Just a little bit.
Zhang Zian was almost labeled by the descendants of the Zhang family (assuming there were any) as "the first emperor collapsed in the midst of his entrepreneurship", which also made him understand more deeply that there are some words that cannot be said, and some cats that cannot be messed with.
I thought that I would spend a peaceful and comfortable day amidst the sound of stories, but I didn’t expect that since the morning, there will be a lot of birds and cats jumping. Richard and Snow Lion ask why they haven’t done it every five minutes. When she appeared on the stage, Fina was suspicious of every book review as if suffering from paranoid delusions, thinking that there was always someone trying to harm me... Xinghai, Laocha and Fei Masi listened quite seriously, but when they encountered some incomprehensible terms, They would also ask questions, and Zhang Zian had to stop and explain to them, which caused the originally coherent story to be read in fragments, and my heart was tired!
At noon, two young people, a man and a woman, pushed the door in with a foam incubator in their arms. It was Tingting and Xiaozhuang who were volunteers at the snack bar.
"Why are you guys? I was just talking about getting it myself later." Zhang Zian turned off the screen of his phone to greet them, and took the foam incubator from them.
It stands to reason that Xiaozhuang and Tingting only need to work for one hour each in the morning and one night, and they are only responsible for taking care of the cats, without intervening in the daily business affairs of the store.
"We see that the old couple are too busy, so we just help out, there's nothing to do anyway." Tingting and Xiaozhuang looked at each other and replied.
They have never actually raised cats before, and they have been stuck in the stage of attracting cats on forums, microblogs and cloud raising cats. This time they personally participated in the process of raising cats, and took care of seven cats at once, which made them truly understand that raising cats is not a simple matter. an easy job. Each cat has a different personality, some are mischievous, some are quiet, some are relatives, some are withdrawn, and their attitudes towards strangers are also different.
On the first day they worked as volunteers in the snack bar, they even made a joke. Seeing eight food bowls and eight litter boxes in the storage room used as a temporary shelter for cats, they felt it was a waste and tried their best to do their own thing. He took one away and put it away, and secretly mocked that Mrs. Li and his wife might be too confused to know how to count. As a result, the seven cats got into an awkward fight, pushed each other, and robbed the food and litter bowls.
After the education of the Lis and his wife, they realized that when raising multiple cats, the number of food bowls and litter boxes needs to be one more than the number of cats, otherwise there will be competition. Numeracy. Since then, they never dared to make their own decisions, and humbly learned the knowledge of raising cats. They volunteered at the snack bar for more than the two hours they should have, and they also volunteered to help with other things.
Every day, the Li couple would privately report Xiaozhuang and Tingting's performance to Zhang Zian and Sun Xiaomeng, so Zhang Zian knew that they worked hard, but he still reminded: "If you agree to do it for a month, you will do it for a month. Come over during Chinese New Year as well.”
"Don't worry, we have nothing to do during the Chinese New Year. Unless there are some natural or man-made disasters, we must report every day." They replied confidently.
"Oh? Is it really possible?" Zhang Zian deliberately asked a question, "It seems that Valentine's Day will be soon after the Chinese New Year, right? Don't you have any arrangements for Valentine's Day?"
Xiaozhuang and Tingting looked at each other, and sweetly joined hands, "We have already met both parents, and Valentine's Day can be celebrated casually, and the time for volunteering will not be delayed."
What a dog food caught off guard.
Zhang Zian burst into tears. Unexpectedly, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and he will be forced to eat dog food. It is really unnecessary to ask!
After the two left with the empty foam incubator, Zhang Zian prepared food for the elves, and he was going to have lunch himself.
Since Wang Qian, Li Kun and Lu Yiyun were not around, he didn’t order takeout. Anyway, it’s almost Chinese New Year, and he planned to change his taste. . According to different customs in different places, dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year. He was too lazy to make dumplings by himself, so he just bought a few packs of quick-frozen dumplings from the supermarket and threw them in the refrigerator. When he wanted to eat, he would cook a pack.
He hasn't cooked for a long time, and he plans to eat dumplings for lunch today.
Eating quick-frozen dumplings couldn't be easier. Just boil the dumplings in water and then serve them with some vinegar and minced garlic for dipping.
In the kitchen on the second floor, he put the quick-frozen dumplings into the pot, prepared an empty plate to hold the dumplings just out of the pot, took out the bowls and chopsticks that had not been used for a long time, and put them aside, and began to chop garlic on the cutting board.
After cutting two heads of garlic, he put the minced garlic into a bowl, poured some vinegar, and added two drops of sesame oil, and stirred it evenly. It smelled very fragrant and whetted the appetite.
He put the chopsticks on the mouth of the bowl, and waited for the dumplings to be cooked and out of the pan with peace of mind.
Waiting is boring, but with a fire on the stove and not being able to leave the kitchen to do other things, you might forget.
He was leaning against the counter, looking around in the kitchen boredly, touching here and there. When his eyes swept over the bowls and chopsticks, his heart seemed to be touched, and a certain idea flashed through his mind. However, when he turned his eyes back to the bowl and chopsticks, trying to relive the strange feeling just now, he couldn't think of anything.
He frowned, staring at the bowls and chopsticks, thinking carefully.
The bowl is an ordinary bowl with a white body and blue-gray background. Due to long-term rubbing and use, the glaze layer on the outside is slightly worn. Although this bowl has not been used for a long time, it has been used before, and it has been re-washed just now, so there is no unsanitary problem.
The chopsticks are the same, they are a pair of ordinary bamboo chopsticks, the light yellow color of the bamboo itself when I first bought it, now it is slightly brown, and it is very convenient to use.
This pair of bowls and chopsticks Zhang Zian has used countless times, logically speaking, it shouldn't cause any strange feeling, so what happened to the touch in his heart just now? It seems to have vaguely grasped the answer to solve a certain problem.
The water in the pot is almost boiling, and wisps of heat are rising, and the white dumplings are floating and sinking in the water.
Zhang Zian tried his best to grasp the tail of that touch of inspiration as if grasping a life-saving straw. He knew that he had to figure it out before turning on the pot, otherwise, if he turned off the fire to serve the dumplings, his train of thought would be completely interrupted, but if he didn't turn off the fire, the water in the pot would overflow again, possibly extinguishing the natural gas.
A pair of straight chopsticks are tightly packed together, placed squarely on the round mouth of the bowl, as if challenging him.
Gudoo! Gudoo!
The water in the pot was already boiling, and white foam quickly piled up on the surface of the water. The lid of the pot was shaking constantly, and the water was about to overflow the pot.
At the last moment, Zhang Zian finally figured it out. He mechanically rushed over to turn off the fire, but he firmly grasped the answer in his mind and replayed it over and over again, for fear that he would forget it after an oversight.