Chapter 052
Qingxi left the ward and had no idea that something like this would happen after she left.
Most women are very afraid of reptiles like snakes and other cold-blooded animals, so when she saw the white snake wrapped around Qingxi's neck, even Koharu Ling, who occasionally frightened Qingxi, couldn't help but stay three meters away from her.
"Aki, the thing on your neck..." Riko's face turned pale. "Yes, it's Mr. Iguro's white snake, right? How did you bring it out?"
What Riko actually wanted to say to her was that if Mr. Iguro forced Aki to do something, she could tell him. She went to find Dr. Ueno for help, but the white snake was too creepy when staring at people with its red eyes. It also gave her the feeling that it could understand what they said, which made her feel weird as if he was saying bad things about it in front of people.
So she got scared...
Thinking of this, Riko cast an apologetic look towards Kiyoki.
Qingxi, who didn't notice Riko's gaze, raised her hand and gently grasped Kabukimaru's body and moved him to the side. She said, "Yes, I'll take Kabukimaru out for a walk."
Riko watched as the white snake, still unaccustomed to having itself wrapped around her neck, kept leaning half its body forward, blocking her view. She reached out again to pry it aside, her lips twitching. "But... does Mr. Iguro know?"
It is true that Riko is afraid of snakes, but she is not afraid to the point of losing her mind.
"He knows, and he asked me to do it himself." Hearing the good intentions in the other party's words, Qingxi spoke nonsense without blinking while grabbing the snake's head again and pressing it on his head.
You can lean forward if you want to, but lean forward on top of her head so that you don't block her view.
After the girl did this a few times, Diwan understood. So every time it wanted to lift its head and move forward, it would first crawl most of its body to the top of her head, and then stick its head out.
Riko: "..."
Although she was afraid, why did she feel like laughing when she saw other people interacting with the White Snake?
"Also, Sister Riko, have you forgotten?" Qingxi, whose sight had finally cleared from the dangling "white stick," said, "Iguro has been to the clinic before."
Seeing the other person thinking seriously, Qingxi reminded him, "The child that Mr. Rengoku brought over around the New Year two years ago, with very long hair, lived in my dormitory for a week and then left to learn breathing techniques and swordsmanship from a trainer."
Qingxi reminded her so carefully, of course Riko remembered it, but the more important point she remembered about Iguro Obanai was not what she said, but——
"It was that kid you blamed when everyone was looking at you, Ah Xi, and you were in a bad mood one time and cut the vegetables in weird ways and cooked them for everyone."
Qingxi's throat choked, and she complained, "I've already told you about this before, Sister A-ling. Iguro cooked all the dishes for that dinner."
He gently patted the snake's head. "Come on, Diwan, testify for me that your master can't cook."
The snake's head was photographed lying in Qingxi's hair. Diwan spit out its tongue and blinked its two blood-red eyes. Cooking? Its owner knows how to do this.
Instead of waiting for the white snake's proof, Riko's back straightened up as she got goosebumps from the way it stuck to Qingxi's scalp. "Okay, okay, since we're friends, then Aki, you should take good care of Mr. Iguro's snake."
Sticking to the wall, Riko forced a smile as she walked around the man and the snake. She then reminded her, "Also, besides the wounded, there are mostly girls in the clinic. Ah Xi, you have to keep an eye on Mr. Iguro's white snake. I'll tell the others later, but if possible, you'd better keep it with you. Otherwise, with so many people coming in and out, some people might do something to it if they don't know."
Looking at Riko who was trembling all over, Qingxi stood still obediently and let her go first. She nodded at her, "I understand."
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"Hey! Don't be sad. Others are afraid of you, but I'm not." Qingxi walked along the inner corridor directly to the backyard, and then walked to the crow house through the small door in the backyard. He said to Kabukimaru, whose mood suddenly became a little depressed.
"Besides, that's understandable, isn't it? You snakes are sleek, cold, and aggressive. Compared to you, the furry, lumpy, harmless little rabbits, chicks, and ducklings look adorable.
The most important point is that they are either vegetarians or omnivores, while you snakes eat meat. The big pythons can even swallow humans... Don't you think your snakes are unpopular?"
Qingxi was talking with the kabana on his head, but his words didn't seem to be comforting the snake, but rather complaining about it.
The man and the snake walked to the kitchen next to the crow house. Because her arms were broken in the past three months, she had stopped feeding the crows. However, Yagen Toushirou and Tsurumaru Kuninaga would come to help her clean the kitchen when they were free. Now that her arms were healed, Sister A Ling at the clinic didn't let her help, so she had to come here to kill some time.
She cut the demon snake meat into small pieces that Yamaguchi could swallow. She picked up a piece and held it above her head. "Come, have a taste of the meat of your own kind."
The body of the snake Diwan emerged from the top of Qingxi's head, and its mouth opened wide, swallowing half of the thinly sliced meat that she was holding in her hand in one gulp. Qingxi, who didn't want to be poked by its two sharp teeth, immediately let go of her hand and let it swallow the remaining half by itself.
She placed the plate of chopped demon snake meat aside, put her hand next to the plate, and said, "Here, this plate is all yours. If you want to eat, come down and eat it yourself. Next, I will prepare food for the crows in the crow house."
Diwan obediently climbed down Qingxi's arm, landed in front of the big table where she was preparing ingredients, arranged them in circles, and then lowered his head to eat the meat.
When Tsurumaru Kuninaga came over here to slack off, he heard the noise in the kitchen and couldn't help but stick his head in. In just a moment, Baihe's golden eyes widened again and again, as if he had seen something particularly shocking.
"Oh oh oh oh!" Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped into the kitchen. "Master, master, how can there be such a big rabbit? And why, when you cut open its stomach, instead of blood, this yellowish, thick liquid came out... Um, this, this, this, this is cheese? Why, why is cheese not coming out of a rabbit's stomach?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was confused and looked around the rabbit on the long table, looking up, down, left, right, and even on his stomach. He took a closer look but could not find any trace of it being a prank toy.
Just as he was about to stick his head in through her opened belly to look, Qingxi quickly pulled him over. "If you're not here to help, please don't mess with me."
After being pulled back, Tsurumaru Kuninaga squatted on the ground, so that the two of them were almost at the same height. He pulled the girl's sleeve and swung it, "I won't make trouble, so master, can you tell me what that is on the table?"
It was the first time Qingxi was subjected to the impact of adult's coquettishness. She couldn't help but shudder and quickly pulled back her sleeves, "The ingredients of the gourmet world, the cheese rabbit, are only this big.
There's nothing surprising about that. In that world, food is generally large in size. A sweet potato or apple weighing one or two kilograms is quite normal."
As she said this, she threw him a white apple.
"There are actually white apples? This is really something new to learn." Tsurumaru Kuninaga reached out to catch it, muttered to himself, and then took a bite.
Woo!! So sweet.
The moment he bit down, juice with the aroma of apple burst out in his mouth. The sweetness was as if what he was eating was not an apple, but a piece of candy, which was incomparable to an ordinary apple.
Click, click, click, click!!!
Tsurumaru Kuninaga transformed into a little white hamster and gnawed away non-stop. Seeing this, Qingxi pointed to the covered food bucket next to him and said, "When you're done eating, help me take the food in here to the crowhouse and pour it into the trough over there."
Naturally, she would not let go of the labor force that came right to her.
After finishing his apple, Tsurumaru Kuninaga walked away with a food bucket in each hand. As for Kiyoki, she naturally continued to deal with the unprocessed cheese rabbit on the long table.
Cheese Rabbit, capture level 12, the protein in its body coagulates easily, and the texture of its meat is as rich as cheese. It is worth mentioning that the blood flowing in its body is rich cheese liquid, and it is often used to make cheese hot pot.
During the period of recuperation, Qingxi's three meals were taken care of by Yagen Toushirou. Note that he really took care of them.
It’s not that the food he cooked was not tasty, but it was really very bland, especially in the first two months when her two arms were broken. She almost doubted her life after eating so much. Fortunately, there was a crane who would occasionally buy croquettes, soy sauce meatballs, barbecue and other things to feed her, otherwise she thought she would definitely make a fuss.
It was not until two months later that the dishes cooked by the other party had a little more flavor, but they still tasted bland to Qingxi. Now that her two arms were healed, Sister A Ling did not allow her to take care of the patient, and the meals for the crows in the crow house were also ready, she decided to get some food for herself.
We have to have a pot of rich and greasy **, and we have some cheese on hand, so we can have a pot of cheese hotpot. Now that we have the meat and the vegetables, we can have a pot of plum wine to go with it.
So, when Tsurumaru Kuninaga came back with two clean and empty food buckets, he saw the little girl squatting in front of two stoves. There was a rich smell of cheese in one pot, and the smell of meat in the other pot. A white snake was wrapped around her neck, and the snake's head was crawling above her head.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga just stared at the white snake for a while before shifting his gaze. He put down the two empty food buckets and squatted beside Qingxi, eager to try. "Master, are you going to prepare a special meal for yourself? Add me in too."
Qingxi pushed the large white ball away and pointed at the boiling cheese pot. "The rabbit meat will have to wait a long time, but this cheese pot is ready to eat."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at the bubbling pot on the stove, then at the vegetables, ham, sausages, and other ingredients that Qingxi had instructed him to take down from the long table. He tilted his head and said, "How should I eat this?"
There are many people in Honmaru who can cook and who like to cook. However, since the previous Shinsengumi was a very traditional woman, they don't make food like this that you can tell is from the West. Occasionally, they will make curry or Western stew, but not very often. So, he really doesn't know how to eat the cheese hot pot that Qingxi made.
“Eat it like this.”
Qingxi held two long bamboo sticks in her fingers, poked one at a broccoli on the plate, then turned her hand and dipped the bamboo stick poking the broccoli into the cheese pot. When the bamboo stick was lifted up, the surface of the broccoli was covered with a thick layer of cheese. If the cheese was too long, she would use another bamboo stick to stir it a few times to break it and then put it into her mouth to eat.
The cheese is a little hot right out of the pot, so you need to blow it down before eating.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at the girl and saw that she seemed to be eating some delicious food, so he couldn't wait to pick up a bamboo skewer and started eating it like her.
"Ahhh... It's so hot." The inexperienced Tsurumaru Kuninaga stood up and jumped around in the kitchen, "But it tastes so good."
"I originally thought that the fruits and vegetables in Honmaru had absorbed some of the Shinsengumi's spiritual power to grow and were already more delicious than those outside, but I didn't expect that the vegetables in the gourmet world you went to, Master, were even more delicious." He had just poked a piece of bacon leaf, and this time, Tsurumaru Kuninaga poked an eggplant strip and dipped it into the cheese pot. He stirred it, took it out, drew a circle in the air, and cut off the cheese wrapped around the eggplant strip that was still "connected" to the pot.
Blow it to cool it down, put it in your mouth and chew it, "It makes He want to go to that world to have a look."
Qingxi was eating a small tomato in her mouth. The tomato juice mixed with the cheese to form a wonderful taste. Without responding to his words, she said, "It tastes good, right? These are vegetables grown in the sky garden, collectively known as 'sky vegetables'.
The vegetables there absorb nutrients from the clouds to grow. Things like sky cucumbers and sky radishes are very tender and juicy, leaving a faint aftertaste of fruit and vegetable sweetness in your mouth when you finish eating them. They are good for beautifying the skin, removing spots and wrinkles, which is much better than taking skin care products or applying cosmetics on your face in this world.
Most importantly, it is pure natural and pollution-free.”
However, Tsurumaru Kuninaga only paid attention to one point of her words. "What? Vegetables can grow in the sky? Are there any other interesting things that are different from here? Master, please tell me about it. I am so curious."
"Interesting things." Someone was so flattering, Qingxi gave him a brief account. After all, they were all "travelers", so no matter how mysterious something seemed to ordinary people, they would only be surprised. "Actually, it wouldn't be interesting if you stayed there for a long time. But if you haven't been there and have been exposed to that world, you should be curious about everything in that world.
For example, in modern times, not many people would eat bears or wolves, but over there, they can eat bears, wolves, leopards, lions, crocodiles, elephants, etc., and the higher the level of the captured animal, the more delicious its body is. You can even eat high-end cakes and snacks and get high-end sauces and spices from them.
Oh, and there are also shrimps, crabs, and shellfish whose bodies are gems but whose insides are meat. Usually, when I catch them, I eat the meat myself and auction the gems. See, it's not a loss at all."
"Really? Really? That world is so interesting." As a crane that is either doing something or on the way to doing something, Tsurumaru Kuninaga really feels that the gourmet world that he and his master from Yaken have described is extremely suitable for him. He really wants to go there and see it.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga blinked his golden eyes at Qingxi, and his eyes were full of little stars.
Unlike with Yagen Toushirou and Kiyokisi, where she could casually say that she would take them there to have a look if she had the chance, she was worried that if she made a promise to Tsurumaru and the people from the Time Government came and prepared to take them back before she fulfilled her promise, she was worried that he would make a fuss in the end.
After all, if you really think about it, the relationship between him and them is not really that of a Shinsengumi and a swordsman, but more of a cooperative relationship.
She provided spiritual power to help them maintain their human form, and they helped out in the clinic before the Time Government came looking for them, and also worked as her bodyguards on the side.
It's just that Tsurumaru Kuninaga is too pale and has too much presence. Qingxi couldn't pretend to fool him. Finally, under the attack of his starry eyes, she took a step back. "If my system comes back before the Time Government finds you, if it can still take me back, then I can take you and Yaken to have a look there."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga slapped his thigh contentedly and said, "Okay, it's a deal."
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