Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 27
On Sunday morning, Naruse stayed in the room after getting up, flipping through his notes.

Through recent private investigations, coupled with what he has seen with his own eyes, he basically knows Shangzi's current situation in the society.

It's just that he thought over and over about how to help her get rid of this situation, but he still couldn't come up with a firm idea.

As he told Haixing, despite being targeted by some of them, Shangzi can still gain a lot of happiness when communicating with and doing activities with other fans of the handicraft club.

Quitting the handicraft society is not worth the loss.

If this is the case, can the members of the handicraft club who are targeting Naoko be allowed to quit?

After thinking along this line of thought for a while, Naruse found that it was even more difficult to implement.

Not to mention what means he will use to force those people to retreat, the number of personnel alone is enough to cause shocks in the entire handicraft society;
And based on his relationship with Shangzi, in the eyes of other people, it is difficult not to connect with her, and even think that she is leading, maybe it will backfire in the end, and let the originally neutral members stand on the other side ...

Naruse let out a long breath, letting the thought dissipate along with the exhaled breath.

We can only wait until the end of this school year, did the members who targeted Shang Zi take the initiative to withdraw from the club?
After all, the leaders are all second-year students. According to the usual practice, they will basically choose to quit the department after entering the third grade.

And if Shangzi successfully takes over and becomes the next minister, it will be difficult for the remaining students at the same level to target them.

Wait...wait?

Naruse leaned back against the back of the chair.

As for the so-called reconciliation, he never thought about it.

Shangzi did nothing wrong.

After a while, there were footsteps on the stairs.He put away his notes and took a book instead, and Shangzi quickly opened the door and entered.

"Chun Hai, the bus is almost here."

"Ah."

Naruse got up and went downstairs, and when he was changing shoes at the door, Naoko came over with an umbrella.

"It might rain."

He looked out at the gloomy sky and took the umbrella.

After raging for a night and a day, Typhoon No.12 finally turned around reluctantly last night and drifted towards the Pacific Ocean.

Although the weather is mostly sunny after the typhoon has passed, it is hard to say that it has completely left after seeing the dark clouds rolling outside.

Naruse stood up, picked up the umbrella, "I'm going out."

Shangzi saw them off at the door, "Be careful on the road."

The uniform store in Dotemachi called yesterday, saying that his new uniform has been made and can come to the store to pick it up at any time.

And Shangzi didn't go out with him because he had other things to do.

After waiting on the platform for a while, Naruse boarded the bus smoothly.

When he came to the city, he didn't forget the uniform shop he had been to once, and he quickly came to the door.

"welcome."

"I'll get the uniform."

After reporting the school and name, after a few minutes of waiting, Naruse finally got his complete uniform from the new school.

There are fitting rooms in the store for students to try on uniforms so that they can be adjusted or even exchanged directly in the store.

Although he didn't think it was necessary, it would be troublesome if it really didn't fit. Naruse went into the fitting room and tried on all the summer clothes, winter clothes and sportswear.

Then I changed back into my own clothes, walked out of the fitting room, and the clerk greeted me.

"No problem, right? If you think the bottom of the trousers is too long, or something else is not suitable, you can propose a modification now."

"No problem." Naruse shook his head, "It fits perfectly."

"That's good."

The young female shop assistant smiled slightly, and stared at his face for a while, "I always feel that your face is somewhat similar to a certain celebrity."

"yes."

"But I can't tell which male celebrity it is... Is it my illusion?" the female shop assistant looked at him and said.

Naruse just smiled, and didn't remind her to change her mind and think about female stars.

He left with his uniform in hand. There was still a lot of time in the morning, and he was going to go to the second-hand shop at the Central Station to go shopping again.

"Hopefully it's open today..."

The typhoon has been raging for the past two days, so few people go out, and some small shops simply closed their doors, Naruse only hoped that the ancient shop was not among them.

When he came near the station, he searched for it for a while and heaved a sigh of relief.

The shop is still open.

Standing at the counter was no longer the female college student from last time, but a young man.He was busy with his head down, when he heard the movement and looked up, he was a little surprised.

"welcome."

Naruse nodded, walked into the store, and found a pile of disassembled parts in front of him, and he was holding a soldering iron in his hand, apparently repairing it.

"Game Boy Advance?" Naruse stopped to look at it for a while, and recognized the original parts of this pile of parts by the shell next to it.

"Ah."

The shopkeeper responded and looked at him again, "This machine is too old, and several capacitors on the motherboard are broken."

capacitance……

Naruse glanced at the several small cylinders placed beside him, "Are you replacing them?"

Second-hand stores recycle old items, usually do some maintenance or repairs, and then sell them.

"Ah."

The shopkeeper nodded, then stopped to look at him for a moment, "Do you know me?"

Naruse was taken aback, "I don't know."

"Oh." He simply responded without saying anything else.

Naruse could only ask, "Is that so?"

"I am the owner of this medieval store, Chao Yueming."

The other party continued: "I only remember things, not people, but you seem familiar, so I think you may be a guest who came here before."

They had never met before, Naruse guessed the reason and couldn't help smiling.

"I came here once, but it was a female college student who received me at that time."

Chao Yueming thought for a while, "That's Xiaotao, my junior in college."

Naruse didn't know him, so he didn't say anything.

The medieval shopkeeper looked at the bag in his hand again.

"what is that?"

"This?" Naruse raised it, "The uniform of the prefectural Tsudaka."

"We don't accept ordinary clothes here. If you're looking for a second-hand clothing store, there seems to be one in Dotemachi."

"..."

Naruse couldn't laugh or cry.

"It's not for sale."

"That's it." Chao Yueming nodded without any embarrassment, picked up the soldering iron and continued to work, "Please take a look."

Strange shopkeeper, Naruse thought.

But that's good too, he doesn't like to be interrupted enthusiastically when he visits the second-hand shop.

"Can this be placed here?"

"Please."

Putting the uniform he just got at the counter, Naruse started to browse around the store.

Although he had already wandered around every corner the last time he came here, he was immersed in the old things around him, and he still found it interesting.

This time he noticed some details again: on the labels of some second-hand products, it will be specially marked that they have been repaired.

If there is no accident, it should be the handwriting of the owner Chao Yueming.

When he passed the front desk again, he stopped and looked at it for a while.

The GBA game console has been repaired, assembled and put aside, and now it is an even older radio that is being disassembled.

Naruse looked to the side, and there was an amplifier of unknown age and a guitar on the ground, and asked casually, "Mr. Chaoyue can repair everything?"

Chao Yueming shook his head, twisting a screwdriver in his hand, "I don't know how to repair a machine whose internal mechanism is too complicated, and I can't repair it if I can't find replacement materials."

After removing all the screws, he opened the casing of the radio, and then he looked at Naruse: "Do you have anything to fix?"

"No."

Naruse remembered that there seemed to be some old electrical appliances at home, but they didn't need to be repaired. There was still enough storage space, so he didn't bother to sell them.

"yes."

Chao Yueming continued to repair the radio, Naruse turned his head to look at this small and cramped second-hand shop, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind.

——It would be great if he could also open such a second-hand shop.

Hey.

The phone on the counter vibrated.

Chao Yueming was holding the circuit board that had just been removed in his hand. He was a little flustered for a moment, but he quickly calmed down.

"Hello... yes, I am Chaoyue from the second-hand shop. Hey, is that right... I want it."

It seems to be business, Naruse thought.

After hanging up the phone, Chao Yueming held the phone with some hesitation on his face.

"Someone from Soma wants to sell a record player. I want to accept it, but the other party asks to come to collect it in person... So, can you watch the store for me?"

Naruse froze.

"Eh?"

(End of this chapter)