[Net King] Winter Snow

Uemura Yuriko was not too surprised when she knew her mother was fired.Although nearly four years have passed since Ichiro Uemurata's incident, many people's first impressions of their mother and daughter are still negative and bad.The girl has long been used to this kind of unfair discrimination, so when Uemura Ami smiled weakly at her and said, "Mom was fired again", Uemura Yuriko just rubbed her sore cheeks for her mother sensibly. shoulders, accepting this reality with equanimity.

The air in the apartment was a little cool, and the bright yellow light shone on the low wooden table. For a while, neither mother nor daughter spoke.Uemura Yuriko looked at her mother's gradually graying hair, feeling a little sour in her heart.The girl picked up the comb and gently smoothed Uemura Ami's hair, then slightly lowered her eyes and said, "I'll find a part-time job in a few days."

"No!" Sure enough, as soon as Yuriko Uemura finished speaking, the woman in front of her immediately rejected her proposal.

The girl with twin ponytails did not speak, but quietly brushed her mother's hair from top to bottom with a comb, with some sighs and helplessness between her brows.The quiet air was stagnant, and the breathing sounds of the only two people left in the entire space were rising and falling.

"Yuriko," after a long stalemate, Uemura Ami finally spoke, "You just need to study hard, and I'll figure out how to deal with the family affairs."

"But..." Knowing the current situation at home, Yuriko Uemura bit her lower lip.My mother's original savings are running out, and the fees of private schools like Lihai University have never been cheap. Although I have always received scholarships, I can't hide the current predicament at home.

"This is not something you should care about, good boy." The woman was still bracing herself, she didn't want her daughter to bother because of these things, "I promise Tian Yilang to take good care of you, Yuriko, you don't have to think about anything."

"Last month's rent, didn't you pay it?" With lowered eyebrows, Yuriko Uemura's voice trembled, "Because I started school, I paid the school's rent first, right?"

"Yuriko?!" Uemura Ami was surprised that the other party would know about this.

"A few days ago when the landlady knocked on the door, I heard it." The girl's voice was nasal, Yuriko Uemura lowered her head a little bit, and finally leaned on Uemura Ami's back, "I know Mom, you don't want me Worried about things at home, but now that Dad is not here, Mom, it is too hard for you to support this family by yourself."

"The rent is still owed, but the job has been fired. Although the savings can last for a few months, but if this continues, my mother's health will collapse." Yuriko Uemura said so, leaning close to herself Mother's back, "This home is not only my mother's home, but also my home. I also want to be able to do something for it, instead of blindly hiding under your protection."

Yuriko Uemura's words fell into the ears of the woman, and the emotion that could not be described as gratification or sourness seemed to be like the weather after the rain.Ami Uemura knew that Yuriko Uemura, who had always been just a little girl in her eyes, had grown up. Her daughter was no longer the spoiled young lady, and she knew enough about life.

After getting her mother's acquiescence, Yuriko Uemura quickly started to find a part-time job near the school. From handing out leaflets to product promotion, the girl tried various jobs she learned from newspaper channels, and finally ended up working at a Suitable arrangements have been made for restaurants that are not too far from school and home.

The manager of that store is a kind woman, and most of the recruits in the store are high school students looking for part-time jobs.The work of a waiter is not too cumbersome, but for a girl who used to carry her shoulders and hands, it still took a lot of time to get used to this kind of work.

"Uemura, I'm sorry to trouble you at table number three." The senior who worked with him held a plate in his hand and gestured to the table by the window with his eyes.

"Okay." Nodding, Yuriko Uemura walked over quickly.

At table No. [-] by the window, three or four students with strange hair colors were sitting on the sofa with their legs crossed.The student uniforms of some unknown school had several buttons ripped off, and one of them took out a lighter and lit a cigarette.Seeing that the guests at the surrounding tables frowned, Yuriko Uemura hurriedly pointed to the sign on the wall and said, "Sorry, my guest, this shop is non-smoking."

"Ha, what did you say?" The boy gave Yuriko Uemura a sideways look, the impatience and fierceness in his eyes made the expression on the girl's face stiff.

"That...sorry, this restaurant is non-smoking." Bite the bullet and repeated, Yuriko Uemura felt that she would only meet such a table of guests when she was at home.

"Hahaha, did you hear that, the little girl said that smoking is not allowed here, Shunsuke." Another boy smiled exaggeratedly and pushed the smoking boy, and that boy was waiting for Yuriko Uemura viciously, with fierce eyes. want to escape.

In a trance, the girl heard the wind chime ringing at the door of the store a few times, but under the current situation, Yuriko Uemura was too nervous to turn her head, let alone put on a smiling face to say welcome to the new guests.The guests at table three kept making things difficult for the girl with provocative words, and the appearance of the bad boy made her feel a little overwhelmed.The customers around had already begun to whisper, to the general idea that the atmosphere of this store was not good or something. Looking at the situation in front of her and being surrounded by such trivial words, Yuriko Uemura instantly fell into a stalemate.

"Hey, waitress, what did you just say, we didn't hear clearly." The boy with dyed blond hair whistled at Uemura Yuriko, and laughed straight away when he saw the girl's expression stiff and afraid to answer.

"She said that this store is non-smoking!" Suddenly, a strong and powerful voice came from Yuriko Uemura, and the imposing words made the delinquents who were still laughing at the girl stop instantly.The girl with twin ponytails knew better than anyone whose voice it was, and it was Genichiro Sanada who stood beside her to save her.

"Cut." Several boys seemed to be about to say something, but the black-haired boy's fierce eyes and aura radiated made the other party stunned.Several people looked at Genichiro Sanada again and again, finally snorted a few times, slapped the table and left.

Seeing several unscrupulous boys leave the store, Yuriko Uemura just breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately became embarrassed.Genichiro Sanada was still standing beside her at this moment, not saying anything or looking at her, just keeping silent as usual.The girl heard the senior who worked together apologize to the guests and said sorry to the guests, and then led Genichiro Sanada to go inside. It was not until the black-haired boy walked past her that the girl realized that he was also with the tennis club. of other members.

When Hiroshi Yagyu walked past Yuriko Uemura, he lightly patted the girl on the shoulder.She didn't know if Genichiro Sanada recognized her just now, but this young man wearing glasses had already known that she was working part-time here a few days ago.The girl cast a puzzled look at Yagyu Hiroshi, but the other party just shrugged and pointed to Liu Renji walking in front, indicating that the person who proposed to come to this store was the brown-haired boy.

Walking back to the kitchen sullenly, Yuriko Uemura just put down the plate in her hand when she heard senior's voice from behind, "Are you scared?"

"Well, a little bit." Nodding, the girl answered honestly.

"Sometimes people like this come to our shop, there is no way." The other party said helplessly, and gently put his head on Uemura Yuriko's shoulder, "Today is lucky, the guests at table ten drove them away. After leaving, there have been even more unreasonable people who came here before, not only refused to pinch cigarettes, but also asked for all kinds of troubles to be exempted, so that we had to pay for the guest's share."

"Is there anyone who eats Bawang's meal?" Surprised by the senior's words, Yuriko Uemura trembled, and the rag that was wiping the dinner plate almost fell off.

"Yes, there are three just from the one I met." The senior clerk who was close to the girl's back said so, and walked around Uemura Yuriko's body with his hands, took the rag from her hand and wiped her wet face Tableware, "So, Shangcun, remember to thank the guest at table ten later, after all, they have helped you."

"...Ah, I see." Genichiro Sanada's face flashed in front of the girl, and Yuriko Uemura paused for a moment before opening her mouth pretending to be calm with a smile.

Through the blue cloth hanging over the kitchen door, Yuriko Uemura could see that there were no more than a dozen people sitting at table number ten.In addition to the members of the tennis club, there seemed to be a girl with long green hair among them.Before the girl could take a closer look, she was pushed and shoved by the senior, "Here, Uemura, this is ordered by the customer at table ten, please send it over, just to thank the customer wearing the hat."

Looking at the pasta and seafood baked rice in front of her, Yuriko Uemura hesitated for a while, and finally took it.Pulling back the hanging blue square cloth, every time Yuriko Uemura took a step, she could hear the voice over there getting clearer.Seiichi Yukimura seemed to be talking about the training of the tennis club, and Renji Yanagi took out a few training sheets to explain in detail for everyone. Genichiro Sanada was just like him in the past, just sitting and not saying anything, and occasionally Open your mouth and say a few key guidelines.

Hiroshi Yagyu was the first to see Yuriko Uemura. The boy with glasses was sitting in the opposite direction to her. When he saw a waiter approaching, he subconsciously looked up.The girl was surprised for a moment when she saw Yagyu Hiroshi, and those eyes hidden behind the glasses hovered between her and Genichiro Sanada worriedly.Shaking her head at the other party, Yuriko Uemura told the boy not to worry.

"Excuse me, here is your order." Putting the food on the table politely, Yuriko Uemura could feel the teenagers who were still discussing suddenly stop.Most people seemed to be just curious about seeing their classmates in restaurants, but there were also a few different eyes mixed in.

"What a coincidence, Uemura." The first to speak was Liu Lian'er, who worked with her in the student union.

"It's really a coincidence, Yanagi." When Yuriko Uemura raised her head with a proper arc and smiled at Liu Renji, she happened to see Sanada sitting next to Liu, looking at herself with a surprised look.

The girl put away the tray in her hand, put her hands in front of her body, and bent slightly.Her lowered head made it hard to see her expression clearly, but Yuriko Uemura's voice was very clear, "When I was at the no-smoking sign just now, thank you Sanada-kun for helping me."

The expression of the black-haired boy whose name was called gradually became a little strange. Looking at Yuriko Uemura who bowed to him and thanked him, Genichiro Sanada stared at him for a long time before slowly speaking, "It's just a small matter, there is no need to thank him specially."

No one at the table spoke until the girl with the twin ponytails got up to leave.Yagyu Hiroshi frowned slightly and looked at the direction Yuriko Uemura was leaving, while Yanagyu Renji and Yukimura Seichi looked indifferent and pretended not to know what they knew.The others looked at me and I looked at you, completely unaware of what went wrong with the polite thank you just now, which made the atmosphere on the table so awkward and delicate.

Faced with a somewhat strange atmosphere, Nioh Masaharu first joked and said something. After someone started the conversation, everything became normal, and the original topics were picked up one by one.Genichiro Sanada listened carefully to the words of his teammates, while his thoughts couldn't help turning to Yuriko Uemura.

The reason why he rescued her at that time was simply that he couldn't understand the style of bad boys, making loud noises in restaurants, and even bullying the waiters who had no ability to refute.At that time, Genichiro Sanada didn't look at the waiter's face carefully at all. After reprimanding the bad guys, he left under the leadership of other shop assistants, but when he saw Yuriko Uemura walking in front of them with a tray, the boy's heart still surged Quite a shock.

The incident of unintentionally helping her out was secondary, and the biggest reason for his shock was the situation of the Uemura family.Since meeting Mrs. Uemura face to face, Genichiro Sanada has more or less understood that lady's temper.It is absolutely impossible for a woman with such a temperament to let her daughter worry about the family's financial problems, let alone agree to work part-time with Yuriko Uemura, and now that the girl appears in this restaurant, it shows that the situation of the Uemura family is already so embarrassing. If Yuriko Uemura does not work part-time, she will no longer be able to make ends meet.

——And all of this was caused by his immature decision back then.

So it is only natural that Yuriko Uemura would hate him.

Even if the girl admitted to Yagyu Hiroshi that she liked Genichiro Sanada, it still couldn't hide the fact that this love was deeply overwhelmed by disgust.The black-haired boy understood this very well, so he always cooperated to prevent himself from appearing in Yuriko Uemura's sight.