Encounter the Ice Age

Zhaoqing folded the sheets on the bed according to Mrs. Connor's message, lifted the thin mattress and leaned aside, took away the cardboard and plastic sheets, but he saw nothing except a piece of fast wood.

Zhaoqing Lingtai moved and knocked on the wooden board. He heard the slight sound of metal shaking and friction when the wooden board was knocked. He removed the bed board one by one and saw gold bars and various gold ornaments.

Zhaoqing was so shocked that he stopped crying. He saw the bank selling 999 gold bars with USA and year printed on them. They have been saving since ten years ago, and most of them have been in the past two years.

Theoretically, the Fed’s gold bars are not for sale. Occasionally, a small number of quotas will be issued due to various gold promotion activities. Everyone can only buy in a fixed amount. To buy this kind of gold bars, there must be a lot of records left, and the person must have excellent credit.

Zhaoqing imagined Mrs. Connor buying gold jewelry because of the limited number of gold bars.He didn't know how many times Mrs. Connor went to gold shops and banks, and how many times she hid this precious thing in a small bag and returned home by bus with a hunched figure.

Zhaoqing had no idea how much Mrs. Connor had put in to collect these things, and now everything was laid out before his eyes.

There was a note on the gold treasure, Zhaoqing picked it up and couldn't help but read out: "Hide them, my son, hurry up! Right now, at this very moment!"

Zhaoqing never asked Mrs. Connor what the money left by Mr. Connor was used for.After he finished his studies, he gave most of his monthly fixed salary to Mrs. Connor. Whether it was for household use or private use, he never asked more questions. He only kept a part of it for necessary living expenses, telephone bills, transportation expenses and social expenses. some type of.

Zhaoqing still has enough sources of extra money to support what she wants to do. Part of the money is used to buy books, and occasionally a new iPhone. Most of the savings are used to buy various plants to expand the planting of "Small World" .

After seeing the note, Zhaoqing woke up suddenly and wiped away the remaining tears on his face, then took out a small suitcase and packed all the gold goods and jewelry in it.He also posted the letterheads together and hid them in the warehouse belonging to his own "small world".

Zhaoqing had to look at other things his mother had left behind, so he ran to the attic without making up the turned-up bed.

The floor of the attic is a bit dusty, and the boxes piled aside are all kinds of hand-woven woolen blankets, and there are also a lot of Persian rugs piled up next to it. When Mr. Connor was there, he would change the rug every week.

After Mr. Connor left, the job went to Zhaoqing, who also changed it once a week, and stacked it in the attic after cleaning.

In the attic cabinet, there are cashmere quilts that have been plastic-packed and compressed to a vacuum. After compression, they are still very thick and prove to be very sufficient cashmere quilts.

In the past, Seattle occasionally had a few days of snow a year, and it usually melted when it landed.And it's cold in Seattle right now, and there's always ankle-deep snow in winter.

Earlier, because Seattle was a coastal city without collective heating facilities, after two years of urban construction, most places were heated, and there were still a small number of households using electric heaters and fireplaces on the edge of the city.

For more than a month, the temperature has dropped faster than in previous years. Due to heating, frequent fires and winter rain have made everyone's life a bit difficult.

Zhaoqing went to the basement again and saw the seeds that Mrs. Connor had prepared just for him.

Zhaoqing stumbled back to Mrs. Connor's room, which used to be a warm nest for a loving couple. Later, Mrs. Connor waited for the children to come home by herself. In the end, only the children of this family were left.

It turned out that Zhaoqing did not lose any relatives, because the love of his relatives was still with him, and he had many, many memories and full of care.

There are too many traces of Zhaoqing's life in this house.There are toys made for him by Mr. Connor, and clothes made by Mrs. Connor for him.Mr. Conner gave him a house, and Mrs. Conner filled him with a home.

Zhaoqing has never collapsed crying like today. The more she lacks, the more precious she is, and the longer she waits, the more hard-earned she is.He always thinks that he doesn't need parents, he thinks he learned everything early on.

But he also needs a pair of parents the most, to let him know that people are not alone, and now he has had it, and he has truly been watered by the selfless and sincere love of his parents.

Zhaoqing suddenly felt that she was not afraid of anything.He thought love was a drizzle in early spring, but it turned out that love was a midsummer storm mixed with crystal-sized raindrops, which poured over his head and face.

Zhaoqing cried and fell asleep, and when she woke up, her eyes were so astringent that she opened them several times before they fully opened.He saw that he had returned to the bed in his bedroom, still holding the letter left by Mrs. Connor in his hand.

Chen Yang is back.

Zhaoqing hurriedly put away the letter paper that was dragged out again at some point, and when she got out of bed from crying too hurt, her legs wobbled before she could stand still.He went to the bathroom to wash his face, and poured cold water on his face repeatedly before he woke up.

Zhaoqing passed Mrs. Connor's room when she was about to go downstairs to the living room. The woven fabrics scattered all over the floor had been reclassified and placed where they should be.

Zhao Qing leaned on the door frame of her mother's room, looked in the direction of the bed and smiled, thanking her mother in her heart.

When going downstairs, Zhaoqing's footsteps were extremely brisk, and he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the kitchen.

Zhaoqing is ready to have a good meal to take care of his stomach that has been neglected recently, and he should also do his best to the "friends" who live in his house.

When Zhaoqing passed the dining table, he saw that his mobile phone was plugged in with a charging cable. He pressed the HOME button and it showed that the battery was fully charged.

There are two or three missed calls and a few messages.

Zhaoqing returned a few calls before he realized that he had slept through another day during his vacation, and it had been twenty hours since his last meal.

After Zhaoqing communicated with the substitute teacher, she went to read the text message from Chen Yang.

[I will bring pizza home around 6 o'clock tonight. If you wake up, eat some fruit and wait a while. If you miss the microwave, eat it later. 】

Zhaoqing glanced at the four o'clock. He went to the kitchen to look at the ingredients in the refrigerator. The seasonal vegetables stored before had wilted, and the frozen meat had not been affected in any way.

Zhao Qing calculated the time when Chen Yang would come back, set the menu, and returned a text message to Chen Yang on his mobile phone, as if he had just called back after sending the call.

"Hey, um,...I'm awake. Um, don't buy takeaways. I'll make some at home, and your side is going well?...As long as it goes well, um, ok." Zhaoqing hung up the phone and felt natural because of this The dialogue is a bit overwhelming, but life always moves forward.

Zhaoqing took out a piece of beef from the refrigerator and put it in the microwave to defrost. The wilted vegetables were just right for stewing.

In his previous life, his greatest interest in living alone for a long time was cooking. Without self-effacing, he said that Zhaoqing's cooking skills are very good. He is a person who can make five kinds of flowers out of carrots.

Zhaoqing washed some tomatoes, carrots, potatoes and onions and cut them into suitable diamond-shaped pieces.There are no delicious Shandong scallions abroad, and he is used to using lemongrass.

Zhaoqing sautéed the olive oil in the pot with lemongrass, then boiled a small pot of boiling water, made a cross on the top of the tomato and rolled it twice in the boiling water, took it out, poured cold water on it, peeled the skin, and cut it into small pieces on the palm of your hand. Put the pieces into the oil that has just been sautéed, stir fry and squeeze into tomato sauce.

Then he put the cut beef cubes into the water that had just blanched the tomatoes, blanched the blood and set it aside to dry. While waiting for the beef to drain, he fried a green bean.

Then stir-fry the beef, add water, add tomato and simmer, first put fresh pepper and star anise, then throw in potatoes and carrots and simmer on low heat.

When he was free, he made pork loin strips with green peppers and mixed some salad to make cold dishes. Zhaoqing thought that four dishes would be enough for two people.

Zhaoqing carefully recalled the life with Chen Yang in the past few days, Chen Yang didn't seem to have eaten rice much.He thought that maybe Chen Yang didn't like rice, so while steaming the rice, he also cut a few slices of baguette as the main course.

At the beginning of a meal, neither Chinese nor Western, but fortunately, any staple food is suitable for tomato and beef.

Made it for over an hour.

When Zhaoqing was about to add onions to the tomato beef that was about to come out of the pot, he heard the sound of the door opening, and he turned around to see Chen Yang standing in the living room.Chen Yang's clothes were still dripping with water, as if he rushed in after kicking off his shoes.

"Uh…"

The two looked at each other, suddenly at a loss for words.

"Uh, I... just come back for a meal, and I have to go out in the middle of the night. I don't have enough duty this year." Chen Yang laughed awkwardly as he spoke. Qing is not used to it.

"Oh, okay, you will have dinner right away after a while." After finishing speaking, Zhaoqing stroked the back of the kitchen knife and slid the onion on it into the tomato beef.

Wait a minute, where did Chen Yang get the key?Zhao Qing suddenly thought of this point, Chen Yang has been living for almost a week, and he really convinced himself whether he will realize that the queen mother is late.

"I'll help you, what can I do?" Chen Yang rolled up the sleeves of his uniform shirt, Zhaoqing saw from the corner of his eye that Chen Yang was still wearing a gun.

Zhao Qing laughed in his heart and said: With Chen Yang's cooking level, it is difficult to cut the vegetables into orderly chunks.

"You'd better put the gun aside first," Zhao Qing said while shifting his body and bringing the cold dish to the dining table.Chen Yang thought about it too, put the safety on the gun and threw it directly on the uniforms piled up in the entrance with the holster on.

Zhao Qing saw the pile of black and blue on the floor of the entrance and said, "Hang up your clothes..."

Chen Yang: "It's all wet for nothing, and I have to wear it for a while. Let me help you fill out the beef... Hey, it smells so good."

Zhaoqing took a small bamboo mat and put it on the table, and said, "You don't need to fill it, just bring the pot." Chen Yang knew how to sit the pot directly on the bamboo mat.

The two of them sat down at a table, and neither of them knew what to say, and they were silent for at least a minute or two.

There was no words, but Zhaoqing couldn't avoid Chen Yang's staring eyes, and said bravely, "Let's eat."

Chen Yang grinned, his cold face looked a little silly, and even the hissing haha ​​and intermittent praises floating over the dining table because of the hot food.

Zhaoqing originally wanted to say how delicious it is, but seeing Chen Yang eating every mouthful, he felt that this kind of statement was too familiar, so he smiled and didn't respond.

Chen Yang ate the bread, but his eyes kept wandering into Zhaoqing's bowl.

Zhaoqing asked: "Do you... like rice?"

"It doesn't matter, it's okay." Chen Yang replied very quickly, coughing a bit, and took two sips of water before suppressing it.

Zhaoqing just steamed two bowls, walked back to the kitchen and took a cloth towel out of the pot, Chen Yang watched Zhaoqing's movements and came up to pick it up.

"Be careful it's hot..." Zhaoqing said, the fingers of the two touched slightly together, and they separated instantly after changing the bowl.

Chen Yang: "Do you have enough to eat?"

"Well, I can also have some bread. You... eat it quickly, it doesn't mean that you will go out later." Zhao Qing pursed his lips after speaking, it seemed that this was the first time he had so many conversations with Chen Yang.

Everyone knew that Chen Yang was chasing Zhaoqing, but it was nothing more than that Chen Yang was waiting for Zhaoqing to go to and from get off work like a watchman. To put it bluntly, he only knew how to follow.If it wasn't for Chen Yang's police uniform, Zhao Qing would have to call the police a few more times.

Chen Yang told everyone he could meet in this world that he would definitely chase Zhaoqing to his side. Before he got his lover, he set up a territory to prevent others from entering.

But when he met Zhaoqing, he felt that he should not be too reckless, so he stopped talking.Chen Yang himself was very surprised, he didn't expect to be able to endure it for so long this time.

Occasionally, when Chen Yang contacted his family outside the system to talk about Zhaoqing, the two sons of a bitch would always make fun of him, perhaps the more precious he was, the more cautious he would be treated.He is like a person standing in the backlight, looking at the smiling face in the sun, there will be a mentality of wanting to look at it from afar.

Chen Yang would bring umbrellas and coffee to Zhaoqing on rainy days, and he would drive to pretend to meet Zhaoqing and try to give Zhaoqing a ride, but of course Zhaoqing politely refused.

The law and order in Seattle has not been good for the past two months, so Chen Yang simply followed Zhaoqing with a police cap on his head, until the latter entered the house and then disappeared into the night.

Chen Yang would also deliberately go for morning jogs around Zhaoqing's house, the two of them one in front of the other.He invited Zhaoqing to drink water a few times, and it didn't take long to see that Zhaoqing had brought his own water cup.

Zhaoqing will not say no, but will make more preparations in private to stick to the distance she wants.

Now Chen Yang has finally waited for the best opportunity to find Zhaoqing's loophole and pry open this gap to enter Zhaoqing's life.