The slightly weird commander's ship girl tour

Although no one has ever seen the boss ladies take action or summon those magical ship suits over the years, the fact that time has not left any traces on those beautiful cashiers and shopping guides also tells everyone that they are ship girls.

But no one minded.

In other words, when it comes to bookstores, people only care about whether there are books they want, whether the opened books can be read freely, whether the air conditioning is cool in the summer, and whether it is warm in the winter.

As for whether the boss is a human or a ship girl, it doesn’t matter.

The reason why this store is popular is that it is cheap and affordable, and it allows children to read any books they want, even if it means opening the covers.

You should know that in some bookstores, the shopping guides are even reluctant to let you hold the book in your hands for one more minute without buying it.

Therefore, this bookstore is not just a bookstore, but is also regarded as a small library by many surrounding blocks, a place for children to relax and have leisure time, and a place where many people have childhood memories.

However, this bookstore has been closed for half a month.

Starting from the end of July, inexplicably, no one knew why, this bookstore, which had been operating normally, closed its doors, and until now, until the Mid-Autumn Festival, it has not opened again.

A simple notice was posted on the glass brick door. There was no explanation or time, just the words "temporarily closed".

At first people thought that the boss had something urgent to do, or he was renovating the house, or preparing for an event for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

However, more than half a month has passed, and the bookstore has not changed at all. Even the sign light that used to be on all night has never been lit again.

People suddenly realized that this bookstore, which had been open for who knows how long, was probably going to move away.

On this day, the gray-blue curtains behind the brown glass on the second floor of the bookstore were drawn up, and bright light once again shone through. Some children who were bored and playing under the trees on the street suddenly opened their eyes wide with joy. Is the bookstore going to open?

However, looking through the window, all I could see were rows of bookcases covered with thick dust sheets, and a tall, thin figure wearing a thick black coat.

She had long golden hair and was leaning against the window, looking out into the distance at Quanjing Street. Her gaze was exactly the same as the one of the children playing under the tree now.

It was a look of expectation, a look of longing, and a look of doubt.

It was a look of... disappointment.

The thick grey curtains were drawn, blocking out the light, and the children were once again unable to see.

Maybe the bookstore will never open again.

Chapter 648 Gift

The festive atmosphere became more and more intense from lunch on.

In Huang Chen's opinion, no matter what festival it is, a big meal is always necessary, or this is the custom of the Donghuang people. Not only festivals, but any major event in life can be replaced by a good meal.

Whether it’s one hundred days old, when someone goes to school, graduates, works, gets married, has children, reaches old age, or passes away, you have to call your friends and get together for a good meal.

Needless to say, when it comes to holidays, you must have a good meal.

Instead of choosing the hall, they directly used the terrace prepared for the evening party, put out various bamboo chairs and benches, and everyone gathered together in a lively atmosphere.

Yixian also took this opportunity to fully demonstrate his cooking skills. Of course, I don't mean to have many dishes, but to make them exquisite. Others did not hide their skills and let Yixian work alone, and they all showed their skills.

Therefore, the table was filled with dishes. In addition to the dishes prepared in the kitchen, there were also hot pot and barbecue. In short, there was everything you could think of.

Everyone ate and talked, and time passed slowly until it was past three o'clock, but the table still looked as if it had not been touched.

"This lunch is so rich, I probably won't be able to finish it until evening."

Huang Chen put down the chopsticks in his hand, picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth and said.

While chatting and eating, he always felt that he didn't eat much and his stomach was full unconsciously. But in fact, looking back, he had been sitting here eating for an hour or two, and maybe he had eaten more than usual.

Yixian, sitting on the other side, chuckled and said, "It's okay, we can eat until night and enjoy the moon."

"I can't eat anymore." Huang Chen raised his chopsticks and probed again. Finally, he rubbed his stomach and shook his head, putting it aside. "I'll rest for a while and then eat."

Hearing this, Yixian immediately laughed, "Okay, then let the commander rest for a while."

Huang Chen nodded, walked to the open space next to him, and then picked up Taiyuan, who had been unable to sit still at the dining table and ran over to read a book, and sat comfortably on the bench.

The little girl was a little frightened when he suddenly picked her up, but she only let out a small cry and then covered half of her face with the book.

"This guy..." Harbin shook his head at the table and suddenly looked at Yixian, "Speaking of which, the dinner party lasts until tonight. Do you want mooncakes? What else do you want to prepare?"

"Well, what do you think?" Yixian asked.

Before a few reliable adults could say anything, the little ones like Pinghai, Fushun, etc. could not wait to jump up and cheer for the mooncakes.

"Okay, I'll get it then." Yixian said, and just as he was about to stand up, he saw Harbin stand up first. "I'll go, I just finished my drink."

"Hmm..." Yixian hesitated.

Zhenhai, who was standing by, also stood up and said, "Then Harbin and I will go together. Yixian, you prepared so many mooncakes for everyone. Now that there is such a small task, don't you want everyone to help?"

"Okay." Yixian no longer refused after hearing this, and smiled and told the location of the mooncakes and other things.

Harbin listened and couldn't help but click his tongue, "This is too much... Zhao and Ying Rui, come over and help!"

The two nodded, stood up and walked downstairs. Fushun Changchun also followed him downstairs with skipping steps. Suddenly, the terrace that was quite lively just now seemed much emptier.

"Why is everyone leaving?" Hai Qi asked in confusion while sitting in a corner, but after a moment he chuckled, "This place is just empty, I'll put on a show for everyone!"

As the girl spoke, she jumped up from the chair and ran to the open space. She reached into the air with her little hand and took out a colorful spear from somewhere, and began to dance with it vigorously.

Haitian smiled and said, "Although the moon hasn't arrived yet, the reunion has already begun. The so-called Mid-Autumn Festival is nothing more than a family reunion. Since everyone is already here, what difference does the coming of the moon make?"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and the atmosphere, which had been temporarily quiet due to the departure of the Harbin group, became lively again. Everyone enjoyed the flower-gun performance and chatted about all sorts of things.

Yixian talked about some stories about their past visits to C2, and Yuzhang and the others could also tell some rumors. Of course, everyone was most concerned about Huang Chen. Even though he was just talking about Taiyuan's experiences that he had told countless times in an incoherent manner, everyone listened with great interest.

Soon, the sound of little girls' footsteps could be heard in the corridor.

Yixian looked up and was about to greet them, but he first saw a dark mass approaching, squeezing through the door and onto the terrace.

Then I saw Harbin under the dark shadow.

Yixian was a little confused, "This is..."

She stood up and found that everyone who had been sitting around chatting casually had gathered around her and was looking at her with a smile.

Harbin was carrying the strange thing to the middle of the terrace and placed it there. It looked like a tree, but it was covered with a layer of cloth, so no one knew what it was.

"Everyone... Commander..." The girl was a little confused.

Then Changchun stood in front of the thing, holding a microphone he had gotten from somewhere and said loudly, "Sister Yixian..."

Then everyone said in unison, "Happy holidays!"

brush--

Harbin tore off the black cloth covering the tree. Suddenly the branches began to shake, and the golden osmanthus flowers trembled and fell like snowflakes, while the penetrating fragrance had already spread across the terrace.

"This is a gift from everyone to you." Huang Chen stepped forward and said, touching the head of Fushun who was grinning beside him.

This plan was first conceived by Fushun and Changchun, then found in Harbin, then in Huangchen, then in Zhenhai, and finally became everyone's common blessing before noon today.

And the gift is no longer just a simple osmanthus tree - on the branches of the tree, there are many red notes hanging, on which are written everyone's blessings to Yixian.

Harbin placed the earth firmly on the flower bed on the right side of the terrace, while Zhao and the others used the racks they had prepared long ago to support it and briefly planted the osmanthus tree on the terrace.

"Everyone..." Yixian pursed her lips and suddenly chuckled, "What a beautiful osmanthus tree. Thank you all for the gifts. I like it very much."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Yixian lowered his head and said a little embarrassedly, "But I'm sorry, I didn't think of preparing gifts for everyone."

"How could that be? Aren't the mooncakes that Yixian prepared for everyone a gift? Aren't the three meals a day that Guoyu prepared for everyone a gift?" Huang Chen said immediately.

But the girl just shook her head and laughed again, "But it just so happens that with this osmanthus tree, everyone can look forward to hanging flower cakes!"

Chapter 649 Free play

There are many ways to prepare osmanthus flowers.

The most classic one is osmanthus wine, also known as osmanthus wine. In addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also a delicacy on weekdays.

As a wine that can be preserved for a long time, it extends the fresh fragrance of osmanthus from the flowering period to other seasons. Even in the dead of winter or midsummer, you can experience the sweet taste at any time.

However, brewing osmanthus wine takes at least a month. Even simple glutinous rice wine requires three or four days of preparation. This is a delicacy that requires a lot of effort.

However, some simple ones, such as osmanthus cake, can be made.

Yixian pondered over it, and immediately called everyone to tear off the black cloth under the tree, and then used a bamboo pole to shake the osmanthus tree.

As the branches swayed, the golden stamens fell like snowflakes again, gathering on the black cloth, covering it layer by layer.

"That's a lot." Yixian chuckled, "If I have these, I can try a few more different pastries."

"Well, I want to eat osmanthus buns!" Pinghai said seriously while looking at Yixian.

Ning Hai tugged at his sister's clothes and said, "Osmanthus cake is better than osmanthus buns!"

Yixian couldn't help laughing. "They're all equally delicious. You can also prepare sweet-scented osmanthus buns..."

As she spoke, she weighed the osmanthus flowers in her hand again. The tree didn't look big, but it produced quite a lot of osmanthus flowers. She estimated that there were probably about two or three pounds.

Because everyone is leaving tomorrow, we have to use up all the osmanthus flowers today, so we have to say that we are a bit rich.

"How about we all think of some ways to cook with osmanthus? In addition to osmanthus cake, everyone can use their creativity." Zhenhai on the side seemed to see Yixian's thoughts and suggested.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ping Hai raised his hand and said, "Osmanthus sugar buns!"

Everyone laughed, and Zhenhai shook his head helplessly, "Okay, including the osmanthus sugar buns, there's still more."

"And..." Huang Chen blinked, unable to speak for a moment. Seeing that no one seemed to have come up with an idea yet, he said, "How about this? We move the tools and ingredients to the terrace, and everyone can work together. While preparing, we can freely express our ideas as they suddenly come to mind."

"Play freely..." Yixian nodded slightly, seemingly not understanding.

"Of course, it's not completely free-flowing," Huang Chen explained. "For example, now we've decided to make osmanthus cake... and osmanthus sugar buns, so we'll just make them now. Maybe we'll suddenly have a new idea along the way, and we'll discuss it and make it if we think it's suitable."

Everyone lowered their heads and thought. The reason why they couldn't say what they wanted to eat like Pinghai did just now was because no one wanted to eat anything in particular.

Everyone usually eats Yixian's food and has long developed the habit of finding everything delicious. Now, if you suddenly ask them what they want to eat, they can't say it right away.

Because everything made by Yixian is delicious.

Huang Chen's words provided a clue, just like drawing an auxiliary line to help those who were doing the test. Everyone suddenly felt their thinking become active, and all kinds of ideas emerged.

The little ones immediately jumped and ran to the kitchen downstairs, while Harbin and Huang Chen quickly went to the hall to prepare a long table and set it up.

There is already a sink on the terrace, so at least the work before the last step of setting up the stove can be done here.

At the beginning, everyone helped Yixian to sort the osmanthus flowers. If you want to eat the osmanthus flowers that were shaken directly from the tree, you have to wash and select them carefully. Of course, some rotten and insect-infested ones have to be discarded.

Before he started preparing the osmanthus cake, Harbin heard the sound of people buying rice wine downstairs and immediately had the idea of drinking a few bowls of osmanthus wine meatballs.

Then the other girls also came up with new ideas one after another: Osmanthus Flower and Pear Soup, Osmanthus Flower Spare Ribs, Osmanthus Flower Sugar-coated Baba...

Some things that can be prepared are put on the preparation list, while some things that are difficult to prepare, such as sweet-scented osmanthus drunken crab, have to be abandoned because hairy crabs cannot be found.

Yixian is the head chef, responsible for the most critical seasoning, while the others are just laborers, doing various odd jobs.

At first, the osmanthus cake was taken to the kitchen to be steamed. Later, Zhenhai found a barbecue grill from somewhere and modified it to build a small stove on the terrace.

Now, except to get food, no one went downstairs anymore.

A pot of pastries came out of the pot, and before the fragrant aroma could spread, the pastries had already been distributed among everyone.

Everyone worked, chatted, and ate as the food came out of the oven. Not only cakes, but also the freshly brought-in mooncakes, as well as the dishes prepared for lunch, barbecue and hot pot meat.

How could this be considered preparing evening cakes? This was clearly a picnic on the terrace.

Many of the entertainment activities prepared before were not used. Poker, flying chess, etc. were not taken out yet, and the sky was already gray.

Huang Chen walked to the door and turned on the light on the terrace. Looking at the mess around him, he couldn't help but shake his head. "Those who know know that the cakes were eaten by everyone, but those who don't know would think we didn't do anything this afternoon."

Yixian smiled, "These pastries are best when they're first made... Ah, Commander, the osmanthus glutinous rice and lotus root are ready too."

"Okay, okay." Huang Chen turned his head and watched the steamer in the corner being opened and the lid lifted. Thick steam immediately rose up, revealing a plate of light red dishes.

He took a step forward, carefully brought it out and placed it on the table. The residual warmth between his fingers made him unable to help but touch his ears. He saw Yixian holding some golden flowers in his hand and sprinkling them on the glutinous rice lotus root.

Suddenly, the fragrance of osmanthus and the sweetness of the glutinous rice lotus root were mixed together, and an enticing smell filled everyone's mouth and nose.

"This is the last pastry. The osmanthus flowers are all used up." Yixian clapped his hands and chuckled.

Huang Chen couldn't help but let out a sigh, "It's actually all used up."

"Yes, the moon is about to come out." Zhenhai leaned on a lounge chair and raised his head lazily to look at the sky.

"Ah, the moon is coming out?" Fushun's attention immediately shifted away from the pastries, and he walked around in circles on the terrace in a panic, looking around.

"Fushun!" Anshan couldn't help but shout.