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Lin Xing was afraid that the fried meatballs would not taste good, so she only fried five or six of them in the first pot for experimentation. She stood in front of the stove, holding the net bag for scooping up the meatballs, and looked back at Xu Xiwan, who was scorching hot. Amusingly snatched the ceramic bowl containing the meatballs from her hand, and put it on the stove, "Three-year-olds know that they can only eat it after it has cooled down. Wanwan, I think you are getting better and better."

Xu Xiwan smiled and said, "Of course I have to taste what my wife cooks."

"Taste it, and give me some comments. How does it taste?"

Xu Xiwan nodded and praised without hesitation, "It's delicious."

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Now Xu Xiwan has been dazzled by love. Everything Lin Xing does is good in her eyes. I poked a meatball with chopsticks, put it near my mouth and blew it, and when the meatball cooled down, I opened my mouth and took a bite.

The outer shell is crispy, and you can hear the crispy sound when you bite your teeth. The inside is soft, juicy, salty and delicious. After one bite, the unique aroma of fried food spreads to the entire mouth. It is indeed very delicious.

After Lin Xing finished eating a meatball, Xu Xiwan poked another one and put it near her mouth. Lin Xing thought that Xu Xiwan was going to feed herself, but she still had some meatballs left to fry, so she said, "I don't want to eat it." After eating, you have to fry all the minced meat first, as the oil temperature will be high and it will be easy to burn."

Unexpectedly, Xu Xiwan held up the ball and said confidently, "Blow it to me."

Lin Xing couldn't help laughing, "Don't you have a long mouth yourself? Do you want me to eat it for you?"

"Then I don't care. You told me this yourself when you proposed to me."

"What did I say?"

"You said, ahem... the biggest wife in the world, you have to be very, very good to me, and you will never go west when I say east, it's only been less than a month, why, you fooled me and you forgot all about it? "

This was indeed the guarantee that Lin Xing made when he proposed to Xu Xiwan on the hospital bed. She spoke very quickly that day, thinking that Xu Xiwan had almost forgotten it long ago, but she did not expect Xu Xiwan to remember every word so clearly.

"Of course." Xu Xiwan said, "How could I forget such an important promise."

Lin Xing saw the 40-year-old old goblin in front of him playing a rascal like a three-year-old child, but with a little helplessness and connivance, he gave Xu Xiwan a symbolic compliment.In fact, there is no need to blow it, after such a long delay, the meatballs have long since ceased to be hot.

Xu Xiwan just took a bite, chewed, and said, "Smells, really smells."

Frying things is a tough job, it takes a long time, and you can’t leave people, you have to concentrate, if you don’t pay attention, you will get burnt. Lin Xing finished frying the second pot of meatballs and checked the time. It was almost one o’clock in the morning. Still leaning against the stove to accompany her, Lin Xing asked her to go up to rest first, and then he would arrive later.

Facing such a pot of hot oil, Xu Xiwan was afraid that Lin Xing would accidentally get burned, so he focused all his attention on her, so he dared not leave, so he said, "It's okay, I'm used to staying up late, so I'm not sleepy. "

Lin Xing squeezed the third pot of meatballs into the pot, and said, "I knew it, you don't take your body seriously when no one is looking at you."

"So, you have to watch me carefully."

Lin Xing smiled, "Mr. Xu, the dignified Mr., has to let his wife take care of his work and rest. Those Mr. Zheng and Mr. Wei who spread the news to Jinling must not laugh at you to death."

"What's the joke? I have such a good wife. Let them hide in bed and envy them secretly."

Speaking of this, Lin Xing recalled a past event.

She had just turned eighteen that year, and because she saw Xu Xiwan having a close relationship with a bank president, she was frightened and jealous, so she impulsively went to express her feelings to Xu Xiwan, and even had a long fight with Xu Xiwan for this reason. The awkwardness of time.

Back then, I felt that the sky was about to fall, but now I think it's childish and funny, Lin Xing smiled and asked Xu Xiwan: "Hey, the President Zheng who pursued you back then, you didn't contact him anymore?"

Xu Xi didn't remember who Lin Xing was talking about for a while, "Which President Zheng?"

"It's the one who went to the financial interview with you back then. He was a young talent. He was unmarried and unmarried back then. Didn't you get tempted?"

Xu Xiwan thought for a long time, and finally remembered who Lin Xing was talking about, President Zheng, "You don't mean Zheng Gangfeng, do you?"

Lin Xing had read that issue of the financial magazine back then, and it seemed to be the name, and the cover of that issue was the two of them, talented and beautiful, and Lin Xing couldn't eat for several days.

After several years of cooperation, who would have thought that Lin Xing would be jealous to this day, Xu Xiwan laughed, "Does Xiao Xing know that even if Zheng Gangfeng and I have something, the law will not allow it."

"What do you mean?"

"That Zheng Gangfeng is a direct cousin of Xu Yiqing's grandfather, and he is a serious relative of the Xu family within three generations. Although I have no blood relationship with him, we are still cousins ​​in law, and it is impossible to get married."

Lin Xing: "..." Is it because I have been jealous for so many years?Does anyone have any relationship at all?Lin Xing felt that he had been deceived, and he thought that he had no reason to be jealous for so many years just because of a little trouble, so he was quite embarrassed.

Pian Xu Xiwan even teased her, "It is said that the prime minister's belly can pull a boat, but Xiao Xing's stomach is bigger than the prime minister's. He has a vat of vinegar in it, and it hasn't evaporated for seven years. Now he can still smell the sour smell."

"That's not all your fault. If you were willing to accept me back then, there would be no such things."

What happened back then was so hard on Xu Xiwan's heart that he couldn't even mention it. Whenever Xu Xiwan was mentioned, he felt guilty and distressed, and he didn't know what to do.

The kitchen that was lively and joking just now was suddenly quiet, only the sound of oil pan boiling, and after a long time, Xu Xiwan apologized in a low voice: "I'm sorry."

"Hey..." Lin Xing let out a long sigh.

In the years when Xu Xiwan forced him to leave, it was impossible to say that there was no resentment. Lin Xing often couldn't figure it out, and even suspected that Xu Xiwan might have no feelings for him at all.

If you really like someone, how can you be willing to let her go?

Later, Lin Xing began to slowly understand how to thank Xu Xiwan. Leaving her would indeed be painful, but it would indeed grow.Breaking away from Xu Xiwan's shelter, Lin Xing devoted all his energy to growing up alone, and gained much more than under Xu Xiwan's wings. In the past, Lin Xing said that taking care of Xu Xiwan was just lip service, but now, she is Really can do it.

It's a great feeling.

"I remember, there must be a plum tree in the backyard." After a long silence, Lin Xing changed the subject softly.

Xu Xiwan was taken aback for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes."

It is said that the plum tree was planted by Xu Xiwan's grandfather when he was young. It has been quite a few years now, with thick and knotted branches. It blooms every year at the end of the year. It's a pity that the Xu family has been busy for fame and fortune for decades, and the old man's poetic and artistic charm in those years has been ruined.

Lin Xing said, "I don't know if it will bloom this year."

This Xu Xiwan never noticed.

When mentioning plum blossoms, the topic naturally turned to the plants that Lin Xing had raised when he was abroad. The two of them tacitly did not mention that part again, and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious.

After frying three pots of meatballs, there is also a pot of fish balls and a pot of shrimp balls. They can’t be fried this time. They are boiled in hot water of [-] or [-] degrees. They are white and round. They can’t be eaten directly. Xu Xiwan had to stand aside Looking greedy.

"There are only two of us, can we finish eating so much?" Xu Xiwan asked.

"Who said the two of us ate it? I'll send some to Xiaohui, Feng Yu and the others tomorrow, and some to sister Xiaoqing. The two little ones in her family love my fried meatballs the most. In the past, sister Xiaoqing took them Go to my place to play, you can eat more than a dozen in one meal, and your stomach will be round."

Lin Xing laughed while talking, and seemed to like the twins very much.

"Do you like children?" Xu Xiwan asked.

"Ok?"

"You like children. When we get married and our lives stabilize, we can adopt one. I will raise him as the heir of the Xu family."

"Don't!" Lin Xing waved his hands again and again, and said in horror: "The two little devil kings of sister Xiaoqing's family are enough for me, I don't want to have another one!" She thought about it, maybe Xu Xiwan liked it Child, so he changed his words, "But if Wanwan likes children, we can adopt one in the future, um... Although children are troublesome, it should be fun to raise them well..."

She said it against her will and reluctantly, Xu Xiwan laughed straight, put her arms around her shoulders and said: "I don't want children, it will delay my life and your life." She thought about it, and said: "I hate children the most."

Lin Xing remembered how indifferent she was to him when he first met Xu Xiwan, and nodded with a smile, "No wonder you were so fierce when you first brought me home." Xu Xiwan showed such obvious rejection to the child, thinking back to the past When she first came here, she was in great pain.

Xu Xiwan hugged Lin Xing and said, "I only like one child in the world, and that's the one in my arms."

Lin Xing hugged her back with a smile, "I don't like children in the whole world. What I like is an old goblin, who is in my arms now."

They worked in the kitchen until two o'clock in the morning, and finally they were able to sleep. They only woke up after five hours of sleep. After washing up and eating breakfast, Lin Xing boiled a pot of paste and used it to paste Spring Festival couplets and lucky characters. I have not touched the spring water with my ten fingers for many years, and I am very surprised to see the good starch turn into a paste. I asked Lin Xing where he learned it.

"Last night, I secretly searched the Internet and found that making the paste to paste the Spring Festival couplets is just like Chinese New Year." Seeing that the paste was almost thick, Lin Xing turned off the fire, and went directly to the door with a small pot to paste the Spring Festival couplets.

Xu Xiwan took the initiative to ask Ying to be responsible for painting the paste. They only celebrated the New Year in the small courtyard of their residence, so the couplets and blessings were also pasted in the small courtyard. Lin Xing also bought a lot of small red lanterns and hung them all over the old tree. Plum trees, the atmosphere of the new year in the small courtyard immediately became stronger, and there were red everywhere, beaming with joy.

In the morning, they put up couplets on window grilles. At noon, the two of them made do with a pot of noodles. In the afternoon, they started working on the New Year’s Eve dinner. A whole fish with whole head and tail is indispensable. The steamed grouper came out to laugh, and Xu Xiwan also laughed that she didn't even dare to kill an octopus back then, so she hid far away and asked herself for help, talking and laughing all afternoon, cooking a table of dishes, and not feeling tired at all.

The New Year's Eve dinner for the two of them was also very grand. Before the meal, they put a string of firecrackers according to the old customs of Jinling. Lin Xing was afraid of firecrackers, so he didn't dare to light them. Proficient, after the firecrackers were set off, Lin Xing asked by the ears if he was secretly smoking again, otherwise how could he be so familiar with the posture of playing with the lighter, Xu Xiwan yelled that he was wronged.

At the time of New Year's Eve at zero o'clock, according to the custom, a door-opening cannon was set off, as well as the fireworks that had been prepared a long time ago. Lin Xing was afraid that fireworks and firecrackers were an old problem since childhood, and he was reluctant to miss the New Year's Eve with Xu Xiwan Time, covered her ears and hid in Xu Xiwan's arms to watch, Xu Xiwan also covered her ears with both hands, amidst the crackling fireworks, Xu Xiwan moved a little gap by Lin Xing's ears, into her ears and eyes and said, "I love you."

This was the first time Xu Xiwan said these three words to Lin Xing, and Lin Xing burst into tears. She didn't care about firecrackers or not, she hugged Xu Xiwan's shoulders tightly with red eyes, Her ears said "I love you", and she couldn't bear to stop, as if fireworks had exploded in her heart.

From today onwards, Lin Xing's fear of fireworks and firecrackers has been cured. When thinking of fireworks and firecrackers, only Xu Xiwan's "I love you" is in her mind, and there are no other bad memories.