But just when Xiaoyu was staring at the rolling pin on the kitchen counter, as if she was planning to say something, the shop owner brought over two steaming bowls of his signature tonkotsu ramen.
"Eat it first, it won't taste good when it's cold."
Haoren didn't pay attention to Xiaoyu's gaze at first. After helping her get the tableware and setting them up, he motioned for her to eat while they were hot.
Xiaoyu nodded, followed Haoren's example, picked up a few noodles with chopsticks, blew on them, put them in his mouth and chewed them gently, then took a mouthful of thick red tonkotsu noodle soup with a spoon and tasted it carefully...
"Anthracene~um...that...Haoren...that thing called la, it's so delicious!"
The abnormal taste impact of the liquid stilbene instantly hit Xiaoyu's taste buds, causing the girl's beautiful eyes to bloom with a color of surprise.
The slender noodles exude amazing toughness and wrap around the clove uvula.
The thick noodle soup filled the warm esophagus with liquid.
The tough noodles and the fragrant red thick soup overflow the entire mouth, filled with infinite deliciousness and unusually strong taste impact mixed together.
Just like a hot spring buried deep in the earth, it was suddenly dug up and splashed in the deepest part of the throat. All the flavors mixed with the tongue in the mouth. It was really delicious!
"Is it delicious? It's just so-so. In fact, the ramen of the island country comes from the big country next door, so it is the authentic birthplace of ramen. If there is a chance..."
Haoren didn't think it was delicious, but he felt that Xiaoyu had eaten few good things. After all, ramen from Tianchao's hometown was the most authentic.
Hey, since Xiaoyu likes food, I will take her out to eat more often when I have time... If not, forget it, my wallet can't bear it.
I would like to study more on cooking techniques, and strive to be able to cook a delicious meal at home to satisfy that greedy cat!
Haoren murmured in his heart, which was completely different from the mentality of an old father who obeyed his daughter's preferences.
To be honest, he is not very good at cooking.
Before traveling through time, because I had to work and didn't live alone, I basically didn't have much time to improve my cooking skills.
Ruming happens to be free, and there is another mouth in the house, so why not come and learn how to cook.
Of course Haoren didn't know, because the decision at that moment created Yuehou's reputation as the "Aphrodisiac Chef" by Hoshino.
After Xiaoyu tasted it carefully, she didn't know what to think of, and once again fixed her eyes on something on the kitchen counter.
"Hey, Haoren, if you have that thing called a rolling pin, you can make a lot of delicious ramen?"
"Haoren, he wants to ask for that rolling pin, so let's ask for that...the gift that the dictionary says...a gift, right? Wrong, Xiaosuri said that when dating, boys will give gifts to the girls they like, so Hiren
Let me give him that gift!"
"..."
Haoren obviously didn't expect Xiaoyu to say that, and was stunned for a moment.
What date? What girl do you like?
Wait, what did that girl Xiaohori teach Xiaoyu?
Although he was complaining in his heart, he couldn't bear to refuse when he saw the longing in the big, watery eyes of the girl in front of him.
"Okay, then when they go back, go to the convenience store and buy one."
It was rare that Xiaoyu asked him for a gift, how could he refuse?
This was the first truly meaningful gift he gave Xiaoyu, but it was also... the last gift!
because……
The good times are always short-lived, everything about Xiaoyu is not lost, and Haoren who picked up the mystery will always solve the mystery one day.
And the truth behind the mystery is often cruel...
…
A week later, outside the trees in a deserted park in Hachioji Town.
"Huh...huh...I'm fine...hiss...are you okay, Xiaoyu?"
Haoren, who was hiding in the bushes, was feeling his chest rising and falling violently, gasping for air, as if he had experienced some strenuous exercise.
It would be fine if it was just that. While panting, he stretched out his legs to press the blood that was flowing out of his left leg. The severe pain made him clench his teeth and a large amount of cold sweat oozed from his forehead. It was obvious that he was injured.
Haoren was more concerned about the condition of Xiaoyu beside him than himself.
"He's fine. Haoren, my leg is bleeding a lot. Walk quickly so I can straighten my leg and show him..."
The girl next to her looks to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, two or three years older than when they first dated a week ago.
Ruming was in her prime, a girl who should have been full of vigor, but now her face was gloomy because of Haoren's injury.
While she was shutting up, she stretched out her leg to hold down Haoren's injured thigh, and a little blue flame came out of the ball of her leg.
"Fuck...!"
Haoren was startled by the flame, and Dongzhi tried to retract his injured leg, but Xiaoyu held him down.
"do not move."
She pressed the burning palm of her leg tightly against Haoren's injury.
A miraculous thing happened. Within a few breaths, Haoren's wound quickly scabbed, and then the scabs quickly fell off, and the surface of the wound recovered to its original appearance in a short period of time.
"What is that?"
"That's the power of the ninth tail, the power of self-healing."
"Ninth tail?"
A trace of doubt flashed in Haoren's eyes, and soon there was movement from the outside world, causing him to turn his attention to the outside of the trees.
Then I heard several shouts and a steady stream of footsteps coming from outside the bushes.
"Compared to that, why do those exorcists want to hunt them down..."
People from the outside world are apparently the culprits who caused Haoren's injury, and whether they are currently searching for their team of exorcists.
Haoren didn't know that they were the ones who were chasing him and Xiaoyu the most. No, perhaps he had subconsciously realized that he and Xiaoyu could never live in such peaceful harmony, so he didn't expect the accident to come so quickly.
Xiaoyu bit her east lip tightly with her teeth and said with a sad face:
"Those exorcists...should they be coming for him?"
"You're here for me, why?" Haoren tilted his head in confusion.
"Because he is not a monster, no, because he is not a dangerous existence that they regard as a thorn in their side."
"Eh? Then I..."
Haoren seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by Xiaoyu waving his leg:
"I can't make a mistake, Haoren, otherwise he would have implicated me. That matter had nothing to do with me. I'll run away first, and he will take care of that..."
"do not talk."
Haoren stretched out his legs to cover Xiaoyu's mouth, his eyes showing Ye Chang's unquestionable firmness.
"???"
"Since he rescued me and decided to take me in, he already expected that things would not be that simple. So, no matter what happens when Dong comes, they will face it together..."
Hao really scarred Xiaoyu's leg, and Xiaoyu trembled slightly.
Recalling the image of the little girl when we first met, to the graceful eighteen-year-old girl in front of me, it was like raising a daughter to such a big age. Please tell me that Haoren is wrong about Xiaoyu's lack of feelings. That is of course not allowed.
Or, he didn't know, whether it was the affection between father and daughter, or some other kind of affection...