Travel through the daily life of the dragon clan

Chapter 570, Ramen Stand
This is the day after the late-night talk show "Your Moon My Heart", "Chicken Soup for the Soul is Me and I am a Loser".

At this moment, Zhuo Zheng and all the employees of "家の澪" are carrying out a rare one-day team-building activity.

Of course, having said that, they actually spent most of their time that day in taxis, and the so-called team-building activities were basically carried out indoors in Daimaru Department Store, TAITO STATION, etc., which involved shopping, playing games and playing marbles.

There is nothing we can do about this.

The recent rainfall has flooded many low-lying sections of road, and the emergency drainage road surface is also very slippery. Vehicles of all sizes are driving slowly and cautiously in the drizzle, and several traffic accidents have exacerbated the congestion.

Even Akihabara's business was affected. Unknowingly, the metropolis of Tokyo seemed to have turned into a water city like Venice.

Now that the trip is over, we thought that we would still have to cook for ourselves even if we return to Akihabara, so we all decided to eat outside.

As the host, Zhuo could only agree. Then he thought that these people came from extraordinary backgrounds. Even Lu Mingfei was a tough guy who could have a whole fried chicken with authentic vodka as a midnight snack. They might not be interested in ordinary Japanese cuisine. So after thinking of several reasons, the six of them took two taxis to the back street of Tokyo University.

After getting off the La Men's car, Zhuo quickly walked into the awning and put aside the shopping bags that filled both hands:
"Master Yue, a bowl of tonkotsu ramen and a bowl of Hokkaido ramen."

"Why are you here? Yui said you opened a coffee shop. I thought you looked down on our small family." Uesugi Yue suddenly remembered something, "Did you bring money today? Pay first if you want to eat noodles! Chenghui Tonkotsu Ramen is 800 yuan a bowl, and Hokkaido Ramen doesn't have it!"

Zhuo opened the dark blue cloth cover and put things inside, filling the U-shaped table with paper shopping bags.

Then he stepped back and stood under the awning, the rain hitting the awning above his head making crackling sounds.

"Master Ah Yue, didn't I invite you to my wedding? You even met a few young girls at the wedding. But I'm just here to eat a few bowls of noodles. If I come here to eat a bowl of noodles, I won't let Sister Youyi know that you're dating several women at the same time."

"Stop talking nonsense! Pay the bill first!"

Uesugi Yue slammed the table angrily, and then noticed several people getting out of the other side of the taxi.

Zhuo glanced at him and found that the old man's eyes just passed by quickly. Even if his gaze stayed on Uesugi Eri for a little longer, he probably wouldn't have thought, "This girl looks so familiar, could she be my daughter?" If he really wanted to speak, he would probably say something frivolous like, "This girl looks so familiar, could she be my first love?"

as predicted--

"Hey - who was that? You're married, right? I'm old now, but if my memory serves me right, it shouldn't be this girl, right? What's going on? Could it be that the bride had secondary development after marriage and dyed her hair?"

"Oh, by the way, Master Yue, please pay attention. The Hokkaido ramen needs a super large portion, and it comes with a ghost gold stick."

"Don't you understand what I'm saying, you bastard? No!"

"Master Yue, please hurry up. I have a friend who should be here soon."

Even though he spoke in a bad mood and looked very unhappy after seeing that Zhuo still didn't intend to pay, Uesugi Yue still threw the noodles into the pot in a bad mood.

Zhuo smiled after watching all this, and then turned away after facing Uesugi Yue's angry glare, and turned to look in the direction of Uesugi Eri.

I don’t know if this situation is unique to me. After what happened yesterday, Zhuo always feels a little strange when facing her again, as if he is a little embarrassed and a little shy. In short, it’s quite strange. Compared to before... After all, before this, Zhuo had no experience or opportunity to refuse others, so he had to suppress this confusing feeling in his heart.

Compared to Zhuo's hurried pace, Uesugi Erii still had some lingering energy after getting out of the car. She looked up at the gray sky, not sure what was so good about this rainy and slightly gloomy city.

When on the train, Eri was much quieter than usual. Zhuo remembered that every time they took the Shinkansen, Uesugi Eri would lean on the window to look out, and her vision would move with the movement of the carriage. Sometimes Zhuo even wondered if her neck would be broken.

But today, Uesugi Eri was a little quiet. In fact, she had been very quiet since morning. You couldn't notice anything when she was in the store, but when we got to the mall and TAITO STATION, you could see that she was too quiet.

While sitting in the car, she crossed her hands on her knees and looked out the window with her head slightly tilted. The colorful neon signs were reflected in her deep red eyes, but they could not reflect any light.

The only thing to be thankful for was that Uesugi Erii was not angry, because she still asked Zhuo to help carry her shopping bags.

Although it's a bit strange to make such a judgment, it's a good thing that it didn't freeze.

……

Although Eri Uesugi is interested in Hokkaido ramen, she is actually just drawing this conclusion from anime.

In addition, there are the legendary "pizza with meat cubes" and "five-meat fried rice" and so on... These items are dishes that can be made in a coffee shop. In the first year of bringing her out, Ling cooked and fed her personally.

Although the word "feeding" is a bit impolite, when I think about the scene where Uesugi Erii followed Zero with a note saying "order food", it would not be wrong to say it was feeding.

As for the last item, Hokkaido ramen, there is nothing we can do about it.

It is called Hokkaido ramen, but in reality, the ramen in Hokkaido varies depending on the place. There are mainly Sapporo ramen, Asahikawa ramen, Hakodate ramen, Kushiro ramen, etc. Hokkaido is therefore known as the "Ramen Kingdom".

This also means that Hokkaido ramen is not the name of a type of ramen, just like Kentoku is not the name of a type of fried chicken.

Chef Yue makes the most famous Sapporo ramen, which uses a lot of lard and garlic as the base.

Well, Zhuo has always felt that Master Yue is an old-fashioned guy who is always shy even when he is old. He was not so easy to talk to when he came with Yurina in the past. But when he knew that the one who wanted to eat ramen was the well-developed Eri, he behaved very generously and specially added tempura.

But maybe it’s also because Yurina hadn’t grown up at that time?
After entering high school, the three of them haven't eaten ramen together again. I think if Master Yue saw Yurina now, he would be shocked, because there is not a single noodle in the ramen, only meat.

Hmm, come to think of it, maybe Yurina has been here before.

"Speaking of which, Master Yue. Did Ren and Yurina come here later?"

There were not many customers entering the store and all the orders had been taken, so the ramen chef in the kitchen brought a stool and sat across from the only girl in the shed across the U-shaped table, while Zhuo sat on the left side of the only girl.

Although he was looking at the little girl with a gaze full of old age ambiguity, there was actually no problem.

"Don't you have any manners as a diner?"

“Oh, it tastes okay.”

Uesugi Yue pushed over a bottle of ice orange juice in a glass container in an unpleasant manner, and it slid smoothly to stop in front of Zhuo.

By the way, he had already taken out a bottle of Yakult with a friendly face, placed it next to Eri's oversized ramen bowl, and considerately inserted a thin straw that girls like.

"Even if what I did was just okay, you are a dead pig raised by the Russian screw queen, and you still have to eat it in the rain?" "Eh - Master Yue, do you know who she is?"

"Can you please have some shame? You don't even have the thought of refutation when I call you a dead pig? I really don't know how you managed to deceive others."

"Is that so? But I think what you said is very right. To Zero, I am just a pig being fed. The word 'fed' is also very accurate. Do you want me to give you a couple of ang angs, ang angs."

Seeing Uesugi Yue's helpless expression, he finally moved away from the little girl and answered his question.

"Forget it. Kiriya-kun came here once not long ago, and I see him often. As for the girl named Yurina you mentioned, I also came here with her once. Last time, Kiriya-kun even shared his man's sorrow with me. Alas, you bastard, don't you care about your friend's love affair at all?"

"We are all adults now..."

"But friends are friends, right? If I remember correctly, Kiritani-kun wanted to look for you last time but couldn't find you, so he came to me in the end. You should know something about this. It's because young people like you don't pay attention to time that you will regret it when you get my age."

"I'm sorry, I know."

Even though he is an old man who is not serious, he is still an old man who has lived through the war years, and his experience is one of the richest in the world. Even if he is not patient enough, you should listen carefully to his corrections.

It’s just that Zhuo doesn’t have the confidence that he can help the two of them, or rather, he feels that it would be bad if he gets involved. This is one of the reasons why he doesn’t take the initiative to contact them for gatherings.

Now that we've brought it up, Zhuo thought it would be better to get in touch.

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In addition, since Tokyo might be in big trouble soon, and soon the planes, highways, and Shinkansen will be full or at a standstill, he was considering giving them the advice that "we've heard rumors that there will be a major earthquake, tsunami, etc. in Japan, so try to take your family abroad to avoid it."

……

Uesugi Yue put the bowl of ramen into the sink and prepared to continue chatting with the girl.

What made Uesugi Yue feel regretful was that this girl, who was obviously very pleasing to the eye, didn't like talking to him.

When Uesugi Yue was hesitating about what to do, the red-haired girl stretched her neck to the edge of the bowl on her left hand in the next second, hooked the bowl with some noodles still in it with two fingers, and pulled it away from Zhuo.

The series of moves were so sophisticated that, judging from the situation, Zhuo, who was concentrating on his phone, had no idea what was happening.

"Girl, this guy is married, so it's better not to do something that could lead to misunderstandings."

"..."

"Ah, sorry. Because she has a special reason for not being able to talk, and it seems that for some reason, she has no common sense about such things."

Uesugi Yue looked as if he couldn't understand the young people of today, while Uesugi Eryi just looked at him quietly in response. The two of them looked like they were confronting each other, not like a boss and a customer.

Lu Mingfei, who was standing by, briefly explained Eri's reasons and fortunately stopped her in time. However, Uesugi Eri refused to give up the other half of the bowl of noodles she had just got.

"Well, if it's not enough, you can keep making more. Please, I'm the ramen boss, okay? There's no need to do this in front of me."

Uesugi Yue said this and started to prepare for the next step.

He noticed that Uesugi Eriya tugged at the sleeve of Utsunomiya, which brought the boy's attention back from the world on his phone. He didn't know which girl the boy was flirting with. He was usually so careful about his distance that he didn't even notice what had just happened.

Utsunomiya Shuo turned around and looked around, then understood the current situation. After a moment of silence, he said:

"It's okay. It's common for a younger sister to want to eat her brother's food. Isn't that right, Eri?"

"..."

Even though he chose to pull Utsunomiya boy's sleeve for help, he didn't actually look in his direction, but lowered his head silently looking at the bowl of noodles in front of him.

There was neither a nod nor a shake of the head.

"That's the agreement. Go ahead and eat. I'm almost done."

After leaving these words, he ruffled the silent girl's hair and went back to playing with his phone.

Seeing that the girl had no interest in continuing to eat even after getting the consent, Uesugi Yue sighed and turned to look at the heavy rain outside.

"…It's probably no use telling the store manager. That person was already prepared yesterday."

Caesar was near where the incident happened last night. It's hard to say the details, but he knew the situation well and probably saw what Uesugi Yue was thinking, so he smiled and tried to dissuade him.

He put down the used dishes, not caring that Uesugi Eri might care. This made Uesugi Yue stop his original thoughts and walked over.

"I don't like to pry into other people's privacy. Is that what I thought?"

"Probably. Although I'm not you and I can't see what's going on in your head, it should be."

"…Am I really old? What's so attractive about that brat? Even if I were to pick someone to like from among the people present here, it wouldn't be that guy, right?"

If his guess was correct, the girl must have suffered a lot at the hands of the Utsunomiya boy. Even Uesugi Yue, who only heard a few words of the conversation, could understand this.

The person I like is already married, and they absolutely like each other and will not allow anyone else to interfere.

The man has been a brat since junior high school, doesn’t like hot girls, and is even more conservative than this 100-year-old man, Utsunomiya boy…

It might be impolite to speculate on the girl's feelings, but even so, just imagining it would give you an idea of ​​the difficulty involved.

"...Isn't that kid going to say a bunch of unkind words before someone else confesses their love?"

"I can't say."

"This is really..."

(End of this chapter)