After Hagiwara Kenji changed his slippers, he almost couldn't help but let out a "wow". Fortunately, Matsuda Jinpei punched him in the side of his waist in time, which made him stop talking in a hurry.
But...but this sense of déjà vu is too strong!
The three of them couldn't help but think secretly.
This is a standard three-bedroom, two-living room apartment. Several people had read more of Tsukiyama Asari's files before for the sake of handling cases. This kind of house is not affordable for him financially. It is probably inherited from his parents after he became an adult.
The furniture inside has not changed much, and there are traces of time everywhere. But because it has been carefully cleaned, it has a different flavor. Coming from the entrance, there is a huge shelf next to the TV cabinet. Each space will be placed with one or two pots of flowers and plants that are growing well. On the top are many photo frames, some of Asuka Mizuki alone, and some of them together, but it seems a bit empty for some reason.
Maybe all the photos with Shugo were removed, Hagiwara Kenji guessed.
The next layer is for award certificates and the like, all framed and supported by a shelf. The trophy and the coffee shop's business license are placed in front of the award certificates, and there are even a few paintings by Asuka Mizuki.
The lines are smooth, and it can be seen that there is a lot of talent and skills, but the colors are messy, revealing a strange beauty.
Below is the bookends, many bookends are neatly placed together, there are antique Chinese teahouses, there are also exotic Venice water towns, and the night scene of lights.
A string of small colored lights is hung on the top, and many photos are clipped on the rope with small wooden clips. They are photos of Fei Niao Wu and her friends. No matter how you look at them, they are just those little boys with mature expressions. The other two little girls, one has beautiful long hair, and now her childish face can already show what she will look like when she grows up. The other short-haired girl always wears a headband, looking very lively and beautiful.
The white-haired kid in the photo still has the same expression, but his eyes are shining, and you can tell that he likes his friend very much.
The style of the paintings on this floor is different from the previous two floors. There are other small toys in front of the bookends, which look like they were made by children with clay. The workmanship is uneven, and it is inevitable that it looks messy to adults .
It seems that this floor is for the children to decorate themselves...
The bottom floor is a variety of dolls, some won from the amusement park, and some given by others on birthdays. It seems that neither of these two people would buy such things.
Thinking of this, Hagiwara Kenji also asked. The child who was conscientiously making tea for the three people replied, "Most of them were won when we went to the amusement park. Those puppies were given by friends on birthdays."
Seeing the joy flashing in the child's eyes when he talked about puppies, the man with drooping eyes smiled and spoke again, "Does Xiaowu like puppies?"
"Yeah," Asuka Wu nodded, guessing what the man would say next, and simply answered first, "Asari brother likes it too, but we can't keep a dog now."
Indeed, now I have to take care of the children and take care of the business over at the cafe, and I really don't have the energy to keep small animals. Hagiwara Kenji nodded in agreement and cast his eyes back to the house.
Next to the TV cabinet are photo frames and potted plants. To the left is the snack cabinet, which is a bright warm yellow color. Each compartment has a category written on a sticky note. He saw Fei Niao Wu walk over and try to reach the drawer with the word "tea leaves" written on it, but he couldn't reach it, so he turned around and moved a stool.
Yi Dahang smiled and picked him up, "Now you can reach it."
The child's ears instantly turned a light red. He whispered thanks and opened the drawer. The first thing he saw was the sweet and sour fruit tea that suited the child's taste best.
Although tea contains alkaloids that can cause excitement in the central nervous system, causing children to have symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, fatigue, and insomnia, it is not suitable for drinking. However, Yi Dahang took a closer look and found that the tea bags had no trademarks and looked like they were homemade. There was no tea in them. They were called fruit tea, but they were just homemade drinks made from fruits.
Fei Niao Wu didn't know what the man holding her was thinking. He pulled the drawer open a little more and found a small box of tea in a more formal packaging from the deepest part. On it was written in beautiful Chinese characters "Nine Bends of Red Plum".
It was given by the system. It seems that it was exchanged in the system store. It said that it was not expensive, and it was many times cheaper than the gasoline-flavored sunflower seeds that he liked. Probably because it was not as convenient to convert tea into data as sunflower seeds, the system simply exchanged it and threw it to Yueshan Chaori. He liked to drink black tea the most, so he was naturally happy to accept it. However, he was too busy to drink it recently, so he kept it until today.
[That's the black tea I gave you.]
Seeing Fei Niao Wu take out the can of black tea, the system spoke.
[Borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, tsk.]
Just as he was throwing the shrimps wrapped in flour into the oil pan for frying, Yueshan Chaori couldn't help laughing and said, 'You have learned idioms well. Why are you so petty now.'
[My tea. 】
'Childish--childish--' he said in a long voice, and smiled as he listened to the system's mumbling for a while before speaking, 'It's not like you'll finish it... I'll drink a pack tomorrow, and just in time to finish the book I haven't finished reading. '
【Tsk. Okay, it's time to have a good rest, and tomorrow I'll also finish the TV series I haven't finished watching... It's time to pick up the tempura. 】
On the other side, fearing that the child would not be able to hold the kettle steadily and get scalded by the boiling water, Date Kou picked up the kettle first, and after asking for the location, Matsuda Jinpei also went to help get the teacup.
Asuka Mizuki opened the tea box. The tea leaves inside were curved like fish hooks, dark in color and full of white hairs. The aroma of tea filled the air as soon as the tea was opened. The flavor was rich and fragrant. After it was brewed with boiling water, the water soon turned bright red. Hagiwara Kenji blew away the white mist floating on the tea surface and took a sip.
The flowers on the table seemed to be newly replaced. They were wrapped with silver leaf chrysanthemums and a pure-colored bud that he couldn't name. The shape and color of the silver leaf chrysanthemums were very strange. Its leaves were covered with white hairs on both sides, presenting a piece of snow-white. From a distance, it looked like clouds, but if you looked closely, it had a kind of beauty wrapped in frost.
Kenji Hagiwara recalled the scene when he entered the room. The child hurried over to get slippers for the group. The half-finished homework book was spread on the table. The child reached out his warm hands from the indoor smoke and hugged the three people in turn. It was the child's way of expressing gratitude.
Suddenly, he walked into the warm room from the cold wind outside. The child who was still doing his homework ran to greet him. The black-haired young man in the kitchen poked his head out to greet the group. He was still wearing an apron, and then went back to the kitchen to continue working. His attitude was close and natural. The smell of rice had already been selected from the kitchen and filled the whole house. The smell of fireworks belonging to the study was everywhere.
Although it is not difficult to mistake the gender of a young man who is several years younger than him even if he is wearing an apron and has a gentle face, Hagiwara Kenji inexplicably feels that this scene is exactly the same as the scene in a TV series where a husband returns home and his wife and children come out to greet him.
He almost blurted out, "Wow, is this the life that Shugo lives?" Fortunately, Matsuda Jinpei stopped him in time.
However, no wonder Shugo had that expression when he made the phone call.
Although it doesn't look like the decoration promotional pictures that show the skills everywhere, the decoration of Hagiwara Kenji has a very family atmosphere. The children's unfinished homework books and school bags placed on the table, the strange-shaped plasticine figurines, the fragrance of tea and food, it feels like home.
After Asuka Kiri made tea for a few people, she sat down again and did her homework seriously. Hagiwara Kenji couldn't stay idle and wanted to go over to see what the child was doing, but was pulled back by Matsuda Jinpei.
Date Kou smiled and leaned on the sofa. He liked children very much. At this time, he was looking at the boy's furry back of the head with an unclear expression.
"What are you thinking about?" Although Hagiwara Kenji asked, he already had the answer in his heart, "Are you jealous?"
Then he asked, "When are you going to have one?"
"Well," knowing that behind this sentence was a question about when he was going to marry Natalie, Date Kou touched his stubbled short hair and laughed, "Not yet."
Now that he had just graduated, he wanted everything to be ready before proposing to his girlfriend. Thinking of her beautiful golden hair and her face with more distinct features than the Japanese, Date Kou couldn't help but soften his expression. Maybe
he will have a child in the future. A girl who looks like Natalie would be best, of course a boy would be good too, but if it's a boy, he would probably be too noisy, and Matsuda and the others would have trouble with it.
"I wonder if they can make it to the class president's wedding," Hagiwara Kenji said in a voice that only a few people could hear, seeing that the child was doing math problems seriously and not paying attention to what was going on here.
"Tie them both up," Matsuda Jinpei said.
Although he knew it was a joke, Hagiwara Kenji still said "Wow," and moved back a little, "Little Jinpei is becoming more and more like a **."
Tsukiyama Asari came out with the last two dishes, just in time to see the two of them fighting, and couldn't help but smile.
After placing the fried assorted dishes and tempura on the table, Asuka Kiri quickly put down her work and ran to get the dishes and chopsticks. Hagiwara Kenji stood up to help somewhat embarrassedly, and when he passed by the dining table he couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's too rich."
Upon hearing this, Matsuda Jinpei and Date Kou leaned over to take a look, and were also shocked by the overly rich dishes.
Next to each bowl of rice, there is a small bowl of steaming clam miso soup and a long plate of salt-grilled saury, as well as a beautiful and small steamed egg custard, chicken meatballs and ginger-grilled pork with fried tofu in broth with komatsuna. The omelette in broth is not burnt, but just solidified, and it has a texture that melts in your mouth. The fried assorted and tempura are fried in a pan, but they are not greasy at all. It
is more or less a little restrained to be a guest at someone else's house, but it may be because the environment here is too warm. Tsukiyama Asari gives people a familiar sense of intimacy. Although this meal is not very lively, it is very comfortable.
The food tastes like home-cooked food, and it is this home-cooked feeling that makes people feel comfortable. Hagiwara Kenji drank the cold beer in his hand and couldn't help saying, "Xiao Shugo is so lucky."
For a moment, everyone else's expressions were distorted.
Tsukiyama Asari:......? ?
Although, this sentence is really weird.
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System: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha so lucky
Asari: Shut up