Chapter 63 You are eating meal replacement on Juanjuanjiang...

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In this world without Nitro-chan, Wu-chan, and Jie-chan, you can no longer laugh from the bottom of your heart. So you just become a serious minor.

But even though you are a minor, you have a height that stands out from the crowd, so in Heian-kyō where most people are short and stocky, you are the one that makes everyone crane their necks to look at you.

Now, everyone can only look down upon you like Naoya-chan.

The men and women in Heian-kyō look at you with complicated expressions.

As everyone knows, the XP in Heian-kyo is very uniform, especially among the nobles. Fragile beauties are everyone's common XP. Even Minamoto no Hiromasa, the grandson of Emperor Daigo and a high-ranking official of the Three Heavens, would not be favored by the noble beauties in Kyoto because he is very tall and burly.

After all, in this place where everyone's XP is highly unified, whether men or women, everyone is keen on pursuing some delicate and gentle qualities.

Obviously, such traits cannot be found in you. After all, you are a woman who can enter the finals of "The Battle of the Spell Master Miner's Peak".

Fortunately, your current friend, Juanjuan, who is from the Kamo family, one of the three great families of Jujutsu, is such a man with a very delicate and gentle temperament.

The two of you complement each other very well, and with his active show of affection, you quickly fell in love and became very good friends.

Juanjuan, who always speaks softly, often makes you feel dazed. Sometimes you think she is like your teacher, sometimes she is like Jie, and sometimes you can even hallucinate about Nitro...

The complexity of its ingredients makes your original thought of just wanting to take a quick bite out of loneliness and emptiness change without you noticing.

You eat it bite after bite, day after day, and you become addicted to it and enjoy it.

After all, you have eaten so much real food that your eyes are black. If you can't eat good spiritual food, how can you survive in this cold world?

This is not your fault. It is only because Heian-kyō's backward production level cannot keep up with your food needs.

Your relatives who only eat two meals a day are in stark contrast to you who have to eat at least four meals a day.

Your relatives who fast every other day and don't even eat meat but still like to nag you form a sharp contrast with you who only eat white rice with wild vegetables and your eyes are black.

I finally don’t have to eat only vegetarian food, but my relatives keep nagging me about not eating animal meat and that I can only eat poultry and fish.

You often prop up your chin and quietly look at the "exquisite and sumptuous" meals that your relatives talk about, falling into a trance for a long time.

Yes, you have never eaten anything with such poor ingredients and tasted so bad.

This is so touching that even you, who love eating and are never picky about food, will choke up.

If Wu-chan were here, he would definitely say to you: Arisa! Now you should understand why we, the party of pure sweet lovers, reject omnivorous heretics!

It turns out that people really can empathize with each other. For example, you are now feeling what Wujiang felt back then. I guess the catfish tofu soup he saw back then is the same as the exquisite and sumptuous meals of the Zenyuan family in your eyes now.

Anyway, it’s all food that people can’t eat!

These days where you are not starving but not full either, make your eyes go dark and dark.

You miss the college cafeteria with its generous portions and generous servings so much, and your longing for the cafeteria's big pot meals has reached the extreme!

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It was under such circumstances of physical and mental torture that you met your current friend, Kamo Soso.

Although he wrote his name to you, the strokes were too many and it was simply a promax version of the characters in the books you usually read.

You would rather call this delicate and gentle friend Juanjuan.

Juanjuan's appearance comforted you at the right time from the loneliness and solitude caused by the loss of your loved one.

Spiritual satisfaction can even occasionally soothe some physical pain.

Including but not limited to the Tang fruit, grilled sweetfish, frozen persimmons that Juanjuan brought you when she came to visit you... and other foods that could not be found in the big kitchen of the Zenyuan family.

Although compared with the desserts, big pot dishes, and crab feasts you once tasted with your loved ones, what Juanjuan brought was nothing, but in the Zen temple home that has become a food desert, it makes people feel extremely precious.

When you see the gifts that your good friend Juanjuan brings you when she comes to visit you, your eyes always light up, and your love for her becomes deeper and truer.

You truly love Juanjuan and the food he brings.

Although the Zenin family did not abuse you, it was no different from abusing you.

In this life where you can't find much delicious food in the big kitchen of Chanyuan's house after countless raids, and when you finally get to eat some badly cooked meat, your relatives' pupils will tremble. Only Juanjuan can be your only comfort.

The look you give him is filled with love and an inseparable attachment.

In this empty and boring world, only Juanjuan's love can make you feel a little warmth and happiness.

You ate heartily, moved.

And at such times, he will always look at you with a smile and tenderness.

As a minor who likes to share, you naturally cannot let your good friend watch you eat alone, so you are also very enthusiastic and kind to help him peel the persimmons.

When the peeled persimmons were handed to him, he did not take them directly. Instead, he took out a handkerchief to pad his hands to prevent the persimmon juice from soaking his delicate fingers.

Juanjuan's elegant way of eating is in stark contrast to your gluttony.

But a true friend is someone who finds everything the other person does cute, and will only dote on the other person no matter how embarrassed or pretentious they look.

So you think Juanjuan is very cute, and I guess Juanjuan thinks the same about you.

After you ate all the persimmons he brought and finally managed to eat half full, Juanjuan held the persimmon you peeled for him in her handkerchief, but only had some minor scratches on the skin.

"Don't you want to eat?" You urged him to eat quickly.

Seeing you staring at the persimmon in his hand, Noose, who seemed to know you very well, smiled helplessly. He said that he didn't like sweet food, and ordered the maid to peel off the part he had bitten.

But you don't think it's necessary to go through so much trouble, so you just grab it and solve it in a few seconds.

Juanjuan, who chews slowly, and you, who eat voraciously, form a sharp contrast.

Juanjuan gracefully folded the handkerchief in his hand and took out another one. He carried countless handkerchiefs with him, looking like both Nitro and Jie.

He gently took your hand and wiped your fingers slowly and carefully. Every move he made was a poke at the public XP of Heian-kyo.

If you are also a traditional Heian-kyo XP owner, you must be deeply fascinated by the elegant and beautiful Juanjuan.

It's a pity that not only is your XP very unconventional, but you are also very unconventional from beginning to end.

Because you are a new-age woman who has received nine years of compulsory education, not a little girl who follows the rules in a large feudal family!

In this Heian period where there are more chaotic rules than curses, everything you say and do challenges the nobles' tolerance.

Juanjuan was wiping your fingers slowly and leisurely, making them itchy, but at the same time, she looked so serious, as if she was doing something very serious and solemn, which made you feel so funny.

The cold, arrogant and stern Curse Emperor smiled in front of her now good friend Juanjuan.

Juanjuan heard your laughter and raised her fair eyelids to look at you: "Hey, what are you so happy about?"

“You’re so serious,” you tilted your head to look at him and said to him, “You should just go wash your hands.”

Why is there any need to rub it all over like this? It won't get clean even after rubbing it for a long time, and it will still itch.

Despite your doubts, Luo Suo didn't feel awkward. He continued doing things that you said were funny, and then said to you, "No matter how seriously I take you, it's never too much. I've said it before, you're special, strong, beautiful, and..."

"and?"

Juanjuan smiled again, and he said, "Besides, I like you very much, Yali."

He wiped his hands again before reaching out and caressing your cheek with his long, white fingers, wiping away the sticky persimmon juice on your cheek.

The fingers that had just been wiped with the handkerchief were now stained with juice again.

You feel that Juanjuan has become dull and it's a waste of time.

But Xusuo naturally withdrew his hand, licked the persimmon juice from his fingers and said, "It is natural for friends to be delicate and attentive to each other, and I should be even more cautious with you."

You stared at him blankly, and the misty and beautiful temperament emanating from him made you savor it beautifully again!

You are not only good at discovering beauty, you are also especially good at appreciating beauty.

So you looked at Juanjuan with emotion: "Juanjuan..."

Luo Suo smiled and said, "People always think that many things can be achieved through hard work and accumulation. But Yali, you know, the more you learn, the less you learn..."

Your emotion disappeared.

The flavor just now was just right, why did it have to start getting more profound? This time you couldn't understand anything at all, and Juanjuan's quotations from classics made you sad again.

You were so sad that your energy was rapidly depleted due to your huge emotional fluctuations, so you broke free from Juanjuan's hand and openly raided the Chanyuan family's kitchen, which was short of supplies and had few delicious dishes. You picked and chose but still (in the eyes of your relatives) ate a lot, which made your relatives who abide by the rules feel uneasy again.

But in fact, you just filled your stomach lightly and reluctantly.

It would be great if Juanjuan could be with you every day and cook for you every day. You suddenly thought so.

That way, you can enjoy double the meal and be full every day!

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Your relatives are trembling with fear, like a group of quails, hesitant to speak and hesitant to speak.

Your relatives always have a lot to say about your less-than-dignified manners and less-than-ascetic life, but they dare not say it.

But it's okay, usually you are only like this at Juanjuan and Chanyuan's house, because when you are outside, you are a serious and burly woman.

It's simply daunting.

With your broad shoulders, you don't fit in with the aristocrats who love delicate beauties. However, your power as a great genius in sorcery and the "double pupils" of the Emperor of Spells have greatly enhanced your charm.

However, the way people in this world express their love is too subtle, and because of the nobles' extremely high cultural level and literary accomplishment, everyone can recite haiku and songs at will.

This makes you afraid to speak easily in public.

Because you are afraid of the situation where everyone takes turns speaking like in class, and after someone starts, everyone starts talking freely while you are hesitant. Just thinking about it makes you want to pass out!

So you never join in everyone's haiku or waka train, and you never reply to any notes sent to you!

Just like that, you became a genius of spells who doesn't like to talk or laugh.

Are you naturally quiet? Are you naturally uneasy?

You lay in Juanjuan's arms and cried!

You cry and cry.

The reality that everyone is a cultured person and knowledgeable, but you are the only fool who knows nothing, is really a huge blow to your self-confidence.

You have to know that you were originally full of confidence that if you could live your life again and restart the second week of nine-year compulsory education, you would definitely become a knowledgeable minor.

But what about now? Not only can you not learn anything, you can't even eat the big pot of food in the cafeteria!

The more you think about it, the sadder and more painful you feel, and you cry in Juanjuan's arms.

And Juanjuan is like Nitro-chan, using his inexhaustible handkerchief to wipe your tears.

What a lively and cheerful little girl you were!

It's all this Zenyuan family's fault that you were harmed! !

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Your traditional relatives have never eaten good food, so they can eat even the most unpalatable food as if it were a delicacy.

But you have eaten too many good things, so when faced with these unpalatable things, you don’t feel any enjoyment at all except for barely filling your stomach.

Regarding your daily struggles with hunger, Juanjuan simply said, "Five colors blind the eyes, five sounds deafen the ears, and five flavors refresh the mouth."

He said that ever since Buddhism began to spread here, everyone has become averse to eating meat, and the rise of Yin-Yang Taoism has further promoted this habit.

"Everyone believes that the desire for food and drink should be abandoned. This is also the foundation of spiritual practice. So, Yali, seeing you like this, I actually find it very interesting."

Juanjuan supported her head and said so with a smile.

You can understand part of it, but not very well. But it doesn’t matter. No matter how simple-minded others are, they can’t change your appetite.

Your appetite may be temporarily curbed, but it won't change forever. Your wish is that one day a chef who can cook everything and make everything delicious will appear from nowhere.

This wish seems to be moving higher and higher on your wish list.

You really want Juanjuan to be your cook. You hold her soft fingers, but Juanjuan is delicate and beautiful, and of noble status. He is obviously not the "lower class" in the eyes of the Heian-kyo nobles who are tough and deal with the stove.

So before the chef descends from the sky, you can only reluctantly raid the Chanyuan family's big kitchen occasionally, and wait for Juanjuan to feed you the rest of the time.

After all, in this world where everything is so poor, only when you eat regular meals and meal replacements together can you feel a little happiness.

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The author has something to say: *From the Tao Te Ching

In Heian-kyō, there's a custom of sending waka notes to hint at sleeping together tonight. If you reply, it means you agree. So, you never reply to anyone's waka notes, and you're considered a very arrogant woman who looks down on others (nods).

After all, minors are not allowed to take a nap!