What's wrong with the summer oil cat?

"So Yuka, grandma, I'm ready to retire."

Yuka Hirashima had just got off work from the cake shop where she was working when she received a call from her grandmother. When she heard this sentence, she almost lost her hand holding the phone.However, she quickly grabbed the half-dropped mobile phone and said incoherently to the other side of the phone: "Eh? Retirement? But... that, why?"

"I just want to retire. There are so many reasons."

Mako Hirashima was sitting in front of the mahjong table with a phone in his hand, with a serious expression on his hand, stroking a piece of Jiujoo, and typed out, deliberately carrying a bit of sadness on his expression, and said to his granddaughter through the phone: "Yuka should know too, Xiongjun passed away some time ago, right?"

Thinking of the cat raised by her grandmother, Hirashima Yuka's mood dropped a lot.A month ago, the family’s Russian blue cat Xiongjun passed away, but she didn’t catch up with him for the last time because of overtime work, and when she returned to the coffee shop, she only saw a small raised bump in the backyard.When Mako Hirashima felt her granddaughter's depressed mood, she touched a six-strip, blinked her eyes and typed the whiteboard in her hand: "So, grandma thinks, it's almost time for me to go back to my hometown and retire."

"The coffee shop at home—"

"The following is what I want to talk to Yuka."

Mako Hirashima sighed pretentiously at the opposite side of the phone, and when she saw the cards thrown by others, she immediately pushed down two cards and touched them nervously: "Grandma, can I choose to hand over the coffee shop to you?"

Can I have the coffee shop to myself?

"Yuka said since she was a child that she wanted to inherit her grandmother's coffee shop, right? She started helping in the shop when she was in junior high school, and then she learned to work as a pastry chef."

"But……"

"Grandma doesn't mind Yuka's idea of ​​going to Tokyo. Rather, young people definitely want to go to Tokyo now."

Mako Hirashima touched the cards and cut the cards with the same expression, but her tone became softer: "It's understandable to want to venture out and experience a different life. But grandma can feel that Yuka lived in Tokyo. unhappy."

Gently brushing the back of the phone with her fingers, Yuka didn't know how her grandma felt that she was unhappy, but it was true.

She was able to support herself in Tokyo, but was not happy.

Mechanically making each cake in the store, watching the customers who came to buy carry the boxes back and forth, but there is no way to see their smiles when they taste the cake——

This kind of dessert that can only make specific recipe ratios, and can only work in the back kitchen without seeing any customers, is really contrary to the dessert chef she imagined.

Although the salary is not bad, the joy of seeing others smile because of eating the desserts I made has gradually faded away with the day-to-day work, and even I don’t think about anything else when I get up every day. Just thinking about "how to spend today".

You can live like this, but this kind of yourself doesn't seem to be the person you once wanted to be.

"And grandma has reached this age, and besides coffee, she needs to have all kinds of snacks, and grandma is starting to feel a little bit powerless."

"Where's Brother Huiyuan? Aren't Brother Huiyuan and Brother Oda helping?"

"Oh, that's fine with Haibara. That guy Oda is fishing for fish every day. Recently, he finally made his debut as a novelist. I no longer let him work part-time."

"so……"

"So Yuka."

Standing on the side of the road, Hirashima Yuka slightly raised his head to look at the bright lights on the streets of Tokyo and opened his mouth slightly. The next second he heard his grandmother's rare and serious voice: "Would you like to inherit the 'Hirashima Coffee Shop'?"

After not replying to grandma, Yuka Hirashima walked all the way back to her apartment after hanging up the phone, picked up the contract renewal notice that happened to be stuffed into the door of the apartment, and read the words on it, but her thoughts drifted away.

What does she really want to do?

It is actually very good to stay in Tokyo, I can make money, and it seems that I am about to raise my salary.But day after day is the same, the ingredients are all prescribed and complete, and there is no way to integrate a little bit of "self", does she really want to spend it like this?

Or choose to go back to inherit grandma's coffee shop, just like when I was a child, doing what I want to my heart's content?

"Ever since junior high school, Yuka-chan wanted to take over the coffee shop job from grandma, right?"

Grandma's warm voice with a slight smile rang in my ears again. Besides, there was the cat who grew up with me, but because I couldn't ask for leave, I couldn't even see the cat for the last time.

The little dirt bag made her understand that if she didn't see her, she would never see her again.

The lease renewal notice in his hand was already getting hot, Yuka Hirashima took a deep breath and looked at the phone, dialing the number he had memorized in his heart without using the address book.The phone number rang twice as usual before being picked up. A hearty and smiling voice came from the other end of the phone, as if nothing had changed in the past few years.

"Yuka? What's the matter?"

"That, Brother Huiyuan."

"Uh-huh?"

"When Xiongjun left, thank you and Brother Oda for accompanying grandma."

He almost pushed down all the mahjong tiles in front of him, the corners of Huiyuanxiong's mouth twitched twice, and he laughed when the two people next to him looked at him probingly: "It's okay, Xiong, I'm also very sad about Xiongjun's death. "

It's so weird to say that I'm sad about my death to my younger sister who I've watched since childhood.However, Oda Sakunosuke, who was sitting next to him and was drawing cards, snickered when he heard this sentence, and he held back when he saw Haibara Yuu glaring at them, and decided to continue listening with great interest.

"Anyway, tomorrow is Monday, right? The store should be closed."

"Yeah, Yuka wants to..."

"Can you come and pick me up?"

The champagne-haired woman lightly brushed the mirror with her fingertips, stared at herself in the mirror and took a deep breath: "Grandma decided to hand over the coffee shop to me, and I decided to take over the coffee shop."

"Ah, has Yuka finally decided?"

"Well, so..."

"No problem, of course there is no problem! About when? Wait a minute, Yuka, you still have to sort out your personal belongings, right? There are resignations and so on. I'll pick you up when everything is done at Yuka's side. It's an appointment. .”

Haibara, who grew up with him since he was a child, is almost like a half-brother and half-sibling. After the appointment, Yuka Hirashima turned his head and looked around his rental house, and suddenly felt a little headache.

However, she didn't want to bring many things with her. Although she had hoarded a lot of things in Tokyo in the past few years, perhaps she always had the idea of ​​"going back" in her subconscious mind, so she never bought extra items that were too large.

After the resignation letter was submitted, the approval speed was also very fast, and she didn't have any particularly close colleagues with her. She even wanted to laugh when she saw that many people were relieved when she decided to leave.

Is it because after I left, there were more places for salary increases or promotions?

As if it was a routine question, "Have you thought about what to do next, Ms. Hirashima?" After briefly explaining the situation at home, the resignation letter was stuck for a few days. When I sorted out the matters in the apartment, the company was also very forthright. Complete the resignation process.Taking advantage of finishing all her personal belongings in the past few days, Hirashima Yuka nodded with satisfaction, watched all kinds of boxes being taken away by the moving company, turned her head and bowed slowly to the apartment where she lived for several years bow.

Although the days in Tokyo were not particularly pleasant, they were also valuable as experiences.

It's just a pity that this is not the life she wants.

Returning the key to the landlord and making an appointment with Hui Yuanyu, walking aimlessly in the streets and alleys of Tokyo, when Yuka was thinking about whether to buy some snacks to go back, Yuka suddenly stopped walking, Turning around with a little confusion, he looked behind him.

Just now, what happened?

It was like walking through a door all at once, or walking through a water curtain that didn't exist, as if she had stepped into another world at that moment.However, the familiar scenery and the unchanged signboard were still in front of him. Yuka subconsciously took out her mobile phone and dialed Haibara Yuo, and heard his extraordinarily energetic voice as usual.

"Little Yuka? Sorry, there is still a little time, Tokyo is a bit congested—"

"No, no, I'm not trying to push Brother Huiyuan."

Quickly shaking his head in denial, confirming that he should have just imagined it just now, Hirashima Yuka raised his foot and continued to move forward, smiling brightly at the person on the other side of the phone: "I was just wondering if Brother Huiyuan wanted some souvenirs or something?"

"Souvenir, for dessert, I can do anything, sweet, salty, spicy are all OK."

"Why are the souvenirs still spicy?"

"The last time I went to Chinatown with Ms. Mako, I ate spicy ice cream. It tasted very good. When you come back and settle down, I will take you to try it."

Hearing that the other party still referred to her grandmother as "Miss Mako", Yuka couldn't help laughing and just wanted to ask about the taste of this spicy ice cream.However, at this moment, a subtle voice seemed to come from the alley he just passed by.When she turned her head and looked over, Yuka subconsciously took two steps forward again, and when she confirmed that she heard correctly, Xiaobu ran quickly, and held her breath when she saw that there was indeed a black cat with a right front leg injured.

"Hello? Yuka-chan? What's the matter?"

"Sorry, Brother Huiyuan."

"Eh? What's wrong?"

"Something happened to me here, and now I have to go to the nearest pet hospital. I will send you the location when I get there, sorry to hang up first."

After the other party responded subconsciously, Yu Jia untied the coat hanging around her waist, watched the black cat in front of her carefully step forward, confirmed that it was unconscious, and slowly put it in the coat and hugged it.

The cat is a long-haired cat, and there seems to be a strand of hair on its head covering half of its eyes, and it even looks like it has combed its bangs.The moment she picked it up, the cat purred slightly, as if it was enduring pain, or it seemed to be purring purely for survival.Subconsciously saying comforting words such as "It's okay" and "I will save you", Yuka quickly took the mobile phone, and after confirming the route, she ran towards the nearest pet hospital as smoothly as possible.

When I picked up the cat just now, it seemed to have opened its eyes from a coma.

After hurriedly listening to the nearest route shouted by Google Girl, and running all the way to the pet hospital, Yu Jiacai lowered her head and realized that she had read correctly just now.

The cat in his arms has a pair of amethyst-like eyes.