Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 998 998. Strange question

It won't make him wait too long.

At this moment, Shinichi Iwahashi was probably in the audience of LIVEHOUSE, watching his teammates perform on stage.For Christmas Eve performances, when arranging the order of the songs, the new Christmas songs will definitely be placed in the finale or encore.

Even if Akina Nakamori was not at the scene, she could still imagine something about the performance in her mind.What came to my mind at the same time was the scene of Iwahashi Shinichi leaving the small and bustling LIVEHOUSE to go to the appointment.

Hearing what Chieko said, she stood up and went to call the taxi company.Before leaving, I chatted with my mother, "Will everyone celebrate New Year's Eve together this year?"

The "everyone" refers to the members of the Nakamori family.

Chieko gave an affirmative answer, "Christmas is over, and it's time to prepare the food boxes for the New Year." Speaking of this, she was in a good mood.

Nakamori Akina was also a little nostalgic, "It's been a long time since I saw Heita-kun, and Chika-chan..."

These are her little nephews and nieces.

Chieko smiled.Her tone sounded like she was promising her daughter, "At that time, everyone will watch the red and white song together and cheer for Mingcai sauce... For Yanqiao, I will only whisper 'Come on!' in my heart .”

The separated sons and daughters are still connected by invisible and intangible threads because of the existence of their mother. Even though they have little contact with Akina Nakamori, they will still be by their mother's side and cheer for their sister on TV together.

Just like when the children were young, Chieko maintained the harmony between the family and brothers and sisters by herself.

Nakamori Akina laughed at her mother's words of quietly cheering for Iwahashi Shinichi.After hesitating for a moment, he still asked, "Where's father?"

The Nakamori Building was sold, and Akio Nakamori ran away in anger after his investment in the stock market failed, and a year passed.Christmas is over, and New Year's Eve is approaching. I don't know if he will come home.

In any case, Akio Nakamori did not mail the divorce papers to his wife, nor did he disappear.

During this year, Nakamori Akina heard from her mother about Kiyose's shopping street, a store that she used to frequent when she was a child. The owner of the store closed down and the head of the household disappeared because of investing huge sums of money in the stock market.

I also heard about a small shop that was originally inherited by the eldest son. Because of the soaring land price, it attracted dissatisfaction from other brothers and sisters. In order to fight for the family property, the relatives did not hesitate to fight against each other.

It's no different from the fact that there are many conflicts in the family because of a daughter who is a celebrity, and the warmth of the past disappears... It's no different.

To her daughter's question, Qian Huizi didn't even bat an eyelid, and quickly replied, "I don't know." She looked at her daughter's worried appearance, and said in a nonchalant tone, "Don't think too much, Ming Caijiang."

The mother is chic and generous, able to afford and let go.But in a sense, it was also because the couple had been arguing non-stop since they were young, and Akio Nakamori would run away when things went wrong, often leave the house for a while and leave the house to his wife, and come back after a while as if nothing had happened.

Nakamori Akina found comfort from her mother's attitude.The mood also relaxed, paused, and discussed with her again, "Tell Yanqiao, how about inviting him to come to play at home during the New Year?"

Qian Huizi clapped her hands and said it was a good idea, "Of course I welcome it anytime."

Let me introduce you to Rock Bridge.

Akina Nakamori, who left her mother and got into a taxi, quietly filled in the words that Chieko hadn't said.And this, of course, was the reason she discussed with her mother and invited Yanqiao to her home to play during the New Year.

Regardless of the family relationship, since they are still connected because of the existence of their mother, Nakamori Akina cannot give up the idea of ​​introducing serious boyfriends to them.

Even if it's just out of love and respect for Yanqiao Shinichi, I still want to spread myself completely in front of him.

Good or bad, no matter what, let him know.

……

Tokyo on Christmas Eve is not like a city that exists in the real world.

To be precise, Tokyo in the entire bubble era gives people a feeling as if it exists in a dream anytime and anywhere.Like the background of a video game, like that giant Disneyland in Chiba... blah blah blah.

Shinichi Iwahashi sat in the taxi and looked out the window.As the car moved forward, the colorful neon lights outside the car window suddenly melted into a ball, like huge colorful bubbles in the sun.

He and Nakamori Akina met at a cafe in Ginza.Today, he is going to see the performance of DREAMS COME TRUE, and Akina Nakamori is going back to have dinner with his mother.Although the performance ended not early, she was going from Kiyose to Ginza, and the distance was far enough.

Even after the performance, Shinichi Iwahashi went to the backstage to greet the staff, and was treated as a hot pot side dish by Miwa sauce, and he was sure that Akina Nakamori would not be kept waiting.

Accepting Miwa-chan's uninhibited "good words", Iwahashi Shinichi left the backstage, and finally took a taxi - the starting price was [-] yen.No way, Christmas Eve is still the prime time of night.In a moment of hesitation, the next drunk guy can jump in line.The young men and women hooking their shoulders and shoulders, got themselves half drunk before midnight.

Not decisive enough, even the taxi will be robbed.It is no wonder that everyone is scrambling to be the first, for fear of falling behind in the general profligacy of others.

In a sense, the frenzy of the bubble era has subtle similarities with the scramble to buy toilet paper during the oil crisis.

Yanqiao Shinichi couldn't help but think in his heart, although the bubble has burst, but before this era comes to an end, he still has to endure occasionally, these inexplicable things.

He checked the time, took out his mobile phone from his bag, turned it on, and called Nakamori Akina first.After a while, the call came back, "Moshi Moshi~ Shinichi?"

Although it was a question, her tone was actually quite definite.

Although the mobile phone Nakamori Akina gave him before was not really used as a dedicated call line with her, it was not too different.However, considering the impressive standby time of the current mobile phones, they are basically kept turned off. When they need to be used, they should be turned on first, make a paging call to make sure they can be connected, and then use the mobile phone to contact them.

Add this extra step, and it's only a little more convenient than calling from the ubiquitous roadside phone booths.

……

Ginza is well-planned, a rare neighborhood in Tokyo.Therefore, in addition to being the most prosperous area in Tokyo, the most expensive area... etc., it is also a very good place for pressing the road.

On Christmas Eve, the streets that have been carefully decorated are colorful and full of fiery trees and silver flowers.It was late at night, but compared to the past, the streets were still bustling.However, at this time, the men and women who had been partying all night almost moved to the next block.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Akina Nakamori walked shoulder to shoulder along the road under the tall buildings.The trees planted by the roadside are wrapped with colorful lights, and the lights cast by them are reflected on the black windows of the cars parked by the roadside, like a river of stars in the night sky.

Akina Nakamori turned to look at Shinichi Iwahashi, but was blinded by the light.She lowered her eyelids, suddenly took off the glove on her left hand, and handed that hand to Iwahashi Shinichi's.

"Sigh~"

She was a little exaggerated and called out softly.

After attracting the attention of Iwahashi Shinichi, and when he turned his face to himself, Akina Nakamori wrinkled his nose at him and whispered, "Shinichi's fingers are cold."

Shinichi Iwahashi never wears gloves in winter.

However, when she said that, Yanqiao Shinichi didn't let go of her hand, but instead grabbed her hand that was warmed by the glove, calmly, and replied, "Then I will borrow your light."

"You can really talk." Akina Nakamori muttered to him, but still smiled.

Compared with the nianxiajun who was too thoughtful when we first started dating, the thick-skinned nianxiajun is better now.This idea flashed by, and she added: "Please don't be polite, just use it."

It's generous enough.

But Yanqiao Shinichi didn't answer any more, just took her hand and walked across the wide road with her.Sometimes when I run into passers-by who meet me head-on, the other person recognizes these two strollers at a glance, with undisguised surprise on their faces.

Besides, couples walking hand in hand are already eye-catching.

However, probably because the two of them were acting together, even if they were recognized, the passers-by on the opposite side would just look away and walk past them, at most paying attention to this couple who will be in the limelight in the second half of this year .

Although it is particularly conspicuous to walk hand in hand, Nakamori Akina does not intend to let go of this hand, and Iwahashi Shinichi also accompanied her, and experienced with her the feeling of being noticed from time to time.

Of course, Shinichi Iwahashi also subtly noticed that the more Akina Nakamori was recognized, the more he would not let go.For a while, he couldn't understand this stubbornness, but he still followed her.

To some extent, this walking experience is quite novel.

"Tonight's performance must be wonderful, right?" Nakamori Akina chatted with him.

Iwahashi Shinichi said "hmm", "The atmosphere in the arena is also very good. Staying in the cheering audience, I also became a fan unconsciously—"

When he said this, he joked to himself, "However, I was originally Yoshida-san's number one fan." Because I was her number one fan, I went all out to promote her, bit the bullet and became an agent, and went all the way up to now.

Hearing what he said, Nakamori Akina smiled.

"It's time for me to ask." Yanqiao Shinichi added such an opening sentence as if deliberately teasing her, which made Akina Nakamori give him a slight stare.

Accepting this non-aggressive glance, Iwahashi Shinichi said in a more serious tone, "Is Chieko-san all right?"

"Yeah." Nakamori Akina nodded, and said to him, "Everything is fine, and I seem to be in a very cheerful mood, and I have recently learned the art of patchwork." He said with a smile, "It seems to be inspired by Baihui-san After Momoe Yamaguchi retired, apart from being a housewife, the only thing that appeared in the public eye was making patchwork art works.

"On New Year's Eve, the eldest brother and the second brother will go with their families to celebrate the New Year with their mother." Akina Nakamori hesitated for a moment when she said this, and glanced at Shinichi Iwahashi quietly, "...I feel that my mother is very lonely by herself."

"However," she continued, "my mother doesn't think so. I believe that my mother can do everything beautifully, and I won't say that I'm not lonely when I'm lonely, or lie like that, but I still worry about her. .”

As soon as Yanqiao Shen heard it, he wanted to say something, but Nakamori Akina just talked about his own, and didn't ask for anything from him.Realizing this, he listened silently.

Nakamori Akina changed the subject, and told him that he went to the shopping street to do some shopping. Speaking of Kiyose's shopping street, which is also decorated with glittering decorations today, "...Compared with Ginza, of course it is small and old. However, it seems But it's warm."

She wrinkled her nose and laughed at herself: "No one will compare Ginza with Kiyose's shopping street?"

Shinichi Iwahashi continued, "The shopping street in Shizuoka has no atmosphere even on Christmas Eve, probably not as good as Kiyose...it can't even be compared with Ginza." He imitated Akina Nakamori, "No one would take Shizuoka's shopping street and..."

Just halfway through the conversation, Nakamori Akina laughed straight away.

She squeezed Iwahashi Shinichi's hand hard, "Like an idiot." However, is it that Iwahashi Shinichi who said all these things is an idiot, or is it that Iwahashi Shinichi who said these idiot words for her is an idiot himself? ,I do not know.

"By the way, I was still in Kiyase's shopping street, and I heard the new single of DREAMS COME TRUE." She didn't know what to say, or to get rid of that stupid topic.

"After all, it's a Christmas song, and it's just been released." Yanqiao Shinichi replied.

Akina Nakamori asked him—it was a question, and she used a declarative tone, "This song must have been sung in tonight's performance." She and Shinichi Iwahashi verified their reasoning, "I guess, it's either the finale or the Encore."

"Could it be that you didn't go back to Kiyose, but went to see the band's performance?"

Yanqiao Shinichi pretended to be surprised, but unfortunately his acting skills were only [-] points, so he was immediately disgusted by Akina Nakamori.It seems that not only is it stamped that they have no singing talent, but they also have no acting talent.I can only be a producer and spend some time.

While chatting and laughing, the two decided to go to the bar that Yanqiao Shenyi often patronizes for a drink first.In fact, I didn't make any plans for Christmas Eve. I just remembered that every time I go out, I will go back home when I have enough wandering outside——

Of course, go to Nakamori Akina's house.

Not only because Kenta Inuzi was left alone at home, but also because of the large Christmas stocking hanging above her bed.

"Actually," Shinichi Iwahashi discussed with her, "If there is no arrangement on Christmas Eve next year, how about going to the DREAMS COME TRUE performance together?"

He suddenly mentioned this, Nakamori Akina didn't answer for a while.

Yanqiao Shinichi turned his face away and looked at her.This Nakamori Akina looked like she hadn't heard anything.After a while, I looked at him and murmured, "What's so 'how'."

Her tone seemed to be complaining, and what Yanqiao Shinichi asked was strange.

(End of this chapter)