Siheyuan: Cooking journey

The library is quiet and solemn.

Ran Qiuye's eyes wandered, and when he turned the corner and met the familiar figure, ripples of joy arose in his heart.

Almost like a conditioned reflex, she almost blurted out to call him, but suddenly realized that she didn't know his name.

Then, she suddenly realized that this was a library where silence was required and loud talking was not appropriate, so she breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards him happily.

"Thank you so much for last time." She whispered softly, and her gentle voice seemed to carry a hint of elegant fragrance, floating into He Yuzhu's ears, making him involuntarily turn his head to look.

What caught his eye was the graceful girl handing him a coin. At this moment, He Yuzhu remembered that he had lent her a dime.

A dime was insignificant to him and he didn't take it seriously.

However, the girl not only remembered, but also returned it on purpose. This sincerity made him like her even more.

He Yuzhu nodded slightly in response, and then continued to bury himself in books, immersed in the ocean of knowledge. Recently, he opened up a new vegetable garden, and in order to learn how to grow vegetables, he specially consulted agricultural books and accidentally activated a new skill.

[Agriculture Skill LV1: Progress 66/100]

This skill gives him a natural affinity for crops, enabling him to keenly sense their condition so that he can cultivate the best quality crops.

He read attentively without any extra words.

Ran Qiuye, who was standing aside, inexplicably felt a sense of loss in his heart.

She herself couldn't explain why she had this feeling. Perhaps it was because she had waited for six days and had placed some special expectations on this repayment, and this expectation was too heavy.

She felt that things shouldn't be so simple. She just paid back the money once and received the money once, all without saying a word, and it just ended so hastily.

But she couldn't describe an ideal scene. Perhaps it was this unknown imagination that gave her a glimmer of hope.

When I found that repayment was so simple, my anticipation turned into a slight disappointment.

She glanced at him again casually and saw that he was reading intently.

Ran Qiuye did not disturb him and quietly moved aside. Although she was holding a book in her hands, her eyes kept drifting towards him.

She had no other thoughts but simply wanted to know his name.

But I felt embarrassed and didn't know how to start.

Time passes quietly.

He Yuzhu closed the book and glanced at the clock on the wall.

As his reading skills improved, he could read ten lines at a glance and remember them deeply, but the side effect was also obvious - once he was immersed in a book, he would forget the passage of time and easily miss the bus time.

At this moment, there is still some time before the last trolleybus.

In order to avoid missing it, He Yuzhu put down his book and left the library with the borrowed books.

……

On the street, Lou Xiao'e reluctantly accompanied her mother shopping.

She had an instinctive resistance to marriage, but her sisters all got married under the arrangement of their mother and lived happily. This precedent made it difficult for her to refuse.

"Madam, Miss, that is Master He, the one holding the book." Aunt Wu who was accompanying them suddenly said.

Lou Xiao'e looked in the direction Wu Ma pointed, and saw a young man with a stern expression walking by.

"He is the chef who cooks?" Lou's mother was surprised and full of disbelief.

Born into a family of cooks, she knows the value of cooking skills. Although the family rule is to pass down cooking skills to sons and not daughters, she has been influenced by her family since she was a child and has a high appreciation for food. She still remembers the quality of that family dinner.

That is the true national level, and there are only a handful of them in the country.

Because of this, she never thought of recruiting such talents to her home, because she knew how difficult it was. She gave them food coupons and chickens just to maintain a good relationship, hoping to taste that level of craftsmanship again.

It is understandable that the other party refused, after all, the current situation is unpredictable.

What Lou's mother had never expected was that the chef was so young. She thought he was at least fifty years old, otherwise how could he have such superb skills.

"Madam, yes, it is Master He. I helped him last time and I remember it very clearly." Aunt Wu said affirmatively.

"It turned out to be him." Lou Xiao'e blinked and said excitedly, "That's great. Why not invite him to come home and cook? I haven't even had dinner yet."

"Stop messing around."

Lou's mother held her back and scolded her, "How can you invite someone casually on the street? This is very rude. Your mother has taught you since you were a child that you should consider the occasion and do the right thing at the right time. Now you are on the street, you don't even know if the person is free. If you rashly invite someone and they refuse, you will be the one who will be embarrassed."

I saw that the stern young man had already boarded the tram.

Lou Xiao'e pouted, looking somewhat uninterested: "I can't invite him now even if I want to. He has already left in a car."

……

In cities, the unified working time is 4:00 p.m. and the working day is eight hours.

It was past the rush hour and there were few passengers on the tram.

After buying the ticket, He Yuzhu found a seat at the back of the carriage.

Ran Qiuye showed her monthly ticket, hesitated for a moment, and finally sat down next to him.

The tram started slowly.

Ran Qiuye looked ahead, his heartbeat suddenly speeding up.

"Hello, my name is Ran Qiuye, what's your name?"

Ran Qiuye?

He Yuzhu looked at her in surprise, and the doubts in his heart suddenly became clear.

He Yuzhu has always had a good impression of the gentle and intellectual teacher Ran.

However, the Ran Qiuye in front of him had short hair that reached her ears, which was different from her previous long hair or pigtails, showing a completely different style.

But no matter what, she is the perfect ideal image in his mind.