Eat and heal

Zhou Ge took the initiative to bring seaweed and egg flower soup to the table, and teased Meng Lan who turned his head to fry the last dish: "I think Meng Lan would be a good cook if she hadn't been a model back then."

But Meng Lan shook her head: "I can't be a cook, I'm not good at knives, and my hands are clumsy."

Jia Jiajia joked, "Is that why you became a model?"

Meng Lan smiled, shook her head, and said, "No."

He couldn't do two things at once. Seeing that the temperature in the pot had risen, he put in the oil, threw down the sliced ​​pork belly, and hurriedly said while frying, "I'll explain later!"

Zhou Ge and Jia Jiajia chuckled, one went to serve rice, and the other dragged out three stools.

"What about Zhou Ge? How did you come up with the idea of ​​being a host?" Jia Jiajia asked.

"It's more proficient if you do more, haha." Zhou Ge replied with a smile, "I don't like performances. I'm really not good at singing and dancing, but I also like to participate in activities. After much deliberation, it's better to be a host , don’t need long-term rehearsals, talk a little more, and can also exercise your on-the-spot reaction ability, which is quite suitable for me.”

Meng Lan put the blanched garlic sprouts into the pot where the fried meat was mixed with seasonings. Holding the handle of the pot, she stirred it back and forth a few times, and sprinkled salt to taste. After 1 minute, the fried pork with garlic sprouts will be out of the pan and served on a plate. It's a lunch, and it's all work.

Zhou Ge held the venue and applauded: "It's amazing, applaud Chef Meng."

Meng Lan smiled shyly, unfastened her apron and said, "I'm going to wash my hands, you eat first."

Jia Jiajia said from the side: "After the show is broadcast, there will be a lot of little girls who like Meng Lan. The young man is handsome and hardworking, and his cooking skills are so good, tsk tsk."

Zhou Ge pretended to be jealous: "Sister Jiajia, what you said is right. After the show is broadcast, I can have a group of fans!"

"Are you still waiting for the show to air? You have a lot of fans now, right?" Jia Jiajia glared at him, "But speaking of it, how did you come up with such a show? It's very different from the shows you hosted before. .”

"I just want to give it a try." Both of them waited for Meng Lan without moving their chopsticks, and then chatted, "I'm [-] this year, and they say I'm going to stand at [-], and I also want to have my own show, invest , planning, finalizing the content and details, hosting, staring at the later stage, and watching it produce results, how should I put it, I just want to take a new step for myself, try something that I have never done before, and take the lead alone That’s right, I don’t want to be limited to just being a host.”

There was a gentle smile on his face, and the seriousness in his eyes could be seen through the glasses.When he said this, his tone was slow and low, as if he suddenly jumped out of the humorous and comfortable setting, and returned to his original appearance.

Jia Jiajia's eyes were sharp, and she pointed it out sharply: "Are you doubting yourself?"

Zhou Ge was obviously taken aback, he didn't expect her to be so direct.

Meng Lan happened to come back after washing her hands. While sitting down, she looked at the two people who had a delicate atmosphere: "What are you talking about?"

Zhou Ge was silent for a few seconds, and smiled helplessly: "Yes, I am doubting myself. People will be like this when they reach a certain age, right? I will consider whether the path I have traveled is correct, whether I have left regrets for what I have done, and what will happen in the future. What kind of person do I want to be? I have been thinking about this for the past few years, and when I think too much, I get a little anxious, but there is actually no good way to relieve this anxiety, because thinking itself cannot be contained.”

Before eating, the atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became heavy, and Meng Lang was a little afraid to move his chopsticks.

Fortunately, Jia Jiajia dispelled the dull atmosphere with a few easy words: "I think you just like to think too much, and you have reached a certain age... How old are you? Come, everyone is here, hurry up and eat, it will be cold in a while."

The three of them picked up their chopsticks and started eating.Jia Jiajia saw that both of them were not willing to speak, so she poured herself a bowl of soup, and while drinking, she asked Meng Lan who was sitting next door: "Meng Lan, you haven't finished answering the question just now, why are you talking?" As a model?"

Meng Lan said, "Well... because I can't do anything else well."

Seeing the doubts on the faces of the other two, he explained: "I'm not the kind of person who is very talented. I have learned some talents, but I am really not that kind of material. I can’t sing or dance musical instruments. In addition, my personality is also a bit boring. My family thinks that if I just go to school in such a well-behaved way, I’m afraid that when I graduate, I’m looking for a job. You can't find a good job."

It was the first time Zhou Ge and Jia Jiajia heard him say these things, and they were quite surprised—in today's entertainment industry, it's really hard to get along without any talent.This road is really not just a pretty face can be unimpeded.The two of them were surprised by Meng Lan's past, and they were surprised that he was so outspoken on the show—others were trying to make him a talented person, but it was better for him to say that he was useless.

But Meng Lan didn't care about their eyes, and continued: "It happened that our family was traveling abroad that year, and a photographer told me that I was suitable to be a model—in fact, our family didn't know whether I was suitable for being a model. But compared to studying and graduating and living a mediocre life, it seems that being a model is more likely to change my life, so my parents sent me abroad. I was young at the time, and I didn’t have any opinions, since they thought it was more suitable for me , then I'll try it out."

Jia Jiajia nodded, but felt quite the same: "Actually, I can understand your parents. At that time, most parents were not familiar with the modeling industry, let alone sending their children abroad. If you find a good job in a good university, they are afraid that you will have a bad life in the future, so they simply give it a go and let you take an unusual path-I admire them a lot, they are very courageous."

Meng Lan nodded and said, "My parents are indeed very courageous."

Zhou Ge thought the fried pork with garlic sprouts was delicious, so he ate a few more mouthfuls and didn’t bother to strike up a conversation. Hearing this, he asked: “You have been active in Europe before, and your colleagues and friends should all be abroad. Now you are returning to China. What are the considerations for development?"

"It's nothing, the modeling career is actually quite short, and I'm not the type of person who stands out as a model. At this time, it's actually better to think about transformation. It just so happens that my contract with the agency is about to expire. There are also companies coming to approach me, so I just thought, go back to China to develop and see.”

"You're not familiar with the domestic entertainment industry, are you? There aren't many familiar colleagues and friends here. Is there a lot of pressure to come back?" Jia Jiajia asked.

"Actually, it's okay." Meng Lan looked at it very openly, "I have saved some money in the past few years. Even if I fail to return to China to develop, that money is enough to keep an ordinary life. No matter how bad it is, I will become a foreign language Tutoring is also fine, I have been abroad for a few years, and my spoken English is passable.”

It was rare for Meng Lang to make a joke, and both of them couldn't help laughing.

Zhou Ge laughed and said, "You are young, how did you think about retirement so early?"

Jia Jiajia also echoed: "That's right, my old lady hasn't said anything yet."

Zhou Ge hurriedly said: "Sister Jiajia, how old are you? You are an old lady, and my mother has to call you sister."

In the gag, half of the meal was eaten slowly. Zhou Ge loved the fried pork with garlic sprouts and baby vegetables with garlic vermicelli. He solved half of it by himself. Jia Jiajia liked steamed sea bass and pan-fried tofu. The comments were full of tongues, and Meng Lan was praised for a while.

Seeing that they were still enjoying their conversation, Meng Lan stood up and went back to the kitchen counter. Turned on a low heat in the frying pan, sloshed a thin layer of oil over it, threw in the peanuts that Zhou Ge and the others had peeled, and roasted them slowly over low heat.

Zhou Ge asked Jia Jiajia about opening an embroidery studio recently.

"Why did you think of opening an embroidery studio? I didn't even know you had this hobby."

Jia Jiajia brewed a pot of tartary buckwheat tea by herself and said while drinking, "It's a long story."

When Jia Jiajia was an emotional consultant on the show a few years ago, a mother and daughter came to the show. Because the daughter was about to graduate from college, the mother and daughter had a huge disagreement on the issue of employment and quarreled.The mother is an embroiderer in a small town, and the embroidery skills passed down from her ancestors need to be inherited, but her daughter likes the colorful world outside, and finds embroidery hard and boring.

At the end of that episode, the mother respected her daughter’s ideas and asked her to go out to make a living, but Jia Jiajia always remembered the mother who said she respected her daughter’s decision but had a heavy face after she left the show.Later, she kept in touch with that mother intermittently, knowing that she had taken in a few apprentices, knowing that she opened a small shop selling embroidery crafts, knowing that her daughter was working smoothly and getting promoted, knowing that the business in her shop was not very good, knowing that Several of her apprentices have gone away, and no one has learned from her. Knowing that her daughter is married and has children...

Meng Lan shook the frying pan gently, watching the peanuts slowly roasting in the frying pan, while listening quietly.

"I passed by their small town on a business trip, so I stopped by to see her." Jia Jiajia poured a cup of tea for Zhou Ge, and said slowly, "Her embroidery and handicraft shop is very small, only a dozen square meters, behind the shop It is the studio. When I went there, she was fixing the buttons of the cheongsam for her daughter. The cheongsam was made by herself, and the lotus root pink satin was embroidered with lifelike magnolia flowers in different shapes. Simple and dignified, it complements her daughter's graceful figure, which is pretty and shy, extremely beautiful."

"That was the only thought I had in mind at that time—it's so beautiful!" Jia Jiajia still couldn't hide her surprise at this time, but she paused, and the smile on her face faded a little, "Then I heard her daughter say, let She sold the store out and went over there to help her take care of her children."

As if awakened from a charming and gentle dream, the two young men who were listening quietly pursed their lips subconsciously and frowned after being splashed with cold water by reality.

The small fire on the stove was still roasting, and the aroma of peanuts in the pot was already wafting out. Meng Lan turned off the fire lightly and didn't move it for a while, waiting for the follow-up.

When the mother heard her daughter say that, she paused when she was arranging the clothes, and then said in a soft voice: "No, I have to take care of the business in the store. Mom still has a few embroidery pieces to finish, so I promised the client." of."

The language is euphemistic, but the attitude is firm.

Jia Jiajia imitated that tone and repeated, and then said: "Her daughter's temper was much better at that time, and she was not so stubborn. Slowly reasoned with her, saying that she was worried about leaving her alone in her hometown, and saying that she and her husband If you earn a lot, you can give her a pension, so that she doesn't have to work so hard, and go there to live with them and accompany her granddaughter. Isn't it better than embroidering every day in a small town? Look at her hands are full of needle wounds and wounds. Calluses."

I can fully imagine what kind of scene it is.

The concepts of the two generations are so different that it is difficult to understand each other even after many years.

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