Chapter 165: Is Your Brain Broken? (Two in One)

"Huh?" Su Enxi raised her eyebrows, her expression stern, "Shouldn't we go have dinner together?"

The literary phrase "have dinner together" sounded unfamiliar to Zhuo.

It was a bit sudden too.

Utsunomiya Shuo looked at the girl beside him with a confused look on his face. The girl looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Because I became a driver."

"Oh." Zhuo nodded.

Since Su Enxi was the only one sitting in the front, this could indeed be said.

Can understand.

Also very reasonable.

But... the family should have cooked. If nothing unexpected happened, there should be no portion for Su Enxi... Nihong's meals are prepared according to the number of people, and they will never make more than that.

These words...are not easy to say.

A bit offensive.

Zhuo didn’t know what to say, so she had to look to Ling for help. After all, these two were friends, so she should have a way.

Ling looked at him, blinked and looked at Su Enxi, "I didn't do your part."

Direct and merciless.

"I'll take you home soon, not far away," Su Enxi sighed, "Can you have some ramen with me?"

Hand-Pulled Noodle.

Some surprises.

However, ramen is really quick to make. You just need to cook it, scoop it out, pour the sauce on it and you can eat it.

It's really fast.

Before Zhuo could say anything, Ling said in a very calm tone, "We're home."

"..."Su Enxi blinked blankly, then looked at Utsunomiya Zhuo.

Zhuo scratched his head, not knowing what to say.

Even though I know that zero means eviction. Emmmm... I've already arrived home.

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Enxi's cell phone vibrated in her pocket.

Naturally, Su Enxi raised a hand to signal a pause in the conversation... and then it really paused... She slowly took out her cell phone from her pocket.

Not an iPhone.

She just glanced at it quickly, then put away her phone and said, "There's a fireworks festival coming up soon, do you want to go?"

She raised her head and stared directly at Utsunomiya Shuo, asking him this question, not Zero.

Utsunomiya Shuo was stunned, with a subtle expression.

"...I'm not an adult yet, we are not suitable." This is what Zhuo said.

Subsequently.

Su Enxi, who was leaning on the roof of the car, was obviously stunned for a moment. Then she smiled and pinched her eyebrows. She stretched out her hand several times as if she wanted to hit someone, but she restrained herself and took it back.

Finally, he lowered his head and waved his hands at this side as if to shoo away a fly.

Zhuo didn't understand what it meant.

Puzzled.

Immediately afterwards, he felt his sleeve being pulled with such force that he almost lost his balance. He subconsciously adjusted his steps to stabilize his body - and then he turned into a crooked position.

The blonde girl brushed her long hair that was messed up by the wind from her forehead and looked up at him.

One of the hands was grasping his sleeve.

His eyes were fixed on the tip of Utsunomiya Shuo's nose.

Miraculously, Zhuo clearly saw a rare look of confusion in the eyes of the "three-no" girl.

She stood on tiptoe and tapped Utsunomiya Shuo's head with the knuckle of her index finger, as if she was testing whether the watermelon was ripe.

Then he pointed at Utsunomiya Shuo with his right finger, then retracted his index finger, straightened it, bent it a few times, and then pressed three fingers of his left hand on the pulse of his right hand, his movements like a Chinese medicine practitioner taking his pulse.

Finally, he continued to look at Utsunomiya Shuo with confusion.

"What does it mean? Is it sign language?"

Utsunomiya Zhuo tiptoed to make sure he wouldn't be pulled down by her and asked.

"Are you out of your mind?" Ling took his hand back and said with a frown, "I felt something was wrong with you since we got off the car just now."

“……”Oh, so that’s what you mean.

Zhuo thought about it and nodded: "Maybe."

It refers to the state in which he no longer seems like himself after meeting Zero.

Seeing that Utsunomiya Shuo's expression and demeanor did not seem fake, Ling sighed and stopped talking.

"I think I understand what you mean." Someone suddenly interrupted.

Look over.

It was Su Enxi. She had already left the car and was standing alone, squinting her eyes with a bad look on her face.

"What do you mean?" Utsunomiya Zhuo didn't understand what she understood.

Then he felt a pain on his forehead, and Zero reached out and tapped Utsunomiya Shuo's forehead again.

The gentle breeze was cold and the girl's knuckles were stiff.

"Where do we gather?" Ling asked calmly, looking down at the road.

"Blackstone Mansion. That's where we live now."

"it is good."

Zhuo closed his mouth and listened to the conversation, and the result was determined in just a few words.

Very concise.

...

...

After returning home, Zhuo took the opportunity when Ling went to take a shower to inform his parents of the matter separately - he had plans for the fireworks festival and was sorry that he could not go to eat their dog food.

This is how they reacted.

Sa Chiko:!

Xiuyi:!
Sa Chiko: Zhuo actually got married!
Xiuyi: I hope so.

Sachiko: I'm going to introduce him to the stall that sells the most delicious desserts!
Shuichi: It's such a wonderful feeling. I can finally feel at ease.

Sa Chiko: Then you don’t have to come with us. If we meet each other later, you can just pretend not to know each other.

The two of them seemed very excited and had misunderstood something.

This reaction is like finally marrying off one's daughter after going through untold hardships; the joy between the lines is almost overflowing.

This is indeed the case.

Because Zhuo didn't fit in with other kids since he was young, Sha Qianzi was worried that he would never make friends in his life, let alone get married. For this reason, she spared no effort to introduce him to all the girls of the same age in the town.

The main feature is a wide yarn net.

There are always blind fish.

As a result, after learning that their son had finally taken a step forward, they seemed to see a ray of light descending from the dark sky of Utsunomiya Sou's life.

good sign.

Various meanings.

At present, the couple are still talking at once, introducing the date location for the fireworks display, some tips for the entertainment projects, and what to pay attention to... As they talked, the topic turned to where it would be more appropriate to hold the wedding, what names would be better for the child, etc.

And Sachiko even asked a horrible question: could the child's surname include the three characters "Utsunomiya", but still have the main surname Romanov...

Just as Utsunomiya Shuo was about to explain, the caller ID popped up on the phone screen.

Kiritani Ren.

He should be in Tokyo right now, he is a native of Tokyo.

Press to connect.

"Zhuo." Kiritani Jin's voice was reluctant, as if he was being coerced.

"What."

"Do you want to go with me...wait, what is Elizabeth Utsunomiya Razumovskaya Romanov?" His tone was as if he had just been suddenly awakened from a dream.

Zhuo looked expressionlessly at the parents who were naming their imaginary granddaughter, and answered slowly, "I'm going to change it to a cool name. Isn't it cool?"

"..."

On the other end of the phone, Kiritani Jin was silent.

Since there was no sound from the other end of the phone for a long time, Utsunomiya Shuo took the initiative to ask, "Why are you calling me suddenly? What's wrong?"

"Are there any plans for a fireworks display? Or y——mmmm——"

Then, something was knocked over by Jin Kiritani with a dull noise, and he was frantically crawling on the ground to clean it up.

It sounds complicated.

...I want to hang up the phone.

Zhuo Zhuo pulled his slippers and tapped the ground again and again, waiting without any hurry.

After a while, the phone was heard again.

"wash."

"Ok?"

Utsunomiya Shuo could clearly hear the person on the other end of the voice call heaving a long sigh of relief.

"Zhuo, be happy." Kiritani Ren said seriously.

"..."

Zhuo didn't say anything for a while.

Kiritani undoubtedly knew something about him and Zero, so it was not surprising that he guessed something one-sided.

But it can only be one-sided.

He stopped washing the slippers on his feet and put them back on.

"…How disgusting. I feel like you're the supporting actress in a romance drama who silently wishes you well," said Utsunomiya Shuo. "By the way, didn't Yurina invite you to the fireworks display?"

Yurina and Jin Kiritani are both native to Tokyo and will probably stay there to celebrate the fireworks together.

There was another silence on the other side of the phone.

Then Ren's voice came: "Invited."

"Oh."

Silence again.

Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "Go to bed, good night."

"Oh, good night."

Hang up the call.

……

Two weeks have passed since summer vacation.

Utsunomiya Shuo gradually returned to his previous holiday life state - fourth-degree disability.

Don’t do unnecessary things, postpone things that can be postponed, and solve things that can’t be postponed as soon as possible, and then continue to do nothing.

Self-contained and energy-saving.

He would be woken up by Zero at seven o'clock every day, and then he would eat breakfast sitting at the head of the bed in a half-asleep state like a useless person. Then he would sleep until about eleven o'clock, get up, eat lunch at twelve o'clock, do nothing until eight o'clock in the evening, eat dinner, and go to bed.

They are happy and live a happy life.

But the Utsunomiya couple didn't think so.

They were originally very optimistic about the girl named Ling, and at one point they thought that the girl was too outstanding and their son was totally unworthy of her.

After observing for a period of time, we found that this is indeed the case.

and.

Since the girl came to the Utsunomiya family, Zhuo has been lying on the bed for two weeks without moving. Except for going to the toilet, he has never left the room. Although Zhuo has been living in a similar state in the past days...but he still needs to go downstairs every day to eat! Now he eats while lying on the bed.

They had begun to worry about Zhuo's health and were discussing whether the two were really suitable for each other.

……

Two weeks later, Utsunomiya Shuo finally came downstairs.

In the living room on the first floor, Shuichi was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, while Sachiko was boredly browsing her phone - the latest iPhone.

Noticing the footsteps on the stairwell, they both turned around and looked at him in disbelief.

Then Sa Chiko quickly put on a smiling expression, stretched out her hand and said hello: "Long time no see!"

"..."

Zhuo paused and continued, "...Long time no see."

"Two weeks have passed in a flash, and it feels like it was just yesterday that you returned home. How is your life in your room? Are you having any trouble?" Sa Chiko asked with a smile.

Ming: Smiling.

Dark: weird and sarcastic.

"Uh... it feels good," Zhuo thought for a moment and quickly interrupted the topic, "By the way, Mom, I have something to ask you."

"Hmm? It's my honor to serve Master Utsunomiya."

The tone is frivolous.

Makes your scalp numb.

Utsunomiya Shuo ignored his mother's flowery talk and went straight to the point: "Do you know the specific procedures of the Izu Fireworks Festival? For example, where exactly the fireworks are set off?"

silence.

Stay silent.

Sa Chiko and Shuichi looked at him dimly, then looked at each other, and when they looked at him again, their eyes were filled with guilt.

“…What are you doing?”

Sa Chiko seemed to be thinking about something.

After a while, he said, "It's all your parents' fault for neglecting you. We were wrong in the past, Zhuo... But since my son has come to ask me, I'll explain it to him."

“The fireworks display in Izu is no different from other places, with night market stalls, goldfish scooping, and fireworks watching. But after all, it is a seaside tourist city, and the scale of the fireworks display is definitely different from that of inland cities like Tokyo.

“The only unique feature of Izu’s fireworks display is the ‘ship’.

"Izu Peninsula is a coastal city, and some of its fireworks are set off on cruise ships, which have beautiful lanterns. Every year, there are special surprises on the ships to entertain the spectators on the shore.

"I remember that at a previous Chiba fireworks festival, a group of sumo wrestlers were invited to compete and perform on a boat. The audience said it was so exciting that they forgot to watch the fireworks. I heard that there was even a sumo enthusiast who took off his clothes in the crowd because the competition was so intense."

Sa Chiko said a lot in one breath and then hummed, as if hoping to be praised.

"Very impressive." Utsunomiya Shuo praised politely.

"Of course." After receiving the praise, Sa Chizi was obviously in a much better mood, and then asked: "Are you preparing for tomorrow's fireworks display?"

"No, just ask."

really not.

Because the rich woman is here, there is no need for him to imitate others in this fireworks display.

"Then why don't you ask Ling-chan what she thinks? What did your mother teach you? Put yourself in her shoes..."

Utsunomiya Shuo reacted quickly and turned around and went upstairs.

End of this conversation.

……

This is a Japanese-style teahouse.

Ruri Kazama was wearing a thin nightgown with her chest open. She was sitting on the carpet on the tatami and eating biscuits.

His face was ugly.

He made the cookies himself, and it took him a lot of effort, but they didn't look good, and they didn't taste good either. The surface of the cookies was brown and had pits all over it, and it had a faint burnt smell. It tasted dry and not sweet, like chewing glass shards.

All in all, it tastes terrible, so terrible that even Utsunomiya Shuo wouldn't eat it.

After biting the last piece of biscuit, Fengjian Liuli felt a little thirsty. When he was about to get up to pour water, a glass fell in front of him.

Looking up, I saw a kind-looking smiling face wearing a mask.

He slowly poured the water into the glass, pushed it in front of Fengjian Liuli who had a mouth full of biscuits, and finally sat down.

"What are you worried about?"

The noble mask asked with a smile, the wrinkles on his face like the leather of boots.

(End of this chapter)