When buying this house, Adrian never imagined that such a scene would appear in this duplex building.
At three o'clock in the morning, he was sitting at the dining table dealing with news from the headquarters, while Zhong Yan was busy in the open kitchen next to him feeding him.
The aroma of food slowly overflowed from the kitchen. Adrian was already a little hungry, but when he was hooked by the aroma, he suddenly felt a little distracted. After he read a message on the virtual screen three times, he still didn't understand what the other party was talking about. At that time, he decisively turned off the terminal screen.
The efficiency is too low, it is better to work after eating.
He walked into the kitchen half surrounded by the bar, stood beside Zhong Yan, looked at the ham he was cutting, and asked, "How long will it take?"
"Right now, five minutes." Zhong Yan sliced the hams and stacked them neatly on the chopping board. He was about to take out the kettle when he found Adrian standing there, so he had to push him, "Don't block the cabinet." Door."
Adrian stepped aside and stepped back to the chopping board.
There was a row of ham on it, ham was ready-to-eat cooked food, and he happened to be very hungry right now. He stared at the row of tempting hams for a while.
Zhong Yan boiled water, heated up the frying pan, pushed away Adrian who was standing in front of the chopping board, and was about to fry the ham first, when he suddenly froze.
"Where's the ham I sliced just now?!" Zhong Yan pointed to the empty chopping board and asked.
Adrian said without changing his face: "I'll try to see if it's poisonous."
"Go out, don't make trouble." Zhong Yan said with a headache.
Every time he cooks, as long as Adrian is in the kitchen, he will get twice the result with half the effort. Either the prepared ingredients are missing, or the young master volunteered to help but can’t tell the difference between sugar and salt, add the wrong seasoning, or he has to hang in the kitchen. Watching him cook from his body made it difficult for him to move.
Adrian was driven out of his kitchen reluctantly, and could only stand outside the bar and watch.
"Don't you want two bowls?" He saw Zhong Yan put a serving of noodles into the pot, and asked.
"Divide into two bowls, I'll take one bite." Zhong Yan slowly stirred the noodles in the pot, "In the middle of the night, go to bed after eating, don't eat too much, it's not good for your stomach, It’s just that I’m going to share a little bit.”
As he was talking, he looked at the noodles in the pot for some reason, with some doubts in his eyes, and then he immediately opened the terminal and typed something.
Adrian didn't understand, so, "What's wrong?"
"It's been a long time since I cooked noodles, and I forgot how long it takes to cook this kind." Zhong Yan slid his finger on the virtual screen twice, found the corresponding tutorial, and browsed through it while muttering, before turning off the terminal Screen.
Adrian wondered: "Have you never cooked noodles in Capital City?"
"When I live alone, I don't cook, I just buy." Zhong Yan said.
"why?"
"Why?" Zhong Yan asked strangely, "I only cooked for you. I never did it when I was alone. It was too troublesome and a waste of time."
This seemed to be a little different from Adrian's imagination, and he asked, "Then what happened before you entered the highest institution?"
"Before I met you, I didn't know how to cook. Either I lived in an orphanage or a dormitory of a compulsory education school. When I was younger, I lived in a few adoptive families for a short time. I didn't have the opportunity to touch the kitchen. Where can I learn to cook?" Let's eat."
Adrian was really shocked now, he had always taken it for granted that Zhong Yan belonged to the type of "the child of the poor is already in charge of the family", but he didn't expect Zhong Yan to tell him after so many years that he actually didn't know how to cook back then.
"You said the cafeteria was unpalatable, so I just learned from the tutorials. In fact, I was very unfamiliar with it in the first month, and I made simple things." After the noodles were ready, Zhong Yan fished them out with a slipping net, and said slowly , "Later, I felt that if the cooking was delicious enough, you should be more willing to stay with me, so I have been practicing my skills. Don't you think that my cooking skills have improved by leaps and bounds since the third year?"
Adrian: "..." I didn't notice it at all. At that time, when he saw Zhong Yan's own lover filter, he felt that it was delicious from the very beginning. The food made for him by his sweetheart didn't have the heart to really pay attention to the taste.
"A few days ago..." It was the day when Adrian suddenly became angry and lifted the lid of the half-simmered soup pot. It's my first time cooking."
It turned out that I was the only one in the world who had tasted Zhong Yan's craftsmanship. Adrian tried his best to control his emotions, but his mood brightened involuntarily.
While loading the plate, Zhong Yan pretended to be casual and tentatively said: "If you go home on New Year's Eve, let me make dinner? Just treat it as... just treat it as this year's New Year's gift."
They have spent two New Year's Eve together. The highest school starts at the beginning of the year and ends at the end of the year. During the two vacations in between, Adrian couldn’t go back to the capital because of a complete disagreement with Staben. Zhong Yan didn’t regard that small planet as his hometown at all. They were homeless, and the school refused to keep anyone, so they went to a nearby tourist planet and rented a room for the holiday.
Friends who are close to each other will give each other New Year's gifts. On those two New Year's Eves, they stayed together until midnight, exchanged gifts, and then went to sleep.
Adrian knew that he should resolutely reject this proposal. He should tell Zhong Yan, no need, they are no longer friends, and there is no need to send each other New Year gifts. He was already on the verge of danger, and he shouldn't let himself get closer, but... Zhong Yan was about to leave.
Why not indulge for a few days? Anyway, Zhong Yan won't be here for long. After the New Year, Zhong Yan's assistant will set off from Capital Star to pick him up, and there are only two days left before the New Year.
Is it okay to indulge a little during this short period before the storm? As soon as Zhong Yan left, he paid the fine, so that they would have no reason to contact in private, and everything would be back on track.
"As you please," Adrian heard himself say.
Although Adrian didn't give a positive answer, Zhong Yan still bought a lot of ingredients early on the last day of this year.
This is the first New Year's Eve that he and Adrian spend together seven years later. After the big earthquake, the situation changes rapidly. Will he be allowed to use the kitchen, maybe this is the last meal he will cook. So he tried his best to make a recipe plan in the morning, and started to work after lunch, and he couldn't finish it until sunset.
For dinner for the two of them, he forcibly made a table of dishes, choosing ingredients and dishes that could be stored for several days. After all, it was given as his New Year's gift this year, so it had to be grand.
I don't know when the celebration at the headquarters of the Na'vi Military Region will end.
Zhong Yan sat in the living room, absent-mindedly processing documents, checking the time on the terminal every minute.
Time passed minute by minute, Adrian didn't come back at 8 o'clock, Zhong Yan didn't care, if you want to come to such a big event as the New Year's Eve celebration, it's not good for the commander-in-chief to leave too early.
But nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and eleven o'clock passed, and Adrian never came back.
At 11:30, Zhong Yan couldn't sit still, hesitated again and again, and called the reception desk of the Na'vi Military Region.
Originally, he had no hope if he didn't report, but he didn't expect that the reception desk would be operating as usual on this day of universal celebration. He reported his name and asked, "Excuse me, is the New Year's Eve celebration in your military region... not over yet?"
"Mr. Zhong, are you talking about the New Year's Eve celebration at the headquarters?" The operator's voice sounded puzzled for some reason. The power of the year. Of course, there may also be private celebrations after nine o'clock, so I don't know. What can I do?"
So... was Adrian at some private celebration? Is he ready to spend New Year's Eve with his "relatives and friends"
Zhong Yan pursed his lips, but decided to ask clearly: "I'm looking for your commander, can you transfer it to him for me?"
"The commander is not at the headquarters." After a pause for a second, the operator finally couldn't help asking, "Is he not with you?"
Zhong Yan said: "No. So he left after the celebration?"
The operator was surprised: "No, the commander didn't attend the celebration today! We all thought he was going home to accompany... Uh, anyway, I mean, the commander is not at the headquarters right now."
After thanking the operator, Zhong Yan sat blankly in the empty living room of the duplex building.
Adrian didn't attend the celebration at all? So what did he do? Why haven't you come back until now
Looking at the time, it was already 11:40, Zhong Yan gritted his teeth, and found an account he had never called from the address book.
"Hello, who is it?" The opposite person picked up and asked.
Zhong Yan was stunned for a second, then asked strangely: "You didn't save my communication account? Didn't we exchange in front of Ai... in front of him?"
"Zhong Yan?" Fein was even more strange than him, "Why are you calling me? I deleted your account a long time ago, don't be kidding, you and Adrian were like that back then, and I still have my brother's account. The boyfriend's contact information? That's too dishonest."
Zhong Yan listened jealously when he called out Adrian's name without hindrance, and heard the speechless voice behind him: "What ex-boyfriend... Forget it, it's not important. I called you to ask, he is with you ?"
"What? Isn't he with you?"
"No...he didn't come home."
"What do you mean not coming home?" Finn asked in surprise, "He didn't come to the headquarters at all today. Didn't he stay at home all the time?"
Didn't go to headquarters? But Adrian left early in the morning, didn't he? Zhong Yan was completely clueless, he dealt with Finn hastily, hung up the communication, and there were only ten minutes left before twelve o'clock.
Where has Adrian been all day? Even Finn didn't know his whereabouts
Before Zhong Yan had time to figure out why, suddenly there was a dull loud noise from the backyard, as if some huge heavy object fell on the ground, Zhong Yan even felt the sofa he was sitting on tremble slightly.
what happened? ! Has something invaded the yard
Zhong Yan jumped up, rushed to the kitchen and pulled out a kitchen knife. If some armed force really came in, with his stature, it would be useless to hold a knife, but it was better than capturing without a fight. Holding the knife, Zhong Yan approached the window carefully, and opened a corner of the curtain to look outside.
Then he saw a scene that left him dumbfounded.
Originally, there was a row of 5-meter-high trees between the house and the backyard grass, which not only provided shade, but also prevented people from seeing the inside of the house directly from the backyard, which provided more privacy. Similarly, it was actually difficult to see the backyard grass clearly from the house What's on it.
The reason why Zhong Yan could see it was because that thing was much taller than the trees.
A huge, snow-white, furry, drooping-eared…
rabbit.
There was a beep on the back door, and someone opened the door with master authority.
Adrian walked in the door dressed in wind and frost, he raised his wrist and looked at the time, it was eleven fifty-nine.
"Hi." He greeted Zhong Yan who was holding a kitchen knife in place, "Happy New Year."