Malt sugar
"Don't come here! I've checked the toilet." Ye Jing'an said.
"I was wrong. I was really scared of you! Stop shouting and let's go!" Liu Muzhe pulled him back.
As they passed the coffee shop, a child suddenly rushed out, jumped in front of the two of them, and asked with a smile, "Handsome brother, have you found your handsome brother?"
"Why is it you?" Ye Jing'an rubbed his head. "Yes, isn't my handsome brother handsome?"
The child nodded.
"Who is this kid?" Liu Muzhe asked.
"I met him when I came to the amusement park before. He followed me secretly all the way and tricked me into giving him a lot of food." Ye Jing'an said.
"It seems that you adjusted your mood quickly and even came to the amusement park to play." Liu Muzhe snorted and laughed.
"I wasn't playing at all. I came to find you." Ye Jing'an sighed, "I was wondering where you were at that time."
"I should have been sliding down the slide in the amusement park at that time." Liu Muzhe said in a difficult way.
"Then to some extent we've already met." Ye Jingan suggested, "Let's go to Yang Amusement Park. I'll take you to the slide!"
Liu Muze twitched his lips and his eyelids twitched wildly: "Are you deliberately retaliating against me, kid?"
"Hey, let's go!" Ye Jing'an looked at the child, "Little brat, are you going? My handsome brother will treat you."
"Great, great! Thank you, handsome brother." The child shouted happily.
Ye Jingan bought three tickets, handed one to the child, and sent him away, dragging Liu Muze around the amusement park. They looked around but didn't see any slides. The only small slide was in the ocean ball park, but that was only for children of a few years old, so they wouldn't let them in.
Ye Jingan said depressedly: "There is no slide here? Didn't you slide in this amusement park in your dream?"
"Yeah, didn't I say that the haunted house turned into a slide? There's no slide here, let's go back." Liu Muzhe said.
"I'm not going back! I want to find a slide to play on!" Ye Jingan stubbornly refused to leave.
"Shout louder! Don't you know how old you are? How shameful! Get out of here!" Liu Muzhe grabbed his wrist and dragged him out.
Ye Jingan got angry again, and froze in place like a cow, unable to move no matter how hard he tried. Liu Muze said helplessly, "Why do you have to play on the slide?"
"I want to skate with you once. Next time you dream about me, I will be with you. You don't have to be afraid anymore." Ye Jingan said.
Liu Muze felt a pang in his heart, not knowing what to say. He used to think Ye Jingan was always childish, and he always treated Ye Jingan as a child. At this moment, Liu Muze suddenly realized that Ye Jingan's seemingly nonsensical and childish ideas seemed to be often just to make him happy, and to try to untie his knot again and again, so that he wouldn't be sad alone. Liu Muze held Ye Jingan and said with a faint smile: "Thank you."
"Why are you saying thank you to me?" Ye Jing'an frowned slightly. "Don't act so mature all the time. Didn't you agree to stop being the high-and-mighty master and turn back into the kid you used to be? I'll take you out to play and eat. Why are you still the same as before?"
Liu Muze was stunned. In a trance, he looked down and saw himself, who was only eight years old. He slowly said, "When I was a child, I was walking on the street with my head down, holding the wooden sword given by my master. There were many delicious foods on the street, but I didn't dare look up because I would get hungry. I bumped into a rich man and was kicked to the ground. I looked up and saw him holding a little boy about my age, eating a piece of malt candy. From then on, buying a piece of malt candy became my dream. But in the end, I didn't even have the chance to eat it because I grew up."
After hearing this, Ye Jingan wished he could travel back to his time, pick him up and eat every delicious food on the street, from the beginning to the end of the street! Whatever he likes to eat, just buy it for him at the store, and sit inside to eat until he’s full! After eating at this market, move to another place to continue eating, and try all the delicious food!
Seeing Ye Jingan's strange expression, Liu Muze raised the corner of his mouth with a faint smile: "Once you grow up, you can't go back."
"Who said that!" Ye Jing'an pulled him to the mall, "Brother Liu, wait for me at this milk tea shop. I'll buy something and then go home."
"I'll go with you." Liu Muzhe said.
Ye Jingan refused to let him in no matter what and slipped into the mall by himself.
The candies in the snack shops at shopping malls are dazzling and offer everything from single-piece lollipops to pricey chocolates adorned with edible gold foil.
The only thing missing was the malt candy he wanted to eat.
In the end, he only bought the chocolate with a liquor filling that Liu Ge liked, and it was 100% pure chocolate. Ye Jingan didn't care that this thing was called candy. He wouldn't eat the bitter pure chocolate even if it was given for free, and he wouldn't eat it even if he paid for it!
Ye Jing'an finally understood why Brother Liu didn't like to eat sweets. No matter how many delicious candies he had now, none of them could compare to the piece of malt candy he had as a child.
But this is also very difficult. I don’t know what malt sugar looks like, and I’ve never even heard of it. Where can I buy it for him? I guess the candy from Brother Liu’s era is not available now?
Ye Jingan picked up his phone and checked: Malt sugar is small solid blocks of candy made from thick sugar syrup.
Oh~ This is not that simple, all you need is hands!
"Brother Liu, let's go home." Ye Jing'an stuffed the exquisitely wrapped chocolate into his hands.
Liu Muze smiled knowingly. This kid really treated him like a child and came to the mall to buy candy. Seeing that Ye Jingan hadn't bought any food and was about to go home, he pointed to the cake shop and said, "I'll buy you some egg tarts that you like."
Ye Jingan waved his hand and ran home impatiently.
Liu Muzhe was yawning all the way, and when the car arrived at the villa, he had fallen asleep.
"Brother Liu, we're home. If you're tired, go take a nap." Ye Jing'an was secretly happy in his heart that he had just enough time to do it.
"Okay." Liu Muzhe walked back to the room with a smile.
Ye Jing'an prepared the ingredients and began to boil sugar in the kitchen. As the sugar melted, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. He himself loved sweets. When he was a child, his grandfather and his father bought him all kinds of candies and desserts. Anyway, he had tried everything he saw on the street that looked delicious, no matter if it was expensive or cheap. However, when Liu Ge was a child, he didn't even have this ordinary candy.
After the sugar was cooked and solidified, Ye Jingan carefully broke the large sugar block into small pieces that were easy to eat. Perhaps it was because he made it himself that it added a layer of filter to it, making it taste delicious at first glance.
Ye Jingan stared at the freshly made malt candy and sighed, "It's too late to eat it now."
But from now on, he will never let Brother Liu miss out on food. He will buy whatever he wants, and if he can't buy it, he will make it himself!
Ye Jingan smiled and rushed to Liu Muze's room. He knocked on the door and asked softly, "Is Brother Liu asleep?"
"The door is not locked, come in." Liu Muzhe said.
"Brother Liu, try it." Ye Jing'an handed over the candy jar.
Liu Muze was a little confused looking at the dark brown candy in the transparent jar. It turned out that Ye Jingan had been looking for malt sugar. However, in his memory, the malt sugar that children took was orange-yellow...
Without thinking too much, he said yes, so Liu Muze took one and put it in his mouth. His expression froze instantly, and his eyes slowly moved towards Ye Jingan.
Although I have never eaten malt sugar, I can be sure that this is not it.
"How is it? Is it delicious?" Ye Jing'an asked expectantly.
"Did you make it yourself?" Liu Muzhe asked.
"How do you know?" Ye Jing'an said with some excitement.
"Because... it's delicious." Liu Muzhe suppressed his smile.
Ye Jingan chuckled, took one and put it in his mouth, and his mouth immediately fell. He had never thought that such a simple ingredient and simple preparation would fail, and he had never thought of trying it himself first.
"Bah! It's bitter." Ye Jing'an wrinkled his nose and saw that he was still eating. "I'm about to throw up. This is not something that humans can eat!"
Liu Muzhe held the candy in his mouth and smiled without saying a word.
"Don't force me to suck it out with my mouth!" Ye Jing'an threatened.
Liu Muze glared at him and quickly spit out the candy. Ye Jingan was actually capable of doing this, and he seemed to enjoy doing it.
"I'll make it again for you!" Ye Jing'an said.
"No, thank you." Liu Muzhe held him back.
"No, I will let you eat it today!" Ye Jingan ran to the kitchen.
Liu Muze couldn't help but smile as he ran to the kitchen. He was lost in thought as he watched Ye Jing'an diligently making sugar. Ye Jing'an was now half a head taller than him, completely grown up, no longer the chubby little brat he used to be. When he wasn't smiling, he was serious and composed, a stark contrast to his usual frivolous and unserious self.
Liu Muzhe thought back and felt that he had never really looked at Ye Jingan seriously. In his memory, he always looked like a child.
The color of the candy was normal this time. Ye Jingan picked up a piece to try first, but Liu Muze snatched it away and stuffed it into his mouth. It wasn't bitter at all, but sweet all over his mouth, sweet to the heart.
This child has really grown up. He is taller than him and has matured mentally. Along the way, Ye Jingan has been trying to untie his knot and take care of his emotions at all times. In order to prevent him from being embarrassed between Ye Jingan and Ye Chenyi, he is willing to hide his love.
Liu Muze had always thought that he was the one protecting and caring for Ye Jingan, but now that he thought about it, he was the one being cared for from beginning to end. The one who truly didn't understand was himself from beginning to end.
Liu Muzhe frowned and didn't dare to blink.
"Isn't it enough? I'm almost crying because it's so unpalatable." Ye Jing'an picked up a piece reluctantly and threw it into his mouth in disgust.
It was sweet, just like the outer layer of candied haws, not bad at all. Ye Jingan reacted and coaxed her, "Why didn't I cheer you up? Instead, I made you sad. I'm sorry. Please don't be sad, okay?"
Liu Muze smiled and shook his head, choking and saying: "Thank you..."
"Don't keep thanking me. I will make up for all the sweetness you didn't enjoy in your childhood." Ye Jing'an hugged him in his arms.
Liu Muzhe nodded slightly, his movements like a kitten rubbing against someone.
Ye Jing'an's heart melted. He couldn't stand showing weakness to Brother Liu!
After finishing the candy, Liu Muze was like a completely different person, being very obedient and well-behaved. He used to be very thin-skinned, and would blush if you said something dirty to him or did something a little too aggressive. He was probably embarrassed after crying, but now his skin was as thin as paper. If you put your arm around him, he would blush, and if you touched his face lightly, he would turn into a completely unfamiliar person.
If Ye Jingan had touched him before, he would have glared at him and shoved his hand away. But today, he let Ye Jingan flirt with him, letting him hug and touch him. But he could tell he wasn't very willing either, as he frowned slightly and stared at the ground, never looking up.
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