What should I buy for lunch?
Guangyou looked at the dazzling array of vegetables in the market, feeling somewhat lost.
For someone like him who suffers from decision-making anxiety, choosing these dishes is a nightmare every time.
If the dishes had been decided beforehand, it would have been fine, but the two sisters' answers were surprisingly consistent—"Anything is fine, I'm not picky."
This made him very upset.
"Isn't being able to cook also a kind of suffering?"
Guangyou stood in the middle of the aisle of the market, ignoring the passersby around him, lost in deep thought.
"Never mind, let's go in and browse around, and buy whatever comes to mind."
No matter how many times, Guangyou still felt that the vegetable market here looked cleaner and tidier. Even in this very ordinary little vegetable market he was currently browsing, there were no rotten vegetable leaves or anything like that on the ground.
"The vegetables in this small island nation are really expensive, there's no comparison with those in China."
Guangyou glanced at the label on the cabbage, sighed, and shook his head.
A head of cabbage costs around ten RMB, and in other seasons, it can sometimes cost forty or fifty RMB.
Guangyou even heard of a bizarre incident where a tomato farmer was arrested by the police for stealing cabbages from someone else's vegetable garden and selling them because he was envious.
The most bizarre thing is that this isn't just a story; it actually happened...
That's really strange. People steal money and jewelry, but you steal cabbage.
When he heard the news, he thought he had traveled to QQ Farm.
Returning to the topic of grocery shopping, bargaining happens everywhere, but Guangyou is too lazy to bargain when he buys groceries. So he usually follows the bargaining aunties, and after they've settled the price, he quickly catches up and says to the vendor, "Please give me one too."
This method has been successful every time, saving Guangyou a lot of money and a lot of haggling.
"There must be some festive food for Girls' Day, right?"
Just as Guangyou was deciding on the next dish, he realized the problem.
Festivals usually have their representative foods, such as zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival and dumplings for the Spring Festival...
"Shouldn't there be a Girls' Day too?"
Kōyū's understanding of Girls' Day is still very superficial. If it weren't for Ai, he wouldn't have bothered to learn about this traditional festival from a small island nation.
He might be more diligent if he has a daughter in the future, so he can learn about her and celebrate Girls' Day with her.
So, should we have a boy or a girl in the future?
Compared to mischievous boys, girls are definitely cuter, and they're always their fathers' sweet little darlings...
No, we've gone off-topic.
Guangyou shook his head, banishing the idea that he didn't know when it would be realized, and continued to think about today's lunch problem.
"Isn't it somewhat discriminatory if there isn't one?"
Of course, this idea was impossible, and Guangyou knew that too. In order to find out what the traditional food for Girls' Day was, he had to ask the owner here.
Guangyou looked up with his eyes wide open at a vegetable stall and asked an older woman who seemed easy to talk to, "Auntie, my mother asked me to buy ingredients for Girls' Day."
At this point, Guangyou paused, pouted, and put on a pitiful look, saying, "But I didn't make a list, and I forgot. Auntie, can you tell me what I should buy?"
To be honest, Kōyū didn't like his deliberately cutesy appearance; in fact, he found it somewhat disgusting. He muttered to himself, "Conan is probably the most skilled at this kind of thing."
But there wasn't much he could do. After all, he couldn't exactly tell this woman that he was doing this for a girl, or even to find out more about his daughter's future celebrations...
He doesn't need to talk about these things with these irrelevant people.
When the auntie at the stall saw Guangyou, she habitually smiled. After hearing his question, the auntie was slightly surprised.
"Little boy, are you buying this for your little sister?"
Just like the first impression this aunt gave Guangyou, he knew it was basically a done deal as soon as she said those words.
Since they were all just excuses, Guangyou didn't bother to explain. So he went along with it, nodded to her, and said, "Yes, Mom asked me to buy things in advance, but I forgot."
The aunt smiled at Conan and praised him, "You are such a good boy."
"It feels so awkward."
Guangyou smiled, but he was very upset inside. The way he was addressed almost gave him goosebumps all over.
If it were a real child like Ayumi, she would probably be happy for a while because of this compliment, but deep down she's not a child at all!
He was powerless to refute it, damn it!
...
Inside the Akemi apartment, Ai stood up from the sofa, walked to the tape recorder, and pressed the play button again.
The melodious tune once again echoed in every corner of the room, and Ai gently swayed her head to the music, a smile returning to her lips.
"Shiho, I've never heard this song before."
Akemi also heard this song, but at the time her attention was entirely focused on the two people taking pictures, so she barely heard the lyrics.
Now that she has some free time, she can listen carefully and realizes that she has never heard this song before.
Ai sat back on the sofa, closed her eyes and listened carefully to the music, while explaining to Akemi, "This song, 'Snow Flower,' was sung to me by him."
"Did he sing this song to you?"
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