Ren Yi put the prepared meals on the table one by one and opened a bottle of red wine.
Gong Yingxian sat in his chair with his hands around his chest and looked at the meal that was very different from his usual eating habits. He didn't know what to look like.
Ren Yu sat opposite the Gong Yingxian: "isn't there anything you should avoid?"
Gong Yingxian shook his head. Just about to open his mouth, Ren Yu said "Hey" and stopped him: "I know you don't eat hot, but you eat warm, right? You can wait for these dishes to be cooler. Don't repel them when they are hot."
Gong Yingxian stared at him: "why don't you divide the meal?"
Ren Yu reluctantly got up and went to the kitchen, took more plates, divided all the dishes in two, and whispered, "dislike me."
Gong Yingxian was amused by Ren Yu's expression: "I don't dislike you when I eat this kind of rice without any plate on such a small table so close to you."
"Then I really thank you, miss."
"What do you call me?" Gong Yingxian raised the ending tone.
"Young master." Ren Yu joked, "although my dishes don't look very exquisite, they should taste good. Try them."
Gong Yingxian picked up his chopsticks and put the cold chrysanthemum into his mouth. There was thin vinegar and a little pepper in the dish. It tasted very refreshing.
Ren Yu looked at Gong Yingxian with bright eyes and asked expectantly, "how's it going?"
Gong Yingxian nodded: "good."
Ren Yu said with a smile, "I don't usually cook much, but I can do well by reading a recipe. I'm smart and can't help it." As he spoke, he filled a bowl of white gourd fish ball soup and put it at Gong Yingxian's hand.
Gong Yingxian lowered his head slightly and sniffed: "hot."
"Try this potato beef. It's not hot."
Gong Yingxian took a piece of beef and licked it with the tip of his tongue before eating it.
Ren Yu said with a smile, "have you ever thought that to overcome the fear of fire, you can start with eating hot food?"
"The psychologist suggested." Gong Yingxian said, "but I don't think what to eat is important."
"It doesn't matter. If you don't eat hot food, you just hate high temperature, or subconsciously think they are cooked by fire, right?"
Gong Yingxian doesn't speak.
"You have overcome the fear of fire related objects, which helps to better overcome the fear of fire itself. Is this logic OK?"
Gong Yingxian snorted, "you worked hard enough to let me eat what you made."
Ren Yi laughed and said, "I want you to taste more delicious food in the world. Some things are hot and delicious, such as this bowl of soup."
Gong Yingxian glanced at the white gourd soup and hesitated.
"Give me a face and try it. It won't burn you."
Gong Yingxian tilted the bowl of soup and coughed: "since I'm a guest at your house today, I'll give you this face."
"Come on, come on." Ren Yu looked expectantly at Gong Yingxian.
Gong Yingxian gracefully picked up the bowl, stirred it with a spoon, and then drank gently to cool it down.
Ren Yu couldn't help thinking of Miaomiao. Sometimes when the cooked meat was hot, Miaomiao squatted beside the bowl and waited. Gong Yingxian was like Miaomiao waiting for the meat to cool. He couldn't help laughing when he thought of it.
Gong Yingxian stared at him.
Ren Yu spread his hand.
Gong Yingxian scooped up a spoonful of soup, took a deep breath, sent it to his lips and drank it carefully.
"How's it going?" Ren Yi asked excitedly.
Gong Yingxian was stunned for a moment: "it's OK." He can't remember the last time he ate something so hot. After the accident at home, he was sent to the United States. Under the dual effect of aversion to high temperature and Western food culture, he no longer eats anything hot. He even forgot that the taste of a mouthful of fragrant hot soup is so good.
Ren Yu felt his heart beating. What made him happy was not only that Gong Yingxian ate hot food, but that Gong Yingxian was willing to change himself for him, even if it was only a little, which at least showed that he was a weighty person in this person's heart, right? He said happily, "drink more if you like. This is Wenzhou fish ball, which was sent from the soldiers of our squadron and made by ourselves."
Gong Yingxian said to his shining eyes, "don't keep urging me to eat. You don't eat yourself."
Ren Yu ate happily: "this is delicious, this is also delicious, hey, I'm really good."
Gong Yingxian looked at Ren Yu's proud and secretly happy appearance. The corners of his lips couldn't help smiling. For the time being, he forgot the shadow of the past that had been entrenched in his heart.
Ren Yu coaxed and deceived Gong Yingxian to taste all the dishes. Watching Gong Yingxian eat what he made, he couldn't describe his satisfaction at this moment.
Ren Yu tapped the bottle with his finger: "let's have some wine?"
Gong Yingxian hesitated: "alcohol can make people lose control. I don't like losing control."
"You're too tired and experienced too much today. Drinking some wine will make you forget everything and have a good sleep."
Gong Yingxian snorted: "it will also make people unable to get up in the morning and late."
Ren Yu chuckled: "why do you hold such a grudge?"
Gong Yingxian raised his chin: "have a drink. What kind of wine is this?"
"I don't know. It's from a friend." Ren Yu poured wine for them. "I usually drink beer and don't drink much red wine, but if I let you drink beer..." he shook his head and said with a smile, "it doesn't feel right." He couldn't imagine Gong Yingxian squatting with them at a roadside stall drinking beer and eating kebabs.
Gong Yingxian picked up the glass and shook it gently. He leaned over to the tip of his nose and smelled it: "you don't wake up in advance if you want to drink."
"There are not so many rules. Just drink." Ren Yu grabbed the cup and forcibly touched him, "come on."
Gong Yingxian had to take a sip. He frowned slightly and said honestly, "this wine is not good."
Ren, who is used to the temperament of Gong Yingxian, doesn't care: "next time you bring wine."
"All right."
After dinner, Ren Xuan made plans to teach Gong Yingxian to play games.
Gong Yingxian doesn't drink often. At this time, he is a little dizzy. He leans against the sofa, sticks to the red wine glass in his hand, yawns and says, "your wine is not good."
"As you said just now, after drinking, your stomach is different." Ren Yi threw the mobile phone screen onto the TV, then hit Gong Yingxian's shoulder, "look at the screen, I'll teach you to play this game."
"Such a game?"
"Have you ever played CS?"
"I don't play games."
Ren explained: "in short, it means to fight the enemy with weapons and win in the end."
Gong Yingxian looked at the picture on the screen. He narrowed his eyes: "... Goddess?"
Ren Yi blinked: "is this name special fairy?"
"Why do you call that name?" Gong Yingxian stared at him strangely.
"I didn't say it. The five elements that check and balance me."
"Where's the goddess?"
"Well, if they think I'm a woman, they will relax their vigilance against me and sometimes cheat some equipment."
Gong Yingxian narrowed his eyes: "isn't this cheating?"
"So what's more serious? The most important thing in the game is to be happy." Ren Yu said with a laugh, "come on, let me show you the slaughter." Ren Yu took a gun and just turned out of the window, he was dried down, "...".
Gong Yingxian smiled, "are you dead?"
Ren Yi was a little ashamed and angry. He put down his mobile phone and muttered, "it was not a good position just now."
Gong Yingxian picked up the wine glass and handed it to Ren. Ren took it. He held back his smile: "this glass of wine mourns the goddess who lived for one minute and 46 seconds."
Ren Yu laughed and scolded: "your uncle, I just made a mistake." He bumped into the glass with Gong Yingxian and drank the wine in one gulp.
Gong Yingxian lay on his back on the sofa. He felt dizzy and light all over. This feeling of being free to get out of control was not bad. He whispered, "eat, drink and play games. Is that how you... Grew up?"
Ren Yu smiled: "most boys grew up like this? What were you doing when you were a child?"
"Learning, training, experiment."
Ren Yi paused and whispered, "it's very lonely."
Gong Yingxian was silent for a moment and said, "No."
Ren Yu glanced at Gong Yingxian. The lines of his face were as perfect as sculpture. His cheeks showed a thin blush, and his deep eyes showed a trace of confusion, which made people feel very excited.
Gong Yingxian felt Ren Yu's eyes and turned away.
The eyes of the two people are connected with each other. The eyes that become chaotic due to alcohol gradually find the focus from each other's eyes. The faces in front of them are so familiar, but the emotions that emerge on them make people feel strange and inexplicably palpitating
Like an electric shock, they turned their heads at the same time.
Ren Yi took a deep breath quietly, picked up the wine bottle, poured wine on them, and said loudly, "come on, drink."
They clinked glasses and chatted while Ren Ying taught Gong Yingxian to play games. At this time, they were like two adolescent teenagers. They had no trouble, no memory, no crime, and just enjoyed their leisure time with friends.
In the middle of the night, Gong Yingxian didn't know whether he was drunk or sleepy. He was lying on the sofa and dozing off. Ren had a better amount of wine and was relatively sober. He patted Gong Yingxian on the shoulder: "don't sleep here, go back to the room."
Gong Yingxian murmured.
Ren Yi laboriously dragged Gong Yingxian from the sofa: "Hey, get up, go back to your room to sleep."
Gong Yingxian reluctantly opened his eyes and walked to the house with the help of Ren Yu.
Ren Yu didn't have much strength. They walked with four legs in a short way. Finally, he saw the bed in the guest room. Ren Yu bit his teeth and walked forward quickly. When he was only a few steps away from the bed, he used his milk strength to throw Gong Yingxian onto the bed. Gong Yingxian grabbed his arm and took him to himself.
Both of them fell on the bed. Ren Yu lay on Gong Yingxian's body with his chest close to his chest. For a time, he woke up half drunk and dared not breathe.