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Just as I was about to pick up the fish fillets, a plate of boiled white and tender fish fillets was placed in front of me, with a few drops of chili oil on it, no more, no less, just the level of spiciness I wanted.
I looked embarrassedly at Zhou Buwen who gave me fish fillets, what is he? Wu Julan and I sat facing each other, handing things out was convenient and unobtrusive. Zhou Buwen sat diagonally across from me. He wanted to hand me something and he had to stand up. The whole table saw it.
Zhou Buwen glanced at Wu Julan, smiled and said, "The fish fillet that you have loved since you were a child."
Zhou Buwen was doing it on purpose, he definitely felt that I would not refuse. It's definitely not my way of doing things in front of so many people to slaughter old friends. But if I accept it... I go to see Wu Julan subconsciously. As if nothing happened, Wu Julan took a piece of lobster and put it into the pot.
At this time, if Wu Julan stared at me like Jiang Yisheng, Wu Liangliang, and Zhou Buyan, I would be very depressed, but Wu Julan didn't look at me at all, and I seemed even more depressed.
I smiled and said, "Thank you Datou! However, I've been a little angry recently and can't eat spicy food. My boyfriend happens to like spicy food, so let him help me eat it!"
I put the fish fillet plate in front of Wu Julan, then picked up the spoon with a smile, and thoughtfully added three tablespoons of chili oil to the fish fillet. Let you stand idly by! Keep you out of the way! Make you indifferent!
The red chili oil is so eye-catching that the whole table is staring at the plate of fish fillets completely soaked in chili oil. Under everyone's eyes, Wu Julan picked up the fish fillet, slice after slice, and ate it all calmly. However, after eating, he immediately picked up the ice lemonade and drank it one by one.
Immediately, I felt relieved, and felt distressed, so I put my ice lemonade in front of Wu Julan.
Jiang Yisheng and Wu Liangliang both looked at me with the eyes of monsters.
Zhou Buwen suddenly asked, "Xiaoluo, when did Wu Julan become your boyfriend? Why haven't I heard you mention it?"
Jiang Yisheng also came back to his senses, "Yes! Xiaoluo, when did you become Brother Wu's girlfriend?"
Wu Liangliang and Zhou Buyan both pricked up their ears and listened with interest.
I said, "The night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. I didn't plan to hide it from you, but I just haven't had the right opportunity to say it."
Jiang Yisheng said something in his words: "Brother Wu, Xiaoluo didn't tease us, right? This kind of thing can't be joked, we will take it seriously!"
My heart hung up and I stared nervously at Wu Julan. Although he said "yes" that night, he has been really kind to me these days, and he didn't say any hurtful words again, but I suddenly declared that he was my boyfriend, can he accept it? Will it be unhappy, or even denied?
Wu Julan put down the water glass in his hand silently, his eyes swept across the faces of several people on the table one by one, his indifference of the high-end species of the food chain overlooking the low-end species of the food chain made everyone a little unbearable, and lowered their heads subconsciously avoided.
Finally, he looked at Jiang Yisheng and said without expression: "I officially announce that Shen Luo is my woman. From now on, if anyone has any bad intentions against her, I will punish her severely. Please take action before taking any action. , consider carefully whether you can bear my anger."
I half covered my face with my hands and slid down little by little. A few minutes ago, I had complained that Wu Julan didn't care and wouldn't be "jealous" at all. A few minutes later, I was so embarrassed that I just wanted to get under the table. The others were probably stunned as well, sitting stiffly, and no one made a sound.
Wu Julan didn't have any bad feelings, she calmly retracted her gaze, picked up the ice water, and drank gracefully one sip after another.
Jiang Yisheng was the first to come back to his senses, "Haha" gān laughed a few times, but couldn't find any words that could ease the atmosphere, and then "Haha" gān laughed a few times, but still couldn't find it. Just as he was about to continue laughing, Wu Liangliang helped him out of the siege, picked up the wine glass, and said to me with a smile, "Congratulations!"
Jiang Yisheng hurriedly raised his cup, "Let's have a cup! Bless Xiaoluo and Brother Wu."
In the clinking of glasses and the sound of blessings, the atmosphere finally returned from weird to normal.
With the reduction of food on the table, everyone has less time to eat and more time to chat.
Wu Liangliang said, "If I'm not mistaken, the conch used for chamomile should be the Heavenly King Red Spiral, right?"
"Yes."
Wu Liangliang pointed to the large candles on both sides of the cha flower and said: "These two conch shells are gorgeous in color, and their shapes are like beautiful women with light and wide sleeves, dancing gracefully. They should be queen phoenix snails. Interesting! There is a queen standing next to the king, like a queen. Empress E, Nu Ying, and Shuang Shu accompany you, but did you know that the Heavenly King Red Spiral Snails exclusively eat Queen Phoenix Snails?"
Zhou Buyan gave a surprised "ah" and stared at the three conch shells on the table. It seemed difficult to imagine that such a beautiful conch shell was actually a relationship between a predator and a prey.
"I know." I asked with interest. "Can you recognize any other conch?"
Wu Liangliang looked at the conch candles in front of everyone and said, "The features of the conch in front of me and Dr. Jiang are too obvious, the color is white as snow, the bone spurs are slender and dense, and it is easy to recognize, it is the Venus bone snail; The color of the conch in front of you is crimson, and the layers of the conch overlap like flowers in full bloom. It is a thousand-handed rose; the conch in front of you and Brother Wu has twelve ribs, like the strings of a harp, a West African harp conch."
Wu Liangliang tapped the white shell on her hands with her red finger, "I've said that before, Tridacna."
I smiled and praised: "All right! Although these are not rare conch shells, it is not easy to name them one by one. I heard a lot from my grandfather since I was a child, and unknowingly wrote it down, how about you?"
"Like you, my grandmother is a marine biologist. I have seen it a lot since I was a child, so I will naturally remember it." Who wants to eat fish tails?"
Jiang Yisheng, Zhou Buyan, and Zhou Buwen all said no. I looked at the fish tail, in a trance, and didn't answer for a while.
"Here!" Wu Liangliang stood up, smiled and put the fish tail into my hot pot.
The pot is not too big, the fish tail is not too small, half of it is immersed in the boiling soup, and half of it is still exposed. I don't know why, but I felt like I was caught in a nightmare, my whole body was stiff, and I didn't even have the courage to put the fish tail into the pot with chopsticks. I just stared at the fish tail that was out of the water because of the boiling heat in front of me. trembling.
Luckily, someone rescued me in time and clipped the fishtail away.
I just breathed a sigh of relief, but I found out that the person who took the fish tail was Wu Julan, and I immediately became nervous again, wishing to snatch it from his pot.
Wu Julan scalded the fish tail calmly and ate it slowly. Probably because there was nothing unusual about him, I gradually relaxed, and even felt ashamed for my reaction just now.
I had already eaten almost all of it, but after such a fuss, I lost my appetite, put down my chopsticks and said, "I'm full."
Everyone also expressed that they were full. Jiang Yisheng suggested that the ladies go to the living room to rest, and the men stayed to clean up the dishes, which was warmly supported by the ladies.
I called Wu Liangliang and Zhou Buyan to sit in the living room.
Wu Liangliang saw that the living room and study were decorated with conch shells in different postures, and asked politely, "Do you mind if I take a look around?"
"Please feel free! Tell me if you like it, and I will give it to you. However, some are liked by Grandpa, and I will keep them as souvenirs." I said with a smile.
Wu Liangliang slowly paced while watching carefully. I know that she is an expert, and she does not need any introduction.
I sat on the sofa with Zhou Buyan, eating fruit and talking.
Not long after, Zhou Buwen and Jiang Yisheng both came in. Jiang Yisheng said to me: "Everything else has been cleaned up, except for washing the dishes. Brother Wu said he can do it alone."
"There are playing cards and mahjong tiles in the drawer under the coffee table. If you want to play cards, take them yourself." I picked up a plate of fruit and went to the kitchen.
In front of the sink, Wu Julan was wearing her grandfather's old apron and quietly washing the dishes. I stood by the kitchen door and watched him silently. In this scene, this person is what qíng is attached to and what his heart is at ease. If he can live in the morning and evening, he will have a peaceful life and a happy life.
Wu Julan looked up at me, I smiled charmingly, and walked quickly into the kitchen.
I forked a piece of watermelon with a fruit fork and wanted to feed him.
Wu Julan said, "Eat it yourself!"
I put the watermelon with the saucer on the table beside me, summoned up my courage and asked, "Are you upset?"
"No."
I asked tentatively, "Aren't you angry that I publicly announced you as my boyfriend without asking your permission?"
"Do not."
"My, my reaction to...that fishtail...are you disappointed?" After that, I could hardly hear what I was saying.
"No."
I bit my lip, not knowing what to do.
Wu Julan stopped washing the dishes, looked at me and said, "Your reaction to that fish tail is just because you love Wu Jiwu, why should I blame you?"
I was like a person who was wronged and didn't know how to defend himself, but the person who cared about me most broke the mystery in one sentence. I was both happy and sad, and my nose was astringent and my eyes were red for a moment. I know my reaction was inappropriate, but I really couldn't control it.
Wu Julan sighed lightly, stretched out a hand full of foam, hugged me gently into his arms, and said softly, "Your reaction to the fish tail didn't hurt me. Don't be so nervous about me, I'm already alive. For a long time, things like sensitivity and fragility have been stripped from me by time, and there are very few things that can hurt me."
I didn't think his words were comforting, instead I felt even more uncomfortable, just for myself just now, and now for Wu Julan. If perseverance is the result of a thousand trials and tribulations, can it be possible to ignore the painful process of trial and error just because of the results?
I buried my head on his shoulder and said dully: "As long as you are in my heart for a day, I will be nervous for a day, nervous that you are hurt by others, nervous that I accidentally wronged you, nervous that you are unhappy, these and you It has nothing to do with being strong or vulnerable."
Wu Julan hugged me without saying a word, and after a while, he smiled and said, "Your boyfriend is at the top of the food chain in the sea, all fish are his food, you can eat fish in front of him in the future, you can do whatever you want. "
I was stunned for a moment, and after repeating the words "your boyfriend" several times in my mind, I suddenly raised my head and looked at him in surprise. Although he publicly acknowledged our relationship during the meal just now, I was coerced by me. This is the first time that he has clearly and actively expressed his intentions.
"My boyfriend?" I couldn't help hooking Wu Julan's neck tightly, grinning and giggling.
"Ouch! I didn't see anything..." Jiang Yisheng just rushed into the kitchen and ran out again covering his eyes.
I quickly let go of Wu Julan, and Wu Julan said, "Go say hello to them, I'll be fine soon."
"Well." I blushed and walked out of the kitchen.
Jiang Yisheng and Zhou Buwen stood under the Gongsun orange tree at the corner of the kitchen, one looked embarrassed and the other sullen.
I guessed that they had something to say, and when I walked slowly in front of them, my heart was completely calmed down.
Zhou Buwen said, "Xiaoluo, are you really going to find a man who eats soft rice?"
Jiang Yisheng hurriedly said: "Big head, don't do this! Brother Wu is not what you think."
"You called 'Big Brother Wu' an addiction? I called him 'Big Brother Wu' before because he deceived us that he was Xiaoluo's cousin. To put it bluntly, he is a working boy who works for Xiaoluo and refuses to keep his guard. Doing things, but with ulterior motives to play Xiaoluo's idea..."