"No...... Pleasant......

Hungry ......"

"Kuriyama! Kuriyama future classmates-! ”

When Chu Cheng picked up Li Shan Mirai from the service street, the short-haired girl with her glasses crooked to the side still had a breath of air. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, she only tried to point to the induction cooker on the coffee table, squeezed the last few syllables out of her trembling lips, and her pale and slender palms fell weakly on the tatami mats, and her dull eyes finally lost their luster completely.

"Chengjun ......"

Uesugi Tora Chiyo, who was probably accustomed to seeing dead people, briefly checked Kuriyama Mirai's breathing and pulse, then stretched out his palm and gently brushed her eyelids down, and said to Chu Cheng and the disgraced Tsuchima and Ebina with an extremely strange expression:

"She just fainted."

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"Goo-!!"

"Huh? No, it's not me! ”

I don't know how long it took, maybe a few minutes, but maybe only a dozen seconds, and the silence in the room was finally broken by the sound of a stomach growling.

The natural old man first clarified his suspicions as if he didn't admit himself, but Chu Cheng, who was holding the "corpse", heard it very clearly, and this voice came from the abdomen of Kuriyama Future, who was "just fainting".

If you look closely at the top of the coffee table, in addition to the induction cooker boiling water, there is a clean empty bowl, an equally clean spoon, and ...... A pair of scissors?

In the corner not far away, Ebina has five kilograms of vacuum-packed Akita Komachi organic rice as a gift, but it has not yet been opened.

Except for the old bed, desk and swivel chair, there is no furniture in the room anymore. A large suitcase is placed next to the bed, and it is the only personal belongings of the guests.

No...... On the windowsill and desk, there are four verdant potted plants with strange shapes. The pots look exceptionally clean, and there is no dust in the crevices between the pots.

It may be that the new resident Kuriyama is very hardworking, and even the windowsill and the pots of bonsai plants left by the previous resident are wiped clean, but Chu Cheng prefers that these potted plants are also the personal belongings of Kuriyama that he bought not long ago.

This is...... Chu Cheng is a man's intuition.

"In the name of my great-grandfather, there is only one truth!"

After a brief observation of this poor and white room, Chu Cheng suddenly took out a pair of reflective glasses from his body and put them on the bridge of his nose, looking more like an honor student than usual.

It's just that the sentence he said is too famous, and the first half of the sentence is relatively low-key, but there is still a reported detective Kaneda Kazukosuke...... 's grandson is often on his lips, and the second half of the sentence is a famous quote from Kudo Shinichi, a super high school student who is in the newspaper almost every day.

Although Kudo Shinichi may have been silent a lot due to academic pressure after he was promoted to the second grade, his name has long been deeply imprinted in the heart of Tsuchima Buri and Hai Lao Famous Dishes, who don't really care much about the news, and even Chu Cheng, who is far away in China, knows that he will repeat the useless truth every time he is on the news.

"Kuriyama-san, must be starving!

Her last 'death message' was not 'uh' but 'hunger'! We all treat it as a meaningless modal word! ”

"W-That...... Didn't she die? ”

Listening to Chu Cheng's judgment, Doma raised his hand with a smile, and raised a slight objection to his imprudent wording.

Although it did startle them when they entered the door and saw Kuriyama fall to the ground, but to be honest, since the person is not dead, it doesn't matter what the truth is, right? Shouldn't the most important thing be to get people back first?

"W-That...... It just so happens that there is boiling water and rice here, so I'll cook some rice porridge, right? Isn't she faint from hunger? ”

Compared with Miss Doma, who can only complain, Akita's "country girl" Ebina is a "female gentleman" who is quick to say and quick to act. However, as soon as she said that she was going to cook rice porridge, Kuriyama Miku, who had already fainted, immediately woke up tenaciously again, and whispered to her with all his strength:

"No...... To add...... Rice.

Give me...... Water...... That's it.

I...... Can you still ...... Hold on. ”

After saying that, the girl with a pale face as paper was completely out of strength, but she still struggled desperately to look at the rice bag in the corner.

Chu Cheng understood what she meant, helped her body up, so that her eyes could keep staring at the unopened rice bag, and commanded Ebi, who was already at a loss, with a helpless expression:

"Turn off the cooker, mix cold and hot water, make a bowl of warm water and spoon feed it to her.

I'm afraid she wants to boil some hot water to fill her stomach, and if she can't bear it, she will add a little more rice to it.

But now, if you open the rice bag and add rice to the water, I'm afraid she will die. ”

After Chu Cheng explained, the girl in his arms squeezed out an extremely weak smile, as if Chu Cheng's explanation was exactly what she was thinking.

Seeing that Kuriyama-chan looked like he might die at any time, Hai Laoming hurriedly acted according to Chu Cheng's instructions. And Tokuma and Tora Chiyo surrounded him left and right, looking at the girl snuggled in his arms in puzzlement, not understanding why the two of them had such a tacit understanding.

"That...... Did you know each other before? ”

"No, never did."

"Then Chengjun, you ...... How do you know what's going on in her heart? ”

"Just look at the 'scene' and completely restore the truth, right? It's not a very complicated situation either. ”

Chu Cheng answered the questions of the two as if he took it for granted, but what he said was the same as if he didn't say it, and Tokuma and Tiger Chiyo, who were not stupid, actually felt a kind of intelligence suppression.

However, Chu Cheng seemed to further blow their remaining self-confidence, and while waiting for Esubera to get water, he casually deduced that the girl with glasses was still almost starving to death at home while saving five kilograms of rice:

Judging from the complexion, body shape and living environment of this Kuriyama classmate, she may be living a very poor life, and often cannot even guarantee the cheapest three meals a day.

Didn't you say before that Mr. Chigoku, who is also the administrator of the apartment, was going to hold a welcome hot pot party tonight?

I don't think Sengoku-sensei just announced this today, right? Then Kuriyama-san, who moved in a few days ago, should also know.

It just so happened that when Kuriyama was out for a stroll, he accidentally spent his small living expenses on his own bonsai interest, so the funds that could be spent on eating were naturally very small.

At this desperate juncture, the kind-hearted neighbor Hai Laoming sent rice, and the kind-hearted administrator and teacher wanted to treat them to hot pot......

Anyway, as long as you have water, you can live for at least a week, and although a few days are longer, there should be no problem. ’

So of course, Kuriyama-san, who suffered by himself, wanted to endure in the house for a few days, try not to consume physical energy, and if he really couldn't do it, he would drink some hot water that didn't cost money to fill his stomach, and planned to rely on the hot pot before the start of school and the five kilograms of rice to live until the next time he got living expenses.

But I'm curious, how long does Kuriyama want to rely on these five kilograms of rice? ”