writing coffee

"Why do I think you are busier in summer vacation than in school?" I asked Jian Qianli.

"Because I'm taking tutoring." She said.

"What?!"

"Hahaha! You heard me right, I'm in a cram school. What's your expression?"

"Really, you...failed in advanced mathematics? It can't be that you failed college English, right?" The "teaching" I can think of is a group of middle school students who are badly beaten by school teachers and have nothing to love. Educational institutions continue to seek abuse.

"Professional training~ Also, Igotahundredinmath."

"Yo~"

"Why," Jian Qianli leaned over and squeezed her eyes, "you start missing me after only a few days?"

"You misunderstood. It's just that I haven't seen you for a few days and almost forgot what you look like. I just saw you walk in, and it feels like a world away." I'm almost used to her showing up several times a week. I thought she would not have a day in the summer vacation once?As a result, she disappeared for more than ten days.

"I want to thank you for not really forgetting?"

"Don't be so polite~"

"It's too shameless!"

It is about 07:30 in the evening, the sky has not yet completely darkened, the neon lights of the city have begun to flicker, and Jian Qianli has just finished dinner. ——Don’t ask me why I know, she’s squatting at the door to feed the stray cats with the snacks she packed for me, one flowery one, one white one, one colorless one, and she’s quite happy eating it look.

"Shop manager, is it the store's birthday today? You're 5 years old!" A lady just finished picking out books, and when she was about to check out, she probably saw the reminder I put next to it: Today is the store's 5th birthday, remember to give yourself a [-]% discount oh~

"Yeah, you can go to kindergarten now..."

"Haha, happy birthday!" The lady smiled reservedly, and she looked around, "Why don't you celebrate? It's been a long time for five years, and no one who passes by knows~"

I pointed to the reminder I wrote, and said with a smile, "Well, it depends on fate."

"Well, yes, you have always been very unique here, and I like it very much."

"Thank you!"

"Thank you, I'm leaving first, and I'll come back next time!" She said as she raised the book in her hand, and when she walked to the door and opened it, she turned around and said, "Happy birthday!"

"Thank you, bye~"

The lady hadn't gone far when Jian Qianli dropped three cats and rushed in, almost running in front of me, "Is your birthday today?!" It was hard for her to remember that there were other customers in the store, her suppressed surprised tone matched The exaggerated shocked expression on the face made me laugh inexplicably.

"Calm down, Miss Jane," I looked at her leisurely, and pointed to the reminder again, "It's the store's birthday, don't be so nervous."

"Oh." She actually breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately realized, "Don't you want to promote it? Don't you usually have a store celebration or something?"

"Too lazy to do it~"

"I can help you. I'm good at planning decorations and so on. You don't even have to lift a finger. You just need to check the results!"

It could be seen that she was eager to try because of what I said, I couldn't help stretching, "It's pretty good now..."

"Then," she finally dismissed the idea, "when is your birthday?"

I replied flatly, "It's only my birthday."

She looked at me inexplicably, resisting the desire to inquire, only revealing a little confusion in her eyes, unintentionally showing a kind of innocence and ignorance, making people want to pat her head.When I reacted, I found that my hand had touched the top of her hair, and the touch was extremely soft, so I allowed myself to touch it lightly twice. After touching it, I was about to say something to ease the embarrassment, when I suddenly found her blushing. .

She turned red!Haha, so cute.So when I stopped, I pinched her cheek again...... now even her ears are red.

She finally realized that she had been molested belatedly, she glanced at me, and made an arrogant evaluation: "Rogue."

"Then, is Miss free tonight?" In order not to disappoint her judgment, I tried my best to look like a hooligan, "Look at the beautiful night tonight, can you show me your face..."

She turned away.

"Have a supper with your Uncle Xiao?"

She almost tripped over herself, her feet stopped in the air, and she turned back like a robot, "What?!"

"Don't you want to celebrate, your Uncle Xiao will bring you a midnight snack later, together?"

She walked back slowly, "Your store celebration is so unique?"

"Of course, 'Writing Coffee' has always taken it as its mission to be unconventional." In fact, it's because I don't have my birthday, so they all passed this day as my birthday.However, there are only a handful of friends who know about this matter, and Xiao Chu is only one who can be by my side on this day.But that's enough, isn't it? It's a great fortune to know yourself two or three times in life.

Xiao Churan arrived around ten o'clock, carrying a cake, a case of beer, some snacks, and gifts.

"Little Qianli, long time no see, I miss you Uncle Xiao!"

"Uncle, you old man is still standing here, which means that you don't miss me at all!"

"Ouch, talking back to your uncle? You're out of beer tonight."

"Uncle, I miss you too!"

I:"……"

I am very convinced by Jian Qianli's dealing with Xiao Churan. The appearance of the two of them looks like a real-life version of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf", but in fact it is—— er, I haven't read it Similar fairy tales...

"Unwrap the presents first!" Xiao Churan put the cake and beer into the freezer to freeze, and roared richly, but he didn't intend to ask me to unwrap it right away. He first asked as usual, "Guess what?"

In the past, I rolled my eyes at this link, but this time, Uncle Xiao's performance finally ushered in a cheering audience.

"What is what?" Jian Qianli looked at him expectantly, as if she was the one receiving the gift——Uncle Xiao seemed to wish that the gift was for her.

Ever since I hated the pink ribbons on the gift box that made unwrapping the gifts for nothing, Xiao Churan never wrapped his presents again. I watched them unpack the half-meter-long cardboard box, Like I usually unpack the goods, I watched from the sidelines amusedly, unable to think of what Xiao Churan bought me this time.

"Wow! So cool! What is this?" Jian Qianli yelled excitedly, and carefully carried out the contents.When she brought out a nearly half-meter wooden shelf, I was also puzzled for a while, and I couldn't help but brighten my eyes until I saw the two round glass containers inside.

"This is the ice drip pot set!" Xiao Churan said triumphantly, "Didn't you say that yours is too small and ugly to be used on display? I found a big one for you. It looks good!"

I took the wooden shelf from Qianli’s hand. It was heavy, thick and round to the touch. It was made of solid wood. The whole shelf was composed of three rings and three brackets. It was simple and elegant, with a very graceful posture. , and like a modern dancer full of strength but gentle and lingering dance.

Xiao Churan continued to brag, "Look at this line, this sense of design, this material!" He bent down and took out the two glass bottles, "Look at this arc, come, Xiaoqianli, touch this texture!" ..." Finally, with Qianli's full cooperation, she concluded to me, "Such a set of utensils, you must be in the mood to make ice drops, right?"

I sneered mercilessly, and I knew that this guy had impure motives.

"What should I do?" Qianli said suddenly, "I didn't even prepare a gift!"

"It's fine if you don't have one. For friends like your Uncle Xiao who want to drink iced coffee and give him an iced drip pot, one is enough." I comforted her sincerely.

"A friend like your sister Murong who not only doesn't say thank you but also utters bad words after receiving a gift from others, one of them is too much." Xiao Churan counterattacked and consciously took out things to assemble: a glass circle The bottle is used to hold ice cubes, connected to the water drop adjustment valve, and is supported on the top layer of the shelf; in the middle is a double-layer oval coffee powder cup, the outer layer of oval is just for decoration, and the inner layer It is a cylinder with a flat bottom, and it also has a filter setting; the bottom is a round glass pot with a scale, and the material of the pot lid is exactly the same as that of the shelf, which complements each other.

After assembling a whole set and putting it on the bar counter, it immediately improved the style of the bar counter by several notches. I have to admit that Xiao Churan's vision for picking things is very worthy of recognition.

"It's so good, Uncle Xiao, you are amazing! So handsome!" Qianli finished complimenting her uncle, then turned to look at me like a puppy, "Do you want to use this to make coffee now?"

I reminded her: "Did you forget that your Uncle Xiao brought beer?"

She rolled her eyes, "Can't I drink coffee and beer at the same time?" After she finished speaking, she was chased and beaten by her Uncle Xiao.

"It takes a long time to make iced coffee, about ten hours, and it's too late tonight. Next time you come over and tell me in advance, I'll save some for you."

"Good~"

"Ice drip coffee" is different from ordinary "ice coffee". The latter uses high-temperature extraction of coffee liquid and then cools it in various ways, while ice drip is a complete low-temperature slow extraction: the water melted by the ice cubes drop by drop Through the finely ground coffee powder, while extracting the delightful chemical substances in the coffee, it avoids the astringency brought by high-temperature extraction. Drink it after refrigerating for several hours. Every sip is fragrant and cold, with endless aftertaste .If you are willing to wait a little longer and refrigerate for three days, the coffee liquid in the glass jug will ferment into a wine-like mellow aroma. Add a few ice cubes and gently shake it in your mouth. The taste is enough to make you intoxicated. ——This is why Xiao Churan was so obsessed with choosing a set of utensils carefully.

"Uncle, do you have a family?"

When Qianli asked this question, he had already drunk half of a box of beer. Of course, for a person like Xiao Churan who is addicted to alcohol, he just drank a few bottles of water. The sober Uncle Xiao said: " Why don't you ask Murong if anyone wants it?"

Qianli spoke boldly: "Oh, you don't need to ask about this, you can see it."

Uncle Xiao was very interested, "What do you think?"

"It looks like you're enjoying loneliness, and you can't smell the sour smell of love at all." After finishing speaking, she looked at me solemnly, and I couldn't help but slap me, and she grabbed her eagerly, and even went along with the trend He leaned over and took a sniff, and added a comment: "The fragrance of loneliness."

I hugged her head in a funny way and shook it, "Are you drunk?" I followed her example and leaned over to smell it, and said affirmatively, "The wine smells sour!" Then I threw her away in disgust .

Uncle Xiao was unwilling to be lonely, so he raised his arm and smelled it, "Does my body have a sour smell?"

Qian Li's expression remained unchanged: "You old man is unfathomable~"

While we were making a fuss, my mobile phone on the table rang.

Xiao Churan glanced at it, and in the next second, he simply grabbed it and stared at the screen to study, then nodded with self-confidence, and handed me the phone, "Hey, the little prince called you!"