Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 482 The atmosphere of the festival

Taking two portions of freshly cooked takoyaki from the stall owner, Naruse stepped back and handed one to Hikaru Takigawa, and then realized that someone seemed to be missing.

"Isn't Sister Yue here?"

"The moon is still over there."

Hikaru Takigawa took the takoyaki and pointed to where a few adults were standing. "She probably thinks of herself as an adult. She didn't come here with us 'children' just now."

Naruse also glanced over there, and had a more practical guess as to why Takigawa Yue stayed there.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

"Try the freshly made takoyaki."

He and Shangzi shared one portion, and the other three shared another portion. The night was long and there were a lot of things to eat at the festival, so now I just ate whatever I wanted to fill my stomach first.

Picking up a piece of takoyaki dipped in sauce and wrapped in bonito flowers with a toothpick, Naoko blew it twice before putting it in her mouth.

"Slow down, it's a bit hot." Naruse reminded.

She nodded and took a bite, easily breaking the crisp but not hard shell. The temperature inside was indeed relatively high. She exhaled a few breaths, and then continued chewing carefully.

Looking to the side, Takigawa Hikaru, Haisei and Morimi also each forked a piece of takoyaki and put it in their mouths.

Perhaps because they were wearing yukata, everyone acted very carefully, as if they were afraid of getting the sauce on their clothes.

"How does it taste?" Naruse asked.

"It's very good." Shangzi held his arm, "The little octopus inside is also very chewy."

"I still prefer this kind of crispy one." He forked another takoyaki, "Last time I went to an izakaya, the takoyaki there was sticky. Although the sauce tasted good, the texture was not good at all."

"Is it okay?" Hikaru Takigawa expressed a different opinion, "I feel it's okay, except that the outermost layer is a bit soft."

"No, what you eat is the crispy outermost layer."

"Strange pursuit..."

Standing next to the stall in a not-too-crowded area, several people finished eating the takoyaki in their hands before continuing to shop.

Just like any other festival anywhere, looking around, there are familiar things everywhere and nothing new.However, doing this every year will not dampen people's enthusiasm for participating in festivals. After all, the fun of festivals is never just the festival itself.

"Want to play fishing for goldfish?"

"Okay."

Takigawa Hikaru dragged Starfish to a goldfish fishing stall. The other three people followed and watched the two of them play for a while.

"Look at me...ah, it was almost."

After ruining the two paper nets used to catch fish, Hikaru Takigawa quickly became proficient and could fish accurately every time.

The starfish was far behind. I didn't catch a single goldfish for a long time, but there were more and more broken paper nets left behind.

Naruse stood behind and watched, and soon he couldn't stand it anymore.

"That's not how you get it."

He suddenly squatted down, and Naoko and Morimi, who were standing on his left and right, looked at each other, smiled at the same time, and shifted their attention to him and Haixing.

"Is this how you make money?"

"She's scolding you."

"Hahaha, don't say that... I'll catch another one, starfish, watch it carefully."

Morimi looked down, waiting for Haixing's attempt to fail again, then raised his gaze and looked around.

The sky was getting darker, more and more people came to attend the festival, and the surrounding area became more and more lively.

They had been shopping for a while, and the adults waiting outside didn't know where they had gone.

After slowly scanning around for a week, a surprised cheer suddenly came from in front of him. Mori looked down and saw that Haixing had finally picked up a goldfish.

"Congratulations~"

Takigawa Hikaru smiled at her and handed two more paper nets over, "Let's do it again."

"Uh-huh."

"Aren't you going to play?" Morimi opened his mouth and said to Naruse, who only used words but did not use hands.

He turned to look at her without saying anything. When he looked back, the paper net handed over by Haixing had already been stretched out in front of him.

"..."

He took it anyway.

Staring at the various small fish swimming back and forth in the water, Naruse waited for a while, then suddenly took action and picked up a black goldfish with ease.

"Harumi is very powerful."

"After looking at it for a long time, you should know how to do it." Putting the goldfish into a bowl, he looked at it twice and said, "You're lucky, too."

Paper nets are fragile and catching goldfish does require some skills, but luck is still an element that cannot be ignored.

"Come and try too."

Shangzi and Morimi were also played for a while, and there were more and more small fish in the bowl.But when they finally left, they only wanted one.

The black goldfish is placed in a transparent bag and is still swimming around in the starfish's hand.

"Be careful, don't get squeezed."

"Uh-huh."

After leaving here and continuing to walk forward, the appetite aroused by a few takoyaki and the aroma of various foods floating in the air became more intense.

"Would you like fried noodles?"

"Okay. But after eating one portion of fried noodles, I feel like I can't eat anything else." "I'll see if there are any smaller portions I can buy... Or you two and three can eat one portion."

"Alright."

Naruse squeezed to the stall to buy fried noodles. Takigawa Hikaru looked at it for a few times, said "Harunami may not be able to take it" and passed by.

“The ingredients in the fried noodles are quite rich.”

He glanced at her, then turned to look at the three people standing outside, "Well, the portion is quite generous."

"It's a pity there's no meat."

"I didn't pass by the yakitori stall just now. If you want to eat meat, go buy some over there."

Takigawa Hikaru smiled and said, "I think it will stain my yukata, so forget it."

Naruse looked at her clothes again. She was wearing a dark blue yukata today. It didn't have many patterns and was relatively simple among women's yukatas.

"How is it?" Seeing his undisguised gaze, Takigawa Hikari smiled and asked accordingly.

"not bad."

"Thank you~" The smile on her face grew wider.

After waiting for a while, the two fried noodles that Naruse ordered were finally ready.

Seeing the stall owners inside who were so busy that they couldn't stop, Hikari Takigawa sighed with emotion: "It's so busy."

"Ah."

She lowered her voice slightly and said, "I feel like I can make a lot of money in one night."

Naruse smiled and nodded, "But it's true that it's hard work."

"We got good food, he made money, and everyone got happiness."

"Ah."

After taking the loaded fried noodles, the two squeezed out, found the three of them, walked to a nearby area where there was not much traffic, and ate the fried noodles.

"Well, it's delicious!"

Starfish took a bite and immediately opened his eyes.

Takigawa Hikaru also took a bite and tasted it, nodding repeatedly, "If I had known, I would have ordered an extra portion."

Morimi finally took the fried noodles, "What you can't eat or don't eat enough is the most delicious... Don't look at me, I'm just talking about fried noodles."

"..."

Takigawa Hikaru didn't say anything, and looked away, then looked at Naoko and Naruse who were eating a piece of fried noodles next to them.

"The taste is really good."

After taking a bite, Morimi also gave a relatively high evaluation to the fried noodles, "It seems that we are very lucky this time."

"what……"

It’s not uncommon to buy something that looks good but doesn’t taste good at a festival, and the stalls are hard to remember.

A few people divided up the fried noodles and continued shopping and eating and playing. When passing by the place where the Bon Festival dance was performed in the middle, Naoko suddenly pulled Naruse.

The other three also stopped and looked inside.

"When did you go buy a yukata..."

Looking at the unique figure wearing a mask and sunglasses in the crowd, Naruse looked around again, and sure enough, he soon saw Hikaru Takigawa's parents and Tetsuya Kohana.

Takigawa Yue and Nakasawako were also mixed in the crowd, dancing strange dances together.

"Let's go in and dance together."

He turned his head, and Hikaru Takigawa pulled Haixing, who shook his head.

"Forget it if she doesn't like it."

She and Haixing looked over together, "Then Harumi, do you want to come together?"

"Neither do I."

"Ok."

Takigawa Hikaru didn't force herself, and gave them the things in her hands, ran to her sister's side, and jumped up with them.

"Hikaru's dancing is pretty good," Naoko said, holding Naruse's hand.

"This is probably not the first time she has experienced this kind of situation."

"Um……"

"If there is a bonfire in the middle, the atmosphere of the festival will be even greater."

Naoko turned around and glanced at Morimi who was standing next to him. He quickly smiled and nodded.

"Yes."

She looked at the familiar figures in the center of the field again, and the two people next to her looked at each other silently.

Morijian tilted his head slightly and curved the corners of his mouth.

"..."

Naruse quickly looked away and looked ahead.

Haixing was holding the bag of fish, his eyes moved around the two people's faces, and finally fell on Naruse's face, his mouth slightly bulging.

Eye-catching...

(End of this chapter)