Chapter 053
Cheese is power, and it also gives a very strong sense of fullness, so no matter how delicious the cheese hotpot is, Qingxi dare not eat too much, not to mention that there is braised rabbit meat stewed next door.
After eating so many vegetables, you should at least eat some solid meat.
Although she is not a person who cannot live without meat, she still likes to add some meat to every meal to make her feel that the meal is not in vain.
Children don't eat much, so after Qingxi finished eating cheese hot pot, Tsurumaru Kuninaga was left alone to eat. But as the saying goes, cheese is power, and after the adult Tsurumaru Kuninaga had eaten a lot of cheese, he said he would not eat anymore.
It’s not that he can’t eat, but he also wants to save space for meat.
"If only Kyojuro were here right now," Qingxi sighed, looking at the still-large amount of cheese in the pot and the uneaten vegetables, sausages, and other ingredients beside it. "With his appetite, we wouldn't have any leftovers from this meal."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga tilted his head and thought for a moment, then couldn't help but sigh, "Kyojuro, that appetite is truly enormous." He felt his stomach and said, "I wonder where all the food he eats goes. He eats seven or eight kilograms of rice in one sitting, and his stomach doesn't even swell up."
"Maybe it's because of the Rengoku family's breathing technique," Qingxi said uncertainly, holding her chin with both hands. "Kyojuro's father also has a good appetite, or maybe even Pillar-level demon hunters tend to eat more. Mr. Beimingyu is like that, he eats about four or five kilograms in one meal."
"No, no, no." Tsurumaru Kuninaga shook his pale head. "Kyojuro might be a natural-born glutton. You said it yourself, someone as tall as Beimingyu only eats about four or five kilograms of rice in one meal. And Kyojuro is only about 13 years old this year. Do you think people his age have such big appetites? So, he's definitely a glutton. Now he eats seven or eight kilograms in one meal. When he grows up a little bit, it will be nine or ten kilograms, or eleven or twelve or thirteen kilograms."
Seeing Tsurumaru Kuninaga's words becoming more and more exaggerated, Qingxi became a little unhappy. "So what if Kyojuro can eat 20 kilograms? As the old saying goes, being able to eat is a blessing."
"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Seeing that the little girl was about to lose her temper, Tsurumaru Kuninaga comforted her. "Besides, I didn't say that was bad."
After a pause, he suddenly moved closer to Qingxi. When Qingxi glared back at him with a "what are you doing?" expression, he suddenly blurted out, "Master...you are not in love with Kyojuro's owl, are you?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who occasionally heard girls complain in private that the only one left in the Rengoku family besides the mistress was the owl, now followed suit and used it skillfully.
Qingxi was stunned, but then she couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.
Everyone knows that she was led by the system to travel through time twice. Her actual age added up to that of someone who could be Kyojuro's great-grandmother. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
As if he could see the disdain in the girl's eyes, Tsurumaru Kuninaga shook his head and said meaningfully: "But Master, you are still a little girl."
Her body is the same as when she was eight years old, so how can she not be a little girl?
How does that sentence go?
Just live in the present moment.
So, she is eight years old now and Kyojuro is thirteen years old. There is a five-year age difference between the two. Isn't that a good match?
You see, old swordsmen like us in Heian-kyō are so open-minded, so why are you, the master, who has traveled through time twice and whose combined age is less than a hundred years old, so rigid in your thinking?
"Let's talk about that kind of thing later." Qingxi said in a calm tone.
She would be surprised if you were not open-minded, considering you were born in Heian-kyō, an era where even if you encountered a monster, your mind would be filled with thoughts of which princess you would go to her house at night to have sex with her.
As for those swords, some of them may look like noble ones on the surface, but they are actually full of impure thoughts. Apart from the short swords used for close combat, there are also the swords used by you in Heian-kyo.
Don't think that just because she has little education, you can come and cheat on her every day.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga shrugged innocently, it was just the prevailing trend.
The two of them, one big and one small, squatted in the kitchen, occasionally exchanging words with their eyes, and surprisingly they were able to communicate with each other.
"Master, you haven't told me whether you like Kyojuro or not." Tsurumaru Kuninaga continued with the above question.
"Of course I like her. Of course I don't." Qingxi replied casually. "She's cute, sunny, kind and enthusiastic. Who wouldn't like her?"
Such a child is the apple of the old man's eye. What's more, when he encountered the ghost before, he could have chosen to turn around and look for the ghost hunters from the nearby Demon Slayer Corps for help. Even if he and his men were late and he had been eaten by the ghost, neither the people in the clinic nor Mr. Beimingyu would blame him.
Because, in her opinion, children are allowed to flee in fear.
But he didn't, he just rushed in with a bunch of firewood and sticks that others had left outside, and even delayed the arrival of Yaken and Tsurumaru.
As if to confirm, she repeated, "Kyojuro is very good. I like him very much."
Bang--
As soon as the girl finished her straightforward and unabashed words, a heavy object fell to the ground outside the kitchen with a loud thud.
Qingxi was startled and looked at Tsurumaru Kuninaga, then stood up and walked to the half-open wooden door and leaned out to look.
"Kyojuro...you, why are you here?" Is it okay to talk about someone behind their back and get caught by the person who did it?
She looked up and glared at Tsurumaru Kuninaga with dissatisfaction. This guy definitely knew that there was someone outside, but he just didn't tell her.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga's golden eyes widened slightly, and then he shook his head repeatedly.
He felt a little wronged. He knew there was someone outside the house but he didn't know it was Rengoku Kyojuro, so how could he possibly remind her?
Moreover, because he knew clearly that everyone was just chatting about some random topic, and the girl's expression of liking him was just her liking from the perspective of a friend, he didn't take it to heart.
Besides, what if someone outside the room took it seriously? We were all still young, so why not just treat it as a joke between children?
But who could have imagined that the person outside was actually the person they were talking about hiding in the kitchen.
This is embarrassing.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga winked at Qingxi and said, "Master, why don't you do it?"
If you hadn't changed the subject so frivolously, would there be so many things happening now?
Qingxi took a deep breath, then walked over to the boy who had fallen in the corridor, "Kyojuro, are you okay?"
She reached out to help him, but the boy, who had fallen to the ground, turned over and sat up in an instant as if he had been electrocuted.
"Umm, I, I'm fine."
Qingxi was caught off guard by the boy's loud noise, which seemed like he was trying to cover up his shyness. There was a brief buzzing in her ears and her mind went blank.
Then she blurted out, "But, your face is red! So, Kyojuro, you just overheard what Tsurumaru and I were talking about in the kitchen, right?"
"No, no, no, no." The boy denied again.
It's too obvious to try to cover up one's own mistake here.
Qingxi thought silently in his heart.
Seeing that the owl's face was about to turn red, he ignored Tsurumaru Kuninaga who was squatting on the side and looked eager to try and say something himself, and pulled the man up when Rengoku Kyojuro was startled again.
"I know, I know." She said as she pulled people into the kitchen, "I made some food in the kitchen, but it's a little too much. Kyojuro, please help us out a little."
"Hmm, is that milk? I smell a strong milky scent." Rengoku Kyojuro asked with a flushed face, walking around Tsurumaru Kuninaga who was making faces at him.
"Well, you could say that." Qingxi handed him an unused bamboo stick and taught him how to eat it. "It's a by-product of milk production."
"Mmm, delicious!"
"tasty!"
"tasty!"
Seeing him say "Qingxi" loudly every time he eats, I feel funny and interesting at the same time. I really think that Kyojuro's purity is not pretentious at all.
"But—" she changed the subject, trying to scare him, "This one of mine isn't made with milk, but—" she dragged out her words, and when his attention was drawn to her, she continued, "It's rabbit blood."
Rengoku Kyojuro, who was holding the half-eaten food that Qingxi had just stuffed into his arms and dipping it in the cheese in the pot, felt a lump in his throat, and his cheeks, which had been bulging with food, stopped moving.
Qingxi felt that this was not enough. She pointed her finger at the pot on the stove next to her and said, "Look, the blood has been made into a cheese pot, and the rabbit meat has been braised. Kyojuro, you can try it later and see if the meat has the rich aroma of cheese."
"Aki, is this your secret?" Rengoku Kyojuro thought for a moment and then continued chewing, but at a much slower pace than at the beginning. "I can conjure up a lot of food... and other things."
Qingxi was surprised. "Hey! I was telling you that this cheese is rabbit blood. Why did you let your thoughts wander so far, Kyojuro? And why did you think that? Did Mr. Rengoku secretly tell you something?"
"Father didn't say anything to us." Rengoku Kyojuro shook his head.
He is a very smart person. In addition, Qingxi seems to be particularly "lenient" and not serious about covering up for "his own people", so it is normal for him to see it.
"It's just that every time you take something out, you're so perfunctory in covering it up that it's hard for people not to notice," Rengoku Kyojuro said honestly.
"Who said that?" Qingxi retorted, "Sister Aya and the others didn't notice anything unusual about me. And Chijuro, that crocodile skin from before, does he still think I was performing magic?"
"No." Rengoku Kyojuro denied her statement, "In fact, after we went back that time, Senjuro asked me, Aki, if you are the messenger of Inari God or something."
"Me? Me?" Qingxi was confused when she was suddenly called a messenger of God. "How is that possible? I'm human."
Rengoku Kyojuro nodded: "That's what I told Senjuro. Besides, the messenger of Inari is a fox, and you don't look like a fox at all, Aki."
Qingxi said seriously, "Of course, look at my face and see how it resembles a fox. The most important thing is to look at my eyes."
A white head and a head the color of the flames came closer. The girl continued, "I have typical lychee eyes, round and big. They're like the kind of women in mythology who were transformed from foxes. I mean, my country, which is next door to Tang, most people have those alluring almond-shaped or peach blossom eyes, and their faces are also stunningly beautiful and attractive."
At this point, Qingxi sighed, "I'm not being self-deprecating. Look at my face, it's pretty, but not stunningly beautiful. Maybe when I grow up a little and learn how to dress myself, I can be called a little beauty."
"Pfft - hahahaha." Tsurumaru Kuninaga couldn't help laughing as he listened. He reached out his hand and went around the top of her head, ruffling her hair on one side with a smile, "Master, you are even more beautiful when you brag about yourself now, really."
I'll go to yours!
Pulling off Tsurumaru Kuninaga's claws, Qingxi cursed in his heart in annoyance.
She was telling them seriously that she had nothing to do with the fox, so why did this crane always come to make trouble?
"Anyway, I'm not a divine messenger." Kiyohime, no longer willing to discuss the topic, quickly concluded. "Kyojuro, once you learn the Breathing of Flame from your Rengoku family, you'll probably join the Demon Slayer Corps, right? Well, once you become the Flame Pillar, you'll know what's going on here."
Then, change the topic.
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