Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 148 The Night of December [-]

At around one o'clock in the afternoon, Haixing, who was lying by the window, saw Naruse coming to Morimi Kohonten again.

After a while, the two left together, and the former turned his head and glanced this way.

"..."

Before Morimi also looked over, Hai Xing hid subconsciously.

When they probed again, the two did not come over, but had already walked away in the other direction.

They're going downtown together...

Watching the figures of the two disappear at the corner of the county road, Hai Xing also looked away.

Isn't Shangzi together?

...Is it a date?

Hai Xing lay by the window, thinking wildly, until a gust of cold wind blew her awake.

After closing the window and returning to the house, she lay down on the bed, fiddling with her phone absently.

Dad's voice came from downstairs: "Haixing, send two bottles of wine to Mr. Sanji's house."

"understood--"

She got up and went downstairs to deliver the wine.

As the end of the year approaches, the business of my hotel gets busier.In the afternoon, she pushed the bicycle around, and there was hardly any time to stop.

If only I could drive...

On the fourth departure, Hai Xing thought so as he looked at his small truck transporting wine.

Too bad she won't.

And the hard work is self-inflicted-she has to work to earn money.Unless it's an urgent situation, Seiichiro will ask her to deliver the wine.

This time there is a small half box of wine, which belongs to two families.

"This is the wine that Mr. Saito ordered... and this is what Mr. Honda ordered."

Putting away the order form, Haixing pushed onto the bicycle and set off again.

Busy and non-stop, the afternoon passed like this.

In the evening, there will still be people calling and asking for wine.Seiichiro drove to see him off by himself, leaving Haixing to look after the house.

Sitting at the counter, she was in a daze, occasionally answering the phone.

"Hello, this is the real wood hotel... two bottles of Matsumoto, yes... I need another bottle... the address is... yes, we will send it to you as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Hai Xing hurriedly wrote down the address, then took out the wine the customer needed from the wine cabinet, and put it together with the order.

These few days are the peak of year-end parties and end-to-end banquets, and there are always people asking for wine at night, and this is the case every year.

Not long after, a pickup truck stopped outside the door, and Seiichiro, who had gone out to deliver wine, returned to the store.

"How about it?"

Hai Xing pointed aside, "There are four more orders, and the wine is ready."

He picked up the order, looked at the address, conceived the delivery route in his mind, then loaded the wine prepared by Haixing into the truck, and after a few words, he went out to continue delivering the wine.

As soon as he got in the car, Hai Xing suddenly waved his arm, signaling him to wait.

"Wait a minute, there's a call!"

Seiichiro got out of the car and went back to the store. Haixing answered the phone and repeated the customer's needs to him while listening.

"Two bottles of the current Junmai Ginjo...the address is...OK, we will deliver it as soon as possible."

Seiichiro wrote down the address, then took an order form and wrote it, Hai Xing went to the wine cabinet to look for it, and took down two bottles of Junmai Ginjo for him.

"Okay. I'm going out."

Sending off her father again, Hai Xing glanced at the bookstore, the lights were still on, but she didn't know if Yi Ye was there.

The busy evening continued until after ten o'clock, and by the time Seiichiro returned from delivering the last order, he was exhausted.

Seeing several order forms on the counter, he glanced at them hastily, "Have you received another order?"

Hai Xing nodded, "But it's all for tomorrow morning."

Seiichiro also nodded, without saying much, he slumped on the counter.

At the end of each year or before important festivals, the store will be so busy for a while, but fortunately, Haixing has become more sensible in the past two years and can help him share some things.

However, when they are really busy, it is still a bit stretched to rely on their father and daughter alone...

The thought of continuing the string flashed through his mind again, and he shook his head again, throwing it aside.

"Starfish go to rest."

Hai Xing looked at his father, wanted to say something, but seeing his tired face, he swallowed it again.

"OK, good night."

After taking a shower and returning to the room, it was past eleven o'clock.

After drying her hair, Starfish didn't go to bed either.

Standing by the window, the street is silent late at night, and the bookstore diagonally opposite has also closed.

"It's so quiet..."

It's true this time of year.

The street lights are bright alone, and there is no one on the road.

After all, it was so late.

She was in a daze for a while, and was awakened by a slight movement below.

It was the sound of the shutter door locking.

Dad is going to rest too.

Hai Xing returned to the bed and sat down, looking at the time.

In a few minutes, the day will be over.

A new day, the last day of the year, is approaching.

She fell back, staring at the ceiling.

After the delivery stopped, I took several orders. I will be very busy tomorrow, and I will start to be busy in the morning.

She should have rested earlier.

But she still wanted to wait a little longer, just a little while.

Pick up the phone, there are still 2 minutes.

She pressed a few times to adjust the smallest unit of the time display from minutes to seconds.

23: 58: 35
Staring at the beating numbers, she subconsciously held her breath.

23: 59: 00
1 minutes left.

23: 59: 30
30 seconds left...

With only ten seconds left, she took a deep breath and stared unblinkingly.

Ten, nine, eight...

three seconds.

two seconds.

one second.

Time resets to zero.

12月31日 00：00：00
"Happy birthday." She closed her eyes and whispered to herself.

Today is her birthday.

Because it hits the last day of the year, a birthday that is always forgotten in all kinds of busyness.

"This year's wish, no, it should be said that today's wish is..."

She opened her mouth, but found that she could only think of some unrealistic things.

If anything in it is possible...

My wish now is to see him.

Snapped!
"—Wow!"

Suddenly there was a muffled sound from the window, and Hai Xing was startled.

Turning his head to look, there was a small ball of falling snow on the glass.

what's the situation……

She was stunned for a while, then stood up and leaned over slowly.

Snapped!
Another cloud of snow flew and smashed on the window in front of her.

"..."

Starfish quickened her pace and came to the window.

On the street below, Naruse was about to throw the third ball of snow, but when she finally came, he threw it aside and waved at her instead.

Behind him are Shangzi, Yiye and Hikari waving his hands.

"..."

There is a faint premonition in my heart, but more is still unbelievable.

When she came back to her senses, Hai Xing found that she had opened the window.

"Happy birthday, Starfish," Naruse said.

The three girls behind also smiled, "Happy birthday!"

"you……"

Hai Xing opened his mouth, looked left and right, holding on to the window sill, feeling like he had nowhere to rest.

Eyes are also moist all of a sudden.

"What... all of a sudden... like this..."

Everything in front of my eyes became blurred.

"I think you shouldn't be in the mood to sleep now."

Naruse looked up at her.

"It just so happens that we have prepared a birthday party, and we are waiting for you now."

"..."

Haixing looked at him, and then at Yiye behind him.

Was it a birthday party for her... so it was.

Why hide it from her!

"What time is it?"

Naruse turned his head, "She can't tell..."

"To come!"

Hai Xing laughed through his tears, waved his hands at them, and turned away from the window sill.

Just as Naruse turned her head to say something, she hurried back to the window and closed the forgotten window.

After changing her clothes for going out, Hai Xing suppressed her excitement and went downstairs cautiously, thinking that her father had already fallen asleep.

Then carefully unlocked the shutter door. Just as she bent down, she reached in with both hands from the outside and slowly lifted the door.

He stood outside, holding the door in his hand, in a snowstorm.

Starfish blinked.

Her birthday wish has come true...

(End of this chapter)