Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 327 Floating
Picking up a pack of seaweed-flavored potato sticks, and seeing konjac jelly next to it, Naruse also picked it up to have a look.

After picking out a few more snacks to eat when watching a movie later, he turned his head to look at Takikawa Hikari who had been following him all along.

"Have you been home yet?"

"No, I just came back."

He had just had dinner not long ago, and it wasn't too late.

"Where did you go?"

"Turned around."

Naruse looked at the shelf in front of him again, and picked up a bag of things, "Can you walk around for an afternoon?"

"Hey, how does Chunhai know?"

"Auntie said so. We went to your house to 'visit' in the afternoon, and bought some snacks as condolences."

"Aha..."

Takikawa laughed.

He continued to browse among the shelves, and took whatever Shangzi liked when he saw it.

"do you feel better now."

"more or less."

"Can I go to school tomorrow?"

She glanced at the snacks he put in the shopping basket, "Probably."

After walking around twice and buying snacks that could last for almost a week, Naruse took two more bottles of soda and went to the front desk to pay.

"Welcome next time."

puff-

Opening the soda, Hikaru Takigawa raised his head, drank half of the can in one go, and then let out a satisfied sigh.

Naruse also opened the drink and took a sip, "Did you go in and buy nothing just now?"

"Haha... It was only when I went in that I realized that I didn't bring my wallet with me when I went out."

"Didn't you eat dinner?"

"Ah."

Naruse opened the bag and let her take whatever she wanted.

"so many."

Hikaru Takikawa looked down, "Why did Haruhi buy so many snacks?"

"Of course I eat it, and I eat it while watching a movie."

"Look at what?"

"have not decided yet."

"Ah, I remembered, Chun Hai's study has a lot of movie discs."

She picked and picked up a bag of potato chips, "Just this one."

"There is the same thing in the condolences sent to your home."

"Really." She smiled, opened the package, picked up two potato chips and stuffed them into her mouth.

"Oh~ it's very brittle."

Click.

The two stood on the side of the road in front of the convenience store, and the lights shone from behind, lengthening each other's shadows.

The distance between each other is also clear at a glance.

Naruse took another sip of soda.

"Angry?"

"..."

Hikaru Takikawa licked his lower lip, and picked up another potato chip.

"Well, I'm angry."

"It's stingy."

She took a step to the side and bumped his shoulder a little harder.

pat!

Naruse was unprepared, the can slipped from his hand, fell to the ground and rolled away.

"..."

The two looked at each other.

"Hahaha!"

Naruse ignored her and went to pick up the can, the soda in it had been spilled all over the floor.

Throwing the cans into the trash can at the entrance of the convenience store, he didn't bother to buy any more.

"Harukai take another can, it's mine." Takikawa Hikaru said.

"What's yours? You don't even have your wallet."

"I'll go back and get it now."

"forget it."

"Ok."

Naruse sat in her car, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"When I get a new car, find a free weekend and ride to Shisan Lake together."

"..."

Hikaru Takikawa opened his mouth, then smiled, shook his head, and looked down at the soda spilled on the road.

"Forget it...it's too far away, it will take half a day to ride there."

Naruse was silent for a few seconds.

"Really, then I'll go by myself."

"...What is Chunhai doing there?"

"Nothing, I just want to see what the entrance to the sea looks like."

She was also silent for a while, "Does Chunhai know the way to the past?"

"I don't know, it would be great if someone leads the way."

"My phone seems to recognize me."

"Your phone is really powerful."

"Ah."

The two looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

"Baka..."

(ba ka)

"Just after the sports meeting, I should be able to get a new car at that time." Naruse said.

Takikawa Hikaru took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"Okay."

After finishing the soda, she ate potato chips again.

"It's only past seven o'clock, have you had dinner yet?"

"Well, I told my mother not to wait for me."

"Where did you go this afternoon?"

She raised her head, the corners of her lips were still covered with crumbs of potato chips, which were quickly licked away by the tip of her tongue.

"I'm looking for the source of Beimuchuan."

Naruse was taken aback, and asked, "Did you find it?"

"I can't find it! I thought it was very close, but after riding for a long time, I couldn't find the end of the river, so I came back again."

"Isn't the source at the foot of Mount Iwaki?" Naruse was also a little surprised.

"Not here. Ichiyo said the same thing, but the Iwaki River just passed under the Iwaki Mountain, and the source is still far ahead... I guess it is on the side of the Shirakami Mountain."

"is that so."

"Yeah. I also saw the small hydropower station Yiye mentioned..."

Hikaru Takikawa talked about what he had seen and heard on the road again, and Naruse sat in her car, just listening, until she had nothing to say, and looked at him.

"I didn't know before that Hikari was so interested in Iwakigawa."

"Isn't Chunhai the same?" She asked back.

"No, not the same."

Naruse shook his head, "I like to stay by the river, but I'm not really interested in the source of the river, nor where it will flow. I only care about the section in front of me."

Hikaru Takikawa was silent for a while, then said:
"I just want to take a look... just take a look."

She suddenly smiled.

"At the beginning, I wanted to float along the Iwaki River all the way to the sea."

"Would you like rafting? Then you have to prepare a raft yourself. If you encounter a dam or something in the middle, it will be very troublesome..."

"No, I mean jump into the river, let the body float on the water, and go down the river."

"..."

Naruse stared at her wordlessly for a while.

"Then it's a good thing you gave up, or you might have turned into a floating corpse before you floated out of the range of Tsuqian City."

"It's so dangerous."

"Floating to a shallow place, knock your head against a stone once, and you will be unconscious, and after two more knocks, you will become floating fish food."

She opened her mouth.

"what……"

"Haven't you thought about it?"

"No. I just felt that floating in the water was uncontrollable, and it was very likely that I would plunge into the mud by the river. I felt a little disgusting, so I gave up."

"..."

Naruse took a deep breath, and suddenly decided to ride a bicycle with her to the mouth of the sea.

"Then it's decided."

"Eh? What was decided..."

"Go to Thirteen Lakes."

"Oh……"

Takigawa Hikaru responded, his eyes straightened, and he suddenly shook his head again, "Well, let's wait until Haruhi gets the new car."

"Do you want to take everyone with you?" She asked again.

"No, it's not to play. Just the two of us, go back quickly."

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

"I love home."

"Ok."

Naruse got off the motorcycle and opened the bag in his hand again, "Do you want to eat more?"

She smiled, then shook her head, "Don't we still have Chunhai's condolences at home?"

"Ah."

He put away the bag, looked at her and asked, "Can you come to school tomorrow?"

She nodded and replied in a positive tone: "Yes."

"That's good. Go home, and I will go back too."

She got on the bike and patted the back seat again, "I'll see you off."

"That's all."

"Come up."

Naruse still sat on the motorcycle.

With a twist of the accelerator, she turned a corner and rode towards the intersection of his house.

"Points will be deducted."

"Eh?"

"Before you turned just now, you didn't turn around to confirm."

"Aha, all right."

The motorcycle drove towards the light at the intersection ahead, and the speed was a bit slow.

"Running all afternoon, the car is almost out of gas." She said.

Naruse leaned forward, looked at the fuel gauge, "It should be no problem to get to the gas station."

"It's okay to go back and forth."

"Let's go cheer up before school tomorrow."

"I think so too."

After sending him home, Hikari Takikawa also greeted Naoko who came out.

"Light……"

"Good evening." She smiled at her, "I'm going back."

"Okay...be careful on the road."

Watching her leave, Shangzi looked at her boyfriend.

"I met you at a convenience store." Naruse said.

"Did the light just come back?"

"That's right. She rode a bicycle this afternoon to find the source of the Iwaki River."

Shangzi's eyes widened.

"did you find it?"

"No."

When the two entered the room, Shangzi noticed the big bag of snacks in his hand.

"Why did you buy so many..."

"I bought everything I wanted to eat when I saw it."

On the other side, Takikawa Hikaru also returned home.

After parking the car, she returned home through the garage door, "I'm back."

"Have you had dinner?" Mom asked.

"No."

She got up and walked to the kitchen, and the voice came out.

"Chunhai and the others are here this afternoon."

"I know, I met Chunhai just now."

There was the sound of a fire in the kitchen.

"Are you going to school tomorrow?"

"go."

　Toothache, went to the hospital to see.

　　Tooth cleaning, tooth extraction (wisdom teeth).

　　I didn't shed as many tears as I did during the 10 minutes lying on the operating bed this year.

　　It hurts to death woo woo woo
　　
　
(End of this chapter)