Hugging is a really weird behavior.
In the messy living room filled with the smell of chicken soup, He Yunzhou hugged Huo Zheng just like that, thinking aimlessly.
It's just such a simple act... But the man's breathing, heartbeat, temperature, and smell are all within close proximity, as if they can slowly penetrate into another person's body through a hug.
He Yunzhou's hand was on Huo Zheng's back, and the extremely tense muscles were slowly relaxing. He obviously didn't say a word, but He Yunzhou still clearly felt that something deep in Huo Zheng's heart had been calmed down.
However, neither Huo Zheng nor He Yunzhou let go of each other. An inadvertent four eyes meet, and the eyes of each other are inexplicably glued together.
He Yunzhou keenly noticed that there was something burning in Huo Zheng's eyes. That face, which was slightly fragile due to the previous emotional turmoil, looked extraordinarily handsome and upright at this moment.
I always feel that Huo Zheng...
It seemed that a certain thought slowly slipped through the depths of He Yunzhou's mind dimly.
Huo Zheng's face slowly approached He Yunzhou.
If it was in a TV series, in this case the two of them would probably have entered the kissing process...
However, in the next second, He Yunzhou shuddered and woke up instantly.
no, wait, no—
Hugging the sad Huo Zheng is a natural behavior, just like a cat lover would instinctively hug his uncomfortable cat... Even now He Yunzhou doesn't feel that there is anything abnormal.
But when Huo Zheng got closer like that, He Yunzhou felt something was wrong: Are he and Huo Zheng a little too close
"Thanks."
Fortunately, at the moment when He Yunzhou was extremely stiff because of his own thoughts, Huo Zheng just whispered this sentence in He Yunzhou's ear. Then he let go of He Yunzhou suddenly, and staggered back a step.
"No, you're welcome?"
He Yunzhou didn't know why his cheeks felt hot, he replied subconsciously, and then realized how stupid he was replying.
Fortunately, Huo Zheng seemed to be still immersed in his own thoughts, he didn't notice He Yunzhou's clumsiness, but took a deep breath, lowered his head and gave a soft smile before meeting He Yunzhou's eyes.
When facing He Yunzhou, Huo Zheng still seemed a little uncomfortable.
"I lost my composure. After all, I had a really bad day today... But, you just now... what, I'm much better now... Thank you."
Huo Zheng's expression was very tense, he couldn't even say thank you incoherently, it sounded particularly blunt.
He seemed to have returned to that unapproachable, indifferent and awkward look.
But seeing him like this, He Yunzhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Anyway, the current Huo Zheng is much better than before.
"Meow-"
The pumpkin jumped onto Huo Zheng's lap at the right time. After staring blankly at Huo Zheng for a long time, the pumpkin raised its head and rubbed against Huo Zheng's coat, leaving a lot of cats on the dark fabric. hair.
"Pumpkin, come down! You think you have too much hair and you need to share it with others, right?!"
When He Yunzhou saw Pumpkin's small movements, his forehead twitched and he scolded.
"Pffff—"
Huo Zheng stared at the way He Yunzhou taught the cat a lesson, and couldn't help but sneered softly.
"It's okay, it feels good in the hand."
Huo Zheng then added, he conveniently hugged the pumpkin in his arms.
A rather large cat is like a large plush hot water bottle, soft and heavy, warm and comforting.
Huo Zheng couldn't hold back and reached out to touch the pumpkin's soft belly twice more, and the pumpkin immediately let out a howl of protest.
As soon as Huo Zheng saw the angry look of the pumpkin, he couldn't control his hands, and touched the pumpkin's swaying belly again—
"Meow!"
Pumpkin's dissatisfaction instantly doubled.
…
He Yunzhou gazed tenderly at the man and cat in front of him, and a faint smile appeared on his face involuntarily. How should I put it, if the former him gave Huo Zheng some support. Now, Huo Zheng is also using his own method to give him feedback: just seeing the childish appearance of Huo Zheng and Pumpkin hugging and fighting, He Yunzhou felt that his heart was slowly becoming full and warm.
However, the short warm time only passed for a moment.
"Cough... don't bother with pumpkin anymore, I have reduced its appetite these days, so it has a bad temper..."
After a while, seeing that Huo Zheng and Pumpkin were about to start a serious fight, He Yunzhou rushed over and weakly tried to stop the fight.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard Huo Zheng's stomach rumbling.
Huo Zheng was hungry.
Huo Zheng never expected that one day, he would let the person he likes hear his bowel sounds.
This realization made him freeze in place for an instant.
He Yunzhou opened his eyes wide, glanced at the overwhelmed President Huo, and tensed all his muscles to keep himself from laughing out loud.
"Ah, look at me, I forgot... You go and wash your hands, it's time to eat."
He pretended not to hear the embarrassing voice at all, and walked towards the kitchen as if nothing had happened.
However, only he himself knew that the moment he turned his back, he couldn't help laughing.
…
Back in the kitchen, He Yunzhou quickly checked the dishes. The chicken soup was still warm in the casserole on the stove. After all, the heat preservation of the casserole is very good, even after leaving the fire, it can still store heat for a period of time.
Although the cooking time is shorter than expected, the taste of the chicken soup is already very strong.
But other than that, after the delay of the incident just now, the few side dishes and rice that He Yunzhou planned to make before were too late to cook.
And judging from Huo Zheng's previous performance, he was indeed hungry—don't talk about Huo Zheng, even He Yunzhou himself, after filling his stomach with tea and a few sweet snacks all afternoon, was so hungry by this point Not light.
In this way, time-consuming and labor-intensive dishes will of course be excluded from the plan.
After a little thought, He Yunzhou drew up a new menu in his heart.
The chicken soup is still the same chicken soup, but the way of eating is not the same as before. He Yunzhou first took the chicken out of the chicken soup, and put it on a large porcelain plate to cool slightly. Then I found two free-range eggs from the refrigerator, and took a small snowy pan to boil water, swirled the water into a small whirlpool with chopsticks, knocked the two eggs in, covered the pot for a while Wait a moment.
When the lid was lifted again, there were two soft poached eggs in the snow pan, the egg whites were soft and tender, but the yolks were still flowing.
He Yunzhou fished out two poached eggs and put them in a bowl, sprinkled some chopped green onion and fine salt on top, washed a few tender lettuce leaves and put them in, and then poured the boiling chicken soup Straight into the bowl of poached eggs and lettuce.
While doing this, another water had already been boiled on the stove, and within a short time of waiting for the water to boil again, He Yunzhou quickly put on his gloves, and took the chicken that had been left to dry aside before, while it was still warm, from the bones. After dismantling it, it was disassembled into a small bowl of minced chicken in a short time. Add salt to the boiling water in the soup pot, and put a handful of thin noodles in it. After the noodles are cooked, take them out and put them together with the minced chicken, topped with sesame oil, minced garlic, chili and finely chopped mustard, topped with light soy sauce and a little bit of fish sauce, it is a bowl The easiest chicken noodle dish ever.
The last dish to accompany the soup and noodles is a dish of fried cucumber with perilla.
The method is also extremely simple, nothing more than a large amount of fresh perilla and minced garlic, stir-fried together with Chaotian pepper and other ingredients, and finally put in the thickly sliced cucumber, fry both sides of the cucumber for a while, and it will be out of the pan .
One soup, one dish and one bowl of noodles were served on the table in less than ten minutes.
Huo Zheng was greeted by He Yunzhou to sit at the dining table, looking at the simple dishes on the table, he couldn't help being stunned for a while.
It seems that only when he met He Yunzhou for the first time, he had seen such a homely and ordinary meal... But the strange thing is that the dishes and noodles presented to him today made his index finger move more than ever before .
"It's too late to cook something good today, so let's eat casually first."
He Yunzhou didn't think there was anything wrong before, but when he saw Huo Zheng in a daze, he felt a little embarrassed.
"This is obviously... a very good dish."
Huo Zheng raised his head, looked at him, and said in a low voice.
Actually, Huo Zheng didn't say that just to coax He Yunzhou.
He really likes everything on the table today.
The bowl of poached eggs washed with chicken soup looks extra white and tender in the golden chicken soup. Under the egg white that can be broken by blowing bombs, you can faintly see the beautiful orange-yellow egg yolk, next to the green lettuce and golden chicken soup, look It is refreshing and delicious to eat.
And that bowl of noodles looks mediocre, but it tastes special. It is also because the hand-stretched, naturally-dried hollow thin noodles are used, which tastes rich and strong, and is far easier to absorb the taste of sauce than commercially available mechanical noodles. The minced chicken, which is bland and tasteless because of the soup, is also soft and delicious with the help of diced mustard and a few drops of sesame oil. It tastes very refreshing when paired with soft but firm noodles.
The best thing is that small dish of fried cucumber with perilla.
The strong aroma of perilla and garlic are rubbed together, just smelling it makes people swallow inexplicably.
Thick cucumbers are fried half-baked, but they have a wonderful taste of flexibility and crispness. The salty and fresh sauce should be plain, but with the addition of a perilla, the freshness of the cucumber itself seems to be lit up, and it evolves into a special flavor, rippling on the tip of the tongue, which is amazing Mouth fluid, appetite.
It is obviously a very refreshing side dish, but it can be served with rice, and it is a perfect match with the bowl of fragrant chicken noodles.
After taking a few mouthfuls of noodles, drink a few mouthfuls of chicken soup.
Not to mention the mellow and delicious chicken soup, pick up a poached egg with a spoon, and after biting open, the egg yolk inside presents a translucent gelatinous shape, soaked in the chicken soup, it has a sea urchin-like taste after a bite.
Finally, lettuce with chopsticks.
The lettuce cooked only at the temperature of chicken soup remains crisp, but the large leaves are covered with the deliciousness of chicken soup, which tastes refreshing and delicious.
Huo Zheng ate until the tip of his nose was sweating slightly, and when he realized it, he realized that the five bowls on the table were almost empty.
The bottom of the white porcelain dish reflects clean light under the light of the restaurant.
And He Yunzhou didn't know when he had finished his portion. At this moment, he was sitting at the dining table with his chin on his hands, smiling and looking at Huo Zheng.
Huo Zheng put down his chopsticks in embarrassment, just about to speak...
"belch-"
A long hiccup came out of his throat uncontrollably.
Huo Zheng: "..."
The author has something to say: One day after the two got together, Huo Zheng suddenly noticed He Yunzhou's expression when he was feeding the pumpkin.
Huo Zheng: I think the way you look at it looks familiar.
He Yunzhou: ... No.