Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 307

"Hehe, today is really fun."

"You have the nerve to say it."

It seemed very happy to stand beside Xia Zhi standing next to him, but Xia Zhi was not as happy as she was.

"Come here to help buy things. If you don't help, forget it. I will also take them to run and play together."

"What does it matter? Because the things you want to buy will be seen as soon as you enter the mall, and there is only one exit here. After you finish buying, wouldn't it be good for us to go there and buy it? It would not be good if we buy it in advance. Went shopping."

It's all nonsense that Xia Zhi doesn't know how to refute.

"By the way, what time is it now? Is it time to eat?"

"No. Let's go back to the store first."

Because the things they bought were taken away by Shiraishi Reika and the others, Natsuki and Tachibana Aya walked without any burden and returned to the coffee shop in about 10 minutes.Opening the door of the store, today's business situation is almost sluggish, no different from usual.

"Huh? Come back so soon?"

"Isn't this too fast?" Xia Zhi said hello to him as he watched the store manager salting fish in front of him at the counter.As for Mayumi, Tachibana Aya has already gone to cause trouble, so it would be better for her to change her clothes first.

After changing clothes and walking out of the staff room, the store manager had already walked out of the counter and was sitting on the chair in front.

"How did you get out?"

"Now that you're back, I'm almost going back. Xiaoyao and Sayuri are still waiting for me to have dinner."

"Isn't this too early?" The time now is just a little after five o'clock, not even a quarter past five. This is not the time to finish eating.Even if he walked back, it wouldn't take more than ten minutes. The store manager's house wasn't far from here.

"Let's not talk about it for now, how was your day?" The store manager suddenly became gossipy.

Of course Xia Zhi knew what he was referring to, but he didn't want to admit it, at least not in person, so he answered vaguely: "It's okay. It's no different from before."

"Here he comes again. He clearly knows what I asked."

"...It's just to go shopping, what else can happen."

"You really don't know how to live. The more times like this, the more you should work hard, right?"

"Effort for what?"

Xia Zhi was still not completely used to the atmosphere where young people or people at this stage could say whatever they wanted, so he consciously walked to the position where he had been staying at the counter.

Tachibana Aya was still talking to Mayumi. She looked a little excited today, probably because she had a good time in the mall before.Well, it's not that I can't understand it, after all, there is nothing to do when you stay with me.

"Now that you're here, I'm going back."

"I know, let's go."

"Oh, by the way, it's the weekend starting tomorrow, so you don't have to come over for the four days starting tomorrow. Are you busy with the school festival?"

"You can come over and stay for a while tonight..."

"Don't come here. We're going bankrupt and there's no salary for you." The store manager waved his hand casually.

"It seems a bit awkward to say that you are bankrupt, right?"

"Then there is a slight problem with our store's cash flow, and you are specially allowed to take a four-day holiday."

"This seems a bit..."

"Where's all this nonsense!" The store manager glanced at Xia Zhi and said, "You don't have to come over anyway. If you do, I'll drive you back. Oh, by the way, don't forget to come over for dinner tomorrow night, I won't remind you. Or do you want me to call you then or something?"

"no need."

Xia Zhi also waved his hand.The store manager shrugged, greeted Mayumi, Tachibana Aya and other customers in the store, and left through the front door.The store is not very popular, and only regular customers come here, but now it seems that this is not a bad thing, at least there is more human touch here than other stores I know.

Although... the income of this store can only be maintained to the extent that the store manager does not have to worry about the coffee shop not being able to continue due to the operating deficit, but this is actually enough.At least it can make my life very easy, and I can do everything else, such as handing over all the work in the store to a young man who was kidnapped, let him work four hours a day and only get two hours The salary is equivalent to two hours of dinner, laugh.

Although this is not bad, sometimes it still seems a little boring. Xia Zhi hopes that if he opens a coffee shop in the future, even if there are not too many customers, at least he hopes to have a lot of regular customers like here. The store, if possible, would be a little more lively than it is now. It doesn't seem good to just stop and stare.

Natsuki hadn't stood for half a minute when Tachibana Aya on the other side was pushed back by Mayumi.

"Please don't interrupt my work!"

Then he pressed Tachibana Aya, who was more than half a head taller than him, on the chair.

"Xia Zhi, please look at Senior Tachibana, don't let her come and disturb my work."

"Oh."

Xia Zhi nodded.

"Huh? If I want to cause trouble, he can't stop me!"

Tachibana Aya expressed dissatisfaction with Xia Zhiping's flat affirmative response, and then was rendered speechless by his flat gaze.

"Well, I'll give you some face this time."

Seeing Tachibana Aya giving in and becoming quiet, Mayumi couldn't help but sigh: "What's the saying in China? One thing brings down another thing? It makes sense now."

"You say yes." Xia Zhi obviously didn't want to get too entangled in this topic.

Tachibana Aya next to her smacked her lips unhappily.

"Oh, we still need to order. Natsuki prepares a matcha cake, a strawberry cake and two apple juices."

"Hold on."

Xia Zhi started to move his hands, so proficient in his business that he seemed to be able to complete this set of actions with his eyes closed, although he didn't really close his eyes to do this set of operations.

Put the cake and juice on the dinner plate and handed it to Mayumi.

"Give."

"You're so skilled...Does this mean I can look forward to it when the coffee shop is on holiday next week?"

"It's okay to think so. Remember to bring your friends with you when the time comes."

Natsuki glanced at Tachibana Aya who was sitting next to her and watching the two of them: "When the time comes, catch her and come with us. Don't let her run away by herself."

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"I don't want that! I just want to live a world of two with Mayumi!"

Tachibana Aya shouted, and in Mayumi's hesitant eyes, Natsuki said: "You don't have to worry about her, she listens to me."

"..."

"..."

"Okay." Mayumi looked at Tachibana Aya with an expression on her face as if she had eaten special food for canines: "Did you hear that, Tachibana-senpai? Don't run away early, otherwise I will file a complaint. "

"It's too much!"

Tachibana Aya whined "reluctantly", but Xia Zhi didn't care and let her run over to cause trouble for him.Although she was invited to go, if she was allowed to run around alone, Xia Zhi was sure that she would cause a big mess for Xia Zhi in unexpected places. With Tachibana's ability, who could withstand this?

Let Mayumi go with her friends who she and Tachibana Aya also know. Although she is still not very reliable, it is quite normal if there are people she knows from school.As far as today is concerned, her behavior in the mall was much more normal than usual. At least there was nothing that she needed to worry about this afternoon.

It is also possible that her rhythm was suppressed by Ryoko Yamamoto, but judging from the truth that Xia Zhi knows, this possibility is really unlikely... Then it is only possible that Tachibana is fully playing the role of her good student.

If someone doesn't find someone to suppress her, Xia Zhi is afraid that she might end up having fun at the school festival.Finding Mayumi is actually quite suitable, but considering that Mayumi is also a victim of Tachibana Aya's "nature", Natsuki feels that Mayumi alone may not be able to deal with her.On the one hand, it is to invite more people to make it more lively. On the other hand, it is also to allow Tachibana Aya to be more "normal" outside. On the other hand, it is also to allow her to interact more with her friends in school and let Mayumi take care of her. It became necessary to come with her and Tachibana Aya's mutual friends.

As for the terrible thing that Tachibana may come to the school festival alone, and stay in the coffee shop run by her class for several hours, if she really did it, then she probably really did it. It is about to change from "ordinary" to "notorious", which should be regarded as an unbearable burden in life for Xia Zhi.

Mayumi walked away with the dinner plate, and Natsuki fell into a situation where there was nothing to do.

"Why can't I go by myself?"

Tachibana asked a question.

"With your personality, do you think I would let you go alone?"

"What a good character I have!"

"When there are people around."

Xia Zhi suddenly remembered someone, a certain big brother who only became extremely reliable when his younger brother was present. If he remembered correctly, it seemed to be called... Dino, the vaulting Dino. .In a sense, it is indeed similar.

"By the way. It's the weekend tomorrow, what should I do with lunch and dinner tomorrow?"

Tachibana Aya's question reminded Natsuki that this was indeed the case.

"You have nothing to do tomorrow, right?"

"No. If you want to take me out with you, that's fine."

"Don't think about it, I don't have time." Xia Zhi shattered her fantasy without wavering.

"Then what do you want to do?"

"I asked before. It doesn't take a lot to prepare for the coffee shop. It only takes one afternoon, so I can have lunch and then go there, and you can come over at noon. As for dinner... let's wait until I get back from school. "

Although there is not much that needs to be done, Xia Zhi has never done it and cannot estimate the time.Even if there were more things to do or something went wrong and the time was a little short, Natsuki could still call Tachibana Aya and ask her to find something to eat.

"Hmm..." Tachibana Aya hummed for a while: "Okay, let's decide like this first. By the way, where is my breakfast?"

"...You can go to the convenience store to buy bread for breakfast. I'm not free in the morning."

Xia Zhi wants to sleep until ten o'clock and then start preparing lunch. Such a day is quite fulfilling.

"Anyway, you have to have lunch before coming over. Let me have breakfast."

"I just don't want to get up. I'm going to sleep until ten o'clock."

"...You will turn into a pig if you sleep by then. Have you seen Spirited Away?"

"Of course I have seen it, but it was too magical and obviously not enough persuasive material."

"...Then do you let me go to your house for lunch and then go back, and then let me come over to play at night?"

"Strictly speaking, I'm not planning to let you come over to play at night...and, do you think I do? Think about what your kitchen looks like."

As the owner of the right to use the room, Aya Tachibana knows better than Natsuki what the condition of the kitchen in her apartment is. She hummed for a while: "Then I will clean the kitchen when I go back?"

"Forget it, how do you think your cleaning ability is compared to your cooking ability?"

"...You are prejudiced!"

"This is a fact."

Natsuki pressed Tachibana Aya who wanted to continue talking. It was still business hours. If it was too noisy, even regular customers would be unhappy.Miss Nishikawa, who was sitting near the counter, didn't seem to care.

"what time is it now?"

"I don't know, it should be around five o'clock in the afternoon. After all, it doesn't take much time to go shopping."

"Really...I feel like it's already very late. Oh, look..."

"If it's still the same as last night, forget it."

"……whispering sound."

Really...

"Anyway, give me a matcha cake first. Can you get a discount?"

"Twenty percent off?"

"Are you a devil? If you do this, you will lose my lovely self."

"Maeke, five hundred yen."

Natsuki stretched out his hand to Tachibana Aya, and Tachibana Aya took out a thousand yen directly from his pocket: "By the way, give me another cup of coffee, with more milk."

"It's so much, do you want to have dinner later?"

"That's not much."

"I won't give you any juice, and I'll eat less cake."

Xia Zhi put the cake on the plate and handed it to her.

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Tachibana Aya looked at the cake which was a little too small.

"It doesn't matter if you don't give me the juice, even the cake is so small, are you still a human being?"

"Don't eat too much." Xia Zhi found another seven hundred yen for her.

"Are you my mother?" Tachibana Aya used a small fork to cut the cake to vent her anger.

"I don't think your mother ever took care of you like that."

Although Natsuki actually knew nothing about Tachibana Aya's family situation, judging from Tachibana Aya's current situation, his guess was not too wrong.perhaps.

"I'm rich! Is there anyone like you who shuts out business?"

"This is a special opinion given to you by our store, you can be happy with it."

"..." Tachibana Aya didn't look very happy.

With something to eat, Tachibana became much quieter.

(End of this chapter)