Chapter 089
Qingxi was awakened by the heat.
She moved her arms, but couldn't pull her hands out from under the quilt.
She tilted her head and came face to face with the sleeping face of Yagen without glasses. She then turned her head to the other side and came face to face with Tsurumaru again.
Qingxi silently turned his head back to face the ceiling above.
It's early in the morning, can't we have less excitement and more peace?
It was too hot, really too hot. The flint she took out last night was still emitting heat. This kind of stone has a property that after absorbing enough heat, it can emit heat for about a month. After the internal heat is completely dissipated, just find a sunny day and expose it to the sun for a week, and it can absorb enough heat again.
Unable to pull his hands out, Qingxi wanted to raise his feet and kick off all the quilts on his body.
But it doesn't work.
The two people on my left and right are using me as pillows.
Not only did he swing his hands towards her, he also swung his legs towards her.
Qingxi: ...
She was getting hot and irritable.
Qingxi was in pain and discomfort. She could do nothing and now all she had left was her mouth to wake them up.
"Tsurumaru, Yaken...you guys, wake up."
No one woke up.
"Tsurumaru, Yakumo, wake up." Qingxi raised his voice.
However, no one woke up.
Qingxi screamed: "Tsurumaru, Yakumi is dying." She was about to die from the heat.
The word "dead" finally woke up the two people who were still sleeping.
Yagen Toushirou was the first to wake up. He turned over nimbly and stretched out his hand, holding the short knife.
After him, Tsurumaru Kuninaga cooperated and pulled Qingxi out from the quilt and held her in his arms.
The result... was no danger at all.
Yagen Toushirou and Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at each other, and finally, their eyes fell on Kiyoki who was protected in Tsurumaru's arms.
Qingxi's cheeks flushed, and she said weakly, "I'm dying of heat."
When the two of them reacted, there was an embarrassed look on their faces.
Putting his body back, Yagen Toushirou took the kettle beside him, poured a glass of water into the cup and handed it to him, "This is the water I poured in last night, General, drink a little first. I'll go get another pot of hot water now."
"No hot water." She drank a glass of not-too-cold water, and the refreshing feeling instantly quenched her dry throat. "I really need it. Give me another glass."
Yagen Toushirou followed his instructions and poured her another glass of water. After another glass, Qingxi finally felt that the heat in her body had subsided.
"What time is it now?" she asked curiously. The shoji door was closed, and she could only vaguely feel that the sky outside was still not fully bright.
Yagen Toushirou took the pocket watch next to the pillow and looked at it. "Five o'clock, it's still early. General, do you want to sleep a little longer?"
Qingxi shook his head as he stood up and walked towards Tsurumaru Kuninaga's house next door: "I've slept enough. If you're still sleepy, go back to sleep."
After being frightened by the girl just now, how could they still feel sleepy? However, seeing that she walked lightly and quietly, as if not intending to disturb them, Yao Yan swallowed the words that he was not sleepy and asked, "General, are you going out later?"
"Well, I'm going to the clinic up ahead to see Mr. Kitani." Qingxi's voice, a little muffled, came through the door. "I'll go to the kitchen to make breakfast."
Yagen Toushirou remembered after hearing this, "General, is your hand healed? Let me help you."
"I'm not shaking anymore, but Yaoyan, you should still rest." Qingxi refused, "You must be exhausted from yesterday's surgery. Rest more and come to the cafeteria for breakfast at 7 o'clock."
What else could the black-haired boy, who was pampered by his own Shinsengumi, say? It seemed that he could only lie back in bed and continue to sleep.
"I understand," he said.
Qingxi changed her clothes and gently knocked on the sliding door between the two rooms. "Tsurumaru, you must have been tired from running yesterday. You should rest too."
When faced with the two sword-wielding men, Qingxi felt that she could treat them equally.
Bai He, who also felt the girl's concern, picked up the quilt and covered himself with it, then crawled towards the shoji door under the gaze of Yagen Toushirou.
He gently opened the door just enough for his head to stick out, braving the drizzle coming in from outside. When the girl opened the shoji door and came out, he tilted his head and asked with a smile, "Master, can I order a meal?"
"It's you, Pipihe." Qingxi muttered, then turned and asked, "What do you want to eat? I don't make things that are too troublesome."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was even happier, and he immediately opened his mouth and said, "I want to add pork floss, peanuts, pickles, egg skin, salted egg yolk, and sausage to the rice. Oh, yes, I also want those hard fried dough sticks that are the soul of the dish. I also want steamed buns, fried dumplings, wonton noodles, egg pancakes, and egg yolk and meat dumplings."
Qingxi laughed as she listened, "Tsurumaru, can you finish all the food you ordered?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga said shamelessly, "I ordered some for Yaken as well."
"Okay, sure, but if you don't finish what you ordered, I'm going to watch Crane Ball today." Qingxi said and turned to leave. Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she turned around with a sweet smile on her face and added, "Don't worry, they are all generous portions."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "..."
Oh no, oh no, it seems like the waves were a bit too high.
The white head retracted, and when he turned around, he met Yaken Toushirou's purple eyes, which looked a little cold in the dim light. He said embarrassedly, "Yaken, you will help me, right?"
Yagen Toushirou turned over and faced away from him. How could he just nod and agree to such a thing casually? If the general's portion was so large that it could only be served in a rice bowl like the one Jiro used for his meals, there was nothing he could do.
It was windy and rainy outside today. When Qingxi came to the clinic with an umbrella, the outermost layer of her clothes became wet after just a short distance.
Qingxi put away her umbrella and went to wash up first, then she tiptoed to the ward on the first floor. Because there was a seriously injured patient, a warm light was left outside the ward on the first floor today to facilitate medical staff to come in and out for rounds.
When she went there, she happened to meet the person who was on guard today at the door of the ward.
Xiaochun Ling didn't expect Qingxi to get up so early. After walking out of the ward, she lowered her voice and asked, "Axi, why are you here?"
"I came to see Mr. Kitani." Qingxi also lowered his voice. "I'll go to the kitchen later."
"Mr. Kitaya had a high fever in the second half of the night, and it's just showing signs of subsiding." Xiaochun Ling briefly told her about Kitaya Genei's condition and went back to the front to be on duty.
After hearing about Kitani Genei's condition, Qingxi thought about it and did not go into the ward to see him, but went directly to the kitchen.
It is now half past five in the morning, and the hidden department staff have already delivered the fresh fruits, vegetables and meat they purchased.
Qingxi took a look at the variety, thought about the recipe in his mind, and then took action.
There were only two stoves in the clinic, one for cooking vegetable porridge and the other for cooking rice. After adding firewood to the stove, she set up two other stoves, one with a grill to grill the processed sea fish, and the other with a pot to put radish, konjac, lotus root slices, potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms in it to make a vegetable stew.
When the fish was finished grilling, she took away the grill net, put an iron pot on it, poured water into it and brought it to a boil, put the hand-torn cabbage in and blanched it, then took it out after it was cooked and added salt, sesame oil, vinegar and other seasonings... mixed soup, grilled sea fish, cold hand-torn cabbage, and a small dish of pickled food. Finally, it was a good breakfast whether it was served with rice or porridge.
When Qingxi finished doing all this, people had already gotten up outside the kitchen.
Several girls took the wooden buckets containing the food and scooped them out, then pushed the carts out to distribute them to people. After watching them leave, she began to make breakfast for the three of them.
Rice cake is simple to make. White rice is ready-made. You can add seasonings and the things that Tsurumaru likes to eat into it just like making a rice ball. Finally, you can knead the big ball of rice into a firm shape and it becomes a rice cake.
She already has steamed buns, fried dumplings, egg pancakes, and egg yolk and meat dumplings in her food backpack, so she doesn’t have to make them anymore.
The wonton noodles are almost done. Boil the water, add a little of the homemade thick soup, and then put the wontons in. When the noodles and wontons are cooked, serve and sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onions and it's done.
It didn't take Qingxi much time to prepare breakfast for the three of them.
"Kyojuro, Chijuro, why are you here?"
Qingxi exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the two boys with drooping hair and damp clothes drying their clothes around the brazier.
Suddenly, her gaze turned and fell on Tsurumaru Kuninaga. Her blue eyes narrowed. As he pretended to be silly and didn't dare to look her in the eye, she walked up to the white-haired young man and said, "Tsurumaru, is this you who did this?"
"Well, Master, you haven't seen Kyojuro and Chijuro for a long time. Didn't you say you missed them when you were living on the island of grief? Well, it's just right that we are here, so why don't we all get together?"
I'd never trust you!
Qingxi glared.
You were just worried that you wouldn't be able to finish your breakfast and it would be used as a ball later, so you thought of looking for foreign aid.
Look at what time it is now, and look at the weather outside. In order not to become a crane ball, Tsurumaru, you are really a dog.
He found two towels and covered the two brothers' heads with them. After they had wiped the dripping water from the ends of their hair, he moved Qingxi's small round table next door over to have breakfast.
"Hmm, delicious!" Holding the wonton noodles pushed by Qingxi in both hands, Rengoku Kyojuro lowered his head and slurped down one-third of the noodles in the bowl in one breath, then let out a loud shout.
The wonton noodles made by Qingxi were really "solid" as she had said to Tsurumaru Kuninaga before. The small wontons were filled with a lot of meat filling, and the hand-rolled noodles and wontons each accounted for half. Such a portion would make an adult woman, not to mention an adult man who did hard labor, feel full after eating it.
And she makes two and a half servings like this.
Rengoku Kyojuro ate one portion by himself. Kiyoki wanted to eat, but also wanted to eat something else, so she took out a small bowl and simply shared a portion with Senjuro. Tsurumaru Kuninaga followed suit and ran to his own room and took out a bowl from somewhere. He shared a portion with Yagen Toushirou without asking him.
As for the rice, Rengoku Kyojuro continued to eat one by himself, and Kiyoki and the other three shared one. Rengoku Kyojuro finished two baskets of steamed dumplings, and Kiyoki and the other three shared two baskets. Later on, when it came to fried dumplings, egg pancakes, and egg yolk rice dumplings, Kiyoki and Chijuro only took two quick bites and were already full. Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Yagen Toushirou were only slightly better than them. Only Rengoku Kyojuro was there as if nothing had happened, and he ate a portion of strawberry sweet potato that Kiyoki gave him as a dessert.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga gave him a thumbs up, "Great."
Yagen Toushirou stared at his stomach from behind his glasses. Just by changing the angle slightly, a cold light flashed on the lens. "You ate so much, but your stomach didn't swell at all."
It’s a pity that he doesn’t have modern advanced medical equipment, otherwise he really wants to do some research.
Qingxi fell forward, touched her slightly bulging belly with one hand and said, "Well, if I were still here... Anyway, if I opened a shop, I would definitely spend a lot of money to recruit Kyojuro to my shop. Well, he doesn't need to come every day, just come to my shop every other week, don't do anything else, just sit there and eat.
It will definitely attract a lot of customers who come here for me.”
Rengoku Kyojuro looked at Qingxi who was in the same pose as his brother and tilted his head and thought for a while and said: "Then after Muzan Kibutsuji is eliminated, Aki, you can open a shop and then hire me."
"Shouldn't you have inherited your family's dojo by then?" Qingxi glanced at him sideways but immediately turned her gaze to the ceiling above her head, and then looked at the gloomy, windy and rainy sky outside the ceiling.
Hey! She suddenly discovered an advantage of not being able to close her dialysis eyes. When the weather was good, if she couldn't sleep at night, she could just open her eyes, lie in a straight sleeping position under the quilt, and enjoy the night sky without doing anything.
"That shouldn't conflict, right? Aki, you said you'd eat at your restaurant once a week, right? I think we still have time for that," Rengoku Kyojuro said. "Actually, if your restaurant was close to the gym, and the food was good, cheap, and generous, I think the gym's students would be happy to eat there."
Qingxi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Kyojuro, have you made plans for your future life after you retire from the Demon Slayer Corps?"
Rengoku Kyojuro's eyes widened, and he said in a very loud voice, "Hmm, isn't this great? A win-win situation?"
Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at the boy, who was clearly tense with shyness, and then at his master, who hadn't noticed anything different about him because his eye problem hadn't been resolved. He leaned closer to Yagen Toushirou and whispered in his ear, "Are you really into our master? How old is he? Isn't it a little too early?"
Watching your master having fun and someone targeting your master are two different things. Tsurumaru Kuninaga feels that he has distinguished them very clearly.
Yagen Toushirou said softly, "He's 13. After the Lunar New Year, he'll be 14, which means he's still six years away from adulthood... Besides, in this era, women can get married as soon as they turn 16. How old will Kyojuro be then? He'll be 21. Both of them are old enough to get married, so if we're talking about childhood sweethearts, they're about the same age."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga puffed up his cheeks and rubbed his teeth. Thinking that his own cabbage would be snatched away one day, he suddenly slammed the table and shouted, "Dad, I won't allow it!!!"
The chattering in the room suddenly stopped, and everyone's eyes fell on the white-haired young man who suddenly had a seizure.
When Tsurumaru Kuninaga realized what a stupid thing he had done, his body stiffened. Yagen Toushirou silently moved to the side, with a look on his face that said, "Don't confuse me with this stupid crane."
"Ahahahaha, it's nothing, it's nothing." Tsurumaru Kuninaga laughed awkwardly, "You guys continue, don't bother me."
Qingxi withdrew her gaze from Shazuru and continued looking at the ceiling. She said to Rengoku Kyojuro, "Ah, isn't it a little too early to bring up that kind of thing now? Just like Kyojuro said yourself, it won't be too late to make plans after we get rid of Muzan Kibutsuji."
Rengoku Chijuro looked at his elder brother with red ears, and then looked at sister Aki who was rubbing her belly. Suddenly, he felt that he knew what Tsurumaru Noboru meant by what he had just said.
Feeling that he had discovered something extraordinary, Rengoku Chijuro decided to secretly tell his mother about his discovery after returning home.
Rengoku Kyojuro, not knowing that his brothers were already preparing to do something secretly, thought the same and did not continue the topic.
His gaze shifted to her eyes, "Ah Xi, are your eyes okay?"
"Not yet," Qingxi said. Thinking about how she hadn't looked him in the eye since he came over, she apologized, "Sorry, Kyojuro, I can't look at you right now, because..." She paused, her tone becoming more subtle, "Kyojuro doesn't want to be seen naked, right? Um, the kind where you can see through your clothes, your muscles, your internal organs, your bones, and so on."
Rengoku Kyojuro followed the girl's words and thought... Hmm, he still feels ashamed after all.
"In that case, will Axi go back to live with Mr. Beimingyu?" he asked.
Qingxi nodded. "Well, until my eye problem is resolved, I will probably continue to live with Mr. Beimingyu, because there are fewer people there."
Rengoku Kyojuro was a little disappointed, but he quickly calmed down. After all, there was nothing he could do about it.
Yagen Toushirou sat and listened to the two people's conversation for a while. After making sure that there was no problem, he stood up and cleaned up the dishes. After washing them, he also went to the clinic to start his day's work.
Rengoku Kyojuro and Rengoku Chijuro were ready to help, but were rejected by Yagen Toushirou. He pulled Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who wanted to slack off, aside and said, "You two just sit down. Tsurumaru will help me."
After he finished speaking, he stood up and took away the empty dishes and chopsticks on his side first. Boss Tsurumaru Kuninaga was not happy about it. He wanted to be lazy, but he still muttered to himself as he picked up the remaining dishes and chopsticks on the round table and left the room.
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