"Have you eaten enough?" Naoki Natsume walked in the door and asked, "I left the table early...... Didn't I say I'd come and get it for you in the afternoon? There's no need to be in such a hurry. ”

Asai stood in the courtyard, next to a small table that had been brought out of the main house, and on it was a tape measure that he had used a few hours ago, as well as a pen and paper for recording.

With her back to Naoki Natsume, she picked up the notebook on the table, clamped it to the hardwood board like those sketching students, and then picked up a pencil and cut it down on the paper.

"Didn't you watch me finish a bowl of soba noodles?" She said, "I'll also eat the bowl of eel rice bowl that you left over after you took a bite." ”

Naoki Natsume walked over to her, and poked his head to look at the data in the notebook.

It was her own hand-drawn floor plan of the house, and if it weren't for the pencil marks, he couldn't help but wonder if it was a printed computer drawing — it was too neat.

It's like a picture of a textbook that the teacher showed in a mechanical drawing subject.

There were also various dimensions she marked next to the floor plan, which he didn't understand, and neither did Asai Mao, but she must have spent some time teaching herself how to calculate the size of a house and even how to create an advertisement.

Mao Asai is always like this, she is either learning or applying what she has learned, and it is because of this that she can become a perfect maid.

In Naoki Natsume's heart, she is perfect.

"It's so beautiful." He was amazed.

Mao Asai is not happy because of this compliment, and there is a natural expression on his face.

Because that's as it should be...... Even if the praise comes from Brother Naoki.

He should have praised her as a person, not for her craftsmanship.

"Before you care about whether others are full or not, you should eat yourself first." Asai is still drawing lines on the notebook with her eyebrows lowered, and the ruler is very accurate, even if she can draw a very straight line with her bare hands.

But norms are norms, and any information measured by this measurement, including advertisements, is to be sent out, and she hopes that she will have a clear conscience so that the next family who buys her own house will not regret it...... Then be kind to your own house.

"You only ate one bite of eel rice, and when you got to Uncle Murata's side, you only ate two skewers of oden. Naoki himself was hungry and ran over to ask the east and west, is it a little too arrogant? ”

While saying this, she did not stop the pen in her hand.

Natsume Naoki smiled helplessly: "Hey, just because I'm in a bad mood, did I degenerate from Brother Naoki to just Naoki?" It's too much. ”

"I don't want to see my stinky face here, so I'll go back to dinner." Asai gave the order to evict the guests.

"How is that possible?" Naoki Natsume shook his head: "I'm here to coax you, how can you be considered a man if you retreat after eating a closed door!" ”

The words were imposing, but both of them could tell it was a joke.

She knows that Brother Naoki likes to tease her with high-sounding things in a joking tone.

When she was a child, she cried because of something, and Naoki Natsume always made her happy like this.

When Asai heard that he was here to coax himself, he seemed to remember that every time he was wronged when he was a child, adults didn't understand, and it was always Brother Naoki who was the first to find out and coax himself, so he finally stopped the pen in his hand, raised his head and glanced at him: "Coax what?" ”

Naoki Natsume said honestly, "No matter what, it will be uncomfortable to hear Uncle Amamiya say that, right?" I know you all too well, since I was a child. It seems that you are stronger and more delicate than when you were a child, but Maki is Mako, and I know very well what I will be happy when I hear and sad when I hear it. ”

Asai seemed to be a little moved by this sentence, and finally closed the notebook and put it back on the table.

"And rightfully so." She lowered her eyebrows and said: "Although I feel uncomfortable, but if I think about it carefully, it is also human nature." ”

"What kind of human nature?"

"Speak for your daughter and come to see the parents of her daughter's boyfriend...... Isn't that a matter of course? ”

Asai raised his head to look at Naoki Natsume, his eyes flickering a little: "Who let her have a father?" ”

Naoki Natsume was stunned.

He never thought that a sentence would be so lethal to himself!

Especially when this sentence came out of the mouth of Mao Asai.

After she said this, she seemed to realize that she had said too much.

He pursed his lips, but since he said it, it was better to take this opportunity to say it all at once.

There are a thousand words that come to my mouth, and they are blocked by something, and they are swirling in my head.

In the end, he just whispered: "I sometimes feel sad and can't help but think about it." I missed my mom and dad. ”

Yes, Naoki Natsume was a little stunned.

She lost her parents after all.

When I saw someone's father come to visit, I was able to say such things in public, and I was not angry but envious!

Even if Mako's father is a bastard, with Uncle Asai's temperament, if he is still alive today and at the wine table, he will definitely rise up and compete with Amamiya Konma!

After being stunned, Naoki Natsume stroked her back, "If you think so, I've met your parents a long time ago, and they've met my parents...... We have already set our minds...... I think Uncle Amamiya's words today are a misunderstanding. Amamiya Chizuru doesn't say much to Uncle Amamiya, he will be mistaken when he sees us approaching...... I'll tell him well. ”

After being appeased, he bent down slightly, picked up Asai Mao's face, and made the eyes of the two people meet.

Natsume Naoki's eyes were firm but gentle: "And I swear, my parents must be more partial to you, they are not only my parents, after so long of companionship, they have long regarded you as a daughter." You still have relatives in this world. ”

Asai looked at his gaze and felt as if the slight acid in his heart had melted.

"I'm just going to be envious, you don't have to explain that." She whispered, "Uncle and aunt, I believe it too." ”

"Are you still called uncle and aunt?" Naoki Natsume asked with a smile.

Asai's cheeks flushed, and his voice became quieter: "It's only for today, and you know it's not that way...... Well, I'm sure dad ......"

"Believe what? The sound is too low to hear. "He's still laughing, joking.

"I trust Mom and Dad." Asai glared at him suddenly, and said viciously, "Satisfied!" ”

Naoki Natsume smiled even more happily, but didn't answer.

After a while, after the atmosphere fell silent, she said abruptly, "Hug it." ”

"What?"

"I think I should hug it at a time like this."

Naoki Natsume saw that she was so determined, and opened her arms while saying, "I don't remember you being the kind of girl who will coax you when you hug her."

Asai gently hugged him into his arms and said softly, "I think you will feel better if you hug you, so that you won't feel sorry for me." ”

One sentence to Naoki Natsume pulled back to the winter of that year.

It was when she was a child, Asai's parents were not at home, she had a fever, and Naoki Natsume, who was still young, took care of her at home.

At that time, too, she was lying on the bed and asked Natsume Naoki to hug her.

Naoki Natsume said that even if you hug it, it won't feel good right away, and Asai replied, "But a hug will make Brother Naoki feel better." ”

She was only four years old.

Asai knew he was thinking about it, and whispered in his arms, "Don't think that only you know me. ”