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"Do we still want to go to the convenience store?" Fujii asked.
"I don't need to." Akai said.
"Well." Jiu Huayue raised her hand a little embarrassedly, "I still want to buy some bread to eat first. I'm a little hungry."
Fujii Itsuki immediately laughed and said, "I almost forgot, Jiuhua, you have a big appetite."
"Don't say that to me."
The three of them arrived at the Xingyuan Welfare Home at around 9:30.
At this time, the driver had just arrived at the welfare home and had just driven in, but had not yet started unloading the goods.
"Brother Tree!"
Chitose Yangkui, who had been waiting in the welfare home and had agreed to help in advance, smiled happily when she saw Fujii Itsuki approaching the gate.
However, the girl's happiness was short-lived because she discovered that Fujii Itsuki was not alone.
My brother Shu is accompanied by the Nine-flowered Fox and that damn woman!
Why do I see you two everywhere?
When the three people approached, the smile and happiness on Chitose Yangkui's face still did not disappear, and she trotted to Fujii Itsuki.
"Brother Tree!"
"Well, Mr. Nagano agreed to let you come out this time."
"Yes! But he asked Brother Shu to take me home. He was worried that I might run into trouble on the way at night. Are you willing to take me home?"
"Of course, Mr. Nagano's request is correct. You'd better be careful as a girl at night. I'm afraid someone will come and kidnap you, and I will suddenly lose a lovely sister."
"Hehe~ I just like to hear Brother Shu praise me."
Chitose Yangkui smiled, and at the same time, while maintaining her smile, she turned her gaze to the two people behind Fujii Itsuki.
"Jiuka-san, why are Sister Muzi here too?"
"They came to help me and stayed with me the whole afternoon."
"Hey, you spent the whole afternoon with Brother Shu, right? Jiuhua and Muzi have worked so hard!"
The driver opened the cargo hold. At this time, the director came out of the welfare home and saw the huge truck full of goods.
She sighed and faced Fujii Itsuki: "You've been wasting money again, Itsuki. You asked Maejima to come over to help a while ago."
Maejima is the nurse hired by Fujii Itsuki for the welfare home. With the addition of this nurse, the workload of the director and Aunt Keiko is obviously much less.
"That's right, Dean. It's as it should be."
"How's work going?"
"I just joined Tachibana Kita as a formal teacher."
"Jubei, that's great. That place is hard to get into."
"Oh, by the way, Akai is back from America and is also a teacher in Tachibana Kita."
"Akai is back?!" Fujii Hanayo's eyes seemed to light up, "Where is he?"
Akai Muzi then came over to greet Fujii Hanayo, "Dean Hanayo!"
"Come here."
Akai Muzi came closer.
Fujii Hanayo looked at Akai Muzi, nodded, and took her hand, "Well, you've grown up. Why did you come back from America?"
"I'm ashamed to say that I couldn't make it in the United States, so I fled back here."
"Nothing. Didn't Shu come back from Tokyo too? Did you two join Tachibana Kita together?"
"Yes," Akai Muzi nodded, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect to run into you on the same day as the interview."
“This is called fate.”
"I think so too."
"Have you ever dated a foreign boyfriend in the United States?"
"No, no," Akai denied hastily, "I'm not interested in these. I'm going there to study abroad, and I don't have time to care about these things."
"Never talked about it once?"
"Yes, there is not much time."
"Then please be more tolerant of my family, Shu. You are from the same hometown and are classmates."
"Dean, Fujii is more mature than me."
"Then we have to support each other. Two people are always better than one, right?"
Akai Muzi smiled, "Haha."
Fujii Itsuki was quite embarrassed. He could clearly understand what the dean meant when he said this to Akai.
Come to think of it, I brought Akai here myself that year and introduced her to the dean as my girlfriend.
The dean also knew that it was she who confessed her love to him.
The dean likes Akai very much, because she doesn't care about Fujii Itsuki's identity as an orphan. The dean always tells her that she is a good girl, hardworking and serious. She also says that many people can't see the shining points in you, but she can.
When I told the dean that I had broken up with her, the dean seemed quite sad for me and comforted me to look forward.
Jiu Huayue didn't hear much from this conversation, she just knew that everyone knew each other in the past.
It seems that Akai knows the uncle very well. Did they have a good relationship in the past?
Jiuhuayue wanted to know more about her good friend, so she was thinking whether she should ask Sister Akai alone about the uncle's past and experiences. It would be best if it was things from high school, and his other hobbies and habits besides coffee and flowers.
Well, that's what we should do.
While thinking this, Jiuhuayue stood behind Yang Kui Qiansui. Why did she seem to see her right hand clenched into a fist? And was she still shaking?
The lights in the main building of the welfare home were dim, and it was a bit blurry and hard to see clearly. Jiu Huayue looked over again later.
Chitose Yangkui's right hand is stretched out.
Sure enough, it was just her illusion just now, she saw it wrong.
*
Then it’s time to unload.
It is not easy to unload a large truck of goods. The aunts are all resting, and Fujii Itsuki cannot ask the dean to help.
So there were only him, Chitose, Kyuuka, Akai, and the driver, a total of five people who unloaded the goods and moved all the things into the classroom in the welfare home.
Jiuhuayue felt that just a cardboard box containing toys was too heavy, and Yang Kui Chitose was amazing——
It was clearly a large cardboard box of books, much heavier than hers, but Yang Kui picked it up as easily as a high school boy picking up a basketball, then walked quickly, running back and forth between the welfare home classroom and the truck.
The driver handed the box to other people, and everyone else, including Fujii Itsuki, had to sink it first and then lift it up.
The only one who did not do that was Yang Kui. She just lifted it up and turned around and left.
It took five people just over half an hour to deliver a truckload of stuff.
"Brother Shu! I've finished carrying all the things!"
"Yeah, that's great! All thanks to Chitose."
"No, no, everyone contributed. Brother Shu, have you eaten yet?"
"No, no one ate it either."
"Thank you for your hard work," Fujii Hanayo said to everyone at this time, "There are still a lot of vegetables and meat in the kitchen, and there is also a live chicken given to us by the villagers. You helped the welfare home move so many goods, I will go and make dinner for you."
"Don't bother the dean!" Yang Kui Qiansui immediately raised her hand, "I'll do this, I'm good at it!"
Akai Muzi followed up and said, "I'm free anyway, so I'll go help in the kitchen."
When Jiuhua Yue heard that Akai Muzi was also going, she knew this was a good opportunity to ask her good friend about the past alone, so she said:
"I'll go as well."
Chapter 43: Warm sunshine hidden under the smile of a thousand years old
It was a lonely snowy night. Jiuhuayue discovered that the snow that had been shoveled away outside the corridor of the welfare home had accumulated to a height of one person. Seeing such a thick snow pile, the girl couldn't help but think - if a perverted murderer secretly buried a body there, with so much snow, even if the police came, they would find it difficult to find the crime scene in the first time, right?
Squeaky squeaky
While the old-fashioned lantern emitted a faint light, its old joints also made strange noises.
It was pitch black all around. Jiuhua Yue and Akai Muzi walked shoulder to shoulder, stepping on the 10cm thick snow layer under their feet, following closely behind Yang Kui Chitose.
Until she suddenly stopped.
Yang Kui Chitose turned slowly, and the kerosene lantern in her hand illuminated the falling snow around her, while also making her half-smiling face in the night look extremely cute:
"I'm sorry, both of you. The lighting conditions in the welfare home are limited, and the kitchen is located at the edge of the backyard, so it will take a minute or two to walk there."
"It feels a bit far away. Why was it designed like this in the first place?" Jiuhuayue noticed that the light of the lantern flickered in the wind and snow.
Akagi Muzi was quite clear about it and explained, "Xingyuan Welfare Home is very old and has a history of several decades. At the beginning, the kitchen of the welfare home mainly relied on firewood to cook for the children. It was built together with the firewood room. For safety reasons, it was indeed some distance away from the main building."
"I see."
For some reason, Jiuhuayue felt inexplicably scared.
She didn't feel relieved until the three of them arrived at the kitchen and turned on the lights.
The kitchen is not as old as I imagined. It should have been renovated within the past ten years.
The firewood used is no longer firewood, but natural gas.
There were four people having dinner, so the three of them decided to only make three dishes.
Considering the ingredients, the first one is the universal home-cooked dish - meat stewed with potatoes.
The second one is fish soup.
The Third Thousand Years Old planned to kill the living rooster that was still sleeping in the corner and use it to make Chikuzen Nikumi.