Back at his grandmother's and grandfather's old house, Natsume fell asleep in Inari's arms on the way because he had consumed too much mental and physical strength, and Amaterasu put him back in his room, and he didn't know it. When I woke up, it was already three poles in the morning, and when I woke up, Natsume was shocked to find that there were still two fox ears on my head! Immediately rushed to the bathroom without sleepiness, and saw the disappearance of the ears on his head, he put down the heart he was carrying, and another day of life in the ancient house began with the morning chickens and dogs. Amaterasu heard a voice from Natsume's room shouting, "Natsume, are you up?" Come and eat when you get up!" Hearing Amaterasu say that he was going to eat, Natsume realized that he was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and when he looked out the window, it was already time for lunch, and he immediately replied, "Okay, Mom, I'll come after washing." ”

When I hurriedly washed up and came to the hall, I found only my mother and grandmother, "Grandma, Mom, where have my grandfather and father gone?" "Ah, our Natsume is up! Did you sleep well? Yesterday exhausted you, didn't you? Grandma poked her head out of the kitchen and said to Natsume with a smile, "Your grandfather went to help a friend's house build a house for sacrifice, and your father was also pulled to help." It's just the three of us eating at noon today, go wash your hands, and we're going to eat. "Yes, Grandma." When Amaterasu ran to the bathroom to wash his hands and came out, he was serving food to the dining table, and Natsume saw that it was soba noodles. After blanching, the soba noodles are boiled in cold water, drained, and served in a shallow bamboo basket called "笊". A bowl of cold soba noodles on a hot summer day is refreshing and refreshing, and I can't describe it in words. Thinking about it, Natsume's saliva was about to flow out, so he hurriedly went to the kitchen to help Amaterasu and his grandmother bring out the leftover dishes and spices. The staple of lunch is the most popular cold soba noodles in the summer, and my grandmother's hand-made soba noodles made with premium buckwheat flour and a small amount of wheat flour are washed away with cold and ice water after cooking, and the texture is smooth, chewy, and fragrant with buckwheat. The cold noodle sauce from kombu, soy sauce, miso and minced bonito is chilled in the refrigerator and topped with chopped green onions, quail eggs, and white radish puree. Then add your own hand-milled wasabi, a piece of fresh wasabi, a small washboard, carefully grinded to a blue-green wasabi mud and a unique grass fragrance. Sandwich a thin lock of soba noodles, swing twice in the ingredients, and eat it in a small bowl, first cool, salty and sweet, as you chew it overflows with the aroma of buckwheat, and the surprise brought by the sporadic wasabi, everything is wonderful.

The best companion to the light and refreshing soba noodles is fried tempura, which is made with seasonal eggplant, edamame, pumpkin, winter melon, perilla leaves, amaranth leaves, and shrimp, and then seasoned with dried pine fish sauce, soy sauce, and sea rice sauce. When eating, it is dipped in a small amount of sugar and radish puree mixed with a small amount of sugar and radish puree in the dried pine fish juice, soy sauce, and sea rice juice, which is tender and delicious, fragrant but not greasy.

This meal Natsume ate was very satisfying, after lunch, Natsume was defeated in the summer heat, although compared to Fushimi's temperature, Ise by the sea has been a lot cooler, but this year's abnormal temperature makes Ise not much better, but the sea breeze in the evening is very cool, and the temperature in the afternoon is still almost the same. Lying on the tatami mat, I opened the paper door separating the indoor and outdoor in an attempt to get a hint of wind blowing in, but unfortunately I just thought about it. Asumasu looked amusedly at Natsume, who was lying on the ground hot like a puppy drooping his head and panting, and couldn't bear to walk over and let Natsume rest his head on her lap. Natsume only felt that the temperature around him dropped in an instant, and Amaterasu's body seemed to have a thermostatic air conditioner turned on, which was a summer artifact.

Before I knew it, Natsume fell asleep again, and when I woke up, I found that I had slept on Amaterasu's lap for more than an hour, and I was very embarrassed.

Tianzhao saw Natsume wake up and stand up and go to the kitchen to bring out a plate of chilled watermelon, put it next to Natsume and said, "Come on, have afternoon tea." ”

Natsume was eating watermelon while listening to Amaterasu, "We're leaving tonight." ”

Natsume was a little surprised, "Where are you going?" ”

"We're going back to Gao Tianyuan in the evening, your body has been recuperating well recently, and with the effect of the three-color pills you ate last night, your bloodline awakening is about to begin."

"Really?" Natsume's heart is filled with all kinds of emotions, there is a faint expectation, and there is still fear and hesitation for the unknown.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here with your father!" Amaterasu was comforted.

At dinner, my grandfather and Inari also returned, and after a simple meal of luxurious sushi, it was time to leave. Natsume is a little reluctant, in just a few days, Natsume has already liked here, kind and kind grandmother, a grandfather with a different heart, a serious appearance and a soft heart, and a grandfather who is not good at words, and the ancient but intact historical traces of Honmaru, all of which make Natsume very nostalgic.

The sound of the Michiseiji temple bell sounded outside the door, and he had come from Fushimi Inari Taisha to pick them up. The same hazy car as when it came, there were two fox fires lit in front of the car, and there was a smoke-like monster smoke floating under the hazy car, and it was the fire car that pulled the car, and the Daocheng Temple bell stood next to it, which all meant that the parting was near.

Sitting in the car, grandma and grandpa waved outside, "I have time to come to grandma's place to play!" Natsume cautiously agreed in the car, "I will definitely come back to see you and grandpa." In fact, both sides know that this has been the past year, and they don't know when they will be able to meet. The passage of time between Gao Tianyuan and the human world is different, and he doesn't know how many years it will take until his bloodline awakens, and he doesn't know how many years it will take to return to the human world. Although the health of grandparents, grandmothers and grandfathers is good, after all, they are already old, and Natsume doesn't dare to think about it anymore. His eyes were full of tears, and he lowered his head and didn't say a word.

Seeing Natsume's grief, her grandmother gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Natsume's eyes, "Little Natsume, there is always a time to part in life, but grandma promised you to live well until the day when Natsume can come to see her grandmother, and grandma is here to wait for you to make a water letter cake for Natsume when the time comes." "Hmm~" Natsume nodded with a crying voice, and secretly vowed that he must work hard and strive to come back to see his grandmother, grandfather and grandfather as soon as possible.

After all, I still have to go, wave goodbye to my grandparents, and try to squeeze out a smile to try to make my grandmother no longer worry. Watching the grandmother and grandfather on the ground slowly shrink and disappear until they could no longer see, they couldn't hold themselves back anymore and threw themselves into Amaterasu's arms and cried bitterly.

Patting Natsume's back doesn't stop Natsume from letting his emotions unleash to his heart's content, and sometimes it's better to cry.

Natsume was crying all the way, and he waited until Natsume was tired of crying Amaterasu before he spoke, "Are you better?" Come and drink saliva. He took the water cup in Inari's hand and rehydrated Natsume, who had been crying for so long.

"Mom, how long do you think it will take me to go back to see Grandma?"

"This mom can't be sure, but mom believes that you will be able to go back as quickly as possible."