Love Guide for Childhood Sweethearts

"Why?" Qi Na looked at Ye Zhenzhen innocently and asked, "Why did you specifically ask Lin Jingzhe to hold the red wine?"

"Jingzhe has good grades! Coach Zhu will like whatever you give him." Ye Zhenzhen said while looking at them with a smile.

"Yes!" Lian Ximei and Zina nodded repeatedly.

"Okay! I'll take you there." Lin Jingzhe responded readily.

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The next day, on New Year's Day, Lin Jingzhe and her friends went to the mall to buy a bottle of northwest wine for one thousand yuan, and then went to Zhu Youlin's house.

"Let's have Western food! This is the wine we bought from the northwest." Lin Jingzhe raised the beautifully packaged wine with a red bow in his hand.

"You kids, just come if you want! Why buy gifts?" Zhu Youlin pointed at the slippers that had already been placed there and said, "No more gifts from now on! Otherwise, I'll have to invite you home."

"Okay!" Lin Jingzhe responded with a smile and put the wine in his hand on the shoe cabinet.

Zhu Youlin took the wine and watched them put on their cotton slippers. "Come with me into the kitchen," she said with a smile, "let's make authentic Western food together."

"Okay! Okay!" Zina nodded hurriedly, rolled up her sleeves, and said, "What do you need me to do?"

"Just watch and see if you can still eat this kind of Western food." Zhu Youlin said with a hint of cunning in her eyes.

"Well! I can't eat this anymore," Lin Jingzhe's amber pupils moved. "If I want to eat this, I have to improve it."

Zhu Youlin's home is a small one-bedroom apartment with an open kitchen.

"Your kitchen is as clean as new. You don't cook often!" Lin Jingzhe said to her while standing outside the dining table.

"I eat at school," Zhu Youlin said with a smile. "I boil water at home and make some coffee." She looked up at them and asked, "Do you want coffee?"

"Okay! Okay!" Zina nodded hurriedly.

"I don't want to drink it. I won't be able to sleep at night if I drink it." Lin Jingzhe shook his head slightly and said, "I don't like coffee. Please feel free to drink it."

"I've prepared it. Whoever wants to drink it can pour it for themselves." Zhu Youlin started to boil water in a glass electric kettle.

Take out the coffee grounds from the cupboard and make coffee.

"This smells so good." Lin Jingzhe said after sniffing.

"Don't you want to drink?" Zina looked at her in surprise.

"I don't drink coffee, but I like the smell of this coffee." Lin Jingzhe looked at them with his peach blossom eyes and said, "Just like I like the smell of boiled corn, but I'm not so keen on eating fresh boiled corn."

"Yeah! The smell of boiled corn is so delicious." Lian Ximei nodded hurriedly when she heard that.

The coffee pot made a ding sound, and Zhu Youlin smiled and said, "It's ready." She took out four porcelain cups from the locker and poured four cups of coffee.

Zhu Youlin took out the sugar bowl again and placed a clean spoon in it. "If you don't like the bitter taste, put some sugar cubes in it yourself."

"Oh!" Zina and the others nodded in unison.

"I'm not afraid of hardship." Ye Zhenzhen picked up the cup and took a sip. "Is it so bitter?"

"This is ground coffee beans, not instant coffee. It's very bitter." Zhu Youlin looked at them with a smile and said, "Please add sugar!"

"Let's improve on the authentic Western food." Zhu Youlin said to them with her bright almond-shaped eyes.

"Authentic. Since we're eating Western food, we definitely want the real thing." Ye Zhenzhen said immediately after hearing that, looking at her friends and asking, "What about you guys?"

"We also want to see the authentic one." Zina and the others nodded quickly.

"Then let's make more of the improved ones and less of the authentic ones." Zhu Youlin said with a smile as she raised the corners of her lips.

"That's good!" Lin Jingzhe and the others nodded in unison.

As Zhu Youlin cooked, they experienced what authentic food is.

"I don't think I can eat that." Zina swallowed and said, "There's so much sugar in it that I could have put a whole can of sugar in it."

"The sugar content of jam in the West is even higher than this," Zhu Youlin said, smiling at them. "Pork in the UK isn't castrated."

"That doesn't smell fishy!" Ye Zhenzhen looked at her in disbelief and asked.

"I don't know whether they like it or not, but I don't like it anyway." Zhu Youlin pursed her lips and looked at them and said, "Our hamburgers have cooked meat in them, but their hamburgers have raw fish, and they don't even remove the scales."

"This..." Zina and the others were so surprised that their eyes almost popped out of the window.

"How can I eat this?" Ye Zhenzhen said with a disgusted pout.

"For them, as long as they can eat and are full, it's fine. As for the color, fragrance and taste, they have never studied it." Zhu Youlin said bluntly.

"Only we are fond of fine food. Now that we have money, free time and enough to eat, we have time to study food." Lin Jingzhe smiled gently at them with his peach blossom eyes.

"They are richer than us!" Zina said, looking at them in confusion.

"They've only caught up in recent times. They were incredibly poor before," Zhu Youlin said, looking at them with amusement. "Our culinary culture has a long history."

"Then why don't those who have been to the West say anything?" Ye Zhenzhen said with a pout.

"How can you say that? Will you believe me if I tell you now?" Zhu Youlin looked at her with amusement.

"Uh...that..." Ye Zhenzhen looked at her hesitantly.

"Okay, I know you don't quite believe it." Zhu Youlin looked at them gently and smiled, "It's like a pony crossing a river. You don't know until you cross it yourself! Even after you've crossed it, you still like to watch others fall into the trap."

"Cough cough..." Lin Jingzhe was so frightened that he started coughing after hearing this.

"Why are you so surprised? You can ask those who have been abroad. They definitely won't say that authentic Western food is bad. They eat for the style and the sense of superiority." Zhu Youlin stared at them with her almond-shaped eyes and said with a smile, "Do you still eat authentic food now?"

"No, no. Let's eat the reformed ones! They have to be cooked thoroughly and cannot be eaten raw." Zina said hurriedly.

"Oh right! If you're going abroad for competitions, you can try Western food. Next year's Asian Games... shouldn't it be the Asian Games at the end of this year? Next year's World Swimming Championships will be in Australia." Zhu Youlin looked at them with a smile and said, "You'll know if what I said is true or not."

"What if it's authentic Western food and we can't get used to it?" Lian Ximei frowned and said worriedly, "How can we compete if we don't have enough to eat?"

"Aren't we bringing a cook?" Ye Zhenzhen said, staring at her with her fox eyes.

"Don't worry! We have a cook with us, so you won't go hungry." Zhu Youlin said as she looked at them with a smile in her eyes.

"It's okay!" Zina said thankfully.

"You guys need to work hard! Get your tickets first." Zhu Youlin looked at them with her deep almond-shaped eyes and said, "The competition is still fierce."