What should I do if I look too fierce?

"I'm back!"

Aokiji opened the door, entered the house, put the ingredients at hand, squatted down and took off his shoes.

"Welcome home." Qiong's voice sounded unexpectedly from his ears. Aoki Si raised his head. Qiong poked his head out from the second floor and gave Aoki Si a shy smile.

Aokiji grinned in surprise: "Yeah! Wait a minute, I'll wash my hands and go make sukiyaki for you."

Qiong shook her head, her long silver hair flowing down her cheeks outlining her perfect cheeks: "There's no rush."

With that said, she walked downstairs from her room, still holding the black rabbit doll in her arms.

"Sukiyaki should be made very quickly. I checked online and found that the combination of soy sauce is more important." Aokiji walked into the kitchen with the ingredients, Qiong followed Aokisi like a little tail holding the chocolate bar. Behind him, he was sitting on the chair in front of the dining table, holding a chocolate bar in his mouth without chewing it. He squinted at Aoki Si busy with the ingredients.

"Si" Qiong bit off the chocolate bar in his mouth and said vaguely, "Thank you for your hard work."

Aokiji raised his eyebrows and before he could answer, his phone suddenly rang. He took out his phone and found an unread text message from an unfamiliar number. He curled his lips and decided to read it later.

"Why bother?" Aokiji smiled: "I like eating meat. By the way, I haven't seen Uncle Kasugano for several days. Have you called him?"

Qiong shook her head and thought about it seriously, but found that she didn't seem to think about her father too much. Instead, she just missed Aokiji a little since she hadn't seen him all morning.

Qiong's face flushed slightly, and she hugged the rabbit doll tightly in her arms. She watched quietly as Aoki put on an apron and skillfully handled the onions in front of the chopping board, cutting them into small pieces, and adding mushrooms, green onions and other accessories three times. Five divided by two was cut into small pieces.

"Well" she swallowed the chocolate bar, stretched out her pink tongue and licked her chocolate-stained fingers, and said, "But daddy sent me a text message."

"What did you say?" Aokiji chatted with Qiong while collecting materials.

Qiong lowered his head, his silver hair covering his face: "Nothing. Just asking Si and I what we have done recently."

Aokiji smiled, took out the small iron pot he had at home, poured hot oil into it, and melted the butter. After that, as the diced green onions and other auxiliary ingredients were also added in, a captivating aroma made Qiong couldn't help but purse her lips.

On the way back, Aokiji used his mobile phone to check how to make sukiyaki. This Japanese hot pot is not difficult to make. It only makes the taste more fragrant. Fortunately, Aokiji has enough experience in cooking, so this simple seasoning can still restore the basic taste.

"Did you say we went out to play?" Aokiji thought that Kasugano Masao would be frightened if he knew he could take Qiong to the mall.

Qiong didn't know what he thought of, and smiled: "No, dad didn't send me a text message yesterday for some reason."

Aokiji arranged a small gas stove on the dining table, and finally moved the boiling sukiyaki pot to the small gas stove on the table, turned on the fire, and placed the prepared soy sauce with egg yolk and beef slices on the table. Looking at Qiong expectantly: "Qiong, try it and see if it tastes good. This is my first time making sukiyaki. I don't know if it suits your taste."

Qiong hummed softly, holding the rabbit doll in one hand, and picked up the chopsticks in the other hand, picked up a piece of beef, cooked it, dipped it in the dipping sauce, blew on it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Well"

She frowned slightly, it seemed that the egg yolk smelled fishy.

But soon, she relaxed her brows. The soy sauce and the sweet taste of the pot base were well balanced, and the egg yolk added a sticky texture, and the taste was unexpectedly great.

"It's delicious!" Qiong looked at Aoki Si, his eyes curled into crescent moons.

Aokiji breathed a sigh of relief, picked up his chopsticks, and took a bite. The taste was indeed quite novel - this was his first time eating this kind of Japanese hot pot.

"As long as it's delicious." Aokiji smiled softly. Seeing that she was still holding the doll he gave her and reluctant to let go, he couldn't help but persuaded: "Just put the doll down first, it's so inconvenient. .”

Qiong silently put the doll on the empty chair next to him and continued to eat.

The two of us were sitting at the dining table, and you were sweating profusely as we ate each bite.

Suddenly, the entrance door clicked, and a tired voice came from the door: "I'm back."

Masao Kasugano sat in the entrance hall with a tired face, threw his suitcase aside casually, and took off his shoes.

He sniffed and smelled the aroma of sukiyaki pot. He sighed with complicated eyes and walked to the living room in two or three steps. He saw Aokiji and Qiong looking at him directly, their eyes quite serious. for surprise.

"Uncle, why are you back suddenly?" Aokiji stopped his chopsticks and stood up with a smile: "Uncle must not have eaten at this time. Sit down first. I will pour a glass of water for uncle, get a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and let's eat together. Bar."

Qiong's expression was not as relaxed as when he was facing Aokiji. He just nodded to Masao Kasugano expressionlessly: "Welcome back."

Kasugano Masao hung his suit jacket on the back of the chair, his eyes pleased: "Did Aoki-kun do all this?"

"Well, this is my first time making sukiyaki, and it may not be as fragrant as the one made by my aunt." Aokiji brought tea to Kasugano Masao, brought bowls and chopsticks, and sat back.

Kasugano Masao stared at Aoki Si with a smile on his face, and then looked at his daughter who seemed to have completely accepted Aoki Si, sitting opposite Aoki Si, eating Masaki one bite at a time. There was also the steaming sukiyaki pot on the table. For a moment, I felt as if I was in a dream.

Masao Kasugano raised his chopsticks with mixed emotions and rinsed a piece of beef.

"It's delicious." Kasugano Masao looked at Aoki-san in a daze and murmured to himself: "Aoki-kun's cooking is so delicious."

"Huh?" Aokiji blinked and laughed: "Uncle, what's going on?"

Kasugano Masao shook his head, rubbed his face, and smiled with some difficulty at Aokiji: "Aoki-kun, to be honest, you are really a good boy that makes people proud. I was always worried that something would happen to you here. Thank you very much. Bringing you home may be the right thing I did."

Aokiji frowned slightly, looking at Kasugano Masao's tired and haggard look, he always felt that there seemed to be something unspeakable in his words.

"Uncle, are you in any trouble?" Aokiji put down his chopsticks.

Kasugano Masao was eating beef, but it was like chewing wax, and his face was a little ugly.

He lowered his head. Although he was a little hunched over, his figure was still upright, but now he looked completely slumped, like a dying old man, completely devoid of vitality.

"Nothing." His smile was a little forced: "Do you still have enough money? I may take a car to the countryside again in the afternoon to accompany your aunt to visit Qiong's grandfather. I'm afraid I won't be back for a while. I’ll leave a credit card”

"Uncle." Aokiji said with a serious expression: "In the past few days since you left, I have found a job and signed a contract to be a boxer in the fighting gym. The daily hourly salary is five thousand yuan."

"If you are under financial pressure, please tell me your difficulties! If possible, I hope you can treat me as your real relative and allow me to do my best to help you."

Aokiji looked at Kasugano Masao with burning eyes, his eyes were firm and sincere.

Kasugano Masao froze in place for a long time before he laughed from the bottom of his heart, his smile was kind and warm.

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