Early in the morning, Shen Changan got up and cleaned up the house. The stew was stewed, and the cut was cut. Before he was done, he heard a knock on the door.
He wiped his hands, opened the door and saw that it was Daonian, sitting in a wheelchair, followed by two young people with similar appearances.
"Dao Nian?" I didn't expect Dao Nian to come here so early, he was stunned for a moment, and quickly opened the door: "Come in, there is no elevator in my building, thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard." Daonian noticed that after seeing him, Shen Changan had a subconscious movement to look at the time, but he held back, "I came too early?"
"It's not too early, it's just right." Shen Changan turned on the TV, took out a clean blanket from the room and put it on Daonian's knees, "The temperature has started to cool down in the past two days, and there is no air conditioner in the room."
Smelling the smell of meat in the room, Daonian moved his nose.
"The meat you gave me is very tender, so I got some to fry the crispy meat. I just fried a plate. You can taste it." Shen Changan brought out the washed fruit and crispy meat from the kitchen. The two young people who came over were still standing at the door, "You two please sit down too, you're welcome."
The young man smiled at Shen Changan and turned to look at Daonian.
"They'll leave after a while." Daonian took a piece of crispy and fragrant crispy meat into his mouth with his chopsticks. He didn't look like he was eating, but more like tasting something he had never tried before. .
"Yes." One of the young men said immediately, "We sent Mr. over here, and we will leave soon."
"Then, come over to eat at noon after you are done working?" Shen Changan said with a smile, "Today there are a lot of dishes, and Daonian and I can't finish it."
The two young people shook their heads in unison, saying that they were too busy with work, so they would not come.
Seeing that their intentions to leave had already been decided, Shen Changan could not continue to keep them, so he had to stuff them with a box of small biscuits made by himself.
"Don't eat too much crispy meat, your mouth will be dry, eat some fruit to relieve tiredness." Instead of sitting on the sofa, Shen Changan moved a small stool and sat next to Daonian's wheelchair, suddenly half a body shorter than Daonian. He didn't know if Daonian cared about leg problems, but his way of sitting might help increase Daonian's sense of security.
A palm-sized box was handed to Shen Changan. The box was engraved with beautiful auspicious cloud patterns and inlaid with beautiful beads. Shen Changan had reason to suspect that these beads might be gems.
"What is this?" Shen Changan took the box and turned his head to look at Dao Nian, who was still eating crispy meat.
Is his fried crispy meat so delicious? The hot pot at Daonian's house was so delicious last time. I didn't see Daonian move his chopsticks a few times, but today's small bowl of crispy meat, Daonian has already eaten half of it.
Reached out and took a piece from the bowl and put it in my mouth. It was tender, crispy and fragrant, and it really played better than ever.
He didn't seem to expect that Shen Changan would take food from his own bowl, Daonian paused for two or three seconds: "Send at the door."
"Cough cough cough." Shen Changan patted his chest, choked to the point of tears, "Dao Nian, don't you usually visit your friends?"
Daonian looked at him quietly, and lazily reached out and patted Shen Changan's back.
Shen Changan instantly felt that his throat felt a lot better. He held the box and explained: "Bringing a gift to a friend's house is called a hand-picked gift. When a lover first goes to see their parents, it is called a door-to-door gift."
"Oh." Daonian continued to bow his head to eat crispy meat, and the ceremony was the same.
Seeing that Daonian stopped talking again, Shen Changan found a funny show on TV: "You watch TV for a while, and I'll go to the kitchen to watch the fire."
Daonian blinked at him, indicating that he heard it.
Walking into the kitchen, Shen Changan glanced at the beautiful gift box in his hand, and stuck his head out of the kitchen: "Dao Nian, can I open the gift you gave now?"
"Well." Daonian finished eating the last piece of crispy meat, holding an empty bowl, staring at the TV screen expressionlessly, as if he was not watching a comedy show, but a boring preaching show.
The box is too delicate and beautiful, which makes Shen Changan be careful when opening the lid, but when he sees what is inside, his legs are still a little weak.
Inside was a gold ingot the size of a fist. The gold ingot was round and cute, and the chubby body exuded a charming golden light.
This ingot is exactly the same as the ingot held by the grandfather of the God of Wealth on many statues of the God of Wealth.
Closing the box tremblingly, Shen Changan felt that his little heart was beating wildly. He had grown so big, and he had never seen so much gold.
Holding the box and walking out of the kitchen, Shen Changan's voice was a little fluttering: "Dao Nian, isn't the gift you gave too precious?"
"Not good?" Dao Nian frowned, obviously every Chinese New Year, many humans like to post pictures with ingots.
"It's not bad, it's just too good." Shen Changan swallowed, "isn't it..."
"It's fine." Daonian handed the empty bowl filled with crispy meat to Shen Changan, "More."
"This is too precious." Shen Changan shook his head, "I can't accept it."
Daonian took back the hand that handed over the empty bowl: "Don't you want to be friends with me?"
"It's because I treat you as a friend that I can't accept such an expensive gift." Seeing that Daonian was unhappy, Shen Changan quickly explained, "The friendship between friends does not need to be measured by money."
Daonian nodded: "Well, I don't think you are poor."
Shen Changan: "..."
Thank you for your kindness.
"However, this kind of behavior of mine is called taking advantage." Shen Changan laughed helplessly, "Dao Nian, maybe you have lived in a simple and good environment since you were a child, and you don't know how terrible the power of money is. ."
Shen Changan pointed to himself and patted the back of Daonian's hand again: "I want to be friends with you, that's all, nothing else, can you understand my mood?"
Daonian quietly looked at the black and white eyes of the young man, and in the calm and unwavering eyes, there was a little more seriousness: "I have seen all the evil and darkness in the world."
"Okay, I know you've seen it before." Shen Changan knew that the other party minded that he said that he had never seen the terrible power of money, so he had to follow his meaning, "Then take this back."
"No." Daonian lowered his eyelids, "Friend, just accept it."
With four eyes facing each other, Shen Changan looked at the other party's eyes as beautiful as the vast starry sky, and gave in dizzily: "Okay, I will accept it."
Daonian continued to look at him.
Seeing this, Shen Changan quickly added: "Thank you for your gift, I like it very much." There are a few people in the world who don't like gold ingots. Holding the wooden box, he thought to himself that when Dao Nian got married, he would use this gold ingot to make a golden doll and give it to him.
After hearing that Shen Changan said he liked it very much, Daonian resumed his expressionless state of watching comedy shows, but just glanced at the empty bowl with crispy meat with his eyes a few more times.
Shen Changan instantly understood his eyes: "You can't eat too much crispy meat. You have to eat at noon. The cake will be baked right away. I'll bring you a piece."
Daonian lowered his eyelids and did not speak.
"Okay, okay." There was no change in Daonian's expression, but Shen Changan could see that he was unhappy and had a little emotion, "We can only eat half a bowl, and we will eat fruit after eating, okay? "
Daonian turned his head and continued to watch TV, looking like "I didn't say anything, it's all your own meaning".
Shen Changan went into the kitchen, packed the crispy meat, put it in Daonian's hand, watched TV with Daonian for a while, and then started cooking and eating.
At twelve o'clock at noon, all the dishes were served. Shen Changan saw Daonian leaning on his wheelchair and closed his eyes, and whispered to him, "Daonian, it's time to eat."
When Daonian opened his eyes, Shen Changan realized that his eyes were not sleepy.
"The dining table is a bit high. Would you mind going to the dining chair to eat?"
Daonian shook his head slightly and put his hands on the armrests. At this moment, Shen Changan suddenly leaned down, picked him up by the waist, and walked directly towards the dining table.
Dao Nian: "… "
Dao Nian:
At the moment when he picked up Daonian, Shen Changan found that Daonian's legs did not seem to be deformed as he imagined, but he was afraid to stimulate Daonian's emotions. He did not deliberately look at his legs and put the person on the dining chair After getting up, he also thoughtfully covered Daonian's legs with a blanket.
After doing all this, he found that Dao Nian looked at him very strangely.
"I'm strong, don't worry." Handing the chopsticks to Daonian, Shen Changan wanted Daonian to forget about his legs as much as possible, "Try my craft."
After eating a few chopstick dishes, Dao Nian: "Okay."
"You may not believe it when I say it. I know how to cook when I was very young." Seeing that Daonian liked it, Shen Changan worried that his waist would not have enough strength and that it would be inconvenient to pick vegetables, so he kept using public chopsticks to pick vegetables for him, "After the age of eight, I lived in a big yard, and there was an old grandfather who was a royal chef, and I learned a lot of cooking skills from him. At that time, my ideal was to be a master chef, but unfortunately his old man thought my cooking was too crafty. , so rejected my request to be a teacher."
"Delicious." Daonian emphasized again.
"Thank you." Shen Changan smiled brightly, "If you like it, come to my house often in the future, and I will cook it for you." Thinking of the inconvenience of Daonian's legs going upstairs, he changed his mouth and said, "Of course, go to your house to cook. OK too."
"When I was in college, every time I made chicken feet with pickled peppers and brought them to the dormitory, I would be snatched up by a few buddies in the dormitory." Speaking of this, the smile on Shen Changan's face faded, and I am afraid that from now on In the future, it will be difficult for him to meet them again.
I don't know how they are doing now, whether the work is going well, and whether they have been released.
"Where are you going tomorrow?" Daonian looked up at him and asked.
"Tomorrow?" Shen Changan regained his senses, remembering that he also invited Daonian to go out to play together, it was rare for Daonian to take the initiative, afraid that he would change his mind, Shen Changan hurriedly said, "Go to the nearby Shanquan Valley, where the traffic is more convenient. , you can drive in and out." Originally, he planned to take Daonian to the local characteristic residential village to play, but there are many rural trails there, which is a little inconvenient for Daonian.
Shortly after lunch, the people who came to pick up Dao Nian arrived. Shen Changan packed his fried small crispy meat, small biscuits and cakes for Dao Nian, and made an appointment to meet tomorrow morning.
Holding a large bag of things that Shen Changan had given him, he got into the car, and Liu Mao, who was waiting in the car, saw this, just as he was about to reach for it, he met Daonian's deep eyes.
He withdrew his paws silently, silently.
The author has something to say: The friendship between friends is sublimated in the process of eating and taking.