Inferior star

In Wei Yu's left hand, he was holding a few pieces of change that he had just found. There were a few coins stacked on top of the banknotes. His right hand was occupied by several red and green plastic bags.

Xu Mingzhao was still observing the bubbling shellfish at the seafood stall. Seeing Wei Yu walking away, he quickly chased after him.

"Just now that aunt praised us for being handsome, and even gave us a shallot." Xu Mingzhao said proudly, looking down at the long onion protruding from the mouth of the bag Wei Yu was carrying.

"I will give you all the vegetables you buy." Wei Yu was not moved by the sweet talk of the vendor, and poured cold water on Xu Mingzhao.

"Oh."

Xu Mingzhao heard that Wei Yu was going out to buy groceries just now, so he wanted to go together, and by the way, he showed Wei Yu the way to the nearest supermarket, but it turned out that Wei Yu took him who had lived here for more than a year to a place closer but Great farmers market not found at all.

This is the first time he came to the vegetable market when he grew up. Although judging from the arrangement of the stalls, the hanging documents and signs, the management here is very standardized, and the whole environment is not as messy as Xu Mingzhao thought, but no matter where he goes Everywhere you go, you can still smell the peculiar fishy smell of the vegetable market, and there are often water stains left by small trailers on the ground, which quickly turn black when stepped on by unclean soles.

Xu Mingzhao was worried about his feet and walked cautiously, but Wei Yu was very used to it and walked swiftly.

Most of the people who come to buy vegetables are mothers, and occasionally there are old grandmas walking tremblingly carrying bamboo baskets, and couples or couples who seem very close.

It is indeed rare to see a combination of two young boys like him and Wei Yu.

Wei Yu simply bought some common seasonal vegetables, which should be enough for two or three days. Xu Mingzhao only cared about meat, so Wei Yu had no choice but to go to the meat section under his urging.

The chicken seller was very enthusiastic. He picked two large chicken breasts from the freezer and weighed them into bags. He took the change for Wei Yu and did not forget to chat: "Do you want to train your muscles? Uncle will bring you two big pieces to keep the freshness and quality. Come here often."

Wei Yu took the money and the bag, thanked Xu Mingzhao together, went to buy some condiments, and finally went to the rice shop to buy rice.

Wei Yu first asked the shopkeeper to weigh some bulk yellow millet and black rice.

"Why buy this?"

"Nursing the stomach. Boss, do you have long-grain rice?"

Xu Mingzhao is a veritable "four bodies do not work hard, and the five grains are not distinguished", so he saw Wei Yu picking and buying rice with ease, and he was familiar with the efficacy of all kinds of rice, secretly disgusted that his common sense of life is not as good as his junior.

The boss bent down to pick from behind, and shouted to Wei Yu who was standing at the door how many catties he wanted. Wei Yu thought about it and asked for five catties.

"The price of a five-jin bag is not worth it, why don't you buy a ten-jin bag." The boss took the bag of rice back to the stall and put it on the table. The package said huge "produced in Northeast China".

"I can't lift it." Wei Yu lifted the things in his hands and smiled. There were several bags in his right hand that contained vegetables, and some contained bottles and cans.

"There's another little brother, he's empty-handed."

"He can't mention it."

"Who said, boss, I can, give me ten catties." Xu Mingzhao, who was wandering in the sky, was picked by the boss, and suddenly wanted to show his skills.

The boss smiled happily, and was about to go to the back to get rice, when Wei Yu stopped him again.

"Boss, I want five catties. Try it first, and come back after it tastes good. How much is it?"

On the way back, Xu Mingzhao wanted to help Wei Yu carry things, but Wei Yu didn't let him. He dragged along behind, often asking Wei Yu, whose hands were full of things, to stop and wait for him to follow.

"It doesn't weigh even ten catties." Xu Mingzhao said to himself.

"It's not serious." Wei Yu heard Xu Mingzhao talking to himself.

"Then you still say that I can't lift it, and you make me weak and precious."

"I didn't say you can't lift it. You're just too sick to hold heavy objects." Wei Yu and Xu Mingzhao looked at each other helplessly for a few seconds, "Even if it's not heavy, it will feel heavy after holding it for a long time."

Xu Mingzhao knew that he was too petty and unmanly to argue because of this kind of "too much to mention" matter, but this was a flash point, and he cared about it for a long time and held back it for a long time.

The boss said he was "empty-handed", and Wei Yu said "he can't mention it".

He always wanted to look like a reliable senior in front of Wei Yu. He approached Wei Yu and provided Wei Yu with a place to live, but Wei Yu never even called him a polite "senior" since he met him, and always called him directly. his name.Now Wei Yu is walking with bags and bags, but he is just a patient in his eyes.

Xu Mingzhao thought he was popular at school, and even a little arrogant in social disdain, but this self-confidence was defeated by Wei Yu's unassuming and even intentionally hidden gentleness and carefulness. He found that he felt a little inferior in front of Wei Yu.

He thought that after living with Wei Yu, the two of them would be able to communicate more, but Wei Yu never left early and returned late, and he was still a stranger to him.

He was still as curious as the day he first met Wei Yu, or even more curious.Curious about the story behind Wei Yu's self-deprecating smile, curious about Wei Yu's mind when he wakes up in the middle of the night, curious about why Wei Yu has a kind of maturity beyond his age, why this kind of maturity and strength is mixed with vulnerability and helplessness at the same time in the same person.

Wondering why I care so much.

But he didn't dare to ask and didn't want to ask, he wanted Wei Yu to take the initiative to speak.

He has to wait.

"I'll take this for you, it's quite heavy." Wei Yu separated two fingers from the left hand that was holding the rice, and took out the one containing oil and seasoning from the many plastic bags in his right hand with difficulty and handed it to Xu Mingzhao, "Don't... ...don't be angry."

Xu Mingzhao stared at Wei Yu's shy and flushed face, wanting to laugh.Unexpectedly, Wei Yu was the first to show his affection for his unreasonable troubles, and he also said that he wanted to look like a senior.

"Yeah. It's my first time to go to the vegetable market, and my uncles and aunts are very enthusiastic." Xu Mingzhao changed the subject.

"That's right. Compared with the vegetables sold in supermarkets, the only advantage left by the vegetable market is the human touch."

After returning home, Xu Mingzhao volunteered to clean the kitchen that had never been turned on. Wei Yu set aside the dishes to be cooked at noon, and put other foods in the refrigerator. The two were busy in the small kitchen.

Bottles of oil, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings were neatly lined up against the wall by Xu Mingzhao.

Wei Yu searched the cabinets inside and out, and found that there were more kitchen utensils than Xu Mingzhao said, and it was enough for light meals, so he soaked the kitchen utensils in water first, went to wash the rice and cooked the rice, and then began to prepare the ingredients.

Xu Mingzhao had nothing to do after helping wash the kitchen utensils, but he didn't leave the kitchen, just looked at Wei Yu quietly.

Wei Yu is very skillful in handling chicken breasts. First, he cuts the whole piece of meat in half with a kitchen knife, then presses the whole piece of meat with the palm of his left hand, and cuts the half piece of chicken breast thinly into three pieces with his right hand. All six slices were plated and each slice was sprinkled with salt.

"I think your knife skills are better than my mother's. Do you often cook?" Xu Mingzhao started chatting aimlessly again in order to relieve the embarrassment of standing stupidly.

"Well, I have made it myself since I was a child." Wei Yu put the chicken aside and began to wash a vegetable he had never seen before, which was a bit like green pepper.

"Your parents don't cook?"

"Mom and Dad... Both of them work in other places. I live with my grandpa."

"Then you have been very obedient since you were a child."

Wei Yu didn't answer any more, and threw the vegetables in his hands into the pot of freshly boiled water. After about 5 minutes, Xu Mingzhao smelled a peculiar smell of this kind of vegetables, which was hard to describe and very weird.

"What kind of dish is this? The smell is a bit..."

"Okra." Wei Yu took the vegetables floating on the water in the pot and put them on a plate to cool down. "I've been eating them since I was a child, so don't eat them if you're not used to them. Anyway, you can't eat too much if you have low blood sugar."

The rice cooker beeped twice, Xu Mingzhao went to press the switch, the lid popped up, and the aroma of rice filled the air. He looked at Wei Yu's focused profile while chopping vegetables, and found that he had lived here for more than a year, and for the first time he had a sense of life. real feeling.

After Xu Mingzhao finished his meal, he sat and played with his mobile phone, and Wei Yu brought out the prepared dishes from the kitchen one after another.

There are vegetables, meat and soup, small green vegetables with good color, chicken breast fried until the surface is slightly browned, and homemade tomato and egg soup.What attracted Xu Mingzhao the most was the plate of okra, which was filled with ocher sauce, and the okra was cut into small pieces of uniform thickness by Wei Yu. The posterior outer wall shrinks toward the center.

It looks like stars.

"Where did the sauce come from?"

"Soy sauce and vinegar, try it."

Xu Mingzhao took a piece of "star" and put it in his mouth. Although the taste was not familiar to people, it was better than expected. The thickness of soy sauce and the lightness of vinegar mixed together, covering up the special smell.

"The taste is not bad. The appearance is quite good. If my mother made this dish for me when I was young, I don't think I need to worry so much about my dislike of vegetables."

"Ah."

Xu Mingzhao discovered that Wei Yu might really have magical powers, and the chicken breasts that were only marinated with salt for a while turned out to be very tasty.

"The vegetables are delicious, and the meat is also delicious. But the taste is very bland."

"I'll put more salt next time."

"No, no, no, I just want something lighter." After Xu Mingzhao finished speaking, he gobbled it up.

Wei Yu ate slowly, Xu Mingzhao waited for him after eating, took out his mobile phone and typed "okra" in Baidu, the search result gave him a surprise.

"Wei Yu, have you really eaten okra since childhood?"

"Ah."

"Then you must be very 'powerful'." Xu Mingzhao smirked maliciously.

"What do you mean?"

"Baidu said that okra can strengthen the kidney and nourish the deficiency."

Xu Mingzhao handed his mobile phone to the opposite side, and Wei Yu took it with a puzzled face. A health encyclopedia page was displayed on the screen, and a line of words was written in it: "Okra is known as 'Plant X Brother' and contains rich mucus. , looks like male XX, has high nutritional value, can strengthen the kidney and tonify deficiency."

Among them, the words "Brother Plant X" are specially bolded.

Thinking of Xu Mingzhao's words and expression, Wei Yu blushed up to his ears, and choked his throat with the unswallowed meal.He quickly put the phone back on the table, clenched his hands into fists to cover his mouth, and coughed frantically for a while before subsiding.

Xu Mingzhao didn't expect his joke to cause such a big reaction, and he was a little sluggish for a while.

After Wei Yu stopped coughing, he quickly drank a bowl of soup to relax.

"That... I was joking, don't mind. I didn't know you would react so badly. I'm sorry..." Xu Mingzhao scratched his head, and Wei Yu's eyes were red after coughing, which made him a little guilty, "But you Don’t you talk with your brothers and friends, and you don’t make blunt jokes, they’re all boys.”

"Not much chatting." Wei Yu lowered his head and returned the phone to Xu Mingzhao.

"Then what are you talking about?"

"Not much chat."

Wei Yu got up to clean up the dishes, and cut off what Xu Mingzhao hadn't said yet.

"Well... let me wash the bowl." Xu Mingzhao reached out to grab the bowl Wei Yu was holding.

"I'll come....But it's not because you're sick or something. You just think I'm too energetic, and I can't sleep without doing more things. Don't, I'm angry again."

Politeness, all detachment.

The author has something to say

Sorry for the update of this chapter today, everyone who likes okra orz, I personally like okra very much!After updating today, I found that it has been a whole month since I opened the article.I am a writer with an average daily update of 700 words and no awareness. I am really grateful to the friends who have read my articles.Although the current plot is still very dated, I think it is a necessary foreshadowing. Wei Yu and Xu Mingzhao are slowly getting closer to each other as they get along. I really like this process of discovering their hearts.Let me give you a little spoiler, there is a flat sweetness (?) in the back, the two are sure that there will be a bit of abuse in their hearts, and they will sprinkle sugar after the reunion! !Because the article is open for a month, can I ask for some starfish~ If you have any ideas, you can comment, and I am still looking forward to communicating with each other.good night.