Tang Xu had seen on the Internet before that some cooking experts did not think hot pot was a traditional delicacy. That expert believed that hot pot was just putting side dishes in a hot pot to cook and eat, and there was no technical content at all.

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"Maybe he doesn't want to travel to Sichuan in his life, otherwise he will inevitably get a severe beating."

When Tang Xu talked about this matter, Qin Zheng added casually.

At this moment, they are preparing to make hot pot at home.

Tang Xu moved the induction cooker to the dining table and placed a mandarin duck cooking pot on it.

"Your house even has a mandarin duck pot, I really didn't expect..."

Qin Zheng had a look of disbelief on her face when she saw the Yuanyang Pot.

"After all, my family members are very busy, and I can have a better experience when I occasionally cook hot pot at home."

Tang Xu put the hot pot base ingredients of spicy butter and tomato into both sides of the mandarin duck pot, and then filled the kettle with hot water.

The ingredients have been neatly placed on the table, and the vegetables have been washed cleanly by Qin Zheng herself.

"Tang Xu, this corn is so fragrant. I'm a little hungry. Let's eat the corn first."

"Actually, you don't have to emphasize the name corn... you can also call it corn..."

Tang Xu looked at Qin Zheng helplessly, and then handed the hot sticky corn on the table to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng didn't care about her image as a cute girl. She gnawed the corn with both hands, as cute as a little hamster.

Not long after, large and small bubbles began to bubble up in the cooking pot, and the originally clean and transparent pot was stained with the color of the hot pot base.

Tang Xu put the vegetables on the table into the pot one after another, and put the udon noodles into his own tomato pot.

Qin Zheng cooperated with Tang Xu and put his hands free to put the hot pot meatballs and beef and mutton rolls into the cooking pot.

The two of them had a tacit understanding of each other and didn't really need to communicate with each other, just like they were old friends for many years.

Qin Zheng's dipping sauce was prepared by herself in the kitchen. There were various bottles and jars in the kitchen cabinets of Tang Xu's house, which contained various condiments.

Tang Xu's dipping sauce was simple, sesame sauce, crushed peanuts and sugar, which made Qin Zheng's eyebrows almost twist together.

"Tang Xu, your dipping sauce is really special..."

"Everyone has different tastes, but I actually prefer this. The last time I had hot pot with everyone, it was because the hot pot restaurant had pre-prepared dipping sauces, so I just used them."

Qin Zheng looked down at her oil dish, and then at the plain sesame sauce in front of Tang Xu. Her expression was indescribable.

"It's okay, this is delicious."

As Tang Xu spoke, he took out a piece of mutton from his tomato pot, dipped it in sesame sauce with chopped peanuts and white sugar, and put it in his mouth.

Qin Zheng instantly turned into a shocked emoticon.

"It's nothing. The last time I had barbecue, I dipped the barbecue into the cheese in the golden cheese steamed buns. It was so sweet."

"Tang Chu, I seem to know why your family opened a cake shop..."

Although Tang Xu's preferences were somewhat different, Qin Zheng still chose to respect Tang Xu's taste. The homemade hot pot in front of the two of them was no different from the one in the hot pot restaurant. Moreover, when they were shopping at the vegetable market just now, Qin Zheng paid

After spending some money on ingredients, the total cost of this family hot pot meal is actually quite cost-effective.

"For the money you spend to eat hot pot once in a store, you can eat it several times at home. And the house won't be too noisy, and you don't have to worry about special surprises from the enthusiastic hot pot restaurant staff."

"The main reason is that you are so lazy, Qin Zheng. You would rather order takeout than cooking by yourself."

"No way, it's just hot pot. What's the big deal? I often eat hot pot at home."

"Self-heating hot pot, right? I saw it when I went to your house last time. There was a promotional package in the corner of your room. Buy six boxes and get one box free, right?"

"..."

Qin Zheng was speechless for a moment and could only curl her lips and roll her eyes at Tang Xu.

Tang Xu shrugged and spread his hands, with a proud expression on his face.

He felt very comfortable letting Qin Zheng suffer. Tang Xu now even felt that bullying Qin Zheng had become some sort of bad taste for him.

However, Qin Zheng often made Tang Xu feel embarrassed in school. At most, they were even, so Tang Xu didn't feel any guilt.

Not long after, Tang Xu felt that the udon noodles were cooked, so he thought about giving Qin Zheng and himself a small bowl each as a staple food.

At this moment, the phone in Qin Zheng's hand rang a cheerful ringtone.

Qin Zheng was still munching corn. When she saw the video call invitation displayed on the screen of her mobile phone, her whole expression changed slightly.

"It's my mother calling. My aunt must have called her, otherwise how could she think of me."

Qin Zheng complained in a low voice, pouting her mouth slightly, feeling a little unhappy when she thought of her workaholic mother.

The reason why she transferred from Suzhou and Hangzhou to Shencheng was partly due to the lack of care from her family.

Since her family members are too busy with work to take care of her, she might as well start her life in another place, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and her parents can't care about her.

"Then take it, your mother cares about you too."

Tang Xu was concentrating on putting shrimps into the pot and casually replied to Qin Zheng.

After listening to Tang Xu's words, Qin Zheng put down the corn, picked up her mobile phone, and connected the video call.

As Qin Zheng expected, her mother was still in the office at this time, and the surroundings seemed brightly lit. It was probably that the entire department was working overtime.

"What are you doing, Zhengzheng, have you eaten?"

Qin Zheng's mother on the other end of the phone is a middle-aged working woman, wearing a black suit, short hair, smart and capable.

"He's eating right now."

Qin Zheng replied in a calm tone.

"What do you want to eat?"

"Baomi, and hot pot. Did you know that corn is corn?"

Qin Zheng held up the corn on the side and showed it to her mother through the screen. In order to prevent her from feeling shabby, she pointed the phone screen at her oil dish for a few seconds.

"I don't think your surroundings look like you're eating in a hot pot restaurant. This isn't home either. Whose home are you at?"

"At Tang Xu's house, I'm eating hot pot at his house."

"Who is Tang Xu? His name sounds like he's a boy?"

"He is my classmate. The seat is right next to mine. He is the first person I met in the class. Come to Tangcu and say hello to my mother."

Qin Zheng suddenly turned her phone over and pointed the front camera at Tang Xu who was on a video call.

Tang Xu was eating udon noodles from the hot pot. When he raised his head, Qin Zheng's mother was staring at him on the phone screen.

She was a very elegant woman, and she looked like a strong woman at first glance.

At this moment, she was sitting on the office chair in the mobile phone screen, with her arms folded in front of her chest, looking at the mobile phone on the desk in front of her.

There was no smile on her face, and even when she saw Tang Xu, her expression looked a little serious.

Tang Xu was stunned, the udon noodles were not caught and fell into the hot pot.

He looked down at the udon noodles that had been rolled back into the pot, then looked up at Qin Zheng's mother. He ignored the soup splashing onto his hands and managed a polite smile.

"Hello, aunt, I am Tang Chu, Qin Zheng's classmate..."

Tang Xu kept an awkward smile, but Qin Zheng's mother did not reply immediately.

She looked at Tang Xu for a long time, approved of Tang Xu's appearance, and nodded lightly.

"Hello, I am Qin Zheng's mother. I would like to ask, are you living together?"

This time it wasn't just udon, Tang Xu's hand slipped and the bowl fell into the pot.

There is an idiom called thief with a guilty conscience.

Normally, when ordinary people face this problem, they will immediately deny it. This is a normal phenomenon.

But Tang Chu felt guilty. When faced with Qin Zheng's mother's question, he subconsciously thought of the night he and Qin Zheng slept in the same bed, so out of nervousness, his hand slipped and he even dropped the bowl.

Tang Chu hurriedly picked the small bowl out of the pot with chopsticks, trying to keep the smile on his face normal.

"Auntie, are you kidding? We are still high school students, how could we do that kind of thing, hahaha... Qin Zheng, she just came home from school and had a hot pot together at my house. Don't think too much...

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"What does your family do?"

"A cake shop owner..."

"It's okay. Is it a small-scale individual business? Or has it created its own brand and has many chain stores?"

"Currently there is only one cake shop, no other semicolon..."

Tang Xu was confused by the series of questions, but considering that the other party was Qin Zheng's mother after all, he still had to have the most basic courtesy.

"It's okay, the pace of life in Shencheng is not that fast, and naturally there is not that much pressure. If it doesn't work, we will provide more dowry when the time comes, so that you two will not have too many financial burdens when you live in the future.

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"Uh-huh."
To be continued...