MTL - Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?-Chapter 54

The newly purchased white porcelain bowl contains orange-red tomato fish soup. In the rich soup, there are tender and smooth fish fillets, diamond-shaped green bamboo shoots, and a small handful of fresh green onions dotted on top.

Huo Ran placed the bowl mat on the dining table, and carefully brought out the tomato fish.

Then he set the dishes and chopsticks, filled the freshly cooked rice, pulled out the chair, and turned on the TV in the living room again. After waiting for a long time, Tao Zhiyue still hid in the kitchen and did not come out.

Tonight's time flow rate is relatively abnormal, half a day is about equal to one minute.

So Huo Ran leaned against the kitchen door and peeked in quietly like watching him cut watermelon during the day.

Tao Zhiyue maintained the posture he had been in ten minutes ago, standing in front of the pool, carefully selecting the leaves of vegetables.

The light projected his movements onto the wall, almost like a robot, stretching out his hand to pinch the vegetable leaf, pulling it, releasing it and throwing it away, and reaching out again, the amplitude and frequency remained quite perfect.

Huo Ran came closer, and saw that the celery in the pool next door had been pulled out to only sticks, and what Tao Zhiyue was holding in his hand was the white-stalked water spinach specially bought for him.

Huo Ran quickly stopped it: "This is not celery! Don't choose the leaves."

Tao Zhiyue paused at the sound, belatedly glanced at the suddenly bald spinach stalk in his hand, and froze.

After a long while, he seemed to have found a reason, and said in a low voice: "...Today is a new method, stir-fried vegetable leaves and stir-fried vegetable stalks."

"I seem to have heard of this way of eating, and it must be delicious." Huo Ran agreed with a serious tone, "But don't cook it tonight, there are enough tomato fish, come out and eat."

"..." Tao Zhiyue seemed to be stuck in front of the pool, motionless, "Then I'll put the vegetable leaves away."

Then he began to pick up the water spinach leaves scattered in a pool, especially with celery leaves mixed in, picking them up slowly and then separating them was a sharp tool to kill time.

Huo Ran looked at his motionless back for a while, and the smile on his face couldn't go away.

Ever since he tasted the candied tomato, Tao Zhiyue never looked at him directly, and skillfully showed his back from various angles.

He thought for a while, then simply took two steps forward: "I'll help you, the tomato fish is getting cold."

Huo Ran decisively took the mixed green and green leaves in his hand, and put them into the vegetable basket beside him without any explanation.

"Wait until tomorrow to make a division."

The back of his hand was rubbed by the scorching heat, Tao Zhiyu stopped in place as if he had been electrocuted.

In this posture, the sound of the heartbeat is particularly vivid, and the back is close to another person's heart, and the body temperature through the clothes is still hot, rushing endlessly.

Huo Ran quickly gathered a pool of vegetable leaves into the vegetable basket, then turned on the faucet, washed the robot in his arms, and looked around by the way.

"Okay, the dishes are done, the rice is cooked, and I will wash the used pots and pans after eating, so you don't have to stay in the kitchen."

All the excuses were tactfully blocked by Huo Ran, and Tao Zhiyue was at a loss for words, so he reluctantly pushed him out of the kitchen and sat down on a chair peacefully.

I can't see the pool anymore, but the rice is also pretty good.

It's just that there is still a burning heat on the back, which can't go away.

Tao Zhiyue counted the rice grains for a while, and finally couldn't help asking: "Is the air conditioner turned off? Why is it so hot?"

"Look at me and I'll tell you."

After dawdling for a while, Tao Zhi got up the courage to raise his head, and saw Huo Ran looking at him intently.

"Good evening, we haven't seen each other for an hour." Huo Ran said, "The air conditioner is not turned off, I turned it down a bit, but I also feel very hot."

"But I'm only wearing short sleeves and can't take off my clothes anymore. I'll go and move the electric fan again. I didn't bring it just now because I was afraid that the dishes would be blown cold."

Hearing this, Tao Zhiyue unconsciously flashed what Huo Ran said some time ago: I have abdominal muscles!

Fortunately, Huo Ran really got up to move the electric fan. Before he could see, Tao Zhiyue immediately covered his ears with his hands, trying to restore them to their usual color with his thoughts.

Huo Ran brought an electric fan and set it up on a small stool beside him. He adjusted the direction of the wind and asked by the way, "Is it blowing?"

The TV in the living room began to broadcast tonight's news, the host broadcast current news in a calm tone, the food was slightly steaming, some were cooking, some were setting the dishes, and some were concerned about the direction the wind was blowing.

Tao Zhiyue was stunned for a moment, his eyes resembled every ordinary and precious day that had passed away in his memory.

But it's happening right now.

The embarrassment gradually faded away in the long-lost daily atmosphere.

"It's blowing." Tao Zhiyue nodded, "Go a little further to the left, otherwise there will be no wind at your position."

Huo Ran adjusted it according to the words, sat down again, and looked at him curiously: "Is the cooling effect of the electric fan so good? Your face doesn't seem to be red anymore."

"Yes, so I always like electric fans."

Tao Zhiyue brought him some food.

Huo Ran struggled for a while, "Then besides the electric fan, can you still like other...people forever?"

Tao Zhiyue couldn't help laughing: "There is no forever, liking is the most important thing now."

"Except for the electric fan."

Huo Ran silently turned his head and glanced at the innocent electric fan.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Is it because when you were young, you would open your mouth wide and make ahhh sounds? So when you see it, you will think of your beautiful childhood."

"I won't tell you, but judging from this sentence, you must have done this when you were a child." Tao Zhiyue said seriously, "After the dolls and the small round lottery tickets, I have another handle on you, you So silly."

"..."

Huo Ran was silent for a moment, his brain started to work rapidly, and suddenly said: "Then I will continue to eat tomato mixed with sugar tomorrow—"

Before he could finish speaking, Tao Zhiyue stepped on his slippers under the table and said quickly, "This is not allowed, it's a foul."

Huo Ran started to play dumb: "Why? Then change it to stir-fried tomatoes—"

Paji, another kick.

While stepping on him, Tao Zhiyue pretended to be calm and stared at the bright red tomato fish in the large white porcelain bowl, and couldn't help it anymore, so he laughed.

Huo Ran was always looking at him, so he smiled along with him.

The curling white hot air was blown towards the window by the fan, and dissipated like a dream in front of the starry night.

In an ordinary night, countless high-rise buildings and countless windows are lit with similar lights, and the fragrance of vegetables sneaks out of the window cracks.

After the meal, Huo Ran actively ran to the kitchen to wash the dishes, but this time it was Tao Zhi who stood behind him and looked around anxiously.

"Do you usually do the dishes?"

"Washed, don't worry, it won't break." Huo Ran was full of confidence.

"Why do I feel a little scared when you use a confident tone?"

"...You have to believe me!" Huo Ran held the slippery bowl and argued, "And today I watched you cook closely, and I wrote down the few spoonfuls of salt and sugar in the memo. Just buy the same amount of tomato and fish, and the same size spoon, and I will be able to reproduce it perfectly."

Tao Zhiyue couldn't help laughing: "Then I wish you success."

While speaking, Huo Ran's mobile phone on the table rang several notification tones.

"Your phone is ringing, let me wash it."

Tao Zhiyue was about to take the bowl in his hand when he saw his eyes light up.

"Go and check for me, is it an email?"

Tao Zhiyue was a little surprised, picked up his cell phone, it was indeed an email, and there were several unread messages.

[Propaganda Zhang: Mr. Huo, the photos and videos have been sent to your mailbox, can you see if there is anything else you need? ]

Tao Zhiyue followed up and asked curiously, "What photos and videos?"

Huo Ran was wrestling with the bowl full of dishwashing liquid, and hurriedly said: "You can unlock it by swiping the letter Z. Quickly open the mailbox and check it out. This is a small gift for you."

Tao Zhiyue opened the mailbox as he said, and clicked on an unread email at the top. The attachments were full of photos and videos, and he randomly clicked on one of them.

After loading, a familiar screen appeared.

In the brightly lit video game city, in front of the crowded coin pusher, Tao Zhiyue stared intently at the machine that was dropping coins in front of him, while Huo Ran sat aside, watching him intently.

Tao Zhi stared at the photo in a daze. At that time, he was so absorbed in the game that he didn't notice Huo Ran's gaze.

"Isn't it a surprise?" Huo Ran's voice came with a little pride, "That day I found someone taking pictures next to me, maybe because I'm more sensitive to the camera."

"Later you said that you didn't like your photos to be posted. I think you wouldn't want your photos to appear elsewhere."

"So I asked the people in the company's publicity department to keep an eye on it, and found that someone had posted it on the bib and some other websites."

"I let them get rid of them, left a message to remind the bloggers who sent it, not to spread it publicly, and then gave them a year of website membership... There are a few photos that are particularly good, I think it should be given for five years."

"Although this is not a selfie, it is the first time we took a photo together, which is very commemorative." Huo Ran said, "So I will save it and choose one as a screen saver. Which one do you like? Or you can set it up for me. That way I can be pleasantly surprised.”

Tao Zhiyue looked at the photo on the screen for a long time before he found his own voice.

"You... Is this really the first time you're in love?"

"That's right. But I have one advantage, and you have praised me." Huo Ran didn't blush at all when he boasted, "My learning ability is very strong, and I accept new things very quickly."

"As fast as you learned to cook and wash dishes?"

"... except for these two."

Tao Zhiyue just leaned against the sliding door of the kitchen, chatting with him while washing the dishes, and carefully flipped through every photo and video in the attachment.

"Okay, I've set it as wallpaper and lock screen."

"Which one did you choose?"

"you guess."

"Let's think about it, is it you who played the second prize? I remember the expression on that one was captured very well, and we were both laughing."

"No, it may also be a photo of us standing next to that person like door gods. It's very funny."

"Or there are some new ones that I haven't seen yet... Ah, I can't choose them. I think all of them are very good. Is this a choice phobia?"

After struggling for a while, Huo Ran chose to give up: "I can't guess, and I'm still wondering how the painter and the model reconciled after the quarrel..."

"Then I'll tell you with difficulty, they hugged and kissed."

The screen of the phone was still on, and under the white system time, it was a somewhat blurry photo. In the picture, Huo Ran was holding a plastic bowl full of game coins in one hand, and pulling the person beside him with the other.

The man was very close to him, turning his face to whisper something in his ear, with a smile in his eyes.

The picture is silent and the world is colorful.