Chapter 137 27: Shirai Kyoko
“I’m back.”
“Meow~”
“Little Honey, did you miss me?”
"Meow~"
"So good~"
A small single apartment.
As soon as Shirai Kyoko opened the door, a not too fat orange cat rushed to greet her, raising her head and meowing at the top of her lungs.
"You are hungry, I will cook dinner for you."
After petting the cat a few times, Shirai neatly placed his shoes and school bag where they should be.
He took out a pack of instant noodles from the cabinet, a pack of chicken breasts and the remaining half of a carrot from the refrigerator, put on his apron, and started working in the narrow kitchen.
A few minutes later, the instant noodles were ready. She took out the last egg and smashed it in.
"Yours is still very hot, just wait a minute."
Teasing the cat, Shirai came to the table with instant noodles in his hands, ready to eat his dinner.
Tuk tuk tuk.
There was a rare knock on the door.
Shirai, who was blowing instant noodles, was startled, thinking it was an NHK toll collector. He stood up and walked to the door, looking outside with peepholes.
What I saw was a sloppy middle-aged man with stubble on his face and casual clothes.
After seeing the man's face clearly, her heart seemed to be tugged.
Slowly opening the door, she said: "Dad."
"Xingzi! Huh, it's been a long time since you last saw me. I've been a little short of money lately, so I came to borrow some money from you." The man said with some embarrassment.
Shirai pursed his lips, took out the wallet deep in his schoolbag, and gently handed it to his father: "There are some, they are all here."
The man quickly took it, opened it, and inside There are parts and pieces, about 30,000 yen.
He took out the big bill, but paused, looked at Shirai, licked his lips, and finally put about half of it back.
"Xingzi, if you are short of money, you can just ask your mother to get it. The person she is working with now has money, so she is not short of it."
The man said while stuffing the money into his pocket, as if to show his pitiful concern.
"Yes, I know." Kyoko Shirai was not looking at the money, but at the white strands of her father's hair.
".I will pay you back as soon as I earn the money." The man left these words, handed the wallet back to Shirai, turned around, and hurriedly prepared to leave.
“Dad.”
Shirai called out.
The man stopped and looked back at her hesitantly.
"Are you not going to have enough money? In fact, you can take all these, I have no problem." Shirai stretched out his wallet to him, "I have a part-time job now, and I pay daily, so I can support myself."
"No, no, that's enough, that's enough, thank you Kyoko, thank you." The man's smile was forced, his steps were a little messy, and he left as if running away.
Shirai looked at his father's disappearing back with some disappointment, and did not return to the room until he was completely invisible.
“Meow meow~”
The orange cat sat at the table, seeming to urge Shirai to eat quickly, as the noodles were already cold.
Puffing the cat's head, Shirai sat back down and ate the already lumpy instant noodles.
After finishing his own, the cat’s rice had cooled down and he poured it into the cat’s basin. Little Honey immediately got up and started eating.
Shirai held his chin next to him and slowly stroked the cat's back.
After resting for a while, she took out her homework and started to do it. After finishing, she read a book and took a shower and went to bed at about ten o'clock. Before going to bed, she opened LINE, clicked on the pinned chat box, and entered.
【Mom, good night. 】
After sending, she looked at the screen nervously.
A few minutes later, a message came from the other side.
【Good night daughter】
Kyoko Shirai smiled sweetly, closed the screen, made sure the alarm clock was adjusted, put the phone aside, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Shengying Academy (purely fictional).
A private institution of higher learning.
Most of the current students are children from the business world, and the teaching quality and tuition fees are very high. However, the school will also use a scholarship system to recruit some students from ordinary families with excellent academic performance.
Shirai Kyoko is one of them.
In the morning, she arrived at school a little later than usual. She glanced nervously at the seat of Hirosue's classmate in her memory. Seeing that he hadn't come yet, she sat down in her seat with some distraction and put the lunch box in her mouth. Put it in the cupboard.
Yesterday, Hirosue's classmate helped her. Although she had nothing to show her in return, she still got up early and made a box of cookies as a thank you gift.
After reading some books at my seat, I arrived at Hirosue Ryōgō.
Because the Hirosue family has caught up with the Holy Infant Club, the current development momentum is quite good, so these children in the political and business circles have been more or less told by their families to follow Hirosue's family. If the children have a good relationship, no matter how bad it is, they cannot offend the other party.
Although some people are reluctant to do this, as a high school student without financial independence, even if he doesn't like Hirosue, he can only welcome him with a smile.
At worst, we won't communicate with each other. After graduation, we can just have a friendship with classmates as an explanation to our families.
Those who are good at thinking about their family deliberately approach and please Hirosue Ryōgiya, making her already famous in school for her appearance and becoming a prominent figure, attracting many people to discuss her secretly.
"Hirosue-san, good morning."
"Hirosue-san, did you watch "Zero Ge" yesterday?"
"Hirosue-san, want to Want to try the durian steamed buns? ”
Hirosue Yoshimiya was like a star. He talked to his classmates with a standard smile, declined the food they offered, and walked to his seat unhurriedly to sit down.
It was then that Shirai discovered that Hirosue was a very popular person and it seemed that he couldn't get rid of his cookies.
However, she is not an introvert. She is just immersed in studying and working most of the time. Even if there are no friends with whom she can talk, she will not appear lonely.
For such an important thing as thanking you, you still have to do it! Kyoko, you can't back down!
Cheering herself up, she took out her lunch box from the drawer and walked to the seat next to Hirosue Ryonomiya.
"Hirosue-san, thank you for yesterday!" Kyoko Shirai has never done anything similar. She just felt that such a thing should be more solemn, so she bowed and offered it with both hands.
In general, it is like a gesture of confessing and sending a love letter.
The classroom is quiet.
Some people looked at Kyoko Shirai strangely, and the corners of their mouths were not intentional, but just unintentionally sarcastic.
The antelope hung a gift on its horn to give to the cheetah, which really made people smile.
As if he couldn't see the eyes of others, Hirosue Ryomiya took the lunch box naturally: "Thank you, Shirai-san, can I open it?"
"Yes, yes." Shirai said At that time, she also found that the atmosphere was a little strange, but she didn't know the reason, and she didn't particularly care. However, Hirosue accepted the gift, which made her happy from the bottom of her heart.
Guang Sue opened the box, looked at the biscuits that were obviously carefully arranged, took out one, took a bite, and nodded: "Yes, it's very good. I added honey. I can try adding some cinnamon next time." "Cranberries."
"Hey, thank you, I added a little honey. I haven't eaten cranberries before. I don't know what they taste like." Shirai Kyoko nodded happily.
“I’ll bring it to you to try when I have time.” Hirosue looked at the lunch box. There were some signs of wear, but it was very clean. “I’ll return the box to you after you finish eating?”
"Yeah, thank you again for your help yesterday. I, I'll go back to my seat first." Shirai looked at the strange looks in other people's eyes. He couldn't bear it anymore and retreated in defeat.
One of them had sad eyes. She didn’t know where her durian steamed dumplings were lost. Both were obviously delicious foods.
(End of this chapter)