Daily Comics: Mystery Begins from Everyday Life

Five fat river fish were lying neatly on the grass by the river.

"That's almost enough." Luo Tian stopped what he was doing, then immediately scaled and gutted the river fish and cleaned it.

After doing all this, Luo Tian raised his finger and pointed at the river, chanting: "Control the water, condense into a mirror."

As the chant came out, the river water automatically rolled up a clear stream and condensed into a one-way mirror in front of Luotian, which was extremely clear.

Looking at the mirror floating in front of him, Luotian closed his eyes slightly, and then the water mirror floating in front of him began to ripple, and the Blue Star Stone flew out of it, followed by the Green Star Stone, Zhenhong, Hinami, Canary, and finally the Mercury Lamp.

"Father!" Hinami happily hugged Luotian's legs.

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"Father, is this where you will be staying?" Zhenhong looked around and seemed to have a good sense of the forest.

"Well, this is it." Luotian picked up Hinamichi and said, "We won't be going home for the next two days. Let's play here for two days."

"Father, what should we do with the store?" Cang Xingshi asked.

"The store is fine. I have arranged shadow soldiers to watch over the store." Luotian said, raising his hand and lightly tapping the void, and a magic circle was generated under the feet of Cang Xingshi and others.

"Father, what is this?" Cui Xingshi squatted down and touched the magic circle formed by the golden light.

"There are a lot of children here. I have cast the magic of [Perception Distortion] on you so that you will not attract the attention of ordinary people." Luotian explained.

"Hey, father, is Jing here too?" Hinami asked curiously.

"Not only Teacher Jing, but also Yui, Mayu, and Princess Yukinoshita are here." Luo Tian picked up the five river fish strung together with a rope and said, "It's time to make lunch now. Let's go back. It's just right for a snack at noon. I'll make you sweet and sour fish."

"Okay, father." Zhenhong and others responded in unison and followed Luotian back.

At this time, the open-air kitchen of the camp.

"Why is Xiaotian gone?" Yuigahama Yui looked around while peeling potatoes, as if she was expecting something.

"Maybe he went to slack off somewhere." Yukinoshita Yukino calmly cut carrots.

"That shouldn't be the case." Nakano Satsuki denied Yukinoshita Yukino's judgment and said, "Let's prepare the ingredients first. Xiaotian will be back soon."

After saying that, Luotian walked out of the nearby forest carrying a river fish, followed closely by Zhenhong and others.

"May, May!" Hinamiya shouted loudly.

"Hinamei?! Everyone is here!" Nakano Satsuki smiled in surprise, put down the kitchen knife in her hand and walked over. Nakano Satsuki really likes Shinku and the others.

"Everyone is here!" Yuigahama Yui dropped the potatoes in her hand, took a few quick steps to Luotian, and gently touched Hinami's little face.

"Xiaotian, is this okay? There are so many people here." Yuigahama Yui said worriedly.

"It's okay. I have cast a magic. All people except you will see is an ordinary girl." Luotian explained.

"Yui, are you cooking?" Cui Xingshi looked at Yuigahama Yui in surprise who was wearing a pink apron.

"Yes! Let's have curry rice for lunch!" Yuigahama Yui said with a smile.

"I thought you were slacking off somewhere." Yukinoshita Yukino walked over slowly.

"How is that possible?" Luo Tian handed Hinami in his arms to Yuigahama Yui, then shook the fresh river fish in his hand and said, "Let's add another dish."

Chapter 164: Don't judge her with your ideas

"Did you go fishing specially?" Yukinoshita Yukino took the river fish from Luotian's hand and handed her a tissue.

"I just happened to see some fish in the river, so I caught a few." Luo Tian naturally took the paper towel and wiped his hands, then walked to the stove and glanced at it, muttering: "Tsk... we're still short of some ingredients..."

Hearing this, Yukinoshita Yukino walked up to Luotian and asked, "When I came back just now, I saw the indoor kitchen in the camp building. There should be the ingredients you need there. I'll go get them."

"Thank you, Princess Yukinoshita!" Luotian didn't act pretentiously and directly told Yukinoshita Yukino the needed ingredients, such as onions, ginger, cooking wine, vinegar, sugar, starch, etc.

"Okay, I remember it." Yukinoshita Yukino repeated to herself and walked towards the main building of the camp, while Luotian picked up the potatoes that had not been peeled yet and continued peeling them.

"Father, let me help you!" Cang Xingshi was as comforting as ever and took the initiative to come to Luotian to help with some work within his ability.

"Thank you Cang Xingshi!" Luo Tian thanked warmly.

After a while, Yukinoshita Yukino came back and brought all the ingredients needed for Luotian.

Then Luotian prepared the ingredients for curry and sweet and sour fish, and then started making them.

"Yui, come here." Luotian shouted to Yuigahama Yui who was washing dishes.

"Yes! Here I come!" Yuigahama Yui responded and quickly came to Luotian's side.

"Yui, curry is very simple. I will teach you from the first step of frying the ingredients needed for curry." Luo Tian said, "Just as I said, add oil first, wait for the oil temperature to rise to 700, then put the potato cubes in and fry until half cooked."

"Preheat the oil first." Yuigahama Yui followed Luotian's instructions and started pouring oil into the pot from the first step, with Nakano Satsuki and others watching beside her.

"When you see smoke coming out of the wok, you can start with the harder-to-cook ingredients, starting with the potatoes," Luotian said.

"Put the potato cubes in first." Yuigahama Yui took the bowl of potato cubes handed to her by Luotian and poured them all into the pot. It instantly made a sizzling sound, and then choking smoke rose up.

"Then simmer for two minutes, then add carrots, onions, ham, etc. and..."

Luo Tian spared no effort to explain in detail, teaching Yuigahama Yui step by step how to judge the temperature of the fire, how to judge the taste, and when to pour in the curry powder.

Ten minutes later, under Luotian's step-by-step instruction, Yuigahama Yui filled the pot with water and completed it without any mistakes. The next step was to wait for the curry to come out of the pot.

"It turns out that it is most effective for Yui to be taught by father. There won't be any major mistakes!" Cui Xingshi sighed.

"That's right..." Yukinoshita Yukino nodded in understanding, because she had experienced firsthand how challenging it was to teach Yuigahama Yui.

"Hey, everyone, eat more curry later, as my apology!"

Yuigahama Yui felt a great sense of accomplishment at the moment, and happily shared the information about her mother making curry: "Come to think of it, my mother puts some other ingredients in the curry she makes, and also some special leaves!"

"Everyone's cooking method is different." Nakano Satsuki thought for a moment and said, "When Nino makes curry, she puts beef and corn kernels in it, and when my mother makes it, she puts chicken and tofu in it."

"After all, it's home-cooked curry, and every family has different ways of making it." Yukinoshita Yukino continued: "As for the leaves that Yuigahama mentioned, they should be the leaves of a laurel tree, which can be used to enhance the flavor." Yukinoshita Yukino said.

"Is it done?" Shizuka Hiratsuka came over and said, "If you have some free time, look around to see if there's anyone who needs help."

"Not yet! Mr. Hiratsuka." Nakano Satsuki pointed to the side.

After finishing teaching Yuigahama Yui, Luotian did not stop. Instead, he lifted the plastic wrap covering the basin, took out the river fish that had been marinated for ten minutes, and started frying the fish.

"Zizzizizi!"

The fish marinated with various ingredients has no fishy smell when fried, but instead has a fresh aroma of cooking wine.

"Xiaotian, what are you doing?" Shizuka Hiratsuka leaned over curiously.

"Don't get so close, be careful of hot oil splashing out." Luotian reminded.

"Hmm." Shizuka Hiratsuka stopped and stood on tiptoe to look at the fish in the pan. "Where did this fish come from?"

"I just caught them in the river. I snatched three of them to eat tonight." Luotian said.

"That's great. I'm looking forward to it!" Shizuka Hiratsuka patted Luotian's shoulder.

"I guarantee that Teacher Jing will want to eat more after having it." Luo Tian boasted. After frying and shaping the fish, he began to thicken it, and finally stewed the fish.

"Done." Under the gaze of everyone, a colorful sweet and sour fish was completed. Then Luotian made a steamed fish and put it in the pot.

Just then, Hayato Hayama came over and said, "Teacher Hiratsuka, we have nothing else to do, so let's have some time to interact with the elementary school students. After all, there aren't many opportunities like this."

"Well, go ahead." Hiratsuka Shizuka nodded, and then asked Luo Tian and the others, "What are your plans?"

"Then let's go and help." Yuigahama Yui and others said this after discussion, and then dispersed to teach other elementary school students how to wash and cut vegetables.

"Xiaotian." Hiratsuka stared at Luotian.

"Of course I'm here to rest and watch the fire." As he said that, Luotian walked out of the camp kitchen and sat down on the grass on the uphill side.

"You..." Although Shizuka Hiratsuka really wanted to watch over Luotian, she didn't know what to pay attention to for this dish, so she had to leave and help other elementary school students cook.

A few minutes later, Yukinoshita Yukino came to Rakuten and watched the scene of Hayato Hayama interacting with the elementary school students.

Of course, there are exceptions.

"Do you like curry?" Hayato Hayama walked towards the little girl who had always been excluded. This scene made Yukinoshita Yukino frown and sigh.

"Princess Yukinoshita, don't take these too seriously." Luo Tian said without raising his head.

"But his actions will only make the little girl more embarrassed..." Yukinoshita Yukino was a little concerned.

"Is that so..." Luotian looked over and happened to see the little girl leaving after a perfunctory response in a cold voice, but Hayato Yeshan didn't care. Instead, he turned around and started chatting with the four little girls.

"What an idiot." Hikigaya Hachiman seemed to have noticed it as well and complained when he saw it.

"Hikigaya-san, I agree with your complaints this time." Luotian shouted to Hikigaya Hachiman who appeared beside him at some point.

"Is that so..." Hikigaya Hachiman whispered to himself.

"That's right, that guy's head is full of ridiculous kindness and hypocritical hope." Luo Tian commented: "It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but it's an idiotic act to face those who are hurt."

"Hehe..." Hikigaya Hachiman laughed, obviously surprised by Luotian's evaluation, and seemed to be mocking himself.

"Okay! This is a rare opportunity, should we add some secret ingredients in it?" Hayato Yeshan's voice was loud, and Luotian and others heard it clearly.

“Yes! Yes!”

"I me me!"

Just as the four elementary school students were vying to raise their hands, Yuigahama Yui suddenly joined in, raised her hand and shouted, "I think it's a good idea to put in fruits! For example, peaches!"

"Puchi!" Luotian couldn't help but laugh.

"Is that guy an idiot?" Hikigaya Hachiman gave the same evaluation as in the original plot.

"That's right, they're all idiots." A childish voice came from the side. It was the little girl who was excluded, named Tsurumi Rumi in the original plot.

"Most people in the world are like this. It's great that you realized it so early." Hikigaya Hachiman looked at Tsurumi Rumi and said.

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"You are the idiots." Luotian said.

"What do you mean?" Tsurumi Rumi turned her head and looked at Luotian.

"Xiaotian, Axue, what are you talking about?" Yuigahama Yui ran over, but Luotian did not pay attention to Yuigahama Yui in time.

"Hikigaya-san, Yui's personality is simple, unlike your lonely personality and prematurely mature thinking that you have developed from being ignored." Luotian walked to Hikigaya Hachiman and patted his shoulder, saying coldly: "So, don't judge her with your own ideas, understand?"

"Huh? Is it related to me?" Yuigahama Yui still didn't understand.

"...Sorry." Hikigaya Hachiman felt a chill and instantly realized that he and Yuigahama Yui were not familiar with each other at all. He also understood that Luotian was protecting the lively girl in the kitchen of the camp below.

"Very good, correct your mistakes." Luo Tian nodded slightly, then looked at Tsurumi Rumi, "What do you think?"

"What are you thinking about?" Tsurumi Rumi was confused.

"What you think of those classmates who exclude you." Luotian raised his head and gestured.

"They are all too childish. I can handle it alone." Tsurumi Rumi complained mercilessly.

"Are you sure you can do this alone?" Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly asked, "Can you keep going like this?"

"Yeah, aren't the memories of elementary school with friends important?" asked Yuigahama Yui.

"I don't need it." Tsurumi Rumi looked up at the blue sky and said in an expectant tone, "I can make friends with people from other places when I enter junior high school."

"You call others childish, but aren't you the same?" Luo Tian said with a smile.

"Unfortunately, your idea is impossible to achieve." Yukinoshita Yukino immediately said, "Those kids who exclude you will also go to the same junior high school as you, right? In that case, what is happening now will only happen. By then, they will most likely join those people from other places in excluding you."

Yukinoshita Yukino's words were so straightforward and truthful that Tsurumi Rumi's expression froze, as if her self-comfort was broken.

"As expected..." Tsurumi Rumi clenched her fists and muttered, "I really did a lot of stupid things."

"Did you do anything?" Yuigahama Yui asked cooperatively.

"Hmm..." Tsurumi Rumi thought for a moment and said, "I have excluded others a few times, but I would stop after a while and talk to those people again."

"But there's always someone who takes the lead, and then everyone follows suit and ostracizes people. I don't know when it became me who was being ostracized, and I didn't do anything wrong."

"So, have you excluded all four of them once?" Luo Tian asked the question in his heart.

"Yeah." Tsurumi Rumi nodded and said, "There were times when everyone excluded each other."

"Humph, that's the problem." Luo Tian smiled and said, "There's only one thing you did wrong, and that was ostracizing her. Karma has come true, and now it's your turn."

"It's my turn now... Will it be like this in junior high school?" Tsurumi Rumi said dejectedly.

"You know this kind of thing well. No matter how much you verify it, it will only remind you that what you think in your heart is what you least want to believe. There is no use in escaping. Go and reflect on yourself on March 3.1. Even if you can't go back to the past with your friends, don't let yourself live in trouble and guilt."

As soon as she finished speaking, Tsurumi Rumi fell into thought, and Luotian stood up and patted the non-existent weeds on his body, "Yui, Princess Yukinoshita, the fish and curry are almost ready, let's get ready to eat."