I just want to live in peace, I refuse to fall in love

Chapter 10 Small Town Love Story
"I didn't expect that Shirakawa not only has excellent grades, but also cooks so deliciously!" Nagata Chinatsu stared at the scrambled eggs on the plate, almost salivating.

"I made it casually. I don't know if it suits your taste. Just don't mind it." Shirakawa Kazuya pushed the plate in front of Nagata Chinatsu.

Nagata Chinatsu took a big piece and put it in her mouth, "It's so hot, wow, so delicious! It smells like milk. I didn't expect that just ordinary scrambled eggs could be so delicious! You are so awesome!" She couldn't stop using her chopsticks for a while. .

"Just eat if you like." Shirakawa Kazuya smiled.He also took a piece and tasted it, and found that the taste was indeed good, much higher than his original standard.

He was previously worried that he was not good at this skill, and worried that Nagata Chinatsu wouldn't be able to endure it for so long. Thinking that he had the skill of egg proficiency, he just made a plate of scrambled eggs.

He was originally worried that Nagata Chinatsu would dislike his cooking for being too simple, but now he was finally relieved. After all, the taste was passable.

Seeing Chinatsu Nagata eating so hard that her little mouth couldn't rest, and the white and tender melon seeds were stained with ketchup on her face, Shirakawa Kazuya burst into laughter. "Eat slowly, Nagata-san, if it's not enough, there's still some in the pot."

"It's delicious, it's delicious. It's much better than my mother's craftsmanship! Shirakawa, you are hiding something!" Nagata Qianxia patted Shirakawa Kazuya on the shoulder with a satisfied face.

She had long since taken off her disguise at home and chatted happily with Shirakawa Kazuya, almost calling her brothers.

"If your mother hears this, she will beat you up again. Besides, your mother is the floor manager of a catering giant group, so she should be considered a chef. Her skills cannot be worse than mine." Shirakawa He also slowly took a mouthful of noodles and joked.

"She is mainly responsible for the overall management of the catering department, as well as the communication and coordination between the kitchen and the floor. She is not directly a chef. Although her skills are indeed not bad, I think it may be due to the ingredients themselves. It's delicious. But you are different, you give these eggs a delicious soul!" Nagata Chinatsu took a big mouthful of noodles and said while chewing.

Then she sighed again, "There seems to be some meeting at the headquarters recently, and she went to Tokyo on a business trip. The food I cook is not delicious, so I can only eat out every day, or buy some bento bread or something to satisfy my hunger. She’s so busy!”

"After all, you are paying for this family. Doesn't your mother work hard so that you can live a better life? You must also study hard and work hard to get into a good university. You must not let down your mother's hopes." Bai Chuanhe He also expressed relief and brought the topic to study.

"I don't think I'm that smart at all, and I don't really want to go to university. It's better to open a bakery, convenience store, or izakaya in Fukuoka in the future, but my mother disagrees and sends me to class A forcibly. I study It’s always been very difficult for me, but recently I always want to go to the game arcade after school. I feel like I’m not the right person to study at all.”

Nagata Chinatsu felt a little depressed when she talked about sad things.But the movements in his mouth did not stop, and he was still moving the chopsticks.

"It's still early, Nagata-san. As the old saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, and the second best time is now. If you work hard from now on, everything will be within time!"

Shirakawa Kazuya stared at Nagata Chinatsu's somewhat depressed face and could only comfort her like this.

Nagata Chinatsu didn't know what she thought of. The chopsticks in her hand slowly stopped and she stared at the bowl in her hand, her eyes somewhat losing focus.She suddenly became quiet and returned to her quiet and obedient appearance.

"Shirakawa-kun, do you have a dream?" She lowered her head and had no expression on her face.

"Dream? Go to a good university and then start a business or join a big company or something." Shirakawa Kazuya thought for a moment.

"What about when you were a kid? Did Shirakawa Kazuya have any dreams when he was still in kindergarten or elementary school?"

Without waiting for Shirakawa Kazuya to answer, Nagata Chinatsu continued in a strangely calm voice, "When I was very young, my home was not in Fukuoka City. My mother had not yet worked for a restaurant group here. The manager is just an ordinary low-level employee. My father inherited his father's business and opened a small izakaya in Tailiang Town, which seems to be a good match." She smiled with her lips raised, but her eyes were still unfocused.

"So under the influence of such a family environment, I thought at that time that I would open a small restaurant and be a chef in the future. Whether it was selling roasted birds or making bento boxes, I didn't care. I just wanted to be a chef. Chef. Or maybe I didn’t really want to be a chef. At that time, I just thought that my dad looked very handsome when he picked up the spatula, and my mother and I would laugh very happily watching him cook."

"Later, my mother got promoted and was about to be transferred to Fukuoka City. My father also thought about closing the shop and starting a new business in Fukuoka City. But my mother disagreed, saying that it was the ancestral legacy left to him by his father. If the house is sold, his father will definitely be very angry. But my father just told my mother not to worry, saying that he would find a solution, saying that he was worried about letting my mother rent a house in Fukuoka by herself, and said that he was not willing to let our family separate."

"Grandpa is an old-fashioned person. He has never been out of Tailiang Town in more than 60 years, so he was naturally furious. My dad and grandpa argued hard, and in the end they were slapped twice and refused to admit it. After returning home, they said that they accidentally fell down on the road. My face was swollen from the fall. I don’t believe that anyone could fall and turn themselves into a pig’s head!”

There was more smile in Nagata Chinatsu's eyes, as if she was remembering the funny look of his father at that time.

"In the end, my grandfather did not agree to close the store, but my father still moved our family to Fukuoka. At that time, we had no money, and the cost of big cities was very high, so we could only rent a small house in the basement to live in. My mother worked in a new company It was very hard and stressful. My father also found a job as a chef and he left early and came home late. So I was often the only one left at home."

"I didn't know anyone at school, and I didn't have many friends. When I came back from school every day, I would stay in the empty basement. The room was very dark, and I was alone. I was very scared, so I just played house by myself. Pretend to be like there are many people at home.”

Listening to Nagata Chinatsu's story, Shirakawa Kazuya fell silent.But Chinatsu Nagata didn't notice, still immersed in her own story.

"Sometimes I play dad, showing off around the house with a spatula, pretending to make a super delicious egg fried rice, and transforming into an egg fried rice fairy. Sometimes I play mom, sitting on the sofa knitting a sweater and singing Children's songs coax the baby to sleep. Sometimes I even play grandpa, sitting motionless like a statue, occasionally making a loud coughing sound. But I rarely play myself."

Nagata Chinatsu's eyes were bright black, and Shirakawa Kazuya stared into her eyes, as if he saw a dark lake.

"But I rarely play myself because I feel very lonely. But I am not always so lonely. My parents will come home at night, and the house will become very bright and lively again. Things may be getting better slowly, In the next few years, my mother’s job went very smoothly and she kept getting promoted. My father also spent more time at home. I was very happy and felt that everything was slowly getting better.”

"But later, my father had another woman outside. One night, that woman came to the house in front of my mother and I. It turned out that she and my father had known each other in Tailiang Town. Later, not long after, my father and mother Then they separated. My father seemed to have returned to Taro Town and re-established my grandfather’s izakaya. My mother and I moved into the big house now. But my mother was very busy and had to go on business trips every now and then, so she rarely cared about me. He also failed to see through my pretending to be a quiet and good girl while playing house."

"Just like that, our family got separated."

The dark lake in her eyes was filled with mist.

"I came to the big city and saw the Eagle City Fukuoka Dome, Uminakamichi Ocean World, the American-style Canal City, and the "Space World" theme park that depicts the appearance of future cities in the universe and on the earth. The big cities Life is wonderful.”

"But I occasionally think of a shabby, cramped, insignificant kitchen in my dreams."

Nagata Chinatsu trembled slightly and shed a tear.

"In such a small kitchen, I feel happy."

　I will work hard, don't give up on me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)