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Chapter 1651 Research (The chicken products on the Internet are not very delicious)

Tonight, Duanmu Huai's kitchen was particularly lively.

To celebrate Kurokawa Akane moving next door, everyone planned to have a dinner party, and it was supposed to be like this...

"Ms. Akane, today is to celebrate your move in, so leave the cooking to me."

Mai Sakurajima had a smile on her face, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, and was looking at Akane Kurokawa beside her with a smile.

"Don't worry about it, Miss Mai."

At this moment, Kurokawa Akane was also wearing an apron and smiling, like a good wife and mother.

"As a neighbor, I should show my cooking skills to Xiao Ai."

"But I've been the one cooking all this time, so you don't really understand their preferences, right?"

"It's okay, I have confidence in my cooking skills! Xiao Ai and Ruby will definitely like my cooking!"

“……………………Sister, what’s going on over there?”

Sitting on the sofa, Ruby quietly looked at Duanmu Huai and asked.

"Watch your TV and don't worry about anything else. It has nothing to do with us."

Duanmu Huai sat on the sofa, reading the newspaper in his hand, as if he was oblivious to the world outside and was only focused on reading the books of sages.

"Ah, oh......"

What could Ruby say? She could only watch TV.

Thanks to this, today's dinner is very rich. Not only does Mai have potato stew, miso soup, and tempura, but also Akane's hamburger steak, fried chicken, and omelette rice...

What else can Duanmu Huai do about this?

There is only one way.

"Hey... this is why Xiao Ai's lunch today is so sumptuous."

Yanami stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a hamburger steak, and stuffed it into his mouth happily.

"Wow, it's delicious———!"

"Eat as much as you want. I can't finish it anyway."

Duanmu Huai lay on the table, looking exhausted. Ruby only ate a few bites of the dishes last night and fled back to her room on the pretext that her idol needed to maintain her figure. In fact, who among those present didn't need to maintain their figure?

As a result, Sakurajima Mai and Kurokawa Akane seemed to be competing with each other and did more than usual, so that the lunch box that Duanmu Huai brought to school today was three layers high.

It is obvious that there is only one purpose for Duanmu Huai to bring them here, and that is to hand them over to someone who can handle these things.

Well, it’s Yanami, of course.

By the way, the money that Banaijian owed Duanmu Huai was paid back in the form of lunch boxes before the summer vacation.

"Did Miss Sakurajima and Miss Kurokawa make this? I didn't expect that they can cook, and it's so delicious. Hehehe, if the boys in the class knew about this, they would be so jealous."

"Don't tell anyone."

"Of course not. These are not enough for me to eat, let alone to share with others."

“……………………These are not enough.”

Chitanda held the chopsticks and looked at the three-layer lunch box in front of her with an embarrassed look on her face.

"Kyouna-san, is it really okay for you to eat so much? Aren't you trying to lose weight?"

"of course."

Hearing Chitanda's question, Yana looked up proudly and picked up her chopsticks.

"I certainly have my reasons."

"What's the point?"

"Ms. Sakurajima and Ms. Kurokawa are both famous entertainers, right?"

"That's right."

"And they all manage their bodies very well."

"That's right."

"So, since they manage their bodies so well, it means that the food they cook will also maintain their bodies and they won't gain weight easily! QED, proof complete!"

As he spoke, Yanami picked up another rice ball and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Since they won't get fat after eating it, then neither will I!"

"……………………"

Chitanda looked at Yanami in confusion, then looked at Duanmu Huai, who spread his hands.

"If you think it makes sense, then it makes sense."

"Ah, well... then... I won't be polite..."

From this perspective, it was only a matter of time before Chitanda added weight loss to her schedule.

"By the way, how was the cultural festival? I heard it was a big hit."

Duanmu Huai asked casually while eating lunch. Originally, there was a cultural festival a few days ago, and Duanmu Huai was scheduled to attend. Later, the body swap between Sakurajima Mai and Fengbin Kazuka happened, so Duanmu Huai could only take care of this place first and ignored the cultural festival.

As for the manuscript for the club magazine, Duanmu Huai was too lazy to do it, so he just wrote a horror story about food that he had heard on a film crew before and handed it in, and then he didn't bother with it anymore.

By the time he came back after finishing the matter with Sakurajima Mai, the cultural festival had naturally ended.

After all, the cultural festival couldn't wait for Duanmu Huai, right? However, Duanmu Huai still participated in the arrangement of the cultural festival, because there were only three people in the Classics Department, and Yanami had to take care of the class's cultural performance on that day. It can be said that only Chitanda would stay in the activity room of the Classics Department that day, so after discussing it, the three decided to transform the Classics Department's room into a place similar to a lounge. After all, there will definitely be a lot of people visiting on the day of the cultural festival, and they will also need to find a place to rest when they are tired.

Then we can just turn the Classics Club into a lounge, where these people can rest and enjoy delicious food while appreciating their research on food and classical literature. In this way, Chitanda won't have to do anything and will just be responsible for the cashier and selling the club magazine.

Most of the work of arranging the department room was done by Duanmu Huai, after all, he was very strong, while it was Yanami and Chitanda's job to arrange the research reports and post them on the wall.

"Humph."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, Banai proudly puffed out his chest and raised his head.

"very successful!"

"Oh?"

Next, with the detailed explanation from Banami, Duanmu Huai also learned about what happened that day.

It was basically as they expected. Many parents brought their children to use the Classics Department's room as a lounge. After all, there were free refreshments, and the various delicacies had corresponding classical stories. Not only that, the research reports on the wall also noted the stores. This made the parents very interested. They even asked Chitanda about it. After learning that these were all stores they had visited and researched in person, they were also very interested in some of them. They took photos and planned to go there to try them out in the future.

As for the club magazines, they were sold out completely, and the Classics Department was ranked in the top five on the cultural festival questionnaire. Even the teachers praised them highly, so they can be considered very successful.

"So, I think we can start thinking about the next club activities!"

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"Do you have any opinion?"

Yanaijian had obviously gained confidence from the success of this cultural festival and was very proud of himself. Duanmu Huai was eating the omelette rice made by Kurokawa Akane himself and asked at the same time.

"Hehehe, this time, I discussed with Eru and we decided that our next research topic is—— ...

"A strange story? Why?"

This topic is not strange, but it is strange that Yanami brought it up. Based on Duanmu Huai's understanding of Yanami, she is not someone who is interested in ghost stories.

"It's very simple."

"Well, you said."

Duanmu Huai put down his teacup and decided to listen to Banaijian's long talk.

"After reading the manuscript submitted by Xiao Ai, it occurred to me that there are actually a lot of ghost stories in classical literature, right?"

"That's right."

Just like China has Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Japan also has many similar ancient ghost stories.

"For example, Lafcadio Hearn's raccoon dog, even I know it."

"Well, it's a household name."

Lafcadio Hearn's story is indeed a well-known Japanese story. It is about a merchant in ancient times who was returning home late at night and saw a woman squatting on the road crying, as if she was going to commit suicide by jumping into the river. He approached her with concern and asked her about it. When the woman turned around, the merchant was surprised to find that her face had no facial features, and was as smooth as an egg. He ran away in fear, and then he met a small stall selling soba noodles in front of him. The merchant rushed over and told the stall owner what he had just encountered. As a result, the stall owner said, "Does the woman you are talking about look like this?" Then the merchant looked up and saw that the stall owner in front of him also had an egg-shaped face without facial features, and then he fainted from fear.

This story has no beginning or end, and ends just like that, but in the final analysis it is about a monster called raccoon, which can transform into a human form to play tricks on others. The raccoon's true form is a creature with no facial features and a face shaped like an oval.

"Then I was thinking, how delicious is that little stall selling soba noodles in Heli? Why doesn't it sell anything else but soba noodles?"

"…………………"

Well, this is very common.

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai obviously understood what Banaijian meant.

"So you're saying you want to investigate the food in the ghost stories?"

"That's right!"

Yanami picked up the last piece of tempura and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Ghost stories are all scary stories, so what does it have to do with the food in them? Look, there are also legends abroad that vampires are afraid of garlic. I think this is worth investigating and researching."

As for Yanami, she has no problem chewing garlic, let alone green peppers.

Yanami's parents really raised her to be a healthy child.

Duanmu Huai discovered that as long as Yanami was related to food, his IQ would increase exponentially.

Although strictly speaking, this is completely meaningless, just like asking you to explain the meaning of "the cold light in the eyes of fish" in the college entrance examination.

But for Yanami, as long as there is food to eat, she is not picky at all.

Look, she has started eating the third box at the bottom.

This does not include the bento that Yanami brought with him.

"I don't care, what about Chitanda?"

Duanmu Huai really doesn't care. Classical literature is just that. The ancients wrote whatever they wanted and we interpret whatever we want. Who cares if Li Bai wrote "The waterfall falls three thousand feet straight down, I wonder if it's the Milky Way falling from the sky" when he was drunk and went to the toilet?

“I think this is interesting too!”

Chitanda's eyes were also shining at this moment. Although it had not reached the point of "I'm very curious", it seemed that it had indeed aroused her interest.

In fact, Duanmu Huai was also quite interested in it. Only Yanaijian could come up with the idea of ​​finding food from ghost stories. Others probably couldn't think of it even if they racked their brains.

Once this is done, maybe it can be used as a plan for a variety show.

Duanmu Huai felt that if Banaijian went to college in the future, he would definitely study food.

"Then it's settled."

Duanmu Huai finished the last bite of omelette rice.

"The next research topic of the Classics Department is ghost stories and food."

"Okay! Ah, can I have that rice ball over there?"

"take it."