Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 357
When Naruse woke up the next morning, it was dark outside.

Finding that he was holding someone in his arms, he was half awake in an instant, and then he remembered that this was not a hotel by the lake, and he had already returned to his home.

And the one who was sleeping peacefully in his arms was also his well-deserved girlfriend.

"..."

After the tense body relaxed, he hugged Shangzi tightly again, buried his head on the back of her neck, and took a deep breath.

"Well……"

Feeling his embrace in her sleep, she slowly turned over, huddled in his arms, rubbed her head against his chest, and soon became silent again.

After looking down at Shangzi for a while, Naruse raised his eyes and looked out of the window, it was too dark.

It's raining……

woohoo-

And it was raining heavily.

I really don't want to wake up in this weather...

Looking at the time, it was only after five o'clock.

Glad that he could stay on the bed for a while longer, Naruse immediately realized that he couldn't ride his bike to school today due to the heavy rain.

And the rainy season in Aomori has just begun...

Sighing, he hugged his girlfriend tightly, pulled the quilt on each other, and closed his eyes.

After a while, he opened his eyes again.

It was still early to wake up, but after he woke up, it was difficult to fall asleep again.

Staring at the ceiling in a daze for a while, Naruse picked up his phone and checked the weather conditions for the next period of time.

"Wow..."

The next week will be full of rain.

He doesn't hate the rain, but he also doesn't want the new bike he just bought to sit in the garage after a couple of rides.

He looked down at his girlfriend lying on his chest again.

He hadn't even taken Shangzi to school by bike yet.

Flipping through the weather forecast, for no reason, he searched for the water level of the Iwaki River.

"Not too optimistic..."

In places downstream where the river is narrower, the river has overflowed to an alarming degree.

But it's not enough to drown the green willow.

Their place is considered to be the upper reaches of the Yanmu River. There are no tributaries flowing in, the water flow is not strong, and the terrain is not so flat, so the water will not accumulate here.

After flipping through for a while, Naruse lost interest in continuing to pay attention to the messy information.

He didn't know why he suddenly paid attention to this kind of thing.

After lying still for a while, Naruse carefully lowered Naoko's arm and left her embrace for a while.

Getting up and getting out of bed, he went to the window to have a look.

woohoo-

When the window was opened, the sound of the rain became clearer, and the moist breath came to the face.

The sky was shrouded in a layer of gray that could not touch the substance and could not see the edge, and the rain fell straight down, and it was unknown how long it had been raining.

dim morning.

After watching for a while, Naruse slowly closed the window so as not to wake up his girlfriend on the bed, but when he turned his head, he found Naoko looking at him.

"woke up."

"Well……"

He walked over, climbed onto the bed, and sat on the head of the bed.

Shangzi approached and hugged his waist.

"Why did Chunhai wake up so early?" She closed her eyes and asked.

"It's raining."

"Well……"

Instead of turning her head to look out the window, she hugged him tighter.

"Is it too big?"

"Our house is going to float away."

"..."

She laughed, and lightly pinched the hand on his waist.

Naruse also lay down on the bed, hugged her, and planned to lie down for a while before getting up.

Just open your eyes again, it's time for the alarm clock to ring.

The pillow next to her was empty, and Shangzi had already gotten up.

Perhaps because he woke up once an hour ago, Naruse woke up quickly.

He went downstairs to wash up, and then went to the kitchen to help prepare breakfast. Seeing the red mark on Shangzi's neck, he leaned over and took another bite.

She shrank her neck, "Chunhai..."

Prepared breakfast and bento, and when it was time to go out after eating, the rain outside did not seem to decrease, so Naruse could only go out with an umbrella.

"I haven't even ridden to school...not counting yesterday's noon."

"Just wait for the rainy season to pass."

clap clap-

The rain seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, beating on the umbrellas of the two of them, weaving a fine rain curtain between the sky and the earth.

By this time it was a little brighter, but still dark.

When I came to the bus platform, there were not many people, and Morimi, who always got up early, didn't come.

A large puddle of water has accumulated on the ground beside the road, like a pond, and it seems that it is still expanding.

With such a heavy rain, she probably can't ride a bicycle...

Naruse thought to himself.

After a while, it was Hai Xing who came here first.

"Good morning……"

"Good morning, Starfish."

The three of them greeted each other under the umbrella, and the pouring rain couldn't stop the two girls from chatting.

"The starfish came early today."

"It rained heavily, and I woke up at five o'clock... I slept for a while, and got up as soon as the alarm clock rang."

Naruse glanced to the side, and could only see Naoko's umbrella.

"Today I have to prepare my own bento, Hai Xing hasn't forgotten, right?"

"No la."

The sound of dense rain was mixed in the conversation between the two of them. He couldn't hear it clearly at first, and he didn't listen carefully. He suddenly noticed a small whirlpool in the water beach by the roadside.

Looking around, he wanted to throw something in, a piece of paper or a leaf would do, but this side had already been washed clean by the heavy rain.

"Good morning~"

He raised his head, and Takigawa Hikari came over with an umbrella.

"Good morning."

She stopped beside him, leaned forward, and greeted Shangzi and Haixing on the other side.

"Good morning, Shangzi, Starfish."

"Good morning, Light."

His body leaned too far forward, Hikari Takikawa swayed, and Naruse stretched out his hand to grab him.

"It's raining a lot!"

"Yeah, I can't even ride a bike."

"I don't want to wear a poncho either..."

"After all, it affects the vision too much, and it is not safe."

"Yes."

Naruse responded casually, and turned to look at her again, only to find that she was staring at his face.

The point of his gaze seems to be his nose... or his mouth?
"what happened?"

"Huh?" She tilted her head.

"fine……"

Naruse looked away, and his eyes fell on the small water beach in front of him again.

"There's water here again."

"Ah, it's blocked again." Takikawa Hikaru looked very experienced, "There's a drain here."

"Really." Naruse didn't even notice, no wonder there was a small whirlpool on the water.

She looked around, as if looking for something.

"what would you like?"

"Anything... preferably a tree branch. I want to unblock the blocked place, otherwise the water will accumulate more and more, and it will be difficult to get on the car later."

So Naruse also helped to find it.

It's just that this is not a field, a forest, where you can find branches casually.

Looking for nothing, Takigawa Hikaru simply put away the umbrella in his hand, squeezed it under the Naruse umbrella, and then poked it into the water with the tip of the umbrella.

"I say you……"

"The vortex has grown bigger!"

"..."

With the rise and fall of the umbrella, some broken leaves floated up, and the vortex on the water surface also became a little bigger.

However, the effect of using only an umbrella is limited after all. After poking it a few more times, seeing that the vortex no longer expanded, Takikawa simply bent down and reached out his hand into the water.

"Light……"

After a little groping, she fished out a large handful of broken leaves from the water.

"Wow... I knew it was these things. It's like this every time."

Naruse held the umbrella for her, and after a while, he stuffed the umbrella to Shangzi, and also squatted down to get busy.

"Chunhai..."

Shangzi was helpless, but he couldn't stop him, so he and Haixing held up an extra umbrella to shield them from the heavy rain that was still falling.

And as the two kept dredging, the vortex on the water surface became bigger and bigger, like a crocodile hiding at the bottom slowly opened its big mouth.

"Why are there still broken leaves floating over..."

Naruse looked up, and then saw Hikari Takikawa throwing the broken leaves he had just fished out on the road.

"..."

His eyes followed a group of broken leaves slowly drifting towards the drain, and then watched it rush to the drain with the current, bumping between his fingers, and he took a deep breath.

"I say……"

"—what are you doing?"

The two raised their heads, and Senjian walked over from across the road holding an umbrella, with surprise on his face.

"How old are you, and you're still playing with water by the side of the road."

"No, we're cleaning out the trash that's clogging the drain."

"So it's not playing with water?"

"..."

Throwing the last bunch of broken leaves in his hand on the sidewalk, Naruse washed his hands casually, took a tissue from Naoko and wiped it.

"In such a heavy rain, you dare to walk by the river, there is only a dirt road over there."

Looking down at his shoes with a lot of mud on them, Sen saw a little more helplessness on his face.

"I can't ride a bike, and it's too far to go there."

Takikawa also stood up, "But the path by the river is very slippery."

"It's okay, I'm paying attention."

"Haha, the water is almost flowing."

After the efforts of the two, the small water beach has shrunk to only a small piece.

"Thank you." Shangzi also gave her a tissue to wipe her hands.

Mori Jian glanced at the drain that had been dredged on the ground, then at the two of them, and shook his head.

"That's plenty of time."

"If you don't clean it up now, you'll have to get into the car in the water later."

After a while, the bus finally arrived.

Several people put away their umbrellas, boarded the car one after another, and found seats to sit down.

"It's wet everywhere... the rainy season is really hard." Starfish said, looking at the raindrops on the floor.

"It's not all bad."

Sen Jian sat beside her and looked at the back in front of her.

"At least we can go to school together again."

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(End of this chapter)