Chapter 128
The June sky was like a baby's face. The sun was scorching just a moment ago, as if it would burn all the creatures on the ground. Suddenly, a dark cloud rolled in, completely blocking the clear blue sky above the head.
Then a strong wind blew, bringing up gusts of dust.
"Wow, the wind is so strong that the dust is about to be blown into the bowl." Qingxi said as he hurriedly stuffed his own cold noodles and Chijuro's cold noodles into the food backpack.
She stood up and took his hand, "Come on, let's go to my room first and eat."
The rainstorm came suddenly.
The two people in the room continued to eat cold noodles. Through the slightly open shoji door, the scenery outside the eaves became blurry.
"Aki-sister." After finishing his noodles, Rengoku Chijuro put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked curiously, "Did you really sell that wine for 2,200 yen?"
When it comes to 2,000 yen, the boy is still quite scared.
Although he knew early on that the prices in the two worlds were different, and therefore the daily expenses of people in the two worlds would also be different, it was true that a 2,000 yen bottle of wine was already a sky-high price that could be published in the newspaper in a world where an ordinary person like him worked hard every day and only earned a salary of around 10-230 yen a month.
"How is that possible?" Qingxi glanced at him.
Rengoku Chijuro was not disappointed after receiving such an answer. On the contrary, he felt greatly relieved.
As expected, it's unreasonable to spend 2,000 yen just to buy some alcohol.
However, before he could exhale completely, Qingxi's voice sounded again, directly sucking back the breath he had not yet exhaled.
She said, "What I just said was just an assumption. Since I have modified my wine to the point where it has reached the limit at my level at that time, the price has naturally gone up.
At that time, two and a half kilograms of wine sold for 100,000 yen."
Rengoku Chijuro was confused, Rengoku Chijuro was shocked, Rengoku Chijuro...Brother, brother, I seem to have seen the scene where you can't afford to marry Sister Axi in the future, and then you marry into the family yourself. What should I do? QAQ
I don't know if my father would agree with his eldest son marrying into Sister Axi's family. No, if he did, he would probably be furious.
Having completely forgotten about his own affairs and started to worry about his brother, Rengoku Chijuro covered his aching stomach and asked weakly, "Ah, Sister Axi, is this the most expensive wine you sell?"
"Of course not," Qingxi said in surprise. Her face practically showed the words, "Chijuro, why do you think that?" "The most expensive wine I sell is..." She looked up at the ceiling, thought for a moment, and then gave a number, "6 million a bottle of gem wine."
"6,6 million?" Rengoku Chijuro exclaimed in shock, and even his voice broke when he said the last word.
Okay, that’s a lot of money.
What should I do? My brother really can't afford the betrothal gift, so, is it really necessary to let my brother marry into the family?
No, father will never agree.
It's hard for my brother to marry Axi, and my younger brother sighs online.jpg
Hearing the boy's sudden high-pitched voice, she thought he was shocked by the sky-high price. She explained, "It's actually not that bad. The ingredients needed for brewing wine are originally high-end ingredients, and sometimes I add two or three ingredients from the gourmet world. It's normal for the price to rise like this."
"But, is there anyone willing to pay for such expensive wine?" Rengoku Chijuro asked weakly.
Qingxi raised an eyebrow, "How could there not be? That world is really no different from this one. The poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer.
In the eyes of the wealthy, money can be earned again, but if delicious food is gone, you may not have the chance to eat it again next time."
"But..." She paused, raised her right hand, touched her chin thoughtfully, and said, "If I had the chance to go back now, the Gem Wine might no longer be the most expensive wine I sell here."
Rengoku Chijuro couldn't quite follow what the other person was saying. He asked blankly, "What?"
"[Blessing] and [Mono no aware] will probably become my most expensive drinks," she said to herself. "No, compared to [Mono no aware] which brings waves of sadness and regret to the drinker, I think more people will prefer a drink like [Blessing] which brings a sense of happiness.
Therefore, [Blessing] may become the most expensive wine I sell by then..."
Rengoku Chijuro: "..."
No, please don't say that. That gem wine is already expensive enough. Please don't order a more expensive wine.
I don't think any man can accept the idea that his girlfriend is more capable than himself.
"Sister Axi." Rengoku Chijuro's voice became tragic and deep.
Qingxi uttered a single sound in confusion: "Hmm?"
Rengoku Chijuro: "How do you feel about your future significant other not making as much as you do?"
Qingxi was confused. She couldn't quite keep up with her friend's thinking, but seeing that he was particularly eager to know, she told him her thoughts. "As long as that person isn't lazy and doesn't do anything, only thinking about getting a wife to support him, and then having a strong possessive desire, and doesn't tell me what to do at work like a big shot, and doesn't use my money to go shopping at red-light districts, that's fine."
Otherwise, I will poison his food and kill him with just one dose of poison." Smile, smile.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Rengoku Chijuro's forehead and back.
Fortunately, as Sister Axi said, my brother didn't step on any landmines, and he can get married now. Bah, as long as he is my brother, he still has a good chance.
"Any other questions?" Qingxi looked at the boy with amusement, who was stunned by his bold remarks, and then asked.
"No, no more." Rengoku Chijuro shook his head repeatedly. Suddenly, he knelt down and, to the girl's surprise, pulled out an envelope from his shirt and handed it to her with a serious expression. "Sister Axi, this is the first article I wrote. Please let me see it."
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The summer rain comes and goes as it pleases. In just an hour, the dark clouds that seemed to be looming over the city slowly dissipated.
Not long after, the sun came out again, and warm golden sunlight scattered on the earth.
"Chijuro, don't you want to sit down for a while?" Qingxi couldn't help but ask the person to stay after listening to his personal thoughts after reading the article and then hurriedly folded the paper and put it in the envelope to leave.
But the boy who had already walked out of the room and stood in the corridor waved at her, "No, Sister Axi, I want to go back and revise my article."
However, before the sound of the footsteps could fade away, it ran back on its own.
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"Sister Axi, how long will you stay in the Butterfly House?" Rengoku Chijuro, who had run back, poked his head in and asked a little embarrassedly.
"Me? I'll probably go back with Xingming after he finishes the meeting."
Rengoku Chijuro calculated in his mind and muttered, "That would be tomorrow, wouldn't it?"
Seeing the puzzled look on the face of the girl still sitting in the room, he immediately waved at her, "No, it's okay. Well, I'll be leaving first. See you tomorrow, Sister Axi."
Rengoku Chijuro was in a very heavy mood when he returned home. At this moment, he hoped that his brother could come back from the mission so that he could report to him the first-hand information about her that he got from Sister Axi today.
However, my brother was still on a mission and had not returned yet.
Rengoku Chijuro was very distressed.
No, this is not the most distressing thing yet.
Isn't the most troubling thing how I should organize the words to tell my brother that Sister Axi is a super rich person?
Moreover, her wealth does not come from how much she has accumulated over the years, but from her talent that makes her a person that even the rich are eager to pursue in the world of food?
How can this be compared?
If the difference in strength between men and women was only a little bit, then it would be fine. Maybe, as long as he worked hard, he could be a good man who could protect Sister Axi and let her live a good life. But the problem is that the gap between men and women is too big.
...It's too difficult. Why should a younger brother like me have to worry about this kind of problem? Shouldn't the older brother be the one to worry about it?
"Hmm! I'm back. What's the matter that you're so anxious to talk to me about, Chijuro?"
The boy's sunny and cheerful voice sounded, causing the boy who had been pacing back and forth in the corridor after returning home to stop suddenly.
He looked up at his brother who was dusty and moving slowly, obviously injured, but insisted on returning. Only one sentence flashed through Rengoku Chijuro's mind: The sound of nature is just like this.
"Brother." He hurried down the corridor, trotted to the boy's side, supported him and slowly walked towards his room.
After he helped spread the thin mattress, took off the Demon Slayer Corps uniform, changed into loose home clothes, and helped the man sit down, he dropped some good news for Rengoku Kyojuro, "Brother, Sister Aki will be staying at the Butterfly House these days."
"Hmm, is that Ah Xi?" The young man who had just laid down had two small strands of hair standing up on his head, making him look much more energetic.
The injuries on his body were treated by a doctor at a certain Wisteria House before he returned. After making the decision to come back to recuperate, he did not go to the Butterfly House, so he missed the news that Qingxi was now living in the Butterfly House.
"Let's not talk about that for now." Rengoku Chijuro held his brother's shoulder, telling him not to get so excited that he ignored his injuries and ran to the Butterfly House to look for someone. "I have something more important to tell you right now."
Maybe the expression on Rengoku Chijuro's face was between "the sky is about to fall" and "I feel very fortunate", which was too subtle to be seen, so Rengoku Kyojuro thought that he had encountered something, and his expression also became serious.
He nodded at him, "Hmm, Chijuro, you talk, I'm listening."
Rengoku Chijuro took a deep breath and reminded in a very tragic tone: "Um, brother, this matter concerns you, you must be mentally prepared."
Rengoku Kyojuro's heart skipped a beat.
The matter concerns himself, and it was Senjuro who said it... Who did Senjuro mention before?
Oh, it’s Axi…Axi!!!
Could it be that something happened to Axi?
Thinking of this, Rengoku Kyojuro wanted to move again, but his actions were not as fast as Rengoku Chijuro's voice.
"Brother, how are you going to support Sister Axi in the future!!!"
The boy's voice was so tragic and his tone was so sympathetic that it made the teenager lying on the thin mattress feel overwhelmed.
Rengoku Kyojuro blinked his small eyes, opened his mouth, and asked stupidly without his mind turning around: "Hmm, didn't something happen to Aki?"
When he said this, it was Rengoku Chijuro's turn to look at him with a frown, "No, Sister Axi is fine, right?"
The two brothers stared at each other for a long time without saying a word. As time passed, they gradually seemed to notice the awkwardness in the air around them, and suddenly they both looked away as if in tacit understanding.
Rengoku Kyojuro coughed lightly, and then he regained his calm and reliable appearance as a good brother and asked, "Chijuro, what did you say about Aki just now?"
"That's right." Rengoku Chijuro also withdrew his hands that were still on his brother's shoulders, sat up straight, and then explained to his brother who had just returned today the first-hand information he had obtained from Qingxi about her (emphasis) and that was spoken by her personally (emphasis).
Rengoku Chijuro spent a full hour telling his brother all the details of his time with Qingxi today, without missing a single one. He emphasized again and again how Sister Axi could sell her own wine for a sky-high price in that gourmet world.
"That's probably it." Rengoku Chijuro, who had thrown all his troubles out and transferred them to his brother, breathed a sigh of relief. Especially when he saw his brother's expression becoming more and more serious, he even felt a little gloating in his heart.
The melancholy feeling that as a younger brother, I should shoulder the responsibility of helping my elder brother to look forward to his future sister-in-law was instantly cured.
He sighed deeply, worried about his brother, "Brother, Sister Axi is so good and powerful, what should you do?"
Looking at his silent brother, Rengoku Chijuro expressed his biggest worry, "Actually, these are not what I'm most worried about. What I'm worried about is that Sister Axi is so good, what if more and more people discover her and pursue her?
...The most important thing is that Sister Axi is also very beautiful."
"Mr. Iguro, Mr. Tomioka, Mr. Yaken..." Rengoku Chijuro held his head in pain, "They are all very outstanding people, brother, you have so many competitors!!!"
Rengoku Chijuro muttered a lot of things, but he soon discovered that his brother, who should have been nervous, was no longer nervous.
Rengoku Chijuro's expression instantly lost control, "Brother, brother, you, aren't you worried?"
"Hmm, Aki will definitely not like them." Rengoku Kyojuro said in a firm tone with burning eyes.
Rengoku Chijuro was confused. "Why are you so sure?"
Rengoku Kyojuro tilted his head. "It's intuition, and also because... I haven't seen from Iguro, Tomioka, and Mr. Yaken's eyes that they have any love for Aki beyond friendship, and Aki doesn't have that in mind for them either. So, Aki won't like them."
This kind of thing is not absolute.
Maybe I don't like it now, but I will like it in the future? That's possible, isn't it?
Rengoku Chijuro thought silently in his heart.
"Just... leave it alone and not show anything?" he asked weakly.
Rengoku Kyojuro nodded, "Hmm, Aki is still young. I will confess my feelings to her when she grows up a little and the right time comes."
"Then, then when?" Rengoku Chijuro asked curiously, feeling curious.
Rengoku Kyojuro's ears felt a little hot, and he muttered, "We have to wait until Aki is 15 or 16 years old..."
"Sister Aki is 11 years old this year. It's only been four or five years, not long." Rengoku Chijuro sighed after getting the answer he wanted, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or to his brother.
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