Lin Ran got up at seven o'clock on Sunday morning, and after breakfast at home, Lin Ran still ran to the gym.

Lu Mingting arrived very early, today Lin Ran made rapid progress, and finally learned the kicking movements of breaststroke, and even tried to combine the movements of hand strokes together, Lu Mingting said that there is no need to be in such a hurry, take your time.

After Lin Ran took a shower, she dried her hair absent-mindedly. Looking at Lu Mingting, who had been playing with her mobile phone silently, she asked, "Where are we going later?" It's embarrassing when it's time to eat.

Lu Mingting: "Take you to the market to buy vegetables."

"Buying vegetables, do you cook for yourself? Who will do it?" Lin Ran asked three questions in a row.

Lu Mingting: "Me."

Lin Ran thought of those delicious and nutritious breakfasts, and immediately looked at Lu Mingting with bright eyes.

Lin Ran didn't ride a bike today, the driver sent him here, and Lu Mingting took him to a nearby vegetable market on his own bike.Lin Ran thought it was amazing that such a dilapidated second-hand bicycle could still carry another person without falling apart.

As a young boy, Lin Ran didn't even bother to visit the supermarket, let alone the crowded vegetable market.

Lin Ran watched the small vegetable sellers put all kinds of vegetables on the ground, and greeted Lin Ran warmly from time to time as if seeing acquaintances, so that he didn't dare to look at them and stare at them, for fear that he would not Disappointing them by buying groceries.

At this time, a customer in front of Lin Ran stopped in front of the fish vendor. He picked out a fish from a large plastic basin filled with oxygen. Immediately, a stream of bloody sewage filled with a stench began to flow in front of him.

Lin Ran subconsciously looked at her new, spotless white sneakers, and immediately raised her foot in disgust and walked a little further away.

Lu Mingting looked at Lin Ran and asked, "What do you want to eat? But let me state in advance that I can't do everything."

Lin Ran: "I want to eat—" Lin Ran's eyes were clearly looking at the fish in front of the fishmonger's stall, but suddenly he thought that the fish was very fishy and it would be a bit troublesome to make, so he changed his words: "Well, then you can cook what?"

Lu Mingting: "Noodles are what I usually make the most. It's simple and convenient."

"Then you can make noodles!" Lin Ran suggested.

Lu Mingting: "You are really easy to support."

Having said that, Lu Mingting still bought a piece of fat and thin pork belly, and also bought a fresh carp weighing more than two catties, and bought broccoli and cabbage for vegetarian dishes.

The carp is very fresh. Although it has been cut open, its vitality is very tenacious, and it has been beating from time to time in the plastic bag.

Lin Ran was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, holding it felt very frightening, and almost threw this little thing that was alive and fighting for his life out of the bag.

Lu Mingting naturally took the plastic bag containing the fish from his hand and hung it on the handlebar of the car.

"Aren't you very capable? Why don't you even dare to take a fish now?" Lu Mingting gently brushed Lin Ran's forehead with his hand when scolding him. It was so natural that Lin Ran didn't have any thoughts of dodging.

What Lu Mingting said was that when he was buying vegetables just now, Lin Ran not only rushed to pay for the vegetables, but even bought several bags of seasonal fruits under Lu Mingting's repeated persuasion.Because in Lin Ran's impression, when visiting someone's house for the first time, you have to mention something. This is etiquette.

Lin Ran followed Lu Mingting through the most prosperous area of ​​T City, and walked to the back of it, the other side of the glamorous city that Lin Ran had never seen before.

The streets on this side of the city are narrow, the buildings are dilapidated, there is not even an elevator, and the stairs are still open to the air. The downstairs of Lu Mingting's house is a small Sichuan restaurant. The two large range hoods in the small restaurant are turned on year after year, so Downstairs, there is a dirty stream full of oil stains flowing all the year round.

In such an environment, Lin Ran had no doubt that Lu Mingting had a thousand reasons for losing his bicycle.

"What floor is your house?" Lin Ran climbed to the fourth floor, a little out of breath, after all, his physical strength has not been very good.

"What's wrong, I'll carry you?" Lu Mingting asked.

"No need." Realizing that Lu Mingting's appearance was not just talking, Lin Ran had to speed up his pace of climbing the stairs.

"Xiao Ting, are you back?" Maybe he didn't realize that his son would bring friends back, Bai Xiaomo carefully looked up and down Lin Ran with curious and shy eyes.

It can be seen that Bai Xiaomo's mental state is relatively good today, but Lin Ran still feels a little uncomfortable under such gazes.

"Hello, Auntie, my name is Lin Ran." The pair of eyes that met him were beautiful and clear. Bai Xiaomo was wearing a set of home cotton clothes and a bright yellow bowknot headband on his head. He was so tender No, Lin Ran almost didn't say "Auntie".

Lin Ran was planning to enter the house to change into a pair of slippers, but found that the house didn't even have a pair of slippers. When he didn't know what to do, Lu Mingting said, "Just wear your shoes. My slippers broke down two days ago, and I haven't had time to buy them yet."

Lin Ran thought to himself, what is the concept of broken slippers? Do people really wear out their clothes and shoes nowadays?

"How about, do you want to wear a pair of hers?" Lu Mingting asked as he took a pair of pink women's slippers with a cute bunny printed on them from the simple shoe cabinet.

"No, no, no——" Lin Ran was refusing every cell from head to toe.

Looking around, there are at most 30 bungalows in the whole house, and a very small living room also doubles as a dining room, a bedroom, and a toilet, all of which can be seen at a glance.

Although the house is small, it may be because there are so few things, it is quite clean, at least it is much better than Lin Ran imagined in his mind.

Lu Mingting motioned for him to put the fruit in his hand on the simple foldable dining table in the living room, and told him to rest on the small gray-blue sofa next to him, and then he carried the vegetables into the kitchen by himself.

Bai Xiaomo sat on the stool next to the sofa, staring at Lin Ran with a smile and a very happy look, making goose bumps all over Lin Ran's body.

"I - have seen - you," Bai Xiaomo said, not stuttering, but because of the extremely slow speed of speech, it was better than stuttering. "Are you - Xiaoting's - classmate?"

"Yes, auntie." Lin Ran nodded, Lin Ran took out a few oranges from the bag, peeled them and handed them to her, "Auntie, do you eat oranges?"

Bai Xiaomo took the orange with a look of surprise, tasted a piece, closed and opened his eyes, and exclaimed, "Orange—delicious."

Lin Ran instantly understood why Lu Mingting used the word "girl" to describe his mother. Only those who have seen Bai Xiaomo know that this word is very appropriate for her.

Lin Ran has never seen such a happy expression on the expression of an adult since he was so old.And the person who can get such a sense of happiness from eating a sweet orange can only be a child—or an adult with a less than perfect intelligence.

Lin Ran wanted to relive the happy expression she saw just now, so she couldn't help peeling a banana for her.

At this time, the sound of chopping vegetables from the kitchen stopped, and Lu Mingting instructed through the glass: "Don't let her eat too much, she won't be able to eat later."

After listening, Lin Ran had no choice but to stuff the banana into his mouth.

Given that Bai Xiaomo was still staring at him, Lin Ran couldn't decide whether she really wanted to see him or eat his banana.

"I've never—never seen—Xiao Ting—bring someone back." Bai Xiaomo started talking again, smiling happily.

Lin Ran also responded to him with a smile, but a faint sadness arose in her heart. Didn't she have any friends since she was a child?Still feel that such a mother with such a home is too embarrassed to show it to her friends, for fear of being laughed at by others?

Lin Ran thought about it, if he and Lu Mingting exchanged identities, it would be really hard for him to imagine what he would grow up in such a difficult environment.

"Lin Ran, you look—so good-looking." Bai Xiaomo's eyes were shining, and no matter what she said, people felt that she was sincere.

"Auntie, did you ever say that you are good-looking, so your son is also very handsome." Lin Ran said this loudly on purpose, wondering if Lu Mingting, who was washing vegetables in the kitchen, heard it.

Probably heard it, Lu Mingting turned off the faucet, and shouted: "Why don't you come and watch me cook? It will save her to chat with you."

Lin Ran rushed to the kitchen as if he had received some imperial decree.

"What did my mother tell you?" Lu Mingting asked while skillfully cutting pork belly.

"Say you never brought anyone back." Lin Ran replied truthfully.

Lin Ran saw that the ears of Lu Mingting, who was still expressionless, moved slightly, and said: "Your mother is so young and beautiful, don't say that other people will misunderstand, I almost couldn't even call auntie .”

"Ah," Lu Mingting let out a soft sigh from his throat: "Pretty is good for nothing. If you weren't pretty at that time, you probably wouldn't be deceived."

Lin Ran: "I can't say that completely. If there were no things at the beginning, how could you be what you are now?"

Lu Mingting stopped cutting the vegetables, and looked at him with a little confusion.

Lin Ran said again: "I mean, let him pass the past, we have to learn to look forward."

Lu Mingting nodded slightly, and continued to cut the meat.

Lin Ran added: "Life is still beautiful."

Lu Mingting put the cut meat on a plate to marinate, looked at Lin Ran's eyes sparkling when he spoke, and asked, "Really?"

Lin Ran nodded very firmly, and said, "Of course, among other things, I have never seen handsome men and beautiful women who can cook in real life, so I am looking forward to your dishes now."

Seeing Lin Ran's expectant face, Lu Mingting burst out laughing.He looked up and asked, "Is this considered a beautiful thing in life?"

"Of course." Lin Ran affirmed, and he took two steps back, took out his phone, and took a profile photo of Lu Mingting cooking.

"You said, what would happen if I put it on our school's forum?" Lin Ran shook the phone in his hand.

Lu Mingting picked up the kitchen knife and deliberately warned viciously: "You must be sick!"

However, such physical intimidation was quite effective, and Lin Ran still didn't send it.

Not long after, four dishes and one soup were served on the folding small round table.

Lin Ran always eats food with his mouth full, and he doesn't even touch anything like fish that smells fishy.However, the fish cooked by Lu Mingting is, without exaggeration, very delicious and tasty!

And the pork belly can be fried without being greasy at all, which is much better than his mother's cooking level, which is always healthy, and even better than their nanny's cooking.

If Lu Mingting hadn't controlled him and stopped letting him add more food, he would definitely be able to eat three bowls of rice.

"You can't eat any more! If you eat any more, your stomach will be full!" Lu Mingting pressed his hand that was about to eat again.

Lin Ran was defeated and asked, "Who did you learn from? Your cooking is too delicious."

"Really?" Lu Mingting raised his eyebrows to confirm again.

"Really, you can't rely on Baidu to do that well." Lin Ran thought, if that's the case, then he must be a genius.

Lu Mingting: "When I was young, I grew up watching my aunt cook."

Oh, no wonder, thinking of those delicious and beautiful breakfasts before, it can be seen that they belong to the same series.But the dishes made by Lu Mingting, maybe because they are boys, are more rough and informal.

Lin Ran sighed, and said angrily, "Oh, it would be great if your aunt lived here, and she can teach my mother."

"I think your mother is very good, and your family is very good." Lu Mingting's expression seemed to be caught in some kind of pleasant memory. After a while, he said again: "If you like it, I will have a chance in the future I'll bring you food."

"Okay, okay." Before Lin Ran could answer, Bai Xiaomo, who had been burying his head in hard work, hurriedly replied.

Both Lu Mingting and Lin Ran couldn't help smiling at each other.

Lu Mingting put two more pieces of fish with bones removed in Bai Xiaomo's bowl, and reminded: "Eat slowly, no one will grab you."

Lin Ran finished drinking the meatball and vegetable soup, held his belly and asked, "Where shall we set up a stall later?"

"Are you really going?" Lu Mingting asked intentionally.

Lin Ran patted her not-so-broad chest, and said, "Of course, a man has to keep his word."

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