Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Learning to Make Dumplings

Because Qin Yiming would come to the dumpling shop these days, Xu Mo had a habit of leaving him a bowl of dumplings.

But President Qin didn’t come today. Xu Mo checked the time and it was already eight o’clock in the evening. He should close the shop. Maybe Mr. Qin won’t come because he has something to do today! Xu Mo didn’t know why he suddenly felt a little lost. Maybe it was because he didn’t have any good friends to talk with. He was always alone. If there was someone who could talk to him, he would be very concerned about it…

(T/N:. By concerned, I think they mean how XM would act/react to his friend/conversation partner.)

Xu Mo cleaned up (the shop) by himself. Xu Mo closed the shop door and walked home. The house he rented was very close to the shop, and it took only ten minutes to get there.

It’s just that Xu Mo didn’t know that there was a car behind him that was deliberately following him at a distance. The owner of that car was Qin Yiming. There were a lot of things to deal with today, so he was a little late today. Xu Mo’s shop has closed.

Although it was a bit late today, Qin Yiming still came. On the way from get off work, he went to the flower shop to buy roses, and he regretted it after buying them.

Xu Mo is a man, it would be too abrupt if he gave the other flowers. But after buying everything, Qin Yiming had no choice but to pick up the bunch of roses and go upstairs to knock on Xu Mo’s door.

Xu Mo opened the door and saw that it was Qin Yiming. He was a little happy, but then he felt that something was wrong with him… It was the first time that he had so many unfamiliar feelings towards a person.

“Send you flowers. I bought too many today. It’s a pity to throw them away. I’ll just give them to you.” Qin Yiming coughed and said serious nonsense.

“Oh, thank you.” Xu Mo took the brightly colored roses, found a bottle filled with water, and placed the flowers on the cabinet.

When he turned around, he bumped into Qin Yiming’s chest behind him. Xu Mo covered his nose with tears in his eyes, the tip of his nose was slightly red when it was hit, “The nose…it hurts…”

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to. The…” Qin Yiming felt a little guilty in his heart, but his face was still cold.

Xu Mo raised his head and glanced at the other party, and felt that if he bumped into a man, he would bump into him! It’s no big deal, he rubbed his nose, then smiled and said, “It’s okay, since I’m here, I’ll teach you how to make dumplings today!”

The man nodded and followed Xu Mo to the kitchen, he looked around for a while. There is a hint of calculation in the lowered eyes, the kitchen or something… It is really a good place.

After mincing the meat stuffing, Xu Mo took out the flour and added water to start kneading the dough. After a while, he rolled the awakened (T/N: ??? when the dough rises maybe? I’m not sure) dough into snow-white dumpling skins. Xu Mo picked up a dumpling skin, used chopsticks to sandwich some meat filling and placed it in the middle of the dumpling skin. His long and slender fingers flexibly pinched delicate folds on the dumpling skin, and in just a few seconds, a shape was formed. Delicate and lovely crescent-shaped dumplings come out.

Qin Yiming next to him looked a little surprised. He imitated the other side and wrapped a dumpling, but it was ugly, like a good-looking dumpling that fell to the ground.

“You put too much meat stuffing, the dumpling skin won’t be able to wrap it, it will break…” Xu Mo looked at the other party’s clumsy appearance, took another dumpling skin and put it in Qin Yiming’s hand, and then held the man’s hand. He started teaching the other.

I don’t know if it was his own delusion, but Xu Mo felt that the other party was touching his hand on purpose… But when he looked over, Qin Yiming was frowning and earnestly learning to make dumplings by following his movements. Also, how could a handsome man like Qin Yiming want to take advantage of him.

After a while, the two finished making dumplings together. Xu Mo turned on the fire, put water in the pot, waited for the water to boil, and put the dumplings in the plate into the pot. He stirred it a few times with a spoon to prevent the dumplings from sticking to the pot. When the dumplings are floating and cooked, take a bowl and take out the dumplings.

Then Xu Mo prepared a plate of dumpling dipping sauce with appropriate amounts of minced green onion, mashed garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and chili oil.

“Mr. Qin, you can try it!” Xu Mo picked up a dumpling, dipped it in the dipping sauce, and handed it to the man.

Qin Yiming chuckled and whispered, the gentleness that could be seen overflowing from his narrow eyes, “You eat first…”

But when Xu Mo just took a bite, the other party grabbed the rest and ate it, “There is still in the bowl, why are you grabbing it from me?” Xu Mo looked at the person in front of him with some sadness.

Qin Yiming didn’t speak, just approached the other side, with his hands on both sides of the youth’s side.

Their bodies were close together, their faces were so close, Qin Yiming could even see his own figure reflected in each other’s eyes, his breathing became hot, and the air was filled with an ambiguous aura.

“Qin…Mr. Qin…” Xu Mo almost bit his tongue. He stared at each other in shock, as if his mind had crashed.

The young man didn’t know that the crimson had slowly climbed up his neck, and the shyness spread all the way to his cheeks…

At this moment, language was superfluous, the lips of the two slowly pressed together, Qin Yiming saw the mist in Xu Mo’s eyes was like a layer of water vapor. The face of the other party turned crimson, and the red lips were slightly open, revealing the white teeth inside, so that he (QYM) couldn’t help lowering his head to hold the lips of the young man, and then gently wrapped around the tip of the other party’s tongue. The whole body trembled slightly to bear Qin Yiming’s love, and the eyelashes were already wet unconsciously.

When the two separated, Xu Mo didn’t dare to look into Qin Yiming’s eyes. He actually kissed a man!

“Did I scare you?” Qin Yiming raised the young man’s chin and saw that there were still wet marks on the corner of the other’s eyes. He knew in his heart that Xu Mo did not reject him.

“No… No, no…” Xu Mo was a little shy, did he like men? It seems that he has never been interested in women…

“That’s good, see you tomorrow, I’ll go back first.” Qin Yiming stopped after the order, and didn’t do anything too much, he said goodbye politely and left.