Baguettes and Macarons

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Louis held the paper bag in the air with his outstretched hand. Hearing this, he froze for a moment: "Where are you going?"

"Shenyu Department Store." Yu Chen pointed to his flour-stained jacket, "It's already April, do you want to wear that old jacket for a spring outing?"

Louis clicked his tongue: "I have a T-shirt, can I go out in a T-shirt and jeans?"

Yu Chen looked at the whitish joints of his jeans: "These washed-out jeans?"

"Why do you have so many things, and it's not you who wear them."

Yu Chen said seriously: "You must wear comfortable clothes when traveling, otherwise you will feel uncomfortable walking for a long time."

It is true that Louis has never traveled far, and he was at a loss when he heard this, so he gave him the fried cake without saying a word: "You eat this fried cake first, we can talk about where to go and then think about clothes , what if you don’t have to walk where you want to go?”

Yu Chen opened the paper bag and said to himself, "It's too timely, I haven't had lunch yet."

Louis tapped him on the forehead: "Don't eat again!"

"I can't help it, there are too many things to buy for Miss Brown." Yu Chen squeezed his right wrist while eating fried cakes, "I just spent two hours cutting off her braids and went shopping for a few more clothes Shoes and makeup are still missing, I don’t think there is enough time in a day.”

Louis turned on his mobile phone and snorted: "It's really troublesome, it seems that your money is not easy to make."

"Yeah, in fact, this situation is not bad, because Miss Brown has her own opinions and is willing to accept other people's opinions. As long as the effect of my matching is good, she will accept it. A picky customer like Mrs. Alley, I often try clothes and are not satisfied with the design, so I have to start over from scratch, so it often takes a month for a prom dress to be designed from the beginning to the final completion.”

"You should learn from me. The bread is right there. No one can make me change the recipe if I like it or not." Louis turned his phone into a document reader interface and handed it to him. "I wrote a few rough travel plans. , Look, where do you want to go to these places?"

"Well, Geneva, Annecy, Marseille, Montélimar, Nice, Cannes... the latter are all Provence?"

Louis stood beside him and took out a cigarette: "Didn't you tell Grandma Mary that you wanted to go to Provence for spring break?"

Yu Chen raised his head: "I didn't expect you to be so careful, to memorize all such casual remarks."

Louis fumbled for a lighter in his trouser pocket: "If you tell me now, because you just said it casually, if you don't want to go now, I will definitely beat you."

"How come, I really want to go." Yu Chen pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Now the blue sea water must be very beautiful."

"Then go to Nice? The coast is the prettiest there."

After Yu Chen finished eating the fried cake, he folded the paper bag and held it in his hand, and said in a deep thought, "But if it's Provence, there's a place I want to go more. Would you like to go with me?"

"where?"

"Yel City."

"Say it again?"

"The Isles of Yares in the city of Yares."

"Oh." Louis didn't look for the lighter anymore, he took down the cigarette and stuffed it back into his trouser pocket, "I haven't heard of this city, where is it?"

Yu Chen pressed and flicked on the insensitive touch screen of his mobile phone, and it took him a long time to call up a web page: "This is the website of the visitor center of the city of Yeres. The location and scenery are all on it. I I really like the beaches of the Yeres Islands, and by the way, the accommodation in Yeres is also very cheap, if we go to Yeres, we don’t need to spend a lot of money on accommodation.”

Louis frowned: "Did you choose this place because the room rate of the hotel is cheaper than Nice? You don't have to work so hard to save me money. I'm not a beggar. At least I still have some savings. It's more than enough for a trip to Paris."

"I'm sorry, I really thought you had no savings at all." Yu Chen replied bluntly.

Louis was about to close the travel guide for the city of Hyères, when Yu Chen suddenly said, "Compared to Nice, I still want to go to Hyères. I like to go to undeveloped scenic spots with few tourists."

Louis asked suspiciously, "Do you really want to go to Yael?"

Yu Chen said firmly: "I really want to go, I am absolutely not lying."

Only then did Louis lower his head to look at the travel guide: "The beaches of the Yell Islands are indeed pristine, and there are no railings for bathing beaches."

"There are no merchants that rent out kayaks and swimming rings, or sell swimsuits and slippers." Yu Chen threw the paper bag in his hand into the trash can, and glanced at his watch, "So we have to put them in before Shenyu Department Store closes." Swimsuits are also good."

"I have my own swimming trunks..."

"How many years have you worn it?"

Louis thought about it for a while: "Six or seven years?"

Yu Chen sighed: "Do you think you can still wear the swimming trunks you used to wear in college?"

"It's not swimming trunks from college." Louis corrected immediately, "It's swimming trunks from junior high school. I searched for a whole day in Grandma Mary's store to find them for the school's unified swimming class."

Yu Chen was about to sigh a second time, but just after taking a breath, he was stunned: "Junior high school? Are you only... 20 years old this year?"

Louis raised two fingers: "22 years old."

Yu Chen let out a long breath: "We'll buy a new electric shaver later."

Lu Yi touched the stubble on his chin and muttered, "It's so troublesome to shave."

"I knew you must have trouble shaving, so you let the stubble grow out. I will definitely buy you the most convenient and quickest razor in a while, please accept it."

"I know, I'll buy it myself. Can I go home and get my check?"

"I will pay, just write the check to me at night." Yu Chen said while walking towards the Shenyu Department Store, "Since we have decided to go to Yale, let's go shopping now. Yes There are a lot of things to buy."

Although Louis occasionally passed by Shenyu Department Store, he seldom went in. Now he brought him in, and when he saw the many shops, he immediately became dizzy: "Can we just buy swimming trunks at Grandma Mary's shop?"

"No, if you're impatient, I'll pick out the clothes, and you just have to be responsible for trying them on."

This time Louis seemed to have fallen into a spider's web. He dragged him around and tried countless casual clothes. Finally, he bought a few packs of clothes at a few cheap men's clothing stores, and rushed to the outdoor goods store to buy shoes and swimming pools. pants.

Yu Chen compared several pairs of shoes before picking out a pair of sneakers and a pair of beach shoes, which basically met the needs of playing at the beach.But the more troublesome thing is yet to come. After Louis tried on the shoes and put them on the counter, Yu Chen was still in a daze staring at a dozen pairs of swimming trunks of different designs and styles.

Louis then took a pair of black boxer trunks from behind him: "That's it, I don't wear triangles."

"What a pity." Yu Chen immediately hung some of the triangular ones back on the shelf, and continued to think hard about the rest.

Louis put the one in his hand in front of his eyes again: "I said, just let it be."

"That one is too loose, it doesn't show your figure very much." Yu Chen adjusted his glasses, "I can't make designs that don't work well."

Louie grumbled, "I'm not wearing it to a lingerie show."

"I'll talk about that pair later." Yu Chen picked up a pair of silver-gray low-waisted boxer trunks, "You go and try this pair, this is a sample. Remember to ask the clerk for underwear, don't just try it on."

Louis curled his lips and said, "Isn't this too exaggerated?"

"It doesn't have any feathers, why are you exaggerating?" Yu Chen snatched the black one and forced this one to him, "Black swimming trunks tend to absorb heat in the sun, I'm worried about wearing black for a long time on the beach. Swimming trunks will burn at low temperatures. And this pair is too loose, neither the waist nor the legs can be seen."

Louis compromised: "Then I'll try it, remember to buy your own."

"Well, I'll take another look."

Louis entered the fitting room, took off his pants, put on disposable underwear specially used for trying on underwear, and put on swimming trunks with complicated emotions.He always felt that these swimming trunks were tight and bright, and that they were too flamboyant, as if they were announcing their coming out to the whole beach.

And...the pants are too tight.

He felt unbearable after only wearing it for a second, and quickly poked his head out to call Yu Chen: "This pair of swimming trunks is not good, it's too tight."

Yu Chen walked over: "What's wrong? The waist is just right, and it's already a size L."

Louis lifted a corner of the curtain: "Then you find an XL size, it's too tight."

Yu Chen's face immediately turned red up to the neck, he turned his head, and left without saying a word.A few seconds later, he came back with the plain black swimming trunks and threw them to him: "You'd better wear them, black makes you look thinner."

Louis confirmed that it was size XL before changing his upper body, and walked out of the fitting room to show him: "How is it?"

"Not bad." Yu Chen said with a dull head, "Then I'll try my own."

He walked into the fitting room, and after a full 5 minutes, he came out in suit trousers, neatly dressed, and put the swimming trunks on the counter: "I want these."

Louis asked, "Are you finished?"

"Well, how long are you going to stand there in your swimming trunks? Come back and check out."

"You weren't in such a hurry just now..." Louis muttered, and went to change his clothes back.When he came out and handed the swimming trunks to the cashier, Yu Chen had already picked out another huge sports bag and paid the bill together. It was filled with all kinds of slippers, hats, thin tops and ... an uninflated lifebuoy.

Lu Yi asked blankly, "Don't you know how to swim?"

"Let's go pick up Miss Brown, her manicure should be ready." Yu Chen changed the subject.

As if he knew his plight and offered to help him, his cell phone rang at this moment, and as soon as he pressed the call button, Chloe Brown's scream came through the microphone: "Arsdale, you Where did you go on a date without me?!"