"Don't tell me, if I cook a meal, it will taste just like his."
Mo Qing said: "Yes."
Mo Qing answered very casually.
Jiang Ke tried hard to see a hint of "joking" in Mo Qing's eyes, but after looking at it for a long time, he had to accept the fact that she was not joking.
Jiang Ke never moved.
Mo Qing sniffed lightly with the tip of her nose and smelled a burnt smell. She frowned and reminded: "Hey, the eggplant is burnt."
Jiang Ke didn't care: "If it's burnt, it's burnt."
Mo Qing smiled playfully, walked to Jiang Ke, and turned off the gas stove.
"I think you have a bad mentality." Mo Qing persuaded, "Just be more open-minded and let it be the same. Anyway, he can't come out to compete with you in cooking or anything like that."
Jiang Ke narrowed his eyes, and his low and hoarse voice was filled with danger: "I think you are very happy to taste the food he cooked."
Mo Qing didn't mean to deny it at all, and asked directly: "Shouldn't it be?"
"..."
Jiang Ke was silent for three seconds, then raised his hand to take off his apron.
Mo Qing raised his hand and held it down: "Don't be so stingy."
Jiang Ke raised his eyebrows.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard Mo Qing say: "It's quite similar to being stingy."
Adding fuel to the fire.
Mo Qing's move was very successful.
However, just when Jiang Ke's face turned completely dark, Mo Qing let go of his hand and suddenly said, "Let's do an experiment."
A sharp gleam flashed in his dark eyes, and Jiang Ke's tone dropped: "What experiment?"
"How are you and Jiang Yan the same?" Mo Qing said, "And how are you different?"
Jiang Ke did not respond in time.
Mo Qing continued: "You and Jiang Yanchang look exactly the same, but the physical age is not the same, and the reality of the memory is also different. Let us first make an assumption that you and Jiang Yan are two people."
Jiang Ke waited for Mo Qing to continue.
Mo Qing casually pushed her hair behind her ears, leaning back on the sink and looking at him sideways: "You suspect that you are a controlled machine, specially made for me to measure my voice. Then, let's just test it out.
, What thoughts, behaviors, and habits come from Jiang Yan, and what parts belong to you."
"By what measure?" Jiang Ke asked.
His acceptance of the conversation proved that he was not opposed to Mo Qing's plan.
In fact, he had considered this plan when he realized that he was a substitute.
However, even he himself doesn't know which ones are his own thoughts and which ones are manipulated.
Mo Qing raised his eyebrows: "Based on my understanding of Jiang Yan."
Jiang Ke was alert and whispered: "How do I know you——"
Was there any deliberate guidance?
He didn't finish what he said, but Mo Qing also understood.
"Beware of me?" Mo Qing asked leisurely, not thinking it was a big deal. After nodding, she said, "It's normal. You can think about it and give me the answer."
She turned sideways and patted Jiang Ke's shoulder: "Remember to finish cooking. I want to eat braised eggplant the most today."
After saying that, she left.
Her attitude was extremely casual.
The choice was entirely given to Jiang Ke.
Jiang Ke saw a rare freedom and ease in her.
Because of this, people always feel that she is not in harmony with this era.
*
Although Jiang Ke was unhappy, no matter what, Jiang Ke still prepared some of the dishes ordered by Mo Qing.
After the food was served, before Mo Qing sat down, he picked up the chopsticks and tasted the eggplant, commenting: "Taste——"
"I don't want to hear it." Jiang Ke gave her a warning look.
Mo Qing shrugged his shoulders.
She wanted to say it tasted good.
Perhaps because they have similar tastes, the food prepared by Jiang Ke appealed to Mo Qing's taste. Especially the plate of braised eggplant, Mo Qing could finish most of it by himself.
There are no outsiders here, so Jiang Ke does not need to "eat without speaking and sleep without speaking".
Mo Qing chatted with Jiang Ke: "Have you studied it specifically?"
"No."
"Is it natural?"
Jiang Ke glanced at her and replied: "After taking a look at the general process, it's just a person who can do it."
Mo Qing always felt that Jiang Ke was deliberately mocking her.
However, as an ancestor with hundreds of years of experience, she did not bother to argue with Jiang Ke.
…
After the meal, Jiang Ke was just about to clear away the dishes when the doorbell rang.
"Have you made an appointment?" Mo Qing asked.
Jiang Ke paused: "No."
When I lived here in the past, I still had professional contacts with people.
But he doesn't like to discuss work at home, so he usually doesn't make appointments at home. The few times someone comes to visit, it's from the Mo family and the Jiang family.
Mo Qing said: "Let me take a look."
Mo Qing didn't open the door, but looked at the video doorbell screen and saw Peng Ren.
Mo Qing glanced at it, then turned around and asked Jiang Ke: "It's Peng Ren, can you open the door?"
"Don't--"
Jiang Ke walked out of the restaurant, but before he finished speaking, Mo Qing opened the door.
Jiang Ke's face turned dark.
Peng Ren was always energetic and quick on his feet, but there was no time. Jiang Ke glanced at the apron in his hand and threw it directly to Mo Qing: "Go and pack it up."
"I?"
Mo Qing didn't know why.
As long as she doesn't smash pots and bowls, how can she clean up the dishes?
However, when Jiang Ke threw the apron over, Mo Qing subconsciously caught it.
The next moment, Jiang Ke pushed Mo Qing into the restaurant and encouraged him: "You can't even do this, right?"
"whispering sound."
Mo Qing expressed disdain.
She threw her apron on the chair, rolled up her sleeves, tied back her loose hair, and went to serve the plate.
"Master Jiang!"
Peng Ren had already entered the door, and his tone was as excited as if he hadn't seen Jiang Ke for many years.
Jiang Ke methodically pulled down the sleeves of his shirt, arranged it, walked out of the restaurant slowly, put on his unsmiling face, and appeared in front of Peng Ren.
"Why are you here?" Jiang Ke asked.
"I took annual leave to come to Dongshi City to visit friends." Peng Ren explained with a smile on his face, "Brother said you were here. I thought you might live here, so I came over to see you."
Peng Ren said and showed off the gift he had brought.
No.
To be precise, it is a health product.
They are all the kind that elderly grandparents love to eat.
There was the sound of bowls being thrown in the kitchen.
Jiang Ke's forehead twitched.
Peng Ren said in surprise: "Aunt Chen is back?"
Jiang Ke's face was expressionless: "No."
"Oh." Peng Ren thought to himself, Mrs. Chen wouldn't be so clumsy. He quickly asked, "A new aunt has been invited? Are you used to the cooking?"
Jiang Ke ignored it and only asked: "How many days of leave do you want?"
"Ten days!"
"Change it to five days and go back early."
"ah?"
Peng Ren was a little puzzled.
His vacation has been approved, and Jiang Ke personally nodded...
Jiang Ke said: "Go and help your brother."
"It's okay, my brother..." Peng Ren was about to say that Peng Zhong could completely solve it, but mid-sentence, his emotional intelligence suddenly came online, and he quickly said, "Okay."
At this time, some discordant noises came from the kitchen.
Jiang Ke's face turned dark.
Peng Ren swallowed: "Master Jiang, do you want another aunt?"
After staying in Dongshi City for two years, it was easy for Peng Ren to hire an aunt temporarily...
Jiang Ke was struggling inside.
The more you say, the more mistakes you make.
Peng Ren did not learn the virtue of "silence is golden" from Peng Zhong at all.
At this moment, along with the sound of footsteps, Mo Qing's voice came from the restaurant: "The dishes and chopsticks have been thrown into the dishwasher, how do you use that thing?"
"Miss Mo!"
Hearing Mo Qing's voice, Peng Ren's eyes lit up and he rushed straight into the restaurant.
After seeing Mo Qing coming out of the kitchen, she paused in her steps and realized later: "You are the aunt Jiang invited?!"
Mo Qing, who just wanted to say hello to Peng Ren: "..."
Jiang Ke was about to stop Peng Ren's mouth: "..."
"Kitchen, dishwasher."
Mo Qing spoke word by word and showed a "friendly" smile to Peng Ren.
Peng Ren was excited and rushed to the kitchen: "I'll go!"
He fled the battlefield, and Mo Qing pointed the finger at Jiang Ke and said, "You can take advantage of me."
Jiang Ke was silent for a moment, then turned from defense to offense: "How many bowls did you throw?"
"..."
Mo Qing was successfully choked.
After a long while, Mo Qing changed the topic: "Go wash some fruits."
Jiang Ke said: "Go and explain to Peng Ren."
With outsiders present, Jiang Ke's shell of a domineering boss cannot be shed.
However, Jiang Ke obviously had nothing to do with his talkative nature, so he kept a respectful distance and went upstairs after a while.
Ten minutes later, Mo Qing and Peng Ren were sitting on the sofa eating fruit.
As long as Jiang Ke was not present, Peng Ren could treat Mo Qing like a brother and sister born from his mother's womb, let alone sit and eat fruit together, and he would dare to let him come to the table to eat.
"Why are you here?" Mo Qing asked while eating the cut cantaloupe.
Peng Ren repeated the reason he had just given to Jiang Ke.
Mo Qing immediately understood: "Are you looking for Goblin?"
"Yes." Peng Ren said happily.
"You specifically asked for leave to come and be with him?"
"yes."
"Are you two together?"
"The two of us have been together—" Peng Ren was about to agree, but he jumped up when he heard this, "Miss Mo, what are you thinking in your young head?!"
He emphasized: "My friendship with Gogo is pure."
"..."
Mo Qing could not be pure, so she remained silent and ate cantaloupe to herself.
"We Ge Ge are very pitiful." Peng Ren sat down again, picked up a piece of watermelon and took a bite, "He is an orphan, and he is constantly striving to improve himself and get admitted to God City University——"
Mo Qing interrupted him: "He said he took the test casually."
Pengren choked.
After thinking for a while, Peng Ren couldn't refute, so he nodded: "He's so smart! He wants to take second place, but he won't even get the score!"
"..."
Mo Qing thought to herself, why she didn't expect to praise herself so much when she was in high school.
Peng Ren continued: "But we Gogo are really pitiful."
"Besides being an orphan, how can he be pitiful?" Mo Qing was puzzled.
"Isn't it pitiful that he is an orphan?"
"I'm an orphan too, I don't feel pity."
"..."
Peng Ren was startled for a moment, then looked at Mo Qing, his eye circles suddenly turned red.
Mo Qing felt bad: "Don't mess around, my pot of water is already full."
If we go forward a few years, Peng Ren will definitely cry, but it is different now. He is already very mature, so he holds back the tears in his eyes.
Peng Ren sniffed: "We Goge..."
Mo Qing had goosebumps all over his body and interrupted him: "Change your name to something less disgusting."
"Okay, Goblin." Peng Ren changed his mind, "Compared with those who have families but are worse off than dead, he is actually not that pitiful. But I am really so happy -"
Peng Ren wanted to compare himself.
Mo Qing said ruthlessly: "Shut up."
"oh."
Peng Ren shrank his neck.
After a while, he continued: "I was in the same dormitory with him in college. He didn't like to talk, didn't make friends, and was alone wherever he went. It was me pestering him all day long that made the friendship between the two of us exist.
possible."
"Um."
Mo Qing continued to eat cantaloupe.
"After getting to know him, he became more cheerful. He said that he actually has a family and has always wanted to go back." Peng Ren said, "But five years ago, he suddenly became silent again, but he has always wanted to go back."
No reason was given.”
Peng Ren scratched his head: "Anyway, once, he revealed to me that he would never be able to go home again."
"He used to always have a light in his eyes when he talked about going home, but later, he seemed to be completely desperate and kept silent about going home." Peng Ren thought for a moment and asked, "Isn't it pitiful that you have a home and can't go back?
"
Regarding Goblin's "poorness", Pengren naturally spoke from his own perspective.
It's really better than "poor". Looking at the world in front of us, there are many people who are "poor" than Goblin.
But Pengren didn't know what Mo Qing was thinking.
Mo Qing said "hmm".
"He actually has a very good future. As soon as he graduated, many big companies rushed to get him. The starting point of his annual salary is the end point of other people's lives." Peng Ren said, "But he refused them all and returned to Dongshi City alone.
.”
Pengren couldn't help but defend Goblin: "Everyone says he's just messing around, but he's not. He's just..."
There's just no goal left.
Mo Qing listened and ate.
After a while, she had finished eating a plate of cantaloupe.
"Miss Mo, are you a glutton?" Peng Ren was doubly surprised and asked in shock.
Mo Qing was really dizzy when he kept calling her "Ms. Mo" and said directly: "Just call me Mo Qing from now on."
"Really?" Peng Ren was immediately pleasantly surprised, and then pushed further, "Can I ask you Qingqing?"
"..."
Mo Qing really didn't want to talk to him.
After eating the fruit, Mo Qing finished another bottle of yogurt.
Peng Ren really didn't want to label Mo Qing as a "big eater" because he was afraid of seeing Mo Qing eat something heavy again, so he was ready to leave.
Mo Qing stopped him and asked, "Are you going to see Goblin?"
