today's island

Since making a bet with Cheng Mo, Lu Yuanzhe has been quietly observing Cheng Mo's life.After more than a month, he was sure that Cheng Mo really didn't have any personal interests.Including the occasional one-day vacation, Cheng Mo reads materials in his room and cares about Daocheng news.

The only time he saw Cheng Mo reading a book that had nothing to do with work was a "Travel Guide to the Island City". It was probably not because he was interested in traveling, but because he had stayed abroad for several years and wanted to quickly learn about the Island City without leaving home. That's all.

To understand Daocheng, one should understand it down-to-earth. What's the use of just sitting at home and reading magazines?

He felt that Cheng Mo's indifferent desire to survive had a lot to do with his lack of a deep understanding of the world.The painting he gave to Cheng Mo has this meaning, and he hopes that Cheng Mo can feel the plants and trees that are worth cherishing in the eyes of ordinary people through the painting.

How can a person neither love great mountains and rivers, nor love to eat, eat, buy, buy, buy?

But it was difficult for him to ask Cheng Mo out. Cheng Mo had ten thousand excuses to evade, either he was busy with the special case team's case, or he was studying classic cases. Lu Yuanzhe even suspected that he could publish a "Daocheng Criminal Investigation Record".

If there is a whole day free, Cheng Mo can also go to the training base to maintain his shooting skills, and he can practice for a few hours with a light gun.Don't talk about going out for a stroll when you come back, you are too tired to say a few words.

Lu Yuanzhe suspected that this was the punishment given to him by God for the appetite of the cute little ones he used to indulge in.

But today is different, today Cheng Mo actually received a courier.

Just after get off work, Lu Yuanzhe was thinking whether to call Aunt Zheng over or order a takeaway, when he saw Cheng Mo answer the phone and hurried out.

He looked out of the window and saw Cheng Mo coming in carrying a huge courier, and there were two more in the yard.It's outrageous enough for Cheng Mo to receive couriers, and there are so many and so big, I don't know what kind of treasure it is.

"What?" He went over to open the door for Cheng Mo and gave him a hand before Cheng Mo finally entered the room smoothly.

Stretching out his hand, he realized that it was lighter than expected, at least it was not an electrical appliance: "What did you buy?"

"I didn't buy it, my brother gave it to me." Cheng Mo smiled helplessly, "Clothes, didn't I tell you last time? My brother likes to over-shopping."

He stared at the express box as big as a refrigerator, and almost couldn't hold back his complaints. This is not an excess, this is simply a sweep.

The two of them struggled to move the remaining two boxes into the bedroom. Cheng Mo said "thank you" and then opened the express in front of him.It is indeed full of clothing, jewelry pendants, fashion items, spring, summer, autumn and winter, formal and casual, everything.If Lu Yuanzhe hadn't known that Cheng Mo's younger brother was a science student, he would have thought he was a fashion designer.

"Did he play the live-action version of Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen?" he complained.

"What "Dress Nikki-Dress UP Queen"?" Cheng Mo looked at him puzzled.

"A dress-up game." He briefly introduced, not expecting Cheng Mo to know about this game.

Cheng Mo didn't delve into it, and continued to move all the things out of the box and put them in the closet.This younger brother is really caring. He is more serious than Cheng Mo's obsessive-compulsive disorder. He also carefully prepared the labels and separated the clothes by material and color.

"I suspect that your brother has a problem with your clothes. He doesn't really like shopping." Lu Yuanzhe leaned against the door frame of the bedroom to watch Cheng Mo tidy up. The clothes in the box were in stark contrast to those in Cheng Mo's closet, just like the clothes in the 80s TV and the current TV, "Your clothes are too monotonous, only black, white and gray."

"He is much more monotonous than me. He really only likes to buy, not to wear." Cheng Mo explained again, not too contradictory to his brother's topic, and said a few more words, "When he was young, he was obsessed with being a Mature people always choose the most serious children’s clothes, and if his mother insists on buying fancy ones, he’ll throw them all at me, he grew tall really early, he’s two years younger than me, and about the same height as me.”

"Shouldn't I like you?" Lu Yuanzhe suddenly became vigilant.

"Don't think about my brother." Cheng Mo glanced at him and stopped his thoughts.

It can be seen that the brotherhood is really good.Fortunately, most of the time, Cheng Mo's pace was steady and fast, but today he moved up and down very briskly, the kind of jumping for joy.

"It's just right, I bought new clothes, let's go out for a show... Ah no, shall we have dinner?" Lu Yuanzhe blurted out an invitation.

"Huh?" Cheng Mo stopped.

"Isn't it good?" He looked at Cheng Mo and quickly found a reason, "Look... Aunt Zheng's coming here is also very troublesome."

"Okay." Sure enough, he was in a good mood, and Cheng Mo readily agreed.

"What to eat?" He asked for Cheng Mo's opinion, although he had already guessed the result.

"Anything." Cheng Mo replied.

"Okay." There are random treatments, and he can handle them.

·

Lu Yuanzhe had long wanted to take Cheng Mo out to find delicious food. He specifically consulted a doctor friend, and many psychological problems caused loss of appetite.Although Cheng Mo can't say that he has a loss of appetite, most of the time there is only a difference between "eat/didn't eat" when it comes to food, which is really too lacking in enthusiasm.

He knows that this is not the main problem of Cheng Mo's heart disease, he just thinks that solving one is one thing, even if he feels that there are so many delicious things in his life that he hasn't eaten, it may be a life-saving straw at a critical moment.

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Cheng Mo looked at the dazzling array of food and asked, "Buffet?"

"Yeah." Lu Yuanzhe nodded, followed the waiter to the seat, and asked Cheng Mo to sit still, "You really can eat whatever you want, right?"

Cheng Mo nodded, so he set off, starting with the appetizers, and bringing back a little for Cheng Mo.

This is a cafeteria with a strong exotic flavor, which led him to speculate that Cheng Mo, influenced by the traditional family, should not come here to eat Western food, Japanese and Korean food every now and then.What's more, this is a cafeteria known for its weird dishes, and he believes that Cheng Mo has never heard of many dishes.

If you want to get out of your comfort zone, of course you have to do something extraordinary.

He carefully selected the dishes recommended by this restaurant and his favorite dishes, set up a whole table, and then sat down to share with Cheng Mo.

"Have you eaten all of them?" He asked Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo shook his head: "Our family seldom goes out to eat. At most, we celebrate birthdays, and we don't order anything out of the ordinary. My parents like home-cooked food."

"What about you?" He looked at Cheng Mo.

"It's all good." Cheng Mo frowned as soon as he replied, chewing what was in his mouth while looking at the thick soup.

"Is it delicious?" Lu Yuanzhe glanced at the plate, and took a small portion for himself.Today's soup is not bad, but it probably isn't Cheng Mo's favorite taste.

Cheng Mo was still thinking about how to describe it, and asked him instead: "What is this?"

"Snail." He looked at Cheng Mo and replied.

The suspicion in Cheng Mo's eyes flashed away, he took another sip, and continued to chew with thinking eyes, and only after swallowing this time did he answer Lu Yuanzhe's question just now: "Like... a plastic with a mild taste and easy to chew? "

"Pfft." Lu Yuanzhe was amused by his statement, "If you think it's not tasty, forget it, I'll drink it for you."

"It's okay." Cheng Mo drank the snail soup anyway, and tasted other things.

Lu Yuanzhe accompanied him to try them one by one, and asked him what he thought. If he liked it, he would leave some for him, and if he didn't like it, he would eat his share.

I don't know if he has rebelled against the strict and reasonable diet at home. Cheng Mo likes all kinds of "heavy taste" things.

Seeing that he could eat all these things, Lu Yuanzhe stood up: "Why don't you challenge a live octopus."

Sure enough, Cheng Mo's pupils dilated, and he refused hesitantly: "...isn't it good?"

"Aren't you casual?" Lu Yuanzhe smiled.

"...Forget it." Cheng Mo stopped it in embarrassment, paused, and asked curiously, "Have you eaten?"

"Of course, there is nothing I dare not eat." He laughed.Of course, unless Cheng Mo wants to try, he doesn't want to eat it a second time.

After cleaning up the tasting dishes on the table, he didn't stand up again: "You have tasted all the delicious ones, and you can go and see what you want to eat by yourself."

He was looking forward to what Cheng Mo would bring back, and then saw the chicken wings in Cheng Mo's hand.

"Can't you?" Cheng Mo noticed that his expression was complicated, and he looked down at his chicken wings innocently.

"Choosing expensive food is the essence of self-help." Lu Yuanzhe told him seriously.

After his reminder, Cheng Mo understood, this time he brought back huge shrimps, crabs and salmon.Compared to those weird things, Cheng Mo seems to prefer the common seafood. Although it is not too expensive, it is much better than coming here to eat chicken wings.

On top of that, the chicken wings here might not be very tasty.

Lu Yuanzhe also went to find some favorite food, and was quite relieved to see Cheng Mo stand up for the second time to get the salmon.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Mo stopped again in a daze, not knowing what's wrong this time.

"It's nothing, I'm very relieved to see that at least you are not taking things by lottery." Lu Yuanzhe replied, full of ambitions, "People's enthusiasm for life can also start with food."

Cheng Mo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I probably shouldn't be looking for it here, I like all kinds of junk food."

"Really?" Lu Yuanzhe didn't quite believe it.

"Really, when I was a child, my birthday wish for eight consecutive years was to eat barbecue." Cheng Mo told him.Speaking of this, his eyes are still shining, probably because of the relatively happy things in his childhood.

"Then let's have another barbecue later?" He immediately suggested that it would be better to take action than to be tempted, "It's okay to have a little supper."

It took them so long to come out once, as long as Cheng Mo likes it, if they are not healthy enough, they will not be healthy enough, and if they gain weight, they will gain weight.

"It's okay, it's all my childhood wish." Cheng Mo didn't really plan to go, and he didn't want to move his chopsticks when he was full, but he praised today's buffet, "Salmon is good, I thought I didn't like eating raw things of."

Although he was very polite and perfunctory, Lu Yuanzhe stared at him for a while and felt that it was the truth.

"Don't you want to try a live octopus?" Unwilling, he asked again.

"..." Cheng Mo frowned and began to think about this question seriously.

"Forget it." Lu Yuanzhe just joked and handed him a tissue, "You don't have to go that far to get out of your comfort zone."

·

After dinner, they took a walk on the pedestrian street in the southern district of Daocheng.Although this is a commercial area that has only been renovated in recent years, it used to be a pedestrian street, so you can see many Western buildings that were popular when the island city first started. There is also a huge church at the end of the pedestrian street.

"I lived near here when I was a child." Cheng Mo was really in a good mood today, and took the initiative to introduce to him, "Many blocks have been renovated here, but many old landmark buildings still remain."

Lu Yuanzhe liked to wander around the island city when he was a child. He knew what this neighborhood was like before, but unfortunately he didn't know Cheng Mo before, otherwise maybe many things could have turned around earlier.

As he walked, Cheng Mo stopped in front of the fountain in the middle of the pedestrian street, and recalled with nostalgia: "I also wasted a lot of money here."

Lu Yuanzhe followed his gaze and looked forward. This is a wishing pool surrounded by fountains on all sides. There is a small hole the size of a fist in the middle, and there are many coins piled up around it.Some people are trying now, but let alone throwing it into a hole, it is a bit difficult to even throw it on the table.

Now it is all mobile payment, and everyone carries too few coins with them, and few people insert coins. In the past, there may be three to five times more coins.

"This hole is too small, isn't it sincere to make people wish?" Lu Yuanzhe looked at the center of the fountain, which was much more difficult than what he saw near temples.

Cheng Mo fumbled in his pocket for a while, and found a one-yuan coin. His eyes were piercing and he was quite confident: "If you treat me to dinner, I will give you good luck."

Bounced the coin up two or three times, weighed the feel, and stood in front of the fountain, watching the rippling water patterns in the fountain, and popped out the coin in his hand.

Lu Yuanzhe heard the crisp sound of the coin hitting the water, and saw the coin sinking into the small hole the size of a fist, so he realized that he should take a video.

"Want to make a wish?" Cheng Mo put his hands back into his pockets, and raised his mouth at him, very proud of his childish behavior.

It was only a little brighter than the usual natural smile, but the crowds of people and the noise of people in Chengnan Pedestrian Street all made his smile freeze.

Lu Yuanzhe was overwhelmed by this smile, and he was stunned for two seconds before he suddenly recovered, took out his phone and asked, "Can you do it again."

With a swish, several people around the fountain took out their mobile phones.

Cheng Mo was sensitive to sight, and was frightened by the enthusiasm of the onlookers. He subconsciously pulled his scarf up to cover half of his face.But after hesitating for a moment, he took out another coin and weighed it in his hand.

Lu Yuanzhe took a few steps back, looked at Cheng Mo from the phone screen, and watched the coin flash past, and finally a small ripple was caused on the water surface, and it fell accurately into the small hole in the center of the wishing pool.

The astonishment of the crowd was his heartfelt voice. He stared blankly, afraid that his loud praise would disturb the beautiful scenery.

"Do you still make a wish?" Cheng Mo turned his head and asked him, this time he was stared at by his camera, not as proud as last time, his eyes flickered and glanced elsewhere.

"I want to know what wish you wanted to make when you were a child, and you practiced such a unique skill." He sent it to Moments devoutly, without even writing a copy, miracles do not need words to express.

Cheng Mo walked out for a while before speaking: "I'm a pragmatic person, wishes are meaningless."

"For example?" Lu Yuanzhe still wanted to know.

"For example, when I passed by the dessert station, my mother bought me a cone." Cheng Mo replied.

Is this supposed to be your mother?Lu Yuanzhe became curious about this timeline: "When did you learn this skill?"

"Seven years old?" Cheng Mo frowned and thought, a little ashamed by Lu Yuanzhe's shocked eyes, "Soon, you put a cut-off mineral water bottle at home, and you will practice soon."

"I crushed the mineral water bottle very quickly." After thinking about it, Lu Yuanzhe knew that he was impatient. If he had this concentration, he would also become a sniper, "You are so talented that others can't learn it. "

Cheng Mo smiled noncommittally, and tugged at his scarf shyly.

"Then do you want to eat now?" Lu Yuanzhe asked, they were passing by the dessert station.

"I can't eat any more." Cheng Mo replied honestly, but quickly added, "Next time."

Next time is a good word, Lu Yuanzhe loves to hear it very much.

They wandered like this until ten o'clock, and went home when the shops on the street began to turn off the lights.After making an appointment with Cheng Mo to eat cones next time, Lu Yuanzhe went back to his room happily and began to relish the videos in Moments.

The comment section exploded, and everyone was asking if he had caught a "new friend". The new friend was fair and beautiful, with a slender waist, long legs, and a buttocks. Where did he come from?

When they say "new friend", of course they mean lover.There are no "new friends", those are all rumors, just this one.

He didn't reply, and closed his eyes comfortably. He was expecting a sweet dream, but he was awakened by Bureau Tang's phone call. He didn't even remember whether he was dreaming or not.

It must be a big deal for Tang Wen to call in person.