Just when I was hesitating to say something nice to please the little girl who was obviously losing her temper, there was a light laugh of "poof" from behind, and when I turned my head to look, I realized that Shiyin Aoyama didn't know when she came to the back, she was holding an oval ceramic hot water bottle in one hand, and covering her mouth with the back of the other hand to hide her snicker, and her crescent-like soft eyes were floating with a smile, which looked very happy.

"Uh...... It turned out to be Aoyama, so I thought it was. You've been helping out in the hospital these days, huh? ”

I smiled awkwardly at her and glanced at her outfit again; Dressed in a light white long-sleeved gown, a gray scarf with a navy blue scarf on a thick folded collar, and a light blue apron hanging from chest to waist, this is simply a nurse's winter dress that is several sizes smaller.

"It's not just the past few days, I've been helping out in the hospital for a long time. When I graduate from the whole class, I will become a nurse. ”

Shiyin Aoyama stopped laughing, puffed out her cheeks in displeasure, like a stuffed bun, but in a blink of an eye, she smiled again, holding the hem of her clothes as wide as a skirt in one hand, turned around lightly, and then bent down with her hands behind her back, and brought her smiling face closer: "How is it, Shiraishi, does this dress of mine look good?" This was just done two days ago. ”

The girl's pretty face, white and red, was so close that even the slender hairs and capillaries on the cheeks were clearly visible, and at the same time, a pear blossom-like fragrance came to her face, and a few traces of black hair hanging in front of her in a fluffy ponytail fluttered unrestrained in front of her, making people feel the urge to grasp and smooth it.

"Not bad...... Well, I think it's good. ”

I quietly took a step back to open up some distance to avoid being together, I thought it was a polite move, but I didn't expect the girl to smile and get closer, and the smile was carried with a narrow meaning: "Ah...... I'm shy, I'm shy, I'm just a kid a few years younger than me, I don't care about my big sister, what do you care? Come, if you have any troubles, tell my sister, I will give you a lot of advice, and you can also be coquettish to me, sister, I will comfort you like my own brother. ”

"It doesn't need to."

I can figure out her character, once she shows weakness, it will inevitably attract more teasing, so I put on a straight face, made a disgusted look, reached out and gently pushed her close face away: "Also, I'm not your brother, if you shout like this, Xiaolu will be very sad." ”

Although I've only met once, I can see that Shiyin Aoyama's younger brother Ritsu Aoyama is very pestering her sister, so I'm only using these words to fight back against her teasing - although I've known each other for a short time, I feel that I'm already very familiar with Shiyin Aoyama, and I unconsciously treat her in the same way as getting along with bad friends.

"What a bad little ghost."

Shiyin Aoyama puffed out her cheeks again and muttered, "I've heard about it, you kissed Sa's mother, if you let Saya know, she will be very sad." ”

This feeling was like being hit by someone, I couldn't say anything, I could only stared at Shiyin Aoyama with wide eyes, and finally understood why the female nurse before I came over looked at me with strange and wary eyes - although I thought that the cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed on Miss Liuzhi at that time was a matter of urgency and saved people from fire and water, but in the eyes of others, this may be just a naughty little ghost in a thin and beautiful big sister, and it is still in a very bad situation.

Just when I was hesitating whether to find a river to plant in it or find a tree to hang myself, Shiyin Aoyama laughed out loud, and a white and tender palm was raised and swayed: "Look at you, your face is white, and I feel cute." What I said just now just scared you, everyone knows that you are helping Miss Hana to implement first aid measures, and Dr. Sekiya also said that if you don't perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in time, otherwise Miss Hana will be in some danger. ”

Hearing her say this, I reached out to cover my heart and breathed a sigh of relief, this sudden stimulation made me feel that I might be out of breath in the next moment and faint directly, but fortunately, it was not erased in a social sense.

"How's it going, are you feeling better?"

Shiyin Aoyama suddenly became serious, and her expression and tone were full of concern. I gasped twice, knowing that it must be my soulless performance two days ago that made her care, so I asked, and nodded after a little thought: "It's okay." However, I wanted to visit Miss Saga and Rokuchi, but I was denied and I couldn't understand why...... Also, it's the same with Mega. ”

"Well, that's right, though it's not a surprise. I don't know what Miss Hanina is thinking, but I know what Mika is thinking. ”

"I guess that, too."

After thinking about it for a while, I probably understood why Mika had lost her temper, and I guess one of the reasons why I was strict with her two days ago, and I couldn't apologize to Miss Tomiko in time because of my confusion after talking to her. The second reason may be that she has not come to visit the patient in the past two days, which makes her even more unhappy. And also...... On the day of the end of the Snow Festival, I promised to help Mika retrieve the carving trophies and prizes that our team had won, but I also broke my promise......

There are so many reasons why Mika can be angry.

"Do you need me to say something nice for you?"

Shiyin Aoyama blinked, her sparkling eyes seemed to say, "Hurry up and beg me, hurry up and beg me."

"Please help me! Aoyama, I think we're good friends now. ”

To be honest, I didn't feel embarrassed at all, and made extremely sincere expressions and eyes. She opened her mouth with a strange expression, and finally shook her head sullenly, dropped a sentence of "wait a minute, let you in, you will come in again" and pushed the door open and entered Mika's hospital room.

Yawn! In the end, I won.

I smiled at the sense of accomplishment of the "intrigue" victory, and then poured cold water on myself - what is there to be proud of winning over a girl who is many years younger than me in a trivial matter? Isn't it supposed to be sad?

Let's think about what Miss Rokuchi said about "let me understand".

However, I don't understand...... Although Miss Liuzhi and Mika both made a move to disappear behind closed doors, the original intentions of the two were completely different. Meijia's heart is easy to guess, as long as you start from the child's mind, you can figure it out, and even if you don't care about it, it's not impossible to classify it as a "child's temper", just say something flattering, or send something, you can let her put out the fire.

And the reason why Miss Liuzhi would do this, but she couldn't think about it in such a general way, after all, she couldn't even judge whether she was angry or not, let alone think about what she did wrong to cause her to do such a move.

Of course, I don't think I don't have a reason to make Miss Liuzhi angry, what I did to her two days ago was out of line enough, enough to make her angry, even if it was not impossible to hate her.

But is it really just because of that?

Although I didn't have much contact, I was always impressed by Miss Liuzhi as a very rational and calm person in this little contact...... More precisely, a very difficult person to deal with. Her thinking is incomprehensible, and she is so smart that people dare not reveal any flaws in front of her.

If ordinary people think about something, they only think about the surface meaning and solution of the thing. At the very least, the smart person will think about the impact of the matter, what is the cause, and list several solutions. As for Miss Liuzhi, not only will she think clearly about the impact, causes, and solutions of things, but I am afraid that she will also think clearly about the root cause of the incident, the threat it has, and the advantages and disadvantages of the response plan, and even think about the extent to which she has fallen into the trap of thinking.

In other words, she is the kind of person who when playing chess, from the time she confirms who the opponent is, she will start to guess what the situation will be when she plays chess with the opponent to a hundred hands, how many changes there are in the process, what formulas are used, what kind of way to lead the situation to her advantage, and by the way, even the opponent's personality, previous chess style, chess path and other things are thought about properly.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration, after all, sometimes it is not the case that the more you think and the more you plan, the smarter you are. And Miss Liuzhi is the kind of person who can find the optimal idea just right, and make difficult things simple, but make the opponent feel difficult and even confused...... Wait, isn't that where I'm now?

In the end, I still hadn't figured anything out. It's even worse now, and I can't even figure out if Miss Liuzhi is deliberately misleading. Or she doesn't want to see me at all, and casually says "think about it yourself, think about it and come back to see me again", in fact, "you know that I don't want to see you at all, so I consciously don't come", or "no matter what you say, I will say that it is wrong, send you annoying little devil back".

Maybe that's the case, and since you only have one chance to enter your password (answer), it's impossible to test your words. Once the answer is wrong, judging from the character of Miss Liuzhi, I am afraid that not only will she not be able to visit her in the hospital, but she will not even be willing to see me when she is discharged from the hospital in the future, even if she goes to her house and knocks on the door, she will only eat the closed door.

So what to do?

"Mika has allowed you to come in."

While still thinking, Shion Aoyama poked her head out of the crack in the door of the hospital room and snickered like a little fox stealing chickens, making one wonder if she had said something bad about Mika or if the two had collaborated in some conspiracy.

I don't know why, but I suddenly felt the urge to turn around and leave.

All in all, I raised my guard and followed Shiyin Aoyama into the ward, and when I entered the door, I deliberately looked up to see if there were any prank props such as a basin above my head, and after confirming that there were none, I pushed open the door and walked in, looking in the direction of the hospital bed, Mika was looking at the wall with her mouth tilted, looking angry.

All in all, let's apologize.

Just as I was organizing my words and was about to apologize, Meijia was the first to attack, she raised her head very angrily and snorted softly, as if she wanted to use this method to look down on me: "Fold, Meijia is very angry now." Shiyin said that you would agree to all my requests unconditionally, and I decided to let you in, otherwise I will not forgive you no matter what you say! ”

"Huh?"

I was speechless, squinting at Shiyin Aoyama, who glanced at me and turned her head away with a little weakness - although I knew that she would inevitably get in the way, but I didn't expect it to be so excessive, and directly made a promise for me that I knew was impossible to do. Agreeing to all requests unconditionally, no matter how you think about it, this is directly from a free man to a slave.

"However, I also knew that it would be a lie to say this, and it would definitely not be realized, so I decided to limit the request to three times. Fold, you must unconditionally agree to my three requests, no matter what the requirements are, you must do it! ”

Mika flattened her mouth, she didn't seem to know that this was a lie from Shiyin Aoyama, and she really thought it was something I said myself. I didn't know what to say, I blinked my eyes, "uh-uh" speechless, I just felt that this little girl's sky-high asking price was a bit clever, first saying a promise that people couldn't fulfill, and then taking a step back into three requests, so that the comparison before and after, it suddenly made people feel a little acceptable.

It's just like the discount behavior of some merchants thousands of years ago, first raise the price of goods, and then discount on the basis of the raised price, and also mark the raised price, and draw a few horizontal lines on it, in order to give people a strong price contrast - in fact, the discounted price may be more expensive than before the original price of goods was not raised, but it inexplicably makes people want to buy, and finally unconsciously buys a bunch of useless things, and leads to a long period of time need to spend a lot of money.

This is a clever business psychology tactic.

"Promise her, and I'll tell you how to meet Miss Hana."

Just as I was hesitating, Shiyin Aoyama, who was beside me, leaned over and whispered in my ear. I glanced at her, thinking that even if I agreed, it would not be a loss, a little girl's three requests, the big deal is to be teased, or to make some embarrassing requests, it will not be difficult to go to heaven and the moon, and maybe she will forget about it in a few days.

"Whew" exhaled, and I nodded to Mika: "Just three requests." But you can't fool me, and wait until the last time you ask for it and say you'll have to come back three times, that's not okay. ”

"I'm not going to do that......"

Mika had a strange look on her face, her dark eyes rolling around, and she didn't dare to make eye contact with me—needless to say, if I don't mention it, she must have that in mind.

After reaching a consensus, Mika smiled in a blink of an eye, and the previous displeasure was forgotten in an instant. I apologized to her, confessed that I had forgotten to take back the prize and trophy, and sincerely apologized for my bad attitude two days ago.

"It's okay, the trophy and crystal ball have already been put away, and she said she would bring it when I was discharged from the hospital."

Meijia waved her uninjured arm quite magnificently, and then stared at me with an aggrieved expression, and there seemed to be moist tears in her eyes: "Fold, Meijia was really sad two days ago, after you said it in that tone, my heart has been sullen, very uncomfortable, and I can't eat at night." I know I'm at fault, and my mom said you can't mess with someone else when they're going to say something important, so I should apologize to you too. ”

"But, at that time, I was going to talk about the yarn, right? I'm also worried about Sa, and suddenly I'm so sleepy that I can't wake up, so I want to know why, and I'm afraid of what danger Saya will have, after all, Mika and Saa are good friends, and it's normal to have this kind of thought, right? I didn't think I'm trying to mess around! Didn't think about it at all. ”

The tone of the day's folded speech...... It's terrible, and he doesn't say a word to me after that, apologizes to you and doesn't reply, and then leaves with an ugly face. Mika was like, 'Ah...... It's over, it's annoying, maybe we won't be able to play together anymore, and friends won't be able to do it'. At that time, I really felt very sad, I felt worse than an arm injury, and then I cried for a long time, so afraid that I would really be annoyed, I didn't like the way it was broken. ”

"And he didn't come to see me for the first two days, but Rina and Mamura came...... I didn't tell them about it! Because it's me and Ori, if they know, they must be very worried, and once they say it, isn't Mika Hasegawa like a stingy person who says bad things about people behind her back? In the past two days, I have been very troubled, I don't know how to talk to Zhe, I don't know how to reconcile, and I even want to secretly run out of the hospital to find Zhe's home to apologize. ”

"But Meijia is also a little angry in her heart, like a balloon, rising. After all, it was said with that kind of attitude, it can't be that there is no anger at all, a lot of points. I also have self-esteem or something - it's impossible to sneak out of the hospital, and if you get caught by your mother or a nurse, you will be scolded, and maybe you will be punished. ”

"Na...... Fold, you tell me, did Meijia do anything wrong? If you do something wrong, can you just say it as you did before? If it's something I don't like, I won't do it. ”

Mei Jia babbled, big tears fell down, the appearance of pear blossoms with rain appeared on her usual big grinning face, it looked extremely weak and helpless, under the background of the red marks under the tail of the left eye, there was a kind of soft feeling of pear blossoms with rain, which made people feel distressed.

It can be seen that she has been very depressed in the past two days, and now her emotions can be vented.

I didn't know what to say, so I could only reach out and caress her cheek, wipe away her tears, apologize again and again, and clearly tell her that it was not her fault, but that I was in a bad mood at the time, and I couldn't control the tone and demeanor of my speech, and I had no other deep meaning at all, and asked her not to think about it too much.

"In that case, then Meijia has to fold in half and say the first request."

After coaxing like this for a long time, Meijia finally stopped crying, stared at me with red eyes, raised her index finger, and said in a serious and serious tone with a crying tone: "In the future, I will never hate Meijia, and I am not allowed to talk to Meijia in that terrible tone again." In the same way, no matter what the fold does, Mika will not hate the fold, if the fold does something wrong, although it will be angry, but it will definitely not hate the fold. That's fair, can you do it? ”

I'm not the kind of person who likes to make promises, I tend to think carefully before making promises, I don't want to make promises easily, and I don't want to easily say "absolutely, certainly, inevitably" and other non-maneuverable promises, after all, the future is unpredictable, and no one can predict what the future will be. But now, perhaps moved by Megana's hopeful gaze, I replied, "Well, I will...... Certain. ”

I hate Mika, I treat each other badly, I don't think it's going to happen, at least I can't imagine what our relationship will look like in the future.

Mika smiled with relief, and soon jumped up and down like a bird. Shion Aoyama and I talked to her for a while, dealt with her questions about what happened on the night of the Snow Festival, and waited until she fell asleep after taking the medicine before she and Shion Aoyama crept out of the room.

"Oh, that's a terrible thing to hear."

As soon as I got out of the ward, Shiyin Aoyama made fun of me, but it didn't affect me at all, just stared at her: "You don't have anything else to do in the afternoon, right?" If you don't, come with me. ”

"Oh, by the way, don't you say that I almost forgot, and the medicine of Mr. Kobayashi and Miss Beiyuan hasn't been delivered yet, so I'll go first. Little brother Shiraishi, my sister will come to play with you again when I am free. ”

Shiyin Aoyama showed a surprised expression, rolled her eyes, and waved her hand in a stupid way to slip away. But how could I let her run away so easily, stepped forward and grabbed her by the collar, and shook it angrily: "You just said that you could help me meet Miss Hana, don't say you forgot." ”

"I'm sorry I forgot."

She exclaimed "ah" at first, then chuckled "hehe", tilted her head and spat out the tip of her pink tongue at me, and her movements were very playful and cute. Her "oops, it's not good, I've been caught doing bad things" look a little familiar to me, but I didn't think about it, and stared at her fiercely.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you, let me go. Shiraishi is such a bad boy, I can't do such rough things with my older sister than you, I'll cry like Mika. ”

Shion Aoyama slapped her hand on the back of my hand, and I let go of my hand and shrugged my shoulders to apologize to her: "I'm sorry, but if I don't catch you, you'll really run away." ”

"No, just to scare you."

She complained as she straightened her crooked collar and held out her hand to me, "Shake hands." ”

"Huh?"

I looked at her outstretched hand a little inexplicably, and couldn't figure out what was going on in her weird brain, so I subconsciously stretched out my right hand to shake her. She seemed to see my doubts, grabbed my hand and shook it vigorously twice: "This means that we are reconciled, and you are not allowed to be angry with me in the future." ”

"I'm not angry."

The corners of my mouth twitched, and I smiled naturally—wasn't that a matter of course, how could I be angry with a half-grown girl?

"Then I like your sister, Shiraishi, you have to help me."

In the face of the girl's shy, but actually self-righteous and amazing speech, I felt that my expression was completely frozen, "uh-uh" speechless, and finally I could only pull my lips, and let out a "hehe" laugh that I didn't even understand what it meant - I treat you as a friend, but you want to be my brother-in-law...... Something seems wrong.

"Aoyama, this joke isn't funny."

I eased the slight displeasure that welled up in my heart, and withdrew my hand with a smile: "Although it shouldn't be up to me, but quiet...... My sister seems to hate you, and she won't like you. ”

"That's why I need the help of your brother, you help me get closer to her, and then improve our relationship little by little. As long as our relationship gets better, I'll leave it all to me. ”

Shiyin Aoyama didn't seem to be joking at all, and her shining eyes flashed with a particularly serious color: "I haven't seen it before, but when I see your sister, I have a very wonderful feeling." How should I say it, my heart was beating fast, and I was a little afraid to look into her eyes, and I felt very close. And being hated like that, I've never been like that before, I'm a little unconvinced-Shiraishi, so help me, at least I want to have a better relationship with your sister, and figure out why she hates me so much, otherwise I'll be very unwilling. ”

She pleases in a very serious tone, without the slightest hint of joke or contemptuous teasing, and I swallow back the words that hit her from behind. After I thought about it, I thought it wasn't anything bad.

Aoyama Shiyin and Jing's ages are very close, at most Aoyama is a year or two older, and the two girls who have not had any conflicts with each other can have a good relationship and become their usual playmates.

And after the beginning of spring, Jing should also enter the whole class, and the two will inevitably have to deal with each other a lot in the future, in this case, if other students or teachers find out that the relationship between the two is bad, it will not be very beneficial to Jing - she herself has a quiet and withdrawn personality, and she has few friends, almost only Hoko can be called intimate, and it will be dangerous if she is judged by the people of the town board of education to be unstable.

So if you think about it carefully, letting the cheerful Shiyin Aoyama be friends with her can at least disguise herself, and maybe it can also play a role in improving her somewhat distorted personality, which can almost be said to be harmless.

After thinking about it for a while, I was about to nod my head "En", but I suddenly realized one thing - Jing has a telepathy to me like reading a mind, and she must know what is happening now, and it doesn't matter at all whether I agree or not, and I am willing to let Shiyin Aoyama get close to her mood to see Jing.

So, even if you say yes, it doesn't matter, right? Anyway, it is equivalent to telling the truth to Jing, which is neither concealed nor ill-intentioned.

I thought about it a few times with some weakness, and finally nodded to Shiyin Aoyama: "Okay, but the ugly words are ahead, I don't guarantee that Jinghui wants to have a good relationship with you." If you have time, I invite you to your home, and it's up to you what the situation will be. ”

"Thank you, fold...... Ah, you should be okay with that, right? You can also call me Shiyin, or call me sister. ”

Shiyin Aoyama exhaled quietly as if relieved, tied her black hair in a fluffy bunch in front of her chest with both hands, held the end with one hand, pulled the blue hair rope up with the other for a distance, and hung a gentle smile, which seemed to give people a much more mature feeling - when she didn't speak, just looking at her appearance, gave people a gentle and clear feeling, which was very consistent with her status as a trainee witch. But when she spoke......

"It's okay, I'll call you Shiyin too."

I shook my head to clear my mind and coughed lightly to get back to business: "Shiyin, how can you help me meet Miss Hanaa?" ”

"It's very simple, you just go in - the wards in the hospital are not locked, and no one guards the door of the ward, as long as you don't be seen by others. Fold, you can't even think of this, it's a little stupid. ”

Shine Aoyama cocked up her delicate index finger and said it in a natural tone, so I stood on tiptoe and tapped her forehead with my knuckles.

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