Strive for Science

Early in the morning, Shen Chang'an got up and cleaned up the house, stewed what should be stewed, cut what should be cut, and before he was done, he heard a knock on the door.

He wiped his hands, opened the door and saw that it was Dao Nian, sitting in a wheelchair, followed by two young men with similar looks.

"Dao Nian?" He didn't expect Dao Nian to come so early, he was taken aback for a moment, and quickly opened the door wide: "Come in, there is no elevator in my building, thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard." Dao Nian noticed that after seeing him, Shen Chang'an subconsciously checked the time, but he resisted it, "I came too early?"

"Neither early nor early, just right." Shen Changan turned on the TV, took out a clean blanket from the room and covered Dao Nian's knees, "The temperature has started to drop these two days, and the air conditioner is not turned on in the room."

Dao Nian twitched his nose when he smelled the smell of meat in the room.

"The meat you gave me is very tender, so I made some to fry the crispy meat. I just fried a plate. You can taste it." Shen Changan brought out the washed fruit and crispy meat from the kitchen, and met with Dao Nian. The two young men who came over were still standing at the door, "Please sit down too, you are welcome."

The young man smiled at Shen Changan, and turned to look at Dao Nian.

"They'll leave later." Dao Nian took a piece of crispy and delicious crispy meat with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth. He didn't look like he was eating, but more like tasting something he had never tried before. .

"Yes." One of the young men said immediately, "We are here to bring Mr., and we are leaving soon."

"Then come over for lunch after you're done with your work?" Shen Chang'an said with a smile, "Today's cooking is a bit too much, and Dao Nian and I can't finish it."

The two young men shook their heads in unison, expressing that they were too busy with work and would not come over.

Seeing that they were determined to go, Shen Chang'an couldn't continue to persuade them to stay, so he had to stuff them with a box of small biscuits that he made himself.

"Don't eat too much crispy meat, it will dry your mouth, eat some fruit to relieve the greasiness." Shen Changan did not sit on the sofa, but moved a small stool to sit next to Dao Nian's wheelchair, and suddenly he was half a body shorter than Dao Nian.He didn't know if Dao Nian cared about his leg problems, but his way of sitting might help increase Dao Nian's sense of security.

A palm-sized box was handed to Shen Changan. The box was engraved with beautiful auspicious cloud patterns and inlaid with beautiful beads. Shen Changan had reason to suspect that these beads might be precious stones.

"What is this?" Shen Changan took the box and turned his head to look at Dao Nian who was still eating crispy meat.

Is the crispy meat he fried so delicious? The hot pot at Dao Nian's house was so delicious last time, and Dao Nian didn't see Dao Nian move his chopsticks a few times, but Dao Nian had already eaten half of today's bowl of crispy meat.

I reached out and took a piece from the bowl and put it in my mouth. It was tender, crunchy and fragrant, and it was indeed better than before.

It seemed that he didn't expect Shen Changan to take food from his own bowl, Dao Nian paused for two or three seconds: "Come to the door."

"Cough, cough, cough." Shen Changan patted his chest, choking until tears came out, "Dao Nian, don't you usually visit friends?"

Dao Nian looked at him quietly, lazily reached out and patted Shen Chang An on the back.

Shen Changan instantly felt that his throat felt much better. Holding the box, he explained: "A gift brought to a friend's house is called a casual gift, and a gift brought by a lover to meet a parent for the first time is called a door-to-door gift."

"Oh." Daonian continued to eat the crispy meat with his head down, all the etiquette was the same.

Seeing that Dao Nian stopped talking, Shen Changan found a funny program on TV: "You watch TV for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to watch the fire."

Dao Nian blinked at him, indicating that he heard it.

Walking into the kitchen, Shen Changan glanced at the beautiful gift box in his hand, and poked his head out from the kitchen: "Dao Nian, can I open the gift you gave me now?"

"Yeah." Dao Nian finished the last piece of crispy meat, held an empty bowl, and stared at the TV screen expressionlessly, as if he was not watching a comedy show, but a boring preaching show.

The box is too delicate and beautiful, which made Shen Changan be careful when he opened the lid, but when he saw what was inside, he still felt a little weak.

Inside was a fist-sized gold ingot. The gold ingot was round and cute, and its chubby body exuded a charming golden light.

This ingot is exactly the same as the ingot held by the grandpa of the God of Wealth on many statues of the God of Wealth.

Closing the box tremblingly, Shen Changan felt his little heart beating wildly. He had never seen so much gold in his age.

Holding the box and walking out of the kitchen, Shen Changan's voice was a little fluttering: "Dao Nian, isn't this handy gift you gave too expensive?"

"Not good?" Dao Nian frowned, obviously every New Year, many human beings like to post pictures with ingots on them.

"It's not bad, but it's great." Shen Changan swallowed, "Is it..."

"It's fine." Dao Nian handed the empty bowl filled with crispy meat to Shen Chang'an, "I want more."

"It's too precious." Shen Changan shook his head, "I can't take it."

Dao Nian withdrew his hand to hand the empty bowl: "You won't be friends with me anymore?"

"It's because I regard you as a friend that I can't accept such an expensive gift." Seeing that Dao Nian was unhappy, Shen Changan quickly explained, "Friendship between friends does not need to be measured by money."

Daonian nodded: "Well, I don't think you are poor."

Shen Changan: "..."

Thank you for your understanding.

"However, my behavior is called taking advantage." Shen Changan laughed helplessly, "Dao Nian, maybe you have lived in a simple and rich environment since you were a child, and you don't know how terrible the power of money is. .”

Shen Changan pointed to himself, then patted the back of Dao Nian's hand: "I want to be friends with you, that's all, nothing else, can you understand my mood?"

Dao Nian quietly looked at the young man's black and white eyes, and there was a little more seriousness in the calm eyes: "I have seen all the evil and darkness in the world."

"Okay, okay, I know you have seen it." Shen Changan knew that the other party minded what he said just now that he had never seen how terrifying the power of money is, so he could only follow his meaning, "Then you take this back."

"No." Dao Nian lowered his eyelids, "Friend, just take it."

The four eyes met, Shen Changan looked at the other's eyes as beautiful as the vast starry sky, and gave in dizzily: "Okay, I will accept it."

Dao Nian continued to look at him.

Seeing this, Shen Changan quickly added: "Thank you for the gift, I like it very much." How many people in the world don't like gold ingots.Holding the wooden box, he thought to himself, when Dao Nian got married, he would use this gold ingot to make a gold doll for him.

After hearing Shen Changan say that he likes it very much, Dao Nian returned to the state of watching comedy shows with a blank face, but he just glanced at the empty bowl filled with crispy meat a few more times.

Shen Chang'an instantly understood his eyes: "You can't eat too much crispy meat, you have to eat at noon, the cake will be baked soon, I'll get you a piece."

Dao Nian drooped his eyelids and said nothing.

"Okay, okay." Mingming Dao Nian's expression didn't change much, Shen Chang'an could tell that he was upset and had a little emotion, "I can only eat half a bowl, and we can eat fruit after eating, okay? "

Dao Nian turned his head and continued to watch TV, with the appearance of "I didn't say anything, this is all your own opinion".

Shen Chang'an went into the kitchen to pack the crispy meat, put it in Dao Nian's hands, watched TV with Dao Nian for a while, and then started cooking for dinner.

At twelve o'clock at noon, all the dishes were on the table. Seeing Dao Nian leaning on a wheelchair with his eyes closed, Shen Changan called him in a low voice, "Dao Nian, it's time to eat."

When Dao Nian opened his eyes, Shen Changan realized that his eyes were not sleepy.

"The dining table is a bit high, would you mind eating on the dining chair?"

Dao Nian shook his head slightly, putting his hands on the armrest.At this moment, Shen Changan suddenly bent down, picked him up by the waist, and walked directly towards the dining table.

Dao Nian: "..."

Dao Nian:?

The moment he hugged Dao Nian, Shen Changan found that Dao Nian's legs didn't seem to be deformed as he imagined, but he was afraid of stimulating Dao Nian's emotions, so he didn't deliberately look at his legs, and put him on the dining chair After getting on, he thoughtfully covered Dao Nian's legs with a blanket.

After doing all this, he found that Dao Nian looked at him very strangely.

"I'm strong, don't worry." Handing the chopsticks to Dao Nian, Shen Chang'an wanted Dao Nian to forget about his legs as much as possible, "Taste my skills."

After eating a few dishes with chopsticks, Dao Nian said, "Okay."

"You may not believe me, but I can cook at a very young age." Seeing that Dao Nian liked it, Shen Changan was worried that his waist would not be strong enough and it would be inconvenient to pick up vegetables, so he kept using serving chopsticks to pick up vegetables for him, "After eight years old, I live in a big courtyard. There is an old man who was a royal chef. I learned a lot of cooking skills from him. At that time, my ideal was to be a chef. Unfortunately, his old man disliked my cooking skills. , so I rejected my request to become a teacher."

"Delicious." Dao Nian emphasized again.

"Thank you." Shen Changan smiled brightly, "If you like it, come to my house often in the future, and I'll make it for you." Thinking that Dao Nian's legs are inconvenient to go upstairs, he changed his words, "Of course, go to your house to cook That's fine too."

"When I was in college, every time I made chicken feet with pickled peppers and took them to the dormitory, they would be snatched up by some buddies in the dormitory." Speaking of this, the smile on Shen Changan's face faded, and I am afraid that from now on From now on, it will be very difficult for him to meet them again.

I don't know how they are doing now, whether their work is going well, or whether they have left the order.

"Where are you going tomorrow?" Dao Nian looked up at him and asked.

"Tomorrow?" Shen Chang'an came back to his senses, remembering that he had invited Dao Nian to hang out together, it was rare that Dao Nian offered to ask him to change his mind, so Shen Chang'an hurriedly said, "Go to the nearby Mountain Spring Valley, where the traffic is more convenient , you can drive in and out." Originally, he planned to take Dao Nian to the local characteristic residential village, but there were many rural trails there, which was a bit inconvenient for Dao Nian.

Not long after lunch, the people who came to meet Dao Nian arrived. Shen Changan gave Dao Nian his fried crispy meat, biscuits and cakes, and made an appointment to meet tomorrow morning.

Holding a large bag of things from Shen Chang'an, he got into the car, and Liu Mao, who was waiting in the car, was about to reach out to get it when he met Dao Nian's deep eyes.

He silently and silently withdrew his claws.

The author has something to say: the friendship between friends is sublimated in eating and taking.