People in Zongman are masters of copying romance novels

Confused, I turned on the screen and found that it was Miss Liang who sent a series of messages.

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It's all just memes, followed by a bunch of repetitive 'white-faced geisha bowing and thanking' memes.

What's going on with this guy?

The doubts in his heart grew even stronger. Just as Aoki Jie was about to reply with a question mark, Miss Liang on the other side of the line suddenly sent another message.

This time it's not an emoticon, but it's still not useful information -

[Strange bassist: dfahufihealifheawuihfiloew]

It's a string of garbled characters.

"...?"

Without further hesitation, Aoki Jie decisively replied with a question mark.

The other party did not respond immediately. About five minutes later, Yamada Ryo replied to the question mark.

It’s not an emoticon, not garbled text, nor a normal message, but a voice message.

In the middle of the night, just before going to bed, a voice message suddenly comes in?

With deep doubts in his heart, Aoki Jie clicked play.

It was very different from Miss Liang's usual voice. In the voice message, Miss Liang's voice was obviously unclear, a bit like... drunk?

"Suki-san, let's be friends forever."

There was a pause in the middle of the voice, and after a few seconds, the subsequent voice came.

"When you treat someone to a meal, or give money to a friend..."

...?

What's wrong with this guy? Did he get drunk from that blue whiskey-flavored smoothie he had last night?

After a moment of hesitation, Aokisuke saved the voice message.

Chapter 134 Sudden News, Hot Pot

After shopping with Kita on Saturday, Aokisuke went alone on Sunday to complete a series of tasks such as signing contracts and providing identification.

Pay the rent, security deposit, and complete the handover.

After finishing all these, it was noon. Because there was only one day left in the weekend and the time was too tight, Aokijie simply called a cleaning company and a moving company. With both groups busy at the same time, the work lasted until about three in the afternoon.

With the newly bought bedding and a set of furniture, I finally managed to move into the rented apartment before the end of the weekend.

After moving into the apartment, I suddenly felt free.

Currently, the band has no songs that need to be practiced. The only aftereffect of "Fireworks" is the broadcast that has not yet been released. There is nothing important happening in the school right now.

However, this leisure time probably won't last too long - Aokisuke has already started thinking about releasing a single, and the band will probably have to work hard on practice for a while.

Besides myself, I also finished the two original songs the band was practicing: "If I Could Become a Constellation" and "Ordinary Yet Sparkling"...

After spending half a day busy with the move, Aokisuke couldn't help but feel a headache thinking about all these things. At the moment, he had no idea which song to choose to release next.

I decided not to think about this for now and just planned to play it safe for the last half of the weekend.

I thought nothing would happen from the afternoon until tomorrow morning, but who would have thought that around four o'clock, when Aoki Jie was tidying up his bedroom alone, he suddenly received a Line message.

He was still tidying up the bedding when his phone vibrated. About three or four minutes later, after Aokisuke had made the mattress, he walked aside, picked up his phone and read the message.

It was from Yamada Ryo, who happened to be asking about renting an apartment.

[Ms. Liang from Cat Party: Suki-san, have you finalized your plans for moving and finding a new apartment? I think I've found a suitable apartment.]

I haven't told the other girls that I've already moved, so now that they've asked me, I might as well reply.

So Aokisuke tapped the phone screen and typed a response,

[Ah, I don’t need it anymore. I just moved this afternoon.]

The message was quickly shown as read, but after reading it, Yamada Ryo did not reply immediately.

After a while, new news from Miss Liang came from Line.

Two in a row.

[Ms. Liang from the Cat Party:? ]

[Ms. Liang from Cat Party: Where did you move to? ]

Although Yamada Ryo had never been to the apartment that Aoki Suke originally rented, he still knew the specific address because he had inquired about it before.

I suddenly moved and now I don’t know the specific address I knew before.

So naturally, she hesitated and asked Aokisuke.

[It's quite close to He Xi's house. Turn right and go to the apartment complex about 2 kilometers away. It's next to the Lawson convenience store.]

Aoki Jie didn't think too much about it. He just gave an answer when the other party asked the question.

Soon after the message was sent, Yamada Ryo continued to ask questions.

[Ms. Liang from Cat Party: Suki-san, did you let Kita help you choose a new apartment? ]

The question was a bit strange, but Aokisuke still responded with a simple "hmm".

The message showed as read again, and this time Miss Liang simply didn't send any reply.

After thinking about it for a while, and thinking that it's best to be polite in social interactions, seeing that the other party didn't reply, Aoki added another sentence after "hmm".

"Speaking of which, we just moved. Miss Liang, would you like to come over and take a look? We can have dinner here too."

To be fair, Aokisuke sent this sentence out of sheer courtesy.

He made the invitation with the thought that 'Miss Liang is too lazy and usually wouldn't choose to go out at this time'.

But everyone, I believe everyone is familiar with Murphy's Law - anything that can go wrong will eventually go wrong due to chance.

In this situation, after sending the message "Would you like to come for a visit?", Aoki Jie watched helplessly as the message he sent became read, and then watched Miss Liang reply with a short character.

[Ms. Liang from the Cat Party: OK]

"..."

A slight feeling of regret arose in my heart. After hesitation and silence, Yamada Ryo continued to add,

[Ms. Liang from the Cat Party: Should we invite Hongxia and the others?]

The other party responded, and it was obviously impossible to change his mind at the last minute.

In this case, adding a few more people doesn't really matter.

Glancing at the bedroom that hadn't been tidied yet, Aokiji sighed softly and replied, "It's all right."

Consider it slightly.

I'm thinking of moving to a slightly larger apartment with a kitchen and a living room, which is much more spacious, so I can try cooking at home.

If I were alone, I wouldn't have much motivation to cook by myself, but if there were guests coming to eat, I would actually be more diligent.

But he definitely can't cook dishes that are too difficult right now...

Apart from the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, which he was already very familiar with, after thinking for a while, Aoki Jie could only think of hot pot as a dish suitable for gatherings and easy to make.

As for hot pot...it's not that difficult to prepare, but it's definitely not that simple either.

I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was 4:15, which was probably a good time to start packing.

On the line, Ms. Liang replied again, "Then I'll go call Hongxia, Pochi, Kita and the others."

Aokisuke didn't reply to the message and started thinking about preparing the ingredients.

First, search for hot pot tutorials on the browser, confirm what you need to prepare, and make a list on paper.

Hot pot base, various ingredients, special pots for cooking hot pot, and various miscellaneous props.

He doesn't have much to spend on weekdays, and he has too much money to spend right now, so it's obviously not a waste to spend it on these things.

After making the list and tidying up, Aokisuke went out again and rushed to the nearby supermarket.

It took me about half an hour to buy the necessary ingredients and props, and then I went home and reviewed the makeshift tutorial.

After confirming that there should be no mistakes, he brought the table and placed a special pot for cooking hot pot.

He specially selected the pot in a large department store. Considering that there were five people with different tastes, Aokijie was very considerate and bought a shuangyan pot that only Chinese people use.

For the hot pot base, we also chose two servings: clear soup base and spicy base.

After packing up, I took a moment to look at my phone.

Miss Liang announced the dinner party in the band chat group. If things are fast, the girls will probably be here soon.

By the way, how many times have we had dinner together this week?

While wiping the table, Aokisuke suddenly thought of something.

Ever since we finished working with the production team of "Fireworks", the band seems to have been having dinner together occasionally.

Why does it feel like right now... there's a tendency for it to develop into a light music club?

Chapter 135 What I Want to Say

After everything was cleaned up, the water was boiled, and two portions of hot pot base were added, Xiduo knocked on the door first.

Because they were close, she arrived at Aokisuke's house almost shortly after receiving the news.

I brought a gift, a box of snacks.

After putting down the snacks and changing into indoor slippers, I walked a few steps into the house and saw the hot pot prepared by Aokisuke.

Japan has Sukiyaki, which is similar to hot pot in form, but differs in many details.

However, this type of cooking method, which is what Kita has never seen before, is called a shabu-shabu hotpot.

He walked over with his slippers clacking, observing and exclaiming.

“This pot looks so huge!”

"I thought we were going out to eat again, but it turns out Senior Jie is the one who's cooking..."

"Oh—I just realized, the two sides are separate! Half red, half white, so classy!"

After sighing for a while, he asked Aokisuke, "Can I take a photo?"

After Aokisuke received the other party, he returned to the kitchen and started preparing the ingredients. When he heard Kita talking to him, he turned around and glanced at him, saying simply, "Well, whatever you want," and then he didn't pay any more attention to him.

Wash and cut the vegetables according to the instructional video.

Buy ingredients such as meat rolls and meatballs, unpack them and put them on a plate.

For some ingredients that need to be heated in advance, heat them according to the instructions on the package.

Although he has no talent in cooking, Aokisuke will not make any mistakes if he follows the instructional videos.

After a while of busy work, Hongxia and Liang arrived soon.

Because this was Aokisuke's first visit after moving, the two of them also brought gifts.

Fruits, snacks, etc.

Unlike Kita, both of them were visiting this apartment for the first time, so they were naturally somewhat curious about the layout of the apartment.

After entering the house, he changed his shoes and looked around with curiosity.

Liang stared at Aoki Jie for a while, until Aoki Jie was a little confused. Then she acted like a hostess, without saying a word, and trotted into the living room and sat down on the sofa.

And Hongxia - at first she looked like she wanted to ask something, but after hesitating, she carefully noticed the pot on the table in the living room, the half-filled ingredients on the table, and the unwashed vegetable leaves in Aokisuke's hand when he came to open the door.