Elder brother's garrison

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The female kitchen goddess, who was patting her chest with a smug look on her face, suddenly stopped, and her expression froze instantly.

"...Looks like...there's nothing left?" Little White laughed as he watched the female Kitchen Goddess's actions.

"Uh... no, there's also electronic payment..."

"Electronic payment is fine, but Miss Goddess of the Hearth, have you activated mobile payment channels such as Alipay or WeChat?"

“…Then…” The female hearth goddess fell silent, and began to waver, “I…I’ll go to the nearby bank to withdraw money…”

"No need, there's probably a long line at the bank right now, right? Hmm... I'd like to try this anyway, I'll pay for it." Xiao Bai smiled, took out his wallet, pulled out a bright red banknote, and smiled at the Goddess of the Kitchen, "Miss Goddess of the Kitchen, would you like the 'Family Feast' flavor again, like last time?"

"..." The goddess of the hearth.

Xiao Bai bought himself a plain hand-pulled pancake and, as usual, bought the Kitchen Goddess a huge "family reunion" hand-pulled pancake. The two said goodbye to the enthusiastic pancake vendor and walked into the alley.

"Mmm, it's delicious." Xiaobai took a bite of the original flavor scallion pancake, chewed it, and said with a smile to the female stove god beside her.

The female Kitchen Goddess held a large bag of scallion pancakes, her head down, her face flushed, and she awkwardly took small bites.

"Next...next time...I will definitely invite..." the female Kitchen Goddess said softly.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it."

"..." The female kitchen god made two muffled noises, and finally opened her mouth wide, as if she wanted to swallow her shame and anger in one gulp, and began to bite into the family-style hand-pulled pancake.

"Speaking of which, Ms. Vestal, you usually open your clinic on weekends, right? Since we're opening today, will any ship girls come over?" Xiaobai asked, looking at Vestal's eating habits and suddenly remembering something.

"Hmm... don't worry about that." The female hearth goddess chewed on a scallion pancake, swallowed it, and said to Xiaobai, "Those ship girls are very well-informed. Don't worry, as long as I appear near my home for a few minutes during work hours, I guarantee that a whole bunch of ship girls will rush over as soon as they hear about it."

"Oh...I see." Xiaobai nodded.

"Including the ship girl named Mutsu that you want to see, little girl, she will also be coming." The goddess of the hearth said to Xiaobai, holding a scallion pancake.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

Xiaobai and the Goddess of the Hearth returned to the small courtyard where the Goddess of the Hearth's house was located. It seems that quite a few ship girls come to visit when the Goddess of the Hearth is not at home, and help sweep the yard and do some cleaning. The Goddess of the Hearth has not been home for the past few days, but the yard is still clean. There is not a speck of dust, not even a fallen leaf on the ground.

The female Kitchen Goddess tore off the white paper in front of her door that said she had been away for several days, took out her key, opened the door, and led Little White into the house.

The Stove Goddess's house was empty. She led Little White into the living room first, intending to boil a pot of water for Little White to drink. Before the water could boil, footsteps sounded outside the door.

"Sister Goddess of the Hearth!"

"Sister Kitchen Goddess, have you come to work yet?!"

"Sister Goddess of the Hearth, I miss you so much!"

……

Soon, the noise of civilian ship girls could be heard outside the door.

Just as the goddess of the hearth had said, the moment she opened the door, this group of civilian ship girls arrived.

Xiaobai sat on the sofa and glanced outside through the open living room door. Sure enough, the area outside the door was now filled with ship girls, just like when Xiaobai first came here.

The goddess of the hearth seemed to be used to this phenomenon.

"Alright, it's just a temporary opening for one day. The rules are still the same as before. Come in one by one!" The female hearth goddess put her hands on her hips, walked to the front of the corridor, and shouted to the ship girls outside the door.

Xiaobai sat on the sofa, leaning over to look at the ship girls outside the door, trying to find Mutsu. However, perhaps because it was still too early, Xiaobai did not find Mutsu outside.

"Don't worry, the news of my opening will spread like wildfire in the Kyoto ship girl community." The Vess brought back a ship girl and, seeing Shiro gazing outside, smiled and explained to her, "Mutsu will definitely see the news of my opening; she always comes right away."

"Ah... um... Miss Stove Goddess is right." Xiaobai withdrew her gaze and smiled at the Stove Goddess.

The goddess of the hearth pulled the excited ship girl to the sofa.

"Miss Vestal, this is my first time here! I've heard from the other ladies that you're amazing! I admire you so much!" The ship girl sitting on the sofa clasped her hands together, excitedly addressing Vestal, her eyes filled with longing. "I..."

"Alright, alright, sit down. Tell me what kind of injury you have."

"Ah, okay, I was accidentally struck by lightning a few days ago during a battle with a deep-sea destroyer..."

"Sigh, another accidental lightning strike... Why do you all have this kind of injury?"

"Uh... sorry..."

"That's right, with the torpedoes of deep-sea destroyers, a ship girl with armor like yours would be easily destroyed. You need to familiarize yourself with their combat methods, and you must not rush before defeating them. The last-ditch counterattack of destroyers is often the biggest reason for your injuries..." The Vess did not treat the ship girl's injuries immediately, but instead gave her earnest advice.

The ship girl listened blankly to the words of the goddess of the hearth, as if enlightened, and nodded gratefully.

"Yes! I understand! Thank you, Sister Goddess of the Hearth!"

"You're welcome. Summon your ship equipment, and I'll repair it for you," the goddess of the hearth said, shaking her head as she addressed the ship girl.

"Yes!"

……

Sitting on the sofa, Xiaobai silently watched as the female hearth goddess diagnosed one ship girl after another.

It might just be the novice's misperception.

Xiao Bai remembered that when she came here before, the Vestal Goddess would speak as little as possible to save time when repairing and treating these ship girls. But today, the Vestal Goddess was surprisingly talkative when treating the ship girls.

Today, after inquiring about the reasons for the ship girls' injuries, the Goddess of the Hearth often goes out of her way to analyze the reasons for the injuries and explain their wrong actions. Her earnest manner seems to be telling them not to suffer the same injury next time.

This feeling...

It was as if the goddess of the hearth was giving her final instructions.

The ship girls who were being treated were also hearing the Goddess of the Hearth analyze the battle situation for the first time. It was also the first time they realized that the Goddess of the Hearth was not only highly skilled in medicine, but also had such a superb ability to analyze the battle situation. In just a few words, she could clearly explain the reasons for their injuries, which greatly benefited them.

The ship girls left the house of the goddess of the hearth with excitement and gratitude.

Xiaobai sat on the sofa, watching the female hearth goddess heal the ship girl all day.

As dusk gradually fell, the sky began to darken.

One day passed.

Mutsu.

But unexpectedly.

He never appeared in the goddess of the hearth's courtyard once throughout the entire story.

Steamed Egg Custard

Zhang Tui

Leisurely Daily Life from Gensokyo

After gaining special abilities, Lin Yan arrived in Gensokyo, full of expectations, only to find that everything was completely different from what he had imagined.

Originally, he just wanted to open an ordinary exchange shop and live a simple life.

but……

Why was the Scarlet Devil Mansion mortgaged overnight, leaving the young lady abandoned?

Why do we often hear blushing and heart-pounding breaths coming from the library at night?

Why is the down-on-her-luck shrine maiden so cruelly exploited and forced to work, with no hope of ever escaping?

……

I, Lin Yan, just want to live an ordinary daily life, not do unethical business, and peacefully enjoy my retirement.

But things always turn out unexpectedly, which is beyond one's control.

[This book is a lighthearted and silly slice-of-life story. There's no stomach medicine or angst, so please enjoy it without worry.]

written request for leave

The reason I gave for taking leave last time is the same: I've been getting a lot of noise at home these past two days, and my thoughts are constantly being jostled around while I'm trying to write, so I can't write anymore.

I need to take another day off today because of the 8 cases.

File pudding, cutting board pudding, helmet pudding, bulletproof vest pudding, steel plate pudding, titanium alloy pudding, diamond pudding, Veneto pudding, flight deck pudding

Chapter 1726 Leaving Kyoto

Xiaobai sat in the living room of the Vestal Goddess all day, watching the Vestal Goddess send away one ship girl after another who came to receive treatment.

As the ship girls departed in high spirits, the sky gradually darkened.

However, Mutsu did not appear in her courtyard as the goddess of the hearth had confidently stated.

Sitting on the sofa, Xiaobai listlessly held his phone, watching the time on the screen tick by from morning to noon, and then from noon to afternoon.

"Judging from the damage to your ship equipment, you must be the kind of ship girl who likes to trade blows, right? Listen carefully, as a ship girl, protecting yourself is always more important than defeating the enemy. Apart from high-level Abyssal Commanders and Abyssal Frigates, most Abyssal ship types are disposable trash that can be mass-produced infinitely with Abyssal aura. Their value is far lower than that of a ship girl warrior like you who needs to be built up with a lot of resources and time..." In the center of the living room, the Goddess of the Hearth healed the ship girl's ship equipment while analyzing the cause of the injury to the ship girl receiving treatment, conducting a kind of talk therapy.

"Yes, Sister Vestal is right... I understand, I will correct my wrong fighting methods in the future... Thank you very much for reminding me, Sister Vestal..." The ship girl who received the treatment suddenly understood after Sister Vestal's few words. She blushed and kept nodding gratefully to Sister Vestal.

Xiaobai looked at the two figures in the living room, a female Kitchen Goddess and a civilian ship girl, who looked like a teacher lecturing students, and couldn't help but smile. She stood up from the sofa, holding her phone, and walked to the living room door, looking around the hallway outside.

After a full day of meticulous treatment by the Goddess of the Hearth, the number of ship girls waiting for treatment in her courtyard has decreased significantly. Now, only a few scattered figures remain in the entire courtyard, making it easy to see everything at a glance.

Xiaobai carefully observed the remaining ship girls in the courtyard, but still couldn't find Mutsu.

"Hmm... it still hasn't appeared..." Xiaobai wondered. She opened her phone and glanced at the time on it.

It's 4 PM now, almost time for the Kitchen Goddess to get off work.

"Alright, your treatment is finished. Go and call the next ship girl back." The Vess, having repaired the ship girl's rigging, said to the red-faced ship girl.

"Okay! Sister Goddess of the Hearth! Thank you so much for your guidance, Sister Goddess of the Hearth!" The red-faced ship girl hurriedly stood up, bowed to the Goddess of the Hearth several times, and then ran out of the living room, heading towards the door.

"Thank you for your hard work, Vestal Goddess." Standing at the entrance of the living room, Xiaobai watched the ship girl's departing figure and saw the ship girl's delighted expression of having benefited greatly when she returned to the courtyard. He couldn't help but turn back and smile at Vestal Goddess.

"It's alright. The ship girls who came today all had minor injuries, so treating them wasn't too tiring." While packing her toolbox, Vestal looked up at Shiro and asked, as if remembering something, "Speaking of which, hasn't Mutsu arrived yet?"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded, her expression subtle.

"She hasn't arrived yet... That's strange." The Vestal Goddess frowned, crossed her arms, and muttered for a while, "I remember that whenever I opened for business, she was always one of the first ship girls to arrive here..."

"Could it be that Miss Mutsu doesn't know that you're opening for business today, Miss Stove Goddess?" Shiro asked the Stove Goddess.

"Impossible, right? Not to brag, but I still think I have some influence in the Kyoto unofficial ship girl community." The female hearth goddess pouted and pointed to herself, explaining to Shiro, "I don't know about trivial matters, but the news of my clinic suddenly opening will definitely spread throughout the entire Kyoto unofficial ship girl community within a few hours, really."

“Hmm… I believe in Ms. Vestal.” Shiro glanced at the ship girls in the courtyard and nodded to Ms. Vestal. “But… I mean, what if Ms. Mutsu isn’t involved in the Kyoto ship girl fandom? Or what if she’s actually been resting and sleeping at home since she got home yesterday…”

"I don't know about that," the female hearth goddess muttered softly, looking embarrassed. "...She's not going to skip out today, is she...?"

The goddess of the hearth also felt quite embarrassed.

This morning she boasted to Xiaobai that as soon as her clinic opened, Mutsu would arrive at her clinic early, just like before.

Now, almost the entire day has passed, and his clinic is nearly closing time, but he hasn't even seen Mutsu yet. Isn't this a blatant slap in the face?

Why is Mutsu always appearing and disappearing like this...?

"Sister Vestal Goddess, I'm the next ship girl!" Just as the Vestal Goddess was pondering, the next civilian ship girl in the courtyard received the message from the ship girl who had gone out. She walked into the living room with an expectant look on her face, bowed to the Vestal Goddess in the living room, and said, "Hello, Sister Vestal Goddess, this is my first time here..."

"Ah! Right! You've come at the perfect time!" The Vess's eyes lit up when she saw the civilian ship girl walk in. She quickly waved and called out to the civilian ship girl who was introducing herself, "You're new here, right? I have something I want to tell you!"

"Huh?" The ship girl, Min Yi Er Ling Er Lin Qi Sha Jian, paused her self-introduction, gripped her skirt tightly, and looked at the goddess of the hearth with some nervousness. "What, what does the goddess of the hearth want to say?"

"Relax, I'm not going to charge you." The Vesta waved casually at the civilian ship girl, packed up her toolbox, and came to the ship girl. "I just want to ask a few simple questions."

"Ah... okay, okay!" When the goddess of the hearth said that she didn't want to charge a fee, the civilian ship girl who was being questioned showed a slight relief on her face, but it was quickly covered up by a hint of embarrassment. She lowered her head shyly and nodded obediently, "Goddess of the hearth, please ask, I... I will do my best to answer."

"Do you civilian ship girls have your own social circles in Kyoto?" the Vesta asked the ship girl.

"Ah... well... yes, there is." The civilian ship girl nodded. "It's a bar. I was introduced to it a few days ago and only got a treatment slot today."

"Are all the girls in the bar civilian ship girls?"

"Hmm... there are lots of enthusiastic ship girl older and younger sisters over there." The civilian ship girl smiled shyly. "When we have free time, we often sit there, chat with each other, and exchange contact information."

"I see." The goddess of the hearth raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. "Then let me ask you, do you know a ship girl named Mutsu in that ship girl fandom?"

"Sister Mutsu?" Upon hearing the words of the goddess of the hearth, the civilian ship girl tilted her head slightly and showed a curious expression to the goddess of the hearth.

Judging from her expression, she seems to be quite familiar with the name.

"Ha, you actually know her!" The goddess of the hearth was surprised that her brilliant idea actually worked. She and Xiaobai exchanged a surprised glance, then asked the civilian ship girl, "That's right, it's Mutsu. Do you know her?"

“Yes, we know her.” The civilian ship girl nodded and said matter-of-factly, “Mutsu-neechan is different from us small and medium-sized ships. She’s an extremely rare battleship ship girl, so we all remember her—she’s a very kind person…”

"Do you know where she lives?"

"I'm so sorry, I don't know about that... But it seems like Mutsu-nee gets along well with the other people at the bar, so there should be others who know." The civilian ship girl replied honestly, then looked at Vestal with some curiosity, "Um... excuse me, Vestal-nee is looking for Mutsu-nee...?"

"It's just some personal stuff." The goddess of the hearth and Little White exchanged a glance, then waved their hands and smiled. "Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's focus on repairing the ship's equipment!"

"Ah! Okay!" The civilian ship girl was delighted upon hearing this and immediately stood at attention.