Self-cultivation with a plate of tomato scrambled eggs

Chapter 53

"Here we come! Lefroy-style baked turkey with cheese..." The huge gold-rimmed white porcelain plate was brought to the table, and Daniel took out two paper towels to wipe his hands, and asked with enthusiasm: "Who wants to try it?" First bite?"

Crowell, the former owner of Fengluanlou and a master of Chinese cooking, shook his partner's hand, got up with a smile and said, "I'll go get the scones out."

Song Xiaowu judged the situation and hurriedly said to the left Mr. Bernton: "Please pour me another glass of champagne, thank you."

"...Mind if it's me?" Andrew said after a brief silence.

"Of course not." Daniel pursed his lips and was about to take the plate to serve him, but Andrew said again: "I'll do it myself. Sit down and have a rest."

Daniel originally had this intention, but now his face was full of reluctance, for fear that others would think he had listened to Andrew's words.

Fortunately, the blueberry scone made by Crowell quickly diverted everyone's attention.Song Xiaowu has been in Citigroup for nearly four years, and he has long been influenced by the local taste, so he happily picked up a biscuit and put it in his mouth.

Daniel sat on the seat next to him, forked the turkey on the plate, and the rich cheese was pulled out smoothly, exuding a strong smell.Daniel muttered something in a low voice, sniffed it again, and then quietly put down the fork.

He looked at Song Xiaowu, who was biting a blueberry scone with wine, and said, "Yao, since you won't go back to Xia Guo this New Year's Eve, why don't we come here? You know, I haven't participated in your Xia Guo people's party yet." "Tuan Nian"!"

"Aren't you going back this year?" Bernton turned his head and asked, "Did something happen?"

"No, Larry." The two are no longer a teacher-student relationship, but friends, and Song Xiaowu began to call each other by first name, "It's just that my brother is going on a business trip abroad this year, and he won't be able to make it back during the Spring Festival."

When the rest of the people heard this reason, they could only remain silent.When Song Xiaowu first went abroad, Mr. Yao didn't care about it. When he returned in the past two years, he only met Yao Jian. The two brothers had a meal outside, and they didn't even enter Yao's house.

This year, Yao Jian, the buffer agent, is not here. Song Xiaowu thinks about it and plans to stay here. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he can still visit Song Yunmei: It's like visiting relatives.

"We can make red bean Yuanxiao again." He laughed. "The red beans were not boiled enough last time. Let's learn from our lessons. This time it will be even better."

"You don't have to wait until the Lantern Festival?" Daniel cheered, "It's great! You Xia people really know how to be flexible."

Crowell looked lovingly at the two people who were in high spirits—even if it is tolerant and diverse like Citigroup, it is only two or three years ago that same-sex couples enjoy the same rights as opposite-sex spouses. Nearly half a hundred, after careful consideration, they have to admit that they have passed the best age for adopting children.Fortunately, Daniel and Song Xiaowu, two talkative friends, often come to chat for comfort.

As for Andrew... Crowell was in a daze for a moment, and then he heard his partner say: "Bernie and I will go on a trip around the sea after Christmas, and we will probably spend New Year's Eve on the boat. But..." as if afraid of two People are too disappointed, "you can use the kitchen as you like."

"Are you sure?" Song Xiaowu asked Crowell on behalf of Crowell's concerns: "Me, and Daniel? Even though Andrew is a reliable aftercare person..." He shook his head knowingly.

"'Kitchen' is not just a fast food restaurant, it also has your share." Crowell finally made a decision: "You have the right to use it. Of course, the same, you have to restore everything to tidy after use."

"You're so generous, Bernie," Daniel said heartily, before flashing his trademark sweet little angel smile.

The sad thing is, even though this guy can't wait to rush to the embrace of the materialistic world after graduating from undergraduate, and dresses more and more like an elite in the industry and a professional boss, this smile still works.

While cursing, Song Xiaowu aimed at Andrew who seemed to be maintaining his facial paralysis.

Coming out of the "kitchen", Song Xiaowu started the car and watched Daniel and Andrew sitting in front and back from the rearview mirror.

Why don't you get married yet?Song Xiaowu secretly looked at the two people whose hairstyles, clothes and even inadvertent little movements matched each other very well, and couldn't help the urge to roll his eyes in his heart.

"What's wrong?" Andrew asked, noticing his gaze.

"It's nothing." Song Xiaowu denied it flatly, then remembered something, and said, "I used to rub your car, but now the steering wheel is finally mine."

"Then... Congratulations?" Daniel leaned his head on the back of the chair, holding up his mobile phone and fiddling with something, mumbling: "I won't argue with you, anyway, I have road rage and crashed into someone else's car I can't afford it now."

After Daniel graduated, he never used his family’s money. The life he lived on by his salary was obviously very different from when he was a rich boy. Song Xiaowu knew that the relationship between him and his parents had always been a bit tense, but this time it was the trigger. What is the cable, Daniel did not say.

Something happened to Andrew's experimental subject, Song Xiaowu temporarily diverted him to Ill University, and after the latter got off, Daniel sat in the co-pilot, "convenient for chatting".

Song Xiaowu smiled, not to expose it.Having known Daniel and Andrew for a few years, he has already seen clearly how the two people are constantly cutting and reasoning. Both parents are devout reformed believers, and they just raised such a "pure little kid" like Daniel. Guy", and Andrew's "asexual", all in all, it's just that Daniel pushes back and forth, refuses to give a clear definition of the relationship between the two, and at the same time thinks he's upright. Good friend" come here.

"It's rare that you, a study freak, are willing to show your face. Andrew is back in the laboratory." Daniel straightened the scattered hair on his temples in the rearview mirror, and asked, "Where shall we go next?"

Song Xiaowu turned his head to look at him and thought for a moment.

"Hey, don't answer that you should go home and continue writing your thesis!" Daniel was obviously flustered by the brief silence.

When Song Xiaowu first applied for the school, Daniel provided him with a lot of inside information for his reference, so he knew more or less why the other party worked so hard.For a few years, Song Xiaowu received scholarships every year, was admitted to the Institute of Oriental Culture of Illinois University ahead of schedule, took the time to take the driver's license test, and helped Crowell open "a restaurant" that sells homemade dishes by himself. Kitchen", and still manage accounts on social networks to attract popularity for "Kitchen"...

Daniel saw it all, and knew that all of this was not due to the other party's outstanding talent and versatility, but because he was working day after day without giving himself time to take a breather.

He was afraid to stop.I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve the goal in my heart, or maybe I am afraid that if I stop, I will feel the pervasive loneliness.

Daniel looked at him, silent and persistent.Song Xiaowu had to smile compromisingly: "Okay, just kidding." He turned the steering wheel and said his plan: "Let's go shopping in the central street, play games, buy two clothes, and go to the bar for a drink at night .”

He seemed very satisfied with his arrangement, he smiled with a slightly crooked canine tooth, and hummed a few words along with the music playing in the car. Daniel looked at his rare bright and relaxed expression, and intentionally skipped the corner of his temple. A small round maroon scar: it was caused by Song Xiaowu's former roommate.Song Xiaowu originally thought it was just an ordinary campus bullying, and he just hit back, and didn't take it seriously. Later, when he saw something even more unbelievable, he realized that the other party was an extreme racist. The matter came to the school. After repeated back-and-forth, there was finally a passable result, and Baynton voluntarily resigned from the University of Illinois.

Fortunately, Song Xiaowu has passed the period of his freshman year when he didn't know how to relieve the pressure, and when the bad things were solved, there was no need to leave traces in his heart.He remembered what Baynton said to him: There is always darkness, so there is always light.

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I really don't understand JJ's sensitive words more and more