"What is this? Something white? Yamato asked curiously, pointing to the vegetables in the freezer.

"That's a bamboo shoot, it looks like a bitter bamboo shoot, do you want to eat it too?" Set of prayers. In order to satisfy the appetite of this eldest lady, he had to come to the supermarket in the town and buy her the ingredients to make the Manchu and Han banquets in her mouth, to put it bluntly, there are only three dishes and one soup, in fact, it is a collection of prayers for fear of trouble, after all, a table of Manchu and Han is made, and he is afraid that he will have to get tired and lie down, so he and Yamato reached an agreement to eat a few different dishes every day, and try to eat all the dishes he will make within a month.

"Bitter bamboo shoots?" Yamato picked up the plain white bamboo shoot and looked at it thoughtfully. "Is that what it means to be bitter?"

"Yes, even after drifting, there will still be a bitter taste on it, but the taste is not bad." Jiqi nodded.

"So what does bitterness taste like? I've never tried it yet. Yamato thought about it and picked up a few and put them in the basket.

"If you are bitter, you will have a faint heartache, as if you have lost something." He hesitated to give an explanation, and he could not describe a taste in detail, because you would only know it if you tasted it, not simply in a few words. He scratched his head, then said, "You'll know what it feels like if you've tried it." ”

"Really?" Yamato nodded as if she didn't understand, after all, it was still too difficult for her to understand a taste that represented emotions.

"What else would you like to eat?" Jiqi looked at the basket with only a few bamboo shoots and asked, what to buy now is all up to Yamato, so her opinion is crucial.

"Eat meat." She thought for a moment and nodded in the affirmative, because she remembered that there was something called braised pork in the single meal last night, although she didn't taste what it tasted like, but the sauce made her remember it vividly, sweet and satisfied.

"Meat?" Jiqi walked to the end of the supermarket's ingredients section, looked at the pieces of meat that were steaming in the freezer, and carefully selected. "Do you want beef, lamb or pork?" He asked, turning his head.

"It's okay, as long as you like what you do." Yamato stood behind Jiqi and said with a smile that she wanted to answer "last night's meat", but she couldn't open her mouth. As soon as she remembered what she had done to him last night, she felt a kind of hammering pain in her heart, she didn't know if this was the suffering that Jiqi said, and she didn't know what it meant in human emotions, but she knew that it was like a nail hammered into a wall, and pulling it out would always leave a hole, and that was the harm she brought to the other party.

Ji Qi shook his head and smiled weakly, he now felt more and more that the other party was not the deep sea at all, just a little girl who didn't know anything about the world, although she sometimes showed her gentle sister's side, but she still couldn't hide her little girl's heart. "What else would you like to eat next?" He picked up a piece and put it in his basket before asking.

"I want to eat takoyaki, like rock sugar gourds, and fried chicken wings." Yamato counted the snacks she ate today, and she wanted to eat everything she wanted to eat.

"Takoyaki has to go to the seafood section, rock sugar gourd has to go to the fruit section, and if you want to fry chicken wings, it seems that there are ingredients here." Ji Qi strolled while searching, although he knew that the process of making these snacks would be very cumbersome, especially the rock sugar gourd, to red dates and rock sugar, you can also add some other fruits to it, and then skewer on a wooden skewer wrapped in melted rock sugar, although it seems that the process is very simple, but it will be difficult to do, and the heat time is indispensable, but even so, what can it be? After all, this is his promise to her, and he can even give up his life for her, so what trouble will he be afraid of?

He looked back at the girl who followed him and muttered like a sister, and laughed silently. She seems to be happy to look at, but what will she look like if she leaves? He suddenly remembered the picture of separation a month later, he didn't know what that day would be like, but he knew that he would definitely be reluctant and nostalgic, this was the answer he had determined from now on.

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Jiqi carefully stirred the melting rock sugar in the pot, which was the most crucial step in making the rock sugar gourd, and he stirred it with a wooden spoon while turning his face sideways to eat the takoyaki handed by the girl. This is a snack that was made before, Yamato stood aside and waited for it to come out, and as soon as it was done, he quickly picked up a string of large mouthfuls and chewed it, and then looked at the young man who was busy in front of the stove with hot sweat on his forehead, and looked at the steaming takoyaki in his hand, and then handed it to Jiqi, looking at it with hopeful eyes, as if to say that this is for you to eat.

Jiqi turned his face sideways and smiled, opening his mouth to accept. He has now figured out the other party's temper, as long as there is something delicious, he can basically ignore other things, even if he messes up her hair, she will not be as angry as before, at most she will pout at herself, just like a girl who likes to be spoiled.

If only it could go on like this for the rest of the day. Suddenly, such a thought came to Jiqi, and he looked at the rock sugar water that began to bubble, and the dense foam on it reflected his lost mind. He shook his head vigorously, banishing the unrealistic thought from his mind, knowing that he could not stay here forever, that he could not be with this girl forever, for he had promised Lexington and Wales that he would definitely go back, and he would definitely go back with them. When they saw Noah's Ark, which was still asleep in the room, they should know that they were fine. He smiled unconsciously as he thought about it.

If only it could go on like this for the rest of the day. Yamato looked up at Jiqi's grinning side face and whispered in his heart. She felt that today was a happy day since she became a deep sea, she could not think about anything, do nothing, just simply follow his side, and look at his serious smile, her heart seems to be satisfied. She munched on a delicious snack and reaffirmed her thoughts.

Even if he said to himself before, he wants to prove the existence of love. Could it be that such satisfaction and happiness are the essence of that kind of thing? She touched her thumping chest, felt the heartbeat that was gradually accelerating, and kept asking herself. She didn't know if it was the answer, but at least she didn't hate it now and liked the warmth, she looked up at Jiqi, her empty left hand reaching out and pulling at the corner of his clothes, as if grasping something she didn't quite understand, and her heart was filled with such a feeling. If this is the love that Atago and he is talking about, I really want to stay in this softness forever, forever, forever. She clenched her palms so hard that she didn't let go.

Neither of them spoke, just thinking about a different future.