When Xia Zhi left, he held a few cookies in his hand as an extra bonus and left with a "good-natured" laughter. Apparently, this "good-natured" laughter made the thin-skinned Shiraishi Lika happy.
Face flushed, Natsuchi slipped out of the classroom before Yamamoto Ryoko could make the next move.
Xia Zhi felt that the speed at which he slipped out of the classroom had once again exceeded the limit.
The time now is close to 4:30 in the afternoon. If we go back now, we can start buying something for Tachibana Aya to cook. After she finishes eating, she can clean up a little and then go to the store manager's house for dinner. The time seems to be about the same.
, but she probably ate this meal a little early.
Anyway, she should find some snacks or something to eat at night, as long as she is not hungry. Xia Zhi is not too worried about this aspect. All he needs to consider is the cooking he needs to make. Originally, the two of them
Three dishes and one soup are actually quite good, but now she is the only one eating, and she probably can't finish all the food, so I won't make so much this time.
Cooking some rice, one meat and one vegetable should be enough. She doesn't like soup very much, so she doesn't need to prepare it now. When she buys ingredients later, she can just buy her juice or something. Think about it this way.
In fact, Tachibana Aya is really easy to spend.
Food, food, food...
Xia Zhi thought about it and decided that it would be better to go to a more formal supermarket to buy ingredients.
Strictly speaking, the ingredients sold in convenience stores are not easy to say, or the fact that convenience stores sell ingredients is a strange thing, but Xia Zhi didn't pay special attention to it, just like some tobacco shops also sell them.
The same goes for drinks, Xia Zhi just thinks of it as a part-time job in a convenience store. Anyway, the prices are clearly marked, and there are no lack of safety signs. I usually just buy it if I want to be lazy.
But this thing is very strange...even in Japan, it is very strange. The places where gods fighting for half-price bentos fight are not convenience stores but supermarkets. At most, convenience stores only sell ready-made bentos, rice balls and the like.
There may be some sellers of ingredients, but there are definitely not many. Probably because there is no supermarket nearby. In order to seize the opportunity, the manager of the convenience store suddenly came up with a whim...
All in all, Xia Zhi decided to take a long detour, go to a nearby supermarket, and check out the map after a long time. Xia Zhi successfully found a decent-looking restaurant after walking in the opposite direction of the apartment for five or six minutes.
I went into the supermarket and walked around, and bought everything I wanted to buy. Sure enough, a supermarket like this is much better than a convenience store in terms of scale and variety and quantity of goods.
But the supermarket and shopping mall that Xia Zhi knew were far away from the apartment where he lived, so this map was basically meaningless. With a bag of things, Xia Zhi walked in the direction of the apartment.
With.
It took me some time to walk from the supermarket to the apartment. The time was already close to five o'clock in the afternoon. Everything was as planned. I cooked the rice first and then started cooking, because there were not many things to do, Xia Zhi
Handling ingredients is very leisurely.
It doesn't take much time to cook for just one person. After finishing the ingredients, Natsuki picked up the phone and prepared to call Tachibana Aya. Now call her and ask her to come over. The food will be almost ready when she arrives.
.
After pressing the dial button and placing the phone against his ear, a beeping sound came from the phone. It continued to ring after a few seconds. It wasted a full minute of Xia Zhi's time and the call was not connected.
She's not here? Why is she there?
Xia Zhi tried to call again, but still didn't get through.
This is not normal.
In the past six months, although I haven't called Tachibana Aya often because the other party usually calls me, I have never been unable to get through when I call the other party. People like Tachibana Aya,
It is impossible to forget the mobile phone. She must bring it whenever she goes out, otherwise she may die of boredom.
Her mobile phone can make calls, but she herself cannot, which is abnormal.
Natsuki thought of someone's behavior this morning and became a little worried. They are also people living alone, so they naturally have some understanding of the crises that living alone requires. Natsuki was thinking about Tachibana Aya's death due to illness.
There is a possibility. Even if she usually looks like a psychopath, as long as she is still a human being, she will be entangled with the pain, not to mention that her mental condition today does not seem to be very good.
Xia Zhi put her cell phone on the kitchen table and continued cooking. If she could call back, everything would be fine. If she didn't call back... Xia Zhi felt that she had to go over and have a look. After spending a long time with her pet, she still has some affection.
What's more, it's a real person who has been playing together for so long.
Things didn't go well. Even after Xia Zhi finished cooking, his phone didn't light up. It seemed like he had to go and have a look. He was such a troublesome guy.
However, we can't just leave the food here...should we take it with us? How to bring it is also a question.
Although there is a lunch box, there is only one Natsuchi from a poor family, and they are not from a wealthy family. Today they use white, and tomorrow they use blue. But the next three days are school festivals, so if you want to eat
You can buy food at school, or you can be more cheeky and ask Lihua directly for some humanitarian aid. It would be better to say this. The lunch box is of little significance in these three days.
Forget it, just use this, no big deal...
Xia Zhi took out his lunch box and started to put food in it, and regretted that he had put a dish on the plate in advance. There was an extra tableware to wash for no reason. Because there was only enough for one person, Xia Zhi pressed
My usual portion is just enough to fit in, and the lunch box is also full.
He put the dishes and other things into the sink, put some water on them to soak them, and stopped washing them now. He would wait until he came back after dinner in the evening. Xia Zhi took his mobile phone and lunch box and walked out.
Walking towards Tachibana Aya's house.
Having walked the road countless times, Xia Zhi became extremely familiar with it. As he walked, he counted and kept the time accurately within minutes. He was so skilled that he felt that there was something wrong with this world. Xia Zhi
I saw the high-end apartment where Tachibana Aya was staying. I was lucky. Tachibana Aya's room was at the front of the apartment. It was winter now, and it was getting a little dark even before six o'clock. Natsuki could see that Tachibana Aya's room was in front of the apartment.
bright light in colorful room.
It seems that she should be at home. Xia Zhi hopes that she has woken up.
Xia Zhi walked downstairs to the apartment. Fortunately, he remembered Tachibana Aya's room number out of resentment, otherwise Xia Zhi wouldn't have known how to let Tachibana Aya let him go.
After making a call to Tachibana Aya's room, Xia Zhi waited. After about ten seconds, the call was connected: "Hello?"
Her voice was full of doubts.
"It's me, open the door."
"...Does anyone still use such an old-fashioned fraud method? Please use a smarter method. Now even the elderly in their 50s and 60s will not be deceived by such low-level deceptions."
"Why are you already an old man at the age of fifty or sixty? Hurry up and apologize to the people in their fifties and sixties all over the world. Besides, if you don't open the door for me, your dinner today will be gone."
"...Xia Zhi? Why are you here?"
"Nonsense, if you don't answer the phone, then I'll be the only one here?"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute."
Tachibana Aya's voice disappeared, but the call was not hung up. She probably went to check her phone. After waiting for a while, Xia Zhi found that her cell phone was ringing. She picked it up and saw that the caller was... Tachibana Aya.
.The corners of his eyes twitched and he answered the phone.
"Is there something wrong with you? If you have anything to do, just say no there. Why do you need to call me?"
"Hey, hey, I just want to make sure. Living alone always brings worries of one kind or another. If it's a fraud or a robber who breaks into a house, wouldn't I be in danger?"
"Stop talking nonsense and let me go up."
Xia Zhi hung up the phone and waited for a few seconds. After waiting for a few seconds, the electronic lock was opened. Xia Zhi opened the door and walked in. He walked towards the elevator. As for walking up the stairs, Xia Zhi didn't have that good physical strength yet.
Don't want to leave either.
Natsuki took the elevator to the floor where Tachibana Aya's house was located. According to the location of her home in her memory, Natsuki pressed the doorbell. Tachibana Aya's voice came through the thick door: "Wait, wait a minute.
!”
Not knowing what she wanted to do, Xia Zhi waited outside the door. About a minute later, the steaming Tachibana Aya opened the entrance door. Well, it was steaming.
She was wearing light clothes, her hair was wet, and her whole body was steaming. She had probably just finished taking a shower.
"I was taking a shower just now. I didn't expect you to come over." She stepped aside and let Xia Zhi go in.
Were you taking a shower just now?
"You...were you not...when you answered the phone just now..."
"Well, it's basically what you thought. Are you excited?" She gently pulled back the hair that was hanging in front of her forehead with her hands. This was a very standard sultry gesture, but Xia Zhi didn't do it at all now.
That's where I'm thinking.
She was once again confused by this insane operation.
"The temperature is not high now, but you are still acting like this. What should I do if I get sick?"
"..."
Tachibana Aya felt that she had a lot to say, but she couldn't say anything. She didn't know how to say it, and racked her brains, thinking: "Just be a human being."
???
"In this case, can't you focus on something normal?"
"Isn't this normal? You have to catch a cold, right?" Xia Zhi glared at her and pointed at the steaming bathroom: "Go, blow dry your hair and put on more clothes.
The temperature of the air conditioner is set so high, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is so big, you can’t even go out.”
Looking past Tachibana Aya, Natsuki placed the lunch box on the table, found the remote control of the air conditioner on the bedside table, and lowered the temperature of the air conditioner by four degrees. By the way, he also saw Kona messily thrown on the bed.
Xia Zhi felt that he had no obsessive-compulsive disorder when he saw the clothes earlier, but he was about to be forced out by Tachibana Aya.
However, Natsuki wasn't bold enough to help her put away her clothes. She could only put these things away after Tachibana Aya dried her hair. The laptop was placed on the bed. Although the screen was turned off, the power was not turned off. It was probably around the afternoon.
It has been in use all this time.
Don't put your laptop directly on the bed when you use it! The heat dissipation vents are blocked.
And the pile of books that had not been seen for a long time, neatly stacked together in a corner of this space, had become very scattered. Probably someone did not rearrange them when they found the information they wanted.
Finished the habit. Natsuki looked at the pile of books, took a deep breath, and turned to look at Aya Tachibana who was still standing there. Feeling Natsuki's gaze, Aya Tachibana didn't have time to speak before Natsuki.
I jumped into the bathroom. After a while, the sound of the hair dryer started ringing.
Xia Zhi couldn't do anything to her. She felt uncomfortable looking at these things placed in a mess, so she started to sort them out. There were too many types of books, and Xia Zhi couldn't see any inner connection, so she put them together
Books of the same category were stacked together and put back for her. It was really uncomfortable, and Xia Zhi felt that he should force her to buy a bookshelf.
Because there was no need to think about how to sort the books, Xia Zhi quickly finished cleaning up. Then he saw the empty area that should be regarded as the kitchen. The refrigerator may be used frequently, so this area is relatively tidy, but the area next to it is related to the kitchen.
The entire area was littered with a bunch of figurines that looked like they were worth a lot of money. I looked somewhere else and saw that the cabinets originally used to store the figurines had been filled to the brim at some point.
Xia Zhi felt like vomiting out blood.
After blow-drying her hair, Tachibana Aya walked out of the bathroom and stood in the corner to peek. She was noticed by Xia Zhi in an instant.
"Go find some clothes and put them on, and then tidy up the clothes on your bed. Don't put the computer directly on the bed. Also, when did you buy so many of your figurines?"
"During the Chinese New Year, I bought it as soon as I was happy..."
"Don't you think about whether there is a place in your home where you can put these figures? If you buy another one before you find a place to put it, you will be dead."
"Protest! I think buying figures is my freedom!"
"Protest is useless. Go find something to wear."
"...Bad guy!"
Tachibana Aya muttered and went to the closet to look through clothes. Natsuki rearranged the figures that Tachibana Aya had placed in a mess. Although it was a bit crowded, all the figures were put on the cabinet for the time being. Natsuchi said
I just started cleaning the kitchen. This place has been used so infrequently that it already has a thin layer of dust.
Tachibana Aya is not the type to live a good life alone at all.