Baguettes and Macarons

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All over the old city and the suburbs, the plague of the city full of food-pigeons attacked the windows on the second floor of the Legrand Bakery at four o'clock in the morning on time.Louis would sometimes hang the baguettes that were sold out at a low price on the balcony railing, making this group of fat birds cheaper.

But thanks to them coming to eat breakfast on time every day, Louis can get up in time without setting the alarm clock. In the morning light, the dough for baguettes is fermented early, and the fresh baguettes are baked before the residents of the block wake up to work.

Louis splashed clean water on his face as usual, washed his hands carefully, and was about to go downstairs to the kitchen, when suddenly his mind moved, and he withdrew his feet from the stairs and turned to the balcony.

The pigeons in this city are not afraid of people at all. When they saw him walking on the balcony, they pretended not to see him, and continued to gather together and squat on the bread to peck.Dodging the pigeons, Louis crossed the balcony and tiptoed with the key to open the balcony door next door.

Although he didn't want to admit it, the devil in his heart was instigating him to secretly observe what Yu Chen was like in his sleep.Apart from being casually dressed, he may also sleep casually when he falls asleep.Thinking about the man in formal attire who acted like he was measured with a ruler for a long time, it would be funny if he snored at night.

He carefully opened the curtains a crack to prevent the sunlight from getting in, and got into the curtains sideways, walking towards the bed in the dark.

Although it was very dark, you could still see it when you squinted your eyes. The bed was a bulging mass, and it seemed that Yu Chen had completely shrunk himself into the quilt.

Louis touched the furniture and walked to the head of the bed, lifted the quilt, and was about to laugh, but the laughter was choked in his throat.

There was no one on the bed, only three or four pillows in the quilt.

A door creaked open at the back, and the dim light cast Louis' shadow on the quilt.

Another shadow in the light hid behind the door, pretending to be calm and said: "Who? If you want to steal something, there is cash by the bedside. You can take it yourself. I didn't see your face, nor Will call the police."

Louis turned his head, and saw a pale face with no facial features, only black eye sockets sticking out of the door frame.

"Yu Chen, are you dead?"

Bailian opened his eyelids tentatively, and stared at him with black and white eyes: "It's Mr. Legrand, you broke into the house early in the morning, you really came to steal money, right?"

"I would like to know that you are hiding in the toilet in disguise in the early morning, isn't it some strange religious ceremony?"

Yu Chen didn't answer: "Help me get the bathrobe on the bed, thank you."

Louis picked up the blue and white pajamas he just met yesterday, and walked to the bathroom.Yu Chen hurriedly said: "It's not this one, it's that silver-gray flannel robe."

Louis looked outside for a long time before he could barely distinguish the shadow of the long-distance running he said from the rolled-up quilt, cushions, and underwear. hand.

Yu Chen stretched out a bare arm, took the bathrobe, and slammed the bathroom door shut.

As soon as the door was closed, the scent of roses near the bathroom faded.Louis sniffed, spread out the quilt, pulled out an armchair and sat down to wait for him to come out.

Unexpectedly, after closing the door, Yu Chen still hasn't come out for 10 minutes.Louis suddenly felt a little bit worried: this one must be fainted by the heat, right?

He hurriedly broke in, only to see Yu Chen continued to wear a mask, with a towel wrapped around his head, and a bathrobe sitting on the toilet, applying body lotion to his legs.Hearing the sound of the door opening, he also raised his head and looked over suspiciously.

Louis said with a blank expression: "Can you stop doing such erotic things early in the morning?"

Yu Chen was stunned and said, "What did I do?"

Louis snorted, closed the door with a bang, and locked the balcony door by the way, and fled home to watch the fermentation of the dough.After he stretched the dough and cut it into strips, and put it in a clay pot for the third fermentation, the awkwardness that made him uncomfortable dissipated.

He slipped back upstairs again and opened the balcony door next door.Yu Chen was still wearing his bathrobe, facing him sideways, smearing in front of the full-length mirror mounted on the toilet door.Just seeing that he has seven or eight bottles and cans at hand, Louis doesn't know any of them.

Yu Chen wiped the pink lotion on his face with a cotton pad, and glanced at him out of the corner of his eye: "Why are you here again?"

"I'm afraid you'll be late." Louis made an excuse casually.

"Please don't worry, in order to respond to your invitation, I deliberately got up two hours early, so that I can finish my grooming and go to the appointment in time." Yu Chen put down the lotion, picked up a black glass bottle, poured it into his hand, and wiped his face again. again.

"Why are you using the water twice?" Louie asked.

"This is moisturizing water, and this is essence." Yu Chen blinked, "This is the basic procedure."

Louis watched him complete the five basic procedures on the face, and carefully applied lipstick and hand cream, and suddenly recalled the long time of makeup before going out to parties with his mother when he was a child.

Except that no makeup is required, Yu Chen's procedure may be more complicated than his mother's.

Knowing nothing about his inner activities, Yu Chen threw the hand cream on the table, raised his hand and took off the towel on his head, and began to dry his hair.

Louis noticed that he was combing and drying his hair, and stopped to apply essential oil to the ends of the hair when it was half dry. He couldn't help but sighed again that this man had a hard life.However, his complicated blow-drying method really has immediate results. Once the hair dryer is turned off, and then tidied up with a comb, Yu Chen's hair will be in the same unruly style during the day.

Louie whistled.Yu Chen squinted at him: "You are very free today, don't you need to ferment the dough?"

"I've put it away, just wait for it to ferment on its own." Louis walked behind him, "You remind me of my mother, very interesting."

Yu Chen: "..."

"what happened to you?"

Yu Chen walked around his obstruction from the side, walked to the front of the closet, opened the closet door, and took off a set of hung suits: "I was thinking, if I don't change your way of speaking, just design a look for you, Can it save your business?"

"You are still thinking about this, don't think about it, I think my dress is pretty good, so I don't need to change it."

With his back turned to him, Yu Chen took off his bathrobe and began to put on his shirt.Louis yelled: "Didn't I tell you not to do such erotic things?"

Unmoved, Yu Chen buttoned his shirt one by one, put on his suit pants, and began to choose a suitable belt in the cabinet.However, there were too many old clothes piled up at the bottom of the cabinet, which seriously hindered him from opening the belt-hanging drawer. As he tried to open the drawer, the mountain of clothes collapsed and covered him.

Louis: "Hahahahahahahahaha."

Yu Chen turned his head and stared at him: "If you have nothing to do, please go back, I'll go over after changing my clothes."

Louis grabbed the old shirt sleeves on his shoulders and pulled the clothes over: "Don't you want me to help you clean up this pile of clothes?"

"No need, this is not within the scope of your obligations." Yu Chen said calmly, "I will send the changed suits to the dry cleaner every week for cleaning and ironing, which is more convenient than washing by hand, so I don't need to bother you. "

Louis avoided his hand reaching out to snatch the shirt, and jumped over the foot of the bed: "This is included in the rent, are you sure you want to waste this opportunity?"

Yu Chen sighed: "As you please."

He turned around, opened the drawer, and began to choose with difficulty among a dozen belts with similar differences.Louis said disgustingly: "Aren't they all the same, just pick one at random."

"It's different. Since you're wearing a dark blue British-style suit, you need a formal belt with a slightly more complicated buckle pattern to neutralize your serious temperament." Yu Chen said softly, "Although it's just a belt, any small details of the clothes The details may affect the overall effect. Of course, if you are as casual as you are, it is not surprising to use any belt."

Louis said: "I don't need a belt, as long as the pants don't fall off."

Yu Chen didn't know what to do with him, so he quickly picked out his belt and tie, put on his suit, and gestured to him: "I'll go downstairs to change my shoes and go in through the main entrance. You should go back to the store first."

Louis glanced at his clock, and rejected very presciently: "Two or ten minutes must have passed by the time you pick out your leather shoes. You should come in slippers. I'm hungry and don't want to wait for you."

"You don't need to wait for me."

Louis pulled him in front of him and pushed him out of the balcony door: "There is no one in my store, who cares what shoes you wear."

That being said, when he got to his store and saw Yu Chen wearing a formal suit and plush slippers, standing by the stove waiting to serve milk, Louis still laughed out of shame.

Yu Chen smiled and said, "If you laugh again, I'll leave."

"Come on, I've already prepared breakfast for two." Louise gave him a big bowl of milk, "It's so rich, are you willing to leave?"

Yu Chen looked at the bread basket on the dining table: "Baguettes and milk, are they rich? If I had known this, I'd better order sandwiches at the store."

Louis made a long face: "I have prepared so much, you don't want to go out if you can't finish eating."

He grabbed a handful of butter and jam boxes from the refrigerator and threw them to Yu Chen, then brought three or four boxes of cereal, and asked: "Chocolate cereal, caramel cereal, plain cornflakes, butter, white cheese, strawberry jam, orange peel Sauce, hazelnut chocolate sauce, isn't that rich enough?"

With too much strength, he knocked a grain of caramel oatmeal flying, just in time to bounce into Yu Chen's bowl.Yu Chen swallowed his anger and said, "Rich, very rich, thank you for your kindness."

Louis sat on his seat contentedly, and poured down some of the three kinds of cereal: "I usually only have one kind of cereal for breakfast, and I don't put any sauce on it."

With a bitter face, Yu Chen spread butter on the baguette slices with a butter knife: "I admit that your baguettes are also delicious, but shouldn't the baguettes you ate last night be replaced with croissants or something in the morning?"

"What's the matter, I eat baguettes every meal." Louis swallowed a big mouthful of cereal, "By the way, you also remember to come to eat at noon, just eat a ham sandwich."

Yu Chen's face showed joy: "Toast?"

"Stick Sandwich."

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If you are interested, you can guess what cosmetics Yu Chen uses (

In order to avoid being suspected of showing off my wealth or advertising, I will not say it hahahaha