For a moment, the coffee shop was bustling with chatter.
The boys didn't come out because they not only had to finish their own work, but also had to take over the part left by the girls, otherwise they would be completely overwhelmed later.
This situation continued until the first business arrived after the actual opening.
It was ten minutes after the cultural festival officially began. As the large group of guests officially arrived at the shopping mall, someone finally stepped into the maid cafe, which was already bustling with activity before any customers arrived.
"Excuse me, is this the project area for Class 2A?"
A gentle yet dignified female voice interrupted the casual chat in the hall. The volume was not loud but its presence was strong, causing everyone to subconsciously look in the direction of the voice.
Wu Yi also looked over.
She was an older woman with delicate features and a dignified temperament wearing a kimono. Her long black hair was neatly combed and tied up behind her head. Judging from her appearance, she should be around thirty years old, but because of her proper skin care, her actual age should be a little older.
Strangely enough, when Wu Yi saw the other person, he always had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
I seem to have seen it somewhere, but it doesn’t look that similar... How come it’s pyroxene?
"Ah, yes. Welcome. How many people are you?"
Kushida Kikyo was the first to react and quickly walked up to the woman and greeted her.
At the same time, other girls also reacted. Some went back to the kitchen, and those in charge of the cashier came to the counter and took their seats. Everyone did what they were supposed to do.
"One."
While they were talking, the first customer had been led by Kushida Kikyo to a booth and was looking through the menu.
"Well, let's have one cup of Darjeeling cold brew coffee... no, two cups."
"Two cups, huh?"
Although she didn't know why the customer ordered two cups of coffee for one person, Kikyo Kushida still wrote it down after a simple confirmation.
"I see. Two cups of Darjeeling cold brew coffee in total. Secondly, according to the rules of our store, for every 1,000 points spent, you will receive a maid photo. There are two photos in total. I will send them to you soon."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"Nothing, this is what we should do."
After confirming the payment information on the tablet computer and sending the order directly to the kitchen, Kikyo Kushida put away the menu, bowed slightly and left. When passing by Wu Yi and Wu Garuda, she blinked and made a scissors hand gesture.
About ten seconds after she returned to the kitchen, Yukinoshita Haruno, who learned that two photos had to be taken, put down the work in her hands and hurried to the hall with a Polaroid camera.
Although it was just a silhouette of the back, when she saw the figure sitting alone in the booth waiting, a word that came from primitive instinct and was almost engraved in human DNA came out of her mouth subconsciously.
"Mother?"
Image: "Snow Mother", Location: "Images/"
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Damn, I don't know what happened today. I felt sleepy since I woke up. My head was fuzzy and my right eyelid was twitching... I was forced to touch my face for a whole day.
Oh yes, I have written about the good things about Xue Mu in the group before. It is in a folder called "Extra" in the group file. If you are interested, you can check it out. However, the male protagonist is the male protagonist of my previous book (
Volume 458: Chapter : Yukinoshita Family Secret Skills
With the arrival of a large number of guests from the cultural festival, the shopping mall quickly became lively. Classes and stores opened their doors one after another to welcome business, trying their best to win the sales crown of the school cultural festival.
However, at this time when she should have been trying hard to attract customers, Yukinoshita Haruno sat down and even handed the Polaroid camera that she had been adjusting in her hand for the whole morning to Horikita Suzune.
A cup of freshly brewed Darjeeling cold brew coffee was placed on the coffee table in front of her.
The two of them drank together, and the atmosphere was as if shrouded in a barrier. Mother Xue was the first to raise her glass and take a sip.
"It looks like you're well prepared for the cultural festival, Haruno," she commented, putting down her coffee cup.
"is it?"
Although it was a compliment, Yukinoshita Haruno never dared to accept such mindless compliments, especially when they came from her own mother. She could only honestly say that she really didn't understand why she was being praised.
My mother is a very powerful person, just like those magicians who can see into people's hearts. No matter how clever the lies or how superb the acting skills are, they will become useless tricks in front of her.
The only result of trying to pretend is that you will be seen through.
Yukinoshita Haruno has understood this since she was a child.
So she never dared to act rashly in front of her mother, and just did things the way they should be.
This is true both when I was a child and now.
"I mean this Darjeeling cold brew coffee. It has a strong tea flavor. If the stock is low, you wouldn't dare to brew it this way. You should have a lot of it, right?"
Xue's mother smiled slightly, and turned her head to look to the side while speaking. Her sight went through the huge floor-to-ceiling window next to the table towards the second floor of the shopping mall, sweeping across like inspecting troops.
"See? People from the Koenji Zaibatsu are here too, as well as the Kanzaki Group..."
Yukinoshita Haruno continued to smile and remained silent, looking at everyone in the direction her mother pointed.
She did know about the Koenji Zaibatsu. After all, this legendary beast was in her own class and was very famous. It would be hard for her not to know about it. But which one was the Kanzaki Group?
Ah, speaking of which, there does seem to be a guy named Kanzaki in Class B next door. I think his name is... Kanzaki Ryuji?
Sensing the subtle confusion on her daughter's face, Xue's mother saw a flash of disappointment in her eyes.
She looked away and changed the subject: "Yonori, do you know the real purpose of your school's opening of the cultural festival this time?"
"The real purpose——"
Not daring to talk nonsense, Yukinoshita Haruno picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. After careful thinking, she came up with what she thought was the most correct answer.
"I think it may be to prove the value of this school to the society, and also to show the overall quality of the students cultivated by this school."
"Prove your value and demonstrate your quality..."
Xue's mother took another sip of coffee without commenting.
"Although I don't know what other people are thinking, at least for me, I just want to test my daughter's learning results in the past year and a half, nothing more."
As she spoke, she took out a piece of paper folded into four pieces from the sleeve of her kimono, unfolded it and smoothed it out on the table.
Yukinoshita Haruno took a look and saw that it was a detailed map of Gaoyu High School, with pictures and text clearly marking the locations of the projects offered by each class.
But...the names of the students in each class were not marked, not even one.
"The school didn't tell me which students were in which classes. I just followed the location of the second-year Class A project on the map and came here to see if you were here."
"Then mom, you really found me." Yukinoshita Haruno said with a smile.
"But I would rather you, Yang Nao, didn't appear here."
Snow's mother shook her head slightly, causing the girl's smile to freeze on her face for a moment.
"I have learned about the teaching philosophy of this school before you, Yang Nai, enrolled. To be honest, although I don't agree with the teaching philosophy here, I have to admit that this teaching method can indeed stimulate people's potential in the shortest time."
"Remember the Kanzaki Group I just mentioned? As far as I know, their first heir, Kanzaki Ryuji, goes to school here. But when I mentioned the Kanzaki Group, you seemed a little confused. So I think the fact that our class was able to climb to Class A is not entirely due to your ability."
"..."
After a moment's silence, Yukinoshita Haruno rarely showed a bitter smile.
"You really can't hide anything from me, mom. To be honest, at least 70% of the credit for our class being promoted to Class A can be attributed to him."
"Him? A boy?"
Xue's mother picked up the coffee again and took a sip.
what?
Yukinoshita Haruno was slightly stunned, and it took her about two or three seconds to realize that her mother was asking whether the other leader of her class was a boy.
That... is indeed the case.
But since my mother asked this question, her plan was naturally...
"Don't think about it, I already have a girlfriend." Yukinoshita Haruno continued to smile bitterly.
When mentioning this issue, we have to talk about another amazing aspect of her mother, which is her unique ability in taming men.
Like her father, a congressman, he was once a bad boy who liked to play games in the arcade during school.
But under the careful teaching of Yuki's mother, he not only gave up the habit of skipping classes to play games, but also managed to get into a prestigious university, married into the Yukishita family, became a member of parliament, and became a useful person to society.
The help provided by the Yukinoshita family is certainly indispensable, but more importantly it is the efforts and talents of Yukinoshita's father himself, just like Lu Mingfei who survived the Nibelungen Plan.
So what if she gave birth to a daughter? As long as she could marry a capable man, she could still continue the family line... This was the secret heirloom of the Yukinoshita family.
"So what? Just take it. I don't think my daughter is any worse than other girls."
Seeing that her daughter understood her thoughts but still chose to refuse, Xue's mother said firmly.
Yukinoshita Haruno scratched her face: "But he has more than one girlfriend, and I don't think he is the type you think... Forget it, it's better for you to meet him."
As she spoke, she stood up and looked around the coffee shop where many customers were already seated. Finally, she found someone who was happily slacking off in a secluded corner.
"Student Wu Yi——"
"what?"
In the booth against the wall in the back row, Wu Yi, who was chatting with Garuda, heard someone calling him. He turned around and looked back, only to see Yukinoshita Haruno, who was sitting by the window on the other side, waving at him, as if she had something to say.
"I'll go take a quick look."
After simply greeting Garuda, Wu Yi stood up and walked around a row of seats in the middle of the hall and came to the side of Yukinoshita Haruno.
"What's wrong? What's the matter?"
"Uh……"
Concerned about her mother's thoughts, Yukinoshita Haruno stood up and gestured a little awkwardly.
"Let me introduce you. This is my mother."
"Oh, hello Mrs. Yukinoshita, just call me Wu Yi."
Although he didn't know why Yukinoshita Haruno suddenly introduced her mother to him, Wu Yi still nodded politely.
"Wu... and your eyes..."
The four eyes met for only a moment, and after a brief moment of shock, Xue's mother's face revealed an expression similar to that of Ayanokouji Atsuomi.
However, unlike Ayanokouji Atsuomi's subsequent reaction, who seemed to be so angry that he wanted to jump up while covering his ass, Yuki's mother quickly regained her composure and a smile returned to her face.
But this time she also turned her smile into a wry one.
"No wonder..."
At the same time, the sound of elderly people talking could be heard from the main entrance of the cafe.
One person is happy, the other is disgusted.
"So it's a maid cafe. Eri-o, your grandson is really creative. Come to think of it, I've never been to such a place in my life."
"Nonsense, we didn't have this kind of thing back then..."
At the same time, another voice that sounded about the same age as the high school girl asked curiously.
"But the map only says that this is the area for Class 2-A, right? Is Yi-chan really here?"
Volume 459: Chapter Lei An: Don’t Que
The inexplicably retro conversation immediately attracted the attention of most people in the cafe.
You should know that most of those who come here today are the younger generation of various financial groups or political factions. They are all in their prime, probably around forty years old. Some older ones may be in their fifties, while some are younger, perhaps in their thirties.
In short, they are basically the successors of various forces and the backbones of the future. They all come here to show their faces, meet each other, and take a look at what the students trained by this school are like and whether they are worth recruiting in the future.
The old leave, the young take over, and at the same time, they begin to train new successors... The rise and fall of any force is inseparable from this cycle.
Or this sentence can also be understood in this way: if the core of a force is only made up of old bones, and the fresh blood that can succeed is still nowhere to be seen, then no matter how huge this force is, it will soon collapse on its own.
So the question is, which family is so unlucky that such a simple scene requires the involvement of an old man?
Almost at the same time, many people in the coffee shop turned their mocking or teasing eyes in the direction of the sound.
But in the next second, they almost stood up at the same time.
On the second floor of a busy shopping mall, two elderly men of similar height and age appeared at the door of a coffee shop. Both had white hair and beards and wore solemn kimonos.
One of them had his hands behind his back just like his short white hair. His black and white eyes, which were very different from those of ordinary people, flashed a chilling light from time to time. Even though his body gradually shriveled and withered with age, no one would doubt that he could kill himself with just a razor blade.
The other one, though he had long hair and beard, and was leaning on the same walking stick as Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni in Bleach, gave off an inexplicable sense of oppression that made him look nothing like a Taoist immortal. Instead, he looked more like some respected elder in the magic world.
Next to the two old men, there was a blonde and brown-skinned girl in casual clothes.
There is no doubt that the long-haired old man is the current president of Dai Nippon Bank and chairman of Kengankai, Katara Metō, and with him is his biological daughter Katara Shoka.
