Wash the vegetables and cut into cubes. Then the meat is marinated with black pepper and cooking wine, and finally skewered on iron skewers.
They started preparing the ingredients at five o'clock, and it was not until seven o'clock in the evening, when it was dark, that the four men carried the baking trays to the open-air family restaurant on the second floor.
The evening breeze is blowing, approaching April, it is not cold, just cool and comfortable. The wind blows towards the face, and when it blows on the cheeks, the pores of the whole body are relaxed, which is extremely refreshing. There were four large baking trays in total, and after they were all moved up to the second floor, Lina came up with the plate of cut fruit.
Su Fei put down his things, ran directly to the edge of the balcony, opened his eyes wide, unwilling to blink.
Under the high-rise buildings, the meandering Huangpu River comes from the south, encircling the bustling and luxurious banks of the river. Puxi is a long and narrow golden street, with resplendent lights against the sycamore trees along the two roads, and the ancient foreign-style houses from the concession period dazzled in the golden splendor. Pudong is a majestic neon show, with row upon row of skyscrapers and colorful lights shining on the sparkling river.
You can have a panoramic view of the most beautiful night scene in Shanghai.
Su Fei's eyes turned red quickly: "If you are rich, you are really rich!"
Lina greeted him: "Someone said to have a barbecue, and the charcoal fire is lit for you, where is the person?"
Su Fei immediately geared up: "Here we come. To be honest, I like to watch other people eat. I like to eat hot pot, and I like to grill barbecue. Have you ever seen a fool like me? If you don't believe me, I will tell you." I haven't seen it before. You are really happy to have dinner with me."
Everyone laughed.
Su Fei is really good at grilling meat. He skillfully puts the roast meat on the grill and brushes it with a layer of shiny oil. Soon, the oil sizzled on the fire, and the aroma of meat and chili powder permeated, making the index finger move.
In the night, enjoying the night view of the city and eating barbecue, Old Joseph, as an American, looked at the buildings on the other side of the river and became interested.
"What is that building for? It looks very strange. I used to see these buildings in various places. I never knew what that building was. It looks really interesting."
The only Shanghai native present was Fucheng, and he asked, "Which building are you talking about?"
Old Joseph: "That's the one, the one with the rectangular cut on the head."
Fucheng: "That's the World Financial Center."
Old Joseph: "Why is it designed like this? Is there any special meaning?"
This stumped Fucheng, he pondered for a moment, and said seriously: "I don't know the meaning, but the usefulness is obvious. At least compared to the Jinmao Building next to it," he laughed, "Old Joseph, you only pay attention When I arrived at it, I didn’t notice the Jinmao Tower at all.”
"Hey, you have a good point."
After hearing this, Lina and Su Fei also became interested. The four chatted while grilling meat. Only Uncle Zhuo sat on the side tepidly, with his eyes downcast, eating meat every bite, and didn't intend to talk to them at all.
The four chatted enthusiastically, Zhuo Huan didn't say a word, but he was sneering and arrogant, as if he wasn't the one who was isolated at all, but he alone isolated the four people in Fucheng.
Old Joseph turned his head and called him, "Reid."
Uncle Zhuo gave him a look of charity: "Huh?"
Old Joseph: "Do you have a house in Pudong?"
"No."
"That's a pity. We still want to go to Pudong for dinner and see the night view."
"..."
His function is to provide you with a place for dinner? !
Zhuo Huan sneered, and didn't bother to pay attention to this group of retarded people.
After a while, Zhuo Huan stood up and went to the table to get a bottle of drink. The three of Su Fei didn't notice that when he sat down again, he didn't sit in the original position away from everyone, but sat beside Fucheng. The moment he sat down, Fucheng paused slightly, and turned to look at him.
Zhuo Huan didn't give him a look, he bent his fingers, hooked it lightly, and opened the can with a puff.
Su Fei: "I love SH... The lights in that building keep changing, are they advertising? The ones with neon lights?"
Fucheng took a look and recognized the building: "That's the Aurora Building. It's an advertisement, it's an open advertisement."
Su Fei scratched his head: "What is SH?"
Old Joseph could see it: "Shen Cheng! Su Fei, I found that you have become more and more stupid recently."
Su Fei: "Damn it, who knew someone would advertise to Shen Cheng to confess his love!"
Everyone laughed, and Fucheng couldn't help it: "Shouldn't this be an advertisement for buying, but a city image promotion?"
As soon as the words fell, Su Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, pointing to the skyscrapers in the distance: "Then I know this, this is definitely not a city image promotion... Liu Xue marry me! Damn, can I still propose on this? !"
Fucheng heard the words and turned his head to look. As expected, the LED screen on the Aurora Building suddenly changed to five big characters "Liu Xue marry me". Fucheng was also surprised for a while, he thought for a while, and said: "Generally speaking, no one will buy this LED advertisement for personal purposes... I heard that it is very expensive. But it seems that there is nothing wrong with it."
Lina became interested: "How much?"
This time the question really overwhelmed Fu Cheng, he turned on his phone to check, looking at the numbers on the phone screen, he was silent for a long time. When he raised his head again, his expression was serious: "700,000 an hour."
Su Fei: "..."
Old Joseph: "..."
Lina propped her face with one hand: "It's so romantic! If someone uses this to confess to me, I think I should be tempted."
A cold male voice sounded softly in the night wind: "Are you tempted by 700,000, or by this stupid LED confession."
Lina turned her head to look at Zhuo Huan, showing a charming smile: "700,000." She didn't mean to hide at all.
Zhuo Huan sneered: "Use this mentally retarded thing to announce your private affairs to the whole world. People who do this kind of thing will never have an IQ of more than 80."
Su Fei was not convinced and said: "RIP, you don't understand the style yourself, so you have reason."
Zhuo Huan slightly raised his eyebrows: "Have you become an adult, Jie Fengfeng?"
Su Fei: "..."
"I'll be an adult in nine months!"
Old Joseph: "I know love very well, and I know the romance and charm of women very well. Reid, I also want to say you this time. Only when I love a woman can I make my love for her public and let the world witness it. Don't you think this is where love never changes, where it's timeless and beautiful?"
Zhuo Huan: "It is mathematical theorems that never change, not hormones and dopamine."
Old Joseph: "..."
"Mr. Zhuo, do you have a girlfriend?"
His expression stopped suddenly, Zhuo Huan turned around and looked at the young man beside him.
Under the night sky, the handsome young man rested his chin and looked at him quietly. Those eyes were as bright as stars, and the pupils of the pupils reflected the sparkling light on the Huangpu River.
Su Fei patted the table: "You don't even have a girlfriend, no wonder you don't understand style!"
Uncle Zhuo snorted coldly, took a sip of his drink, and said nothing.
Everyone ate for a while, and Lina suddenly remembered: "By the way, Reid, I remember you kept a few bottles of good wine in that villa. Your villa is sold, is the wine still there?"
Old Joseph had already eaten and drank half and felt sleepy, but now he regained his energy instantly: "Good wine?!"
Lina smiled and said, "Let me tell you quietly, when I went to Reid's villa last time, I saw a bottle of Louis XIII."
Old Joseph: "Fuck!" He turned his head and stared at Zhuo Huan expectantly, his eyes were explicit, as if looking at the most alluring woman in the world.
Zhuohuan: "..."
"You come here to ask me to skewer meat for you, and then drink my wine?" Zhuo Huan reminded, "Heh, today is my birthday."
Old Joseph: "Reid, wait until my birthday, I don't want your birthday present, okay! I haven't seen Louis XIII in my life, just let me have a sip, a sip... Reid, I always think you are the most beautiful in the world Handsome man, you are even more handsome with Louis XIII!"
Zhuohuan: "..."
"nonsense."
Old Joseph was taken aback for a moment, then realized.
You are the most handsome man in the world.
nonsense.
Well, Uncle Zhuo's automatic reply mode.
Zhuo Huan: "The person who used the LED to announce his marriage proposal in that building is mentally retarded."
Old Joseph immediately understood: "Yes, it is definitely mentally retarded."
Su Fei yelled, "Sold you for a bottle of wine? Where's your conscience, old Joseph!"
Zhuo Huan snorted softly and stood up.
Old Joseph: "Reid, what are you doing?"
"Get the wine."
In an instant, Old Joseph seemed to be a believer seeing Jesus, and looked at Zhuo Huan's back step by step with almost worshiping eyes. When Zhuo Huan went down the stairs and could no longer see him, he withdrew his obsessive eyes: "I declare that Reid is my god tonight, and none of you are allowed to speak ill of him. Especially you, Su Fei."
Su Fei: "..."
"A bottle of wine will make you stop loving women, and you want me not to scold RIP? Am I scolding him? I'm telling the truth!"
Old Joseph looked at him quietly: "In 2012, a bottle of Louis XIII was auctioned at Christie's auction house, and it sold for 100,000 US dollars."
Su Fei: "..."
The punk boy stood up abruptly: "Where did RIP go? I really want to be friends with him! I just like a good man with such a genuine temperament!"
Lina covered her lips and smiled. Reid, Su Fei, and old Joseph can also get along so well, can't they
From the corner of the eye, I suddenly saw a swaying figure. Old Joseph and Su Fei were discussing what kind of friend Zhuo Zhuo likes. Lina looked up at Fucheng, and called him: "Fu, where are you going?"
Fu Cheng stopped in his tracks and said with a smile, "Go to the bathroom."
Lina: "Oh."
From the spiral staircase down, bypassing a clump of green tropical plants, is a narrow and quiet corridor. He didn't see Zhuo Huan, nor heard a sound. Fu Cheng looked around, but still didn't see the man, so he walked towards the kitchen.
Incomprehensible abstract paintings hang on the walls of the corridor. Strange twisted lines and strangely shaped color grids complement the slightly deserted interior decoration of this house, full of pure rational beauty everywhere.
The wine storage room should be next to the kitchen, which is the thinking of normal people.
Fu Cheng walked to the kitchen and searched again, but still did not see a figure of a certain man.
... Where can I go
Fu Cheng pondered for a moment, and already began to wonder if he and the other party just happened to miss him, and he had already returned to the open-air restaurant on the second floor
Suddenly, a hasty and sharp sound of opening the door sounded from beside him, Fu Cheng was stunned, and subconsciously turned his head to look aside. His gaze fell directly into a pair of clear and calm eyes, before he could see the man's face clearly, a pulling force came from his arm, he was dragged into the room, and the door closed behind him.
Under the dim light, Fucheng panicked for a moment. He quickly settled down.
This is a bedroom, only a dim yellow bedside lamp is turned on at the corner of the bed. The warm and soft light shone on the long hair on the man's forehead, flickering like golden stars. The eyes of the two met, the distance was extremely close, and the breath was entwined as if they had become one.
There is a faint smell of smoke in the house.
Fu Cheng: "Are you smoking?"
Zhuo Huan didn't answer him: "Come down to find me?"
"I want to go to the bathroom."
The man smiled maliciously: "There are bathrooms on the second floor, and there are more than one."
Fucheng was silent for a long time: "I didn't find it, I know where it is on the first floor."
Zhuo Huan drew a long tone: "Oh."
The man's casual and slow voice pressed his heart, and Fu Cheng's fingers tightly pinched the small box in his pocket. After dozens of seconds, he still made a decision, calmly took out a small delicate box from his pocket, and said calmly, "For you, happy birthday, Teacher Zhuo."
The almost arrogant gaze was stunned for a moment, Zhuo Huan lowered his head and looked at the small gift box in front of him.
He took it and opened it.
It's a pair of pretty little cufflinks.
The round buckle surface is inlaid with thin diamonds, which are radiant and shining. It seems that the Milky Way is all over the sky, and when it falls down, it will be full of light and gather in one place.
"Will you buckle it up for me?"
Fucheng looked up at him.
Zhuo Huan handed the gift to Fu Cheng, walked directly into the cloakroom, and took off his simple T-shirt.
The man's thin and beautiful body immediately came into view. The smooth and long lines ran along the shoulder blades on both sides, outlining the thin and unknotted muscles, hidden below. Fu Cheng stood where he was, staring blankly. Zhuo Huan pulled out a white shirt from the hanger and put it on.
He turned and walked over, buttoning the buttons one by one. The last three buttons on the top were not buttoned, and the man's gushing hormones rushed towards his face like strong wine.
Zhuohuan stretched out his hands: "Shut it."
After a long silence, the black-haired young man took out a cufflink from the gift box.
He lowered his head and carefully pinned the cuff buttons to the seam of his shirt.
Zhuo Huan looked down at the top of the young man's obediently hanging head, and took a deep breath, which was the faint scent of verbena.
I don't know why the second button is harder to button than the first. Fucheng tried it for the third time, and the man's hoarse and ambiguous voice sounded above his head: "Fucheng."
With a snap, the cuff buttons were buttoned up smoothly.
Fucheng raised his head slowly.
Zhuo Huan tilted his head and smiled contemptuously at him: "Don't you know if I have a girlfriend or not?"
Fucheng's lips moved.
The man's slender eyebrows and eyes were slightly curved, and those smiling eyes were just like what he once said, filled with endless stars in the universe.
Suddenly there was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door, it was someone descending the stairs. The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Crossing the corridor and passing by the kitchen door, Lina's surprised voice sounded: "Well, aren't both of you here?"
The heart is beating violently in the chest cavity, and it can jump out of the throat just a second faster.
Fu Cheng raised his head and looked into Zhuo Huan's eyes. However, Zhuo Huan's eyes slowly fell down, and stopped on the young man's slightly parted lips. After a while, he lowered his head slightly and moved closer. It was only a slight distance, but Fucheng suddenly understood what he meant.
It's time to hide, it's time to open the door behind you to find Lina.
However, inexplicably, what he did was unbiased, also slightly upward, meeting an undetectable trace of distance.
The next moment, the lips touched lightly, Zhuo Huan closed his eyes, and pressed the door panel with one hand, deepening the secret and silent kiss.
Behind the door, Lina didn't seem to be looking for someone. After searching for a while but failing to find it, she walked towards the door. A young strange male voice came from outside the house, who came to deliver the cake. Lina thanked him, then walked through the corridor outside the door with the cake and went up the stairs.
The tip of the tongue gently rubbed the young man's mouth, and his lips were kisses as sweet as clouds. Breathing and panting are tightly intertwined, obviously starting with a light touch, but getting hotter and hotter.
The second floor, an open-air family restaurant.
After Lina went upstairs with the cake, Old Joseph patted the table and looked behind her: "Reid hasn't come back yet?"
Lina smiled and said, "You should be prepared. Reid probably doesn't want to open a drink for you and has already fled. I didn't see him downstairs."
Old Joseph stared straight: "What?!"
As soon as the words were finished, footsteps came from the stairs. Old Joseph stretched his neck hopefully. When he saw the person coming, he immediately looked down, and saw the bottle of wine in Zhuo Huan's hand at a glance.
Old Joseph rushed forward with a stride, with tears in his eyes: "Louis XIII! Reid, you are my god. How can there be such a lovely person in the world? I love you so much!"
With a mocking arc on the corner of his mouth, Zhuo Huan threw a hundred thousand dollars worth of spirits directly to old Joseph: "There are too many people who love me."
At this time, Fu Cheng walked up the stairs from behind him, and walked back to the dining table with a calm expression.
Old Joseph panicked and fixed the bottle of precious spirits. He wanted to accuse "Reid, how can you be so rude, what if you break it?" suddenly remembered that this was his god, and immediately said softly: "Okay, I'll open the wine. Come and taste it, everyone. One mouthful costs three thousand dollars. Don't drink if you're underage, just take four glasses. Children can't drink strong alcohol."
Su Fei was furious: "I'm already eighteen, and I'll be an adult in nine months!"
Lina shoved a bottle of Coke into his hand: "Here, have a drink, a minor who is still nine months old."
"… wipe!"
Zhuo Huan walked to the dining table and sat down, picked up a skewer of barbecued meat, and took a bite. However, the original spicy barbecue suddenly seemed not so delicious, so he took two mouthfuls and put it aside.
Su Fei suddenly took out his phone, and inexplicably started counting down: "3, 2, 1... 0!"
Everyone looked up at him.
Su Fei: "Look at that building, the one that proposed. I watched it on time, and it has been more than an hour. This is too rich, not only bought one hour, but also bought a second hour ?”
On the other side of the Huangpu River, on the LED screen of the Aurora Building, there are still five big characters "Liu Xue marry me".
Old Joseph said with sincere emotion this time: "This is no longer romantic. This way of spending money is really mentally handicapped. Give it to me."
Su Fei also nodded in agreement.
"It's mentally handicapped." A faint voice sounded, the voice was extremely low and light, only Su Fei who was standing beside Fucheng heard it. He gasped in his heart, and looked towards Fucheng. Under the bright and sleepless night in Shencheng, Fucheng picked up the glass and drank the spirits in one gulp. The wine was too strong, and his eyes were red in an instant.
He said softly: "It's really mentally retarded."
***
After drinking wine and eating barbecue, the next thing is to open the cake, blow out the candles and sing happy birthday.
After Lina plugged in the candle, Su Fei said in surprise, "RIP, you're already thirty!"
Zhuo Huan glanced at him lightly.
Su Fei immediately shrank his neck.
Lina smiled and said, "Reid, make a wish. You can only make one wish, and only one will be granted."
Old Joseph asked curiously: "Where is this rule, you can only make one wish?"
Lina: "Our family celebrates birthdays like this. If you only make one wish, it's not considered greedy, and it will definitely come true."
Zhuo Huan looked at the candles on the cake, his brows were indifferent, and he was not emotional. Suddenly, he lowered his head and blew out the candle.
Lina was surprised: "It's over so quickly? What wish did you make?"
Zhuo Huan lazily said: "It's not allowed to say it."
Lina spread her hands helplessly: "Okay, let's eat cake."
Lina and Su Fei began to cut the cake, while Old Joseph, Fu Cheng and Zhuo Huan sat at the dining table, waiting quietly.
This time Zhuo Huan sat across from Fucheng. He propped his chin with one hand, tilted his head, and looked at the young man on the other side of the table with a clear expression. Fu Cheng stood up and took the cake that Su Fei handed over: "Thank you." He had just sat down when something touched his knee. He froze and raised his head.
Zhuo Huan raised the corner of his mouth.
Old Joseph: "Hey, this cake is really good. I haven't liked cake for many years, but this one is really delicious."
Lina: "Please ask a friend you know to order it from France. If you like it, you can order one for your birthday next month."
Old Joseph was taken aback, then nodded and smiled, "Thank you."
Lina winked at him: "You're welcome, I remember all of your birthdays very clearly."
After dividing the cake, I was finally able to sit back at the dining table. Lina remembered: "By the way, Reid, why did you change your clothes? Where did you go just now, I didn't see you in the wine storage room."
Under the dining table, the man crossed his legs and bumped into the young man opposite him every now and then.
At the dining table, Zhuo Huan gave a soft "oh" and said casually, "I changed my clothes in the bedroom when I got dirty."
"I just wanted to talk about it," Lina said with a soft smile, "Your cufflinks, Bulgari's new baby's breath? When did you buy them? They're so pretty. I didn't like Bulgari's cufflinks before. Only this one is not bad, it suits you very well.”
Zhuohuan: "Birthday present."
On the opposite side of the dining table, Fu Cheng paused for a while holding the cake fork.
Lina: "Oh? Besides me, who else remembers your birthday? Who is it, do I know it?"
Zhuo Huan laughed.
"You don't know him like that."
Lina froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "You're getting more and more philosophical, but I can't understand you. Old Joseph, do you understand?"
"Ah, what did you say? What time is it?" Old Joseph was already drunk, and he said he only had a sip of Louis XIII. After getting it, he had already drank half a bottle by himself.
Lina could only ask Fu Cheng: "I think this is another bad joke by Reid, Fu, what do you think?"
Fucheng ate the cake and thought for a while: "The joke made by Mr. Zhuo is really not funny."
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