Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 80 Indifferent
After school, he stayed in the club room until the last member left, Shangzi also packed up his things and left the school.

I'm going home alone today...

Looking at the empty school, she lifted the bag on her shoulder and took a deep breath of the gradually cooling air at dusk.

Walking all the way to the bus stop, the next bus will arrive in about 10 minutes.

Shangzi sat on the bench and waited alone.

buzz-

Her spirits lifted.

Chun Hai: Did you go home?
Shangzi: Waiting for the bus.What about Haruhi?

Chun Hai: Back to the hotel.

Harumi: I went to Tenmangu Shrine and Arashiyama in the afternoon.

Shangzi: How do you feel?
Chun Hai: I'm exhausted.

She pursed her lips and smiled, and the tone and demeanor he said when he said this involuntarily appeared in her mind.

Shangzi: What about dinner?

Chunhai: Haven't eaten yet.Take a short rest and find a place to solve it later.

Shangzi: Are you with them?

Haruhi: That's just the intention.

Shangzi didn't want to disturb his rest, so he didn't ask any more questions, and after she stopped, he didn't send any more news, which made her a little disappointed.

Is there nothing else to say?
When visiting Kyoto, I went to Tenmangu Shrine and Arashiyama, at least I will take some photos...

I don't want to share it with her, is it because I am worried that she will be sad alone because she can't walk with him and see the photos?
Or, are you really too tired today?
While Shangzi felt uneasy, he actively searched for reasons to explain his indifference.

"Shangzi."

"...a leaf."

She raised her gaze, and Sen Jian appeared at the side of the platform at some point, looking at her.

Shangzi put away the phone, "Did Yiye just come back from school?"

"Yeah." Sen Jian sat down beside her, "get out of class ends early today."

Shangzi nodded.

Mori Jian looked at her, "The three of them haven't been deported yet."

Shangzi smiled, "It won't be like this."

"That guy is so messed up."

Although she didn't say who it was, Shangzi tacitly agreed that the one she condemned was Naruse: "It was suggested by Hikari..."

Morimi shook his head, "If he objected, if only Hikaru wanted to go in the end, she would give up this plan... It was like this a long time ago."

Shangzi pursed his lower lip, but said nothing.

He chose to agree because she was a little moved by this matter, but up to now, he has gone to the capital, and she stayed here alone.

Seeing that she was silent, Sen Jian said again: "Anyway, it's only three days, and they will be back soon."

Shang Zi pulled himself together and smiled at her, "Yes."

buzz-

A new message came in.

Chun Hai: Going to eat.

Shangzi: [hungry, hungry]
Harumi: Is the bus coming?

Shangzi: Not yet.Yiye was waiting for the bus with me.

Chun Hai: OK.

Chunhai: Be careful on the road.

Mori Jian watched from the side, seeing that Shang Zi quickly put away the phone again, and asked, "News from Naruse?"

"Yes."

"At this time, no matter where they went in the afternoon, it's time to go back to the hotel."

"Yes. Haruhi said they went to Tenmangu and Arashiyama in the afternoon."

"Kitano Tenmangu Shrine? That's right, it's a must-go place on a school trip..."

Mori Jian inadvertently revealed a bit of yearning, and then said: "Has he entered the Yutuju of Tenman Palace? Although the maple trees inside are not as good as Arashiyama, they are quite large."

Shang Zi was silent for a while, "I don't know."

"Didn't he send a photo to Shangzi?"

"..."

Shangzi was silent for a longer time.

And in Kyoto, more than 1000 kilometers away, Takikawa Hikaru and Haixing stood at the door of Naruse's room, waiting for him to come out.

"Let's go." Naruse closed the door and walked to the elevator.

The two followed, and Takikawa asked, "Did Haruhi contact Shangzi just now?"

"Well. She just left school and hasn't come home yet."

"It's about the same time."

Hikaru Takikawa quickened his pace a little, put one hand on his shoulder, and pressed the elevator button with the other.

Looking at the jumping numbers, she felt a little emotional, "Shangzi should have been with us."

"Shangzi's parents want to come back suddenly, there's nothing we can do about it." Naruse said calmly.

Hikaru Takikawa looked at him, and didn't fret over this irreversible issue, instead he said:
"Haixing and I were sorting out the photos we took in the afternoon just now, and Chunhai took a lot of them too, I'll pick some and send them to Shangzi later."

Ding--

The elevator stopped on the fourth floor and opened quickly. Hikari Takikawa and Haixing entered, and Naruse stepped forward hesitantly.

No one else was in the elevator.

After pressing the button on the first floor, he turned around and said, "Let's go back and talk about it."

"What?" Takigawa Hikaru didn't react for a moment.

"I'm talking about sending photos to Shangzi."

"Eh...why?"

"Because we are in Kyoto now, and Shangzi is at home alone." Naruse said, looking at Haixing again, "If Haixing was alone at home, and a friend sent you a photo of singing in karaoke, what would you think? "

Hai Xing was stunned for a moment, looked at the two of them separately, and honestly expressed his thoughts: "I will want to find them..."

Hikaru Takikawa was silent for a while, hugged the starfish in front of him from behind, and sighed weakly.

"Why can't Shangzi's parents come back two days later?"

Naruse had already turned around.

"Don't think too much."

Ding--

The elevator reached the ground floor, and the three of them left the hotel to find a place to fill their stomachs.

On Takikawa Tsuki's side, the hotel will provide breakfast, lunch and dinner for the third grade students and teachers, so they didn't go to her.

"Chun Hai has been to Kyoto several times, do you know where there is a delicious restaurant?"

"Except for the school trip last year, I always came with my mother."

Standing on the side of the road, Naruse looked at Takikawa Hikaru and Haixing beside him, "The restaurants I went to at that time were more expensive."

"Ah, forget it..."

Hikaru Takikawa's face turned bitter, and he made no secret of his financial distress, "I still have a lot of places to go tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and I didn't bring much money."

Seeing her like this, Hai Xing nodded, "Me too."

"So don't count on my experience."

Naruse looked left and right, and his gaze was fixed in the direction of Shijo Bridge, "Go over there and have a look. There are many restaurants on Hanami Koji and Shirakawa, maybe you can find something delicious and cheap."

"Let's go then."

When the three of them were wandering in Arashiyama in the afternoon, they ate a few skewers of soy sauce balls in a roadside shop, and they were not too hungry now, so they started looking for them while shopping.

It was just nightfall at this time, and there were still many pedestrians on the road, and the direction of the flow could be vaguely seen.Naruse observed for a while, and sure enough, most of them flowed into Hanami Koji and Shirakawa.

Arriving at the intersection of Hanami Koji, Naruse looked at the two people behind him, "Let's take a stroll here first."

"Okay."

Hikaru Takikawa quickly agreed, "I want to go in and have a look when I come over during the day. Can I meet a geisha at this time?"

"It's hard to say."

Walking into the Hanami alley, there are large and small restaurants on both sides, and the lanterns have been lit at this time.

The three of them walked and watched, and Hikari Takikawa would occasionally stop in front of a certain restaurant for a while, looking at the menu posted by the store's door, and often had a bitter expression on his face when he came back.

"The cheapest one costs more than 6000 yen...Are all the high-end restaurants here?"

"Because you picked all the shops that looked very high-end."

After walking a little further, the three of them passed by a cooking house with several lanterns hanging on it. A middle-aged woman who seemed to be a female general stood at the door.

She showed a warm and friendly smile to the three young men who were looking at her, and the three of them involuntarily slowed down at the same time.

Just glanced at the menu next to him, and the eye-catching price made Hikaru Takikawa wake up again.

But she didn't stop approaching because of this.

"Sister, hello."

Looking at the tall girl with a pretty face in front of her, the smile on the female general's face deepened, "Hello."

Naruse and Haixing also stopped, watching from the side.

"It's so expensive." Hikaru Takikawa pointed to the menu next to him, "I don't have any money, can I get a discount?"

"..."

The female general was taken aback for a moment, but soon smiled again, then shook her head at her.

Hikaru Takikawa was not disappointed, "Then is there any delicious and cheap restaurant here?"

The female general looked at the girl in front of her for the third time, and seeing her looking at her sincerely and expectantly, she couldn't feel any displeasure or annoyance in her heart.

"It's delicious and cheap. There are really few such shops in Hanamikoji. However, I happen to know a few."

She took out the pen and sticky note tucked around her waist, wrote a few store names on it, and handed it to Takikawa Hikari.

"It's just these few."

"Thank you—" she happily took the note, "I wish your store a prosperous business."

The female general smiled and nodded.

Saying goodbye to her, Hikaru Takigawa looked back at the two silent companions, and waved the sticky note.

"Let's go."

　Thanks to the ally of book friends [this is very reasonable]
　　
　
(End of this chapter)