Chapter 140
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Qingxi became a nobody.
Her task was completed, and the only thing left was to wash the dishes, which she wanted to do poorly.
Looking at Qingxi like that, Tokito Ichiro pushed her. "If you're free, go take a shower first. We'll all take turns taking showers later."
The New Year always has a sense of ritual.
For example, before wearing new clothes, take a good bath to wash off all the dirt on your body from last year.
Qingxi thought about it and agreed.
The four of them are in the kitchen now, so I can go into the house to wash by myself without having to wait outside in the cold wind.
As for waiting for them to take a shower while she herself does, well, she can just snuggle under the covers and pretend to be asleep.
"Then I'll go take a shower first." Qingxi didn't stay in the kitchen anymore and jumped into the house.
Seeing this, Kunihiro Horikawa went to the well and poured her a bucket of cold water.
"Come on." After everyone had washed and were wearing their new loose-fitting home clothes and nestled under the quilt, Qingxi took out five red envelopes. "It's time to try your luck."
However……
No one cooperated with her.
In an instant, Qingxi felt a little embarrassed.
"Ah, is this New Year's money?" The well-behaved Tokito Muichiro stared at the red envelope for a long time before reacting. He asked uncertainly.
...It can be considered as a disguised way of helping Qingxi out of trouble.
"Yeah." Qingxi coughed lightly and nodded.
"The master just said that it's a matter of luck. Does that mean that the amount of New Year's money here is different?" Horikawa Kunihiro also responded.
Qingxi nodded again, her expression brightening a little. "Putting the same amount of New Year's money in every envelope is too rigid. There's no surprise at all.
But if the amount of lucky money in the envelope is different, just like opening a blind box, wouldn’t it bring people a little surprise? "
"I see." Higekiri nodded, and his big, bony hand stretched out first, randomly picking one from the five envelopes that Kiyoki took out.
"However," he tilted his head, "Master like this gives me the feeling that he is possessed by Tsurumaru."
"Maybe it's because he and I are the most familiar with each other." Qingxi shrugged.
"Ah, this is really not good news." Higekiri continued with a smile.
After all, that is a troublemaker. Having one like this in the family is already unbearable enough. If there is another one, the family will probably be in chaos.
Well, of course it’s also possible that everyone explodes together.
How does the saying go, fight fire with fire.
It seems quite appropriate to use it here.
With Higekiri taking the lead, the other three followed suit and took an envelope from Kiyoki's hand.
"I'll count to three, and we'll open it together." Qingxi said to the four people, holding the last remaining envelope in his hand.
The four of them nodded in unison.
"one."
Everyone's expression became tense.
"two."
The atmosphere also became solemn at this time.
"three!"
Five people opened the envelope at the same time and took out the contents.
"Five yuan." Higekiri turned the coin over and over. He might have been the one with the least New Year's money in the room. But it didn't matter. "It means fate. The host really has a connection with us."
Kunihiro Horikawa raised his right hand, and his eyes, the color of the sea under the clear sky, blinked again and again, his face full of disbelief, "Ah, this, this little red stone is... a diamond?"
Although it is only half the size of a little finger, if it is really a diamond, it would be very precious.
But, that shouldn’t be the case.
After all, it's just New Year's money. It's impossible to put something of such great value in it.
However, the girl's next voice confirmed his guess.
"Oh yes, Horikawa, you must have had good luck this year. I only stuffed one out of the five envelopes, and you took it."
"This is too expensive." Horikawa Kunihiro opened his mouth and it took him a while to find his voice.
Qingxi looked at the ten-yuan note in his hand and said, "It's not bad. I knocked it off the shell of a ruby crab. It didn't cost me a penny except for a little effort."
Horikawa Kunihiro was completely speechless.
"Ichiro, Muichiro, what's in your envelopes?" Qingxi took the money and looked at the two brothers.
Tokito Muichiro's mint-colored eyes were filled with confusion. He held the object in his hand in front of Qingxi, "Is this it? The golden...sunflower seeds? Do I need to wait until next spring to plant them in the soil?"
"No, it's gold," Qingxi said after taking a look. "One coin weighs about two grams. If you exchange ten of them, you'll get about 13-14 yen."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Tokito Ichiro, who reacted quickly and clenched the thing into a fist.
Qingxi really wanted to tell him not to hide it anymore. She was the one who put the things there. The four people's envelopes had been opened. How could she not know what was in his envelope?
Although one cent sounds a bit miserable, it is still money after all.
Noticing the girl giving him a sympathetic look, Tokito Ichiro glared back at her with a sour expression.
Qingxi: It’s my fault for the bad luck.
He clearly had gems and gold melon seeds, but it was his bad luck that he got this.
She also felt that she was quite innocent.
"Do you want to play some other activities?" After the New Year's money distribution activity was over, Kunihiro Horikawa asked.
"What to play?" Qingxi asked.
Kunihiro Horikawa took out a deck of cards. "How about hanaka cards?"
Qingxi declined politely: "I can play poker, but I can't play karuta."
As soon as she finished speaking, she attracted four pairs of disbelief from the people around her.
Qingxi straightened his chest without feeling guilty, "Sorry, I'm from the Chinese next door."
Four people: "..."
"You can't tell at all," Higekiri said. "The master doesn't even have an accent when he speaks."
Kunihiro Horikawa hummed in agreement, "Just like a true Japanese."
Who doesn’t like to hear others praise them?
But after Qingxi felt happy, she said, "Let's change the subject. This topic is quite sensitive."
The two of them cooperated clearly.
"What are we going to play?"
"Well, how about we try this?" The five people looked at each other. Qingxi thought for a while and took out a big gift box from the food backpack.
"The Rock-Paper-Scissors gift box, capture level 3. Play rock-paper-scissors with it, best-of-five. If it wins, the contents of the gift box lose a lot of flavor, even becoming completely unpalatable. But if we win, the more delicious the ingredients, the more likely they are to open on their own, revealing the ingredients inside." Qingxi briefly explained the situation to the four of them. Afterward, she asked, "Who wants to try it?"
"I'll do it." Tokito Ichiro, who had drawn a penny of New Year's money, rolled up his sleeves and said angrily.
At this moment, he was like a gambler at the gambling table, his mind full of thoughts: "I can't get the New Year's money. It's impossible that I can't even win something as small as rock-paper-scissors."
However, it turned out that he might have been unlucky this year. Qingxi took out ten rock-paper-scissors gift boxes and he had to play all ten of them, but he lost all ten times.
"Take a rest." Ignoring the boy's exasperated "I can do it", "Let me try again", and "No, I must win the next game tonight", Qingxi put the ten rock-paper-scissors gift boxes around him aside, then lay down, covered himself with the quilt, closed his eyes and went to sleep.
It's really terrible to be unlucky. If there is any lottery event in the future, she will never let Youyilang come.
.
"Sister Axi, come here for a moment."
"What's wrong?"
Outside the house, Tokito Muichiro's voice was heard. Qingxi put down the clothes he was making, stretched his arms, twisted his neck, and then walked out slowly.
As time passed, she had been living here with Higekiri and Horikawa for almost four months. She secretly asked Higekiri and Horikawa when she could go back based on the progress of the two brothers Tokito.
To use their own words, if she was in a hurry to go back, giving them another month of intensive training would probably be enough for them to be able to start their own business. The rest of the time, the two brothers would need to accumulate experience on their own in battle.
Qingxi understood what was going on.
But she wasn't that anxious yet.
So her plan was to go back in March when spring was in full bloom.
This involves the issue of the two brothers' lives after they left.
After half a year, she has already seen Youzhilang's temper, which is as hard as a stinky stone in a toilet.
She dared to bet all the ingredients in her gourmet backpack that this guy would never ask Grandpa Qin or Grandma Su for help no matter what happened after she left.
Even if two children worked hard every day to chop firewood in the mountains and sell it down the mountain, how much could they get?
In the end, the two of them still need to live frugally.
She could well imagine that the two of them would not be able to save much money every year before they came of age.
Sad and helpless.
Qingxi sighed silently in his heart.
After all, she has been called sister so many times, so before leaving, she must arrange the lives of these two children first.
The lucky bag she bought for the New Year contained a lot of cloths of different sizes. She picked out the larger ones, regardless of their quality, and planned to make them into sets of larger clothes during this period. The land near Shitou's yard was not bad. Youyilang wanted to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, and as the snow thawed, they would start turning the soil. She would go to the trap every day to check. If there was any prey, she would leave some for the family to eat, and the rest would either be pickled and hung on the beams of the house or taken to the town to sell.
She didn't touch the money, but gave it directly to Tokito Yuichiro and asked him to keep it safe.
When Qingxi walked outside the house, she saw Tokito Muichiro circling around Jiro. She thought something had happened, so she trotted over and followed him to circle around Jiro.
"Is Jiro injured somewhere?" Qingxi had to ask after walking around and not seeing anything wrong.
When asked, Tokito Muichiro nodded at first, but then he shook his head, which made Qingxi look confused. So, is there something wrong or not?
Tokito Muichiro pointed to a certain spot and said in a tone he didn't even know what to say, "Just now, I saw Jiro lowering his head and looking like he was in pain in his throat, so I came over to check it out. Suddenly, he looked up and spit out a... fireball in my direction?"
Tokito Muichiro himself didn't know what he was saying, but the charred area in the yard that was burned by the flames proved to him that he was not lying.
At last, he raised his hand and touched his head, his face full of lingering fear.
Fortunately, I squatted down quickly enough, otherwise, I would really become a bald man.
"Jiro? Fireball?" Qingxi repeated it in a low voice, his mind still a little behind.
The blue eyes stared at the scorched earth where Tokito Muichiro's finger was for a while before jumping up as if his butt was on fire.
"What, what happened?"
Seeing the girl like this, Toru Muichiro thought that she knew what happened to Jiro and became nervous about her.
Qingxi didn't have time to answer the boy at the moment. She opened her dialysis eyes and scanned the black crow next to her, which was growing bigger every year.
“Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful food cells!!!”
The girl was stunned, and her voice became hoarse with excitement.
This, this, this, this, what's going on?
Isn't it said that this world is different from the gourmet world? Why can cells from the gourmet world be produced in people here after eating the delicacies there? Bah, these are produced in the bodies of birds here?
No, that's not right. She should have thought of it a long time ago, right?
After all, whose crow can grow so big when all its body data are soaring in an increasingly outrageous direction?
However, at that time, because she had examined Jiro's body and confirmed again and again that no gourmet cells were found in it, she had put the matter behind her...
Now, there was an equation in front of her.
Very active gourmet cells were found in Jiro's body = People here can also produce gourmet cells in their bodies if they eat the delicacies from her gourmet world long enough = People with gourmet cells can produce gourmet demons in their bodies = Their physical qualities are no longer limited to the highest limit level of other ordinary people in this world = They all have the chance to become muscular men or strong women who can smash brick buildings with one punch or one collision = If these people are the Nine Pillars, the battle with the Twelve Kizuki will no longer have a tragic result of just risking one's life to seriously injure the other party = If Muzan Kibutsuji dares to come out, the Nine Pillars of Gyomei's generation will definitely have the best chance of defeating him.
As soon as this equation appeared in Qingxi's mind, he felt a little restless.
She urgently needs to go back now, she needs to find someone to experiment with.
And if it is a human, the most suitable ones are those who have been fed with ingredients from the gourmet world from time to time in the past few years.
"Sister Axi, Sister Axi, Sister Axi?"
Qingxi kept talking to herself for too long, so long that Tou Muichiro had no idea what to do and didn't dare to touch her, so he could only shout at her.
Qingxi, whose soul was called back, shook her head at him. She said absentmindedly, "I'm fine. I'm fine, very fine... Jiro is fine too. Muichiro, you go practice swordplay with Youchiro."
“But…” Tokito Muichiro opened his mouth. He really couldn’t see that she was alright!!!
However, the girl had already turned around and hurried back into the house to sew clothes again, and he didn't even have the chance to speak again.
Tokito Muichiro went to the back of the wooden house in a depressed mood. It was Kunihiro Horikawa's turn to accompany Tokito Muichiro. Higekiri, who was holding Tokito Muichiro's hand, saw him out of the corner of his eye and asked curiously, "Did you encounter any troubles?"
Tokito Muichiro looked up and met the other person's gaze. "Ah, it's Sister Aki. Jiro just suddenly blew out a fireball. After I told Sister Aki about it, she just kept mumbling to herself. I called her, but she didn't seem to be in the right state either."
Higekiri looked up at the sky, his right finger tapping his chin, as if in deep thought. Suddenly, he lowered his head and said to Tokito Muichiro, "Muichiro-kun."
The other party's action was so sudden that Tokito Muichiro was stunned for a moment before responding: "Ah, yes."
Higekiri said softly, "Recently, the amount of training may increase, so you should be prepared."
Tokito Muichiro: "...Okay, okay."
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