24. Our Interlude (1)

Before you know it, the sky is clearing, and the wind is beautiful and the seagulls are soaring under the blue sky.

Jiang Yuanshen got up thirty minutes earlier than usual, and his desk was spread out with all the homework he had written last night.

In the first monthly exam, he wanted to do well.

Wash your face at the washbasin and get dressed and go downstairs.

I went to the supermarket last night to buy mayonnaise, but I don't have the idea of eating Chinese cold noodles these days, should I use the money to buy mayonnaise to buy fresh meat first?

Thoughts spread like vines, and when I walked to the living room on the first floor, I saw Azusa Kawa Takaku sitting on a chair and tinkering with something.

Paper, thin as a cicada's wing, thin wire, glue, a small bottle of paste, and a box of solid alcohol.

He was like a fish, his lower lip protruding forward, and he seemed to be so focused that he didn't notice Jiang Yuanshen, who was slowly walking to his side.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Yuanshen suddenly asked beside him.

“——!”

Azusa Chuan Xiaokong was startled, and a panicked look crossed his face, but he quickly looked at Jiang Yuanshen with a cold face.

"You floated down?"

"What is this? Where did you pick it up? ”

Azusa Kawa Xiaokong touched his itchy beard and showed an inexplicable smile: "I use it when making sky lanterns and festivals." ”

"I thought you were a rationalist and never paid attention to this kind of festival." Jiang Yuanshen was surprised that he would make this gadget, and then said with a smile, "You have a good hand." ”

"It's just that people in Tokyo are too snobbish, and I have to be like that, but in fact, my mind is still very delicate, as delicate as papaya."

"That's really delicate, do you want me to help?"

"No, just go cook."

He has always acted aggressively, but at this time, he was also carefully fiddling with small objects, which made Jiang Yuanshen feel quite interesting.

"Really?"

Azusa Kawa Koku nodded, and applied paste around the bottom of the already made tricone shape, with delicate and meticulous movements.

"Of course, I'll be able to finish it today and send it to Chitori Shrine."

"Send it over?"

Jiang Yuanshen walked to the open kitchen and took out the glass bowl in the refrigerator, which contained shredded cucumbers, ham, shredded eggs, and baby tomatoes.

Azusa Kawa Takaku leaned down, and his tone lowered a little: "Well, the islanders will send the finished sky lanterns to the shrine and let the queen light them." ”

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a while, thought for a moment and said, "Then will she be very tired?" ”

"Maybe, it is estimated that hundreds of units will be released by then." Azusa Takaku took out a small piece from the alcohol box and secured it with a thin wire.

"Oh."

Jiang Yuan responded cautiously and absentmindedly.

"By the way, Mayor Mare's got me yesterday."

"Please leave Chitori Island?"

"What the hell do you think of me?"

"How can I look at people who were caught by the police on the first day?"

There was a slight smile on Zichuan Xiaokong's lips, and he glanced at Jiang Yuanshen's back, and continued to make sky lanterns seriously.

"The mayor told me that he wanted you to hold an umbrella for the queen on the day of the festival."

Jiang Yuanshen's expression was very surprised, and his heart swayed like the weeds outside the window at the end of his vision.

He replied calmly, "...... And then? ”

"He said that it was tiring to hold an umbrella for the queen, but the pay was very high, and if it were you, he would be willing to give you 50,000 yen."

"Oh, that's a lot."

When the shrine is particularly busy, they usually recruit workers, and the daily wage is usually 8,000 yen or more, which is a good job.

And let Jiang Yuanshen go to hold an umbrella for so much of the reward, and the work itself may not take two hours, according to normal people's thinking, it would have been gone a long time ago.

Zichuan Xiaokong leaned on the back of the chair, stared at Jiang Yuanshen's waist and said, "He said that he had been picking for a long time, and in the end he still wanted you to take this position, so he came to talk to me." ”

For some reason, Jiang Yuanshen's heart suddenly rose with an indescribable rebellious mentality.

He opened the valve of the dragon's head to the maximum, and the sound of the water seemed to drown out his own voice.

"Why don't you talk to me?"

"He thinks I'm an adoptive father who can force you to work for money, and I seem to be really bad at it." Azusa Kawa touched the back of his head with his hand in embarrassment and smiled bitterly.

The depths of Jiang Yuanshen's empty heart suddenly began to boil little by little, and his brain was a little extra sensitive at this moment.

"That guy is watching my family die too much, right? It's really pitiful to stay alone on Zhiniao Island, and it must be very interesting to hold an umbrella for the queen, right? I'll be a selling point in everyone's mouths when the time comes, and that's great. ”

Azusa Kawa Koku didn't seem to expect him to say such a thing, and looked at him with a stunned expression.

“...... Jiang Yuan? ”

“......”

Jiang Yuanshen quickly regained consciousness in anger, and instantly felt severely dizzy, and his words made him fall into an illusion as if reality had been distorted.

"How do you answer?" Jiang Yuan asked cautiously without raising his head.

Azusa Kawa Xiaokong gasped, like a stone statue, only his mouth moved.

"I said you wouldn't go, and I helped you refuse."

Without superfluous thought, the words were already spat out of the mouth.

"I will definitely refuse."

"No, I don't know what's going on in your mind." Azusa Kawa Takaku's nose twitched, and his fingers gently rubbed the tissue paper, "I helped you refuse just out of my selfishness." ”

"Selfishness? What are your selfish motives? ”

"Didn't you ask me at the beginning if you wanted to have that child in Jinghai Shenyue?"

"You remember."

Azusa Kawa Xiaokong suddenly laughed, and the volume raised seemed to be pushing the slimy atmosphere:

"That sentence was too shocking for me, and I can't forget it even when I."

The corners of Jiang Yuanshen's mouth twitched and said, "Have you changed your mind now?" ”

Azusa Kawa Koku clasped his arms together, "No, I don't want to have her, but I don't want you to have her either, that's it, that's my selfishness." ”

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but make a questioning voice, like a hooked fish.

However, Azusa Kawa suddenly slapped the table with both hands to signal the end of the topic, and pointed out the window teasingly.

"Look outside."

“???”

Jiang Yuanshen walked to the window and looked outside, there was a delicate figure.

Standing at the door like that day, the long eyelashes that were vigorously cocked up and down with the blink of an eye, the silk scarf on the chest was neatly tied, and the long legs that poked out from under the skirt were healthy and tender.

When she saw Jiang Yuanshen, she suddenly laughed.

Two thin lip flaps are laughing, almond-shaped eyes are laughing, and the dimples on the cheeks are laughing.

In the morning light that sifted through the morning mist, I could see that the white cheeks were stained with a faint flush.

"When was she there?" Jiang Yuanshen's heart suddenly beat faster at this moment.

"I want to think about it...... Half past six, right? ”

"Wasn't that an hour ago! You won't let her in and sit down! ”

"People want to come in and knock on the door early! She's probably afraid of me, and I've often seen her running around with you before. ”

"Cook your own meals, I'm leaving!"

"Hey, I don't know how to cook!"