Nishino's proposal was also heard by several homeless people around who were whispering and bragging.

However, they glanced at the young man, and his expression did not change much, as if he was very unimpressed, probably not thinking that one dinner would buy their hearts - at least two, right? Even if you are a homeless person, you have self-esteem and arrogance!

"Then I'm going grocery shopping." Nishino got up and planned to leave here, he had seen a supermarket nearby on the road, and decided to go there to pick up some ingredients that could be used.

Nakachu quickly got up and followed, leaving the homeless camp with Nishino Renyin, and then said with some embarrassment: "Are you angry?" In fact, Grandpa Tanaka is all good, but they are a little ...... Not good at expressing ......"

When he was first adopted by Inoue Hangsheng, he was very unbehaved, and he was not less disgusted by the old people here, and he always felt that the old homeless people here were not very easy to get along with, but after a long time, he still found that the old people here are actually very kind-hearted, probably because of the years of wandering experience that make them wary of outsiders, and they will not easily reveal their hearts, which also gives people a very indifferent illusion.

"It's fine." Nishino Renyin shrugged, he had seen all kinds of people in his days of helping the chef at Nishino Restaurant, and he had seen a lot of people in the world, and compared to those strange and difficult guests, the homeless people in the camp were already very good.

The two left the riverside park and walked about a kilometer to the nearby supermarket. Given the poor cooking environment and the large number of homeless people in the camp, Nishino didn't plan to follow the style of cooking in an izakaya - it would be too time-consuming to make one dish at a time, and there was no guarantee that one dish would be available to everyone.

So his final decision was to make hot pot.

There were a lot of customers in the supermarket, Nishino Renon took a basket, and Nakachu quickly walked to the area where refrigerated ingredients were sold, and after listening to Nishino Renyin's thoughts, Nakaka asked, "Are you going to make sukiyaki?" ”

Sukiyaki is the most famous Japanese hot pot, Nishino Renyin originally planned to make a well-known Sichuan hot pot in China, but later felt that Sichuan hot pot is not spicy is equivalent to no soul, and now when he heard Zhongzhong's words, he also changed his mind: "Well, it's sukiyaki." ”

After receiving the confirmation, Naka's expression was obviously much happier. The two of them wandered around the supermarket for a long time, buying ingredients such as fat beef, pork belly, udon noodles, cabbage, eggs, shiitake mushrooms, etc., which could be added to the hot pot, and then bought a soup base for sukiyaki, as well as various seasonings such as soy sauce and sesame oil, and finally returned to the homeless camp with a large number of them.

In the camp, by the campfire, Inoue Hangsheng was reading with a broken newspaper he had picked up, and when he saw Nishino Renyin and Nakaka coming in with several large bags of ingredients, he said in surprise: "So many?" ”

Not only are there vegetables, but there are also so many meats, I'm afraid it's making this young man break the bank, right?

"There are more people here, so I can only buy a little more." With that, Nishino put the bag down, revealing the cleaned ingredients inside. There is a public pool for drinking in the riverside park, and they washed all the ingredients by the pool before they came in, and then they just need to set up the pot directly to add water to cook the soup base - but Nishino Renyin doesn't trust the soup stock he bought, and he will definitely have to fine-tune it later, and he is more precise in controlling the time, and plans to supervise the whole process next to him for a while, so as not to overcook any ingredients that are not cooked well or overcooked and affect the taste.

The homeless people here haven't eaten hot pot for many years, and let them cook their own hot pot, and it is estimated that they don't even know when they can eat it and when they can't.

Seeing so many ingredients, a few old people next to them couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to come over, intending to help set up the iron pot on the bonfire with a shelf.

Regardless of whether it is xenophobic or not, this young man is here to invite them to dinner after all, since he wants to accept the favor, it is too much to say that he is still watching and waiting for the meal to eat, and while helping, two of the old men also bowed slightly to Nishino Lianyin, most likely to express their gratitude.

After setting up the cauldron, you can put the drinking water and stock in it and boil it, and then throw the ingredients into the pot one by one. When I got to this point, most of the old people around actively came over to help, and several old people also smiled at Nishino Lianyin and chatted awkwardly, completely without the cold look of half an hour ago, and even unexpectedly a little enthusiastic.

I'll go, what about your indifference? What about your xenophobia? Where are your iron bones? I haven't finished this sukiyaki yet, and the fragrance hasn't even floated up, have you changed your face so quickly?

Nishino Lianyin was speechless for a while, but she still had a smile on her face, saying that everyone was welcome to eat, and at the same time responded to the awkward chats of the old people one by one - no way, no matter age or living environment, the generation gap is definitely inevitable, and there seems to be no other way to respond to kindness than embarrassing chats.

The first batch of ingredients in the sukiyaki was quickly cooked, and the old people in the camp could see that they were very greedy, and it was estimated that they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, but they didn't rush to move the chopsticks, but waited for Nakachu and Nishino Renyin to put down the chopsticks before eating.

And Nishino Renyin didn't forget to add a buff when seasoning the soup base before, so after everyone started eating, laughter quickly spread around the pot.

After a while, Nishino Renyin suddenly received a system prompt for skill upgrading, and he cut open the personal panel to take a look, and found that the mind interference skill was finally upgraded from lv1 to lv2.

He was still quite interested in this skill, and immediately looked at the changes before and after the upgrade with great interest.

The first is the joy emotion, this effect has an advanced skill called "healing" after the skill upgrade, which can provide comfort, gently eliminate the negative emotions of the target, and will not leave sequelae - probably a similar relationship in terms of usage, "joy" has become a pre-skill of "healing", and both belong to the same upgrade path.

The second is the new "sadness" emotion, which is clear from the name, and probably represents a new upgrade branch, echoing the "joy" buff.

Finally, in terms of duration, the duration of the buff can now be extended to a maximum of fifteen minutes, and it can be adjusted, in other words, if Nishino Renyin does not want the buff to last too long, it can also be reduced to the original duration of five minutes.

After reading the skill description of lv2, Nishino Renyin was very pleasantly surprised, although the BUFF of sadness is generally not used, but the advanced BUFF of joy "healing" sounds like a good look.

Maybe adding it to a dish can do wonders?

Thinking of this, he quickly locked his eyes on the pot of sukiyaki in front of him - although a buff has been added to it, it doesn't mean that it can't be added again, judging from the introduction of skills, adding other buffs is to top the previously added BUFF, that's all.

Then give it a try.

Anyway, the existence of hot pot has the effect of healing the soul, isn't it!

……

"Tanaka, aren't you going to eat a bite?" On the edge of the corner, Inoue walked up to an old man with a silver hair and said.

"No, I'm not hungry." The old homeless man called Tanaka shook his head and refused.

"Eat a little, don't always think that people pity you before you have a treat, he is just afraid that everyone will not welcome him, which will affect his friendship with Zhongzhong." Inoue Hangsheng persuaded while bringing a bowl, there were some soup, pork belly, cabbage, and udon noodles in the bowl, which was fragrant, just smelling this smell, Tanaka was already a little moved, there was some noise in his abdomen, and there was a trace of loosening on his cold and hard old face.

However, he quickly and stubbornly turned his head away, and showed by his actions that he was not interested in this kind of food at all.

Inoue Hangsheng shook his head and continued to persuade: "Don't be like this, in fact, I think this young man is good, at least he has a good cultivation, if he can become friends with Zhongzhong, it is a good thing for Zhongzhong, even if it is for you to help?" Give some face. ”

He knew what Tanaka had been going through two years ago, when he had been surrounded and beaten by delinquent teenagers in the neighborhood, and although the police came to stop it, the words of the delinquent teenagers still deeply hurt Tanaka's self-esteem. They likened homeless people to garbage, believed that their presence polluted the environment of residential areas, should be cleaned, and showed no remorse for beating the elderly.

Since then, Tanaka has basically avoided this kind of teenager the age of a high school student, and he has both resentment and fear in his heart, which is why he was very indifferent to Nishino Renyin before - he has been humiliated and beaten by young people of this age, and he has a shadow in his heart, and he is very worried that Nishino Renyin will discriminate against a homeless person like him like other teenagers, and he doesn't want to have any contact or communication with him, let alone admit it.

Then, Inoue Hangsheng cheered up again, put the fragrant plastic bowl to Tanaka's mouth and insisted: "Eat, brother, come and take two bites, even if it is just two bites, it doesn't matter." ”

I haven't eaten any food for a long time, so it's naturally difficult to resist delicious hot pot, and Inoue Hangsheng's attitude of "if you don't eat it, I won't leave", after hesitating for a few seconds, Tanaka still said helplessly: "I'll eat a little meaning." ”

"It's good, it's good." Inoue smiled and handed over the chopsticks.

Took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of fat beef, dipped the sauce next to it, Tanaka slowly sent it to his mouth, chewed it gently, and suddenly, the deliciousness of the hot pot soup base and the taste of the fat cow itself were mixed together, with the sesame oil in the sauce, so that his whole depressed mood was a lot more relaxed, and there was a feeling of "ah, this is alive".

Damn it! Why can this sukiyaki be so fragrant!

It feels so much better than the sukiyaki in my memory!

He was a little overwhelmed, he originally said that he would "only eat a little" and "meaning", but now that he has eaten a little, he feels that he is still unsatisfied, and he wants to continue eating.

So, he glanced at Inoue Hangsheng next to him, and saw that he was turning his head to look elsewhere, so he hurriedly picked up another piece of pork belly and put it in his mouth with sauce. It had been a long time since he had eaten meat like this, and under the delicious taste of hot pot, he had actually experienced a taste called happiness in the tattered camp of the homeless.

And what's even more amazing is that after a few mouthfuls of hot pot, a strange feeling suddenly emerged in his heart, very warm, very comfortable, even with the previous depression and pain all swept away, as if the old soul full of holes has been healed and rejuvenated.

After being silent for a while, Tanaka suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks, turned his head to look in the direction of Nishino Lianyin, his eyes softened unconsciously, and another young figure appeared in a trance in front of him.

If he hadn't been in debt and hadn't become a homeless man back then, his grandson would have been as old as this young man by now......