With a salary cap of 150 yuan, after signing the star player Jiwei Shrimp, there is only two-thirds of the salary space left.

"What's next?" Chen Yuan asked Chef Xia.

"Roast duck, count chicken duck. Shrimp, count as seafood. Then you should choose another one in the meat. Xia Xinyu thought for a while, and then said, "Of course, roast duck can also be considered meat." Isn't your eating habit more light and seafood, so why not buy some other seafood? ”

"It's your birthday."

Chen Yuan had forgotten that this was the first time he had reminded Xia Xinyu of the identity of the little birthday star.

Doesn't she know that what the little birthday star said on that day was like a strange talk about the rules, and it had to be followed?

"I can do it all, and I'm going to have to get used to your diet."

After Xia Xinyu finished speaking with a smile, she suddenly reacted to something and was stunned.

Then, looking at Chen Yuan, who was also reacting to something like himself, but obviously hadn't reacted yet, he hurriedly added: "I mean, after all, maybe the university will be here in the future, so you have to slowly get used to the diet here." ”

Oh, that's right.

I thought you were going to marry here in the future.

Then you can say it, you only dare to say it in your heart, right?

Just say hi, just say hi.

"I can do it, when I go to your side for dinner, as long as it is not very spicy, I can accept it." Chen Yuan said.

Although there are still mainly spicy dishes over there, and there are few dishes that Chen Yuan can eat at all, Xia Xinyu's taste for cooking seems to have become coastal.

At least the few times he tasted it, it was flavorful and not spicy.

It's quite interesting, it's like the taste of Jingbei.

"In that case, let's make another sweet and sour short rib and add a steamed sea bass." After thinking for a while, Xia Xinyu gave such a plan, "Of course, vegetables should also be available, stir-fry oil and wheat vegetables." ”

After she said this, Chen Yuan gradually fell silent.

"Why, aren't you satisfied?" Xia Xin asked puzzled.

"It's not." Chen Yuan shook his head, and said with a somewhat complicated mood, "As a wanderer in a foreign land, I have never eaten such a hearty home-cooked meal......

"Homesick?"

Xia Xinyu saw the change in the other party's mood.

"That's not either, after all, it's only been a short time since school started." Thinking of today's dinner, Chen Yuan said truthfully, "It's really because of your birthday that you can eat so many delicious foods, thank you." ”

"Poof." Xia Xinyu was amused, and responded with the same jokingness, "Thank you too, if you don't give me a birthday, I guess I will have some noodles tonight." ”

"Nothing."

After Xia Xinyu said this, the guilt was like a boomerang, and hit the back of Chen Yuan's head again.

If it weren't for her aunt telling herself, she might have really spent this October 24th as usual.

And she now thinks all this is his heart.

"The eighteenth birthday is the most important, and next time it will definitely be better than this one."

Pushing the shopping cart, Chen Yuan walked in front, and when he said this, he didn't face her.

"Huh?" Xia Xin followed behind puzzled, "Why didn't you have a good time this time?" ”

"Not awesome enough."

"How so?" Xia Xinyu said quite sincerely, "How can I spend my birthday?" If the next eighteen years old, let's go to the river to put a hole meow lantern and eat something delicious. ”

Chen Yuan, I am very satisfied.

"Besides, you're the first to turn eighteen." Xia Xinyu stood beside Chen Yuan and changed the topic, "When the time comes, you come from home in advance, that is, two days before the start of school, I will give it to you." ”

"I won't go back without coming early." Hearing this, Xia Xinyu was stunned and whispered, "Then you don't go back to ......"

"I want to make up classes, there is no vacation in the summer of the second year of high school, isn't it in your school?"

"Ah yes, I almost thought I was still in high school, it's really confusing." Xia Xinyu reacted and smiled awkwardly.

That's right, at that time, Chen Yuan had a reason to continue to stay in Xia Hai.

Unlike this year's winter vacation, he has no reason to continue to stay in Xia Hai.

Chen Yuan, who continued to listen to his heart, felt more and more that he was really crippled in terms of 'heart'.

My incomplete heart can't be estimated at a good price in northern Myanmar.

In retrospect, she was the one who remembered her birthday, she was the one who considered the winter and summer vacation arrangements, and even the equation of '504 + 121 = 625' was Xia Xinyu's major patented invention.

Harm, the heart is too detailed.

After the two of them finished buying the middle row, asked people to handle the sea bass, and picked the vegetables, Xia Xinyu suddenly stopped at the cabinet of fruit wine passing by, and proposed: "Anyway, you don't have to go to school tomorrow, drink a little?" ”

"You've become a wine mengzi too."

Chen Yuan thought that he was the only one who didn't know what he was doing in school, but thought he was busy, so he needed a cold beer to heal his soul.

And Xia Xinyu pours this kind of cup, is it good to take this bite?

"Sparkling bar, it's a little bit higher." Xia Xinyu said confidently.

"Okay, you're OK."

Okay, well, the heart is pretended.

"Actually......"

When Chen Yuan put a bottle of sparkling wine into the shopping cart, Xia Xinyu said slowly and with a smile: "Don't be affected by some things on the Internet, extravagant people are in the minority." That's how ordinary people live. ”

Xia Xinyu could see that Chen Yuan felt that this birthday was very ordinary, so he specially promised her that she would have a great birthday next time.

But in reality, she was very satisfied.

There was no more to look forward to.

So boys, don't think about that mess.

"Hey, you've found out."

Since the other party understood it this way, Chen Yuan had no choice but to make a look of being recognized, and said: "It's me who has been brainwashed by consumerism, and I think it's perfunctory if I don't have a big screen scrolling happy birthday in Times Square, what you teach you is." ”

"Don't be poor, let's go back and cook."

Xia Xinyu patted Chen Yuan's shoulder and urged him to speed up.

Hurry up and go for your birthday.

You may think that the gifts you give are cheap, or you may think that it is disrespectful to let me cook for my birthday, or you may feel that it is mediocre to have no other activities except for eating cakes, these are some of the anxieties that boys will feel when their abilities are limited.

But you apparently forgot......

Whether the spring outing is happy or not, it all depends on who is sitting next to you.

…………

After the sea bass is processed, it is marinated in cooking wine, green onion and ginger for subsequent steaming.

At this time, Chen Yuan took a toothpick to pick out the shrimp line in turn, opened the back, and prepared for the salt-and-pepper shrimp.

And Xia Xinyu is very serious in charge, doing his best to make a sweet and sour short rib.

This level of difficulty is indeed not something that a player like Chen Yuan can get his hands on.

is also a classic delicacy, and the difficulty of braised pork ribs is far less than sweet and sour short ribs.

That is, the step of frying sugar color, which can be called the finishing touch.

If there is a slight deviation, the color of the ribs will be unsightly.

If it is light, it will not be colored, and if it is dark, it will be burnt.

These four little chefs are terrifying!

"I've got my shrimp ...... done"

"Shh Xia Xinyu raised her finger, indicating that she could not be distracted.

Even if it's her, she may not be able to fry the sugar color every time.

After a relatively 'long' process, the rock sugar bubbles appeared one by one, and the sugar color gradually turned dark brown, Xia Xinyu put the previously blanched pork ribs into it, and put garlic to stir-fry, basically after each was dyed with color, then turn on the fire and release the raw soy sauce star anise leaves, and finally pour it into the pre-boiled boiling water to cover......

After this set of processes, Xia Xinyu immediately left the room with the shrimp she had handled, and advised: "After the water boils, turn to medium-low heat and simmer for forty minutes, remember to turn it with chopsticks, don't paste the pot!" ”

"Okay, where are you going?"

"Of course it's my room, there's only one stove on your side, so when will it happen."

With that, she slammed the door shut.

Chen Yuan, on the other hand, stood in front of the pot and waited honestly according to the instructions of the Sacred Heart.

At this moment, my aunt's WeChat message came over.

Yun Danfeng is light: Xiao Chen, have you already eaten it?

Looking at the empty table, he fell into deep thought.

Chen Yuan: Not yet, it's still serving.

Yun Danfeng Qingqing: Can you send me a picture later, and see what you eat?

Sending a photo?

After the calf, I thought we were eating outside!

And she didn't know that Xia Xinyu was her neighbor, let alone that they lived in the same room, and her little niece would have to pour herself wine later......

But I can't refuse such a reasonable request.

So, A few moments later......

On the dining table, there are steamed sea bass, sweet and sour short ribs, roast duck, salt and pepper duck rack sent by roast duck, salt and pepper shrimp, stir-fried oil and wheat vegetables, and then there is one of the most important C positions.

Picking up the cake from the ground and putting it in the middle, Chen Yuan was just about to dismantle it, when he suddenly thought that the sparkling wine that had been frozen for a while had not been taken yet, so he got up to get it.

However, when he got it and just turned around, Xia Xinyu had already opened the cake and removed the transparent box.

Then, turning his head to look at himself, his cheeks slightly reddened, he asked in a whisper, "This is my cake, right?" ”

In this regard, Chen Yuan hurriedly explained: "That thing was written by the cake shop clerk on her own initiative, and I didn't know that she wrote that kind of blessing." ”

"But ......"

Looking at Chen Yuan, who couldn't see the words on the cake at all from this perspective, Xia Xinyu maintained the weak momentum just now, and asked rhetorically: "What did she write on her own, how did you know before she opened the cake?" ”

Chen Yuan: "......"

I'm a straight man, you ask me?

"This ......" Xia Xinyu's face was still hot, she wanted to make herself not make such a fuss, but it was difficult for her to do it because she didn't see much in the world.

These words can be understood when read separately.

But when it is all together, it ......

Looking at the cute font of red strawberry jam 'Treasure, happy birthday~', she was a little confused.

Who invented this format of nicknames?

I've never heard anyone call it that before......

"Hmmm......"

Chen Yuan didn't know how to say it, but he felt that it was Xia Xinyu's problem.

You don't know that your name is Xinbao?

Even if the buddy really wrote it like this, can't the little birthday star be humorous today and make a haha?

Damn college student, ruined everything by you!

After about ten seconds, Xia Xinyu gradually calmed down, then looked at Chen Yuan and said, "Thank you... I really have a heart. ”

"What do you mean?"

"This is a blessing that I have seen...... One of the most special. Xia Xinyu said honestly, "Although my mother used to have the whimsical idea of drawing her heart, but like this, neither word is my name, which is really interesting." ”

Grass, you really don't say that.

"Hmm...... The main thing is that the clerk of the cake shop read that I finished writing and said that it was a bit ordinary, so he said that he wanted the whole thing interesting. ”

"But you just said you didn't know about ......"

Well, it's a big talk again.

Sure enough, it's still a bit too early to call out the nickname of Xinbao.

This kind of thing should sprout itself in a small area.

Xinbao is not suitable for going out of the circle.

"You just admit that you wanted to write it." Xia Xinyu stared at Chen Yuan, and whispered a little unrelentingly.

No, what if you make me admit this?

What can you gain?

"Yes, yes, yes."

Finally, Chen Yuan admitted that this was his originality.

And Xia Xinyu is also like something sweet has melted in his heart, and his emotions are no longer mixed with joy and twisting, but purely feel that he is coaxed to be happy as a little birthday star......

I didn't want to be like this, but he called me a treasure.

"Then let's put the candle first."

Xia Xinyu didn't continue to torture Chen Yuan anymore, after all, the other party didn't even call his own heart, and he would definitely feel embarrassed by such a shameful title.

"Wait, I'll take a picture."

"Oh... Yes, it's worth documenting. Xia Xinyu expressed understanding, and smiled brightly, making a gesture of yes.

Then, I saw Chen Yuan pointing the camera at the table.

You only shoot vegetables......

Don't make a fuss, I'm trying to make this picture look like it's in a restaurant outside, so that my aunt doesn't see it as much as possible, and I kidnapped her niece to my room.

"Move the wine." Chen Yuan continued to command.

"Oh." Xia Xinyu took the wine away, and her smile gradually retracted.

After Chen Yuan finished filming and swiped her phone a few times, she picked up the wine again and planted a candle.

And at this moment, Chen Yuan put a small birthday crown on her head with his own hands.

"Huh?"

"Wait, I'll turn off the lights."

After Chen Yuan lit the candle, he got up to turn off the light in the room, and finally sat back opposite Xia Xinyu and pointed at her with his mobile phone camera seriously.

So, who was he doing just now......

"Do I wear my hair in a drape, or is it better to wear a ponytail?" In front of the orange candlelight, the corners of Xia Xinyu's mouth hooked up a smile, and gently asked Chen Yuan's opinion.

"It's all good." He replied earnestly.

Then, Xia Xinyu took the rubber band off the ponytail, and the smooth black hair flowed quietly like a stream.

"You seem to have some opinions about my ponytail."

Xia Xinyu noticed that when he wore his hair, Chen Yuan's obvious expression changed, just like when he untied his double ponytail in a dream that day, his aesthetic tendency was really easy to guess.

"Not really, I think it's all right."

The main thing is that you are good-looking, and I don't think it's anything with braids.

Ugly people are more weird, and beauties are in a variety of forms.

"Okay, shoot and tell me."

Xia Xinyu clenched her hands into fists, put them on her chin, bowed her head slightly, closed her eyes, and posed for taking pictures.

She is in the camera, just like her in reality, there is no difference.

She belongs to the category of being photogenic, unlike some girls, who look good in reality, but are very different in photos.

The light of the 1 and 7 candles, as the source of light for all the rooms in this room, dispelled the darkness of this area.

But because the candlelight is weak, this light source also has a boundary.

Xia Xinyu's figure happened to be in the interplay of light and shadow.

Press the shutter and the moment freezes.

In terms of composition, it is very ingenious.

is so clever that the background is all hidden by the night, and only she knows where she is.

This photo would actually be safer to send to my aunt, and it would be less likely to be exposed than the previous one, but ......

It's mine.

- from the abbreviation of 'this one of mine'.

"Then I made a wish."

After hearing the sound of the shutter, Xia Xinyu no longer held the idol baggage that had to be taken in every photo, and silently made a wish.

Chen Yuan, on the other hand, clapped and clapped his hands while singing in standard English that had been rehearsed in advance: "Happy birthday to you......"

Chen Yuan's voice was very good, and his English was also very standard, so Xia Xinyu couldn't help but torture him about how to spell 'birthday'.

And in my heart, earnestly pray:

[Hope Yuanbao, go to the same university as me]

(End of chapter)