Because there is no limit on the subject and type, the second Hongzi, who was the turn, told a story with a warm tone. As the end approached, the three listeners were not moved yet, and she first showed a warm smile, not knowing whether it was to comfort herself from Kirino.
Akane was very passionate and frightened in the interactive weird conversation.
"call……"
She let out a long breath, and the candlelight just shook for a moment, so she had to get closer and blow it again.
The second candle was extinguished, and a wisp of white smoke emitting the wick, which quickly dissipated. Akane Kirino looked at Sonoya opposite: "It's Sonoya's turn next."
"Um."
Zong Gu responded, but then stood up, "I'll get some drinks."
"Okay, I want juice."
"Mai Cha." Hongzi said, and stood up, "I'll go with you."
"Where is the bell?"
“Everything is OK.”
The two left the living room with the lamp. When they came to the kitchen, Hongzi found four cups carefully and rinsed them. Zong Gu opened the refrigerator and poured two cups of juice first, then two cups of wheat tea.
The air conditioner is still retained in the sealed refrigerator, "I don't know when the electricity will be turned on."
"Whether the power supply is restored or not, Akane's plan is to go to bed after ten strange talks." Hongzi picked up the glass and took a sip. Seeing Zong Gu pick up another cup of wheat tea, she smiled a little.
"I don't know what to say." After taking a few sips, he filled his and Hongzi's cups again, turned off the refrigerator, and prepared to return to the living room.
Hongzi grabbed him and wanted to stay alone with him for a while. "You can tell any story, you can pass the time... like the matter of Zong Gu himself."
"Does my relationship with Kyoko? There is a lot of material to talk about."
“…”
She stretched out her other hand and twisted it gently on his arm, "I want to hear something else."
Zong Gu thought something, and just when Hongzi thought he was going to say something, he picked up the tray and said, "Go back."
Back in the living room, Akane Kirino was baking on the candlelight with a black thing. When Soya approached, he realized it was an old fountain pen.
"Mr. Kirino?"
"No. I forgot where I picked it up."
"Why do you pick up everything?" Zong Gu divided the juice and wheat tea for the three of them.
After taking the blackened pen tip to her eyes for a while, she closed the pen cover and threw it back into her treasure chest, "Hmph, Zong Gu is one of them. Is the story ready?"
"Don't worry."
Zong Gu took a few sips of wheat tea and put down the cup. After glancing, Hongzi was staring at him.
"I have no story to tell, I can only tell you something about it when I was in a children's welfare home before. It may not be interesting, but I'm just a deep impression."
"Okay." Akane Kirino welcomed this very much, wishing him to say more about the past, and Hongko next to her had the same idea.
Chao Wuling silently drank juice, looked at him with both eyes, waiting for him to speak about each other's past.
Zong Gu's eyes drooped, and before he opened his mouth, he had already selected the candle he was about to blow out: "That was when I was fourteen years old..."
[That happened when I was fourteen years old.
One day, Ling and I went to school as usual, and we usually stayed until the school was about to close, so we came back from the school... Club activities? No, Ling and I didn't join any clubs, we just didn't want to contact others, and we also
I don’t want to attract attention. Do you still don’t understand? Then forget it, don’t care. This is not important to what’s next.
I continue to say.
After returning to the welfare home, I found that everyone was busy and seemed to be looking for something. An eleven-year-old child was crying very hard.
Teacher... Well, it's Teacher Ju. Teacher Ju told me and Ling that the child's mother came in the afternoon. Although she didn't take him home, she brought him a lot of snacks and toys, and tricked him into staying there...
Hmm, let's talk about toys.
One of the toys disappeared. Although I just got it, the child said that it was his favorite thing. This is how the child was. He cried so hard that there was no way. Everyone in the welfare home could only help find it.
Did Ling remember it? That's it.
Ling and I went back to the room to put down the things and helped find them. However, the welfare home was not big, and the range of activities that the child could move was very limited. Moreover, the staff had searched for a while before we came back, but still didn't find it.
I feel hope is slim.
Losing things is actually not uncommon in welfare homes, because those who live together are immature children... No, it's not carelessness. I mean, things are not lost, but are "
Take "got...yes, stolen.
That's what my intuition was.
The existence of malicious intention has nothing to do with age. Mature people can only control it and hide it. For children in welfare homes, the most common way to vent malicious intentions is to deliberately XXX others and then according to malicious intentions.
The size determines whether it can be recycled.
Can't understand? Throw it into the toilet and wash it away with water. This is called non-recyclable. Just hide it under the bed... It's fine if you can understand it.
The child lost a panda puppet, saying that his mother bought it from the Panda Park in Tokyo, and the workmanship is very exquisite. Well, I like pandas too... Don't interrupt. In short, that panda puppet is with you
This beautiful head is about the same size, not something that can be flushed into the toilet.
So I started looking for other places that are easier to recycle but not easy to find, such as the roof.
Near the back door of the welfare home, there is a flat-top single-story warehouse, three or four meters high, and no one will usually go there. In my room and I, you can see the platform of the roof from afar.
When I went back to the room, I saw a ball of black and white on the roof over there.
I called a few boys and helped to move the ladder out of the warehouse, then climbed up and took a look. It turned out to be the panda tuta.
I threw the panda tudios down, but they ran away with them.
When I put down the ladder, dragged it into the warehouse, and then returned there, the child was very happy. Not only did he generously lend the newly found panda doll to others to pass on, but he also gave it a lot of snacks for those
The child who came back with a mutton, to show his gratitude.]
Speaking of this, Zong Gu paused for a moment.
【But, those snacks don't have my portion: no one told him that they were the mutton I found and removed.】
Akane Kirino and Hongko were both silent for a few seconds, looked at each other, and then looked at him, waiting for the follow-up.
Zonggu sighed and blew out the candle.
“Hey…”
The two were stunned at the same time.
"Are you finished?"
"It's over."
"So, I was impressed... because I didn't get any snacks?"
"What about it? I can remember this for the rest of my life."
“…”
Akane Kirino wanted to speak but stopped, but opened her mouth for a long time, but didn't know what to say, and finally said "Okay".
There were seven burning candles left on the table, all of which were healthy in length and could last for a long time. Soya spoke dryly, drinking wheat tea, Akane Kiri looked at the last narrator of the first round:
Bell, it's your turn to say it."
Asakulei looked at her, "Do you have time to ask for it?"
"No, it doesn't matter if one story says that all these candles are burned."
The fourth narrator nodded slightly and then spoke:
"The lost panda tuta in the story just now was actually thrown onto the roof of the warehouse by the child himself.
He showed off when he got the toy, but no one was willing to pay attention to him. So he hid the puppet and pretended to be lost. He suddenly got everyone's attention, and also told all the children in the welfare home: he got a cute one
Panda mutte.”
Zong Gu drank wheat tea without sip, silently, and Akane Kirino and Hongzi were both stunned.
"The next day, the panda puppet was really gone. It is not recyclable."
Chaowuling didn't care about how the audience felt at this time. He picked up the third blown candle, pressed it on the selected flame, extinguished it, and declared that the story ended here.
“…”
The atmosphere suddenly became a little solemn. Akane Kirino was still savoring it, and looked at the other three people again.
"It's my turn again?"
"Yeah." Soya nodded.
She took a deep breath, then fell back, "I want to take a break."
None of the three had any objections.
The sound of wind and rain outside kept stopping. Zong Gu got up and walked to the edge. The sliding door was closed and he did not open it. Then he found that some rainwater was still seeping in from the floor.
Hongzi walked behind him with the lamp on the table, and Akane Kiriyo also came over and saw the water stains on the ground.
"ah."
She took the towel, wiped the water stains, and spread the towel on the floor.
"Check it everywhere in the house."
"Is the 'Ten Story' over here?"
"No, the candle can burn for a long time, let's continue when you come back."
Zong Gu looked at the low table with candles again, and sat alone in the candlelight, silent as if he had been a night watchman who had been through countless years. She also looked at him and shook her head to indicate that she would not participate in their patrol inspection.
"Then I'll leave it to you."
"Um."
Before the patrol began, Akane Kirito first took a stack of towels and held them. The desk lamp was handed to Zong Gu's hand. He walked in front and saw the door, and looked at the window. He walked and checked, Hongzi and Akane Kiritoki.
Responsible for the aftermath.
"Is it ten o'clock now?"
"Just after eight o'clock."
"So early..."
"After dinner, we only had a round of weird talks."
Zong Gu held the desk lamp and shone mainly on his feet - even if water leaked on it, it would inevitably flow down.
After walking around outside, Akane Kirino and Hongko threw down a few towels, returned to the house, and began to inspect the rooms on the first floor one by one.
The commonly used rooms have long been given the key attention of Kitano Keiko. The doors and windows are stable, and the occasional water seepage is also the side that is facing the wind and rain. Some waterproofing measures have been taken in advance.
When I came upstairs, everyone's room was on the leeing side, so there was no problem.
“…”
Tsukido lay on the floor in a daze, and was taken by Soya for a while before turning over and turning his back to them.
"What power supply facilities can be repaired tonight?" He felt that he had rested enough, had returned to the best competitive state, and was still waiting for the moment when the power supply was restored.
"You might as well take a look at it yourself." Zong Gu said, and there was no news about him.
Akane Kirino and Akako were confused, but Tsukido was silent for two seconds, "That's right."
"What are you looking at?" Akane Kirino asked.
"News." Soya said.
"Oh. But the news is not so timely, right?"
"It is enough to comfort him to see some news related to it."
Before leaving the room of Yuedu, Akane Kirino looked back and saw that Yuedu on the ground did not take out his cell phone, but pinched something hanging on his chest.
Back in the living room downstairs, Chaowuling was still sitting there. The burning candles on the table did not seem to change at all. It was just that when compared with the candles that were extinguished early next to them, you could see that they were obviously shorter.
Akane Kirino sat down next to her, listening to the whistling wind and rain outside, and then asked, "Don't you feel scared when you're alone?"
She shook her head.
Akane Kirino attributed the reason to the candlelight on the table, "Just looking at it makes people feel relieved... is it because of the light or the heat?"
She asked and answered: "I think it's because of the light."
"In ancient times, humans had no place to live. At night, they could only rely on flames to scare away wild animals. In the long run, they would have an instinctive dependence on flames. When they saw flames, they would feel safe... I said this on TV
of."
Akane Kirino often calls his fantasy guesses as a TV show. If he or one of the Akikoss recognizes, he will add a saying, "I think so myself, too." This time, it may be no exception. Soya
I was too lazy to go into it, just said, "Maybe."
"Don't care about this." Akane Kirino reached out and swept quickly over the candlelight, as if he was restarting some kind of ritual, "Let's go ahead."
"Yeah, it's your turn now."
She looked at the remaining six candles, "If you turn another round, there are two left. Do you want to ignite two more rounds?"
"No need." Soya said, "The last two stories will not take turns, it's all up to you."
"It's good."
Akane Kirino nodded and coughed lightly, "Then I'll start."
【One day, Hongzi…】
"--Wait a moment!"
With his own lessons, Hongzi directly objected, "Change the name."
【Okay, there is a girl named Yoshikawa…】
"Anime!"
Under the compromise of Akane Kirino, the not-so-simple-stories could be restarted. Her choice was still a horrible story. Later, Hongzi talked about something that happened when she was traveling with her family in middle school. It was a beginning and a big deal.
Part of the content was her own guess. However, Akane Kirino was very supportive, sometimes asking questions and sometimes being amazed, which made her improvise and put forward many new guesses.
Next is Zong Gu, who talked about the story of a spirit body he encountered while wandering in the underworld, which was basically a memory of his magnificent life.
"Why haven't the spirits of the Warring States Period dissipated yet?" Akane Kirino's attention is here.
"Because it is in the underworld. There is a dead silence there, but it can keep the spirits immortal." Zong Gu explained.
"Okay. Then, what happened to that warrior?"
"After memories, the heroism surged and mutated."
"Uh-huh?"
"Hold the samurai sword that I don't know where I came from and chased me for a long time."
“Hey…”
Zong Gu blew out the seventh candle, "Of course, the end result is this - I let him go completely."
Then Akagiri, who spoke, told the love story of a garden geisha. There were many details, as if she had seen it with her own eyes, and finally ended with a tragedy. Akagi Kirino was a little sad, and Hongko burst into tears when she heard it. .
The two rounds ended, and there were only two last candles left on the table. The lights swayed, and the glimmer could only illuminate a little range. The remaining length was not much, but it was enough to accommodate two more stories.
Akane Kirino looked around and said, "Do you want to say it?"
Zong Gu shook his head: "If you want to say it, start it right away."
"Okay~"
"—Wait." He suddenly interrupted her, listening with his ears in his mouth, "There is a voice."
"What sound..."
"Shh."
“…”
The few of them calmed down and held their breath. Soon, Akane Kirino also heard the seemingly vague noise in the sound of wind and rain.
Da, da, da...
Like the sound of footsteps.
Getting closer.
She looked in the direction where the sound came.
Two black shadows stood at the door of the living room, looking coldly at the candlelight here.
"ah--"
The flashlight lit up.
"It's so lively." One of the shadows came over, it was Kirino Keiko.
"Mother!"
Akane Kirino was surprised and Hiroyuki Kirino also came over and shone the candle on the table with a flashlight.
"Slightly worried, so come and have a look."
Kirino Keiko held her arms and her hair on her forehead was a little wet. The couple came over in a raincoat. Due to the typhoon, there were basically no customers coming. Izakaya was not open today, and they had been staying at home before.
"What are you doing?" she motioned for the candles on the table.
"Hundred Story! Because there are not enough candles, it becomes the 'Ten Story'."
She smiled, looked at the four children by the table, and greeted her a few more words.
Hiroyuki Kirino used a flashlight to check the doors and windows, and saw a towel on the ground, and smiled slightly.
There was a light beside me.
He looked back and saw that Zong Gu was coming with the desk lamp.
"No problem."
"Everything is OK."
Hiroyuki Kirino walked in front, and the two checked around the old house inside. When they returned to the living room, Kirino Keiko sat in Soya and joined the children's "Ten Story".
“…and then, the guest said, ‘I no longer believe in pure friendship between men and women – unless one of them is ugly.’”
"Ha ha."
Akane Kirino smiled, then noticed that her mother glared at her quickly and sighed.
“Eh?”
Blowing out the candle, Kirino Keiko looked back at her husband and Soya beside him, "There is another last story, Hiroyuki, please tell me."
Kirino Hiroyuki walked behind his wife, but did not sit down, but just stood.
"More than 20 years ago, I met a woman I liked in high school. I went with it and dated her naturally. After graduating from college, I also had a daughter. I was very satisfied."
After saying that, he leaned down and blew out the last candle on the table.
Akane Kirino let out a wow.
“…”
Kirino Keiko was a little helpless, looked back at her husband, wanted to laugh, and finally hit him with her elbow, then stood up on the table.
"Okay, the ten stories are over here - it's time for the kid to go back to his room to sleep."