Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 454 The secret picked up

The size of the Wakatei guest room can only be described as average, but the open-air hot spring pool underneath is astonishingly large.

At a glance, the water vapor is dense, rising and lingering, like morning fog in the mountains.The boulders beside the pool support mottled bamboo pipes, and several sections are connected and switched to send the hot springs from nowhere into the pool.

Naruse glanced at the edge of the pool twice and didn't even see the boundary at the other end of the hot spring pool.

"It's really big..."

Taking off his towel, he tested the temperature of the hot spring and then slowly got into the water.

The water temperature was a little too high, so he couldn't sit down for a while, so he simply soaked in the hot spring and continued walking.

The deepest part of the hot spring pool is only up to the waist, but it shows a green color. Most of the stones on the edge of the pool and in the pool are stained with the color of time.

Maybe everyone was planning to come to the hot springs for a while before dinner. There were a lot of people coming at this time, and since it was a men's bath, all of them were old men at first glance.

Naruse walked inside, found a place with no one around, and sat down against the hot stones.

Not far behind you is the tall hot spring fence.One side of the hotel is backed by a hillside and surrounded by many trees.

It’s all about blocking the view.

He glanced at the wooden wall on the other side. Beyond that, there should be the women's bath.

He, Shangzi and the others separated at the entrance of the bathtub. They just said they would come out when they were done soaking, without deliberately agreeing on a time.

After getting used to it for a while, Naruse slowly sat in the hot spring.

"hiss……"

He leaned against the rocks beside the pool and resisted the idea of ​​standing up. He took a while to adapt before actually sitting down.

"The temperature is indeed higher than other hot springs..."

When his body gradually relaxed, he looked up at the sky that was slightly covered with twilight, and slowly closed his eyes.

"..."

Opening his eyes and looking at the slightly twilight sky above his head, Starfish turned his head and saw that the rear wheel of the fallen bicycle was still spinning.

"pain……"

Sitting up with support, she adjusted her glasses and looked at her right elbow where the pain was most obvious. Sure enough, the skin was scratched and blood was flowing out.

"Hoo, hoo!"

After blowing hard twice to blow away some gravel and dust around the wound, Haixing stood up and checked other parts of his body.

Fortunately, thanks to the fact that I was wearing jeans, there was nothing wrong with anything else, except for the elbow, which was slightly badly injured.

I dusted myself off and felt another pain in my arm.

While grinning, he helped the fallen bicycle up. Haixing checked the wine box at the back and found that one side was indeed cracked.

It looked like it could still be used, but it was a bargain. There were plenty of wine boxes at home, so she was going to go back and get a new one.

Putting down her footrest, stopping the bicycle, she looked back again, and sure enough she saw a medium-sized stone on the road.

It was this rock that caught her off guard and overturned her car.

He kicked the stone away, and with a thud, it fell into the paddy field on the side of the road.

Fortunately, there was no one on the road, otherwise it would have been a big loss.

Looking at the wound on his arm again, Haixing got back on his bicycle and hurried back.

"Fortunately, I didn't fall down when I came over..."

Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t be able to keep those bottles of wine.

Fortunately, she didn't fall into the paddy field, otherwise she would have been upset all day.

Although the day is almost over...

Starfish pedaled the car while looking at the western sky.

The time is not that late, but those golden clouds floating in the sky always make people think of dusk and evening at a glance.

...Ah, I got distracted again.

She took a breath and looked forward again.

It was because she was distracted just now that she had no time to react, otherwise she wouldn't have fallen so badly.

After riding along the prefectural road for a few minutes, she crossed Shimo Aoyagi Bridge and continued forward. When she was about to pass the intersection of Naruse's house, she subconsciously glanced inside.

He was still traveling outside, so of course he couldn't appear suddenly.

Somehow, she suddenly turned the front of the car, pedaled twice more, and rode inside.

There was no one in the two neighboring houses on the left and right. She still took a second look and checked carefully before stopping in the yard of Naruse's house.

She moved closer to the window, her own face reflected in the glass.

"..."

Staring at the empty living room for a while, Haixing sighed.

What on earth is she doing... Come here early to check out the place, and prepare to break in at night when no one is around?

Suddenly something hit my feet.

Starfish looked down and saw that the flower pot placed by the door had been knocked crooked by her.

She moved it again with her foot, but it seemed that she moved it in the wrong direction, and something was exposed under the removed flower pot.

"..."

Starfish squatted down suddenly, shrank his head again, and looked around.

At this moment, she suddenly felt like she was really being a thief.

Under the flower pot is a key.

The key to his house.

She stretched out her hand and found that her hand was shaking.

Picking up the keys, she quickly got on her bicycle and rode back home in one breath.

Plop, plop--

Her chest was pounding. It was only a few hundred meters from his house to her hotel, and she felt as if she had ridden ten thousand meters and couldn't calm down.

"Starfish is back...what happened to the arm? Did it fall?"

Maki Seiichiro quickly noticed the wounds on his daughter's body, asked quickly, and went in to look for the medicine box before she could answer.Starfish looked down at his arm, and then he remembered that he had fallen on the road before.

Seiichiro quickly came out with the medicine box at home, "Let's go wash it first."

"it is good……"

Starfish took a few steps inside and then turned back.

"The wine box was broken."

Seiichiro was startled, then shook his head, "As long as the person is fine."

After washing the wound clean and treating it briefly, Haixing sat down and stared outside in a daze.

Seiichiro looked at his daughter for a while, "Did you hit your head?"

"Huh?...Oh, no."

Haixing came to his senses, took off his apron, and then went to replace the wine box on the back seat of the bicycle.

After finding a good wine box and loading it, she returned to the room and sat for a while, then suddenly asked: "Are there no other orders?"

"Nothing."

Seiichiro looked at his dumbfounded daughter and couldn't help but ask again: "Did you really not hit your head just now?"

Haixing gave him a strange look, "No?"

"Where are the other parts of my body?"

"No problem...it's just scratched here."

Haixing looked down at the wound on his arm that had been treated, and suddenly said: "I'm going out for a while."

"Where to go?"

"Ichiyo's place."

"Oh, go ahead."

When we arrived at Morimi Furuhonten, Kazuha was indeed here, with a book spread out in front of him and a mobile phone in his hand.

Starfish came to the counter and she also raised her head.

"Busy working."

"Ah."

Morimi nodded, his eyes quickly fell on her arm, and he frowned, "What's wrong?"

"Eh?...Oh, I accidentally fell down while riding my bike."

"Are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's been dealt with."

She still seemed uneasy, so she stood up, leaned out, and took a closer look.

"You weren't injured elsewhere, were you?"

"No." Haixing remembered that his father kept asking questions, so he added, "I'm really fine."

"Ok."

Morimi sat down again, "Be careful when riding."

"Um……"

Starfish responded.

She was also a little absent-minded and stared at the phone for a while. When she looked up, she saw Haixing standing outside, hesitant to speak.

"what happened?"

"what……"

Haixing paused for a while, lowering his eyes to avoid her gaze, "It's okay."

"..."

It doesn't look like it's okay at all.

Morimi thought for a moment, and it was probably his fault that could make her so distracted.

"Did Harumi send you a message?"

"Eh, no."

"Is that Miss Song?"

"nor……"

Morimi stared at her for a while, but Haixing didn't look at her at all, and there was nothing she could do.

She sighed and then asked: "Then have you taken the initiative to contact him in the past two days?"

"No...just chatting in the group."

"I called him last night. He got excited when he mentioned starfish."

"Eh?"

Starfish raised his eyes, "Really?"

"Yes. Although it's the kind of excitement that makes you want to come back and strangle me immediately."

"..."

Starfish rolled his eyes and glanced aside.

"It's better than being cold."

"That's what I said..."

She only stayed here for a while, came here with a lot of worries, and left the bookstore with a lot of worries.

The little time in the evening passed quickly.

After dinner, Haixing was stunned again. Just when Seiichiro was about to say something, she suddenly stood up as if she had made up her mind.

"I made an appointment with Yiye to sleep at her house tonight..."

"Really, I see."

(End of this chapter)