Chapter 041
Genei Kitaya and Naoto Hasegawa used the number of demons they had killed since joining the Demon Slayer Corps as a guarantee that the poison test (bushi) that girl had just conducted was completely aimed at the two of them.
However, she had already tried the "poison", and if the two of them tried to explain that they had no intention of targeting her, it would seem that they were not sincere and were just making up excuses to save face.
So Genei Kitaya and Naoto Hasegawa kept silent.
Seeing that the atmosphere was gradually cooling down, Rengoku Makijuro stepped forward and said, "I'll take the porridge and vegetables over."
He will also tell the lord about what is happening here, and it will be up to the lord to decide whether the food made by Qingxi should be served to Madam Tianyin.
After Rengoku Makijuro left, Qingxi did not finish her work immediately. She still had some work to do.
She then fried the remaining scales of the mermaids in a pan. After removing all the scales from the pan and draining off the excess oil from the surface, she cleaned the kitchen utensils bit by bit and put the leftovers away.
"The sun is about to set. If you don't mind, please enjoy the meal I just made. Mr. Beimingyu, I also made vegetarian dishes."
Except for Rengoku Makijuro who delivered the food to Mrs. Tianyin and left, two of the remaining three people were embarrassed by the girl's invitation, and Beimingyu Xingming's body stiffened strangely.
Suddenly, he remembered the horror of being dominated by mountains of rice and large bowls of vegetables in the clinic cafeteria this spring.
Sensing the tall monk's eerie pause, Qingxi also paused. Then, she grasped the key point and assured him, "Don't worry, I'll use a normal bowl to serve Mr. Beimingyu's rice this time."
Then, continue to make it into a small hill...
Beiming Island Xingming, who had no idea that the girl had a habit of serving rice into small mountains, relaxed.
Kitaya Genei and Hasegawa Naoto looked at the messy courtyard, where all the kitchen utensils had been put away and only six long low tables with water stains from freshly wiped towels remained. Kitaya Genei and Hasegawa Naoto looked at each other...
The lord will probably not be angry when he finds out that the headquarters has been messed up like this by them.
My lord, you have encountered worse things before. If this is all you have to deal with, you should be fine...right?
Suddenly, they both felt guilty that they were the most ignorant and naughty kids in the world. However, the girl seemed to have lost her memory. She prepared the food, used it, and then cleaned up the pots and pans and other things that should be considered kitchen items. She then turned around and left with Beimingyu Xingming.
He suppressed the veins on his forehead that were jumping one after another, and thought about the various verbal contempts he had expressed towards the girl before. Forget it, they cleaned up the remaining long low tables.
Mrs. Amane has given birth, and everyone in the headquarters is busy now. So after Rengoku Makijuro brought over the nutritious meal she made, Qingxi didn't plan to go over and cause trouble. Instead, she went to an empty Japanese-style room and sat quietly waiting for Rengoku Makijuro to arrive, while also waiting for him to bring over information about the child.
What surprised Qingxi was that when he came back, all the food he had brought over before was also brought back.
Just as Qingxi's mind was about to wander to unpleasant thoughts, the obstetrician's roommate, Yoya, who had returned with him, explained, "Tenyin rested after giving birth. The doctor said that women shouldn't eat right after giving birth. If you're hungry, it's best to wait two hours after giving birth before eating some liquid food."
The expression on the girl's face, which was about to disappear, finally gradually changed to a good-looking one.
"I'm sorry, my lord." She bowed her head and apologized.
Having been single all her life, she knew nothing about what happens after a woman gives birth, so it was no surprise that she made such a mistake.
Ubuyashiki Yoya rubbed Qingxi's head and said, "It's okay. I know Aki is concerned about Tianyin."
He changed the subject and said, "I heard from Makijuro that you have prepared dinner. Do you mind if I join you?"
When he came here, he and Rengoku Makijuro passed by the previous "open-air kitchen". Although other things there had been almost cleaned up, the water stains on the ground were still very conspicuous, making it difficult for people to pretend not to know.
"Of course I don't mind." Qingxi said.
You need to go to the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks. She has small bowls, but more of them are large bowls that can hold 40 to 50 kilograms at a time.
Tofu and fish ball soup, stir-fried apricot and cabbage, stewed ladyfish with golden carrots, braised fish innards, mixed vegetables and finally a bowl of white rice.
Looking at the braised pork, Qingxi originally wanted to ask them if they wanted to drink, but when he thought that they would leave after dinner and go to their respective patrol areas, he swallowed the words back.
Drinking will cause trouble, so it’s better not to drink.
"Hmm, Ah Xi, another bowl please."
"Then I'll have another bowl too."
"……Me too."
The charm of delicious food lies in the fact that just one bite can stimulate people's appetite. How can one bowl be enough? Of course, two bowls, three bowls... You will want to eat more after eating, and you will still want to eat even after you are full.
Looking at the two pillars who had been severely slapped in the face, with red faces, taking the full second bowl of rice from his side and eating it hard, Qingxi felt mean in his heart, with his hands on his hips, his head raised at a 45-degree angle, and white breaths coming out of his nostrils. He would try to talk nonsense next time when he knew nothing.
"My lord, is Madam Tianyin giving birth to a boy or a girl this time? Or, is it twins?" Qingxi asked, holding the bowl and pausing to put the food into his mouth, thinking that he had waited for a long time but still didn't know the gender of the baby.
"It's a boy. And there's only one," said Ubuyashiki Yoya.
"What about a name? Have you thought of anything?"
"Kuriya, Aki is going to be a big sister again."
Qingxi resisted the urge to twitch her lips. What sister? She could be the grandmother of everyone present.
After dinner, the four pillars left separately. It was almost time, and if they didn't leave now, today's patrol would be late. Qingxi stayed at the headquarters.
Firstly, it was late, and although she could carry a wisteria sachet with her, there was no need to rush back to the clinic. Secondly, Madam Tianyin had just given birth today, so she stayed to help.
For example, you can help look after Hinai and Hikaru.
For example, if Madam Tianyin is hungry, she doesn’t need to go to the kitchen anymore, because she has prepared more nutritious porridge or soup that will stay fresh.
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Led by the attendant to the hot spring, where she took a comfortable soak and changed into new clothes prepared for her, Qingxi went to the resting room of Hinai and Rika.
Ubuyashiki Kyouya originally wanted to arrange a room for her, but Qingxi felt that it was unnecessary to make such a hassle. Besides, she was there to take care of people, so she applied to share a room with Hinai and Hika.
The shoji door was opened from the outside, and the sound of the door attracted the attention of the two little girls lying on the tatami in the room, your arms pressing on me, my legs pressing on you.
Looking at the face of the strange older girl standing outside the shoji door, the two four-headed, two-year-old girls tilted their heads in unison.
It was the first time that Qingxi saw Hinai and Hikaru meet, and she saw familiar shadows in both of them at first sight.
Compared to Ubuyashiki Kōya, the two of them look more like their mother, Lady Amane.
The same hair color, similar pupils, and except that their faces look a little like their father, the two of them are almost like they were carved out of their mother's mold.
No, even the face. Both parents look handsome, one is handsome and the other is beautiful. Who can say that the face looks like the father? Maybe it could be the mother.
Thinking about it this way, she wanted to take it back because she was impressed by the fact that Ubuyashiki Kōya had strong genes because he had twin daughters as a minor.
Because the one with strong genes is not Ubuyashiki Kōya, but Lady Amane!
Her mind was full of a mess of thoughts, and after nodding to the attendant who was accompanying Hinai and Rika in the room, she walked into the house.
"Hello, Hinai, Hikaru, I'm your elder sister, Kiyoki." Kiyoki greeted the two little girls, white and soft like sticky rice dumplings, with a smile. She reached into the left sleeve of her yukata with her right hand and rummaged around, then pulled out two small second-order Rubik's Cube fruits. "Come on, call me elder sister, and I'll give you something fun."
Hinai and Rika had memories of the second-order Rubik's Cube with six fruit patterns printed on its surface. Last New Year, their father had given them the two Rubik's Cubes among so many other things, mixed in with the package of New Year gifts for the Ubuyashiki family.
Every time you turn the fruit patterns on the four small squares on a side to the same shape, juice with the same fruit pattern will flow out.
A small bowl, very sweet.
My mother even mixed the milk with water to make a full bowl and then divided it into two bowls for them to drink because she was worried that it was too sweet and bad for their teeth.
However, my father only brought back two such interesting things. Even if the two of them only solved one side every day, they finished and drank the two second-order Rubik's cubes and the sweet juice inside the cubes in two weeks.
Ubuyashiki Kōya is tolerant of the members of the Demon Slayer Corps, but as a father, he will not spoil his children and give them whatever they want. So, even though Kiyoki once said that he could come to her to get an upgraded version after the Rubik's Cube was solved, he did not disturb Kiyoki's life in the clinic for the sake of his child.
He might even have the idea in his mind that instead of disturbing Qingxi, it would be better to let her shine in her position.
Hinai and Rika were taught very well by Ubuyashiki Amane. Even when they saw the magical Rubik's Cube that they had been longing for, they did not rush to get up from their oppressive state and reach out to Qingxi for it.
The two of them sat up straight and obediently. Because they were still young, they wobbled like tumblers when they knelt on the tatami. Seeing the smile on Qingxi's face, he couldn't help but widen it.
After Hinai and Rika were seated, they called out to her in a natural, soft, and tender voice that Qingxi would occasionally fake: "Hello, sister, I'm Ubuyashiki Hinai/Rika, please take care of me from now on."
"Yeah, so good, so good."
Qingxi was completely moved when she was sweetly called "sister" by two cute girls who were as cute as steamed buns, or even as cute as dolls.
Suddenly, she seemed to have something in common with the male protagonists in those old male-oriented online novels.
There’s a beauty beside me (crossed out), who can hold her back… what the hell.
In short, Qingxi said that she could accept being called sister by such a beautiful girl.
Perhaps Ubuyashiki Yoya had given instructions in advance, so the servant who originally stayed here to accompany Hinai and Hikaru saw that the three of them were in a good mood, so he made the beds for them and left.
After Qingxi handed the two Rubik's Cube fruits to the two sisters, she watched them spinning them with their heads down. To prevent them from breaking one side while spinning, she specially took out a bowl and handed it to them.
After a while, Qingxi rubbed his eyes and gave up the "finding differences" behavior towards the twins, because the two looked exactly the same if they didn't make some changes in their clothes, and it was difficult to tell them apart.
In this way, she felt that Mrs. Tianyin was amazing. While handling the logistics of the Demon Slayer Corps every day, she was also responsible for educating the children and distinguishing which one was the older sister... Really, this is what a strong woman is like.
After playing with the Rubik's Cube fruit with the two sisters for a while, and after they successfully solved one side and drank the diluted delicious cherry juice, Qingxi asked them to rinse their mouths with clean water. Then she took out a twin flower of sound and placed it between the two sisters' beds.
In the dim room, three girls were lying in their respective beds. There was only a small, light blue flower that was like a tangled mass of flowers, surrounded by tiny starlight. As the melodious notes sounded, those tiny starlights turned into colorful tiny notes that slowly rose up, and then disappeared not far from the flower.
Little Hinai and little Rika, who had seen a flower that could separate and merge together before, now had their own answers in their little heads. Whether it was flowers or magic cubes they received before, they were all given to them by the little lady in front of them.
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