On the day Liu Heng left, he said that he was like an armed police soldier guarding the border. He asked the organization to take a few days off to come back to get married. After getting married, he immediately went back to stand guard. He said that he was helpless and at the same time, he was also giving himself gold.
Liu Heng was reluctant to leave. As soon as he opened the meat shop, Gu Tian called to urge him, saying, "Mr. Liu, please come back soon. It's not like we're going to die, so don't come back after visiting relatives!"
There was business to take care of in M City, so Liu Heng had no choice but to leave. Dou Sha went to school on the day he left, and Wang Yincheng sent Liu Heng to the airport.
Liu Heng hugged Wang Yincheng and said, "Take the children and wait for me to come back."
Liu Heng spoke seriously, but Wang Yincheng somehow sensed a hint of Taiwanese style. He kicked Liu Heng and said with a smile: "Go quickly, go quickly, it's not like you won't be able to come back."
After Liu Heng left, Wang Yincheng went to work as usual. After school started in September, Chen Luofei stopped interning at the newspaper. Shao Zhiwen seemed to have regained his original secondary attributes. Colleagues at the newspaper said that Chen Luofei was not only here to learn during his internship. It also lets everyone know that Shao Zhiwen also has such a serious and serious side.
Shao Zhiwen smiled, his eyes bright.
On the day Liu Heng left, Wang Yincheng got off work late, so Jin Yan took the children by herself. Liu Yi called Wang Yincheng around dinner time and said directly without saying anything else: "Come to my place."
Wang Yincheng asked for the address and went to Liu Yi's place. Liu Yi had been waiting downstairs for a long time. He leaned against the street lamp with an expressionless face and a tall and majestic figure.
Wang Yincheng walked over and said hello to Liu Yi, and Liu Yi silently took Wang Yincheng upstairs. The door of Liu Yi's house was closed, revealing an orange light. Liu Yi opened the security door outside. Brick looked at Wang Yincheng and silently raised his chin to signal Wang Yincheng to come over and take a look.
Wang Yincheng raised his eyebrows in confusion and walked over, gently opened the door, and saw Jin Yan "playing" with bean paste in the bright hall of Liu Yi's house.
Jin Yan stood facing the door, holding a whistle in her mouth. Dou Sha took off her shoes and stepped on the sofa, also holding a whistle in her mouth.
Dou Sha raised her neck and looked at Jin Yan with an expression of admiration on her face.
Jin Yan held a financial magazine from Liu Yi in her hand, waved her hand at Douzha and said, "Do you know what I taught you yesterday?"
Dou Sha nodded sharply.
Jin Yan touched Dou Sha's head: "You're so good! Come on, grandma will teach you how to keep daddy today." Jin Yan blew the whistle in her mouth, and suddenly took a full breath and blew a sharp sound, which almost broke the door. The eardrums of the two men listening were shattered.
"Shout to me," Jin Yan said loudly: "Daddy, don't go! Dad, don't go! Dad, don't go!" Then she whistled fiercely.
Dou Sha raised her little face, followed suit, blew a whistle, and then waved the little flag in her hand: "Daddy, don't go! Dad, don't go! Don't go!!"
Jin Yan stared and looked extremely serious: "Louder!! Dad, don't leave!"
Dou Sha pinched her voice and shouted: "Dad, don't leave!!"
Wang Yincheng: "..." The wind turned to stone.
Liu Yi: "..."
Wang Yincheng quietly closed the door and took a step back. Liu Yi and Wang Yincheng walked to the edge of the safe passage together.
Wang Yincheng smiled helplessly and said, "When did it start?"
Liu Yi was expressionless: "Since the first night she started bringing bean paste."
Wang Yincheng was already laughing in his heart. If Jin Yan, the little old lady, Wang Yincheng just thought she was a very open-minded person at first, now Wang Yincheng almost likes this little old lady very much.
He is broad-minded, full of love for life, always exploring the beauty of life, never complains about anything, and is very tolerant of everyone around him.
Liu Yi was extremely depressed. She asked Wang Yincheng to come here just to say, take your son away as soon as possible. I'm going crazy! Old lady, this is killing two birds with one stone! I taught him how to make bean paste while making it, so that he could get married and have children as soon as possible! ! !
The thousands of words in Liu Yi's heart finally turned into a paralyzed face, looking at Wang Yincheng expressionlessly.
Wang Yincheng understood and said with a smile: "Look, I'm useless. If Grandma Dou Sha wants to do this, I can't stop her."
Liu Heng finally finished decorating the restaurant at the end of September, and recruited all the staff. The dishes for the restaurant's trial operation period were basically ready, and even the restaurant's signboard was hung up.
The eye-catching light yellow signboard, orange signboard name and trademark add a refreshing touch to this hot summer that is about to pass.
Liu Heng had Ye Xiaotian advance money for investment in the early stage, and he spent the money without mercy or distress. The third floor of the restaurant was originally a barbecue restaurant, but later the business could not continue and the lease had to be surrendered. Liu Heng just bought half of the store. , half is used as a rest area for employees, and the other half is used as an office area, allowing Gu Tian to continue to be the manager and continue to manage the restaurant business.
Liu Heng originally thought that Ye Xiaotian would jump when he saw the lines of numbers on the bill. Later, he discovered that Ye Xiaotian not only spent money extra generously, but also came here more and more times every month. At first, he used the supervisor as a cover, and then he just wandered around the back kitchen openly. In the end, when the chef and his staff saw Ye Xiaotian wandering around in the kitchen, they were indifferent, and no one cared.
All preparations for the restaurant were completed, and the store was opened for trial operation at 10 a.m. on October 1st.
Wang Yincheng came with Dou Sha, Liu Heng and Jin Yan. There were two rows of flower baskets at the entrance of the restaurant, and firecrackers were crackling. Restaurant waiters wearing uniforms stood at several important intersections of Guanning Street handing out leaflets.
Liu Yi turned to look at Liu Heng, and Liu Heng looked back at him: "What are you looking at?"
Liu Yi: "I found that you are quite suitable to be a restaurant owner."
Liu Heng touched his nose. He didn't know why when he looked at Liu Yi today, he felt that he had a very strong aura. It seemed that he had not felt it before.
Liu Heng smiled, and Brick looked across from the fireworks with the sound of firecrackers. Wang Yincheng was holding Dou Sha and was talking to Jin Yan.
Liu Heng said: "Maybe, it doesn't matter. Anyway, no matter how much you earn, it belongs to your wife and son. I can get some pocket money at most every month."
Liu Yi snorted: "Go ahead!!"
Liu Heng said: "When you get married and have children, you can talk to me again."
The restaurant's trial opening period is quite satisfactory. The overall decoration of the restaurant is very eye-catching. The initial promotion was a sweet orange set meal for couples, with many discounts. The most important thing in Guanning Street is people and consumption. The restaurant's initial trial operation was satisfactory.
Ye Xiaotian and Liu Heng did not discuss the issue of when they would get their money back. Chen Jiao had not worked for many years. After the restaurant's trial opening, he was extremely busy, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chen Jiao was very attentive. Cooking every main dish, the back kitchen is his world. He takes care of everyone, tastes every dish, and patiently guides many details. The kitchen is his battlefield. Chen Jiao's face is calm and calm, with a bright light in his eyes.
Ye Xiaotian was wise enough not to enter the back kitchen while Chen Jiao was working. He didn't want to be beaten by Chen Jiao again. He stood on the second floor of the restaurant and watched, looking at the expressions of every guest who had eaten desserts and main meals. He remembered that Chen Jiao once said that he was a chef, no matter whether the food tasted good or bad, whether it was delicious or not. Recognition from other chefs, whether you can win awards, and the most important thing is that the person eating the food can be happy.
Ye Xiaotian glanced at the lobby on the second floor, curled his lips and turned to go downstairs. He suddenly remembered what Chen Jiao said to him when he woke up and stood in front of the glass on the second floor on the second day of the fight: "I have never thought that there is anything wrong with me not working and cooking and raising children at home every day. Ye Xiaotian, you are a man and I am also a man. We jointly bear a responsibility for this family. I cook and watch You and your son eating it is the happiest thing for a chef."
When Ye Xiaotian went downstairs, he ran into Liu Heng who was going upstairs. The two looked at each other and walked past each other.
It turns out that everyone has their own story and everyone has their own life. The two of them have always been rivals in competition with each other. Now, they have also achieved their own happiness.
It seems that from one day onwards, they all forgot why they disliked each other when they were young, as if they were about to forget what it was like to be single.
Liu Heng and Wang Yincheng are both very busy. Dou Sha has to go to school and take an English class on weekends. Almost all the children of the Liu family have been sent abroad to study. Mr. Liu is particularly fond of Dou Sha and says nothing else about him. Don’t worry about anything, just bean paste! Dou Sha must learn English.
Wang Yincheng said to Liu Heng: "Isn't it too early?"
Liu Heng originally wanted to say that if he graduated from junior high school and went abroad, it would not be too early now. But when he turned around and thought about it, Wang Yincheng would probably be unhappy, so he said: "Just treat it as a hobby. Nowadays, if a child doesn't go to a tutoring class, we won't force him to learn. If he doesn't want to learn, we will pay him to let him learn." If he is interested in marrying someone for fun, that would be better."
So Douzha enrolled in a children's English class. Wang Yincheng was originally worried that Douzha would not be able to take classes well, but the teacher in the children's class said that Douzha was very easy to learn and could learn everything in one go. The teacher was very happy.
Wang Yincheng wondered, how did he know that bean paste has the kind of temperament that becomes more and more courageous the more frustrated he becomes, what is the meaning of something that he can learn as soon as he learns it? !
Jin Yan finally dragged her luggage home in mid-October. Liu Pingnian had reached the limit of her endurance. Jin Yan used her husband's temper and patience to calculate the right time, pack her things and leave.
Before leaving, Jin Yan called Wang Yincheng over and taught him the "Way of Charioteer".
Jin Yan finally said: "It's true that a man has a career, but in reality sometimes he is like a child mentally and has to be coaxed. Who among the relatives around Liu Pingnian has ever seen him act coquettishly? It's just me, him and me." An old woman who has been a couple for so many years. So he is my husband and my son. I want to treat him as my safe haven. I have to stand up when necessary and consider him and stand in his perspective. So if in the future He still can't accept you, and I hope you can be more considerate. This world is like this. There are always some things that some people can't understand. He can't understand it not because he is bad or not tolerant, but because he can't get over the problem in his heart. Hom."
In late October, the 20-day trial operation of Liu Heng Restaurant ended. The turnover was considerable, the occupancy rate was extremely high, and it was full almost every day.
Guanning Street's evaluation of "Cheng" is that the restaurant atmosphere is very good and the food is refreshing. Compared with the sweet and heavy oily taste of other restaurants, "Cheng"'s dishes almost fall into the "little fresh" category.
An old employee in the restaurant didn't understand what "little freshness" was, so he ran to ask Gu Tian, who asked, "Do you usually eat braised vegetables?"
The employee nodded: "Eat."
Gu Tian: "Have you ever eaten Ziyan?"
The employee nodded: "I have eaten."
Gu Tian: "Is Ziyan's Husband and Wife Fei Slices better or those from ordinary braised vegetable restaurants?"
Employee: "Of course it's Ziyan's delicious food, and it's not the same price."
Gu Tian concluded: "Ziyan is a little fresh."
The employee nodded, as if he understood a little bit.
After the trial operation of the restaurant, Liu Heng posted his name as the chef of his restaurant and appeared on a local food talk show in M City. In addition to being broadcast on TV, this kind of talk show is the most important broadcast channel. It's public transportation. During that time, whenever people taking the bus looked up at the flat-screen TV in the bus, they would almost see Chen Jiao's face.
Chen Jiao can be said to have become an instant hit. There are many chefs who look like him, but there are really not many chefs as handsome as Chen Jiao who can smile in front of the camera and look a little shy!
As a result, the "Orange" restaurant became very popular in M City. Every day, many girls came over to eat just to see Chen Jiao's true appearance and eat the food cooked by the handsome Chen Jiao.
Gu Tian was confused, and even suggested in front of Ye Xiaotian: "How about our restaurant hold a lottery in the future, and the winner can have Chef Chen personally serve the dishes, how about it?!" Gu Tian also said I felt that my idea was a good one, and I was very excited all over.
Ye Xiaotian turned his head coldly, and then Gu Tian remembered the relationship between Chen Jiao and Ye Xiaotian, and immediately ran away.
Chen Jiao became very popular in M City, and the "Orange" restaurant naturally became popular as well. Of course Liu Heng would not make a fuss about Chen Jiao to promote it. He thought of several ways, none of which were through advertising or publishing in newspapers.
Liu Heng called Wang Yincheng in the evening and accidentally mentioned that Wang Yincheng didn't say anything at the time, and Liu Heng just said it casually. Unexpectedly, a local weekly in City M called the restaurant the next day and said that it wanted to do an exclusive interview about their restaurant in the City Wide Angle column. Gu Tian was so excited that he couldn't speak. He wondered how he could be so lucky from the initial trial of closing business for decoration financing to now? So smooth? It’s too smooth! ! It’s like the Queen Mother’s radiance shines down on their restaurant!
One characteristic of the local weekly in City M is that the entire section has a rather petty bourgeois style, and every section has a strong sense of mystery or gossip.
After that issue of the weekly magazine came out, Gu Tian immediately ran to the newsstand and bought a copy and read it carefully, eh? That’s not right. After reading it again, holy shit, is this a restaurant interview or a bloody novel? ? What's the matter with such a strong flavor of Xiaoyan
This is what the weekly wrote - "The "Orange" restaurant is located in the rich alley of Guanning Street... Its boss was originally a wealthy foreign businessman. Later, due to his family's financial difficulties, he had to move his family to the wealthy city. In City M, a restaurant called 'Orange' opened. When the reporter asked the handsome gentleman owner what the special meaning of the restaurant's name was, the restaurant owner smiled a little shyly and said, 'My wife's name has something in it. A word in orange, I love my wife very much, she never abandoned me when I was most destitute, so I want to name the restaurant after him.'"
Gu Tian had goosebumps all over his body. He showed the newspaper to Liu Heng and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Liu, what on earth did you say at that time? Their editor dared to write this?"
Liu Heng raised his eyes and looked at Gu Tian, who shuddered again.
Liu Heng lowered his eyes and recalled it.
—At that time, the editor asked him why he came to M city to open a restaurant, and he replied: "The original business is no longer available, so I came here when there was an opportunity."
—“Does the name of the restaurant have any special meaning?” Liu Heng: “My lover’s name.”
Finish.
Liu Heng: "..."
In short, no matter what, the restaurant is developing in a better and better direction.
But once Liu Yi and Liu Heng were on the phone and talking about the family business, Liu Yi said: "You seem to be contented enough to be in charge of a restaurant now? Have all your ambitions been eaten by dogs?"
Liu Heng returned home at that time and was warming milk for Dou Sha and Wang Yincheng to drink in the kitchen at home. Hearing Liu Yi's casual words, he shook the empty milk bottle in his hand, leaned on the sink and said, "You said it was ambition. I have a family now, so of course I have no ambition."
Liu Yi was silent on the other end of the phone. Liu Heng gave Liu Yi a rare advice: "Find someone you love and try to live together. Living alone may not be better than two people living together. Regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, you must try." Try it."
Liu Yi was still silent.
After hanging up the phone, Liu Heng put the empty milk bottle aside. Wang Yincheng stood at the door of the kitchen at some point, leaning against the door frame and asked, "Liu Yi?"
Liu Heng turned around and nodded, "A non-marriage person is a person who rejects love in the human category."
Wang Yincheng: "Reject love?"
Liu Heng: "I just don't want to fall in love or get married. I am absolutely single."
Wang Yincheng raised his eyebrows: "Is it so serious?"
Liu Heng smiled and went to hug Wang Yincheng, but Wang Yincheng avoided him, "You also think this is a disease? Well, it is indeed quite serious. It was my son Liu Yicai who hugged the bean paste. If it were someone else's son, he would have looked at it twice. .”
The minute hand of time kept turning, and in January of the following year, Wang Yincheng took the national postgraduate examination and joined the army of postgraduate candidates. Shao Zhiwen also took the exam, and the two examination rooms were next to each other.
Chen Luofei came to take the exam as if he had been given chicken blood. He wished he could hold up a big sign to cheer them up. He also booked a restaurant at noon so that Shao Zhiwen and Wang Yincheng would have food after the exam.
After taking the exam for two days, Shao Zhiwen and Wang Yincheng each slept at home for a whole day and night. Liu Heng couldn't get through when he called back. He was so anxious that Wang Yincheng didn't wake up until three o'clock in the afternoon and called Liu Heng back.
Liu Heng almost cursed on the phone and said, "Why did you just come back now? Have you slept until now?!"
Wang Yincheng smiled helplessly. In the blink of an eye, he saw a postgraduate entrance examination vocabulary book on the bedside table: "Yeah, I'm too sleepy." He paused: "Where's the bean paste?" They all stayed in M City with Liu Heng.
Liu Heng: "Online."
Wang Yincheng: "You should give him less access to the Internet. There are a lot of messy things on the Internet."
Liu Heng suddenly said: "I'll go back tomorrow."
Wang Yincheng was stunned: "Is your restaurant very busy at the end of the year?"
Liu Heng's voice was low and gentle, "I miss you."
Liu Heng went to the airport to pick up Liu Heng and Dou Sha the next day.
It was already very cold in January. The air in the south is very humid, and the cold moisture blew into his collar with the wind. When Wang Yincheng walked into the airport, he turned up his collar, and the breath he exhaled was white. He was used to being indoors. People who use air conditioning and heating only feel extremely cold, and the cold penetrates to the whole bones, but they still feel warm in their hearts.
Before Liu Heng got on the plane, he asked Wang Yincheng to wait at the airport cafe. Wang Yincheng went there without thinking too much. He also took a tablet with him and planned to go there and play games online for a while while waiting.
Wang Yincheng pushed open the door of the coffee shop and walked in. He still remembered this coffee shop. It was here that he first met Liu Heng. The waiter in the coffee shop said: "Welcome!"
Wang Yincheng raised his eyes, and a tall figure sitting at the bar suddenly came into view.
Liu Heng was wearing a well-tailored button-up coat with a stand-up collar. When he saw Wang Yincheng pushing the door and walking in, he stood up and walked towards Wang Yincheng.
Wang Yincheng, with his collar still upright, had just walked in from outside. He was still covered in cold air and looked like a hedgehog with his neck curled up to avoid the cold.
Wang Yincheng raised his eyes and looked at Liu Heng, and found that Liu Heng's expression was different from before, and his eyes were shining with something he couldn't understand.
Wang Yincheng was puzzled: "Where's the bean paste?"
Liu Heng looked straight at Wang Yincheng, holding one hand in his coat pocket, and said nothing for a while.
Wang Yincheng raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with you?" As he was about to raise his hand to pull his collar, Liu Heng suddenly and quickly took out his hand from his pocket, then held Wang Yincheng's hand with his other hand and said, "Don't you Will you refuse?"
Wang Yincheng was stunned and looked at Liu Heng in astonishment, not understanding what he said: "I ask you about bean paste..."
Liu Heng held Wang Yincheng's hand tightly, with a serious look on his face, not allowing Wang Yincheng to comment and said: "There is no bean paste now!!"
Wang Yincheng shut up. Liu Heng held Wang Yincheng with one hand and squeezed his fist with the other. He said very seriously: "It's quite sudden. I thought of it when I called you yesterday. Stop..."
Wang Yincheng looked at Liu Heng and blinked: "You're not proposing, are you?"
Liu Heng didn't care what Wang Yincheng said, he simply gave it up, took the warm ring in his hand, moved it to Wang Yincheng's eyes and said, "Do you agree?"
"Ah?" Wang Yincheng's heart suddenly jumped, and his heart began to beat rapidly. Although there were not many people in the coffee shop, there were ten shop assistants in total. They all turned to look at them in surprise.
Liu Heng's throat moved up and down, he was very nervous, and his back began to sweat. He stared at Wang Yincheng, trying to see the expression on Wang Yincheng's face clearly, but found that Wang Yincheng was not only shocked, but also shocked.
Liu Heng: "Either you marry me, or you marry me, you choose one, will you agree or not?"
Wang Yincheng: "..."
Liu Heng was so nervous that he didn't sleep the whole night after buying the ring yesterday, and he stared at him on the plane. The flight attendants were worried that he had a mental problem. Liu Heng was in trouble today. It snowed in M City and when the snow began to melt, something in Liu Heng's heart also melted.
He suddenly remembered that he and Wang Yincheng were together, but he had not proposed to Wang Yincheng, and they had not gotten married. He had not even confessed to Wang Yincheng and said I love you.
Liu Heng looked at Wang Yincheng, trying hard to suppress his heart that was about to jump out of his throat. At the same time, he ignored all the gazes coming from around him. He looked straight at Wang Yincheng and said: "Wang Yincheng, we first met in this coffee shop. I'll propose to you." I can’t find a suitable place, and this is the only place I think is the most suitable.” This was the place where they first met. No matter what the characters and scenes were like at that time, Liu Heng would always remember the look he looked at Wang Yincheng at that time, as if he were thousands of miles away. Wan Shui just looked at that one look, and his life changed drastically after that.
Liu Heng: "I don't know what to say. I'm also afraid that you will reject me. I even bought the ring just yesterday. But Wang Yincheng, I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
"I like you, I love you, let's get married, okay?" Liu Heng's vision blurred when he said the last sentence. His mind was very clear about what he said, but there was a buzzing in his ears. , he almost forgot where he was now, and only Wang Yincheng was in his eyes.
Wang Yincheng looked at Liu Heng with shock in his eyes. He couldn't say a word for a long time. It wasn't until someone in the coffee shop suddenly whispered: "Hurry up and say yes, handsome guy!" Wang Yincheng came back to his senses.
Liu Heng's proposal was rushed and awkward, and Wang Yincheng was even more at a loss. He looked at Liu Heng, then at the ring that Liu Heng had in front of him, and snatched the ring away with his free hand. He widened his eyes and said, "Okay, fine!"
Someone next to me muttered wordlessly: "You should say I do...you're so stupid!"
Wang Yincheng almost grabbed the ring. After Liu Heng's hand was empty, he finally came back to his senses when he heard Wang Yincheng's "Okay, OK". He held Wang Yincheng's hand with one hand and held it empty with the other hand. He looked at Wang Yincheng. , big eyes versus small eyes.
Liu Heng and Wang Yincheng were extremely embarrassed. They were speechless for a moment, speechless to the person in front of them, and even more speechless to themselves.
After a long while, Wang Yincheng suddenly remembered and said: "Where is the bean paste?!"
Liu Heng: "..."
In City M, two little guys, Dou Sha and Ye Fei, got together to do... copy... homework.
Ye Fei asked: "Where is your dad?!"
Dou Sha didn't even raise his head: "He said he was going to propose to Cheng Zi today, and it would be inconvenient for me to take him with him."
Ye Fei: "Why don't you go to such an important occasion? It must be interesting!"
Dou Sha immersed himself in his homework: "Forget it. Anyway, my dad said that he will definitely take me with him when we get married."
Ye Fei: "Oh, then I will go too. Remember to call me. I will go too."
Dou Sha buried his head in his homework: "Oh."