After that, all morning, the bad three were engaged in a pick-up competition. Of course, the result was naturally fruitless, and no girl wanted to play with the three of them who were not very serious at first glance.

Kyushu Cheng is not interested.,I'm not interested in this kind of social game.,I've been hanging out on the beach.,Just to see the scenery.。

Along the way, you can see many coolly dressed men and women basking on the beach or playing volleyball, while couples walk along the beach, and the sea is a playground for sailing and surfing enthusiasts.

"Damn, why don't any girls want to accompany me and call me a bad teenager. Is my yellow hair really that eye-catching? Yuhito Suzuki came back with a depressed look on his face and pinched the ends of his yellow hair:

"I thought that with my eloquence, I would be able to charm girls!"

"Cut, a waste of time." Genji Takatsuki put his hands in his pockets and walked back kicking the jar with an unhappy expression.

"I knew that people like me wouldn't be able to date girls." Tang Zegui will look up in frustration and pour ice Coke.

"Kyushu-san, do you have any results?" Yuhito Suzuki leaned in and asked meaningfully.

"Nope." Makoto Kyushu shook his head.

"Well, it looks like we're a draw." Yuhito Suzuki pulls his shoulders:

"I was thinking of meeting beautiful women on the beach in the summer, but sure enough, the comics are all deceitful."

Makoto Kyushu smiled slightly, and couldn't help but feel that young people in Tokyo are really open emotionally. Or rather, whimsical.

If it is in Yanhuang, the average high school student will not dare to take advantage of the summer vacation to go to the beach to talk to a beautiful woman, let alone regard this behavior as one of the things that male high school students must do.

"Hey, I'm hungry." General Tang Zegui patted his stomach: "Let's go to dinner, shall we?" ”

"Also, I can't make an appointment with a girl, and it's not interesting for a few big men to continue to stay here." Yuhito Suzuki patted Genji Takatsuki on the shoulder and asked:

"Brother Takatsuki, go to your house to eat fried skewers?"

"Why did you go to his house?" Makoto Kyushu didn't understand it a little.

"Oh yes, I haven't told Kyushu-san yet." Yuhito Suzuki said:

"Brother Takatsuki is actually from Osaka, and their family has a Kansai fried skewer restaurant. I wanted to invite Kyushu classmates to eat before, but you're a busy person, and you can't make an appointment every time. ”

"Well, I'll try it with anticipation." Kyushu Makoto thought about it, and he basically spent his school time last semester in part-time jobs, and even for personal affairs, he had to look at the vacation arrangements in advance.

"It doesn't matter, you just pay." Genji Takatsuki snorted lightly, not very concerned:

"My dad has a bad temper, don't think that you can eat and drink for nothing on the crappy reason of "son's classmates."

"Eh~It's so ruthless~" Tang Zegui couldn't help but wipe the corners of his mouth: "But Brother Takatsuki's fried skewers are really delicious, and I can't forget it every time I finish eating!" ”

Everyone chatted and laughed, and they came to the door of Takatsuki's house together.

Genji Takatsuki's family lives on the commercial street, and it is a standard two-story house, with a restaurant on the first floor and a private residence on the second floor.

When the curtain was opened, Makoto Kyushu smelled a mixture of fried and spicy soy sauce, which was not unpleasant.

It's past lunchtime, so it's supposed to be tea time. But the restaurants on this kind of commercial street are obviously operating hours, but there are no customers inside, not even chandeliers and electric fans, and it looks extremely deserted.

"Old man, there are guests!" Genji Takatsuki shouted inside, and his attitude was not very polite.

A moment later, a copper-skinned uncle with a towel headband rolled up his forehead walked out rubbing his head, as if he had just woken up.

"Stinky boy, I'm back so early" The uncle scolded angrily, and when he saw his son with three classmates, he asked with interest: "Your classmates?" ”

Between the words, the uncle's eyes were not very pleasant, as if he thought they were here to eat white food.

"Don't worry, Uncle Takatsuki, we'll pay!" Yuhito Suzuki hurriedly explained with a smile.

"Oh, the menu is on the wall, tell me what you want to eat." The uncle casually pointed to the price list on the wall, and his attitude was very perfunctory.

After the four of them sat down, Genji Takatsuki said that he was going to the toilet, so he left the table and walked away.

"I don't think the owner is very welcoming to us," Makoto Kyushu asked in a low voice.

"Is there anything we dislike about him?"

"Don't worry, Big Brother Takatsuki's father has always been like this, ignoring the guests." General Tang Zegui patted Kyushu Makoto on the shoulder and explained:

"It is said that since his mom died, his dad has done this to everyone. Although the cooking skills have not regressed, this attitude makes the guests very angry, and over time, no one wants to come. ”

"Has his mother died?" Makoto Kyushu frowned and thought: "When?" ”

"I think it was a year or two ago." Yuhito Suzuki also whispered: "Don't ask specifically, so as not to make them unhappy." ”

Makoto Kyushu nodded silently and looked at the menu on the wall.

Kansai deep-fried skewers in Wano Country are made by wrapping meat, seafood, and vegetables in bamboo skewers, breadcrumbs, and then deep-fried in oil, and then dipped in a special sauce made with Worcester's hot soy sauce as the main ingredient, and served with large pieces of pickles.

The most famous feature of Kansai skewers is that the dipping sauce is often shared by many people. The owner will put a large pot of sauce on the table, and anyone can dip it in their own skewers.

It is said that the purpose of the Kansai Kushikan restaurant is to believe that when customers use the dipping sauce, the flavor of the food in their hands will also be incorporated into the dipping sauce, making the dipping sauce more delicious and layered. Many so-called "time-honored" fried skewer restaurants will even put out a pot of dipping sauce that has been used for more than 10 years, and use it as a marketing feature.

However, due to food safety concerns, Kansai Kushika restaurants often only allow customers to dip their skewers in the sauce once, which is a self-deceptive but interesting custom.

Takatsuki's dishes weren't expensive, and after everyone had finished ordering and hearing the crackling sound of frying, Takatsuki's father brought up a large plate full of golden-lustred fried skewers and pushed a large pot of dipping sauce in front of everyone.

He first told the four of them to dip a string only once, and then said "Please use it slowly" without emotion, and then rested on the chef's table boredly.

Makoto Kyushu picked up a bunch of shellfish fried skewers, dipped them in sauce and tasted them.

"Click~" When you bite into it, you will find a crispy fried skin texture and a snow-white scallop meat that is so tender that it can burst out of juice, which resonates with the subtle sweet and spicy sauce.

Makoto Kyushu couldn't help but eat a few skewers one after another, and whether it was fried vegetables or various meats, they were cooked just right. The crust is crispy and refreshing, while the inside is tender and not raw, and every bite bursts with fresh juice.

Compared to those formal dishes that can be elegant, the fried skewers are simply lazy dishes with no operation at all. However, Takatsuki's father controlled the heat and timing of each ingredient very well, and it must have taken a long time to practice and accumulate experience to cook the ingredients to the extent that they were the most delicious.

Such a simple fried skewer made Makoto Kyushu extremely impressed by the chef's cooking level.

"Ah~ Sure enough, it's still the best fried skewers from Brother Takatsuki's house!" Tang Zegui ate with a bulging stomach and leaned back on the back of the chair with satisfaction:

"If your dad treats customers better, this store will definitely be overcrowded!"

"Is this the usage of overcrowding?" Yuhito Suzuki picked his teeth with a bamboo skewer and whispered.

“.” Genji Takatsuki took a sip of Coke and said in a deep voice, "Whatever he wants, how he loves it." ”

"Don't you have a good relationship with your father?" Makoto Kyushu asked.

"Oh, it's always been like that" Genji Takatsuki looked thoughtfully at the glass in his hand, obviously not wanting to say anything more.

After eating, Makoto Kyushu got up and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

"It's." Along the way, he saw a hanging painting on the wall of the hallway that looked like a family portrait.

In the picture, Genji Takatsuki, who looks like a junior high school student, has a green skin and bald head, wears a baseball uniform, holds a golden trophy in his hand, and smiles brightly.

The woman, who appeared to be his mother, put her arms around him affectionately and smiled at the camera together. His father, on the other hand, stood beside him, looking at the mother and son with satisfaction, his face very gentle.

"Did you win a medal in baseball?" Kyushu thought sincerely.

In fact, as early as when everyone gave the Mizuhashi school a special baseball training, Kyushu Makoto suspected that Genji Takatsuki had practiced baseball, and even had some talent in this area. After all, the kind of pitching that spirals at high speed in the air is not something that ordinary high school students can do.

Moreover, Karasawa and Suzuki also seem to have mentioned that Genji Takatsuki was a member of the school baseball team when he was in junior high school.

Kyushu Makoto was just about to leave, but a deep voice sounded behind him at some point: "Do you care about this photo very much?" ”

He looked back and saw that standing behind him was Genji Takatsuki's father, who seemed to be passing by to go to the bathroom.

"Did Takatsuki-san play baseball before?" Makoto Kyushu asked.

"Of course." Genji Takatsuki's father supported his waist with both hands and said casually:

"He used to be the main player of the baseball team, and the coach said that he was very talented, and maybe he could even be looked up to by Takamagahara. Hmph, this stinky boy. ”

"Then why did he give up baseball?" Makoto Kyushu couldn't help but ask.

If Genji Takatsuki's father hadn't exaggerated, he would have been able to beat most of his peers in baseball, and there would be absolutely no reason to give up.

Moreover, in Wano Country, sports are one of the few ways that ordinary people can cross classes, even if they are thinking about their future.

"Who knows, I can't figure out that stinky boy either."

Genji Takatsuki's father snorted coldly, obviously not wanting to say anything, so he turned his head and left, looking muddy and nightmarish, without the gentleness in the photo at all.

Makoto Kyushu returned to the restaurant after going to the toilet, and Yuhito Suzuki didn't know where to take out a set of cards and asked, "Kyushu-san, let's play UNO with the four of us?" ”

"Hey, don't use my restaurant as a chess and card room!" Genji Takatsuki's father came over at some point, and reprimanded in a suppressed voice:

"I'm going to play in a different place."

"What a word, old man." Genji Takatsuki crossed Erlang's legs and glared at his father unhappily: "There are usually no guests here, what are you worried about?" ”

"You stinky boy!" Genji Takatsuki's father gritted his teeth and ordered unhappily: "Anyway, don't play cards in my store!" ”

"Stinky old man" Genji Takatsuki was also unconvinced, and lowered his voice and scolded.

The father and son began to argue for some reason, and the atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly froze. If there are other guests dining here at this time, I am afraid that it will be too uncomfortable to eat.

"Ah, I'm really sorry, Uncle Takatsuki~" Yuhito Suzuki couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly came up to play the round:

"Let's go to Brother Takatsuki's room to play cards, so as not to disturb Uncle Uncle's business!"

With that, he reached out and tugged at Genji Takatsuki's arm, and then hinted with his eyes that the others would leave with him.

Everyone understood and went upstairs together to Genji Takatsuki's room.

This is a very ordinary boys' bedroom. The four of them sat around the ground, and Yuhito Suzuki took the lead in starting to shuffle the cards.

Makoto Kyushu looked around and found a golden trophy on top of the cabinet on the wall, on which was a baseball with an olive branch entwined, exactly like what Makoto Kyushu saw in the family photo.

"This is yours?" Makoto Kyushu looked at Genji Takatsuki.

"A boring little souvenir." Genji Takatsuki said lightly, and then urged:

"Suzuki, hurry up and deal the cards!"

"Oh! Okay, send it right away! Yuhito Suzuki hurriedly cut the shuffled cards into four parts and sent them to everyone.

“.”

“UNO！”

Tang Zegui knocked out the cards in his hand, raised his hands excitedly and shouted.

In order to increase the fun of the game, the four of them set a game rule of "whoever loses the most will invite everyone to supper", which is a continuation of the pick-up game in the morning.

Kyushu Makoto is the first winner to play all the cards in this game, and he is playing with his mobile phone when he is bored.

Out of curiosity, he typed the name "Genji Takatsuki" into a search engine.

It was the first time in his life that he searched for the name of a classmate, as if he were expecting his classmate to be a celebrity.

Sure enough, Makoto Kyushu really searched for his name.

[Genji Takatsuki, who studied at the public Sokushima Middle School, led the school baseball team to win championships in many competitions, and emerged in the U12 baseball junior game, and was called "the six-pointed star of the new generation of baseball" with five seeded players such as Momota Daikichi. 】

[In the third division of the round of 16 of the Wano Country U14 Youth Baseball Tournament, the public Sokushima Junior High School played against the private Daifukusei High School, and the most eye-catching players in this final were 'Genji Takatsuki' and 'Momota Daikichi'. They are all "six-pointed stars of the new generation", so the outcome of this game must be unpredictable! 】

[Genji Takatsuki made a series of mistakes in the game and ended in a fiasco, and the public Sokushima Middle School stopped in the top 16 this year! ] What a pity! 】

"Kyushu-san. Brother Kyushu, this game is over! Yuhito Suzuki's call made Makoto Kyushu put down his phone.

"Oh, who lost?" Makoto Kyushu looked up and asked.

"Haha, it's Brother Takatsuki~" Takatsuki smiled a little gloatingly, and immediately covered his mouth after being glared at by Genji Takatsuki.

"Oh, let's start the next round." Makoto Kyushu stared at Genji Takatsuki, then casually placed the cards in the center of the carpet and continued the game.

(End of chapter)