Chapter 092
Everything is ready, now all that's missing is a thief...
It gets dark early in the winter nights. Around six o'clock, except for the shops that are still open with lanterns hanging in front of their doors, all other shops have already closed early.
In the Japanese-style room on the second floor of Qingxi's shop, four mattresses were placed side by side on the tatami, and at the end of the mattresses were four quilts that were folded and not spread out. Because Qingxi was worried that the room would be cold, he also placed a brazier in the corner of the room with three fist-sized flints in it to emit heat.
"Are we going to rest now?" asked Yagen Toushirou while sitting on the mattress.
"It's still so early, how can I fall asleep?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga complained.
His golden pupils turned, and his gaze fell on the only girl present. He asked, "Master, do you have anything fun?"
Qingxi held her chin with one hand, "This kind of atmosphere is like playing cat's tuck with other kids when I was little."
"How do we play?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked with a little interest.
Qingxi blinked and exchanged words with him, "Just picking for fun, all kinds of tricks."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga pulled out a rope from somewhere and said, "Master, please teach me."
Qingxi took the rope, tied the ends together into a knot, and then simply showed them some tricks.
Every time she turned over a name, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was acting as the supporting actor, would call out a name.
"Little turtle, iron tower, parachute, bridge, spider web, five-pointed star..."
"It's amazing that they can be made with just one piece of rope."
"This is for one person, and the next one is for two people." Qingxi placed ropes on the ten wrists of her hands, and then she signaled Tsurumaru Kuninaga to stretch out his hands and put the wrists on her hands intact. Finally, she showed the three of them how to pick up the ropes.
"Well, it's pretty simple, isn't it?" She showed the shape of the rope to the three of them, "Who wants to try to pick it up?"
"I'll do it, I'll do it."
It was originally just a simple and easy-to-play game between kids, but they ended up playing it until they took a break.
Later on, because they felt that one rope was not enough for four people, Tsurumaru Kuninaga took out three more ropes. This way, whether Qingxi wanted to learn the patterns that she had just picked out with the rope, or the two of them played the rope game together, there would be no situation where there were too few ropes.
"good evening."
"good evening."
At ten o'clock in the evening, the four of them said good night to each other and then snuggled into their own beds to rest.
Have a good night's sleep and a trouble-free night.
After eating the food that Qingxi took out of the gourmet backpack, Yagen Toushirou left through the back gate and returned to the clinic to continue working.
Since they had nothing to do, Qingxi and the other two cleaned the other rooms on the second floor. When Yagen Toushirou came back, there was not a speck of dust on the entire second floor.
The four of them still sleep in one room tonight.
The night was long, and as the shops that opened the latest on the street closed one after another, the whole street became quiet.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a rustling sound downstairs, like the sound of mice coming in and out.
In the dark night, the black-haired boy opened his eyes, his purple pupils were clear and bright, not at all like he had just woken up.
As he gently lifted the quilt, the two people next to him also sat up quietly one after another. Well, only the one who first said he came here to accompany Tsurumaru Kuninaga was still sleeping soundly.
Well, that's not accurate.
The little girl also heard the noise, but the quilt sealed her, making her struggle in her sleep for a long time but unable to break free. She felt wronged and hummed unhappily.
To be honest, if they didn't know they had important things to do, the three of them really wouldn't want to hold it in when they saw the girl like this. It's quite funny.
With the help of the faint red light emitted by the indoor barbecue stone, Yagen Toushirou took out his own body, made a gesture to Tsurumaru Kuninaga, "I'll go downstairs, you protect the admiral upstairs", and then slipped out from the sliding door that they had deliberately left half open.
Seeing this, Rengoku Kyojuro gently patted the girl's belly through the quilt with a soothing tone, as if telling her "It's okay, you can sleep."
But Qingxi didn't fall asleep after all.
Rengoku Kyojuro's attention was always on the first floor. After hearing a few sounds of something falling to the ground, the rustling sound disappeared. He was sure that Yagen Toushirou had single-handedly dealt with those people who had sneaked into the house late at night.
He opened his mouth and was about to say something to Tsurumaru Kuninaga, but seeing that he suddenly became alert and his right hand was on the hilt of the knife, he silently swallowed the words that were on his lips.
When he saw him pointing at the sleeping girl and then at himself, Rengoku Kyojuro took the wooden sword he had brought with him and nodded at him.
After making sure that the little girl was being watched, Tsurumaru Kuninaga stood up silently and stood by the window.
He had just put his hand on the window sill and was about to open the window and turn over to go out, but he didn't expect a figure to climb up along the wall. He smelled a faint smell of blood in the air through the window. Without thinking, Tsurumaru Kuninaga drew his sword and chopped at the shadow printed on the window. With a shrill scream, the figure lying on the window fell from the upstairs.
"Um, it's okay, Aki, you can continue sleeping." Holding the girl who sat up in fear at the scream, Rengoku Kyojuro patted her back soothingly, trying to let her continue sleeping.
But the scream was too close, and Qingxi was scared away by it.
"What's going on?" She remained in the position of being held and comforted for a long time before she asked as if her brain had opened up.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga sheathed his sword and peered out the window he had smashed. His golden eyes narrowed for a moment before he turned and said to her, "It's okay. I just encountered a ghost, but I've dealt with it now."
"Hmm? I think I saw someone from the Demon Slayer Corps." Hearing some more noise, Tsurumaru Kuninaga poked his head out the window a few more times before finally speaking to Kiyoki as if to confirm his intentions. "Master, I'll go down and take a look. Kyojuro, you stay here with me."
Without waiting for Qingxi to speak, Rengoku Kyojuro responded immediately, "Hmm, I understand."
It was the middle of the night, and in the shops on the street, people around, like Qingxi, who had shops in the front and the back, or who had the second floor where the owner's family rested, had been awakened. The brave ones came out with lanterns to see what was going on.
At Rengoku Kyojuro's insistence, Qingxi wrapped herself in the quilt and stood up, then walked to the window with him and looked downstairs.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga briefly explained the situation here to the ghost hunter who was chasing the ghost. Seeing that more and more people were opening their doors and coming out of the surrounding shops to look, the two ghost hunters left first.
Facing the questions from others, Tsurumaru Kuninaga started to lie, "Sorry, sorry for disturbing everyone. It's the thief from before. He came again today. We caught him. When they saw they couldn't escape, they started yelling. But we found something to gag them. We will send them to the police station at dawn."
Upon hearing that the thief had been caught, the shop owners around showed expressions of understanding. Since there was nothing wrong, everyone went back to rest.
As for being curious about who the thief is, you'll see it tomorrow morning. There's no need to see it now.
After all, we are all bosses on the same street. We all work hard during the day. If we don’t get a good rest at night, we won’t have enough energy to keep up during the day.
Seeing the streets returning to silence again under the night sky, Tsurumaru Kuninaga turned around, and at this moment the wooden door of the shop was opened from the inside by Yagen Toushirou.
"How many people?" asked Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
"Four." Yagen Toushirou pointed at four men of different shapes but all green in color who had been knocked unconscious on the ground and were tied up with ropes like a string of candied haws after all their weapons were confiscated.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga squatted on the ground and looked at the four of them, shaking his head.
He had never seen Grandma Su and Old Man Qin's son, so he wouldn't be able to recognize him even if he was asked to do so now.
"What time is it?" he asked.
Yagen Toushirou pulled out his watch from his pocket and said, "Four forty-five in the morning."
"It's only a short time until dawn." He waved at the black-haired boy, "Just leave them here. I'll go to the police station when it's dawn and ask them to arrest them."
After listening to this, Yagen Toushirou checked the ropes tied to the four people again, and after making sure there was no problem, he followed them upstairs.
"Oh, I'm sorry, master. It looks like the window needs to be replaced." Looking at the wooden window that was cut diagonally by the sword, Tsurumaru Kuninaga apologized in a nonchalant tone.
Looking at the handsome face that shone brightly even in the dark, she couldn't help but stroke his hair. She said, "It's okay. We can just replace it with a glass window."
However, that was something that happened later. Qingxi took out a piece of tent cloth from the gourmet backpack, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Yagen Toushirou took down the broken window that was still hanging there, and then used nails to temporarily nail it up with the tent cloth.
"It protects against rain and wind, and is very useful." Qingxi said to me with a smile.
"This tent cloth must have come from a broken tent. How come you even have this, Master?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga grumbled, brushing off any dust that might have stained his clothes and imitating Kiyokuni's example by draping the quilt over himself like a cloak. "Didn't they say you were a powerful figure in the world of gourmet food, Master?"
Qingxi rolled his eyes and asked, "Which ear did you hear me bragging about how great I am?"
"You can hunt beasts as tall as buildings hundreds of stories high. How can you not be amazing?"
"I'm so sorry." Qingxi's eyes were dead, "I'm sorry to disappoint you."
"Why?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked in confusion.
He couldn't imagine that if a gourmet hunter like his master couldn't say a word of awesomeness, then how could anyone else be so awesome?
Qingxi held her face with both hands, pretending to have a toothache, and said quietly, "Because, those at a higher level there can lift the earth with their bare hands."
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Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "Hey, hey, hey, is that what I understood?"
As if this wasn't enough to provoke the troublemaker in front of him, Qingxi continued to provoke: "You know, the kind of acupuncture I use can acupuncture the earth."
She patted Tsuru's chest and said, "There, a gourmet hunter's arms are about the same size as your chest, Tsurumaru."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "..."
Rengoku Kyojuro looked at the hand that was still pressed on Tsurumaru Kuninaga's chest. He silently pulled it back and held it in his own hand. He said seriously, "Aki, you can't do this. It's too rude."
"Oh." Qingxi responded casually without noticing the boy's behavior.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga noticed the boy's little movement: "..."
I really didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. I didn't expect that you, Kyojuro, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, would look like this behind the scenes.
Pretending not to notice the innocent boy's little thoughts, Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked everyone else to go back to their beds. "Come on, since everyone probably can't sleep now, let's chat.
Well, let me hear what you, Master, have encountered in the world of gourmet food."
"I have a lot to say about that. I can't finish it in one day, but maybe a year will be enough." Qingxi continued.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga's curiosity had been completely piqued by the girl's conversation. "Wouldn't it take a year to finish? That world must be so interesting."
To liven up the atmosphere, two people, Yagen Toushirou and Rengoku Kyojuro, also joined in the practice of using quilts as cloaks.
Since everyone around her knew her situation, Qingxi no longer hid her life in the food world. She started from the moment she was chosen by the food system to be taken to the food world. She just arrived in that world penniless and went to the wild area near the city where there was no danger in the spring to pick hamburger flowers, catch potato chip butterflies, drink the clear water in the mineral lake, and go to the river to catch coral candies to feed herself. After filling herself up every day, she collected all the extra edible things, and did not immediately run to the city to sell them. With the food backpack plug-in, she basically went to the city once a month to sell wholesale to vendors. After a few times, she had enough money to rent a small single apartment in the city... Because she mentioned that the ingredients that they thought were made by humans became natural ingredients that can be eaten directly there, they asked her all kinds of questions and talked until dawn.
"...My first day there was pretty much like that." Qingxi, tired of talking, took a sip of hot cocoa and said.
Her eyes fell on Tsurumaru Kuninaga. With Yagen Toushirou in the way, she couldn't even lift her foot to kick him. "It's daybreak now. Tsurumaru, get up, pack up, and go to the police station to have the man taken away."
Bai He, who had been completely addicted to the story, looked unsatisfied. Suddenly, he let out a howl and leaped up, then dropped back down again. "Master, please, I really beg you. When Ah Tong comes back, if he can still take you back to the world of gourmet food, you must take me with you! It's such an interesting world, I really, really want to go and see it... Master, look at my pitiful big cute eyes QAQ."
Ah, how could she have forgotten the character of Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
It seems that all his interests have been aroused.
"Master~" Seeing that Qingxi did not respond, Tsurumaru Kuninaga crawled towards her without giving up.
Look at me, I am your cute little crane.jpg
Yagen Toushirou, pinned down by the giant crane, has a blank expression on his face.
"Ah, I get it, I get it." Qingxi, who was completely annoyed by the other party's shameless behavior, turned his head away with a look of disgust, and couldn't help but move towards Rengoku Kyojuro.
She wanted to stay away from the crazy crane.
Rengoku Kyojuro shifted his body so that the girl could sit closer to him. He said, "Hmm, Aki, if there's a chance, could you take me there to have a look? I'm also curious about the world of delicious food you're talking about."
She tilted her head, "Of course you can, but, Kyojuro, are you sure you don't want to go there and try all sorts of sweet potato flavors?"
The boy with flaming hair's eyes lit up. "Hmm, this isn't a bad target."
"As for this, Kyojuro, I can help you achieve it right now," Qingxi said.
Facing the other person's gleaming gaze, she explained, "In the beginning, I was poor, but then I discovered a sweet potato archipelago, so I put the entire archipelago in my gourmet backpack... Now I have 388 different flavors, and the same flavor has 999 sweet potato mountains of sweet potatoes, which can easily provide you with a lifetime of sweet potatoes."
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Are you interested? Come help her finish off the sweet potatoes.
Rengoku Kyojuro, who was totally on the same page with Qingxi, opened his eyes wide and said, "Hmm, I'll leave it to Aki then."
Qingxi: "Leave it to me."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga: "..."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga has a toothache.
I know you didn't mean anything else, but there are fish that have taken the bait.
However, important things must be said three times: Green JJ, start with me, Green JJ, start with me, Green JJ, start with me.
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