Arriving at the door, Song Qianqiu's eyes wandered, trying to find something familiar on the faces of the two girls in front of him.
"haven't seen you for a long time……"
"Light." Naruse reminded from the side.
"Xiaoguang."
"There is still a moon."
Song Qianqiu looked at the other person, "Xiaoyue."
"Good evening, Miss Matsu." Hikaru Takigawa bowed his head in greeting, and when he looked up at Matsu Qianqiu, he also compared something on her face.
The other girl behind her looked fragile, her aura was much weaker, and she couldn't look at anyone for even half a second.
"Excuse me..."
Song Qianqiu suddenly clapped his hands.
"Ah, I remembered, you are sisters from the Takigawa family. It's been a long time since I last saw you - what a big change."
She looked at Takigawa Hikaru, who was taller than herself, and then looked at Takigawa Yue, who was much smaller, "I remember that my sister is the same age as Harumi..."
"Yes." Hikari Takigawa nodded, "But Yue is not my sister."
She pulled her sister who was huddled in front of her and said with a smile: "I am the younger sister and Yue is the elder sister. She is two years older than me and is now a third-year student preparing for the exam."
"Really? I really can't tell..."
Being looked at closely by Matsu Qianqiu, Takigawa Yue was so nervous that he couldn't look at her, and he was reluctant to look away. He only felt that his legs were weak.
"I'm sorry, I'm Guang's sister... I'm your idol, please, please sign your name for me!"
She took out a signature board from somewhere, bowed, and raised it higher than her head.
Song Qianqiu looked at the signature board and then at her, unable to help but smile.
"My idol..."
Naruse looked at Takigawa Hikaru, and she was also smiling, "Sorry, sorry, Yue is really too nervous."
"Let's talk after we come in first."
One of the Takigawa sisters was too nervous, and the other was much more casual. They sat down separately, and Naoko walked out of the kitchen with a glass of water.
"Ah, thank you. Naoko has returned from Aomori City."
"I just came back today." Naoko put down the water glass and smiled at Takigawa Hikaru, "Thank you for sending me to the station last time."
"It's just a small thing."
Takigawa Hikaru returned the smile, his eyes stayed on Naoko's face for a while longer, and then he looked to the side.
Matsu Qianqiu is holding a pen and signing an autograph for her sister.
"Would you like to write something by the way?"
"Anything is fine! I mean...as long as you like it."
Song Qianqiu thought for a while and said with a smile:
"Then write 'To my idol, Miss Takigawa Yue'."
Being ridiculed by her idol, Takigawa Yue felt so honored that she almost cried.
"Don't bully children." Naruse said from the side.
Just kidding aside, Matsu Chiaki is no longer adept at signing autographs and writing messages to fans, so he just casually said something like thank you for their support.
She closed the pen cap and asked, "Is this okay?"
Looking at the signature board, Takigawa Yue was already satisfied, but given this rare opportunity, she still mustered up the courage to say:
"I also want an autograph...Miss Song's stage name when she first debuted..."
Song Qianqiu was a little surprised and quickly smiled again.
"OK."
Opening the pen cap, she added a new name under the signature of "Matsu Chiaki": Asahina Emi.
Naruse watched from the side, his eyes falling on his mother's face, but what came to his mind was her appearance nearly twenty years ago - he had only seen her in photos.
Emi Asahina was the stage name Matsu Chiaki used when she debuted at the age of seventeen.
The next year, the name spread out of Tsumae and Aomori with a TV series and became a household name.
Just two years later, the popular idol Emi Asahina suddenly retired and announced that she was about to get married. Along with her was another name: Naruse Mamoru.
Well-known screenwriter Naruse Mamoru.
He has many works and is also the screenwriter of Emi Asahina's debut work "Good Morning, Ms. Apple"...
"Thanks!"
Takigawa Yue held the signature board, her voice trembling with excitement, interrupting Naruse's memories.
No matter how sincere the love is, the scenes when fans meet their idols are often the same, and he is used to it;
However, Hikaru Takigawa felt it was new and kept staring at her sister's reaction. After a while, she looked away.
"I haven't been to Chunhai's house for a long time. I really miss it."
"When I said I wanted to go to Tokyo, Hikari probably didn't want to come," Naruse recalled.
"Because it was so sudden. In fact, I was quite angry at that time."
"Feel sorry."
"What are you apologizing for now?"
Takigawa Hikaru smiled, got up, turned around, and went to the Buddhist niche to hold an incense stick for Naruse.
bite--
After putting up the incense, she looked towards the stairs and said, "I want to go to Chunhai's room."
Naoko looked at Naruse.
"Whatever." He said.
Walking to the middle of the stairs, Takigawa Hikaru turned around again, "Isn't Harumi coming up?"
So Naruse also got up and followed.
"Is it still the same room?"
"certainly."
Just as he opened the door, there was another sound of footsteps on the stairs.
Shangzi walked up casually: "I've never seen Sister Yue show that kind of expression."
"I've never even seen him."
Takigawa Hikaru waited for her, "Yue fell in love with Harumi immediately after her mother came back, and now she is obsessed with her."
"Come in." Naruse had already walked into the room.
Standing at the door, Hikaru Takigawa looked around, as if he was observing the current layout, but also as if he was thinking about the past.
"I remember……"
She suddenly spoke, raised her hand and pointed to a certain corner, but said nothing for a long time.
Naruse and Naoko looked over, and she suddenly smiled again and whispered: "It was so interesting back then."
No one knew what she remembered except herself.
"Has the room been tidied up?"
"Yes. With Shangzi's help, we finally finished cleaning up before dark."
Hikaru Takigawa had no specific idea about the busyness of moving, so he just nodded. Then he was attracted by the window and stuck his head out to look at it for a while.
Outside the window is the house of this flower family, and the room directly opposite belongs to Shangzi.
"good."
She turned around, as if she had decided something, "Let's meet in Chunhai's room from now on."
Shangzi took a deep breath.
"What are you talking about?" Naruse didn't notice her strangeness and went over to close the window.
"It's the same as before," Takigawa Hikaru said, "Let's gather at Harukai's house first, and then decide what to do."
"You are now a high school student, can you still be as casual as before?"
"I don't think there's any difference."
Naruse shook his head and said nothing more.
Looking around again, Takigawa saw nothing but smiled at the two of them: "Go down."
Back in the living room, Naruse noticed another sentence on Takigawa Yue's signature board.
[Come on! Work hard to get admitted to Northeastern University!]
This is naturally the work of Song Qianqiu.
"Sister Yue's goal is Northeastern University?" Naruse asked.
Takigawa Yue nodded, "I want to apply for the Department of Agriculture at Northeastern University."
"It's amazing."
No wonder I have to go to a private school.
Takigawa Hikaru took the signature board and looked at it for a few times, "I think Jinda is very good, but Yue said that he wants to go somewhere else."
Takigawa Yue shook her head, "Jinda is too close..."
Tsuda University is located near Tsugao. Naruse took the bus back in the afternoon. Opposite the platform where he was waiting for the bus was the Tsuda University baseball stadium.
"Tohoku University is in Sendai. It's not too close, but it's not far either. Isn't it nice?" Naruse said.
Takigawa Yue nodded repeatedly.
"I don't feel comfortable letting Yue go to college alone."
Hikaru Takigawa looked at the signature board and covered the words [Tohoku University] on it with his hand.
"After all, Yue has never traveled far alone since she was a child."
"I'm not a child anymore..." Takigawa Yue's voice became lower and lower.
The identities of the elder sister and the younger sister have been completely reversed, Matsu Qianqiu thought to himself while watching.
She sat in the corner of the sofa, flipping through the script that had just been sent to her mailbox, her main attention still focused on her children.
After observing the Takigawa sisters calmly for a while, Matsu Qianqiu looked at Naoko again.
She didn't speak much, and most of the time she just smiled to show that she was listening, or nodded to let the conversation continue. Other than that, she just looked at Harumi.
Following his gaze, Song Qianqiu looked at his son again.
"...I have no plans. Not yet." Naruse said, adding, "However, I will probably still focus on getting into higher education as my main goal."
"Tsugata?" Takigawa Hikaru asked, "You can live at home."
He smiled.
"That's quite convenient. Let's talk about it then."
On the surface, it was randomness, but as a mother, what she saw was a certain negativity.
Song Qianqiu couldn't help but sigh, and heard another equally slight sigh.
She looked over, and Naoko stared at Harumi's side face, immersed in indescribable emotions.
...
The Takigawa sisters didn't stay too long. After sitting for a while, they wanted to go back.
Matsu Qianqiu said goodbye to them, and then asked Naruse to take them home.
"Shangzi, let's go too."
She held her phone and stretched, "I'm going to take a bath and read the script. You don't have to say hello to me later."
"OK."
Takigawa's house is not far away, only a few hundred meters away. You can get there by taking the prefectural road in front or the path beside the farmland.
Because Takigawa Hikaru proposed to go to a convenience store, several people chose the former.
When she arrived at the convenience store, she got a bottle of drink for herself and her sister, and asked Naruse and Shoko what they needed.
"Milk bar."
Naoko's choice was the same as Naruse's.
The Takigawa family was at the intersection diagonally across from the convenience store. They sent the two sisters home. Naruse did not stop and went back to the road with Naoko.
There were no lights on the road, but fortunately the moonlight was bright, making the road white.
Next to it is the farmland, and the night wind passes through the rice plants, making a rustling sound.
Naruse stood at the edge of the field for a while, looking into the distance in the darkness. There were only a few lights on, and it was hazy, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
“It’s so quiet.”
Shangzi held the low-temperature milk and prepared to go back and open it again, "Aren't you used to it?"
"A little bit." Naruse looked at the moon and felt that it had never been as clear and cool as it is today. "Just a little bit."
There was a warm touch on my arms.
He lowered his head, Shangzi held his arm and smiled under the moonlight.
"Go back, Harumi."
"Um."
Returning to the two adjacent buildings, Shangzi walked towards his own house, "Want to come to my house and have a look?"
Guessing that she would have to wait a while before taking a shower after returning home, Naruse followed her in.
"Excuse me."
When the lights are turned on, the furniture and furnishings in the room are all available, but it just gives people a deserted feeling than outside.
Over the years, Shangzi has lived here almost alone, and the days with his family are few and far between.
"Want something to drink?"
Naruse shook the milk in his hand, but he didn't open it either.
Shangzi smiled and said, "Go to my room."
When I arrived at the room on the second floor, looking at the uniforms hanging on the wall and the half-sewn puppets on the desk, the feeling of loneliness finally subsided a lot.
"It feels a little more delicate than it looks in the photo." Naruse picked up a fist-sized puppet on the desk. This is Naoko's hobby and specialty. He once witnessed its entire process from scratch in the form of photos.
"Thanks."
Shangzi smiled even happier.
There are also many large and small dolls on the table and bedside, all sewn by her.
"After joining the handicraft club, I have more people to communicate with and I have learned a lot of new skills." She picked up different puppets and showed him the skills she had already shown.
Naruse looked at them one by one and suddenly said: "Give me one."
"Okay." Shangzi agreed immediately, "Which one does Harumi want?"
He looked at it and pointed to the white bear on the bedside, "That's it. It took more than sixty days to complete...well, the polar bear."
When she handed the doll to him, there was a little dissatisfaction in Shangzi's smile: "This is not a polar bear."
"They're all white anyway."
After staying in Naoko's room for a while, Naruse went back with Shiro Bear in his arms.
"Tired."
"It's been a hard day, good night."
Returning to the second floor, the closed door brought with it a gust of cold wind.
The temperature in the room dropped again.
When he walked to the window and saw the lights on the opposite side turning on for the first time in a long time, Shang Zi felt his eyes were a little sore.
"Welcome back, Chunhai..."
Wow——
She stared blankly for a while, and the curtains on the opposite side suddenly opened, followed by the glass window.
The puppet, which had just left the room, appeared on the opposite window sill and shook twice.
"Go to bed early, we have to go out tomorrow."
"..."
After not hearing a response for a long time, and his hands were a little sore, Naruse stuck his head out and took a look.
On the windowsill opposite, a pink rabbit sat, wagging its overly long ears at him.