Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 187

The cold wind howled outside.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, Naruse didn't put it down, just covering it in his hands.

The living room of Morimi's house is really cold.

Even sitting in the kotatsu, there are places where the warmth is not enough.

After a moment of silence, Morimi looked up at him again.

"and then?"

"Then I left Aomori and went to Tokyo with my mother."

"I mean you and Starfish."

"Of course it's over. After I went to Tokyo, I completely disconnected."

Morimi took another deep breath, staring at his teacup in a daze.

Naruse watched her for a while, then looked at the clock on the wall.

He has been sitting here for almost half an hour.

Normally, at this time, he should have arrived home...

"One more question." After a while, Morimi finally spoke again.

"Ah."

She looked at him, "Aside from you and Hai Xing, does anyone else know what happened between you?"

He looked at her, "You."

"... Shangzi doesn't know either?"

"How could you tell her such a thing?"

"..."

Sen Jian felt inexplicably wanting to laugh, but couldn't.

You can't tell Shangzi about your past with Haixing, but you can tell her...

She sighed.

"What do you want me to say?"

"what?"

"I understand you... something."

Naruse looked at her, then looked away.

"I don't have such expectations, I just hope that this matter can end here. Starfish is also..."

"—Does Starfish really think so?"

"Yes. She just couldn't do it," Naruse said.

Senjian looked at him, "What if you can't do it all the time?"

He was silent for a moment, lowering his gaze.

"If that counts as a relationship, then we have already broken up. And now she has made the choice to let go of each other. If she still can't let go, I will feel sorry for her, that's all."

"..."

She pursed her lower lip, and suddenly lay down again, looking at the ceiling.

Now she can truly understand his relationship with Hai Xing, but the problem has become more difficult after the cocoon is peeled off.

"I shouldn't have interfered..."

Naruse glanced at her.

"This kind of thing, only you can solve it yourself."

"I wish you'd thought about it sooner."

She sat up suddenly again, staring at him.

"It's not because you and Hai Xing both concealed such an important matter."

"Then why do you think she and I don't want to talk about it?"

"..."

Of course, it is because it is difficult for outsiders to talk about such things.

But realizing this, she was suddenly a little annoyed.

"do not know!"

Naruse glanced at her and lowered his head to drink his tea.

"I should go back."

Sen Jian didn't speak.

He didn't leave without saying anything, he drank all the hot tea in the cup one after another, and then got up.

"Hope this cup of hot tea lasts me till I get home."

She looked up at him, "I have a thermos, you can take it with you on the road."

"Forget it." Naruse shook his head, "I'm going back."

Sen Jian gets up and walks him to the door.

"Narase."

He sat in the porch wearing his shoes, "Yeah."

"Tomorrow is the common exam."

"Ah."

"After two years, we will be the ones who will take the exam."

He looked back at her.

"Do you want to say that you want to concentrate on meeting the remaining two years?"

Sensei laughed.

"Do you have mind reading skills too?"

"Occasionally it works a little bit."

"Then guess what I want to do."

"You want to fix the starfish thing and then focus on learning."

"Guess right." She laughed and sighed, "but..."

Starfish's problem can't be solved.

"The only person who can solve this problem is herself."

Naruse stood up and looked at her, "If you really want to be admitted to Beijing University, then forget about it."

"..."

Morimi took a deep breath.

"This kind of thing doesn't need you to remind."

Naruse nodded.

"Good night."

He disappeared in the dark wind and snow, and she stood at the door for a while before turning around and going in.

After turning off the electric heater of the kotatsu in the living room, she packed up the cups left on the table and sent them to the kitchen. She stood in front of the sink for a while.

You can only choose between Beijing University and Haixing. Is that what he meant?

If you want to be admitted to Beijing University, you have to let go of the starfish and concentrate on studying in the little time left;

But letting go of Haixing is not a guarantee that she will be admitted to Beijing University.

What's more, she couldn't let go.

How could she let her go?
But now that she can't intervene, what else can she do?
"..."

She held the cup in the sink, and there seemed to be his residual warmth on it.

wow-

Turn on the faucet, rinse the two cups and put them away. Morimi left the kitchen, went back to the room to get his pajamas, and went downstairs to the bathroom.

She took off her glasses and took off her clothes. The pervasive cold made her tremble all over, and her arms were covered with goose bumps.

wow-

Turn on the shower head, and a steady stream of hot water will spray down to dispel the cold.

The tense body gradually became relaxed.

She closed her eyes, raised her hands to cover her ears, and the sound of water washing her scalp echoed directly in her mind.

rustling, rustling—

Hollow and dense.

The flow of water is constant and the washing is constant.

It seems that there is only this one voice left in the whole world, and there is no need to think about anything.

I don't want to think...

【"If you really want to be admitted to Beijing University, then forget about it."】

"..."

She opened her eyes.

wow-

The water was still washing over her body.

"What are we going to do..."

she does not know.

The hot water flowed over the head and face, and flowed towards the body. After standing there for a while, Morimi began to wash himself.

First, shoulder-length hair.

After applying shampoo, scrubbing for a while, and then rinsing it off, she squinted at her hands, there were still a few strands of hair that hadn't been washed away entangled between her fingers.

Hair loss again...

She didn't bother to care, she turned her palm to wash away the hair, and then washed her body.

The soap was smeared on the body, from the arms on both sides, to the neck, and then to the chest, fiddled unconsciously.

"Well……"

The unconscious becomes conscious.

When he came back to his senses, the soap slid down and smeared every part of his lower body.

She restrained.

Irritability and desire are equally in the bottom of her heart, and she just wants to calm down.

After rinsing her body clean, she turned off the light and sat in the bathtub.

Dark and quiet.

But the sound of wind and snow outside the window could not be heard.

There were other voices roaring in her head.

【"...then forget about it."】

"Forget it……"

Whoa!

She stood up suddenly and climbed out of the bathtub.

buzz-

The phone in my pocket vibrated.

Facing the wind and snow, Naruse shrank his head. He didn't want to pay attention to it, but then he thought it might be Shangzi's news, so he took out his phone.

Yiye: Don't talk to me from now on.

"..."

He froze for a moment, then looked around subconsciously.

In the silent and dark wilderness, there is no one else but himself.

No one could explain the meaning of this sentence to him.

"baffling……"

Naruse: Good.

Putting away the phone, he shrank his head and continued walking home. After a while, the phone vibrated again, and it continued.

is the phone.

Remembering that Matsu Chiaki said to contact him later when he was at Takigawa's house, Naruse immediately took out his phone again.

"..."

See you again.

He gets on the phone.

"Hey?"

"are you home yet."

"Never reached the intersection."

"It's so slow... um..."

"How long have I been away from your house?"

"do not know……"

Naruse looked ahead, the lights at the intersection penetrated the wind and snow, guiding him in the direction.

"what's up?"

"..."

There was only the sound of her sometimes restrained, sometimes rapid chaotic breathing.

"See you Sen?"

"……I am here."

"What's the matter."

"It's nothing...well... I just wanted to say, I want to..."

Her words were so vague that it was impossible to tell, Naruse frowned.

"See you..."

beep--

"..."

The phone hangs up.

After a while, she sent a message.

Yiye: Let’s talk about it tomorrow.

buzz-

Chun Hai: Whatever you want.

Throwing the phone on the pajamas, she went back to the bathroom, turned on the shower again, and rinsed her hands and lower body.

wow-

Sitting back in the bathtub again, she lay down weakly.

Desires were cleared away, but irritability took the lead and occupied the other half of my heart.

She still couldn't calm down.

(End of this chapter)