amaotonovel Chapter 427
Chapter 427
Chapter 427
At seven in the morning, Kai Uesugi woke up from his dream.
After a brief wash, I went to the kitchen at home to warm up two slices of bread I bought at night.
Anyway, working is a daily wage, and these days I won't starve to death at home.
Kaoru Uesugi warmed up some milk and began to sit in the living room to eat breakfast.
The new house is nearly [-] square meters. Sitting alone in the huge living room eating bread and watching the early morning in Tokyo, it is inevitable to feel a little lonely.
The chairs opposite the dining table were empty, and Uesugi Kai thought that if Hanabi-chan was there, he should be sitting there chatting with him right now?
It's really uncomfortable to suddenly lose someone in the family.
Picking out a casual dress in the closet, looking at himself in the mirror, Uesugi Kai suddenly frowned.
I seem to be more eye-catching than before?
Charm 11 does have some effect, but what's the use of being so handsome?
Putting the keys into the computer bag, Kai Uesugi rode a small pink bicycle downstairs and went out.
The wheels are turning leisurely on the street, the mobile phone is still in the left pocket, and the earphone cable is extending to both sides. Thinking about it, Kai Uesugi enjoys the echo of brisk pop music in his mind, stares ahead, and rides a bicycle to pass by all kinds of people. passers-by.
Occasionally, some high school students in suits and school uniforms can be seen on the street.
The air turns cold in October, and most students have already started to wear long-sleeved trousers. Needless to say, boys wear orthodox stand-up collar uniforms.
The girl was still wearing a short tweed plaid skirt, which swayed slightly when she walked, highlighting the slender and beautiful thighs.
If Hanabi were among the group of female students, the scenery would be even more beautiful.
Uesugi Kai ignored the youth overflowing from under the girls' skirts, and passed them on a small pink bicycle.
When passing through, many female students were staring at him, whispering a few words, and then watching his disappearing back, secretly covering their mouths to the students at the side and smiling.
Uesugi guessed that they were probably attracted by the little pink bicycle.
After all, there are very few boys riding such a girly bike.
It took 20 minutes to arrive at the mimi coffee shop.
There was no maid handing out leaflets in the morning.
Kaoru Uesugi found the previous location and stopped the car, took out the lock in the basket, locked the rear wheels, and walked to the second floor.
Jingle~
A crisp bell.
"Welcome. So it's Uesugi-kun."
The one who spoke was Aka Erina, the cat-eared maid from yesterday. She seemed to have just arrived in the store not long ago. She was still wearing a white shirt and a simple everyday dress. She was about to go to the lounge to change.
She smiled and greeted Kai Uesugi who had just opened the door and entered:
"Morning."
"Well, early." Uesugi Kai agreed, and then asked, "Is the manager not here?"
"The store manager has arrived a long time ago, it's like this every day," Aka Erina spread her hands, "She needs to prepare some desserts in advance, after all, we don't have her skills."
"Are there any guests so early?"
"Yes, I'm here for breakfast. In the morning, it's a simple coffee shop, and in the afternoon, it's a maid cafe. How about it? Is there a clear division of labor?"
"Can you still do this?"
Aka Erina covered her mouth and smiled: "No, I was just joking, it's just that there is no breakfast shop nearby, and a few customers will often come here to eat breakfast like bread and biscuits, and drink a cup of coffee by the way.
"In order to take care of them, the store manager gets up early every day to work in the store. In the past, the coffee and desserts in the morning were all made by the store manager."
"That's it."
"By the way, didn't Uesugi-kun come here in the afternoon? Come to work so early today?"
"There is no class at school, and I'm bored at home, so I came to see if there is anything I can do to help."
An unreasonable face, coupled with this picture sounds very enthusiastic.
Aka Erina felt that he suddenly became very cute, and couldn't help but said with a smile: "Uesugi-kun looks cold, but unexpectedly warm-hearted."
"I look cold?" Kaoru Uesugi asked suspiciously.
"No, I didn't say that." Aka Erina tried her best not to laugh.
When he came to the staff lounge, Kai Uesugi put on a men's Western-style vest.
As a barista, he always works at the front desk, and only leaves his seat when he goes to the back kitchen to pick up some used ingredients.
After working for a few hours yesterday afternoon, Kai Uesugi finally knew why the store manager hired him as a barista.
A barista at a maid coffee shop is definitely a must.
Then small desserts such as ice cream and cakes must be prepared by someone.
Serious meals like omurice require a cook.
Milk tea and beverages need to be prepared by someone.
It is too hard for the store manager to prepare these large and small meals and desserts alone.
Fortunately, this is a small shop, not too many customers.
Kaoru Uesugi came out of the lounge and began to check the tools to be used today.
Liu Mu Zichun, who had just come out of the back kitchen, saw Kai Uesugi standing behind the bar wiping glasses.
"Come to help?"
"Ah."
"In that case, I'll accept your kindness. How about helping water the flowers after work?"
Uesugi Kai stayed at the front desk and simply agreed to the request.
At this time, Aka Erina had just changed into the maid uniform and came out of the lounge, saw Kai Uesugi watering the flowers by the window, and moved closer to him.
Uesugi Kai stood by the window, wearing a dark green apron over a western-style vest, Aka Erina watched him watering the flowers with some curiosity.
These movements look very natural and skillful in his hands.
"Uesugi-kun also grows flowers at home?"
"I haven't raised them recently."
"why is that?"
"Moved." Uesugi Kai replied casually, pouring a little water on the pot of green plants facing the sun in front of him, "I left those flowers and plants to my mother to take care of."
"That's it~"
Akaerina was a little curious about Kai Uesugi. After all, he was a student at the University of Tokyo. He said that the boys at the University of Tokyo were all weird. She hadn't met him before. She was curious about what kind of character such a person would have.
When she looked Uesugi up and down, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a diamond ring on his left ring finger.
"Uesugi-kun unexpectedly" Aka Erina's face immediately revealed a look of surprise.
Jingle~
At this time, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open, and a young lady in a blue suit with a briefcase came in.
Kai Uesugi immediately put down the water bottle in his hand and walked to the front desk to welcome the guests.
The young lady was a little surprised when she saw Kai Uesugi: "New employee?"
"Just recruited yesterday."
The store manager Willow, who was cleaning the table, came over with a package of desserts containing biscuits, put them at the front desk and handed them to Kai Uesugi to put them in the transparent cabinet facing outwards.
The young lady was a regular customer, she smiled and said to the store manager, "That's right, now your maid cafe caters to both men and women."
Manager Liumu smiled nonchalantly and asked, "What do you want to drink today?"
"Vanilla latte, two pieces of mousse, today's coffee is made for me by this handsome guy, right?"
"It's him."
"Little brother, even if you do worse than the store manager, I won't mind at all."
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Kaoru Uesugi always felt that this customer was staring at him.
However, essential work still needs to be done.
"Want to add sugar?"
"Half sugar is fine."
After Shang Daoshu finished speaking, he didn't intend to leave. He basically wanted to watch his process of mixing coffee.
Kaoru Uesugi glanced at the store manager Liu Mu, and then began to prepare coffee utensils.
This is presumably a test of satisfying regular customers?
There will definitely be pressure when people watch and work.
Fortunately, Uesugi Kai is not the first time working in a coffee shop, so he will not be nervous.
Coffee is ground into powder, and whether the particles are uniform is an important factor that causes the taste of coffee to be good or bad.
To grind coffee, you need a coffee grinder.
Traditional coffee grinders are turned by hand.
Using a traditional coffee grinder naturally requires a barista to have a certain degree of familiarity with the machine and the beans.
Otherwise, the ground powder particles will be uneven, and the coffee will have an uneven gritty bitter taste.
Therefore, in addition to the traditional hand coffee grinder, there is also an electric coffee grinder.
Electric coffee grinders are definitely more accurate than manual grinders.
However, some customers feel that this electric coffee grinder lacks a traditional flavor.
That is, the soul is missing.
The coffee grinder provided by the store manager is electric.
The young lady looked at the coffee grinder Uesugi took out and asked, "Isn't it hand-cranked?"
"Only electric ones." Uesugi Kai replied.
"No, the store manager used to use hand cranks before."
Kaoru Uesugi looked back at the store manager.
Liu Mu Zichun immediately opened the cabinet under the front desk, took out a hand-cranked coffee grinder with black and gold luster, handed it to Kai Uesugi, and asked:
"it's OK?"
Uesugi Kai didn't say much, took over the hand-cranked coffee mill and continued to work.
Grinding beans, warming the pot, steaming, a series of operations without any accidents.
Uejima Tree's expression gradually changed from ordinary to surprised.
After finishing the steaming, Uesugi Kai put the long-mouthed and thin-mouthed pour-over pot on the wet mouth cloth to cool down, waited for about 30 seconds, and slowly poured the 87-degree water flow from the pot mouth into the conical filter paper middle.
"Is it actually flushed with low-temperature sailors?" Uedaoshu subconsciously said, although no one answered her words.
Vanilla latte is also a milk coffee, which is slightly lighter than cappuccino.
"Do you need to draw flowers?" Uesugi Kai asked.
Shang Daoshu looked away from his coffee and immediately smiled at him, "Rose, I like roses."
Latte art is the least of Liumu Zichun's worries. In yesterday's demonstration, she has seen Uesugi Kai's pleasing latte art movements and results.
"Please use."
Unsurprisingly, during the young lady's brief consternation, Uesugi had already offered her a vanilla latte.
The white rose has delicate lines and delicate outlines.
Uejima half-bent down, put his nose on the tea cup and sniffed lightly: "Classic Japanese flavor, um, not bad, I am very satisfied."
She immediately asked Liumu Zichun: "Where did you recruit this handsome guy?"
"Online." The store manager replied truthfully.
Uejima tree chuckled and said, "Your maid cafe is more and more like a pure coffee shop."
She ordered a few more cookies, and took a plate to the shop to sit by the window.
When leaving, he also said something like "Handsome guy, I will come again" to Uesugi Kai.
Uesugi Kai didn't want to be involved with women older than him, so he chose to keep silent.
"Haha, kinda cute."
Uejima Shu covered his face with a chuckle, walked out of the coffee shop with a briefcase in his high heels.
After she left, Liu Mu Zichun returned to the back kitchen and continued to work on snacks.
Kaoru Uesugi was packing coffee utensils at the bar, and Aka Erina, who was wearing a maid outfit with cat ears, came over to him and asked:
"Uesugi-kun, are you engaged?"
"It's married."
"Get married!? So early!? I read your profile yesterday. You are only a freshman, right?"
"Yes."
"That's too early!"
"Earlier is better."
"Hey, Yuri and Yuno told me yesterday that they plan to have a few more conversations with you." Aka Erina said with a regretful tone.
"Those two short-haired maids in the store?" Kai Uesugi raised his eyes and asked.
"That's right, it's them." Aka Erina put her hands on the front desk.
"Well," Uesugi Kai hummed softly, "I feel that your maids are working very hard, serving tea and meals for the guests, and singing with them."
Aka Erina laughed and said, "If it wasn't for the high salary, I wouldn't come here to work as a maid."
"Speaking of which, Uesugi-kun, you are married, so it's okay to come here to work, right? Most maid cafes sell soft pornography, and many boys' girlfriends don't let each other come to work here. Your wife can rest assured. ?”
This store is very serious.
Kaoru Uesugi saw it at work here yesterday.
The most common service of the maids is to sing a Two-dimensional song with the guests.
The nerds are even more shy, and they are too embarrassed to say a word to each other.
As for the wife, don't worry
He hasn't had a chance to speak to her yet.
Or, take the opportunity to talk to her, and then make Hei Huahuo jealous and ask her to come back?
Think about it carefully, why does Huahuo have to be separated from herself for ten days?
fireworks
As soon as he thought of her slim appearance in front of him, Uesugi Kai was a little dazed.
"Uesugi-san?" Aka Erina tilted her head and stared at him with a dull expression.
slap.
Kai Uesugi didn't pay attention, and the glass dripping filter in his hand fell to the ground and broke.
Aka Erina was splashed by the glass slag and took two steps back.
Hearing the movement, Liu Mu Zichun immediately came out of the back kitchen. She looked at the debris-strewn ground, then at Uesugi Kai, and said calmly:
"The cost is deducted from the salary."
Then I went back to the back kitchen to continue baking dim sum.
"Uesugi-san, are you okay?" Aka Erina looked at the broken glass on the ground and asked him.
"fine."
"Just now, Uesugi-san, why did you seem to be distracted?"
"Could it be that you didn't tell your wife about your work in the maid cafe?" Aka Erina suddenly covered her mouth in surprise, "Could it be that you were kicked out of the house, Uesugi-san? Actually, your wife is the kind You are dozens of years older than you"
"Don't think too much." Kaoru Uesugi knew she was joking, otherwise how could the brain circuit be shifted to this.
"Where's the broom?"
"Hey," Aka Erina stopped Uesugi Kai, "You don't have to move, just let me, a maid, clean up the trash, but what?"
"But?" Uesugi Kai looked at her with a happy face.
"Hee hee, the condition is Uesugi-san, you have to make me a cup of coffee, the one from yesterday."
"Orange cat?"
Aka Erina nodded again and again: "Yes!"
"alright."
"Great!"
"However, with the things in the store, how do you calculate the cost?"
"Give it as usual."
"Who will give it?"
After Ms. Uejima left, several customers came to the coffee shop one after another.
Not many people, just a few tables.
"Most of the coffee drinkers come in the afternoon?"
"That's right." Aka Erina cleaned up the dishes on the table and replied to Kai Uesugi behind the front desk, "One or two o'clock in the afternoon is fine, five or six o'clock in the evening is the busiest, and there are more people on rest days Some."
dong dong.
Uesugi Kai heard the knock on the door and looked in the direction of the back kitchen.
The store manager Liu Mu Zichun took off the cartoon apron, and said to Uesugi Kai: "There is not enough coffee beans in stock, I have to go out to purchase, and a trainee maid will come to learn coffee technology later, and she will leave it to you .”
"Row."
Kaoru Uesugi did not refuse, nor could he refuse the store manager's order.
Liu Mu Zichun moved quickly, packed her clothes and went out.
When he left, he rang the bell on the wooden door.
The sound is crisp and pleasant.
With nothing to do and everything packed, Kai Uesugi flicked through his phone behind the bar to pass the time.
Seeing the same Aka Erina resting on the small round table in front, I asked her:
"Do you know the trainee maid that the store manager said?"
"Ah~ I don't know, I haven't seen it either." Aka Erina lazily turned her head to look at Uesugi Kai, with half of her face pressed against the table, "Anyway, that is Uesugi-san's junior."
junior?
An hour later, still no customers came.
Aka Erina didn't know where she went, Uesugi Kai put on half of the earphones and listened to the soothing music he liked.
Fragments of sunlight illuminate the cactus on the bar counter.
Kaoru Uesugi poured some water on it by the way.
Uesugi Kai, who heard the "jingle bell", turned his head subconsciously, and found a girl in a sea-blue sweater behind Aka Erina.
She lowered her head and looked at the ground, a little embarrassed.
Under the leadership of Aka Erina, he came to Uesugi Kai.
"Well, it's him."
The girl in the knitted sweater hurried forward, bowed to Shang Shankai and lowered her head:
"Senior, my name is Lihai Xiaoqiao, please give me your advice."
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(End of this chapter)