Okazaki returned to the sunflower field, where he had been before, and now Xiaoshio is also here.

At the beginning, he had forgotten about his happiness, and Xiaoxi was looking for the happiness she longed for.

"Have you been looking for it all along?" Okazaki looked at Xiaoxi's small figure and walked over, staring at his daughter with a gaze he had never seen before, which he had never looked at before.

The small figure, shuttling through the flower fields, with confusion and sadness on her face, she has been looking for it.

"Hmm. Xiaoxi lowered her head and let out a muffled sound.

Okazaki looked at Xiao Xi, he thought of his young self and his father who had been leading him forward, he squatted down, Xiao Xi raised his head and looked at his father, Okazaki said to Xiao Xi gently: "Xiao Xi, that Ji Qì person...... It may not be found anymore, and there is no way to do it. Shall I buy you another one?"

Xiaoxi lowered her head sadly, tears already rolling in her eyes, as if they were about to fall in the blink of an eye, but she was locked in her eyes - because this is not a place to cry.

"That's unique...... Xiaoxi whispered.

Very lost, very sad, and very stubborn.

"Aren't there a lot of them selling in the store?" Okazaki said.

"It was chosen for me, bought for me......" Xiaoxi clenched his fists and clenched the hem of his skirt hard.

Okazaki was stunned, Xiaoxi raised his head, looked at his father, and said, "It's Dad, it's the first time ......"

Okazaki's eyes widened, and his throat throbbed twice, as if a stone had been stuck in his throat. Complicated feelings such as sadness, regret, and pain come to my heart.

He bowed his head.

Small tides. From birth. It's been five years.

But this was the first time she had received a gift from her biological father.

It's not a precious item, and it doesn't even look like a toy for girls to play with, it's just a very ordinary, very cheap thing, with a lot of toys on the shelves in the convenience store at the station.

However, this was the first gift her father had bought for her, and it was unique to her!

This gift is more valuable than anything else!

How did Xiaoxi's childhood come about?

When I saw that other peers had mothers. She...... Never met his own mother.

When she saw that other peers had fathers, she ...... I know that I have a father, but I have never lived together.

What about her when she sees other peers asking their parents "how did they come here"?

Other parents said that "picking it up" was just a joke, but Xiaoxi really picked it up - she was abandoned by Okazaki.

Parents, people who are very familiar to others, who protect them, cook for them, and bring them laughter.

But to the small tide ...... Xiaoxi didn't know what "father" and "mother" really were.

No matter how much Sanae and Akisheng like Xiaoshio and how much they care about Xiaoshio. But they are not "parents" after all, their love and the love of their parents. It's different.

So the night she stayed with my father, she asked him a word about sù my mother.

Mother, everyone has it, but for Xiaoxi, she can only understand a very, very vague shadow from the mouths of others, and she can no longer feel it with her own body and mind.

It's a very ordinary question, but how poignant, heart-wrenching, and pitiful.

For most people, they can receive countless gifts from their parents from birth, but for Xiaoxi, this is the first gift since birth.

For her, who has almost never received a father's love, this represents the father's love she has received!

So, this is a more precious gift to her than anything else.

When she lost it, she was sad, terrified, and stubborn in her desire to find it, because in her little understanding, her father would not live with her. After this trip, her father would leave again, and she would not be able to play with him like this, and she would not be able to enjoy the time with him.

This gift is not only the memory of this good time, but also belongs to her love from her father, as long as there is this gift, even if there is no way to live with her father like today after going back, she can also hold the machine qì people, feel the warmth of love carried above.

When she lost this gift, it was as if she had lost her father's love.

For her, who is very curious and looking forward to her father, she is afraid of losing this hard-won fatherly love.

So, she wanted to find it anyway - the love of her lost father!

Countless scenes and words flashed in people's minds, and finally formed a small lonely figure looking for something lost in the flower field - Xiaoxi.

However, these things only happened in a moment, but at this moment, the embankment that was strong in my heart was already broken by the tsunami of tears.

"Xiaoshio. ”

"Huh?"

"You've been lonely...... haven't you?" asked Okazaki suddenly.

"Hmm. Xiaoxi replied in a low voice - she was very lonely.

"Are you happy traveling with me?" Okazaki's voice softened.

"Hmm!" Xiaoxi nodded vigorously.

"Xiaoxi," Okazaki's voice began to tremble, and he lowered his head as if he didn't have a face to face his daughter, "Can I stay by your side?" Although he has been an incompetent father for a long time before, he will work hard for Xiaoxi in the future. So, can I stay with you?"

Okazaki raised his head, tears glistening in his eyes, and looked at his daughter, Xiaoshio, with antigery and pleading.

This is an incompetent father who begs for his daughter's forgiveness.

It is also an incompetent father, an atonement for his daughter, as well as for his wife.

"Hmm!" Xiaoxi nodded seriously.

"Really?" Okazaki's eyes welled up with tears, as if he couldn't believe that his daughter, who had been abandoned by him, would really forgive his incompetent father.

"I hope you'll stay with me. Xiaoxi said with great certainty.

This sentence. It didn't just heal Okazaki. As for countless fans. This is the most desired wish of a child's heart, no matter what her father has been, she always wants to live with her father, which is a love that no one can replace and make up.

However, Xiaoxi lowered her head again, her feelings became low, and her immature voice was tinged with sadness: "But today is a very important thing, so it's very sad......"

It was a gift from her father for the first time since she was born.

"Daddy, that. Xiaoxi's shoulders trembled slightly, her voice began to sob, she lowered her head, and her hands clutched her clothes hard, "It's ...... Sanae said that where you can cry...... Only toilets ......"

When he was on the train, because the child next to him who was spoiled by his mother caused another pain in his heart, Okazaki turned his inner pain into anger and roared at them, and Xiaoxi was frightened by Okazaki's appearance.

Ran to the toilet and came out. Her eyes were red, she said. The only place where you can cry is the toilet.

How heart-wrenching, I don't know how many times Xiaoxi went to the toilet when there was no one around?

In the face of all kinds of grievances and sorrows, how many tears did she secretly shed in places that people couldn't see?

People reminded each other of the way Xiaoxi said this to Okazaki when he was on the train: looking at Okazaki timidly and secretly, a little curious, a little starting, a little scared, and wanting to stop talking.

She wasn't done at the time.

“…… And in Daddy's arms. ”

The only place I can cry is the toilet and my father's arms.

Xiaoxi has never felt what it was like to be embraced by her father.

This ordinary sentence made countless fans cry again.

The only place I can cry is the toilet and my father's arms.

How much loneliness is contained in Xiaoxi's simple words, and how much loneliness is there, as well as the yearning for his father?

"Hmm. Okazaki nodded vigorously, tears finally welling up in his eyes, crying out of remorse, guilt, and so on.

Xiaoxi lowered her head and rushed into Okazaki's arms, her small arms hugged Okazaki tightly, and buried her head in Okazaki's shoulders, her shoulders shook more and more violently, and the sobs gradually turned into howling and crying, and when she raised her head, her face was already full of tears.

She finally no longer had to endure the tears of grief, and she could cry freely in her father's arms.

She finally didn't have to go to the cold toilet anymore, her father's warm and powerful embrace was able to tolerate her qiē, dispel her sadness, and let her dare to feel a sense of security, warmth and happiness that she had never felt before.

Okazaki hugged Xiaoxi with his backhand, hugging her small body hard, wanting to hold Xiaoxi in his arms forever and never let go.

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... I'm sorry......" Okazaki whispered.

The cries of the two echoed in the open space of the sunflower field.

It's a cry of grief.

But it is also a cry of happiness.

Xiaoxi no longer has to rely on that toy to feel her father's love and warmth, because she has already obtained the father she once dreamed of, to be able to hold her forever with a warm embrace.

"Xiaoxi, do you want to hear your mother's story?"

"Hmm. ”

"Okay, let's do it this way. ”

Not long ago, Xiaoxi wanted Okazaki to tell her the story of his mother, but Okazaki, who was immersed in the sadness of Nagisa's departure, avoided Ichiē and was reluctant to mention anything about Nagisa.

On the return train, Okazaki brings up this topic to Xiaoshio that he has been avoiding all avoidance.

This is the story of his wife, and it is also the story of Xiaoxi's mother.

Xiaoxi sat next to Okazaki, and Okazaki looked at Xiaoxi tenderly, slowly telling the story of Nagisa.

"I want to think about ......"

"Mom, she's a person who seems to cry at any moment, and the first time I saw her, she was so unconfident, so weak, and she stayed under the ramp of the school, and guess what she said under the ramp. I actually closed my eyes and said, 'Bean paste bread'......"

The picture returns to the day when Okazaki and Nagisa first met, the cherry blossoms fell at a speed of 5 centimeters per second, and suddenly a breeze blew, and the blown cherry blossom petals swirled between Okazaki and Nagisa, like a bridge of fate, so that the lives of the two were completely connected.

"That's my mother's habit of saying what she wants to eat and giving herself courage. Aunt Sanae was busy with work at that time, and she barely had time to make a bento, so if she forced to ask for it, Aunt Sanae would definitely squeeze out time. But Mom didn't do that, Mom is such a person......"

And then ...... And ah, mom she'......"

After a stunned effort, unconsciously, Okazaki's tears poured out of his eyes again, leaving along his face, falling on the back of his hand one by one, and gradually tears of memory.

Xiaoxi pulled Okazaki's clothes, and she was also infected by Okazaki's sadness and shed tears.

Okazaki wiped away his tears for Xiaoxi and wiped away his own tears.

Smiling cheerfully, he continued to tell Xiaoxi the story of his mother.

He completely walked out of the shadow of Nagisa's departure, faced life head-on, understood responsibility, and his stagnant life finally began to move forward again.

Nagisa, I found it.

I finally found it.

Something that only I can protect.

Only I can guard, something irreplaceable.

Okazaki's big hand took Xiaoshio's small hand.

That......

Yes, there is. (To be continued......)