Chapter 127 Chapter 127 Apple Candy and Goldfish Scooping (Part 2)...
The first network naturally failed.
“What a pity…”
At the moment the paper net was broken, the bystander Mukai Taketo was even more excited than the person involved, Saionji Tameon.
Yuyin was very calm. The last time she played goldfish catching was during the Chinese New Year a long time ago. Her hands were definitely not used to it. If she wanted to catch one, she had to get a feel for it first.
Soon after, with her careful movements, the second paper net was torn.
Atobe Keigo was standing next to her, and was very confused when he saw this: "Is it really that difficult?"
In Atobe's opinion, Tamane is naturally a strong person. Whether it is studying for exams, archery competitions or going out to shoot "enemies", there is nothing she can't do. This omnipotence is deepened countless times under the filter of the halo of love, so he subconsciously thinks that a small thing like catching goldfish should be easy for Tamane to do.
"Of course!" Before Yuyin could reply, Mukai Taketo couldn't help but jump in and say, "Atobe, even though catching goldfish looks easy, the paper net is actually very easy to tear. It tears a hole the moment you move, and you can't scoop anything up! So, it's not a problem of my ability at all."
He also did not forget to find excuses for the fact that he spent ten nets but still got nothing.
However, Keigo Atobe, a man who believed that "everything depends on human effort" and "any lack of success is due to insufficient effort," clearly didn't buy Mukai Taketo's rhetoric and offered, "Is that so? Then I'll give it a try."
Since Tezuka was about to leave, he naturally could not hold on to the two uneaten apple candies, so they naturally passed to another person's hands.
Yuushi Ozuki looked at the candy apple in his hand helplessly. What is this? Will those who complain always be complained about?
"Look, I have three nets left. I'll give you two." Yuyin saw Jibe leaning over and intending to do it himself, so she smiled and gave him two nets.
Atobe Keigo only took one net and said arrogantly, "One is enough for me."
Yuyin took the other two nets without hesitation and stopped fishing herself. She squatted beside him, chin in her hand, watching him intently, and said with a smile, "Then I'll wait and see how you perform, Jingwu."
Keigo Atobe's hands, used to holding a tennis racket, naturally held the light net with great stability. Following the movements he had observed others using to scoop up goldfish, he slowly lowered the net into the pond, gradually approaching his target goldfish, waiting only for the right moment to nab it.
But he underestimated the influence of other objective factors.
Yuyin was watching him from the side, her eyes burning as if real. The two of them were very close, shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, and their breathing could be heard.
A sudden thought struck Keigo Atobe, that Yuyin hadn't lied to him. After wandering around the temple fair for a while, the smell of disinfectant on her body had faded to the point of being almost inaudible, indicating that she wasn't seriously injured. Instead, a faint sweet aroma of apple candy filled his nose, making him recall the sweet and sour taste he had just tasted. His mind couldn't help but recall Yuyin's slightly opened mouth as she nibbled on the apple candy, and her red tongue that occasionally stretched out to lick the candy coating, like jelly, making him want to...
Bang!
The goldfish that was caught swung its tail in the paper net bag, fell out of the broken hole, and fell back into the water. It soon mixed in with the original school of fish and could not be distinguished.
The splash made by the goldfish falling into the water was very small, but Keigo Atobe felt as if water had splashed all over his face. The boast had already been made, and he held the torn net bag, not knowing how to react.
Because of some unhealthy associations, he even didn't dare to turn his head to look at Yuyin's face.
If there was someone in front of him at this moment, they would find that Keigo Atobe's face looked very much like the red candy apple.
"Haha, I told you, it's not that simple. Do you believe me this time, Tezuka?" Mukai Taketo laughed heartily. Only at this time, he completely forgot Tezuka's majesty as the minister.
Atobe covered his lips with his fist and said, "Ah, my hand was shaking accidentally just now. I will succeed next time."
"Give."
Immediately afterwards, an intact net was handed to him again. Looking up along the white and slender hand holding the thin pole, he saw Yuyin's smiling eyes.
The thin pole connecting the net bag wasn't particularly long. When Atobe Keigo reached out to take it, he inevitably touched the delicate skin of Yuyin's hand. His heart trembled, and he quickly took the net bag, looking away a little, and said, "Thank you."
Obviously, it failed again this time.
Atobe Keigo knew that his mind was in turmoil, and when his mind was in turmoil, his hands would be unsteady, let alone a game like catching goldfish that required calmness and composure.
When Yuyin wanted to hand over a third net, Atobe Keigo decisively refused. He quickly calmed himself down, took out his black card, and decisively said to the owner of the goldfish scooping stall, "Give me ten more nets!"
The stall owner, his eyes wrinkled slightly, took the small black card, a symbol of status and position, and said with a smile, "Sir, no need. This only costs 200 yen."
In all his years in the industry, this was the first time he had seen a customer pay with a card, especially a black card.
There was silence at the scene, and Atobe Keigo kept swinging the card, as if he was petrified.
In the end, it was Tamane who took out her coin purse and saved him. In fact, if he hadn't stuffed the apple candy into Oshizuka Yuushi, Oshizuka was originally planning to take the lead, but because of his inconvenience, he was one step slower than Saionji Tamane.
Of course, the final result was very gratifying. Atobe Keigo finally succeeded with the fourth of the ten new nets he had acquired, and caught a pure white goldfish with a red forehead, while Tamane also caught a golden goldfish with the only net bag he had.
Once he succeeded, Atobe lost interest in this new game and gave the remaining net bags to Hibiki and Oshitari to continue, but the two still didn't catch even half a fish.
Now the two little goldfish were placed in biodegradable transparent plastic bags filled with water and held in Yuyin's hands. Obusuki Yuushi sadly discovered that if he couldn't catch the goldfish, he would still have to get the candied apples, and he might have to carry them around in public until he returned.
Yuyin remembered the two bags the candy apple shop owner had given her, and she quickly took them out and motioned for Oshitari to use them to pack the candies. She turned back to Atobe and said, "If you can't finish the candy apples right away, you can put them in the refrigerator. When you want to eat them, you can cut them into pieces and sprinkle some white sugar on them. They're also very delicious."
"Right, right," said Taketo Mukai, nodding his head. "My mom told me the same thing. This is how you can deal with leftover candy apples."
Of course, Keigo Atobe would not know how this kind of common food was processed, and Yuushi Oshitani, who had not eaten apple candy since he was eight years old, naturally did not know either.
The two of them could only watch in confusion as Yuyin and Yueren chatted about everything from the storage and processing of apple candies to whether crepes were more delicious salty or sweet.
"Ahem," Atobe Keigo coughed lightly, interrupting the two people's lively conversation. He gently moved his finger on the water bag containing the small goldfish held by Yuyin and asked, "How do I keep this? Should I put it in the tank with the tropical fish?"
Both the Karuizawa villa and the Atobe family's luxurious home in Tokyo are decorated with many tropical fish tanks.
Yuyin was immediately captivated by his words and quickly shook her head, replying, "Goldfish are freshwater fish and can't be kept together with tropical fish. They require different water conditions. Especially for such a small goldfish, all we need to do is ask the housekeeper Yamaji to prepare a fish tank the size of a football."
Yuushi Oshitari pulled his partner away at the right time, telling him not to disturb the space between Atobe and Saionji without any scruples.
Others may not know, but he does know that although tonight's fireworks display is under the sign of the end of training and allowing everyone in the tennis club to relax, it is actually because Atobe wants to have a romantic date with Saionji at the summer temple fair. He understood it when he saw Atobe's absent-minded behavior since this morning when he found that Saionji had not returned yet, not to mention that he also discovered that Atobe had prepared for that surprise.
"Is such a small fish tank enough?" Keigo Atobe stared at the goldfish in the water bag. In his opinion, the bigger the fish tank, the better for raising fish. Although his garden did not have a special koi pond like the Japanese garden, it also had ponds, fountains and other ornamental scenes.
"You can't raise a small goldfish like this." As if understanding Atobe's confusion, Yuyin explained carefully, "The ornamental koi that are raised in the courtyard are different from this. They will grow into big fish, so they naturally need a pond."
With Yuushi Oshitari deliberately slowing down his partner's pace, Atobe and Tamane naturally walked ahead alone.
The two talked about the topic of koi for a while. Yuyin didn't understand these things at first, but thanks to the years she spent at the Chang family, she was influenced by them. In a sense, Senior Brother Chang was really an old-fashioned Japanese man. Fortunately, his other ideas were relatively open-minded, and he didn't have any bad ideas of male chauvinism or favoring boys over girls. Otherwise, Yuyin felt that she would have run away to work independently a long time ago.
Wait, speaking of old-fashioned, the senior brother's ideas about monsters are indeed old-fashioned. I remember that she had mediated between him and Natsume many times and was so busy that she was exhausted.
"Yuyin?" Atobe asked, noticing that she was lost in thought while talking.
"Ah, nothing," Yuyin came back to her senses and smiled to save her dignity. "Actually, Jingwu, if you are interested in these traditional things, you can contact my senior brother next time. He knows the most about these things. I only know the basics."
That’s right, her senior brother is a real classical nobleman. When she is not moving or talking, she looks like a “Yamato Nadeshiko” recognized by the public.
"Your senior brother?" Atobe Keigo quickly dug out Yuyin's interpersonal relationships from his good memories. "Are you talking about the head of the Chang family?"
Yuyin nodded, "Yes, you have seen it at the Ginza Kaiseki restaurant and at the Matsudaira family banquet."
After her reminder, Keigo Atobe remembered the young man who covered half of his eyes more deeply. He thought about how when they first met, Oshitari and Mukai said that Tamane was a boyfriend and girlfriend. At that time, he was proud of his own eyesight and did not agree with this judgment. Now when he thought about it, he couldn't help feeling a little jealous.
"Yuyin, do you and your senior brother have a good relationship?" he asked indirectly.
"Our relationship..."
Yuyin suddenly remembered that this was not the world of the demon hunter. There, almost everyone who was related to the demon world knew that although Saionji Yuyin was nominally only the junior sister of Deba Shizueji, she had grown up in the Deba family for several years since he found her. The relationship between the two was like that of family members, so naturally they were extraordinarily close.
She is only fourteen or fifteen years old now, and her past life history is clearly traceable. When most people hear that she has the title of Junior Sister Chang Jingsi, they probably just think that she has learned skills from the Chang family, and will not think that their relationship is very close. It is impossible for Yuyin to correct other people's wrong ideas and tell them the truth.
However, facing Atobe's casual questioning, she suddenly wanted to tell the truth.
She stared into the distance and sighed, "Senior Brother Dechang is like a family member to me. Jingwu, you know that I am the only child of my parents, but I always feel that if I had a brother, he would definitely be like Senior Brother."
Of course, she would like him more if her senior brother didn't pressure her to work, thank you.
When Atobe Keigo heard her answer, he immediately relaxed and smiled sincerely: "You two have such a good relationship as brothers and sisters."
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