Chapter 095

After looking at the cats, petting them, and finally giving the five of them goat's milk in large bowls, wiping their faces, and putting them in their nests, Qingxi and Tsurumaru Kuninaga left the room.

That night, the two of them went to Qingxi's room and gave all the knives that Grandma Su and the others had "saved" a thorough checkup, whether they were real or fake.

Similarly, she also listened to Tsurumaru Kuninaga's popular science lecture on swords for an entire night.

Unfortunately, there was too much content, and except for the beginning when she listened carefully, later on, she just ignored it.

On the second day after returning to the underworld house on Beiming Island, Qingxi got up late as expected and missed breakfast.

Her idle state lasted for a week. A week later, Jiro, who helped her deliver New Year's goods, brought back a letter that broke her laziness.

The letter was written by Grandpa Qin and has only one central idea.

I've been too lazy lately and my handwriting hasn't improved much.

Then came several thousand words of criticism of her laziness.

Speaking of this criticism, it's interesting what Grandma Su and Grandpa Qin said.

The white-faced people are all played by Grandma Su, and the black-faced people are played by Grandpa Qin.

At the beginning, Qingxi was still reflecting on how she had offended Grandpa Qin, and why he would target her whenever he found her doing something wrong. But after several letters, she realized that the old couple were just bored and were using her as an opportunity to "entertain" themselves and pass the time.

Well, the kind that encourages progress.

After reading the letter, her eyes fell on the two packages at Jiro's feet.

One of them was kicked there casually because it was disgusted with it, and the other was placed right in front of her. At this moment, the small calico cat rolled out of their house with its cat face brake.

After it stood up again, it rubbed against Qingxi, meowing in a baby voice.

What can Qingxi do when faced with a cat that has been so smart and servile since childhood? Just try to play with it.

But the kitten was very curious. After being played with by Qingxi for a while, it couldn't sit still anymore. It scratched its way back to the floor and started its adventure.

The first target it set its sights on was the package in front of Qingxi.

Qingxi watched helplessly as Jiro pounced on the package and pecked the back of its neck, then threw it onto the package next to it.

Her eyebrows twitched, and she tried to hold it back but still couldn't, so she complained, "I'm telling you, can't you control your expression when you see someone getting mad? I don't know who you learned this from."

Although she didn't open the package, Grandpa Qin had written it clearly in the letter. If she had the ability to get it from his son, she should keep it herself and not let Jiro bring it to her. Not only would it be a lot of effort, but his old wife would also look down on it.

That's it. If she really has free time, she will make two sets of Taiwu based on the figures of the two brothers in the shop last time, and they will prepare to give them away.

What is Taiwu?

That is, a kimono made of linen and cotton.

As for giving kimonos made of linen or cotton as gifts, Qingxi knew that it was absolutely impossible to do so according to their style, unless the family they wanted to give the gift to had an average standard of living, or could even barely make ends meet. If they gave something too good to the recipient, it might not be seen as a "gift" in the eyes of the recipient, but rather as a clear expression of "aid."

As for why let her do it... emmmm, it is definitely not difficult to ask an embroidery master to make a piece of clothing well, but it is absolutely impossible to ask her to deliberately make it poorly. Even if her brain allows it, her hands will not allow a bad piece of clothing to come from her hands.

But it was different when she came. Her craftsmanship was average, and the fabrics she used were cheap linen and cotton. Grandma Su said that one of the younger generations in her family knew that they had made good friends here, and then heard that there were two little brothers of similar age, so she made a set of clothes for them, which was acceptable.

If a little sister gives something to a little brother, it is difficult to refuse it even if the brother is an adult.

Qingxi: ...I understand it, but it just feels a little uncomfortable.

After glancing at the other four little oranges who were attracted by Jiro's grabbing of the package, and making sure that their tiny claws wouldn't pierce the outermost paper wrapping of the package and snag the fabric inside, she began to unpack the things that Grandma Su and Grandpa Qin had sent her.

They are all special fruits, snacks, and dried goods from the place where they live now, or jewelry suitable for girls of her age.

Who could have thought that time travelers from two different eras would meet in another era and become close friends at rocket speed.

After putting away the food and accessories separately, Qingxi touched the five kittens equally, unpacked the package that they all disliked, and threw the things into the food backpack. After that, Qingxi compensated the kittens who lost their "toys" with a bowl of special cat snacks, and stood up to go back to her room to make clothes.

As she moved all her daily necessities from the clinic here, there were several more boxes in the room, some for kimonos, some for Western clothes, some for daily use, and all sorts of other things...

She opened a box, and inside were neatly arranged linen and cotton cloths of poor quality or with ugly patterns... Well, most of them were from the lucky bags she and Tsurumaru had bought on the street before.

Qingxi was very suspicious. Maybe she didn't buy the lucky bags after New Year's Eve to get rid of the bad luck. So when she opened the pile of lucky bags, there were not many things that caught her eye.

She picked out four whole pieces of linen and several pieces of cotton cloth of medium size from a pile of cloths, some large, some small, some scattered, and some whole.

These pieces of cotton cloth are very thin and cannot be made into clothes to be worn outside, but they can be used as linings for clothes after being pieced together.

Winter clothes with lining are much thicker and warmer than those without lining.

Thinking back to Chijuro's body shape and then her own, she thought, okay, she could definitely tailor the clothes according to her body shape. However, she still had to make the clothes a little bigger. After all, the clothes were a little too big for her to wear. The women in the family could just use needle and thread to tighten them a little.

These days, ordinary people are very careful about clothes, whether they are worn or washed. A set of clothes can be worn for several years. If a piece of clothing is made a little bigger, they can be folded in with thread. When the child grows up and the clothes are smaller, the folded part can be let out and the clothes can be worn again.

Thinking this in his heart, Qingxi did just that.

Anyway, she has a lot of fabrics like this on hand. It would be better to make clothes out of them and give them to people in need than to keep them with her and have to think about what to do with them every day, right?

As for hoarding, forget it. Can't you buy new ones next year? Hoarding these things will eventually become outdated garbage.

As long as it is not "homework" assigned by Grandma Su, she can make things very quickly.

It took her four days to finish making two sets of clothes. In the meantime, she also used smaller scraps of cloth to piece together two more fitting clothes to wear inside, which also had linings and were a little larger... To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that it looked so ugly to pack a bag of scraps to give to others, she would have wanted to pack up all the scraps of cloth in the box and send them over together with the clothes.

She had already completed the task that Grandma Su had asked her to do. Qingxi packed them up and then took out some chestnuts and sweet potatoes for her to take over.

Sweet potatoes are cheap and taste good, and Kyojuro always eats a few more sweet potatoes from her side than from the ones he eats in this world. You can tell that they are very delicious.

The products are good, taste good, and are cheap. Even if Grandma Su and Grandpa Qin give them to others, they will still be asked questions like how they grew them.

She stroked Jiro's head, then took out a lot of "Jiro's special meals" she had prepared and put in her gourmet backpack and fed them to him. She thought about it in her mind: "It has been delivered to the headquarters, Taoshan, Rengoku Mansion, and the medical clinic... After I send the things that Granny Su needs over, if there is nothing else, Jiro, you can take a vacation."

After working hard for a whole year, her days off are still so unreserved. She finally managed to make it to the Chinese New Year, but if she were in his place, she would also want to take a break and relax during the remaining time.

Jiro let out a grunt in agreement with Kiyoki's words.

It was time for it to take a rest. Although it had retreated from the first line of the air intelligence network to the third line, if there was occasionally any "urgent" message that needed to be delivered, it would still be necessary to send out this big brother who was the fastest, most reliable and error-free.

This is not a big deal, because it can carry heavy objects and help deliver them within a short distance, and the lighter the object, the wider the distance it can be delivered, so it has become the only courier crow in the sky.

I heard this word from Axi.

It means helping people deliver things.

After discovering this convenience, it went from only delivering things for Ah Xi to delivering things for several people it knew, and it delivered things for Madam Tianyin the most.

However, it is a very understanding crow.

For those with large families and great wealth, distributing benefits to their subordinates during the New Year is a huge project. It would naturally be a good thing to have a crow that can quickly and steadily deliver these benefits to the demon hunters of the Demon Slayer Corps who are farther away, or to their families.

Although it is a courier crow and is well-treated and well-fed every time it returns to deliver a task, it is also tired, not tired of flying. Have you ever seen a bird that hates flying?

It's just mentally and physically tiring to fly.

I want to rest, lie down, eat and drink.

With the carrot of rest in front of him, Jiro finished his meal that Qingxi brought out and flapped his wings, shaking off the five kittens that had climbed onto him and were making trouble.

Don't say cats and birds are naturally hostile.

Just look at these five tiny kittens, not even as big as a bird's claw. What killing power can they have?

Gah——

Oh, there are still some.

For example, they always like to bite the crow feathers on his back with their teeth... However, apart from this mild killing power, what else do they have?

It, the big crow, doesn't bother to argue with them.

Jiro picked up the package that Qingxi had packed beside him, spread his wings and took off.