After spilling dog food all over the floor, Xiao Yuanmu took Song Xuanhe to visit the other floors, and the two of them walked out of the office building until everyone in the company knew that their immediate boss had a lover and their relationship was very stable.
They went to the supermarket together to buy vegetables, and were greeted by Xiao Huang. After changing their shoes, Xiao Yuanmu rolled up his sleeves, carried the things he bought from the supermarket and said, "It takes about 30 minutes to cook. If you are hungry, you can eat some first." fruit."
Song Xuanhe agreed, and looked up to see Xiao Yuanmu's back walking towards the kitchen, he seemed to be thinner than before.
He called out without thinking: "Xiao Yuanmu."
Xiao Yuanmu paused, turned to look at him, and motioned him to speak up if he had something to say.
Song Xuanhe walked up to him, took one of the food bags in his hand, and said, "I'll accompany you."
"it is good."
The two entered the kitchen one after the other. Xiao Yuanmu took out the food from the shopping bag one by one familiarly, first put the dishes that will be eaten today on the cooking table, and then put the other dishes into the refrigerator by category.
"I should do something."
Song Xuanhe stood aside, handed two tomatoes to Xiao Yuanmu, and asked.
"These two tomatoes will be used later." Xiao Yuanmu took the tomatoes from Song Xuanhe's hands, and put them back on the cooking table.
Song Xuan and Qing coughed, glanced at the cooking table, saw the two boxes of eggs on it, and said, "You haven't put the eggs in the refrigerator yet, I'll help you collect them."
"You don't need to put the eggs..." Xiao Yuanmu met his expectant eyes, paused halfway through speaking, and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
Finally found a job to do, Song Xuanhe carefully put the eggs into the egg storage box one by one, not only neatly stacked, but also followed the principle from big to small, put the eggs, he looked at Xiao Yuan again Mu asked, "Are there any other dishes to collect?"
"No..." Xiao Yuanmu glanced at Cai on the cooking table, and calmly changed his words: "The only things you don't need to collect are beef and celery, and you put the rest in the refrigerator."
Song Xuanhe tidied up quickly, Xiao Yuanmu saw his excited appearance, turned around to cook the rice, and started to process the beef.
"Xiao Yuanmu." Song Xuanhe finished tidying up the refrigerator and said, "Is there anything else you need my help with?"
Xiao Yuanmu's chopping hand paused, and said, "Can I trouble you to take out two eggs from the refrigerator for me?"
Song Xuanhe immediately took two for him, and asked by the way: "Do you need me to break it open for you and put it into a bowl?"
"You can just take two bowls and separate the egg whites from the yolks."
Song Xuanhe took out two small transparent bowls from the cupboard, set them up and picked up an egg. Thinking of his mother's action in his memory, he knocked open from the edge of the bowl, and with a light tap, a hole was split in the middle of the egg. The corners of his mouth hooked down, his fingers pinched and broke apart, and the egg liquid of the whole egg slid into the bowl.
"How do you see my eggs beating?"
Xiao Yuanmu turned his eyes to look, and saw Huang Tongtong's egg yolk and egg white, he paused and said, "Not bad."
Encouraged by the praise, Song Xuanhe took out another egg and cracked it open. When he broke the shell again, something flashed through his mind. separate."
"No." Xiao Yuanmu looked indifferent and calm: "I'll let you beat two eggs and mix them together. I'll scramble tomatoes and eggs later."
Looking at the two bowls side by side on the cooking table, Song Xuanhe always felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't remember what was wrong, so he could only turn around and ask Xiao Yuanmu: "Then why should I take two bowls? bowl?"
Xiao Yuanmu took another bowl in his hand and said, "I want to put beef."
Seeing that the beef in the bowl had been cut and marinated by Xiao Yuanmu, Song Xuanhe had a flash of inspiration, and the memory that he had just inexplicably forgotten came back in an instant.
He glanced at Xiao Yuanmu, Xiao Yuanmu said: "Can you help me get the asparagus and shrimps in the refrigerator?"
"Okay." Song Xuanhe swallowed the words, and turned to help Xiao Yuanmu get things.
Xiao Yuanmu took it and thanked him, and then said: "Can you chop vegetables?"
"Of course." Song Xuanhe thought of his mother cutting vegetables when he was a child, and said, "This is easy."
Xiao Yuanmu raised his eyebrows, handed the asparagus to Song Xuanhe, and said, "Wash the asparagus and cut them into equal lengths."
Song Xuanhe washed the asparagus with water, took another cutting board, and began to chop carefully.
Xiao Yuanmu glanced at it, and saw that he was clumsily pressing the vegetables and gesticulating to cut them according to their length, the corners of his mouth curled up.
After Song Xuanhe finished cutting the vegetables, Xiao Yuanmu said again: "Can you help me get the potatoes and onions in the refrigerator?"
Song Xuanhe just washed his hands, and turned around to get it when he heard the words, but he paused just after opening the refrigerator, then turned to ask Xiao Yuanmu: "I found out that the things you asked me to take are all the things you asked me to put in just now. .”
"Yes." Xiao Yuanmu said: "Even if it's only for ten minutes, the refrigerator can keep their freshness. Isn't it tiring for you to carry things all the time?"
Song Xuanhe pursed his lips, took out the potatoes and onions that Xiao Yuanmu wanted, put them beside him, and said in a low voice, "Is there anyone else who needs my help?"
"Xiao Huang's lunch, you can help him prepare."
"Okay." Song Xuanhe nodded, took out the dog food from the cupboard, turned around and left the kitchen.
Xiao Huang, who was playing with a ball, saw him and ran over excitedly with the ball in his mouth, wanting to play with him. Song Xuanhe rubbed its head and said, "Eat, eat and then play."
Helping Xiao Huang prepare lunch, Song Xuanhe sat next to it and watched him eat.
Xiao Yuanmu's voice came from the kitchen, asking him, "Can you taste it for me?"
Song Xuanhe paused, got up and went back to the kitchen, Xiao Yuanmu picked up a piece of beef and blew it, and handed it to his mouth, Song Xuanhe just ate it, Xiao Yuanmu's kiss fell on his lips, He smiled and said, "Thank you."
"Thank you?" Song Xuanhe asked, swallowing the meat in his mouth.
"Helped me a lot."
"I was doing a disservice before." Song Xuanhe said, "Originally you only needed to do it for 30 minutes, but now it's been 30 minutes and you haven't done it yet, because I wasted time."
"It's not that you've wasted my time." Xiao Yuanmu turned off the fire, turned to look at Song Xuanhe, stared at him seriously and said, "It's because you're here, it's the first time I feel that cooking is something that makes people happy." The thing is, I slowed down myself."
Song Xuan and Tongren trembled, and the tips of their ears turned red a little. He turned his eyes away and asked, "Then why did you let me leave just now?"
Xiao Yuanmu: "I'm worried that you're bored."
"I..." Song Xuanhe pursed his lips, "I'm not bored."
"Then next time you cook, will you continue to help me?"
"Yeah." Song Xuanhe said with erratic eyes, "The beef tastes good, you can serve it."
Xiao Yuanmu pursed his lips, took out the beef from the pot, and handed it to Song Xuanhe to take it out.
Although the cooperation between the two was not tacit understanding, at least they made lunch within forty minutes and sat in the dining room.
Xiao Huang had already finished his meal. At this time, he was salivating at the food on the table, whining coquettishly, but none of the two people on the table noticed it.
"Why are you so good at cooking?"
Halfway through the meal, Song Xuanhe asked what he had always wanted to ask.
"When I was young, I often helped in the kitchen." Xiao Yuanmu said: "At that time, there was an old gentleman in our yard who was a good cook, and he liked to let me help him wash and choose vegetables. The dishes feel a bit more."
"When you were young?" Song Xuanhe frowned: "How young?"
"Four or five years old." Xiao Yuanmu said, "After my last pair of adoptive parents sent me back to the orphanage."
Thinking of Xiao Yuanmu's rough childhood in the book, Song Xuanhe tightened his grip on the chopsticks, and pretended to be casual, "Were you adopted by many people when you were young?"
"Well, three couples." Xiao Yuanmu said indifferently: "Among them was a same-sex couple. I heard from the dean that they treated me very well, but they passed away in a car accident when I was two years old."
Song Xuanhe asked, "Where are the others?"
"They all had their own children later." Xiao Yuanmu's tone was light and calm.
Song Xuanhe hummed and changed the subject: "Then how long have you been cooking with that old gentleman in the kitchen? It seems that you have been very patient since you were a child. It is difficult for ordinary children to stay in the kitchen for a long time. "
"Seven years." Xiao Yuanmu said, "until that old gentleman passed away."
Song Xuanhe was taken aback: "Has he passed away?"
"I passed away when I was twelve years old." A trace of nostalgia flashed across Xiao Yuanmu's eyes.
Seeing Xiao Yuanmu's expression, Song Xuanhe asked, "He should treat you very well."
"Other children think that helping in the kitchen can steal food, so they all scramble to come to the kitchen. He accepts everyone, but the requirements are strict, and everything that does not meet his requirements will be punished." Xiao Yuan A smile crossed Mu's face: "Punishment is memorizing the cookbook. Those children had to leave because of that cookbook. Only I stayed because of my good memory."
Xiao Yuanmu just said a small matter, but Song Xuanhe could hear his nostalgia for that old gentleman and the old gentleman's preference and care for him. Seeing a trace of melancholy in his eyes, Song Xuanhe Xuanhe asked, "Do you miss him?"
"No." Xiao Yuanmu's eyes returned to calm, and he said: "There is no regret between me and him, there is no need to miss it."
Song Xuanhe's eyes fell on Xiao Yuanmu's expression that was so calm that he couldn't see any emotion, and he turned away after a while, and asked inadvertently, "Why is there no regret for you?"
"I don't regret meeting, and I can leave peacefully, that is, I have no regrets."
Song Xuanhe blinked and said, "All separations can be regarded as peaceful separations. After all, no matter how unsettled they were at the time, they will calm down after time passes."
Xiao Yuanmu raised his eyes and stared at him, his voice was as clear as gurgling water: "There is also some separation, no matter how long it takes, I can't calm down."