Liuxiang

The dishes Yi Baitang chose were not complicated.

The two fish Shang Huaiyan picked were perch, so he made a steamed perch dish.

Remove the scales and viscera of the sea bass, wash it and put it into the steamer that has been boiled. It is not lit, just cover it, and steam it slowly with hot air.

Then start to prepare the most important pickle juice of this dish.

Combine lemon, olive oil, ginger, chilli, leek, cilantro, sea salt, and pepper and set aside.

Take green lemons for lemons, use lemon zest for green lemons, cut ginger into fine shreds, choose peppers that are not too spicy and cut them into circles, remove leaves from coriander, slice leeks, and add sea salt, pepper, and olive oil together Put in a pot and bring to a boil.

At this time, take out the still half-cooked sea bass from the pot, pour the boiled sauce on top of the fish repeatedly like toppings, and then cut the fish into extremely thin slices with a knife, but do not let any piece of fish leave the fish. body, the fish is placed on the plate, like a blooming flower.

At this time, cover the fish with the pickled juice with plastic wrap, and pile up the ice cubes just taken out of the refrigerator.

When the ice cubes are turned into water, the hot fish meat and pickled juice will also become warm and cool. It will be cold in the mouth and warm in the stomach when swallowed, which is just right for the hot summer.

Two plates of fish were placed on the table.

But of course, there are more than two plates of fish for dinner, there are three dishes and one soup left over, all Yi Baitang cooks as soon as he sees what is in the vegetable basket, and then serves it to the table.

As the only third person on the scene, Shang Huaiyan was treated like a guest. The two dishes were exactly the same, and the neat fish were placed in front of him together.

Shang Huaiyan pinched the chopsticks, trying to distinguish the difference from the shape of the fish and the craftsmanship of the knife, but failed; he also tried to get hints from the expressions of Yi Baitang and Old Man Dong, but still failed.

He had no choice but to pick up the chopsticks, trusting his tongue, and tasted the fish on the left.

Sweet and refreshing.

Tender and juicy.

The entrance is gone.

It turned into a delicious sweet spring, shook its head and swayed its tail all the way from the throat into the stomach, and swam around in the stomach again, as if a fish really jumped into your stomach, and a dish was eaten alive like this!

At this time, Shang Huaiyan could suddenly feel a little bit of Yi Baitang's mood when he said that sentence just now.

It's actually not that ridiculous...

With great perseverance, he moved his chopsticks away from old man Dong's fish and turned to Yi Baitang's fish.

——That's right, the moment the fish was eaten, he had already clearly distinguished which dish was made by Old Man Dong and which one was made by Yi Baitang.

When the chopsticks put Yi Baitang's fish into his mouth again, Shang Huaiyan felt relaxed physically and mentally.

It is indeed my family's Baitangbao.

It tastes sweet when you eat it.

It's also sweet and refreshing, tender and juicy, and melts in your mouth!

But it seems...

Speaking of...

Why does it feel like the fish has entered the stomach when eating a fish dish?This obviously does not conform to the laws of objective science!Maybe it was just my illusion——

Shang Huaiyan pinched the chopsticks, unable to decide whether to eat another pinch for a long time, always felt that if he ate another pinch over there, it meant that Yi Baitang's cooking was not as delicious as grandpa's...

Seeing Shang Huaiyan's appearance, Yi Baitang understood everything.

His face turned green, he didn't want to look at Shang Huaiyan at all, and said to old man Dong expressionlessly: "You won."

Old man Dong: "Fu—"

He leaned on his recliner again, slowly swayed, and said with a victorious indifference: "Okay, eat." Then he pushed the plate of fish he made in front of Yi Baitang, "Eat .”

Yi Baitang sat down with resentment, put all the fish from old man Dong into his own bowl, put all the fish he cooked into Shang Huaiyan's bowl, ate all the fish himself, and stared at Shang Huaiyan to eat all the fish!

After the meal, the two young men filled their stomachs.

Yi Baitang washed the dishes, pulled Shang Huaiyan to stand up, and said to Old Man Dong, "I'm leaving with him."

Old Man Dong: "Yes."

Yi Baitang: "The next time we meet, it's time for the Chef King Competition."

Old Man Dong: "Yes."

Yi Baitang solemnly said, "I will defeat you."

Old Man Dong: "Hehe."

After saying these three sentences, Yi Baitang took Shang Huaiyan and walked towards the door. When he stepped out of the threshold, old man Dong's indifferent voice came from behind: "The reason why your mother left back then was because of me. It's not in line with her ideas."

Yi Baitang turned his head back, complained blankly, "My mother and my father divorced because of disagreement, and my mother's leaving also disagrees with your ideas."

Old man Dong was lying on the rocking chair.

The sun has set and the stars are everywhere, he said in the night:

"Your mom has a different philosophy about food than I do. We don't mix, so I let her go."

On the way back from Dongjia Village, the lights were dim, and there was a lot of traffic. Looking from the sky to the ground, all the stars in the sky fell into the world, illuminating the road ahead.

After returning home, Shang Huaiyan rushed Yi Baitang to take a shower, then sat on the sofa and thought about life.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, Shang Huaiyan suddenly woke up, looked around, and found that Yi Baitang, who was taking a bath in the bathroom, hadn't come out yet, so he got up and knocked on the bathroom door: "Baitang?"

"Gollum."

"Baitang...?"

"Grumbling."

Shang Huaiyan directly opened the bathroom door, and in the dense mist, he saw Yi Baitang lying on his back in the jacuzzi.The massage function of the bathtub was turned on, and the water was bubbling like balls in the middle of the bathtub. Yi Baitang only had his eyes, nose, and mouth floating on the water surface, and he was using his mouth to simulate the mouth of a fish, spitting water along with the bubbles of the water flow .

Under the water, it is beautiful and delicious.

Seeing Yi Baitang playing with the water, Shang Huaiyan was not in a hurry anymore, stood at the door and admired it, then rolled up his sleeves and walked to the bathtub, with his palms in the water, fingertips on Yi Baitang The shoulders and neck were twirling ambiguously, and asked: "Why are you in the mood to play like this today?"

Yi Baitang: "I ate a piece of fish tonight, Gulu."

Shang Huaiyan: "So?"

Yi Baitang: "When I see water, I suddenly want to live the life of a fish, Gulu Gulu."

Shang Huaiyan praised: "The old man's craftsmanship is good enough."

This sentence instantly made Yi Baitang regain his human consciousness!

Sitting in the bathtub, Yi Baitang's expression tightened, and the hatred of being defeated by the same person for 20 years surged into his heart instantly. He sat up from the water with a "crash", pulled the white towel beside him, and wiped his body. Shuizhu: "Very well, I'm awake."

Shang Huaiyan: "...No, actually you don't have to wake up so early."

He regretted it a bit, just now he spent all his time on feasting his eyes, thinking about going step by step, and as a result, the duck that had been stripped naked saw it put on its clothes again...

But forget it, the future is long.

There will be bread, there will be milk, and there will be Play in the water sooner or later.

Shang Huaiyan pulled the towel at the side, pressed the water drops on Yi Baitang's face, wiped his wet hair one by one, ran his fingertips through the wet hair, and groped slowly. After a while, he found it. Scars hidden by hair.

The scar is indeed not obvious anymore.

If you don't pay attention carefully, it is easy to be overlooked, but once you consciously explore, even after 20 years, you can still clearly see how long the opening was opened at that time.

Shang Huaiyan circled here twice with his fingers, and then Yi Baitang suddenly asked: "You moved very quickly today."

"What action?" Shang Huaiyan was taken aback.

"Our business." Yi Baitang said, he was a little unhappy, he always felt that this matter should be said by himself, even if he couldn't say it by himself, he should say it when two people were together, so his little Accusation, "You've already said it took me to walk around the kitchen."

"But I didn't say anything..." Shang Huaiyan replied.

"Eh?" Yi Baitang asked.

"I really didn't say anything." Shang Huaiyan emphasized.

The two looked at each other.

"Then why is the old man so sure?" Yi Baitang was puzzled.

"I don't know..." Shang Huaiyan couldn't figure it out, "Did someone tell him?"

"Is it possible?" Yi Baitang was not sure, he did bring Shang Huaiyan to meet one or two people who had contact with the old man recently.

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for the time being, anyway, the result is the same.Shang Huaiyan changed the subject and talked about something more important.

"What do you think of what grandpa said about your mother at night?"

"What do you think?"

"Do you think that's how it used to be?"

"Yes."

"So sure?" Shang Huaiyan was startled.

"He won't lie to me." Yi Baitang paused for a moment when he said this, a strange and somewhat unbearable shadow flashed across his face, "It's just that sometimes the right thing is right and the other side is right and the other is joking, and sometimes the right thing is wrong. Keeping half and half, and sometimes deliberately misleading me—anyway, in real terms, except for cooking, the probability of him talking to me honestly is about 30.00%.”

"It's quite a lot..." Shang Huaiyan said against his will.

"I plan to meet her." Yi Baitang said again in a deep voice.

"Well—" Shang Huaiyan replied quickly, "When do you plan to see her?"

"Not in a hurry." Yi Baitang felt that his hair was almost wiped, he stood up from the water, shook his hair, and the remaining water drops were all contributed to Shang Huaiyan's clothes, "After I finish participating Tomorrow's Chef King Competition, I'll go find her again. Since it's so troublesome to know the truth about the past from others, I'll just ask her when the time comes."

"Okay." Shang Huaiyan looked at Yi Baitang and smiled slowly.He also stood up, put a bathrobe on the naked Yi Baitang, pinched Yi Baitang's shoulder lightly, and kissed the scar under his hair, "There are no cigarettes, I'm going out to buy a pack of cigarettes. "

In the middle of the night, Shang Huaiyan, who was driving out, first called his assistant to find a person's whereabouts.After receiving confirmation from his assistant, he turned the steering wheel, parked the car in front of a gear on a busy street, and got out of the car to smoke a cigarette.

There are people coming and going at the entrance of the stalls, and a group of people come in and out every three to five minutes.

Shang Huaiyan leaned against the car door and took two puffs of cigarettes, and saw Yuan Hui chatting and laughing with a group of people, and came out from the food stall.

On the shoulder of the road, a silver-gray BMW gleamed under the street lights, and the man leaning on the door of the BMW was unremarkable.

Yuan Hui and the others saw this scene the first moment they came out.

His first reaction:

I wipe, show bag!

Second reaction:

Damn public enemy, I want to cover him with a black sack!

Third reaction:

Hey, this guy is recruiting me?

Shang Huaiyan came here specially to block Yuan Hui.

He saw someone, raised his hand and waved at him.

Only then did Yuan Hui see clearly who was standing in front of the BMW, and he was displeased: Will you not make a sound if something happens?You're waving like you're beckoning a dog, okay?

But those around him are already:

"Hey, BMW man is waving at us!"

"Who is he calling?"

When several people looked at each other, Yuan Hui didn't respond, so it was no surprise that they immediately pushed him with laughter: "So I came to see Yuan Shao!"

"Yuan Shao has so many friends, go quickly, we will wait for you!"

Yuan Hui was immediately pushed out of the crowd, and walked forward helplessly. He walked up to Shang Huaiyan a few steps: "Mr. Shang, what a coincidence."

Shang Huaiyan laughed, "Unfortunately, I came here specifically to find you."

Yuan Hui could only ask, "What's the matter?"

Shang Huaiyan said: "20 years have passed, why did you suddenly appear in front of Baitang?"

Yuan Hui is unremarkable: "Because my adoptive mother has been thinking about him. When I was young, I had no choice but to be afraid. When I grow up, I want to fulfill the wish of my adoptive mother, that's all."

Shang Huaiyan: "Well..."

He took out a cigarette and handed it to Yuan Hui, while biting the e-cigarette himself: "Have you ever thought about something?"

Yuan Hui wondered, "What's the matter?"

Shang Huaiyan: "The only reason in the world for a mother who still loves her child to refuse to see her own child...mostly is that she has done something that made her feel unable to face her child."

Yuan Hui raised his eyes and took a closer look at Shang Huaiyan: "You want to spoil their meeting?"

"Me?" Shang Huaiyan smiled and shook his head, "No, I won't do this. As for what kind of person my mother is, if Baitang doesn't have the right to know, no one else in the world is entitled to know One thing. I just came to remind you..." He raised his finger and pressed it on his mouth, "If you try your best to promote this matter, the result may not be as you expected."

After he finished speaking, he nodded politely to Yuan Hui, opened the door again, and drove away.

It was night, Shang Huaiyan came home and slept with Yi Baitang in his arms.

Yi Baitang turned over and said, "Watch my match tomorrow."

Shang Huaiyan fully agreed: "Okay, no problem, I'll go with you!"

After he finished speaking, he suddenly realized: "Wait, what's the date tomorrow? The company seems to have a shareholder meeting going on."

Yi Baitang: "..."

Shang Huaiyan: "..."

Shang Huaiyan was in a state of desperation, and quickly coaxed: "Baby, don't be angry, next time, next time I will definitely accompany you!"

Yi Baitang snorted coldly: "No need."

Shang Huaiyan: Are you really angry QvQ?

Yi Baitang was arrogant and domineering: "When will you finish the meeting? I will delay the game until the moment you finish the meeting!"