I push the child!

Chapter 12 12. Walking from one painting to another

"No problem." Mu Cuntuo nodded.

"Yeah!" Hoshino Ai ate another tomato fruit.

On their way to Yunchang Pool that afternoon, the air was surprisingly mild, as if someone specially adjusted the temperature to the most suitable for the human body.

The sun was golden, the leaves flickered occasionally overhead, and the views were just right.

The roofs, bridges, and gray-brown tree trunks standing on both sides of the road, everything, the clear outlines seem to be redrawn with black pen.

Walking on the road, they looked up and found that the clouds in the sky were as ethereal as catkins, as if the wind would completely dissipate them.

If the light blue sky is replaced by the star-studded night sky, no one will doubt that it is a midsummer night.

When they passed by a shop selling trinkets, Ai Hoshino stared straight at her.

She seemed to have forgotten the purpose of going forward, she ran over with her long hair shaking, her white skirt fluttering.

"Look, Makimura." When the two entered the store, Ai Hoshino picked up an orange fisherman's hat and put it on her head, "This hat is too cute!"

"It's cute," Makimura said, "and it suits you too."

"That's right, it's really suitable." The proprietress in the store came out, looking back and forth at the star-like boy and girl.

There was something lost and memorable in that look.

"Thank you." Ai Hoshino said obediently to the proprietress, and then left a satisfied smile to Taku Makimura.

She took off the hat and put it back, looked around again, picked out a similar black fisherman's hat, and gestured to Mu Cuntuo.

"Well... this one suits you very well!"

"The hat is nice."

"You're pretty too," she said.

"Thank you." Makimura Taku replied.

In the end they didn't buy anything, they just tried it.

The proprietress seemed to like them very much, and said that she wanted to give them a bracelet, which was silver and heart-shaped, and the price was not expensive, but neither of them wanted it, so she just said thank you again.

Leaving from there, they went directly to Yunchang Pool without stopping on the way.

After arriving at Yunchang Pool, although they had seen the landscape photos taken by the photographer named Shinomiya Kaguya in the car, Makimura Taku and the others were still deeply shocked by the scene in front of them:

Along the clear river, maple trees as lush as virgin forests are trying to stretch their branches and leaves.

Pink, green, golden, covered with late autumn sunlight, the pentagonal leaves dangle at the ends of the branches, as if trying to fall.

On the sparkling water surface, the shadows of trees that are flickering are reflected, and the blue sky is meticulously carved into the water.

Already floating on the water, the overwhelming colorful leaves rotate and flutter with the wind, just like the erratic sails in the sea.

When viewing the Yunchang Pool surrounded by nature from a distance, it always feels like the clouds are falling into the river and the fish are swimming in the sky.

When tourists pass by here, they may accidentally think that there are only maple forests left in the whole world.

The exquisite picture is always reminiscent of the style of oil painting created by the Russian realist painter Shishkin.

They walked along the river, listening to the wind and looking at the trees for a while.

The tree on this side had eight little birds, and the tree on the other side had sixteen branches. They saw a total of eleven bare trees, and they took all those gentle and ordinary things into their hearts.

Walking and walking, the sound of pedestrians talking next to him, the camera clicked, and many people were taking pictures. Ai Hoshino ran to the river and sat down, looking back at Taku Makimura:
"Would you like to sit down and bask in the sun with me?"

"Basking in the sun?"

"Well, basking in the sun." She smiled.

"it is good."

In addition to them, there were many people sitting on the shore. Old couples in their 80s and [-]s were talking nonsense, and young couples in their twenties were cuddling and embracing each other.

A professional photographer adjusted the camera angle behind him, and with a flash of white light, it is estimated that even Makimura Takumi and Hoshino Ai were frozen in the scenery.

They looked at the light and shadow on the water, and the sunlight seemed to be peeled off by fallen leaves, broken into pieces the same size.

"Makimura," Hoshino Ai asked him suddenly, "Do you still remember what you said to me?"

"I will always remember your name."

She froze for a moment, then smiled, and the shadow of the tree flashed across her smiling face.

She shook her head and said, "That's not it."

Makimura Taku thought for a while: "Please like the autumn in Karuizawa?"

"No." She still smiled.

"Unexpected."

"Think again."

"I can't even think about it."

"If you think about it again, I'll tell you!"

Mu Cuntuo gave a hum after thinking about it, and looked at the clouds floating in the sky: "Okay."

"it is good?"

"Okay." Makimura Taku explained, "I seem to often say to you: yes."

"Really?" Ai Hoshino looked at him, "It seems so, but that's not what I want to talk about."

"what is that?"

She put her hands on the ground, her eyes were looking at a red maple leaf that was about to fall, and the slender legs hidden in the skirt dangled three times.

"You said, you can see through all lies..." The leaves floated down and swung into the water, she turned to Taku Makimura, "Really?"

"Honesty is my strength."

"Humour, too," she said. "You joke with me all the time, and I don't believe you all."

"But it's true."

"Then I'll test you."

"Please say."

"My guardian's name is Saito."

"lie."

"My guardian's last name is Sato."

"lie."

"My guardian's surname is Qi Mu."

"lie."

"Awesome!" She asked admiringly, "How did you do it?"

"As long as it is said, I can know whether it is a lie."

"Brain waves?"

"superpower."

"amazing!"

"Thank you."

They said no more.

Ai Hoshino seemed to ask a question just on a whim, and it was all a joke until the end. Makimura Takumi has long been used to this kind of thing.

They stayed in Yunchang Pool for a long time, as if they wanted to stay until all the leaves fell and the river water was evaporated by the sun.

It is estimated that the countless groups of maple trees will not wither at the same time in another 100 years, Makimura Taku thought.

He turned on his phone and realized that it was only four o'clock.

Time passed so slowly, it was as if someone had turned the hands back thirty degrees just to make them sit a little longer.

"Ah, my butt is numb." Ai Hoshino said.

"Let's go?"

"I want to go where the wind blows."

"Wind," Mucuntuo raised his hand, "but it's here, do you want to go somewhere else?"

She stretched her waist: "Well... I want to go to a place where there is wind, but there are few people and continue to be in a daze."

"Okay." Makimura Takumi smiled.

They stood up, and when they left, the rain of maple leaves fell behind them, romantic like an autumn snow, the snow was pink.

Along the way, they feel the autumn wind and look at the hurrying passers-by, only they live in the slow world.There are only the two of them left in the world.

"Where?"

"It doesn't matter where you go, it doesn't matter if you get lost!"

"it is good."

Even so, they still pay attention to the steps under their feet all the time, maintain a tacit speed, and move forward in silence all the way, and the direction remains unchanged from the beginning to the end.

Until the fiery red autumn colors faded, they walked a long way, passing the villas and crossing the stone bridge.

Later, the woodpecker flew into view, and they stepped on the wooden plank road to Jianqing Terrace.

The setting sun fell before their eyes, and the sky seemed to be on fire. The clouds were not white, but red and black.

"What a broken sunset!" Standing on the observatory, Hoshino Ai made a horn with his hands and shouted loudly, "Why is Meicheng like this!"

It seems that they just walked out of the painting and broke into another painting.

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