Chapter 25 He is definitely angry
Zhou Zheng stood up and walked over to him like a dog, circling around Lu Fangchi: "What do you want to eat? I'll make it."
"I'll handle it myself." Lu Fangchi looked straight ahead in a cold voice, without even giving the alpha a glance, and walked out, bypassing the alpha.
Zhou Zheng:!
The alarm bells are ringing, ringing loudly, ringing loudly!
Zhou Zheng followed behind him, looking left and right, and whispered: "What's wrong?"
Lu Fangchi ignored him, walked through the living room and went straight to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out two eggs and placed them on the egg steamer, then picked up a mug, rinsed it under the faucet, wiped it dry, and placed it on the counter to make a cup of hot milk.
Same old thing.
But after Zhou Zheng came, he almost never ate like this. The eggs were choking, the milk smelled fishy, and it was just convenient to fill his stomach.
Seeing what Lu Fangchi was doing, Zhou Zheng frowned and said, "This doesn't taste good. What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
Lu Fangchi glanced at him from the side, sweeping his eyes up and down, making Zhou Zheng feel creepy, then he looked away and said almsgivingly, "No need."
This reaction was too abnormal, Lu Fangchi was definitely angry. Zhou Zheng stretched out his hand and scratched his temples, feeling like crying but unable to. He really couldn't remember what he had done last night to offend him.
Lu Fangchi did not continue waiting in the kitchen, but left with the cup of milk.
Zhou Zheng didn't follow him out this time, but stayed in the kitchen and started to fiddle with the food. He rolled up his sleeves and went to the refrigerator to look for ingredients, and after a quick look... there was almost nothing that could be used.
A plate of eggs, countless bottles of mineral water beer, and a handful of green onions that had wilted to yellow-green, and that was it.
Zhou Zheng turned around and looked at the time on the egg steamer. It was eight minutes.
It takes five minutes to run to the nearest supermarket, and ten minutes to go there and back. Even if it takes five minutes to buy things, it will take at least fifteen minutes in total. This does not include the time for cooking, which is far longer than the time it takes to cook in the egg steamer.
Zhou Zheng looked up and saw the round back of Lu Fangchi's head sitting on the sofa. He would raise his milk cup and drink a few sips from time to time. In this situation today, he couldn't ask the young man to wait a while, because there was a high probability that he would smile and say "politely" that it was not necessary.
No, we can only make something with the existing ingredients. Zhou Zheng skillfully boiled a pot of water, took out four eggs, beat them in a bowl, and added salt and chicken essence.
While the water is boiling, take out a small square frying pan and start rolling the egg pancakes. Pour one layer in, roll it into shape, then roll up another layer, and so on.
He made a salty version of thick-cut tamagoyaki. From what he had observed, Lu Fangchi didn't really like sweet food.
When the tamagoyaki was halfway through, Zhou Zheng turned off the fire, took out the cooked noodles, poured some cooking oil on them and set them aside for later use.
During this time, he looked up from time to time to check the remaining time on the egg steamer. While taking care of two dishes at the same time, Zhou Zheng had a thin layer of sweat on the tip of his nose.
As the egg steamer reached zero, a "ding dong" sounded. The scallion oil was stir-fried and poured over the noodles, the aroma was overflowing, and the only thing left was to mix it evenly.
The footsteps behind him were getting closer. Zhou Zheng looked up and saw Lu Fangchi walking in. He opened the egg steamer and poked the boiling egg into the bowl with a spoon. He then filled a bowl of cold water from the faucet and left.
Zhou Zheng hurriedly mixed the noodles with scallion oil, then followed Lu Fangchi with the tamagoyaki, and placed them on the dining table one after the other.
Compared with the golden and delicious tamagoyaki and the fragrant scallion noodles, the boiled eggs in front of Lu Fangchi were not very good looking.
Lu Fangchi didn't sleep well and had no appetite in the first place. He cooked two eggs only because of Zhou Zheng's questioning. Now the difference was too obvious and he didn't want to eat at all.
Lu Fangchi's eyes wandered around, and he stared at the two eggs in the bowl in a daze.
Seeing this, Zhou Zheng, who was standing by, reached out and pushed the edge of the plate, slowly pushing the scallion noodles and tamagoyaki towards the young man, little by little. When it was in front of him, he quickly brought the bowl of eggs in front of himself, smashed the egg, peeled the eggshell and stuffed it into his mouth.
He choked because he ate too fast. Zhou Zheng took a long time to swallow it. He said with a hoarse voice: "Let's take turns. I want to eat eggs."
Lu Fangchi stared at Zhou Zheng silently for several seconds before he raised his hand, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of tamagoyaki and put it into his mouth.
Lu Fangchi still didn't say much, but he picked up the food with his chopsticks more frequently, and it seemed that he was quite enjoying it.
The last piece of tamagoyaki was swallowed, and two-thirds of the scallion noodles disappeared. Lu Fangchi put down his chopsticks, picked up the mug and drank two sips of milk. A burst of pure music came from the bedroom, and someone called.
Lu Fangchi stood up and walked towards the bedroom. "Leave the dishes here for me to wash later."
I don't know what was said on the other end. Lu Fangchi remained silent the whole time, and only responded with "yes" and "got it" from the beginning to the end.
The call was very brief, but when he came out, Zhou Zheng had already washed the dishes and started mopping up the water. Alpha smiled at Lu Fangchi and said, "There were only three dishes in total. I washed them."
Lu Fangchi nodded and sat on the sofa with his cell phone.
Zhou Zheng wiped the dishes and immediately went to the living room to find Lu Fangchi. He wanted to say something, but he stopped talking because of the low pressure emanating from Lu Fangchi.
It was different from the previous time, when he at least let out some emotion, and his words and actions exuded the feeling of "don't mess with me if you're unhappy". This time, he had no expression on his face, lowered his eyes to look at his phone, but he exuded a depressed atmosphere.
What's going on now? What happened to the phone just now?
Zhou Zheng didn't dare to ask. He moved quietly to the sofa and sat down. He picked up a square pillow and put it in his arms like a bullied daughter-in-law, and his index finger groped along the leather texture.
When Zhou Zheng was thinking about what to say, Lu Fangchi suddenly looked up at him and asked, "Are you going home today?"
Huh? Oh, today is New Year's Eve.
Zhou Zheng shook his head. "No, Assistant Liu has told you that I don't have a good relationship with my family." Alpha licked his lips.
"Well," Lu Fangchi nodded in agreement, his eyes returned to the phone screen, his fingers pressing on it, "Then you can live here, I won't be here for the next few days."
Ah? We have to separate again. Zhou Zheng frowned, looking anxious: "You want to go home? Then take me with you?"
This question made Lu Fangchi stunned for a moment, and he looked up at Alpha.
The atmosphere was a little silent and awkward.
Zhou Zheng realized that his words were too abrupt. He said, "Oh oh," and laughed dryly twice, explaining, "I just said it casually without thinking."
Lu Fangchi nodded and walked down the stairs. "I have relatives here, so it's not very convenient."
Zhou Zheng suppressed his disappointment and changed the subject: "When are you leaving?"
"Later." Lu Fangchi responded casually.
"Do you want to buy some New Year's goods to take back? I can go with you." Zhou Zheng asked again.
No need. Looking at Zhou Zheng's face full of energy, Lu Fangchi swallowed the three words back into his throat, changed his mind and raised his chin, "Okay, let's go out for a walk."
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Ten minutes later, Zhou Zheng and Lu Fangchi went out together.
There is a supermarket 500 meters away, within walking distance, so the two of us chose to walk.
"How many relatives do you want to visit? Let me calculate how many gifts to buy." Zhou Zheng exhaled white air while speaking and counted on his fingers.
Different from Zhou Zheng's serious attitude, Lu Fangchi looked uninterested. He was lazy, with his hands in his pockets and half of his face hidden in his scarf, revealing only a pair of clear eyes. He said perfunctorily, "We'll see when the time comes."
That being said, when he actually got to the supermarket, Lu Fangchi didn't even step into the gift section and went straight to the snack section.
Seeing the three rows of spicy strips, Lu Fangchi walked up to a certain Prince spicy strip that Zhou Zheng bought very frequently and stood in front of it. He turned around and looked at him, "Want some spicy strips?"
Zhou Zheng nodded, and the next second he saw the young man take out ten bags of slightly spicy snacks and throw them into the shopping cart.
He raised his hand and pointed at a certain taro drink in orange packaging. "What about this one?"
"That's fine." Zhou Zheng was a little surprised that the flavors Lu Fangchi mentioned were all his favorites.
The young man grabbed ten more bags and threw them into the shopping cart, then walked to the potato chip section. This time he didn't ask any questions, but directly reached out and grabbed five bags of cucumber and original flavors and threw them into the shopping cart.
In just a few minutes, the shopping cart was piled high.
They are all my favorites, but I don't like them too much. Especially since I have a bad habit, I can't help myself after buying them. I eat them all at once and then feel uncomfortable after eating them. So I usually only buy one or two packs to satisfy my craving.
And Lu Fangchi was acting like a wholesaler. Seeing him throw another twenty bags of tiger skin chicken feet into the shopping cart, Zhou Zheng quickly pulled the shopping cart back and stopped him: "That's enough, that's too much."
Lu Fangchi then stopped what he was doing. He muttered "Okay" absentmindedly, then walked towards the fruit and vegetable area.
Another random grabbing, one box of oranges, one box of apples, and three boxes of kiwis!
Kiwis need to be ripe, as they are very easy to spoil. Zhou Zheng opened his mouth and wanted to take less, but finally swallowed it back and said nothing.
A strange situation then developed: the young man walked in front of the shopping cart and took things frantically, while the alpha followed silently behind, putting some things back or reducing the amount as appropriate under practical circumstances.
At this point, even if Zhou Zheng was a bit stupid, he could still tell that something was wrong with Lu Fangchi. It seemed that he had been a little irritable, even anxious, ever since he received the call.
When it came time to check out, Lu Fangchi didn't even notice that more than half of the items were missing. He took out his cell phone and paid promptly - 3,156.66 yuan.
Lu Fangchi took two bags and left the other two for Zhou Zheng. The two of them each carried four large bags of things out of the supermarket, and neither of them mentioned the original purpose of coming to the supermarket.
After returning home, Zhou Zheng started to sort and organize the things, while Lu Fangchi sneaked into the study.
Zhou Zheng felt that something was not right with Lu Fangchi, so he would find excuses to go in for a walk from time to time, sometimes to bring him water, sometimes to bring him fruit, and sometimes to ask him where something was.
Lu Fangchi had nothing to do but play games, poking the black-axis keyboard until it made a crackling sound, with a burning cigarette pinched between his index and middle fingers. Every time he went back, the ashtray next to him was filled with half-burnt cigarette butts.
Lu Fangchi stayed in the study for the entire afternoon until it got dark outside the window and the cell phone in his hand began to buzz, over and over again, without stopping.
The young man reached out to turn off the phone without answering it, raised his hand to turn off the computer, and got up to go to the cloakroom to change clothes.
Lu Fangchi was dressed similarly today as usual, with a sweater, suit pants and a coat over it. He bent over and sat on a chair at the entrance and changed into a pair of Martin boots.
He stood up, put the toes of his shoes on the spot, and prepared to go out.
Zhou Zheng leaned against the door and looked at the young man's lowered eyelids, wanting to say something but stopping himself. When he was about to leave, he said, "I'll wait for you at home."