Tokyo: Am I the only male tenant?

Chiaki Hoshino nodded.

"Is that so? Let's go then? I've already piled all the things I bought in there, Yingli!"

Matsumoto Tomoko shouted loudly.

At this time, Nakajima Eri was arranging potted herbs in a corner of the outdoor sales area.

"We are going back now, see you next time!"

When Nakajima Eri heard his wife's voice, she shouted, "Be careful on your way!" and waved her hand.

"Okay, Qianqiu, give me the potted plant. I'll help you put it in the trunk."

Yincheng had already called a taxi in advance and piled all the spoils purchased by his wife into it.

"Eh?"

Although she felt a little embarrassed, Chiaki Hoshino still handed the potted plant in her hand to Ginjo.

Yincheng successfully piled the roses into the trunk and then sat in the passenger seat.

The driver started the car, and the group left the gardening store in Roppongi and returned to the apartment.

The setting sun shining through the car window was so bright that it made the women in the back seat squint their eyes, especially Matsumoto Tomoko, whose remaining blush on her face took a long time to fade away.

"Your face was so red when you came out of the store, Sister Tomoko."

Chie Hoshino turned her head and asked curiously.

"Hmm? No, maybe I've been in the sun for too long. Why is it still so hot at this time of year?"

Tomoko Matsumoto fanned her cheeks a few times with her hands.

Although she felt it was a bit suspicious, Chie Hoshino didn't say anything else.

Even if she racked her brains, she would not be able to guess the scene that the lady had just performed.

Ginjo looked at them through the rearview mirror, an intriguing smile forming on his lips.

The taxi dropped off Matsumoto Tomoko and Hoshino Chie just one block away from the apartment.

Chie Hoshino is the main force in finishing the teppanyaki tonight, so she was asked by her wife to go shopping for ingredients together.

Ginjo and Hoshino Chiaki continued to take the bus back to the apartment and moved the various seedlings and potted plants they had bought back to the vegetable garden on the balcony.

"What can Chiaki take?"

Ginjo asked Hoshino Chiaki as he opened the trunk lid.

"Well, I want to get the things in the bag up there quickly, and I want to get this rose pot first."

"May I?"

"Okay, okay, no problem—"

Chiaki Hoshino had a plastic bag full of seeds and nutrient solution hanging in her hand, and she had her hands free to directly take the rose potted plant.

As she was holding the potted plant, her eyes suddenly fell on Ginjo's back.

In the trunk, besides the soil and cabbage sprout pots bought by his wife, there were also several seedlings she had never seen before.

In order to facilitate transportation, all of them are placed in shallow corrugated cardboard boxes.

Since she stood there motionless, Yincheng explained to her what was inside the box after moving it out of the car.

"Didn't Sister Tomoko say that in May, bitter melons must be planted in 24-liter pots, so we can't plant more varieties that take time."

“So we have to plant plants that have a short flowering period and can be transplanted.”

“Is that why you plant flowers?”

──Those are flower seedlings.

The orange ones are nasturtiums, the yellow ones are butterfly flowers, and the blue and white ones are pansies.

They all bloom brightly colored flowers for ornamental purposes.

"Chiaki just said she wanted flowers, right? So I convinced Sister Tomoko to buy some as well."

Tomoko Matsumoto, whose motto is "only grow edible things", is willing to break her own principles and use the precious first-level space to grow flowers.

Just because Ginjo still remembered that Hoshino Chiaki said she wanted flowers.

"But, how should I put it? Qianqiu has already bought the potted plants she wants to grow. It seems that my doing this is a bit redundant."

Ginjo Sousuke cleared his throat and said.

"That's not the case."

Chiaki Hoshino shook her head, trying hard to suppress the heat in her eyes.

"Thank you, Sousuke. I'm so happy."

She is really happy, very happy.

If possible, she wanted to hug Ginjo right now, but unfortunately her hands were full of things and she couldn't do so.

She tried to squeeze out words filled with joy from her throat. Although she only spoke a few words, Ginjo nodded and said, "Is that so."

Oh, really, why not just throw the bag aside and run towards him?

Sosuke, I love you the most, thank you.

"I heard that adding butterfly flowers to salad is also delicious."

"what??"

Chiaki Hoshino couldn't help but ask back.

"Edible flowers are flowers that can be eaten. Does Qianqiu know this category?"

"have no idea..."

"In this category, plants are not eaten for their leaves, but for their flowers."

"Generally, special flower conditioning is used, which means that flowers are grown with fertilizers and pesticides that can be eaten."

"I also asked the store manager Nakajima, and she said that they probably didn't use any inedible pesticides, and that it would be fine to use the soil and fertilizer used to grow vegetables to grow these flowers."

What's going on? Hoshino Chiaki's emotions seem to be going in an inexplicable direction.

"It's...an interesting area..."

Chiaki Hoshino tried to hold back her headache, but just muttering to herself was exhausting.

"Right? And I seem to remember seeing somewhere that roses can be made into jam."

"I won't give it to you."

Ginjo stared passionately at the rose in Hoshino Chiaki's hand, but she replied to Ginjo in the nick of time and quickly turned around holding the potted plant.

As she walked towards the apartment door, Ginjo followed behind her with his long legs.

His target may not be Chiaki Hoshino, but the rose in her hand.

"It looks like they can be eaten as long as they are not sprayed with pesticides. Don't you want to give it a try, Qianqiu? I can go buy other flowers with you later."

"Don't try to bribe me, Sosuke. It's useless."

"Just flowers, just a little bit."

"I reject!"

"Chiaki-chan?"

"I can't stand being yelled at all suddenly like that!"

"No matter what?"

"No! No! No--!"

Chiaki Hoshino shouted coquettishly and trotted back to her wife's room.

Less than two hours later, the sunset had been completely replaced by night, and the restaurant in my wife's house was once again filled with fragrant aromas.

Fillet steak and sirloin steak are grilled on the sizzling iron plate, in addition to expensive lobster and abalone.

The wife, who had just been watered by Silver City, was in a very good mood, so she spent a lot of money to buy the best ingredients in the market.

"Wow, this is so rich, Sister Tomoko."

Chie Hoshino couldn't help drooling at the delicious gravy on the iron plate.

"Thank you for your hard work today. Be sure to eat as much as you can. There is still plenty in the kitchen."

When Matsumoto Tomoko mentioned the word "hard work", she deliberately looked at Ginjō.

"Yeah, leave it to me, Sister Tomoko. I'm already starving, haha."

Chie Hoshino was the first to put her hands together and shouted "I'm eating!", and the others followed her and started waving their chopsticks.

"You really only care about eating meat, Chie. Don't you eat any vegetables at all?"

Ginjo picked up some refreshing bean sprouts and put them into his mouth, while complaining about Chie Hoshino who had her mouth full of grease.

"Well, I think it's an honor for bean sprouts to be on the grill with steak."

Chie Hoshino spoke vaguely, and couldn't help but wonder in her heart, "Why do you have to stir-fry bean sprouts after frying such expensive meat!"

From the perspective of Teppanyaki, 100 grams of fillet costs about 15,000 yen, while a bag of bean sprouts is only 30 yen.

What's the reason for this gap?

Although she still wanted to argue with Yincheng, she was afraid of delaying her eating speed, so she simply stopped talking.

"By the way, Sosuke, Hojo-sensei wants to invite us to her studio again. It is said that the size we provided last time is very helpful for their work."

"Are you free next weekend? If possible, I will reply to Mr. Hojo in advance."

Chiaki Hoshino remembered that she received a message from Hojo Himiki on the way back, so she asked Ginjō.

"Okay, no problem."

Ginjo Sousuke readily agreed. When he mentioned Hojo Himiki, he couldn't help but think of the scene in that private office...

Chapter 606 If the size is too big...