I'm here to form a band, what do you want to do!

After saying goodbye to her family, Ito Rin led the two of them out.

It gets dark early in winter, but because it’s all snow, it doesn’t seem that dark.

The cafe is on the other side of the river, and you have to cross a bridge. They are curious about the stone bridge, so they stop there to admire it.

"There are no fish, what's there to see?" Ito Rin said, also leaning forward to take a look.

Apart from the disadvantage of no fish, the frozen river surface in winter, viewed from a high vantage point, is indeed worth appreciating.

So they all stopped and left after a long time.

Walk into the only coffee shop in the village.

There was a snowman piled up at the door of the store, and dim lights were on inside the store. When she pushed the door open and walked in, the warm atmosphere enveloped her body, making Nagasaki Suyo squint her eyes happily.

Just from this, you can tell that the cafe is pretty good.

Nagasaki Suyo glanced at the shop with few customers and tried to find a seat.

Ito Rin said to the waiter: "Reiko, I didn't expect you to survive."

Rather than being a waitress, she is the only one in the entire store, and she serves as a cashier, waitress, and barista at the same time.

She was originally furious, but when she saw it was Ito Rin, she laughed and hit his shoulder.

"I heard you were back yesterday, but you only came to see me now. And what do you mean I survived? My shop is running well."

Nagasaki Suyo frowned but said nothing.

This overly familiar relationship was like that of good friends, not the type she was wary of.

"It's a miracle, give us three cups of coffee." Ito Rin drank first

Took a big gulp of water.

After all, we don’t come to this shop to drink coffee.

"Three cups? These are." The cheerful short-haired girl softened her tone when she saw the two female companions he brought with him. She whispered, "What's going on? Did he find two girlfriends at the same time?"

"You discovered all this." Ito Rin said in surprise.

"Hey, I've known for a long time that you're not a good person..."

"I don't want coffee, a cup of black tea will be fine." Nagasaki Suyo helplessly interrupted their open and whispered conversation.

"Unfortunately, no."

"what?"

"I already said it's a coffee shop, so why is there black tea?" Ito Rin explained with a smile.

"……I see."

"What's even more terrifying is that all the coffee in this shop is instant. It's a miracle that the shop manager, a shameless profiteer, can still survive."

"Stop slandering me. Actually, we've been thinking recently whether we should open the store for half a year and then take a break for half a year. Customers, here's your coffee." Reiko came up with the coffee. The suspicious bubbles made Nagasaki Suyo swallow her saliva, and she felt that what Ito Rin said was right.

"Why, can't it continue?"

"Not really. I clearly earned all the money for the whole year in the first half of the year. I should be lying at home sleeping in the second half of the year." Lingzi said arrogantly with her hands on her hips.

"Because there are too many tourists?"

Ruoye Mu stirred the coffee in front of him, casually put a few pieces of sugar in it, and immediately guessed the real reason.

"See, this kind of person is the most despicable guy in the tourist attraction." Ito Rin complained, "It's mainly because the coffee she makes is so bad that no one in the village falls for it."

"Nonsense, the village is full of old people, that's why no one comes to drink."

Volume 2: Chapter 141 Let's just stay tonight

After saying a few words, the girl named Lingzi blinked her eyes and observed the people around him curiously.

Her face is very beautiful, and her every move reveals a temperament that makes her feel inferior, but the configuration of one man and two women is too strange.

Under their gazes, Lingzi didn't dare to say that they were all girlfriends. She just looked at Ito Rin and asked with a smile: "Who are they?"

"By the way, I haven't had time to introduce you yet." Ito Rin said, patting Nagasaki Suyo beside her.

"This is my girlfriend Nagasaki Suyo, that's my friend Wakaba Mutsu, and this one is Yamashita Reiko, who grew up around the same time as me. You can just call her Reiko."

"This guy went to high school in Osaka, and after graduating he came back and opened a coffee shop."

"Ahem, I think you don't understand at all." Lingzi pretended to cough, but she looked at them with her big eyes fluttering, and didn't believe her classmates' words at all.

Whose classmate would actually come back with me to celebrate the New Year?

Even if she's my best friend, it's impossible.

"I really don't understand. Why would you not go to college and come back?" Ito Rin raised the coffee in her hand and frowned after drinking it. "Damn it, I've been accustomed to Tokyo coffee. Now I can't drink it."

Lingzi rolled her eyes at him in annoyance, but she knew it didn't taste good.

Nagasaki Sushi didn't believe it, so she took a sip cautiously, then pushed the coffee away with a smile on her face, losing interest in it.

"It's really not tasty. Even with the help of tourists, we should be able to do better." After saying this, Ruoye Mu gave up.

She had no interest in coffee, but it didn't look like this was a place that would sell mango juice.

When I entered the village, I saw a greenhouse, but I wondered if there were cucumbers there.

Lingzi scratched her hair, looking slightly frustrated. Even though she knew it wouldn't work, such a straightforward evaluation was still quite discouraging.

"I've been thinking recently about whether I should make some improvements, but if I do, I might have to raise the price."

Ito Rin took three cans of coffee from the counter and used the taste to wash away the bad taste in her mouth.

"Then do it. Tourists are not fools. There's no way they can stand you being so bad every time."

Lingzi smiled shyly, waved her hands, and said, "It's a good idea, but the tourists who come to our store are not the same group every time."

"...Is this a monopoly business? You must be making a lot of money this way. Any tutorial you find online will be better than what you have now."

"I know. I'll close the shop starting tomorrow and go back to think about it carefully," Lingzi said.

"Huh?" Ito Rin laughed. "It's obviously because the weather is getting colder. Are you planning to slack off?"

Lingzi smiled and did not deny it. Seeing that her presence was a bit redundant, she took the initiative to leave.

"Childhood sweetheart?" Nagasaki Suyo asked with a smile in her tone.

"No matter how you look at it, you can tell she's three or four years older than me. That's a huge generation gap."

"At least we can see that they have a good relationship," Ruoye Mu said.

"There are only a few young people in the village, it's hard for them to have bad relationships," Ito Rin explained.

"This situation is really strange." Nagasaki Suyo pinched her chin.

But no matter what, her wish to drink coffee in the village ended there, but there was still good news, the canned coffee tasted good and could barely meet her needs.

"Is there any other place?" asked Nagasaki Suyo.

It’s still early. If I go back, I will just quarrel with Ruoye Mu. It’s better to take a walk in the village.

"Most of the places are B&Bs, travel agencies and the like. Oh, and how about the barbecue restaurant? It should still be open at this time."

After walking for so long, Nagasaki Suye's stomach was already empty, and her eyes lit up.

"Is it okay not to go back for dinner?"

"Wait a minute, I'll tell them." Ito Rin took out her cell phone and called her mother to tell them that they were going to have a barbecue and would not be eating at home in the evening.

A few minutes later, he returned, trying to smile.

"It's done."

"I heard everything. I was taught a lesson badly." Ruoye Mu said mercilessly.

Nagasaki Suyo nodded and imitated Ito Rong's tone: "Well, you obviously cooked at home, but you still went out to eat."

"Really? The last time she came to Tokyo, she insisted on dragging me to queue up for Malatang. As a result, when I came back and wanted to have a barbecue, I had to teach her this lesson."

"Hurry up, let's go." Nagasaki Suyo was too lazy to listen to his complaints, so she stood up and took her clothes.

The three of them walked into a barbecue restaurant in the dark again.

This place is much more popular than the coffee shop. Even on the nights near the end of the year, there are still many people here.

As Ito Rin walked along, she received so many greetings that they couldn't help but laugh.

When they finally sat down after going through so many hardships, Nagasaki Suyo exclaimed in amazement: "I didn't expect you to be so popular."

"There's nothing I can do, he's too handsome." Ito Rin said seriously.

"Wrong." Ruoye Mu flipped through the menu and said nonchalantly, "It must be because I came back from Tokyo."

"Could you please stop being so clever? Let me take the order."

The experienced Ito Rin knows clearly which dishes in the store are delicious, which are so-so, and which are absolutely not good.

Because the two girls don't drink, they didn't order the best-selling beer, but only ordered a large cup of Coke.

"Mango juice?" Ruoye Mu was still thinking about this.

"Sorry, no. Just bear with it for a few more days." Ito Rin comforted.

Ruoye Mu thought for a moment: "Where's the cucumber?"

　"Well, this is really available. Uncle, please wash two cucumbers for us."

"okay."

Various fresh ingredients and juicy cucumbers were served. It was not very high-end, but when paired with the warm charcoal fire, it was enough to make people salivate.

Ito Rin put beef and pork belly on it, while Nagasaki Suyo, who was not interested in this kind of thing, kept adding vegetables.

Mushrooms, corn, green peppers... Until the end, the curious Wakaba Mutsu also put cucumbers on and baked them, making them appear colorful.

"Even though I'm not traditional, this is really weird."

"Do you have any objections?" Ruoye Mu said.

"Of course." Ito Rin flipped the pork belly. "Is it still necessary to eat the dried cucumber?"

"..." Ruo Yemu pondered and suddenly felt that it made sense.

After taking another bite herself and frowning, she gave up the idea of ​​innovation, put her hands on the table, and waited obediently for the meal.

The beef cooked very quickly. If it was overcooked, the taste would be bad. Based on her experience, Ito Rin felt that it was about right, so she sprinkled a handful of spices from the store on it and it was ready to eat.

There were three skewers of beef, one for each person. Ito Rin was busy struggling with the pork belly, so she put it on the plate in front of her first.

"It's so greasy, I don't like it very much." Nagasaki Suyo bit off a small piece and ate it while criticizing.

Her vegetables are not ready yet.

"Do you want more?" Ito Rin picked up three more skewers of beef.

"Don't ask such questions." Nagasaki Suyo ate beef with a smile.

Ito Rin sighed that women's minds were really hard to guess. She drank a sip of iced cola, ate a piece of meat in big mouthfuls, and showed a satisfied look.

"I just want to live this kind of life forever."

"Do you want to eat barbecue for the rest of your life, or something else?" asked Nagasaki Suyo.

Ito Rin just looked at her and smiled without saying anything. It was not until Nagasaki Suyo rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction that he hummed a little tune and continued to grill the meat.

"It doesn't matter what you eat, what matters is who you are with." Ruoye Mu said softly after finishing eating the beef.

That's what I meant, but it wasn't time to say it out loud yet.

Ito Rin opened her mouth wide and stuffed the remaining two pieces into her mouth.

The cooled barbecue lacked the aroma of its hot counterpart, but it was enough to satisfy his taste buds.

After eating until their bodies got hot, they took off their coats and drank Coke, looking relaxed.

Nagasaki Suyo's corn is finally ready, and she says to Ito Rin, "Would you like some?"

"Give me the next piece. Do you want rice?" Ito Rin asked as she became hungrier and hungrier.

"Small bowl." Nagasaki Suyo nodded.