[Comprehensive] I eloped with Jiao Rong

August 1 afternoon.

Hayashi Yuan Kaoru was on a video call and asked Mr. Amuro on the other end of the phone to observe his results.

The square matcha strawberry mousse cake lies quietly on the kitchen counter. The emerald green cake has a flat surface, and white cream and bright red strawberry pulp can be seen on the side.Kaoru Hayashibara puts strawberries generously. The cake is full of big and whole strawberries from Tochigi Prefecture, and the center is mixed with crystal clear dark red raspberry jam and white cream.Gently pat the side of the cake with a sharp table knife, and the soft cake will shake slightly from side to side, which will greatly increase your appetite.

"Perfect." Toru Amuro commented on the phone, with a smile in his voice, "Miss Hayashi Yuan's results are even better than I imagined, I believe your boyfriend will like it."

"Thank you." Hayashi Yuanxun couldn't restrain the corners of his lips, and smiled involuntarily as he looked at the cake.

Everything is ready, just waiting for her boyfriend to come home from work.

***

After eight o'clock in the evening, Hong Jiaodong finally finished his day's work and set foot on the stairs of the apartment building.

Walking through the long corridor lit with incandescent lights, he stopped at the door of his house, just about to take out the key card to open the door, but he paused when he saw the light leaking from the crack of the door.

The light under the door is not the warm yellow light usually used in the living room, but a flickering, strange colored light.The light is on and off, irregular, and it seems a little strange.

Hong Jiaodong stared at the light curiously for a while.When the colored light came on again, he raised his hand slightly, and the key card swiped across the lock on the door, and the door opened with a "click".

He pushed open the door and was about to step in, when suddenly there were a few chaotic footsteps and Lin Yuanxun's panicked whispers behind the door.

"Wait a minute, don't come in yet!" She pushed against the door behind the door, her voice trembling with urgency, "Ten more seconds!"

"Ah... um." Hong Jiao Dong was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously withdrew his feet.The apartment door slammed shut again, and he looked down at the crack of the door, only to find that the colored lights inside had gone out again, leaving the door in darkness.

"Jiao Dong, close your eyes first." After a few seconds, the apartment door opened a crack.Lin Yuanxun showed half of his fair face through the crack of the door.Even though she tried her best to keep a straight face, there was still an obvious smile in the sea blue eyes that could not be restrained and slightly narrowed.

Hong Jiaodong didn't understand, so he obediently closed his eyes.

In the absence of sight, the other senses are redoubled.He noticed that when Hayashi Yuan Kaoru waved his hand in front of him in order to test whether he really closed his eyes completely, the slight air flow from the palm of his hand.Then he heard the apartment door slowly open.

The palms hanging by the sides were held by another pair of soft, warm, feminine hands.Hong Jiaodong let Lin Yuanxun take his hand and lead him into the apartment.With the sound of light footsteps, he knew she turned and closed the door.

In the darkness, the rich aroma of Kaoru Hayashi Yuan's hair gradually became stronger.The soft and smooth long hair lightly touched the fabric on Hong Jiao Dong's shoulders.Standing on tiptoe, Lin Yuanxun lightly approached his ear, the shallow and warm breath made his ears and half of his body feel hot.

"Don't peek..." She warned softly, then backed away, and turned on some switch with a "click".

The palm was clenched again, Lin Yuanxun stood beside Hong Jiaodong, and tugged at his hand.

"You can open your eyes now, Jiao Dong." There was a hint of joy in her voice, urging her in a low voice.

Hong Jiaodong slowly opened his eyes.After seeing everything in front of him clearly, he held his breath for a moment.

The curtains in the apartment were drawn tightly to prevent any outside light from leaking in.And in this familiar small apartment that he has lived in for more than half a year, thousands of small LED light bulb strings are entwined on tables, chairs, sofas, hovering on the walls and ceilings, forming a shining, Colorful star chains.And on the wall facing the door of the apartment, several strings of lights form two lines of big characters written in katakana: Happy Birthday, Jiao Dong.

The cluster of light bulbs that looked like a nebula in the night were shining beautifully, and he stood in the middle of the apartment in a daze, his heart was beating fast, and he was at a loss.

"Do you like it?" The girl next to him asked softly holding his arm, "After all, this is your first birthday after you set up the firm. I remember that on my birthday, you lit up the lights on the whole street for me." Washi paper lanterns. I can't light up a whole street for you, but an apartment can do it..."

Lin Yuanxun talked for a while, but Hong Jiaodong stood stiffly beside him.She was a little nervous for a moment, and shook her scorched arm slightly.

Her boyfriend finally had some reaction—the big palm in her hand exerted a little force, and quickly pulled her into his arms.Then, the embrace that still smelled of sweat after performing the task closed, wrapping her tightly in it.

"Thank you, Xun." Hong Jiaodong suddenly understood what Lin Yuanxun was hiding from him these days.He hugged the person in his arms tightly and closed his eyes tightly.But the bright glow printed in the retina still remains, and won't dissipate for a long time.

Hong Jiaodong seldom celebrates birthdays - when he was young, Hong Leng was still in good spirits, and his mother organized his birthday every year before he was seven years old.But after Hong Leng was sent to the hospital, he never had a normal birthday.

His older brothers and sisters who wanted to celebrate his birthday were not allowed to approach him, and the way Koyanji celebrated his birthday was to increase the amount of training, and even made him fall to the ground and even vomit out on his birthday.So from the age of seven, Hong Jiaodong no longer looked forward to her birthday.Even after he returned home in a cold, he still refused his family's request to celebrate his birthday, and would only quietly eat a bowl of his favorite soba noodles on the night of his birthday.

The young man didn't know how to restrain himself when he exerted his strength, and Lin Yuanxun felt a little uncomfortable from being blasted and frozen.She raised her hand, gently encircled him from behind, patted his back, and said with some difficulty: "Actually, it wasn't just me who did it. Sister Dongmei and Brother Xia Xiong came here during the day to help me fix these small light bulbs... "

"Yeah." The top of his head slammed Jiao Dong in a low voice.

"And I didn't buy these light bulbs, but I borrowed them from... a friend." The light bulbs were used in the Christmas decoration of Café Poirot, and Toru Amuro generously connected the two large boxes of light strings together with the remote control device. Lent it to her, "I've been bothering him recently, I'm a little embarrassed."

"Yeah." Hong Jiaodong still didn't speak.

"When Sister Dongmei came, she told me that Auntie hoped that we could go back together this weekend and celebrate your birthday again."

"it is good."

Lin Yuanxun exhaled slowly, and tugged at the clothes on his scorched back: "Stop hugging, I can't breathe..."

"Ah, I'm sorry." He finally let go of his hand and looked at her nervously in the darkness. His cat-like eyes reflected the colorful light of the small light bulb, clear and beautiful, "Is it hard? Do you want me to help you?" Knead it, smooth it..."

Lin Yuanxun stared at him blankly, and couldn't help but smile.

She has also been a child who was not cherished and stood in the shadows, and she knows what it feels like, and naturally understands Hong Jiaodong's complicated and surging emotions at this moment.

"It's okay." She took his hand and led him to the table, "And today's show is not over yet——"

The light string switch was turned off with a "snap", and then the commonly used ceiling lights were turned on.With the help of the bright light, Hong Jiaodong found a neatly placed drawer of cold soba noodles and soup on the table, as well as several plates of brightly colored and well-matched side dishes.

He recognized at a glance that it was "Oden"'s luxurious soba set meal, the kind he likes to eat most, but he was reluctant to eat it a few days ago.

"I asked my aunt, and she said that you eat buckwheat noodles every year on your birthday. This is your favorite, so I bought it." Lin Yuanxun said, but he didn't stop, and ran to the refrigerator quickly. He opened the door before, and took out a large piece of matcha strawberry mousse cake as if by magic, and turned around to put it on the table.

"But you have to eat the cake." His girlfriend was talking to herself like a naive child who wanted to pile up all the things she thought were good, and picked out the numbers 2 and 3 with a smile. [-] candles, "Because you can make a wish when you blow out the candles. I made this cake myself..."

Hong Jiaodong looked at Lin Yuanxun quietly, even he didn't realize that there was a smile on his face.

The taste of the buckwheat noodles has not changed, and it is still delicious. The soft, sweet and melt-in-your-mouth cake is a surprise. With just a light press on your teeth, the strawberries in the cake will burst into sweet and sour juice.

Various inventory programs from the previous year are still playing on the TV.It has been seven years since All Might retired, and in the past seven years, professional heroes have worked hard to maintain social peace step by step.Even though the brightest star had sunk dimly behind the clouds and mist, countless other stars with weaker brilliance gathered together, still emitting huge light and heat, illuminating the night sky.The post-All Mightian darkness that editorialists had predicted had not arrived.

Hong Jiaodong was holding the cake plate and was watching the host on TV talking, when the mobile phone beside him suddenly buzzed and vibrated.He glanced at Lin Yuanxun, who was holding a kitten and staring at the TV raptly, and picked up his phone to take a look.

The time displayed on the phone happened to be the time when he was born, and what flashed on the screen were birthday wishes from his family who were stuck in time.

Hong Leng, Hong Dongmei, and Hong Xiaxiong all congratulated him on his happy birthday at the beginning, urging him to go home on the weekend to celebrate his birthday again and get birthday gifts, but Hong Yansi's congratulatory text messages were much longer than others.He did not congratulate directly like others, but mentioned Hong Jiao Dong's age in a rather emotional tone, and in the following monologue he strongly expressed his desire to communicate with him more.

Scrolling up, there are still several pages of unread emails.Hong Jiaodong didn't look at his phone when he was performing the task, but now he found that Xiongying's classmates and teachers in the past, as well as heroes who had worked with Xiongying during the internship and the task, all sent congratulatory emails one after another.

Hong Jiaodong flipped through the blessings one after another, and his heart was gradually filled with warmth.

Before he knew it, he had already begun to look forward to the birthday of the year.

***

After the frozen birthday, the day when Café Poirot launched new products followed.

On the second day of their birthday, two people climbed up and down to take off the two boxes of small light strings and pack them up, preparing to return them to the coffee shop.On the day of the event, Kaoru Hayashihara wrapped up a thick coat, carried two boxes of light strings, and arrived in Poirot early in the morning.

Looking back after a few days, the interior of the cafe has been completely decorated, the tableware has been replaced with beautiful patterned porcelain plates, and several booths are also separated by brand-new partitions. The interior has been decorated according to different themes, which is full of interest.

Opening time is nine o'clock in the morning.When Kaoru Hayashibara arrived at [-] o'clock, he found that Toru Amuro had already prepared more than half of the preparations for the food supply, and another female clerk of Poirot, Azusa Enomoto, was also in the store, doing the final inspection of the decoration.

"Miss Lin Yuan, are you here?" An Shitou heard Lin Yuanxun's voice, raised his head and smiled at her, but continued to work, "Sorry, I can't get away here. You and Miss Xiaozi go try it on. How about a doll costume?"

Kaoru Hayashi Yuan nodded, and Azusa Enomoto on the side had already greeted him, and took two boxes of small light strings from Kaoru Hayashi Yuan's arms.

"The doll costume is in the staff lounge, please follow me." Azusa Enomoto walked towards the back of the coffee shop with the string of lights in her arms, and looked back at Kaoru Hayashihara with some concern, "Mr. Amuro and I revised it last night. For custom-made doll clothes, some metal decorations that can be omitted are removed, and other decorations that cannot be omitted are replaced with lighter materials as much as possible, but the clothes are still cumbersome to wear... If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell us……"

"Okay." Lin Yuanxun thought of the hourly salary at the end of the day, and secretly clenched his fists.

After entering the staff lounge behind Poirot, Hayashihara Kaoru saw the sandwich clothes standing in the corner of the room at a glance.It's not so much a costume as a giant sandwich model that can be fixed on a person.In the center of the model is a skeleton made of plastic. The ham and eggs sandwiched in the center of the bread are filled with colored foam plastic. Several layers of light green cloth for lettuce are sewn in the center, and a protective film is wrapped on the surface.The outermost material for the dark brown bread crust is thick laminated cardboard, on which decorative confetti and small metal beads are fixed.The lower part of the model is empty, and colored fabrics are connected according to the colors of other places, so that the wearer can sit down.

The foam and cardboard itself is not heavy, but the sandwich model is about [-] centimeters high and can completely wrap the upper body of the wearer, only the head and arms are hollowed out to allow limbs to enter and exit.Wearing such a model suit, even just sitting and playing the violin is very strenuous, and it will still be too heavy after a long time.

Hayashi Yuan Kaoru walked up to the sandwich model, hugged the model and weighed it, and felt relieved after confirming that he could wear it.

"Is it really okay?" When wearing a model, you can't wear a coat underneath, but you must wear a matching white robe.Azusa Enomoto took out a pack of thermal stickers from her pocket, and put them on Hayashi Yuan Kaoru repeatedly for confirmation.

"No problem." The thermal pad quickly reacted with oxygen, and even though he was only wearing a thin robe, Lin Yuanxun's body was still warm.She looked at the worried Azusa Enomoto, smiled and nodded: "Look at my performance."

Azusa Enomoto finally felt relieved.She held up the huge sandwich model and carefully placed it on Kaoru Hayashibara's head, helping her to stretch out her arms and head from the hollow hole, and helping her to arrange her long golden hair.

After finding out the oil paint used for body painting, and lightly brushing a little pink, orange, and bright green on Kaoru Hayashibara's face according to the order of the contents of the sandwich, Azusa Enomoto glanced at the clock hanging on the warehouse wall, and found that it was already eight. 45 points.

"That's it. I have to check the tableware again." She stood up, and seeing Lin Yuanxun lift up her oiled face with some difficulty, staring at her with sea-blue smart eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little hot , "Miss Lin Yuan can go to the door to prepare. You can rest assured that there will be many guests attracted by you."

Lin Yuanxun was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Yes."

Azusa Enomoto helped her move the folding chair and music table to the door.Hayashi Yuan Kaoru took out the cello from the piano case, dressed in clumsy clothes, slowly moved to the door step by step, and finally sat on the chair carefully.

Watching her adjust the strings in the cold wind, Amuro Toru's hand that cut the last piece of cake could not help but pause.On the side, Azusa Enomoto finished the final confirmation work, subconsciously walked to the bar, leaned on the wooden high stool, and followed him to look out.

"Today's weather is colder than expected." She said softly, "If Miss Lin Yuan can't stand it, let her change clothes and come in to play. After all, she is so good at playing the piano, she doesn't have to wear fancy clothes to attract people outside. Eyeballs are necessary."

"Yeah." Toru Amuro nodded, "We'll pay attention to that side when we have a chance, and let her in if she can't take it anymore."

***

At nine o'clock in the morning, Toru Amuro put up the opening sign at the door on time.

Kaoru Hayashibara said goodbye to the huge sandwich model hanging on his body, and put the cello in a suitable position.She rubbed her fingers that were a little stiff from the cold, and then raised her hand to her lips to breathe.After a while, she opened the sheet music, lifted the bow, and set it on the cello.

The bow slowly brushed against the strings.Like ripples suddenly spread on a still horizontal surface, the sound of music ripples along the air, like a tangible and qualitative joyful tide.

The passers-by who had just glanced at the eye-catching sandwich clothes before leaving gradually slowed down.They were first attracted by the music, and when they approached, they saw the brightly colored pictures of new products printed on the door stand, felt the warmth overflowing from the open store door, and smelled the aroma of coffee and sweet cream.Under several temptations, several people couldn't help but walked in.

Not long after opening, the store became busy.

Poirot already had a stable customer base among young people. In addition, this day's event had been promoted online and offline in advance, and many regular customers had already planned to come to the coffee shop to try new products on the day of the event.But the regular customers who came one step later were surprised to find that the originally spacious store was already full of people just over an hour later than the opening time, and there was even a queue for packing in front of the counter. Supplementary now.

Toru Amuro and Azusa Enomoto did not expect such a large number of visitors on the day of the event.Fortunately, there were still a lot of ready-made cake embryos in the warehouse, so Toru Amuro temporarily decided to hand over the work of ordering and making coffee to Azusa Enomoto, while he concentrated on making cakes.Mao Lilan and Conan, who originally came down from the office upstairs to drink coffee, volunteered to share the work of delivering the dishes to the designated table and taking away the package. The work behind the counter finally started to run normally and orderly.

This busy, is a whole morning and noon.It wasn't until the end of lunch time that Toru Amuro suddenly remembered Kaoru Hayashibara who had been playing the tune outside without eating or drinking.

He subconsciously looked out the glass door, only to find that the slender blonde girl was still wearing a clumsy model, sitting on a folding chair and playing the piano.

There were not many customers queuing outside the door. At this moment, a handsome man with silver and red hair standing beside her was particularly eye-catching.

Toru Amuro's subordinates kept on frying the pasta ordered by the customer, but he understood something in his heart.

***

Hong Jiaodong patrolled this street at noon.He had just passed the intersection when he noticed the long queue at Poirot's door.

He headed in the direction of the queue, as requested by Patrol Street.And at this moment, the music of the cello passed through the dense crowd and the cold wind, and was sent to his ears.

Hong Jiaodong's footsteps froze.In the next second, he quickened his pace and pushed aside the crowd lined up at the entrance of the coffee shop.When the full picture of the performer was revealed in front of him, Hong Jiaodong subconsciously stopped.

The girl in the huge and clumsy sandwich model is concentrating on playing, her blue eyes staring at the score on the scoreboard that was blown up by the wind.The clothes under the model were very thin, and her shoulders were trembling, but her movements of playing the violin appeared to be fast and skillful.

The small patches of oil paint on the cheeks did not conceal the girl's beautiful appearance, but made her sky-like blue eyes more clear.Under the blowing of the cold wind outside, her skin was almost translucent, and the tip of her small nose, which had not been painted with oil paint, was frozen to a delicate red like rouge.

"Boom?" The patrolling hero in the same group also squeezed over from the queue, and asked puzzledly at this moment, "What's wrong?"

At the same time, the girl playing the piano caught the syllable of "Boom" and subconsciously looked up.A few locks of blond hair that hadn't been tied tightly were blown away by the wind, clinging to her beautifully curved jaw.The two looked at each other, and she stared blankly at Hong Jiaodong standing in the crowd, as if she was petrified, but the movements of her hands still did not stop, and the tune she played did not change.

"Do you know anyone?" The hero in the same group noticed the eye contact between Lin Yuanxun and Hong Jiaodong, and suddenly understood something.He patted Hong Jiaodong's shoulder and asked: "I'll go and see the next few streets by myself first, and I should be able to combine with B in a while. There is not much work left for today, you should take a rest first." . If there is something urgent, I will contact you again."

"Yeah." Hong Jiaodong nodded gratefully, "I really trouble you."

After watching the heroes of the same group leave, Hong Jiaodong turned around and walked towards Lin Yuanxun.Seeing his girlfriend continue to play the piano while lowering her eyes and not daring to look at him, he couldn't help but feel a dull pain in his chest.

Sandwich outfits, people queuing up, cafes where activities are being held... just by taking a look, you can understand what happened here.Kaoru Hayashi never told him that she was still doing such hard work in the cold wind wearing ridiculously heavy prop costumes.

He knew in his heart that she was concealing it on purpose, and she didn't want to bring pressure to him, so the sour feeling further expanded in his heart.

As Hong Jiaodong approached, Lin Yuanxun's body tensed up visibly.Seeing this, he walked half a meter away from her and stopped. He didn't approach her any more, and he didn't talk to her, for fear of disturbing her performance.

Finding the upper wind, Hong Jiao Dong stood there silently, blocking the cold wind blowing towards Lin Yuanxun.He secretly activated the left half of his personality, and the heat swelled, gradually covering this small area.

In the morning, the heating stickers posted by Azusa Enomoto had already cooled down, but watching the busy scene in the store, Kaoru Hayashihara kept gritting his teeth in the cold wind.But now, the originally stiff and numb body gradually became more comfortable due to the obvious warmth.

Lin Yuanxun was sensitive to the fact that Hong Jiao Dong blocked her from the cold wind, and then used his personality to help her warm up.She drooped her eyelashes, and her eye circles couldn't help but feel a little sour.

Obviously, when she was alone just now, she was only thinking about completing the work, and she had no spare time to distract herself from thinking about whether it was cold or not. However, after he came, the slight grievance and desire to act like a baby gushed out from the bottom of her heart like spring water , I can't accept it.

Is this the feeling of knowing that you are loved and cherished...?

The bow pulls out one beautiful note after another.Lin Yuanxun raised his head with red eyes, looked at Hong Jiao and smiled.