Four Seasons Three Meals

Jiang Huai's eyes widened: "It's you."

Cong Shan stretched out his hand: "Cong Shan."

Jiang Huai quickly shook back: "Jiang Huai."

Cong Shan said, "What a coincidence."

Jiang Huai nodded.

——The person who gave him an umbrella at the convenience store turned into a Chinese medicine doctor in a white coat.

Cong Shan let go, sat behind the wooden table, and wrote the medical records.

Jiang Huai was a little nervous, watching him write slowly.

Cong Shan asked him, "Which Jiang is Jiang, and which Huai is Huai?"

Jiang Huai said: "Ginger is the ginger, Huai is the Huai."

After Cong Shan finished writing, he raised his head to look at Jiang Huai, and accidentally saw his hands clutching the hem of his clothes.

He looked away and said to the little apprentice, "Ah Yuan, bring me another plate of mung bean cake."

A Yuan responded crisply, and after a while, he brought out a plate of mung bean cake from the inner room and put it in front of Jiang Huai.

Jiang Huai was cautious and dared not take it.

Cong Shan looked for a topic to chat with him: "I didn't expect you to be a lawyer."

Jiang Huai said, "I didn't expect...you would be a doctor."

Cong Shan asked him: "What kind of doctor does Mr. Jiang think?"

Jiang Huai tilted his head, thought for a while, and said: "The white hair is fluttering, the spirit of the fairy is like a bone, and he doesn't eat the fireworks of the world."

Cong Shan laughed.He pushed the plate in front of Jiang Huai, but Jiang Huai didn't pay attention, so he naturally picked up a piece and fed it to his mouth.

His face is small and his cheeks bulge slightly when he eats.

Cong Shan thought, really like a hamster, eating quickly and quietly.

Jiang Huai noticed Cong Shan's probing gaze, came back to his senses, felt embarrassed, and finished the remaining mung bean cake in two or three bites.He ate too fast and choked on the mung bean cake that he didn't have time to chew. Cong Shan asked A Yuan to buy cherry Yakult, but Jiang Huai quickly stopped him.

Cong Shan said, "I thought Mr. Jiang liked to drink."

Jiang Huai nodded, then shook his head again.

Cong Shan became interested: "How to say?"

Jiang Huai thought for a while and said, "Cherry Yakult goes well with instant noodles, and mung bean cake goes well with scented tea."

Cong Shan teased him: "If you don't have Yakult for instant noodles, and mung bean cakes without scented tea, what should you do?"

Jiang Huai frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Then I don't know how to eat."

He said seriously: "Food can't be treated casually."

Cong Shan laughed.

Interesting man, he thought.

After eating and drinking enough, Cong Shan began to ask a doctor.

Jiang Huai pointed to the corner of his mouth, and said, "I got angry, I developed blisters, and it didn't get better for a week."

Cong Shan looked at it seriously and said, "I have to check my tongue."

Jiang Huai regretted eating so many mung bean cakes just now.

But he still opened his mouth obediently and stuck out his tongue.

Cong Shan didn't dislike it, took a closer look and said, "The tongue coating is very thick."

Jiang Huai closed his mouth and gave an "um" for no reason.

Cong Shan wrote a few words in the medical record book, and said: "I still have to diagnose the pulse."

Jiang Huai understood this sentence, he stretched out his hand and put it on the wrist pillow.

Cong Shan examined his pulse carefully and asked, "Have you been under a lot of pressure recently?"

Jiang Huai nodded.

"Family, work, all gathered together."

Cong Shan bowed his head and wrote the prescription: "Thanks for your hard work."

He handed the written prescription to Jiang Huai, Jiang Huai took it, and read out the above content word by word.

"Coptis chinensis, skullcap, phellodendron, gardenia."

He looked up at Cong Shan: "Doctor Cong, is this medicine bitter?"

Cong Shan nodded, Jiang Huai frowned.

Cong Shan was amused by him, and said, "I'll add a flavor of stevia to neutralize it."

Jiang Huai was happy again, got up to thank him, and took the newly opened prescription to the pharmacy to get the medicine.

It was A Yuan who took the medicine. He looked at the prescription, then at Jiang Huai, and muttered something for a long time.

"There is stevia, why did the master prescribe Coptidis detoxification soup for children..."

Jiang Huai pretended not to hear, the bases of his ears blushed slightly.

A Yuan quickly grabbed the medicine, wrapped the medicine bag and handed it to Jiang Huai.Jiang Huai took it, walked to the door, and heard the voice of the mountains behind him.

"Lawyer Jiang."

Jiang Huai turned around, and Cong Shan handed him an exquisite small porcelain box.

"Iced mung bean cake," Cong Shan said, "be careful on the road."

Jiang Huai took it and thanked: "Thank you."

Holding mung bean cake in his left hand and medicine bag in his right, he walked to the alley and received a call from Shang Chen.

Shang Chen asked him, "How is it?"

Jiang Huai said, "The doctor is good."

Shang Chen said, "That's it?"

Jiang Huai thought for a while, and saw the small and exquisite box in his hand, on which exquisite landscapes were outlined with ink.

He added: "Mung bean cake is good."

Shang Chen laughed: "You were reincarnated as a starved ghost in your previous life."

Jiang Huai said: "Marxism-Leninism does not believe in gods and Buddhas."

Shang Chen heard that Jiang Huai's mood improved obviously, and he was in the mood to bicker and joke with him.

"Looks like a good doctor," he said.

Jiang Huai nodded and said, "Indeed."

Shang Chen said, "That's a pity, I forgot to tell you that the blind date I introduced to you is also a Chinese medicine practitioner."

Thinking of Cong Shan, Jiang Huai stood in front of him and said with a smile, "The secret is a small spoonful of sweet-scented osmanthus honey."

Jiang Huai half-truthfully said: "That's really a pity, I have already secretly agreed."

Shang Chen said: "If you are not married, you still have a chance. He happens to be free next weekend, how about you?"

Jiang Huai thought for a while and said, "It's fine for now."

Shang Chen said, "I booked a restaurant, which is near your law firm, to drink health-preserving soup."

Jiang Huai understood that no matter whether he was free or not, Shang Chen would make arrangements for him first, and let him pass sooner or later.

Jiang Huai scolded him: "Get out of here."

Shang Chen shot back: "If you don't listen, you don't listen, you bastard chant the scriptures."

In the second week, he was still very busy, but the blister gradually shrunk, leaving a small scar at the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Huai asked his senior sister for Cong Shan's WeChat, and sent him a message to thank him.

Cong Shan's WeChat profile picture is a landscape painting, which is pleasing to the eye.

After sending the news, Jiang Huai waited for a while before going back to his own affairs.

Jiang Huai had just left work when Cong Shan replied, and it was past nine o'clock.

Cong Shan asked him: "Lawyer Jiang is still busy?"

Jiang Huai said, "I just finished working overtime, where is Dr. Cong?"

Cong Shan said: "I just finished my work, and I'm going to have supper."

Jiang Huai swallowed quietly when he saw the word "Supper" and thought of the mung bean cake he ate in Huichuntang.

Jiang Huai said, "I thought doctors were very good at keeping in good health."

The other party didn't reply, and after a while, a voice message came.

Jiang Huai clicked, and Cong Shan's deep laughter came from his voice. He said, "I will indulge once in a while. Would you like to have a taste of Lawyer Jiang?"

Jiang Huai swallowed again, looked at the time, and thought it was still early, anyway, he had to eat when he got home.

He said bluntly, "Yes."

He caught the last subway, sat at the entrance of the alley, and walked to the door of the hospital.

He knocked on the door, Cong Shan said: "The door is not closed."

Jiang Huai opened the door and walked in. Cong Shan was not wearing a white coat, but ordinary shirt and trousers. He was standing under the pomegranate tree. In front of him was a huge Shau Kei with thin white noodles on it, draining water. The creaking fan fanned the wind loudly.

Jiang Huai walked over quietly and asked Cong Shan, "What is this?"

Cong Shan said, "Lily noodles."

Jiang Huai had never heard of it, and looked at Cong Shan curiously, waiting for his explanation.

Cong Shan lowered his head, saw Jiang Huai's eyes full of curiosity, smiled, and answered in a low voice.

"Grind the lily root into powder, mix it into the noodles, and make noodles."

Cong Shan added: "It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, clearing away heat and nourishing the lungs."

Jiang Huai looked at Cong Shan adoringly.

Cong Shan deliberately teased him: "The taste is also very good, chewier than ordinary noodles."

Jiang Huai's eyes lit up.

Cong Shan turned his head and laughed.

Jiang Huai saw that his yard was full of shaukes of different sizes and shapes, with medicinal herbs drying on them, and walked around curiously.

Most of the flowers on Shau Kei were flowers and plants that he had never seen before. Some flowers looked like lanterns, and some flowers looked like little phoenix tails.

Cong Shan looked up at Jiang Huai, who was quietly using the mobile phone software to take pictures and read pictures.

Cong Shan looked at the herbs in front of him and said, "That's lantern flower."

Jiang Huai put away his phone and looked at Cong Shan.

Cong Shan said: "It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, clearing heat and dampness."

Jiang Huai opened his mouth, wanting to ask him a question, but was embarrassed.

Cong Shan guessed what he was thinking and said, "It's edible, but the taste is not very good."

Jiang Huai nodded with a "hmm", and his ears turned red quietly.

Let the noodles cool down, and Cong Shan starts to prepare ingredients.Jiang Huai followed behind him and helped him.

The two did not eat in the house.Cong Shan set up a small table in the yard, and the two sat opposite each other, a little bit tied up.

Jiang Huai didn't care, and ate happily while holding the noodle bowl.

The noodles are smooth in the mouth, chewy in taste, and even springy when bitten off.Served with coriander chopped green onion and garlic water spicy oil prepared by Congshan, sprinkled with white sugar to enhance freshness, and added crunchy raw bean sprouts as a side dish, Jiang Huai has a big appetite and eats seriously and piously.

After he finished eating, he put down his chopsticks and looked up at the moon in the sky.

Cong Shan also followed his gaze and said, "The soul rises as a mirror in the sky."

Jiang Huai said with some melancholy: "I want to eat salted egg yolk mooncakes."

A cry of cicadas sounded in the grass, and Cong Shan said again: "The grass and insects are singing before the autumn wind."

Jiang Huai smacked his lips: "Fried cicadas are delicious too."

Cong Shan laughed and said, "Shall I get you another bowl?"

Jiang Huai nodded subconsciously, saw Cong Shan's smiling eyes come back to his senses, and shook his head blushing again.

Cong Shan subconsciously wanted to say "I'll do it for you during the Mid-Autumn Festival", but felt it was abrupt, and swallowed the words again.

Jiang Huai blushed, lowered his head, and didn't care.

When it was time to get off work on Friday, Jiang Huai received a call from Jiang Yan.

When the phone was connected, Jiang Yan still called him "Brother" as usual.

Jiang Huai said "hmm" and asked him, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yu said: "Next week... I have to pay the materials fee."

Jiang Huai asked him, "Who owns the bank card?"

Jiang Yan didn't speak, and after a while, he finally choked out a word: "...Dad."

Jiang Huai looked at the itinerary. He didn't have to work overtime on weekends, but Monk Chen made an appointment for dinner.

He sighed in his heart, and said "I'm sorry" to Shang Chen and his blind date.

He made a speech to Jiang: "I'll come tonight and meet you face to face. What time do you finish class?"

Jiang made a speech: "Self-study in the evening at nine o'clock."

Jiang Huai said, "I'll pick you up at the school gate at nine o'clock."

Jiang said "Okay" and hung up the phone.

Jiang Huai sent Shang Chen a WeChat message, saying that he was going to miss the appointment.After a while, Shang Chen called him.

As soon as he picked it up, he heard Shang Chen say, "Is there anything more important than me?"

Jiang Huai said: "Are you agreeing to be my blind date?"

Shang Chen said, "I don't care, you promised me."

Jiang Huai said, "I have something to do."

Shang Chen said: "As we all know, all vague reasons are treated as no reason."

Jiang Huai smiled, and had no choice but to tell the truth: "I want to go back."

Shang Chen didn't speak, and asked him after a while, "What happened?"

Jiang Huai said: "Jiang Yan has to pay for materials, and he has no money."

Shang Chen said, "Where's your father?"

Jiang Huai said: "He owes a lot of debt, and the debt collector beat my mother just last week. How can I have spare money to take care of Jiang Yan."

Shang Chen didn't know what to say.

Jiang Huai said: "Don't worry, if you say it's over, I won't give Jiang Desheng another penny."

Shang Chen said, "Take care of yourself."

Jiang Huai said: "Okay, explain to the other party for me, and I will be the host to make amends another day."

Shang Chen said, "OK, OK, rolling."

Jiang Huai hung up the phone with a smile, opened the software, and bought the high-speed rail ticket half an hour later.