Chapter 6 Pulling Vegetables and Cooking(1/2)
The breakfast was a buffet breakfast in the hotel. Zhou Yibai was dragged to the restaurant by Meng Yu and then stuffed the plates on his hand. Standing there, Meng Yu moved quickly to put the plates on.
In the morning, Zhou Yibai's brain was always stuck and he stood there with the plate in his hand without moving. Seeing that he was stupid, Meng Yu simply handed over the assembly to him, took the empty plate in his hand and continued to sweep it.
Their choice was relatively remote. As soon as they returned to their seats, Meng Yu turned his back to everyone and started eating.
Zhou Yibai took a few bites mechanically, and after a while, he finally came back completely.
In fact, he usually gets up at around 7 o'clock because he has to make breakfast for Ningning and take Ningning to kindergarten to school. But he slept too late yesterday and couldn't get up in the morning, so Meng Yu, who had only known him for a day, saw through his stupidity.
But no matter how stupid Meng Yu smiled too naturally, which made Zhou Yibai less embarrassed, and it was as easy as getting along with a friend who had a close relationship... Although Zhou Yibai did not have such a friend.
After breakfast, the morning activity will be after half an hour of rest.
Everyone needs to make lunch today. In order to make the activities more diverse, they are arranged in the vegetable garden in the resort in the morning, so that everyone can harvest the dishes they need to cook when cooking lunch.
If it is other activities with a stronger blind date nature, Meng Yu and Zhou Yibai will definitely not go, but if they can go to other activities, they will not go to cook and eat specifically, but they must not participate in this event. They even have some expectations, and they will wait at the meeting place as soon as the time comes.
"What do you want to cook for lunch?" Meng Yu put his hands in his pockets, looking very leisurely.
"I don't know." Zhou Yibai wore a pure cotton white T-shirt and a pair of black jeans, looking like a clean college boy. He turned his head and thought for a while, and finally said, "Look at what can be cooked there."
In addition to the afternoon meeting activities yesterday, someone organized a sing K after dinner in the evening. Under high-density contact, several men and women who had a good impression of each other had already walked together. They had not found the ones they were interested in or were more introverted and walked together with a group of people.
Meng Yu and Zhou Yibai walked at the end of the team, and several people slowed down and took the opportunity to talk to them. Zhou Yibai was not good at chatting, so he responded dryly for a few words, and then moved the focus of the conversation away from him. He was not very interested after listening for a while, so he finally picked up his mobile phone to help the aquarium to trick him and poke the fish grandsons.
While talking to them, Meng Yu was distracted and pulled Zhou Yibai back, who was getting worse and worse. Zhou Yibai came back to his senses, smiled at Meng Yu in embarrassment, put away his phone and followed him.
Walking through the path covered with green shade, there is a vegetable garden at the front. The vegetable garden is big or small, at least much larger than they imagined. It is divided into fields and planted with various seasonal fruits and vegetables, and there is a small greenhouse on the other end of the vegetable garden.
Someone said on the side: "The sun is coming out, why do you want to pick up vegetables when you are like this?"
Several people with parasols took out the parasols, and Meng Yu took advantage of this time and slipped aside with Zhou Yibai.
Everyone dispersed and each found the dishes they liked. Zhou Yibai took a small basket, pulled out a few green onions, and then started picking cabbages. Meng Yu followed suit, so he also found a knife to prepare to cut cabbages.
Zhou Yibai saw him picking up the knife, afraid that he would splatter three feet of blood on the spot and faint, and quickly said, "Be careful, don't be hurt."
Meng Yu said confidently: "To hold the chopsticks, of course I won't get hurt. But your hands still have wounds, so be gentle. You are an artist, and the artist's hands are treasures, so you must take good care of them."
Zhou Yibai looked at his hand. It was the first time he heard someone say this, and it felt a bit strange.
After picking two cabbages, they walked around with small baskets.
Everyone was scattered in the fields, and occasionally laughter came. Meng Yu thought that if this activity was not a blind date but a parent-child activity, then he would be willing to bring his children to participate, and it would be fun to do things with the children.
Unfortunately, he has no children and has no partner.
"Radish!" Zhou Yibai stopped and pointed to the area next to him where the radish planted to Meng Yu, "White radish!"
"Want to pull it out?"
"Yes." Zhou Yibai nodded, his eyes firm and shining, as if he was looking forward to pulling radish.
Just pulling a radish... Meng Yu found it funny, but when he looked at the radish, the pictures he saw when he was a child appeared in his mind. Several people stood in line and pulled a very big and thick radish together.
When he was a child, he thought about pulling a radish that was so big. Meng Yu understood what Zhou Yibai meant, and the two of them smiled knowingly.
Zhou Yibai pointed at the white fleshy radish, and said to Meng Yu: "Find a thicker one."
"Let's take a look." Meng Yu walked around, compared carefully, and finally pointed to a large radish, "How about this?"
Zhou Yibai squatted down to check, touched the head of the radish, and pinched the radish tassels. He had the illusion that the radish buried in the soil was extremely huge, and said, "Just let it go."
"You stand in front of you."
Zhou Yibai stood up, holding the carrot tassel in his hand, Meng Yu was behind him, and the height was right for holding his waist from behind.
"Come on." The two of them set off and took a deep breath, "One, two, three!"
The two of them worked hard at the same time, and the white radish flew out with a thud. They couldn't control their strength and both fell backwards.
Meng Yu sat on the ground, and Zhou Yibai happened to fall on Meng Yu, holding the radish in his arms.
The people nearby were attracted by their movements and looked at them. Meng Yu saw that the two of them were covered in dirt and couldn't help laughing. Zhou Yibai was a little confused, so he looked at Meng Yu, then at the white radish in his arms, and finally laughed.
"It's so small." The radish's head is big and the body is small. Zhou Yibai rubbed off the mud on it and looked even smaller.
"I thought it was at least so big." Meng Yubi, "was deceived by its leaves."
The two sat on the ground and discussed the radish and it took a while before they stood up.
They didn't know how the other people were harvesting, and they were afraid that a group of people would pick some of the same vegetables after picking for a long time, so they walked around and looked at the situation of the others.
There was also a small group of people harvesting nearby, and the baskets for the vegetables were placed aside. While they were facing their backs, the two walked to the basket and took a look.
Suddenly, the group of people started to scream at the same time, and then Meng Yu felt a green light flashing in front of him, as if something was flying by.
"..." Several people looked at Meng Yu with a nervous look on their faces.
"What's wrong?" Meng Yu always felt that something was wrong.
What was that just now? Why did you scream so badly? Wait... your face looks a little itchy?
Meng Yu felt a bad premonition.
There was a nervous breath in the air, and no one spoke for a moment.
Finally one of them couldn't help but break the awkward tranquility.
"insect!!!"
The scene was very chaotic, and those who were afraid of insects ran away. Meng Yu was not afraid of insects, but he couldn't stand a bug crawling on his face. He wanted to grab it, but he was afraid that it would burst on his face or into his mouth if he didn't get it right, and he was frozen there and didn't know what to do.
"Don't move." Although Zhou Yibai was nervous, he had never had any expression and looked calm at first glance, "I'll help you catch it."
The fat and tender green caterpillar was eating on the leaves, but suddenly it was thrown out and was so scared that he couldn't move. Zhou Yibai approached Meng Yu and whispered to the caterpillar: "Don't be afraid, be good, I'll catch you gently."
He pinched the caterpillar with his two fingers and carefully placed it on the vegetable leaves aside, finally saving the frightened people and insects.
When Zhou Yibai turned around, he happened to see Meng Yu standing in a daze.
Thinking about it carefully, Meng Yu has been having a hard time these two days. He didn't bring his mobile phone and wallet when he went out. He fainted on the first day and was crawled on the face by a bug the next day. He probably began to doubt his life.
Zhou Yibai looked at his dazed look and unknowingly thought of Ningning. When Ningning was scared, she would stand in a daze like Meng Yu, and she needed him to hug her and coax her to get better.
Zhou Yibai felt that Meng Yu was like a child at this time and needed to be coaxed, so he stepped forward and raised his hand to touch his head, and comforted him in a tone of talking to Ningning: "Be good, don't be afraid, I'm here."
When Meng Yu came to his senses, he saw Zhou Yibai looking at him gently. Without thinking, the thoughts that emerged in his mind blurted out.
"You look like my mom."
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Yibai's movements froze instantly, and he was embarrassed to withdraw his hand. Meng Yu realized that his words were ambiguous, as if he was blaming Zhou Yibai for meddling in other people's business, and quickly added: "I don't dislike you, this is a compliment!"
It is really a compliment, at least it is a very strong compliment in Meng Yu's heart.
Meng Yu lives in a textbook-style family with a well-off family. His father runs a small company. He works hard, is kind, and is very responsible to the family. His mother is a full-time housewife with a gentle personality, thrifty family, and does her best to her family.
Growing up in such a "other-in-law" family, Meng Yu has taken his parents as an example since he was a child, wants to be a good husband like his father, find a good wife like his mother, give birth to a baby, and be a good father and mother together.
When he was a teenager, he once mentioned similar ideas to his friends, but he was ridiculed as being too traditional, and some even said that he had cancer in a straight man.
He couldn't figure out whether his thoughts were good or bad. He always wanted to find a day to talk to his parents, but because he went to college, he had fewer opportunities to go home.
Later, his parents passed away in a car accident. He witnessed the scene and suffered from serious blood loss. In the past few years, he often remembered these things, but after graduation, his work was busy, and his parents' figures gradually became blurred in his memory, and he thought less and less of this thought.
Until I saw Zhou Yibai touching his head with a gentle expression, this thought arose again.
"I really didn't lie to you. I always think my mother is very good." Meng Yu felt a little embarrassed, "I haven't seen her for ten years, and I miss her very much."
"Ah? Why?" Zhou Yibai hadn't reacted yet.
"An accident happened." Meng Yu turned his eyes away and looked at the soil on the ground, "With my dad..."
Before Meng Yu could finish his words, Zhou Yibai suddenly stepped forward and hugged him. Meng Yu was stunned for a moment, then relaxed and leaned his body against Zhou Yibai's arms.
Zhou Yibai gently patted his back and whispered in the words of coaxing the little child in the dialect: "Sare to cherish, cherish to cherish..."
Somehow he wanted to cry a little, but was embarrassed. He smiled and said, "Actually, you look quite like my dad."
Zhou Yibai froze again and then laughed out loud.
Meng Yu also laughed.
At eleven o'clock, everyone entered the large kitchen for activities.
The members were all grouped together, and those who couldn't cook wanted to find someone who could cook.
This time, ten out of thirty people were confident that they could cook the food, and then ten were like Meng Yu who could cook the food but did not guarantee the taste.
Meng Yu waited for Zhou Yibai to cook for a long time, and when he was grouped, he was automatically bound to Zhou Yibai.
It is probably because Zhou Yibai exudes a very good cooked aura, and looks very soft and cute, so several people also ask to join. Zhou Yibai's role is to maintain the cooking level to avoid this activity becoming a nightmare for everyone, so naturally everyone will refuse.
There are three large refrigerators in the kitchen, which store meat, fish and some vegetables that are not available in the fields outside. The cabinet on one side has all kinds of seasonings and pots, which can be said to be very well prepared.
Zhou Yibai went to the refrigerator to find materials, and Meng Yu stayed at the table to wipe the table for him.
"What do you want to eat later?" A girl in the group who can also cook, asked Meng Yu.
"Am I?" Meng Yu smiled at her gently, "I have a good appetite and eat everything."
The girl then signed up for a few dishes and asked Meng Yu if he was fine.
Everyone in the company knew that Mr. Meng would eat whenever he had food, and the visitors would not refuse to say whether it was a good appetite or a loss of taste. Therefore, Meng Yu naturally replied: "Of course it's good, it sounds very good."
To be continued...