Although there was still some time before the meal, and there was only a plate of okra, three boxes of instant natto, and some snacks on the small table, in addition to one sukiyaki, Tang Xiao had to start the meal early in order to prevent Shenqi Nayuta from losing his temper with the innocent landlady.

Sitting at the small round table facing the door, Xiao Xie took the rice bowl in his hand that was slowly served by Yuna Tanaka, who was habitually picked up, and glanced at Shenqi Nayuta, who was sitting and didn't seem to move his chopsticks, and then leaned over slightly and whispered to her: "Mrs. Tanaka, she is also a guest after all, Sister Shenqi, don't worry about her." ”

"Guests?" Looking at Yuna Tanaka, who was holding a beige floral bowl that was obviously different from his own chopsticks and naturally using his used chopsticks directly into the pot to stir, Shenqi frowned slightly.

Just as Tang Xiao and Shenqi seemed to be whispering, Yuna Tanaka, who was sitting on the other side, licked the sweet sauce on the chopsticks and interjected: "Xiaojun, why don't you eat?" ”

"I'm not hungry yet. Mrs. Tanaka, will you eat first? ”

"How's that going to work? Young people will not have the strength to eat enough! Yuna Tanaka said very naturally, and put a slice of beef on his bowl for Tang Xiao, "In the past, Keisuke could eat Liuhe rice in one go!" ”

Tang Xiao shook his head when he heard this, he hadn't seen the person named Keisuke in Tanaka Yuna's mouth, he only knew that he should also be a baseball club student who lived in this cherry blossom village, except that the other party was very good at eating and he was often mistakenly called Keisuke by Tanaka Yuna, he didn't have a deeper impression of that person.

"I'm not that kind of young man anymore. If I had eaten like this, I would have survived before I went bankrupt. Tang smiled and shook his head, then pushed the okra bowl in front of Yuna Tanaka, "It's that you eat meat all day long, please eat more vegetables once in a while, right?" ”

"Xiaojun is really! Five years ago, you were only 18 years old, and now you have become like this! ”

"That was five years ago, okay?" Tang smiled and shook his head helplessly. In the past three years, whenever she talks to Yuna Tanaka about what is happening now, she always answers herself with what happened five years ago, as if her time has been stuck five years ago.

"Five years? Xiaojun should have only been here for three years, right? ”

Hearing Shenqi's question, Tang Xiao immediately nodded to show his innocence, and Tanaka Yuna also nodded and echoed after thinking for a while: "Yes, it's just like this, and another three years have passed!" ”

Listening to Tanaka Yuna's words with feelings, Shenqi lowered his head and looked at the rice bowl in his hand for a few seconds, then raised his head and pretended to be curious and asked, "By the way, how did you and Xiaojun meet the landlady?" I think he must have stayed in the house of a man named Shenqi, right? ”

"Oh, his Shenqi sister, right?" Yuna Tanaka said generously, and then continued with a smile without waiting for Shenqi to stretch her eyebrows, "If you want to say that, I should have met Xiaojun earlier than the one from the Shenqi family, right?" ”

She said and glanced at Tang Xiao, who was burying her head in the rice as if she had given up on herself, and her face was full of smiles, "Because I picked up the wandering Xiaojun first!" ”

"Alright! I'm not one of those kittens and puppies! What is it called picking it up! Tang Xiao complained and sandwiched a slice of beef for Yuna Tanaka, and then shook his head with a little nostalgia at the corners of his mouth.

"Wandering?" Shen Qi glanced at Tang Xiao who was sitting next to her, although she knew that the other party was really embarrassed for a while because she didn't have an identity certificate, but she didn't hear the other party mention anything about wandering, "Can the landlady tell me?" Xiaojun, he seems to be hiding a lot of things from me. ”

"Don't!" Tang Xiao didn't want Shenqi to bother because of what had already passed, but Yuna Tanaka, who was in high spirits while eating sukiyaki, ignored Tang Xiao's objections and took the first step to tell what happened when the two met:

"I think it was the rainy season before the cherry blossoms bloomed, right? I didn't want to go home so soon after I returned Keisuke's things to his family, so I held an umbrella and wanted to walk around when there was no one, but I didn't expect to run into Xiaojun again. ”

Yuna Tanaka's delicate and gentle voice seemed to have magic power, and Tang Xiao's eyes seemed to reappear as if he saw the scene again:

At that time, he had just come out of the public bathroom with his suitcase and was about to spend the night at the Internet café where he needed to work part-time the next day, but suddenly it rained in the sky. In desperation, he had no choice but to burrow into the abandoned sofas on the side of the road, which were covered with transparent plastic sheets and vacant for others to use, and waited for the rain to light up before going out. But I didn't expect to meet a kind passer-by who deliberately lifted the plastic sheet and asked himself if such a "homeless man" was hungry......

Gradually, Tang Xiao seemed to remember the bowl of rice with sukiyaki pot that he ate that day, he licked his lips, and then glanced at Yuna Tanaka, who was still telling that he was so pitiful like a kitten that was discarded at that time, and deliberately diverted the topic with some embarrassment: "I remember that Mrs. Tanaka's sukiyaki pot is delicious?" Why haven't I seen you make anything other than dim sum since? ”

"Because of the food I make...... It's something that brings misfortune to people. Yuna Tanaka said as she took a piece of beef and put it in her mouth, "So I'd better eat what Xiaojun made obediently!" ”

"You!" Tang Xiao saw that Yuna Tanaka's expression on her face became a little strange for some reason, and quickly opened the topic and said, "I didn't expect such a coincidental thing, so shouldn't I thank Keisuke well?" ”

"Allah, didn't I tell you? Keisuke is my husband who is about to get married. ”

"Huh? Isn't he a high school student who lives in Sakuraso? ”

"yes. At that time, I would feel inexplicably happy to see Keisuke eating what I made so much. So somehow we got together later. Yuna Tanaka didn't care about telling Tang Xiao about her privacy, and there was neither sadness nor joy in her eyes, "It's just that I didn't expect Keisuke to have not graduated yet, so he suddenly became a laughing king." ”

Then, Yuna Tanaka said a lot of things one after another as if she had opened the conversation, and there were obviously some things that were already out of order: such as Tang Xiao, who would practice throwing a ball in the yard on her day off while eating Liuhe rice, and Keisuke, who accompanied her to bargain with the boss who sold fish, and so on......

Looking at Yuna Tanaka, who seemed to be suddenly broken, looking at herself with empty eyes and a gentle smile on her face, Tang Xiao wanted to reach out to comfort her, but she felt that this was a betrayal of Shenqi Nayuta, who was sitting next to her, who might be looking at her.

"Hey......" After sighing lightly, Tang Xiao still reached out and put it on the back of Yuna Tanaka's hand, shook his head as if he didn't care, smiled at her and corrected: "Yes, so if you come to eat in the future, please don't call the wrong name." ”

Hearing Tang Xiao's words, Yuna Tanaka's eyes lit up again. She sucked on her chopsticks and looked at Xiao Jie's face for a while, with a childish and cheerful smile on her face, "What, five years ago, I was just a child, but I was always like an old husband so fastidious!" ”

"Then you can go to Morita's house to eat!"

"Alright, Xiaojun, I'll remember your current name!"