Lu Yi stood in the kitchen busy for a long time, breathing out while carrying a steaming pot: "Quick, quick! Take the induction cooker! It's burnt to death!"
Fang Dian quickly opened a table and instructed Bai Liu to bring the induction cooker over, finally letting the bottom of the pot fall to the ground before Lu Yizhan was about to be scalded to the point of flying over.
A big pot of steaming hot spicy pot bottom is bubbling on the induction cooker, and the stimulating and warm spice flavor fills the house in an instant. Every available table, chair and bench next to it are filled with ingredients that are loaded with dishes and washed. The lettuce is dripping down.
Station Master Lu let out a sigh of relief. He clapped his hands and admired it for a while. He raised his elbow and stuck it on Bai Liu's shoulder: "Not bad? I boiled this big bone soup for more than an hour. I want to take it out. Buy, plus my craftsmanship, I have to buy a pot of 168, right?"
"The keel is more than forty yuan a catty. This pot of soup is the most expensive thing in this house. If you hadn't brought someone here, I wouldn't have made such an expensive pot..."
Before Lu Yizhan spoke, Tang Erda held up the bottle of wine with a unit price of more than 60,000 yuan and raised his head to look at Bai Liu next to Lu Yizhan: "Is there a corkscrew?"
Mu Ke took out a lobster with tongs about the size of his head from the chilled box, turned his head and looked at Lu Yizhan apologetically: "I'm sorry that there are still ingredients that have not been processed. I can borrow the kitchen and ask my housekeeper to help. Deal with it?"
The smile on Lu Yizhan's face gradually solidified: "..."
Lu Yizhan slowly retracted his hand on Bai Liu's shoulder, and stepped aside slightly: "...My knife here may not be suitable for handling this lobster..."
Mu Ke smiled politely: "No, this lobster is not expensive, just treat it as you like."
With that, Mu Ke handed the lobster to the butler, and Lu Yizhan glanced at the label hung on the tail of the lobster. There was a money symbol under a string of English, and five digits followed by $.
After getting permission from Lu Yizhan, Mu Ke called the four housekeepers in, then turned around and said to Lu Yizhan, "We will use the kitchen carefully and will not cause any damage."
Seeing Mu Ke leading his team of chefs into his narrow kitchen, Lu Yizhan's vacillating eyes revealed an unobvious sadness: "...Don't be too careful."
That lobster is already more expensive than their three-square-meter kitchen.
Bai Liu grabbed a corkscrew from the refrigerator door and handed it to Tang Erda. It was printed with the faded words "Brave Chuangtianya". At first glance, he bought beer as a gift: "Can this be opened?"
"Yes." Tang Er Da directly took over and was about to drive, but was stopped by the Lu Yi Station next to him with a loud voice, "No!"
"That corkscrew has opened cans of stinky tofu and old godmother." Lu Yizhan looked at the label on the wine, trying to maintain his calm expression, "... I'll find you a new corkscrew."
After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, Lu Yizhan finally found a corkscrew that was not a gift, and handed it to Tang Er's hand with tears: "Go on, this should be the most glorious moment in its life."
With a "bang", the wine bottle was opened and the doorbell rang.
Bai Liu turned to open the door. Standing at the door was Liu Jiayi, who was wearing a small floral skirt, combed ponytails, princess shoes, white lace-rim socks, and brought two pink bow clips, and Liu Jiayi was relatively silent.
"Your dress today." Bai Liu commented euphemistically, with a smile on his face, "It fits your age."
Liu Jiayi pulled her skirt down, sorted out her tight expression, took a deep breath and just wanted to mock Bai Liu, she heard Fangdian's surprised voice: "Why is there a little girl?"
Liu Jiayi showed a sweet smile for a second and opened her big grey eyes blankly: "Hello sister, I didn't bring anything for the first time as a guest. I bought candy downstairs."
"Sister, do you eat candy?" Liu Jiayi handed over her pocket and blinked.
Fang Dian stared at Liu Jiayi for a long time, staring at Liu Jiayi about to lose his head, wondering if there was any flaw in his disguise.
Fang Dian stared at the door stubbornly holding a small sugar pocket, tilted her head and looked at Liu Jiayi, while holding Bai Liu's arm with both hands and twisting, trying to control herself, lowered her voice and screamed: "... she so cute!!"
"Do you think her mother minds that she has an extra mother after she comes out for dinner?" Fang Dian's thinking quickly diverged.
Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi, who was nervous enough to breathe a sigh of relief, and the smile on his face thickened: "I think her mother should be very happy that a beautiful woman likes her."
Fang Dian quickly turned and entered the room: "Wait for me, I'll put on some makeup! Five minutes!"
Just now so many big and small guys came here as if they were looking at transparent people, walking around the house with big slippers and shaved heads, laughing so loudly that they could lift the roof, sitting on the sofa with Erlang's legs up and looking at the Bailiu team members one by one. At that time, a group of people stood in front of her as if they were being paraded.
"You are the little son of the Mu family! Wow! How did you and Bai Liu know this poor ghost?"
"Famous college students, yes, yes!"
"Wow, how do you train your muscles! Teach me!"
In short, I don't care about my personal image at all, and I didn't think about putting on makeup.
At this moment, a little girl came, Fang Dian, on the contrary, had regained the professional ethics of the kindergarten teacher who had been missing for a long time. She rushed into the house and began to change clothes and dress up.
As soon as I left, Bai Liu squatted down and looked at Liu Jiayi with a smile, "Xiang Chunhua told me that you hate wearing pink skirts. Why did you come here today in such a neat suit?"
"I like it suddenly today." Liu Jiayi said grimly, "Don't you know how to dress formally when you come to a friend's house for the first time? I don't know how to be polite."
Bai Liu thoughtfully prolonged and repeated Liu Jiayi's words: "This is my first visit to a friend's house, so I am so nervous?"
Liu Jiayi froze, but soon Fang Dian rushed out of the room to ease the situation.
She squatted neatly in front of Liu Jiayi, sweeping her previous casual look, wearing a dress, wearing a polka-dot bow hair cover, holding a rag doll in her hand, smiling, looking friendly and gentle, like auntie. Waved to Liu Jiayi and seduce the other person: "Children, come here, teacher, yeah, I have a cute doll here, do you want to play?"
Liu Jiayi: "..."
She hesitated for a long time, and walked over cooperatively. Fang Dian carefully and cherishedly hugged Liu Jiayi, and touched Liu Jiayi's fluffy ponytails. The expression on her face looked as if she was about to cry: "She It's so soft and cute."
Liu Jiayi sat stiffly on Fangdian's knees, pressed her small hand against the hem of her skirt, not daring to move.
Lu Yizhan watched Fang Dian like this, and felt amused while intervening in the apron: "You play with so many children in the kindergarten every day, haven't you hugged enough?"
"How could it be possible to hold it casually." Fang Dian sighed while propping his chin. "It is not allowed to have physical contact with children. The kindergarten is equipped with surveillance and connected to the parents' mobile phones in real time. Reported."
"Especially girls, parents will be very careful, even if they take the initiative to approach me, I can't touch them too much."
"Not my child after all."
Fang Dian seemed to finish this sentence at random, but she didn't respond much, but the movements on the hands of Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan next to him were all a pause.
She put Liu Jiayi down, tidyed Liu Jiayi's skirt and hair, squatted down and looked at Liu Jiayi tenderly: "Now I see a little girl who almost became my daughter. Of course it feels different."
Lu Yizhan had discussed the adoption of Liu Jiayi with Fang Dian before, and Fang Dian had also seen Liu Jiayi's photos, but in the end Liu Jiayi did not choose them.
Liu Jiayi thought about it now, she pressed her lips tightly, as if she didn't know what to say.
… Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian are really good parents. Fortunately, they will have a sense of guilt that has let them down without choosing.
"Now it seems that our vision is really good." Fang Dian laughed, and she reached out her hand to look away from Liu Jiayi's sideburn hair. "It's such a cute little girl, it's no wonder that more than we want to be your relatives."
"But it's not bad to be friends!"
Fang Dian knelt halfway on the carpet, her eyes were at the same height as Liu Jiayi. She solemnly stretched out her palm to Liu Jiayi: "Hello, kid Jiayi, my name is Fang Dian. It's 25 this year. May I ask if you have a new friend recently? Is it the intention of a year-end friend?"
Liu Jiayi was quiet for a while, her tight mouth began to turn upwards, and two small dimples appeared on her face.
She raised her chin slightly, pretending to be arrogant and cooperating with Fang Dian's performance: "There was no such thing."
"But I can make an exception for you." Liu Jiayi put her hand on Fangdian's palm.
Fang Dian exaggeratedly made a flattered look. She laughed and hugged Liu Jiayi and put it at the dinner table: "I have no idea for such a big exception, so I have to invite you to hot pot! Let's have a meal!"
The clear liquor was poured into the glass, and everyone except Liu Jiayi toasted to celebrate. As a result, the power went out just halfway through the toast.
Everyone: "..."
Du Sanying covered her mouth and choked up: "Sorry, it's all my fault..."
"It's okay." Lu Yizhan didn't care. "The circuit here is aging, and there are often power outages. I will get solid alcohol, and we will go to the balcony to eat with the pot."
Fang Dian replied, "Isn't that a lobster candlelight dinner, it's so romantic!"
Bai Liu poured cold water calmly: "Romance is a matter of two people. In addition to Liu Jiayi, we have seven people here. Even if they are romantic in pairs, there will be one more person."
"Okay, Bai Liu, you really become a society after you work, right?" Fang points up his sleeves, "you dare to talk to me?"
Tang Erda was quickly brought into the ditch by Bai Liu. He frowned and thought about the words of Bai Liu [Group by Two]: "Then who am I going to be with? Bai Liu, you and me..."
Holding a bowl while eating, Mu Sicheng retorted loudly, "No, Bai Liu will be with me!"
The lenses on Mu Ke's eyes flashed, but his tone of voice was very gentle when he spoke: "Bai Liu, sit here, I'll get you lobster flakes."
"..." Lu Yizhan is big head and can't laugh or cry, "Okay, okay, stop making trouble, sit down, I'll get alcohol."
In the dark night, among the lights of thousands of houses, there was a hapless family who had a blackout. He squatted on the balcony with his dishes and had a simple and lively meal. The price was almost as high as a six-figure hot pot.
Until many years later, when asked what was the best meal in his life, Du Sanying would have a bad memory and answer within a second—
—The hot pot meal that Bai Liu took to his friend's house for the first time during the power outage.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Du Sanying was lying in Bailiu's house after taking a shower and swiping his mobile phone.
Du Sanying just added a lot of people today, and now there is a lot of content in the circle of friends. He looked at each one carefully, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
He swiped down and reached a circle of friends that Fang Dian just posted. It was a hand-painted painting. It was a scene where they were eating hot pot today.
Fang Dian clamped Bai Liu's head with a squeaky nest, and his chopsticks reached into his bowl to grab the food. Lu Yizhan hurriedly stopped, Mu Kela leaned sideways, Mu Sicheng next to him was watching a playful smirk, and Tang Erda was drinking. , Liu Jiayi was hiding in the corner, actually taking pictures, while he held up his wine glass blankly, smiled blushingly, and seemed to be drunk.
Everyone is here, everybody is laughing.
Fang Dian’s word for the circle of friends for this painting is-"Family Portrait".