Li Heng's hometown is more than 100 kilometers away from Shangdu.
Normally my parents would come every few weeks.
However, sometimes we come together and sometimes we come alone.
They came to see me for nothing, they just came to see their children and chat a few words.
Things like it's time to find a wife.
Commonly known as urging marriage!
After so many years, Li Heng has long been used to it. He used to refute a few words, but now he is full of hope for the future, so he just obeys his mother's wishes and lets her go.
Chen Xiujuan talked to Balabala for an hour before she said she was tired. Seeing that she took a drink of water and asked Balabala to continue talking, Li Heng finally couldn't help but hold her back.
"Mom, I'm going to participate in a cooking competition tomorrow. Come and see it together."
"What?"
Chen Xiujuan looked confused.
As a mother, she knew only too well what her son's cooking skills were.
And because I am an only child, I am not allowed to do housework or cooking.
This also led to the fact that even though Li Heng lived alone, he still did not learn to cook.
Chen Xiujuan has never eaten the food cooked by her son. After all, he has never cooked before. Where can he eat it? So she knows very well how poor her cooking skills are.
Seeing the suspicious expression on Chen Xiujuan's face, Li Heng raised the corners of his mouth and said proudly: "Mom, I will let you try your son's craftsmanship today!"
"Don't fool mom." Chen Xiujuan looked confused, "Today isn't April Fools' Day, right?"
Seeing that she didn't believe him, Li Heng simply stopped explaining and got up and went to the kitchen.
When I opened the refrigerator, I found a lot of extra vegetables. My mother must have bought them today and put them in.
Li Heng looked at the ingredients in the refrigerator and quickly made a decision in his mind.
With his current level 4 cooking skills, he can even wash dishes several times faster than ordinary people.
In just a few minutes, he washed the dishes.
Having just finished washing, Chen Xiujuan, who was worried, walked into the kitchen door and looked inside.
She was about to say that it was better to let mom do it while you rest.
But when she saw Li Heng cutting vegetables, she was stunned.
I saw that the kitchen knife in Li Heng's hand seemed to have magical power. When he lifted the knife, it felt slow, and when he dropped it, it felt as fast as lightning.
This kind of fast and slow knife work gives people the illusion of being in a dream.
She had been cooking all her life, but she was only at the level of a housewife. She had never seen such knife skills before. She was frozen in place for a while.
Suddenly, the sound of chopping vegetables stopped.
After Li Heng said: "Mom, why are you here?" Chen Xiujuan suddenly woke up.
Chen Xiujuan unexpectedly glanced at her son a few times, and then looked at her son a few more times, even feeling a little strange.
We haven't seen each other for only a month, why has my son changed so much?
However, she felt happy when she saw that her son was no longer so fat and had learned to cook.
"Mom, you go to the living room and wait."
"Hey, mom, go and wait, but don't cook too much, or you won't be able to finish it."
"I know, Mom!"
Seeing that Chen Xiujuan was still not leaving, Li Heng looked hard at the evenly sized vegetable slices on the chopping board. He smiled helplessly and could only get up and push his mother out of the kitchen.
After closing the kitchen door, he felt that the knife was too slow, so he simply picked up another knife, holding one in each hand, and started cutting.
Even though he was holding two knives, the vegetables he cut were still the same size, as if they had been measured with a ruler.
After preparing the dishes, Li Heng started cooking.
....
40 minutes later.
Li Heng opened the kitchen door.
Chen Xiujuan, whose stomach was rumbling long ago due to the aroma wafting from the kitchen, took two steps at a time to reach the door of the kitchen.
"Mom, don't look at it. The food is ready. Let's take it."
"It's definitely not delicious if it's made so quickly."
"Don't you know it after eating it?"
Chen Xiujuan was as tough as ever, but when she brought out the seven dishes, the shocked expression on her face made Li Heng laugh inwardly.
Look at the way you have never seen the world.
Li Heng smiled, opened the steamed buns, put them on a plate, and brought them to the table.
The two of them sat down, and Li Heng said with a smile: "Mom, you have a taste of my craftsmanship."
Chen Xiujuan smelled the fragrant food and couldn't bear it anymore, so she picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks.
"Woo~"
Chen Xiujuan let out an exclamation.
His mouth opened and closed quickly subconsciously.
After a while, she finished the piece of fish, spit out the fish bones, and picked up another piece of pork.
"Um?"
"Um!"
"So delicious!"
Her eyes widened, and she picked up the food as fast as a starving ghost.
This look made Li Heng burst into laughter.
I picked up my phone and took a photo of my mother starving to death and reincarnated into a ghost, and then posted it on WeChat Moments.
Picture: Mom eating.
Copywriting: Hey, there is a starving ghost in the house, some heavenly master came to take it away! Helpless expression.
The circle of friends was just posted a while ago.
My father replied.
Dad: Where is the address? Pindao came to take this guy in!
Li Heng laughed, tapped the screen twice quickly with his knuckles, and saved the screenshot.
When my mother finishes eating, I will show it to her. I believe there will be another good show.
At this moment, Chen Xiujuan was finally full.
She is petite and doesn't eat much, but this time she ate three steamed buns and less than half of the seven dishes.
I have to say, the food I cook now is really delicious!
Li Heng also picked up a piece of meat and took a bite.
With his current cooking skills, he can naturally taste the shortcomings of this piece of meat.
"The meat was not stir-fried at a high enough heat. It should be stir-fried for 5 more seconds to make it more flavorful and improve the taste by 10%."
Li Heng commented.
But I heard the mother beside me say with a speechless face: "Son, when did you learn to cook? And the cooking is so delicious?"
Li Heng put down his chopsticks. In order not to surprise his parents, he told a little lie and replied: "Mom, I have always been good at cooking."
"Good boy, do you like to watch mom cook so much? You are so tired every day, and I have to cook for you, a little brat, and I don't know how to share the burden." Chen Xiujuan turned on the nagging mode again.
Li Heng hurriedly replied: "Mom, it's not that I don't want to cook it. The main thing is that I like the taste of your cooking. As the saying goes, no delicious food can replace the taste of home."
"You have some conscience." Chen Xiujuan smiled brightly, "What time will you participate in the competition tomorrow? Mom wants you to get up, so don't be late."
Chen Xiujuan saw her son's cooking with her own eyes and already believed in Li Heng's cooking skills.
Being able to make such delicious dishes, she felt that with her son's level, there was still a possibility of winning the championship.
Even if you don't win the championship, if you get a random ranking and work in a big hotel in the future, is it still bad?
When she thought of this, she couldn't help but think of the blind date she introduced to Li Heng before.
After such a comparison, I found that the girl was not worthy of her son.
How about going back to his aunt and talking about another one?
Li Heng didn't know what Chen Xiujuan was thinking, so he said softly: "The preliminary round will be held at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The final will be held at seven o'clock in the evening. There's still time!"
"Okay then."
Chen Xiujuan stood up, stretched out, and suddenly pointed at Bobo, who was struggling in the cat's nest to peek at them, "When did you raise the kitten? This kitten is too afraid of animals.
Come, it stayed in its nest and refused to come out.
Mom was afraid of disturbing it, so she didn't dare to catch it."
Li Heng smiled and said: "This is a neighbor who was on a business trip and was fostered here by me. No, this little guy is not afraid of life. Why is he afraid of you, mom?"
"Why aren't you afraid of life?" Chen Xiujuan retorted.
Li Heng smiled bitterly: "It's okay to be afraid of life."
Li Heng was helpless. His mother was good at everything, but she always liked to argue.
However, this also made Li Heng a little suspicious.
When he first adopted this kitten, Bobo wasn't afraid of him at all, but now he's afraid of his own mother?
Li Heng suppressed the doubts in his heart and prepared to test it in two days.
See who was wrong.
"Mom, I have to be busy for a while. I will take a shower and go to bed later."
"I understand, your mother is such an old person, why do you still need to explain it to me? Don't work too late, go to bed early and get up early for good health!"
"knew!"
After comforting his mother, Li Heng walked into the study room and started today's programming, language, and iron shirt exercises.
Two hours later.
The system beep sounded in my mind.
[Ding, your programming skills have been upgraded to level 3, and your spirit +2!]
[Ding, your language skills have been upgraded to level 3, and your spirit +2!]
[Ding, your iron shirt skill has been upgraded to level 2, strength +1, constitution +3! ]
moment.
Countless information flooded into my mind.
The programming level has been directly improved several times, and the mastery of various languages has also been improved several times.
Waves of warmth spread through his body, boosting his energy and spirit by several percent.
Especially the originally loose skin on the body seemed to have become much tighter under the influence of a magical force.
Although the skin is not as tight as before, it is no longer so loose. I believe that when the iron cloth shirt is upgraded to level 3, the skin elasticity can be completely restored.
"Cool!"
Li Heng couldn't help shouting.
At this moment, my mother's angry voice sounded from the guest room next door.
It could be vaguely heard that he was on the phone with his father and was cursing.
"You old Li, how dare you treat me like a starving ghost? You still want to take me in. When I come back, you will be the first to take me in!"
Li Heng shook his head and laughed.
He could already imagine his father shivering.
In fact, it's not that dad is afraid of mom.
But fear because of love.
Dad enjoys it.
He didn't want to meddle in other people's business.