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The work in the kitchen is endless.

Seeing the moon cakes coming out of the oven one by one, Lu Xiangyang still turned back and forth without touching the ground, and didn't even drink a glass of water.

The tea that Zhou Xi poured for him was completely cold, and it was placed in a small corner of the table in a calm manner.

There is still the brand new food printer under the table, hanging in the corner with its noble packing box.

"Boss Lu is really too." Xiao Huabian mechanically packed the moon cakes and muttered, "It's something I like, but I still want to hang it out for sale."

"Who said that I like it?" Lu Xiangyang straightened up as if he had been stabbed in the dead point.He forced himself to be justified and put the baking tray down, "Isn't this sold yet?"

While talking, he glanced towards the door, and secretly glanced at Zhou Xi, who was sitting at the small dining table and was concentrating on playing with his mobile phone.

In fact, Lu Xiangyang originally only wanted to scare Zhou Xi.One reason is that the place where he posted it was the trading section of the community forum, and most of the items listed on it were small scraps that were left unused in the neighborhood. People will appreciate it.

Secondly, it is such a professional machine, the audience is small, and the probability of changing hands will be relatively low.He planned to make a quick move in chess, and waited for Zhou Xi to admit it logically before making the next move.

After all, such an expensive gift cannot be accepted as it is.

"What if." Xiao Hua tried her best to roll her eyes, "You even left your phone address in full, just in case someone really came to your door..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Boss Lu's mobile phone on the edge of the workbench flickering and buzzing, moving all the way north, as if jumping off the workbench and jumping off the building to strike.

On the display is an unknown caller.

Zhou Xi was sitting right next to the small dining table next to the workbench. He raised his hand when he heard the sound, and took the phone calmly.

He glanced at the phone number of the caller.

Unknown unknown number.

This is not only strange, but also a foreign number.

"Brother Xi! Hey..."

Lu Xiangyang hurriedly wanted to move himself from the aisle, but the shop was small, and there were semi-finished products and boxes packed by Xiaohua inside and out, piled all over the floor.Lu Xiangyang gestured that he couldn't make it through, so he had to take a step back in embarrassment, "I can't make it through, you can pick it up for me, just turn on the speakerphone..."

Lu Xiangyang's mobile phone has been used for some time, and with the high frequency of daily use, it looks a bit old.Especially the tempered glass protective film attached to it, a corner was smashed from nowhere, and there was a blatant crack across it.

Zhou · Obsessive Compulsive Disorder · Severe · Xi felt uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart.

Zhou Xi nodded and turned on the button of the speaker.

"Yangyang! Is it Yangyang?" The voice on the other end of the phone was obviously very excited after the connection, and even trembling with panting, "Yangyang, can you hear me?! Can you hear me? I'm your mother ..."

No one said anything in the room, it was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.

Xiao Hua let go in shock.The half-folded small packaging box spread out again, blooming quietly on the table like a weird lotus flower.

Zhou Xi quickly cut off the speakerphone.He saw Lu Xiangyang standing in the moon cake gift box that was stacked like hills, looking dully in the direction of the phone.

He still stiffly maintained the posture of stretching out his hand towards Zhou Xi, and replied hoarsely into the microphone: "Yes."

He was very hard, like gnashing his teeth, as if he was trying to restrain something.

There was a violent woman's howling sound from the other end of the phone. Even though the speakerphone was turned off, the sound was still leaking badly.

Zhou Xi stood up, stretched his arms as far as possible in front of the workbench, and asked Xiao Hua to pick up the phone.

He just watched Lu Xiangyang take the phone, squatted in the pile of colorful moon cake gift boxes, curled up with his knees hugged, his braids drooping listlessly on the back of his neck.

Those exquisite moon cake boxes full of festive colors are being stacked neatly, like a magnificent hill, weighing heavily on Lu Xiangyang's back.

Zhou Xi could even see his fingertips trembling.

"Yangyang—my good boy—" the woman on the other side of the phone cried until her voice was torn apart, "How can you not care about it, your father is sick, very sick, just take care of him... ..."

Lu Xiangyang didn't say a word.

"He's the only son like you, Yangyang..."

"..."

Xiaohua can't come out right now.She raised her head and glanced at Zhou Xi begging for help, but Boss Zhou turned around and opened the door with a cold face and walked out.

Before he closed the door, he heard Lu Xiangyang hoarsely say from behind: "Tell me, what do you want?"

There was a faint sound of joints being pinched.

The rest of the conversation was swallowed behind the door.The sun outside the door is bright and unsophisticated.The flowers on the green flower shop next door had just been watered, and the water on the ground was evaporated in a blink of an eye.

Sometimes the world is like a huge melting pot, full of sorrows and joys, life and death, everything can be swallowed up, and nothing is worth mentioning.

Zhou Xi sat on the steps at the door, turning his phone over and over again. He sat quietly for a long time, until the shadow of the tree seemed to be parted away as if it had been a world away.

Who is not.

His home is as sad as Lu Xiangyang's home to some extent.

It's just that boys are stubborn, and they are even more stubborn when they grow up.After the tooth was knocked out, he swallowed blood into his stomach. No one wanted to mention it, and everyone wanted to go around.

But what can be done.

But it's just for the sake of adults.

Just as he was thinking, the door behind him was suddenly opened. Lu Xiangyang stood behind the door as if nothing had happened, and waved at Zhou Xi.

"Brother Xi." There was a trace of forced composure on Lu Xiangyang's face, "Can you...can you take me to deliver something?"

The delivery location of Lu Xiangyang's single mooncake is not very convenient, it is still some distance from the city, and it is close to the new development zone along the coast.Boss Lu also planned to open a store there before. Although the location is a bit out of the way, the rent of the store is indeed much cheaper than that in the city center.

But he didn't make it there in the end.

In Lu Xiangyang's own words, there is no fireworks there.

The supporting facilities around the new development zone are not yet complete. In addition to the industrial zone and enterprises, the occupancy rate of residents is very low.There were few people to be seen on the street, only the trucks speeding back and forth on the road, and the dust was flying all the way.Even when you go out to buy a dish, you need to turn on the small electric car for at least 10 minutes.

Quite deserted.

What he did was a work that was full of fireworks, and Lu Xiangyang couldn't accept this.

In contrast, Flower Street is much more lively.

Zhou Xi was driving the car, and when he looked at the side mirror, he glanced slightly past the co-pilot out of the corner of his eye.Lu Xiangyang held the phone with both hands, and leaned loosely on the seat, staring at the window glass in a daze.

Look unusually calm.

The scenery on the road is reversing rapidly, like a rapid transition in a certain movie.

This kind of expression is not suitable for Lu Xiangyang's face, Zhou Xi thought.

Ever since he met Lu Xiangyang, Zhou Xi could recall many expressions, whether it was a sunny smile, or a rage under rage, or even crying with red eyes after being stained with pepper, he had seen them all.

Only I have never seen him so cold.There seemed to be an undercurrent of sadness in his eyes, rolling under the thick ice shell, like a scene where the sound was swallowed up, hiding a silent roar.

Zhou Xi even had an illusion. He felt that Lu Xiangyang was like a child running forward for so many years, never stopping, and the shadows behind him followed one after another, trying to swallow him into the darkness .

But he never gave up and never conceded defeat.

Is he very tired.

"It's almost there." Zhou Xi mentioned it lightly when slowing down the speed of the car, "You contact the pick-up party."

"Hmm... three eight eight one, five zero four four, nine three..."

Lu Xiangyang was sending money to an unfamiliar account.He had a habit of saying it when he was dealing with numbers.

Zhou Xi silently heard him read the account number twice and the transfer amount twice.

It should be transferring money to the family.

"Here we are." Zhou Xi said.

"Ah, that's right." Lu Xiangyang raised his head as if waking up from a dream, "I'll find the boss who placed the order on WeChat, the picker, Ms. Su..."

The two of them didn't talk all the way.Zhou Xi parked the car steadily, and gave Lu Xiangyang a bottle of soda from the storage box in the car.

"Take it." Zhou Xi looked at him and said, "You... have a drink."

He bit off "It's okay" and turned it into another irrelevant sentence.

Only then did Lu Xiangyang feel his mouth dry.I haven't had a sip of water since I started working this morning.He took it and squeezed it in his hand, raised his head and smiled slowly at Zhou Xi: "I'm fine."

Obviously the answer is not the question, but he knows it well.

Zhou Xi lowered his eyes.

How could it be okay.Facing this kind of thing, who can handle it well in front of his own parents.

When I was young, I felt that homework and exams were not easy, and I was always afraid that I would not find the correct answer.But when I grow up, I realize that the most difficult question is that there is no accurate answer.

People don't even know whether they are doing right or wrong all their lives.

Lu Xiangyang raised his head and took two gulps, then sighed softly as if accepting his fate.

He raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Xi beside him. The elegant man was putting his hands on the steering wheel, slowly rubbing his fingertips on the leather surface.

Zhou Xi drove very steadily, not rushing.On the back seat of the car, there were stacks of gift boxes of moon cakes that looked like arhats, stacked up and down several rows, and not even one box was overturned.

This is also thanks to Xiao Hua.Every time the car is loaded, the box can be filled in neatly. The structure is stable and the edges are neat, which is the essence of the Tetris game.

If it weren't for something on his mind, Lu Xiangyang could almost have slept all the way through.

"Brother Xi."

"Ok?"

"Am I not destined to make a lot of money?" Lu Xiangyang said dejectedly, "In a few days, there will be a Mid-Autumn Festival party organized by the community. The order contract just signed a while ago is to supply dessert tables and mooncakes for the audience. The quantity is very large. Big. I was going to use the money I earned from today's order to replace the oven, but now..."

The efficiency can't keep up, and there is no need to say anything else.In addition to working overtime desperately, if you can't keep up, you can only charge back the order.

Lu Xiangyang's voice became softer as he lowered his head and smacked his lips.

This bottle of soda doesn't feel sweet when you drink it in your mouth, and the carbonic acid bubbles are boiling on the tip of your tongue, giving you a strange tingling sensation.

He turned the bottle in his hand, and it was printed on it: sugar-free soda.

It's a bit ironic.

Zhou Xi said, "It will be fine."

"Aren't you going to drink?" Lu Xiangyang screwed back the bottle cap in his hand, and raised his head belatedly: "Uh...just one bottle?"

"Yeah." Zhou Xi turned off the fire, and glanced at the other party calmly, "I don't like to drink with steam."

"Then why did you buy it?"

……good question.Zhou Xi beat a small drum in his heart.

Gu An threw this bottle of soda into his car a while ago, talking about which temple his old father went to pray for blessings, drinking it would make his wishes come true, and so on.

However, he doesn't like to drink, and has kept it until now.

When Lu Xiangyang heard the name Gu An, his mouth began to pucker.He wrinkled his nose and said disapprovingly: "For this kind of thing, it's better to print the bottle cap and get another bottle."

The carbon dioxide in the soda tastes sour.Zhou Xi couldn't help but wanted to wrinkle his nose too.But he quickly adjusted his facial expression, and said sincerely: "It's not a loss for Xu."

Lu Xiangyang thought about it, it seems to be such a reason.

"Bodhisattvas and gods from all walks of life, Master Lu's wish, I want to change to a new oven." Lu Xiangyang unscrewed it and took another sip, and drank a glass boldly into the air, "It's best to be a stove! Well said, God While closing a door for you, a window will also be opened!"

"Knock Knock Knock-"

The window is open.The little girl who came to pick up the goods looked at Boss Lu, who was performing passionately in the car, with a face full of astonishment, and that cry was full of emotion.

The girl probably watched a lot of variety shows you draw, she waved her fist excitedly and speculated: "—to raise a glass to invite the bright moon!"

Lu Xiangyang was stunned and then replied: "...they are three people?"

Zhou Xi: "..."

What a poem that fits the occasion, the three of them worked together, and what you said and what I said formed a sea of ​​embarrassment.

Since Boss Lu didn't have a car, the previous big orders were all entrusted to Sister Qingqing.With Zhou Xi around recently, the cooperation is more seamless. After all, they are two big men, and even the unloading is much faster.

The order was placed by a foreign trade company, and the boss looked young.Lu Xiangyang also looked through his circle of friends, and he looks like a talent.It has to be said that everyone has their own destiny. Compared with him who works hard every day soaking in flour and eggs, others are already a decent business heir.

The person who came down to pick up the goods was the boss's secretary.

"This mooncake is so pretty." The young lady smiled shyly at Lu Xiangyang, "Boss Lu, your job is not easy."

"I don't think it's easy for you." Lu Xiangyang shook his head while stacking mooncake boxes on the trolley, "What do you think, let you, a girl, come down to carry mooncakes..."

"Hey!" The little girl blushed, "I forgot to call my colleague for help. I'll go back and call someone down..."

"Help me deliver it upstairs." Zhou Xi put the last box of mooncakes on the trolley and said to Lu Xiangyang, "I still have something to do, so make a phone call first."

The author says:

Today's meal is curry potato beef rice.

Ah, if you like curry, promise me that you must eat it——take a hot mouthful, the rice is thickened with the thick soup, the beef is stewed soft, and it spreads in your mouth slippery with potatoes, with the taste of curry Slightly spicy and spicy, one bite of meat and one bite of vegetables is really satisfying... I eat many bowls of rice.belch.

Love you all - long time no see.