"Excuse me, can I come in?"

"Hey!"

Hearing the waitress's inquiry outside the door, Lin Xiuyi immediately responded. As the room slided, the door slowly opened. The waitress sitting outside the house first saluted Lin Shuichi and Miki. Then he walked in front of Lin Xiuyi and Miki with a lacquered dinner plate. I saw her slowly kneel down, and then put the dinner plate on the tatami mat in front of her. Then he picked up the snacks and tea on the plate and put them on the table in front of Lin Xiuyi and Miki.

"This is our store's special Kikyo Shingen cake, and there is also a pot of herbal tea!

As she spoke, the hostess saluted Lin Xiu again, and was about to leave. Lin Xiu nodded, bowed slightly and thanked the other party.

Shingenji is a type of Japanese confectionery that is a specialty of Yamanashi Prefecture, and is as famous as high-end Japanese confectionery such as Kyoto's Yatsuhashi and Okinawa's Kanchu Cake. The specific method is to make adult cakes with glutinous rice flour wrapped in filling, dipped in soybean flour and brown molasses juice to eat. You can also buy Shingen mochi in gift boxes in Tokyo, but after a long period of storage, it is clear that they do not taste as good as they do now.

Lin Xiuyi picked up the Xinxuan cake on the plate with chopsticks, and then followed the example of Miki and dipped a thick layer of soybean flour on the outside. Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiuyi poured the brown molasses that was put aside on it.

When you bite into it, the aroma of soybean flour, the sweetness of brown molasses, and the softness of Shingen cake itself. Even Lin Xiuyi, who rarely eats Japanese sweets, feels that this is a rare delicacy.

"It's delicious, it's really different from what I've eaten in Tokyo, it seems that the Shingen cake here tastes more fragrant, and the brown sugar toppings are just right, so it won't have that sweet and greasy feeling!"

After Miki took a sip, she was immediately surprised and praised the Shingen cake here. Lin Xiu picked up the teapot and added a cup of tea for Miki, and after Miki thanked her, she immediately put down the plate in her hand and tasted the tea in the cup again. Because it is a herbal tea, the tea naturally has the fragrance of flowers, and at the same time, it lacks the bitter taste of the tea itself.

"That's good!"

Lin Shuichi sat in the room with Miki like this, sipping tea and snacks while waiting for the arrival of Minato Fujiki, just when the two of them had drunk a pot of tea, the voice of the waitress came from outside the door again.

"Guest, the master cleaning the bath has arrived, may we come in?"

"Hey, come in, we've already eaten!"

Miki put down the teacup in her hand and responded outside the door. Then, the sliding door was gently pushed open again. I saw that the waitress who had brought the refreshments just now sat outside the door together with a lady wearing overalls with the words "cleaning company" on it, and saluted Lin Shuichi and Miki.

"I'm sorry. We didn't bother you, did we?"

The hostess asked Lin Shuichi and Miki apologetically. Disturbing guests while they are using snacks is a good thing, but it's not a decent thing for a Japanese-style inn.

"No, we've already eaten all the dim sum, it's the best Shingen cake I've ever tasted!"

Miki made no secret of her love for dim sum, and when she heard Miki's praise, the hostess saluted Miki again, and then she introduced the cleaning lady who came with her for Lin Shuichi and Miki.

"This is the Fujiki master who is in charge of cleaning the bath for the two guests, if it is convenient, it is better to ask the two guests to go to the lounge first and wait for a while, the cleaning work may take some time. ”

The hostess bowed her head again and pleaded with Lin Xiuyi and Miki, but Lin Xiuyi obviously would not let go of this rare opportunity to sturdy Fujiki Minato.

"That's right...... Can we stay in the room?"

"Huh?"

The waitress raised her head in surprise and looked at Lin Xiuyi, who didn't play cards according to common sense, not understanding what he meant.

"Guest, cleaning the bath will inevitably require some special potions, and the smell may make you uncomfortable!"

Fujiki, the cleaning lady who had been sitting behind the waitress, hurriedly spoke out and persuaded Lin Xiuyi. I was afraid that Lin Xiu would leave a bad impression on Qingyun Pavilion because of the unpleasant smell during the cleaning process for a while.

"Ah, it doesn't matter! Actually, I'm just curious about how to clean that traditional pure wooden bath. Actually, we will get married when we return to Tokyo, and we hope to build the bath in our home to resemble a hot spring bath. So, if it's convenient, please let us have a tour!"

Lin Xiu casually made up another excuse without changing his color, which made the unprepared Miki look at him in surprise, and then she quickly put on a smiling face and nodded to the waitress and cleaning lady.

"That's it! But ......"

The hostess glanced at Master Fujiki with some embarrassment, and the female worker Fujiki nodded, and then replied to Lin Xiuyi:

"I understand what you mean, but there may be some bad smells during the cleaning process, so ......"

"It doesn't matter, anyway, if we do decide to have a spa-style bathroom, we will do the cleaning work ourselves later......"

Hearing Lin Xiuyi's attitude of insisting on staying, it was naturally impossible for the hostess to say anything. And Mina Fujiki finally agreed to Lin Shuichi's request after hesitating for a while.

After the maîtress took her leave, Minato walked straight into the bathroom of the suite with her cleaning tools. The bathroom in this suite is semi-open, so if you want to take a bath and enjoy the view from the window, you can simply remove the window. It can be seen as both a bathroom and a courtyard. The bathroom is surrounded by a floor made of various beautiful stones, and in the middle is a semi-sunken bathtub. The water in the bath is brought in by a bamboo tube. On the contrary, it seems to have a sense of being close to nature.

Shuichi Hayashi and Miki followed Minato Fujiki into the bathroom. I saw Fujiki squatting down and carefully inspecting the situation of the wooden bath. Then he poured some white powder from a plastic bucket that he carried with him and poured it into the bucket. When this was done, Fujiki took out some brown powder from another box with a hint of fishy smell and mixed it in.

"What are these?"

Lin Xiuyi asked Minato Fujiki curiously.

"It is a powder of caustic soda and earthworms, caustic soda can make the stains that penetrate into the wood float, but if only caustic soda is used, it may corrode the wood, so it is necessary to add some other chemicals to neutralize it, the ratio of detergent has no fixed formula, but depends on the material and situation of the bath to determine the final ratio, all of which is determined by experience, there is no certain standard. So, Mr. Guest, would you still like to use a wooden bath at home?"