Can not doing what one wants be called rebirth?

Chapter 238 236. The fragrance of tea
"Hey, where's Guan Guan?"

It was a cold December day, and people were coming and going downstairs of the law school building, which was right next to the main road.

The young couple passing by wore the same style of gloves and hats, adding a touch of warmth to the winter.

Zhou Si Ning was standing downstairs rubbing her hands and breathing out. When she saw Lu Jincheng, she waved to him and asked with a smile.

"She went to the bathroom."

Lu Jincheng walked down the steps of the teaching building and responded calmly, while looking at the girl with amazement.

Pretty girls all have magic in winter.

The same is true for Zhou Si Ning today.

She was dressed in high-end jet black from head to toe, with a loose-fitting short windbreaker on the upper body. The wrists and sleeves were embellished with a circle of detachable light white lace, and two rows of square buttons were scattered on both sides of the scarf, which was very fashionable.

On her wrist is an exquisite Dior matte Princess Diana bag, her A-line skirt fits her waistline perfectly, and on her feet are a pair of thigh-high boots of the same color, and the absolute area above the calf is captivating.

"Let's wait for her for a while."

"Okay, by the way, this is for you."

Zhou Si Ning lowered her head, took out a scarf from her bag, shook her wrist, and showed it to Lu Jincheng with a smile.

"Stand closer, I'll put it on for you."

It's made of classic plaid, and anyone who knows the business can tell at a glance that it's the same Burberry scarf around Zhou Sining's neck.

The man took two steps towards her, lowered his head, and let her pass the scarf through his chin. The warm woolen fabric was tied into a knot, and his whole body was wrapped in the girl's love.

"You smell so good today~"

Wearing a scarf is actually a very intimate action.

Not only do two people have to stand face to face, but at this distance they can even smell each other clearly.

Zhou Si Ning tied her scarf and straightened the man's collar. She felt that there was a faint fragrance on him.

It doesn't smell like his usual perfume.

"Really? Maybe. I recently changed to a new type of laundry detergent beads."

Lu Jincheng's heart tightened, but his expression did not change at all. He smiled and changed the subject.

Of course there is.

A few minutes before he had the urge to do it, he had ruined Guan Yongyi's makeup, and the lipstick at the corner of her mouth had just been cleaned with a wet wipe.

But no matter how experienced a scent-stealing expert is, he won't have time to deal with the mixed scents.

Taste is another kind of memory that lasts forever.

If I hug her tightly in a confined space, it will definitely leave some kind of mark.

"Oh."

Zhou Si Ning sniffed subconsciously, as if it was strange yet familiar.

But she didn't have time to think about it, as footsteps were approaching.

"Um. Did I come at a bad time?"

A clear voice just happened to sound behind the two of them.

Guan Yongyi crumpled the tissue in his hand into a ball and looked at the man and woman with a half-smile.

She witnessed everything that just happened.

Looking at Zhou Si Ning standing on tiptoe, her gentle appearance was just like a good wife and mother, and she did not forget to put a scarf on the man before going out.

I watched the two of them turn around at the same time. Although the couple's clothes on their necks were low-key and simple in solid colors, for some reason, they always looked dazzling.

"What are you talking about, baby? Come on, he's driving today!"

Zhou Si Ning giggled and put her arm around her best friend.

"You felt uncomfortable in your stomach just now? Do you want to have a stomach-nourishing hot pot?"

"No, I'm fine. Let's just have French food. It's fine as long as you like it."

Guan Yongyi shook his head and walked towards the parking space at the main entrance.

"Guan Guan, you look so beautiful today~"

The two sisters sat in the back seat of the Range Rover together.

The street lights on campus were too dim. As soon as Zhou Si Ning leaned back in the leather chair, she noticed how bright her bestie was tonight.

Guan Guan just went to the bathroom to touch up her makeup, and her hair was back to its delicate state. Her every move exuded the look of a great beauty.

"Nowhere."

"Your eye makeup is so good. And your lipstick color is so bright. Don't hide it! Tell me, which one is it?"

Zhou Si Ning smiled and pulled Guan Yongyi's arm, pulling her into her arms.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you what I'm saying."

Guan Yongyi couldn't persuade her, so he could only purse his lips, unzip the bag at his side, and confess the truth.

"Mac bullet-shaped lip balm, layered with bullet-shaped lip balm, Spice it up, and a little bit of clear lip gloss."

The short-haired girl's cheeks were flushed, and she spoke very quietly, but the driver still heard it clearly.

But before the driver could say anything, the girl next to him immediately widened her eyes.

"No way! Guan Yongyi! Do you have to be so professional?"

Zhou Si Ning's sparkling eyes were full of curiosity, and her tone was somewhat strange.

"You weren't like this before. Didn't you always believe that natural beauty is hard to give up? Didn't you think my sister is the most beautiful without makeup and has an invincible temperament?"

"Please, could you please keep your voice down? There are outsiders here!"

Guan Yongyi was furious and angry, and was so angry that his weakness was exposed in front of him that he stretched out his arm, went around the itchy spot on Zhou Si Ning's waist, and pinched her hard.

"Hahahahaha, it's okay. He doesn't understand. Just treat him as air."

Zhou Si Ning giggled, and the dimples at the corners of her mouth seemed to be filled with vitality.

"Yes, I don't understand."

The driver, Mr. Lu, interjected at the right time, which was quite professional.

"Shut up, no one will think you are dumb if you don't speak."

Guan Yongyi retorted to him angrily.

A gift, a ring, a bouquet of roses.

Bow tie, skirt, two glasses of red wine.

French restaurants have always been the epitome of romance.

The Range Rover was speeding on the road in Jiangcheng, heading towards tonight's destination, the French restaurant.

In 2007, Goya quietly put up its sign under the Qingnian Road overpass.

As the first authentic French restaurant in Jiangcheng, it refreshes Jiangcheng people's imagination of the sense of ritual with its pure and exquisite French dining experience.

From now on, birthdays, dates, proposals, anniversaries.
Goya frequently appears in many important moments of Jiangcheng people.

Just like today, we booked a seat in advance, named Guan Yongyi to celebrate.

People in Jiangcheng are accustomed to entrusting the ritual of life to Goya, so as not to waste every moment of eating.

“This is my first time visiting this store”

"Me too, the reviews online say it's pretty good."

After getting off the car, the two sisters walked forward, and Lu Jincheng followed closely behind them.

The entrance is a dark corridor, revealing a unique temperament under the warm and bright lights. On the left is a row of carefully framed Western paintings.

Continuing inside, your sight will come into contact with three giant colorful oil paintings, all of which are portraits of European aristocrats from the 18th century. Western-style sketches of different sizes are hung on the surrounding walls.

Suddenly, I felt like I was in an avant-garde art gallery, where the retro trend exuded an elegant temperament.

"Ms. Guan, right? Please come this way."

A waiter in a suit led us to our seat, soothing music floated in the air, and the dim yellow light gently sprinkled on the table, unconsciously bringing the atmosphere to its extreme.

Many people would give Goya their most memorable moments.

As a veteran French restaurant in Jiangcheng, Goya has hired several Michelin-starred chefs to run it.

They are extremely picky about their ingredients.

We select the best ingredients from around the world to make our dishes, including Australian black-haired wagyu beef, French deep-sea cod, Norwegian salmon, French President butter and whipped cream, Italian mascarpone cheese, Italian imported coffee beans, and French rose water.
It’s not just the ingredients that are top-notch.

Goya is almost the first restaurant in Jiangcheng to adopt low-temperature molecular cooking technology.

Chefs use different temperatures to cook each ingredient.

"I want Formosa steak, snail meat, foie gras, vegetable salad, and..."

"Millet cake."

"Rose Chanson!"

"These first."

This was not the first time the three of them had eaten together, and they knew each other's appetite.

After Guan Yongyi ordered the dishes in summary, he looked up and saw Zhou Sining standing up from her seat.

"Hey, are these couple scarves?"

She asked casually.

"Strictly speaking, not really. They're the same style but different colors."

Zhou Si Ning had just hung her coat aside, stuck out her tongue, and happily shook the scarf in her hand.

"That's not all. You're really strict."

Guan Yongyi raised his wrist, tidied up the stray hair around his ears, and chuckled.

"Now that you're here, do you want to drink something today?"

"Sure. I'll keep you company."

"Does the driver want to drink? We can ask the designated driver to go back later."

"Okay." Seeing that the two girls looked very interested, Lu Jincheng also nodded.

"Guan Guan! Let me tell you, I mentioned you to my mom on the phone a few days ago."

The process that is finally presented to diners is not complicated.

Goya has always followed the highest standard of the "French eight-course meal", which starts from appetizer bread, appetizers, salad, soup, drinks during the meal, to the main course, dessert and drinks.

So before the main course, each person will have a glass of passion fruit sorbet to reset the taste in the mouth.

Zhou Si Ning used a straw to poke around in the cup, chattering non-stop in a soft voice.

"What did you say about me?"

Guan Yongyi blinked.

"Of course you are awesome! You are participating in the research group to write an academic paper, and you are organizing a team to represent the school in preparing for the debate competition. Isn't that awesome?"

Zhou Si Ning's eyebrows were curved, and she had a lot of things to say when she talked about her best friend, with a smile on her face.

".And then? That's not the point, right?"

After all, they have been best friends since childhood and they understand each other very well.

"You found out, haha. Mom praised you for being excellent, and then I said you were so excellent because you moved out and bought a house outside."

“University is so fulfilling because you have enough time to do what you like.”

Zhou Si Ning smiled with her lips pursed, her big peach blossom eyes blinking back and forth, like a little fox whose trick had succeeded.

"so."

"So she finally relented and agreed to let me move out! Here I come to live a free life!"

Zhou Si Ning's shoulders swayed back and forth, her every frown and smile was full of excitement. She picked up the knife and fork with a smile and danced with her hands.

The main course was just served and she was ready to start tasting the delicious meal.

"Formosa steak, please enjoy."

This main dish, Taiwan-style steak, is the chef’s masterpiece.

We select the sixth and seventh pairs of beef ribs and soak them for at least seventy-two hours. We use a unique low-temperature molecular cooking method to lock in the juice in the steaks, retaining their tender and juicy taste.

The snow peas dotted in between are fresh and green, the details are full of ritual sense, and the salty and fresh fragrance fills the entire mouth.

After the dish was served, the waiter opened the lid and poured the sauce on it, which was his own secret pure beef sauce.

Don't underestimate this spoonful of sauce. It is also boiled repeatedly like the golden soup, and then seasoning is added according to different dishes. The effort spent is no less than that of the meal.

"delicious!"

"Um"

Even Lu Jincheng tasted the familiar flavor of time when he took a bite.

He witnessed with his own eyes the expansion of Goya from its first store on Qingnian Road to the three towns of Jiangcheng.

More than five thousand days and nights are engraved with the memories of the sense of ritual for the vast majority of Jiangcheng people.

In his memory, his first impression of the Qingnian Road store was when he was a freshman in his previous life and his parents took him to try it out.

At that time, I thought it was such a high-end place. I would never dare to come here without an adult accompanying me.

More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye. The French restaurant has long been deified from the altar of my memory and has become one of the restaurants I often visit.

Time flies, but the food remains.

The world we live in is changing rapidly, new things are emerging one after another, and fast food culture occupies every aspect of people's lives.

But when Lu Jincheng stepped into this corridor again, time seemed to have never changed.

The persistence in ingredients and craftsmanship remains the same as many years ago.

The plump and thick snail meat is hand-shelled, added with southern French herbs, specially prepared white sauce, and baked with presidential butter. The rich French flavor instantly blooms on the tip of your tongue.

The meat is tender and chewy when you take a bite, and there is salty and fragrant cheese hidden in the snail. It is served with a special mashed potato with a smooth texture. The two delicious things embrace each other, and you will want to spin them in your mouth.

3A grade foie gras is lightly fried, the skin becomes crispy and the mellow aroma is stimulated. The inside is delicate and moist, and the foie gras melts on the tip of the tongue with a light sip.

When eaten with the caviar that has been fermented to the right degree, the richness of the foie gras and the freshness of the caviar create a multi-faceted taste. The chef also recommends eating it with garlic bread for a different flavor.

"Damn it, I ate too much today."

"Touch me, touch my belly, have you gained weight recently?"

There are always no taboos between sisters.

Zhou Si Ning was eating heartily when she was halfway through and seemed to suddenly remember something. She asked Guan Yongyi, who was sitting next to her, to stretch out his hand to measure her food.

"Winter is so terrible. I wish I were like you and would never get fat."

"Let your boyfriend touch it."

The short-haired girl was speechless and rolled her eyes vigorously. She pulled her hand away from the table and reached for the wine glass in front of her.

She took a small sip, but felt it was not satisfying, so she took another big sip with a gurgling throat.

"Hello, this is a thousand-layer cake. Please enjoy."

Ending the meal with dessert is an indispensable treat in French cuisine.

Goya's desserts have always had a good reputation.

The mille-feuille is our flagship product. Each piece of mille-feuille has 48 layers, including 25 layers of crepe crust as thin as a cicada's wing and 23 layers of dense flavored whipped cream.

The dessert was served and the waiter brought a final dish of chanson rose water.

Pure natural rosehip dew paired with fresh lemon, just one bite can make you relax and happy after a feast on meat.

There was smoke curling up beside her, and she appeared stunningly like a fairy, making girls' hearts explode at first sight.

"He's a boring guy. He always says the same thing! If you ask him, he'll just say he's not fat, which lacks the impact of reality."

Zhou Si Ning curled her lips, cut a small piece of the thousand-layer cake, placed it on her table, and poked it in with a small spoon.

Just one spoonful and the refreshing taste dissolves in layers of different sweetness.

Some delicacies do not require words to be expressed; they can be conveyed through facial expressions.

She narrowed her eyes happily.

"No, did you ask me? Eating dessert while saying that you are fat, I think some people are not willing to listen to the truth at all."

Mr. Lu expressed his dissatisfaction at this time.

"You didn't even touch it! You wouldn't know if I asked you."

"How much do you weigh now?"

A woman's weight has always been a secret regardless of the season.

"Uh, this one."

Zhou Si Ning was stunned, thought for a few seconds, then her eyes moved and she changed her words to a more euphemistic one.

"I was still very thin in the summer! Now I think I'm about 100-150 pounds. It's winter, so there's nothing I can do about it."

But it’s not wrong to reveal secrets in front of your boyfriend and best friends.

"Guan Guan, what about you?"

Lu Jincheng turned his head with a smile and turned the topic to the quiet Guan Yongyi.

To be honest, with Zhou Si Ning's golden height of 167-168cm, she weighs less than kilograms, so the word fat has nothing to do with her at all.

He can only use contrast skillfully.

"ninety."

Guan Yongyi was concise and to the point.

"Look, let's use data to tell us what a good figure is. You are ten pounds heavier than others!"

The man stretched out his voice and looked at Zhou Si Ning meaningfully.

"Ahhhhh! You're talking bullshit! I didn't even make it to triple digits!"

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a good woman.

Of course this only applies to girls below a certain height.

Most girls are quite sensitive about the three-digit dividing line, and Zhou Sining is no exception.

"We'll be there after we finish eating the thousand-layer cake. If you don't believe me, let's go and weigh ourselves on the scale at the door?"

"Get lost! You want me to get on the scale when I'm wearing so many clothes?"

Zhou Si Ning pursed her lips tightly and threw the spoon aside angrily.

He said I was fat and didn't want to eat anymore.

After thinking about it, she decided that she couldn't just not eat it, so she pushed the thousand-layer cake in front of Guan Yongyi, cleared her throat, and spoke softly.

"Guan Guan, please eat it. It's delicious."

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Guan Yongyi suppressed his smile and turned to look at her.

Sima Zhao was just about to speak out this little thought!
"Tsk tsk tsk, if you don't want to get fat, just give it to your bestie. The aroma of tea is everywhere. The aroma of tea is everywhere."

The smiling man couldn't help but fan the flames.

"Lü Jincheng!"

Zhou Si Ning frowned and glared at the man fiercely with a look of aggrieved expression as if it had substance.

Who is this guy talking to?

"Okay, okay, it's no big deal."

Guan Yongyi smiled, picked up the small spoon, scooped it up gently, and put it into his mouth.

"Just let me get a little fatter, it doesn't matter."

So sweet.

So she narrowed her eyes as well.

232 has been unblocked, everyone can go and have a look.

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(End of this chapter)