The blue flame licked the cooking pot, dancing faintly, continuously transferring its heat to the iron above and the water in it.
Two shadows shrouded the scene, and the flames at the bottom of the pot became more conspicuous.
"I said..."
Naruse stretched out his hand and baked it near the flame, "It's just cooking udon noodles. Do you need two people?"
"No need." Morimi also stretched out his hand, "But this is my kitchen."
Naruse glanced at her.
"By the way, I have something to ask Naruse."
"You also have something to ask?"
Morijian turned his head, "'ye'?"
"...What happened?"
She stared at him for a while, "Haixing seemed to have cried just now."
"..."
She could see it all, so Naruse didn't pretend not to know anything.
"It's just a misunderstanding."
"What misunderstanding?"
"Haixing wanted to go to my house and apologize to my mother. I didn't understand it at first and didn't agree to her."
"Apologise..."
Morimi also showed a bit of surprise, but he was not too surprised.
Naruse stared at the dancing flames, "It's been so long, and I said I wanted to apologize for what I said before."
"Before..."
Morimi pondered for a while.
"Naruse."
"Huh?"
"Do you remember that there used to be a ramen shop next door to Haixing's house?"
"Well..."
Naruse thought for a moment, "It seems there is. But that store has moved away long ago, right?"
"Yeah."
Morimi nodded, "Before we moved, the ramen shop was run by a single aunt, who was the same age as our parents."
Naruse looked at her.
"Haixing mentioned to me once before that after her mother passed away, that person came to her store frequently and stayed for half a day. Haixing also had a pretty good relationship with her.
And after Mr. Maki and Harumi...well, remarried Naruse's mother, she never came once."
Morimi also turned to look.
"Just before she moved away, she found Haixing and said something to her... Naruse thought, what was she talking about?"
Naruse quickly frowned.
"Bad words about my mother."
Morimi looked at him: "Even the cause of Haixing's mother's death was blamed on Miss Song."
"..."
He took a deep breath, opened his eyes a little wider, and was silent for a while.
Many things in the past suddenly made sense.
"No wonder she always called my mother a 'bad woman' at that time... Is she an idiot? She would even believe such words."
Mori looked helpless on his face, "Haixing is just an idiot."
Naruse had a sullen face, and it took him a long time before he spoke.
"Does Morimi know where that person moved?"
"I don't know." She looked over, "What does Naruse want to do?"
"It's the person who really wants to apologize."
"She moved away earlier than Naruse. She doesn't seem to have any relatives here. There is no news about her."
Naruse pursed his lower lip, feeling very sorry in his heart.
GuluGulu——
The water is boiling.
"It's time to go down." Morimi said.
"Yeah."
Naruse picked up the udon noodles and put them in the cooking pot.
"バカ!"
Morimi quickly squeezed him away, then fished out the udon noodles that he had put in with the packaging bag, and threw them into the pool.
"Hiss... hot, hot, hot..."
"..."
Naruse also came to his senses and quickly turned on the faucet to let her rinse.
"Are you okay?"
"That's what I wanted to ask, are you okay?"
Morimi rinsed his fingers under cold water, "What are you thinking about?"
Naruse pursed his lower lip and looked at the unopened udon noodles in the sink.
"Some dark thoughts."
She sighed heavily, "Are you an idiot too?"
"Just now."
Naruse shook his head to drive away the dark thoughts in his mind, "I'm sorry, are your hands okay?"
"It's just a little bit of hot water."
Morimi turned off the faucet and stared at his fingertips for a while, "No problem...what do you want to do?"
Naruse opened the back door, dug out a ball of snow, kneaded it into a small ball and handed it to her.
"Pinch it."
"It's really okay..." Morijian couldn't laugh or cry, and stopped him when he was about to throw the snowball, "Forget it, give it to me."
Holding a piece of cold snow between her fingertips, she looked at the boiling water in the pot and said, "Do you want me to come?"
"No need."
Naruse picked up the udon noodles again, opened the package, took out the dough and put it down.
"Do you want to add anything?" he asked.
"What can be added?"
"Eggs." Naruse looked back and said, "You don't have any other ingredients at home."
"I kind of want to eat tempura."
"Where do you get the ingredients? Make me into tempura."
Sen smiled, turned around and left the kitchen, "Whatever you want."
She has been here for a long time.
Returning to the living room, Shangzi looked over and soon noticed the snowball in her hand.
"I accidentally burned my finger." Morimi explained.
"Eh?" Several people looked over, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, I just got a little hot water on it."
The snowball was cold and melted very slowly, so she couldn't hold it for long, so she held it alternately with both hands.
After a while, Naruse came over with two bowls of udon noodles.
"It also adds eggs, which is really good." Hikaru Takigawa took a deep sniff, "It smells so good."
Morimi looked at him, "It's a pity that there is no tempura."
"It would be great to add tempura," Hikaru Takigawa said with a smile.
"Think beautifully."
After putting down the udon noodles, Naruse returned to the kitchen and brought two more bowls over.
The two bowls of noodles just now have been given to Naoko and Morimi, and these two bowls naturally belong to Takigawa Hikaru and Haixing.
"Be careful, the noodles are still a little hot just after you picked them up."
"..."
The sudden concern made Haixing stunned for a moment. She raised her head to look at him, and Shangzi also looked over.
Naruse didn't say much, and returned to the kitchen for the last time, bringing his bowl of noodles here.
Sitting back on the kotatsu, several people gathered around and started eating udon noodles.
"It tastes pretty good."
"So as long as I and Shangzi are here from now on, you don't have to think about cooking for yourself."
Takigawa Hikaru smiled and glared at him: "For Udon's sake..."
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Naruse lowered his head to eat the noodles and glanced at the starfish next to him.
By the time I finished eating the udon, the last study session before the exam was almost over.
"Put the bowl over there and I'll wash it."
Morijian still held the snow ball in his hand, which was slightly smaller than before, but also more rounded.
After sending a few people away, she returned to the room upstairs and placed the snowball outside the window where it would not be exposed to the sun.
In the cold Northeast winter, this snow can last until next spring.
The companions have already gone far away and are out of sight.
She closed the window, looked down at her fingertips, which were red from the cold, and pressed them on her face.
"Hiss..."
She shivered from the cold and became more awake.
"Okay...it's still early. Let's wash the dishes first, and we can still do the questions for another two hours."
When Morimi finished washing the dishes and returned to the kotatsu to continue working on the questions, Naruse and his party had already arrived in front of Haisei's house.
It was Naruse who still went over and held up the rolling shutter door for Haixing.
She got in and looked back at them, "Thank you...good night."
Naruse looked at her and said, "School is over tomorrow. Haixing, please come home with us."
She was startled for a moment, then quickly thought of what he actually meant, and showed hesitation.
"I will go back to the room upstairs to stay there then." Naruse added.
"Eh..."
Haixing was a little puzzled by his change of attitude. Read the book
"That's it, good night."
"Good night..."
Naruse pulled down the rolling shutter door and asked Naoko and Takigawa Hikaru to leave.
"What did Harumi say to Haixing just now?"
"My mother is back and she wants to say hello."
We separated from Hikari Takigawa at the intersection, and when we returned home, Matsu Chiaki was still awake and sitting in the living room.
"Welcome back. You must be freezing after walking such a long way."
"It's okay." Naruse thought for a while, went over to sit down, and told her that Haixing would come over to apologize to her tomorrow.
Song Qianqiu was silent for a while.
"Apologise... I actually didn't care that much about what happened at that time.
But it’s okay, I haven’t seen that child for a long time, let her come over.”
After saying that, she looked at Shangzi who was sitting quietly aside.
"It's really cold at night."
"Well..."
Song Qianqiu smiled slightly and said, "Shangzi, can you stay here at night and sleep with me?"