"It's a bit messy." Qingye Rin said with a smile.

"Then I have to tidy up."

Watanabe Toru left the kitchen, and Watanabe Ei smiled softly and asked Kiyono Rin:

"How did Xiao Che know that you only eat soft-boiled eggs?"

"We found out when we had breakfast together during the school trip." Qing Ye Lin recalled the scene and couldn't help laughing. "We even had a fight over whether it should be well-done or medium-rare."

"quarrel?"

"Ah."

Watanabe looked at the smile on Kiyono Rin's face and didn't ask any more questions, but just smiled too.

Chapter 208 New Year in Iwate Prefecture: His and Her Morning (5)

Toru Watanabe tidied up his sticky hair and prepared breakfast.

"Xiao Che, go upstairs and wake up Miki." Watanabe's mother instructed her son while bringing breakfast to the table.

Toru Watanabe thought about how Kujo Miki usually got into a bad mood when she woke up, and the habit of not leaving breakfast for her family.

"I'll bring it up to her," he said.

"Eat in the room?" Watanabe Branch asked in surprise, "Then I'll keep it for her, and eat it hot when she gets up."

"No need to bother."

Breakfast consisted of hot milk, toast with strawberry jam, fried eggs with salt, various vegetable soups, and scones.

Toru Watanabe placed these on a wooden plate and carefully carried it upstairs.

"Meiji, it's time for breakfast."

Walking into the bedroom, Miki Kujo was curled up in the quilt.

Kiyono Rin's bed, which was originally next to her, has been put away and neatly folded in the cabinet.

Toru Watanabe held the food tray and knelt beside Miki Kujo's pillow.

She only covered herself with a small part of the large quilt and held the rest in her arms.

Under his head, there was a corner of the quilt.

"Meiji?" He bent down and combed her bangs with his hands.

Miki Kujo's flawless profile shone brightly in the morning light that came in through the window.

Watanabe Toru placed his finger between her eyebrows and slid along the perfect curve of her nose to the tip of her nose.

As if feeling itchy, Kujo Miki rubbed her nose on the quilt and made a slightly dissatisfied sound of "hmm~~" from her mouth.

Watanabe Toru couldn't help but smile.

He pinched her delicate and pretty face: "Get up, eat before going to sleep."

"Hmm——" This means I don't want to eat and don't bother me.

"I've brought it to you. Just sit up and eat."

Kujo Miki didn't move.

In order to finish work quickly and go back to her hometown with Toru Watanabe, she probably didn't sleep well these days.

Toru Watanabe put the food tray at his feet, held Kujo Miki with both hands, and held her in his arms.

"Hmm——" This means what are you doing, I'm so annoyed, it's very cold.

Watanabe Toru let her lean on his arms, then pulled the quilt over her and covered her.

"Come, drink some hot milk first."

In the few seconds it took him to pick up the hot milk from the tray, Miki Kujo was almost asleep in his arms.

Watanabe Toru held the cup to her mouth for a long time before she took a sip.

Put down the milk and use chopsticks to break the fried egg.

"Fried eggs, ah——"

Miki Kujo closed her eyes, put the fried egg into her mouth, and then chewed it while preparing to fall asleep.

Seeing that she had almost finished chewing, Toru Watanabe picked up the steaming vegetable soup.

He picked up a piece of white radish soaked in soup, blew on it twice, and prepared to feed it to Kujo Miki in his arms.

Before the white radish reached her mouth, just as she smelled the scent, Kujo Miki turned her face away and buried herself in his arms.

"Don't want white radish?"

“……”No words.

Watanabe Toru ate the white radish himself and picked up the soft cooked carrots.

"This time it's a carrot, so sweet, come on, ah——"

Miki Kujo took a small bite and threw away the remaining half.

Toru Watanabe threw the half-broken carrot into his mouth.

"My beautiful princess, your honorable queen, next is the soup." Toru Watanabe blew on the edge of the bowl.

Hot white mist floated out of the bowl, and the room seemed to warm up.

Miki Kujo didn't mind the soup and drank three sips in a row.

"The next dish is toast." Watanabe Toru tore off a bit of the soft white part, "The sauce is homemade jam, it's delicious."

Miki Kujo put the toast into her mouth, and her cherry-colored lips moved mechanically.

"Drink another sip of milk!"

"Well, Meiji is so good, and then there's toast!"

“Pair it with a small bite of vegetables for a balanced nutrition!”

He ate half of the toast and only took one bite of the vegetables, and the rest was eaten by Watanabe Toru.

During this time, Miki Kujo kept her eyes closed and her head rested on Toru Watanabe's chest.

"Next is the delicious scones, freshly baked~"

Toru Watanabe tore open the thin pancake.

The heat stored in the pancakes was released all at once, and the aroma of the flour roasted by the charcoal fire also dissipated.

He threw a small piece into his mouth first.

"Hmm, delicious."

I fed Kujo Miki a little and she ate it; I fed her a second bite and she didn't want it.

He tore the remaining scones into small pieces and soaked them in vegetable soup.

Wait until they are full of soup, then feed it to Kujo Miki with a spoon.

As she chewed, Toru Watanabe noticed that her long eyelashes were glued to her porcelain-white skin.

It must be because of the tears caused by sleepiness.

Perhaps only Watanabe Toru has ever seen Kujo Miki being so out of control, lively, unrestrained and relaxed.

He held the spoon in his hand, stretched out his little finger, and gently lifted his eyelashes.

After doing this little thing, Kujo Miki stopped chewing and he fed her another bite.

After most of the breakfast was finished, Kujo Miki refused to eat anything and just buried her face in his arms.

Watanabe Toru put away the dishes, put her back on the bed and covered her with a blanket.

"Sleep well, and when you wake up, I'll take you around the village."

After whispering something in her ear and kissing her soft lips, Toru Watanabe took the tray and left the room.

The awake person left and the bedroom returned to silence.

After a while, the sleeping person wrapped the quilt tighter and buried his face in it.

At the window, in the beam of light on a winter morning, dust particles are entangled with each other.

Toru Watanabe returned to the living room.

Watanabe's mother and Kiyono Rin ate slowly.

Watanabe's father had already finished his separate breakfast and left before Watanabe Toru delivered the letter.

As the year draws to a close, the delivery work becomes even busier and he can only rest on New Year's Eve.

On the stove, the pancakes were puffed into balls and the kettle was steaming.

"Did Miki eat it?" asked Watanabe's mother.

"Yeah." Toru Watanabe put the plate into the sink.

Watanabe's mother got up and walked to the stove, poked a hole in the swollen pancake, and after confirming that it was ready, she picked it up with a pair of tongs and placed it on Watanabe Toru's plate.

Toru Watanabe sat down at the dining table.

"Auntie is very nice to Watanabe-san." Kiyono Rin said with a smile.

There were still some freshly made scones on the table, but they were not hot enough anymore.

Watanabe Toru tore open the pancake that had just been taken off the stove, looked at his mother, and said to Kiyono Rin:

"It's only been a few days since I came back. If you look back in a few days, you won't even have food to eat."

"What nonsense!" Watanabe's mother denied.

Toru Watanabe took a bite of the pancake and drank a sip of soup.

"Got it?" He raised his eyebrows at Qingye Rin.

"I understand." Qing Ye Lin, who could see through lies, nodded, "But you do like to talk nonsense."

"Don't talk nonsense."

"Auntie, do you know what Watanabe is like in school?"

"I often talk to Mr. Koizumi on the phone, and he says he's doing very well."

"Teacher Koizumi is so pitiful." Qing Ye Lin sighed for Koizumi Aonai, "Auntie Zhi, Watanabe-san usually stares at her all day long..."

"Look at the blackboard!" Watanabe Toru stopped drinking his soup and interrupted her. "I'm looking at the blackboard, right, R-san?"

Qing Ye Lin looked away from Watanabe's mother and looked over with a smile: "Am I still talking nonsense, Watanabe-san?"

"Nonsense, I'm talking nonsense."

R-san smiled as if he were a winner.

"Mom, Tokyo women bully me." Toru Watanabe looked for an adult.

Watanabe's mother laughed happily and said to Kiyono Rin:

"Xiao Lin, I'll trouble you to look after Xiao Che at school from now on. Tell me if there's anything."

"Okay, Auntie."

"Let's exchange contact information."

"Ah."

Looking at the two people who not only exchanged emails but also added each other as LINE friends, Toru Watanabe felt worried about the future when he thought that Kiyono Rin never lied.

Although I didn't do anything illegal, there are some things - such as looking at Kiyono Rin's legs, which there is absolutely no need to let my parents know!

Not only did the two of them exchange lines, but Watanabe's mother also pulled Kiyono Rin into the Watanabe family group.

Watanabe Toru thought about it and pulled in Kujo Miki, who was still sleeping upstairs.

The size of the family group changed from three to five.

Toru Watanabe looked at the number and thought of his senior classmate Mai Asuka who was far away in Tokyo. Maybe one day in the future, this number will become six?

I don't know how his parents will look at him at that time...

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