Zongman: Kulaixiku, resurrection!

Chapter 133: A corner no one cares about

"I'm gonna start now."

Baihe Sanhui casually made three dishes for the hungry Deng - egg custard, blanched Chinese cabbage, and steamed meat patties with preserved vegetables, all of which were easy to digest and nutritious.

The Takamatsu couple did not invite Kashiwa Miki to have dinner with them. They were really reckless in order to get the quota for the lamp exchange as soon as possible.

Baihe Sanhui did not eat with Deng, but leaned aside silently, watching Deng's cheeks bulging as he chewed, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"lamp."

"Um...I'm here!" Hearing Kashiwa Sanhui's call, Deng quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and responded forcefully.

"You can stay at my house for a few days—but we have to make some rules."

Kashiwa Sanhui held up three fingers.

"First, don't go into the kitchen alone. There are too many dangerous things in there. Second, when using the bathroom, make sure to turn on the lights and lock the door. Don't cause any embarrassing situations for everyone. Third—"

When talking about the third point, Kashiwa Sanhui was quite serious, and his aura unconsciously made the lead singer Xiaomei sit up straight.

"After nine o'clock at night, you must! You must! You must not go out alone!"

Last time, even with Aiyin's help, it took me most of the night to barely find the light of a person who had secretly run to the observatory mountain to turn on the autistic penguin. If Aiyin hadn't helped me this time, who knows how many mountains I would have to patrol before I could find the autistic little penguin.

"Did the lamp hear it? If it did, it said it heard it."

"Listen...I heard it."

The doctor is so fierce, does he hate me?

Seeing Deng unconsciously drooping his little head like a wilted cucumber seedling, Baihe Sanhui sighed and explained gently, "I was just worried about Deng's safety, so I said it so seriously. It's not that I hate Deng. Deng is a child who is very important to me."

"Deng, please don't always underestimate yourself, okay?"

Very important, very important, very important...

Baihe Sanhui felt that Deng didn't hear anything except what he said, "very important". Looking at her blushing face and absent-minded expression, he knew that what he said was completely in vain.

……

"Rising... is this the place?"

Momoka said uncertainly, comparing the photos and text messages on her phone.

"It must be here. Is there a second Rising in the whole of Ginza?"

Pulling Rupa out of the car while she held the steering wheel and admired the neon lights at night, Chi pushed open the door of the Austrian-style tavern with dark oak as the main theme. Nina and Subaru followed Momoka who took over the steering wheel to find a parking space.

"excuse me……"

No one noticed the few people who came in. Even though the five people who entered were young and beautiful ladies, no men who were looking for beauties in other bars came over. All the guests were enjoying their own leisure time.

The bartender in a suit, the bartender shaking the wine glass, the long table and wooden barrels exuding the aroma of cinnamon and oak, the dim but just right lighting, the scattered but very harmonious jazz piano music...

...and a woman sitting on a small stage, dancing with her fingertips, wearing a dark grey denim jacket and white tights, with a cool face and bright eyes.

"This is... a Broadway song." Subaru, who had attended an arts school, recognized the style of music the woman was playing after just a quick listen.

"Anything Goes, a very famous musical, but a slower version."

The woman paused her hand movements, and some familiar guests around her made disappointed sounds. The woman made a gesture that was very inconsistent with her appearance and attire - she raised her middle finger one by one to the guests who were slapping their thighs and speaking strange languages, and they were communicating with each other in encrypted form.

After doing all this, she smoothed her hair and explained to Subaru with a smile.

Good... it's really rock and roll, both rock and jazz, it seems to be more rock and roll than our group.

"Nice to meet you all. I'm Li Xiao, the boss of Rising. Just call me Chiyo Xiao."

"Hello, hello, we are the Thornless Band."

After shaking hands with everyone in the Thorn Group (he touched Renai's head while she wasn't reacting, but Zhi didn't let him do that), they found an empty table and sat down.

"As you can see, I encountered some problems before and dismissed the original resident band. Now the business is back, and it is currently managed by me and another employee."

He asked the bartender to bring five glasses of iced whiskey. At Taoxiang's reminder, two of the glasses were replaced with lemonade. After everyone clinked glasses, Li Xiao said with a bitter face.

"So you want us to replace the previous resident band, right?" Momoka asked, followed by Subaru whispering in Momoka's ear.

"Hey Momoka, our hometown is in Kawasaki, not here. Don't accept such a long-term job easily."

"That's right," Tomoya added quietly, "and we don't seem to know how to play jazz. No one knows how to play saxophone or trumpet..."

Rupa sat beside him with a smile on her face, sipping the clear golden wine in the quilt, and sighing with enjoyment.

"Hah—Boss Chiyo, could you give me a glass of gin?"

"This young lady is very classy!"

The bartender soon brought a glass of gin without ice cubes but with mint liqueur as the base. A thin layer of mist left by smoked cinnamon could be vaguely seen at the rim of the glass.

"Woo--so cool!" Rupa, who was drunk, blushed and hugged the speechless Momoka's shoulders, "Momoka~ I like it here, we work here~"

Pushing Rupa into Zhi's arms with disdain, Taoxiang thought carefully and asked Li Xiao: "Boss Chiyo, we are not a local band, so maybe..."

"I know," Li Xiao said with a hearty smile, "As for the Kawasaki band, we didn't intend to keep you here permanently."

"Huh?" Taoxiang opened her mouth in surprise. Rencai felt like she had been tricked, so her face suddenly turned sour, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Li Xiao also changed suddenly.

I originally came here because of the high salary, but now it seems I might as well work in a convenience store!

"We have a band that we're developing. I'm not sure if they'd be willing to stay in this little bar, but we can still look forward to it."

Li Xiao explained in a mysterious voice, as proud as a child showing off that he had super rare glass beads.

"Even if they don't want to stay here, I still have plenty of time to choose a better jazz band—you're actually a rock band, right?"

The five little ones in the Thorn Group nodded in turn.

"Playing rock music in a bar like ours, where we're used to listening to jazz, isn't really appropriate... So I'll have to excuse you guys to stay for a while and just treat it as practicing other styles of music. Do you mind?"

As he spoke, Li Xiao took out a contract with the working hours and rest time already marked on it, with only the salary column still blank.

It means we can talk.

"Boss Chiyo, as long as the salary and working hours are suitable, we can agree to it."

The thorns exchanged glances with each other for a while, and no one knew what they were saying in their inner voice, and then Rencai explained what they were saying.

"Hmm... I'll try for a month. 8pm to 12pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and I'll get paid daily?"

Li Xiao asked tentatively, but he didn't expect these girls to be so reasonable. After all, they were a relatively well-known band in Kawasaki, but they didn't put on airs at all. They actually had something to talk about!

"Okay, how do we calculate the salary?" Several little heads gathered together and discussed quietly for a while, then agreed to Li Xiao's conditions. Tao Xiang then asked, "Is it based on per capita or hourly wages?"

"Okay... Sorry, I'll entertain the regular customers first. Please sit down for a while." As he was speaking, Li Xiao saw the old customers coming and stood up to greet them, then explained with some apology.

Not long after, an unopened bottle of Scotch whisky was placed in front of them. The pure liquor and the little dust that symbolized the age made Rupa's eyes shine.

"A welcome gift and an apology for ignoring you all for a while, free of charge."

"Hey, boss, please be busy first."

Zhi glared speechlessly at the drunkard Rupa who was holding the wine and grinning foolishly. Taoxiang snatched the wine from Rupa and poured herself another glass.

This guy is also a useless drunkard.

The iron rule that people laugh when they are speechless is verified for the first time in this article by Satoshi Ebizuka, besides Shoko.