On the second day, Xiang Ze's birthday, in the morning, the three of them went to Beiyan's house together, and when they entered the gate, they saw Beiyan, Beiyan also greeted them with a smile, several people were greeting each other, Xiang Ze heard the voice running out of the back yard, grabbed the hands of the two sisters, and asked with a smile: "Sister Peach, Sister Sakura, why did you come?" ”

"Xiang Ze is 15 years old this year, and the older he gets, the better he becomes." Fluttershy says as she strokes her hair.

"This is for you." Yun Yun handed her a beautiful box.

"What's inside?"

"I won't tell you now, you can go back to your room and see for yourself."

Xiang Ze hugged it, still blushing and smiling, and said, "Sister, go into the house, it's hot here." ”

Yunyun Zhuang Die went to the living room, Kazawa went back to the house to put the box, when he first entered the living room, he saw Kitano and Emi Inada talking to Chiko Okra, and he was stunned, Megumi saw that he got up to greet him, Kitano still couldn't get used to them, he glanced at him and said, "I'm out!" "Just leave the living room.

Beiyan and Zhuang Sheng walked all the way to the study, Zhuang Sheng knew that Beiyan had been dismissed recently, and his business had also been greatly affected, so he couldn't help but ask, "How are you doing?" ”

Beiyan worried: "I don't know yet, but I heard that there will be a meeting in the next few days, and my question is also discussed, and I have to wait for the above arrangement on what to do, but I didn't make an actual mistake, at most I was demoted or transferred." ”

Zhuang Sheng nodded silently, and after a while, he suddenly said worriedly, "Business has not been good recently, if it continues like this, then it will be ......"

"It's all my father's fault, when I was in office, he relied on power and power to expand the business chain greatly, and he must have offended a lot of people, and now that I am suspended, how can I have anything to do with this?" Beiyan sighed, "It's just a matter of reaping the consequences, and regretting it is useless." ”

"So what are you going to do? Everywhere is out of stock, factories are closed, many orders are also missing, they can't get the goods they want, some people often come to make trouble, and the scene is a little uncontrollable. ”

"I've been having trouble closing my eyes these nights, I've always wondered why there weren't so many people who couldn't get along with my family before, but now they're all coming out in a flash, I can't cope anymore, I rarely dealt with these businessmen before, and I know that they are more cunning than anyone else."

"That's—"

"If you can't do it, give up, if you don't do business, I can still support my family." "It all started because my father didn't know me well and put too much hope on me, but he didn't know that I wasn't interested in doing business at all." ”

Beiyan thought of this father who was good money, good power, lustful and perverted, and the hatred in his heart still did not completely dissipate.

"Huh, won't Beicheng come?" Zhuang Sheng suddenly asked.

"He's already out of Japan."

"Left?" Zhuang Sheng exclaimed, "Why didn't you tell me?" ”

"He said that he had just met you before and told him about this, so he didn't make a special trip to find you when he left this time, but only asked me to convey you."

"Oh." Zhuang Sheng frowned and said, "If you say goodbye now, I don't know what will happen in the future, maybe there will be no time to see each other in the future." ”

"The world is unpredictable, and it may not be forever."

Zhuang Sheng only smiled bitterly.

"It's time for me to go out and meet the guests." Beiyan said, "Let's go." ”

Zhuang Sheng followed him into the front yard, and saw Kitano on the porch, and he looked into the distance with cold eyebrows.

"Big brother." Beiyan exclaimed, "What are you doing here?" ”

Kitano saw Zhuang Sheng in a blink of an eye, and seemed to be even more unhappy, so he only said, "Just take a look, you don't have to worry about me, go take care of your other guests." ”

Beiyan and Zhuang Sheng leave, and as they turn down the hallway, they see Xiang Ze and Yun Yun playing in the shade in the front yard of the hall, and Fluttershy sitting on the railing on the porch watching them play.

Neither of them made a sound, and along the way they heard the sound of cicadas chirping and talking in the antechamber. Walking straight behind Fluttershy, Zhuang Sheng tries to tease her, pats her on the shoulder, and immediately follows Beiyan into the house.

Fluttershy turns her head to see no figure, then turns back to catch a glimpse of a shadow flashing past, and laughs and gets up to chase after her.

In the house, Chiko Okra and Emi Inada were talking to a woman, and when the pretty woman saw Kitaiwa, she immediately stood up and said with a smile, "You're here." ”

Beiyan was stunned for a moment, and asked, "You... How long has it been? ”

"It's only for a moment."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

At this point, Zhuang Sheng and Fluttershy walk up to her, and Kitam introduces her, "This is my friend, Kawashima Ino, Kawashima Sakurayuki." ”

Fluttershy responds with a smile.

The woman smiled slightly, raised her eyebrows, and nodded haughtily and politely in reply, "Suhara Katoriko." The voice was delicate and clear, Zhuang Sheng was secretly surprised, and he thought to himself that if there was a sound this summer, it should be like this.

Beiyan saw that Zhuang Sheng was stunned, his face was also red, and he thought he was embarrassed, so he said: "This is my junior sister, when I was in college, we studied under the same teacher, so we are all friends, don't see each other." ”

Fluttershy pinched him, and Zhuang Sheng nodded.

"Is she prettier than me, you're dumbfounded." Fluttershy whispers.

"How can you be dumbfounded? I just thought your eyebrows were a bit similar, so I took a second look. Zhuang Sheng glanced at the incense of the incense again, and thought, it is really a bit similar.

Katoriko Sugawara is frowning at North Rock, not noticing that Zhuang Sheng and Fluttershy are discussing her.

"Then who is pretty, me or her?" Fluttershy doesn't give up.

"You ask these difficult questions again, how can you discuss other people's looks when you meet someone for the first time!"

Fluttershy turns her head boredly and doesn't speak again.

"Alas," Zhuang Sheng glanced at her and said, "Alright, alright, you are all beautiful, but I think you are a little prettier than her." ”

"Really?"

"Really."

Fluttershy's eyes are powerful, she can see something deeper in other people's eyes, she stares into Zhuang Sheng's eyes to make sure he's not lying, and laughs.

By noon, the weather was a little hot, and everyone had their minds on their minds, so they felt a little bored, and the meal was not interesting, except for Xiang Ze's simple mind, playing with Yun Yun and Fluttershy, and being happier than usual.

After the meal, the Kitano couple left.

As soon as Suhara Katoriko came, Beiyan's heart was also messed up, he was absent-minded, which made everyone very embarrassed, Zhuang Sheng and they also wanted to go home, Beiyan sent them away, and when he turned back, he saw Suhara Katoriko behind him.

"I wrote to you, you should know that I'm back, why don't you come to me, so I have to wait for Xiangze's birthday to take the initiative to find you?" Katoriko asked.

Beiyan stared at her affectionately, "I don't dare. He said.

"Why don't you dare?"

"I'm afraid of your father." Beiyan smiled with a pout.

Katoriko also smiled, took two steps closer, and the two embraced.

"My father is not so scary, you can come if you want." Katoriko whispered in his ear.

"You're his precious daughter, and of course he won't look at you as if he's going to eat me." Beiyan gently pushed her away and pulled her to the backyard with him.

"It's not that serious, he just expects too much from you."

"It's really very high, he opened the window of my political career for me, but my political ideals are different from your father's, the scene we see from this window is completely different, I can't become what he wants me to be," Beiyan smiled bitterly, "Now that I have been dismissed again, I dare not see him, if I go to you, he will definitely scold me to the blood." ”

Katoriko was a mixed bag, and she asked, "Then what do you do now?" ”

"I don't know, I just have to wait."

"Wait?" Katoriko asked again, "What should I do then?" ”

"Are you willing to wait?" Beiyan said, "In my situation, your father won't let you marry me." ”

"Then wait, just don't change your mind, when the time comes, I'm old and yellow, you don't want me, and others don't want me anymore." Katoriko said angrily.

"Five years at most, okay." Beiyan thought for a moment and said, "When I am thirty years old, you will be twenty-nine, which is not old." ”

"Not old? The girl's youth is only a few years, and it will be gone after twenty-eight, and then you will abandon me, and I will not let you go. Katoriko glared at Kitawa.

"Don't worry." Kitawa took her hand and sat on a chair under the tree, and asked, "What have you learned in the past few years at the University of Tokyo?" ”

Katoriko leaned on his shoulder, looked at the afterglow of the evening sunset, and said, "Isn't it history, you look at this sky, it is the sky of history, and it has existed for I don't know how many years." ”

Beiyan looked at this sky, and the sky in his heart was as big as the sky in front of him.

The next day, Yun Yun went to school, and happened to meet Rong Cangsuke on the road, so she walked with him.

"Your brother really cares about you." Eikura said.

Yun Yun smiled bitterly and muttered, "How do you know?" ”

"I've seen him a few times," said Eikurasuke, "and what you have in your eyes doesn't deceive you." ”

"Huh—are you all so literate?" Yun Yun said, "It's really uncomfortable." ”

She stares into Eikurasuke's eyes, remembering that day Fluttershy had said that Eikura wasn't a good person, but she couldn't.

The two walked briskly together, and when they arrived at the door of the school newspaper, they saw seven or eight people around the table, arguing fiercely, all of them were indignant, Kagawa Shisaki saw Yunyun coming, walked over with a newspaper, and asked, "Momozawa, have you read this article?" ”

Yun Yun took it suspiciously, and when she saw five eye-catching big characters - the victory of the empire, she felt so familiar.

"I haven't read it, what is written?"

"I want you to read it all, not to mention that you are a Chinese student."

Yun Yun saw that these classmates were solemn, and she also felt like a great enemy, she unfolded the newspaper, sat down slowly, and read it word by word.

Eikurasuke was talking to a person outside, and when he heard the commotion in the club, he looked around and saw Kagawa Shisaki, so he came and called her to the back room, and said: "I don't know if there is anyone on this martial arts hall, who has repeatedly caused trouble and is safe and sound, and the school has not made a decision for a long time, you write an article criticizing the martial arts hall, and then publish it in the school newspaper, none of the students do not hate this martial arts hall that is evil, and a good article can be enough to arouse their enthusiasm for resistance." ”

"So many classmates, why are you looking for me?"

"The school newspaper has been formed, and you are one of them, isn't that what you should do?" Eikurasuke asked rhetorically, "Are you afraid?" ”

"Huh?" Kagawa Shisaki asked, "Why do you say that, what's so scary about this?" ”

"It's good if not." Rong Cangsuke helped his glasses, smiled, and immediately became serious again, putting on a didactic posture, and his mouth was like a river, "We writers, either humble or arrogant, not pandering or rejecting, write what we see with our own eyes, and criticize all unreasonable things, so the martial arts hall, as an outlier in the school, should be criticized." ”

"Understood." Kagawa Shisaki said.

"Then you're ready to go."

"But do you know why this article was introduced to the school and published in the school newspaper?" Kagawa Shisaki showed him the newspaper and asked, "Is this reasonable?" ”

"I really know how to learn and use it." Eikurasuke smiled, "What do you think?" ”

"I don't think it's reasonable." Kagawa Shisaki shook his head.

"Why?"

"This is Sakata University, we are all students, what kind of ideas is this article with strong political and aggressive overtones trying to instill in us?"

"Shisaki, don't be open-mouthed, what is an aggressive color? Don't talk nonsense! ”

"Isn't it? Every word in it is—"

"So far, this is not an airtight place, and what you say may hurt you and me." Eikurasuke said, "I can't decide whether this article will appear in the school newspaper or not, you... I can't decide. ”

"You're scared." Kagawa Shisaki smiled bitterly, "I can't decide, but I have my own ideas, I can still hold a pen in my hand, you were still teaching me how to be a writer just now, but now you want to block my mouth." ”

"You misunderstood me, don't you know how to judge the situation? When you don't have freedom and life, can you still hold a pen, you are two years younger than me, and there are some things that you don't know as much as I do. Rong Cangsuke said solemnly, "I know better than you how to be a person who eats with a pen." ”

Kagawa Shisaki pursed her lips, trying to get herself out of the tense state just now, she stroked her hair and smiled, "Okay, thank you for your teaching, I will complete the task you gave me." ”

"Well," Eikurasuke nodded, and suddenly said, "By the way, tell the classmates to stop making noise and do their own thing." ”

"Got it." Kagawa Shisaki said she walked out of the room and thought to herself, "I picked up the pen not just to eat." ”

When she walked out the door, she didn't see Momozawa.

"Where's Momozawa?" Kagawa Shisaki asked the classmates around him.

"I don't know, after reading this article, she only sat for a while and left."

Purple Saki didn't care, she noticed the signature in the newspaper - Ibaraki Ichiro, and thought to herself to write an article to refute his opinion.

"Hey, Purple Saki, what are you thinking?" A girl who had just entered the door asked.

Purple Saki smiled, "It's nothing, but Ellie, have you seen Momozawa?" ”

"I saw her on the road, and she went home." "She looks weird, what's the matter?" ”

"It's a little thing, just look at this newspaper." Purple Saki stuffed the newspaper into Yili's hand, walked inside, suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said, "Yili, come into the house after reading it, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Yili didn't know what to mean, but she browsed this article, heard Kagawa Shisaki's call, answered casually, and then entered the house.