romantic accident

Zheng Yuzhang slaughtered the fish below.

He had already taken off his unpleasant overcoat, rolled up the cuffs of his sweater, hung up his apron, and slapped the struggling fish unconscious with the back of his knife.

There are a lot of people in the kitchen, adults are busy with work, children steal food, shuttle back and forth, An Mingzhi can only stand outside the door, there is no place to stand inside.

Zheng Zhenzhen was also making trouble inside, secretly eating the freshly boiled shrimps and nuts, and didn't forget to give Zheng Yuyang a bite, not wanting to be discovered by Zheng Yuzhang, who glared at her, and hurried away with her brother in her arms.

"In a blink of an eye, Zhenzhen is so big." It was Zheng Yuzhang's aunt, Zheng Yunshu, who was talking, "I still remember that she was naughty when she was a child, and she ordered the miscellaneous branches piled up in the yard during the Chinese New Year, and the whole house almost suffered! "

Zheng Yuzhang is removing the scales from the fish. The body of the fish is slippery and difficult to handle.Hearing this, she said: "That's not what her uncle is used to, how can she use a lighter herself?"

He squatted on the ground to handle the fish scales, and looked up to see An Mingzhi.

"Just right down, go get me a pair of gloves from the drawer next to the TV."

It took An Mingzhi enough two seconds to realize that he was talking to himself. He was still immersed in Zheng Yuzhang's action of cutting up fish just now. He never knew that he could do these things, just like before. The kennel, and it's still well built.

In An Mingzhi's view, this is difficult.

You can't blame him, he was in a good family when he was a child, even after his parents divorced, his mother got enough and ample maintenance.After his mother remarried, he was fostered by his aunt, who treated him very well. Although the material conditions were not so good, he never felt wronged.

He is a flower bud growing in an urban greenhouse, full of curiosity about everything outside.That was a world he had never ventured into.

"Oh, good." An Mingzhi went to find gloves for him.

The kitchen at home is an old-fashioned kitchen, and one side is blocked by a sliding door. The children were busy just now, and no one saw it except Zheng Yuzhang, and they didn't notice him standing outside.

Mother Zheng was not very happy: "Mom, you just talked about it casually. Who would have thought that you really brought people back to celebrate the New Year? What is the Spring Festival? Our family reunion, what is this!"

Aunt Zheng and Mother Zheng were of the same mind. She always wanted to let Zheng Yuzhang settle down sooner, even if she found someone who was not well-matched, it would be better to start a family sooner.He got married when he was 25 years old. With Zhenzhen, the foreign daughter-in-law didn't even come to the house for dinner a few times, and the two divorced again. It was a lot of trouble.

"Yeah, don't blame me for saying it badly, no matter how good-looking he is, no matter how capable he is, he's just a sleeping companion!"

Aunt Zheng's voice was high-pitched, as if she wanted to tell An Mingzhi on purpose, her voice was not too loud, and it just reached the living room.A few children were watching TV there, and An knew that he was still looking for gloves.

This was a bit harsh, Zheng Yuzhang didn't say anything, and scraped off the scales of the fish.Perhaps the fire in the kitchen has never been broken, and the air conditioner in the room is fully turned on, sweating on his forehead.

"Xiao An followed me before he turned [-]. It's been almost ten years. Why don't you bring him back for a meal? Then again, if you have to say company, I will accompany him. You don't know, he thinks it's too much." Very, someday didn’t you go to bed before me?” Speaking of this, Zheng Yuzhang smiled and scolded him, “This little heartless person!”

Aunt Zheng's family choked, that little vixen really bewitched their father, son, father and daughter.

What Zheng's mother wanted to say was interrupted by Zheng Yuzhang: "It's not easy for children. Their parents are no longer around at a young age, and there is nowhere to go during the New Year. You should be kind enough to take care of them, and it will be a meritorious deed."

People of the older generation believed in cause and effect very much, so Mother Zheng didn't say anything more. Aunt Zheng wanted to say a few more words, but Zheng Yuzhang was not her child after all, so Mother Zheng didn't say anything, so she gave up.

An Mingzhi walked over with gloves in hand. The two felt that the kitchen was too crowded, so they left the rest of the work to the housekeeper and chef.

An Mingzhi handed him the gloves, and Zheng Yuzhang had already cut the fish open with scissors.He took the rubber gloves and put them on, and continued to lower his head to process the internal organs of the fish.

"Why are you wearing gloves?" An Mingzhi squatted down beside him, observing.

Zheng Yuzhang said, "I don't want to get blood on my hands. According to the older generation, blood on hands will be unlucky in the coming year."

His movements are very skilled, and the movements of handling fish are skillful and smooth. An Mingzhi suspects that he often does such things.

But he never saw it.

Zheng Yuzhang threw away the internal organs, then threw the fish in the sink, rinsed them, and put them on a plate.He saw that An Mingzhi had been following his every move with curious eyes.

"Every Chinese New Year holiday, I have to buy a few. The ones bought outside are not fresh, so I have to deal with them now."

An Mingzhi said "Oh", it is not easy to handle a fish: "Isn't this bought from outside?"

Zheng Yuzhang asked him to get the seasoning for himself, and while marinating the fish to taste, he said, "This is fished from the lake behind the house. The fish fry that were planted before have grown so fat now. It is too cold in winter, otherwise we can eat fish. Take you to get two."

An Mingzhi listened with fascination.

He knows how to cook, but that's limited to the prepared ingredients. If you give him a live fish and let him handle it, he really doesn't know what to do.

Zheng Yuzhang is different. Although the Zheng family lives here now, he also lived in the countryside when he was a child.At that time, I often went to the river to catch fish, caught cicadas from trees, dug earthworms, and caught dragonflies...that was something An Mingzhi couldn't understand.

His growing environment was too gentle and monotonous, and he had never experienced many beautiful things in the world.

After processing the fish, Zheng Yuzhang helped the chef steam the crabs.There is still a lot of seafood and meat to deal with, and he can't take it easy for a while.An Mingzhi looked at it for a while, and felt that he couldn't help, so he turned his attention to the uncut vegetables on the chopping board.

Near noon, Uncle Zheng's family also came. There are two tables for too many people. Each dish has to be prepared in two, and two additional dishes are added temporarily. An knows that he has no time to think about other things, and has been helping in the kitchen.

A little girl about Zheng Zhenzhen's age saw An Mingzhi, and because of his unfamiliar face, she exclaimed, "Mom, which relative is this?"

In the past years, she came back every year for the New Year, but she had never seen this person.

The little girl's mother probably guessed An Mingzhi's identity, and explained in a low voice, "It was brought back by your uncle."

The little girl seems to understand, but in fact she still doesn't understand, because in her concept, the New Year is for relatives to get together, and there has never been an outsider in the family.But such a small child still can't distinguish those messy relationships. In their eyes, appearance is justice, and it just so happens that she has never seen such a good-looking person, like a star.

Seeing her staring at An Mingzhi, Zheng Zhenzhen reluctantly introduced to her: "That's Brother Mingzhi, he's an actor."

"What a star!" The little girl was so excited that she ignored her mother's words behind her, "Then can I ask him for a photo and autograph?"

"Signatures are fine, but group photos are not. I know that my brother hates taking photos with people." Zheng Zhenzhen lied to her little cousin, "Maybe he is not happy and won't even give you an autograph."

"Really?" The little girl was a little disappointed, "Then I'll forget it."

Zheng Zhenzhen giggled.

Sometimes she can understand her father's mood.Among the stars, An knows that he may not be the most eye-catching one, but if he is placed among ordinary people, he will definitely be followed by all eyes.If a person is possessive, this is a very unpleasant thing to do.

Unfortunately, Zheng Yuzhang is extremely possessive.

During the meal, Zheng Zhenzhen dragged An Mingzhi to the table with more children, just in time An Mingzhi was serving food for Yang Yang, so he sat down.There are many children, and everyone is full of curiosity about this new brother, asking all kinds of questions, An Mingzhi is patient with children, and answers everything he can.

A little boy, about five or six years old, asked him: "Xiao Yangyang calls you brother, sister Zhenzhen also calls you brother, and you still live with them, so what is your relationship with uncle?"

This is what An Mingzhi is most afraid of being asked. He thought children wouldn't think so much, but he still didn't avoid it.

He didn't know how to answer for a while, and he was stunned for a few seconds. Just as he came up with an answer, he heard Zheng Zhenzhen rushing to say, "Just like your father and mother."

The little boy walked around with his eyes wide open. His father and mother had just held a make-up wedding not long ago, and he was also a little flower girl.Turning his head around quickly, he seemed to understand a little bit, tilted his head and said to An Mingzhi, "So you are the bride of the uncle."