man in tokyo, professional boyfriend

Chapter 345 [344] Pretend to obey!
"Big brother is here."

In the pitch-black pit, the boy who was cowering in his voice seemed to be terrified as his body followed closely, but he still insisted on speaking.

It wasn't until this moment that Shiina Iori finally took a serious look at the strange boy in front of him who made him think twice that he had encountered a ghost just by his profile and figure.

Just after meeting his eyes, Shiina Iori realized something was wrong.

The boy in front of him looked about eight or nine years old, with a thin body and a thin body, his face was as white as a dry bone that had been drained of marrow fluid, and the whole showed a somewhat transparent paleness, and his small face seemed to have been covered with a layer of blood. Thick powder.

He wears a hat on his head to cover his hair.

When he got closer, Shiina Iori's [Night Vision] made him suddenly realize that the thin eyebrows of the boy in front of him were a little out of strokes.

It was originally drawn with an eyebrow pencil.

The painting is very ugly, I don't know if he did it himself.

And after carefully looking at each other, Shiina Iori discovered that the opponent's eyelashes and the few strands of hair protruding from the hat were all white, and the white layer on his face that he thought was powdered was actually Dry peeled off dry skin.

Looking at it from a distance under the setting sun or in the shadows, it is indeed a bit creepy.

But if you look closely, you can barely tell that this layer of pigment is not a foundation.

"This is albinism?"

After hesitating for a few seconds, Shiina Iori couldn't help being stunned after comparing the classic symptoms of dry skin and white hair in an instant.

Was it just a genetic disease that frightened him twice in a row? !
".Yes."

Hearing this, the somewhat timid boy paused and agreed in a low voice.

After agreeing, he seemed to habitually and stubbornly added: "Mom said this is a very common disease and it can be cured! You, you don't use that kind of look."

It was just halfway through the conversation, the boy who had always looked timid raised his head, but he didn't see the strange gaze that he had become accustomed to recently, and his voice couldn't help but stagnate.

Shiina Iori opened her mouth subconsciously when she heard his words.

But he didn't refute, and instead mentioned the serious tone before:
"What are you wandering around outside like a child at night!"

"Where is your mother!"

"I'll tell you that today's matter can't be finished without a spanking!"

While talking, he tried his best to look fierce.

It's just that that handsome face has reached 20 points of charm after all, and it's actually quite difficult to scare people. Even the little boy in front of him who was so frightened that his legs went limp didn't care, and he muttered in a low voice:

"Spanking is considered light."

"what?"

"Nothing at all!"

Hearing Shiina Iori's pretentiously fierce voice, the boy's thin body stretched straight again.

"yes."

Shiina Iori responded casually, and then noticed the hidden door in the wall where the boy came out, reached out to support Yui, who was still a little weak, and led him in his direction.

Walking into the secret door with the boy, there is a long and narrow passage in front of you, which can barely accommodate two people walking side by side. There are low-quality fluorescent sticks stuck on the wall, which can only roughly illuminate the eyes. way.

Shiina Iori, who has night vision, is fine, but Yui, who has been silent since the boy arrived, is carefully supporting Iori's body.

When he walked into the aisle, he still looked at him with some anxiety:
"Iori?"

"Ah."

Shiina Iori didn't speak, just shook her head slightly.

So Yui stopped talking, but walked forward with him.

Shiina Iori stretched out her hand to fan the wind, and felt the slightly cool air in the passageway at night in the mountains. It seems that this passageway should have multiple exits or multiple ventilation ports, which is not too secretive in itself.

He said to the boy casually: "This passage is your secret base? How did you find it? It's very good."

"This is the tunnel that our family dug out before~"

"It's amazing!"

"It's just that when I haven't finished my homework, my mother won't let me in."

When he said this, the boy wiped his nose proudly, and only at this moment did the pale little face finally show a bit of vitality unique to this age group.

But halfway through, he suddenly thought of something, a little confused:
"In addition, my mother doesn't allow me to tell others about this passage."

"It's just that you all fell in anyway, so it shouldn't matter, right?"

The boy obviously murmured a little, as if he couldn't make up his mind.

Shiina Iori casually swept the rough grinding marks on the wall in the narrow passage and the drainage ditches on both sides of the passage, and sniffed the strange smell of mixed soil and humus that is unique to the underground dirt road, and did not intend to continue asking:

"Oh."

It is useless to ask what a child can know.

But this feeling is like when you reach out to prohibit a dog from taking medicine, it must take a bite to taste the saltiness. Halfway through the question, the other party suddenly stops asking. This situation will also cause people's rebellious psychology.

The boy thought about it for a long time, and finally said:

"I heard. Just heard!"

After emphasizing this sentence, indicating that he was just chatting, the boy pretended to be mysterious and said in a low voice: "I heard that the tunnel here was built by my great-grandfather with all his family property during World War Three!"

"And there is a long, long passage! It can lead from here to the town below, and you can go home directly from here! You can also go all the way to your mother's hostel!"

"Even there used to be rooms inside, which could accommodate many people!"

"Very, very powerful! It's like a TPC base hidden under the sea in a special drama!"

Speaking of this, the eyes of the albino boy, who had always looked lifeless, seemed to light up.

Which boy didn't dream of creating a secret base of his own when he was young?

Hearing what he said, Shiina Iori glanced sideways without saying a word:
"That's why you ran into the woods in the middle of the night?"

"Well"

The boy was choked to death immediately, and he was a little speechless.

Careful and quietly avenging himself for being scared twice, Shiina Iori thought about what the boy said just now.

A passage during World War III?
That must have been decades.

and many more?

Mom's hostel.

Is this the child of the innkeeper's family?
"What's your name?"

Shiina Iori asked him.

Breaking away from the topic of the secret base, the little boy was immediately beaten back to his original form, and he was in the same weak state as before when he spoke: "Second, Second Gongren."

"It really is."

Shiina Iori remembered that when he first came to the hostel, he saw a surname plate with 'Ninomiya' written on it on the proprietress's desk.

Thinking about it this way, the two sides I met yesterday seem to be connected.

However, didn't the proprietress say that her son didn't come yesterday?

"Then where is your mother?"

"Should, should be in front!"

As Ninomiya Jin said, he walked two steps quickly, and Shiina Iori followed cautiously.

Turned a corner in a passage ahead that was narrower than before.

A low hum of boiler gas could be heard in the distance.

"crunch-"

The three of them pushed the door all the way in and walked in, just in time to see the proprietress in a short-sleeved suit, who was wrapped in a towel and kicked her buttocks on the trachea, breaking the ring-shaped air valve vigorously with both hands.

Even with the exhaust fans and chimney pipes to the ground, the cabin was as sweltering as a sauna.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, he subconsciously said: "Ren! Have you finished your homework? I'm not telling you not to do it until you finish your homework."

Just halfway through, I suddenly found that the number of footsteps was not right.

The proprietress who pouted her buttocks and broke the air valve suddenly turned her head.

As soon as she turned around, she saw her mother's son scratching his face, with a familiar man and woman behind him, his eyes fixed.

How is this going?

"I'm very, very sorry-!!!"

Back on the ground, she had already changed her clothes, and the proprietress, who had roughly known the ins and outs, knelt down on the tatami and bowed deeply.

The other hand directly pressed Ninomiya Ren's head to the ground, and the whole person was like a suppressed dead fish, unable to move.

"It's really causing you trouble."

Kowtow, apology, and trouble.

Japanese problem-solving three-piece set.

Sometimes it may be necessary to add licking shoes and multi-turn Thomas roundabout service according to the situation.

However, Shiina Iori's attitude is still very polite: "No, I also did something wrong in this matter, it is too reckless."

As he said that, there was a bit of self-mockery in his tone, and he looked at the bear kid with a smile: "Besides, I was actually a little scared, so I made such an impulsive reaction."

"You don't know, I met Ren Jun last night. He must have come up to play secretly at that time, right? It scared me, and I thought there was really a ghost child."

Hearing this, the landlady's cold gaze like a knife's edge flashed across the shivering Ninomiya Ren

"Ren-jun, is that so?"

"If I remember correctly, you probably didn't finish your homework last night, right?"

"?!"

Ninomiya Ren felt the real killing intent from his mother and Shiina Iori's malicious smile, and shivered, but he didn't dare to lie.

In the end, I had to bite the bullet and nod lightly.

".Mmmm."

"very good."

The evil spirit in the proprietress' eyes couldn't stop surging.

As the saying goes, you can't hide the eyes of someone who loves someone, so the greatest maternal love in the world is naturally even more so, and even slightly better.

Shiina Iori didn't know if Ren Jun had noticed it, but he felt it anyway.

But the guest didn't show the stick, the proprietress struggled to calm down, and finally said coldly: "I'll talk about your business later, go home and get the guy out and wait."

Ninomiya Jin's already pale little face suddenly became a little paler, revealing a faint ashes of seeing through the world.

Until the last time he left, the whole person was stupefied.

"I made you laugh, Shiina-san."

When she lowered her head and raised her head again, the originally cold and murderous expression on the lady boss's face disappeared in an instant, and changed to a cheerful smile as usual.

"It doesn't matter." Shiina Iori also smiled and shook her head, "But I think educating children should not just focus on sticks, the most important thing is to understand the principles of mathematics and science."

"In this way, I also have a set of 27 volumes and 85 reference papers for junior high school competition practice topics. My suggestion is to let the children do a few more sets repeatedly, not too much every day. Three sets of exam-level papers for each subject are enough The only thing is to focus on persistence and exercise children's willpower."

"I don't dare to boast about anything else. From elementary school to high school year after year, it should be no problem to be admitted to a class B college in the super plan."

Shrimp pork heart.

Yui Igarashi next to her looked at Shiina Iori who was smiling all over her face, and secretly swallowed.

Iori is a devil.

"Hey, this time our children have caused you so much trouble, but you are still so polite, I am really ashamed"

The proprietress quickly accepted the long column of tutoring scrolls, while apologizing in a mournful tone with a bit of helplessness and guilt.

"It's okay, I just want to ask you about the tunnel, I don't know how to ask."

Shiina Iori, who said that she didn't know how to speak, threw the topic out very smoothly.

Yui glanced at him beside him.

This guy's cliché is also too proficient.

Hearing this, the proprietress was obviously silent for a while.

After a pause of nearly a minute, he finally let out a long breath.

In the end, with a calm expression, he took out a small box from the drawer. After opening it, there was a pair of golden thin rings inside.

The proprietress, or Mrs. Ninomiya Mayu, said solemnly: "If Shiina-san is willing to keep this secret, please accept this gift first."

Shiina Iori caught a touch of gold in his eyes, and the strange thing engraved in the DNA moved subconsciously.

"It's gold-plated, with silver-nickel inside."

Mrs. Ninomiya reminded.

The fantasy of worshiping money was suddenly shattered, and the strange thing in Shiina Iori's DNA immediately stopped moving.

He took the small box and handed it to Yui:
"Then I'll be disrespectful."

"Ah."

Mrs. Ninomiya nodded, as if she didn't know where to start, hesitated for a while, then paused and said, "As Jin said, our family's tunnels were built from the generation of my husband's grandfather."

"At that time, it was before the Third World War, and the Ninomiya family was still one of the local wealthy families in Tottori Prefecture."

"Because the family-run business was sensitive at that time, we could get to the above information earlier, and our grandfather was a senior survival fanatic, so there was a project here."

"Because of the urgency of the situation and the lack of time, the grandfather of our family spent the rich assets accumulated by the family for several generations, and used a lot of manpower and material resources to dig out a very strong city in the mountain that can be called a fortress."

"Later, as my grandfather predicted, the war broke out."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Nichinomiya's expression seems a bit indescribable. It is a complex emotion similar to that of a hemorrhoid patient sitting on the toilet in the middle of the night after eating Sichuan hot pot and being troubled by burning pain and constipation.

"But...he forgot, this is Tottori Prefecture."

"The terrain is the most complex in Japan, and it is one of the poorest counties. There are no buildings or institutions with strategic value at all."

"During the entire war, there was almost no flames of war involved here, and the Ninomiya family spent the entire war in the town peacefully."

"Then."

"Because of exchanging a large amount of funds for survival supplies that are difficult to sell in large quantities, it has completely failed."

People are alive, money is gone.

This is the most painful thing in the world.

As a standard miser, Shiina Iori can clearly feel the pain.

Yui sat on the sofa beside her, quietly putting a ring on her finger.

I stretched out my hand and lifted it up to have a look. I didn't know what I thought of, and a very happy smile appeared on my face.

Mrs. Nichinomiya covered her temples with her hands with a heavy expression: "Because it is an illegal building, the government ordered rectification after the reconstruction was discovered, but then there was a mountain rain, and because the reconstruction area was too large, part of the mountain collapsed and formed a landslide, which crushed the building. With a warehouse of living supplies, our Ninomiya family is completely unable to turn around."

"Even some of the discovered tunnels have been shut down and banned from entering, listed as dangerous buildings, and even the hope of packaging them into exhibition halls to collect tickets is gone."

"In the end, I had to take the risk."

Shiina Iori was enjoying hearing the story, and was puzzled for a while when he heard this: "Why take such a risk?"

Mrs. Nichinomiya held her head, her tone was very low, and there seemed to be a dark cloud over her head: "The 'natural hot spring' in our propaganda is fake, but the boiler is actually installed underground to supply hot water. For those involved in commercial false propaganda, depending on the amount of income, they can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three months but not more than ten years.”

"In order to pay off the debts owed to migrant workers, this hot spring hotel has been opened since our parents' generation. The amount used to repay the debts is three years, and a fine of 200 million. Since my husband died early, I have also taken over the stall. Of course it's a desperate move!"

It can be seen that those who break the law these days know the law.

Mrs. Ninomiya even calculated her own age.

Hearing what he said, Shiina Iori immediately thought of some of her words: "The reason why outsiders are not allowed to approach the firewood room is because"

"There are connecting valves and pipelines in there, leading directly to the hot spring." Mrs. Ninomiya obviously gave up struggling, and simply confessed, "And there is an underground exit, we can come out directly from the woodshed."

"The ghost boy's story is...?"

Mrs. Nichinomiya sighed helplessly: "What Ren got is albinism, which is a congenital genetic disease, and it can't be cured. Moreover, because melanin cannot be synthesized, it comes with dry skin, and the skin breaks all over the body when exposed to the sun. It can only be done from evening to night. Activities, when he was young, I was worried that he would go outside, so I had to bring it to the hostel—I was seen by an imaginative guest by chance, and it was made up.”

"Then you said that Renjun didn't come to the hostel yesterday?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Mrs. Ninomiya gritted her teeth angrily:
"I really didn't notice."

"Stinky boy, you dare to come out to play without writing any of the homework I left!"

"Ah this."

Shiina Iori was taken aback when she heard the words, and the figure of Mrs. Ninomiya when she broke the valve suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, as well as the snow-white Ninomiya Jin.

Is that the reason? !
He originally thought that no matter how much it was said, there would be some unexplainable strange powers involved, but he didn't expect that the reason why this family kept the secret was so realistic.

It's because the orphans and widows don't want their money to be cut off, and they don't want to be sued for it, so they can only keep their mouths shut and live a day to day.

Shiina Iori finally remained silent for a while, reached out to take the ring and box from Yui's hand, and put them back on the table under Yui's puzzled eyes.

"We can pretend we don't know about this."

"But there is no need for things. It is still illegal after all."

The world isn't black and white after all.

Shiina Iori has a steelyard in her heart, and when it is worth compromising, she will naturally choose a more suitable middle item.

Hearing Iori's voice, Yui, who was a little surprised just now, stopped talking.

Because the parents who have been influenced by her since she was a child lead by example, Yui Igarashi clearly understands the importance of the division of labor inside and outside, so when Iori makes decisions outside, she just listens.

Seeing Shiina Iori's actions, Mrs. Ninomiya seemed to realize something, and suddenly laughed.

"Don't worry, I don't mean to bring you along with me."

"It's just because when I took over this store, I missed the opportunity for the last rectification, but if the news is correct, there should be another rectification in the hot spring industry next year."

"At that time, I will pay it as soon as possible."

In Japan, it is relatively lenient for these gray industries that jump left and right on the marginal line, just like the ancient world amnesty, there are often opportunities to change from black to white through industry rectification.

Hearing this, Shiina Iori still didn't accept it, and said nonchalantly:
"That's your business, I'll pretend I don't know anything."

"It's nothing special."

Mrs. Ninomiya explained, with a very subtle smile in her eyes: "It's just a token of the Ninomiya family. In the future, as long as you come to this hotel and show this ring, you can experience the independent private room for free. .”

"The private room is located deeper in the inner courtyard. Each room has its own independent rockery double bath. The room fee is free of board and lodging. The hot spring is open 24 hours a day. The floor bed inside is big and soft~~"

"The most important thing is that the special sound insulation board is used, and the sound insulation effect is excellent!"

"You can do whatever you want!"

Hearing what she said, Yui, who was sitting upright, was taken aback for a moment, and then looked at Shiina Iori next to her with a small face, her lips parted slightly as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't dare to speak.

Shiina Iori had a strange expression on her face.

Then, I heard Mrs. Ninomiya teasing softly with a smile on her face: "I saw it last night~"

"The people in the women's room are the two of you, right? Young people just like playing with flowers!"

Upon hearing the key words 'last night' and 'women's room', Yui Igarashi's whole body immediately froze and remained motionless.

Shiina Iori didn't speak anymore.

Noticing the delicate expressions of the two, she heard Mrs. Ninomiya laugh softly, imitating Shiina Iori's calm tone just now, pretending: "Ahem~"

"It's nothing special~"

"I'll pretend I don't know anything!"

Shiina Iori had nothing to say.

He looked at Mrs. Ninomiya, who was smiling happily, and at Yui, who was obviously a little shy and seemed to be looking forward to him, and his thinking began to run wild.

Free food, drink and lodging,
Independent double bath,

And the big soft bed?

If Mrs. Ninomiya pays the fine according to the industry regulations, does she count as being bribed?

Iori, who is blind to the law, decided to learn a new craft after returning home.

As for now.
Just pretend to be from it!
(End of this chapter)