Parrot Aoi and Raven Ado

The hot spring hotel of the Hayakawa family was built on the mountainside. From here to the top of the mountain, it is all the land of the Hayakawa family. However, due to the terrain, the main building of the hotel was not located at a particularly high location.

This is a family business, and Hayakawa Seiichi is the third generation.

Since their ancestors, the Hayakawa family, who have been running a hot spring hotel, has always adhered to the principles of doing things with a conscience and opening a store. After decades of operation, they have accumulated a lot of fame and word of mouth.

The Hayakawa family's hot spring hotel has four floors and covers a large area. Although it is an old-fashioned steel-concrete structure, it has been built with care and maintained properly, so its functions and safety are still very good.

In addition to a high-rise hotel located on the mountainside, there are more than a dozen two-story Heshi wooden houses scattered among the sea of ​​flowers on the mountain according to the terrain and springs. Those are more advanced villa-style rooms in the hotel. .

When Hayakawa Chengyi entered the hotel lobby with a sunflower parrot, the hotel had already started to operate normally, and there were well-dressed room service/service staff pushing the dining cart on the kitchen side, delivering nutritious and delicious breakfast to the early guests .

"Good morning, Manager Hayakawa, good morning Aoi."

"Good morning~."

"Good morning, Ms. Noguchi, is the truck delivering supplies to the kitchen here?"

"I've already been here, Mr. Qingtian inspected the goods, and the checkout receipt has been placed on your desk."

"Okay, I'll see in a moment."

"Good morning, general manager. Ah Kui, you came early too."

"Good morning~, Aoi will come here with the master every day~."

"Good morning, Ms. Nanase, how was the guest room last night? Is breakfast in the guest room ready for today?"

"The guest room was very quiet last night, and no guests came to ask for service or help. Except for rooms 402 and 403, which have been greeted in advance, the rest of the breakfast has been delivered."

"Very good, are there many guests scheduled to check in and check out today?"

"There are a lot of guests who are scheduled to stay, but there are no check-outs yet. We have already reached the cherry blossom season here, and the sea of ​​cherry blossoms on the mountain will soon enter the blooming period. At this time of the year, the passenger flow and occupancy rate are only a lot higher. "

Simu Mountain is a famous hot spring scenic spot and a holy place for viewing flowers in the county. Every year in March and April, various varieties of cherry trees planted on the mountain will bloom one after another. The flowers are like the sea and the petals are like rain. Beautiful and unreal.

This is also the time when the hotels and hotels on the mountain have the best business. Even if the price of staying at this time is [-] to [-]% higher than that in the off-season, it still cannot stop the flow of people watching the flowers. Like rushing to the top of the mountain.

The hot spring hotel run by the Hayakawa family has a good location, a great reputation, good service, and high cost performance. Therefore, starting from January every year, regular customers start calling to book rooms one after another.

At the beginning of February, the bookings were even more frequent. In less than a week, all the rooms in the hotel, no matter what grade or price, had been fully booked.

Taking advantage of the east wind of the flower viewing season, the reservation of rooms at the hotel has reached the middle of next month, and there is no vacant room before that. At this time, passengers who want to stay can only try their luck to see if there is any. Guests who canceled or checked out early.

After asking the supervisors about the daily routine of the hotel, Hayakawa went to his own office to prepare for work.

His current job is the general manager of the family hotel. After his father retires, he will manage all the affairs of the hotel.

After watching the owner go to his office, Aoi spread her wings and landed on a high metal bird stand on the right side of the hotel lobby.

There is Aoi's workbench. Its job at the hot spring hotel is to receive the bird at the front desk.

It is said that it is the receptionist, but it is not very specific. If you really want to explore it seriously, the nature of Ah Kui's work should be more similar to that of the receptionist.

Whenever a guest pushes the door and enters, Ah Kui will flap her wings and say in a loud and enthusiastic voice: "Welcome, have a nice stay~~."

And whenever a guest leaves with their luggage after checking in, the crested sunflower parrot, whose working position is very close to the gate, will say respectfully and politely: "Thank you for your visit, and welcome to come again next time~~."

It works like this every day, conscientiously and diligently, never cheating, cheating, or being lazy, so that every year when the hotel is nominated for the best employee, the sunflower parrot will be a popular person... , Ahem, it's the bird's choice.

The thick stack of certificates of excellence on the small attic of Hayakawa’s home is a reward for Aoi’s decades of work. Mr. Bird said in a gracious manner that if he will not participate in the competition for the best employee of the year, he will give the opportunity to the newcomers.

As time passed, the number of passengers at the hotel gradually increased, and the crested sunflower parrots stood on the 'workbench' to greet them. If they met curious guests, Aoi would also meet them The guests talk or even take a group photo. In short, it is its service tenet to make the guests feel at home.

Finally sent away another wave of guests who went upstairs to check in. Taking advantage of the small number of people in the lobby, they have been working continuously for two or three hours. Time bowed his head to the water glass to take a sip of water.

It was also really thirsty, and Aoi didn't care about the image or image problem, so he plunged into the water cup specially prepared for him hanging on the metal shelf, and it even had a thirst-quenching belt to cool down at once.

After drinking water, the sunflower parrot shook the wet feather crest on its head, and shook off the water droplets hanging on the feathers. Appeared.

After taking photos again and again at the glass door of the hotel, after confirming that she was indeed handsome, Ah Kui started her work again with her head held high.

During the lunch break, the employees took turns to eat and rest. Ms. Nakano, who is in charge of the front desk service today, brought Aoi its lunch, a large handful of fresh sunflower seeds, before the break.

The recipes of crested sunflower parrots are very mixed. Seeds, fruits, nuts, young leaves, young shoots, insects, flowers, lean meat, etc. are all foods they can eat.

Judging from the recipe, this kind of bird is very easy to feed, because they have a variety of recipes and are not picky eaters. As long as you pay attention to the maintenance temperature and the safety of the imported food, there will generally not be any major problems.

But in fact, in addition to heat preservation and food, how to take care of the crested sunflower parrot's emotions is the most important thing.

Because of its long lifespan and intelligence, this kind of bird has high IQ and EQ. If they don’t get enough love and care, the crested sunflower parrots who feel lonely and insecure are prone to psychological problems, which in turn cause physiological problems. on the impact.

It's a pity that the problem of emotions can't be established in Ah Kui. He is busy with work every day, and he has to accompany his little master to read after returning home. Awake.

For things like emotional illness, the parrot knocking on sunflower seeds means that it doesn’t know what kind of bird it is. Is it important to have an owner and a job?

After noon, the number of guests staying in began to slowly decrease.

At three or four o'clock, basically no new guests will come to check in. After all, this is a hot spring hotel in a scenic spot, not an express hotel in the city center.

Ah Kui, who had been serving as a welcome mascot on the bird stand for six or seven hours, once again spread her wings, flew out of the hotel lobby and circled in the sky, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, she waved her wings and flew eastward. Next to it is the largest open-air parking lot here in the scenic spot.

Mr. Ohno, who was in charge of the charging and management of the parking lot, only felt that the light dimmed in front of his eyes, and when he looked up, he saw a familiar big bird descending from the sky, landing familiarly on his small management gazebo.

Mr. Ohno, who was enjoying hot tea with a cup of water, said hello upon seeing this: "It's Aoi, you are really punctual every day."

As soon as he finished speaking, a bright yellow baby car drove up on the road far away, parked firmly in the open space near the parking lot, opened the door, and a group of children wearing little yellow hats and carrying small schoolbags Lu Jumped out of the car one after another.

In addition to the hot spring hotel and the scenic flower sea, there are still some families living on Simu Mountain. When the children of these villagers reach the school age, they have to go to the school at the foot of the mountain or in the city. There is no school on the mountain.

Fortunately for the older children, those middle school and high school guys can basically solve the problem of going to and from school by themselves, and the children in elementary school and kindergarten need to be picked up by the school bus.

In order to save time and effort, the kindergartens and primary schools at the foot of the mountain have stipulated a unified pick-up and drop-off point on the mountain, which is the open space near the parking lot.

Keeping her eyes fixed on the children getting off the stroller, Aoi suddenly kicked her legs vigorously, spread her wings high, and then fell towards a child.

Miyuki Hayakawa, who jumped out of the car, was already ready. She held the sunflower parrot that fell from the sky with her hands open and firmly. Under the envious eyes of other boys, she carried her schoolbag and carried the bird to her home proudly.

Picking up the children who get out of school at home is a habit Aoi developed after living in Hayakawa's house for many years.

Fortunately, it’s just picking up the children from school. When its owner Hayakawa Chengichi, Aoi didn’t just pick up the children from school, he even sent them to school. He landed on the front of the owner’s bicycle all the way, and accompanied him no matter the weather. From home to school and back from school.

Miyuki bounced back home with the big parrot in her arms. Grandma Hayakawa, who knew her granddaughter's school time well, had already prepared afternoon tea for her and Aoi.

Putting snacks and fresh strawberries on the dining table, Mrs. Keiko touched her granddaughter's head, stroked Aoi's feather crown and said, "Thank you for your hard work, eat quickly."

At this moment, Aoi had already grabbed a piece of strawberry cut specially for her with her paws, but her little master directly took out the textbook and said, "There is not much homework in kindergarten today, I want to finish writing before eating."

"Is it in time?" Grandma Hayakawa asked concerned.

"Well, it's too late, just give me half an hour." The little girl with doll hair answered affirmatively while holding a pencil.

Seeing this, the sunflower parrot, which was planning to enjoy afternoon tea, quickly put down the food on its paws, lined up its legs in a straight line, and hopped up to its little master, supervising her to complete her homework.

Today's homework in kindergarten is just some very simple arithmetic problems, all of which are addition and subtraction within ten, which is a problem that even stupid children can solve by counting their fingers.

Of course, Xiao Meixue doesn't need to count her fingers, she is very clever and fast in mental arithmetic. While she is doing the problems, the sunflower parrot on the side is also peeking at her homework.

It is not uncommon for a Aoi, who is already happy and mature in his thirties, to be able to understand numbers and simple addition and subtraction.

When the young Hayakawa Seiichi was teaching his pet characters and numbers one by one on the hot table in the old house, one stroke at a time, I am afraid that no matter what, he would never have imagined that today, decades later, that pet The sunflower parrot, who learned words and knowledge from him, will become his daughter's special after-school 'tutor'.

The little girl didn't make a mistake in calculating any of the questions today. In order to reward her, Aoi specially gave her her afternoon tea and a portion of sliced ​​strawberries.

And Miyuki didn't mean to enjoy it exclusively. After finishing her kindergarten homework, she brought snacks and fruits to the living room with Aoi.

Turn on the TV, tune to the channel they want to watch, and share the delicious food on the plate while waiting.

When Grandma Hayakawa came over with the milk, she saw her granddaughter and her eldest son's crested sunflower parrot huddled together, eating the chopped strawberries in the fruit plate one by one.

After eating the strawberries, Miyuki scooped out the raisins in the dessert and gave them to Aoi, and then ate the rest of the cake by herself.

Seeing how her little granddaughter and the big parrot lived in harmony, Grandma Hayakawa recalled 30 years ago in a trance.

At that time, my eldest son was also Miyuki's age, and he also sat in front of the TV after returning home from school. At that time, Pi Xiaozi's favorite game was the game taught by the teacher to the students.

Pi Xiaozi was a teacher himself, and the big parrot that looked very immature was his student. At that time, the little teacher always waved the pen in his hand with a serious face, and persistently said again and again: "One, one this The letter is the number one. I, that's how I write it, and the word means a name for myself."

Grandma Hayakawa couldn't help but laugh when she thought of how the bird couldn't learn at that time, and was chased by the little teacher who insisted on teaching it, flying around and splashing the bird's feathers.

I am afraid that the eldest son himself would not have thought that the oppression of playful nature in his past would teach a bird like the one he is now.

As the night darkened, the Hayakawa family returned home one after another after a day of work and study.

After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to enjoy their alone time, and Aoi flew back to the small attic on the top floor.

This was originally the place where Hayakawa's house piled up sundries. Later, when Chengyi got married and Aoi moved out of his room, this side was refurbished to become its own separate room while the renovation was taking place.

It has lived here for six years. Although it is very happy to have a separate space, occasionally it still misses the time when it and its owner slept on the same pillow.

Standing on the bird's nest, I simply combed my feathers, and listened to the sound of the teacher's clock downstairs beating ten times. I fell asleep on my legs, and within a few minutes, my fluffy belly covered with a small square towel began to rise and fall regularly.