Me and the Doll Girl of Zhidiao Island

Chapter 29 28. In the festival, the sky lantern flying against the sky (1)

On that day, in the ultramarine sky, the faint first quarter moon was extremely white.

Standing in front of the store, there were people coming and going on the street, and in front of a boutique jewelry store, Chaokong Yaoxing was still hesitating whether to go in or not.

She didn't want to buy earrings that were too cheap, they wouldn't look good on the hang.

Because if the earrings are cheap, Jiang Yuan may feel that he is also cheap. Although he certainly doesn't think so, he still doesn't want to take the risk.

But she couldn't afford it because it was too expensive. The savings in her family were almost exhausted, and she had to save money to buy ingredients for lunch.

——Now I can no longer bother Naoko and the others.

The curtains of boutiques in small shopping malls were lifted by people coming and going. As the festival day approached, more and more girls came here together to buy good decorations.

They are like the flowers in a greenhouse, brightly colored and brilliant.

At this time, a clerk came out, a middle-aged woman, judging from her quick action of taking out the cigarette case, she was addicted to cigarettes.

Chaokong Yaoxing met her eyes, and the clerk's eyes were full of confusion, but he still lit the cigarette in his hand.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and heard her sigh as she exhaled smoke.

Realizing that he had stood in front of the door for too long, Chaokong Yaoxing blushed, his soul was like a balloon filled with hydrogen, as light as a feather, and he was ashamed.

—Forget it.

"Aren't you going in?"

It wasn't the voice of the saleswoman in front of me.

The sound came from the side, very close.

Chaokong Yaoxing was startled, and looking sideways, a middle-aged man was standing beside him with one hand in his pocket.

Baggy white T-shirt, gray sneakers, long jeans, dark brown eyes and messy black hair.

No matter how you look at it, he is a frivolous person, someone he never wants to get involved with.

"Feel sorry!"

Chaokong Yaoxing is like a squirrel hit by raindrops, trying to escape from this place in a panic.

"Wait, isn't this Xiao Yao Xing?"

Hearing his name from the mouth of the middle-aged man, Chaokong Yaoxing stopped in surprise and horror, and the man also looked astonished.

The expression on the face of the middle-aged man in front of him ranged from confusion, surprise, to excitement, and Chaokong Yaoxing was dumbfounded.

"Wow, it's really Xiao Yaoxing. It's the first time I've seen you so close since I came back! You're getting more and more beautiful!"

Chaokong Yaoxing's small face was full of vigilance and fear, and his eyes licked every inch of his body relentlessly.

At the same time, she kept searching for the figure of this person in her memory, but she didn't remember seeing him at all?

The female clerk who was leaning against the wall straightened up with a serious expression on her face, as if the man would come up to stop him whenever he made any strange moves.

"I, the one who often squats in the park to watch you play with Jiang Yuan." The middle-aged man said with a playful smile.

Shaking the apricot in the sky, he was stunned, as if the cycle of the seasons was reversed, and the fallen fruits hung on the treetops again, and the memory was quietly revived.

In my impression, there is often a man who stays in the park all day, sometimes squatting on the sandpit, sometimes sitting on a chair in a daze, his clothes seem to have never been changed, and no one dares to approach him.

He is like a burnt out candle, leaving only a wisp of smoke, only when he smiles is extraordinarily gentle.

"I feel like if this continues, it won't be unusual for this guy to die in the park."

"very scary"

"It's you?"

Chaokong Yaoxing gasped, so this person is not dead?
"Remember me? Long time no see, I miss you so much!"

Azusagawa Takara's smile still retains the gentleness of his childhood, which has not changed at all.

"Ah." Even so, Chaokong Yaoxing decided to leave.

"You come to Jiang Yuan every morning, right? Make rice balls for him? I heard what Jiang Yuan said."

"Huh?" Chaokong Yaoxing looked at him in astonishment.

"Don't be so surprised, I'm Jiang Yuanshen's adoptive father, Azusagawa Takara, and I used to be friends with your father."

As if deliberately shielding the words in the speech, Chaokong Yaoxing only heard the first half of the sentence.

"Father? Are you the one who went to Jinghai's house and was beaten?"

"It's amazing, isn't it?"

"What's the big deal. Are you really the adoptive father who took Jiang Yuan to Tokyo?" She confirmed again.

"Tokyo is so nice, there are big houses everywhere, there are many beautiful girls, there are many job opportunities, and the food is also good." Azusagawa Takara narrowed his eyes like an innocent child, and finally sneered softly, "No matter how you look at it , are much better than Zhiniao Island."

Chaokong Yaoxing's heart beat suddenly, his words seemed to be frozen in the gap between day and night, and he couldn't move indefinitely.

——It was the man in front of him who took Jiang Yuanshen away.

Mingming clearly knew in his heart that Jiang Yuanshen's behavior of leaving Zhiniao Island was necessary, and staying here would only destroy his life just like his own.

But Chaokong Yaoxing's mood was still trapped in the maze, captured by a dark emotion that he didn't know the truth or falsehood.

She pursed her lips, and the dark hole in her heart opened wider and wider.

"Then what are you doing back here?"

Azusagawa Takara looked at the girl, her voice sounded a bit bitter, with a hint of resentment in it.

In the faint blue color of the approaching night, she couldn't see her expression clearly.

"What do you want to buy?" Azusagawa Takara asked, but did not answer her words.

"What?" Chao Kong shook Xing's heart thumping.

Azusagawa Takara's eyes fell on the boutique store, and the accessories inside shone charmingly under the light.

"I see that you have been staying at the door of the store. Do you want to buy something?"

Chao Kong shook Xing's eyes like hair, and whispered: "...No, I just wanted to go home."

"Do you want to buy some good ones and show them to Jiang Yuan?"

As soon as Azusagawa Xiaokong asked, Chaokong Yaoxing's little face flushed instantly, she was so easy to understand.

A gentle wind blows in the street, taking away the day's hustle and bustle from the tarmac.

Asakusa Yako raised her gaze tremblingly, but Azusagawa Takara was already standing at the door of the shop.

"Let's go, I have too much money to spend. Buying something is a gift and an apology for you."

"Apology ceremony?"

"I used to stay in the park all the time, so you and Jiang Yuanshen can't have fun."

——The man in front of him really looks like an adult now.

Realizing this, Chaokong Yaoxing's expression suddenly became tense, and he bowed like an apology: "It's okay, you don't have to be polite, I really want to go home."

Koku Azusagawa twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with a mocking smile:
"Then what do you want to do? Do you really want to go home directly? After going out for a while and looking beautiful without dressing up? Seriously think that there must be people who are prettier than you at the festival, and there must be many people who can replace you, right? ?"

"Why, why did you say this all of a sudden?"

"Make a decision early, no matter what you do, you can't keep escaping. In short, you are already 16 years old, don't be as timid as a little devil."

Chaokong Yao Xingben's escape emotion, which had been raised to the limit, was instantly knocked down, and he was ruthlessly crushed.

His words were like the bait that led the merlu into the trap, making Chao Kong Yaoxing's breathing become short.

When she didn't want to stand beside Jiang Yuanshen, all the girls around her could replace her.

After a long silence, Chaokong Yaoxing nodded in centimeters.

"Um"

Azusagawa Takara smiled slightly: "Hey, don't look at me like this, in fact, I have picked out good things for many Tokyo women."

The saleswoman flicked away the unfinished cigarette, took a piece of candy from her pocket, put it in her mouth, and walked into the store.

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When the silver earrings dangle in the ears, they quite set off the light hair.

Around the waist of the violet bathrobe, an anemone knot was carefully tied.

The pinkish-white nails are painted with light viola-colored nail polish, and even the lips are more pink than usual, with cherry-colored lip balm.

The clogs are newly bought and basically never worn. I have practiced back and forth in the room for a long time these days, and they are fine now.

Shaking Xing's little hands towards the sky rested on the belt.

There was a trace of calmness in the eager eyes, and the beautiful night swept through the window.

Beautiful kimonos can make you feel happy, excited expectations, and can regenerate your crushed mind.

Cautiously walked downstairs and looked around the living room.

That person is not there, can walk there, and open the altar.

"Mom, I'm going out."

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There is a unique tranquility in the air, like the chewing wine sealed in the altar, exuding a faint fragrance.

Jiang Yuanshen deliberately waited at the intersection not far from Chaokong Yaoxing's house.

The light of street lamps shines through the luxuriant trees, and the river flowing down from Najiu Mountain has benches placed along the bank, where people who jog in the evening will rest.

Half an hour earlier than the agreed time, he was too bored and squatted on the ground to watch the little ants crawling on the ground.

At this time, I heard clogs stepping on the ground, making a "knock, knock, knock" sound.

Jiang Yuanshen raised his head, saw Chaokong Yaoxing looked around, and came over on the zebra crossing.

She was wearing a bathrobe with a purple background and a pattern of viola flowers. The belt was a mature and stable dark red, and her black hair was tied into clusters, as if the shadows around her were condensed.

"Have you waited for a long time?"

Chaokong Yaoxing raised his hand and gently squeezed the earrings, his gaze was full of anticipation.

Jiang Yuanshen looked boldly from top to bottom, and smelled the fragrance from the girl's body with the tip of his nose.

It was like a freesia flower, with a refreshing fragrance.

Her lips seemed to be covered with a thin layer of icing, which was sweet and touching, and seemed to melt when touched with water. Her small face was extremely delicate, was she smeared with light powder?

He deliberately didn't wait at the door of the house, just to let her feel at ease to dress up, but this was far beyond his expectations.

"No, I just arrived too, you look good in your bathrobe." Jiang Yuanshen said with a smile.

Seeing his expression so succinctly, Chaokong Yaoxing looked at Jiang Yuanshen's profile timidly with the bewilderment of a lost child on his face.

- Didn't say anything?

"You" showed a bitter smile on Kong Yaoxing's lips, with a hesitant expression, and moved his lips cautiously, "Why don't you wear a bathrobe?"

——I dare not mention it.

With a bit of a smile, Jiang Yuanshen pushed back the bangs on his forehead: "I don't like wearing that dress very much."

"All right."

On the road, there are already long queues at the bus station where no old man can see at this time of weekdays.

Many of them came here by boat from Niigata, and now they can see passenger ships in the port one after another.

On the day of the festival, buses and trams run every 15 minutes, which is much more efficient.

The two walked towards the bus station, because they were taking shorter steps than usual, which made people feel particularly uncomfortable.

Chao Kong shook Xing's breath trembling slightly, and the steps he took cautiously made him feel disgusted.

——The clogs are so troublesome, I really want to throw them all away and walk barefoot.

"Sorry, am I going too slowly?"

"Slower compared to the people around you."

". Then I'll go faster."

"No, just do what you're used to, because it's the first time, so it doesn't matter if you don't have to work hard."

His clear voice is like a pen core inserted into the softest part of the heart, it is so tormenting, and it makes people have nowhere to escape.

Shaking Xing's heart towards the sky, like splashing water, jumping high and fast.

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Today's bus has direct flights to Nakuyama Chidori Shrine, and it takes about 10 minutes to sit.

Zhiniao Shrine, near the torii gate.

The colors of the clothes of the people passing by are like flowers in the garden, competing for beauty, and the girls' hairpins make crisp sounds.

Many outsiders took pictures in front of the torii gate, and the timing of their walking away and sudden change of direction is hard to figure out.

Going up the stone steps is the place for festival vendors.

At this time, I heard an exclamation, and when I came back to my senses, it was Naoko Takimitsu and others.

Naoko Takimitsu was wearing a cherry red yukata, and the undulation of her chest was imaginative.

"Hey, Yao Xing, you're dressed beautifully. Does Jiang Yuan love you so much?" Takimitsu Naoko let out a silver bell-like laugh from his lips as he twitched his eardrums.

Chaokong Yaoxing's ears suddenly turned red, and he gave her a look and said, "Don't say such strange things in public."

"Then can you say all kinds of perverted things in private?" Chunya Zhenmei showed an intriguing smile, and the orange bathrobe was pressed against her arm.

"I didn't mean that either." Zhao Kong shook Xing and sighed.

Shimizu Ken moved to Jiang Yuanshen's side, and said in a low voice, "Jiang Yuan, I think Takimitsu and Chunya may be interested in me."

Jiang Yuanshen was taken aback.

"what?"

"They said that the bathrobe I'm wearing today is very nice and handsome, and it's very honorable to walk with me."

Jiang Yuan glanced at him carefully, he was wearing a blue bathrobe without a pattern, simple and capable.

"Wow, it's a complete yukata."

"Then how much money did you bring today?"

"Borrow money?"

"It's so uncomfortable. When you didn't come, I went to look around and found that most of the shops on the festival were smothering customers with suffocating high prices. I couldn't stand it at all!"

"How rich am I in your eyes?"

"A rich man who can use a limited number of pens."

"That's not mine either, it was taken back a long time ago." Jiang Yuanshen said so, and still took out his wallet, "Forget it, how much do you want?"

Shimizu Jian stretched out two fingers: "Twenty thousand."

Jiang Yuanshen frowned: "How much?"

"Twenty to twenty thousand."

"It's not that I didn't hear clearly, what I'm asking is are you sure?"

Shimizu Jian hugged Jiang Yuanshen's arm directly, pretending to be coquettish: "Please, Jiang Yuan, I will definitely pay you back when I pay the wages of odd jobs at the port! Please, please~~"

Feeling a little sick, Jiang Yuanshen immediately pulled his hand away.

"I can't bear it, remember to pay me back."

He took out [-] yen from his wallet, fortunately Azusagawa Takara gave himself [-] yen this morning, and the rest was enough.

Shimizu Jian's eyes were shining brightly, he took the money and held it in his palm, and made a sound like an animal's low throat:
"Be careful, girls' spending power is worse than Ebola virus."

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