However, she did ask, but Yixian said that this question was not easy to teach and advised her to find someone with similar interests to study and improve together.
"Like-minded people...
Cleveland stared at the fragrant eggplants in the pot for a long time, then suddenly thought of someone. He turned around and looked over expectantly, which scared the greedy little conductor.
"...Dad Ke, what are you doing?"
"Don't call me that." Cleveland's eyes lit up. The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. "Susu, I... uh, I have a request. How about you listen to it?"
Su Xin felt something was wrong and was about to refuse when she caught a glimpse of the loose apron strings around Yixian's waist. She was afraid of scaring him, so after thinking about it, she decided to ask for his opinion.
"Sister Yixian."
"Hmm? What's the matter?"
"The bow on the back of your apron has fallen off. Do you want me to tie it again?"
Yixian put the eggplant on the plate, and his free hand paused for a moment, then naturally put his hand on the handle of the pressure cooker, "Okay, thank you Susu."
So, under Cleveland's increasingly bright eyes, Su Xin moved closer to help Yixian untie the knot, and then gently pulled it, and after making sure it was not too tight, she tied a beautiful bow.
After she finished, she stood on tiptoe and looked over Yixian's shoulder to look at the pressure cooker, and asked softly, "What's in it? Soup?"
"Yeah...it's beef brisket. A pressure cooker will be quicker and it will be ready soon."
"Oh..." The little commander nodded, and when he stepped back, he saw Yixian's loose hair, and he helped her to tuck it back together.
Yixian was very happy and responded with a chuckle: "Haha...you've been a great help."
Su Xin, who had only done two small things, was very happy to be praised. She had a relaxed and happy expression on her face until she saw Cleveland's bright eyes, then she restrained her expression.
"Uh...Dad Ke? What did you just say...what request?"
"That's it!" Cleveland grabbed Su Xin's white and tender paw, "A like-minded person!"
Su Xin was unwilling to admit, "...What like-minded people? I am very good at tidying up the room, but Sister Beifa and the others won't let me do it..."
"No, I'm talking about... the state, the state of being in a relationship!" Cleveland's face flushed, and he was obviously very excited.
The young commander blushed after hearing this. He glanced at Yixian's back, who was still busy. In the end, he did not refute, but asked softly: "So... what are you going to do?"
"Helena always complains that I don't understand romance, but I really don't know what to do and when..." Cleveland changed the subject, "But you did a good job just now, so can you teach me? I will learn it seriously!"
Su Xin, who used to be a silly and wooden person, never expected that one day she would receive a request in this regard, but to be honest, she was really proud of it.
Seeing this, Cleveland continued: "I also want to have a good relationship with Helena, so can you help me?"
"From now on, I will call you teacher and you will call me father, and we will each have our own way—"
"Hey... You can't do this, you can't do this, sister!"
Yixian cooked a few more dishes and was in a good mood listening to the laughter of the two lively guys behind him. After thinking for a while, he added two more dishes, all of which were Su Xin's favorites.
"Just consider it a reward, right? She has indeed made a lot of progress compared to her 'father'."
Chapter 524: There are four of the three royal families
Su Xin woke up from her familiar bed and looked outside through the window with no curtains drawn. It was another nice day.
Compared with H City, the location of our own port area can be said to be unique, with four distinct seasons, mostly sunny days, and small amounts of rain and snow, which can be called stable.
After being away for more than a month, Su Xin finally slept in her own room again last night. The familiar yet strange feeling made her happy, with a sense of ordinary reality.
Looking at the sky outside, Su Xin estimated that it was not too early. She glanced at the time and found that it was already past half past eight.
She didn't feel panicked. She had already gotten up late, and staying in for two more minutes wouldn't make much difference. After all, she had slept in a hard sleeper for more than ten days, and the sudden comfort made her reluctant to leave the bed.
After staring at the ceiling for a while, the phone on the pillow, which was set to vibrate, buzzed twice.
Su Xin yawned, unlocked the screen and saw that it was a WeChat message from Captain Manju, whose profile picture was a selfie with sunglasses on. This surprised her.
Suddenly, the young commander remembered what she had promised last night, but because of Cleveland's shocking speech, she was unable to convey it smoothly.
When I clicked on the message, it was, as expected, a photo of a small excavator with a dent on its butt.
"...I forgot." Su Xin sighed, raised her phone while lying down and started replying.
SX: [Sorry, I forgot to ask her for help last night. I will ask her if she has time now. Wait a moment.]
Can't lay eggs: [Watching ]
The cat emoticons with special effects are quite cute. Su Xin chuckled twice and moved her fingers to close the picture. Unexpectedly, she heard a knock on the door suddenly. Her hand shook, and the slippery "brick" hit her pretty nose.
"Hmm..."
"knocking"
"Commander? What's wrong with you? Do you need help from Befa?"
The soreness at the tip of her nose was so intense that it made her eyes slightly red and tears welled up, and her drowsiness disappeared completely.
"It's okay! Sister Beifa, wait a moment, I'll open the door!"
Su Xin climbed out of the warm bed, thought for a moment, ran to close the curtains, changed her clothes quickly, and then ran to open the door in her cotton slippers.
"Good morning, Commander." Befa, who was outside the door, was dressed neatly and bowed slightly to the young commander with messy hair. "Can I come in? I'll help you comb your hair."
"Oh of course, sis, please sit down for a while, I'll go brush my teeth."
Su Xin said as she walked into the bathroom in two or three steps, but came out again in less than two seconds, picked up her phone and sent a message to Cleveland.
SX: [Sister Cleveland, the excavator in the auditorium is broken, can you help fix it?]
Sister Cleveland: [Yes, teacher. No problem, teacher.]
SX: […Sister, don’t call me that.]
SX: [I’m watching ]
After sending the message, she breathed a sigh of relief, but was afraid that Beifa would wait too long, so she quickly put away her phone and ran into the bathroom to start her daily cleaning.
Befa looked around. She and Sheffield had tidied the room last night and it looked very tidy now. All they needed to do was fold the quilt.
Su Xin didn't take long. In fact, she didn't even want to comb her hair. She took out her hairband and casually tied it into a ponytail. She opened the door and came out without any makeup.
"Let's go? Let's go eat. I don't know if there's anyone in the cafeteria at this late hour."
Beifa took two steps to help the little commander draw the curtains and open the window, then followed him out, "Sheffield went first, he should keep that copy for you."
"That's good."
Su Xin smiled and raised her hand to greet the yellow chickens that were cleaning on the road. She hadn't seen them for a long time and felt that they seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
"I don't know if it's because Sister Yixian is not here, so everyone is a little thinner because of hunger..."
"Hmm... I'd better ask my sister to make more delicious food for them next time."
As she was thinking, the journey, which was not too long to begin with, passed in a flash. When Su Xin came to her senses, she was already standing at the entrance of the cafeteria.
Helena, who had a subtle look on her face, happened to be walking out. Seeing the little conductor, she looked very happy, "Ah, Susu, are you awake? Go eat quickly. Your sister Yixian is cooking noodles for you."
"Good morning, sister. I got it. I'll go right away." Su Xin answered obediently. After thinking for a while, she asked again, "You looked... not very happy just now. What happened?"
It would be fine if you didn't say it, but Helena gets angry when she mentions it.
"Ah... it's Cleveland." She frowned, somewhat helplessly. "I was planning to go shopping with her today, but she seemed to have received a message from someone all of a sudden. She said something and then disappeared."
Helena complained, "I couldn't even say it out loud... She's such a fool. She finally came back and didn't even ask me out to play..."
Su Xin was stunned when she heard this, and touched her nose with a guilty look on her face, "Ah... Sister Cleveland really shouldn't have done that..."
"Okay, go eat now. Anyway, she will come to see me when she is done. Then... hehe~" Helena smiled with narrowed eyes, and the culprit nodded hurriedly, leading the maid into the cafeteria quickly.
At that time, Sheffield happened to bring out a bowl of noodles from the kitchen. In the soup with red oil floating on it lay a ball of white noodles, covered with a brown poached egg, and white hot steam was coming out of it.
"...I think your hibernation is about to end. Please come and eat soon." Sheffield put the bowl on the table, "Don't delay me from cleaning."
Yixian followed closely behind, but the soup in his hand was clear, sprinkled with chopped green onions and covered with fried eggs. Unlike Su Xin's bowl, this one relied on a fork to simmer.
"Hmm... it's just right, Beifa, come and try it? I don't know if it suits your taste."
"Thank you for your trouble."
"We are all family, no need to be so polite. If you have any dietary restrictions, you can tell me directly." Yixian smiled and patted Commander Su's head. "Your friend just came over and has been waiting for you for a long time."
"...Peng You?" Su Xin chewed the crispy fried egg and spoke vaguely, "Wu Mu? It seems like salt is added?"
Yixian patted her head lightly, said to her, "Eat well," and then looked up at the little girl who came out of the kitchen. "We are good friends, right?"
Commander Su had just stuffed the noodles into his mouth, but when he saw Ayanami, who had no expression on her face, he paused and stared at her for a long time without blinking, holding the chopsticks in his mouth.
"...Aren't we good friends?" the former military police captain asked back in his usual cold voice.
The noodles were already in her mouth, and she couldn't take them out, but eating would also take some time. Su Xin thought about it, nodded, swallowed the broken noodles in three or two bites, and then took the handkerchief handed to her by Beifa and wiped the red oil on it.
"Of course, but why did you suddenly come here today, Ayanami? Um... Is Sister Royal Ark in trouble again?"
Lingnan shook her head, glanced at Yixian who was smiling gently, and asked tentatively: "...Is it not okay for me to come and eat for free?"
"Ah... Of course, as long as you're not here to arrest anyone."
"...Can you come anytime?"
Su Xin felt that her family didn't need this meal, so she nodded without thinking too much, "Sure, you're welcome to be my guest."
"So...are there any vacant rooms?"
"Of course there are. When the dormitory was built, a lot of space was reserved..." The little commander paused and reacted, "Um... do you want to come over?"
"......Um."
"And what about the work in the gendarmerie?"
"...quit."
"And Eugen?"
Ayanami's eyes darkened, somewhat disappointed, but she still replied: "...for my shift."
"Oh... then come on, you can go choose a room after signing the documents. As for pocket money... I'll give you this month's allowance first? You can buy things at Mingmiao's. If you don't like them, just buy them first and then change them when you get them online."
The recognizable mechanical ears on the head moved, and in Su Xin's surprised eyes, Ling Nan's eyes lit up.
"..May I?"
"Hmm? Of course~" Commander Su smiled at her, "There are four of the three great families. This is common sense."
Ayanami was very touched. As her expression became more relaxed, she heard the girl who had put down her chopsticks stand up and say to her, "Can I see your ears? They actually move. They look very interesting!"
Ayanami, who just joined Minato for 2 seconds: (①△①*)?
Chapter 525 I Can’t Keep My Hand
Su Xin was actually hesitant and uncertain about Ayanami's joining. After all, before the winter event started, the other party's attitude was not very clear.
Although they were indeed quite familiar with each other, it did not mean that Su Xin would give all her trust to him, because she had too many secrets. If they were leaked, she would probably lose her freedom the next day.
Ayanami was from the military police, and Su Xin did not receive any advance news about her resignation. Even if the senior executive who ordered the surveillance has passed away, there is no guarantee that a second one will not appear.
What if Ayanami's change of scene was also an order issued by her superiors? There is always a risk.
But when Su Xin saw Ayanami, who was dressed simply and staring at her with a worried look but an expressionless face, she suddenly softened her heart.
At midnight on New Year's Eve last year, she led the ship girls back to the port area, exhausted. Ayanami and Kaga-sensei had prepared a New Year's Eve dinner for them, and she was the one who shamelessly dragged Ayanami to play with them when the fireworks were set off.
The fireworks that rose into the sky in the darkness and sparkled brilliantly were the fuse that they lit together.
If Ayanami really quit her job and was rejected by herself, she would probably become a non-staff ship girl, which is not what Su Xin wants to see.
So, she changed her mind and looked over the red oil noodles in the bowl, sniffed the scent emanating from the other person carefully, and after making sure there was no unpleasant smell that represented "malice", she nodded in agreement.
Su Xin was naturally happy to have another good friend in the port area. As for more, she planned to ask the Purifier another day and ask him to help find out if there was a traitor in the family.
Commander Su Xiao thought a lot and then he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Ayanami opposite him. Then he moved his eyes to the top of his head and was very curious about the pair of mechanical ears.
"Can I touch it?"
The ears on Ayanami's head moved slightly again, as if rotating at a slight angle. "...Why?"
"I just find it magical. I always thought that the thing on your head should be similar to a horn, but I didn't expect it to be able to move..." Su Xin stopped eating her noodles as she spoke. Her thirst for knowledge was simply overflowing.
This was the first time Ayanami had seen Su Xin like this, and she was a little different from what she had imagined. Although it was okay to let her touch her, she always felt that this was not a good idea.
So Ayanami shook her head and simply explained verbally: "...It's not a horn, it's a ship's equipment, very similar to an antenna or radar...it can be retracted..."
