Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 633 Another New Year’s Eve

After a busy afternoon in the kitchen, by the evening, the Osechi cuisine that Naruse's family would eat in the next three days was almost ready.

“The portion is really big...”

Naruse lifted up the food box filled with five layers, and his hand suddenly sank, as if he had lost his grip.

"Ah!" Shangzi was startled and hurriedly bent down to pick it up, but missed it.

The food box was held firmly in his hand. He raised his head and looked at her with a smile on his face.

"……Really annoying!"

Shangzi punched him a few times and then leaned on his chest.

"I'm so exhausted."

Naruse held the food box with one hand, put his other hand around her waist, stroked her back twice, and patted her gently, "Let's go outside and have a rest."

"It's time to prepare dinner for today."

"There's no rush." ​​He glanced out the window, "It's still too late to prepare until it gets completely dark. Let's go outside."

"I want to hold Harumi like this."

"Hmm...then where shall we go?"

"it is good."

Carrying the food boxes, the two walked out of the kitchen.

"Is the Osechi cuisine ready?" Matsu Qianqiu didn't go back all afternoon, just eating, drinking and enjoying the air conditioning.

"Yeah." Naruse lifted the food box in his hand, "I'll take it first."

"Go."

He took a few steps and then turned back, "Can you prepare dinner a little later?"

"Okay." Hanasawako looked at him and his daughter, "Thank you for your hard work. Naoko and Harumi should take a rest first."

"Ok."

Shangzi followed him.

Looking back, Song Qianqiu shook his head, "Can you really have a good rest if you are alone together?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't underestimate adolescent children."

On the other side, the Naruse family sent the food boxes to the kitchen. Naruse and Naoko just sat slumped on the sofa at first.

In the face of fatigue after working all afternoon, the impulse of adolescence had to give in temporarily.

"I definitely won't be able to walk at night." Shangzi sat face-to-face on her boyfriend's lap and lay in his arms.

"I won't go if I can't walk. It's just my first achievement. I can go any day."

"But I want to go again."

Naruse lowered his head and nibbled her ear, "Then I'll find a cardboard box and drag Naoko on the snow."

"Well..." She shrank her neck, "Then what if Yiye can't walk anymore."

"Let the light drag her."

Shangzi raised his head, "Haixing can't walk either."

"If everyone can't walk, then why go to Chuyi?"

She smiled, lay down again, and rubbed her head on his chest.

"What do you want for dinner?"

"It'll be about the same as last year," Naruse said.

"Hmm... If it was like last year, I feel like I need to prepare more snacks to go with the drinks."

"Yes. But it seems that there is no wine at home. I have to go to Haixing's house to buy a few bottles."

She raised her head and said, "Go there now?"

He also looked at her, "Shangzi, have you rested enough?"

"I still want to rest for a while."

"Then just wait a little longer."

"Will Harumi get tired sitting like this?"

"Um...can you be tired?"

"Hmph." Shangzi hit his chest with her head, then got off him and lay down on the sofa, her head still resting on his thigh.

"The hair is slowly growing back." Naruse touched the hair on the back of his girlfriend's head.

"Yes." Naoko looked at him, "Hikaru seems to be preparing to grow long hair...because Harumi likes long hair."

"I like them both." "But Harumi prefers long hair."

"It's better to say that Naoko with long hair looks more accustomed to her."

"I had long hair a few months ago, isn't Harumi still used to it?"

"It's only been a few months. I've seen Naoko with long hair since I was a child. Even in Tokyo, I can see her every two or three days."

Naoko smiled, raised her hand, and touched his face.

"I think……"

"Ah."

"Wait for dinner..."

"We'll talk later."

After simply taking off a little baggage, the two sat on the sofa until each other was satisfied one after another.

"I feel like my body is even less energetic,"

Shangzi also fell down on the sofa and just wanted to hold him and fall asleep.

Naruse lay with her for a while, looked at the sky outside, and said, "Naoko, let's rest for a while, I'll buy some wine."

"You just finished doing it with me, are you going to find another woman?"

"What are you talking about?"

She hugged him tightly and then let go, "Go ahead."

"There's no one here, Shangzi, go over there and rest."

"Good~"

After kissing her on the face, Naruse pulled her up and walked her to the door, then turned around to buy a drink.

When he came to Haixing's house and explained his intention, Maki Seiichiro picked out several bottles of high-end Daiginjo for him, but he still didn't charge for it.

Naruse also went to Haixing's room upstairs and smelled the aromatherapy stone given by Morimi.

"It smells good, doesn't it?"

"Ah."

Haixing helped deliver the wine to Naoko's house, and Naruse sent her home, and then came back to prepare dinner with Naoko.

"This can also be used as a meal or drink."

"sure."

It was around six o'clock in the evening, and the sky had completely darkened. The preparations were almost complete, and the New Year's Eve dinner for the two families of five had begun.

"cheers--"

The glasses collided, making a crisp sound.

A table was set with various side dishes to go with wine, and in the middle was a steaming pot. The beef scalded in it was brought back by the couple from the research institute.

"This bottle of Daiginjo seems to be quite expensive. Didn't Seiichiro confiscate the money?"

"No."

"Qianqiu might as well remarry Seiichiro. Your children are all together anyway."

"There is no need to worry about the child now. Why are we still getting married? It will cause trouble for each other... Is Sawako already drunk?"

The adults quickly became addicted to alcohol, and Naruse and Naoko ignored them and took the beef from the pot to fill their stomachs first.

When the time was almost up, Naoko turned on the TV. The annual Red and White Song Competition was about to begin.

"Who is there this year?"

"The list was released a long time ago. Didn't Qianqiu pay attention?"

"I forgot. Ah, of the people who showed up tonight, I can get the autographs of whomever you want."

"Here we go again... You said the same thing this time last year."

The red and white songs on TV were sung one after another, and the food and wine on the table were getting less and less. When they were almost done eating, Naruse and Naoko helped their parents, who had already begun to shake, get off the table. table.

Time moved towards the New Year step by step. Before midnight, they prepared New Year's Eve soba noodles, one bowl per person.

thump -- thump -- thump --

The New Year's bell sounded from the TV. When the 108th bell fell, time passed the end of the year and entered a new year.

Naruse took Naoko's hand and said, "Happy New Year."

She smiled and held his hand tightly.

"Please take good care of me in the new year."

　Book friend [Cat King_maizi]’s Silver League update (7/10).

　　

　

(End of this chapter)