"No, Kazuto-senpai, just follow me."
……
"What's going on? Why is it so mysterious?"
In the end, Yushan Kazuto followed Yuuki Asuna into the Peace Hall.
There were no lights on in the tranquility hall, which was also Yuuki Asuna's request. If it were someone else, they might be a little nervous, but Yushan Kazuto was not worried at all.
This is the home of Kazuto Yuyama. Is Kazuto Yuyama still worried that Asuna Yuuki, who has been here for less than a day, will do anything bad?
Although the lights were not on, there was still a faint light in the Anning Hall. With the help of this faint light, Yushan Kazuto and Yuuki Asuna all sat at the dining table.
There was an object on the dining table. The light was too dim and it was difficult to see clearly, but I could barely make out that it was probably hemispherical.
Yushan Kazuto blinked, and he suddenly recalled one of the few cartoons he had watched - "Tom and Jerry".
This kind of hemispherical object often appears in the animation. It is the cover of a Western food plate. Under the cover is often a fat and tempting turkey.
Eh, the tempting double quotes fell off.
Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but wonder, could it be that after having just been tortured by a turkey in Yukinoshita's apartment, he had to come back and enjoy another sumptuous full meal?
"Asuna, I feel a little unwell and want to leave early. Can you approve my request for leave?" asked Kazuto Yuyama.
"No!"
Yuuki Asuna was once the vice president and discipline committee member of the Bunkyo Ward Junior High School Committee. Although her voice is very gentle, she has a sense of majesty without being angry, which makes people feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.
"Then...then I'll be patient for a while." Yushan Heren said.
He really felt a stomachache. The thought of the taste of that piece of turkey made him feel stomachache.
If it wasn't a bit impolite to spit out the food in front of Yukinoshita Yukino, he would probably have spit it directly on the table.
Yukinoshita Yukino seemed to have noticed the patient expression on Hayama Kazuto's face, so she was smart enough not to taste the turkey.
She didn't even taste the food she cooked. Yushan Kazuto really wanted to say to her, "What a cunning bad woman!"
"I don't think it's some special Christmas food or something like that," Yushan Kazuto said apprehensively.
"Hey, Senior Kazuto, did you guess it?" Yuuki Asuna was a little surprised, but she was relieved immediately. After all, with such a big plate cover on the table, it would be a bit difficult not to be seen by Kazuto Yuyama.
Since Yushan Kazuto had already guessed it, there was no need to maintain the mysterious atmosphere. Yuuki Asuna turned on the light, walked to the dinner plate, and grabbed the handle of the dinner plate lid.
"Why do I feel that you, Senior Kazuto, are very unhappy?" Yuuki Asuna blinked and asked.
"No, I'm looking forward to it." Yushan Heren showed a half-satisfied smile.
It can be heard that Yushan Kazuto's words were a little perfunctory, but considering that Yushan Kazuto had just returned from dinner outside, Yuuki Asuna did not pursue the matter any further.
As soon as the lid of the plate was opened a little, an enticing aroma wafted out. Upon smelling the scent, Yushan Heren immediately sat up straight.
[It's not the aroma of turkey, it's more like cake, and there's also a hint of apple. ]
When the plate was fully opened, there was a Santa Claus-shaped cake inside.
"Hey, it's a cake? Sorry, I thought it was something else..." Yushan Kazuto smiled awkwardly.
As for the cake, it's fine, as long as it's not turkey, everything is fine.
"Does Senior Kazuto think I cooked turkey?" Yuuki Asuna smiled. She could probably guess why Kazuto Yuyama's smile was so forced before.
"Uh...some things should not be exposed." Yushan Heren smiled.
Yuuki Asuna also knows the taste of turkey. After all, every Christmas, the Bunkyo Ward Junior High School Committee will roast a whole turkey as a special Christmas reward.
Of course, those turkeys eventually end up in the trash, but the committee still enjoys roasting them every year.
Such a big committee can't even finish a turkey, let alone a turkey wing. You can imagine how bad the taste of turkey is for the public.
It's not that there is no way to cook turkey deliciously, but if you apply that skill to ordinary chicken breeds, the taste will definitely be many times better than turkey.
With so many previous experiences, Asuna Yuuki certainly couldn't roast a turkey for Yushan Kazuto, so she came up with an idea and made a Christmas cake.
"But why does this cake smell like apples?" asked Yushan Kazuto.
"Senior Kazuto, just try it and you'll know." Yuuki Asuna smiled and cut a piece for Hayama Kazuto. From the outside, there was nothing special about it.
Yushan Heren picked it up and took a bite. The cake was still hot and tasted great. As soon as he bit through the skin, a piece of melted apple flowed into Yushan Heren's mouth.
【Have you combined the methods of cake and apple pie? 】
Yuuki Asuna also had a sudden idea and tried to make it. She served it out before she even tasted it.
However, looking at the expression of Yushan Kazuto, her apple pie cake seemed to have been a success, and Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Chapter 723: Christmas Gift is Sports Drink
"Asuina, how did you come up with the idea of combining apple pie and Christmas cake?"
After finishing the cake, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but ask.
"Senior Kazuto, don't you prefer Chinese festivals? I checked on Google and found out that Chinese people like to eat apples on Christmas, so they added apples to the cake." said Asuna Yuuki.
Yushan Kazuto looked at Yuuki Asuna and couldn't help but smile: "How come you, like Yukinoshita, carried the Christmas Eve habit intact to Christmas."
"Hey, is this a Christmas Eve custom?" Yuuki Asuna was a little surprised. She didn't make a careful distinction, but just saw it when searching for Chinese Christmas customs and followed it.
"It's a Christmas Eve custom! By the way, Yuuki Asuna, do you know why the Chinese like to eat apples on Christmas Eve?" asked Yushan Kazuto with a smile.
"Maybe it means to keep away diseases or something like that? An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right?"
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away. This is a Welsh proverb. It has nothing to do with China." Yushan Heren smiled.
Many people think that this proverb is original to China, but in fact, it is an evolution of the Welsh poem "An apple before bed, no bread for the doctor".
"However, in terms of meaning, it is somewhat similar to what you guessed."
"Is that so? Then I'm not really sure." Yuuki Asuna shook her head and frankly admitted that her knowledge reserves were not enough.
After all, she didn't even know that eating apples was a Chinese Christmas Eve custom, so how could she know where the custom of eating apples on Christmas Eve came from?
"In Chinese, the first pronunciation of the words 'apple' and 'peace' is the same. Because of the homophony, we have to eat apples on Christmas to pray for peace," said Kazuto Yuyama with a smile.
"So that's how it is, apple, peace." Yuuki Asuna translated these two words into Chinese using her mobile phone.
"apple."
"Safety."
"The pronunciation is exactly the same!" Yuuki Asuna said excitedly as if she had discovered a new continent.
"So, in order to pray for peace, you should eat that piece of cake as well." Yushan Kazuto said with a smile.
The cake was not big, only about six inches in size. Yushan Kazuto specially left a piece for Yuuki Asuna, but it seemed that Yuuki Asuna considered that eating desserts at night would make her fat, so she didn't eat a single bite.
"But Senior Kazuto, didn't you say that eating apples and praying for peace is a custom on Christmas Eve?" said Yuuki Asuna.
Yushan Kazuto blinked. He didn't expect that his popular science would give Yuuki Asuna an excuse to refute. He didn't know what to say for a moment.
Seeing Yushan Kazuto's somewhat deflated look, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but laugh, picked up the cake and chewed it slowly.
"Senior Kazuto, are there any special Christmas customs in China?" asked Asuna Yuuki.
"A special custom? It doesn't seem so." Yushan Heren thought about it for a while, but still couldn't figure it out. After all, he had never celebrated Christmas well in this life or the previous one.
However, when he recalled carefully, Yushan Kazuto suddenly remembered a Christmas joke and raised his eyebrows.
"Senior Kazuto, your eyebrows moved just now. Did you remember something?" asked Asuna Yuuki.
"No, my eyes are a little uncomfortable." Yushan Heren said.
"Are you feeling unwell?" Asuna Yuuki put down the cake, walked to Kazuto Yuyama, and looked at him carefully.
[So close.]
Hayama Kazuto blinked, and Yuuki Asuna's body was almost touching him.
"It's fine now, it's just that the eyebrow area suddenly feels a little itchy." Yushan Heren said.
Only then did Yuuki Asuna feel relieved and returned to her seat to savor the food carefully.
Yushan Kazuto breathed a sigh of relief. He absolutely could not say anything like the pun about eating apples on Christmas Eve and then getting cannoned.
After eating the cake, the two tidied up the table before walking out of the tranquility hall together.
"I'm sorry, Asuna, you prepared a cake for me at home, but I didn't prepare a Christmas present for you." Yushan Kazuto said a little embarrassedly.
"It's okay, Senior Kazuto." Yuuki Asuna smiled.
"Speaking of which, I'm curious, what Christmas present did Yukinoshita-senpai give you?"
"Huh?" Thinking of the Peppa Pig picture book, Yushan Kazuto blushed a little.
Seeing the change in Hayama Kazuto's expression, Yuuki Asuna was also a little surprised. She had just asked casually, but she didn't expect that Yukinoshita Yukino actually gave Hayama Kazuto a gift, and it seemed to be a rather private one.
"Do you really want to say it?" Yushan Heren blinked and said.
"I'm curious." Yuuki Asuna said.
Although there was no direct response, there was a sense of unquestionability in the tone.
"Then please wait a moment." Yushan Kazuto scratched his head. The Peppa Pig picture book was still in the car!
Watching Hayama Kazuto walking out of the hall quickly, Yuuki Asuna looked over curiously, only to see Hayama Kazuto open the passenger seat, take out two books, and then quickly return.
……
Looking at the Peppa Pig picture book in front of her, Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but smile: "Kazuto-senpai, why did Yukinoshita-senpai give you the Peppa Pig picture book?"
Yushan Kazuto blinked. He felt that it was a smear campaign against Yukinoshita Yukino: "She said she had read it and it was very good. She couldn't put it down, so she asked me to read it too."
"Hey, does Senior Yukinoshita have such a hobby?" Yuuki Asuna was a little surprised.
Yushan Kazuto, the rumormonger, remained calm: "You don't know, she has many special hobbies!"
"Really?" Yuuki Asuna was a little skeptical, but all the right of interpretation was in the hands of Yushan Kazuto, so she had no choice but to believe it.
"Of course it's true! Do you think I would deliberately say bad things about Yukinoshita?" Yushan Kazuto said.
"It's possible." Yuuki Asuna chuckled.
"But! After all, I don't have Yukinoshita-senpai's contact information, so I can't find her to verify it. I have to believe you for now."
"You have to believe that facts speak louder than words!" Yushan Heren snorted.
"But, Kazuto-senpai, the Christmas gift that Yukinoshita-senpai gave you was a Peppa Pig picture book. What Christmas gift did you give her?" Yuuki Asuna suddenly started gossiping.
"What's my Christmas present for Yukinoshita?" Yushan Kazuto fell into deep thought.
The route was planned by Yukinoshita Yukino, the car was rented by Yukinoshita Yukino, lunch was ordered by Yukinoshita Yukino, afternoon tea was provided for free by Maria Aoi, and dinner was cooked by Yukinoshita Yukino. After finishing the day, it seemed like today had little to do with me!
"A can of sports drink. After playing tennis with Yukinoshita this morning, I gave her a can of sports drink. It greatly made up for her somewhat depleted body and almost exhausted physical strength!"
Chapter 724 Do you live in the mountains of Chiba?
"Sports drink? Is this really a Christmas gift? It can't be one of those cans sold on the street for 100 yen a can?" Yuuki Asuna felt that Hanayama Kazuto's gift was a bit strange.
"The street vending machines usually sell for 150 yen," Yushan Kazuto said after thinking seriously for a while.
"But today I bought it from a vending machine at Sobu High School, and they sold it for 180 yen. That's really a bit shady."
Listening to what Kazuto Hayama said, Asuna Yuuki couldn't help but stick out her tongue, but this cute little action was discovered by Kazuto Hayama.
"You don't understand. Gifts depend on the thought. She was very tired from playing basketball, so I specially gave her a can of sports drink, which was still warm."
"On this cold winter day, when you are tired and exhausted, someone suddenly brings you a cup of warm sports drink to replenish your body's nutrition and improve your resistance to the cold. If it were me, I would be so moved that I would cry, okay?" Yushan Kazuto said solemnly.
"Really, really?"
Hearing the serious tone of Hayama Kazuto, Yuuki Asuna actually felt a little bit of belief.
"Do you think I'm a man who can use sweet words to deceive others?" Yushan Heren said.
"As for this...it's quite similar." Yuuki Asuna paused and said.
Just the face of Yushan Kazuto is so deceptive that it is hard to believe that he would not lie.
"Forget it, I have to go back to my room to take a shower." Kazuto Yuyama felt that he couldn't communicate with Asuna Yuuki anymore, so he used the bath escape tactic again.
He remembered that Yuuki Asuna was quite considerate in the past, so why did she seem to have a different temper today? Could it be that she had just arrived in Chiba and was having trouble acclimatizing to the climate there?
But he didn't think about it. On the first day he brought her back to Chiba, Hayama Kazuto left Yuuki Asuna at home and went out to play with Yukinoshita Yukino for the whole day.
