Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 221

There are only scattered pedestrians on the street, and there are probably not even two real guests out of ten people, most of them are passing by in a hurry.Of course, this excludes Natsuchi and Tachibana Aya, two people who can be regarded as real guests in a sense, although they really don't look alike in terms of age.

The shops are all distributed in a straight line along the street. If you walk from here to the end and then turn back, you should be able to visit all the furniture stores.Xia Zhi also planned this. If he could find something he particularly liked on the way, he could save some time, but if he wanted to buy it, he still hoped to buy something with better quality. After all, the price of this kind of thing would definitely not be that cheap.

In fact, strictly speaking, a kotatsu is just a combination of a quilt and a low table. If there is a low table and extra quilts, it can be used if the requirements are not so high. However, Xia Zhi's family does not have a low table. There are no extra quilts, three... just piled together in such a simple way is not very convenient to use, so it is better to buy one.

Tachibana Aya looked around curiously. Unfortunately, the products that could be placed in front of the glass window did not include kotatsu. The area occupied by that thing was really large enough to be worth it.So I can only go into the store to see.

After passing the two garishly decorated stores, Xia Zhi saw the first store with a relatively simple and classic style. Judging from the products displayed in the glass windows, it should be a store that tends to sell wooden furniture.Not knowing if there was one, Xia Zhi decided to go in and take a look.I looked back and saw that Tachibana Aya had wandered off to nowhere for about half a minute...

Forget it, leave her alone.

Xia Zhi decided to go in alone to take a look first, and opened the door. It had the same wind chime design as the coffee shop, and a tinkling sound rang out in the originally empty shop.The middle-aged man who was sitting at the counter, who must be the boss, looked away from his mobile phone and saw Xia Zhi pushing in the door.

"welcome!"

He stood up suddenly, as if he was frightened. Instead, Xia Zhi was startled, and he hesitated whether to exit from the door.The middle-aged man walked up to Xia Zhi. Although he looked out the door with a hint of doubt on his face, probably wanting to find the "real guest", he still asked politely: "Excuse me, who are you?" Alone? What do you need?"

"Uh... I guess I'm alone. I want to buy a kotatsu, do you have one here?" Xia Zhi answered his question step by step.

"Kotatsu..." The middle-aged man scratched his hair: "It's almost the time. But we don't have it in stock now because the store is relatively small. If you need a kotatsu, you need to order it. You can mention it If you ask, I can calculate the approximate price for you and then order it. But it may take two to three days."

"Really?" Xia Zhi bit his thumb and started thinking.

Being a day or two late is not a problem, it is not a problem for me, but considering Tachibana Aya's attitude, she should take the kotatsu directly back today.And if you make a custom order, you can only passively accept the finished product. If there are any problems, it will be more troublesome. Even if you want to return it... Whether the customized product can be returned is a question.

This matter needs to be considered again.

"No need for now, I'll go look around again." Xia Zhi refused.

"Okay. If you want to buy a finished kotatsu directly, I recommend you to go to a larger store like the one opposite, because the kotatsu takes up a lot of space. In a small store, if it is not the season, there will be ready-made kotatsu. There should be less furnaces. Of course, if you still want to customize it, you can call me. This is the business card of our store. Although the price may be a bit more expensive, if used properly, I can guarantee that it can be used for three years. above."

While the other party explained it thoughtfully, he placed three or four business cards in Xia Zhi's hand, who was dumbfounded.Xia Zhi also understands what it means - even if you don't buy it, others may buy it, and all he needs is to spread the information about his store to increase the possibility of being selected.Even if it was thrown away by Xia Zhi, it would only be a very minor loss.

After staying in the store for about a minute, Xia Zhi walked out again.Although there is no substantial gain, it is quite good to get useful information.As for the business card...if you want to throw it away, you can't throw it here. It's too disrespectful.

Natsuki stood there and looked at the shop opposite that looked like "a big family and a big business". Just as he was about to go and take a look, Tachibana Aya, who had gone to nowhere, suddenly appeared out of nowhere and ran to Natsuki's store. behind.

"Where did you go just now? I've been looking for you for a long time." Her tone was full of complaints.

"I also wanted to ask where you went."

"Me? I just saw some interesting things over there, so I was delayed a little bit." Tachibana Aya crossed her arms and hugged her chest: "By the way, I think the quilt covering me at home is a bit thin. I will buy another bed.”

"...I remember you said before that you still feel hot when you sleep with the air conditioner on?"

"Huh? When did I say that?"

The confusion in Tachibana Aya's tone made Xia Zhi doubt her own memory.

"It's up to you. Then I'll go over to the other side and have a look. If you've bought it, just wait for me here for a while."

"You want to buy something, but you won't let me go with you."

"What a mess, the only purpose of my coming here is to buy a kotatsu and go back." And you were the one who forced me to do it.

"Then why did you send me away?"

"Who sent you away? Aren't you going to buy a quilt? Then I'll go to the kotatsu and you go buy the quilt. When the shopping is done, gather here and then you can go back. Is your brain frozen?"

Xia Zhi felt a little worried about Tachibana Aoi's ups and downs.

???

Tachibana Aya tilted her head in an exaggerated way, just like what she usually sees in anime, but Tachibana Aya tilted her head to close to [-] or [-] degrees in an instant, which made Natsuki jump.Moreover, Xia Zhi didn't feel anything that could be called cute.Sure enough, Two-dimensional and three-dimensional are two different worlds.

"Have you ever dated a girl like this?"

"When did you get the illusion that we were dating?"

Faced with Tachibana Aya's accusation, Natsuki asked indifferently.

"Haha, I almost forgot that you have such a setting. You are really not to be underestimated, a Chinese international student." Tachibana Aya sneered.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xia Zhi wanted to raise his hand to knock Tachibana Aya on the head, but found that Tachibana Aya was not in a natural position to hit her head even if she was standing sideways, so Xia Zhi gave up.

"I don't want it. I want to buy a kotatsu with you. This is the most important thing related to my life and health." Tachibana Aya went over the problem and issued a statement.

"So you came here with the idea of ​​​​inspiring me to buy a kotatsu and use it yourself from the beginning?" Xia Zhi said, holding his hands.This was already very obvious, but Xia Zhi felt that he should still speak out to confront her.

"Don't be so stingy. Then, do you want me to give it to you as a gift?"

"forget it."

I don’t know if Tachibana Aya is telling the truth, and there’s no need to find out.If it's fake, it's just Tachibana Aya's daily nonsense, and if it's true, Xia Zhi has no reason to accept it.Why should you give gifts to others who are not relatives?It's not like I'm asking for help from others.

"If you want to go together, that's up to you. If you go a little faster, maybe we can make it back before dinner."

Buying things has never been a simple and easy thing. How to use limited funds in exchange for greater benefits has always been a matter worth studying from ancient times to the present.And the experts among them - girls all over the world also gave the answer. You only need to browse the entire mall to find the product in the mall that is most suitable for you and what you want most.

Xia Zhi came with this kind of awareness, but this does not mean that he has to finish shopping in the mall. If he can find the right one in the middle, the activity of shopping in the mall should be stopped.In fact, as long as your requirements are not so high, many things will become much easier. Of course, in the future you may also face the dilemma of "I just bought the psv today and you told me that it will be cold soon?"

The kind that cannot be returned.

"It's so reliable." Tachibana Aya said with a smile: "Whenever you want to fall in love, I can introduce you to a good kid from our school."

"Forget it, having you is enough."

Xia Zhi gradually discovered his current situation - surrounded by beautiful girls and misunderstood by those around him, and this misunderstanding is still deepening.This is not really good news for Natsuki, who wants to finish high school or even college in Japan safely. Video games and falling in love are the two biggest obstacles standing in the way of academic success. Xia Zhi has already fallen in love with one of them. Although it is not to the point where he cannot extricate himself, if another one comes, his life will probably become very bumpy in the future.

There are more and more beautiful girls around me, but most of them are considered normal.Only Tachibana Aya, only Tachibana Aya is the one person that Xia Zhi has always been elusive.God knows where she got all these weird ideas. The key is that he stayed with her to the end without even realizing it, and he started to treat the apartment as if it were his own home since then...

Natsuki doesn't want to fall in love, but judging from the current situation, if it continues, Tachibana Aya has a high chance of changing this idea. After all, Natsuki is not made of stone, and normal people will have the same thoughts.But this would be too scary. If my sister found out, I would be waiting to sleep in a coffin when I got home and sleep until the earth was destroyed.

Having Tachibana Aya is enough to worry about. If it comes again, Natsuki doesn't know if he can persist.

Xia Zhi shook his head and walked away first.Instead of thinking about these weird things, it is better to be firm.

After taking two steps, Xia Zhi, who felt something was missing, turned back and glanced at Tachibana Aya, who didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hey, if you don't come over here, I'll leave you alone."

Tachibana Aya seemed to have heard it and trotted to follow.

"That's what you said, aren't you standing here waiting for me?" Tachibana Aya blinked, with a smile that couldn't be hidden at the corner of her mouth.

He was still smiling, and Xia Zhi felt that he might not have any dignity anymore.

"Let's go." Not knowing how to continue, Xia Zhi didn't intend to continue.

First, let's do this.

(End of this chapter)