Elder brother's garrison

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"..." Xiaobai looked at Changchun and smiled helplessly, "What happened with Changchun yesterday seems... not a dream..."

Xiao Bai gently pulled her arm out of Changchun's embrace, fastened the buttons on Changchun's chest to seal away the indescribable scene, then pushed the sleeping Changchun into her own bed, covered her with the blanket, and then stretched and climbed out of bed.

Little White got out of bed and looked at the sun outside the window. The dreamlike feeling in her heart kept surfacing.

Honestly.

Yesterday, Changchun's performance was indeed beyond Xiaobai's expectations. In the past, Xiaobai only regarded Changchun as a destroyer like Fubuki. Even when he gave Changchun a wedding ring, the reason for giving the ring was out of friendship.

Life is unpredictable...

Who would have thought that this missile destroyer, who was as obedient and well-behaved as Fubuki and always stood behind him to support him... would express such strong feelings for him... and after the missile destroyer's confession, he realized, a beat later, that he seemed to reciprocate her feelings as well.

……Um……

Could it be that... from the moment I gave Changchun the wedding ring... I had already subconsciously fallen in love with Changchun?

Xiao Bai gazed at the sleeping Changchun and suddenly nodded his lips in a strange manner.

That's quite strange...

How did I suddenly develop a subconscious liking for Changchun...?

Forget it.

Don’t think about things you can’t figure out.

Xiaobai didn't wake Changchun. Instead, she turned around, pushed open the door to her bedroom, and went to the Yubari family's living room.

When Xiaobai came out of the bedroom, Yubari and New Jersey were enjoying a delicious meal of fried chicken around a bucket in the living room. The TV screen was lit up, playing a midday soap opera. The living room was filled with the sounds of soap opera dialogue and the aroma of fried chicken and cola.

"Admiral, you've finally come out?" Yubari, who was chewing on a chicken leg, saw Shiro walk out of the bedroom and gave him a relieved smile, like an elder. "How was it, Admiral? Did you sleep well last night?"

Yubari didn't use "you," but instead emphasized the word "you all."

Come to think of it.

Yubari, who woke up earlier than Shiro and Nagaharu, probably already realized that Nagaharu wasn't in his bedroom, but was sharing a room with Shiro.

Faced with Yubari's question, Shiro's face turned slightly red and hot.

"Uh... um..." Xiaobai nodded hesitantly, "It's... it's alright."

"Where is Xiao Changchun?"

"She's sleeping..."

"Would you like me to change your sheets?"

"We didn't...we didn't stain the sheets..."

"Eh...so innocent..." Yubari nodded, a touch of emotion appearing in her gaze as she looked at Shiro. She raised the fried chicken in her hand and smiled at Shiro, "Admiral, anyway, would you like some fried chicken?"

"...Eating such greasy food so early in the morning..." Shiro looked at the fried chicken in Yubari's hand, but didn't have much of an appetite. She walked to the sofa and looked at Yubari curiously, "By the way...where did this bucket of fried chicken come from?"

"Takeout," New Jersey said to Xiaobai, a fried chicken wing in his mouth.

"Eh... ordering takeout..." Shiro muttered, looking at Yubari curiously. "Speaking of which, Yubari, you seem pretty relaxed... Aren't you going to work today?"

"Hmm... Let's go, but I feel like it's not right to just leave you and Xiao Changchun at home like this. At least I should let you know when you wake up before I go to work." Yubari said, pointing to New Jersey beside her. "Anyway, it's the weekend, so even if we go to work, it'll be overtime. I'll go to the ship equipment research center with New Jersey after we finish this bucket of fried chicken!"

Are you going to New Jersey too?

"Of course, the ship equipment tests from yesterday haven't been completed yet."

"...Well...good luck, New Jersey..." Xiaobai said to New Jersey, then sat on the sofa and watched TV for a while.

The TV series being shown is a midday soap opera.

In the newbie naval base, whenever there's free time at noon, Hood at Shiro's house would sit in front of the TV and watch these kinds of soap operas. Shiro saw this at Yubari's house, and with the smell of fried chicken around him, it felt like he was back in the naval base.

……

……

Ok?

Xiao Bai's relaxed brows suddenly furrowed.

"A midday theater??" Shiro finally realized something was wrong. She jumped up and looked at the clock in the living room. "Yubari?! It's...it's already noon?!"

“Yeah… otherwise where would New Jersey and I get some fried chicken? Nobody cooks for us in the morning,” Yubari replied.

really.

The clock in the living room showed that it was exactly 12:30 pm.

Absolutely!

Did Changchun and I actually sleep until noon?!

Dating... dating...

The goddess of the hearth is still waiting for us at the main entrance of the ship equipment center!

Chapter 1671 Remedies

Xiao Bai had arranged to meet the Kitchen Goddess at noon today.

however.

When Xiaobai noticed that the time she woke up seemed to be different from what she had expected, the clock hands showed that it was already 12:30 pm.

Little White opened its mouth wide.

Oh wow.

I'm late.

Not to mention that my morning date with Changchun has fallen through... it seems that I've even broken my promise to the Goddess of the Kitchen God.

Yesterday's Kitchen Goddess seemed very excited about Xiaobai inviting her to dinner today.

Who knows, the Vestal might even be waiting for her at the entrance of the ship equipment research center for hours on end...

Just a few hours earlier, the goddess of the hearth stood expectantly at the entrance of the ship equipment center, excitedly tiptoeing and looking towards the end of the street, waiting for her and Changchun. Then, during the long hours of waiting, she endured loneliness, cold, emptiness, boredom, hunger, and other negative emotions. Finally, at 12:30, she looked at the empty street and slowly realized that she might have been tricked and played. The person who invited her to dinner was not coming back today, and so on. Her enthusiastic expression turned into dejection and frustration. Finally, she walked away alone in the cold wind with her head down and her stomach in her hand. A strong sense of guilt overwhelmed Xiaobai's heart.

Oh no...

At this rate...

Forget about building good relations and taking the opportunity to win them over to the naval base.

Who knows, the goddess of the hearth might have already written her name into a little notebook called "The Ten People the Goddess of the Hearth Hates Most in Her Life"!

"Actually, I did consider waking you up earlier, Admiral." Yubari, unaware of the turmoil in Shiro's heart, was only looking at Shiro's wide-open mouth. She ate her fried chicken wings and looked up at Shiro to explain, "But... since you're going to be with Koharu today, right? When it comes to dates, as long as you're together, there's not much difference between strolling around outside and sleeping at home."

“Uh…” Xiaobai looked at Yubari with a bitter expression.

Although Yubari knew that Shiro and Nagaharu would be going out shopping today, she didn't know that Shiro had made a lunch date with the Goddess of the Hearth—or rather, she had no idea that Shiro had met the Goddess of the Hearth. That's why Yubari and New Jersey ignored Shiro and Nagaharu when they saw them sleeping in.

This really put Xiaobai in a tough spot.

Looking at Yubari's smiling face, Shiro couldn't bring himself to say that he actually had a very, very important appointment with her at noon today.

"Admiral? Why do you look a little pale all of a sudden?"

Yubari asked curiously.

"I...I'm fine..." Xiaobai opened her mouth, then closed it again. She took a deep breath, then quickly got up and ran back to her bedroom like a whirlwind. "I...Anyway! I'll go find Changchun first!"

Return to the bedroom.

Xiao Bai pounced onto the bed, straddled Changchun, and shook Changchun's shoulders to wake him up from his sleep.

"Changchun! Changchun! Wake up!"

"...Hmm? Ugh..." In his sleep, Changchun suddenly felt his body become very heavy. With a jolt, Changchun opened his eyes and looked groggily at the little white dog riding on him, "Admiral...?"

Changchun's somewhat dazed eyes suddenly cleared upon seeing Xiaobai, and then his eyes widened in surprise.

"Ah...Admiral..." Memories of last night with Xiaobai flooded Changchun's mind. Looking at Xiaobai, Changchun's cheeks flushed. Thinking Xiaobai wanted to get up and be affectionate, she closed her eyes, shyly raised her chin, and said to Xiaobai bashfully, "...Okay..."

"...Changchun...that's not what I meant..."

"Eh? Ah..."

"Of course, I'm not saying I don't want to do this kind of thing... I mean the situation is a bit tense right now." Xiaobai quickly took out her phone, pointed to the time on the screen, and said to Changchun, "Changchun, we're late! It's already 12:30 PM!"

"Huh? 12:30?" Changchun was also surprised when he heard Xiaobai's words. "It's already noon—oh dear! Miss Kitchen Goddess, she..."

Changchun also thought of her promise to the female kitchen god, and she suddenly sat up in bed.

"Oh no... We just made an appointment with the Goddess of the Hearth yesterday... Now..."

"Anyway, hurry up and pack your things, let's get to the ship equipment center entrance right away... Hopefully, the goddess of the hearth is still waiting for us..." Xiaobai jumped off the bed and called out to Changchun anxiously.

"Oh, okay... Well, I'll change my clothes then..."

Changchun hurriedly got out of bed, changed out of her pajamas into clothes for going out, and then ran out of the bedroom with Xiaobai, taking quick little steps toward the door.

"Admiral? Are you two in such a hurry to go out on a date?" Yubari called out to Shiro and Nagaharu from the living room, holding a bucket of fried chicken. "Why don't you eat something first before you go? I ordered a four-person serving of fried chicken!"

"We... we don't need to... Yubari, you eat first..." Shiro said with a wry smile as she put on her shoes, "Nagaharu and I will head out first..."

"Oh... alright then." Yubari nodded, holding the bucket of fried chicken. She glanced down at the golden-brown fried chicken inside. "Hmm... I'll bring this to the studio for my assistants when I get to work later... Oh, by the way, Admiral, you guys don't seem to have washed up yet... maybe you should..."

Boom!

Before Yubari could finish speaking...

Xiaobai and Changchun have already fled from Yubari's house.

In response to Yubari, a security door closed at lightning speed.

Yubari, clutching the bucket of fried chicken, blinked and silently stared at the closed security door.

"...The Admiral and Changchun...so they were really looking forward to their date..." Yubari said thoughtfully as she carried the bucket of fried chicken back to the living room. "I should have woken them up earlier..."

The bitterness in Xiaobai's heart.

Yubari was unaware of this.

-

Although I woke up late, the good thing was that Yubari's house was very close to the ship equipment research center, just across the street.

Xiaobai and Changchun left the Yuzhang family home at lightning speed, without even a moment to speak along the way. They ran through the residential area and headed towards the main gate of the Ship Equipment Research Center.

Several minutes passed.

Xiao Bai and Chang Chun rushed to the meeting place they had agreed upon with the Goddess of the Hearth, in front of the gate of the Ship Equipment Research Center.

"12:36!"

Holding his phone, Xiaobai read out the current time the instant he stepped onto the tiles at the entrance of the ship equipment research center.

"Thirty-six minutes late..." Changchun gasped for breath, quickly looking around. "Where's the Goddess of the Hearth... I hope she hasn't left yet..."

Kyoto is crowded with people all day long, especially on weekends. Even in a slightly remote place like the Ship Equipment Research Center, there is a fairly narrow flow of people at midday.

Xiao Bai and Chang Chun ran back and forth several times at the entrance of the Ship Equipment Research Center, but they couldn't find the Goddess of the Hearth inside the gate.

"It's over... It seems like the Goddess of the Hearth really went back..." Xiaobai put down her phone, sighed helplessly.

"Admiral...it's all because of me..." Changchun said with a guilty look, "If I hadn't gone to the Admiral's room yesterday, the Admiral wouldn't have overslept today...I'm so sorry..."

"...No...it's not your fault, Changchun..." Xiaobai shook her head at Changchun, "After all, we didn't expect that we'd be sleeping in late..."

"But……"

"After all, if we really want to trace it back to the source, the reason I woke up late today should be because I didn't tell Yubari about the goddess of the hearth..." Xiaobai covered his forehead, looking regretful. "If I had just mentioned it casually yesterday, Yubari wouldn't have stopped waking us up."

"..." Changchun pursed his lips silently. "Then... what should we do now?"

"Sigh..." Xiaobai sighed, "This is the first time something like this has happened... I don't know either..."

"Well... Admiral, let's go apologize to Lady Vestal... It should still be in time. As long as we explain properly and apologize, Lady Vestal should forgive us!"

“I think so too… but we don’t even have Miss Stove’s phone number, and we don’t know where she lives. How are we supposed to find her now…”

"Ah...you're right..." Changchun lowered his head again, saying guiltily, "I'm still very sorry...Admiral..."

"It's not your fault, Changchun...it really isn't..." Xiaobai hurriedly explained to Changchun, her gaze unconsciously sweeping over the entrance of the ship equipment research center. "If anyone should be at fault, it should be...ah!!"

Xiao Bai suddenly shouted.

Changchun was startled by Xiaobai.