Chapter 022
After estimating the time, Watanabe Ryu interrupted Ueno Shin who was still trying to continue practicing on the ghost.
He said, "Doctor Ueno, it's almost time. We should go back."
The sun sets early in winter, and if the weather is bad, the sun will not come out all day long. This makes it convenient for ghosts who are afraid of the sun to go out and hunt during the day.
After sending them both back to the clinic, he would go out for inspection.
Actually, it was not his turn to patrol, but he was assigned to accommodate and protect Dr. Ueno and the little girl. Therefore, his recent task was temporarily transferred to patrolling for ghost traces in this area.
Although Ueno Arata was still feeling unsatisfied, fortunately he was still a rational person. After he calmed down, he waved to the two of them and said, "Let's stop here for today and continue tomorrow."
As for the universal acupuncture gun he was holding, he naturally would not return it to Qingxi.
Qingxi couldn't help but curl her lips as she watched him put the universal blood-blasting gun into his arms. By the way, could she ask Ubuyashiki Kyouya to reimburse her for the blood-blasting gun?
A handful of 50 million food coins, do you think it’s expensive?
What's more, including the one taken away by Dr. Ueno, she only had two in total, and she felt sad if one was missing.
If she had known this earlier, she would have bought more of this type of aphrodisiac guns when she came back.
The three of them followed the same route they had taken and walked out of the dark and poorly ventilated underground cell.
As soon as she came out from underground, the black-haired girl was covered in the face by the cold wind outside. Immediately afterwards, a cool breeze slowly fell on her nose, absorbed the warmth on her skin, turned into water, and slowly slid down.
Qingxi sneezed several times before she got used to coming from a warm place to a cold place. She looked up and saw white snowflakes falling from the gloomy sky.
"It's snowing." she sighed.
Ueno Shinying chuckled, "Yeah, the New Year had passed before and there was no snow. I thought there would be no snow this year. Now it seems that all the snow has accumulated until now and is falling all at once."
Qingxi looked up and looked at Xue again, when a haori appeared in front of her and blocked her vision.
Feeling her head wrapped in the warm haori, Qingxi subconsciously picked up the part of the clothes that was still long enough to fall to the ground even though it covered her head. She turned sideways to look at Watanabe Ryu. He was the only one among the three people in their group who was wearing a haori, so she knew without thinking too much that the haori covering her head was his.
The black-haired girl looked at the young man next to her, but the other person was not looking at her.
The girl withdrew her gaze, but still said in a voice that the other party could hear: "Thank you."
The young man with the Nichirin sword on his waist did not respond, but the slight movement of his neck indicated that he had heard the girl's thanks.
After leaving the wisteria forest that was in full bloom all year round, the three returned to the clinic and returned the haori covering the outside to Watanabe Ryu. Qingxi ran back upstairs and changed out of the white "nurse skirt" stained with ghost blood.
Of course, the ghost blood would turn into ashes and disappear after leaving the ghost's body, but she was also very worried because who knew if there were any bacteria on it.
The logistics management staff were attentive and did not skimp on providing each medical staff with two sets of uniforms to change into. Instead, they gave each person four sets. This way, even if three uniforms were left after washing, there would still be one to replace them.
After temporarily placing the clothes he had taken off on a wooden stool, Qingxi hurried downstairs to the kitchen.
Mei and Xiaohui, who were cooking dinner for everyone in the kitchen, turned around when they heard the sound and asked in confusion, "Aki, why are you here?"
"Are you hungry?"
Qingxi waved at the two of them and explained, "No, it's just that Mr. Watanabe lent me his haori when I came back just now, so I wanted to make some rice balls so that I can eat them when Mr. Watanabe is out on patrol and I'm hungry."
The two nodded in understanding.
"Do you need help?" Mei asked.
Qingxi shook her head: "No need, Mei-sister, I can do it myself."
In winter, no matter what kind of rice balls you make and put in the lunch box, they will eventually get cold, so Qingxi rummaged through the remaining ingredients in the kitchen today and finally found only some carrots and cabbage.
It has been mentioned before that the ingredients for the clinic are all purchased freshly by the staff of the Hidden Department every day. Basically, there is nothing left after dinner is ready, but there is still extra rice.
But isn’t it a bit too simple to just use carrots and cabbage?
Qingxi, who had a headache, cut a carrot into small pieces, shredded the cabbage, sneaked a hot mushroom into the food backpack, cut some slices from it and chopped them up, and put the rest back into the food backpack.
Hot Mushroom, capture level 53. These fiery mushrooms grow in cold places. Eating them can provide heat to the body in the cold winter, but you can't eat too much at once because they are very spicy.
The pot on the stove was already in use, but she could use the small stove with a charcoal fire.
Pour in a small amount of soybean oil, add diced carrots, shredded cabbage, and chopped hot mushrooms and stir-fry until cooked. Then add rice, floating salt, crushed barbecue seaweed, versatile vinegar and other ingredients with a capture level of 1 or below, mix well and shape them into triangular rice balls of appropriate size and cover them with seaweed sheets. Finally, put these rice balls into the pan and bake until the surface is slightly yellow, then you can take them out and put them into the bento.
"It looks delicious." Mei and Xiaohui, who were finishing up dinner, finally had time to come and see the little sister among them, said Mei.
Xiao Hui nodded and said seriously, "I don't know who will benefit from it in the future. Oh, just thinking about it now makes me reluctant to give it up."
Mei: "Then we should keep a close watch. If there is a stinky man who treats Axi badly, we will help Axi drive him away."
Xiao Hui nodded, covered her mouth and smiled, "Then I can enjoy the delicious meals made by Ah Xi for a few more years."
Qingxi was helpless: "Sister Mei, Sister Xiaohui, I'm still young."
Her real age is in her sixties or seventies. She has never had a one-night stand with any man and is still a "magical girl". She has not found a boyfriend with the same personality as her in the food world, and she feels that she will not find a partner who is compatible with her here.
After cleaning up the kitchen utensils on his side, Qingxi saw that the other two were almost finished, so he simply stayed to help them.
"Mr. Watanabe." After dinner, Qingxi called out to Ryu Watanabe, who was about to leave for patrol. When he stopped to wait for her, she quickly ran over to him and handed him her lunch box. "I made some rice balls. If you're hungry after your patrol, Mr. Watanabe, you can have some."
Watanabe Ryu looked at the lunch box handed to him by the girl in surprise, and then looked at the girl who looked very shy no matter how he looked at her.
The speed at which his face changed was so fast that it looked like he was two different people.
Watanabe Ryu thought silently in his heart.
Watanabe Ryu had received lunch boxes from medical staff at the clinic as gifts to ghost hunters before, so he took the lunch box without thinking too much. After nodding at the black-haired girl, he turned and left.
Qingxi felt relieved as he watched the other person leave.
She has a habit that can be said to be an advantage or a disadvantage. That is, when others give her kind help, even if that help may not be needed by her, she will think about when to repay the kindness given to her by the other party.
Watanabe Ryu had lent her his own haori before, and she was thinking about doing something to respond. Now that the other party has accepted her lunch box, the matter of the haori is over.
Unlike Qingxi, Watanabe Ryu, who had no intention of lending his haori to the little girl, was running alone in the snowy forest.
The temperature was dropping rapidly. The biting cold wind mixed with the gradually heavier goose feather-like snow kept blowing on my face. My eyebrows and eyelashes were dyed snow-white without me noticing. Even the warm air I exhaled condensed into a tiny white crystal the moment it came into contact with the cold air, and was then carried away by the wind.
But even so, Watanabe Ryu continued to patrol the area he was responsible for without changing his expression. He only stopped running when the sky gradually turned pale.
A night of patrolling is extremely physically demanding for ghost hunters, especially on such a windy and snowy day, when the body temperature will be taken away even more.
Feeling so hungry that he protested to himself, Watanabe Ryu took out the lunch box that Qingxi had given him.
His hands, already numb from the cold, stiffly opened the lunch box. It was at this moment that he realized that he was just an ordinary person, not an iron man who was not afraid of wind and snow.
Eating frozen hard rice balls in the snow, even if the rice balls tasted delicious when they were just made, you can't expect them to be very delicious at this time.
Looking at the rice balls in the lunch box, which were a mixture of rice and vegetables and baked to golden brown, Watanabe Ryu picked up one at random and stuffed it into his mouth.
After just one bite, he was stunned for a moment.
He chewed the rice ball in his mouth. The rice was cold, and the vegetables mixed with it were also cold. It was no different from the rice balls he had eaten before. However, whether it was due to psychological reasons or some other reason, as he chewed again and again, a warm current emerged from his mouth. As the food flowed down his throat into his stomach, the warm current centered on his stomach and then swam towards his limbs. By the time he finished eating the whole rice ball, his body, which had been frozen by the cold wind, gradually recovered.
Watanabe Ryu stared at the rice ball for a long time but couldn't see any difference in it, so he finally gave up.
I picked up another rice ball from the lunch box and put it into my mouth. Well, if I don’t think about how that girl made this kind of rice ball, I will find it even more delicious!!!
Half an hour later, when the last rice ball in the lunch box was eaten, Watanabe Ryu put the lunch box away and prepared to return.
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