days of waiting

"Chen, good morning." Mi Yining entered the store early in the morning, put on her apron like a whirlwind, and took the brownie batter that Li Chen was whipping. She lowered her head and sniffed, then turned to Li Chen and said, "Not yet. With rum?"

In fact, Li Chen forgot to add this ingredient for several days.Adding or not adding it doesn't have much impact on Li Chen. If the guest doesn't respond, she will naturally forget it.

"It's so early today." Li Chen handed over the wine bottle, saw Mi Yining carefully pour the wine into the bottle cap, and roughly measured it, "What's wrong?"

In fact, Xiaomi should have arrived at eight o'clock.

"It's nothing." Mi Yining said emphatically, causing the rum to spill into the brown batter as if it had been smashed.

Li Chen looked at the girl's busy back, and guessed that she probably had an argument with the so-called "roommate" again, and couldn't stay early in the morning, so he came directly to the store.

Almost, all of them.

Every time Li Chen asked, she couldn't get an answer, but Mi Yining would blurt out the truth behind the story when Cheng Youwei teased her, or when Han Zhaojie and other guests surprised her on time.

All that Li Chen knows about Mi Yining is what he heard.

"Chen, help me whip the cream, [-] grams." Mi Yining pushed the baking pan filled with batter into the oven, turned to Li Chen, and then pulled out the cream cheese from the refrigerator, and continued to work on her.

The words are very concise and fast, if it is not for the most important ones, she will not speak to herself.This is the conclusion Li Chen reached a long time ago.

But Li Chen would rather, would rather Mi Yining not want to talk to her because of his own perception that Li Chen was boring, and she would not want her to say a lot of irrelevant nonsense to him just to be polite.

Once upon a time, there were too many moments for words.

"Here, if you add a little rum to the brownie, the taste will be more fragrant and more delicate. Of course, this is a very detailed detail, so it's okay to omit it, but I think to create quality, you should pay attention to everything..."

After Mi Yining finished speaking, he added crushed large walnuts, sent Brown into the oven, and asked Li Chen, who was baking for the first time, to check it every 5 minutes.If it is overbaked, it will be dry and crumbly, like one of those nasty biscuits.

"Where did the oven come from?" Li Chen asked, carefully looking at the girl who promised to help him.

"My friend's second-hand oven, I borrowed it. If you need it, I can also bargain for it for you." Mi Yining said lightly.That's a professional oven—the kind that heats the front and back evenly, and the temperature of the upper and lower fires can be adjusted separately.

Li Chen was a little dumbfounded, this kind of thing was born at birth, is she Tinker Bell?

Mi Yining checked the recipe and told Li Chen that the next item to be taught was small western cakes.

"Chen, help me whip the cream, six hundred grams."

Li Chen carefully threw the measured cream into the steel basin, awkwardly plugged in the electric egg beater, and found that the cream taken out of the refrigerator was as hard as a rock.But the electric thing is really not covered, and a hole was dug out on the yellow blocky surface, but Li Chen accidentally tilted the egg beater, and the finely crushed butter just sprayed on the wall.

"Ah..." Li Chen exclaimed a little, which really shocked her.

"Stupid!" Mi Yining smiled and grabbed Li Chen's elbow, "Cut the cream into small pieces next time, because the portion is relatively large, so it will be easier to handle."

Mi Yining crossed Li Chen's chest, reached out to hold the egg beater, and helped Li Chen adjust the intensity to the lowest.When he stretched out his hand, there was a faint scent of jasmine, mixed with the smell of rum wine, and Li Chen was in a daze for a while.

"...The egg beater has to be vertical. The design of the steel basin will not spray out anyway, but it only works when it is vertical!"

"...Then how far will it go?"

"It's a little white, much whiter than the cream at the beginning. Let it feel! You should know when the time comes, heh."

Li Chen nodded, wondering how much he could learn in one day.

Even if you learn it, you can be as handy as Xiaomi, to the point where you can put it on the table and sell it, I am afraid it will be far away...

Just about to open his mouth to express his confusion to Xiaomi, Li Chen heard her cell phone ringing, and then saw her quickly wash her hands with soap, and quickly picked it up.

"Xiaoyu, how are you recently! Hey, I just want to ask you for help... I'm a little embarrassed. I wanted to ask if you could lend me the size five font from the font design class, but because I need to use it in It's for commercial use, so I have to ask you to sell me at a low price...Really? Is it possible? Great! Really great! Thank you!"

Mi Yining's voice was raised almost instantly, with great emotional ups and downs, "Okay! Thank you so much! Alright, an old saying: You should go to bed early and take care of yourself! Alright, bye!"

Li Chen intuitively felt that the content of the conversation was related to him.

"Great news!" Mi Yining hung up the phone, and said to Li Chen with a happy face, "I have a friend who is engaged in graphic design, and I want to send you a font directly. I think it is very suitable for outdoor signs."

"...that's something unique, much better than the fonts built into the computer..."

Li Chen didn't know how to speak, Mi Yining helped him too much...

"Design... Isn't design very expensive?" Li Chen asked timidly about his own cognition.

"Well, she owes me some favors, so don't worry. If I didn't lend a helping hand, her Mont Blanc is still a disaster. Anyway, I gave her three copper molds of Kerilu last year. Those things are Scary expensive..."

"...Although her fonts might earn her a lot of money, far better than those dessert gadgets, if she gives you her personality, she probably won't use them for other purposes." Although Mi Yining said this Anyway, he didn't care too much, he was so happy that he hummed a song.

Li Chen synthesized the content of Xiaomi's conversations all day long, and sorted out his basic understanding of girls.She seems to be a lively, generous, straight-talking girl. She is very delicate and helpful in her personality. In terms of interpersonal relationship, she has a wide range of friends, so wide that she can get whatever she wants at her fingertips.

"Egg beaters, steel basins, squeegee... and other utensils, I'll give them to you! They're all mine, don't worry, I'll have to work later, I can't do these things anymore, it's good to have them in hand now. "

They didn't have much time, Mi Yining taught two kinds of cakes and two kinds of biscuits, and the time was almost used up.Hearing these words, Li Chen felt a sense of saying goodbye.

Melancholy hangs over like a dark cloud.

"work to earn a living?"

"Well, I still have rent to pay! Tie Chi said that he couldn't live in the school dormitory, and now he's making himself very tired." Mi Yining threw the scraper and egg beater into the hot water, and said, "No What kind of good job is willing to cooperate with my class time, so I have to find an ordinary one and barely do it..."

"How much is your hourly salary now?" Li Chen watched the butter and dough float to the surface of the water, and poured out the hot water with his hand.

"Engaging in catering is the minimum wage..."

"In our store, we are recruiting for work."

Li Chen raised his head abruptly and said, this is her only chance, she must seize the opportunity!

"What?" Mi Yining turned to look at Li Chen suspiciously.

"We apply for work-study, and the hourly salary is 150 yuan."

In fact, Li Chen didn't know whether the revenue in the store was good or not. He only had a vague impression that coffee beans were very profitable.It doesn't matter, if you have to cut off half of your salary, but you can keep Mi Yining, this is definitely a deal worth the fare.

It's the first time Li Chen has this kind of feeling for someone, she doesn't want to miss it!

"Okay!" The girl smiled at Li Chen and nodded.

That smile, facing her, was the best day of Li Chen's life.

"Chen, help me try this."

Li Chen regained consciousness from his memory, looked at Mi Yining's face, there was no footprint of any years on it in the past year, only a look of knowing things clearly, that kind of accident-savvy taste.

The girl handed over a piece of pie, and the white meringue on it was extruded into a rhythmic wave shape. From some angles, it looked like a swan's wings were preparing to fly high on the golden pie crust. brown.

Rather than a dessert, the thing looked delicately more like a work of art.

"Lemon tart, served with meringue." Mi Yining said, the focus on his face came from the dessert in his hand, "I want to use the sweetness of meringue to neutralize the sourness of lemon cheese, help me eat and see if it is harmonious harmonious."

Li Chen took it flattered, Mi Yining didn't ask Han Zhaojie or Cheng Youwei to try it, but handed it to himself.Although it may be because Li Chen is the store manager, it is reasonable to give Li Chen the newly developed dim sum, but Li Chen wiped out his rationality at this level, and simply enjoyed the feeling of Mi Yining handing him dessert.

Maybe this is even more rare than the rain after a long drought... Maybe in Li Chen's life, except for the time when he used his work to keep Mi Yining in Bitter&Sweet, this time is the only good luck.

The tart skin of the lemon pie is crispy, and the millet is kneaded with walnut or almond powder, and the tart skin will taste a little nutty.

The taste of lemon cheese is almost pudding-like liquid, and the meringue is fluffy and light, but the golden brown part on the top has a crispy taste.When the lemon is taken in, there will be a sour sting on the forehead, forcing people to squint their eyes, but the sweetness of the meringue can relieve the sourness in time.

The back and forth between sour and sweet is an adventure in taste.

"Very good, this is delicious."

As Li Chen said, he saw Mi Yining smiling brightly at him.

That smile will make you feel like today is the best day of your life!

When Cheng Youwei frowned and pushed the lemon pie away, or Han Zhaojie shook his head and told Xiaomi that the dessert was too climaxing and exciting, Xiaomi still made it according to her recipe and never adjusted the acidity.

All just luck.

…In the end, Li Chen still convinced himself that it might just be because the store hadn’t opened in the morning, so Xiaomi handed him the pie. As for why the recipe didn’t adjust, Li Chen didn’t want to believe that it had something to do with him.

Li Chen didn't dare to let his happy mood be too presumptuous, everything might be more vain than a dream.She didn't dare to raise her expectations just because of a piece of pie—everyone knows the truth that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment—so Li Chen didn't want the tragedy to happen to her, she knew that her heart would be fragile because of Mi Yining , If you let your imagination fly, what you get in return is a deeper and heavier sigh at the curtain call.

Without the politeness and embarrassment of strangers, the current Mi Yining would just turn a blind eye to himself.

Don't have hope, this is what Li Chen learned from Xiaomi.

But still, if you ask Li Chen which dessert is recommended in the window, she will tell you...

"Lemon Pie."

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