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Li Mu finally followed Zhao Shengyan's suggestion and stopped taking the subway and took a taxi instead.When he arrived panting, Yue Renge had already entered his house, the door was ajar, and a scent wafted from the house.

Yue Renge sat on the sofa and waited. When he looked up and saw Li Mu, he smiled and waved to him, "The food is getting cold."

"Why did you come here?" Li Mu hurriedly changed his shoes, pulled up a stool and sat down, "You also bought crayfish?"

"Yeah." Yue Renge threw over a pair of plastic gloves, "I just saw it, so I bought it. Eat, I have to go out later."

Yue Renge is busy, Li Mu knows.I used to feel lonely once in a while, but this time I didn't. Instead, I felt a little bit of happiness that I shouldn't have.The crayfish is chilled, marinated to taste, almost no seasoning is needed, and the mouth is full of freshness.He clumsily peeled one off and put it in Yue Renge's disposable lunch box.Yue Renge picked up the crispy rice in the lunch box with chopsticks, "Eat it yourself."

Hearing this, Li Mu lowered his head and peeled a few more crayfish. The pitiful bit of shrimp meat was dotted on the claypot rice with rich ingredients, which looked ugly.

Even with couples who have some tacit understanding, they will occasionally fall into silence during meals.It's not because the food is too delicious, it's more because of preoccupations.

Yue Renge took two bites and put down his chopsticks.Li Mu raised his head and saw the other party smiling at him, "This meal is a bit too dry, and I don't want to drink Coke."

Li Mu stood up, "There is still the soup base in the refrigerator, I'll warm it up."

Yue Renge didn't stop him.

The refrigerator was bought before, it looks old, and the cooling effect is not bad.Li Mu cooks occasionally, and the cooking tools are of course the simplest ones.He still maintains the simplest living habits, and saves what he can't finish eating for next time.This soup base was taken away when they ate crabmeat tofu that day. Yue Renge was full of praise and drank two bowls for the first time.

The boss said that the soup base is slowly simmered with ham and old hen, and the taste is rich and delicious.Li Mu added some water, and slowly melted it in a small milk pot, watching the umami taste come up little by little.In fact, there is a bit of similarity between making soup and bartending, which is the result of the organic collision of various raw materials.After practicing all morning, his hands were still a little sore. Li Mu shook his arm. Seeing that the soup had completely melted, he took a small spoonful and tasted it.Frown, then add a pinch of salt.

If the flavor is lacking, make up for it with something else.Just like repairing a damaged painting, it also needs to be refilled.However, there were good and bad supplements, Yue Renge took a sip of the soup from the small bowl and put it down.

"Not good?" Li Mu asked sharply.

"No." Yue Renge continued to eat with a smile, "but it's not the original taste anymore."

Li Mu wanted to say something else, and heard Yue Renge say: "The clam soup my mother mentioned last time has a salty and delicious taste. She said it has the same taste as when she was a child. Later, she wanted to make it again, but she always made it again. No. She asked me to ask you, how did you do it?"

Li Mu tilted his head and thought for a while, "...I didn't put any salt."

Yue Renge looked at him.

"I added diced ham to the soup base, and I used the small piece of sausage left over from your family," Li Mu said, "The so-called hometown flavor is just a kind of protease. If you eat it in your stomach when you are a child, your stomach will be broken." Remember."

Yue Renge smiled, "You understand it very well." He added: "My mother asked me to buy that sausage and send it home a few years ago, and there was only a little left. Her hometown is actually in a nearby county. Eat more than here." After a pause, "I don't have much time recently, if you are free, help me with this matter."

Li Mu nodded upon hearing this.Yue Renge stared at his face, "I see you are preoccupied, what are you thinking?"

What are you thinking?Li Mu shook his head, trying to confuse the past.

"The weather has become cold recently, and I feel a little uncomfortable."

Before leaving, Zhao Shengyan assigned him homework and asked Li Mu to think about the performance content of fancy creative bartending.

Fancy creative bartending is not as simple as simply shaking a glass on the stage to make a glass of wine.The wines in the performance generally need to be original. At the same time, when bartending, the judges must also explain the design ideas and concepts of the cocktails, and more importantly, be able to tell stories.

The Huawu Cup is a rare bartending competition that is not named after a brand sponsor, but in order to pay tribute to the sponsor, the bartenders usually choose the sponsor's alcohol brand when designing creative bartending.

In Zhao Shengyan's view, this is a large-scale dramatic show that plays with stalks and elements.

Regardless of whether it is drama or not, wine must be designed.Zhao Shengyan asked him to come up with a plan tomorrow—after all, there were countless adjustments and revisions in the later stage—Li Mu sipped the soup silently while listening to Yue Renge about how his mother traveled across the ocean to a foreign country.

Li Mu was naturally distracted.

The theme of this year's Huawu Cup is: Innovation, Breakthrough, and Return.A good show that echoes the theme is a must.Innovation is not a powerful and unconstrained style.A creative cocktail is not a combination of just a few drinks, it is considered innovative.The most basic point is to follow the French-Italian cocktail family formula, that is, 1 part spirit + 1 part French-Italian vermouth + 1 part tonic.

When Zhao Shengyan accompanied him to wait for the car, he said that despite the tens of thousands of cocktail recipes, the ones that can be kept are simple and classic.The materials should be convenient and easy to obtain, and the public should be easy to copy and learn. This is the same as a recipe. After all, food and drink should serve the public, but don’t be too high on the top, and finally lose your own foundation.

When the car arrived, Zhao Shengyan continued to tell Li Mu on WeChat.

What is a breakthrough?Just as scientists often explore on the shoulders of their predecessors, in the end it is only an improvement in a trivial place.Zhao Shengyan reminded him not to be too ambitious and make a glass of wine so grotesque and unrecognizable.During the design process, there may be substitutions in the selection of vermouth, or changes in supplements, but the balance and unity of the wine itself cannot be ignored.

Return...is another grand motif.Bartenders can drill down to illustrate it with various more detailed branches, such as homesickness.Another example is that wine must ultimately serve human beings.This in itself is a very elucidative subject, call it what you will.From this point of view, bartending is actually a fairly inclusive industry.

Li Mu stirred the looming ingredients in the soup bowl, until Yue Renge reached out and slapped him in front of him suddenly, and he was startled awake.

Yue Renge didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Honey, I think you're out of your mind, why don't you go to sleep now?"

Li Mu consciously lost his composure and was a little embarrassed.The claypot rice in front of him had long since cooled down, and he didn't feel hungry, so he pressed Yue Renge's hand to help him warm up the rice.

"I didn't rest well last night."

"Are you sick?" Yue Renge put his cold hand on his forehead, "It's so hot."

"It's because your hands are too cold." Li Mu held his wrist, "What's wrong with you? The weather isn't too cold recently, so why are your palms so cold?"

Yue Renge smiled, and withdrew his hand, "It's okay." Then he said, "Let me lie down with you for a while."

Li Mu looked at him, nodded after a while, "Okay."

Regarding the idea of ​​fancy bartending, Li Mu already had some ideas of his own, but they were still immature, so he hesitated to tell anyone.

Returning, in Li Mu's view, is not only a return to nature after vicissitudes of life, but also the longing for the hometown of the wanderers outside.

Still follow the most basic French-Italian principles.This time the host is a famous rum brand, and Li Mu prefers his rum as the base wine in his heart.The brand comes from the Caribbean region, which is relatively close to Huadu in terms of dimensions. Although the climates of the two places are different due to other factors, the general feeling of terroir is the same as that of the hatchback.

The function of balance was originally performed by vermouth, but now it is replaced by pomegranate juice and kapok.Kapok flowers are huge, bright as fire, can be eaten as vegetables, and used as medicine to clear away heat and dampness.The sweet and sour taste of pomegranate juice adds a touch of bright color to the base note of rum.

Li Mu's mind was spinning fast, he was lying down, and Yue Renge hugged him from behind.Normally like this, he has been out of his mind for a long time, and now all he can think about is the difficult last night that Zhao Shengyan left for him, and he can only vaguely hear Yue Renge say: "...get some tangerine peel, Old Jiang. "

"……Um?"

"I mean, those things my mother wants." Yue Renge said, "It's hard to buy authentic ones on the Internet now, so you have to go and buy them yourself. Since you want to go out here, you should just buy them all at once. Mr. In other words, there are three treasures in the local area, tangerine peel, ginger, and straw. The straw is useless now, so send the first two to my mother, and she will be happy."

Li Mu stretched out his hand and touched the back of Yue Renge's hand, "Okay, anyway, I'm buying one, and carrying a box, it's all right."

There were flashes of inspiration in his mind, and he was worrying about what to replace the tonic with. Yue Renge's light words solved his doubts by the way!

"Thanks for your hard work," Yue Renge said again, "I wanted to give you a vacation, but conditions don't allow it now. The place is not far away, you drive my car there, and I'll reimburse you for the gas. I'll send you the items after the address." Said After that, a sweet kiss fell on Li Mu's ear, "I wish I could stay by your side 24 hours a day, but it's a pity that God doesn't fulfill people's wishes."

"You also know it's impossible." Li Mu turned around and hugged him with a smile.

Yue Renge's face sank slightly, and he let go of his hand, "You also know that this is impossible, so don't make me wait for you any longer. You don't know how precious my time is, so I'll come to you and wait for you for half an hour Don't run around in the future, you know?"

Maybe it's something on his mind, maybe there's something else, knowing that Yue Renge is just talking about it, but he won't do it in reality, but today Li Mu is no longer in the mood to flatter him, "Good boy, sometimes I'm busy too. I Do your best, okay?"

"Okay." Yue Renge laughed, but reached out and pinched his chest hard.Li Mu frowned in pain, but saw Yue Renge looking at him coldly.My heart skipped a beat.

Yue Renge has been in turmoil recently, and his mood is not good.Li Mu is his emotional stabilizer, and being with the other party can somewhat relax him.Now it's all right, even Li Mu can't be by his side.This made Yue Renge even more short of breath.

He has always been a reasonable person, so he knew that this temper tantrum was unreasonable.But he is not a child after all, how can he show his fragility in front of his lover?However, Li Mu didn't know what to do, and when Yue Renge became popular, he couldn't control it.

He smiled and said, "You are promising now, busier than me."

--------The author says------------

Cat Mom: This paragraph is too difficult to write.In short, the person who hides something has ghosts in his heart, and the person who is deceived is suspicious.There is also Zhao's mother's high-quality teaching and homework in the middle, which is really a crime (lay down).

The cocktail design is based on bartender Huang Xiaoyang Casper's hometown wine design and his concept of champion wine design. There is his video on station B, interested friends can go and watch it.The author is very, very layman, don't spray.

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