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◎A big, bright light bulb.◎
Meeting Xu Yingxi's eyes, the young man blinked guiltily.
Xu Xingluo: "Yes...right."
He was embarrassed to say that he hadn't finished yet.
Xu Xingluo planned to make three dishes in total. In addition to the braised pork and three fresh vegetables that were already out of the pot, there was still a vegetable that had not been stir-fried.
Feeling Xu Yingxi's suspicious look, Xu Xingluo quickly made amends: "Well... I was really hungry today, so I made a little more!"
Xu Yingxi raised her eyebrows.
"Then..." she asked, "Will you be responsible for finishing all these dishes later?"
Xu Xingluo subconsciously looked down at the two large bowls of three fresh delicacies and swallowed his saliva.
Even though he has a big appetite, it is still a bit difficult for him to finish all of this.
There are simply too many.
But this was his first time cooking for his mother. If he ended up wasting too much food, his mother might not want him to cook for her anymore.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Xu Xingluo made up his mind: "...Okay!"
Xu Yingxi laughed out loud.
Xu Xingluo blinked blankly, not understanding what his mother was laughing at.
Xu Yingxi patted Xu Xingluo's forehead and said, "Forget it. If you get sick from eating, I'll have to take you to the hospital."
Xu Xingluo scratched his hair.
There are only him and his mother here. If he doesn’t eat, what will happen to the extra dishes?
As he was thinking, the young man suddenly had an idea.
"How about..." Xu Xingluo looked at Xu Yingxi hopefully, "I'll send my dad a message and ask if he wants to have dinner together?"
With one more person, it would be much easier to finish these dishes.
Xu Yingxi glanced at him and said, "Then ask."
Xu Xingluo didn't expect his mother to agree so easily, and was stunned.
Then, meeting his mother's half-smile, Xu Xingluo reacted.
Mom wouldn’t think that he deliberately cooked too much food so that Dad could come over and eat with them, right?
Xu Xingluo: "Um... I accidentally overdid it. It really wasn't intentional."
Xu Yingxi: "Well, I know, your acting isn't that natural."
Xu Xingluo: “…”
This didn't sound like a compliment to him.
But soon, Xu Xingluo stopped worrying about it.
The first priority now is to send a message to my father.
It would be bad if I asked too late and his father had already started eating dinner.
Xu Xingluo wiped his hands with a piece of kitchen paper, took out his phone and quickly typed a message: [Dad, have you had dinner yet?]
Song Siyao: [What's wrong? ]
Xu Xingluo: [I accidentally made too much food, and Mom and I can't finish it. Dad, do you want to join us?]
Song Siyao: [Where are you? ]
Xu Xingluo: [In my mom’s apartment!]
Xu Xingluo: [[Positioning]]
Song Siyao: [I'll be there in a quarter of an hour.]
…
S University, in front of the cafeteria.
Song Siyao put away his phone and said to the senior student in his third year of graduate school from the same college, "Senior, I have something urgent to do. I have to leave first."
"Huh?" The senior was surprised. "What's so urgent? Can't you go after dinner?"
The two happened to meet on the road a minute ago, and they both happened to be going to dinner, so they came to the cafeteria together.
We just arrived at the cafeteria door, why are you leaving just like that?
Song Siyao: "Sorry, it's urgent."
The senior student quickly said, "Oh, it's okay, it's okay. Go ahead."
Song Siyao nodded slightly, turned and left.
Looking at Song Siyao's back, the senior student showed admiration.
He is in such a hurry that he even skips dinner to rush to deal with things. I guess his supervisor has assigned him new tasks?
As expected of the vice-president's most valued student, he truly devotes himself to scientific research without sleep or food.
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When there was a knock on the apartment door, Xu Xingluo had just put several dishes on the table and was serving rice from the rice cooker.
Xu Yingxi glanced at the time. It had only been a quarter of an hour since Xu Xingluo sent a message asking Song Siyao if he wanted to have dinner together.
I stood up to open the door, and sure enough, I saw someone's tall figure.
That came pretty quick, she thought.
Even if Song Siyao was at the nearby S University, he would have to set off without stopping to get here so quickly, right?
Xu Yingxi thought this in her heart, and said, "Why has Senior Brother Song become a different person recently? He used to be so busy and elusive, but now he's available at any time."
Song Siyao's expression was indifferent: "When have I ever been so elusive to you?"
Xu Yingxi was speechless for a second.
"What do you mean by for me?" she said, "Your son cooked too much and asked you to eat with him."
Xu Yingxi pointed to the shoe cabinet and said, "There are disposable slippers in there, take them yourself."
There were usually no other people in the apartment, so there was only a pair of extra slippers, which Xu Xingluo took away.
After Song Siyao changed his shoes and came to the dining table, Xu Xingluo had just served the rice and placed the chopsticks on the table.
The apartment is not big and the dining table is also small. After putting three dishes and rice on it, it is almost full.
Looking at Xu Yingxi and Song Siyao sitting down at the dining table, Xu Xingluo was in a trance for a moment.
A family of three eating together at the dining table seemed like such a luxury to him before he traveled through time. But now, in just one month, he has actually achieved it several times.
This time, his parents came together to eat the meal he cooked, and it felt so happy that it seemed unreal.
Xu Xingluo grinned: "Mom! Dad! How about you try the dinner I made!"
Xu Yingxi glanced at the smirking boy and said, "Is this all you're eating? Is that enough?"
There were three bowls of rice on the table, and the one in front of Xu Xingluo was the smallest.
Xu Xingluo blurted out: "Enough to eat! I'm not very hungry!"
It doesn’t matter to him what he eats, what matters is eating with his parents.
After he finished speaking and met Xu Yingxi's speechless eyes, Xu Xingluo remembered that he had just mentioned that he was particularly hungry today in order to explain that he cooked too much food.
Xu Xingluo: "Uh, what I mean is... I don't really want to eat rice, I want to eat more vegetables!"
Xu Yingxi: “…”
In fact, she had already guessed that Xu Xingluo had originally cooked only two servings of rice, but now there were suddenly three people to eat, so there was not enough to share.
But she didn't plan to expose him. As long as she could eat her fill, it was fine.
Xu Yingxi picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of braised pork from the plate closest to her, and then she felt a pair of eager eyes staring at her.
Before each dish comes out of the pot, Xu Xingluo will taste it himself to avoid making mistakes.
He was quite satisfied with the braised pork, but he didn't know whether Xu Yingxi liked it.
Seeing his mother swallowing the meat slowly, Xu Xingluo's heart beat faster.
Finally, he saw Xu Yingxi nodded: "It's delicious."
Xu Xingluo: "Really?"
Xu Yingxi: "Really."
Xu Xingluo's eyes lit up.
Mom would definitely not lie to him, so she really thinks it tastes good!
Great, his efforts were not in vain!
Xu Xingluo immediately said attentively, "Then Mom, try this three fresh delicacies! I'll help you pick it up!"
As he spoke, the young man quickly picked up potatoes, eggplants and green peppers from the plate and put them into Xu Yingxi's bowl as if they were treasures.
Xu Yingxi put the dish into her mouth, tasted it and gave her evaluation: "Not bad."
Xu Xingluo's excitement was beyond words. He picked up a third dish for her and said, "Then Mom, try the green vegetables!"
Xu Yingxi wanted to say that she had chopsticks and could pick it up herself.
But seeing how excited the boy was, she swallowed the words back.
After tasting it, Xu Yingxi nodded: "Not bad, I didn't expect you to be quite talented in cooking."
I wouldn’t say it’s particularly delicious, but it does taste pretty good.
As a beginner, she was very surprised that Xu Xingluo could cook the dish so well, so her praise was not insincere.
As soon as Xu Yingxi said this, Xu Xingluo couldn't even hold back anymore.
The corners of my mouth lifted so much that I couldn't help but smile.
Xu Xingluo: "Really? Hahahaha, it's not that bad! It's indeed a little simpler than I imagined!"
After laughing for a while, the boy suddenly remembered that he seemed to be too busy asking his mother and had not yet asked the opinion of another person at the table.
Xu Xingluo came to his senses and tried to make amends: "Dad, what do you think? How does it taste?"
Song Siyao: "Very good."
Xu Xingluo: "Hehe."
After receiving positive comments from the two, Xu Xingluo was finally satisfied and started to pick up food for himself.
Although there was not enough rice, fortunately there were plenty of dishes, just enough for three people.
After the meal, Song Siyao took the initiative to wash the dishes.
Xu Xingluo also wanted to help, but the kitchen in the apartment was too small, so he was kicked out as soon as he entered.
Xu Yingxi was sitting on the sofa looking at her phone.
Xu Xingluo was afraid of disturbing his mother, so he walked around the apartment twice and found a game console under the TV cabinet.
The game consoles of this era looked different from those twenty years later. It took him a long time to study it before he confirmed that this small white box was indeed a game console.
Xu Yingxi's voice came from behind: "You want to play that?"
Xu Xingluo: "Is it okay?"
Xu Yingxi: "Of course, it's possible, but there aren't many games, just two cartridges."
She doesn't play games often, but she has a friend who loves playing electronic games. This game console belongs to Xu Yingxi's friend.
The model was very old. After the friend bought a new model, he simply gave the old one to Xu Yingxi.
Xu Yingxi kept the game console in her apartment and played it occasionally when she was bored.
Xu Xingluo followed the direction Xu Yingxi pointed and took out two cassettes from the drawer.
One is a sports game and the other is a racing game.
It was not suitable for strenuous exercise right after eating. Xu Xingluo held up the racing game cartridge and said, "I want to try this!"
Racing games can be played against the computer or against opponents. There happened to be two controllers in the apartment, so Xu Yingxi became interested and started playing with Xu Xingluo, each using one controller.
After Xu Xingluo passed the teaching level, the two started a 1V1 battle.
Before traveling through time, Xu Xingluo loved playing console games and often played with his friends.
The future Xu Yingxi did not object to him playing games and even bought him the latest game console.
Xu Yingxi herself didn't seem to play this kind of game very often. At least in Xu Xingluo's memory, he had never seen his mother play a game seriously with a controller.
So at the beginning, Xu Xingluo was quite confident in himself.
However, ten seconds after the game started, Xu Xingluo discovered that something was not going right.
Why was he moving further and further away from his mother's car?
Xu Xingluo's back, which was initially relaxed against the sofa, gradually became straight.
Although he doesn't have to beat his mother, it would be embarrassing if he fell too far behind!
Thinking of this, Xu Xingluo concentrated on the operation.
However, two minutes later, Xu Xingluo looked at his own results on the screen and found that he was a full ten seconds slower than Xu Yingxi.
Xu Yingxi's next words were like adding insult to injury -
"You're worse than I thought."
Xu Xingluo: “…”
It’s over, his mother thinks he’s a loser!
Xu Xingluo: "I'm not familiar with the controls in the first round yet, let's try again!"
In the second game, Xu Xingluo put in his utmost effort, but still lost.
Compared with last time, Xu Xingluo was much faster this time, but Xu Yingxi was also faster than last time. In the end, the gap between the two was still about ten seconds.
Just when the two were halfway through the second game, Song Siyao had already washed the dishes and came out of the kitchen.
After the two finished playing, Song Siyao asked, "Are you playing a racing game?"
Xu Yingxi hummed, "Have you ever played this before?"
Song Siyao: “No.”
Xu Yingxi: "Then do you want to try it?"
She pointed at Xu Xingluo and said, "It's your first day as both of you. It's fairer to play together. Otherwise, it would be pointless if I just bully the weaker players all the time."
Xu Xingluo: “…”
Obviously, the word "菜" in "虐菜" refers to himself.
It took Xu Xingluo two seconds to accept this evaluation from his mother.
Forget it, the food is mediocre!
His mother is so powerful, it’s normal for him to be abused by her!
Hearing Xu Yingxi's suggestion, Song Siyao asked, "Then you teach me?"
Xu Yingxi thought about it and said, "That's fine."
The operation of this game is not difficult. She directly told him which keys to press, which is more convenient than restarting the tutorial level.
The sofa in the apartment was only big enough for two people to sit on. Xu Yingxi stood up and gave her seat to Song Siyao, handing him the controller.
Xu Yingxi: "It's very simple. The joystick controls the direction. The top button is the accelerator, and the button below the accelerator is the brake. Try it."
Song Siyao fiddled with the handle: "Is this the accelerator?"
"No." Xu Yingxi moved closer and pointed to him, "The one next to it."
Song Siyao pressed it and asked, "Which one is the brake?"
Xu Yingxi frowned: This man seems so smart, why is he so slow to get started with games?
But when you think about it, it might be because he is too focused on his studies and has no time to play this kind of game, which is understandable.
So Xu Yingxi leaned over again with good temper: "This."
In order to show him which button it was, she leaned forward, only a few centimeters away from him.
Seeing the man groping with his fingers for two seconds and finally pressing the right button, Xu Yingxi suddenly felt something was wrong.
She had just said that the button below the accelerator was the brake.
Even if Song Siyao is really not good at playing games and is not proficient in the operation, it shouldn't be that his memory and comprehension abilities have deteriorated, right?
Thinking of this, Xu Yingxi withdrew her gaze from the handle, and then caught a slight upward curve near the corner of the man's mouth in time.
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Case solved, this guy did it on purpose!
Xu Yingxi was about to explode when she remembered that there was someone next to her.
On the other side of the sofa, Xu Xingluo was sitting stiffly, obviously aware of the unusual atmosphere.
It seemed as if he had accidentally turned into a big, bright light bulb.
At this moment, Xu Xingluo's mind was full of thoughts:
If he suddenly got up from the sofa now, would it seem too deliberate?
【Author’s words】
Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. I had a minor eye surgery a while ago and have been recuperating for a while. Picking up and continuing writing after a hiatus was much more difficult than I thought, so it's taking a little longer than expected.
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