that touch of blue

Chapter 4

The two sat in the seats near the street in the city that never sleeps, and they could clearly see the distant scenery through the glass. The waiter stepped forward to remove the chopsticks for them and poured a cup of barley tea each.

"Well, very fragrant barley tea." Zhan Lan took a deep breath and said to Qian Ye.

Qian also put the menu in front of Zhanlan, took a sip of tea, and said, "Sister Lanlan, come and order. You are from Shanghai, so you know what kind of dishes are the best."

"Yeah, Nong is from Shanghai?" Wu Nong said softly, Zhanlan looked up at the waiter and nodded.

"Where is Lennon from in Shanghai?" Another sentence, Qian also recognized that it was in a language he didn't understand, so he continued to drink tea without making a sound.

"Songjiang." Zhan Lan replied, still lowered her head to study the menu, and Qian also looked out of the window.

"I am also from Songjiang, we are fellow villagers." The woman said excitedly.

"Ah, nice to meet you. Zhanlan raised her head and smiled slightly, and then said, "I want Songjiang perch, three-sliced ​​buckwheat, eight-treasure duck, and fresh pickled bamboo shoot soup. Alright, let's start with these four dishes. "Zhan Lan looked at the menu and said so.

"Ah? Oh, okay, what drink do you want?" The woman immediately responded and placed an order immediately.

"No need, just barley tea is fine," Zhan Lan said.

She took another sip of tea and began to say to Qian Ye: "Shanghai cuisine is one of the main cuisines in China. Shanghai cuisine is based on local cuisine and includes Beijing, Shandong, Yangsu, Xi, Sichuan, Guangzhou, Fujian, and Hangzhou. , Ningbo, Henan, Anhui, Hunan and other delicacies, as well as special flavors such as vegetarian dishes, Muslim dishes, and Western food, and according to the characteristics of Shanghai's commercial port connecting the whole country and the world, and adapting to the taste needs of the five parties, they are all appropriately changed to form It is a Shanghai-style style that is inclusive, wide-ranging, elegant, fresh and mellow, and pioneering trends. The cooking techniques are good at stir-frying, stir-frying, braised, and steamed. .”

"Sister Lan Lan really knows a lot." Qian Ye also drank his tea, admiring honestly.

"Father is an amateur gourmet, and his favorite thing to do is to take my mother and I to eat delicious food from all over the world." From his father, Zhanlan learned a lot.

While waiting for the food, Zhanlan took out the notebook in the backpack, saved the short videos stored in the dv into the computer, and looked through today's results one by one.

Suddenly felt the darkness above his head, looked up, a big face was pressed against the glass, staring at Zhan Lan and Qian Ye, Qian also obviously noticed, he got up and walked out quickly, pulled the boy away from the glass .

The red-haired boy stared wide-eyed, as if arguing with him about something, surrounded by a few boys of similar age, one with a white bandage on his hand, and one with a black hairband on his forehead, hooked up with him. On the shoulders is a boy with hair who doesn't know how to describe it, there is another tall and strong bald boy, and the other is a cool boy.

"Hey, I don't care, I don't care, I just want to come in, I haven't eaten yet, and I'm hungry." The red-haired boy pushed open the door and walked in muttering.He walked up to Zhanlan, looked her up and down, left and right, from head to toe, from foot to head, then turned around and said, "Hey, Shiraishi, Kenya's girlfriend is so beautiful."

"Xiao Jin, I told you, she is not my girlfriend." Qian also looked at him helplessly.

"Really, but Xiao Guangguang said that Qian didn't come out with us because of his girlfriend?" The red-haired boy pointed the finger at the cool boy.

Qian really didn't know how to explain to this simple-minded guy, he could only beg Zhanlan not to be angry.

"Sister Lanlan, these people are my tennis club partners, that, don't mind what they say, they're just making some jokes out of boredom." Ren Zuqian also hurriedly explained to Zhanlan.

"Oh, boss." Zhan Lan said to the woman in Mandarin, "Do you have a private room here?"

"Yes, Xiaoli, you can take them to that box." The woman replied, and ordered one of the waiters to take them to the box, and greet other guests by herself.

Zhanlan quickly packed her backpack, picked up the computer and left the original table.

Xiao Jin's face drooped, it turned out that he really ruined their date.Seeing Shiraishi slowly undoing the bandage and Kenya's raised fist, he frowns and wants to shrink himself into a ball and dig a hole in the ground.But I heard the girl's voice: "Why are you staying there?" Turning around, the girl was already standing on the stairs leading to the second floor.Xiao Jin yelled and rushed up.

Sitting in the private room, Zhanlan turned on her computer again, and said to Xiaoli who was arranging the dining table: "Let's add some more dishes, we can serve whatever we are good at, and I want another bucket of rice." There are so many boys here, they should have a bucket of rice Meal is enough.

"Okay." Xiaoli gently closed the door and went downstairs.

Xiao Jin looked around quietly, and found that everyone was looking at him, including Ishida, who was usually very honest.

His temperament is natural, he just can't sit still, no, he acted as the first person to eat crabs, and asked Zhanlan: "Well, don't you mind if we eat with you? I won't bother you and Qianye date?"

When Qian also heard this sentence, he almost wanted to hit the wall directly.

"No." Zhan Lan said, and continued to take photos.

"Nani, are you really dating?" Xiao Jin jumped up.

Zhanlan looked up at Xiaojin who was about to jump to the roof, "Aren't you tired?"

Xiaojin shook his head, and moved a stool to sit beside Zhanlan: "Hey, my name is Toyama Kintaro, I am 15 years old this year, and I am the main candidate for the Tennis Club of Shitennoji Senior Division. What's your name? How old are you this year?" ? Are you Japanese? What school do you study in? Is your school’s tennis club good? Do you want to have a friendly match with our school?”

"Xiaojin, don't you think such a question is rude?" Shiraishi said sternly, and then said to Zhanlan with a different face, "Sorry, our members are rude. I am Kuranosuke Shiraishi, the head of the tennis department. Please teach me a lot."

"Ishida Yin, please give me your advice." The bald man said.

"Golden Xiaochun." The boy with glasses and weird hair introduced himself.

"Hey, Haru, don't wink at other girls behind my back, Yuji Kazushi, please give me your advice." The boy with a headband put his arms around the golden Xiaoharu and said with a playful smile.

"It's okay. Zhanlan, 14 years old, Chinese, first year of high school in the second half of the year. Please advise me." Zhanlan shook her head. It was the first time she heard a person say such a long string of words without a single pause.

"Hey, hey, you are 14 years old, younger than me, you have to call me brother, just call me brother Xiaojin, you can come to our school to study, then you can play with me, please You eat ramen, it’s delicious, do you want it, do you want it, come and study with me.” Xiaojin didn’t learn his lesson, and continued to pull Zhanlan, what he didn’t realize was that Baishi’s face could be connected with the pot The bottom is comparable.

"Are you thirsty?" Zhanlan held up a cup of barley tea and handed it to Kintaro.

"Nani, I'm not thirsty. You haven't answered my question yet?" Xiaojin took the water glass, put it on the table, and continued to ask without giving up. Ken also looked at Kintaro with black lines on his face.

"Xiao Jin, Sister Lan Lan is studying in China. She came to Japan during the summer vacation and will not stay in Japan for a long time." Qian also pulled Xiao Jin away from Zhan Lan's side, keeping a distance of five steps from her.

"Hey, is that right? Oh, then China is very interesting, and I want to go too." Xiaojin was dying in Kenya's hands.

"Welcome." Zhan Lan closed the notebook, put it in her backpack, and took a sip of tea.She really doubted that the boy who was as active as a monkey in front of her didn't feel thirsty at all. After all, he just said a lot of words, isn't he tired?

"Zhan Sang, don't worry about him, this kid's vitality is very strong, and he's as hard to defeat as Xiaoqiang." Seeing the doubt in Zhan Lan's eyes, Bai Shi hurriedly said.

The little monkey was quiet for a while, and then came to Zhanlan again: "Hey, where does sister Lanlan want to go? Let me be your guide?"

"Come on, you road idiot, the person who went to Tokyo to participate in the national competition and would go to Shizuoka, it's strange if you don't take him away." Xiao Guangguang sarcastically said in Xiao Jin's mouth.

"No way, didn't I go to Tokyo at that time?" The little monkey quickly retorted, his life's wisdom cannot be ruined by Xiao Guangguang's mouth.

"Cut!" Xiao Guangguang, that is, Cai Qianguang snorted, and the little monkey immediately knew that he was at a loss for words, and cast his pitiful eyes on Zhanlan.

"Sister Lanlan, I won't lose you, trust me."

Zhanlan looked at Kintaro's pitiful expression, and said on his face: Trust me, you must trust me.

"The food is here, let's eat." Zhan Lan touched her aching stomach, and when she saw the food was delivered, she immediately rescued herself.

Aggrieved, the little monkey turned his face to the dining table, grabbed the chopsticks, and fought hard with the rice in the bowl. Zhanlan couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and put a piece of fish in Xiaojin's bowl. Xiaojin looked up at her, and Zhanlan smiled slightly : "If you are full, you will have the strength to lead the way."

The little monkey was encouraged, gobbled it up, and tried to snatch the food in front of everyone. After a while, the cups and plates were messed up. The rice and vegetables just disappeared.Zhan Lan looked at a small piece of fish, a small chicken leg, and a few cabbage hearts in the bowl, then at Xiao Jin contentedly rubbing her stomach, and at the vegetables piled high in everyone's bowls, she swallowed.

"How long has it been since you had enough to eat?" Zhan Lan could only ask like this, what a poor child, the family didn't give him enough to eat, it was so pitiful.Everyone was holding bowls, they were wondering why Zhan Lan would say such a thing.

"Ah, I ate two bowls of dry porridge, four fried dough sticks, and three steamed buns this morning." Xiao Jin replied.

Zhanlan could only shut her mouth in silence, buried her head in pulling out her rice, a pair of chopsticks stretched out in front of her, Zhanlan looked up and saw that Qian had picked up a chicken wing and put it in her bowl, he smiled at Zhanlan: "I forgot Let me tell you, Xiao Jin eats a lot, and the speed is also very fast, I'm really sorry, do you want to order more food?"

Everyone looked at her, and she shook her head: "No need, kid, it's a good thing to eat more, and I'm growing up. I've had enough."

"Sister Lanlan, I'll treat you to tonkotsu ramen. I'll treat you to our school later." The little monkey said regretfully.

"No, that's enough for me, really." Zhanlan looked at Xiaojin with a smile, proving that the food in the bowl could satisfy her stomach.

It was already two o'clock when we came out of the "city that never sleeps".

"Where is the next stop?" Zhan Lan asked.

"Take you to our school, Sitianbao Temple." Ren Zuqian also unlocked it, and smiled at Zhanlan.

"Okay, okay, let's go together." Toyama Kintaro said bouncingly.

"Then my sister Lanlan and I will go by motorcycle, and you guys will take the bus." Qian also asked his companion.

"Okay. Let's train by the way." Baishi nodded first, and the minister nodded in agreement, and they also nodded.

"Yada, I want to go with Sister Lanlan." The little monkey was not happy.

"Xiao Jin, my car can only carry two people." Qian also said.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll run, it's fine, I want to go with Sister Lanlan." Jin Taro hurriedly rushed to Zhanlan.

"Can you keep up?" Baishi said.

"Yeah, yeah." The little monkey nodded quickly.

"Well, if you can't arrive with Kenya, let the coach treat you to mustard wheat noodles." Shiraishi nodded and left, walking towards the station.

The little monkey ran on the spot to warm up, and he said, "Sister Lanlan, I'll treat you to noodles later."

"Aren't you going to run first?" Zhan Lan asked.

"No, no, I want to go with Qianye, together." The little monkey replied.

It wasn't until he was on the road that Zhan Lan deeply realized why he had the ability to run from Shizuoka to Tokyo. It was a great loss for the country if such a person didn't participate in the track and field competition. At first, he thought that he would never be able to catch up with Kenya Ninzu Even if he catches up with the locomotive, he is still panting desperately.Unexpectedly, not only did he catch up with the locomotive, but he also struck up a conversation with him without saying a word, chatting about topics about the southeast and northwest, and when the traffic lights were waiting, he walked back and forth.Zhanlan can only sigh what kind of world this is.