After swimming in the water for more than half a minute, Akane Kirino got out of the water and found that Chaowuling had also come ashore and sat down next to Zonggu.
"Hey, aren't you guys playing anymore?"
Zong Gu was talking to Chao Wuling, and then looked at her again when he heard the sound.
"No more fun. Three to one, you should obey the majority and come up to bask in the sun."
"I don't want it."
Akane Kirino let herself float on the water again and float freely, occasionally waving her arms to avoid floating to too shallow places or hitting stones.
"It's so comfortable. I can stay here all day, no, it's okay to stay for a summer vacation."
"What should you do with your clothes? The bra is already exposed."
“…”
Akane Kirino immediately sank, and slammed a few times before stabbing her body. Her cheeks were slightly red, and she stared at him with her eyes: "Don't say it out, pervert."
Zong Gu also looked at her, "Isn't this going on if I don't say it?"
"It's still early. I'll go up and bask in the sun after I've had enough fun. This is the sun that's so big, it'll be dry after a while."
After saying that, Akane Kirino warned him not to look around and continue to float in the water to have fun, but the number of times he aimed at him unknowingly increased.
As expected, he didn't look at her anymore and kept whispering to the other two people beside him.
Are you talking about her bra?
No... Zong Gu is not like this, and Hongzi will definitely not talk to him about this topic.
Akane Kirino guessed secretly.
"……pain."
Zong Gu looked up and saw that she was stranded by the water, covering her head with one hand.
Hongzi also glanced at her briefly and quickly, and when she saw that she was not seriously injured, she felt relieved, and then looked at Chao Wuling.
"What did Ling mean just now...?"
"It means literally."
"I, get it, Zong Gu?" Hongzi pointed to herself and Zong Gu respectively, and asked at her.
Nodded at Wuling.
Hongzi was stunned for a while, confirmed that she had heard it correctly, and then asked, "What should I do?"
Before he received a response, Zong Gu, who realized that Asakiri was planning to interrupt the conversation between the two.
"bell."
He looked at her, but his eyes were not stern at all, "What did you hear just now."
"I didn't hear anything, I just guessed it from your expressions."
Zong Gu pursed his lower lip.
"Don't you want to get her?" Chao Muling asked him with the same question again.
"I have chosen Kyoko."
She looked at him, her eyes still moving, and the same question: "Don't you want to get her?"
“…”
Zong Gu fell silent, and the two looked at each other silently.
Hongzi was about to say something when Zong Gu suddenly pulled Chaowuling and walked to the other side, but did not forget to remind him: "Don't come over."
"……oh."
He pulled her and walked to the back of the bushes outside the pool.
Akane Kirino had noticed the movement here, looked at Hongzi in confusion, and shook her head.
"What the hell is Ling wanting to do?"
"Give you a promise."
“…”
Zong Gu opened his mouth, squatted down again, holding her left and right hands in the palm of his hand.
With his eyes facing each other, his face was mostly helpless: "This is to make things difficult for me."
Chao Kurizumi struggled with a hand and stroked his face: "I want to get Kyoko, but I can't let go of Kyoko, so I can only try my best to maintain the status quo - the person who makes things difficult for you is just yourself."
Zong Gu shook his head, not denying that, "The actual situation is much more complicated than Ling thought. For each other's future..."
"—No need to think about the future." She suddenly said, adding, as he looked, "No need to think about the future that is too long."
"A thousand and two hundred years of time tell me that no matter how you think, there will always be variables outside of your consideration, which will deeply affect and change all the original plans." Her hand stopped, "Just do what you want to do
Things are going to be fine, I will help you.”
Zong Gu was silent for a long time and said, "I can't imagine that kind of future."
"You'll get Kyoko, Akane, and Akane."
He paused to Wuling for a while, then suddenly came up and kissed his lips.
"In the end, you'll get me...can you remember?"
Zong Gu caught off guard, pursed his lower lip, and had no time to reminisce, and frowned: "What?"
“…”
Her eyes drooped and she quickly raised her feet again.
"nothing."
"bell!"
Chao Wuling had recovered from normalcy and wiped his lips with his fingertips, "You forgot some things, and you remembered some things wrong."
"What's the matter?" Zong Gu asked immediately.
Her answer was equivalent to not answering: "Even if you tell you, it will only make you more embarrassed."
“…”
He walked two more steps forward towards Wuling, hugged him with his wet body, and whispered in his ear with a sigh.
"Just consider what's happening now. With me here, what else do you have to worry about... Don't you believe me?"
Being hugged, Zong Gu also hugged her tightly, hugging a body with only coolness in the heat of midsummer, and his heart slowly calmed down.
"I certainly believe it. But believing in the bell is not the same as choosing that future."
She leaned her head up, "That's not to believe it."
Zong Gu pursed his lower lip and said nothing, and continued to say to Wuling: "I just don't want you to leave regrets now."
"Is there no regrets again... It seems that Ling and I have a big difference in understanding "no regrets." He let go of her and looked into her eyes, "Can you leave no regrets if you want, can you leave no regrets?
”
"Um."
The moment he nodded to Muling, Zonggu realized that their conversation was no longer necessary.
However, he still had to let her "stop".
"I know very well that what I did has hurt Kyoko and Hongko. My hesitation now is also continuing to hurt them. Sooner or later, one day, Hongko will be hurt to an irreparable level... This is me
The lost part.”
Soya paused for a moment and continued, "But I will get Kyoko. For me, even if I lose, as long as I get what I want most, I will leave no regrets."
Chao Wuling had no expression on her face: "Do you deceive yourself."
"Does the bell still not understand?"
"I can understand that deceiving yourself is my evaluation: you want to get them, and you force yourself to choose only one person, pretending that this is the best result for each other."
Zong Gu looked at her for a while and realized again that communication had lost its meaning.
She could understand his intentions, but it was impossible to let her accept his ideas.
"This is my own business, I don't want Ling to interfere."
“…”
He had never said such heavy words since he was living together again. He looked at him silently, and after half a minute, he suddenly broke away from his hand and walked back alone.
Zong Gu squatted in place, pursing his lips and frowned, regretting that he was talking too hard.
Her voice came from behind:
"If you make choices for them, they should also make efforts and make concessions to deserve you."
He turned around and she walked to the other side of the bushes without looking back.
After a while, he also got up and went back.
"Songya, what are you doing?" Akane Kirino asked.
“Go to the toilet.”
“…”
Back to the huge rock in the sun, he sat towards Wuling and looked elsewhere without saying a word.
Zong Gu didn't say anything, and continued to sit on the hot stone, acting as a living clothes rack.
Hongzi, who was sitting in the middle, looked back and forth at the two of them, no matter how slow he was, he could realize what was happening between them, and the result was obviously not very pleasant.
She didn't know if it was because of herself.
"Songgu..."
"Um."
“Is something going on?”
"nothing."
He responded coldly, and Hongzi felt that something must have happened.
"Ling." She looked at Chaowuling again, "What happened just now..."
“——I’ll count the words just now.”
Looking back at Wuling, he looked at her, and the frowning Zong Gu, "If you want to continue, come to me later."
“…”
Hongzi was stunned.
This is not what she wants to ask, but she will not refuse.
"I see."
"Don't listen to her." Sonogu said immediately.
Hongzi just looked at him and didn't agree.
He understood that a certain seed had been planted in her heart.
Akane Kirino, who knew nothing, swam over and looked at them below: "What are you talking about? I've been talking about something from the moment I've just said. Are you discussing something behind my back?"
"Some things to do in study." Soya was perfunctory.
"Who are you lying to?" Akane Kirino didn't believe it for a long time.
"I'm talking about Qian's underwear." Hongzi said.
“…”
Akane Kirino's eyes immediately opened wide.
"Just kidding."
“Really…”
Zonggu looked at her, "Come on, I'm going back."
"It's still very early?"
"It will take time to dry your clothes."
The fun of soaking alone in the water was indeed much less than before. Akane Kirino thought about it and climbed to the shore.
"I feel like my body is getting heavy."
"You've been soaking for too long."
She sat down beside Zong Gu and stood up immediately, "So hot!"
Touching the hot surface of the huge rock, Akane Kirino looked at the three people sitting in surprise, "Don't you think it's hot?"
Hongzi said: "It's good to get used to it..."
She muttered, "The sun is gone, it's still so hot."
“…”
Zong Gu raised his head and realized that the sun wheel above his head had moved and the sun had already fallen elsewhere.
“There is no sunshine here.”
"yes."
He looked at her, "Then your clothes will not dry for a while."
“……oh.”
Zong Gu didn't give her too much time to be stunned. He got up and stepped on the rocks beside the small pool, and almost stopped to go around the other side.
"Take off your clothes and wring them out by yourself. I'll go outside and wait for you."
Seeing him walking to an invisible place, Kirino Akane took off her upper T-shirt without hesitation.
"Anime..."
Hongzi quickly got up and blocked her, although the only male nearby had already walked away.
"It's okay." Akane Kirino wanted to untie her bra, but she felt that she couldn't squeeze out a few drops of water, so she gave up.
"After going back, it's better to take a shower and change your clothes." Because she was worried that the T-shirt would be deformed, she didn't twist it too hard. She felt that it was almost done and shook it open again, and the transparency became much lower.
"Can't tell me," she asked, covering her T-shirt over her chest.
"I can't see it now... put it on and take a look." Hongzi said.
Akane Kirino put on a very wrinkled T-shirt again, and unless it is very close, the situation inside can basically be seen.
"Done~"
Hongzi looked at himself and Chao Wuling again. Their clothes were darker and they would not reveal anything even if they were wet. Even if they had not been completely dried at this time, at least there would be no problem when they went back.
"Let's go back."
“Okay~”
Akane Kirino was as flexible as Soya, jumping barefoot, and went around to the other side of the small pool in just a few seconds.
"Zonggu, you can go back."
He turned around, looked at her, and glanced at her chest again. Akane Kirino immediately noticed it and raised her hand to cover it up: "Don't stare at it deliberately."
"This is how men look. When you go back, you should beware of this."
"Where can I meet someone in the countryside..."
Zong Gu didn't say much, and returned to the edge of the pool, and picked up Hongzi and Chaowuling who were slowly climbing up and down with the stone.
"Give me your hand."
"Um."
Pulling Hongzi over a huge rock, Soya let her pass by side, Kirino Akane responded, and then reached out to Chaowuling behind him.
“…”
She looked at him, handed her hand over, and then stepped on the boulder.
Zong Gu turned around again and said nothing. She came over and hugged his neck and lay on his back.
"Sorry, I just said it was a bit heavier."
She buried her head, "Yeah."
"Let's just stop here."
She didn't say anything, shook her head against his head.
Zong Gu did not speak anymore, took a long breath, carried her back to the path, and then put her down.
With him leading the way, several people began to walk back.
Akane Kirino picked up the eight-point wooden stick halfway and waved it out a rustling sound of wind. Zong Gu looked back and his eyes fell on her head again.
"The hair can be untied."
"I almost forgot..."
Hongzi raised her hand and untied the dog-tailed hair rope on her hair. She turned her head and shook her long wet hair.
"Ha ha."
Akane Kirino's smile did not last long. She returned along the stream to the small bridge where she came. She saw the bald middle-aged man standing on the bridge at a glance.
"ah."
He was carrying a hoe, not waiting here deliberately, but was talking to another middle-aged peasant woman passing by on the bridge.
When the few people saw him, he immediately noticed them. His voice suddenly became much louder, but he still couldn't understand what he was saying.
“…”
With a tightening on his shoulders, Soya turned around and Akane Kirino shrank behind him.
"Go and apologize."
"Um……"
She agreed to hesitate and pulled the T-shirt on her body, "I can't see anyone like this... I don't want the bald uncle to see the underwear..."
"Let you be fun."
"Stop talking sarcastic at this time."
Akane Kirino had a bitter face, and suddenly pulled his T-shirt up and lifted it up, saying, "Soya took off her clothes and put them on for me. I'll give you back after crossing the bridge."
"You can't even think about it."
"Then you carry me over."
“…”
The bald middle-aged man at the bridge was still eyeing her, so Zong Gu had to bend down and carry her on her back.
The feeling of wet and heat and softness covered his back, and he whispered: "Be honest later."
"I understand."
He carried Akane Kirito, followed both sides to Mizuru and Hongko, and walked to the bridge.
"sorry……"
Akane Kirino bowed her head on Soya's back and apologized, and Soya also bent over slightly, "Sorry."
The middle-aged man's expression was much calmer. He said something to the middle-aged woman next to him, and said a few more words to them. The speed of speech was very fast, and Zong Gu couldn't understand a word.
"We are from Yuanqiao's family..."
Hongzi walked up and communicated with him in unfamiliar dialects, stumbled and spoke slowly, but Zong Gu could understand a little.
"Ah? Wah? Ah... Water Pond. Yes, we just came back from there..."
After a few difficult conversations, the bald middle-aged man suddenly looked at the girl on Zong Gu's back and said something again.
The internship translator was a little disappointed: "Xian, don't stare at me anymore..."
"sorry!"
Finally, after dealing with this, it was not until the corner that Akane Kirino got off Soya's back.
"Oh, it's not easy."
"Hurry to take a shower after you go back." Zong Gu felt a lot cooler behind him, "Hongzi, and Lin, I have to take a shower and change clothes."
"I know."
After playing for a day, Hongzi was not as tired as she is now. "After going back, I will learn the dialect here with my grandmother..."
Zonggu looked at her, "Now there are not many people who only speak dialects."
"That's what I said, it's quite troublesome to meet... My sister stayed here for a longer time and spoke Fangyan very skillfully."
When she returned to Yuanqiao's house, Grandma Hongzi was not too surprised by the wet condition of the few people. She asked the three girls to go to wash together, and asked Zong Gu to take his clothes and pull him to the neighbor's house to borrow the bathroom.
"Oh, what a handsome kid...the bathroom? Use it casually."
In a completely unfamiliar environment, the more enthusiastic the other party is, the more people are not sure how to respond, and Zong Gu is somewhat embarrassed.
He took him to the bathroom, and the neighbor's aunt didn't walk away, and started chatting with Hongzi's grandmother outside.
"Is this Aoko's boyfriend?"
"Aoiko has been married for several years, and he came with Hongzi."
"Ah, yes, it's Hongzi... I always remember the name of that child wrongly."
Zong Gu couldn't stay for a long time, so he took a shower in a hurry and came out soon.
"Thanks……"
"Ah, have you washed?"
He politely declined the warm invitation to sit down and have a cup of tea and eat a few snacks. Grandma Hongzi wanted to chat for a few more words. Zong Gu took the changed clothes and returned to Yuanqiao's house first.
He turned on the electric fan and sat down on the edge before he let out a long breath.
After a while, footsteps came from behind.
"Has Zonggu been washed?"
"Um."
Akane Kirino walked over with her hair and sat down beside him, crossing her legs, her arms and shoulders were also exposed outside her sling shirt.
"The bathroom in Grandma Hongzi's house is very big, and Hongzi and Ling are still soaking in the bathtub."
"Can I sit down three people?"
"The three people are a little crowded, so I came out first."
She moved backwards again, wiggling her long hair in front of the electric fan, and all the tiny water droplets were blown over by the wind, carrying a faint fragrance.
"Hello……"
"Ha ha."
With her long hair fluttering, she raised her chest slightly and put her feet on her.