Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 562 Extra: Christmas Birthday Pottery (Part )
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Even though today is Christmas, there are not many customers in this pottery shop called "Nonnemu".

The display shelves at the bar were filled with all kinds of ceramic handicrafts, some very delicate and some very abstract in shape. Lu Mingfei was reminded of the small stalls selling ceramic piggy banks in the park when he was a child. For ten yuan, he could choose a piggy bank with his favorite cartoon character and paint it.

But the texture of things in pottery shops is definitely better than those sold at street stalls, and the handmade colors look quite craftsman-like.

The red-haired girl in a shrine maiden costume was holding a small notebook with Rilakkuma in it, staring at the ceramic works in front of the display stand, with Hello Kitty on the pen. Wearing a shrine maiden costume in winter would make one feel a little cold, but the red-haired girl seemed to be unaware of the cold in the air.

The atmospheric lighting in the shop shone down from the ceiling, making Eri look like Princess making a grand appearance on the Noh stage.

"I remember this thing! There's a similar thing in anime!"

After Eiry finished reading, she stood up the notebook, tapped the paper, and motioned Lu Mingfei to look at the words on the notebook.

Eri was talking about some broken pottery pieces on the display stand. Judging from the price tags below, this pile of broken pottery pieces was indeed the most expensive item on the display stand.

Eri placed the ceramic blocks on the counter and pieced them together, restoring them to a circle with a heart-shaped inner ring.

"There should be a heart shape as well. It will fit right inside," Eri wrote.

Eri's beautiful eyes sparkled, and she seemed to like the pottery very much. Lu Mingfei took the notebook from Eri and wrote: "Eri, do you want to make an identical one?"

Eri looked up from her notebook and looked at him in surprise. A thin, cold but vivid smile appeared on her face. Like a bird perched on a snowy branch, it flapped its wings and flew away, leaving behind the trembling branches and falling silvery white snow. "Is it okay?"

“Of course.” Lu Mingfei nodded and wrote a reply: “But this looks a bit complicated. I guess it’s not easy to make. It may take an entire afternoon.”

Eri replied: "It's okay, I like it here, just like I like Sakura." She also drew a smiley face on the page to show that she was very happy now.

If Yuan Zhisheng saw her like this, he would definitely feel a little sad, as if "a sister is too old to be controlled by her brother". In the past few years, he had rarely seen Eri express her love for something, but now it was as easy for Eri to say she liked Lu Mingfei as to say she wanted to eat. She even never thought that Lu Mingfei having many girlfriends was abnormal, because in the games she played, the male protagonist could also capture many female characters.

After choosing the pottery he wanted to make, Lu Mingfei communicated with the store manager or the staff at the counter. Eri followed Lu Mingfei obediently, put on an apron under the guidance of the staff, and walked to the production table at the back of the store. The speakers in the store played "あの日あの時あの場所", the theme song of "Tokyo Love Story". It seemed that the store manager was also a nostalgic person.

This is normal. Most of the people who are still patient enough to engage in pottery in this era are nostalgic literary youths.

If it wasn't for the fact that a certain anime that Eri liked was accidentally filmed in this store, and the hero and heroine made handicrafts together and then had a showdown with each other, which made Eri want to go on a pilgrimage to the holy land, Lu Mingfei probably wouldn't have come to such a store alone.

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It was Eri's spur of the moment decision to come to this pottery shop.

Today is December 12th, which, besides being Christmas, is also Eri's birthday.

The last time Lu Mingfei spent Christmas was the one before. Last Christmas, Lu Mingfei spent it at home with his girlfriends, but at that time Lu Mingfei's girlfriends were only Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang. That night, Xia Mi successfully became a regular employee, and Chen Wenwen's conversion time was a little later.

Of course, I couldn't ignore my girlfriends this Christmas. But it was clear that Eri was the star of the show today.

In order to spend the first birthday with Eri after they were together, Lu Mingfei wrote a long letter to Ange asking for leave. Without waiting for the principal's reply, he skipped the preparatory class with his girlfriends and flew from the capital to Tokyo to celebrate Eri's birthday and Christmas in Lu Mingfei's hometown in a foreign country.

The "family" dinner for Christmas was scheduled for the evening, so today's daytime and afternoon were Lu Mingfei's time to accompany Eri.

At first, Lu Mingfei was a little worried that it might be a bit unfair for him to spend Eri's birthday alone, but he didn't expect that the other girls were all very enthusiastic. Even Lu Mingfei's date route and schedule for the day were planned by Su Xiaoqiang, Liu Miaomiao, Chen Wenwen and Xia Mi.

Su Xiaoqiang picked out which store to take Eri to buy clothes and which Michelin three-star restaurant to go to for lunch by flipping through fashion magazines page by page. But in the end, the underworld princess felt that wearing the miko costume was more suitable and comfortable for her.

The afternoon schedule was supposed to be to take Eri to see "Wall-E", but Eri hadn't seen this year's best love movie yet. But when they passed by this small shop in a Tokyo alley, Eri's eyes lit up and she pulled Lu Mingfei into the shop.

(End of this chapter)