[Pokémon/Pokémon]Light of Truth

"Phew, I had a good sleep today."

At about six o'clock in the evening, the store manager of "Holy Spirit Light" rubbed his curly hair and walked downstairs to change shifts with Milo.

The customers who were still in the cafe raised their heads to look at the manager who only appeared at night.

The store manager Siedbravdi Kuznetsov has typical European features, fair skin, blue pupils, a face as clear as a sculpture, sharp edges and corners, and extremely handsome. His slender figure paired with a white suit perfectly showed his extraordinary temperament.

He usually holds a book in his hand, and he has the habit of reading classics for a while before going to bed. He has read most of these books two or three times, and almost remembers the plots, but he still can't put it down. After all, the value of classics depends on them. The hidden truth cannot be read through once or twice.

Kuznetsov put the book on the front desk, raised his hand and rubbed the head of the little Vulpix on the left. Seeing this, the little Vulpix on the right also raised his head and looked at him eagerly, so he rubbed the hairy kid's head again. hair, and in the end one of the two hands would be placed on Milo's head smoothly.

Milo tilted his head and avoided his hand. Facing the latter's doubts, he bent his eyes and smiled: "Shouldn't you wash your hands first, dear Siyed? I guess you are not going to use that dipstick either." Are you going to check the record player with your hands filled with the sweet smell of pastries?"

"How many pastries did these two little guys eat in the afternoon?" Kuznetsov could smell the pastry smell on the two Vulpix. He thought it was some pastry just now, but he didn't expect that it was almost two little Vulpix. It's become pastry. He picked up one of the little Vulpix, squeezed his belly, and said, "Look at our little mascot, he has really gained a lot of weight in the past month."

"Ouch!" The Vulpix's eyes widened as he was picked up, and his limbs fluttered to express his dissatisfaction.

"If you continue to make trouble, I will let you and Hu Di work together as a waiter, but this will probably increase the bad reviews of our store. Of course, there may be customers who like short legs?" Kuznetsov scratched Vulpix's nose. , and put him back on the counter.

"Don't always bully him." Milo rubbed Vulpix's head and said helplessly.

"I'll think about it. I'll wait until he doesn't sleep in to lose weight." Kuznetsov walked into the kitchen to wash his hands and replied lightly on the way.

"Ouch!" Liu Wei's mouth bulged in anger. He had obviously eaten four or five small cakes in the afternoon, how could he call him eating too much?

The other Ice Vulpix yawned gracefully, with a look on his face that said, "I have nothing to lose." As long as the owner doesn't talk about her, it means that she is not fat and there is no need to think about losing weight.

"hudi" Hu Di, who had been standing silently aside, stared at the two Vulpix. He compared their figures a month ago with their current figures, and found with a solemn expression that each of them had gained at least four kilograms. . If this continues, sooner or later they will turn from foxes into pigs.

It's really time to find some work for them.

"Okay, let's go up and have a rest. We've been busy all day." Kuznetsov walked out of the kitchen, took out a handkerchief and wiped the water on his hands, walked behind the counter and began to "drive" Milo to rest. room.

Milo untied his apron, folded it and put it in the cabinet, then raised his head and said, "Can't we rest on the first floor? Although I'm a little tired, I'm not sleepy. You can knit a scarf now."

"I have no objection, but maybe we should consider hiring more employees. There is no shortage of people at night, but we may need a pastry chef to help during the day, at least during the busiest time in the afternoon, and on weekends." Kurtz Nezov helped Milo straighten his long hair. After a busy afternoon, the originally smooth hair became messy. Although the dyed cream smelled particularly sweet and delicious...well, this was not something that should be thought about.

"You can find students nearby. There seem to be many girls who are good at making pastries. Not long ago, a child asked me how to make chocolate." Milo suggested, tucking his hair behind his ears.

Kuznetsov was noncommittal and simply said: "Then I hope the girls didn't quarrel with the chocolate."

"A Rakshasa joke?"

"No, it's just a reasonable guess." Kuznetsov said in a brisk tone.

Milo had no choice but to put his hands on his hips and was about to say something when he saw three girls poking their heads at the stairs. One of them stuck out her tongue playfully when she saw him.

"You haven't left yet?" Seeing this, Milo forgot what to say to Kuznetsov, but turned to ask the three of them with a little surprise. After all, in his impression, they should be two hours. Came to the store before.

"We are waiting for coffee!" Gu Qianqiu quickly replied, and also said hello to the store manager, "Well, hello, store manager Kuznetsov!"

"Hello little guy, I'm glad you remembered my last name. I remember correctly that you asked Milo before - well, my dear deputy store manager, how to make chocolate? How about it, I'm sure it will be next Valentine's Day Do you want to give this guy some delicious black chocolate?" Store manager Kuznetsov wiped the cup and smiled.

"Hmm... cough, cough, cough, my fire dinosaur thinks the black chocolate I made tastes good." Gu Qianqiu opened his eyes guiltily, and Xin Yan was stunned for three seconds. If he could speak human words, now he said "Are you sure, little one?" "Old sister" has been shouted out.

Others don't know, so how can he, Xin Yan, not know Gu Qianqiu's cooking skills?

That dark chocolate...it is indeed dark, but is it really chocolate?

Kuznetsov could see her guilty conscience at a glance. Although he did not expose it, he still said to Milo with a spread of hands: "It seems that the nearby choice failed. What a regrettable result."

Milo pressed his temple with a headache, "Then we can only post the recruitment notice at the door of the store tomorrow. I hope not too many people will rush in." The cafe has been open for so long, Milo has also seen the enthusiasm of Chinese students. Enthusiastic, he was not surprised that business would be booming at first. He was confident in his and Frosty Milk Fairy's cooking skills, and it would not be difficult to occupy a place in the food court. But it stands to reason that the heat will slowly subside after a period of time. Unexpectedly, these young children came here almost for nothing, and even recommended their cafe to friends from other schools, making them happy as soon as the afternoon came. Being so busy that there is no time to relax is indeed beyond Milo's expectation. But the Cream Fairy was quite happy. She was very happy that everyone liked the dessert she made.

"Um, is the cafe looking for temporary workers to make desserts?" Gui Mimi's eyes were shining, she stood on the table with both hands, stood on tiptoes, and wildly recommended herself, "I, I, I, I! I can do it! I can make a lot of desserts. I can make dessert cakes, tarts, pies, donuts, and macarons! I’m free every afternoon! I’m also free on weekends!”

Gui Mimi almost put the words "Choose me" on her face. Seeing her look like this, Milo blinked and said with a smile: "I know a lot of desserts, do you want to come to the kitchen and try it out? "

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Gui Mimi nodded crazily like a chicken pecking at rice. Milo waved to her and took her into the kitchen to try her dessert-making skills.

"It seems we can only hire waiters," Kuznetsov raised his eyebrows, seeming satisfied that he could write fewer words. However, although there was one less person at the scene, there were obviously two dwarfs in front of the counter. The 1.85-meter store manager crossed his arms and asked, "Well, you two, do you want to drink coffee?"

Gu Qianqiu raised his hands, "I want the least bitter coffee!"

"It's not that I don't have water here," Kuznetsov took out a bottle of mineral water and put it on the counter, but Gu Qianqiu refused harshly, "Okay, a cup of cappuccino. What about you, girl?" He looked at Lin Fu'an was lost in thought while looking at the coffee list.

"Give him a cup of the bitterest drink." Lin Fu'an raised his head and said seriously. The "him" in her mouth was, of course, the goth kid beside him who was thinking about something.

"Okay, an espresso."

Kuznetsov put some coffee beans into the grinder and began to grind the coffee beans to a suitable thickness. Then transfer the coffee powder from the grinder into the handle, and then tap the coffee powder in the handle flat. The method of flattening is very skillful. According to insiders, a good cloth should not only take into account the distribution of coffee powder in the vertical direction, but also the distribution of coffee powder in the horizontal plane. For beginners, this is extremely troublesome, but Kuznetsov has been making coffee powder for who knows how many years. The two little girls in front of the counter saw him flip his wrist, and like magic, he was still wearing it. The crevices and slopes of the coffee grounds become as flat as a slope.

Then it takes less than half a minute to make a small cup of coffee, beat the milk at the same time, and then pour 300ml of milk into the milk jug. Insert the steam wand into the milk, cut and heat the milk until the foam reaches % of the milk jug. Finally, the milk foam and coffee are fully blended to create a beautiful flame pattern, and a cup of cappuccino is completed.

"If you also choose cappuccino, maybe I can pull out a bow. Unfortunately, espresso does not have this link." After serving the cappuccino to Gu Qianqiu, Kuznetsov said to Lin Fu'an With one sentence, she started making the bitterest coffee she wanted.

Espresso is an extremely refreshing coffee. People who come to coffee shops at night rarely order it. It’s not that they don’t want to stay up late with it, but that this coffee is extremely difficult to drink for most people. From their description, it seems to be worse than traditional Chinese medicine.

But Kuznetsov himself likes it very much. Sometimes he will choose to drink it and read a book when no one is around at night.

Chike took it and took a sip, then sat on the chair next to him and started reading. What he was looking at was none other than a classical Chinese dictionary. Of course, Lin Fu'an, who was poor at classical Chinese, couldn't teach Chike himself, because they thought that they had learned how to read by themselves with a Xinhua dictionary, so they might as well let Chike try to learn it first, and then teach her in turn after he learned it. After all, Chinese still needs to be tested.

"Store manager, can you still book your doubles match?" Gu Qianqiu took a sip of cappuccino. Although it said it had added milk, there was still a bit of coffee bitterness in it. She stuck out her tongue and put the coffee aside. , asked Kuznetsov, who currently has nothing to do.

"Weekend doubles can be booked through the forum as normal. The schedule has been fully booked in the past three weeks." Kuznetsov said, his eyes began to glance at the books on the cabinet behind him, as if he was thinking about what to read tonight.

"Can we make a reservation on site?" Gu Qianqiu was eager to try.

"Logically not - unless you finish your cappuccino," Kuznetsov laughed.

Gu Qianqiu was stuck, so she silently brought back the cappuccino. She ordered it herself and drank it with tears in her eyes.

After she drank more than half of her drink, Kuznetsov asked: "You also need a partner for on-site bookings. Where is your partner?"

"...Can you finish it in one breath, manager!" Gu Qianqiu wiped off a circle of milk foam around his mouth and muttered.

"It's just common sense to add later. After all, the registration of reservation information is for two people." Kuznetsov took out the famous book of Rakshasa and replied smoothly.

"Damn it... Of course I have a partner! Right, Lin Fu'an!" Gu Qianqiu looked at Lin Fu'an with burning eyes. Lin Fu'an raised his head in confusion and said one word:

"what?"

Gu Qianqiu held her hand and said sincerely: "When I first met you, I had a hunch that we were destined to be great partners and participate in the doubles match in the cafe together. You thought so too, right?"

The honest man Lin Fu'an was extremely confused: "I think the first time I saw you, your Mimikyu was raped by me..."

Gu Qianqiu covered his face and interrupted her: "Okay, okay, stop talking. I understand. Just treat it as a short test of strength before the sixth-level assessment. The store manager and deputy store manager are pretty good. You You will definitely gain something, and you will get free coupons after you win!”

"The key point is actually the free coupons at the end." Lin Fu'an hit the nail on the head.

"...Anyway, form a doubles partner with me, Lin Fu'an. Let's go together and fight together!" Gu Qianqiu patted Xin Yan on the back to prove that her fire dinosaur was physically strong and could definitely fight. .

"Dear player, please name your team." Lin Fu'an said this sentence with a deadpan expression and a game NPC accent.

"Of course it's called Shuang - Shuangxia Qianqiu!" Gu Qianqiu nodded, thinking this name was great.

Lin Fu'an doesn't think so, "I think it's not as good as Shuangxia Swing or Fu'an Shuangxia."

"Hey, your naming skills are really hard to describe."

"Each other, take care of the swing."

"...My name is Gu Qianqiu. Thank you."

"Okay, Gu Qiuqian." Lin Fu'an smiled and said, "Just be content. If the person standing in front of you was Haixi's most disdainful person, you would have called Hehuogan a long time ago."

In the end, the two of them argued for a long time but couldn't come up with a good partner name. The store manager Kuznetsov filled in the name of his partner as "primary school partner" in the reservation information while listening to their elementary school students arguing.

Lin Fu'an:?

Gu Qianqiu:?

At this time, Deputy Store Manager Milo and Gui Mimi came out with freshly baked cakes. He was a little surprised when he saw the new reservation information: "Why is there a partner named like this?"

Store manager Kuznetsov said with a smile: "Maybe they are really young students."

"Are you bullying a kid again?" Milo couldn't guess what he had done, and when he put the cake in his hand, he tapped his head helplessly.

After knocking on the person, he said to the two girls who were looking at each other blankly: "I'm sorry, Sied is like this, but he definitely doesn't have any um... malicious intentions, I can guarantee that. Okay, you guys have a taste of what you just said. Mimi's skill in baking the small cakes is indeed quite good, and Mousse also likes her very much."

Mousse is the name of Milo's frosty milk fairy. She is very shy and afraid of strangers, but perhaps because of their common hobby of desserts, she accepts Gui Mimi well and even vaguely expresses her affection for her.

After being praised, Gui Mimi smiled and said a little embarrassedly: "After all, my greatest advantage is making desserts."

"This advantage is quite good. Thanks to it, you have a fat spider as a teacher." Lin Fu'an took a small cake to Alis. Alis opened his mouth wide and bit it in one bite. If it weren't for Lin Fu'an's quick eyesight and quick hands, the wrapping paper They will all be eaten by him.

"It's great if Master likes it." Gui Mimi took a bite of the soft cake and said happily.

Today should be her lucky day.

Although I forgot to put on the bracelet in the morning, it was because of forgetting that I became friends with Lin Fuan, got a master, came to the cafe, met Gu Qianqiu, stayed here until night, and got With the approval of the deputy store manager, I became a temporary worker here.

Um. Today must be her lucky day.

And it was the happiest day since high school.