Chapter 21 Chapter 21 Beef intestines, caviar soup pot, pickles. ...
twenty one
The bird egg that fell from Dazai Osamu's hand turned into a point of light and disappeared, and the system administrator June's reminder sounded.
"Obtained 2 bird eggs."
He breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay."
Dazai Osamu looked at Li Xiaoqi and calculated the distance. His speed could not overcome Newton's gravity, so she could only fall to the ground.
Fortunately, the tree was not tall, and with Li Xiaoqi's physique, he only had some bruises on his body.
In a trance, Dazai Osamu recalled the scratch on Li Xiaoqi's knee when she fell to the ground in the parking lot, and her painful expression at that time. Even though he knew clearly that he would not be able to catch her in a very short time, he still hurriedly jumped down from the tree and rushed over.
He paused and saw Xia Youjie appear under the tree, catch Li Xiaoqi, then jump onto the branch and throw two bird eggs to her.
Dazai Osamu pursed his lips, his face looking as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly.
In front, Li Xiaoqi was held in the arms of Princess Xia Yujie. She did not have any shyness of a little girl, but just held the bird egg with a look of joy.
Seeing this, Dazai Osamu's expression relaxed a little and a slight smile appeared on his lips.
"Is this an ostrich egg? It's so big..."
Xia Youjie complained, and seeing Li Xiaoqi crying with joy, he asked in confusion: "Is this important?"
Li Xiaoqi nodded repeatedly, "This is a good thing!"
Geto Xia Yu blinked slowly, put Li Xiaoqi down, and looked at Dazai Osamu after she stood up.
He noticed that the bird egg in Dazai Osamu's hand just fell and turned into a point of light and disappeared. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, "Could this strange egg be the incarnation of elemental power?"
Li Xiaoqi and Dazai Osamu were stunned and said in unison: "Ah, right, right."
Geto Suguru: “……?”
Why does he feel like he's being treated perfunctorily?
Geto Suguru coughed lightly and said, "I didn't expect elemental power to transform into something like this. Miss Nana and Mr. Dazai look very nervous. Is there a time limit?"
Li Xiaoqi nodded and said worriedly: "Yes, about two minutes, it must be collected."
"Then next time I see something strange, I'll let you know."
Xia Yujie suddenly realized something. He pondered for a moment, chuckled softly, and then said jokingly, "That's really not easy. It's so early in the morning, and I don't even have time to wash up."
Li Xiaoqi realized his current outfit and his face turned red immediately. He could only smile awkwardly.
Dazai Osamu came over and pulled Li Xiaoqi behind him, "Getamaru-kun, why did you come here so early in the morning?"
Li Xiaoqi looked at Dazai Osamu blocking his back in front of him, and suddenly heaved a sigh of relief, his uneasy mood eased a lot.
She stuck her head out and looked over curiously.
Geto Xia Yu smiled gently and shook the bag in his hand, which had a pattern of pastries printed on it.
"These are homemade pickles my parents asked the assistant supervisor to give me. Because the assistant supervisor had a mission early in the morning, he was called out at six o'clock..."
As he spoke, he yawned, a gentle look between his brows. "My parents didn't elaborate, just saying they had made pickles and had them delivered. But when Assistant Supervisor Ueno came to my house, he saw that my parents had been busying around for most of the day to make these."
Li Xiaoqi was stunned, lowered his eyes, and felt depressed.
After turning evil, Geto Suguru didn't even let his parents go, and made his family the priority to be eliminated to show his determination. She felt particularly heavy when she thought of this.
Xia Youjie noticed that Li Xiaoqi was suddenly in a bad mood and thought that he was homesick, so he quickly apologized: "Sorry, sorry, I am showing off by saying this..."
Dazai Osamu looked back at Li Xiaoqi, raised his hand and patted her head, but did not say anything.
Li Xiaoqi shook his head, suppressed his emotions, and said with a smile: "No, I just miss my family too."
She took a deep breath and looked into Geto Suguru's eyes with a serious expression.
"Suyu-kun, your parents are very nice. They seem to be a very warm family."
Xia Yujie nodded slightly, his eyes curved with a smile, "Yes, they are all very good people."
"Then you must cherish it."
Li Xiaoqi raised his eyebrows and smiled brightly, his fair face flushed a little shyly because of saying these words that he didn't say often.
Geto Xia Yu was stunned and responded in the morning breeze.
"Um."
After a while, Geto Xiayou waved goodbye and gave Li Xiaoqi and Dazai Osamu a box of pickles before leaving.
That night, Li Xiaoqi opened the box, took out cucumbers and eggplants from the rice bran, cut them into slices, put them on a plate and served them on the table as a side dish.
Dinner was a beef intestine and caviar soup pot cooked by Dazai Osamu, topped with grated radish and caviar, and the boiling soup exuded an aroma.
"It seems that today's cuisine is not dark, which is good."
Dazai Osamu placed the bowl and chopsticks on the table and said, "After all, we are partners and cohabitants. How can I let a lady suffer from stomach problems? That would be ungentlemanly."
"That's because I was watching you the whole time, so you didn't have the chance to put anything messy, okay!"
Li Xiaoqi crossed his arms and said helplessly.
Dazai Osamu stuck out his tongue, picked up the bowl, scooped a spoonful of soup into the bowl and handed it to Li Xiaoqi.
"Try it now."
His tone was urgent, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.
Li Xiaoqi was silent for a second, feeling like he was about to be blinded by the expectation in those iris-colored eyes, so he had no choice but to take the bowl and take a sip of the soup.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she blurted out: "Delicious!"
This was the second time he cooked in front of Li Xiaoqi, besides the last time he made Tom Yum Goong.
During this time, Dazai Osamu took advantage of Li Xiaoqi's ignorance of Japanese cuisine and wanted to add durian that he had found from somewhere into the soup pot. Fortunately, Li Xiaoqi was well prepared and had searched for recipes in advance, so he interrupted Dazai Osamu's behavior in time.
Well, the durian chicken hotpot is delicious, but durian plus beef intestines feels like a stinky pot...
Li Xiaoqi put down his bowl with relief and gave himself a thumbs up for his supervision.
Dazai Osamu raised the corners of his lips and puffed out his chest proudly.
"Don't you even look at who did it?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Dazai is a great chef. He's amazing."
"Ah, isn't that a bit perfunctory?"
"No, I'm serious."
"It's like swallowing a thousand needles."
"A little bit."
"Ah, it's just perfunctory!"
While the food was steaming, Li Xiaoqi laughed out loud and ate his dinner happily.
There was a gentle look between Dazai Osamu's brows, and the white smoke rising from the soup pot blurred his gentle facial features.
Li Xiaoqi picked up a pickled cucumber and praised it, "It's really good. This is the first time I've eaten this kind of homemade Japanese pickles."
Dazai Osamu opened his lips slightly and took a bite.
He put down his chopsticks, lowered his eyes, and said softly, "Me too."
Li Xiaoqi was stunned, and his heart warmed when he looked at Dazai Osamu. He stood up and held Dazai Osamu's face with both hands.
She smiled with her eyes curved and said, "There will be plenty of opportunities to eat it in the future!"
Dazai Osamu raised his eyes, the light from above his head shone into his eyes, and a pair of hands squeezed the flesh out of his cheeks.
"How do you know?"
He spoke vaguely.
"The future is uncertain, so just treat it as a wish."
Li Xiaoqi let go of his hand and spoke easily.
Dazai Osamu blinked slowly, raised his hand to hold the side of his face, and smiled slightly at Li Xiaoqi.
"Eat, eat, eat well so you can sleep well."
He wanted to sing a nursery rhyme in a soft tone.
Li Xiaoqi felt his whole body tremble, and there was an inexplicable chill under his gaze.
So, she also imitated Dazai Osamu's movements, holding the side of her face with her palm, and said, "If you were in a horror movie, you would be the one possessed by an evil spirit."
Facing the cursed spirit, Li Xiaoqi was clearly trembling with fear, but she was still able to look bravely into Dazai Osamu's unconcealed eyes.
It was gloomy, with a past of murder, self-deprecating uneasiness, and a desire for death.
She was very curious whether she could see any light in such eyes.
Perhaps, it was this thought that gave her the courage to look straight ahead.
"Mr. Dazai."
Li Xiaoqi picked up the beef intestines and caviar and put them in Dazai Osamu's bowl.
"Thank you for protecting me when I was in danger and for always humoring me."
Dazai Osamu's whole body stiffened, he stopped talking and buried his head in eating.
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Over the next three days, Li Xiaoqi gradually adapted to life at the Jujutsu High School.
The amazing thing is that the system did not give any weird tasks or start live broadcasts during this period.
Even so, she and Dazai Osamu still became strange people in the Jujutsu High School.
Because the system will refresh ingredients from Teyvat on this campus from time to time, and even those ingredients appear one after another, they always put down their work and run around the campus to pick them.
"Attention! Jueyun peppers and pigeons have appeared in front of the teaching building. If needed, please pick them within 120 seconds."
Li Xiaoqi and Dazai Osamu, who were originally testing the kitchen to prepare ingredients, put down their kitchen knives and rushed out without saying a word.
Mr. Ino was stunned by this, "You two, come back here!"
A minute later, two panting and furtive figures appeared in front of the teaching building.
The system prompts that to obtain poultry and lean meat, just chop them with weapons from Teyvat.
There are three Jueyun pepper plants and two shining pigeons on the grass.
Li Xiaoqi quickly picked up the Jueyun pepper and put it into his backpack, then took out the Wufeng sword and threw it to Dazai Osamu.
The bell rang for the end of get out of class and students came out one after another, startling the pigeons so that they ran around in the grass.
Li Xiaoqi and Dazai Osamu, holding blunt swords, chased the running pigeons in a panic.
Fortunately, these pigeons will not fly away.
With only forty seconds left, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru had just received the mission to protect and eliminate the astral plasma. When they were puzzled, they heard voices around them.
They pulled themselves out of their own world and found that the students around them stopped in their tracks, with subtle expressions of silence on their faces.
"Isn't that the cafeteria staff?"
"What are they doing?"
"Dove soup?"
"That sword... looks like a game prop..."
"Oh, I saw them outside the dormitory last time. They were climbing a tree to pick apples. The strange thing was that there were only three apples on the tree, and they were very big."
"I saw it too. It was outside the bathhouse, I think. They were catching fish in that pond."
Hearing the conversation, Xia Youjie's mouth twitched. He looked over with everyone's gaze and saw Li Xiaoqi running around in the grass, shouting "Don't run". His coat was covered with leaves, which looked very funny.
Gojo Satoru looked again and saw that Dazai Osamu was not much better.
Li Xiaoqi ignored the gazes of others and, when the countdown was about to end, he and Dazai Osamu surrounded the pigeon from the front and back and finally chopped it down.
The pigeon turned into a point of light and disappeared, hidden by the grass. The students watching did not notice anything unusual.
“Hahahahahahahaha——”
Gojo Satoru laughed out loud.
Geto Suguru came back to his senses and smiled too. His heavy mood due to the mission was made to laugh and cry by this scene.
Li Xiaoqi looked over and curled his lips, "Laugh, laugh, laugh, I'll laugh you to death."
Xia Yujie coughed lightly and waved, "See you at noon."
He and Gojo Satoru walked away side by side. Li Xiaoqi looked at their backs shrouded in sunlight and suddenly remembered that three days had passed since the villa incident, and they should have received the mission regarding the astral plasma.
Seeing that it was over, the others gradually left the teaching building.
See you at noon?
Li Xiaoqi was a little confused, and then he realized that they should have said going to the cafeteria to eat.
When he was distracted, Dazai Osamu said something lightly.
"Speaking of which, Xiaoqi, have we forgotten something?"
Li Xiaoqi was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?"
Dazai Osamu pondered for a moment and said, "We've been enjoying the past three days collecting materials, but our main task is to go out and open the anchor point, okay?"
Li Xiaoqi opened his eyes wide, holding his face and screaming.
"Yeah! That's right!"
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