Chapter 29 first quarter

The attached cafe of "Goldfinch" offers several types of ice cream in addition to cakes. The hottest season for ice cream is of course summer, and it is also the main product that the masters in the chocolate workshop in the basement help to make temporarily. Just making sundaes is very busy.But as soon as the weather turns cooler, demand falls sharply. When this guest came to visit, it was the time when the chocolatier returned to work and was ready to make bonbons, that is, around mid-October. He looked to be in his twenties, slender and well-mannered.Wearing a suit and thin gray glasses, he turned on his laptop as soon as he sat down, and ordered a set of ice cream and coffee.

Xia Zhi delivered the decorated ice cream to the guests, she leaned slightly to put the plate on the table, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the screen on the laptop.The guests seemed to be searching for information, and there were several photos of colorful desserts lined up on the screen.Xia Zhi took a look, smiled and left silently. The appearance of a man who loves desserts is a beautiful scene in Xia Zhi's eyes.It was not the figure of a professional chef, but the appearance of an ordinary man happily enjoying dessert. When people enjoy desserts, they always show a very gentle look.

Xia Zhi just likes this feeling. Maybe he just happened to pass by, let's come in for a dessert, Xia Zhi thought. Unexpectedly, the man wearing glasses visited for several days in a row, and ordered different kinds of ice cream every day. There are five kinds of ice cream on the menu, which are vanilla, black currant, chocolate, matcha and peach ice cream topped with walnut syrup. On the day when the fourth ice cream was ordered, the man wearing glasses called Xia Zhi for the first time. "Excuse me, just ask." "Is there a problem?" "Do you know the neighborhood:...? No, it should be in the past, there was a dessert shop called GongjiζMohubajiz?"

"Is it a pastry shop?" "Yes, besides cakes, we also sell bread and ice cream..." "Wait a moment, I'll ask." Xia Zhi went back to the store to ask Tsuruga for advice. Tsuruga shook his head and said, "I've never heard of this store! What kind of store does it feel like?" It was the busiest time in the store, so Tsuruga still put down his work to deal with customers' questions, while Xia Zhi continued to be busy helping other customers order food.After the two talked for ten minutes, the customer wearing glasses got up to check out and left.

"How?" Xia Zhi asked. Tsuruga shook his head. "Maybe it was opened a long time ago. I don't have a clue, because I moved here after the Great Hanshin Earthquake." Then she said: "I heard from the customer...it should be eighteen years ago It’s over. Maybe Chef Urushigu knows better, let’s ask her when we have time.” "Looking at the age of that guest, he should have been a primary school student eighteen years ago." "Hmm. He seems to be looking for this store based on his memories from when he was ten years old. The problem is that a lot has changed around here, hasn't it? Because of the earthquake, many stores have disappeared."

"Is that store near here?" "It should be. However, it may be possible to move to another place, so he spent four days asking around in this area, but he still couldn't find it. Every time he was tired from walking, he would come to our store to rest." "That's why he came for several days in a row?" "He said he came to Kobe on a business trip and he was leaving tomorrow." This time it was different from Takakura Ryoko's situation.This customer knows the exact store name.But he has been looking for it for so long, but he still can't find it. It seems that the store should have been closed.It's just that he didn't want to give up yet, so he searched the Internet, hoping to find any information.

The guest said that this store was mentioned in a blog post not long ago, but he had no way to inquire further without the contact information of the owner, and the blog has been closed.If you want to find temporary data from a closed web page, it seems to be more difficult to track down. What kind of dessert makes a man with glasses miss him?Could it be that what he is looking for is not dessert, but the boss or staff? After the business hours were over, and the next day's preparations and chores had been dealt with, Chef Qi Gu called Xia Zhi to stop and handed her a piece of paper. "Can I trouble you to give this to the customer who is looking for Summer Sun?"

"Have you found it?" Xia Zhi opened her eyes wide. "Chef, do you know this restaurant?" "I don't know either, I only found out from Yoshino." "Ask Mr. Yoshino?" "I heard Yoshino mention milkshakes from the 1970s before, so I think he might be familiar with the long-established dessert shops nearby." Chef Urushitani heard that the customer wearing glasses was leaving tomorrow, although it's not good to disturb him in his busy schedule, he still called Yoshino.Yoshino, who was busy preparing for the opening of the store, immediately thought of a certain store and provided a piece of information.

As Chef Urushitani expected, Mr. Yoshino carefully investigated the long-established dessert shops and cafes in Kobe for a period of time in order to find the milkshake in his memory. It was at that time that he learned about Summer Sun. "The guest obviously hasn't been found after searching for four days..." Xia Zhi muttered to himself. "It seems that 80% of them are located in small alleys or places that are hard to find!" "Neither. Look at the map. It's not a difficult place to find. It's just that the operation method is a bit special. I'll explain to you later. You tell the customer first. I've already contacted him."