He Yunzhou couldn't help but smile slightly when he saw Huo Zheng giving face so much.
"Of course the freshly baked matsutake mushrooms are the best... But, they didn't burn you, did they?"
Noticing that Huo Zheng was taking small breaths, He Yunzhou asked a little worriedly.
"It's not very hot either."
Huo Zheng's face turned red.
God knows why he would eat straight from the pot.
This kind of rude behavior was completely out of his habit, but when he saw He Yunzhou lowering his eyebrows and concentrating on roasting matsutake for himself, Huo Zheng inexplicably felt that his stomach became very hungry in an instant.
He Yunzhou looked helplessly at Huo Zheng who was obviously burned, and pretended to take the chopsticks from Huo Zheng's hand as if nothing had happened, and put a piece of matsutake into his mouth.
The delicious and crisp matsutake is just as delicious as he imagined.
Olive oil, pepper and salt are the perfect partners for matsutake. It's just that, in this evening, the seasoning that can make matsutake so delicious, there are other things besides the previous three.
And when He Yunzhou realized it, he realized that he was just huddled in the kitchen with Huo Zheng like a child, wiping out those few slices of roasted matsutake with one chopstick.
"Ah, wait... wine..."
Looking back again, He Yunzhou was dumbfounded to find that the wine bottle on the table was standing there alone, and he forgot to drink it again.
"I can only wait for the next time to drink."
He could not help but sigh.
"Drink it tomorrow."
When Huo Zheng saw the bottle of wine, his thoughts moved, and he blurted out a sentence.
"ah?"
"I don't know why, but I suddenly want to eat shrimp...the kind that people can eat."
Huo Zheng muttered awkwardly, and then forcibly added: "I've never liked shrimp. But you've said it so many times today, I can give it a try."
"Pfft..."
He Yunzhou was caught off guard when he heard Huo Zheng's unwilling mumbling, and couldn't help laughing softly.
"Okay, I will definitely cook you shrimp tomorrow." He turned his head and looked at Huo Zheng.
It must have been smoked by the fireworks in front of the stove, and the arrogant green-eyed man beside him had a thin layer of light red on his cheeks.
He Yunzhou endured and endured, but he still couldn't hold back his bad taste, and then added: "Should I eat dried shrimp... or you can try my fried shrimp with salted egg yolk? This dish is my specialty. I won't make it for him to eat."
Hearing the last sentence, just as He Yunzhou expected, Huo Zheng's eyes instantly showed satisfaction.
It's exactly the same as Gua Ji eating freeze-dried from He Yunzhou's palm contentedly in front of the pumpkin.
He Yunzhou couldn't help looking at Huo Zheng, dazed.
Melon...
Staring at Huo Zheng's green eyes and long silver-gray hair, He Yunzhou even had the urge to reach out and gently stroke his favorite kitten.
I don't know if his Guaji is doing well in the distant cat paradise
Does anyone help it scratch its chin and make snacks for it
Strong yearning and affection once again churned in the bottom of He Yunzhou's heart.
"I, I have something else to do, I'm leaving first."
At this moment, Huo Zheng spoke suddenly, his tone was strange, and his movements were uncomfortable.
After the words fell, He Yunzhou watched him hurriedly walk towards the door...
It's almost like running away.
"Huo Zheng?"
He Yunzhou gave a jolt and came back to his senses in an instant, only to realize that he had unknowingly been so engrossed in thinking about melons that he became dazed and stared at Huo Zheng for a long time.
Really, Huo Zheng probably thought he was a bit weird too
He Yunzhou scolded himself angrily in his heart.
It's easy to be in a daze when you think about it. This can be regarded as He Yunzhou's old problem. He Yunzhou has always wanted to change it, but he can't change it.
[Xiao Chuan, in the future, don't always look at others in a daze like this... It's easy to be misunderstood.]
I remember that a long time ago, that man also reminded He Yunzhou in this way.
It's just that He Yunzhou has forgotten what that person said later, what is the misunderstanding
Vague questions quickly passed He Yunzhou's mind, and then he quickly left them behind.
He quickened his pace and chased after Huo Zheng, who had already pressed one hand on the doorknob. Hearing He Yunzhou's arrival, he froze.
"I'm sorry, I feel a little dizzy when I'm full, so I watched you in a daze before I knew it."
He Yunzhou quickly apologized in a low voice.
"Shall I make more dishes tomorrow? What else do you want to eat besides fried prawns in the typhoon shelter with salted egg yolk?"
"... All, all are fine. Me, I'll go first."
Leaving behind an incoherent farewell, Huo Zheng quickly fled into the elevator.
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Huo Zheng's mood was very complicated.
He admitted that it felt really good to have supper with He Yunzhou.
Although nothing happened between the two of them, everything was so ordinary, it seemed that there was not even a trace of unnecessary ambiguity.
However, Huo Zheng would not mistake He Yunzhou for looking at him... the emotion that Huo Zheng couldn't find words to describe.
That person looked jerky and clumsy most of the time, but only in certain aspects, he was naturally seductive.
Huo Zheng has never met a person like He Yunzhou who can express everything with just his eyes without any words or movements.
When they first met, Huo Zheng only thought that He Yunzhou was just an ordinary man.
His facial features can be said to be delicate, and his temperament can be considered amiable so as not to be annoying.
But just now, Huo Zheng discovered that when He Yunzhou stared deeply at a person, his eyes could really evoke the softest and most intimate feeling in a person.
"This is really... a headache."
Huo Zheng muttered to himself.
In fact, he had already made up his mind to reject He Yunzhou's infatuation with him.
I also don't want the other party to continue to get along with him with that unrealistic expectation.
However, once he met He Yunzhou's gaze, Huo Zheng completely threw away his helmet and armor, and was completely unable to say those words out of his mouth.
Moreover, Huo Zheng was keenly aware that he himself was a little shaken.
Thinking of this, Huo Zheng's heart suddenly rang out.
"Welcome home, Mr. Huo. It has been detected that your heart rate exceeds the average and your body surface temperature is slightly higher. Do you need further health analysis?"
Confused, Huo Zheng returned home.
And the moment he stepped into the house, Huo Zheng heard the alienated and indifferent electronic sound of the CALO system.
boom-
As if being punched suddenly by something, Huo Zheng froze.
And CALO is still running on its own.
"...an emergency contact has been set up for you in case you need it, and the current contact preference is 'A little boat rocks and shakes' and the secondary option is 'A brain as big as a pea'—"
"Shut up, Calo."
Well, Huo Zheng didn't understand why some people didn't like CALO before, but at this moment, he deeply realized that this kind of home system that is too self-assertive can really drive people crazy sometimes.
Calo fell silent for a moment.
Huo Zheng took off his coat and buried himself deeply in the sofa.
Without any instructions, the system has adjusted the lights to a dim level according to Huo Zheng's past habits.
"Um?"
Huo Zheng couldn't help frowning.
Is it because the lights in He Yunzhou's house are always on, the light is dim but warm, and the atmosphere is always noisy? For a moment, Huo Zheng felt a little uncomfortable with the home environment he had created.
It seemed a little too dark.
he thinks.
And it's too quiet.
However, even after Huo Zheng turned up the lights and ordered CALO to play soft music, that cold and empty feeling still lingered like a ghost.
After discovering this, Huo Zheng was really flustered.
It was at this time that Huo Zheng received that unexpected call.
The words that jumped on the caller ID were the words [Huo Xiaoyun].
All the sweet and slightly sour complex emotions faded away like an ebbing tide the moment I saw those three words, leaving only the hideous and rough dark rocks in my heart.
Huo Zheng remained expressionless, and waited quietly for a while. Seeing that the woman had no intention of giving up the connection, he silently agreed to the communication.
"I thought you wouldn't want to answer my phone."
While the phone was connected, the other party sneered indifferently from afar.
"What's matter?"
Huo Zheng asked calmly. At this moment, his voice sounded no different from CALO's electronically synthesized voice.
"Shouldn't you know? For so many years, this is the only thing my mother asked you to do..."
Huo Zheng's eyes gradually became frosty.
Yes, the woman who spoke to him was none other than his biological mother.
It's just that an ordinary person's mother probably wouldn't be like his Huo Zheng's mother, who could not hide her resentment and blame in every word she spoke.
"You know I won't say yes."
Huo Zheng said.
Then he closed his eyes, and as expected, Huo Xiaoyun quickly fell into a hysterical state on the other end of the phone.
"Huo Zheng, you monster, I really doubt what your heart is made of. How could I have given birth to you... such a disgusting thing... that is your biological father, and he is about to die! He just wanted to see You are just one side, you are not willing to agree to such a small request?! Do you still have a conscience? Yes, I know, we all made mistakes back then, we did not treat you well, mother apologizes to you, okay? , I also apologize to you on his behalf... You go to see him and reassure him... "
Obviously, he had heard the same words countless times, but when Huo Zheng heard his mother start talking clichéd again, he still trembled slightly involuntarily.
He had to desperately control his tyrannical mood, and he couldn't show any flaws in front of that woman.
"Are you going to continue talking nonsense, mother."
Huo Zheng interrupted Huo Xiaoyun.
"I don't know where you got my current contact information, but, again, no matter what you do, the final outcome will not change. I will not see him, and I will not forgive him .”
After pausing for a moment, Huo Zheng spoke again: "... It's like I won't forgive you."
Immediately afterwards, before Huo Xiaoyun started screaming and insulting him, he pressed the hang up in advance.
After a brief pause, the CALO system continued to play light music for Huo Zheng, but the soft and melodious music was more hollow and tasteless than before.
Huo Zheng picked up the wine glass on the table and threw it at the stereo hidden in the corner.
"Quiet—quiet hear you—"
he growled hoarsely.
The music stopped.
Huo Zheng stood blankly in the living room, hearing his heavy breathing, and the sound of his teeth gnashing.
The author has something to say: Mr. Huo and Mr. He are two super lonely people...
To put it bluntly, this article is the story of two people with serious life defects who find each other and find that wow, it turns out that the two of us just happened to be a pair.