Chapter 48 – Watermelon on a Summer’s Night

Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru caught Shen Yu and Asaba Rika off guard with this surprise attack tonight.

The thoughtfulness of the older father and mother in passing on their experience has had an unsatisfactory effect on the young couple

Asaba Rika learnt a lot about cooking, but Zhang Xiaoru didn’t get a word of what she was saying, she just thought Shen Yu’s mother was so sweet and taught her a lot about being a housewife.

Shen Yu, apart from the three bowls of rice and the criticism he received, understood his dad’s words, even a fool could understand them, after all, his dad was poking him in the heart and telling him to follow his heartbeat.

But I don’t!

I don’t believe it! The Demon Slashing Blade that I’ve been building with my sanity for years can’t even cut down a mere mind demon?

Shen Deyou, in his eagerness to get the job done, poured a pot of boiling water over his son’s large frog, which was not cooked and came to its senses and jumped away.

Now Asaba Rika is the only one left in the pot, soaking in a nice warm bath.

After Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru returned, Shen Yu went back to the ground floor to continue his work.

At ten o’clock in the evening, Asaba Rika came down with a half-cut watermelon for him to eat.

The watermelon is quite large, with a small spoon stuck in it, and the light shows the crimson flesh with a sand-like texture.

Watermelons are so much cheaper in China than in Japan.

Asaba Rika likes to dig in and eat them like this, feeling particularly satisfied.

” Shen Yu, eat the watermelon.”

With the other half in her own arms, she scooped out the flesh of the melon into her mouth, spoonful by spoonful, “It’s so sweet! I put it in the fridge and chilled it, it’s especially good!”

“Put it there.” Shen Yu didn’t look up.

Asaba Rika put the watermelon on his table, but the half-round watermelon could not be placed steadily, and if it was placed at an angle, all the juice would flow onto the table.

“Can’t put it down I’ll get the plates.”

When Asaba Rika was about to run upstairs again with the watermelon in her arms, Shen Yu had to call her back.

“Forget it, bring it here.”

“Nah.”

Shen Yu took the watermelon from her arms and scooped a spoonful into her mouth. I must say, a cool summer night with watermelon tastes really good.

“Is it sweet?”

“Hmm.”

Shen Yu wondered, “When did you buy the watermelon?”

“I didn’t buy it, I don’t even know how to pick a watermelon, my aunt brought it here, she said it would be very sweet.”

Asaba Rika shares with Shen Yu the watermelon picking tips her aunt taught her.

When she heard that her mother had brought it, Shen Yu suddenly felt that the watermelon was not so sweet.

Spellbound, spellbound

Shen Yu quickly retracted his thoughts, after all, he had been pestered several times by his parents to get into a relationship, which had caused him to be a bit of a snake.

” Shen Yu , come out and see!”

“No go.”

“Come on you.”

Asaba Rika has a watermelon and wanders around the courtyard, then sits on a stone table and chairs to watch the night sky.

The sky was clear tonight, and according to the lunar calendar, it would be the 16th of July, which is exactly the full moon.

The stars accompany the bright moon, which hangs in the purple curtain-like night sky, and the shadow of the moon can be seen very clearly.

“See what?”

“The plane!”

“”

It was not the moon that made Asaba Rika marvel at this moment, but a plane with lights flashing in the night sky, like a moving star.

“How old are you?” Shen Yu asks.

“Me? Shen Yu It’s not polite to ask a girl her age oh” Asaba Rika made a face at him, not wanting to tell him.

“Guess then.” She said again.

“I don’t guess and love to talk.”

Shen Yu sits down on a chair opposite the stone table and digs into a watermelon with an unconcerned look on his face.

Asaba Rika was so bored that she had to tell him honestly: “I am nineteen years old, and in half a month I will be twenty.”

“Half a month?”

“Uh-huh! Eighteen!”

Shen Yu continued to eat his watermelon and said to himself, “It’s useless to remind me that I’m not going to celebrate your birthday.”

“Hmm.”

Asaba Rika didn’t mind either and asked him instead, “And how old is Shen Yu?”

“Twenty.”

“When’s your birthday?”

“The ninth day of March.”

Shen Yu has a lunar birthday, and many people are now celebrating the new calendar, but their family has always celebrated the lunar calendar.

Asaba Rika did not know how to read the lunar calendar, so she took out her mobile phone and asked Shen Yu to show her how to read it.

“Why is there a lunar calendar?”

Asaba Rika It was quite amazing, I thought it was just a fixed date difference, but after reading it, I realised that each year the lunar calendar corresponds to a different date in the new calendar.

“This is the traditional Chinese calendar, do you know the twenty-four solar terms, the sting, the equinox, the rains and the clearing are all related to the laws of nature.”

Shen Yu pointed to the moon in the sky, “It is now the full moon, usually on the 15th or 16th day of the lunar calendar, and there are also variations of the upper and lower moon, all of which can correspond to lunar dates.”

Asaba Rika listened attentively, she liked the Chineseization, also because of such a long history, just the names of the twenty-four solar terms, she thought it was super catchy and very meaningful.

” Shen Yu , is there any origin of your name?”

Asaba Rika was curious, knowing that the Chinese are still very particular about their names in terms of their meanings.

Shen Yu said, “The ninth day of March is spring, so my dad took the word 郁, which means vibrant and lush.”

“I see.” Asaba Rika nodded, feeling that Shen Yu’s name was quite catchy.

In Japan, when a woman marries a man, her surname is changed to the man’s surname.

Asaba Rika digs into his watermelon and eats it while thinking about what surname he will become in the future.

If, for example, if it was called Shen Rika

Weird

Hmmm

As she thought about it, her thoughts drifted a little farther away, and the red of the watermelon juice was like a dye that went in her mouth and then stained her little face red

Shen Yu looks at Asaba Rika, who is lost in thought, wondering what the hell she is thinking, and then at the watermelon in her hand and the red on her face.

Watermelon is poisonous!!!

“Oi oi!”

Shen Yu called out to her twice, waking Asaba Rika up. She whipped her head around to meet Shen Yu’s eyes and ducked her head in panic, almost unable to even hold the watermelon.

“Don’t eat it, there’s something wrong with this watermelon, it’s making people silly.”

Shen Yu also came back to his senses, eating watermelon is eating watermelon, how come he is so free to chat with her for so long tonight?

Is the wind noisier this evening, or is the moon brighter, or is the melon poisonous?

“I want to eat!”

When Shen Yu tried to take away her watermelon, Asaba Rika took it away and squatted on the steps to eat it slowly.

Summer nights, insomnia.

Too much frozen watermelon, Rika has a tummy bug