planetary deflection

He briefly negotiated the price, and bought the freshly made snare drum at a price he thought was acceptable without much fuss.The shopkeeper found him a piece of cloth to wrap it in, then put it in a large circle of kraft paper bag, and finally stuffed a few flowers beside it.

It's not the kind of well-packaged ornamental flowers, it's more like they were picked from the flowers at random. Several colorful wild flowers are clustered together, which looks a bit cute that doesn't match the owner himself.

He thanked the other party, took the paper bag, and left the store with Xiang Zhiyuan.

"What did you buy?"

Xiang Zhiyuan asked him.

Yuan Xu thought for a while and said, "Secret."

He hasn't figured out what occasion to give this gift yet, so it's better to keep it a secret.

Contrary to Xiang Zhiyuan's imagination, Yuan Xu seemed to be here for fun today, and he would go in when he saw any shops he was interested in, and actually bought a lot of things along the way.When they walked from the street to the destination, Yuan Xu already had three or four bags in his hand. The one he bought at first was the biggest, and Xiang Zhiyuan snatched it away for him.

They sat down at the herbal tea shop, which happened to be lunch time.Yuan Xu flipped through the menu, said that he wanted to eat sugar water, Xiang Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Then you order, and there are tortoise jelly and coconut milk jelly, do you want to eat?"

"want."

Xiang Zhiyuan called the boss to take an order. The chicken wings were to be grilled fresh, so he served them two bowls of sugar water first.What Yuan Xu ordered was Taro Coconut Juice Sago Dew. In the chilled snow-white coconut milk lay soft and glutinous taro cubes and well-cooked sago. After taking a bite of taro, my eyes lit up: "It feels different from cooking at home."

Soft but not rotten, stewed just right, the sweet taro cubes have been boiled for a layer, soft like clothes made of taro mash, and it is not greasy after being neutralized by the sweet coconut milk.

"I'll order you another panna cotta later," Xiang Zhiyuan said, "That's delicious too."

When the chicken wings were baked to golden brown and brushed with honey on the outside, he put on his gloves and began to tear apart the bones. He took all the tips of the chicken wings and put them aside, and the rest of the meat was piled up in front of Yuan Xu. In the plate, the bones went into the bone plate next to it one by one.

Xiang Zhiyuan didn't do these things at home, but right now he was serving Yuan Xu, and he felt that it would be great if he could be more proficient.

"I found that you seem to be getting better and better."

Yuan Xu took the spoon for eating sugar water and watched him deboning the chicken wings, and didn't say anything spoiling about what he could do. After Xiang Zhiyuan finished peeling, he took two pairs of chopsticks and passed one of them over.

"It's more cost-effective for one person to spend a little effort than for two people to wear gloves and eat with greasiness in their mouths."

Yuan Xu took the chopsticks but was not in a hurry to eat the chicken wings. He waited until the sugar water in his bowl was emptied before asking him, "Can I have a taste of your poplar nectar?"

Xiang Zhiyuan pushed his bowl in front of him, Yuan Xu laughed unsurprisingly.

"Look, I suddenly feel selfish."

he whispered.

"Why are you selfish?" Xiang Zhiyuan said inexplicably, "Isn't it just a sip of sugar water, drink more if you like it."

"No, there are also disassembled chicken wings, beautiful but expensive earrings, meat porridge at the school gate... many, many things." Yuan Xu shook his head and said, "As long as I don't pay the corresponding rewards, it's a matter of course. Enjoy the convenience you bring, and have gradually gotten used to it."

Xiang Zhiyuan wanted to say that this is not bad, he got used to it, and he originally had such an idea.But he looked at Yuan Xu's expression, and understood in his heart that the other party felt guilty for this habit.

Yuan Xu is a very sensitive person, and he doesn't really apply his method of "boiling frogs in warm water". Since he sent that letter, they can't go back to the past as if nothing had happened.

"I've thought about it a lot these days, but I haven't thought it through very clearly." Yuan Xu stared at his untouched bowl of poplar nectar, like a person who didn't prepare a manuscript and was giving speeches on the spot, " I don't know how I feel about you, but if you continue like this, besides being unfair to you, it's also like a disguised punishment for myself."

"How should I put it?" Xiang Zhiyuan smiled helplessly, "Actually, I didn't think it was unfair to me, because it was something I imposed on you."

It was like a lucky draw. He spent money to buy a gift certificate to win the first prize. Even if the result was only thank you for your patronage, he did it out of his own will.

They insisted on their own opinions, but in the end Xiang Zhiyuan took half a step back, took Yangzhi Ganlu away, and pushed the boneless chicken wings in front of him.

"You can't convince me, just like I can't convince you. These are two sets of arguments. So let's put down the energy of starting the debate and eat what I have worked so hard to make."

Yuan Xu thought about it and thought it was true, otherwise the chicken wings would be cold.

So each of them had a pair of chopsticks, and finished the plate of chicken wings separately, then called the boss to add an order, and ordered a chicken chop noodles and two coconut panna cotta.

At first I wanted to order two bowls of noodles, but the boss said: "My noodles are very big. When the students in the neighborhood come to eat, each bowl is enough. If you want to eat other things, you can order a bowl and share it. eat it?"

Sharing a bowl of noodles may sound like nothing at first, but it seems a little too intimate when it happened to them—especially after Yuan Xu made the remarks just now.Xiang Zhiyuan looked at him and saw that he scooped up a few spoonfuls of poplar nectar from his bowl with a clean spoon. He felt that he might be thinking too much, so he agreed to the boss's proposal.

When the noodles were served, they realized that the boss was right. The noodle bowl was high and deep, and the noodles were thin bamboo noodles. The portion is very good, the two of them really can't eat another bowl, and eating it separately is just enough to fill their stomachs.

Yuan Xu freed his hands to get a pair of new chopsticks, took the empty bowl given by the boss and said, "I'll divide it", then rolled and picked with the chopsticks, took away less than half of the bowl of noodles, and took away a piece of chicken chops, leaving the rest All of them belonged to Xiang Zhiyuan.

"That's all you eat?" Xiang Zhiyuan asked him.

"You've worked hard, eat more." Yuan Xu said, took sweet soy sauce from the table, added a few drops to his half bowl of noodles without soup, mixed it with chopsticks, tasted it, and asked him again, "Do you want some? This soy sauce is not salty."

Xiang Zhiyuan shook his head and began to suck up the remaining noodles in the bowl.

He eats a bit more than Yuan Xu, and he is seven to eighty percent full after eating, leaving just enough room for dessert.When he was eating poplar nectar with a spoon, Yuan Xu wiped his mouth and answered a call from his mother.

"Hello? Mom."

Yuan Xu's mother went to the parent-teacher meeting today, and Xiang Zhiyuan remembered that Yuan Xu said that she would also talk to the teacher about transferring to another school next semester.

"Well, I'm eating out. I just finished eating... Tell me, it's convenient."

Then Xiang Zhiyuan saw Yuan Xu frowned slightly, and then relaxed quickly, returning to his usual expression.

"Understood, there is no problem. You can go to lunch first, and we will talk slowly in the evening."

Xiang Zhiyuan kept pretending that he was concentrating on eating, but his mind drifted further and further away, and his ears were still involuntarily listening to what Yuan Xu said.

After a while, he ended the call, smiled at Zhiyuan as if he was relieved, and explained: "My mother, I just talked to the school."

"...How is it?" Xiang Zhiyuan tried his best to calm himself down, but it didn't seem to work.

"Because my file...well, there is a problem, so Ningdu No. [-] Middle School was not willing to accept me at first. Other schools have a relatively average admission rate. My mother doesn't want me to go, so I asked the teacher here to help talk to that side." Yuan Xu looked a little troubled, "In the end, they let go, but they are willing to accept me only if I have to be the first in the city in the final exam."

"Then you are number one in the city." Xiang Zhiyuan said.

Rong City has been carrying out educational reforms in the past two years. The final exam twice a year in the high school has been changed to the city's unified exam. In order to reduce the burden and take care of ordinary high school students, the difficulty of the test papers is relatively low, so for the students of No. [-] Middle School, this exam is difficult. The significance of the ranking is not as great as the monthly exam.The city's No. [-] name over there was willing to accept Yuan Xu. Originally, it was probably for gaining some fame, but in Xiang Zhiyuan's view, it was somewhat contemptuous of Yuan Xu.

He is a good student who can stay in a poor place like No. [-] Middle School for a year and still take the first place in the city. Can he stop pretending to "difficult" others?

"Actually, the director was not willing to let me go. He also discussed many conditions with my mother and wanted to keep me, but after hearing that it was my own idea, I still agreed." Yuan Xu said, "Teacher Xia helped me a lot. I have to thank her."

Teacher Xia Nan helped him once when he was caught fighting on the day he reported for duty, so Yuan Xu was not surprised when she told the director that he was not treated well in class and wanted him to try in a different environment. .He just thinks he is very lucky, even if he made a willful choice, there are still many people who are willing to help him.

"So as long as you get the first place in the final exam, will Ningdu accept you to transfer?" Xiang Zhiyuan is concerned about the result, "They won't do anything to make things difficult for you, right?"

"I didn't talk so much, but from what my mother said on the phone, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"That's good." Xiang Zhiyuan said.

While speaking, coconut milk jelly was also served.Yuan Xu uncovered the one in front of him, took a mouthful of it with a spoon and put it into his mouth, successfully attracted his attention: "It's cold."

"Frozen." Xiang Zhiyuan explained the method, and said, "You can dig out the coconut meat after eating."

"Oh... no wonder it's a metal spoon." Yuan Xu was stunned.

They tacitly stopped talking about the topic of transferring schools. Xiang Zhiyuan took some time to digest this matter, and when he saw Yuan Xu concentrating on eating, he felt less uncomfortable.

At least Yuan Xu is honest, he is not a failed suitor.

The author says:

I wrote half of this chapter before and deleted it all and started again, so I accidentally wrote this point... Sorry for the lateness!