Chapter 25 The first meal after moving to a new home is of course to be cooked at home
Hui bought two large bags of flour and came back carrying the bags in each arm, with a shopping bag with the supermarket's logo hanging on his wrist.
He still bought bottled condiments.
Because condiments such as soy sauce and vinegar are very troublesome if they are not packed in bottles. Nowadays, you can’t find them in bulk like in the past. There are some, but they are very rare.
He didn't buy the bagged ones because if he did, he would have to buy bottles separately. In comparison, the bottled ones were more cost-effective.
Hinoki looks like a pretty boy with a slender figure and not very good looks, but he is really very strong.
"Thank you very much for today...!" Hui first thanked the uncle at the vegetable store, and then put the things he bought into the cart little by little. During this period, the uncle also came over to help, and Hui expressed that he Just come, but it's no use.
There was everything in the supermarket, and when he saw Hino carrying two bags of flour to check out, the clerk immediately looked at him with a clear look on his face and asked him if he had been introduced to him by the vegetable shop next door.
Hinoki answered yes with some embarrassment.
The clerk chatted with him while scanning the code to check out, saying that the uncles at the vegetable shop were always very enthusiastic. There was only a very small difference between the amount of flour in the large bag and the medium bag, so ordinary people would choose to buy the big bag directly. And only the owner of a vegetable shop will try every means to help his customers save money——
Two medium bags are more expensive than one large bag, and the quantity is only a little more, but in terms of kilogram weight, two medium bags are indeed more cost-effective, but most people don't care about it so much.
And because he learned that Hui was introduced by the vegetable shop owner and that he had recently moved here, the supermarket clerk gave him a slight discount and smiled and said that this time it was a special discount, so don’t tell him. Other people——whatever, it makes Hui feel that he really received a lot of help from everyone for nothing...
Very sorry to go.
But Hui also knew that he... actually had nothing that could be used to repay everyone's kindness.
"I will come to our store often in the future!" The uncle from the vegetable shop smiled cheerfully and helped Hui put everything away before sending them out.
"Yes, I will, thank you again...! Goodbye, uncle-" Hinoki responded shyly while carrying Yu into the stroller.
The uncle watched them with emotion after walking halfway through the street, and then took down the curtain at the door of the store.
——"Let's close the store today."
He said it as if talking to himself.
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Yuzheng, who sat back on the cart again, flipped through the bag that Hinoki brought out from the supermarket to see what was inside.
Dark soy sauce in a large bottle, light soy sauce in a small bottle, light sushi vinegar in a small bottle, ordinary seasoned vinegar in a large bottle, and what seems to be oyster sauce that looks average in comparison, and cooking wine in a plastic barrel with a handle. Two bottles of different oils, a few vacuum-packed bags of raw white rice, mayonnaise, ketchup, salad dressing, etc., as well as other common household items.
"...Brother, what did you do before?"
Yu was surprised that Hinoki could hold so many things and still look relaxed...
I say it's easy, but actually holding it is just like not holding it. It's very normal, and I don't seem to be bothered by the weight of these things at all.
"Hmm... I guess it's the kind of thing where I help transport goods. This cart was also given to me by the place where I worked before."
Hinoki slowly pushed the cart through the streets of Konoha.
It was getting late. In winter, the sky would have darkened around five o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, obvious stars and a semi-circular moon could already be seen in the sky.
"It sounds very hard, but is it really okay? At your age..."
Yu checked his face carefully.
He clearly looks like a man in his teens.
"I'm okay. It's just a delivery, so it's not very difficult. And compared to ninjas... I don't think it's particularly hard for me."
Hinoki freed up his hand and patted Yu's shoulder, still pushing his trolley easily.
"I heard from your teacher that after graduating and becoming ninjas, students these years will immediately become busy, and there are also people who have to participate in battles before they are ten years old... Maybe I am also a little scared, so I don't want to become a ninja. Ninja, although we are family now, but... well, I don't want to stop you. After all, your wish is to become a ninja, but that is really not very safe... But there is nothing I can do, and if I If you are an ordinary person all the time, as long as nothing special happens, at least I can always be there... As your brother, just do whatever you want, and I will always support you."
Hinoki looked into Yu's eyes and expressed his attitude to her.
"...Well, thank you."
Yu lowered his head.
[After dinner, steam some potatoes and make a salad...]
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Yu watched Hui push the cart into the yard and locked the door. Then he was carried to the door of his house by Hui. He unlocked the door and signaled to Yu that he could go in first, and then he put the cart on the side little by little. Carrying things home.
"Why don't you go inside? It's a bit cold outside at night. You'll catch a cold if you stay here for a long time."
Hui finished moving the flour and was gathering the rest of the things and carrying them into the house.
Some things are fragile.
He planned to take those in last.
"It's okay, I want to see how you move things."
Yu chewed the lollipop the teacher had given him into small pieces while squatting at the door and observing Hinoki.
I have to say that his movements are quite professional, as if he were moving things professionally...
Although the reason why she didn't go in was actually that the lights were not turned on in the room, and there had been incidents of black shadows jumping out before, so Yu didn't dare to go into the room by herself.
"Well, there aren't a lot of things anyway..." Hinoki transferred a bag of things that would be fine even if they were dropped on the ground, carried them into the room by the entrance, and then walked to the cart to continue sorting out the remaining things.
"Why don't you push the cart to the door?" Yu held up the plastic stick with the candy ball missing, gnawed on the candy and raised his hand in confusion.
Hino put the cart next to a small reservoir in the yard, which was also some distance from the door where Yu was squatting.
She didn’t understand why Hui placed the cart so far away and walked so far back and forth to move things instead of putting it directly at the door to shorten the distance to be walked...
"...Ahem, I've been lying down for too long, so I thought I should walk more to move my body..." Hinoki coughed, picked up a bunch of glass bottle bags with one hand, and held it under the bag to relieve the pain. The pressure of the bag…
"That's it."
Yu chewed the candy in his mouth into smaller pieces and held his chin up to watch Hino continue to move things.
[Maybe I didn’t expect it.]
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After Hino put away the last things, he locked the stroller where the old man Baiyan had chained the stroller. When he returned to the door, he wanted to take Yu into the house with him, but he seemed to have thought of something, so he The hand that went out was taken back again.
Yu saw a shoe rack with a somewhat strange aesthetic at the entrance. Next to it was a pair of larger slippers and a pair of small slippers that she could wear.
"Come in, can you sit in the living room for a while first? It takes a long time to make the noodles. The gentleman before bought some snacks. They are on the coffee table. You can eat some of them first, but if you eat too much, you won't be able to eat at night. It’s time for dinner, so that won’t work.”
Hui said that he changed his shoes first, picked up the anti-fall bag containing vegetables, walked to the living room and turned on the light, and then went to the kitchen.
After Yu changed his shoes and ran to the clean wooden floor, Hinoki came out again and carried noodles and other things to the kitchen.
The furniture is quite old, but it is still usable. After cleaning, the interior of the house became much cleaner.
After Yuzai entered the current living room, he suddenly felt that he was 'home'.
Although I have just moved in, I feel like I have been living here for a long time.
...warmth?
It does not seem.
...it feels like home.
perhaps.
The sofa is old, but the seat cushions and back cushions on the sofa are relatively new and should have been replaced.
Yu saw something that looked like a family portrait on the small cabinet next to the sofa.
——A pair of people who seemed to be a couple with gray hair. There was a round stool in front of them, and on the stool there was... a black... cat that seemed to be an adult and stood normally as high as a human's small arm. ?
The ears are round, like a curly-eared cat, and the hair is longer but black...
But then she thought about this world where people and water were integrated, and she thought that there might be solid black cats with curly ears like this...
Its fur is really dark.
It was so dark that only its outline and the golden vertical pupils could be seen clearly.
[Is this the rescued psychic beast that the elder sister mentioned before...is it a cat?]
Yu thought about the dark figure he saw outside the bathroom.
It moves so quickly that you can't even see what it is doing when it moves, which is very consistent with the characteristics of a cat.
[If it’s a cat, there’s no need to be afraid...]
When Yu Gang thought this, goosebumps suddenly appeared on his arms.
She shrank her shoulders and felt a cold and chilling gaze coming from the window with her back facing...
Yu leaned towards the sofa cushions and turned his head warily.
It was not an illusion, but when she turned around, she only saw a ray of light passing through the window, and then nothing.
"..."
[Okay, even cats in this situation are actually... quite scary.]
Yu decided to go to the kitchen and stay with Hinoki.
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"It's so boring to be alone, is there anything I can do to help? Why don't you say I want to help, so that you can finish dinner earlier?"
Yu gave himself a reasonable excuse to go into the kitchen.
"Ah, really?" Hinoki's sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, and his exposed forearm was now covered with a lot of flour, "...well, it doesn't seem like there's anything... I guess. , why don't you find something to do yourself? But you can't touch the knives, it's still too early for you to cut vegetables or something."
Hinoki turned his upper body and head around, and after confirming that all the knives that were dangerous to children were on the cabinet table out of Yu's reach, he smiled at her reassuringly and returned to kneading the dough.
"Um."
While Yu agreed, he opened the cupboard and rummaged through it, looking at where the tools in his mind might be.
Five minutes later, she successfully found a sharpener, then picked up a large potato, squatted next to the trash can and started peeling it.
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Hino discovered that Yu had gotten the knife after she had finished peeling two potatoes and then peeled half of the carrots.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
19.12.30.-09-
Nine years to go (no)
Originally, the title of this chapter came from the previous chapter, but after I finished writing it, I realized that I hadn’t written it that far, so it became the title of this chapter... I talk a lot of nonsense (but I don’t like chatting with others (.)
I always feel that the things I write about - even though they are good things, there is a feeling that the other party is plotting something. The same goes for the friendly teacher and the enthusiastic store manager. They write in a normal and friendlier way. Yes, but when I look at it I always feel...something is wrong.
To be honest, I don’t think what I wrote is interesting, and I didn’t plan what to write. The interesting events I mentioned before just came to my mind suddenly, and then I continued to write naturally. I wrote whatever came to my mind. Just keep writing whatever you want. No matter how far the plot collapses or how many questions I run into, I can continue writing, even though most of them won't be interesting.
When I saw someone saying they liked the protagonist in the previous game, I couldn't understand how anyone could like it... I didn't hate the protagonist, I just regarded him as the 'protagonist'. Seriously speaking, I didn't particularly like any character. , but I don’t hate them either. Generally speaking, I like them all, right? But if someone tells me that I don’t like them, I will still get angry.
I didn't intend to write it so early when I asked the protagonist to bark like a dog, but when I followed that plot and wrote it down, it seemed like something that would happen reasonably to me, so I naturally wrote about what I had written before. Add some ideas and then it develops like that.
I don’t plan to make the protagonist too skinny in this game, otherwise it might be removed from the shelves orz