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The teacher told her: There is a fire in the kitchen, and the fire is hot. Only adults can use the fire to cook rice.
If the older brother's house is cold and unwelcoming, it must be because no one cooks for him.
The little girl thought innocently.
The more I thought about it, the more guilty I felt.
Her eyes reddened, and she began to cry, saying intermittently, "Big, big brother, you're so pitiful without a mother..."
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The mother felt a chill run down her spine, wondering if she had taught her child wrong. But when she looked down into her youngest daughter's pure eyes, she realized it was her fault.
She thought for a moment, reached out and touched her daughter's head, and said softly, "I'm pretty much right, but it's not like only Mom can cook at home."
Recalling the appearance of the two girls, she smiled knowingly, "Maybe the older brother will meet a very virtuous girlfriend, and then his home will be very warm."
"Oh……"
The little girl responded and lowered her head to think.
My girlfriend is amazing, just like my mom.
"Then I'll find lots of girlfriends in the future, so my house will be warm and I won't need to turn on the air conditioning anymore, hehe."
The mother was silent for a moment, then stood up and turned her back to her daughter.
"...I also want to be a gentle and good mother, but don't force me to slap you."
Youngest daughter: QAQ? {(°△°; "}!
……
"Continuing to search like this is not a solution."
After the mother and daughter, the two women searched for about fifteen more minutes, but as the search area expanded, fewer and fewer people saw Su Qing, and they obtained fewer and fewer clues.
The crowds around them moved like a tide passing by.
Mahiru suddenly began to feel disoriented.
She has lived in Tokyo for nearly twenty years, but there has never been a moment when she felt that the city was so vast.
In the vast sea of people, the person she longed for day and night might very well be among them, yet she had no way to reach them.
But... even so, she absolutely cannot give up.
"I suddenly realized there's someone who could help us!"
Yui suddenly said excitedly.
"Who?"
"Little Snow!"
"...Yes, Yukinoshita-kun?" Mahiru pondered for a moment before asking.
"Yes, yes, Xiaoxue is very capable. With her help, we can definitely find Xiaoqing faster, otherwise he might run away again!"
As Yui explained, she took out her phone, seemingly preparing to call Yukino.
"...This is a very troublesome matter. Will the other party be willing to do it?"
Every additional person's strength brings more hope, and I've heard of Yukino Yukinoshita's genius, Mahiru.
The problem is that in Tokyo, where human relationships are often distant, getting help is already a difficult thing.
"Don't worry." Yui waved her hand and smiled proudly. "Have you forgotten what club Xiaoqing and I joined?"
Afternoon tea and pastry shop?
wrong.
Su Qing had told her that her name was...
“The Service Department,” Mahiru said confidently.
"That's right! So there's absolutely no problem." For some reason, Yui's eyes softened instantly, and her voice was just as gentle.
"Besides, Xiaoqing is also a very, very good friend of Xiaoxue, I guess..."
perhaps?
Mahiru didn't understand, but a faint electrical hum had already begun.
—The call went through.
Yui cut to the chase, "Xiaoxue, it's like this..."
……
Meanwhile, at Yukino's house.
"Is that so? I understand." Yukino drew back the curtains to look at the sky, then said to the person on the other end of the phone.
“It’s getting late, you should go home first. Leave the rest to me… or rather, my sister and me.”
"Well... that's all. Be careful, and I'll let you know as soon as I have any news."
Is it really you who's back?
But if you're coming back, why are you hiding from them?
【Qing Sang...you probably don't know】
I used to want to change the world.
But things are different now. I still want to change the world, even if it's just a little bit.
But before that, I will "change" you first.
Yukino hung up the phone and stood by the window, watching the sunset slowly disappear below the horizon.
As darkness swallowed the last glimmer of light, a mature female voice came from behind.
"Wait, did I just hear something about me?"
Turning around, Yang Nai walked out of the kitchen wearing an apron, looking at her with a half-smile.
"Sister, although our family is from Chiba Prefecture... finding someone in Tokyo shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"No problem." Yang Nai smiled faintly, took out a banknote from his pocket, and flicked it in the air. "Do you even know what a wanted poster is?"
……
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Chapter 386 Outline
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While Mahiru and Yui were asking passersby for directions, Su Qing had already arrived at a hotel.
If you need to take a shower and rest briefly, and money isn't a factor, a hotel is naturally the best choice.
"Do you have any hourly rooms? I'd like to book one," Su Qing said.
Although he looked disheveled and had been mistaken for a beggar not long ago, the receptionist still smiled politely.
"I'm sorry, sir, we don't offer hourly rooms here... If you need some rest, why don't you stay for the night?"
The receptionist's words made Su Qing momentarily lose her composure.
His original plan was simply to take a shower and rest for a while.
But the apartment I used to live in had already ended its contract on the day I left.
It seems he no longer has a home...
"Then, let's stay for three days," Su Qing said after thinking for a moment.
"Okay sir, your room number is 205. Please use the room phone if you need anything, and we will make it..."
After registering her identity information, the receptionist's voice drifted intermittently from behind, but Su Qing had no interest in listening any further.
"Tsk, how rude, she left without even saying hello." A colleague next to her whispered, feeling indignant on behalf of Ishikawa Yoshiko.
Ishikawa Yoshiko watched Su Qing's retreating figure disappear in the direction of the elevator, and smiled thoughtfully: "Never mind, she probably just went through some kind of trauma. She looks rather pitiful."
She paused, a glint of light flashing in her eyes, "Besides, with my discerning eye that has seen countless people, this guy is definitely a handsome man in the making after he's cleaned up!"
She even exaggeratedly made a "slurping" motion.
My colleague rolled her eyes: "Come on, with your 'virginity' experience of being single for over twenty years?"
"Hey! So what if I'm single? Don't you know the saying 'a woman three years older than her is a gold mine'? Besides, I just graduated from university!"
Yoshiko Ishikawa feigned anger, baring her teeth, then hummed twice, with a hint of inexplicable stubbornness.
"Anyway, unless he has a girlfriend, and that girlfriend has to be an incredibly beautiful, intelligent, gentle, considerate, virtuous and lovely young woman."
No one knows how she managed to say all that in one breath, then she chuckled and continued,
"Otherwise... hehe, I, Ishikawa Yoshiko, am not incapable of taking the initiative!"
Colleagues shook their heads, their faces saying, "You're hopeless."
Ishikawa Yoshiko didn't seem to care. Her gaze returned to the information she had just registered on the computer screen, her fingertips unconsciously tracing the name as she murmured softly:
“Su Qing…”
"What a lovely name..."
"Speaking of which... there can't really be such a perfect girlfriend, right?"
She tilted her head, feeling that the hypothesis was a bit far-fetched, yet she couldn't help but think about it.
……
Tired, so tired.
Is it because I haven't slept for the past few days?
Upon entering room 205, perhaps my tense nerves began to relax after seeing Mahiru and Yui.
An overwhelming sense of exhaustion instantly began to erode his mind like a locust swarm.
When Su Qing entered the bathroom, she almost fell to the ground.
However, it could also be that the floor was too slippery.
Su Qing looked down at the floor for a while, telling herself this.
He stopped thinking about it, filled the bathtub with hot water, and started soaking.
As his body sank into that scalding warmth, every pore greedily absorbed the long-lost comfort, and the bone-chilling comfort made him let out an almost inaudible sigh.
The tense muscles gradually relaxed, and the heavy eyelids could no longer support them and slowly closed.
Time flows by like water.
Ten minutes passed.
An hour passed.
……
Dusk had long since ended.
More and more people are either getting off work or finishing their club activities and preparing to go home.
The crowd gradually surged toward the dimly lit building, behind which the undulating mountains were being swallowed by darkness.
The evening breeze was cool, and the moonlight fell like snow, but the earth was a mess.
……
When Su Xing awoke, he was already completely unaware of what the world was like.
The water, which was originally warm, had long since turned ice-cold.
Although it's indoors, it's winter now, and most people would likely catch a cold if they were to soak naked in water at this temperature for an extended period of time.
Su Qing didn't feel much, only a little dizzy.
calm down.
It's normal to feel dizzy after soaking in a bath for a long time.