He's doing handicraft again

When Xiao's mother saw that Xiao Yuan went home on Friday night, she was very moved, thinking that her son still cared about her.

Seeing that her son's boyfriend didn't follow, Xiao's mother was even more satisfied, and seeing her son's expression was obviously unhappy, there was a high probability that she had quarreled with that Jiang Xin.

Xiao's mother thought: It would be even better if they were divided directly. This must be the best birthday present I have received.

But she didn't dare to ask directly. After all, people have a rebellious mentality. What if she asked her son and reconciled with others?

Xiao's mother made a sumptuous supper for Xiao Yuan with joy - crayfish wontons and beef pot stickers.

These two kinds of pasta are made by Xiao's mother. When she learned that Xiao Yuan was on the way back, she specially went to the vegetable market to buy crayfish, beef, wonton wrappers and dumpling wrappers, and then peeled out the crayfish meat one by one, and chopped the beef into After seasoning them, they are divided into wontons and pot stickers.

After the wontons were cooked until they floated transparently, Mother Xiao picked up the wontons with a colander and poured them into the bowl with dried shrimps, seaweed, shallots and light soy sauce.At the same time, the pot stickers on the other frying pan were also fried to a slightly burnt golden brown. Mother Xiao picked them up one by one, arranged them in a straight line on the plate, and sprinkled some white sesame seeds and chopped coriander on top.

"Yuan Yuan, come and eat quickly." Xiao's mother shouted to Xiao Yuan who was lying on the sofa with Ge You.

When Xiao Yuan heard the sound of "Yuan Yuan", he thought of the "Yuan Yuan" that made his heart choke.

He moved to the dining table with the tablet and said in a complaining tone: "Don't call me that, it sounds like a pet."

"Okay, don't call if you don't call."

It seems that this quarrel was very serious, and Xiao's mother was even happier seeing this expression of resentment.

"By the way, where's my dad?" Xiao Yuan was surprised. It's been almost an hour since he entered the house, but his dad didn't show up.

"Don't mention him, he's on a business trip." Mentioning this Xiao's mother was instantly unhappy.

"Then he won't come for your birthday the day after tomorrow?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"That's right." Xiao's mother only made Xiao Yuan's supper for one person. She didn't eat at night in order to keep in shape. Watching her son eat meant that she had eaten.

"Where is the birthday banquet?" Xiao Yuan asked while eating, "Do you want to talk to your grandparents?"

"You don't need to worry about these, I will arrange it." Xiao's mother said, "As long as you come to accompany my mother to celebrate this birthday, my mother will be very happy."

His mother's requirements for adults are really low, Xiao Yuan reflected on whether he was too scumbag, and saw that Jiang Xin had prepared gifts for her, so he had to prepare them too.

Xiao Yuan thought wildly for a while, when the alarm on his phone rang, it was almost eight o'clock, reminding him that the live broadcast of "Jiangshui" was about to start.

He took out his tablet and opened the Pumpkin Live app.

"You eat supper well, what kind of tablet are you playing on?" Xiao's mother was dissatisfied.

After Xiao Yuan typed a few words, he quickly finished the wontons and pot stickers, and quickly said, "I'm going upstairs to rest first."

Then ran off with the tablet.

Mother Xiao only caught a glimpse of a pair of hands doing embroidery on the screen, which looked white and slender, like a girl's hands.

It seems that my son didn't get along very well. Mother Xiao clicked on WeChat and chatted with someone.

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The next day, with a feeling of guilt, Xiao's mother prepared three meals a day for Xiao Yuan according to the Chinese New Year standard.

Xiao Yuan was unaware of this, he was searching for what kind of gift would be better for his son to prepare for his mother.

After deciding what to buy, Xiao Yuan clicked on Jiang Xin's dialog box again, and saw that he had sent a bunch of messages to Jiang Xin last night, but Jiang Xin only replied to himself "something happened just now", which was too perfunctory.

But Xiao Yuan still wanted to chat with Jiang Xin, so he typed a sentence and then deleted it, going back and forth several times like this.

Then he saw that Jiang Xin, who had never updated his Moments for thousands of years, actually updated his Moments. Xiao Yuan entered excitedly and was instantly disappointed.

——It’s the Yuanyuan nine-shot, having a great time on the luxurious cat climbing frame.

Moreover, this cat climbing frame has some new things compared to what Xiao Yuan saw two days ago. There is a net-like tunnel between the two tallest pillars, and a few small fabric fishes are hung around the largest wooden round platform. .

It seems that Jiang Xin has been making small things for that Yuanyuan.

Xiao Yuan ate lemons even when he was not there.

He forked off WeChat and didn't want to chat with Jiang Xin anymore.

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On the third Sunday, Mother Xiao's birthday finally arrived.

Xiao Yuan learned that his mother had ordered Haidilao on the fifth floor of a shopping mall, and thought he was lucky, because the bouquet and cake he ordered happened to be on the first floor of that shopping mall.

You don't need to pick it up, just grab it when you go for lunch.

After arriving at the shopping mall, Xiao Yuan asked his mother to go upstairs first, and went to fetch flowers and cakes by himself.

When he was holding flowers and cakes and followed the waiter to find the table number his mother had mentioned, he saw that his mother had booked a table for four, and there were already three people seated, two of whom he didn't know.

One is an aunt who is similar to Xiao's mother's age, and the other is a girl who is similar to his age.

Xiao Yuan understood at a glance that this was not a birthday meal at all, but a blind date.

If it was a normal day, Xiao Yuan would definitely leave immediately, but thinking that today is his mother's birthday, Xiao Yuan compromised and sat in the only vacant seat, face to face with the girl.

He put the cake on the table, thrust the bouquet into Mother's hands, and said "Happy Birthday" without emotion.

Xiao's mother held a large bouquet of champagne roses in her hands, her face was full of joy, she changed hands and stuffed the flowers to the girl: "Take it, Qingqing, this is specially bought by Xiao Yuan for you."

Xiao Yuan: ...I really regret buying roses. I shouldn't have listened to the nonsense that women say on the Internet that roses are always their favorite no matter what age they are.

He looked at the girl on the opposite side getting more and more shy, and the aunt who was diagonally opposite looked more and more terrifying in his eyes. He had to describe it as the kind of eyes that a mother-in-law looks more and more satisfied with her son-in-law.

Xiao Yuan was forced by these four gazes and really wanted to leave, but he thought that today is a special day, so he recited it silently countless times in his heart and endured it.

Later, when the waiter came to show the ramen, the girl on the opposite side held up her mobile phone to film the making process of the ramen like the diners around. Xiao Yuan obviously felt that the girl was taking pictures of him from time to time, and the waiter also saw through the girl's thoughts, and sent the ramen to Xiao Yuan. Move your head up and make all sorts of exaggerated waves with ramen noodles.

The string in Xiao Yuan's heart finally broke, he stood up and said "I'm full" and left.

—

After leaving Haidilao, Xiao Yuan wandered around. This shopping mall was newly opened, and he wanted to take a look around to see if there was anything worth buying to bring back as a gift to Jiang Xin.

Forget it, Jiang Xin must be crazy about Rua Yuanyuan now, only he is a pitiful loner.

Xiao Yuan went to the sixth floor and saw a handicraft workshop.

As a labor skill teacher, of course he had to go in and inspect this kind of place when he saw it.

As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Yuan saw that the walls were full of popular science about knots, such as the symbolic meaning of each knot in Chinese knots, and the different meanings of bracelets woven with different knots.

This workshop mainly teaches people to weave Chinese knots and bracelets. Of course, there are also finished products that can be purchased directly.

Xiao Yuan suddenly wanted to weave a bracelet and give it to Jiang Xin.

The owner of the handicraft workshop originally thought that Xiao Yuan just came in for a stroll, but he didn't expect him to come up to ask how to weave a bracelet.

The shop owner decided to teach Xiao Yuanbian by herself, because this is the first time since she opened the workshop that a boy came to learn how to weave rope, not to mention the perfect appearance, the shop owner’s heart is ready to move, but she is very rational and knows this boy at a glance There is someone in my heart.

She showed some finished products to Xiao Yuan and asked him which one he wanted to learn.

Xiao Yuan directly pointed to the most complicated one.

The owner thought: This is really good, it seems that I have some skills.

However, after half an hour, she realized that she was wrong, Xiao Yuan was the most handicapped student she ever taught.

Xiao Yuan looked at the scattered red rope in his hand, gave up struggling, pointed to the second most difficult bracelet and said, I will learn that one.

Then another half an hour passed... Xiao Yuan pointed to the third most difficult bracelet...

In this way, Xiao Yuan became more and more simple, and finally found that he couldn't even make the simplest bracelet well.

The shopkeeper suggested: "Why don't you just buy one and I'll give you a discount."

Xiao Yuan shook his head stubbornly.

"Actually, there is another method of weaving rope," said the shop owner, seeing Xiao Yuan's reluctance to learn how to weave bracelets. "However, girls generally don't like to use this kind of weaving rope as bracelets, but the making method is very simple. Do you want to learn it?" ?”

Xiao Yuan nodded, Jiang Xin is not a girl anyway.

The owner produced a foam disk with a circular hole in the center and equally spaced grooves around the periphery, with a number between each groove.

"Let me tell you briefly." The shopkeeper took out another tutorial book, "This disk is a disk knitting machine. This book records the effects of various knitting methods. You find one you like, and then use it on the rope. Tie a knot at one end, and insert the thread |into the groove corresponding to the number according to the instructions in the book, so that the knot is in the center of the disc. Next, follow the steps in the book to put the thread back and forth on the disc braider Intersperse at the top, weave to the appropriate length and then tie the knot at the end."

At this time, some veteran students came in again, and the shop owner had to go to greet her. She said to Xiao Yuan, "Try it first, and call me if you have any questions. As long as the numbers are in the same order, you should be able to compile successfully. "

Xiao Yuan nodded, facing the book and started knitting.

Anyway, he is a former math teacher, Xiao Yuan looked at the pile of numbers in the book without any hesitation, and strictly followed the steps to insert the line from one groove to that groove.

He knit for a while and looked at the center of the eye-pan weaver, and was surprised to find that there was a chain exactly like the one in the textbook.

After failing countless times, Xiao Yuan finally saw that he had succeeded, and was very moved, so he continued to weave until the thread in his hand was too short to weave.

Then he found that he accidentally made the bracelet long, but he was reluctant to take it off.

Xiao Yuan thought: It's okay, let Jiang Xin wrap it around his wrist twice.

After putting away the tail, Xiao Yuan was still not finished, and chose another style he liked to continue editing.In this way, he compiled a total of seven articles.

After the shop owner greeted the old students and came to see Xiao Yuan's progress, he was surprised: "You made it too long...and why are you making so many? What if the other party doesn't like it?"

"Twice around the length is just right." Xiao Yuan was very satisfied, "And there are not many, just change one every day of the week."

Shopkeeper: ...

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Xiao Yuan didn't feel hungry until he came out of the handicraft workshop. After all, he didn't eat much at noon, and then spent the whole afternoon making bracelets. He planned to go to the fifth floor of the shopping mall to see what to eat.

Xiao's mother didn't call either, probably because of a guilty conscience.

Coincidentally, Xiao Yuan ran into his high school roommates, Shen Qian and Mo Yunlan, on the fifth floor.

Back then, Xiao Yuan would propose "mutual help" with Jiang Xin, which had a lot to do with these two people.

The author has something to say: Jiang Xin: As the protagonist, I didn't appear in this chapter.