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Lu Xiangyang was very fast, and the embryos of the mooncakes were pressed one by one from his hands and put back on the baking tray, and they were neatly arranged on the workbench.

"It's almost there." Zhou Xifu glanced at the edge of the workbench, and began to silently count for him in his heart, "You're pretty fast."

"Tsk, it's all practiced." Lu Xiangyang smiled softly, he stretched out his hand and sprinkled the powder on the counter, the flour floated down evenly, covering the raw embryos with a thin layer.

The man's eyes are focused and serious.

"The skin of this mooncake is very delicate, and it will dry out and crack after a while, so it's inconvenient to handle." Lu Xiangyang clapped his hands, and then said, "Time is efficiency."

When he spoke, he was pressing the mold on the embryo, and the little braid on the back of his head was moving.

Printing mooncakes requires steady and balanced force.First, wrap the ball-shaped raw embryos with anti-sticking hand powder, then put them into the mold and press them into shape, and finally push the mooncake embryos with printed patterns and outlines back into the baking tray.

Zhou Xi watched him repeatedly take turns in front of the workbench, and suddenly felt that a comfortable life was nothing more than that, so he couldn't help stretching.

A little sleepy.

The door of the studio is closed, and the mooncakes are slowly baked at high temperature, gradually revealing the rich aroma of the mixture of flour and fillings. Fragrant, comfortable and drowsy.

"Brother Xi, are you sleepy?"

When Lu Xiangyang walked around the workbench and pushed the last batch of mooncake embryos into the stove, he caught a glimpse of Zhou Xi's sleepy look with his head down and his eyes rubbed.

When he came to the store a few times ago, Zhou Xi was still sitting very upright, with his back straight, just like a student in class.

It's a lot more casual now.He poured tea by himself, and poured a cup for Lu Xiangyang by the way, as if it was a customary rule.

Having been together for a long time, there are always some unique and exclusive small tacit understandings.

is a good thing.There was a trace of inexplicable joy in Lu Xiangyang's heart.

"A little bit." Zhou Xi blinked at him lightly, "What's wrong?"

Lu Xiangyang looked at him, he took off his gloves and patted his apron, bent down to lift up the garbage and tied it up: "Then you take a break first, I'll go out and take out the garbage."

Some people are so bad at lying.As soon as Lu Xiangyang finished speaking, he didn't even dare to glance at Zhou Xi, he hurriedly picked up the garbage bag and opened the door.

Zhou Xi propped his chin, and slightly squinted his eyes.

The wind on the street is a little bit cold.The temperature in autumn will not fluctuate greatly, but it will always drop slowly from time to time, quietly extraditing the world into the cold winter.

Lu Xiangyang threw the trash away, rubbed his hands, turned around and pushed open the door of the Forest Cafe.

In the past few days, Wu Sen's blog has been updated with his real shots in the store, and Lu Xiangyang has paid attention to them.The customers of the forest coffee house often maintain a particularly comfortable density. The crowd is dense and sparse, but there are a few empty seats left. The composition seems to have a mysterious sense of belonging, which makes people want to stay.

"Welcome." Wu Sen lowered his head and wiped his glass. He looked up and saw the person walking in. "Hey, Xiao Lu, are you free today?"

His ruthless voice is mixed with the light music drifting around in the coffee shop, with a hoarse base like a tape.

When a few female customers saw Lu Xiangyang coming in, they couldn't help but lower their heads and whisper.However, he was too emotional, his voice was raised several degrees, and the content of the chat could not stop leaking out.

He even clearly heard such imaginative words as "clearly attacking and defending", "brother with tattoos and brother with pigtails".

Lu Xiangyang: "..."

The photos in the community and the topic of "violent barista x pure pastry chef" probably came about like this.

"Brother Sen." Lu Xiangyang waved at him disapprovingly, and walked straight over, "The coffee you made for Mr. Zhou last time, can I have another cup?"

"He came twice in total, and he ordered Yirgacheffe." Wu Sen put the dry cup firmly on the bar counter, "One time he drank water-washed beans, and the other time he drank sun-dried beans. What do you want? which one?"

Lu Xiangyang was startled, he hesitated for a long time before faltering: "Twice?"

Zhou Xi came twice?

Ever since Zhou Xi mentioned that the coffee beans in the forest are good, Lu Xiangyang has always kept this matter in mind.He himself didn't quite understand why seeing Zhou Xi sleepy and yawning, the idea of ​​helping him buy coffee popped into his mind.

Is it just because Zhou Xi likes these beans?

"If you're buying it for him." Wu Sen seemed to see his embarrassment. The barista with a solemn face rolled up his sleeves, with a beautiful and wild muscle outline on his arm, and a complicated tattoo shawl. He glanced at Lu Xiangyang expressionlessly, "It is recommended to order washed beans. When he came to the store for the second time, he was not thinking about coffee at all."

"Listen to you." Lu Xiangyang swallowed, "The second time...what is he here for?"

Wu Sen buried his head in grinding the beans, and only shrugged his shoulders: "Who knows. I talked a lot about business matters, until the coffee was cold."

"Oh..." Lu Xiangyang sighed regretfully, he watched his own shadow reflected vaguely on the marble of the bar, the outline of that shadow was extended by the light all the time, pulling and pointing to the corner of the photo on the wall.

He has seen these photos taken by Wu Sen, all of which are lands with long mountains and far rivers, spanning the entire vast ocean on the map, the spare money in Lu Xiangyang's pocket may not even be able to make up for a round-trip ticket, he has never Think about traveling.

What's more, Wu Sen went to many places. Some customers posted these photos on the social network, including those photos of the young man and Wu Sen.

From time to time, there will be topics on the forum that someone accuses Wu Sen of being gay.

But Wu Sen didn't seem to care, he didn't answer or mention it.

"The two of you should be able to chat. Both of you have been to far away places." Lu Xiangyang thought for a while and said.

"Hmm." Wu Sen tightened the tamper, and the steam from the coffee machine spewed out, "It's not necessarily a good thing to go far away, it's easy to lose yourself."

Zhou Xi was right, the coffee smelled good, but Lu Xiangyang drank very little.

He just felt bitter.

There are many kinds of bitterness. The bitterness of chocolate is full-bodied, and the bitterness of tea leaves is sweet. Only coffee, it can be bitter to the root of the tongue smoothly, so bitter that the mouth feels astringent. The moment of swallowing was lingering in the chest, and it was fleeting, leaving only a deep aftertaste, vaguely absent.

There is always someone who is greedy and will take another sip.

"Here." Wu Sen sealed the take-out cup and handed it to him, and then stood up the payment QR code sign towards him, "Boss Lu wants a treat, I won't fight with you."

When Lu Xiangyang returned to the store, Zhou Xi was resting with his eyes closed.Unfortunately, when the door slammed, his eyes opened.

"Coffee?" Zhou Xi's nose moved slightly, "Did you go to the forest coffee house?"

Lu Xiangyang coughed dryly, and he stretched out his hand to pass over the take-out cup: "I just happened to meet, so I brought you a cup by the way..."

Zhou Xi glanced at Lu Xiangyang, took the cup over, and took a slow breath with his eyes closed.

The familiar taste of Yirgacheffe.

Zhou Xi suddenly understood, but he didn't expose it.He happily held the cup and took a sip.

This bean is not for sale.This is what Wu Sen personally told Zhou Xi when he went to the store last time.

There are a few beans in Wu Sen's store. Because of the limited quantity, they are only used to entertain friends and will not appear on the menu.The batch of coffee beans he was holding was one of them.

He can imagine how Lu Xiangyang bought it.

"Is it delicious?" Lu Xiangyang stood beside him like a child looking forward to some answer, with curiosity and eagerness in his eyes, he thought for a while and added hastily, "I bought it casually, I don't know what you like to drink... Coffee is the same to me, very bitter. Do you want sugar and milk?"

"It's delicious." Zhou Xi raised his eyes to look at the other party and said with a smile, he raised the cup in his hand vainly, "I added sugar."

"Eh?" Lu Xiangyang was stunned for a moment, "When..."

The sweet smell in the room became stronger and stronger, and the timer suddenly raised its tune and screamed.The sound of this timer is extremely high-pitched and piercing, and every time it sounds it is like choking a bundle of screaming chickens.

"Moon cake!" Huo Xiaohua rushed out from the next door, "Is it ready?!"

"Yeah." Lu Xiangyang put on the apron again, and beckoned someone to come over to help, "We can pack it when it's completely cooled."

"Hey. You really have a lot of processes." Sister Qingqing opened the door and followed, she was rushed back two steps by the heat wave when the oven was turned on, "My god, it's so hot, I have to dry it When will it be? Can’t you put it in warm?”

Lu Xiangyang pulled the baking tray, shook his head and said, "No. Once packaged, the water vapor will remain in the airtight package, and it will soon become moldy under sufficient humidity."

"Damn." Qingqing sat down and stretched her legs, she didn't look like a gentle flower shop proprietress at all, but more like a chivalrous female knight, "It's too time-consuming. You're approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival later, so why don't you have more orders?" manage?"

"Hmm..." Lu Xiangyang paused and said, "It's not the efficiency problem, it's the oven. It's caused by the small capacity and many batches."

Zhou Xi frowned upon hearing this.

He thought about it, and there was indeed a problem with the efficiency link.If it is a commercial blast furnace, the output can be doubled several times each time, and the time can be shortened several times at the same time.Not only saves time, but also saves a lot of repetitive operation processes.

"Then what do you plan to do?" Qingqing touched his old employee's small oven sadly, "Although he has worked hard, you have to develop new ones. Your work has been getting worse and worse in the past two years. More, just save yourself some effort."

"I've made up my mind." Lu Xiangyang pointed triumphantly at the wall, "I'm going to sell this food printer brand new and second-hand, and replace it with a commercial air stove."

Zhou Xi: "..."

A sip of coffee choked in his throat like this.

The ancients were sincere and did not deceive, and they could not tell if they were suffering.

"You don't want the food printer anymore?" Qingqing exclaimed, "Isn't this a rare thing that just came?"

"What kind of printer do you want?" Lu Xiangyang said smugly with his hands on his hips, "Isn't it good to draw by yourself? I'm the one who drew six teachers of Meow Meow! I'm just a printer!"

Qingqing: "..."

"That's right, that's right." Huahua quickly folded the carton packaging and quickly cheered for his boss, "Six teachers! Mr. Lu is a humanoid printer!"

Sister Qingqing quickly raised her hand to stop the infinitely magnified rainbow fart: "Okay, okay, the printer has a repeater. Xiao Lu, are you really willing to sell it?"

"I've hung up on it." Lu Xiangyang raised his mobile phone towards Qingqing with an innocent face, "Here, the second-hand trading area in the community, please help me forward it."

Zhou Xi: "..."

It’s over.

Why did I start to regret it.

The author says:

Suck it, of course it’s going to be powdered in winter.

Today I ate a (lazy fast food version) spicy beef noodles hahahaha, give a push to the fans of Li Ziqi's family, have a good time! ! !There are really lumps of beef!

But putting all the red oil in it is too spicy, I can’t stop inhaling and exhaling like a boiling kettle...

The nest is back!The three-dimensional busyness is unstoppable, woo woo bow!long wait~