--hyacinth

At four o'clock in the morning, she finished washing as usual, walked lightly through the corridor, took the elevator, and then rode an electric scooter to the door of the ramen shop where she usually worked.

Using the light of the mobile phone, she aimed the key in her hand at the lock hole, and when she twisted her hand to push the wooden door, a warm palm rested on her shoulder.

Pressing the rapid heartbeat, she turned sideways but did not look back.

"who is it?!"

After a brief silence, the palm on her shoulder was moved away and patted on the top of her head, followed by the helpless sigh of the man behind her.

"I said, Xiao Xinzi, it's not a bad thing to scream once in a while..."

The familiar voice made her relax her tense shoulders, and she turned on the screen of the phone, and she turned to point the light at the boy behind her.

"Qianhe..." She frowned. "How will you be here."

The mixed-race boy's skin became paler and paler under the light of the mobile phone. Facing the girl's questioning, Tachibana Chizuru just wrapped the clothes around his body, then shrunk past the girl and walked into the shop.

"What are you talking about here... I am also a member of this store from today, Xiaoxinzi~~~"

Then she walked into the room and skillfully turned on the light. She just lowered her eyes and didn't express much about the boy's words.

"Do you need me to take you to Santuchuan for another sleep and wake up, Qianzuru?"

After taking off her coat and putting on her apron, she began to prepare today's ingredients.

"If I go there, I really don't have to wake up again, you bastard!" Tachibana Chizuru waved his fist angrily, and took off his coat just like the other party, and closed the shop door casually when he turned around .

"I said, don't look at me like this. I have seriously thought about it. Mary, I should go to college next year. As a senior, if I don't work hard, how can I do it."

Looking up at the blue eyes of the young boy lying in front of the counter, she replied listlessly with a drawn out voice.

"Oh--"

Turning her head carefully, she can think clearly about the cause and effect. It must be the time when the boy and the boss were joking yesterday, which has already set the situation for today and the future.

One more person and one less person has no effect on her, she walked over the boy to the cabinet containing the kitchen utensils.Standing on tiptoe and extending her arms, she reached for the iron pot on the top of the cabinet.

The kitchen utensils that are within reach on weekdays somehow fell far short of her today. After several efforts, she realized the reality and turned around to move a stool to help.

Tachibana Chizuru, who had been staying on the side all the time, smiled patiently, and when she was about to move the stool, she stepped forward and reached out, and took down the things she needed from the top of the cabinet.

"Xiao Xinzi, you are really... You are really a lot shorter when you don't wear high heels."

Looking at the shoes on her feet belatedly, she suddenly remembered that before going out, she should give up the newly bought boots because she was too lazy to tie the shoelaces, and replaced them with flat snow cotton.

Glancing at the young man who was about two heads taller than her, she fell silent for a moment before raising her foot and kicking him on the knee.

"Wow - it's so dangerous!!!" Tachibana Chizuru, who dodged the attack sideways, shouted holding the pot. "Xiao Xinzi, what are you doing?!!!"

Reaching out to take the iron pot in the opponent's hand, she frowned and gave the boy a look of disgust.

"Your height is against morals in Bingsheng."

"So what's so strange about Bingsheng, you bastard!!!"

After setting up the pot, she was picking out the ingredients she needed on the material table. Tachibana Chizuru, who couldn't get her hands on for a long time, came to her side feeling awkward, and then poked her arm with her finger.

"Arnuo...what should I do, Xiaoxinzi..." She was used to finishing work alone, and was stumped by the boy's question. After thinking carefully for a while, she pointed to the broom and rag placed in the corner. The young man who was about to steal food commanded.

"Sweep the floor first, and then wipe the table after sweeping the floor."

Tachibana Chizuru, who got the job, quickly threw a piece of ham she had cut into her mouth and chewed it a few times, then gave her a military salute, turned around and picked up tools to clean the ground bit by bit.

After having someone to help, she suddenly felt that she was much more free. She turned on the fire to let the soup in the pot cook slowly. She took out the curtain and hung it at the door while the young man was cleaning the table.

The signboard marking the start of business was also lit up and placed beside the door. She turned around after packing up the other odd jobs, and what she saw was the boy who had finished wiping the table, sitting on the side and dozing off.

After thinking about it, she took off the men's coat on the hanger and gently covered him.

Keeping track of the time, she was sitting at the cooking table playing a newly downloaded game on her mobile phone, occasionally raising her head to check the size of the gas in hand.When it was around seven o'clock, she heard the sound of the supermarket across the street opening.Casually stuffing the phone into her pants, she glanced at the boy who was still asleep and put on his clothes, opened the door and walked towards the supermarket.

She frowns as she shuttles between the commodity shelves, facing all kinds of drinks and bread, she is completely at a loss what to do, she never eats breakfast, she doesn't know what the boy likes to eat in the morning, she picks and chooses, unable to know what to do, she scratches in frustration hair.

While hesitating, the doorbell of the supermarket rang again, and after seeing the person coming, she finally felt "saved".

"Is that...youxi-jun?" Waving her hand, she greeted the boy who had just entered.

After thinking for a few seconds, Asaba Yuki remembered who the person opposite was, squeezed the medicine bottle with his hand in his pocket, and nodded towards the opposite party with a blank face.

After seeing the boy nodding, she put her heart back in her stomach, and when the boy approached, she scratched her face in embarrassment, and whispered.

"Youxi-kun, you should know what Qianzuru likes to eat in the morning."

Turning his head, Asaba Yuki looked at the girl beside him strangely.

"That..." Seeing the boy's puzzled gaze, she waved her hand a little awkwardly, and stammered an explanation to him. "Qianzuru is also working in the ramen shop now. It should be the first day. I don't know the time. He came to the shop at four o'clock. I think he didn't have breakfast, so..."

"Ah, that's it." Turning his head indifferently, Asaba Yuki reached out to take a box of mixed juice from the shelf, and then took a pack of Oita Yakisoba bread from the shelf on the other side.

"For Chizuru, these should be fine."

Turning around and handing the things in his hands to the girl behind him, Yuki Asaba spoke.

When she took the things, she obviously breathed a sigh of relief. After bending down and bowing to the other party, she took the things and walked to the cashier.

When the other party turned to leave, Asaba Yuki heard a crisp sound at his feet.Looking down, it was a car key with a hyacinth pendant.Thinking of the figure of the girl who had just left, he bent down to pick up something and looked up, but he couldn't find the bright red figure.

After a daze, he stuffed the key into his pocket, then took what he wanted from the shelf and turned to leave.

"From that bottle of medicine to today's key, if there is no 4 o'clock, he will never do it."

Silently thinking about the points on the bread bag in the girl's hand just now, Asaba Yuki walked to the cash register to pay.

When she returned to the store, she found that Tachibana Chizuru had woken up from her sleep, and was frantically wiping the cooking table with a rag.After asking the familiar question, she immediately understood what happened in the store. She glanced at the gas that had been turned off, and stuffed the juice and bread into the other's arms, took the rag and continued to clean up.

"Huh? Huh??" If it could be visualized, she could definitely see the question marks popping up from the boy's head.

"From tomorrow onwards, you don't have to come so early. Apart from preparing the ingredients, there is actually no other work to do. You just need to come before uncle arrives at nine o'clock."

Under the girl's signal, Tachibana Qianhe opened the bread and ate it in big mouthfuls. After hearing the other party's instructions, he looked suspiciously at the girl who turned on the gas stove again and added water to make soup.

"But uncle said that you come to the store around four o'clock every day."

He sighed helplessly, "I came early because the soup base like tonkotsu ramen needs to be boiled for more than 7 hours to taste, otherwise I wouldn't come here to work before ten o'clock."

"In this case, don't I have nothing to do?" Swallowing a mouthful of juice, Tachibana Qianhe wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

"Don't dream in the early morning." Picking up a spoon and hitting the other person's head, she said contemptuously. "From now on, I'll leave it to you to clean the table, wash the dishes and deliver the food every day, and I'll just be in charge of making ramen."

"Huh?! This is too much, Xiaoxinzi!!!"

"Then you come over at four o'clock to cook soup and do things?"

"..."

Asaba Yuki, who was in class in class, saw the lights on his phone when he was in a daze. He who had always ignored things like emails couldn't resist the boredom of class, turned on his phone, and pressed read.

The email was sent by Tachibana Chizuru, and a photo was attached.

"This is where I will work from now on, remember to come and support me when you have time, you guys."

The background of the photo was the ramen shop he knew well, and in front of the background was the figure of the blond boy with his mouth raised and his scissors raised.With his mouth upturned, his hands pressed the keyboard quickly, where the teacher couldn't see the podium.

"If you give me four points, I will think about it."

Click "Send." He closed the phone and continued to look at the foggy scenery outside the window.

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"Youxi, that guy actually replied to the email. Is it going to rain red or my mother is getting married? Or is that guy finally remembering to take his medicine today?!"

Picking up the spoon in her hand and hitting the opponent's head hard, she took the address written in her hand and stuffed it into the boy's arms.

"It won't rain red and Auntie won't be getting married. If you have the time to read those messy novels in my family, why don't you go and deliver this takeaway, young man Qianhe."

Tachibana Chizuru casually handed the delivery box containing ramen to Tachibana Chizuru, and she picked up the rubbish left on the table after the other party's breakfast.

"Ah~~~ Wait a minute, Xiaoxinzi." Ju Qianhe, who glanced at the packaging bag, suddenly said. "Well, can you give me the sticker with the number on the bread bag?"

Glancing at the bag in her hand, she tore off the sticker according to the other party's words.

"Are you collecting things?"

Tachibana Chizuru touched his head and smiled when he heard the question, "It's Yuxi, he prefers to collect these things."

She nodded and pasted the sticker on the counter table, and she threw the bag in her hand into the trash can. "Then put it here first, and you will bring it to him when you have time."

"That's it, I'm going to deliver food."

"There is my electric car at the door, and the key is in my pocket. It will be faster to ride." Chao teenager pointed to the black car parked at the door, and she reached out to find the key in her clothes.

"Ah? Where's the key, why is it missing?" She searched several times and couldn't find anything, looking at the empty pocket in surprise.

"It's okay, the address is not far away, I'll just walk over there." Tachibana Chizuru waved his hand and said with a smile, "You look for it slowly, maybe it's in your satchel."

Nodding her head, she watched the boy disappear outside the door, then lowered her head and frowned, thinking carefully about the place she passed in the morning.

"Where did the key drop off?"

The author has something to say: Believe me, Uncle Fujiwara is cute, and Chizuru is also a professional player who sells his teammates.

The heroine is careless and doesn't explain, and may be in a hurry at critical moments...

Speaking of which... Does the heroine have an IQ?