While Natsuki and the store manager were making preparations, Mayumi Maeda opened the door and walked in. The first thing she did after entering was to look around blankly for two or three seconds, and then she exclaimed "Wow".
Although as a member of the store staff, Mayumi has already known that today is Xiaoyao's birthday, and in the plan, Mayumi will also contribute in the decoration process, such as some decorations, but now it seems
Having been taken care of by the store manager, she could only sigh as she looked at the work that was supposed to be done by herself.
"Good afternoon." Xia Zhi raised his head and glanced at who the visitor was, and then continued to lower his head to prepare the meat filling. Because he didn't know how many guests would come in the future, and it would be embarrassing if he made too many dumplings and couldn't finish them.
There is also Xia Zhizai here who is relatively skilled in making dumplings. It is a better choice to make them freshly cooked and eaten now.
The store manager on the side is already very skilled at rolling out the dumpling wrappers. If Xia Zhi prepares a little meat filling, there will be no problem. A little more meat filling will not be a problem. At worst, it will be processed and fried directly as meat patties.
It's okay to throw it away. After all, as far as Xia Zhi is concerned, meat is more precious than other common ingredients, so the processing methods that Xia Zhi knows are more valuable because of its higher value. This is actually unreasonable...
But if you think about it carefully, there are a lot of unreasonable things in this world, so this doesn't seem to be surprising.
"Oh, Mayumi-chan is here. Sorry, I finished what you were supposed to do." The store manager patted his forehead in embarrassment, leaving a white mark. And Xia Zhi was also because of the store manager's words.
It was so embarrassing. If someone was willing to help him get things done, Xia Zhi would definitely be happy for him.
"No, it would be easier if I didn't have to do it. To be honest, I felt a little pressed for time before, so I hurried over from school right after class today. It's impossible for Tachibana-senpai to be faster than me this time, right?
"The last sentence was said to Xia Zhi. She seemed to have a certain resentment about seeing Tachibana Aya here every time after school.
But she was still disappointed after all. The store manager laughed loudly, and then pointed with his hand to where Tachibana Ayai was. Mayumi looked there in confusion, and then her whole body stiffened.
"Why, why? I took a shortcut and ran here right after school..."
"Although I don't know how close the shortcut you mentioned is, Tachibana Ayai was already squatting outside my school before school time, so you are still not as fast as her this time." Xia Zhi shrugged: "
You can try again next time."
Then, Natsuki discovered something very strange. When Natsuki came to the coffee shop this time, he and Tachibana Aya were delayed for a while while choosing birthday gifts in the bookstore, and then they went to the coffee shop again.
Come, so Xia Zhi came here a little later than usual today.
But even so, Mayumi took a shortcut from Yukako and came a lot later than Natsuki and Tachibana Aya. Because she didn't pay much attention to it, she didn't know whether the shortcut Mayumi mentioned was a long way or a real shortcut, but
She said she came here on the run today, so she probably came earlier than usual.
During this period of time, when Natsuki arrived at the coffee shop, Tachibana Aya was already waiting there, so Tachibana Aya was actually faster than Natsuki.
Xia Zhi once studied how to go faster between his home, school and coffee shop, which is now directly from school to coffee shop, but his apartment. If he goes through the apartment, it will take about three or four minutes at night, although it is not much.
, but why go so far? And there is no need to go back to the apartment to change clothes or something, the work uniforms are all in the coffee shop, which is very convenient.
The current order of time from fastest to slowest should be Tachibana Aya, then Natsuki, then Mayumi.
But this is unreasonable. Mayumi and Tachibana Aya are from the same school. Logically speaking, they should arrive at the coffee shop at about the same time. Although Tachibana Aya slipped out of class early today and squatted outside Natsuki School, but usually
She shouldn't be so much faster than Mayumi.
So Tachibana Aya actually has an arbitrary door, which can quickly travel between two places that are very far apart.
A child of a plane is still a child of a plane. It is a bit unreasonable to cheat in a place like this. But it is very normal for a child of a plane to cheat. If she suddenly runs as fast as the Flash, Xia Zhi will probably
I won’t be too surprised. The so-called ability of the son of the plane is hidden in Japan, where people with super powers are everywhere. It feels like a big man hiding in the city, which is wonderful.
Tachibana Aya, who was holding a cup to keep warm, looked towards the three of them with awareness. When she saw Mayumi Maeda, she waved to her and said hello. Mayumi was very angry and twitched the corner of her mouth.
But her good upbringing forced her to wave to Tachibana Aya to say hello, and then went to the staff room to change clothes.
"Oh, right." Mayumi had just taken two steps when she suddenly remembered something. She opened her schoolbag and touched inside, and took out a beautifully packaged small box: "This is a birthday gift for Xiaoyao. Let's start with it."
Put it under the counter. It's not big anyway, so it can be easily taken out when the time comes."
The store manager reached out to take the small gift box and said with a smile: "It doesn't cost so much, but I think Xiaoyao is very happy that you can come." For some reason, Xia Zhi saw something very familiar in the store manager.
This figure is not someone he knows here, but a behavior he is very familiar with. He has seen it many times...
This reminded Xia Zhi of his own festivals when he was a child. When others came to visit, they brought gifts. His parents said, "No, no, no, you can take them back." Then they kept the gifts that others brought.
Come down. Although I will definitely bring similar gifts to the other party's house in the future to engage in a similar drama, this kind of disguised behavior of being consumed once made Xia Zhi puzzled and didn't know its meaning.
What is.
Now, Xia Zhi still doesn't know its meaning, but he already understands that this is a very common social behavior, so he probably won't have any prejudice against it. However, Xia Zhi really didn't expect that he would actually
Xia Zhi was slightly surprised when he saw such a familiar gift-giving pattern on the other side of the sea.
Of course, there is nothing else to be surprised about.
Mayumi was stunned for a moment because of the inconsistent behavior of the store manager, then rolled her eyes and walked towards the employee room.
Natsuki and the store manager still had preparation work to do, but Mayumi didn't know what to do. The decoration work she was supposed to do had already been done by the store manager, and the other cleaning work was supposed to be done by Natsuki, but
After he came, he didn't want to be a salty fish, so he rushed to do it with Xia Zhi. If Xia Zhi hadn't finished it when he came, then he would take over the remaining cleaning work.
But she came so late, and Natsuki and the store manager were doing other things, so the cleaning work was naturally done. Feeling like she had nothing to do, Mayumi went to play with Tachibana Aya. If there was anything else she wanted
When it comes to things to do, Mayumi would not be lazy and have fun, but now that there is nothing to do by herself, Mayumi will not just look for things to add to herself, because not only is it uneconomical, but the more she does, the more she will appear.
The more mistakes she makes, the more mistakes she makes. She doesn't want this to happen.
The finishing touch and the superfluous are two different concepts.
It’s almost time to open the shop. The people who come to the coffee shop are basically regular customers, or new customers who come with regular customers, and most of them come at a fixed time. They are all those who come home from school on weekdays or go home from work.
Come and sit down on the way and have a cup of coffee or something.
And now it's almost time for the first regular customer to arrive.
With the sound of wind chimes that came to mind as he pushed the door open, a man who looked like an uncle appeared in front of the coffee shop. This was a regular customer that Xia Zhi was already very familiar with, Uncle Nakamura.
"Hey...what happened today?" Uncle Nakamura asked the store manager, surprised by the decoration in the store.
"Today is my daughter's birthday, are you ready for your birthday gift?"
Uncle Nakamura was stunned for a moment, then glared at the store manager: "You didn't tell me such an important thing earlier! I don't have anything with me except money for two cups of coffee."
"It's okay, it's okay. You can run home now to get the money and bring a birthday gift. It's only four o'clock in the afternoon anyway."
The store manager's suggestion only drew another glare from Uncle Nakamura, who then expressed his sorrow. I used to see that lively and cute little girl when I came to drink coffee, and Nakamura Daiki himself liked her quite a bit, but today
She celebrated her birthday without bringing any birthday gifts. Would Xiaoyao be unhappy?
So all this is caused by the bastard store manager!
Natsuki looked at Daiki Nakamura, who was staring at the store manager without turning his head, looking eager to punch him. After thinking about it, he raised his head and asked the store manager: "I remember what happened in the employee room?"
There seems to be colored paper? It’s just the stack that Xiaoyao forgot to bring back when he came to play a few times.”
"Yes, Xiaoyao almost forgot about it. I thought I might need it someday so I kept it. Anyway, there are still a lot of useless colored papers at home."
"That's just right," Xia Zhi turned to look at Nakamura Daiki: "Nakamura Daiki, can you make origami cranes?"
"Yes, oh... I see." Nakamura Daiki quickly understood what Xia Zhi wanted to express: "Asshole Murakami, hurry up and bring the colored paper."
"How can I walk now?" The store manager raised his white hand.
"Mayumi!" Natsuki called out to Mayumi who was chatting happily with Aya Tachibana.
"What's wrong?"
"Help me take out the colored paper in the staff room. There is also a paper knife."
"Oh." Mayumi pulled away from the conversation, and Tachibana Aya looked at Natsuki dissatisfied, as if he had disturbed the conversation between the two people who were having a great conversation. Natsuki had long since stopped talking about such a trivial matter.
It fluctuated.
Later, Uncle Nakamura folded the paper cranes, and Tachibana Aya and Mayumi, who felt they had nothing to do, also joined the origami team.