bookcurios Chapter 523: Tell Me
Chapter 523: Tell Me
Just as the Suzukis said, the pub here had not yet opened and there was not a single customer inside, making it seem exceptionally empty and quiet.
Near the door, there are mahogany partitions all around, with hanging curtains that just separate the booths, but not completely closed, making the guests coming in feel cramped and depressed.
The floor is made of brown wooden boards, the table is a reddish-brown square table, and with the lilies at the door as an embellishment, it looks particularly fresh and elegant.
"Come on, come on, please come in." Suzuki introduced enthusiastically, "We feel that since we are abroad, our advantage is that we can bring out the exotic customs."
"Local people are used to seeing Nordic-style bars, so when they first see this kind of decoration style, they find it strange and interesting, so we simply copied the designs made in China."
"Look, the menus are all in both languages," Suzuki said excitedly, "so, guests who are away from home will feel like they are back home!"
“Business should be good after it opens.”
Fushiguro Shier looked around and finally stopped at the neatly arranged wine cabinets on the wall behind the bar. He praised without hesitation, "As expected of a self-made founder, he has a great business sense."
“Hehehehe…” Suzuki Shi was a little embarrassed by this wave of praise. He waved his hands, laughed and said, “Not really. Our success was largely due to luck.”
"Yes." Suzuki Chi answered, "It's not quite accurate to say that we started from scratch. In the beginning, we received a lot of help from God."
“You could say that the idea of opening a store was all given to us by Him.”
"However, Miracle Tavern." Xia Youjie lowered his head, recalled the name of the sign he had just seen, and asked, "Why is it called this name? Does it have any special meaning?"
"We chose it together." Suzuki Chi blinked and replied, "As for why we chose this name, it's probably to remind ourselves."
"…Remind yourself?"
"That's right." She nodded and said, "Remind yourself how much our daughter has paid for everything you have today."
"Every day of our life now is hard-earned and as precious as a miracle, so we must cherish it."
“…I see.” Gojo Satoru lowered his eyes, clenched his fingers together as if he was holding a bouquet of flowers, and said softly, “Then it really is a miracle.”
"Lily, when she was just born, she was a quiet kid who didn't cry or make a fuss." Suzuki Shaku said with a nostalgic tone, "She was cute and well-behaved, just like an angel. No, it must be a gift from God."
From the moment they saw her, they had decided that they would give everything they had for this child.
But, in the end, she ended up paying the price for everything.
"I was very addicted to handcrafts for a while, but my hands were not very dexterous, and the things I made were all lumps. But she thought they were beautiful and kept them in her room as treasures."
"Sometimes she was very proud. She fell down while walking and got injured. She was bleeding but she didn't say anything. After asking her for a long time, I found out that she felt it was embarrassing to fall on flat ground, so she planned to keep it a secret and wait for her knee to heal on its own."
"Everyone in her class had brothers and sisters born, and she was extremely envious. She came home every day and told me about them. She kept talking about them for many years until Takashi was born."
Suzuki Chi turned to look at Natsume Takashi, smiled at him, and said, "She didn't say anything until Takashi was born."
"Since then, she's always been around her brother, always thinking about taking Takashi out to play. But there's nothing we can do. The child is too young. We can't let her run around with a baby."
"So, I made an agreement with her that when she grows up a little, the whole family will go to Tokyo to play together. But--"
At this point, Suzuki Chi paused and lowered her voice. She said, "But later, I got very sick. She would come home every day to see my sick face and refused to go anywhere."
"After tossing and turning in bed for several months, he finally passed away. I don't know where her father got the news from, but he thought he was the one who killed me, so he ran away from home as well."
At this point, she elbowed him in the waist again, glaring and saying, "Then seven or eight years later, he finally killed himself."
Xia Youjie reacted, his fox eyes slightly opened, and he said: "You said............"
I originally thought that the couple in front of me would mostly talk about Lily's childhood funniness, but later on, they clearly talked about -
"Yes, it happened even earlier." Suzuki Chi nodded calmly and said, "How should I put it? Although it was like a miracle that I went back to 1999 when my daughter was just born, I have been with her until now."
"But, I still want to know more about what she went through nineteen years ago."
"God said," Suzuki Shi raised his head and wiped his tears, and said, "Lily once made a wish, hoping that everyone would forget that she ever existed."
"Fortunately, that wish did not come true. In addition to her reincarnation, even the strangers who only met her once remembered her name."
"We have heard about... your world from the gods. However, they are not always there."
Suzuki Chi said: "After thinking about it, it turns out that you, the group of friends who have been with her for a long time, are the ones who understand what happened 20 years ago better."
"So..." Suzuki Chi raised her head and stared at the few people. She asked in an earnest tone, "Can you tell me what my Lily has experienced in the past?"
"Did she suffer a lot at that time? Was she hurt? Did she hide in a corner and cry quietly, and when she was found, she pretended nothing happened."
"How many friends does she have? Does she have anyone to complain to? Does she seem to be doing well?"
"Please tell me everything you can about her."