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"Occasionally looking at you from a different angle is one of the few pleasures I have!"
Mami raised her face solemnly and looked at Zheng Yi, the corners of her eyes drooped slightly, her eyelids were half covered, and there was a faint look of grievance on her small face: "Don't you want to?"
"You..."
Rubbing Mami's little head angrily, Zheng Yi untied his apron and hung it aside, and sat beside Mami.
Picking up Zheng Yi and her own bowl, Mami walked into the kitchen, and after a while she returned to Zheng Yi with two bowls of fragrant white rice.In terms of diet, Mami and Zheng Yi are actually more inclined to the oriental eating habits. Rice noodles are basically unshakable as the staple food.Therefore, both Mami and Zheng Yi prefer the dishes for dinner.
Steak, bitter gourd scrambled eggs, mapo tofu, fruit and vegetable salad, squirrel fish, sweet and sour pork, and apple pie for dessert.
This is the meal for Zheng Yi's family today.
It has the characteristics of home cooking, but also mixed with Zheng Yi and Mami's personal taste preferences. In a sense, this is a trace and proof of Mami's stepping into Zheng Yi's life.
Although in Mami's view, her life has already been densely engraved with the signature of Masayoshi Kujo.
"That……"
Picking up the chopsticks at the same time, the two of them looked at the dazzling array of dishes on the large table in front of them, and lightly closed their eyes.
"I'm starting!" ×2
As soon as the words fell, Mami opened her eyes and couldn't wait to scoop up a spoonful of bright red mapo tofu, mixed it with fragrant glutinous rice, and put it in her mouth.
Mami's cheeks and neck turned red quickly, and she was breathing hot air, but she couldn't swallow the hot mapo tofu with the rice. She could only let go of the spoon and cover her lips with both hands, shaking her body slightly and struggling.
"Wow!"
"You child, the mapo tofu must be boiling hot just out of the pan!"
He hastily picked up the frozen lemon tea from the girl's hand, and he prepared frozen lemon tea instead of hot drink just in anticipation of this situation.
With the help of Zheng Yi and frozen lemon tea, Mami's mouth and throat finally finished the fight against Mapo Tofu. Po tofu stretched out.
The tragedy reappeared.
Seeing this, Zheng Yi could only continue to save the girl's throat dumbfounded.
Mami, a kid who doesn't know how to eat spicy food, unexpectedly likes spicy food.So every time he is asked to cook a Sichuan dish, Zheng Yi always prepares cold drinks such as frozen lemon tea or fruit juice in advance.
On the point of not liking carbonated drinks, Zheng Yi and Mami are completely in agreement.
"I told you not to be in such a hurry. Look at you, tears are coming out of spicy food. I don't usually see you like this in other spicy dishes. Do you like this dish so much?"
"Yes, I like it."
After taking another sip of frozen lemon tea, the girl raised her head, responded to Zheng Yi's scolding with a choked voice, her tear-stained eyes stared directly at Zheng Yi's, with a smile on her face.It seemed that it was because he choked on the mapo tofu, his smile seemed a bit forced, as if he would be knocked down by something else in the next moment.The stars that rubbed in the eye sockets converged in one place for a while, and were forced to tear apart by the girl who was holding on for a while. After going around and going around, they couldn't gather into a drop of water and slide down the cheeks.
Asami sniffled her nose, as if she was trying to fight against the choking heat in her mouth, she tried her best to stretch the arc of her smile.
"favourite!"
"...Well, don't be in a hurry, it's not like I won't do it for you again."
After a moment of silence, Zheng Yi stretched out his hand, pampering and helplessly rubbing the girl's cheek, as if treating a treasure while wiping away the moisture from the corners of Mami's eyes with his thumb, a hearty smile appeared on his face again.
"Next time, I'll adjust the spiciness to suit you, so that you won't be so embarrassed when pairing with rice."
Without replying, Mami just nodded vigorously.
I don't know if it's because it's spicy, or because it's hard to talk when Zheng Yi rubs his face.
...or maybe because of something else.
The girl suddenly raised her hand and tightly grasped Zheng Yi's hands that were pressed against her face.
The force was so great that even Zheng Yi could feel a sense of pressure from the back of his hand.This strength was not for breaking free from Zheng Yi's hands, but more like wanting to rub his palms into his body.
Even Zheng Yi could feel that Mami's hands were shaking because of too much force.
"..."
The man's broad palm covered most of the girl's facial features. Asami buried her face and murmured indistinctly. Ordinary people might not be able to hear what she was saying even if they were so close. what.
Maybe it's just some meaningless hesitations made by being squeezed on the face by the palm.
Zheng Yi blinked, lowered his head, and pressed his head against the girl's forehead.
"……sorry……"
"Ah."
"I wanted to... I wanted to say goodbye to you with a smile..."
"Ah."
"I want you, let you... let you not worry about... me! I want to... let you know that I have, I can handle myself... I want to catch up with you!"
"Ah."
"But...but!"
Mami shook her head sharply.
"But I still—"
Zheng Yi's hand suddenly broke away from Mami's palm that had lost all strength at some point, and his right hand firmly and carefully hugged the girl's slender back, and his right hand held the back of the girl's head, so that Mami's face was deeply buried in his. on the chest.
Together with the tears that were about to burst, they poured into the man's heart.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon."
"Ok!"
"By then, Mapo Tofu must have been improved to the most suitable appearance for your taste."
"Ok!"
"No problem, trust me."
"……Um!"
Sorry, teacher, I still haven't been able to stop my cowardice.
I'm sorry, teacher, I still haven't been able to get rid of my dependence on you.
Sorry, teacher……
Please, be sure to come back as soon as possible.
In the light of the house, the man made a promise to the girl.
Ps:
Second time!I and you and you and your parting!
Furious daughter of Wudan, follow me!
End
good night
Chapter 89: Time for Homura
This is not the first time Mami begged Zheng Yi to sleep with her.
Since the crisis of brushing shoulders with death again, it took Mami a lot of time to gradually recover her sense of normalcy in fighting.During these days of being tortured by fear and shadows, Zheng Yi would always stay by Mami's bed like this, letting Mami hold his palm tightly until the girl fell asleep.
But as long as it is confirmed that the girl is sleeping safely, Zheng Yi will not stay longer, tucks up the quilt for Mami, tidies up the room that occasionally looks a little messy, and then leaves on his own.
Although she is still young, Mami is a girl after all, no matter what the considerations are, Zheng Yi will not choose to spend the night in Mami's house rashly.
Even if he doesn't care about public opinion, he doesn't want Mami to be gossiped about it.
Only today is different.
As a parting gift, Zheng Yi allowed Mami to be a little willful this time...
He would stay in Mami's room, watching over the sleeping girl until dawn.
At that time, it was time for Zheng Yi to set off.
Looking at Mami who was unwilling to let go of her palm even when she was deeply asleep, Zheng Yi lowered his brows slightly and pursed the corners of his lips. His shoulders, which always seemed tall and broad, turned out to be a little hunched under the embrace of the moonlight at some point.He lowered his head and pressed his forehead against the girl's cold fingertips.
Do not speak.
But it's worth a thousand words.
Outside the window, the moon and stars are thin and the night is deep. As a high-end apartment with a good location, the surroundings are naturally relatively quiet during this time.Even if there are occasional vehicles passing by, there will be no too noisy movement because of the high floor.
This is the first time Zheng Yi stayed in Mami's room so late.
Leaning on the girl's skin, watching Mami's slightly curled eyebrows and eyes gradually calmed down as if she was in a nightmare, listening to the girl's disturbed dream, Zheng Yi unconsciously stretched out his hand to smooth the gap between the girl's eyebrows. The last trace of sorrow.But the right hand was raised and swayed for a while, but in the end it failed to land on Mami's white and smooth forehead.
Zheng Yi just gently stroked the girl's loose hair from her deep sleep behind her ears.
Suddenly, his fingers flicked lightly, and he retracted them immediately.
Facing the room where he and Mami were supposed to be alone, Zheng Yi whispered.
"She's fast asleep."
"...Aren't you going to sleep?"
"I'm fine, it's just one night."
Sitting on the fence of the balcony, facing Zheng Yi's purposely opened floor-to-ceiling windows, Xiao Homura watched Mami sleeping peacefully in the room and Zheng Yi, whose back was turned to her. Thick intolerable and helpless.
When she learned that Zheng Yi was going to leave his post for a while at school during the day, she was sensitive and probably guessed what Zheng Yi wanted to do.Even though this is not the first time such a scene has been staged in countless reincarnations, Homura still cannot calmly deal with what may happen next.
Advise Zheng Yi not to go?
doesn't work.
Advise Zheng Yi to take him with him?
doesn't work.
Homura has a deep understanding of Zheng Yi's stubbornness hidden under the gentleness.
Once he has made up his mind, no one can stop him from moving forward - this characteristic of Zheng Yi makes Homura proud and longing for it, but also makes Homura feel distressed and helpless.
She can do it, only by trying to make Zheng Yi give up certain decisions that may put him in danger before he makes up his mind...