Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 635 The beginning of the new year

Chapter 635 The beginning of the new year (please vote for me)

After the visit to the shrine, I left Saishoin and walked all the way home. It was almost three o'clock in the morning.

"It's already this time, you can stay at my house tonight." Naruse said to Morimi and Haixing. One house is too far away, and opening the door of the other house will disturb the family, so it is better to sleep at his house for one night.

"Okay." Haixing agreed happily.

Morimi also nodded, of course he would not refuse.

"Hey, then I also want to live at Harumi's house." Takigawa Hikaru said.

"come together."

So when she passed the intersection of Takigawa's house, she didn't stop.

"I'm sleepy and tired, I'm finally home."

"Just go to bed when you get back." Naruse said, "You can choose the two rooms downstairs."

"It will disturb Auntie."

"It doesn't matter. She drank a lot at night and slept very deeply...but she might also smell of alcohol. If you are concerned, just go to the guest room and squeeze in."

"Do not worry about it."

Back at Naruse's house, the few of them just washed up briefly. It would be very late to take a shower.

Opening the door of Matsu Qianqiu's bedroom, Naruse smelled it a little, but there was no smell of alcohol. It seemed that she had taken a shower after coming back.

"Do you want to sleep here?" He looked back at Haixing.

She nodded and was about to go in.

Naruse pulled her and kissed her on the forehead, "Good night."

"Yeah." Haixing also kissed his face, "Good night."

She slept here, while Morimi and Hikaru Takigawa chose to sleep in the guest room next to them. It was just right for the two of them and not crowded.

"I'll probably have to sleep until noon tomorrow." Morimi said, "If you wake up in the morning and everything is fine, you can come down and play with me."

"I haven't gone up yet." Shangzi's voice came from outside.

"Good night -" Morimi curled his lips and raised his voice in response, then pulled him in and kissed him for a while.

Hikaru Takigawa was already lying on the bed, and when he looked over, he opened his arms to him.

Naruse went over to hug her and kissed her face.

"Help me keep an eye on her, don't let her run around in the middle of the night."

She smiled, "Okay."

"Good night."

"Good night~"

Closing the door to the guest room, Naruse and Naoko went upstairs together.

"What was Shangzi preparing just now?"

"I went to the kitchen to look at the food box and adjusted it a little so that it would be easier for Auntie to eat breakfast by herself in the morning."

After returning to the room upstairs, the two of them went directly to the bed and lay down.

"It's still three o'clock." Naruse turned off the light and got back into bed, and Naoko also leaned over.

"a little cold……"

The air conditioner in the room had just been turned on, and he hugged her tightly, "It will get warm soon."

"Yeah." She rubbed his chest again.

The two fell asleep hugging each other, and when they woke up again, it was already past eleven o'clock the next morning.

"..."

After staring at the bright room in a daze for a while, Naruse's consciousness slowly became clearer.

A new day and a new year.

Continuous time has been artificially restarted, and today is January 1st again.

He turned his head and looked at Shang Zi who had turned over in his sleep. His short hair could not cover the white back of his neck.

He leaned over, gently hugged her waist, buried his face in the back of her neck, kissed and smelled deeply.

"Well……"

Shangzi's body twisted slightly, adapting to his embrace, and soon returned to calmness.

Naruse closed his eyes again, savoring the tranquility of the moment with clear consciousness.

So many things happened in the past year, and she even left him for a time.

Now that the dust has settled and he can sleep with her, he only feels satisfied.

Naruse closed his eyes, feeling both physically and mentally calm. He vaguely heard some movement coming from downstairs, and didn't know who was speaking.

Song Qianqiu probably woke up very early. Who was talking to her, Haixing?

He listened carefully for a while, but the door was closed tightly and he couldn't hear clearly.

He ignored it and continued to lie down. Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs.

At the door of the room, the footsteps stopped, and then the door opened silently.

"..."

Opening the door and seeing Naruse staring at him on the bed, Takigawa Hikari was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

"Good morning."

"It's already noon," Naruse whispered.

He spoke softly, and Takigawa Hikaru realized that Naoko was still asleep and lowered her voice, "Yes, so I should go home."

"Did Hikaru wake up on his own?"

"Well, I've slept for seven or eight hours."

"Where's Yiye?"

"She's also awake and ready to go home, otherwise I wouldn't go back."

Naruse nodded, looked at Naoko in his arms, slowly let go of her, and crawled out of bed.

Seeing that he was about to get out of bed, Takigawa Hikaru waited for him.

"There's nothing to do today."

She smiled and said, "Then you have to go home."

"Yeah." Naruse put on some clothes and went downstairs with her.

Mori Jian had already gotten up and was waiting downstairs. He was a little surprised when he saw him coming down too.

"Have you had enough sleep?"

"Yeah." She responded, "It's time to go back."

Naruse nodded and said nothing more.

"Say hello to your parents for me." Matsu Chiaki said, "Before returning to Tokyo, I will take time to visit them."

Both of them realized something and looked at Naruse, "Okay."

Naruse walked them to the door, watched the two of them walk away, went back inside, and looked in the bedroom, where Haixing was still lying on the bed.

"Don't wake her up, she's still asleep."

"Yeah." Naruse didn't go in and closed the door again.

Song Qianqiu patted the seat next to him and motioned for him to come over, "Shangzi hasn't woken up yet?"

"Ah."

"Has Harumi had enough sleep?"

"more or less."

"I just said you guys didn't get home until three o'clock last night."

"Yeah. Don't you feel it?"

"No, I woke up and found that the little cutie had crawled into my arms."

When he sat down, Song Qianqiu asked again: "Were there many people who went there last night to take the first attainment?"

"The queue at the entrance of the temple lasted almost twenty minutes."

"That's quite a lot."

"The Saishoin Temple in Tsuzen is equivalent to Sensoji Temple in Tokyo."

Song Qianqiu smiled and said, "I understand."

Noticing that there were many congratulatory certificates placed on the low table in front of him, Naruse picked them up and took a look. This one was addressed to him.

"The postman has been here a long time ago." Song Qianqiu said, "These past years, the congratulatory certificates have been given to Chunhai. Mine have been put away."

"Really?" Naruse was surprised. If they were all his, then the amount would be a bit more than he expected.

He looked through it and found that except for distant relatives who only sent greetings in the New Year's greetings every year, the others were basically sent by first- and second-year classmates.

After browsing for a while, he also saw the New Year's greeting card sent by Chao Yueming.

"Chunhai also gained a lot of friends this year."

"well enough."

Song Qianqiu watched for a while and suddenly remembered something, "It's the new year, so Chunhai hasn't said hello to dad yet."

"Yes." Naruse paused for a moment, put down the New Year's greeting card in his hand, stood up and went to the Buddhist altar, lit an incense stick, flicked it twice, extinguished the open flame, and inserted it into the incense burner.

Song Qianqiu also sat over and looked at the photos inside.

"It's another year."

"Ah."

Time keeps passing on them, and the time in the photo has been frozen for ten years.

"If dad knew that Chunhai had harmed four girls, he would definitely beat you to death."

Naruse pursed his lower lip and clasped his hands together, "Yeah."

"But if he knows the determination and hard work that Harumi has put into it, he might forgive you." Matsu Qianqiu added.

Looking at his father's photo, Naruse lowered his head slightly.

"I hope so."

Ding--

After praying for a while, he rang the bronze chime, bowed again, and then stood up to go back upstairs.

"Harumi, do you want to continue sleeping?"

"I'm not going to sleep anymore. I'm going to see if Naoko is awake."

Back in the room, as soon as he sat on the edge of the bed, Naoko rolled over and asked, "When did Harumi get up?"

"It's only a few minutes earlier than Naoko." Naruse put his hand into the quilt and held it with her. "Hikari and Kazuyo went back first."

"what time is it?"

"A little after eleven o'clock."

Her eyes widened a little, not too surprised, after all, she slept so late last night.

"Well--"

Squeezing his hand, she buried her head in the bed again and stretched, "I don't want to get up."

"Then just lie down for a while. There's nothing much to do today anyway."

"It's already noon."

Shangzi grabbed his hand and rubbed it with his face, "Lie down for another three minutes and then get up."

"Yes." Naruse also lay down next to her, waiting with her for the time that was called three minutes, but was actually close to ten minutes to pass.

"Why is Harumi wearing clothes like this?"

"I was wearing whatever I wore when I got up just now..."

Naoko got up, and Naruse rearranged his clothes and went down with her. After everyone washed up, Shangzi greeted Matsu Qianqiu, took the New Year's red envelope from her, and went back to his home opposite.

Naruse was watching from the side and suddenly asked: "Did you give Hikari and Kazuha's share to them?"

Song Qianqiu turned her head and glanced sideways at him, "If you don't give it, is Harumi going to say something to your mother?"

"Then I'll beg you to give it."

Only then was she satisfied. She reached over and touched his head twice randomly before saying, "I had already sent it to them before Chunhai got up."

"so."

"Do you want Harumi?"

"If you want to satisfy the ritual of giving out red envelopes, I'll accept it."

"What are you talking about? It's so frank..."

Song Qianqiu stood up and walked back to the room, took out a red envelope with his name on it, "Take it."

"Thank you."

Naruse solemnly thanked her and gave her mother full satisfaction before accepting the red envelope.

Before opening it, he pinched it and guessed based on the feel, "Ten thousand?"

"How much more do you want?"

"No, just say it."

He opened the red envelope and found a brand new Fukuzawa Yukichi inside.

After looking at it twice, he put the banknotes in again and put away the red envelope.

"What are Chunhai's plans for today?" Song Qianqiu asked.

"No."

"What did you do on this day last year?"

Naruse thought about it for a moment. On the first day of the New Year last year, after he got up, Takigawa Hikaru and others came to visit and chat, and the whole morning passed.

This year, because I slept at his house and didn't get up until noon, I skipped this process.

"I went shopping with Shangzi and his family in the afternoon."

"Then let's arrange it like this this year." Song Qianqiu said, and looked at the time again, "Go and wake up Haixing, that child is too sleepy."

"Ah."

When he came to the bedroom, Naruse found that Haixing had woken up and was playing with his mobile phone.

"Chunhai..."

"I thought you were still asleep."

Naruse sat on the edge of the bed, and she leaned over, "I woke up just now... and was responding to messages."

"Greetings from a friend?"

"Uh-huh."

"You should also have received New Year's greetings from many friends in your mailbox."

"Ah, that's right." Haixing suddenly felt motivated to get up and asked, "Is everyone up?"

"Everyone has gone home."

"Eh!"

"Who allowed you to sleep so well?"

"Why don't you tell me..."

Haixing sat up, stretched, and suddenly looked at him and asked, "Did we go to Chuyi last night?"

Naruse was startled, then smiled and said, "Yes."

"Ah...it feels like a dream, we actually walked there and back again."

"Are your legs feeling sore?"

"It's okay." Haixing lifted the quilt and pinched his leg, "I was just a little tired when I first came back. After sleeping for a night, I basically didn't feel anything at all."

"It's not that far after all."

"I don't want to leave again."

"You don't want to even come with us?"

She pursed her lips and said, "That's another story."

Naruse smiled and stood up, "Get up."

"Yeah." She opened her arms and said, "Pick me up."

He bent down and picked up his petite girlfriend. She stepped on the bed and rocked in his arms for a while before starting to get dressed.

"Good morning."

Seeing the two people coming out, Matsu Qianqiu said hello, "It will be twelve o'clock in a few minutes."

Haixing blushed and did not forget to greet him, "Happy New Year..."

"Happy New Year." Song Qianqiu smiled, "Haixing, let's go wash up first."

After she finished washing and came out, Song Qianqiu also took out the red envelope that she had prepared long ago.

"This is this year's red envelope. In the coming year, Haixing will also be happy and get along well with everyone."

"Thank you!"

"On the first day of the New Year, it's better to go home early and show your face."

"I see."

After receiving the red envelope, Haixing stayed for a while and then went back happily.

When his attention returned to himself, Naruse's stomach rumbled at the right time. He had drank two glasses of sweet wine in the temple since last night.

"It's almost time, let's have lunch." Matsu Qianqiu said.

"Ah."

Lunch was the Osechi cuisine that he and Naoko prepared together yesterday afternoon. The portion was very large, enough to last for the first three days of the new year.

"It tastes really good."

"It takes three days to eat. If you don't make it delicious, how can you eat it?"

"That's right."

After lunch, Naruse came to Naoko's house, and they had just eaten.

"What are your mother's plans for the afternoon?" Nakazawako asked proactively.

"Same as last year, I'm going to go shopping." Naruse was stunned for a moment and replied quickly.

"Very good. Let her get ready and we're ready to go out."

"Ok."

Shangzi also followed him back home and chose clothes for him that were more suitable for going out.

After putting on a new coat, Naruse turned to look at the clothes on the bed, "Can't that coat work?"

"No, it doesn't match my clothes. If I walk with Harumi, I will look very short."

"Ok."

When the two of them went downstairs, Song Qianqiu also changed his clothes, but his head was still tightly camouflaged with a combination of sunglasses and a mask.

"Chunhai, do you still recognize your mother?"

"……What do you think."

"Where's Shangzi?"

"I don't quite recognize it..."

"OK, that's it. Let's go out!"

Getting into the car driven by Tetsuya Nakahana, the two families left Aoyagi and Tsumae and headed towards the more lively Aomori City.

Arriving near the shopping mall, Naruse and his mother and daughter got out of the car at the side of the road. Toru also wanted to visit friends, so he dropped them here and left.

"He just doesn't want to go shopping. The people who live here are colleagues from the institute. We meet there every day, so there is no need to go out to visit on the first day of the new year."

This Hanasawako knows exactly what her husband really thinks.

She looked at Shangzi again, "Shangzi also needs to learn to distinguish between men's excuses."

Naoko smiled and looked at Naruse, who turned his head and glanced at the roadside, "Okay."

"Chunhai can be honest now." Song Qianqiu said a kind word for his son.

"Is that so?" Hanasawako also looked at him.

"Yes..." Naruse regretted not leaving with Toruya.

"Let's go, it's cold standing outside."

When we arrived at the mall, the two mothers led the tour, and Naruse and Naoko basically just followed them. They followed them wherever they went.

Occasionally, if there is a store that they are interested in, they will stop to have a look and be temporarily separated from them for a while.

"Want to go in and look at the clothes."

"Okay."

Passing by a men's clothing store, Shangzi pulled him in.

"Chunhai's coats are basically long, so buy a shorter one. Occasionally, it's easier to change the style and match it better. Chunhai has now passed the stage of relying on windbreakers to look cool."

"...Can you please stop being so straightforward?"

"Would you like to buy it?"

"Buy it, buy it."

"I'll pick."

"That would be great, I'll go sit over there..."

Naoko turned around and glared at him, "Haruhai also wants to follow me."

"Okay." We just started shopping, and Naruse wasn't that tired.

After choosing for more than half an hour, he tried on seven or eight coats. When Naoko glanced at the shelves on the other side, Naruse quickly grabbed her and tugged on her collar with the other hand, "I just like this one." !”

"..."

She curled her lips and looked at the cotton clothes on his upper body, but still gave in.

"Okay, let's buy this one."

"I'm so happy."

"Humph……"

The two of them paid the bill and came out, only to find that Matsu Qianqiu and Nikasawako were also waiting here.

"Have you picked it out? We're here after shopping around."

"Yeah." Naruse picked up the paper bag in his hand.

"Speaking of which, I haven't bought clothes for my son in a long time." Matsu Qianqiu said.

"Then let's take a look." Nika Sawako walked into the store.

"I don't want it." Naruse resisted, "These are all cotton clothes, one is enough."

"Don't be willful." My mother showed her dignity and said, "Come and follow."