There are only a few customers in the coffee shop next to the private Kamijian School, because it is school time now, and they are all enjoying coffee leisurely.
Only one of the guests seemed to be a cartoonist. There were a bunch of drawings and cartoon drawing tools spread out on the table. The guest scratched his mouth and cheeks, looking very painful. The cell phone placed next to the table kept ringing. Every time he He would always reply, "You can give me a little more time soon," and then hang up quickly. However, the waiter cleaning the seat next to him hardly ever saw him writing. He only moved a few times before he got caught again. The embarrassing situation of mouth scratching cheeks.
Hey, he's completely different from the annoying kid before, who drew comics and printed like a printing press!
The waiter murmured in his heart, and at the same time began to miss that annoying kid. He didn't seem to be here much since the second semester.
Tsk, obviously when he came before, I still disliked him. Habits are such a terrible thing!
The manager of the coffee shop, a woman in her thirties, stood behind the counter. While wiping the plates, she said quietly to the owner of the coffee shop.
"BOSS, the store's business has been declining recently..."
After a rare visit to the coffee shop, Kai Sheng Ai wore an apron and was dressed like a waiter. He was wiping the table skillfully. He straightened up after hearing the store manager's words.
"Then tell me, why is this?"
In the next life, I love to wipe the sweat from my forehead with the back of my hand.
She basically comes to the coffee shop to experience life. The management of the coffee shop is fully handled by the store manager, and she is the storekeeper.
Anyway, her family has plenty of money, so she opened this coffee shop just to remember her past years.
Looking at the beautiful boss in front of him, who is obviously the same age as himself but still looks very young and lovely, the store manager, who is already in his thirties and has crow's feet starting to grow in the corners of his eyes, secretly sighed in his heart, "It's really unfair." At the same time, he said: "I think it might be... Because of this..."
The store manager pointed to the price list. To be more precise, it was the last item on the price list, water - 100 yen.
Half of the customers of this coffee shop come from the private Shinjen School, mainly students. Occasionally, teachers and other staff come here to sit and change their mood. The other half of the customers come from residents living around the school and coming and going. pedestrians.
The store manager is a barista hired by Laisheng Ai at a high price. The coffee she brews is particularly fragrant. Anyone who is a coffee lover will praise her coffee after drinking it and will automatically become a regular customer of the store. Moreover, the coffee shop's The decoration is also very well done, elegant and clean, and caters to the preferences of modern young people. Even if you are not here to drink coffee, it is a wonderful thing to gather and chat with friends in such an environment.
Before a certain point in time, relying on the high-quality decoration of the store, the coffee shop was enough to attract passers-by to stop and walk into the store to drink a cup of coffee. After that, there was a lot of opportunity to develop it into a coffee shop. Regular customer.
But now, many customers who come to the store for the first time turn around and leave immediately after seeing the line "water - 100 yen" on the price list. There are also many customers with bad temper who will curse before leaving. Even some regular customers have complained about this - even if they don't know how to order it, a glass of water costs 100 yen. This seems to be something only a black shop does, right?
Ai was silent in the next life. She ordered a cup of water to cost 100 yen. When she found out that there was a guy who didn't order anything else every day, but only wanted a cup of water when he came to the coffee shop, and then sat there for half a day, she felt very unhappy.
How could she use her air conditioner and WiFi for free? This is simply unreasonable!
So with a stroke of his pen, Afterlife Ai added a line "water - 100 yen" to the price list.
It’s not that she’s short of a hundred yen, she simply can’t swallow this breath!
But since last semester, that strange boy seemed to have never been to the store again. The price specially set for him not only failed to make her vent her anger, but it simply served to drive away customers...
I thought about it for a while, walked to the price list, crossed out the "100", and then added a big "0" on it.
"Let's do this for today. The price will indicate that we will make a new one tomorrow."
Ai said to the store manager.
"Yes, BOSS!"
The store manager showed a pleased smile.
Lai Sheng Ai doesn't come to the store often, and the person who is called "dirty shop" and "profiteer" by customers is her as the store manager. Now Lai Sheng Ai has changed the price back, and the store manager can finally get rid of the evaluation of "dirty shop" and "profiteer" , I am naturally happy.
"Auntie! Auntie!"
As soon as After Life Ai finished changing the price list, the two "debt collectors" ran into the coffee shop happily. After Life Ai immediately showed an expression of joy and disgust.
She is happy because she will treat her two nieces as her lifeblood in the next life, and they are her most precious ones. She is disgusted because these two little girls cause her trouble all the time, and her "old body" can be tortured by them. It's not easy.
"Black Cat, White Cat, what are you doing here at this time instead of going to club activities?"
In his heart, he felt that these two little girls were here to cause trouble for him again, but his body responded honestly and took the two young cardamom girls into his arms.
Mmm, it smells so good!
"We will go to the club activities later, auntie, we are here to discuss something with you!"
Neko Utsumi and Neko Utsumi, who were held in the arms of Ai Utsumi, said to Ai Utsumi.
"What's the matter...wait, let's go upstairs and talk about it."
After Sheng Ai was about to ask what was going on, but in an instant she realized that the two girls running over to her in such a hurry were probably related to the "cat's eye" work. She looked around, took the hands of the two kittens and headed upstairs. Go.
Arriving at their "secret base" on the third floor, Afterlife Ai closed the door and said, "Who is so unlucky as to provoke you two little evil stars?"
She guessed that these two little girls must have found another target and were ready to kill them.
Since their first action as "Maoyan" was thwarted, these two little girls have not restrained themselves, but have intensified their anger. They will run to teach a rich man a lesson when news comes out that he is being unkind.
Of course, this may also have a lot to do with "Chu Liuxiang". These two girls, who are in the second grade of middle school, were completely fascinated by the romantic, wise and elegant Chu Liuxiang. They vowed to dedicate the rest of their lives to the cause of righteous thieves. Now they have She has become a real chuunibyou girl.
"Auntie, look at this!"
Afterlife Ningzi raised her phone high and pointed it at Afterlife Ai's face.
Suddenly being slapped in the face by the phone, I couldn't help but take a step back, and then started to read the content carefully.
This is a repost from someone I don’t know where, written in the self-report of the person who posted it.
The poster claims to be the second son from a privileged family. His father is upright and his mother is kind. Even his brother loves him very much. The two are brothers, friends and respectful brothers. There is no intrigue between the heirs of a big family, and they have no worries about food and clothing. , allowing him to spend a perfect childhood.
When he grew up, the poster, who felt that he had been treated well by the world, wanted to be someone who could help others, so he relied on his own efforts to get into a medical university and became a doctor. With excellent grades, he did not choose to go to those big hospitals. Instead of working, I want to work as a field doctor in the war-torn areas of the Middle East, treat those soldiers fighting for freedom, and do my part for the freedom of the world.
However, his family was worried that the poster would have an accident on the battlefield and refused to allow him to go to the Middle East war zone. The poster had no choice but to go to the backward and impoverished Central Plains to show goodwill to this developing country.
After three years in a remote mountainous area in the Central Plains, he unexpectedly met someone who changed his life. He fell hopelessly in love with a Miao woman.
He met that Miao woman when he went out to relax. He was bitten by a poisonous snake in the wild. The Miao woman passed by to collect medicine and saved him. She took him home for treatment. In the process, the poster was hopelessly depressed. I fell in love with that Miao woman and wanted to be with her forever.
Under the passionate pursuit of the poster, the Miao woman also fell in love with the poster.
To find love, the poster originally wanted to take the Miao woman back to Japan immediately to get married, but the Miao woman disagreed. She told the poster that members of her clan can never leave the place where they live. This is a rule their clan has followed for generations. , must not be broken, if the person who posted the message really loves her, he will stay in their clan and accompany her for the rest of his life.
In the end, the poster surrendered in the face of love. He chose to stay with the Miao woman in their tribe and severed contact with his parents.
Although it is very frustrating to be restricted from freedom, the poster still feels that it is all worthwhile to be able to stay with the woman he loves for a long time.
However, something unexpected happened. After living in Miao Village for a year, the poster received news that his family's company was in trouble and was likely to go bankrupt.
This made the poster very uncomfortable, and the longing for him who had been away from the family for many years suddenly came back, but even if he went back now, he would not be able to help the family at all.
So the poster made the first act against his conscience in his life. He escaped from the Miao village and stole a treasure from the Miao village before escaping.
After returning to Japan, he gave the treasure to his father and sold it for a huge price. The family's dilemma was suddenly solved.
But the matter did not end there. The poster claimed that before he got married to a Miao woman, he and the Miao woman were planted with a strange thing called "Tong Xin Gu" by the Miao people, which could help the couple sense each other. part of the other person’s emotions.
If that's the case, this kind of thing can be regarded as a good thing to increase the interest of the couple. What's more magical and even scary is that after planting this kind of thing, if the man and woman are separated for more than three days, they will become miserable, and if they are separated for more than ten days, they will become miserable. , both of them will die.
The poster originally only regarded this as a bluff, but on the day he posted, the "Tongxin Gu" finally broke out for the first time, and it really caused him to suffer torture worse than life, so he believed in the "Tongxin Gu" The legend is true.
He does not regret doing such a thing. Family is the most important thing to him. He can leave the family for love, but it is impossible to watch the family go bankrupt.
He also felt that being like this was the best punishment for him, and he would quietly welcome his death.
But whenever he thought of his wife who was still in the Central Plains, he felt very guilty, thinking that she might be suffering the same torture as him. He only hoped that her clan would have a way to get rid of the "Tongxin Gu", and that she could be in his own family. Live happily after leaving.
"Is this...a self-narrative novel?"
After reading the general content of the repost, Sheng Ai asked.
The Miao people and the "Tongxingu" don't sound like things in reality, but more like novels.
"That's what we thought at first."
The two kittens nodded in unison, and then started talking one sentence to the other.
"This is what we saw on the personal blog of the 'Jianghuren' teacher."
"It's a repost left by a book friend."
"Probably because it mentioned Miao territory and Gu techniques, I posted it here."
"Everyone thought this was someone writing something out of fantasy as if it were reality."
"Some people also asked where to buy something like 'Tongxin Gu', saying that it is simply 'the nemesis of affairs' and 'a must-have for marriage.'"
"However, no one took this post seriously. The original post was traced back to a temporarily registered blog account. It seemed that he didn't want people to know his identity at all."
"But just yesterday, Aunt Asaya informed us that two Miao martial artists came to Tokyo recently, and asked us to be careful when we 'activate'."
"As soon as we heard that he was a Miao martial artist, we immediately became curious and pestered Aunt Qiangu to tell us more things."
"Then she told us about the case that happened at An Ming's house the night before yesterday."
Qiangu, you are an old woman, do you have any intention of being so close to my kitten? Or are you still obsessed with Brother Junfu?
In the next life, Ai first thought that in the future, Mitsuko Asaya, an old woman who was almost forty years old and unmarried, would stay away from her own kittens, and then she thought: "An Ming's family? It's the one who had an accident while building a building and is now facing a huge amount of money." The Anming family to compensate?"
Japan's upper class is such a big society. If there is any trouble, people in the same circle will be the first to know about it. Although An Ming's family is not a big deal in Japan's upper class, people in his family still hear about his family's affairs.
"That's right, it's the An Ming family!"
Utsumi Ningzi nodded.
"And we also found out that the youngest son of the Yasu family, Takashi Yasu, graduated from a medical university and later went to the Central Plains to practice medicine. In the past year, we couldn't find anything at all. However, he suddenly returned to Tokyo a few days ago and was infected with the virus. Got a strange disease."
Ning Zi followed in the next life.
"It's all such a coincidence. I have reasonable suspicion that Takashi Yasumi is the person who posted it, and most of the things in his post are true."
Utsumi Ningzi touched her chin, looking like "a famous detective is in the process of reasoning".
"Then what? What do the two young ancestors want to do?"
Afterlife Ai touched his forehead and said.
She felt like something very troublesome was waiting for her.
Sure enough, the two kittens looked at each other and hugged each other's beloved hands in a tacit understanding.
"Auntie, let's go help steal the Miao treasures and return them to the Miao tribe!"
The two of them raised their heads and looked at love in the next life with eyes shining with innocence.
Having a tendency to frown in the next life is indeed a very troublesome thing.
But looking at the serious looks in the two kittens' eyes, the next life Ai lowered his head and sucked on their heads.
"Okay, once we find out where the thing is, let's go over there, steal it back and return it to its original owner..."
Love will be helpless in the next life.
Although "Maoyan" was obviously not a bad guy before, he was not a thief either. Why has he become like this now...
Hey, forget it, as long as your kitten is happy!
