Chapter 66: Thousand-year-old troubles, new friends (Part )

dong dong.

dong dong.

knocking.

A young woman in her thirties knocked on her daughter's bedroom door.

"Rinka, Rinka, can we go out? Let's go out for dinner with dad. Didn't we agree to go out for sushi as a family today?"

"Wait, wait a minute."

There was a faint response from inside, and Mrs. Hiiragi waited patiently. After about five minutes, the door opened.

Rinka Hiiragi tidied her clothes and appeared in front of her mother in a panic.

When she saw her mother, the girl subconsciously put her hands behind her back.

"Rinka——"

"All right."

Hiiragi Rinka lowered her head and took her right hand out from behind her back. Soon, a green snake about 50 centimeters long came out from her sleeve and crawled onto her shoulder. The green snake had a round head and round eyes, and it raised its chin and spit out its pink tongue at Mrs. Hiiragi.

Mrs. Hiiragi saw the snake and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Why did you want to take Xiaoqing with you when you go out?"

"Xiaoqing just woke up from hibernation and wanted to go out and play."

"Then why don't you bring Xiaobai?"

"It said it didn't want to go out."

"Rinka."

Mrs. Hiiragi knew that her daughter seemed to be able to understand what small animals were saying, and she also understood that the two snakes her daughter raised were very well-behaved.

She understood her daughter's desire to take care of a pet, but as a mother, she still had to persuade her.

"If you take Xiaoqing out, it will scare others."

"It's okay! Xiaoqing can hide in my clothes like before. It's very obedient."

Rinka Hiiragi reached out and touched the little snake head on her shoulder. The next moment, Mrs. Hiiragi saw the rat snake named "Xiaoqing" climb along her daughter's collarbone and into the clothes on her chest, and there was no visible clue from the outside.

"Where did you climb?"

"In the stomach."

".Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable?"

“It’s icy and cool, and it feels good.”

"." Mrs. Hiiragi smiled stiffly and choked for a long time.

"Mom, is it okay?"

Mrs. Hiiragi showed an embarrassment, "If Rinka can guarantee that Xiaoqing won't show up in front of others, Mom can agree."

"Of course!" Rinka Hiiragi's eyes were full of gratitude.

"Okay then, Dad is waiting outside in the car and is anxious, let's go quickly."

"Where should we go for sushi?"

"Yunohana Otaru Onsen," Mrs. Hiiragi said as a matter of course, "It's only a half-hour drive away. It's the most highly rated inn in Otaru, right? We've never been there before."

Hiiragi Rinka thought about it and nodded.

A little after seven in the evening, Rinka Hiiragi and her family arrived at Yunohana Onsen.

In fact, this was to celebrate Hiiragi's promotion, so he brought the whole family out for a big meal to celebrate.

The family atmosphere is very lively.

"Rinka! Dad's salary has increased again. Do you want more pocket money?"

"."

"Don't like it? Do you want me to bring you some action figures when I go to Tokyo on a business trip? I'll tell you a secret. Bandai has released new products recently, MR Ascension Freedom and MR Immortal Justice! Daddy was too busy with work recently, but I know that Rinhua will definitely like these two! Well, let's put it this way, next time Daddy goes to Tokyo, I'll bring them back for you!"

Hiiragi Rinka looked like the child's father, "."

Mrs. Hiiragi frowned and hit Hiiragi's father on the head with chopsticks.

"Why are you hitting me?"

"You bought toys for yourself in Rinka's name. What's the point of buying those things? You just put them in the display cabinet after you bought them. Now the whole house is either your figurine wall or Rinka's candy wall. I don't even have room for my cosmetics."

"I can ask Rinka to move some candy out for you."

"Why don't you move your own figurines? You're bullying your own daughter. Let me tell you, our Rinka can't make any friends, and you're also responsible."

"How can you blame me for this? You just like playing with me."

Hiiragi's father didn't dare to get angry with his wife, so he started to care about his daughter's life: "Rinka, have you made new friends at school?"

".Yes, I have." Hiiragi Rinka thought of three people, Kokoharu, Yue, and Chitose.

"Oh? Tachibana Kita's classmate?"

"Yes."

"Are you having fun now? What's your name?"

Hiiragi Rinka lowered her head, "It's fine, Matsumae Shinharu."

"Matsumae?" Hiiragi's father said seriously, stroking his chin. "It seems that the major shareholder of our company is named Matsumae. Could she be his daughter? How about you find a chance to invite this Matsumae classmate to your house for dinner? Maybe it will be very helpful to Dad's work."

Mrs. Hiiragi glared at them angrily, "We're out eating and still talking about work!" "Haha, sorry, sorry."

As the couple chatted, Hiiragi Rinka felt like she didn't fit in between her father and mother.

She couldn't agree with anything her father said, but every time he could have a happy chat with her mother who had different hobbies.

Are they friends or husband and wife?

Is it friendship or love?

Rinka Hiiragi wasn't quite sure, she only knew that her parents were not lonely at all and had the company and emotional support of people of the same age.

At this time, the waitress from the hot spring shop came.

Chitose Yang Kui came in front of the family with a chopping board in her arms. The moment she came in front of the guests, the girl's calm face habitually showed a smile.

"Sir! I'm so sorry! There are a lot of guests today, so I came a little late."

At the same time she discovered Rinka Hiiragi, Rinka Hiiragi also discovered her.

The girl was a little surprised, and Chitose winked at her deliberately.

"It's okay." Hiiragi's father thought the waitress at the hot spring shop was very cute. She was the same age as his daughter. He took the menu and said, "You're so young and you're already working at the hot spring shop to earn money. It's really hard."

Yang Kui Chitose kept smiling and responded enthusiastically, "No, no! I'm just helping my parents. The business in the store has been good, and my mother and father are busy in the kitchen, so they need me to help take care of the store."

"Oh! That's even better, very filial. Your hot spring shop also has hotel services, right?"

"correct."

"That's even more tiring. We also have to take care of the guests' rooms. Let's have three servings of Wariko soba first. 100% Hokkaido buckwheat flour, four pieces, and you only sell it for 1500 yen? You're really generous with the ingredients. Then let's have three servings of Kagetorra."

Shadow tiger is fried tofu that has been frying into tiger stripes, one of the specialty dishes of the hot spring restaurant.

"Yes," Yang Kui Chitose nodded, wrote down everything, and still smiled enthusiastically, "Is there anything else the guest needs?"

"Ten more sushi, any type you want."

"No problem, any more?"

"More yakitori. That's all for now. Thank you for your help."

"Then please wait a moment, there are many customers now, and it will take about ten minutes to serve."

"It's okay, it's already pretty quick."

Yang Kui Chitose smiled and said goodbye and left.

Rinka Hiiragi never expected that Chitose's home would be the famous Yunohana Hot Spring in Otaru.

What a coincidence
Ten minutes later, Yang Kui Chitose came on time with large plates and served the dishes to the family one by one.

"Sir, I'm so sorry! I kept you waiting!"

Rinka Hiiragi also noticed that there was something special on her portion of sushi. Should this sushi be called, gummy sushi?
There are some orange-flavored gummy candies next to the sushi.
Weird sushi
But Rinka Hiiragi knew that this was made specially for her by Chitose. She even winked at her and said hello before leaving.

So heartwarming.
While eating, Hiiragi's father was also looking at the antique furnishings around the hot spring shop, and sighed, "The prices in their shop are reasonable even if they are doubled. No wonder they are so popular. When you invite friends to dinner, everyone comes here."

Mrs. Hiiragi put the sushi into her mouth and thought it tasted quite good. She subconsciously covered her mouth:
"Such a good piece of sushi is only 200 yen, so you can't make much money, right?"

"The quality is excellent, the interior decoration is also good, and the reputation is good, but the price has not increased. This is a pity for himself," Hiiragi's father sighed and said, "I can only say that the owner is a persistent person."

The food is delicious and the restaurant is lively.

Halfway through the meal, I realized that the parents across from me were drunk.

The two men held up large glasses of beer and kept toasting, eating, cheers, eating, and cheers. Then they reminisced about the past and told each other the bad things they had done during their school days.

Before long, both of them were drunk, revealing their extremely bad drinking habits.

They pushed each other, mocked each other, complained about each other's difficulties in life, then toasted each other, took a bite of sushi, took a sip of beer, and finally called each other "wife~" and "husband~" affectionately and hugged each other.

After eating for more than an hour, both of them slumped over the dining table.

Rinka Hiiragi secretly fed the little green salmon fillet on her lap, then she remembered that her father had driven here and both her parents were drunk, so how could they get home?

She was socially anxious and didn't dare to talk to the clerk at all.
When she was anxiously thinking about what to do, fortunately a clerk came over and asked what was going on. Only then did Hiiragi Rinka dare to speak out her needs in a low voice.

Even though the clerk listened to it several times, he finally understood what Hiiragi Rinka said:
".I see. How about we stay in the hot spring hotel for now?"

"Is that okay?"

The clerk asked Rinka Hiiragi to go to the front desk to register her parents first, and then asked two clerks to help her help her parents into the hotel room.

Around 10pm, my parents woke up once and vomited.
Rinka Hiiragi was so scared that she hurried to take care of them, washing their faces, making the bed on the floor, and finally coaxing them to keep calling "husband~" and "wife~". After her parents went to bed, she began to help the hot spring shop deal with her parents' vomit in the bathroom.

It was completed around eleven o'clock.

Rinka Hiiragi was lying on her side on the floor, unable to sleep. She gently stroked the scales on Xiaoqing's back under the quilt with her thumb, thinking about the way Chitose looked when she left this afternoon.

Why does Chitose have such an unhappy expression?

Xiaoqing had no intention of resting yet. The snake seemed to sense its owner's emotions and crawled from the quilt into Hiiragi Rinka's clothes, from her belly to her waistline, from her waistline to her front chest, and finally from her collarbone to her neck, and finally put its head on the side of her cheek.

".Thank you, Xiaoqing."

Hiiragi Rinka reached out and touched its head on her cheek, lowered her eyebrows, and asked, "Xiaoqing is also sick, do you know why Chitose has such an expression?"

Xiaoqing spat out her snake tongue.

"I don't know. That's right. I can't sleep. Xiaoqing, do you want to go out for another walk?"

Xiaoqing went around the girl's neck and rested her head against her chin.

Hiiragi Rinka stretched her neck and smiled, "Don't do that, it's itchy. Let's go out for a walk."

(End of this chapter)