I will never give in to Miss Death

Accompanied by a gentle caress, the little hand slowly moved to my hair and stroked it a few times like stroking a kitten's fur.

"Like it?"

When I opened my eyes, I saw Xiaomo combing my hair and saying, "Nuo'er, do you want to learn it too?"

"I……"

I hesitated for a moment: "I may not be able to play it well..."

"It doesn't matter. Even someone as dumb as me can learn it."

The girl handed me the flute, raised it to my lips, and then gestured for me to press the holes on the right side: "Like this, pressing all together is called 'suo', which is expressed as a dot under the number 5, and lifting your little finger is called 'fa', which is the number 4. Try it."

I subconsciously pressed my hands on the holes of the flute as Xiaomo requested: "I learned these in music class when I was a child, but I have almost forgotten them... Hmm."

Then I put my mouth on the air inlet of the flute and blew.

"beep!"

Very crisp sound.

Then I realized one thing: Xiaomo had just played this flute.

In other words, we were kissing indirectly.

"Pfft hahaha..."

Seeing me standing there stupidly, Xiaomo laughed happily. She fell backwards while laughing and looked up at the moon above her head: "Nuo'er is still the same as before, silly."

"What a fool!"

I was unconvinced and said, "At most, we have only been together for... less than two months."

"But I have been watching you for years."

Xiaomo looked at me as if I were a stupid little girl. "From the time I came to this world with great difficulty and became a god here, to the time I became an ordinary person and rented Elodie's house to work, I have been watching Nuoer's every move here!"

Why does it feel so scary?

"This is an invasion of privacy!"

I sat up and said dissatisfiedly: "Protest!"

"Then in exchange, Nuoer can watch everything about me at will from now on, how about that?"

Bathed in the gentle moonlight, the girl in front of me had an expression of "It's okay with me": "Whether it's taking a bath, sleeping, or playing games or looking at weird websites like Nuoer did when she was alone at home before, we can be together."

What do you mean by looking at weird websites? By the way, is there any obvious difference between the way we get along now and what you said?

Don’t we sleep together, work together, and go home together every day?

"Puch..."

While I was hesitating, the girl in front of me laughed again: "Every time I see your expression, Nuoer, of being...very embarrassed, but trying to find a way to win back a game...hahahaha..."

"Full of bad ideas."

I punched the guy in dissatisfaction, picked up the flute, recalled the fingering of the recorder I learned when I was a child, and played the melody in my memory.

Toot, toot, toot…Twilight of the Empire under the Sun…

Toot, toot, toot… plum blossoms fall on snow-white clothes…

I can’t promise this life…dududududu…I can’t accommodate this life…dudududududu…

"If I wasn't a bad person, I wouldn't be alive today, and I wouldn't be able to see Nuo'er."

The girl next to me hugged me from behind and motioned for me to look towards the other side of the island - Dolly and Yueyue had already run most of the way, causing a very obvious noise in the forest, and the rustling sound along the way startled countless seabirds.

In the distance, Philo's huge wings can be vaguely seen hidden under the dark clouds, and Gabriel's angel halo is like a wisp of residual fire in the dark night.

"Every time I hug you like this, I feel like all the suffering I've endured over the past few thousand years is worth it."

After a moment of silence, Xiaomo, who was hugging me from behind, said softly, "Although to Nuoer, I may just be a bad guy whom she has just known for less than two months."

"He is indeed a bad guy."

I put down the flute, turned around and pushed Xiaomo down onto the messy pile of rocks on the top of the mountain: "But I didn't say I was a good person."

The girl under him was stunned for a moment, then smiled calmly and said, "Does Nuoer mean to learn bad things from me?"

"call out--"

Dolly and Yueyue rushed out of the forest and returned to the beach on the coast. Their little feet rubbed against the sand vigorously, making a noticeable sound.

“Becoming friends with a bad guy sometimes doesn’t mean you have to just become bad together.”

I poked the angel halo on Xiaomo's head and said, "Xiaomo, do you know why I came here today?"

"Didn't you give me that flute?"

"Besides that, there is one more thing, which is to express my gratitude to Xiaomo."

"Thank me for what I did."

"Nothing, I just wanted to say thank you to Xiaomo."

I blinked. "And...can I practice water magic again tonight?"

The girl under him was a little surprised: "Nuo'er, when did you become so proactive?"

“Just consider it as a way of expressing your gratitude.”

I leaned forward and said, "Please give me more advice in the future, dear."

"..."

Dolly and Yueyue broke through the finish line, ran a few steps along the coastline, and both lay down on the lawn.

"Yueyue."

"what."

"I want to eat small dried fish."

“I’ve finished eating.”

"I mean...your dried fish..."

"..."

That night, the moon is full.

"..."

……

No. 322 Large snack jar made by Noer

Just as Ouyang Xue had expected, buzz words such as [maid delivering takeaways], [new waiters in the coffee shop] and [coffee shop cat girl] became hot searches that evening, and the announcement "Nuoer's takeaway delivery event will last for two days" posted by Ouyang Xue on the official account and official WeChat and QQ groups won praise from countless customers.

Many people were happy that the coffee shop did not just let "Yin Nuoer" come out for a show, and were glad that they saw the announcement, and then ordered takeout with the mentality of giving it a try.

Normally, many people who don’t even have food delivery software installed did so after learning about this. Or, they added our newly launched WeChat and Alipay applets to their desktop, and then ordered food delivery from a coffee shop, just to experience the “maid delivery service” once.

Then the next day we received unanimous praise from netizens, who commented that our takeaway was "fast", "tasty", "Nuoer is cute", and "When will Nuoer wear cat ears".

This is also the part that makes me wonder whether to laugh or cry. Other people’s takeouts are labeled “large quantity” and “delicious taste”, but when it comes to ours, the labels become a mess, a bit like the ordinary books in online novels, where readers’ impressions are “harem”, “invincible”, and “highly productive”, but when it comes to me, it’s all “the author is a lolita”, “the author is my wife”…

Our coffee shop is listed on four food delivery platforms in total. Some platforms rely on their monopoly position to force merchants to "choose one of two", or use invisible "choose one of two" means to coerce users to choose one of the two. For example, if we only list on our platform, the handling fee is only 10%, but if we sign contracts with two platforms, a high handling fee of 25% will be charged. If we sell food worth 100 yuan, we have to unconditionally pay 25 yuan to the platform, which is very troublesome.

This kind of phenomenon is actually our old tradition. The authorities do not allow platforms to monopolize or introduce rules of "choose one of two". The platforms say that they do not force users to choose between the two. I make a fuss about the handling fees, just like some mobile phone APPs. If they do not allow splash screen ads, I will just shake the phone. I will not put ads when the screen is open, but if your phone is shaken or vibrates, it will automatically jump to the ad page and automatically download junk software. Anyway, there are plenty of ways to get around it.

Fortunately, with Dolly and Yueyue, we don’t have to pay the riders for delivery fees, and we were able to barely lower the price.

Ouyang Xue started delivering takeout in the store on the opening day, but the performance was not very ideal. Duoli Yueyue and I accidentally made some adjustments to the takeout store, and then delivered takeout all day the next day while the popularity was high. Basically, the diners around remembered the store, and Tongmeng’s Internet had a lot of related takeout videos.

It can be said that Ouyang Xue’s decision really gave me a feeling of “saving the coffee shop”, because if Ouyang Xue hadn’t said it, I would not have continued to deliver the food in the afternoon, and there might have been a large number of customers who saw the promotion and placed orders for food delivery, but I did not deliver it, thus becoming disappointed with our store.

The reason why the takeout business failed was something I had a brief discussion with Ouyang Xue, Xiao Mo, and we concluded that Nannai District is a relatively remote area with many elderly people around, and young people all work in the city center. Physical stores are okay, but no one knows how to use takeout apps and rarely comes into contact with them. The few young people who know how to use takeout apps disliked our slow delivery speeds and high prices, so we were unable to make the business successful.

However, based on the delivery experience of Duoli Yueyue and I over the past two days, the previous conclusion seems to be wrong. There are still many young people in the Minaminagi district who are willing to order takeout and are very fond of the two-dimensional world. The reason why the coffee shop has so few takeout orders is purely because our publicity efforts are not strong enough. After this incident, the takeout orders increased instantly.

Or in other words...it was no longer a matter of placing orders. The next day, the orders at the coffee shop could be described as "horrible".

Dolly, Yueyue and I will take three orders at a time and then set off. If the route is smooth, we will take four or five orders. After setting off, we will control our speed and arrive at the first customer's address within ten to fifteen minutes. It usually takes about thirty minutes to deliver three orders, and then we return to the coffee shop as quickly as possible. Delivering food in this way is okay in the morning and afternoon, but it is really unbearable during the peak dining hours at noon and in the evening. When there are the most people, Dolly and I will just step out of the door of the coffee shop, and the phone I am holding will receive a notification tone indicating that a new order has been received. When we come back half an hour later, there will be five or six more orders in the store.

There was no other way, so Ouyang Xue had to briefly explain the situation in the group and on the official account of Tongmeng.com, saying that due to too many orders at noon and in the evening, we will be divided into teams of two to deliver meals. Duoli and I will be in one team, and Yueyue will be in a team by herself. Everyone said that they could understand this. After all, Yueyue is a cat girl with a very lively and cute personality. She speaks with a playful "nia" accent, and even I feel like I'm healed when I hear it.

In this way, Dolly and Yueyue worked together, and the number of takeout orders delivered on June 10th was almost equal to the number of orders of the coffee shop in the whole month of May, and we received countless praises.

After that, I returned to my job as a maid. Xiaomo continued to be in charge of the cat living area on the first floor, Philo was in charge of the bar on the lower floor, Li Chen or Lan Jiajia made milk tea on the second floor, Gabriel tried live streaming under the guidance of Su Yunjin, the underground e-sports area was closed again and the facade began to be renovated, and Dolly and Yueyue were very adept at delivering food because of their experience in the previous two days. The Shangjing Cat Maid Cafe entered its "complete" state and operated smoothly.

……

We get up every morning to have breakfast together, go to the coffee shop to work, and go to Nannagi Tower in the evening to watch the love story of grandpa and grandma. Occasionally, we go to Yueerlan Island to chat, express our feelings, bully Xiaomo or be bullied by Xiaomo. In the leisurely time, several days have passed unknowingly.

That day, as usual, I got up in the morning and made breakfast for Dolly, Yueyue, Lan Jiajia and Xiaomo. I also helped Elodie prepare her "dinner", changed into the new uniform of the cafe, disposed of the garbage, and went out to work.

Today is June 16th, Sunday, Father's Day.

After a few days of getting to know each other, I've gotten to know Dolly and Yueyue's personalities and hobbies pretty well. Unlike Filogabriel, who is thousands of years old and has to run around everywhere every day, these two little ones still need some care from Xiaomo and me. Their magic level is not enough to allow them to play around as they please in human cities, and these two little ones don't have that kind of personality, so every night Dolly and Yueyue will come back to rest after delivering the last takeaway order.

The coffee shop's takeaway shop is only open until 9:30 p.m., and it closes after that. This basically means that Dolly and Yueyue's working hours are from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and they have almost no rest time. In my opinion, this kind of work is very inhumane, but the two little ones think it is completely fine, and even repeatedly stated that they do not need commission wages, which made me feel a little embarrassed.

"Today's breakfast for Dolly is a fruit salad, three carrots and two cucumbers."

"Yueyue has hairy crab porridge and a can of fish... come."

In order to make up for Dolly and Yueyue’s hard work, I cook a variety of delicious food for them almost every day. I can almost say that I “use all my life’s knowledge”.

These two people have two extreme preferences in food, one is a super vegetarian and the other is a super meat lover. But fortunately, their food preferences are not absolute. Dolly eats meat occasionally, and Yueyue is not the one who can't eat any vegetables or fruits, so I still have a lot of choices in cooking.

For example, the fruit salad I prepared for Dolly today includes a dragon fruit, an apple, some bananas and oranges, and then pour some salad dressing on it.

It is worth mentioning that all the salad dressings sold in supermarkets here are "Kewpie Salad Dressing". Although the name is a bit strange, it tastes good.

Dolly especially likes the carrots we have here. Before, Xiaomo probably thought it was too troublesome to go to the vegetable market, so she went directly to the fruit store to buy fruit carrots for her. Later, I took the initiative to go to the vegetable market and bought a whole big carrot. After eating it, Dolly thought that this big carrot was better than fruit carrots, so I basically used vegetable carrots when cooking for her afterwards.

As for Yueyue, her food would theoretically be much more "expensive" than Dolly's who likes to eat vegetarian food, but coincidentally, Kamihama City is a coastal city. There isn't much else but a lot of seafood, so it's easy to get wholesale prices for hairy crabs and canned fish here. I only need to buy an extra fish when I cook every day, and just order some canned fish on the way back.

What makes me most helpless is that two days ago, Yueyue came back from delivering the takeaway and saw me feeding Dingman with dried fish and canned cat food from the store. Out of curiosity, she also tasted a few bites, and then clamored to eat the canned cat food and dried fish in the store, and was pulled away by Xiaomo and me.

Although the canned cat food and dried fish in the store are from regular manufacturers and there is definitely no problem with hygiene, but for Yueyue's reputation and health, I would rather spend more time preparing other food for her.

The production method of most canned cat food is very simple. The meat is just cooked and then packaged without any seasoning. Moreover, most manufacturers will take into account that this is pet food when making it, and use some scraps to make cat canned food. I have seen it in Ouyang Xue's "Cat Raising Manual" before, saying that cat canned food is divided into staple food cans and snack cans. The main way to distinguish them is to look at the appearance of the can and the nutritional ingredient table. The staple food can has to add a lot of nutrients, so it is basically meat puree, and the whole is in a paste. From the nutritional ingredient table, you can see that the crude protein and crude fat are particularly high. This kind of cat can is a staple food can, which can replace cat food for cats for a long time.

As for snack cans, they are generally made of solid and soup. Canned fish for humans can actually be classified as snack cans. In cat snack cans, you can see very large pieces of fish, beef, shrimp, etc. The soup is very obvious or gelatinous, and the broth is obviously separated, which makes it look very nutritious. However, this type of canned food generally uses scraps or not very good ingredients, and some attractants are added to it. Cats will have an appetite when they see it, and will like it more than the staple food cans. It is precisely because there are too many additives such as attractants that snack cans are not suitable as the staple food of cats. They can only be fed occasionally as a reward.

At that time, what Yueyue fell in love with was the snack cans in the coffee shop.

I suspect the appetite attractant in it also works on her.

"Wow! Thanks!"

In the living room filled with the aroma of various ingredients, Duoli and Yueyue took the food I handed over and thanked me earnestly as usual: "Ms. Nuoer is still so virtuous. No wonder Ms. Momo treats us like babies and holds us to sleep every day."

"You are just sweet-talkers."

It can be seen that Xiaomo on the side seemed to enjoy it very much. She glared at Yueyue who was talking and sat down next to me: "It doesn't matter to me even if Nuoer can't cook."

"You two are showing your affection so early in the morning. Have you ever considered me, a single person?"

Lan Jiajia picked up the chopsticks: "Show off in the morning, show off at work, and stick together when you get home in the evening, hum."

"Doesn't Sister Lan Jiajia have Sister Elodie?"

After spending a few days together, Duoli and Lan Jiajia became good friends. At this moment, Duoli was chewing on a carrot and asked curiously, "I remember you guys are..."

"Cough cough."

Lan Jiajia interrupted Duoli and said, "Forget about Xiao Ai. I'm just thankful that she can think of me while playing games."

"Kacha."

As they were talking, the door of the house opened and Elodie pushed the door open from outside, yawning.

"They're all here."

As usual, Elodie came back from her early shift with dark circles under her eyes, as if she was never full of sleep. "Is there a share for me?"

"Yes, Nuoer made crab porridge today. We had roast goose last night, and I left a portion for you. I'll heat it up for you later."

Lan Jiajia quickly stood up and walked over, taking the bag from Elodie's hand: "Didn't you get enough rest again?"