"I thought it was you!"

……

Kiyono's mother looked at Watanabe Toru's red ears and asked curiously:

"What's wrong with your ears, Watanabe-kun?"

"Nothing, I just had a bad sleeping position."

"Then why are you rubbing your face?" asked Kujo's mother.

"My face is numb too."

"What kind of sleeping position is this? Why is it like this?" The two mothers looked curious.

Qingye Rin turned her face away, revealing her snow-white shoulders under her Christmas dress, shaking them slightly, trying to hold back her laughter.

Kujo Miki glanced at her and snorted.

"Okay, let's get the Christmas party started!"

Qingye's mother pressed a switch, and the castle-like chandelier above went out. Except for the fireplace, the living room was dark.

But the next moment, the lights on the ten-meter-high Christmas tree lit up amid the singing of "Jingle Bells".

Although it is not bright, it is enough to see the surrounding light, which fills the entire living room.

Under the pressure of the mothers, the five people each held a firecracker.

The mother of nine counts: "One, two, three!"

"Merry Christmas!"

Everyone opened the firecrackers.

After the cannon was fired, the five drank another glass of wine - obviously three of them were not old enough to drink.

"Okay, let's exchange gifts!" Kujo's mother put down her wine glass and said impatiently, "Watanabe-kun, I have prepared a very good gift for you."

"Shall we just exchange directly?" asked Toru Watanabe.

"Of course not. Although I really want you to get it, you have to follow the rules." Kujo's mother clasped her hands together, and waves of emotion surged on her chest.

Watanabe Toru looked away, deciding not to look at her.

"I have asked someone to prepare it." Qingye's mother rang the bell, and a maid came over and saluted everyone.

Watanabe Toru looked at the scene in confusion.

Mother Kiyono explained:

"Yingzhi will sing Christmas songs later, and we will pass each other's gifts in a clockwise direction. Yingzhi stops, and the gift in his hand is his Christmas present."

Yingzhi saluted again.

"What about getting yours?" asked Qingye Rin.

"Then continue, do you understand?" Qingye's mother glanced at the three young people.

"Let's get started!" Watanabe Toru took out the Christmas gift he had prepared, "I can't wait!"

"Watanabe-kun is really quick-tempered, but mom doesn't hate it." This sentence was said by Kiyono's mother.

"..."

"Watanabe-kun is my son!" Kujo's mother reminded.

"It's our son." Qingye's mother said with a smile, and looked at the maid standing by, "Yingzhi, thank you for your help."

"Yes."

The maid named Yingzhi sang "Jingle Bells" softly, her voice was gentle and pleasant.

"Jingle bells jingle bells"

『Jingle all the way』

"Oh what fun it is to ride"

The two beautiful girls looked refusal, but the two aunts were very excited. Not only did they sing along, but they also occasionally looked at other people's gifts with an expression as if they were peeking at their cards.

Women always say that men are children who never grow up and that they themselves will always be girls.

Yingzhi stopped singing when he sang "We are sitting on the sled."

"Did everyone get their gifts?" asked Qingye's mother.

"No." Watanabe Toru replied.

"Me neither." said Qing Ye Lin.

"No." Miki Kujo didn't get it either.

"We too, let's start opening our presents, starting with you, Watanabe-kun, okay?"

"no problem."

The bag that Toru Watanabe got was the ugly bag of Rin Kiyono.

The second one was Miki Kujo, who received a Christmas gift from Kiyono’s mother, a white wide-brimmed sun hat.

"Let's go on vacation to New Zealand this winter." Just when Watanabe Toru was wondering why to give a sun hat in winter, Kiyono's mother suggested.

"Yes." Kujo Miki nodded, "Thank you, Auntie."

The third one is Kiyono Rin, the Christmas gift from Kujo’s mother.

"This is incredible." Kujo's mother said this when Kiyono Rin was opening the gift.

Afterwards, Kiyono Rin took out a red box the size of a cigarette box from the beautifully packaged box, with "0.01" written on it.

"I prepared it for Watanabe-kun. After all, he is still young." Kujo's mother said with a smile.

"Auntie Kujo..." Qingye Rin clasped her hands together and pressed her forehead against them. She faced the table and her tone was full of helplessness.

"Don't be angry, why don't Rin and Watanabe-kun swap places?" Kujo's mother acted as if she had come up with a good idea.

"What I have in my hand is Kiyono's Christmas gift." Watanabe Toru raised the ugly brand-name bag in his hand.

"Then only you and Xiaolin have switched, Miki." Kujo's mother looked at her daughter.

Miki Kujo took a deep breath helplessly, put her white sun hat on the table, and reached for the box of "0.01".

Qingye Rin did not stop it, and it was unclear whether she agreed or just didn't come to her senses.

Miki Kujo's slender, white hands formed a sharp contrast with the red box, and Toru Watanabe couldn't help but take a peek.

Kujo Miki noticed his look and threw the box on his lap:

"Take it."

"We also..."

"Be careful and restrained." Kujo's mother looked at the two of them gently.

"……Um."

Chapter 200: Christmas before the End of the Semester (9)

Kiyono's mother got the belt prepared by Watanabe Toru, while Kujo's mother got the bathing powder for her daughter.

Both were satisfied.

Next, everyone shared the cake baked by Qingye's mother and ate the fried chicken made by Kujo's mother.

In addition, there is a wide variety of food.

Roast suckling pig, sausage, ham, stew, steak, lamb chops, pork chops;

Mashed potatoes, French fries, ketchup, puff pastry tarts, ice cream, salads, various puddings, and various fruit pies;

Roast duck, pan-fried buns, spring rolls, dumplings, puffs, biscuits;

Kaiseki cuisine in Kyoto, takoyaki in Osaka, seafood in Hokkaido, grilled eel in Nagoya, sushi in Tokyo, soba in Nagano, pufferfish in Kyushu...

All of these things were placed on the long table, surrounding a huge golden roast turkey.

"Watanabe-kun, how about fried chicken? I haven't made this for a long time." asked Kujo's mother.

Toru Watanabe dipped the fried chicken in hot sauce and took a big bite.

"Tell the truth?" He asked the four people in a tentative tone.

"Come on, why are you being so polite to me?" said Kujo's mother with a smile.

"Compared to me, there is still a gap."

"Watanabe-kun, can you cook?" Kiyono's mother was dipping slices of roast suckling pig in sugar.

This scene reminded Toru Watanabe of Kitauji Bridge. During the school trip, by the Uji River, Kiyono Rin said that she ate roasted suckling pig dipped in sugar.

“I don’t know how to cook,” he said. “I worked part-time at a supermarket near Nishi-Shinjuku Station, in charge of the prepared food section.”

"Deli section?"

"Well, it's mainly oden, various fried foods, and fried chicken. I work five days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and weekends. During the time I'm in charge, the transaction volume in the deli section far exceeds that of other time periods. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the little prince of the deli section."

"So delicious? I really want to try it!" Kujo's mother said expectantly.

"It doesn't matter if I'm good enough, my boss has never raised my hourly wage."

"Besides these, what other jobs has Watanabe-kun done?" asked Kiyono's mother curiously.

"Stop talking nonsense." Qingye Rin and her mother spoke at the same time.

"What nonsense?" Watanabe Toru was unhappy, "Kiyono-san, which of my lies did I tell?"

Qingye Rin put down the apple pie in her hand.

She first said calmly: "You are always being clever."

Then, point out the truth: "You only have a pretty face."

"Guess?" asked Watanabe Toru.

"Was it wrong?" Qingye Rin asked back.

"I'm so handsome, no matter what I do, I'm inevitably affected."

"Use your brain to think about serious things instead of thinking about various ways to lie all day long." Qingye Rin said bluntly.

"Everyone has their own situation. With my intelligence, I can handle even the most serious matters easily, so I have plenty of time to relax my brain."

"Smart? In front of me?"

"Number one in the country." Toru Watanabe puffed out his reindeer chest.

"To measure a person's intelligence by their grades proves that you are not smart enough and that you have a narrow vision."

"Awesome, not only is your brain not working, but you also deny my gaze, is this double payback?"

Qingye Rin put her hand to her mouth to hide her smile.

At this time, Qingye's mother's voice came, also with a smile:

"You two stop arguing. Watanabe-kun, did you hear what I just said?"

Oops—this word popped up in Watanabe Toru's mind.

Sure enough, in the corner of his eye, Kujo Miki was also looking at him out of the corner of her eye.

Their eyes crossed.

What she meant was: I'll deal with you later.

"In addition to supermarkets, I have also held up billboards, but that kind of work requires paying a part-time company for dispatch fees, and it is very hard work. Unless I am short of money or have other reasons, I will not do that."

"So you heard my question. I thought you only had eyes for Rin." Kiyono's mother said in surprise.

Miki Kujo was eating the peeled king crab legs boredly, and under the table, she stepped on Toru Watanabe's foot as if nothing had happened.

Grind it hard.

The reindeer suit is really good stuff, thick enough.

Toru Watanabe only felt that Kujo Miki was giving him a massage.

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