North to Hanchuan

As soon as his slightly cool lips touched, Gu Hengbei stood up straight, as if he didn't see the film of water covering Ji Hanchuan's eyes, he smiled and touched Ji Hanchuan's chin: "Go cook, let me taste it." How far has your cooking skills deteriorated?"

"Go out and play with Ozawa, I'll just come here..."

Ji Hanchuan stood by the sink and rolled up his sleeves, his voice suddenly paused.

Slender arms wrapped around Ji Hanchuan's waist, Gu Hengbei stood behind him and tied an apron for him, his warm breath was blowing on Ji Hanchuan's ears like the light wind of early summer, and the small row of fluff behind his eardrums Qi Shushu stood up.

Ji Hanchuan tilted his head, and Gu Hengbei's eyes crossed his shoulder and met him, reflecting the stars and lights, and the illusion of light.

Ji Hanchuan's pupils were hit hard, they had done this countless times before, Gu Hengbei helped him tie the apron, and then rested his chin on his shoulder, he moved in the kitchen, Gu Hengbei also moved, Occasionally he turned his head, and they would look at each other like this, and then kiss...

"Is there anything I can do to help?" The heat behind him left without warning, Gu Hengbei looked at the dishes piled up on the counter, took an egg and threw it up.

Ji Hanchuan lowered his eyes to conceal his disappointment: "No, I'll be fine."

"Let's go together," Gu Hengbei touched Ji Hanchuan's face with an egg, his eyes slightly curved, "Xiao Ze is hungry, hurry up, both of you."

The eggshell felt cool to the touch, but Ji Hanchuan felt hot in his heart: "Okay."

Strictly speaking, Gu Hengbei’s house is quite old, and many of the facilities were outdated. Fortunately, the day he brought Gu Yuze to live in, he replaced the whole set of stove and kitchen utensils, all stainless steel European-style kitchen utensils. It was so bright that two figures stood shoulder to shoulder.

There was a sound of rushing water, and Ji Hanchuan and Gu Hengbei each occupied a sink to wash vegetables. There were pots on the two stoves, one was boiling hot water, and the other was bubbling with oil.

The two have a clear division of labor, Ji Hanchuan cooks, and Gu Hengbei chops.

"Crackling", the oil pan exploded slowly, and the sound of "tuk-tuk-tuk" cutting vegetables also sounded.

Watching Gu Hengbei use a knife is a kind of enjoyment. He has successfully brought the fine manipulation on the operating table to the kitchen. Different ingredients use different knives. The sharp knife carves fresh and blooming flowers, the ceramic knife cuts the fish obliquely into a shuttle shape, and the kitchen knife is powerful and heavy, chops the ribs and chicken into pieces, and the pieces are even.

On Gu Hengbei's wet fingertips, light, water light and knife light intertwined and flickered, and the glare was scattered. He deliberately showed off, and deliberately played the blade airtight, which made Ji Hanchuan terrified.

Gu Heng blinked at Ji Hanchuan, a little proudly: "How is it? Isn't he handsome?"

"Be careful," Ji Hanchuan's face turned pale, "don't hurt your hand."

When it comes to hands, Gu Hengbei seems to be touched by a certain switch, and he is overjoyed: "Hey, I said you are hand-controlled? Otherwise, why do you keep paying attention to my hands? I haven't thought of this word before, but now I think about you ..."

"I'm neither hand-controlled nor foot-controlled. I'm just afraid that you might hurt your hands." Ji Hanchuan turned around and put ginger and spring onions into the hot oil pan. With a sound of "sizzling", little oil stars splashed, and he looked back. Gu Hengbei laughed Manman, "If I really want to say that I have any control, I will only control you."

Gu Hengbei lowered his head and chopped the last vegetables, as if he didn't hear it.

Ji Hanchuan pursed his lips, took the fish past Gu Hengbei's hand, and slid it into the pot.

Gu Hengbei put the knife into the knife holder, and suddenly snapped his fingers next to Ji Hanchuan's ear, and the water droplets on his hand splashed onto Ji Hanchuan's ear, bringing a icy chill.

Ji Hanchuan turned his head following the voice, his eyes suddenly darkened, his soft and moist lips pressed against him, and with a light touch, he left immediately.

He was just staring blankly, when Gu Hengbei patted him: "What's the next dish?"

Ji Hanchuan stared blankly, and after a few seconds of reaction, he said, "... stewed chicken."

"I can cook this," Gu Hengbei said enthusiastically, "Leave it to me!"

Ji Hanchuan only felt that his heart was fluttering and sinking suddenly, and was torn apart by Gu Hengbei, sour and sweet and wronged.

He couldn't figure it out for sure, he couldn't grasp it firmly, sometimes he wondered if Gu Hengbei hadn't forgiven him yet, but in an instant he felt that Gu Hengbei still liked him very much.

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The two of them were wrong, Ji Hanchuan went to the other side of the cupboard and took a small bowl, beat a few eggs and stirred, while Gu Hengbei poured all the chicken nuggets, goji berries, mushrooms, fungus and ham into the pressure cooker In the middle of the day, he closed the lid of the pot, adjusted the time, and then the two came back by mistake. Ji Hanchuan handed the egg bowl to Gu Hengbei to beat, and turned the fish in the pot over by himself.

Accidentally cooperated with Tian|YiSeamless.

They smiled again when they looked at each other.

Ji Hanchuan picked up the cooked pork ribs and asked while soaking the water, "How do you want to eat the pork ribs?"

"Braised, or pork ribs with plum juice," Gu Hengbei thought for a while, "Plum juice, Gu Yuze likes to use that soup to make rice."

"Have you bought plums yet?"

Gu Hengbei shouted outside: "Gu Yuze!"

The child ran in with his toy car in his arms, Qing Lingling's voice was like a small bell: "What are you calling me for?"

"Do you still have the Yoyomei I bought for you last time?"

The child ran out and came back after a while, holding a bag of plums in his little hand: "There is only one bag left!"

"One bag is enough."

Gu Hengbei took the plums and unpacked them, fed one to the child, bit one himself, and stuffed another one for Ji Hanchuan. The child did not leave when he came in, and circled behind the heels of the two adults. I had three puffy faces, chatting inarticulately.

When it was time to start cooking pork ribs with plum juice, the bag of plums had already bottomed out, so it could only be braised in braised sauce.

The dishes are all cooked, sweet and sour fish, snowflake beef with peppercorns, crystal prawn balls, braised pork ribs, and a cup of wolfberry chicken. The sweet soup is sago dew with mango coconut milk.

Chef Ji's best dishes are here.

Ji Hanchuan watched with a little anxiety as Gu Hengbei dropped the first chopsticks. Gu Hengbei took the snowflake beef between the chopsticks and chewed it for a long time before turning his eyes and giving a thumbs up.

Ji Hanchuan's eyebrows stretched, and he let out a sigh of relief, only to realize that his back had long been soaked in sweat.

In the deep winter night, the cold wind blows outside, and the interior is as warm as spring. The wall lamp on top of the dining table is also that warm yellow color, illuminating a table of exquisite dishes. Two men and a child are sitting at the table, It is a happy scene for the whole family.

"Although New Year's Day has passed, but at the beginning of the new year, we still have a formal celebration." Gu Hengbei raised his glass, and the black liquid inside was rippling with white bubbles. Coke instead of wine, Ji Hanchuan, you use orange juice instead of wine, Gu Yuze, you use milk instead of wine, wish us a new year, um..."

Facing the two pairs of dark eyes, Gu Hengbei suddenly stopped laughing. In the past, this kind of family gathering never required him to take the lead in speaking. He has not yet adapted to the role of "head of the family".

Ji Hanchuan said calmly: "May we have today every year and today every year."

Gu Hengbei glanced at him with a smile: "Well said! Cheers!"

"cheers!"

Gu Yuze's fingers were wrapped around children's chopsticks, and he picked up the prawn balls in the small bowl into his mouth. Gu Hengbei picked out the big thorns from the belly of the fish, and removed the bones from the legs in the chicken soup, and gave them all to his nephew. .Shrimp balls, fish maw, and crispy stewed chicken thighs are the essence of the whole table, and Gu Hengbei gave them all to the children.

Then when he lowered his head, he saw that there was an extra layer of fish meat in his bowl, which was all over-picked.

"Next time we will buy fish without thorns." Ji Hanchuan took out another chicken leg and put it in Gu Hengbei's bowl. There was an undetectable fluctuation in his indifferent expression, like a thin wicker across the water, pulling out a chicken leg. Shallow thin marks, "This leg is yours."

Gu Hengbei pressed the back of his hand to his forehead and couldn't help laughing.

"The meal is well done!" Gu Hengbei filled Ji Hanchuan's bowl with beef and pork ribs, and even touched his head, "It's not a step back!"

"Gu Yuze," Gu Hengbei stomped the floor lightly, "Today's dinner is mainly made by your uncle, have you thanked him yet?"

The child raised his oily face, then looked down at the last shrimp ball in his bowl, extremely distressed, resolutely scooped that shrimp ball into Ji Hanchuan's bowl, dragged a long The little milk said: "Thank you little uncle for cooking for me, it's super delicious!"

Ji Hanchuan's eyelids trembled for a moment, and slowly closed down, his smile condensed little by little, and all of it was drawn into the depths of his eyes.

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After the meal, Gu Hengbei talked to Gu Jinnan on the phone in the study, and told his brother about the fact that someone secretly took pictures of Gu Yuze in the mall.

Gu Jinnan sternly said, "What does that person look like? I'll get him out right now!"

Gu Hengbei knows that although his brother has been unscrupulous for many years, his subordinates have always been very measured, but this matter is related to Gu Yuze, Gu Hengbei is afraid that something will go wrong, and Gu Jinnan is afraid that it is not serious:

"That person is a candid photographer. He doesn't know who he is photographing. I guess someone behind him ordered it...Let's leave this matter to me first. Anyway, I will be inseparable with Ozawa for a while. Wait until we find out If you come forward to deal with that person in the back, Ji Hanchuan has locked up the sneak photographer..."

"Wait Ji Hanchuan?" Gu Jinnan's voice changed suddenly, "Is he not stupid anymore?"

"Ah, I'm not stupid."

"Don't be stupid, why don't you let him go?!"

This matter will have a showdown sooner or later, Gu Hengbei kicked his feet on the ground, and the swivel chair slid all the way to the wall, so that his two legs could be fully stretched under the desk.

With the back of his head against the wall, Gu Hengbei calmly said in an informative tone: "I don't intend to let him go."

After finishing speaking, Gu Hengbei stretched his arms wisely, and kept the phone away from his ears, so that he could still hear Gu Jinnan's violent curses coming from inside.

If the sound can be transformed into a tangible entity, then Gu Jinnan's bursting words are likely to condense into a rainstorm of pear blossom needles, pricking Gu Hengbei into a hedgehog ball.

I don't know how long it took until the noise from the microphone subsided a bit before Gu Hengbei put the phone back to his ear and called out, "Brother."

"Don't call me brother, Gu Xiaosi..." Gu Jinnan's voice became hoarse, and he was panting heavily, "How old are you this year? Why are you still as brainless as you were at the [-]th and [-]th meetings? You have been planted for so many years and still have no brains. You don't think it's enough, you're going to fight this person for the rest of your life, right? How did that ungrateful thing treat you? You completely forgot..."

"No." Gu Hengbei pinched his forehead, he had no way to defend Ji Hanchuan, let alone reveal Ji Hanchuan's identity, "You don't understand what happened between me and him..."

"I don't want to understand a single fucking punctuation mark!"

"You don't have a say if you don't know."

"I think you were tricked by him!"

"Whatever you say."

"Gu Xiaosi, I absolutely disagree!"

"I don't need your consent."

"It's impossible for Dad to agree!"

"I'll go and tell Dad myself."

Gu Hengbei's voice has always maintained a light and declarative tone, neither rushing nor slowing down, neither oily nor salty.

"Paralyzed!" Gu Jinnan yelled uncontrollably, "Did our Gu family owe him a surname of Ji in the previous life? That dog is here to collect debts!"

Gu Hengbei was taken aback by his brother's yelling, he almost blurted out "You are right brother, our Gu family really owes the Ji family".

Gu Jinnan walked back and forth over there like a trapped animal, stomping on the floor: "Is he coming back to pester you again and you can't get rid of him? Just wait, I'll go over there now, I'll kill that dog |Day's..."

"Brother," Gu Hengbei said jokingly, "Do you think you can kill him under my hands?"

"Boom!" Gu Hengbei guessed that his brother probably kicked over the marble coffee table at home.

Gu Hengbei got up and walked to the window, looking at his own reflection reflected in the glass, he could see the thin and jumping fragments of light in his clear eyebrows, this kind of cold and firm like a seal carved on solid ice It reminded him of himself who fought against the entire Gu family many years ago, and he was so resolute at that time:

"Brother, I just want to let you know about this matter, so as not to cause any trouble next time you come to me and meet him. I can't explain the rest. You just need to know that if I go down Who do you want to spend half of your life with, then it can only be him..."

"Beep beep-"

The call was cut off, and Gu Hengbei suspected that Gu Jinnan probably dropped his phone too.

Gu Jinnan's attitude was completely expected by Gu Hengbei, but Gu Hengbei was not afraid at all. His brother had only two weaknesses in his life, and unfortunately he was one of them, and Gu Jinnan's other weakness was obviously on Gu Hengbei's side. So Gu Hengbei doesn't need to reason with Gu Jinnan, his brother is tough, as long as he is tougher than his brother, Gu Jinnan can't beat him.

Gu Jinnan went crazy over there and set the house on fire, but in fact he didn't say a single serious word to Gu Hengbei.

In just a few days, the world that Gu Hengbei had finally settled down collapsed and rebuilt again. Everyone felt that he was fascinated again, but only Gu Hengbei knew how a palm in the dark pushed him away. Follow him, take him back and forth for the lost four years.

Gu Hengbei looked out through the window, at his feet was a huge and bustling city, with a sea of ​​cars, and bright lights, but his thoughts returned to the ward of Director Li a few days ago.

Ji Hanchuan’s car accident happened strangely. There hasn’t been such an accident in Kyoto for decades. Accompanied by the director of the main department and the security team clearing the way and the rear, there were more than a dozen cars colliding in a row in the underground tunnel in the early hours of the morning. Most of the car owners and passengers died on the spot. On the surface, the accident has been characterized, but in fact MSS has not yet closed the case.

The situation in country A is turbulent and treacherous. Ji Hanchuan came over safely during so many moments when his life was on the verge of death, but he almost lost his life in the safest capital of Kyoto.

China's security situation has always been a system independent|independent of the world. Whether it is an international killer or a mercenary who arrives in China, it will be a dragon and a tiger. In the end, let alone Kyoto City, the political and cultural center of China, is a forbidden area for all international dark forces, unless... there are powerful local snakes to respond.

There was one most important reason why MSS handed over Ji Hanchuan to Gu Hengbei at that time. If someone here in Kyoto really wanted Ji Hanchuan's life, then Ji Hanchuan, who followed the fourth young master of the Gu family, would undoubtedly have obtained a layer of golden bell protection Well, those who have the motivation and energy to want Ji Hanchuan's life will not dare to touch the people of Gu's family rashly.

This is easy to understand. The departments corresponding to each incident have their own operating procedures. For example, when Ji Hanchuan has an accident now, the reconnaissance department is MSS, and the reconnaissance direction is concentrated on Ji Hanchuan's business opponents and enemies. If the Gu family is involved, it means that the sky is the beginning, and the police, army, and national security are all out.

It's not that Ji Hanchuan's weight is not enough, but that Gu Hengbei's status is too special. Gu Hengbei's great-grandfather was the founding father of the country, and his grandfather's last words were "not to enter Babaoshan". If you start to investigate the motives, you have to dig up the capital, because you don't know which one of the Gu family they are targeting.

At that time, when Zhang Hui said all these things, Gu Hengbei almost sneered, why should he help Ji Hanchuan like this?To endorse Ji Hanchuan with the entire Gu family?Whether Ji Hanchuan lives or dies is none of his business? !

"Doctor Gu," Zhang Hui is worthy of being a top intelligence officer. He can guess Gu Hengbei's thoughts without saying a word. He naturally knows how to conquer Gu Hengbei. Zhang Hui asked, "You came from country A After you came back, brother Ling once applied to our MSS for your first-level secret protection, do you know about this?"

Gu Hengbei was startled: "What?"

Zhang Hui: "Our colleagues from the third bureau once secretly protected you for a while."

Gu Hengbei blinked his eyelashes a few times, inexplicably: "Why?"

"Because before you returned to China, your elder brother Gu Jinnan received several international threatening emails related to you. The addresses of those emails were heavily disguised and we were unable to trace them at the time, but we later found out through contact with Ji Hanchuan that those emails were He sent it, and he reminded Brother Ling to strengthen your protection—did you know that someone paid a high price on the dark web to buy the lives of Chinese shareholders of NorMou?"

Gu Hengbei shook his head blankly: "I was in CSHL for a long time before, and after I came out... I never asked about NorMou, and later," he paused, he still said, "Ji Hanchuan proposed to buy all I have. NorMou shares, because...they don’t want to work with me in the future.”

Zhang Hui spread his hands: "Because of the financial war between the two continents, the two continents have been in a state of confrontation for a long time. NorMor started out as a media company, and its position is not so popular with white people. You know that. ?”

Gu Hengbei's complexion changed slightly.

"At that time, many humiliated crocodiles in the financial war issued a reward order, and all the Chinese shareholders of NorMou were on the list. Although this matter did not deteriorate to the most serious result, but... because he once tried his best to In order to protect you, please do us this favor?"

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