"So, why are there so many people at home during the Dragon Boat Festival this year?"

In the kitchen, Du Ruoxian, who was holding four cups of newly brewed Longjing, turned around speechlessly and looked at Du Ruoying beside him.

His gaze went through the half-opened frosted glass sliding door, to the sofa in the living room, where Yeats, Qi Menghuai, Bai Qirun and William were sitting.

"Don't be stingy," Du Ruoying said, dipping a pot of washed glutinous rice into the prepared sauce, "Their families are not in the local area, so they just celebrate the holiday with us. Anyway, my parents are still on business in Paris. I won’t be able to come back for the time being—by the way, let’s make it clear that today you pay and I contribute. Since you don’t know how to cook and deducted all my living expenses, this expense should be contracted, right?”

"Okay, okay..." He took out the tea with a headache, and handed it to the others one by one.

Forget it, this is also an opportunity for him to observe this suspicious foreigner more.

He was sure that this dangerous guy named William must have a different purpose to get close to Xiaoying.

In the living room at this time, Qi Menghuai was obsessed with putting the cartons and magazines on the coffee table back into order, while William was walking around to observe the details of the entire living room space.Bai Qirun fought with Ye Zhi for the remote control of the TV for a long time, but in the end he failed. He shrank into a corner of the sofa a little dejectedly, picked up his mobile phone - and then silently hacked Du Ruoying's TV...

Du Ruoxian looked at the tea table neatly arranged by Qi Menghuai like a Mondrian grid painting, then at the TV that was so hot that it started to smoke under Bai Qirun's coquettish manipulation, and at the TV table that Yeats used to beat Bai Qirun to the brim. A broken remote—

In contrast, William was the only normal person in the audience...

After wandering around the living room enough, William walked over to the kitchen: "Do you need help, classmate Xiaoying?"

Du Ruoxian quickly stepped forward and blocked the kitchen door: "Hey, you are a guest, how can I let you into the kitchen? You can just sit on the sofa, Xiaoying has my help here."

"Brother, don't come in," Du Ruoying refused mercilessly, "Aside from making instant noodles and tea, your cooking skills are just a waste of food..." Then she turned to look at William , "Will come and help me wash the zong leaves."

Well, what my own sister did, how could it be called piercing heart?

Du Ruoxian struggled to support the wall: "Hey, it's just washing some rice dumplings, I can do it too..."

"Didn't you agree just now? You pay the money, and I pay the strength," Du Ruoying grimaced at him with a smirk, "Don't even think about getting involved."

"Then I'm here?" William walked around Du Ruoxian who was supporting the wall, smiling and walked to Du Ruoying's side.

Seeing the excitement at the entrance of the kitchen, Yeats also came up to him: "Ah, making zongzi, I want to play too!"

"Then help me cut the thread, remember to cut it so long."

"Good drop."

Du Ruoxian felt that the shadow he cast on the wall deepened: "It's just cutting the thread, I can do it too..."

"Then I'll take care of it." Qi Menghuai also walked in.

"Hey, tell me—" Yeats whispered to Du Ruoying, "Could all the dumplings made by Brother Huai look exactly the same, I mean, like the ones that are as consistent as copying and pasting."

"Hahaha," Du Ruoying burst out laughing, "Don't tell me, it's really possible, it just so happens—let's use his advantage to play a game..."

"Yeah."

"Then trouble Senior Meng Huai to cut the stuffing for a while, after the rice is marinated, you can start wrapping it." Du Ruoying said.

"Row."

In this way, the four of them managed to occupy every position in the kitchen, so that Du Ruoxian had to be squeezed back into the living room.

At the corner of the sofa, Bai Qi gave him a sad look, with a little sympathy in his eyes: "Brother Xian, don't be sad if you are isolated, this is just the retribution you must bear for deducting her living expenses."

...? ! !

Why do I feel more anxious...

After a while, Qi Menghuai put a plate of zongzi wrapped like an array into the pressure cooker.

After 20 minutes, out of the pot——

"Okay," Du Ruoying announced solemnly as she put it on the dining table, "The next step is our lucky draw—there are nine zongzi in this plate, including red bean paste filling, meat filling, red date filling, and egg yolk filling. There are two of each kind, and the other one is special - coin stuffing. Whoever can get the most special rice dumpling can designate a dish for me to cook, that is, "eat a la carte", how? Sample?"

"It's not fair. Brother Huai made it himself, so he must know." Bai Qirun protested.

"Then I'll be the last one to draw, it's always fair." Qi Menghuai said.

"Then let's let Teacher William smoke first." Yeats said.

William glanced at Du Ruoxian, and smiled provocatively: "Is this okay, then I'm sure I'll win?"

"Oh? You're quite confident?" Du Ruoxian said, his eyes quickly swept across the plate of zongzi in front of him, and then he gradually realized that something was wrong, "Could it be that... no... "

"After all—this is just a simple reasoning question." After finishing speaking, William picked up the middle rice dumpling, cut the string, and then cut it in half with a chopstick.

Thus, a coin half buried in the glutinous rice was exposed.

"Ah, I guessed it right!" Yeats exclaimed.

"Oh my god, senior Qi Menghuai, are you a fool? You put it in the middle of a circle of rice dumplings?!" Bai Qirun jumped up from his seat in disbelief.

Qi Menghuai helplessly spread his hands and smiled: "There is no way, the 8+1 arrangement is unique, and only in this way can it be symmetrical."

"Damn..." Even Du Ruoying, who was always reserved, couldn't help but say an indecent word.

Originally, she only thought of using Qi Menghuai's obsessive-compulsive disorder to play games, but she didn't expect that for William, this game was not a lottery game at all, but a reasoning game.

So, Du Ruoying, Du Ruoying, why do you play yourself off?

At this moment, she just wants to beat up her stupid self...

However, I am willing to bet and admit defeat. I have no choice but to let William order food now.

Sure enough, he slowly said the name of the nightmarish dish she expected: "Then I'll order one—Looking at the Starry Sky Pie."

And attach a very hateful cheap smile.

Xiaoying had no choice but to float back to the kitchen without tears: "Well, okay, no problem... then you guys eat first, and the other dishes will be served immediately, but this Yang... Looking up at the Starry Sky pie... still needs a little time .”

"Then it's hard work for Xiaoying." Lian smiled and watched him off.

"Grass, grass... Grass it—it's actually a kind of plant..."

You must hold back, Du Ruoying!He must not let the [-] grass horses in his heart be released, or his head will be flattened...

******

The conversation at the dining table was still lively, and the zongzi on the plate seemed to be decreasing little by little.

"Ah, that's right! Xiaoying hasn't eaten yet, we have to save one for her." Ye Zhi suddenly stopped Bai Qirun's chopsticks and suggested.

"...I understand the truth, but why do you keep fighting against me?" Bai Qirun asked with black lines on his face, "I don't care, I just want to eat this! Ah..."

It turned out that while their chopsticks were pinching each other, William snatched it away.Under the focus of everyone's unfriendly eyes, he returned a polite smile and said, "Why don't I just go and feed it to her, while it's still hot, it won't taste good when it's cold."

Hearing these words, Du Ruoxian was shocked all over his body.

"Actually offering rice dumplings on my own initiative, I definitely have something wrong in my heart...but there is no evidence..."

He tried his best to restrain himself from acting rashly, but his gaze seemed to be fixed on William, and he followed him all the way into the kitchen.

"Brother Xian, calm down...the chopsticks are going to break your hands." Bai Qirun reminded in a low voice.

But how can this make him calm?However, the angle of view he was in was still separated by a half-open frosted glass door, and the actions in the kitchen were half-hidden, making it impossible to see clearly.

But the voice was clearly audible.

"Hey, thank you, I didn't expect you to be so caring." It was Du Ruoying's voice, "But I can't spare it now, so you should put it back, I'll come over to eat right away."

"If you can't spare a hand, I can help you." William picked up the scissors on the knife box, and reached for the zongzi that was tied up with five flowers.

"Okay, then...then I will trouble you—" Du Ruoying sounded a little shy, "Huh? Why did you stop?"

"No, you... are too tight." William frowned.

"Can't it go in? Then you should try harder, like this—"

Hearing that the lines seemed to turn in a bad direction suddenly, Du Ruoxian stretched his neck more and more anxiously and looked towards the kitchen.Through the frosted glass, you can see their figures overlapping each other, hazy and ambiguous.

Bai Qirun observed that Du Ruoxian's chopsticks were still 50% away from breaking, so he quickly comforted him: "Brother Xian, don't think too much, they must be cutting the rope."

"Hey...give it to me, I'll do it." Du Ruoying sighed helplessly.

"Then hold on steady." William's voice.

"Yeah, okay, now you use your strength—" Du Ruoying nodded and said, "Hiss, it hurts!"

20% left until Du Ruoxian's chopsticks are broken~

"How is it, does it matter?" William asked softly.

"I'm fine, you continue quickly." Du Ruoying gritted her teeth.

"I'm sorry, please bear with me one last time." His voice became so soft that it was hard to hear clearly.

10% left until Du Ruoxian's chopsticks are broken~

However, Du Ruoying's voice suddenly became hurried: "No, no, I really can't help it, ah—"

When she yelled "It's so hot!", Du Ruoxian rushed in with a pair of chopsticks that were only in half.

I saw Du Ruoying and William standing beside the sink holding a rice dumpling whose string had just been broken.The untied zongzi was steaming and looked quite hot.

"Cough, and... I'm really untying the rice dumpling rope..."

Xiaoying, William: ...? ! !

Afterwards, Qi Menghuai explained: "It should be because when Yeats cut the rope, this one was a little shorter than the others. In order to make all the zongzi look exactly the same, I tied this one a little tighter."

Du Ruoxian: ...

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