I rely on cooking to dominate the ghost killing team

Although Wuyue was beaten into a tattered and miserable appearance by the thorn ghost, to her surprise, the small bag of red beans in her arms was unscathed, and there was not even a scratch on the sack.

Wu Yue was really surprised, and even felt a little affection for this bag of red beans.

But she's hungry now.

So her love and affection naturally disappeared without a trace.

"Have you ever eaten red bean soup, Mr. Yiyong?" Wu Yue asked her curiously.

"During Chinese New Year, Master's house would cook red bean rice cake soup."

Simmering in a large iron pot for a whole day, the red bean skin and rice cakes are almost cooked, and the sweet smell can be smelled from a distance.But no matter how greedy you are, you still have to wait until the practice is over before eating.

Everyone gets a big bowl.The little apprentices sat in a row, started to eat, and tacitly started a meaningless competition to see who could eat the fastest.But winning or losing doesn't really mean much - it's just children's mischief.

At times like this, Zuo Rinaki would stand behind them most of the time, watching them silently.He must have been amused by the eager eating of the apprentices, but it was covered by a tengu mask, so no one could see it.

After Saito's death, Yoshiyuki never returned to Rintaki Zuo Kinji's place, and never tasted red bean rice cake soup again.

The red beans were poured into the bowl, and the crisp sound of the collision made Yiyong withdraw from the past memories.

"Mr. Yiyong's master—" Wuyue shook the last red bean in the bag into the bowl, and dragged out the ending meaningfully, "You never mentioned him. This is the first time. "

May froze.

Besides Master, she seemed to have many, many things that she didn't know.

If you really want to count in detail, she actually doesn't know Yiyong very well.Sometimes she would talk about her own affairs, but Yiyong hardly said anything.

To be exact, even in daily conversations, Giyuu is always very reticent.Wu Yue didn't dare to ask more questions, and of course she didn't dare to say more.

Yoshiyuki himself doesn't seem to realize the trouble that his habitual silence has caused Mayu.However, the mention of Rinaki Zuojin once reminded him of something.

"If you are confused about water breathing, you can go to him. He used to be the water column of the Ghost Killing Team, and has a high attainment in water breathing."

"Is that so?" Wu Yue awkwardly washed the red beans in the bowl with her hands hanging down, without raising her eyes for a moment, and her tone of voice unconsciously became a little sleepy, "But if I really feel confused, I can Asking you. There is no need to bother your master."

"No. I can't solve your confusion."

He is nothing, and he has no such ability.

Wuyue, who kept her head down, finally raised her head after hearing Giyuu's words, and looked at her blankly, her face was full of confusion, and even the action of washing the red beans slowed down.

Countless sentences "Why is Mr. Yiyong unwilling to solve my confusion" and "Did Mr. Yiyong start to show dislike for me again" floated in her mind.These meaningless words were circling back and forth, but in the end she still didn't say a word, and just turned her head away.

"understood."

She replied sullenly.

Before cooking red bean soup, it is best to soak the red beans in water for several hours.But May doesn't have such free time - she really wants to eat red bean soup!

Since there is no time to soak red beans, we can only cook them for a while.

Silently pour the red beans and water into the pot.Yiyong helped to light the fire, and then only a little patience is needed, just wait obediently.

Wu Yue stood by the stove for a long time without making a sound, the steam rushing straight to her face.Yi Yong, who was sitting on a bamboo stool in the corner, couldn't understand why she stood there.

Is it too cold?So stand by the stove and want to keep warm?But the body is obviously not fully recovered yet, wouldn't it be good to sit and rest for a while?

Yiyong glanced around, stood up, picked up another chair not far away, placed it at the place closest to the stove, and patted May on the shoulder, asking her to sit down.

However, before he got close, Wu Yue suddenly thumped the lid of the pot inexplicably.

"I'm going to cook some glutinous rice balls and put them in."

After leaving those words behind, she started to get busy.

But Wu Yue found it from the cupboard, besides the glutinous rice flour I bought casually earlier, I also found a few light pink oiled paper packets.

Huh... Why does she think this thing looks familiar?

It seems that it was a meeting gift that she made by herself to give to the other eight pillars?

Wu Yue froze for a moment, and felt an inexplicable sense of confusion for a moment.She put the glutinous rice flour on the cutting board casually, and took out the oily paper packets one by one.

one two Three……

Exactly six packs.

...Did Yiyong not send out even a package for her? !

She was a little annoyed immediately, picked up the sesame candy and wanted to find Yiyong to exchange life.But at the same time, she suddenly remembered - she had never told Yiyong about asking him to deliver the sesame candies to other pillars!

In fact, she originally planned to write this little entrustment in that letter, but writing the letter was too exhausting, and writing it made her so anxious that she almost collapsed.

Crumbling and collapsing, I completely forgot about it.There was no mention of this in the letter either.

……OK.That's fine.

Wu Yue silently closed the cupboard, gathered the sesame candies together, and prepared to throw them away later.

It's not that she wants to waste it, but that after so many days, it's estimated that sesame candy can't be eaten.Wuyue regretted it endlessly, but there was really nothing she could do.

...It was her mistake!

Sighing a few times, Wu Yue poured the glutinous rice flour into a bowl, added water and kneaded the noodles.Giyuu didn't say a word, and quietly moved the chair back to its original place.

While the red bean soup was still simmering in the pot, Wu Yue had already made glutinous rice balls.In addition, add water to the pot, and she is ready to cook dumplings.

There was a little more water in the pot, but Wuyue was too lazy to pour it out, and threw it directly into the Yuanzi to start cooking.

She was still standing by the stove, but her position was moved from the red bean pot to the glutinous rice ball pot.She didn't move, and she didn't know where her eyes fell. She always lowered her eyes, covering up all her thoughts.

Maybe it's an illusion, Yiyong doesn't seem to have seen Wu Yue's current quiet appearance.

The water in the round pot boiled, with a layer of foam.

The scum accumulated more and more, and it was higher than the water surface, almost touching May's hand.Giyuu didn't know if this was normal, but it looked really abnormal.He looked at May with some uncertainty.

But Wuyue didn't feel his eyes at all, and still looked like he was wandering into the sky. Only Yiyong was watching the movement in the pot closely.

This... this seems really abnormal, doesn't it?

He pushed May.

"Hey, the soup is about to pop out of the pot."

"what!"

Waking up like a dream in May.His hands trembled, almost scalded by the pot, and he almost jumped up in fright.

Seeing the movement in the pot, she wanted to jump even more.In a panic, she pulled out a burning firewood, threw it on the ground, and stirred the soup a few times with a spoon, barely suppressing the foam in the soup.

"Ah, sorry, sorry, sorry! I was in a daze just now!"

She repeatedly apologized to Yi Yong.However, Yiyong didn't take this matter to heart, which more or less made May's tension and anxiety fly away a little.

"Huh... It's really lucky that no accident happened."

Yiyong was still staring at her.After watching for a while, he spoke.

"You've been in a daze."

As if a little secret had been discovered, May Yi felt a little embarrassed, and laughed a few times in embarrassment: "Hahaha... Really? I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"You are very strange today." After thinking about it seriously, Yi Yong threw out such an evaluation, "It's not the same as usual."

Wuyue tilted her head suspiciously: "Is there?"

She thinks she is quite normal.

"When you dozed off in the dojo earlier, you were talking in your sleep."

"……Eh?!"

Wu Yue blushed instantly, and the spoon in her hand almost fell to the ground.

"I... I didn't say anything stupid, did I?" She asked anxiously.

"No. You have been apologizing and saying sorry." Yi Yong said, "Did you have a nightmare?"

May lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and kept rubbing the handle of the spoon with her fingers until her fingertips turned white.

Hesitating, she nodded.

"……Um."

Although she can't remember clearly, at that time, she seemed to have a nightmare.

And the guilt in the dream did not come out of thin air.

"I regret it very much, and the feeling of regret has not disappeared until now. There was a boy, I couldn't save him - I couldn't, save him from the hands of the thorn ghost. I can obviously..." Her voice It was so weak that it was almost like a whisper, but it couldn't hide the pain, "It was the same before, I couldn't save her..."

Yi Yong's heart moved.

"Does that boy remind you of something long ago?" His tone was extremely flat, as if he was talking about something he didn't care about at all. "This kind of behavior is meaningless."

But Yiyong who said these words, why didn't he also think of that other boy who lived in the past in the same way?

The only boy who failed to make it through the final trial of the Demon Slayer Squad - was the boy who was weak and brave at that time and was unable to save him.

silence.

The glutinous rice balls floated up and down in the pot, and their emotions seemed to be tumbling in it.

If it continues to cook, it may melt into the soup.

May took out the glutinous rice balls one by one, put them into an empty plate, and stirred the red bean soup in another pot.

The soup had turned a beautiful red color, but the beans were still distinct and not cooked through.Probably have to wait a while longer.

She let the fire in the stove continue to burn, and did not deliberately pour a ladle of water.When the firewood is burned up and turned into coke, the fire will naturally go out.

"Mr. Yiyong, do you remember what I told you last time, I was sent to a foster family, and the hostess of that family taught me how to cook?"

Her voice sounded very hoarse.There seemed to be something stuck in his throat, and every word he uttered scratched his throat, astringent and painful.

Of course Yiyong remembered.

Because of that story—or the accident—May didn't finish.

"I remember what I said last time that the family was ready to adopt me officially. They applied to the government department and got back a lot of grade materials. They had already filled it out, but the day before they were going to send it, they encountered accident."

She stopped suddenly and shook her head vigorously.

"No, it wasn't an accident. It was a man-made disaster.

"A burglar broke into the house—he killed everyone."