Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 12 A Car Accident

After closing the book, Naruse sat blankly at the desk, staring at the wall for a while.

After more than half a minute passed like this, he picked up the book again, quickly flipped to a certain page, and re-read it carefully from one paragraph.

After re-reading this passage, his frowning brows were slightly untied, and then he flipped to the next passage.

Looking back at the entire book in this jumping way, facing the re-presented ending, Naruse leaned back and let out a satisfied sigh.

"awesome……"

He whispered to himself, and he was still looking back in his mind.

After a while, Naruse stood up and walked around the room a few times, exercising his slightly stiff body after sitting for a long time.

Reading all kinds of books has been his main pastime these days.

In the past two days, Shangzi had to go to the club to help every day, and Takikawa Hikari was also busy with training, so he suddenly became uninterested;

There is not much left in the summer vacation, and there is nothing else to do before school starts. Walking and reading have become the main means of passing time in the countryside.

The book was bought from Morimi Kohonon, and the book he just finished reading was also recommended by Morimi Ichiyo.

"I don't know if there are other books of the same type..."

Naruse still had some thoughts, looked at the time, and was about to go out.

"I know, that's it."

When she went downstairs, Matsuoki who was on the sofa had just finished a phone call and looked at him calmly.

Most of the excitement in Naruse's heart suddenly disappeared.

"Got to go?"

"The office wants me to go there sooner." Song Qianqiu said.

"today?"

She smiled, "No matter how anxious you are, you won't be leaving today."

Naruse couldn't laugh, "That's tomorrow."

"Sorry, it's too late to wait until Chunhai starts school."

At this time, Song Qianqiu was not in the mood to read the script any more, and patted the side, beckoning his son to come and sit down.

"Chunhai wants to find Yiye?"

"It's to the bookstore."

Morimi Kazuyo doesn't stay in her bookstore every day. Although the summer class at the school has ended, she still spends a lot of time studying.

"It's really good." Song Qianqiu didn't intend to distinguish the difference, "Chun Hai has almost contacted all his former friends."

Although there are only a few people living nearby.

Naruse thought so in his heart, but he didn't open his mouth to refute.

After staring at his son for a while, Song Qianqiu suddenly raised his hand and stroked his temple hair.

"When I went to Tokyo, the production team had to prepare for about ten days and a half months before the filming started, or even a month. Judging from the script, the expected filming time of this drama is at least half a year."

Naruse pursed his lower lip, "It's been a long time."

In the past, it was only three or four months at most, and even if the shooting location was not in Tokyo, it would not be too far away. Matsu Chiaki often went home to visit.

"It's okay for Chunhai to stay in the country by himself."

He turned his head, as if trying to avoid his mother's touch, "What's the problem?"

"That's right." Song Qianqiu smiled again, "Chunhai has grown up."

Naruse sat up straight and didn't speak.

Since the day they left Tokyo, the mother and son had been preparing for the upcoming parting, but they had nothing to say at this time.

What's more, the real parting is still tomorrow.

"Let's go find Yiye."

Leaving home, Naruse hesitated whether to go directly to Morimi Kohonen or take a walk alone.Just regaining consciousness, he found that he was already on his way to the bookstore.

In the midsummer afternoon, a few sporadic white clouds floated in the distance, refusing to come over.

The sun was hot, but not too hot.

There were only a few cars parked on the side of the road, and no one was in sight.

Naruse looked down at his own shadow, curled up in a ball, completely enveloping his feet.

"So hot……"

Neither the shadow nor the ground responded at all.

There was a characteristic sound of the chain when riding a bicycle coming from the front. He looked up and saw a yellow-haired girl riding around the corner of the county road.

His body couldn't lift his energy for no reason, and he didn't bother to care.

The other party couldn't help but care about him.

The constantly swaying front of the car is a true portrayal of her inner panic.

She even forgot that the brakes were in her hands, and stretched out her feet and dragged on the ground, but it couldn't exert much deceleration effect.

When Naruse finally realized something was wrong, the front wheel of the bicycle had already crushed his thigh.

"..."

Naruse was "woke up" by the bump.

He took a step back and held the front of the car down before being completely knocked down.

The people in the car moved forward with inertia, and stopped abruptly. The feet on the ground finally played the role of supporting the body.

"..."

Relatively speechless, Naruse let go of the handlebar and looked at the yellow-haired perpetrator again.

Her hair was dyed, her earrings were studded, and she probably had a little smear on her face, but her foundation was still very pretty.

Her thin lips were tightly pursed, and a pair of wide black-rimmed glasses could not hide the panic in her eyes.

This was the emotion that every perpetrator with a surviving conscience should have at this time, but he saw a trace of familiarity in her eyebrows and eyes.

Naruse looked down and landed on the flat dark green coarse cloth apron on her chest.

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"..."

He suddenly understood what Mori saw Yiye said a few days ago.

【"If Naruse saw the starfish he is now, he would probably be shocked."】

He was indeed taken aback, although it had nothing to do with her.

"starfish?"

"...what are you doing?"

The perpetrator, who was silent and restless after being called out by name, finally spoke.

Judging from her series of panic reactions when she saw him and the calm she pretended to be at this moment, she really recognized him.

From whom did you see his picture?
The names of Morimi Ichiyo and Takikawa Hikaru appeared in Naruse's mind one after another, but he didn't care, and now he paid more attention to what was in front of him.

"Was it intentional?"

"..."

Starfish opened her mouth, not knowing how to explain it.

Of course she didn't mean to.

However, although the county road under their feet is not wide, they were originally facing each other from left to right.

But she happened to hit it.

Ever since she got the news of his return and saw his face on the surveillance camera in the store, she had fantasized about countless scenarios when the two met again, and based on all the bad times they had gotten along with in the past, she could definitely put on a picture of him. face to face him;
But this collision, at least for the moment, completely knocked her righteousness away...

"It hurts."

Naruse lowered his head and touched his knee.

"..."

Hai Xing glanced at his leg uneasily, pursed her lips, and remained silent.

She felt that she was not unreasonable, but she couldn't say an apology to him.

Seeing that she kept silent and did not dare to leave directly, Naruse suddenly heaved a sigh of relief.

I haven't seen her in four years, and the memory seems to have overly deepened the difficult side of her former step-sister.

He quickly remembered that her toughness most of the time was made up of hard work.

By the end of each other's parents' second marriages, they had lost grounds for antagonism.Time can make many things ambiguous, and now, this relationship may also become a little bit normal.

He didn't expect to get back with her completely either—that kind of memory was too far away, and he didn't quite remember what she looked like when she smiled sincerely at him.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Having made a decision in his heart, Naruse took the initiative to take the first step to reconcile, "I went to visit a few days ago, and Hai Xing was not at home."

Hai Xing glanced at him blankly, he hadn't turned his head from the accident just now.

"Ah... um."

She regained consciousness quickly.

It was precisely because she learned that their mother and son had returned here after returning home, that day she thought about going over to have a look, and if possible, to settle some things by the way;
As a result, before he could make up his mind, he was noticed by Ichiyo Morimi who was passing by, and the fragile impulse dissipated in the slightest disturbance, and even failed to re-condense for a few days.

I didn't expect to meet him directly under such circumstances today.

The embarrassment came unexpectedly, but it disappeared quickly. He took the initiative to talk, and Haixing suddenly realized that now might be an opportunity.

"I went to karaoke with my friends that day."

She picked up what he said just now, "I saw the steamed yokan you sent..."

Naruse frowned, focusing on the first half of her sentence.

Hai Xing was dressed like a hot girl herself, and he could imagine what her friends would look like.

Although the boundary between a hot girl and a bad girl is very blurred, and he doesn't know where Hai Xing and her friends are in it, he can say that he has a deep understanding of the latter;
With Hai Xing's character of being strong on the outside and doing things on the inside, once he gets in touch with it deeply, it's hard to get rid of it.

"...Why are you looking at me like this?" Hai Xing quickly noticed the change in his expression, and his spirit tensed up.

"It's nothing."

Naruse was considering the extent to which he would interfere with his former step-sister's interpersonal relationship, and he was also considering the timing of speaking to her. He knew very well that at least now was not the time.

"I just feel that Starfish has changed a lot in recent years."

"What do you mean?"

She suddenly became sensitive and guarded, partly because of her character, and partly because the person she was facing was him.

Naruse didn't want to argue with her, so he shook his head without saying anything.

Hai Xing stared at him, and suddenly seemed to understand something: "You look down on me."

Naruse couldn't help but sigh.

It wasn't until this moment that he really realized that the long four years could not fill the gap between the two of them.

"Leave me alone." Naruse pointed to the wine box on the back seat of the bicycle, "You still have to deliver the bar."

"..."

Starfish looked at him again, stepped on the pedal again, and stepped down with one foot.

Without saying goodbye, the two walked away from each other until they couldn't see each other before stopping each other, looking back at where the other left.

Things from the past...

Does he remember?
How much does she care about?
(End of this chapter)