I push the child!

Chapter 9 9. After Winter Comes Autumn

The huge body broke through the faint mist, crossed the not too long bridge across the river, and drove from Kitasaku County to Miyota Town.

The scenery of the northern country has become something behind. Looking up, the sun in late autumn penetrates the clouds and shoots to the earth.

The mountains lit up, and the mountains in the distance showed a blurry dark green, and the outlines were not clear.

The silver-gray power station seems to be floating in the earing paddy field, receding a little bit as time goes by.

Crows, magpies, and brown-feathered birds of unidentifiable species are all resting with their wings folded on the black cables that seem to connect the whole world together.

Closer, the gleaming green leaves flashed past the car window, and the square residential buildings were embedded in the flat ground like some kind of candy.

When the car window was opened, a scent of fresh river water and rape blossoms permeated into the blowing air.

"test you."

"Ok?"

"'Compared to rocky mountains and rocks, the color of autumn wind is whiter.'" In the carriage, Mucun Taku asked her, "Where is the rocky mountain?"

"How would I know." Ai Hoshino closed his "The Great Gatsby" and puffed out.

"It's the rock of Nakoji Temple in Natani Town, Komatsu City."

"Oh~" She looked up at the roof of the car, then put her arms on the table, touched the rabbit hairpin on her head, and smiled at him, "I haven't been there, I don't know!"

That smile reminded Makimura of the daffodil in the tall glass bottle in the coffee shop.

Being watched by her, Makimura Taku suddenly felt a warm current penetrate into his body.

When vaguely aware of the dark green scenery passing by and slipping away from the corner of the eye, Makimura Taku asked her inadvertently:
"Miss Hoshino, what color do you think autumn is?"

"autumn?"

"Now."

"Now..." Ai Hoshino turned out of the window with her face propped up.

The maple trees along the way passed by her eyes, like a dragonfly pointing into the calm water.

After leaving Echigo Yuzawa, the autumn scenery appeared one by one.

Grass, wildflowers, awns of wheat, plowing cattle, staggering pedestrians, lake water reflecting the blue sky, and falling leaves appear in the field of vision.

All kinds of things seem to remind her softly: it is only November.

It turns out that after winter comes autumn.

An unbelievable thought flashed through Ai Hoshino's mind, and then disappeared.

She turned her head and asked, "What about you, what do you think?"

"Didn't I ask you first?"

"Let me copy your answer." She put her hands on the table and put her face on her face. There was no foreign matter in her eyes when she smiled.

"well."

"Please say~"

"Spring green, summer red, autumn white, winter black."

"Oh!"

As if looking at a precious treasure, Hoshino Ai's eyes seemed to jump up from the seat, but in fact, her hands and body did not move.

She was a little surprised and said: "It's amazing, I said every season at once."

"I'm not that good," Takumi Makimura explained, "That's a saying derived from a haiku."

"The haiku just now?"

"Yes."

"Chunqing, Xiachi, Qiubai, Donghei..." She thought for a while, "The first two are okay, but how can the latter autumn and winter be white and black?"

"Maybe the autumn wind is white and the snow is black."

"Black snow?" She smiled and said, waving her hands, "How is that possible? We just saw that snow whiter than your face!"

"That's true," Mu Cuntuo nodded, "but why are you comparing me?"

"Just say what comes to mind."

"First thought of me?"

"Think of you first."

"Well, I thought of daffodils."

"Narcissus?" Hoshino thought for half a second, "That's right."

The reverse train rattled past the window, and the field of vision was black and white.

Ai Hoshino looked outside and found that there were more fiery red maple trees along the road.

The cool wind blowing into the car blew her long hair to the back of her neck.

When she wasn't wearing a scarf, her skin at the collarbone was so fair that it reminded people of a blue sky with a belly white.

She looked away: "So, Mucun, you haven't said what you think."

"Dark green, bright red."

"Why these two?"

"I happened to see green mountains and red leaves, so I said it."

"I see." Ai Hoshino nodded.

Mu Cuntuo looked at her: "Should I tell you about you?"

She licked a tooth on the upper right row with her tongue, and said after pondering: "Color!"

"color?"

"A mess of colors," Hoshino Ai said, "any color! I think... pink sun, bright red lake water, golden leaves!"

"Permutation and combination?" Makimura Taku sighed.

She smiled cutely: "Snow can be black anyway, right?"

"Too."

"whee."

As the train passed through the tunnel, even the darkness itself seemed to be dyed with a color, and the silence was making a sound.

"Listening to music?" When the car passed through the mountain and the vision brightened again, Mucuntuo took out the earphones and connected to the phone and asked her.

"Listen." Hoshino Ai did not refuse.

They each wore a pair of headphones and played a piece of pure music "Date" by the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS using a free trial music player.

The phone was placed horizontally in the middle of the table, and the screen was not turned off.

Gorgeous shooting stars streaked across the starry sky covered with thin clouds, which turned out to be just the cover of the album.

While listening to the song, the two felt the gradually warming and bright light.

Occasionally, a black shadow cast by an upright telephone pole flashed across their faces, but they didn't notice it.

After one song is played, the next one will continue. The song is "If You Can Shine" by Goose house.

Listening to the song, they looked into the distance and saw the majestic blooming flowers and the fallen leaves falling alone.

The autumn wind in November swept across the lake with warmth, leaving traces visible to the naked eye.

The poet is really hypocritical: the autumn wind is neither white nor bleak.

At least the wind that day was colorful, where it blows, it becomes brighter.

"It's you, it's you who taught me that if I can shine in the dark, I can turn into a starry sky..."

"..."

"Ok?"

"Isn't that a good song?"

"..." Ai Hoshino took off her earphones and stared at him, "Did I sing?"

"I guess so."

"Wow, accidentally..."

"pretty good."

The train stopped at the station, and they walked out of the carriage with their luggage, and turned around to the bus platform, and took the next bus, which came in 6 minutes.

The car drove towards the direction of a forest hotel they reserved.

The car body wobbled, crossed Ubing Ridge, passed golf courses and tennis courts, and detoured into Karuizawa surrounded by Mount Asama, Mount Liufu, Mount Li and Mount Biqu.

This is the northwest of Tokyo and the southeast of Nagano Prefecture.

Throughout the year, the mist permeates the mountain forest, and the larch and birch trees show their dark green and dark green flourishing branches and leaves.

Not far away, the maple trees flapped their wings like a burning bird.

The plane trees are all over the ground, even the ground is colorful, and the landscape is like a fairyland.

They got off at the terminus, but had to walk several hundred meters to reach the hotel.

Fortunately, the journey was smooth and there was nothing in the suitcase.

They dragged their luggage and strolled in a special sea made of flowers and leaves.

Along the way, the sun shone from the leaves from time to time, jumped on Ai Hoshino's denim jacket, and shone on her charming shoulders.

Regardless of the temperature of the wind, the forest seemed warm and alive just by the sight of her exuberant interest in everything.

"Autumn!" On the forest road, Ai Hoshino stopped, looked at the leaves all over the sky, stretched out her arms and sighed.

"It's autumn." Makimura Taku said behind her.

"Hey, tell me, don't we seem to have traveled through winter!"

"Indeed." Mucuntuo looked at the maple leaves under his feet, "It's hard to imagine coming here all of a sudden from the snow."

The fire-like bird twittered and mingled into the branches.

"It turns out that after winter comes autumn!"

"It's spring."

"It's autumn!"

"Yes, it is autumn."

The leaves floating on the road and the dried shells of cicadas that died in late summer made an unusually crisp sound under my feet.

As they dragged their luggage forward, they kicked away pine nuts or fallen leaves that were about to shatter.

Until the hotel clearly appeared in front of them, they checked in.

Like in Echigo Yuzawa, they settled their luggage and their lives for the next few days here.

The time before lunch, they came out of the hotel and walked to the bicycle rental shop.

Mucun Taku rented a black off-road bike, while Hoshino Ai chose a more casual white bike.

They set off from the door of the store, rode on their bikes, listened to the sound of the wind passing by their ears, and felt the golden light shining from above their heads.

Sometimes it speeds up and overtakes, and sometimes it slows down and goes parallel.

The bells of bicycles lingered in the driveway like a euphonium, drifting into the quiet hollow.

The tires rolled over the ground, and the scattered leaves chased behind the car like forest elves.

As far as the eye can see, there is a breath of autumn.

Sure enough, after winter comes autumn, Mu Cuntuo suddenly remembered what she said.

Tired of riding, they parked the car on the side of the road.

Makimura sat casually on the ground on a step, and Hoshino Ai squatted nearby to observe the ant's burrow.

"What season do you like?" Ai Hoshino suddenly asked him nonchalantly.

"Summer." Mu Cuntuo picked up the red fallen leaves, but the fallen leaves shattered immediately.

"why?"

"Secret." Makimura Taku said.

Ai Hoshino looked back at him.

"I can't have a secret?"

"Of course." Ai Hoshino smiled, "I like winter."

"The reason is a secret."

Hoshino Ai shook her head, straightened her body, and sat down next to Mucun Taku regardless of whether the ground was dirty or not.

She picked up a leaf that was half red and half green, and the leaf was full of holes: "I liked those days, those days in Echigo Yuzawa."

"Because of the snow?"

She shook her head.

"Because of the elk?"

She still denies it.

"I can't guess." Mu Cuntuo surrendered.

Ai Hoshino stretched out the leaves to the sky, and the faint sunlight shone through the cracks and small holes.

She squinted her eyes and looked over: "I think those few days were very happy, very happy!"

"How happy?"

"It's like the whole person has fallen asleep in honey. It's like floating into the blue sky and getting into the white cloud that I like the most."

"You really like sweets?"

"Idiot?"

"Kidding."

"I know."

Under the tree, they sat there quietly, observing the shadow cast by the tree meticulously.

The shadow of the tree deviated from its original position.

"It's a feeling I've never had before." After a long time, Ai Hoshino made a voice, "I can't describe why I am so happy and happy. When I think of winter, I think of torii gates, shrines, and fried tempura." , I think of skiing and snowball fights, I think of Strawberry Village, I think of hot springs, I think of the moonlight, I think of coffee houses... You also remember the daffodil? In short, it seems that there is an electric current passing through the body. I like it very much and I am very happy. Why? ?”

A sudden gust of wind blew past the bodies of the two of them, blowing the leaves all over the ground and flying in the sky.

Hoshino covered the wind and sand with her hands until the wind stopped.The wind died down quickly.

"I like it very much." Makimura Taku told her, "This reason is enough."

"But I don't even know why I like it."

"That's all right."

She turned her head and saw the bright dawn shining on the boy's face through the clouds, through the luxuriant leaves, through the faint mist, and through many obstacles.

Although she had already noticed it, she still didn't expect the young man in front of her to be so dazzling.

"Is it all right?" she asked.

"You'll still love fall, and you'll still love summer, and you'll still love spring."

"Do you like it too much?"

"Aren't you Ai Hoshino?"

Hoshino Ai looked at him.

"You are the most greedy girl in the world, what's wrong with liking a little more?"

"I……"

"Great, greedy Ai Hoshino, isn't he?"

"That's right." Ai Hoshino had an unprecedented smile on her face.

The shadows of the trees are mottled, passers-by and other pedestrians drive by, and the sound of bicycle bells is still sweet and clear.

"I think, I fell in love with winter in Echigo Yuzawa!"

"It's actually autumn."

"winter!"

"winter."

Hoshino Ai also stood up, and brushed her long hair away from her ears with her hands, the remaining weak wind only stirred the ends of her hair.

In Makimura Taku's view, that look is no different from the flower fairies coming from the fairyland.

"Mucun-kun." She smiled beautifully, brighter than cherry blossoms, and more charming than sycamores.

"Next, I want to enjoy autumn in this place, in Karuizawa."

"You are Hoshino Ai, just like it."

She tilted her head and blinked her star-like eyes: "Is it okay?"

The wind was noisy, but the leaves did not make a lot of movement, as if it was the sound of a heartbeat.

"..." Mucuntuo came back to his senses, and smiled back, "Yes, please enjoy autumn in Karuizawa."

"How to do?"

"Go shopping, stroll along the river, go boating, eat a bite of ice cream when it's lukewarm, taste the most delicious apple pie in the world, and so on."

"not enough."

"Fishing, shopping in bookstores, passing by churches, and saying once in front of Western-style buildings: I like this place and the autumn in Karuizawa."

"not enough!"

"There are many more." Makimura Taku told her.

Hoshino Ai traced the smile straight away.

"Makimura-kun." She put her hands behind her back, and the wind brought her fragrance to Takumura. She said happily, "Please, let me like autumn in Karuizawa."

"Well, after winter, I like autumn." Mu Cuntaku smiled, "It's weird."

"No." Ai Hoshino said, "Because after winter comes autumn."

　Thanks to [Ms. Lu, is lunch today] [VixSang] [Nickname has been registered] for the reward.

　　Thank you [Sun Yao DC] for the monthly pass.

　　Thank you all for your votes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)