Chapter 72: The Second Day of the First Month
Whew, Xu Jie, who came back from running, sat panting at the door, waiting for the front desk lady inside to open the door for it.
Mo, who had been running with it for half an hour, sent Xu Jie to the door of Fujimoto's shop, leaned forward and rubbed Xu Jie's neck, and then left alone to inspect the site.
The front desk lady who was guarding the gate came out to open the door for the boss's raccoon cat after receiving the guests.
Just as Xu Jie walked in the door and the front desk lady wanted to close the door, someone suddenly shouted, "Please wait until the door closes." โ
When Xu Jie and the front desk lady heard the reputation, they saw a 16- or 17-year-old boy wearing a school uniform, stepping on an old skateboard and carrying a big backpack, sliding in their direction.
The young front desk lady was very familiar, so she held on to the door and said to him: "Xiuxing, don't worry, we won't close the door and wait for you." โ
Hearing this, the boy pedaled the skateboard a few times, and after an acceleration, he came to them almost instantly.
With a few gentle swings, the skateboard immediately slows down.
When the boy reached their door, he used his toes to stop smoothly with a tap of his toes.
The young boy turned the cap on his head back, took out a few newspapers and periodicals from the big backpack behind his back, handed them to the front desk lady waiting there and said, "Sister Kazuko, this is your newspaper here today and this week's periodicals, can you click a little bit to see the number?" โ
Miss Hezi at the front desk took the stack of things and said, "No need, the things you sent are never wrong." โ
Hideyuki Tanaka raised his head when he heard this, a big smile appeared on his handsome face, and Miss Kazuko's heart was pounding.
Looking at the back of the boy stepping on the skateboard, the front desk lady held her face and said: "Wow, this kid is really getting more and more handsome, it's a pity that I already have a boyfriend, how nice it would be if I waited." โ
Hearing this, Xu Jie turned his cat head to the other side with disdain, not looking at the nymphomaniac movements of the front desk lady.
At the same time, he was secretly complaining in his heart: "Please, that kid is only in his second year of high school this year, the front desk lady asks you to raise your hand and don't covet minors, okay?" โ
Fortunately, this young lady still remembered her work, so she stood outside with her face in her hand for a while and then returned to normal.
She walked to the store with new newspapers and periodicals in her arms, and said to herself: "Look at the time, this summer vacation is about to pass, and school will start in a few days, and I don't know if Xiuxing's child has saved up for this semester's living expenses." โ
The Tanaka family can be regarded as an old resident on this street, so the neighbors still have some understanding of their family's situation.
After the Tanaka couple divorced in their early years, Ms. Tanaka's ex-husband said that he was going abroad to pan for gold, but there was no news as soon as he went, and he had not paid a copper plate for more than ten years.
In a fit of rage, Ms. Tanaka changed her two children with her ex-husband to her surname, but doing so did nothing but make her angry.
Ms. Tanaka, who is not highly educated, has been working as a tally clerk in a nearby supermarket, and she has to raise two children by herself over the years.
But what makes her more relieved is that her two children are very sensible.
The eldest son, Xiuyuki, has a cheerful personality and excellent academic performance, and has been admitted to well-known private schools in junior high school and high school, and it is the kind that reduces tuition and carries scholarships.
As for the youngest daughter, although Yazi is not as good as her son in learning, she is also smart and clever, especially in art and painting.
This makes her teachers willing to take the initiative to reduce or exempt the tuition, just so as not to delay a good seedling.
Both of these children have been helping Ms. Tanaka share the burden of life since junior high school, and Hideyuki has to come out every day off to deliver newspapers to families, and in addition to delivering newspapers during the winter and summer vacations, she also has to work at fast food restaurants.
Although Ako doesn't go out to work, she will take over all the housework, and this year she began to leave her proud paintings in the studio and ask the teacher to help sell them.
The two children are so sensible and caring, which makes Ms. Tanaka deeply grateful.
So even if she didn't live a rich life, she never complained about anything.
Hideyuki Tanaka has been delivering newspapers and periodicals to merchants and households by address on his skateboard for more than three years, and he has not had any trouble since the beginning.
Only a small part of the remuneration earned for doing this part-time job was spent on himself.
Because his school has almost reduced all of his tuition fees, and the scholarship he receives every semester is enough for his living expenses.
Therefore, most of this part-time salary was spent on her sister Yazi.
The teacher in Yazi's studio, although she also reduced her tuition.
But anyone who has studied art knows that the cost of studying art is never the tuition fee, but the cost of pens, paper and painting materials that are consumed daily.
Thinking that her sister will go to an important painting and calligraphy competition next month, Xiuyuki decides to add a new box of watercolors to her after receiving her salary.
Under the big sun, Xiuyuki looked at his backpack, and only the last newspaper was left, and he could go home after delivering it.
Thinking of this, Hideyuki Tanaka, who was suddenly full of energy, continued to skateboard and slid towards the last goal of the day.
Xu Jie, who returned to his nest, buried his head and licked the water in his food bowl, and went out to run in the sun at noon in autumn, which was simply a test for Plush Fluff.
After drinking water, Xu Jie jumped into his cushioned nest, planning to take a nap to replenish his โกโก strength, and before closing his eyes, he was still thinking, I don't know what kind of 'snack' he will bring to him today's afternoon tea.
In his sleep, Xu Jie dreamed that he seemed to be next to a stove, and the hair on his body was added to the stove next to him, which successfully woke up Xu Jie's cat.
Xu Jie, who was in a daze, opened his eyes and found that there was really an 'stove' next to him.
Mo, who didn't know when he came over, was lying on his side sleeping next to him.
Although they are already together, Xu Jie really rarely sees such ink, because usually Xu Jie sleeps earlier than it and gets up later than it.
I knew that Mo was coming to bring me afternoon tea, but I found that I didn't wake up, so I didn't call it.
Thinking so, Xu Jie raised his head and looked around, and found the afternoon tea brought by ink on the side of the cushion.
A plastic bag contains boiled noodles and mixed vegetables and dried pork marinade.
Xu Jie looked at the 'dim sum' brought by Mo and almost dropped his jaw in surprise again, so Mo really succeeded in breaking into the back kitchen of which restaurant?
Otherwise, where did it get all these fancy 'dim sum'?
Looking at the noodles in the bag that flashed with thought, Xu Jie couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
But then Xu Jie remembered the reason why he failed to diet, although in the final analysis, it couldn't control his mouth, but if it wasn't for Mo deliberately taking those delicious things, its diet plan would not have failed so completely.
Thinking of this, Xu Jie, who suddenly wanted to play a prank, climbed lightly onto Mo's body, and got up and lay down on the ribs of his upper limbs.
Xu Jie, who felt that his prank had succeeded, leaned over and thought, Since Mo you don't dislike me for being meaty, then please feel my current weight.
Xu Jie thought that after lying on his stomach for a while, Mo would wake up due to the pressure of the weight.
Unexpectedly, after more than ten minutes, Mo was still asleep, and he didn't mean to be awake at all.
So Xu Jie just fell asleep on his stomach again.
Listening to the little raccoon flower lying on top of him snoring, Mo opened his eyes and raised his head to look at his body, and then lay back down, and continued to motionless let the little raccoon flower use himself as a bed.
By the time Xu Jie woke up, the time for afternoon tea had already passed.
Xu Jie looked up at the wall clock, it was almost time for dinner.
Xu Jie, who was startled, hurriedly jumped off Mo's body, and looked down to see that Mo's eyes were open, so Xu Jie asked, "Why didn't you call me when you woke up?" โ
Mo wagged his tail and said, "I didn't scream when I saw that you slept too soundly." โ
Hearing this, Xu Jie stepped on his feet and turned around and said, "Why don't you get up, is your body numb?" โ
Mo Wenyan didn't say anything, but from the action of it lying on the ground and not getting up, Xu Jie felt that he had guessed correctly.
Just as they were talking, Xu Jie suddenly heard a gurgling sound coming from Mo's abdomen.
It looked up at Mo suspiciously, and Mo said with some grievances: "I didn't have time to eat lunch, and I didn't eat afternoon tea." โ
Xu Jie was a little anxious when he heard this: "Why don't you say it early if you haven't eaten." โ
Then it dragged the bag of noodles with a plastic bag in its mouth.
Mo, who was lying on the ground, raised his head to signal that his body was numb and couldn't move, and looked at Xu Jie with expectant eyes.
Although Xu Jie knew that more than eighty percent of this guy must be cheating, after all, there is still a difference between numbness and hemiplegia.
But listening to Mo's gurgling belly, Xu Jie still couldn't hold back, picked up a noodle from the plastic bag, tilted his head and fed Mo.
Mo sticks out his head, starting from the bottom of the noodles and working upwards, curling it with his tongue to eat.
When it reached the top, it didn't forget to take advantage of the opportunity to roll noodles and lick the lips of the little civet flower with its tongue.
Xu Jie, who had been taken advantage of for feeding, gently pressed Mo's head with his paws, signaling it to be honest.
Despite this, Xu Jie's feeding action was not slow at all, because he knew that this guy had a large amount of food, and it was not easy to feed it one by one.
Mo, who was in a good mood, stared at the mouth of the little raccoon flower with lingering eyes, and because of some excessive excitement, its tail dragged on the ground twitched around rapidly.
Xu Jie, who was very thick-skinned, blushed a little when he was stared at by ink, but he still firmly fed Mo with noodles in his mouth.
Xiao Jiantai, who went upstairs with cat food to deliver dinner to Xu Jie, pouted and looked at the two who fed one to eat, and he felt that the dinner he sent should be useless.
So the angry little fat man brought the cat food down again, and swore that he would not send the cat food upstairs after that.