients into several iron baskets of different sizes and put them into the large iron pot in front of him. Then he turned around and asked, "Do you want to put your stuff together?" Or to separate you. ”
I was about to talk, but Yaoyao had already taken the lead: "Let's put it together, put more chili peppers." ”
I rejoiced in my heart, and I must admit that her undisguised trust gave me great courage and security.
The speed of the boss was even faster than expected, and we were still looking at each other in a daze, when a huge iron basin was placed in front of us.
When the boss put down the iron basin and turned around, he didn't forget to re-examine the two of us, his eyes full of doubts.
To be honest, when I saw the big iron basin in front of me, I had no confidence in my heart, and I secretly regretted what I had just done.
Compared to me, Yaoyao is much calmer, using the chopsticks in her hand to turn the food in the basin vigorously, looking at her struggling appearance, I think we must have to pay for our impulsiveness today.
The wood was already in the boat, and there was no way out, so I picked up the chopsticks and helped her stir the food in the basin vigorously. It wasn't until the hand holding the chopsticks had begun to sour and could no longer stir up the food that he stopped, and looked at the big pot of food again in a daze.
Man is such a wonderful creature that instinct always drives us to give up when we are faced with an impossible task. I don't even have the courage to start, even if it's just a little bit of trying.
Obviously, the probability before us now is that it is an impossible task, and with her almost negligible appetite, I really have no confidence in us. “
Let's go, Ica
eat a ho
se。 Yaoyao didn't have any awareness of making mistakes, and she didn't forget to playfully slap a sentence in English.
Seeing her confident appearance, I didn't hesitate any longer and launched an attack on the pot of food.
Although I already had the mental foreshadowing that Yaoyao made for me, I was still amazed when the food was imported and the moment I came into contact with the taste buds.
Looking up at the proprietress of her hand, which was still wandering between the various kegs of seasoning, I couldn't imagine how many times it would take to work out such a flavor like hers.
I quietly closed my eyes and carefully felt the various flavors coming from the tip of my tongue. When I first tasted it, it was a strong aroma of chili oil, and I was deeply impressed by the rich aroma of chili oil, which I grew up eating various kinds of chili oil.
It is not like the thick and heavy spices of the red oil made by Sichuan people, but the pure chili pepper is released by the hot oil at high temperatures. As soon as you enter your mouth, you go straight to your nose, and then you follow the nerves into your brain, and you feel like your whole person is instantly wrapped in a room full of aroma.
At this time, a tingling sensation slowly came from the tip of the tongue, which was the taste of pepper oil. Unlike the direct, warm hemp of Sichuan pepper powder, the freshly picked freshly picked peppercorns are fused with piping hot sesame oil.
The originally stimulating hemp becomes euphemistic and warm, cleverly attached to the mouth, and intimate contact with the taste buds. The instant numbness relieves the irritation of the chili pepper to the mouth and esophagus, perfectly neutralizing the spicy sensation, leaving only the aroma of red oil lingering between the noses.
This is followed by the various other aromas, and the brain is no longer sufficient, and it is completely impossible to distinguish the other flavors. I just feel that my mouth is full of aromas, and the combined aroma of these mixtures makes the taste of the ingredients more real.
And the boss's action of separating the various ingredients just now is also appropriate to make the heat of each ingredient just right, which is really a little more overcooked and a little less too raw.
I really felt the feeling of being unstoppable that Yaoyao had just described to me, and I think she was right, it only took one time for me to forget the taste.
This reminds me of an advertising slogan, it's your fault if you don't come the first time, it's our fault if you don't come the second time. Sure enough, this is indeed a store that I have been here and want to come back again.
I slowly opened my eyes, gave Yaoyao a thumbs up, slowly chewed the food in my mouth, and said indistinctly: "You're right, this restaurant is indeed worthy of an evaluation that you can't forget once you eat it." ”
And Yaoyao was concentrating on fighting with the food in the bowl at this time, and she didn't pay attention to me at all.
Looking at the food in her bowl that was almost unfillable, my outstretched hand stopped in the air, is this still the Li Shiyao I met yesterday?
That gobbling up posture, who told me yesterday to eat carefully and slowly? Why doesn't it seem like it's good to get here?
I felt a sad cry in my heart, sure enough, all the rules were useless in front of the food, and I had a new understanding of her in my heart.