Before going downstairs, he went to the next room to wake up Akane Kirino.
"Hmm ..."
The quilt was kicked aside, and the pajamas were lifted up, revealing her flat belly. She closed her eyes, fought with sleep for a few seconds, and then turned over again.
"I want to sleep for a while..."
"Then Ling and I will go to the countryside with Hongzi first." Zong Gu did not enter and stood at the door, "When Tongye has enough sleep, then take the bus to come."
“…”
Akane Kirino immediately woke up a lot and opened her eyes and said, "No."
She turned her head and looked at the door, "I'll get up right away."
"Um."
Zong Gu went downstairs to prepare breakfast.
He came to Furie and showed his face, saying that he had gotten up. A moment later, Akane Kirino stood behind him.
"It's still very sleepy..." she said yawning.
Add chopped ingredients to the cooking pot and make the fire bigger. "It will take an hour or two to go, so you can sleep for a while on the road."
"All right."
He looked back and saw her mouth open and her long hair was sleeping a little messy.
"Go and wash first."
“Clean my hair.”
"I'm not available."
Complaining to being interrupted by yawning, Akane Kirino covered her mouth and turned away from the kitchen. By the time she had breakfast, her raised hair was already much more obedient, and she became more energetic.
"Did you sleep late last night?"
"It's okay. When I was sleeping, there were still sounds on the confinement period."
"...Who are you comparing with?"
When she mentioned Yue Du, Soya also remembered to explain to him a few words, and after breakfast, she went upstairs.
"You're going out again?"
Yue Du didn't even open her eyes, "You are really busy during the summer vacation."
"I want to be at peace for a few days, too."
"Is that right?" He opened a slit, "I feel like you are having fun."
“…”
Zong Gu pursed his lower lip, didn't continue, and took out a few bills and slapped them on the computer desk.
"It's still the same as before. In the past few days, Lord Yuedu will solve the problem of eating by himself."
Yue Du suddenly sat up, squinted his eyes and looked at the amount of banknotes on the table, before lying down.
"Be careful on the road."
Put on the travel bag and the three of them went out together.
When they arrived at Yoshikawa's house, Hongzi's family had just had breakfast, and Yoshikawa and his wife were putting things in the trunk of the car.
"Songgu Jun is here."
Zong Gu lowered his head slightly, "I'll be disturbing these days."
"No, no," Mrs. Yoshikawa looked at him, looking as usual, "Please put your luggage here."
After saying hello, Akane Kirino handed over his luggage and went upstairs to find Hongzi. Zong Gu and Ao Muri put their travel bags in the trunk and placed them neatly.
Asakiri came here for a rare trip. Although Mrs. Yoshikawa cared about Soya, her attention was still shifted to her.
"I've really seen you, but I really can't remember when it was."
Mrs. Yoshikawa thought hard and searched in her memories of recent years. No matter what, she would never think that she was her life-saving benefactor more than 20 years ago.
Chao Wuling didn't say anything, letting her observe and recall it, becoming more and more entangled.
A moment later, Akane Kirino and Hongko got down from the upper floor and it was time to set off.
Yoshikawa and his wife sat in the front, Akane Kirino and Akako sat in the middle, and Soya and Asakiri sat in the last row.
Putting on the seat belt, Soya looked up and found that Akiko was looking back at her. In the front passenger seat, Mrs. Yoshikawa was also looking at them from the rearview mirror.
“How long will it take?”
"Hey... it's about two hours."
“It’s so far.”
"Um……"
"I'm going to sleep for a while, and you two are talking less."
Before Hongzi could say anything, Akane Kirino next to her also turned around, "I want to sleep too."
"This is the best." Zong Gu waved his hand and she turned over again.
Hongzi also turned around and leaned on the seat.
Mrs. Yoshikawa turned around, "Have you tied your seat belt?"
“Tie it.”
"Yeah, no problem."
After checking the safety belt on Chaowuling's body, Zong Gu immediately said there was no problem.
"Then let's go."
Starting from Yoshikawa's house, the car drove out of the alley, drove onto the national highway, and headed to the northeast.
At first, before the excitement of traveling was over, Kirinosaki pulled Hongzi and chatted constantly, and from time to time he would look back to see if Sonoko was asleep;
After about ten minutes, she started to feel sleepy and talked significantly less.
She leaned on her head for a while, then she looked up again, and had been awakened briefly after half an hour of sleep.
"Hmm...hat you arrived?"
"It's still early." Hongzi said.
She changed her position and continued to sleep.
Hongzi looked at Zong Gu behind her again, and looked out the window, not knowing what she was thinking.
Slap, she suddenly untied her seat belt, got up and sat in the back row facing the other side of Wuling.
The Yoshikawa couple glanced back at the same time, "Hongko, it's very dangerous."
"It's okay ..."
Hongzi sat down, put on her seat belt again, and smiled at the Zong Gu and Chao Muling who were looking at him.
"I can't sleep."
"Even those who work and rest normally can't sleep." Soya looked at Akane Kirino in front of her, her head tilted to the side, looking very hard, but she was sleeping soundly.
"Did Akane slept very late last night?"
"Who knows, it's pretty early to go back to the room."
"That's how..."
Hongzi nodded, there was nothing else to say for the time being, and Zong Gu did not throw out new topics, and looked out the window again.
She leaned back, looked at him with her head tilted for a while before she noticed that Chao Wuling was staring at her.
"bell……"
The moment she noticed it, she wanted to hide it, but soon felt that it was unnecessary.
The bell should have known it a long time ago, Hongzi thought.
Thinking of what happened before, she became more confident and didn't quite understand her attitude towards this matter.
Since they met each other, most of the time, Chao Wuling has been like a bystander, staying out of the matter and mostly indifferent to people and things outside the Sonogu;
But when she had an ambiguous relationship with Zong Gu, she took the initiative to remind her to make a decision.
This seemed to be the only time she showed an intervention attitude, and after that, she returned to her previous silence.
So at that time, Ling just couldn't stand it. Do you want her relationship with Zong Gu to return to normal as soon as possible?
After all, what kind of relationship does childhood sweethearts mean?
The attitude of Chao Muling's appearance was as rare as her expression. Hongzi couldn't understand her attitude towards her feelings, so she began to think about her relationship with Sonogu.
There is no doubt that she received the extremely partial love from Zong Gu. However, Hongzi couldn't see clearly the essence of this favor.
And she seemed to be even less reserved about Sonoya.
Hongzi soon realized that the two of them lived in the same room and grew up together.
"…Family relationship?" she said unconsciously.
He raised his eyes at Wuling, his expression remained unchanged, and he asked her with his eyes what the sudden words meant.
"No, that..."
Zong Gu also looked back at her, then turned around again, and Hongzi swallowed the words into her stomach.
"nothing."
She leaned over Chaowuling's hair, sniffed a few sips, and changed the topic: "Have you changed to a new shampoo? The fragrance seems to have become different."
"Um."
“It smells pretty good.”
Zong Gu looked over again, "I chose it."
"Eh?"
"Last time to go to the supermarket..."
After somehow developing a new topic, Hongzi continued to talk and pressed her thoughts in her heart.
Maybe she would ignore it, or maybe one day she would suddenly remember it again, and she was temporarily unwilling to think about it.
The two chatted intermittently, and Asakiri was always silent, while Kirino Akane was sleeping. More than an hour later, Mrs. Yoshikawa turned around and smiled at the three children: "It's coming."
Hongzi looked out the window, "Ah, we've all arrived here."
Zonggu looked at the other side, the fields in the countryside were covered with green fields, with blue sky and white clouds, and the hills underneath were rolling and stretching to the invisible distance. The streams beside the road were gurgling, and tall trees covered the sky from both sides.
"Call her up."
Hongzi was stunned, then understood and stood up and sat back to his original position.
"Xiang, we're coming."
Akane Kirino was woken up, looked outside, stretched out her arms and legs, and let out a long moan.
"I feel so comfortable sleeping... I just have a little pain in my neck, it's not right, it's sore and painful."
"My head is about to fall off."
She turned around and smiled, "Then Zonggu will catch it."
"So scary."
"You said it first."
Walking along the stream, after a few minutes, the car reached the foot of the mountain. The green on both sides became more intense, covering the sky. Mr. Yoshikawa slowed down and drove into a small road. He drove for another half a minute, in a yard.
Stop.
"We're here."
The car door opened, and the Yoshikawa and his wife got off first and greeted the old woman who was going out to greet her, "Mom."
"That's my grandma."
Hongzi looked at her three companions and said, "Let's get off the car too."
"Uh-huh."
Akane Kirino jumped out of the car, and Soya pulled Chaori down from the other side, and then went over to say hello together.
"Hello."
Mrs. Yoshikawa has already explained the identity of the three children, and the old woman at the door smiled at the three of them.
"welcome."
After saying hello, Soya went to the trunk to remove his luggage. Yoshikawa and his wife moved down to carry the things they brought to the old man, and asked Hongzi to take them to the room.
"There are rooms downstairs, but the rooms upstairs have a better view, so let's live above."
"OK."
The wooden boards on the stairs made a creaking sound, and several people went upstairs one after another. Hongzi opened a door, "Here."
Akane Kirino walked into the room first, put down her luggage, and looked around.
"It's indeed a country house...just like my family."
"This house should have a history of about sixty or seventy years."
"Ah, that's more like!"
She walked to the window again and leaned out to look around. Zong Gu said as Hongzi looked over: "Where is my room."
"Which young master is you? You live here without a single room."
He ignored it, didn't put down his luggage, and turned back to the corridor.
"Is this next door?"
Hongzi followed him out and whispered: "Can't you live in the same room with me?"
Zong Gu glanced at her, "I am the eldest young master and I'm not used to living in the same room with others."
Hongzi smiled, twisted her body again, and walked in front of him.
“This room.”
She opened the door and Zong Gu followed in. The size of the room was almost the same as the next door, and the layout inside was similar.
He put down his luggage, walked to the window and looked at it, and Akane Kirino next to him stretched her head and smiled at him.
"Go to check it out nearby, I seem to see a good place."
"good."
When we returned to the downstairs, it was still early, and the Yoshikawa couple was drinking tea, and it seemed that they would not leave until afternoon.
"Mom, let's go for a walk nearby." Hongzi said.
"Don't go to the water."
"I'm no longer a child."
"Anyway, be careful." Mrs. Yoshikawa looked at Soya, "Girls, please ask Soya Kwan."
He nodded, "Okay."
"—Are you Hongzi's boyfriend?" Grandma suddenly asked.
The few people were stunned for a moment, and Hongzi's face turned slightly red. Zong Gu was the first to come back to his senses: "No."
"Oh."
Grandma held the cup and smiled slightly, without saying much.
Hongzi pulled Akane Kirino and looked at Soya again, "Let's go."
Walking out of the house and landing at the end of Soya, you could vaguely hear Mrs. Yoshikawa's words.
"Mom, you're too sudden..."
When he came outside, Akane Kirino, who was just a new arrival, walked toward the destination according to the route he had observed upstairs.
"Where are you going?"
"I'll know it in the past."
The place she was going was not far away, it was the stream they passed by when they came.
The stream is shallow, and there are not only a slightly larger stone, which probably can’t flood your knees and looks very clear.
Standing on the bridge two or three meters high, Akane Kirino looked down for a while, and suddenly flipped over the guardrail. Hongzi was shocked, and Soya grabbed her arm directly.
She turned around and looked more surprised than the two of them, "I won't jump."
Zong Gu looked at the narrow foothold under her feet, "It's not entirely up to you to decide. Come back."
Akane Kirino didn't insist, and she supported her arm and turned back. Her movements were smooth and smooth, but unfortunately she didn't get anyone's praise.
"I want to go there."
She pointed at a short distance, there was a step on the river bank, which could go directly to the waterside, and there was a platform that was not big or small.
"Um."
After crossing the bridge, Akane Kirino walked lightly and ran over first.
When the three of them walked down the steps, she had taken off her shoes and walked into the stream.
"The water is so cold."
The stream near the platform was shallower, reaching only the middle of her calf.
Zong Gu looked at it and the water became deeper when he reached the middle of the river, but it looked only about one meter, so it might actually be a little deeper.
The branches and leaves on both sides of the river are connected, but a gap is exposed here. The sunlight shines, leaving shaking spots at the bottom of the water through the gurgling water.
A string of water drops fell, and a ripples rippled on the water surface.
Soya raised his gaze, Kirino Akane lifted her feet, which were still dripping, and looked at him with her eyes: "You guys come down too."
Taking off his shoes and going into the water, the stream flowing from the forest was very cool, enough to extinguish the heat that had not yet been revealed. Zong Gu stood in the water, Hongzi walked by him and approached Kirino Akane. A few steps into the water
Stepping, he turned around and reached out to Wuling.
Crazy-
She followed her into the water, took two steps, and stopped beside him.
Akane Kirino bent down and scooped up a handful of water, and acted like to splash it, only Hongzi took a step back.
She smiled slightly, her hands spread out, and the water returned to the stream from her fingers, as if she had never left.
"It would be great if I brought a swimsuit." She felt a little regretful.
"It's impossible to swim in such a shallow place." Sonoya said.
"It's very comfortable to soak in this weather." Akane Kirino looked at the middle of the river and compared it on her chest, "It should be here, it's not too light. Hongzi, here is still there. Is there a deeper place?"
Hongzi thought about it and looked upstream, "It may be deeper above. But I haven't played with water here for a long time, so I may have a deviation in my impression."
Akane Kirino glanced at the corner of the river upstream, "Did this stream flow down from the mountain?"
"Um."
“Where is the source?”
"I don't know. My sister has been along the river before, but I couldn't walk halfway, so I came back first...why are you laughing at?"
Sonoya smiled, "Did I laugh?"
“…”
She glared at him a few times, and Akane Kirino next to her suddenly made up her mind, "Okay, then let's explore the source of this stream now!"
"Eh ..."
"Not now." Zong Gu shook his head, "It's already past ten o'clock, let's go again in the afternoon."
"Ah, too."
Akane Kirino changed her mind, but she still looked upstream frequently, and was still considering her afternoon itinerary.
After playing by the water for a while, the few people returned to the shore and, under Hongzi's leadership, strolled around the neighborhood.
There are not many residents around, and they are basically concentrated near the foot of the mountain. The farmland is connected, most of them are planted with rice, and several pieces of land are covered by white greenhouses. I don’t know what crops are inside.
After a long walk, they stopped in front of the only convenience store in the village.
"This is what it is in the countryside. My grandmother's house is even more remote." Akane Kirino didn't care. She lowered her head and flipped through the freezer, and finally chose a popsicle, "Songgu, I want this one."
"Um."
"Four hundred and fifty yen." The old lady in the convenience store looked at the children with strange faces with a smile.
Put down five hundred yuan coins and take the fifty yen that he recovered. Soya opened the bag and took a bite on the popsicle, feeling the sweetness and coolness with the aroma of fruit slowly melting in his mouth.
"Go back."
"Um."
The sky is blue and the sun shines without being concealed, releasing heat.
Bitering the popsicle, Hongzi walked in front and took the few people behind him back to Yuanqiao's house along the nearest road.
“Just.”
When he got to the nearby area, Mrs. Yoshikawa came out of the house and saw a few people, she waved to them again.
"It's time to have a meal."
Hongzi responded, and several sounds of Kacha came from behind. Looking back, Soya and Akaki Kirino were trying to eliminate the popsicles in their hands.
"Not so anxious."
She smiled, and then took a big bite.
"Well... so cold."
Zong Gu finished eating quickly, pinched the remaining wood chips and prepared to take them back and throw them away.
He pulled him at Wuling and handed over the popsicle that had left most of the remaining popsicle in his hand.
“…”
When Hongzi turned around, she happened to see him bent down and bite a large piece of her popsicle, and whisper something.
She was stunned when Akane Kirino suddenly raised the wood chip in her hand.