Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 3 The Takigawa Sisters
When he came to the door, Song Qianqiu's eyes wandered, trying to find a little familiar feeling from the faces of the two girls in front of him.

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

"Light." Naruse reminded beside him.

"Little light."

"There are still months."

Song Qianqiu looked at the other person, "Xiaoyue."

"Good evening, Ms. Song." Hikaru Takikawa bowed his head in greeting, and when he looked up at Song Qianqiu, he also compared something on her face.

And the other girl behind her looked delicate, and her aura was much weaker, she couldn't look at anyone for half a second.

"excuse me……"

Song Qianqiu clapped his hands suddenly.

"Ah, I remembered, you are the sisters of the Takigawa family. It's been a long time—it's such a big change."

She looked at Takikawa Hikari, who was taller than herself, and then at Takikawa Yue, who was much smaller, "I remember my sister is the same age as Harumi..."

"Yes." Hikaru Takikawa nodded, "But Yue is not my sister."

She pulled her older sister who was shrunk back to her front, and said with a smile, "I'm the younger sister, and Yue is the older sister. She's two years older than me, and now she's a third-year student preparing for the exam."

"Really? I really can't tell..."

Being scrutinized by Song Qianqiu at close range, Takikawa Tsuki was too nervous to look at her, and was a little reluctant to look away, only feeling that his legs were weak.

"Excuse me, I'm Hikari's older sister...I'm your idol, please, please sign me!"

She took out a signature board from nowhere, bowed her body, and held it higher than her head.

Song Qianqiu looked at the signature board, then at her, and couldn't help smiling.

"My idol..."

Naruse looked at Takikawa Hikaru, she was also smiling, "I'm sorry, sorry, Yue is too nervous."

"Let's talk first."

One of the Takigawa sisters was too nervous, while the other was more casual. The two sat down separately, and Shangzi came out of the kitchen with a water glass.

"Ah, thank you. Has Naoko returned from Aomori City yet?"

"I just came back today." Shangzi put down his water glass and smiled at Hikaru Takikawa, "Thank you for taking me to the station last time."

"Just a little thing."

Hikaru Takikawa smiled back, his eyes stayed on Shangzi's face for a while, and then looked to the side.

Song Qianqiu is holding a pen and signing autographs for her sister.

"Would you like to write something by the way?"

"Anything! I mean... as long as you like it."

Song Qianqiu thought for a while and said with a smile:
"Then write 'To my idol, Miss Takikawa Tsuki'."

Takigawa Tsuki felt honored to be ridiculed by the idol, and almost cried.

"Don't bully children." Naruse said from the side.

Joking aside, Song Qianqiu couldn't be more proficient at signing autographs and writing messages for fans, and just a few words of thanks for their support.

She closed the pen cap, "Is this okay?"

Looking at the signature board, Takikawa Tsuki was already satisfied, but she still had the courage to say:
"I also want an autograph...Miss Song's stage name when she first debuted..."

Song Qianqiu was a little surprised, and soon smiled again.

"Okay."

Opening the pen cap, she added a new name under the signature of "Matsu Chiaki": Emi Asahina.

Naruse watched from the side, his eyes fell on his mother's face, but what appeared in his mind was her appearance nearly 20 years ago-he had only seen it in photos.

Emi Asahina was Matsuchiaki's stage name when she debuted at the age of 17.

In the second year, the name came out of Tsumae and Aomori with a TV series, and became a household name.

And just two years later, the popular idol Asahina Emi suddenly retired and announced that she was about to get married, accompanied by another name: Naruse Mamoru.

Well-known screenwriter Mamoru Naruse.

There are many works, and she is also the screenwriter of Asahina Emi's debut work "Morning, Miss Apple"...

"Thank you!"

Takikawa Tsuki hugged the signature board, his voice trembling with excitement, interrupting Naruse's memories.

No matter how sincere the feelings are, the scenes where fans and idols meet are often similar, and he is used to it;
Hikaru Takikawa felt it was fresh, he kept staring at his sister's reaction, and only looked away after a while.

"It's been a long time since I came to Chunhai's house, I really miss it."

"When I said I was going to Tokyo, I just didn't want to come." Naruse recalled.

"Because it was so sudden. Actually, I was quite angry at that time."

"Feel sorry."

"What are you apologizing for now?"

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, got up and turned around, and went to the shrine to keep a stick of incense for Naruse.

Ding--

After burning incense, she looked towards the stairs, "I want to go to Chunhai's room."

Naoko looked at Naruse.

"Anything," he said.

When he got to the middle of the stairs, Takigawa Hikaru turned his head again, "Won't Harumi come up?"

So Naruse got up and followed.

"Or the original room?"

"of course."

As soon as the door was pushed open, there was another sound of footsteps on the stairs.

Shang Zi strolled up: "I've never seen Sister Yue show that kind of expression before."

"Even I haven't seen much of it."

Hikaru Takikawa waited for her, "Yue fell in love with Haruna's mother immediately after her comeback, and now she's so obsessed."

"Come in." Naruse had already entered the room.

Standing at the door, Hikaru Takikawa looked around, as if he was observing the current layout, but also as if he was nostalgic for the past.

"I remember……"

She opened her mouth suddenly, raised her finger and pointed to a corner, but didn't say anything for a long time.

Naruse and Shangzi looked over, she suddenly smiled again, and said in a low voice, "That time was really interesting."

No one but herself knew what she was thinking of.

"Has the room been made?"

"Yeah. With Shangzi's help, I finally finished cleaning up before dark."

Hikaru Takikawa had no specific idea about the busyness of the move, he just nodded, then was attracted by the window again, and stuck his head out for a while.

Outside the window is the house of the Hua family, and the room directly opposite belongs to Shangzi.

"it is good."

She turned around, as if she had decided on something, "Let's gather in Chunhai's room from now on."

Shangzi took a deep breath.

"What are you talking about on your own?" Naruse didn't notice her strangeness, and went to close the window.

"It's the same as before." Hikaru Takikawa said, "Come to Harumi's house first, and then decide what to do."

"I'm already a high school student, can I still be as casual as before?"

"I don't see any difference."

Naruse shook his head and didn't say much.

Looking around again, Takikawa saw nothing to look at, and smiled at the two: "Go down."

Back in the living room, Naruse noticed that there was another sentence on Takikawa Tsuki's signature board.

【come on!Work hard to get into Northeastern University! 】

This is naturally Matsu Chiaki's handwriting.

"Is sister Yue's goal is Tohoku University?" Naruse asked.

Takikawa Tsuki nodded, "I want to apply for the Faculty of Agriculture at Tohoku University."

"awesome."

No wonder you have to go to school.

Hikaru Takikawa took a few glances at the signature board, "I think Tianjin University is very good, but Yue said he wanted to look elsewhere."

Takikawa Tsuki shook his head, "Tsu University is too close..."

Jinda is near Jingao.Naruse came back by bus in the afternoon, and opposite to the platform where he was waiting for the bus was the baseball stadium of Tianjin University.

"Tohoku University is in Sendai. It's not too close, but it's not too far either. Isn't it good?" Naruse said.

Takikawa Tsuki nodded repeatedly.

"Letting Yue go to a university in another place alone, I always feel uneasy."

Hikaru Takikawa looked at the signature board and covered the [Northeastern University] with his hands.

"After all, Yue has never traveled far alone since she was a child."

"I'm not a child anymore..." Takikawa Tsuki's voice became lower and lower.

The identities of elder sister and younger sister are almost completely reversed, Song Qianqiu, who was watching, thought to himself.

She sat in the corner of the sofa, flipping through the script that had just been sent to the mailbox, her main attention was still on the children.

After quietly observing the sisters of the Takigawa family for a while, Matsu Chiaki looked at Naoko again.

She doesn't talk much, and mostly just smiles to show she's listening, or nods to keep the conversation going.Besides, he was looking at Chunhai.

Following his gaze, Song Qianqiu looked at his son again.

"...I have no plans. Not yet." Naruse said, and added, "However, probably the main goal is to go to school."

"Tsu University?" Takikawa Hikaru asked, "You can live at home."

He smiled.

"That's quite convenient. Let's talk about it later."

What is superficial is casual, but as a mother, she sees a certain kind of negativity.

Song Qianqiu couldn't help sighing, and heard the same slight sigh again.

She looked over, and Shangzi was staring at Chunhai's side face, immersed in indescribable emotions.

The Takikawa sisters didn't stay for long, and they had to go back after sitting for a while.

Song Qianqiu said goodbye to them, and then asked Naruse to send them home.

"Shangzi, let's go too."

Holding the phone, she stretched her waist, "I'm going to take a bath and read the script by the way, so you don't need to say hello to me later."

"Ok."

Takikawa's house is not far away, only a few hundred meters away, and you can go there by taking the county road in front or the path next to the farmland.

Because Hikaru Takikawa proposed to go to the convenience store, several people chose the former.

When she arrived at the convenience store, she got a bottle of drink for herself and her sister, and asked Naruse and Shangzi what he needed.

"Milk."

Naoko's choice was the same as Naruse's.

Takigawa's house was at the intersection diagonally across from the convenience store, and he sent the two sisters home, but Naruse didn't stop, and followed Naoko back by the small path.

There were no lights on the road, but fortunately the moonlight was bright, making the road white.

There is a farmland next to it, and the night wind passes through the rice plants, making rustling sounds.

Naruse stood by the field for a while, looking into the distance in the darkness.There were three or two lights, so dim that I couldn't see anything clearly.

"It's so quiet."

Shangzi held the cold milk, ready to go back and open it again, "Aren't you used to it?"

"A little bit." Naruse looked at the moon, feeling that it had never been as beautiful and glamorous as it is today, "just a little bit."

There was a warm touch on the arm.

He bowed his head, and Shangzi held his arm, smiling under the moonlight.

"Go back, Chunhai."

"Ah."

Back in front of the two adjacent buildings, Shangzi walked towards his own house, "Would you like to visit my house?"

Guessing that he would have to wait a while to take a shower after returning home, Naruse walked in with her.

"excuse me."

Turn on the lights, the furniture and decorations in the house are all available, but it gives people a feeling of being more deserted than the outside.

Over the years, Shangzi has almost always lived here alone, and the days when he is accompanied by his family are few and far between.

"Want something to drink?"

Naruse shook the milk in his hand, but he didn't open it.

Shangzi smiled, "Go to my room."

When I came to the room on the second floor, looking at the uniforms hanging on the wall and the half-sewn puppets on the desk, the feeling of desertion finally subsided a lot.

"It feels a little more delicate than it looks in the photo." Naruse picked up a fist-sized puppet on the desk. This is Shangzi's hobby and specialty. He has witnessed the whole process of it from scratch in the form of photos.

"Thank you."

Shangzi smiled even more happily.

There are many puppets, big and small, on the table and beside the bed, all of which she sewed by herself.

"After joining the handicraft club, more people can communicate and learn a lot of new skills." She picked up different puppets and showed him the skills she had already shown.

Naruse looked over one by one, and suddenly said, "Give me one."

"Okay." Shangzi immediately agreed, "Which one does Chunhai want?"

He looked at it and pointed to the white bear on the bed, "That's it. It took more than 60 days to complete it... Well, a polar bear."

When handing over the puppet to him, there was a little dissatisfaction in Shangzi's smile: "This is not a polar bear."

"It's all white anyway."

After staying in Naoko's room for a while, Naruse went back with Shirokuma in his arms.

"tired."

"It's been a hard day, good night."

Back on the second floor, the closed door brought a gust of cold wind.

The temperature in the room dropped again.

Walking to the window, seeing the light on the opposite side turned on after a long time, Shangzi only felt a little sour in his eyes.

"Welcome back, Chunhai..."

wow-

She stared blankly for a while, and the curtains on the opposite side suddenly opened, followed by the glass windows.

The puppet who had just left this room appeared on the opposite window sill and shook twice.

"Rest early, you have to go out tomorrow."

"..."

He didn't hear a response for a long time, and his hands were raised a little sour, Naruse poked his head out and took a look.

On the windowsill opposite, sat a pink rabbit, shaking its long ears at him.

"it is good……"

　The new book needs to be followed up in the early stage, family members.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)