Half a catty

He Yue thought about whether to throw away the dirty clothes that Wang Chengyi took off. After a night of volatilization, although the smell was no longer so pungent, it seemed that there was no need to wash the wrinkled clothes.

Taking the trash can from the side of the tea table, He Yue rolled up the clothes and pants together and stuffed them in. At first, he didn't notice that there was something under the place where Wang Chengyi's pants were just now.When he finished disposing of the garbage bags and walked back, he saw the thing lying quietly on the ground.

He Yue picked up his car keys and paused for a moment: "Why are they on the ground?"

Thinking that maybe he had taken out the spare key before and forgot, He Yue came to the drawer dedicated to storing all kinds of keys and prepared to return the things to their original places. He opened the drawer and had another meal.

Two identical car keys were lying in He Yue's hands.

But before He Yue could think about it, there was a sound of running barefoot on the floor from the direction of the bedroom. He turned his head, just as Wang Chengyi rushed out from the corridor, saw He Yue in the living room, and thankfully said, "That's great." ,You still here……"

He Yue put down the key, pushed up the drawer, and said flatly, "This is my home."

"Uh... I mean, I thought you went to work." Wang Chengyi explained bluntly.

"I don't go to work today, I have other things to do." He Yue replied.

Wang Chengyi suddenly felt a little lost, and didn't ask any more questions: "Oh."

But He Yue turned a blind eye to his fluctuating emotions: "Go and play with your hair, it's as messy as a chicken coop."

"...Okay." Wang Chengyi nodded and walked back step by step.

It was also because he walked too slowly, He Yue urged behind him: "Hurry up, you have to go out before eleven o'clock."

Wang Chengyi stood still, turned around, pointed at himself, and asked uncertainly: "Me?"

He Yue pursed his lips to hold back his smile, and said seriously, "Are you still hungover? If you're not clear-headed, I'll go by myself."

"I'm sober!" How could Wang Chengyi not be sober, and in order to prove himself, he actually started to recite the multiplication formula backwards, walking into the bathroom while chanting, and could hear from a distance: "36..."

He Yue finally couldn't help laughing, and raised the corners of his mouth. Suddenly, he heard a "crash", his face froze for a moment, and he walked quickly to the kitchen.He boiled noodles in the pot, and as expected, if he didn't pay attention, he jumped over it, and the noodle soup overflowing the side of the pot spilled all over the stove. The situation can only be described as horrible.

After Wang Chengyi packed up and went back to the living room, he smelled a subtle burnt smell, before he could investigate further, He Yue dragged him out the door.The two found a porridge shop and had a casual breakfast, and then Wang Chengyi was carried by He Yue outside a bungalow covered with green plants.

The car slowly stopped at the door of the bungalow, Wang Chengyi was puzzled: "Cake shop?"

"Well, do me a favor." He Yue took off his seat belt and said, "I'll treat you to a big meal tonight."

The attraction of a big meal is not very attractive to him, the key is who to eat with.Since it was He Yue who said it, Wang Chengyi readily agreed without asking what kind of help he needed.

As soon as you enter the door of the cake shop, you will be surrounded by a strong sweet smell, with the burnt aroma of baking, as if you are in a candy house in a fairy tale for a moment.

He Yue greeted the clerk and went straight up to the second floor. On the stairs, he explained to Wang Chengyi: "It will be my father's birthday in four days, and my mother wants to make him a cake by herself. No, Count me in, but I just can't do this kind of thing." He shrugged.

Wang Chengyi looked at the helpless He Yue and snickered: "It's okay, I'll help you."

There is an entire open operating area on the second floor. Mother He arrived first, put on her apron, and was washing her hands.

He Yue said hello, He Mu heard the sound and looked, but saw Wang Chengyi behind He Yue, she didn't even bother to talk to He Yue, she asked Wang Chengyi to come in and let her have a look: "From the New Year to the present It's only been a few months, Cheng Yi, why do you seem to have grown taller?"

Wang Chengyi lowered his head to measure the distance from his eyes to his toes, and said with a smile, "Really?"

He Yue came over and hugged Wang Chengyi, intending to put today's task on Wang Chengyi's shoulders.He said to He's mother: "Chengyi heard that you wanted to make cakes by yourself, and asked to come over for help, and he is... very good at this." I just wanted to simply explain the fact that Wang Chengyi knew how to make cakes, but some memories of the apartment in Canada were automatically recalled in my mind.

"I'm... alright." Wang Chengyi obviously thought of the same thing.

Mother He couldn't feel the undercurrents under the two of them, so she turned around and put an apron around Wang Chengyi's neck: "What's the matter with modesty?"

Taking advantage of the time when Wang Chengyi was dragged to wash his hands, He Yue went downstairs to order coffee, then went back upstairs and sat down at a table, but before the coffee was ready and brought over, the lazy He Yue was caught by He Mu up.

"Yue, don't sit still, come and try." Mother He greeted.

He Yue raised his forehead: "Mom, you are enough to make trouble."

Mother He shook the scraper in her hand: "It's very simple. It's different from cooking. You don't need to fire it."

Wang Chengyi also said: "Come and try, Brother Yue."

He Yue couldn't keep his mouth shut by himself, so he came to the console suspiciously, and was put on an apron of the same style.

In addition to the three of them, there were four other pastry chefs to assist. Logically speaking, the cake making should go smoothly, but because of He's mother's efforts to do it herself, it was a little stumbling.One of the masters is French, and he can't speak Chinese or English, which means that Wang Chengyi, who grew up in Canada, can chat with him a few words.Gradually, the cake-makers were divided into two groups. Three Chinese pastry chefs surrounded He Mu and He Yue, showing a bustle, while Wang Chengyi chatted with the Frenchman with ease.

He Yue let out a long sigh, looking at his mother who was reluctant to give up, thinking that making cakes is much more difficult than cooking.He bent down tiredly, put his arms on the table, looked down at the bowl of whipped cream in front of him for a while, dipped his finger in a little bit, stretched it to his mouth, rolled his tongue, and licked his fingertips clean .

Wang Chengyi silently stared sideways at He Yue, He Yue's slender fingers and his bony wrist, his expression changed.He turned his head and asked the French pastry chef if he could make fondant cakes. After getting a positive answer, he said, "Wait a minute." Then he wiped his hands hastily, turned and left for a while.

Wang Chengyi didn't alarm He Yue, but He Yue, who had ruined the fifth cake, was already devastated and didn't notice that Wang Chengyi came in and out several times, acting sneakily.

The days in July are very long, and the sun had not completely set when I came out of the cake shop. Mother He, who had been busy all afternoon, was exhausted, but she still did not forget to ask He Yue, "Are you going home for dinner?"

"No, I'll eat outside with Cheng Yi." He Yue sent He Mu to the car, nodded to the driver, and pushed the car door.

After watching Mother He leave, He Yue just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but thought about today's progress, maybe he would accompany Mother He to the cake shop before He Xincheng's birthday.

"Are you tired?" Wang Chengyi asked.

He Yue shook his head, he wasn't tired, but he felt an inescapable frustration under the blow of countless failures.

Wang Chengyi took him to the side of the car and pushed He Yue into the passenger seat: "Let me drive, Brother Yue."

He Yue was disrespectful, and said: "You can eat wherever you want, the steering wheel is in your hands."

Wang Chengyi seemed to have a destination long ago, without hesitation, he drove straight to the river, and drove along the road along the river.He Yue thought he was looking for a restaurant by the river, but he didn't want Wang Chengyi to drive more and more remote.

There is a newly developed park here, embedded by the river bank, like an emerald on a platinum necklace, the park is full of lush greenery.

Wang Chengyi stopped the car, and took He Yue to the riverside full of expectations, but couldn't help being disappointed the moment he got out of the woods: "Oh, it's still too late, the sun has completely set." He looked back at He Yue: "The sunset here It's beautiful."

He Yue smiled: "It's okay, just come back tomorrow."

The newly developed park is deserted, and the surroundings are silent. He Yue and Wang Chengyi looked at each other. Neither of them spoke, but they seemed to know what the other was thinking and wanting. Unknowingly, they gradually moved closer until they could clearly see each other's face. Every fine hair, lips and lips are close at hand, with only an invisible layer of paper in between, which can be pierced at any time.

Suddenly, Wang Chengyi paused, and left for a while: "Wait for me." After he finished speaking, he ran back to the car like flying, and before He Yue felt overwhelmed, Wang Chengyi ran over again with something in his hand .

"Here you are." Wang Chengyi held the small ribbon tied on the transparent packaging box in front of He Yue.

He Yue took a closer look and found that there was a piece of cake in the box. He took it back and held it in his hand. The small cake was not much bigger than his slap.He Yue asked, "When did you do it?"

"While you're not paying attention." Wang Chengyi said.

He found a bench and sat down, with the breeze blowing from the river, He Yue untied the ribbon, opened the box, and revealed the contents inside.The cake is dark blue, unlike the butter cream, the surface of the fondant is more like a clay work, with high plasticity.Just like the one in his hand, a delicate little whale is swimming in it.

Wang Chengyi handed over the knife and fork: "Come on, you cut it."

Seeing Wang Chengyi's enthusiasm, He Yue suddenly had a premonition, he took the handle of the knife, dodged the whale, and cut off slowly.

Sure enough, after a slight resistance, his blade hit a foreign object.

He Yue took out the black velvet box from the cake, and peeled off the plastic wrap wrapped around it: "For me?"

"Ah."

He Yue opened the cover of the velvet box, and two blue diamond cuffs lay quietly inside. A circle of broken diamonds surrounded the main body of the diamond, forming some seemingly irregular lines. Looking carefully, it seemed to be two letters.

He Yue said, "It's not my birthday."

"This is not a birthday present, this is a gift that should have been given to you a long time ago." Wang Chengyi moved closer to He Yue, and they almost stuck together.He clicked the cufflinks with his fingertips, and said, "Look, the blue diamond on this was taken by me when I went to the auction house with my dad. It was a charity auction at that time, and I took out a piece directly there." When the rough stone came out, it looked black and bulging, and no one liked it. But I thought it was a good stone, and I wanted to take it down anyway. The transaction price at that time was enough to buy the cut finished product. Fortunately, it was a charity auction, and there was no People think I'm a fool."

"However, here comes the turning point." Wang Chengyi said with emotion in his voice, "You must have guessed what I cut out after I bought it home, but you would never have guessed that I cut out a [-]-carat, almost perfect blue diamond." Drill."

He Yue raised his eyebrows, he stared at Wang Chengyi incomprehensibly, then looked at the diamond that had been divided into two, and said, "To make cufflinks, you are too reckless."

"How come?" Wang Chengyi retorted, "I never knew what to do with it, so I kept it in the safe." He took one and held He Yue's hand.He Yue was wearing regular clothes, and there was no place to pin the cuff buttons, so Wang Chengyi put the cuff buttons on the inside of He Yue's wrists. The crystal clear diamonds would sparkle with just a little light, making He Yue's skin even fairer.

Wang Chengyi said: "Being your accessory is its greatest value."

He Yue was silent for a long time, the water waves slapping against the river embankment not far away, as if slapping on his heart.

"Thank you, it's very beautiful." He Yue said.

Wang Chengyi asked: "Would you wear it?"

He Yue didn't answer, he just continued the unfinished kiss just now.