Chapter 32: The Lady Who Was Quietly Watching
The couple took out the lunch boxes while chatting and laughing.
However, the moment the wife turned it on, their smiles froze.
"Hey? Where are the croquettes? Why is there only white rice?"
"Uh, wife, did you forget to put it in?"
"How is that possible? I remember putting it in properly! Look, there are still oil stains on the rice!"
Yoshiyuki listened to what they said and remembered that Erina had just said that they were eating croquettes.
"It's too much of a coincidence." Yi Xing asked the eldest lady in a low voice: "Could the croquettes they eat be stolen?"
"It's possible." Erina thought for a moment and smiled: "But it's also possible that the croquettes were so delicious that she couldn't help but eat them herself!"
"Who would do such a boring thing!"
Yoshiyuki felt that the eldest lady had almost rested enough by now, so he asked again if he wanted to finish the lap.
However, she refused to run away no matter what, and even had to carry her to the lake to see the scenery.
In desperation, he had to carry Erina on his back and ran all the way to the lake.
Carrying the girl on his back and running so fast easily really attracted a lot of people's attention.
There were even passing girls of the same age urging their boyfriends to do the same.
"Look, the boys over there can carry their girlfriends on their backs and run away! That's awesome! I want to do that too!"
"Ah? It's okay if I carry you for a few steps, but it's really hard to run so fast..."
"Let's try it!"
As a result, Yoshiyuki saw the tragic situation where he tripped and fell after running less than ten meters while carrying his girlfriend on his back.
The girl flew out directly and rolled back and forth on the grass several times before stopping, covering her head and crying loudly.
It was obviously very tragic and she should remain serious, but Erina couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Fortunately, she held back her subsequent laughter in time, otherwise it would have been really heartbreaking.
"My family, Yi Xing, is still very good. He never falls down when he carries me on his back! Right, Yi Xing?"
"Miss, please don't set up a flag. There is a river next to this place. If I fall, you may fly into it."
Although the village school also teaches swimming lessons, Erina has always been able to learn only half as well.
She knows almost nothing except dog paddle, and dog paddle actually doesn't count in swimming lessons at school.
So the eldest daughter has failed the class for nine years in a row - but her other cultural classes are not very good either. Compared with her brilliant record of always getting zero points in math, it is nothing unusual to fail in the swimming class.
Being able to make all the wrong guesses on multiple-choice questions is a talent that most people cannot match.
If Yi Xing hadn't been with the eldest lady every day, and had only known her for these few moments, one would have doubted whether she had deliberately bypassed the correct options. In fact, she knew all these questions.
βIt feels really good to go out and exercise with Yi Xing occasionally!β
After finally arriving at the lake, Erina carefully jumped off Yoshiyuki who was half-crouching, took out the dumplings again from her bag, pinched them, and said happily.
"Miss, can you call this exercise?" Yi Xing couldn't laugh or cry: "You only ran a few steps and didn't even break a sweat."
"That was quite a good exercise for me! The highlight is the process of hanging out with Yoshiyuki!" Erina chuckled and took out a thermos: "Would you like some water, Yoshiyuki? The weather is very hot.
Heat and replenishing water are very important, right?β
"Well, let's have some."
Unlike the Chinese, the Japanese don't drink boiled water. But they like to use thermos bottles to fill them with hot tea, coffee, etc.
However, the bottle in the eldest lady's bottle is filled with ice water.
A thermos flask can keep it cold.
At this time, Erina poured some ice water into the lid of the thermos cup, drank half of it and handed it to him.
Yoshihiro took it and raised his head to kill them all.
The cold and sweet liquid poured into the throat, bringing an extremely comfortable and moist feeling.
"Thank you, Miss." Yoshiyuki wiped his mouth and pulled out the wooden sword: "I will practice my sword here. If Miss is bored, you can take a nap on the grass with a dumpling on your pillow."
"We finally came to the park to exercise, how can we spend precious time sleeping?"
Erina sat on the grass as a duck, looked at the clear lake surface rippled by the breeze, then looked at Yoshiyuki, and smiled.
The sight of the eldest lady made him feel exceptionally calm and warm inside.
It seemed that the sword he swung was more powerful.
One hour of sword practice passed in this way under the silent attention of the eldest lady.
She just watched quietly without saying a word to disturb Yi Xing - although she said she was going to the lake to see the scenery, the focus of her eyes was on him most of the time.
After practicing the last move, Yoshiyuki put away the wooden sword and inserted it into his waist again.
At this time, the eldest lady finally stood up from the grass and patted her butt, trotted to Yi Xing's side with her legs running like a corgi, and spoke with a smile.
"Thank you for your hard work, Yoshiyuki! How's it going? I'm quiet, right?" Erina took out a wet wipe and wiped his face, and asked proudly: "Do you have any thoughts?"
"Yeah. The eldest lady is so cute when she is quiet. She is not annoying at all."
"You mean I'm usually annoying and not cute at all?!"
Erina immediately slapped the wet towel on his face and lightly kicked Yoshiyuki angrily.
"I'll give you a chance to correct your statement, servant!"
"Yes, the eldest lady is always so cute. Is that okay?"
Yi Xing took off the wet towel and threw it into the trash can. He stretched out his hand to help her straighten the wind-blown hair curtain and said with a smile.
"Hmph... I feel like you are just perfunctory with me." Erina squeezed the dumplings in her arms and bounced them around, and muttered: "Servant..."
At this moment, Yoshiyuki remembered that Erina hadn't had lunch yet.
Just eating a few energy bars is definitely not enough, you still have to find snacks in the park.
So Yoshiyuki suggested that before starting the afternoon tour, she should walk around the park to see if there was any food she liked.
"By the way, I'm about to talk about this! During this time, I saw several people passing by with particularly fragrant grilled sausages?" Erina mentioned this matter, as if her mouth was about to drool: "Let's hurry up
Go find it!"
"Grilled sausage? I was busy practicing my sword just now and I really didn't pay attention." Yi Xing said curiously: "Where did they come from?"
"It's over there! Come quickly."
Erina excitedly took hold of her arm and ran towards the other side of the bridge.
It was clear that I couldn't run anymore when I was just jogging, but now I am full of energy and can run that far in one breath.
Chapter completed!