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As the Chinese New Year approached, Lin Shu had a holiday, but Xie Mingshan got busy.

At the end of the year, Luzhou wanted to maintain customers, so he took Xie Mingshan to give gifts and treat guests every day, and he didn't come back until two or three o'clock in a row for four or five days.

Lin Shu was so bored that he called Kuang Tong'an and Bai Ying home for dinner.

"You came here after everything you said, and you didn't bring anything." Lin Shu opened the door, and said critically to the two people who came empty-handed.

"Yes, I brought catnip for your little Suan." Bai Ying followed behind and entered the door, brightening the bag in his hand.

"Sure enough, you are here to pick up cats." Lin Shu pouted, and called the little orange cat out to pick up the guests.

Lin Shu was right. After all, Associate Professor Lin was not very attractive as a living person. The only thing that could really make the two of them drive here for two hours was this new kitten.

What Bai Ying brought was a cat teaser filled with catnip, and when he entered the door, he disassembled it and squatted in the living room to play with Liantou.

"Be careful of it scratching you." Lin Shu finished admonishing, and was a little worried again: "Xiao Suan is only eight months old, can he eat catnip?"

"I've checked, and it will be fine in six or seven months." Boying and Suan Tou happily replied without raising their heads, "And this is sewn in a cloth bag, so Suan can't eat it."

Lin Shu left him alone and went into the kitchen to cook by himself.

To eat grilled fish today, Lin Shuxin bought an electric grill and asked them to come over to test the performance of the grill.

Lin Shu put the previously marinated boneless black fish into the pan and fried it. According to the order of the two people before, cut the tofu skin into thin strips one finger wide, cut the carrots and potatoes into thin slices, and picked the lettuce and put it aside. Control water.After Lin Shu finished, he was worried that the amount of food ordered by the three men would not be enough, so he rummaged through the refrigerator and took out the beef balls and enoki mushrooms he bought earlier.

The black fish was fried until golden on both sides, and the aroma spread from the kitchen, attracting the little chubby cat who was playing with Bai Ying in the living room.

"Meow~" Suantou acted like a baby around Lin Shu's feet.

"Stay away, baby, be careful of oil splashing on you." Bai Ying, who followed in, hugged the cat nervously, for fear that Lin Shu would burn it while cooking.

Lin Shu couldn't help but want to laugh.

Bai Ying is a typical cold beauty, and when she stops there, she has a stern aura that is inaccessible for a mile. She never thought that when she was hugging a cat, she would look like a radiant virgin.

It's a pity that the little chubby cat couldn't tell if it was beautiful or not. It found that Bai Ying was about to hug him and leave, and immediately struggled violently to jump out.

"What's the matter?" Bai Ying was afraid that Suantou would jump into the frying pan, so he quickly tightened his grip.

"Maybe I'm hungry." Lin Shu turned the fish over, and the more intense aroma straightened Garlic's eyes. Lin Shu looked at its unpromising little appearance, and said, "It's been too fat recently. Controlling its food intake."

"Such a small cat still needs to lose weight?" Bai Ying asked in disbelief, and Suantou echoed with a "meow".

"It's too fat, weighing more than ten catties. I said to lose weight, but it ran to Xie Mingshan to act like a baby while I was away. Xie Mingshan was soft-hearted, and he fed it canned food after being wrapped around twice." Lin Shu said with black lines on his face : "Then it waited until Xie Mingshan was away, pestering me to open a can for it, and added food on both sides, and lost half a month, even fatter than before."

"Pfft—" Bai Ying immediately laughed out loud, and rubbed the garlic with his hand: "I didn't expect you to be a scheming cat."

"Very smart." Lin Shu shook his head, and took out the fried fish: "You take the garlic out, I want to fry the ingredients, be careful not to choke. There is cat rice that I made before in the refrigerator, you take it out and feed it Let’s have a portion, I haven’t eaten tonight.”

Bai Ying immediately retreated with the cat in his arms. Lin Shu turned on the range hood, put the oil into the bottom material, and after the aroma was fried, put the prepared dishes and fish into the pot, add water to cover the lid, and wait for the fish to simmer until cooked.

"Old Kuang, come here and get some soup." Lin Shu found a deep basin and poured out the long yam pork ribs soup he had stewed earlier, and ordered Kuang Tongan to bring it out.

"You're not good at hospitality." Kuang Tongan was sitting comfortably on the sofa, when Lin Shu called him, he reluctantly came over to take away the soup.

"It's fine if you don't bring anything with me, and you don't want to work." Lin Shu rolled his eyes, sent Kuang Tongan away, and made another pot by himself, and put the chopped garlic, peppercorns, and green and red peppers together. Take the hot oil and heat it up. When the fish is cooked, pour it on it while it is hot. When the hot oil meets the tender fish, there will be a burst of burnt aroma.Even Lin Shu, who doesn't like spicy food, secretly drools.

"No, Lin Shu, don't you don't like spicy food? Why do you think of making spicy food?" Kuang Tongan asked after several people at the dinner table were sweating profusely after taking a sip of his drink to suppress the spicy taste.

"That's not the only spicy base in the supermarket." Lin Shu said indifferently.He seldom eats spicy food, so it is delicious, but he is a bit unbearable. He eats a mouthful of fish and drinks a few sips of water, and he is full in no time.

"You are not sincere in hospitality." Kuang Tong'an commented.

Lin Shu ignored him.Kuang Tong'an's father was a petty official, and he himself had been the boss for several years. Lin Shu had long been accustomed to using an official accent when speaking unconsciously.

"Hey, I want to ask you something." Lin Shu took a sip of rib soup, stopped his chopsticks, and said, "A second-hand house in Miyunxi Wengzhuang, 70 square meters, 80, is it worth buying?"

"80? It's cheap enough." Kuang Tongan usually has a lot of contacts with business people, so he has good information on this: "It's just that the traffic is not convenient there, and it takes more than two hours to get to the city. If you want to buy it It’s okay to sell it for a while to make a difference, but if you rent it, it’s not easy to rent, and the price can’t afford it.”

"I just want to resell it." Lin Shu explained: "My colleague immigrated to the United States and was anxious to sell the house, so the price was low, but the full payment was required."

"The full amount is fine. You and your family can put together a pool. If it doesn't work, we'll lend you some more. It's not a loss to buy this house." Bai Ying listened to it for a long time, and felt that it was a good time to buy this house.

"The problem is that I don't have any money." Lin Shu said discouragedly: "You guys know about my savings. Last year, I was almost ruined by someone. I saved it for a year this year, and now it's only 8. I took a look at Xie Mingshan's account the other day. The deposit is only 5, and the sum of the two is not enough. I am thinking that if the increase is large enough, I will take out a loan to buy this house."

"The loan is not suitable." Kuang Tong'an thought for a while, and said: "There are no good schools over there, and commuting is not convenient. They are bought by young people who have just come to Beijing and have not yet settled down. It is too expensive to sell, and it is cheap to get a loan. It's not worth it."

"But what's the matter with Xie Mingshan? Isn't the deposit too low?" Mr. Kuang's turnover of one million yuan a year, hearing Xie Mingshan's pitiful deposit, couldn't help frowning: "Didn't you say that he is very frugal? Those little nurses in the hospital are also paid six to seven thousand yuan, and some people can save five to six thousand yuan a year."

"I don't know, and I didn't ask." In fact, Lin Shu also murmured in his heart. Xie Mingshan really doesn't spend money. He gives 1000 yuan pocket money, which can be used for a month. After work, the monthly living expenses are rarely less than two thousand.

"Are you secretly subsidizing poor students? Every month, I live frugally and donate most of the money to students in impoverished mountainous areas." Bai Ying ate a big mouthful of fish and shared the story she just made up.

"It shouldn't be. Since I got the salary card, all my monthly salary has been paid in, and he hasn't transferred it out." Lin Shu rejected this touching idea.

"Do you think this kid has had an accident before?" The conspiracy theorist Kuang Tong'an suddenly had a bad idea, and said: "For example, the P2P game crashed and all the money was planted in it, or he was used to gambling and lost all his money." Enter it."

"You have to be careful, don't you know?" Kuang Tong'an thought of this, and said seriously: "Investment failure is a trivial matter. If you get involved in pornography, gambling and drugs, you must break up."

"Don't worry, my little Xie is very upright." Lin Shu disagreed.If there is anything that Lin Shu can be sure of, it is Xie Mingshan's character, which Lin Shu absolutely believes in Xie Mingshan.

However, Xie Mingshan's disappearing deposits were really suspicious. Lin Shu thought it would be better to ask some time.

But before he could find the right time, it was New Year's Eve.

Lin Shu thought that it would be a waste for two people to make a table of dishes that would not be enough to eat, and planned to cook porridge and hot pot to eat crabs, but Xie Mingshan felt that the Spring Festival without dumplings was incomplete, so he insisted on watching the Spring Festival Gala to make dumplings.

"Our family doesn't even have a rolling pin. What kind of dumplings are you making?" Lin Shu disagreed with Xie Mingshan's proposal.

"Then go directly to the supermarket to buy ready-made dumpling wrappers," Xie Mingshan insisted, hugging Lin Shu's waist from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder, grunting and grinding Lin Shu.

"All right, all right, dumplings are just dumplings." Lin Shu couldn't bear his way of doing it the most, so he gave up resisting immediately, went to the supermarket to buy mutton and carrots, and two big bags of wrapped dumpling wrappers, ready to be wrapped once and frozen in the refrigerator In the future, Xie Mingshan can cook it directly in the pot if he wants to eat it.

Mutton dumplings are troublesome to make. In order to get rid of the fishy smell, Lin Shu got up early in the morning of the 31st to boil the pepper water and added it to the minced mutton little by little. Every time he added a little bit, he had to stir it quickly with chopsticks. Beat, let the meat "eat" all the pepper water, so that the mutton stuffing is fragrant but not greasy.

Of course, Associate Professor Lin has never done this kind of hard work since Xie Mingshan became a long-term worker. He called Xie Mingshan to the kitchen and gave him all the things, while he chopped carrots himself.

The two were busy cooking in the kitchen, and Xiao Suan was busy acting coquettishly at their feet to see if he could get some food. At this moment, Xie Mingshan's phone rang.

"Hello?" Xie Mingshan tilted his head and held the phone between his ears and shoulders. He kept working, stirring the mutton stuffing evenly.

A girl's cry could be faintly heard from the other end of the phone. Xie Mingshan had almost no female friends. Lin Shu was immediately aroused, and he stopped cutting the radish. He moved to the side to listen to the conversation between the two.

"This...I want to ask my boyfriend." Xie Mingshan said hesitantly: "Yes, I live with him now, if it's convenient, you can come over."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, with a slightly apprehensive expression on his face, and discussed with Lin Shu: "I have a friend's sister, and asked if I could come here for a night, do you think it's okay?"

"Your friend's sister?" Lin Shu repeated, feeling unwilling in his heart, since it's New Year's Eve, of course it's interesting to spend New Year's Eve with her boyfriend, so what's the matter with an outsider out of nowhere.However, Xie Mingshan rarely made unreasonable demands, so Lin Shu continued to ask patiently, "What will our family do during the Chinese New Year?"

"This girl is divorced and lives with her natal family." Xie Mingshan explained: "There is a younger brother in her family. Her mother said that the married girl was not good for her younger brother during the New Year at her natal home, so she kicked her out. Now she has nowhere to go. If you don’t come to our house, you have to find a hotel outside, how pitiful.”

These words made people unable to refuse. Lin Shu was most annoyed by this kind of patriarchal patriarchy. He only had sons in his eyes. He immediately sympathized and agreed: "Then let her come over. I will cook two more dishes together. Eat, let her at night..."

"It's fine to sleep in the living room." Xie Mingshan knew that the study room was a private sanctuary for Lin Shu, and he would definitely not be willing to let outsiders live in it, so he said first.

"Then it's settled." Lin Shu said, "Send her a location and let her come over."

Xie Mingshan kissed Lin Shu gratefully, and sent a message to the girl.

"Didn't you say it's your friend's sister? Your friend can't let her stay for one night?" Lin Shu felt wrong after making a decision, and asked.

"Uh... my friend... passed away." Xie Mingshan stammered.

Lin Shu was surprised: "Why did you die?"

"You still remember, I told you before. Some miners who returned home came to the mine to find someone to borrow money, and if they didn't get the loan, they killed people and robbed the money." Xie Mingshan scratched his hair and said.

Lin Shu realized something, and showed sympathy: "That friend of yours..."

"No, you are wrong." Seeing Lin Shu's expression, Xie Mingshan knew that he had guessed wrong, and quickly explained: "The murderer was my friend, who was sentenced to death and was shot."

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