Sitting in the living room, Song Qianqiu was watching TV and playing with the health guard in his hand.
The doorbell rang suddenly.
"Here we come."
She went over to open the door, and saw Mori standing at the door, bowing his head and giving a slight salute.
"Happy New Year, Miss Song."
"Happy New Year, Yiye."
Matsu Qianqiu smiled at her, not surprised, Naruse had already said hello just now.
She glanced at the door of her neighbor's house again. Shangzi nodded to her from a distance, and then went in.
"I haven't seen you for a long time. I came back before Christmas last time, but I couldn't chat with Kazuyo. Come in first."
"Okay."
Looking back, Morimi followed Matsu Chiaki into the house and found that Naruse was not in the living room.
"Sit down wherever you want. Harumi - Kazuyo is here -"
Song Qianqiu walked to the bottom of the stairs and shouted, then also sat on the sofa.
Picking up the health guard on the table, she smiled at her.
"Kazuyo also went to Iwakiyama Shrine for the first enlightenment in the morning."
Morimi nodded, "Yes."
"Are there many people?"
"It's not too much, I just have to queue for a while when I visit."
"Well, if I had known I would have gone with you." Song Qianqiu seemed a little moved.
Morimi just smiled.
After chatting for a while, Naruse came down quickly.
He poured her a glass of water and asked when he put it down: "Did you get it?"
Sen Jian was startled, "What?"
"Red envelope."
"..."
Song Qianqiu smiled at the side, stood up and walked to the bedroom, "Wait a moment."
"No, that..."
She waved her hand, "Don't worry, it has already been prepared for Kazuyo."
Watching Matsu Qianqiu walk into the bedroom, Morimi turned to glare at Naruse, "I'm not here to get a red envelope."
"You can't give it up for free. My mother has no memory of such trivial matters. She won't be able to remember it without reminding her."
She glanced towards the bedroom, exhaled, and said nothing more.
Naruse sat on the sofa, "Did you just say something? I didn't hear it."
"What?"
"When I went to Shangzi's house."
"..."
Morimi squinted at him, "Didn't you hear what you nodded just now?"
"It feels like it's not an important thing, so I'll take care of it first."
"I said I have something to ask you."
"..."
This sentence seems familiar, I heard it this morning.
Naruse picked up the royal guard on the table and squeezed it in his hand, "I have nothing to tell you."
"I'm asking you now... I'll talk later." Morimi's voice lowered.
Matsu Qianqiu returned to the living room and gave her a red envelope containing 10,000 yen.
She stood up and took it away, smiling, "Thank you, Miss Song."
"You're welcome, everyone has it."
Song Qianqiu sat down next to her, and then stared at her.
Morimi looked at her and quickly looked away.
She wanted to pretend not to care, but the latter targeted her and wouldn't let go, and she couldn't keep pretending.
"Miss Song..."
"Oops, sorry."
Song Qianqiu laughed, "I just suddenly felt that time flies so fast and Yiye has changed so much."
"You haven't paid much attention to her before, right?" Naruse added next to her.
Song Qianqiu did not deny it, "Because Yiye is also avoiding me."
Morimi was a little embarrassed, "At that time..."
At that time, she was quite timid. Not only Matsu Qianqiu, but also all the adults she saw would hide away.
"It doesn't matter. Whether it's the skinny, cute Yiye from before or the tall, graceful and beautiful Yiye now, I like them all." Song Qianqiu said with a smile.
"Thank you..."
Being praised by such a beautiful and mature famous artist like Matsu Chiaki, even Morimi couldn't help but blush.
She didn't know what to say, so she glanced at Naruse, but he stood up.
"You guys chat, I'll go up and take a rest."
"..."
The eyes behind the lenses suddenly widened, staring straight at him, using their eyes to prevent him from escaping, but because of his face, he couldn't speak clearly.
His idea of leaving in the chaos was seen through, and Naruse was stared at so hard that he couldn't do anything. He stretched and sat down again.
Song Qianqiu, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
There seemed to be some changes that she hadn't noticed before.
"Are Kazuyo and Harumi in the same class now?"
"No... I'm from Class E, in the same class as Haixing." Morimi turned around, his expression returned to normal
"Ah, by the way, Kazuye and Haixing are in the same class... I heard from Haixing that Kazuye is very good at studying and he often tutors her."
Morimi pursed his lips and smiled briefly.
Compared with Haixing, she can indeed be called "very good at studying", but now Haixing is not here, the only comparable object is Naruse...
"Well, it's just a little worse than me." He nodded.
"..."
She couldn't help but glance at him sideways, and quickly covered it up.
Song Qianqiu smiled, becoming even more curious about how the two of them usually get along.
"Does Kazuha often play with Harumi?"
"It's okay..."
"I occasionally go to Morimi's bookstore to buy books," Naruse said.
"No wonder the bookshelves in the room are almost full. By the way, we went to Ginzan Hot Spring before, so Kazuyo went with us, right?"
"Yes."
Matsu Qianqiu nodded, smiled and asked no more questions. Morimi didn't know what she was thinking.
After a while, she stood up and said, "You guys can talk, I'll go to the room and take a rest."
"Okay."
Song Qianqiu walked into the bedroom, but did not close the door, and even pushed it open a little.
Naruse stood up, "Then I'll go up and rest too..."
Morimi grabbed him.
"Are you that tired?"
"I actually traveled a lot today."
"When I finish asking what I want to ask, you can go and have a rest."
"..."
Sure enough, I still can’t escape.
Naruse had no choice but to look at the open bedroom door again.
"Go to my room."
Mori Jian opened his mouth but said nothing, "Yeah."
The two of them went upstairs. Song Qianqiu poked his head out of the bedroom and took a look, feeling a little dissatisfied.
It's just that she was curious, so she didn't go up to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two, and returned to sit on the sofa.
Coming to his room again, Mori looked at his desk and the chair in front of the desk, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Naruse pointed over there and said, "Sit down."
"..."
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." She sat over, "I just didn't expect you to bring the girl back to the room so easily."
Naruse twitched the corner of his mouth and was too lazy to answer. He sat at the end of the bed and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Morimi turned the chair around, sat down and faced him directly, his expression after calming down looked like he was interrogating.
"What happened between you and Starfish?"
"It's so direct."
She pushed up her glasses, "So I hope you can answer me more directly."
"Then can you keep a secret?" Naruse asked.
She nodded, "Of course."
He was silent for a few seconds.
Except for that moment in the woods, everyone basically acted together. Now that she has noticed it, it is basically impossible to completely conceal the past.
Naruse took a deep breath, "Haixing confessed to me, but I refused."
"..."
Morimi moved his lips, "Eh?"
Her first reaction was that he was joking.
But then she felt that this was not impossible. She had noticed some signs beforehand.
However, even though she had already had a premonition, she still took a long time to digest it after truly understanding the starfish's amazing mobility.
"You didn't lie to me."
"Yeah."
"Can I ask Haixing for confirmation?"
He immediately looked over, "Do you call this keeping a secret?"
Morimi then said that he was just saying it casually and would not really go looking for the starfish.
"I just... can't believe it."
"Yeah."
She glanced at him and said, "Aren't you surprised?"
"Accident."
"I can't tell." Morimi said. Seeing him roll his eyes upward, he smiled again.
His troubles are easy to see.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"It's over."
"It's over... Haixing just gave up?"
"That's it for now."
"At present..."
Morimi thought for a while and suddenly asked: "Does Shangzi know about this?"
Naruse shook his head.
"Oh." The corners of her mouth curved.
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