Nishikujo Ruri slowly got up a little helplessly, and watched the little girl's mother run over quickly and take the little girl into her arms.

Naoto Yoshihara stepped forward slowly, only to see Nishikujo Ruri's expression very melancholy.

The little girl's mother saw the scene from afar, and knew that Nishikujo Ruri was a piece of kindness, and smiled apologetically while gently patting the snow on her daughter's body.

Nishikujo Ruri bowed his head slightly and walked straight forward. When Naoto Yoshiwara walked out of the distance, there was a faint voice in the wind from the little girl's mother blaming the little girl for not being polite, and the little girl's aggrieved voice could be heard clearly - Mom, that aunt is so scary!

The little girl is too small, innocent, doesn't know how to hide it, and has a loud voice.

Naoto Yoshiwara wanted to pretend not to hear, but Ruri Nishikujo spoke, "You can laugh if you want." ”

Naoto Yoshihara said politely: "How come, children are just afraid of life, this is a common thing, and the Nishikujo Police Department doesn't have to take it to heart." ”

Nishikujo Ruri touched her face lightly, shook her head and said, "I don't like children, I know ......" She turned to look at Naoto Yoshiwara and pointed out, "A child's smiling face is the only beauty left in the world, Yoshihara-san can easily have it, cherish it, don't be confused for a while." ”

"Of course, of course, I'm sure I'll cherish it. Naoto Yoshihara looked at Nishikujo Ruri's pretty face and sharp sword eyebrows, and only felt that she shaved her eyebrows, and estimated that the situation could be improved a lot, but he didn't dare to say it.

The two of them, one preoccupied and the other suspicious, chatted all the way and soon arrived in an alley next to the station. Nishikujo Ruri argued for a while, pointing to a place where two white cloth curtains were hanging at the door, and the word "Kurahira" was written on the curtain, and said, "It should be there." ”

Naoto Yoshihara took a few steps to push open the heavy gate, and said with a smile in a faint noise: "Ladies first, Nishikujo Police Department first, please." "This Nishikujo Ruri has been practiced, and he doesn't really want to sell her his back when he goes into a strange place.

Nishikujo Ruri thanked him and entered the bar, and Naoto Yoshihara looked back a few times to see that there was nothing abnormal, and followed in.

He entered the door and took a quick look inside the bar—several long bars lined up along the wall, with small tables scattered in the middle of beer kegs. Two televisions hang high in the two corners near the roof, showing baseball and sumo matches. On one side of the narrow passage at the entrance is a signed photo of Sumo Yokozuna, and on the other side is a greeting sign that reads, "Welcome, there will be no beer belly when you drink while standing"!

From time to time, a fire erupts at the bar, and a chef cooks food. The whole bar is filled with the tangy aroma of barley, wine and grease compounds. There were a lot of people, and they were standing and drinking and talking and laughing loudly, and the loud laughter was almost like breaking through the roof.

No matter how Naoto Yoshiwara thinks this is a very prosperous bar, and the waiter is the waiter, the customer is the customer, the chef is the cook, there is nothing special. The only difference from a normal bar is that there are no chairs here, and there is no first of the eighteen weapons of the bar brawl - but this is a matter of course, what chairs do you need for a standing bar?

Standing bars are also a new thing in Dongying, and they only developed in this century - the economy is sluggish, and more and more people are living with their pockets tight, and they can leave when they are tired of drinking and standing here, so that they will not be drunk endlessly.

The lively atmosphere made Nishikujo Ruri slightly unnatural, and it could be seen that she knew that there was a bar here, and it was very likely that she had never been there.

She led Naoto Yoshiwara to a gap in the bar, tapped on the bar and said, "Please give me two glasses of draft beer." ”

No one paid attention to her, Nishikujo Ruri was a little confused, and the two sword eyebrows were raised, and she was a little unsure whether she should ask for wine like this.

Naoto Yoshiwara quickly determined that she was a rookie, and that she had probably been to bars before, but if she had to go, she would probably only go to the kind of bars with soft music and quiet and elegant folk songs, and not too often—at least she certainly hadn't been to such a low-end place like a roadside stall to drink.

Naoto Yoshihara smiled, slammed the bar hard, and shouted at the waiter: "Two portions of chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken wings, chicken skewers, four fried egg rolls, and two cups of draft beer!"

After he finished ordering, he smiled at Nishikujo Ruri: "You have to be loud here, whether you order something or refill the glass, you can't hear it if you don't shout at the waiter." With that, he opened his wallet and shook out a pile of change.

Nishikujo Rurii stretched out his hand to stop him, took out his wallet, took out a card, and said, "I'm in for a treat." ”

Naoto Yoshihara looked at her wallet, there was not much change, and said with a smile: "This kind of place is busy without change, and the waiter doesn't have that much spare time, let alone swiping the card, so I'll come." ”

After saying that, he counted the coins and thousand-dollar bills, and gathered them into a pile waiting to exchange drinks and food - he had a fight with Nana Hoshino, and the relationship was very strange that it did not fall but rose, and the two of them became closer to each other, and the end result was that Nana Hoshino managed him more strictly. If it's really a big expense, it's okay to say that a phone call to report the bill and ask for a password to swipe the card, but this kind of drinking can only use the private money he usually saves.

It's full of coins and small denominations, so it's easy to get here.

Nishikujo Ruri silently put the card back on, turned his head to look around, and said slightly unnaturally: "I didn't expect there to be so many idlers, it's not time to get off work yet." ”

Naoto Yoshihara smiled, you haven't arrived at the end of the day, have you! Skipping work to drink, being reported is enough for you to drink a pot. However, he chimed in: "Maybe it's because of the snow, there aren't many people at this point." ”

Soon the beer and food were delivered, and the waiter glanced at the money and thought it was about the same, and without counting it, he swept it into the bar and ran to another customer.

Nishikujo Ruri silently picked up a one-and-a-half-liter beer glass, drank half a cup in one go, and then was stunned. Naoto Yoshihara was startled, but looking at the foam around Nishikujo's glass mouth, it seemed that he had grown a circle of small white beards, and he didn't know how to wipe it without noticing, it looked cute, but he felt that something was wrong.

He looked around, and it was quite normal.

Could it be that you are really here to drink?

He picked up a skewer of grilled chicken hearts and handed it to Ruri Nishikujo, and said with a smile: "Drink slowly, eat something." He was still a little uneasy and tentative, "The Nishikujo Police Department doesn't have a good opinion of me? Why are you so relieved of me? Aren't you afraid that I will do something bad when I get drunk?"

Nishikujo Ruri took the chicken heart skewers, and saw that the chicken hearts were roasted to a brown-orange color, and the oily ones looked very delicious. She lightly covered her mouth and took a bite, and found that the chicken heart was roasted after the sauce, the taste of the sauce was thick, the taste was salty and fragrant, and the chewing was very elastic.

She couldn't help but eat another pill, then she squinted at Naoto Yoshihara, stretched out her hand and shook it lightly, and the joints popped, "I don't drink much, but I still drink well...... As for Yoshihara-san wanting to do bad things, it depends on whether you have the ability to do that. ”

Naoto Yoshihara looked at her hand, which was different from that of an ordinary girl, but it was three points like his hand, and immediately waved his hand and smiled: "I don't have that ability, I don't have that ability!" He smiled and admitted, and also raised his cup and took a big sip, then picked up a piece of omelette and threw it into his mouth, eating it.

This girl is not normal today, has something on her mind, borrows wine to kill her sorrows, and wants to find someone to talk to when she is annoyed?

Nishikujo Ruri also gulped down, and the string of chicken hearts quickly fell into his stomach. Naoto Yoshiwara reached out for a refill, pushed his skewer to her, and reached out and dragged an omelet in front of her in exchange.

Nishikujo Ruri didn't refuse, and took another drink before picking up the string of chicken hearts and looking sideways at him: "You said that I don't have a good opinion of you, you are very self-aware, it is indeed bad...... I've seen people like you!"

"Seen?"

Nishikujo Ruri nodded lightly and said: "People like you will help people live and die for a bowl of rice, a smiling face, and a little help ten years ago, thinking that they are righteous and very manly, but they will also have evil intentions for a little thing and want to harm people's lives...... Am I right?"

Naoto Yoshihara couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he didn't expect her to speak so directly, and quickly shouted again to refill the wine, and then said with a sincere face: "I definitely can't be that kind of idiot, the Nishikujo Police Department misunderstood me." ”

Ruri Nishikujo sneered, "Misunderstanding? What kind of person you are, you know it in your own heart...... People like you shouldn't stay with a child!If I were Hoshino-chan's mother, I'd let people like you go as far as I wanted. ”

I just gave you the best chicken heart, are you going to repay me like that?" Naoto Yoshihara looked at Ruri Nishikujo, who was ruthless, and was a little speechless, but he immediately smiled and said, "Nishikujo Police Department, I never thought of hurting Hoshino......! There is a lot of prejudice against people like me, but I can only say that I have feelings, although not much, but I will never hurt my friend's children, you can rest assured of that. ”

Nishikujo Ruri was noncommittal, raised her glass and took a big sip, this time beckoning to refill the wine.

Naoto Yoshihara looked at her blushing face, carefully pondered her current psychological state, and looked at her with a blurred gaze - this woman's cowhide was blowing very fiercely, but the amount of alcohol was actually very average, and she was a little drunk after two or three glasses, no wonder she spoke like she had eaten gunpowder!

He couldn't help but ask, "There's something I've always been curious about...... The Nishikujo Police Department has always cared about Hoshino, can you tell me why?"