Chapter 40: Lock or Not Lock
Around seven o'clock in the evening, Yu Zhiming brought Su Tong to his home in Yu Shuiwan Community.
"Do you want to take off your shoes?"
"Need not!"
Yu Zhiming replied, then changed the subject: "You can wear my sister or niece's slippers to make your feet more comfortable."
Su Tong bent down to take off his sneakers, but stopped.
"I won't take off my shoes for now, so as not to stink you."
Su Tong followed Yu Zhiming through the entrance and saw the spacious, simple and clean living room and dining room.
"Zhiming, your house is quite large!"
“In a small county town, housing prices are relatively cheap.”
Yu Zhiming placed the cooked food, vegetables, eggs, ginger, onions, garlic, etc. in his hands on the dining table and said, "Su Tong, let me show you around first."
"This is my room!"
Yu Zhiming pushed open the obviously unnaturally heavy soundproof wooden door and noticed that Su Tong looked surprised and puzzled.
"Well, I'm a light sleeper and will be woken up by the slightest noise, so the room is specially decorated to be soundproof."
Su Tong let out a long "oh" as if he suddenly understood something.
"No wonder I often saw you looking sleepy and haggard in college. It turns out you didn't get enough rest at night."
She looked around the room and found that the bed, desk and bookshelf were quite tidy and the things were arranged in an orderly manner.
This is very rare for a boy.
Su Tong also noticed that there was no air conditioning in the bedroom.
There is a pipe with a diameter of more than ten centimeters on the wall, which continuously brings in cool air from the air conditioner in the living room.
This made Su Tong certain.
Yu Zhiming really didn't lie to her. He was indeed a light sleeper and easily woken up, otherwise he wouldn't use the air conditioner like this.
Su Tong suddenly saw a erhu hanging on the north wall, which surprised her.
"Hey, Zhiming, can you play the erhu?"
Yu Zhiming chuckled and explained, "When I was little, my eyesight wasn't very good, so my dad told me I had to learn a skill to cook."
"I just learned the erhu for a few years."
"I haven't played the erhu in a few years, and I'm already rusty."
Su Tong took the erhu down from the wall and played with it for a while.
"Zhiming, I thought I knew enough about you, but I didn't expect to make so many new discoveries today."
"I've finally come here, so no matter how good or bad you are, you should at least play a piece for me to enjoy, right?"
Yu Zhiming took the erhu and said helplessly, "I haven't played it in years. I've forgotten all the tunes."
He sat on the edge of the bed, began to tune the strings, and casually plucked a few times to find the feel that had been unfamiliar to him for a long time.
It’s true, the skill I learned is like riding a bicycle, it has been deeply ingrained in my bones.
Once you get a little familiar with it, the feeling comes back.
Yu Zhiming thought of a simple song "The Moon Represents My Heart" and played it casually.
Objectively speaking, this erhu has been put aside for a long time, and the tone is a bit inaccurate and not smooth.
Yu Zhiming's skills are indeed a bit rusty and regressed.
So the performance of this song "The Moon Represents My Heart" is just so-so.
The stumbling and falling sounds are just acceptable, not irritating.
Fortunately, Su Tong didn't have high expectations in the first place, so it was an unexpected gain for her, a small surprise.
She clapped her hands a few times and said with a smile, "Zhiming, if you had shown off your erhu skills in college, you wouldn't be single forever."
Having said that, Su Tong suddenly realized that he had overlooked something.
"Zhiming, you just said that your eyesight was not good when you were a child. How bad is it?"
Yu Zhiming said casually, "I had an accident when I was two years old. A blood clot in my brain affected my visual center."
"Until I was thirteen, I was considered blind."
Su Tong's mouth was half open in shock, staring at Yu Zhiming blankly, not knowing what to say.
Yu Zhiming hung the erhu up again and waved it in front of Su Tong.
"Look, I'm all recovered now."
Yu Zhiming changed the subject again and said, "Su Tong, didn't you say you wanted to show me your cooking skills?"
"I'm so hungry!"
Su Tong took a breath, trying not to let the sore feeling in his nose spread to his eyes.
A smile appeared on her face and she said, "I'll go cook now. It's cooked food, you can always cut everything yourself, right?"
"By the way, I brought you Jinling pressed duck."
"Hey, you have a bar at home?"
As they were talking, the two of them left the bedroom.
Su Tong took the cooked food, vegetables, eggs, etc. on the restaurant table to the kitchen.
Yu Zhiming took out a bottle of red wine from the refrigerator and showed it to Su Tong.
"This is the only red wine I have at home. It was given to me by Teacher Qi Yue from Binhai."
Su Tong took the red wine and looked at it, his eyes widened.
"It's actually wine from Chateau Haut-Brion in France. This is a very good wine, it must be expensive."
"Are you willing to do that?"
Yu Zhiming replied briefly: "For you, I'm willing to give it up!"
Su Tong rolled his eyes at Yu Zhiming and said, "Good red wine needs to be poured out and awakened first."
"let me."
After a lot of trouble and hard work, Su Tong successfully pulled out the cork of the red wine.
Then, she filled up a glass white wine jug that Yu Zhiming had found that could hold half a pound of wine.
Next, Su Tong started cooking...
The vegetables they bought were simple, including tomatoes, cucumbers, bitter melons, and peppers.
Su Tong, who is known for his superb cooking skills, will make scrambled eggs with chili peppers, scrambled eggs with bitter melon, and tomato and egg soup.
As for cucumbers, cut them into sections and eat them raw as a cold dish.
Yu Zhiming was responsible for cutting the braised beef he bought and the pressed duck contributed by Su Tong.
After all, he had held a scalpel before, so he was more than capable of doing small jobs like cutting braised food.
Add a plate of braised chicken wings that didn't need to be cut, and in less than half an hour, these two guys prepared a very sumptuous meal of six dishes and a soup...
Su Tong drank red wine and ate food, and chatted with Yu Zhiming, who did not drink but only ate food, about the past times. The atmosphere was extremely harmonious.
"Hey, Zhiming, I've always wanted to ask you a question. That Wang Wei from your class did approach you later."
"Why are you ignoring her? She's the universally recognized beauty in the class."
Yu Zhiming said calmly, "She said a lot of bad things about me and other people behind my back. I don't like her."
Su Tong was slightly startled and said, "That's the reason. That guy really has a bad mouth."
"But you can't blame others for saying that about you."
"In first and second grade, not only were you constantly asleep, but you were also arrogant and ignored everyone. You were also a bit weird."
"I must admit, I've talked about you, too."
Yu Zhiming said slowly: "I know, I also know that you are just making normal comments and comments."
"Unlike them, most of their words are slanderous and malicious speculation."
Su Tong asked curiously: "How did you know what we were discussing?"
"Did someone snitch?"
Yu Zhiming put on a mysterious smile and said, "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself."
"Anyway, I'm aware of what you're talking about."
After a pause, Yu Zhiming changed the subject and asked, "Su Tong, did you have a fight with your boyfriend?"
"The serious kind?"
Su Tong's face turned serious and he asked, "Why do you ask that?"
Yu Zhiming pointed at her phone on the dining table and said, "It's been two or three hours since we met. I haven't seen you contact anyone."
"This is a little abnormal."
Su Tong took a sip of red wine and said slowly: "He and I broke up."
"separate?"
Yu Zhiming couldn't help but lean forward and asked, "What's the reason? Is it because of me?"
Su Tong snorted softly and said, "Zhiming, don't feel good about yourself."
"Of course, it can't be said that it has nothing to do with you!"
She took another sip of her wine and said, "I find it increasingly difficult to tolerate some of his shortcomings and habits."
“The arguments became more frequent.”
"A few days ago, he and I had another big fight. After we calmed down, we had a deep talk and broke up."
Yu Zhiming nodded in understanding and said, "Indeed, compared to someone like me who has both talent and looks, everyone else is just a bunch of scum."
Su Tong laughed, with a look of disgust on his face.
"Yu Zhiming, I've discovered that your narcissism is even more profound than your talent and appearance."
"Come on, let's not talk about this anymore, let's drink."
"Don't mention it, this red wine is really delicious..."
Su Tong drank at least half a pound of red wine by herself, and her little face turned red.
After dinner, while Su Tong was taking a shower in the bathroom, Yu Zhiming simply tidied up his niece's room...
Another half an hour passed, and a sexy little beauty wearing suspender pajamas and exuding the fragrance of bathrobe walked out of the bathroom.
Yu Zhiming was a little afraid to look the other person in the eye.
"Su Tong, you sleep in my niece's room. It's relatively tidier than my fourth sister's room."
Su Tong said "oh" and reached out to push the bedroom door.
"Is there a lock?"
"It's locked!" Yu Zhiming replied honestly.
"If I lock it, it means I don't trust you. But if I don't lock it, what if you break in in the middle of the night?"
"Zhiming, tell me, should I lock it or not?"
Yu Zhiming opened his mouth halfway when his words suddenly got stuck.
He thought of beasts and those who were worse than beasts.
While struggling, Yu Zhiming smelled the rich fragrance of bath water and heard increasingly loud and rapid breathing...
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