eat, dance, love

Gu Yu spent this long vacation very boring, so he returned home.Soon, I figured out his daily routine.

He has good work and rest habits. He will definitely go to bed before eleven o'clock in the evening, get up at 06:30 in the morning, practice basic dance skills in the yard of Zheng Jiabao's house, and then come over to wait for breakfast.Then during the long days, he occasionally wandered around town, but more often he stayed alone in the woods in front of the B&B.Do not eat at noon, eat occasionally at night.

If I was idle, he would pull me to play Go-this almost completely occupied the time I used to play poker with my poker friends. For this reason, he claimed to have changed my "unhealthy way of entertainment".

On Friday evenings and weekends, he would come over to teach Zheng Hao how to dance.

A week passed without knowing it, and he seemed to be living very comfortably.Thanks to him, Zheng Jiabao's homestay and our food stalls have also become popular spots for the townspeople to gather in groups - all tourists who come to see the immortals.

He has a simple and straightforward personality, and treats people easily. If someone strikes up a conversation with him, he will always reply.

After a few days, I don’t know how many people in the town have taken photos with him. In my WeChat group and circle of friends alone, his photos and small videos are circulated in various ways every day.He seems to have become a local Internet celebrity in Haibao Town.

At first I was worried that this would cause too many images of him to spread out, which would have an unpredictable impact—at this time, I was already pretending to be curious, claiming to have passed him, and peeped his Weibo—but he didn’t care, holding On my mobile phone, I read group chat records and pictures posted in Moments with great interest.

I looked helpless.

There might also be a hint of old dad worry, as he watched the group chat for a while before settling down to comfort me.

"Oh brother Xu, don't worry, I'm not a star, I have to cover everything! Besides, for me, more exposure is good. If there is too much exposure, I might really become a big star."

As he spoke, he bumped my shoulder: "I've become a celebrity, and you are a celebrity's friend, aren't you happy?"

I:"……"

I know that his persona on Weibo is heartless, but I didn't expect him to be even more heartless in reality.In contrast, the guy on Weibo is quite intelligent and prudent in his words and deeds.

"Oh, as long as you're happy." I didn't mind my own business.

He frowned, smiled at me, lowered his head and continued to play with my phone.

To be honest, I can't tell whether he came to me with the desire to tease me or just to pass the time.However, since the former sounds too conceited and straight-masculine, I will rule it out politely.

So, under the mentality of presupposing the second situation, I accepted the "friend" position he called.

After finishing his "Haibao Town Gossip Diary", he returned the phone to me and said, "It's almost five o'clock, and your sister is leaving school. I promised to pick her up today, will you go?"

Hearing this, I was taken aback: "Is there such a thing?"

"Yeah." He nodded, put on the sunglasses on the table, and put on a long-sleeved shirt without fear of the heat, "Last Friday, we made an appointment, she finished my homework, and I Pick her up from school."

As soon as he said that, I suddenly realized.

In the past few days, Zheng Hao has been particularly conscious of doing his homework first after school, and then running to the yard to practice dancing.From compound techniques to special techniques, they practiced neatly one by one. I thought it was some kind of activity that their school dance troupe was going to do, and I dared to do it just to finish Teacher Gu's homework.

well.I sighed and said, "She is just vanity. You are famous in Haibao. She wants to show off to her classmates that she is good to you. You shouldn't spoil her."

"Shouldn't little girls be pampered?" He looked at me, and through the sunglasses, I could feel his innocent and mocking eyes. "Let's go, let's go together. Do you pick up your younger siblings from school?"

I didn't say a word, he poked me with his elbow, motioning for me to follow quickly.

This is the time for dinner, and the peak season for tourists to eat is coming soon.I looked back at the back kitchen, and was about to speak, when I saw three heads lying on the left, middle and right of the serving window.Headed by Zheng Jiabao, they are all old guys in the store. They all smiled awkwardly when they met my gaze.

"Master, you can go, we can take care of the store!" Zheng Jiabao waved the back of his hand at me, showing a considerate expression.

The other two heads also nodded repeatedly: "Brother Xu, you go!"

I paused.

Gu Yu had already walked outside the door, stood there and called me: "Hurry up, or I won't be able to catch up!"

... I don't know what I surrendered to, I really went out.

Not surprisingly, Gu Yu was surrounded by crowds at the gate of the primary school.

Aside from his beauty and recent fame, just his daily attire, in Haibao, a seaside town on the 36th line, is enough to show off.In this place, who is okay to wear sunglasses and long-sleeved trousers in the temperature of more than 30 degrees?

"Brother Xu, why are you standing so far away from me?" He turned his head and didn't see me, took off his sunglasses and looked at me.

hehe.I gave him a smile and let him experience it for himself.

But he obviously couldn't understand my heart, he took a long leg and moved closer to me.So, the eyes around me also took care of me.

He didn't care, pointed to a small cart next to the school gate, and asked me in a low voice: "Is that thing called an egg waffle?"

"Yes."

He thought for a moment, and said, "You can buy a copy later and share it with me."

I said seriously, "That one is baked, and it's very sweet."

He glanced at me a little strangely: "Sweet makes people happy, don't you know?"

"Aren't you afraid of getting fat?" I asked back.

He also asked back: "Isn't what you work hard every day to get rid of my pathological pursuit of thinness? I took the initiative to cooperate, why don't you appreciate it?"

At this moment, I must have looked in his eyes full of astonishment, because I was really astonished in my heart - I really didn't expect him to be so arrogant in order to eat a snack.

Oh no, it's not necessarily because he wants to eat snacks, or it may be simply because he is familiar with me and likes to tease me.According to what I have known about him for many years, he and his few friends who interact openly talk in this style.

"Teacher Gu, brother!" At this moment, a little girl and a little boy jumped out of the crowd leaving the school gate.

Zheng Hao spent half an hour combing his shoulder ponytail this morning, and it's still neat after a day.I don't know how much effort I spent combing before school.At a young age, the good ones don't learn, and the vanity learns home.

I thought, a little displeased, and didn't laugh.

Zheng Hao was originally running towards me, but after three meters, seeing my expression, he timidly turned around and moved towards Gu Yu: "Teacher Gu, are you really here?"

Gu Yu tugged at her hair, and the two of them completed a subtle interaction about hair recognition: "Of course, you can be a good teacher if you mean what you say."

As he spoke, he took the little girl's hand, glanced at me from the corner of his eye, and said to Gu Yu, "Do you want to eat egg waffles? Let your brother buy them for you, okay?"

Zheng Hao nodded like a chick pecking rice: "Okay, okay!"

"Childish!" Zheng Xing commented on the side.

Zheng Xing and I looked at each other and nodded in unison.

Gu Yu looked at it, gave a soft "tsk", and said to Zheng Hao: "Okay, the teacher will buy it for you." Then he took Zheng Hao to the cart.

I can't count the number of times I couldn't laugh or cry to him, and subconsciously said: "Why do you insist on eating this kind of snack, it's really unhealthy..."

Before I finished speaking, I suddenly remembered something.

This matter, let's talk about Pei Yanya.

She is a dance artist, and finally she was able to marry Zheng Zhiming, who was out of line with her original world. A large part of the reason was that she was very interested in cooking.

It's a pity that she was too busy when she was the stage pillar of the dance troupe, and she rarely had time to cook.But also because of the rarity, every time she cooks is particularly impressive.

So, now I see a little related things, and with a little association, I can extract a piece of the past from my memory.

——The first egg waffle I ate was made by her.

When I was about seven or eight years old, one day she got off work very early and came back with two thick iron plates, and then happily used the two grooved iron plates to bake a delicious cake. egg waffles.

That should also be the first time she made this kind of snack, and I was the first taster of this snack.

While watching me eat, she asked me: "Is it okay, do you like it?"

I don't remember how I answered it at the time, but it was probably a good word.Early the next morning, she happily made two more cakes and said she would give them to her new students.

That student is Gu Yu.

If it weren't for Gu Yu's stubbornness at the moment, I really forgot this point - I remembered it together, and what he said when I made him fried noodles on the first day, "There is a kind of feeling that I feel very nostalgic. smell".

At that time, I took it for granted that the "taste" he mentioned was the taste of Beijing.But maybe, what he was talking about was the taste of Pei Yanya.

Regarding the past of my family and Gu Yu's mother and son, many details have been downplayed for a long time.For example, Gu Yu used to be Pei Yanya's favorite student, leaving aside the love stories of adults, he himself has always been deeply missed by Pei Yanya.

Another example, that year when Pei Yanya took me and my suitcase out of the small courtyard in Beijing, Gu Yu ran over from the three members of my new family who were staring at me hostilely, crying and calling "Teacher Pei".

——It's so strange, we are clearly opposed to each other, but he may miss Pei Yanya deeply like me.

Indescribable emotions surged up in my heart uncontrollably, and I chased after him in two steps in three steps, and grabbed Gu Yu's wrist without thinking.

He turned his head and looked at me inexplicably, then the corner of his mouth drooped, and he said aggrievedly: "Why? You won't even let me buy it out of my own pocket?"

I said: "Let's go home, I'll make it for you, it's better than outside."

"Okay!" After hearing this, his eyes lit up, "I also think you must have done a good job!"

So, back to the food stall, I immediately hid in the small kitchen.

I took the pure fresh local eggs from Zheng Jiabao's mother, added fine sugar and beat the liquid until the egg liquid slightly swelled, and then added evaporated milk.

The flour that I mix with it is also the kind that Pei Yanya likes to use at that time.It includes low-gluten flour, tapioca flour, and baking powder. After stirring, let it ferment slightly.

Meanwhile, remove the mold, brush with oil, and preheat.

When the raw materials are almost settled, pour them into the mold while it is hot, and turn it over repeatedly on the stove.The frequency and timing of flipping are very particular.Soon, the thick custard aroma attracted all those waiting outside to come in.

"Are you ready? Are you ready?" Gu Yu led Zheng Xing and Zheng Hao on the left and right, just like a big child with two little Fuwa.

"Okay." I smiled, then lifted the mold and poured out a cake of snacks.

Watching them dance and dance, I felt the joy and sense of accomplishment of using food to please people for a long time.