I was plotting against Hoshino Ai but was pushed back

Seeing the girl return to her seat, Saitohiko picked up the cup of water on the table and handed it to her: "I just boiled some water and made you some refreshing drinks. Drink it and you will feel energetic."

"Drink?" Hoshino Ai took the cup given by Saito Hiko and looked at the clear water in it with confusion.

She could vaguely feel some heat rising from the cup in her hand, and felt that it should be boiled water. After all, how could a clear drink be heated?

"Is this really a drink? You're not trying to trick me with just plain water, are you?" The girl couldn't help but complain about it.

"How should I put it? Calling it a drink is not quite right." Saito Hiko heard Hoshino Ai's complaints and corrected her statement: "Actually, this is drugged... I added some medicine that can make you feel refreshed, so it may taste a bit bitter."

As he spoke, he also took out the bottle of concentration potion and placed it on the table.

"It's bitter..." When Hoshino Ai saw Saito Hiko say that the water was bitter, her face fell, but she still forced herself to cheer up, picked up the glass and took a sip.

The warm boiled water mixed with the medicine entered the girl's mouth, and a bitter taste spread in her mouth.

The taste is a bit like the bitter part of loofah.

But fortunately it is not very strong and I can swallow it if I endure it.

If I had known this, I wouldn’t have tasted it!

The girl thought regretfully as she took a sip.

She didn't want to drink it anymore, but then she remembered what Saito Hiko said just now that it could refresh her.

Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain!

Hoshino Ai frowned and drank the water in the cup.

This time, because I swallowed it directly, I didn't feel any bitterness.

"I've finished it." The girl raised the glass and turned it over to show Saito Hiko.

But Saito Hiko saw that Hoshino Ai's forehead was still wrinkled, as if she was so miserable that she wanted to cry, but was trying not to cry.

Is it so bitter?

I thought that even if it was that bitter, it would only be three drops, not that serious, right?

If it's so bitter, isn't it just a physical refresher?

I should have added some sugar to her food.

Saito Yan thought about it for a while and felt that it would be better to help her relieve it, so he said, "Wait a minute."

He took the cup from Hoshino Ai and walked outside.

Hoshino Ai frowned as she watched Saito Hiko go away, thinking that he might be going to put the cup away. She felt like she had to wait again, so she picked up the bottle of medicine that Saito Hiko had just placed on the table and took a look at it.

【0.04ml30 minutes】

【Net content: 10ml】

[Bitter taste]

How many drops of medicine did Yanjun add for me?

...Is this concentrated bitter essence?

To refresh oneself means to make people perk up in spite of the suffering?

I have no idea what the words after 30 are. What are the words before 10ml?

Hoshino Ai held up the small bottle and looked at the words on the bottle. Although she couldn't understand the words on it, she could still understand the ml prompt.

Still feels bitter...want to eat candy...will eating candy make the refreshing effect disappear?

The girl couldn't understand the message on the bottle, so she put it back on the table in disappointment, missing the candy very much.

Saito Hiko took the cup to the kitchen, poured half a cup of boiled water from the pot, found sugar from the seasoning in the kitchen, scooped two large spoonfuls into the water with the spoon inside, put the spoon back into the jar with a bowl, and screwed the cap on.

Then take out a spoon from the cupboard and stir the boiled water with sugar, allowing the sugar to dissolve quickly in the water.

Keep stirring until you can no longer feel the crystals with the spoon in your hand, then stop.

Rinse the spoon with clean water and put it back in the cupboard.

He returned to the room with the glass of water.

As soon as Saito Hiko entered the room, he saw Hoshino Ai lying listlessly on the table.

The girl lay on the table, looking towards the door with lifeless eyes.

"Is it really that hard to drink? You look like you have lost all hope in life." Saito Yan quickened his pace and walked to the girl: "Here, this is sugar water. It won't be so bitter after you drink it."

"So you've never drunk it!" When Hoshino Ai heard Saito Hiko's words, her anger grew, but when she saw that he was making sugar water for her, she restrained her tone and did not say anything more unpleasant.

The girl immediately stood up, snatched the sugar water from Saitohiko and drank it in one gulp.

"Hot! Hiss!"

“This is boiling water!”

Saito Hiko didn't expect that Hoshino Ai would stand up and snatch the boiled water from his hand. He just spoke out to remind her, but it was too late.

The girl has already put the water into her mouth.

Fortunately, because the boiled water had been standing for a while, and it took some time to stir the sugar, the temperature of the sugar water was not that high, so Hoshino Ai was not scalded.

But even so, the girl was still so burned that she stuck out her tongue and gasped.

"Hiss...hiss..." Hoshino Ai felt her tongue no longer hurt after a while and complained to Saito Yan: "Why didn't you remind me just now? You didn't do it on purpose, did you?"

Seeing that she recovered quickly and her tongue did not produce any burning reaction, the girl could not help but think that Saito Hiko was deliberately teasing her.

After complaining, she held the cup and slowly drank the warm sugar water.

"You were too anxious." When Saito Hiko heard Hoshino Ai wrongly accusing him, he explained directly: "How could I have known that you would stand up and grab it, and even drink it in one gulp? If I hadn't melted the sugar in the kitchen in advance, your mouth would have been burned for sure."

Even after hearing Saito Hiko's explanation, Hoshino Ai did not stop drinking the sugar water until she finished half a cup of it in one breath.

After drinking it, the girl immediately felt that the bitterness in her mouth was no longer there, and her stomach felt warm.

"Since you made me some sweet soup, I won't bother with you." Hoshino Ai said to Saito Hiko with a magnanimous attitude.

After she finished speaking, she remembered that she didn't recognize the words on the medicine bottle, so she picked up the small bottle and pointed at the words on it and asked Saito Hiko: "What does it say? I can only understand Arabic numerals and ml. The words on it don't seem to be Japanese."

Since Japanese evolved from Chinese characters, although the Chinese characters in Japanese are also Chinese characters, their meanings are not necessarily the same as those in Chinese.

Therefore, she felt that this did not look like an explanation written in Japanese, so she asked Saito Hiko.

Saitohiko looked at what Hoshino Ai pointed out and immediately came up with an idea: "This shows that it was written in Chinese. Japanese is simplified from Chinese characters, and Chinese characters also appear in most official documents. Although Japanese has evolved for so many years, its ancestor is still Chinese."

"So what is the content of the instructions above?" Seeing that Saito Hiko was answering the question irrelevantly, Hoshino Ai had to ask him to get back to the point.

"This is minutes." Saito Hiko took the small bottle and pointed to the words on it to explain to Hoshino Ai.

"So this is how minutes are written in Chinese. What's next?" Hoshino Ai continued to ask.

"Net content, that is to say, there are 10 ml of liquid medicine in the bottle." Saitohiko pointed at the words on the bottle and read them. After saying this, he said the next one: "These two words mean bitter taste."

"No effect, application effect?" Hoshino Ai was puzzled by the contents on the bottle. "Or is there another instruction manual? What is this? Bitter melon juice extract?"

"This is a potion that improves concentration. If you find you can't concentrate in class in the future, just drink one drop." Saito Hiko directly told Hoshino Ai the effect of the potion.

"But didn't you say it's a refresher?" Hoshino Ai thought Saito Yan might have misunderstood the effect. There was no such thing as a potion that could improve concentration. "Although it's bitter, it's really refreshing."

"Improve your concentration and refresh your mind at the same time." Seeing Hoshino Ai like this, Saito Yan emphasized again: "In order not to waste the effect of the potion, let's start learning quickly."

"Okay, but how many drops of this potion did you add to me just now?" Hoshino Ai agreed first, then remembered the question she wanted to ask just now and asked it directly.

"Three drops." Saitohiko stuffed the concentration potion into Hoshino Ai's palm and helped her hold it. "This is for you. When you are in school, drink a few drops according to the time. You will learn more efficiently."

Hoshino Ai didn't really want the 'bitter melon juice' so she declined: "Such a useful thing should be left to you."

"I'm not bragging, but I don't need the Focus Potion, and I still have a dozen bottles. It's not very precious to me. I'll give it to you when you run out, or how about you keep an extra bottle?"

Saitohiko deliberately increased the amount he held, and after he finished speaking, he reached into his trouser pocket. If Hoshino Ai asked for it, he would take out another bottle of concentration potion.

"You can also use it when you study..." As soon as Hoshino Ai finished speaking, she remembered that Saito Hiko was the top student in the grade. She also remembered that she had never seen him drink this bitter potion last semester. She suddenly felt the gap between people, and held the potion with a pursed mouth.

Chapter 172 Lunch Break

"Okay, I'll try it tomorrow." The girl took the potion reluctantly, "I'll ask you for the next bottle after I use it up. Don't give me the second bottle yet."

Seeing what Hoshino Ai said, Saito Hiko did not take out the second bottle. He picked up the cup she had finished drinking from, quickly washed it, and then returned.

The two sat back in their seats again, and Hoshino Ai's tutoring began again.

They were immersed in their tutoring and time passed quickly.

Click.

The door was opened.

"Come out for dinner." Kyoko's voice came from outside the door.

"Okay." Saito Hiko replied.

"I know~" Hoshino Ai heard that it was Kyoko's voice and responded.

"Let's stop here in the morning." Saito Hiko closed the textbook casually.

"Yeah." Hoshino Ai leaned back in her chair, opened her arms and raised them to the sky to stretch her body after sitting still for a long time.

The girl stretched her muscles and sighed: "The potion is really useful. My attention has never been distracted just now. If Yanjun hadn't given me the potion, I might still not be able to concentrate on studying~"

"Now you know the potion is effective, right?" Saito Hiko thought that Hoshino Ai didn't want the potion because it was too bitter, so he said, "Next time you drink the potion at school, you can add sugar, and don't worry about destroying the efficacy."

"I can do it without you reminding me~" Hoshino Ai stood up from her seat and walked to an empty space in the room to take the next step of stretching her body.

Saito Hiko also felt tired in the legs, waist and shoulders from sitting for a long time, so he followed Hoshino Ai to the open space to stretch his body.

After they finished their stretching exercises, they walked out of the room one after another.

When Saitohiko walked out, he saw the president sitting on the chair over at the dining table, so he had no choice but to greet him, "Uncle."

"President." Hoshino Ai also greeted at the same time.

"Yes." The president nodded, "Go wash your hands first."

Saitohiko walked to the table and saw a bowl of clam miso soup divided into four portions, caramel-colored grilled chicken wings, a dish of lotus root, potato, carrot and meat stir-fried with meat, and cherry tomatoes and avocado.

"Thank you for your hard work in preparing such a sumptuous meal." Saito Hiko said to Kyoko as he passed by her.

"You don't have to be so polite." Kyoko smiled when she heard Saitohiko's words and said with a smile, "Go wash your hands."