After leaving school, according to the plan, they went home first, and then gathered at Morimi's house for a study meeting.
After dinner, Shangzi prepared rice balls again.
Naruse leaned aside and said, "Preparing food every day will whet their appetite."
"It's just the past few days..."
He didn't say anything, he just made rice balls, and there was nothing he could do to help.
"Are there a few more flavors?"
"Yeah. Make it smaller and try more."
Shangzi lowered his head and pinched the rice ball, "If the study meeting is held at Chunhai's house, we can actually prepare something else."
"What?"
"Like udon noodles? If you are tired from studying, have a bowl of freshly cooked udon noodles to warm your body and stomach, and make it easier to digest."
"..."
Naruse couldn't help but shake his head, "That's a bit too happy. Is it a study session or a late night snack?"
Shangzi smiled and said, "After all, everyone is working hard."
"The kitchen at Morimi's house can be used, and she probably won't refuse...Forget it, let's not go to such trouble...eh?"
Naruse said, lowering his head and taking out his cell phone that suddenly vibrated.
It’s Chiaki Matsu’s phone number.
"Mom."
Shangzi also stopped and looked back.
Naruse took a step forward and then pulled it back without avoiding her.
"What is Chunhai doing?" Song Qianqiu asked.
"I'm watching Naoko make rice balls, and I'm going to Morimi's house for a study session later."
Shangzi smiled, turned back, and continued to hold the rice balls.
"Study meetings are rare, so be careful."
"Yeah."
Song Qianqiu then talked about the purpose of his call: "I will be back in a few days."
Naruse was stunned, "Huh?"
"'Eh'?"
"Why? Where is the filming? Is it over?"
"It's still early."
Song Qianqiu sighed, "But the director suddenly collapsed yesterday, so the filming had to be suspended."
"Fell down? Are you so desperate..."
"This is probably part of the reason. The main reason is that I am sick. I had a severe fever and thought it was the flu. The whole crew was panicked. Fortunately, after the examination, it was a common cold that is not contagious."
She continued: "The director is still lying in the hospital. In order to continue the shooting smoothly, he said he would rest for a few days, so I came back to see Chunhai."
"Really?" Naruse then said, "How many days can you come back and stay?"
Shangzi turned around again.
"It's like two or three days. The director won't rest for too long."
"I know."
"I will be back at noon tomorrow. When school is over in the afternoon, mom will come to school to pick up Chunhai." Song Qianqiu said again.
Naruse immediately refused, "No."
"Hey~"
"Do you want to cause chaos?"
Song Qianqiu thought about it for a while, but gave up the plan.
"Then let's meet again at home tomorrow."
After chatting for a few more words, Naruse hung up the phone and looked at Naoko: "My mother will come back tomorrow."
She nodded, having heard it just now.
"Is the shooting in Tokyo over?"
"No, it's the director who collapsed."
"Ah..."
"I will come back and stay for two or three days before going back."
A moment later, Hikari Takigawa came to the door and learned the news from the conversation between the two.
"Will Auntie come back at the end of the year?"
"Yes, I can at least take a week off at the end of the year."
After staying for a while, the three of them went out to Haixing's house and asked her to come with them. Mori went home directly before seeing her.
When she arrived at Morimi's house, she saw Naoko bringing rice balls again, and she smiled:
"Before I came back, I went to the supermarket to buy some udon noodles. I'd better save them for tomorrow night."
Shangzi was startled and smiled, "Okay."
Today's kotatsu study session will begin soon, and Monk Naruse is still sitting where he was yesterday.
The body was wrapped in warmth, and the atmosphere was more relaxed than yesterday. Haixing was doing the questions nervously and relaxed at the same time.
Occasionally, when she caught a glimpse of two people huddled together unconsciously making intimate moves, her heart would suddenly tighten.
"——Has it been done?" Naruse suddenly looked over.
"..."
She withdrew her thoughts and stared at the question she had just asked before, "Still thinking."
A few simple numbers and English formed a series of difficult equations. The left side was equal to the right side, and the right side was also equal to the left side. Her thinking could not find any space to settle down.
This step, what did he just say...
Haixing tried hard to remember, and a hand suddenly appeared in the corner of his field of vision, stretched out again, and tapped on the draft paper.
"..."
She raised her head, and he was listening to the question from Hikari Takigawa opposite him, and glanced at her briefly.
Tuk Tuk.
Tap your fingers twice more.
Haixing lowered his head, and where his fingertips landed was the process left behind when he calculated it himself.
She looked at it for a while, and the blockage in her thoughts suddenly became clear.
"... Got it."
Hearing her murmur, Naruse retracted his fingers and took the exercise book handed to him by Hikaru Takigawa.
After solving the problem, he asked:
"Why do you all spend your time on math and ignore other subjects?"
"You may be able to figure out the problems in other subjects by reading the books by yourself. If you don't understand mathematics, you just don't understand."
Takigawa Hikaru smiled slightly, "So it's better to do more math while Harumi and Kazuha are here."
Starfish also nodded.
Naruse didn't say anything, although he felt that with the current level of the two of them, passing should not be a problem.
"Have you remembered those words and phrases since you went back yesterday?" Morimi looked over.
"Almost."
"Only by remembering it frequently can you truly remember it."
"Yeah, I know."
With the experience last night, by the time it was past ten o'clock in the evening, everyone gradually relaxed.
"It's done..."
After finishing the last question and giving the notebook to Naruse for inspection, Naoko raised his eyes and saw Haixing and Takikawa Hikari looking at him. He couldn't help but smile: "Are you hungry?"
The two nodded one after another.
"Can't you two do it yourself? Just heat it up." Naruse pushed the notebook back, "You did it wrong."
"Ah?"
Shangzi was stunned for a moment.
"There is a calculation error in one step in the middle, and everything after that is wrong. Please check it yourself."
She stared down at the notebook, and Naruse climbed out of the kotatsu, "I'm going to heat up the rice balls."
Hikaru Takigawa also followed.
When he came to the kitchen and put the rice balls in the microwave, Naruse watched her look around while waiting.
"What are you looking for?"
"No, just take a look."
She turned around and suddenly opened the back door of the kitchen, and a cold wind rushed in.
"It's so cold."
She quickly closed it and looked back with a smile, "Are you ready?"
"Wait a moment."
Ding——Read the book
I took out the heated rice balls and returned to the living room. The table had been cleared.
"There are more flavors today." Hikaru Takigawa said, picking up a piece and stuffing it into his mouth.
Naruse sat down. Naoko had already found the place where the calculation was wrong and did it again.
"I copied the wrong number on the previous line."
"We can't be careless."
While eating rice balls, he took out his mobile phone and checked the time, "Today ended much earlier than yesterday."
Morimi shook his head, "We're all waiting for rice balls."
Starfish held the rice ball and glanced at Hikaru Takigawa, who was also looking at her, and they both smiled at the same time.
After finishing the rice balls, it was time to leave.
"Good night."
Saying goodbye to Mori Jian, they plunged into the wind and snow.
However, when he was almost halfway through, Naruse realized that his cell phone was missing.
He kept walking in front, and the three people behind him ruled out the possibility of their phones falling on the road.
"It can only be left at Morimi's house."
Naruse looked back at the hazy shadow in the distance and sighed.
"You guys keep going forward, I'll be back soon."
It was faster for him to go back and forth alone, so Shangzi did not insist on following.
When I returned to Morimi's house, the door was closed and unlocked, and Morimi didn't respond.
Naruse first went to the living room to search, and found a hot cell phone under the kotatsu.
"It won't explode..."
He muttered, hesitated, and put the phone on the ground to let it calm down for a while.
After finding the mobile phone, Naruse found the missing owner of the house.
"Morimi——"
Walking out of the living room, he shouted again, and heard a hesitant response from deep in the corridor. Reading 溂
"...Naruse?"
He followed the sound closer and said, "I left my phone."
"...Oh."
The lights in several rooms inside were turned off, and he didn't know where she was.
He didn't intend to find her, he said hello and was about to leave.
"I'm going back."
"Be careful on the road, I can't come out to see you off now."
Naruse turned around and said, "What's wrong?"
"I'm taking a bath. I'm not wearing any clothes and I haven't closed the door."
Along with her words, Naruse also heard the sound of rushing water, which seemed to come from her intentional teasing.
"...you should close the door."
She smiled.
"I didn't turn on the light anyway. I like taking a bath in the dark, but I don't like complete isolation...and I'm the only one in my house. No one else will come here except you, a pervert."
"What are you talking about? I didn't come back just to watch you take a shower."
"Now the secret has been discovered by you."
"You said it yourself."
"It's so obscene."
Naruse turned around and left, "Going back."
In the dark bathroom, Morimi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his deliberate slamming of the door.
Sliding down and soaking in the hot water, she continued to enjoy her own darkness and silence.