Elder brother's garrison

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“Shall we start by being… Auntie’s helpful little assistant?” Missouri said with a smile.

Little White's puffed-up cheeks were gently flattened by Missouri's finger.

The displeasure in Xiaobai's heart completely vanished with Missouri's explanation.

After calming Xiaobai down, Missouri stood up and went into the room with her.

Returning to her familiar home, Xiaobai looked around at the decor and furnishings that were exactly the same as when she left, and for a moment it felt as if the past year or so had stood still.

If it weren't for the joyful sounds of the ship girls echoing enthusiastically in the house, Xiaobai would have had the illusion that she had just woken up from a dream of becoming an admiral.

Xiao Bai walked into the living room and looked inside.

Inside the living room, numerous ship girls strolled around the spacious hall, happily observing the home furnishings of Xiaobai's house. It seemed that even discovering just a small detail was enough to make them happy for an entire afternoon.

In the center of the living room, a middle-aged man sat on the sofa, looking somewhat uneasy.

In front of the man were extinguished cigarette butts and a stack of full ashtrays.

“Hello, Uncle.” Lexington smiled and knelt before the coffee table, brewing tea for the middle-aged man. “My sister Saratoga caused you trouble when she came here last time, so I’m offering you this tea to apologize.”

“…Oh, you, hello.” Old Bai accepted the tea that Luxington handed him and took a sip.

Suddenly finding himself surrounded by a sea of ​​flowers, with birds singing and dancing all around, made the nearly forty-year-old Lao Bai's face stiffen.

"Are you the Admiral's father? Happy New Year, Uncle!" The ship girls stepped forward and bowed happily to Xiaobai's father.

"Hello, hello..." Old Bai took out a stack of red envelopes from his clothes and handed them to the ship girls who came forward.

"Wow! Lucky money!" the ship girls exclaimed in surprise.

Xiaobai smiled wryly as she looked at her father in the living room and walked over.

"Dad, I'm home," Xiaobai greeted her father.

"...Oh, good to see you back, good to see you back." Old Bai looked up at Little Bai, his forehead covered in sweat. "Not bad, not bad..."

Xiaobai looked at the ship girls surrounding her father, offering New Year's greetings. After thinking for a while, she gently sat down next to her father.

Just as Xiaobai sat down next to him, separating him from the ship girls around them, Lao Bai, who was covered in sweat, gradually felt relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief, took out another stack of red envelopes from his pocket, and handed them to Xiaobai.

"It wasn't easy for you to come back, take this," Old Bai said gently to Little Bai.

"Thank you, Dad!" Xiaobai accepted the red envelope with both hands and smiled at him.

Seeing that Xiao Bai had accepted the red envelope, Lao Bai quickly stood up, fled the living room as if his life depended on it, and rushed into the bedroom.

Xiao Bai held the red envelope, smiling as she watched her father leave in a disheveled state.

"Huh... the Admiral's dad ran away." The ship girls watched with pity as Old White left, wondering, "Did we scare him away?"

“My dad isn’t good at being around lots of girls,” Xiaobai said with a smile to the ship girls. “My mom told me that he’s the kind of person who tries to avoid young girls and feels embarrassed.”

"Eh—" The ship girls looked at each other, their faces full of surprise, "Just like the Admiral..."

"Huh?" Xiaobai was stunned.

"The Admiral was like that when he first saw us too," the ship girls nodded to Shiro. "When we first entered the naval base, you would blush so much whenever we got close to you, Admiral!"

"Hehe." Lexington covered her mouth and laughed. She said to Xiaobai, "I was wondering before, why is your personality so introverted, Xiaobai, when your aunt is so optimistic, outgoing and sociable? Now I see, it turns out that you inherited your personality from your uncle."

Chapter 2503 New Year

"When the Admiral first arrived at the naval base, he was much more shy than he is now!" The ship girls couldn't stop talking about Shiro, especially the four Fubuki sisters, who looked nostalgic. "I remember when we held the welcome party, as soon as the ship girls from the naval base came up and touched the Admiral, he would blush and be speechless."

"Huh, was Shiro originally designed like this?" Yamato asked curiously as he listened to Fubuki's words.

"Yeah, yeah."

Many ship girls and deep-sea deans in the living room who had never seen Xiaobai before cast surprised glances at them.

"Oh no, I'm getting more and more curious about the admiral's past!" The ship girls' eyes lit up.

"I'm pretty ordinary..." Facing the eager ship girls, Shiro smiled awkwardly and said to them, "Even if you investigate my past, you won't find anything interesting..."

"Does anyone want to talk about Xiaobai's past?"

Just then, Bai's mother's voice came from outside the living room door.

Everyone turned around and saw Mrs. Bai walking in with a smile on her face, carrying a plate of sliced ​​durian cake.

Mrs. Bai placed the durian cake on the coffee table, then sat down next to Xiao Bai and bent down to take out a thick stack of photo albums from under the coffee table.

"Ta-da!" Mother Bai held up the photo album in her hand, revealing a satisfied smile to the ship girls in the living room. "Since we're going to talk about Xiao Bai's past, how can we leave this out!"

"Auntie, could this be..." The ship girls rushed over as soon as they saw the photo album in Bai's mother's hand.

"This is a collection of photos of Xiaobai when she was little. Does anyone want to see them?" Bai's mother placed the album on her lap and gently turned to the first page. The first photo that caught everyone's attention was a black-haired little girl smiling at the camera in front of an elementary school.

"This is... the Admiral!!!"

Wow! It's an elementary school version of the Admiral!

"So humans can be this small at times."

"So cute, so cute!!!"

The ship girls, like a pack of wolves that have smelled meat, quickly surrounded White Mother, leaving no room for her.

"Auntie, auntie, are there any other photos of admirals?"

"Yes, I do! I even have photos of Xiaobai when she was even younger," Bai's mother said with a smile. "Would you like to see them?"

"I want to see it! I want to see it—"

……

The ship girls seemed to have a great interest in Shiro's photo album, and Shiro's mother seemed happy to share photos of her daughter when she was young with the ship girls. The two sides hit it off immediately in the living room. As Shiro's mother flipped through the album and introduced photos of her daughter at different stages to the ship girls around her, each photo would cause a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the living room.

Of course.

For Xiaobai, the person involved, having his ship girls look at his childhood photos is not an unacceptable development, but it still makes him feel embarrassed to some extent.

While the ship girls were looking at the photos, Xiaobai quickly escaped from the living room.

Compared to the shy Xiaobai she once was, Bai Mama's optimism and outgoing personality make her feel right at home when interacting with the ship girls.

For almost the entire afternoon, the living room echoed with the laughter of the ship girls and White Mother.

Time soon came to night.

Firecrackers went off outside Xiaobai's house.

After spending a satisfying time with the ship girls, Shiro put on her apron, rolled up her sleeves, and ran to the kitchen to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. Ship girls such as Missouri, Akagi, Abyssal Akagi, and Lexington also rushed to the kitchen to help. Shiro originally wanted to help, but under Shiro's mother's insistence, she was pushed back to the middle of the sofa to watch TV with Shiro's father and the other ship girls.

The annual gala began playing on the television in the living room.

At the gala, celebrities took to the stage one after another, and the entire screen was filled with hosts holding microphones, smiling broadly as they wished the cameras a Happy New Year.

The aroma of the New Year's Eve dinner soon wafted from the kitchen.

Soon, a table full of dishes was brought to the table.

White Mother and the ship girls carried plates of dumplings back to the living room.

Surrounded by the ship girls, the hardworking and meritorious Mrs. White was seated in the center of the dining table, as if being helped by an empress dowager. The ship girls crowded around to offer Mrs. White and Mr. White juice. Mr. White shrank behind Mrs. White, his face, already over forty years old, full of embarrassment as he faced the smiling, enthusiastic young girls at the table.

The sky outside the window was already pitch black, and with loud, festive sounds, colorful fireworks burst forth in the otherwise dark sky.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Inside the room, the ship girls watched the fireworks outside the window, raising their juice bottles with smiles on their faces.

The annual gala is still the same boring thing.

But watching the actors on the TV screen vying to make people laugh, even though the plot was old-fashioned and clichéd, the ship girls at the table couldn't help but smile.

"Speaking of which, Yamato-neechan, did you receive an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala?" A ship girl asked Abyssal Yamato at the dinner table.

"Of course we got it!" Yamato Shinkai said proudly, puffing out his chest. "The gala's production team invited us to perform on stage!"

Did you go?

“Isn’t that obvious?” Shenhai Yamato pouted and pointed to herself. “We’re right here now, how could we possibly go perform? Besides, the Spring Festival Gala doesn’t pay us, and it would interfere with our New Year’s celebration with Xiaobai. I’m not going.”

"What a pity... I thought I would be able to see Yamato-neechan on the Spring Festival Gala."

"...But I still filmed a New Year's greeting video, which will probably be released soon, right?"

"Wow!"

……

Time flies exceptionally fast when you're having fun.

The Spring Festival Gala ended without us even realizing it.

It was five or six in the morning when the New Year's Eve dinner on the table was devoured by the ship girls. White Daddy, holding a bottle of beer, collapsed onto the sofa away from the crowd and fell into a deep sleep.

The ship girls seemed to have endless energy; they were pestering Xiaobai and chatting happily with him.

Mother White smiled as she watched Xiao Bai chat with the ship girls from behind. She smiled slightly, secretly picked up a stack of empty plates from the table, and headed towards the kitchen.

The distance between Xiaobai's kitchen and living room was just right. When Xiaobai's mother came to the kitchen, the noise in the living room had already subsided considerably.

The kitchen felt like a cold, alien world, instantly chilling one's spirits.

Mrs. Bai put the empty plates in the sink, turned on the tap, and started washing the plates.

Just then, light footsteps sounded at the kitchen doorway.

Mrs. Bai stopped what she was doing and looked towards the kitchen doorway.

Missouri stood there with a smile on her face.

Chapter 2504 Little White's Secret Shirt

"Auntie, sorry to bother you." Missouri smiled as she approached, carrying a stack of empty plates from the New Year's Eve dinner table.

"Oh, you're Missouri, right?" Mrs. White smiled slightly at Missouri. "What brings you here?"

"Missouri is here to help."

Missouri smiled as she walked to the sink, gently placed the empty plate in it, then skillfully picked up the gloves and put them on, grabbing a sponge to wash the plate.

The sink in Xiaobai's house is quite spacious, enough for Missouri and her mother to stand side by side.

Mrs. White smiled as she watched Missouri skillfully wash the dishes.

"When I first saw you, I thought you were one of those pampered young ladies. I didn't expect you to be so skilled at washing dishes!" Mrs. Bai asked with a smile.

“Missouri used to work as a dishwasher to make a living,” Missouri said with a smile to her mother.

"Aren't you a ship girl?"

"Missouri traveled in the human world for a while for some reason," Missouri answered with her eyes closed, her hands washing dishes without slowing down at all. "So she learned a lot of survival skills."

"Oh... how long?" Mrs. White muttered for a while, then asked Missouri.

“Not long,” Missouri opened her eyes and smiled at her mother, “just a few years.”

"I see." Mother Bai nodded with a smile. While washing the dishes, she said, "Girls like you must have suffered a lot while traveling in human society."

“Looking back now, it’s kind of funny,” Missouri said.

“I think I understand why Xiaobai values ​​you so much.” Mrs. Bai smiled at Missouri. “If I were Xiaobai, I probably wouldn’t be able to resist giving you a ring too.”

"Auntie, you flatter me. Missouri doesn't deserve it."

"Don't call me auntie anymore, call me madam instead," Mrs. White smiled at Missouri.

"Okay Auntie."

"Ha..." Mama Bai sighed softly, her face full of emotion. "I never expected that in just one year, Xiao Bai would have changed so much. She's never been away from home for long since she can remember. I was worried that she would suffer a lot as an admiral by herself at the beach, but today, she seems like a little adult... Hehe, is this the magic of you ship girls...?"

“…The admiral, perhaps she was a very talented person to begin with.” Missouri picked up a clean plate and placed it by the sink. “Speaking of which, Auntie.”

"Ok?"

"You just said that the Admiral has never left home for an extended period of time since he can remember, is that right?"

"Yes."

"Hmm... According to Missouri's understanding, the Admiral seems to have an exceptionally good memory, right?" Missouri asked Mama White. "For the Admiral, 'from the time he can remember' means after birth?"

“Ah…” Mrs. White smiled when she heard Missouri’s words. “No, that’s not it. Little White only remembers things after she was three years old.”

“…Hmm?” Missouri’s hand paused.