Soon Ranch gave up the cat owner to Huber Ann and asked her to hold the cat.

The two walked and chatted, and when they walked outside the school, they only needed to cross two streets further east to reach the Catboss restaurant.

The summer afternoon sun on the antique buildings of Icherita enlivens the stone walls and sculptures, and Ranchi and Hubertion stroll along the wide sidewalks, the majestic bell tower of the College of Icherita behind them.

"Lanchi, wait a minute, do the three of us really want to eat together?"

Huberian thought it would be better for the three of them to avoid each other.

For example, Ranchi stayed on the first floor, and she accompanied Tata to lunch at home on the second floor.

Or she and Lanchi are on the first floor and have Antanas accompany Tata to lunch at home.

It just so happens that she and Lanchi will go to the Shadow World tomorrow, as short as a few days, as long as a month or two, Tata and Lanchi will not see each other for a while, and when Lanchi returns from the Shadow World, Tata and Lanchi should be able to get along naturally.

"I think at this time, the more we deliberately avoid each other, the more we seem to be empty-minded. Whatever Tata chooses, I should be proactive – I'll wait for her as long as she's willing to see me. ”

Ranch replied,

"And I've never been a funny character, this morning was an overly bizarre accident that won't happen again. I'm going to keep going until I retire. ”

He elaborated very seriously.

"Well, that's true."

Huberian nodded, quietly observing Ranchi.

It didn't seem like he really felt like he was dead in the morning.

His psyche is unimaginably strong.

The cat boss couldn't say anything, and it looked at Lanchi.

Although you look calm and beautiful now, you are also really funny when you read the love lines in the morning.

"Are you really okay now? Will you see Tata and unconsciously recall what you said in the morning, such as the sentence 'Tata, you are so cute...... ”

Huberian asked a little tentatively.

"I'm really, actually."

Ranch paused for a second before replying, and interrupted Huberian to continue the line,

"Huberian, you don't have to worry about me."

"That'...... Can you not let me sit between you and Tata later, how about you two sitting next to each other? ”

Huberian asked again.

“…… No problem. ”

Ranch nodded.

"Why are you hesitating?"

Huberian leaned in and looked at Lanchi.

Her eyes seemed to say: Don't be hard-mouthed, just tell me frankly if you need help.

“……”

Lanchi seemed to be asleep, and did not speak for a long time.

"I know, I know, I won't embarrass you."

Huberian looked at Lanki's appearance and quickly waved his hand.

"Huberian, you're the best."

Ranch immediately smiled and thanked him.

"Don't say that......"

Hubertarian looked down at the side of the street, avoiding Lanchi's sincere gaze.

Less than a kilometer to the east, the two of them walked quickly, and saw the lively Cat Boss's restaurant near lunchtime, and there were bursts of fog wafting from the chimney.

Whenever a customer walks in, the wind chimes on the door of the store sound a pleasant ringing bell, and at the same time, the bell tower in the distance also rings the bell at twelve o'clock at noon.

The two who had no guess became talking and laughing again.

"If nothing else, we can push the door and see the tower coming down."

Ranch and Huberian approached the door, and he said to Huberian beside him, with a sense of anticipation that the door would be opened.

"Huh?"

Huberian didn't know why Ranch was so convinced.

"Tata usually goes downstairs for lunch at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and she will be hungry later."

Lanch heard the bell and knew it was time for Tata to go downstairs for dinner.

This is a conditioned reflex.

Seeing that Hubertarian was still a little unconvinced, Ranchi showed that no one knew Talia better than him in terms of professional confidence.

"There was an experiment by a biologist named Paplov, and at the beginning of the experiment, his puppy had a natural reaction to the appearance of food, which was drooling. He uses this response to present a neutral conditioned stimulus, such as a bell, to the puppy at the same time as the food appears. After many repetitive pairings, the puppy begins to associate the rattle bell with the appearance of food, and whenever he shakes the bell, the puppy drools. ”

Ranch gave Huber Ann a science talk.

"Uh-huh."

Huberian was confused when she heard this, but she felt that a dangerous word flashed on Lanch's head.

Until the two of them pushed the door open.

I saw that there was indeed a figure that had just walked down from the second floor, and Lan Qi's voice stopped abruptly, his expression became much more solemn, and his heartbeat seemed to accelerate a little in an instant.

“……”

When Talia saw the two of them, she suddenly stopped.

First of all, she was a little incredulous, she felt like Ranch was thinking about the damn thing twenty-four hours a day, twenty-five hours a day.

His expression and reaction just now seemed to have become his daily task!

Then, for some reason, Talia still echoed the words of the morning in her mind, and suddenly looked away.

She hesitated several times for a moment, as if deciding whether to continue meeting them or turn back.

Eventually, Talia went down again, pretending she didn't care.

Until I met with the two.

They didn't speak to each other, as if they were tacitly understanding, and they all sat on the bar by the window, so that they didn't have to face each other, and after they sat down, they didn't talk much.

The air between the three of them became unusually quiet.

It was as if it had gone back to the day when the three of them had twisted the twist at Wilford's house, and had just gone out for a walk in the afternoon.

"I'm going to work in the kitchen, I'll make you what you want to eat."

Boss Cat jumped onto the table from Huberlyanne's arms and said to the three of them.

He was originally the owner of this restaurant, and now he is directly the exclusive waiter and chef of three friends.

"I can do it all."

"I'm free."

Ranch and Huberian responded.

"I'm just like them."

Talia finally spoke.

"Then I'll be free to play meow!"

Boss Cat knew that something was wrong, jumped out of his seat and deftly ran towards the kitchen.

Then there was a quiet moment by the window.

“……”

Huberian looked left and right at Ranch and Tata.

Both were her dearest people, and sitting between them, she didn't know what to say at this time.

"Tata."

Ranchi opened his mouth, he felt that he had to open this mouth first, not to mention age, Tata was a girl no matter how he said it.

"I'm sorry."

Talia interrupted Ranchi.

Then he looked at him and said.

“……”

Ranch looked at Talia in surprise, as if wondering where Talia was hiding.

Will Tata take the initiative to apologize?

Huberian also looked at Taria, and she felt that Talia had a lot to say, but Talia was not good at words and did not know how to express it, so she could only use the simplest language.

"And, thank you for retrieving them in Antanas."

Talia spoke slowly, like a child just learning to speak, and thanked Lanchi.

"It's okay Tata, let's get back together."

Ranch said with a smile.

Sometimes both sides take a step back and quickly resolve the problem.

While it may take some time to completely eliminate the barriers, at least they have chosen to respond positively.

The cat boss secretly watched in the corner and nodded his head with satisfaction and relief.

Unexpectedly, the pair it pushed at the beginning, and now both sides have finally changed a little.

Suddenly, Antanas, walking through the hallway between the dining room and the kitchen, spotted the cat on the ground.

"Hey, Boss Cat, what are you doing here?"

Antanas asked, looking at the small black briquettes at his feet.

Then she followed the cat boss's line of sight and understood.

"I didn't expect them to reconcile so quickly, I thought it would be embarrassing for days."

Antanas sighed.

"Yes, meow."

The cat boss recognizes that Antanas is also a person of character.

"That's right."

Antanas bent down and picked up the cat boss and took it to the side wall of the restaurant on the first floor.

"Boss Cat, how about you take a look at this painting I bought? Planafil said it was rude, but I really think he was wrong this time, it's clearly a work of art. ”

Antanas asked, smugly, pointing to the abstract painting on the wall.

The three figures in the painting are twisted together, which makes people reverie.

"Let me see."

Boss Cat's eyes narrowed.

This morning I was in too much of a hurry to enter and go out, and I didn't come back for half a year, and the details of the restaurant changed too much, and I didn't notice that there were more paintings here.

Despite being abstract art.

But why does it feel so familiar?

"Hey, the line at the bottom looks a bit like Ranchi."

Boss Cat smiled and raised his paw to point to the painting, turning back to Antanas and saying.

"Really."

Antanas stared at it again and realized that it was quite the case.

"The one in the middle, doesn't it look like Huber Ann Meow?"

"I really feel like that, so the one on top looks like Tata?"

"Meow hahahaha, really!"

The laughter of Boss Cat and Antanas continued and spread throughout Boss Cat's restaurant.

"Anyway, where did this painting come from? I almost felt like I had seen this painting somewhere. ”

Boss Cat asked again.

"It is said that the prototype is the latest sand painting made by the United Council of the Kingdom using the star chessboard for divination, and it may be a picture that happened somewhere in the world."

Antanas also put his fingertips to his chin in confusion.

Cat Boss: "......"

Wrong......

Wrong wrong......

Suddenly, cold sweat began to break out on its forehead, and it slowly turned its head stiffly, only to see the three people by the window looking at the painting.

All three of them opened their mouths wide and their pupils trembled.

"Meow Meow Meow !!"

The boss cat was so frightened that he almost screamed, jumped out of Antanas's arms, and swooped into the back kitchen, not daring to come out again.

(End of chapter)