I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

You can't get in from the outside, and you can't get out from the inside. It's a place that is isolated from the world, but it's a pity that it's not a paradise.

It was not until the construction of the Kitanosawa Reservoir that the local Japanese government noticed this village. Not only did they help the local villagers relocate to nearby Pyongyang, which was more suitable for living, they also provided them with a large sum of compensation.

This compensation also became the starting capital for New Taipei City's Sawamura to upgrade its reputation as a tourist attraction. Afterwards, various media outlets praised Asakura Yuichiro's decision and wrote extensively about it, which in turn gave New Taipei City's Sawamura a big advertisement.

As time goes by, the once run-down village has gradually developed into a famous winter tourist attraction that is no less than other big city tourist attractions with the help of compensation provided by the government.

Especially when Serabelle and others took the special bus to the village entrance at noon, the pure white scenery that came into view at the first sight when they got off the bus instantly conquered everyone's eyes.

"Oh~ This is what they call the northern scenery: thousands of miles of ice and snow!"

Masumi Sera exhaled a puff of white mist from the collar of his down jacket, and exclaimed loudly at the new northern Ze Village with a banner with the words "Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Village" hanging at the main gate of the village.

Then she turned around and patted the shoulder of Serabelle, who was getting off the bus with a suitcase, and said with a smile.

"Brother, do you have anything you want to say?"

"Um……"

Serabelle nodded slightly, thought for a moment and organized her words before slowly uttering a sentence.

“It feels like we’re in Inuit territory.”

"What kind of rhetoric is this!"

The girl with tiger teeth complained loudly.

Even she can utter a few words, but why does she just fail when it comes to you?

What do you mean by "feeling like I'm in Inuit territory"? Even if you really don't know what to say, the worst that can happen is just to say "it's so beautiful"!

But it's not hard to understand why Serabelle said that.

You should know that the Inuit are most well-known in the world for their unique igloos, and at a glance at Kitazawa Village in front of us, almost all the decorations on the central avenue extending from the village gate are carved out of ice.

From the simplest ice bricks to the exquisite ice sculptures of various small animals, all of them sparkled in the midday sun. Coupled with the cheerful Christmas tunes played on the street lamp radio, it really gives people a sense of déjà vu of an Arctic resort.

As for the complaints from her sister, Serabell just shrugged calmly.

What I want to express is probably - yes, that's it.

So you are still very proud...

As you head inward from the main gate of the village, the atmosphere of the carnival resort becomes increasingly intense. Tourists from other places can be seen everywhere on the central avenue, while the roadsides on both sides are lined with various snack stalls.

Judging from their accents, only some of them are local residents of Kitanozawa Village, and the rest are mostly from other places who come here to do business during this period.

Continue walking inside through the central avenue. Without the obstruction of various ice sculptures, the view is wider. You can see that the back half of the village is the residential area for local villagers, as well as hotels and shops.

There is also a long ski resort and an open-air hot spring surrounded by wooden houses on the distant mountain.

Looking at the whole thing, the village entrance is actually the quietest part of the entire Kitazawa Village.

According to tourism rules, after arriving at the scenic spot, you should naturally choose the most crowded activity first.

After all, more people means more fun, so... Serabelle and others chose to go to the hotel where they were staying to put their luggage first.

Because it is located in the mountains and is restricted by geographical conditions, the hotel is naturally designed as a B&B.

It is very similar to the B&B where Serabelle, Mrs. Suzuki and others stayed in Izu, with a restaurant on the first floor and accommodation on the second floor.

The heating facilities are also quite adequate. When you walk through the main entrance of the hotel from outside to inside, you can clearly feel a burst of hot air blowing on your face, which instantly thaws your cheeks that were originally a little stiff from the wind outside.

"Oh~ It's still warm inside after all."

As soon as Kogoro Mori entered the hotel lobby, he couldn't wait to walk towards the front desk.

It was not only because the front desk was close to the air-conditioning outlet, but also because Kitanozawa Village was extremely popular. Less than five minutes after they got off the bus at the village entrance, another busload of tourists arrived.

The hotel is so small, it is really important to book a room early.

Serabelle and others were waiting at the stairs leading upstairs.

At this moment, brisk double footsteps suddenly came down the stairs, followed by a very familiar voice.

"Hurry up, sister. I'll go to the restaurant downstairs to order food and wait for you~"

As the saying goes, you hear the voice before you see the person. When Xiaolan heard the voice, she looked in the direction almost instantly.

"Sonoko?!"

yeah?

Serabelle and the others were a little slow to react, but they also looked up at the stairs.

"……orchid?"

Almost at the same time, the girl with a hairband who had just walked down from the second floor and had not yet reached the corner of the stairs suddenly leaned over the railing and looked down. She immediately revealed a look of surprise and rushed down to the crowd.

"Lan! Why are you here too?"

"It's really you, Sonoko..."

Xiaolan was a little overwhelmed when she met her best friend in a foreign land.

"It's Conan. Conan said he wanted to come here to play so we came together. But Sonoko, you... Sonoko, don't you hate going out in winter? Why did you come here to play?"

"Well, to put it bluntly, it's because of my sister~"

Yuanzi smiled helplessly and spread his hands.

"My older sister Ayako insisted on coming here to play, but my brother-in-law was too busy at home to have time, so he forced me to come here."

At this time, another female voice was heard again from the stairs above.

"... Sonoko, what do you mean by forced?"

She was a young woman with similar hair color and appearance to Sonoko, but with long ponytail and always smiling, giving people the impression of being very gentle and virtuous.

She came to the first floor in front of everyone and held up her cheek, exposing Miss Sonoko's lies.

"To be honest, you had a lot of fun skiing this morning, Sonoko."

"Ahahaha...really?"

Sonoko scratched her head awkwardly and tried to change the subject.

Ayako didn't torture her sister too much on this topic. She quickly turned to Serabelle beside her and clapped her hands happily.

"I guess you are Sera-kun, right?"

"……you know me?"

Serabelle thought about it, but wasn't surprised.

Ayako smiled: "Well, although this is technically our first meeting, I've heard about you from Sonoko and my mother before, especially my mother, she also praised you very much~"

You are full of praise for this, is it serious...

Chapter 470 Mom can’t possibly do that!

Traveling is one of the greatest pleasures in life, and traveling with friends is even more enjoyable.

So after lunch, Serabelle was decisively dragged by Masumi Sera to the ski resort near Kitanosawa Village.

However, although it is a nearby ski resort, it actually belongs to Kitanosawa Village in essence, so even the sign of the ski equipment rental shop on the top of the mountain where the ski resort is located has the three big words "Kitanosawa" on it.

The sun was shining brightly on the top of the snow-capped mountain in the afternoon, but there was also a cold wind howling.

The ski resort is divided into three tracks. One of them is for ordinary tourists to play casually, while the other one is open to ordinary tourists, but everyone there takes skiing seriously and treats it as a competitive sport.

To give an example, it is probably the difference between the paddling pool and the competition pool in a swimming pool.

As for the other track, it is the "motor vehicle track", and the tourists coming and going on it are not on skis, but all riding snowmobiles.

Masumi Sera only took a glance at the snowmobiles parked in the rental shop and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Dude, let's go play that!"

"…You want to go snowmobiling?"

Serabelle was a little confused.

Logically speaking, when you go to a ski resort for the first time, shouldn’t you first experience the fun of skiing?

What's fun about snowmobiling?

Except that you're riding a motorcycle in the snow...it's still riding a motorcycle in essence.

Serabelle turned her head and looked to the other side, and saw that not far from the top of the mountain, Xiaolan, Sonoko, Ayako and three other little ones had already arrived at the door of the ski equipment rental shop and were about to go in.

"But I see that Xiaolan and the others seem to be planning on going for normal skiing. Is it really okay for just the two of us to go snowmobiling?"

"Oh, it's okay!"

Masumi Sera took the boy's arm and walked towards the snowmobile rental place.

"They are them and we are us. Besides, it will be the same if we go skiing with them after we finish playing snowmobiling here!"

Is it really okay for you to compete with your classmates at the speed of light like this... Serabelle thought.

Meanwhile, inside the ski equipment store.

Xiaolan stood in front of the shelf holding the ski board she had chosen. She was choosing the protective gear she would wear for skiing.

In fact, there is nothing much to choose from. The store provides limited protective gear, and the styles are all similar. The only difference is the color.

If she likes red, she can just choose red protective gear. Besides, there are red ski protective gear on the shelves.

However, it is such a simple thing, Xiaolan has been standing there for almost two or three minutes. If you look closer, you will find that the girl's eyes are a little dazed.

However, this state did not last forever. With a burst of brisk footsteps, she walked around the shelves behind her and appeared at the other end of the corridor between the shelves with goggles and a knitted hat on her forehead.

She poked her head in and took a look, then waved and called out.

"Lan, you're here. Have you picked out everything? My sister and the little brat have chosen theirs. It's almost time to go~"

"Oh……"

Xiaolan was startled by the voice and blinked her eyes before coming back to her senses.

Following the sound, Yuanzi had already walked to her side. Seeing her friend looking like she had just woken up from a dream, she couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"What's wrong, Lan? You seem absent-minded. Are you feeling unwell? Or is it..."

The first half of the sentence is quite serious, but in the second half, Miss Sonoko's tone suddenly changes and becomes meaningful.

"Oh, I see. Could it be that she is in Niigata Prefecture and is thinking about her new boyfriend in Tokyo? She can't help but worry whether he will meet a new girl during the days she is away?"

"What new boyfriend? What are you talking about, Sonoko..."

Xiaolan was very upset.

Yuanzi covered her mouth with a smile and patted her friend's shoulder: "Just kidding, just kidding, it just reminded me of the status you posted a few days ago. I never saw you post photos of yourself drinking milk tea before, but you suddenly posted it that day. I thought you were hanging out with a new boy you met... Hey, since there is no one else around now, Lan, tell me honestly, did you really go to your aunt's office that day?"

"Of course it's true!"

Xiaolan felt even more helpless.

"The photos were taken at the bus stop near my mom's office. Besides, I wouldn't have gone out on such a cold night if I hadn't been sending some specialty snacks I bought in Kyoto to my mom."

"What a shame. What a shame."

Yuanzi shook his head and said with a look of disappointment.

Xiaolan felt a bit of a headache when she saw her like this, because Sonoko had argued with her countless times in this unyielding tone about breaking up with Kudo Shinichi as soon as possible and finding a new love.

It's obvious that I still don't have a partner.

Then, as if she had an idea in a flash, Xiaolan suddenly let out an "oh".

"By the way, Yuanzi, have you ever bought milk tea?"

"Lan, your question is very disrespectful..."

"Sorry sorry, that's not what I meant!"

Xiaolan quickly waved her hands when she realized that what she said was too easy to be misunderstood.

"Actually, what I want to say is, Yuanzi, have you ever paid attention to the data on the label outside the milk tea cup? Is that the order quantity..."

"The number of points you bought at one time is the order quantity."

Without waiting for her friend to finish speaking, Sonoko said as if it was a matter of course.

"For example, if you bought one cup of coconut milk and one cup of green milk tea at the same time, the order quantity would be two. Speaking of which, that was why I was curious and asked you if you had found a new boyfriend when you posted the status update before. After all, you specifically displayed the order quantity on the label in the status update, and the background was late at night, so I thought it was your new boyfriend who bought it for you."