Early autumn afternoon.
The golden sunlight sprinkled on the living room floor of Huaihe Apartment, the tulle curtains were gently blown by the wind, and there was a sweet cream fragrance in the cool air.
From the kitchen came the "humming" sound of the egg beater, as well as the occasional English conversation.
"... The fans in your country are really scary. A while ago, people everywhere asked about you on our high school's Facebook page. Since then, I don't think your INS has been updated."
"It is estimated that there will be no more changes in the future..."
Yin Chang put his mobile phone on the refrigerator, and while videoing with Evan, he slowly toned the cream in his hand.
It was already night abroad at the other end of the video, and Evan turned on the night light, leaning on the bed with his iPad in his arms.
"Don't, I still want to know how you are doing."
"You can call me skpye."
"Well, where's your 'brother'? Lives with you?"
"Well, he's living with me now..."
At this time, it has been a month since Yin Dong's plane crashed, and the various depressions caused by it are slowly improving.
However, the scandals that broke out before had some impact on Yin Chang. In order to prevent the audience from still having prejudice against him, and to allow Yin Chang to adapt to the new life, during this period, Yao Manhuai did not arrange any work for him, nor did he Let Lu Lingjuan continue to run his Weibo, just let him stay at home and read some information about his father's company, and "cultivate and cultivate a relationship" with Shao Junling by the way.
Evan said with a smile: "It seems that you get along well, and you even made him a cake."
"... No, I'm not used to it." Yin Chang said as he took out a few piping bags and filled them with champagne-colored cream.
Making cakes was purely to pass the time. Seeing that there was an oven in the kitchen, he bought some ingredients and tools online. Domestic ordering services are really developed, especially in big cities, where orders are placed in the morning and delivered in the afternoon.
"Where are you not used to it?" Evan gloated, "Your father left, but he left you a brother, isn't that great?"
"..." Yin Chang paused. If Yin Dong had greeted him in advance and confessed Shao Junling's background to him, he might be very happy to have a younger brother.
"I am eight years older than him, and there is a generation gap between us." Yin Chang bent down and glanced at the situation in the oven, then straightened up and began to mix the chocolate sauce, "Besides, because of the different growth environment, I have some living habits with him. I also want to know about his past... But, he doesn't talk to me much."
"Why didn't he talk to you? Does he not like you?"
"I don't know if he likes me or not," Yin Chang confessed. "Anyway, I don't like him very much now. I always feel that my dad is hiding this from me, which makes me a little angry."
"I understand you. If my parents didn't say hello to me, and suddenly brought a younger brother back from outside and treated him better than me, I would be very jealous..." Evan adjusted his posture, holding his hand. With a chin, "You haven't told me why he didn't talk to you."
"His expressive ability is not very good, I often have to guess what he is thinking," Yin Chang shrugged his shoulders with a headache, "and often guess wrong."
"Is he OK here?" Evan nodded his head.
"It shouldn't be a problem. He plays Lego very well..." Although he knew that even if he said it in front of Shao Junling, he would not understand their conversation, but Yin Chang subconsciously turned his head and glanced towards the living room, and lowered his voice to say Evan said, "However, Samantha and I have been considering taking him for an intelligence test for a while, and we have to arrange for him to go to school."
Evan: "What grade is he in?"
Yin Chang: "According to his age, he should be in the third or fourth grade. But the orphanage he was in only taught them some unified courses—that is, a group of children of the same age are learning together, without any specificity. I think , even if his intelligence is normal, with his current level, he may have to stay one or two grades in a normal school."
"Oh," Evan smiled, "Then you will tutor him in his studies then?"
"No. Samantha said, I may be very busy and I don't have time." With a "ding" sound, the cake was finished baking. Yin Chang put down the tools, put on thick gloves, and turned on the oven—the rich egg The aroma of milk came out.
"Okay, so when are you coming back?" Evan asked.
"I will go back next week, pack some clothes and personal items, and go to drop out of school by the way."
"Are you going to drop out?"
"Well, I will stay in China for a long time in the future, and I won't go back to school in a short time."
"... Hey!" Evan suddenly sent out a reminder from the video, "Is that your brother?"
Yin Chang glanced at the phone, the kitchen was open, where Evan was looking, Shao Junling appeared at some point, half of his body was hidden behind the operating table, and he was sneaking his head here.
"He looks so small," Evan just finished speaking, Shao Junling glanced at the phone on the refrigerator, "Hey, he seems to have found me!"
Yin Chang stopped what he was doing, and said to Shao Junling in Chinese: "Brother is on the phone with a friend."
Shao Junling stared at the phone indifferently for two seconds, without saying hello, he just looked away and tracked down the source of the fragrance.
Evan: "…"
Yin Chang: "..."
Evan yelled angrily: "Wow, what did he mean just now?"
Yin Chang smiled bitterly, and said in English: "Now you know why I said I don't like it?"
Evan: "I feel challenged! The way he looks at me makes me want to punch him!"
Yin Chang subconsciously said: "No, he is my younger brother now."
Evan: "Don't you dislike him?"
Yin Chang: "Then he is still my younger brother. I don't need to like him, but I won't let others beat him."
Evan: "…"
Yin Chang walked to the refrigerator: "Okay, let's not talk about it, I will talk to you when I go back the day after tomorrow, good night."
After hanging up the video call, Yin Chang didn't talk to Shao Junling. He put the cake embryo into the cooling box to cool down, then picked up the decoration gun and spread cream on it. He was very fast, and soon all nine small cakes were covered. Fresh champagne cream.
Shao Junling's eyes glowed, and his eyes followed the movements of Yin Chang's hands.
Seeing that his saliva was about to flow out, Yin Chang couldn't help but said, "I'll be fine soon."
Then, he unhurriedly took out the heated chocolate sauce from the microwave and carefully poured it on the cake.
After finishing all this, Yin Chang brought the cake to the dining table outside. Behind him, Shao Junling followed like a puppy.
When he was seated, Yin Chang pushed the tray in front of him, and was about to say "eat", but seeing that Shao Junling's fingers were all black, he couldn't help asking, "Have you washed your hands?"
Shao Junling's eyes were still fixed on the cake in front of him, and when he was asked this question suddenly, he retracted and stretched out his hands anxiously, as if he was struggling to eat or wash his hands first.
Yin Chang reminded: "These are yours, wash your hands first."
After hearing this, Shao Junling hurriedly climbed off the chair.
At this time, Yin Chang felt that Shao Junling was still a bit cute—although his hygiene habits were bad, he was not polite, he didn’t know how to express himself, and there were many other “upbringing” problems, but at least he obeyed. As long as he had this attribute, Yin Chang I feel that he can slowly change the other party.
When Shao Junling came back, Yin Chang took out a tissue for him to wipe his hands, and said, "Okay, let's eat."
As soon as Shao Junling heard the order, he couldn't wait to start.
Then, one eats, and the other is mainly responsible for observing the other to eat. This is their daily routine during this time.
Yes, the so-called "cultivating relationship" is nothing more than living together under the same roof to solve eating and drinking.
In the week that he brought Shao Junling back, Yin Chang discovered that the other party's poor communication was indeed a big problem.
He asked Shao Junling what he wanted to eat, and Shao Junling looked at him stupidly, acting more dazed than he was.
Yin Chang could only figure it out by himself. He downloaded several takeaway apps and ordered takeout for several days in a row. The dishes and tastes of each meal were different. After observing for a while, Yin Chang discovered that Shao Junling ate almost everything...
But just because he eats everything doesn't mean he likes to eat everything.
For example, one day when Yin Chang ordered a spicy hot pot, Shao Junling's eyes glowed and his mouth watered when he smelled the aroma, as if he smelled a small cake today.
When he first started eating, he devoured it hungrily, and Yin Chang thought he was good at spicy food.
But something was wrong while eating, Shao Junling seemed to be competing with himself, he gnashed his teeth and had tears in his eyes. He didn't say what was going on, just continued to eat hard like that, and finally he started to sob while eating.
Yin Chang was stunned at the time, and asked him for a long time if he felt uncomfortable, if he should go to the hospital, or if he thought of something sad... He almost showed patience several times and dozens of times more than when he had a girlfriend. Shao Junling didn't see any improvement.
He continued to stuff things into his mouth in a fit of anger, suffocating himself until his face flushed.
In the end, Yin Chang couldn't stand it anymore, so he went directly to the refrigerator to get a bottle of ice water, and forced him to drink half of the bottle, before Shao Junling stopped.
After Yin Chang realized it, he couldn't laugh or cry—it turned out that he was not used to spicy food, but he wanted to be brave.
After the meal, Shao Junling lazily hid behind the sofa and played Lego, looking extremely pitiful.
But Yin Chang was also very irritable that day, because Shao Junling's reaction made him feel like he was abusing him...
"In the future, if you don't like eating, just say so."
"Like or dislike, are these two words difficult?"
"If you don't tell me, how would I know?"
"... Shao Junling, do you hear that?"
With his back turned to him, Shao Junling let out a muffled "Hmm" after a while.
That being said, Yin Chang didn't expect Shao Junling to suddenly become enlightened, he could only improve his observation skills to avoid this from happening again.
After this period of time, Yin Chang has concluded that Shao Junling likes to eat high-fat and high-calorie foods such as pasta, desserts, fried chicken, and burgers, and has little interest in healthy and low-fat ingredients such as lettuce and salads. I don't touch seafood such as shrimp and crab that are more troublesome to eat.
Because Shao Junling is relatively thin, Yin Chang doesn't think there is any problem with the other person eating like this for the time being, but in the long run, he still needs to find a nutritionist for children's diet to plan his diet reasonably, which will be of great help to him in the future. The body is better.
At this moment, looking at Shao Junling who ate all the small cakes in one go, Yin Chang was a little worried again.
He is going back to his home abroad temporarily next week, and he doesn't plan to take Shao Junling with him—and Shao Junling's passport and visa won't be available for a while—how to arrange those few days is still a problem.
The author has something to say: [Interlude]
Shao Junling's mental state when eating spicy hotpot—
It smells so good! O
... Hey, why is it so spicy! wxya
No, you have to eat spicy food, so that you can grow up quickly. (* ￣︿￣)
But it's really hot~~QAQ
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(Squatting in a corner after dinner) I made a fool of myself in front of my brother, so angry. (〒 〒)