Admit defeat

Chapter 13

Nearly a month of military training was finally over, and the next day just happened to catch up with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Several class cadres discussed organizing a Mid-Autumn Festival party, hoping to enhance the cohesion of the class.

Cheng Che didn't have a mobile phone, and Rong He, a publicity committee member, notified him about the party. Rong He also suggested that he buy a mobile phone, because he would use it a lot in the future.

The class borrowed an empty classroom as the venue for the party. Cheng Che came not too early or too late. A dozen or so students were setting up the venue. The other students gathered together in twos and threes, chatting and laughing. He sat in a daze, as if the commotion in the room in front of him had nothing to do with him.

Unlike everyone's longing for a better college life in the future, Cheng Che is only full of troubles, and his only goal is to bring grandma to a big city.

When others go into battle lightly, he is still moving forward with heavy loads, so these happiness are destined not to belong to him.

"Cheng Che, come and chat with me." Rong He, who was blowing balloons with some classmates, found that Cheng Che had come, so he warmly invited.

Cheng Che shook his head, "No, let's chat."

As a roommate, Rong He felt that Cheng Che's direct refusal was not surprising. After all, he knew that Cheng Che was a quiet person, but his understanding did not mean that the other students understood. They subconsciously felt that Cheng Che was arrogant and out of gregarious.

"I heard that he was bought by the school with a score of [-] in the college entrance examination?"

"It seems to be him."

"University bully, no wonder you are so cold."

The comments of several classmates did not escape Cheng Che's ears. They were neither friendly nor malicious, but no matter what they were, he had no time to take care of them. The military training was finally over, and he was working on the most important thing right now. Worry - find a part-time job.

But he stayed in the small valley for the first 18 years. Once he came to the big city, he couldn't figure out the way. He didn't know any relatives or friends here. He still needs some time to adapt to the life here, but he can't wait so long. He wants to Sending money and things back to grandma, grandma raised money everywhere to send him to the big city, and he couldn't wait for grandma to experience the good life in the big city.

Rong He told him that the school has an activity center, which contains a lot of part-time job information. He went there after two o'clock in the afternoon, and the people there directly threw him a form for him to fill out, but he was alone in the contact information column. He couldn't fill it in. The staff probably didn't get enough sleep after a nap. He snorted, "I don't even have a phone number, and I want to find a part-time job." Then he took back the form with a dark face.

At the beginning of the party, many students signed up for the program. They took off their dull camouflage and stepped onto the stage one by one to express themselves. They sang songs that Cheng Che had never heard before, and told jokes and Internet jokes that Cheng Che had never heard of. Most of the time, Cheng Che didn't know what they were laughing at, so he could only applaud along with everyone.

It would be a lie to say that he doesn't envy, those who are excluded will not envy the people in the circle, especially because there is still a gap like mountains and seas between him and other classmates, and being exiled from the crowd has become an inevitable trend.

As everyone got acquainted, the atmosphere was pushed to a climax, but Cheng Che felt more and more boring.When everyone was beating drums and passing flowers, he quietly left through the back door, because he was afraid that the big flower ball made by the ribbon would eventually reach his hands.

A full moon hung brightly above his head, and Cheng Che was walking on the empty sports field.

At this time in the past, grandma would bake a big round cake, sprinkle some sweet-scented osmanthus powder she ground, eat with him under the moon, and tell him stories about ghosts and gods, such as Tiangou Luyue, Toad Palace Zhegui... When he was a child, he always He was convinced, and after slowly learning scientific knowledge, he realized that these were all fake, but he never refuted his grandma, and he still listened to it with great interest every year.

Grandma's wrinkled and kindly smiling face flashed in Cheng Che's mind accompanied by the moonlight.

This is the first time since he can remember that he and his grandma are so far apart in time and space, and he doesn't know what his grandma is doing now in a far away place.

Cheng Che looked at the moon, and suddenly his nose became sore, and the moonlight immediately blurred in front of his eyes.

"Cheng Che?"

Hearing someone calling him from behind, Cheng Che still raised his head. He knew it was Luo Yao, but he was afraid that he would cry if he lowered his head.

"Are you looking at the moon?" Luo Yao also looked up to the sky, "The moon is sixteen round on the fifteenth day, so this year's moon is very round on the fifteenth day."

Cheng Che sniffed and turned his head, even in the poorly lit sports field.Luo Yao's keen eyesight still caught the reddish corners of Cheng Che's eyes with the help of Qinghui, and his heart felt a little bit hurt as if he had been lightly hit by a small fist.

"Well, Senior Luo, what a coincidence."

It's quite a coincidence, Luo Yaoxin said.Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhang Lei, Fang Jue, Miao Su and the others all went home for the festival. Originally, Luo Yao's father also asked him to go back to participate in the family banquet, but when he heard that this "family banquet" also had an Omega of the same age brought by an uncle... , He immediately refused because the basketball team had something to do.He had just come out of the basketball gym after basketball practice by himself, and happened to see Cheng Che wandering on the track alone.

Looking at Cheng Che's thin figure under the moon, Luo Yao thought for a moment, "Are you alone?"

"Ah."

"I happen to be alone, why don't we just make do with the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Luo Yao suggested, "I'll take you to a fun place, I guarantee you haven't been there before."

"Where?"

"Just follow me. It's not far from the school. You can come back before the dormitory closes."

Cheng Che didn't speak, Luo Yao took it as his acquiescence.

In fact, Cheng Che wanted to ask a few more questions, but before he could organize his words, he was caught off guard by Luo Yao's arm and walked forward.

Alpha's body, which was still steaming after exercising, suddenly approached, and Cheng Che subconsciously wanted to break free from his hand, but strangely failed to use his strength a few times, and could only let him lead him out of the sports field and out of the school gate.

Cheng Che found that his subconscious trust in Luo Yao seemed to be far beyond his imagination.

"Mother Liu, I'm here!"

The place Luo Yao mentioned was beyond Cheng Che's expectation. It was a pastry shop with a very cute decoration style. Luo Yao yelled and led Cheng Che inside.

Entering the store, a sweet smell hits the face.

The fairytale-like atmosphere here made Luo Yao very incompatible. Many Omega and Bata were attracted by Luo Yao. Their senses told them that this must be an excellent Alpha, but after seeing Cheng Che beside him, they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. , and the students of the school directly recognized Luo Yao as the male god of Caiyuan, the rich and handsome young master of the Luo family.

"Master?" A woman in her 50s came out from the inside, and she was both surprised and happy when she saw Luo Yao, "I didn't even tell Mama Liu when I came here, Mama Liu should be ready."

Luo Yao hugged this woman named Liu Ma intimately.

"Mother Liu sent this year's mooncakes to Luo Zhai yesterday. Madam personally collected them. There are new patterns in them. Have you eaten yet, Master?"

"No, I didn't go back, I just came here for food."

Liu Ma didn't ask Luo Yao why he didn't go home, but said with a clear smile, "Come to Liu Ma's place to take care of you."

"Cheng Che, this is Liu Ma. Liu Ma used to work in our house and brought me up." Luo Yao pulled Cheng Che who was behind him to the front, "Liu Ma, this is Cheng Che, my classmate."

"Hi Mama Liu."

"Okay, okay." Mama Liu patted Cheng Che's shoulder happily, "For so many years, I have only seen Young Master bring Master Miao Su here, and it's the first time I saw him bring someone else here, it seems that Xiao Cheng is also Young Master Very good friends, don't be polite to Mama Liu."

Cheng Che caught the key word "Miao Su" and told him intuitively that Miao Su was the person Luo Yao had mentioned before.I don't know why, but he is very sensitive to this person.

This dim sum shop was funded by Luo Yao's family and Liu Ma opened it. It is a themed dim sum shop. The exquisite decoration and delicious food attract a steady stream of customers every day. The main source of customers is the students in the school.When Liu Ma's son died of a serious illness, her husband abandoned his wife and ran away. He owed a lot of money, so he opened this shop. The booming business allowed Liu Ma to pay off all the debts within two years.

Today's theme is Mid-Autumn Festival. The shop specializes in handmade moon cakes. The entire wall is covered with flowers and moons. The extremely warm colors look very warm. What Cheng Che didn't expect was that Luo Yao brought him here to make moon cakes. .

Seeing Luo Yao skillfully put on the apron and pick up a bowl of flour, Cheng Che was extremely surprised.

"Cheng Che, come over and make mooncakes together." Luo Yao waved to Cheng Che who was dumbfounded by the kitchen door.

"I do not know……"

"It's okay, I'll teach you."

"You... teach me?" Cheng Che was a little uncertain. Luo Yao, who seemed to have no fingers in the sun, would actually make something so unpopular as moon cakes.

"Don't believe me?" Luo Yao grinned, and added the flour and milk powder in proportion to the large bowl, then filled a bowl of syrup, added cooking oil and lye water, and stirred with a mixer.

Cheng Che was attracted by his flowing movements, and walked over slowly, "Will we occupy Mama Liu's kitchen, will it hinder her from doing business?"

"Actually, this is my kitchen."

"yours?"

"Yeah." Luo Yao poured the syrup into the flour, "Come on, put on your gloves and knead the dough together, just add bean paste filling and lotus paste filling to it."

"But I remember my senior said that I don't like pastries like cakes..."

In the cafeteria that day, Luo Yao exchanged meals with Cheng Che on the grounds that he didn't like garlic and dim sum.

Luo Yao was at a loss for words for a moment, and the lie he uttered casually at the beginning was exposed before it lasted long.

Luo Yao coughed twice as a cover-up, but did not answer. Instead, he unfolded the disposable gloves in front of Cheng Che. Cheng Che obediently put his hands in, but he had some thoughts in his heart...

Maybe Luo Yao didn't have a taboo against minced garlic and snacks at all, maybe Luo Yao knew something... Thinking of this, Cheng Che's heart skipped a few times, then suddenly shrank back into the airtight shell and cut it off forcibly. unfinished thoughts.

Cheng Che followed Luo Yao's movements and learned them very seriously, and he mastered the essentials in a short while, which was much more beautiful and even than what Luo Yao made.

This kitchen with complete baking facilities is indeed Luo Yao's. Back then, someone lied to the military that Miao Su liked to eat snacks recently, so he set up a territory in Liu Ma's shop and asked people to add various facilities to it, practicing hard. After four months, when the delicate cake was finally presented to Miao Su, Miao Su ate one as a way of saving face, and then said, "Thank you, Yao, but I don't like this kind of girl's desserts very much."

Cheng Che's slender, white hands were nimbly pinching the dough. Luo Yao watched, and his movements gradually slowed down.

Sometimes, Luo Yao felt that Cheng Che looked like Miao Su, but at other times, he felt that there was not much similarity between them at all.For example, if Miao Su were standing here now, Miao Su would definitely stay away from these dusty things, and would never obediently follow Cheng Che to learn how to make moon cakes like Cheng Che. Miao Su's hands are used to play the piano and paint It's not for soaking in spring water.

The two worked together, and a pot of dough was quickly divided into several small balls. Cheng Che raised his head and asked Luo Yao: "Senior, do you need to use these molds to shape it after kneading?"

Cheng Che rubbed some flour on the tip of his nose, and Luo Yao took off his gloves and scratched his upturned nose with his fingertips.

"Hmm." Cheng Che reflexively covered his nose.

Luo Yao smiled and shook his finger, there were traces of flour on it.

Cheng Che rubbed his nose vigorously, then smiled embarrassedly with the red tip of his nose.

Luo Yao's heart skipped a beat suddenly, as if a gentle flower suddenly bloomed in the silent winter day, blooming on the tip of Luo Yao's heart that had never been expected.

This was the first time he saw Cheng Che smile.

The unsmiling junior finally smiled at him, and this realization instantly filled Luo Yao's chest with a sense of accomplishment.

It's so sweet, it's even more fascinating than the aroma molecules diffused in the dessert house.

"Cheng Che."

"Ok?"

"You should smile more."

Cheng Che's original smile suddenly froze on his lips, he froze there and forgot to take it back.

—— "Che Che, you should smile more."

The haggard father said to Cheng Che who came to visit him in prison, with his usual generous and loving smile on his face. No one would have thought that this would be the last words his father would say to him in this life.

The memories of ten years ago came to him like a flood without warning, making him unable to breathe.

"Cheng Che, what's wrong with you?" Alpha's keen insight played a role again.

On the surface, Cheng Che was no different from usual, he shook his head and said, "It's nothing."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the mold and began to shape it. Cheng Che's super high hands-on ability allowed him to successfully fix the dough into the initial shape of the mooncake without Luo Yao's guidance.

The dough was pressed out of the lace one by one. Luo Yao looked at Cheng Che's more and more proficient techniques, and his mood was a little complicated. Cheng Che clearly had something on his mind, but he didn't want to tell him. It is conceivable that he didn't trust him enough, and he felt frustrated. , washed away the original sense of accomplishment.

Cheng Che didn't know the nine twists and turns in Luo Yao's heart, he fixed all the dough quietly, then raised his head and asked Luo Yao: "What should I do next?"

Luo Yao lowered his head, and caught off guard Cheng Che's clear black and white eyes.

"Brush the egg wash."

Cheng Che nodded, picked up an egg and knocked it against the edge of the small egg-beating bowl, but the force was not mastered, and the whole egg, including the shell, shattered on the ground.

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Cheng Che hurriedly squatted down, trying to pick up the pile of eggs with his hands, but was stopped by Luo Yao.

"Don't use your hands, let me do it."

Luo Yao took the salt shaker and sprinkled a few spoonfuls of salt on top, then scooped the eggs away with a piece of thin cardboard.

Cheng Che, who wasted an egg, was a little at a loss and stood aside awkwardly, not daring to make another move.He shouldn't have cracked eggs, after all, he hadn't even eaten a few eggs.

Luo Yao didn't let Cheng Che do it again, but skillfully beat the egg wash himself, and then handed the small bowl and brush to Cheng Che.

"Come on, you brush the egg wash, just brush it on the surface."

Cheng Che took it silently, and carefully brushed egg wash on each of the small mooncakes.

Soon, the mooncakes were baked, and when the oven was turned on, a deadly scent burst out, which hooked Cheng Che's sense of smell.

Luo Yao put the steaming mooncakes into the plate one by one, picked out two, and put them in Cheng Che's hands.

"I made the bean paste filling, and you made the lotus seed paste filling. Try it first, which one is tastier?"

Under Luo Yao's expectant eyes, Cheng Che took a bite of bean paste mooncake, tasted it carefully, and then took another bite of lotus paste filling.The thin-skinned and big-filled mooncakes filled the entire mouth, and before swallowing, they were sweet to the bottom of my heart. This was Cheng Che's first time eating mooncakes.

After tasting, Cheng Che gave a conclusion: "Senior's cooking is delicious."

"Really?" The anticipation on Luo Yao's face suddenly turned into joy, he broke off a bit from the two mooncakes in Cheng Che's hand, and threw them into his mouth one after another.

Cheng Che was taken aback by Luo Yao, "Hey...why do you eat my food, senior? There's still a plate over there."

Luo Yao ignored Cheng Che's question and said to himself, "Why do I think your cooking tastes better than mine."

After finishing speaking, he picked out another mooncake with lotus paste made by Cheng Che from the plate, and ate it in two mouthfuls.

Cheng Che pursed his lips, and took a small bite of the mooncake stuffed with red bean paste. His face felt a little hot. He was born with a thin face, so he would blush when he was praised.

Luo Yao looked at Cheng Che's reddish pink cheeks, and the joy in his heart prompted him to eat three or four lotus paste mooncakes in a row.

The two huddled together in the small kitchen, eating freshly baked small mooncakes facing each other. Luo Yao took one mouthful, Cheng Che took four mouthfuls, and the whole space was filled with the sweet scent of mooncakes.

"Cheng Che, will the future Mid-Autumn Festival be like this?"

Cheng Che raised his head and met Luo Yao's deep eyes.

"How?"

"Like today, I will make bean paste mooncakes for you, and you will make lotus paste mooncakes for me."

Luo Yao's voice was deep and hoarse, with texture, rolling from Cheng Che's eardrums into his heart one by one like small particles, rolling out the itching all the way.

I don't know if he stayed in this sweet place for a long time, Cheng Che's brain became dizzy, and he opened his lips without thinking as if he had been bewitched: "Okay."

The two looked at each other for a long time, and suddenly, Cheng Che smelled an even more attractive smell than mooncakes.

Cheng Che took a few steps back like a frightened deer, "Senior, I'm going to the bathroom..."

After finishing speaking, he hurried out of the kitchen. When he went out, he happened to meet Mama Liu at the door.

He nodded hastily to Liu Ma, and Liu Ma smiled kindly at him.

The bathroom is at the end of a small corridor. The window was opened in the corridor, and the early autumn wind dilutes the sweet smell from the store, and it also blows Cheng Che awake for a while, as if he suddenly woke up from a beautiful dream. .

Luo Yao actually released pheromone at him...

Cheng Che's heart was beating wildly, and his palms were sweating profusely.He has studied physiology, and as an Omega, he has received compulsory AO sex education classes in middle and high school.Pheromones are divided into many categories according to their functions. There are ordinary pheromones to indicate gender, pheromones to express emotions, and pheromones to courtship. The last type cannot be released casually. What does pheromone represent? , as Alpha and Omega, they are born with the ability to distinguish perception...

But this time, maybe his own perception was wrong, Luo Yao should not have malicious intentions, otherwise Luo Yao would not bring him to such a beautiful place from his lonely thoughts, would not teach him how to make moon cakes, would not Make a promise with him every Mid-Autumn Festival in the future...

Thinking of this, Cheng Che smiled, the rest of life is so long, when they graduate from university, will they meet Liu Ma's small shop to make mooncakes like today?This was obviously an impossible promise, and he didn't know why he agreed in a muddle-headed way. Maybe Luo Yao, who made the promise, hadn't thought about it himself.

But it is undeniable that Luo Yao is the best person he has ever met besides his close relatives in his 18 years of life.

Cheng Che spread out his tightly clenched hands, and let the wind take away the sweat from his hands.

In fact, Cheng Che didn't perceive wrongly, Luo Yao did release a pheromone with affection to him.But for this, Luo Yao himself didn't expect that he didn't dare to do this kind of thing casually with Miao Su. He thought he was a very self-disciplined person, and this was the first time he couldn't help it.

The heartbeat just now was too real, so real that he even forgot that he still likes Miao Su.

Looking at Cheng Che who fled in despair, Luo Yao felt depressed for a while. He recalled the loss of control just now, and was very annoyed. What the hell was he doing?

At this time, Liu Ma walked in with a smile and interrupted Luo Yao's thoughts, "Master, how are your mooncakes doing?"

"It's done, let Mama Liu eat some too." Luo Yao put the half plate of mooncakes in front of Mama Liu.

After adjusting his mood, Cheng Che returned from the bathroom to the door of the kitchen. When he was about to go in, he happened to hear Liu Ma mentioning him, so he stopped in his tracks.

"A child as ingenious as Xiao Cheng, if any Alpha marries him in the future, he will be so lucky." Mama Liu seemed to have some deep meaning in her words.

Luo Yao disapproved and said, "Mother Liu, Omega hurts because of marriage."

"If only all Alphas were as caring as the young master." Mama Liu smiled, but her tone was slightly sighed. Her husband who abandoned his wife and son was an Alpha.

Coming out of Mama Liu's cake shop, Cheng Che carried two bags of snacks in his hand, one bag was unfinished moon cakes, and the other was a bag of cakes from Mama Liu. Regarding the little episode just now, both of them selectively forgot .

"Senior, thank you today."

"Don't always be so polite with the senior."

"Yeah." Cheng Che took a peek at Luo Yao, and found that Luo Yao was also looking at him.

When they were approaching the dormitory building, the two stopped.

"Cheng Che, do you still remember that you owe me a promise?"

Cheng Che nodded, "Remember, what can I do, senior?"

"Our basketball team lacks a basketball team manager. I want to invite you to join our basketball team."

"Basketball team?" Cheng Che opened his eyes wide, "But I don't know anything about basketball..."

Luo Yao smiled, "The manager doesn't need to know much about football, just train with us before the game."

Regarding Luo Yao's invitation, Cheng Che was a little entangled. If he had to train with them every day before the game, he would definitely have no time to work and earn money, but he was too embarrassed to shirk Luo Yao's request.

Luo Yao could see through what Cheng Che was thinking at a glance, "The manager of the basketball team is paid, and the college allocates money, four thousand a month."

"Four thousand?!" Cheng Che almost screamed out, this number seemed unbelievable to him.

"How about it, can you help the senior?"

Cheng Che nodded, "Yes! I will definitely do a good job."

Looking at the bright moonlight reflected in Cheng Che's eyes, Luo Yao licked the corners of his lips in a direction Cheng Che couldn't see. For him, not to mention giving out [-] a month, even [-] is no problem.