Psychopathic Cup Noodle

"What? Just saw my appearance and thought of going to Liu Cheng? Teacher Bai, you really..." Although I wanted to say it before... "You're so smart."

"Really," the man lowered his head noncommittally, and handed the T-shirt with the hornbill pattern to the young man from above the toilet cubicle in the police station, "I think the unexpected person is too stupid..." I just saw From the young man's appearance, he immediately understood what might have happened, so he dialed the contact number announced by the police at the end of the news; with the help of the authorities, Bai Chong found the man who was in school and whose mobile phone was unable to use it because it was soaked in seawater. The connected girl.

"'I want my help, unless you get out of here', 'Okay', the protagonist replied, the little brother was thinking haha, you have today—"

"Then the protagonist grabs the little brother and the two of them roll down together, right, haha..."

Ten minutes later, the three of them sat together in Bai Chong's car, and the motorcycle that had already paid the fine was parked firmly in the spacious trunk of the car.

Holding the leather steering wheel with both hands, Bai Chong talked to the girl who was leaning forward with half her body. Lu Cheng, who was ignored, sat alone in the passenger seat with her arms crossed.Bai Chong's car is a Renault Escape, a tall van with both performance and horsepower. The sea-gray streamlined body is calm and low-key, without showing off.

Although the man said it would be good to go home and rest (accompanied by his brother), the car finally drove towards Liu Cheng's school... This was the result of Lu Cheng's persistent insistence.

Seeing the girl poking between the two of them, pretending to be endlessly talking about comics, but actually trying to arouse echoes from the young man around him... But the young man collapsed on the seat with his arms crossed as if exhausted, his eyes wide open. Looking at the car window... the man who was steering the wheel kept sighing in his heart.

"Here we are." Bai Chong stopped the car without turning off the engine, and slapped the young man beside him with his eyes, "Then I won't go down, say goodbye to my sister, and I'll wait for you here."

"Eh? You don't need to say goodbye—"

"Goodbye, brother Chong! I've caused you trouble today!" The young man's voice hadn't finished yet, and the girl had already left a kiss on Bai Chong's side face like a superficial touch, and pushed the door angrily to get out of the car.

"Go!" Bai Chong didn't have time to explain, he forced the young man out of the car.Then he closed the car door, poured a piece of chewing gum into his mouth, silently watched the young man stagger, watched the girl's leaving figure hesitated for two seconds, and finally shouted something.

From stumbling to coherent, the young man looked at the girl's back and shouted.

The man watched, the 16-year-old girl walked forward without looking back, walked, walked, suddenly turned around, the girl folded her hands behind her back, half bent down, and made the most shining face in the world towards the young man .

"Don't turn off the phone! Don't turn off the phone no matter what! It doesn't matter if you leave a message... No, please, let me hear your message reminder anytime!"

"Hmm! My brother is a big idiot, so please leave a message as much as possible!"

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"Editor Lu, welcome." After being driven by the man to run all kinds of certificates for reissuing the ID card, and going to the bank to report the loss, after everything subsided, the next day, Lu Cheng came to the man's house again.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Bai, I need you in such a busy schedule..." I also apologized in the same way, but the man replied indifferently:

"No, I'm not busy at all. I'm just a nominal lecturer at the school, and I have no teaching or scientific research tasks at all."

"……"what?

"My parents are both professors at that university. When I was in junior high school, there was an accident in the steel factory they inspected... As a result, I became an 'orphan' of that school. In short, I need special care. I came from the United States. I was admitted as soon as I graduated from Ph.D....the inheritance and insurance money are enough, and I am not interested in going to work at all, and the title of teacher is completely unilaterally done by the school to be a good person.”

"..."

"...I'm sorry..." After a long time, Lu Cheng murmured.

"Huh? Why?" Bai Chong pulled the handbrake without any fluctuation on his face.

"Please sit down, please sit down..."

Under Bai Chong's guidance, Lu Cheng slowly poured boiling water to the hot water line of the instant noodle cup, and then stared boredly at the radio clock on the wall.Although it is located on the seashore and the sea breeze is constantly pouring in, Bai Chong's room is always very warm; thinking of how the room was half immersed in the darkness and the pungent smell of instant noodles last time, Lu Cheng's palms began to tremble for some reason. sweat.

"Editor Lu, do you know why instant noodles have to be soaked for 3 minutes? Is 50 minutes and 5 seconds not enough, or 3 minutes of instant noodles is not good? How is the standard of no more than [-] minutes determined?"

Without thinking about this question, Lu Cheng couldn't help turning the outer edge of the instant noodle bucket, and found that it was indeed written with words such as "3 minutes for the best taste".

"This standard was invented by Momofuku Ando, ​​the founder of instant noodles. That guy gradually established the industry standard of '3 minutes' in the process of constantly experimenting with instant noodles and promoting instant noodles. In fact," the man gently opened the wooden chopsticks, Wipe off the wood residue on the table with your thumb, "3 minutes is just a psychological trick. When people face food, wait for 3 minutes. The aroma of the noodles and waiting will make people's appetite better. It feels happier... But once it exceeds 3 minutes, approaching 5 minutes, people lose their patience a little bit, their anticipation weakens, the peak of the psychological pleasure that is about to be obtained decreases, and the nasal cavity begins to get used to the stimulation of food smell...

"In other words, it's all a conspiracy."

Huh?Lu Cheng stood up, but not because of the man's words.

The sound of water splashing came from the bathroom, getting louder and louder. Lu Cheng looked at the man inquisitively, but the man kept talking to himself, "Did I say that before? The brand of instant noodles is not It's not important, the timing of eating instant noodles is important. So—"

"No way," the man grabbed the young man's arm and shook his head in a small way: "Editor Lu, the most delicious thing is not the instant noodles themselves, but the 'waiting' thing. At that moment, it was the most perfect."

After repeatedly asking the other party to let go, the young man finally made up his mind to shake off the other party's arm—or rather, the other party asked him to shake it off, but Lu Cheng couldn't care less.

With all his strength, he pushed open the bathroom door, 咵啦—he opened the shower curtain.

A person was lying in the huge triangular bath.

It's not so much a human as it is a blurry human form wrapped in a giant ziploc bag.The faucet of the bathtub was turned on, but the plastic plug of the bathtub was not plugged, and the water was rushing, probably to cover up the sound of the person in the bag struggling.

Lu Cheng could tell at a glance that the fresh-keeping bag that wrapped the person was also filled with water, and the eyes and face of the person in the bag were magnified by the refraction of the water, shaking in front of Lu Cheng's eyes.

Not knowing how loudly she screamed, Lu Cheng knelt on the ground and tied the fresh-keeping bag with her fingers... Obviously she worked very hard, and obviously felt that the film was breaking layer by layer at her fingertips, but it took an unknown amount of time before finally there was a thin film. A stream of water gurgled down like a weak fish, and fine sea sand slowly spilled from the young man's legs... Lu Cheng still kept tearing open the bag, but it was a drop in the bucket.

"It's no longer necessary to work hard."

Facing Lu Cheng, who was lying on the ground, drenched with tears of despair, the man who came behind him at some point showed a comforting smile:

"You've worked so hard, but it's too late."

"Impossible in time, because—" He tilted his head slightly, and the perfect smile with slightly curved lips reminded people of angels and devils at the same time——"—because you have been waiting outside for 3 minutes, haven't you?"

"How about it, the 3-minute 'instant noodles' are the most delicious, right?"

The author has something to say: Actually, I am a little excited when I write this... I don't know how complete it is so far, but after all... This is the first time I write this kind of story!What, people who read this section before will think that this is a family healing article about food, handsome guys, right?