"That's right." As if thinking of something, Xu Mengzhou raised his hand and looked at his watch and suddenly stood up, "It's almost five o'clock, I'll go to the supermarket opposite to buy some food, and you wait for me at home." If you're bored, the projector is over there, and you can turn it on yourself. Lin Yushan: "Why do you suddenly want to buy vegetables?" ”

Xu Mengzhou: "You shouldn't have eaten well at noon." It's your birthday today, and I should have cooked you a meal. ”

Lin Yushan hurriedly put down the milk carton and got up: "I'm going too." ”

Xu Mengzhou said and went to the door to get a windbreaker and put on shoes. "I'm enough for one person, you lie at home for a while."

Lin Yushan heard his words warmly, jumped off the sofa, rushed to the entrance door and grabbed his sleeve in a few quick steps, "No, I also have to participate in my birthday, let's go together!" ”

Xu Mengzhou reacted that it was a little inappropriate for him to say "home", and saw that Lin Yushan's eyes were bright and his whole body was swept away from the haze, which was much better than the state at noon, so he simply stopped her interest.

Coming out of Huachen Mansion and crossing the road, there is a Costco opposite. The two entered the fresh food area first, Xu Mengzhou pushed the shopping cart in the back, and asked Lin Yushan to pick the dishes they wanted to eat in front.

Lin Yushan hasn't been to the supermarket for a long time. Strictly speaking, it means that you don't need to count the time and go to the supermarket leisurely, as you do now.

In the past, she mostly went shopping alone, and only bought some daily necessities such as toilet napkins, and she would choose more affordable ones than the price. In this regard, she feels that she is quite budget-conscious, after all, her parents are gone, and every penny in her pocket is precious, and she must not spend it indiscriminately.

College students eat in the cafeteria, and there is almost nothing to cook for themselves, and Lin Yushan is the same.

If it is said that choosing daily necessities is quite familiar to her, then she still has a headache in the face of the dazzling array of fresh food in the huge freezer in front of her.

For a person like herself, who is used to eating in the school cafeteria, she has no need to visit the vegetable market for the time being, so naturally she has not understood the normal price of these dishes.

Lin Yushan squinted his eyes and leaned over to look at a piece of beef in front of him. Good guy, 500g costs 598 yuan.

It doesn't seem to be clear which part of the cow it is. Lin Yushan complained silently, this kind of place can only be visited once in a while. And for ordinary people like themselves, don't come once, and after graduation and work, they will honestly go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and cook by themselves.

She told Xu Mengzhou that everything here was too expensive, and she wanted to go to the vegetable market to have a look. Xu Mengzhou said that this side is close to home, and he simply buys a dish. She thought to herself, thanks to Xu Mengzhou today, she wouldn't trouble him with grocery shopping.

Lin Yushan recalled the few times he had eaten with Xu Mengzhou and Huang Ying, and almost all the food on the table was Western, mainly including a plate of half-cooked steak cut and bloody, as well as a mix of ingredients, such as croissant, fried eggs, pasta cream mushroom soup, and various salads.

Lin Yushan doesn't like to eat these, and he doesn't know their correct names. But because of the scene, I can only eat quietly every time.

In the past, except for occasionally taking her out to the restaurant according to her own preferences, Xu Mengzhou in her impression seemed to eat these Western foods every day.

Thinking of the unpleasant and expensive lunch before, Lin Yushan decided to sum up his experience and choose a safer one according to Xu Mengzhou's previous tastes.

She glanced around, and without saying a word, she pulled Xu Mengzhou to the domestic ingredients area. She picked up different brands of beef, weighed them on her left and right hands, observed the color of the surface of the beef, and then compared the price tags very carefully.

Why is there such a big difference in the price of the same type of ingredients? Is it imported with gold?

It wasn't until he compared the ingredient list, weight and price of these ingredients one by one that Lin Yushan put the selected ingredients in his shopping cart.

Xu Mengzhou looked at her seriously comparing the cost performance of goods, and his eyes were a little dazed.

"Mr. Xu, have you cooked by yourself now?" Lin Yushan picked up a pack of green peppers, his eyes were still on the price tag, and asked casually while looking at it.

Xu Mengzhou replied: "Sometimes I am very busy in the evening self-study meeting, so I eat in the school cafeteria or a small restaurant outside, and I rarely cook by myself. ”

Lin Yushan looked at the ingredients in the shopping cart and scratched his head, "Ah, did I buy too much?" ”

Xu Mengzhou: "It's not much, if I can't finish the ingredients today, I'll make it myself later." ”

Lin Yushan didn't want to spend more money on Xu Mengzhou, so he didn't buy anything else after shopping in the fresh food area. The two walked the shopping cart straight to the self-checkout counter to checkout, opened the shopping bag and brought it to the cashier, one stood next to the hand, and the other scanned the barcode in front of the machine, which was very tacit.

A pack of white shrimp, beef, green peppers...... Lin Yushan scanned the code one by one and put it into the shopping bag. When Xu Mengzhou handed over the last few things, she glanced at it, it was a box of chocolates. Judging from the packaging, it is not the kind of black chocolate with high cocoa purity, but a very ordinary sweet and greasy chocolate.

Lin Yushan was puzzled: "Teacher Xu, when did you get it?" I don't eat chocolate. ”

Xu Mengzhou blinked, picked up the box of chocolates, scanned the code in front of the machine, and put it in the shopping bag. He pursed his lips and was a little embarrassed, "I don't have anything to eat at home, I bought this myself, and sometimes I suddenly want to eat these." ”

In the past, Xu Mengzhou's family only had that kind of healthy white rice on the dining table, and most of the snacks were only cereal and fruit plates.

At least Lin Yushan has been with him for so many years, and he has never seen Xu Mengzhou eat snacks, not once.

He doesn't look like he can touch any processed food......

Lin Yushan was secretly happy, looking at him incredulously, like looking at a flowering iron tree.

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After settling the account, the two returned to Huachen Mansion with a large bag of things. After changing their shoes, the two of them went into the kitchen one after the other.

The open kitchen is beautiful, but every time you stir-fry the living room, you need to open the window, otherwise it will be very choking. Lin Yushan carried a big bag of ingredients and put them at the door of the refrigerator, and thought that Xu Mengzhou rarely cooked, even if he cooked Western food, he basically didn't need to open the fire, so there was no such problem.

When I opened the refrigerator door, it was indeed as Xu Mengzhou said just now - there was nothing to eat at home. Lin Yushan sorted the ingredients into the refrigerator. After finishing it, he turned to look at Xu Mengzhou, and saw that he took a few cups of rice from a small cup and put them into the inner bowl of the rice cooker, bent down and put them in the stainless steel basin and washed them with water.

Lin Yushan closed the refrigerator door and walked up to him and asked, "Let me come, Mr. Xu, you don't need to cook." She was a little embarrassed, "I think you usually eat Western food, so it seems that all the ingredients are bought into Western food..."

Xu Mengzhou bent over, and his bony right hand was put into the inner tank filled with water and rice and stirred gently. Then he slowly poured out the milky white rice water, "It's okay, I know you only like to eat Chinese food." It doesn't matter if you buy the wrong ingredients, they are all the same thing, and the cooking method is different. ”

These two people thought about each other when they went to the supermarket, and finally made Chinese food according to Lin Yushan's preferences.

My father had been teaching at the South China University of Technology before his death, and he spent his childhood in Guangdong. Xu Mengzhou's college years were also spent at South China University of Technology, but unfortunately after graduating with a master's degree, he returned to Jingzhou and has been busy with work, and it seems that he has never returned to Guangdong after that.

She suddenly wanted to eat the special raw rolling beef porridge over there, and she happened to buy beef and eggs when she went to the supermarket.

"Teacher Xu," Lin Yushan saw that Xu Mengzhou was about to put the washed rice into the rice cooker, and hurriedly took the first step to receive it to himself. "Mr. Xu, I'll cook this dinner, I've never cooked before, I want to try it."

Xu Mengzhou's glasses flashed a light, and he said faintly: "Will the house I have only rented for half a month blow up?" ”

"If I blow it up, I can only let Mr. Xu help me lose money, and I can't bully me, a poor college student who hasn't gone to work yet." Lin Yushan grimaced at him, found an idle soup pot on the kitchen countertop, and transferred the rice from the rice cooker liner to the soup pot.

"I really, never cooked once. There are no such conditions in the dormitory, and my aunt will come to us every week to check for illegal small electrical appliances. Please, let me try it, I'll follow the tutorial step by step, it won't be unpalatable! Lin Yushan tilted his head to look at him, his whole face was about to wrinkle, and Xu Mengzhou couldn't refuse when he saw that she had been insisting.

Lin Yushan clicked on an instructional video and started to play it, adding a pinch of salt and a spoonful of oil to the soaked rice and stirring it well, and then went to cut the beef. The knife was a little blunt, she couldn't cut it, Xu Mengzhou was not idle, and came up directly to help her cut.

Originally, she followed the video teaching well, but she didn't know from which step the rules began to mess up. Lin Yushan beat eggs and marinated meat, and finally covered the pot with a lid for a maximum operation. The kitchen countertop was also littered with seasoning she had accidentally spilled.

Xu Mengzhou stood quietly not far away and watched her slowly explore the process of cooking, and Lin Yushan came up to help when he was too busy. After she finished preparing the materials, Xu Mengzhou finally understood what she was going to do after working for a long time, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but hook slightly.

With the cooperation of Chef Lin Yushan and Xu Mengzhou, a pot of fragrant raw beef porridge was ready. Xu Mengzhou put on heat-insulating gloves and served the table briskly, while Lin Yushan went to get two pairs of dishes and chopsticks and set them up.

Lin Yushan first gave Xu Mengzhou a bowl. Xu Mengzhou scooped a spoonful with a spoon, blew it slightly and put it in his mouth.

She bit her lower lip and her heart was pounding. Before he ate it, he anxiously asked Xu Mengzhou: "Mr. Xu, how does it taste, is it okay?" ”

Xu Mengzhou didn't answer immediately, and scooped another spoonful and tasted it carefully before putting the spoon down. He pursed his lips, and a gratifying smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

"I thought that you were very unhappy on your birthday today, and I wanted to comfort you. Unexpectedly... It turned out that you were the one who came to heal me. ”