Baguettes and Macarons

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It was already 45:10 in the morning when Louis finished cleaning the baguettes that Yu Chen hated so much, cleaned the back kitchen, and then came out to put the freshly baked baguettes on the shelves.It takes about [-]-[-] minutes to walk from here to the supermarket two streets away, just in time for the supermarket to open, the first batch go in to pick the freshest vegetables, and when you come back from shopping at about nine o'clock, you can start preparing milk freeze.

Unfortunately, while Jean-Luc had paid and ran home with a second sandwich, Grandma Mary hadn't finished her first sandwich.

Grandma Mary is over 70 years old and has only one real tooth in her mouth. Louis really has no reason to rush her.

But Yu Chending's French panna cotta needs to be cooled for a long time after it's ready, and if he doesn't buy auspicious powder now, he won't be able to catch up with his fixed afternoon tea time at four o'clock every day.

Louis grabbed a handful of bills from the cash register, stuffed them into his jeans pocket, and watched Grandma Mary's meal progress from behind.

Yu Chen saw him fidgeting from the side, and pretended to take a napkin to the front desk, and asked in a low voice, "Are you in a hurry to go out?"

"Isn't it because of your sweet jelly?" Louis sneered, "I'm not going out now, and you're going to drink uncoagulated milk to cook jelly powder in the afternoon."

Yu Chen was considerate and said: "Then you go first, I'll finish breakfast with Ms. Mary, and then lock your store door and go back to our store. Remember to bring the store key."

"No, if those brats come in to steal the bread, who will compensate me for the loss?" Louis complained half-truthfully.

Yu Chen hurriedly said: "Perhaps I should give you a security deposit? But I don't have cash with me, and you can't swipe your card. Why don't I pledge my watch to you."

In order to match the dark blue suit with British tailoring, today he is wearing an oval wrist watch with a white gold dial. The dial has a brilliant pearl luster. The lower part is a complicated Roman numeral clock, and the upper part is a moon pattern hanging in the dark blue night sky.This watch is very delicate. Although it is a little too delicate for men, it is unexpectedly very suitable for the Asian man in front of me.

Louis has secretly observed this rare oval watch several times in the morning, but it has been half-hidden under Yu Chen's shirt cuff, and he has not seen all of it clearly.Now that Yu Chen took off the watch and handed it to him, Louis saw clearly that the dial was set with two rings of diamonds inside and out.

Although he knew it must be very expensive, Louis couldn't help but think of the gaudy pink alarm clock in Yu Chen's bedroom, and immediately burst out laughing.

Grandma Mary has bad teeth, but she is not deaf, so she was startled and turned sideways to look at the counter.And Louis was still laughing wildly, Yu Chen quickly raised his index finger and made a shush gesture, complaining: "What are you laughing at?"

Louie was out of breath laughing, grabbed his wrist, and pointed to his watch: "Seeing this, I thought it would be interesting if it was the same color as your alarm clock."

Yu Chen's face darkened: "The daily necessities in my room were bought casually after I moved here. It's very rude for you to see, please forget about them."

Louis took a breath, and said, "Let's not talk about the alarm clock, what brand is this watch?" He looked the watch up and down, only to see the brand logo between the Roman numerals, "Breguet... what is this, baguette Is it a close relative?"

"Brequet and bagauette are too far apart."

Louis threw the watch to him: "I don't know it. I didn't expect a rich man like you to not wear an Omega."

"Brequet, Breguet 8908, can probably buy the first floor of your shop." Yu Chen said, "I will give you this as a guarantee, so you should be at ease. Please be gentle with it, this is my mother It was given to me, although it is her old watch, but I like it very much."

"It turned out to be a female watch, no wonder you're such a mother." Louis snorted, "Since you cherish it so much, don't give it away easily. Wearing a watch is so troublesome, I don't think I should take it. If it breaks, I won't be able to pay for it." .Just show me the shop.”

Yu Chen smiled and said: "I'm sure you were just joking, so I said I would give it to you. Businessmen don't do business that loses money."

Louis took the key, took off the apron and threw it on the stove, smacking his tongue, "I'll just bother you, I'm leaving."

"See you later." Yu Chen said with a smile.

With two long legs, Louis rushed to the center of the department store, squeezed into the supermarket just after opening, spent a full 15 minutes finding the jelly powder among the many shelves, and spent a quarter of an hour comparing the additives of the gelatin powder The least and the healthiest, wasting a lot of time.

In addition, the vegetables and meat at home were also consumed a lot, so he lingered in the bio vegetable and fruit section for a long time and bought a large package of magnolia vegetables.

Fortunately, it took less time than he imagined. With a thought, he decided to go to the bread shelf in the supermarket to have a good look at the bread that robbed him of his customers.

He turned around the cereal shelf and took a bag of Chocolate Crisp cereal. Before he could get to the back of the shelf, he heard a child crying at the top of his throat.

Near the bread and cake aisle, the cries of children usually mean this: I want to eat the sweet cake that my parents won't buy me, which is bad for teeth, eyes and weight.

The young female voice, which should be the mother of a crying child, persuaded softly: "Let's buy a few baguettes and stuff them with chocolate for an afternoon snack this week? Other people's little rascals also eat chocolate baguettes."

Afternoon snacks are a French parenting convention.To appease the little rascals after a day of school, parents bring butter biscuits, cupcakes and other small treats as snacks between lunch and dinner when they pick up their children from school.In order to save trouble, some parents will take their children to a bakery near the school and let the children choose a snack by themselves.

Louis' father complained that if he bought a store near the elementary school, he would have made a lot of money.

No, Dad, you are wrong.You have never had a bad eye for buying a house, and now our house is already a slum.Louis denied his father's idea in his heart.

The child outside the shelf choked twice, and retorted: "No one has eaten such an old-fashioned baguette for a long time! The baguette is hard and tasteless, and it doesn't taste good with chocolate! I want to eat fried cake with jam!"

"No, the jam is too sweet, and it will hurt your teeth if you eat it." Mom said, "My mother ate baguettes and chocolate bars when I was a child. In addition to your afternoon snack, my father and I have to use baguettes for breakfast. You can't be too sweet." Willful."

"I don't want to eat baguettes! I don't want to eat that kind of cheap garbage in my life!"

It's enough to scold baguette once, but you have to scold him a second time.Louis couldn't bear it anymore, and strode towards the bread shelf: "Damn brat, if you keep yelling, I'll hit you on the head with a baguette."

"Huh...Louis?" The red-haired woman who was educating her child raised her head, her expression froze instantly.

Louis was stunned, and asked, "Aren't you Emma? Your family hasn't come to buy bread recently..." He turned his eyes, landed on the baguette Emma was holding under his arm, and whistled. "Oh yes, the baguettes in the supermarket are cheaper."

Emma smiled awkwardly, and walked two steps holding her son's hand: "Today I picked up Albert from school, and I stopped by the supermarket to buy some daily necessities and some bread. I'll go first, and I wish you a happy day."

Emma's family lived on a street near Shepherd's Street. They were relatively well-off families in the neighborhood. They never rushed to buy special bread in the afternoon. They used to be one of the regular customers of Legrand Bakery.But now, the family has also been lured away by cheap bread from supermarkets.

Albert was dragged a few steps, and suddenly broke free from Emma's hand, ran to the shelf, and tiptoed to reach the box of jam and fried cake on the upper shelf.Louis lowered his hand, took the jam fried cake first, squinted his eyes and said: "Little villain, listen to your mother, baguette is what the French eat every day."

Albert looked up at him and said with disdain: "Only outdated people like you and my grandma eat baguettes every day. Your bakery only sells baguettes all day long. It's so boring that we don't want to go there." .”

"Well, you really haven't been here." Louis threw the jam fried cake into the shopping bag, "Whether love comes or not, I don't welcome children who disrespect their families."

"Albert, come here." Emma whispered.

Louis put his hands in his pockets relaxedly: "What are you afraid of? I won't beat your son with a stick just because you don't come to my shop. But you should educate this child well, at least respect his grandma. "

Emma smiled, and Albert said unconvinced: "You are the one who needs to be educated! Mom said that you are the most impolite, and the things are expensive and the store is dirty, so tell me not to go."

Louis didn't say a word, Emma grabbed Albert and slapped him: "Don't talk nonsense. Louis, the child is talking nonsense, don't take it seriously."

Louis twitched the corner of his mouth: "What's the matter? I'm not your boss, don't worry about me, I'm very busy, don't talk, let's go."

Albert behind the back began to cry again, and his mother seemed to have finally compromised and took a box of fried cakes with jam.

Louis was on the road, so he took apart the box of jam fried cakes he took and tasted them. The outer layer of bread was still soft, but it was a bit sour with too much yeast, and the strawberry jam inside was too sweet and greasy for supermarkets. It's still qualified, but it's completely incomparable with the bakery.Louie took a bite and put it back in the box, put it on the lid of the trash can with the other untouched fried cake, and dragged the shopping basket home to make sweet jelly.

The door of the bakery was locked by Yu Chen. From the outside, the shop looked dilapidated and messy, as if it hadn't been opened for ten years.Louis Ding unlocked the door with a bang, walked into the store, and glanced at the baguette shelf, there was no shortage of one.

Instead, there was an extra note under the cash register, which read, "I don't know how to wash dishes, so I left them in the sink. Grandma Mary paid in cash, and I stuffed them under the cash register."

Louis picked up the note, smelled the perfume again, and immediately sneezed.

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Baguette is Baguette, Breguet is Brequet, and the French pronunciation is a little bit like.