"Fold me, put me down"

After passing under the arch carved with a green dragon in the east, and back in the market area, Sha woke up and reached out and patted me on the shoulder. I don't know if I was woken up by the noisy sounds of the people around me, or if I was just closing my eyes and recuperating.

I didn't ask, I put her off my back. Mika originally wanted to enjoy the treatment of being carried on her back, but seeing that the yarn had come down, she was embarrassed to continue to let the panting Mamura continue to carry her, and shouted that Mamura jumped off his back after squatting. However, due to excessive force, he knocked Mamura to the ground, and his feet slipped and he sat on the ground.

Fortunately, the ice surface underground has fish-scale-like lines, so the two of them didn't stage an ice slide. In addition, it was also fortunate that both of them were wearing thick cotton pants today, so the fall was painless.

The pedestrians around them stopped and watched for a while when they saw the two fall, and when they confirmed that they were not injured, they walked away with a kind smile. A few older kids, who didn't know us, laughed and pointed in this direction, and then ran away, much to the frustration of Mika and Mamura.

At this time, all the shops were already open, and some of them were run by only one person, most of them were for entertainment or handicrafts, and some of them were for finished food. In some of the shops where you make cooked food on the spot, there are two or three people, one person at the front counter and one or two people in charge of the cooking.

In the cold air, the enticing aroma of food spreads with the wind, which makes people's mouths water, and at the same time, it also makes people feel their bodies burn up, and the cold seems to be dispelled in the blink of an eye.

There are already long queues in front of many stores, and while waiting in line, people who know each other and those who don't know each other start chatting with each other. The shops are full of people coming and going, and it looks like a real downtown shopping street.

Saa and I helped Mamura and Mika up, respectively, and then we blended in with the foraging crowd and walked back and forth between the igloos. In a short time, everyone had a few more snacks in their hands, such as water Shin Xuan cake wrapped in lotus leaves, bean paste pancakes, snow-white steamed buns with various fillings, fried noodles with ladyhead leaves, red bean crisp soup, and Japanese confectionery and croquettes skewered with wooden skewers.

"This fried noodles are a little salty, and they also have carrots in them...... I hate carrots. ”

"Mika, this won't work, you have to eat them all."

"Got it, got it...... Wow! This meat is so fat! No, no, no! This thing loves whoever eats it! Oh, Mamura, here you go, boys should eat more meat. ”

"Don't! Don't put it on my plate! ”

"What's the matter, isn't it just a few pieces of fat? Forget it, if you don't want it, just fold it. Fold this ...... And this, all for you. ”

“……”

I watched in silence as Mika picked up the fat piece by piece into the disposable bowl in her hand, which became a little dangerous after a pile of food because it was made by washing and drying the leaves of the ladywood tree—the walls of the bowl were pressed by the food and hung out, and the food was about to fall out.

Although we had all kinds of food in our hands, neither Mika nor Mamura gave up our action to continue looking for food, and Sasae and I had no choice but to solve the snacks in our hands while continuing to line up behind them, occasionally handing over some things that the two children wanted to eat to the two of them.

As I was picking up food, I passed by the mask shop with two human face greeting lamps in front of my house, and I subconsciously stopped and looked inside. I found that the cabinets and items inside had been arranged, and all kinds of strange masks were also neatly placed, facing the door, and there seemed to be a pair of invisible eyes hidden deep in the hollow eye sockets, staring at every passerby.

At the same time, I saw that the owner of the mask shop was a tall, bloated man, a bald head that was rare in the town, and he was dressed in a flowery cotton suit. He lowered his head with excitement on his face, and in his hand was a stack of thick picture books, as if he was using magic to depict something on the drawing books.

When I looked at him, he reacted immediately and immediately looked up at me. When he found out that I was a child, he smiled with the same thick lips as the man who had just handed out the ice to us, and a pair of large eyes that were bulging as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.

I wasn't intimidated, I just smiled politely at him, and when he saw it, he let out a shrill laugh: "Good boy! Good boy! I'm not afraid at all. What do you think? What do you think? Maybe I scolded secretly in my heart. ”

His tone was so strange that I frowned, and Mika and Mamura beside me were a little scared, and they pulled me and told me to hurry up. I glanced at them, then looked back at the bald male, and saw that he had continued to lower his head, drawing something in his sketchbook that I don't know what it was.

The sound he made just now was heard not only by a few of us children, but also by a few adults passing by, who seemed to know the man, and with a respectful expression on their faces, they bent towards him, as if this bald man was a wonderful person.

I hadn't heard of this bald head, so I walked away with my three children. As she walked away, Mika glared at the bald man, as if angry at the fact that she had just been frightened by his strange words.

When she saw the bald man, there was a thoughtful look on her face, and it wasn't until she was away from the mask shop that she looked in the direction of the shop unsurely: "I remember my mother said that there is a mana master in the town named Hino Mitsukaze, who is bald, and although the mana level is not bad, he often makes disgusting gestures, which makes people feel very disgusting. Mom told me to stay away from him when I met him, and it was better not to say a word to him. I don't know if it's him just now, but it does look annoying. ”

"I've heard his name too, and adults seem to say that he's one of the most powerful users of mana, and while it's not as good as the Kazuki clan, it's not far off. Could such a person be such a nuisance? I think Aunt Liuzhi must be a little prejudiced. ”

Mamura couldn't agree with Sa's opinion and couldn't help but open his mouth to refute it.

"There must be nothing wrong with what Mom said."

Although the yarn looked calm, there was a serious color in the eyes that looked at Mamura, and if you looked closely, it seemed to have seven layers of resemblance to Miss Liuzhi's cold gaze. Looking at such a veil, even I felt a little trembling in my heart, not to mention Mamura. His lips squirmed a few times under the gaze of the veil, and he wanted to say something, but nothing came out.

"Alright, let's go ahead and eat, don't talk about these unhappy things."

Meijia saw that something was wrong with the atmosphere and hurriedly changed the topic. So we tacitly agreed not to talk about Hino Mitsukaze, and continued the process of foraging around, and soon the atmosphere returned to harmony.

On the way around to taste food, we would meet familiar people from time to time, and when the four of us were lining up in front of a food store, we saw my father and mother walking together. The two held hands, and the mother brought food to the father's mouth from time to time, and the father ate it with a smile. The intimacy of the two seemed to brew an atmosphere of no one else, they didn't see me in the group, and I didn't want to disturb their rare sweet moment, so I didn't call them back.

"It's so sweet...... Your mom and dad are so sweet, just like this bean paste-filled bobiscus. ”

Mika took a bite of the crispy bean paste cake in her hand, watched my parents disappear into the crowd, rolled her eyes several times, and squinted at me.

"It's very sweet."

Mamura nodded.

"It's sweet."

Saqian smiled and stuffed a honey ball into her mouth: "Sweeter than this." ”

After a while, he met Shizuzu and Suiko again, both of whom were wearing pale green coats of the same color, and their expressions were a little strange. This time, it wasn't just me who saw them, they saw us too, so I stretched out my hand and waved to the two people in front of me: "Sister, Suizi ......"

But before the greeting was finished, Jing pulled the tassel beside her with a complicated expression, turned around and walked to the other street around the corner, as if she didn't want to see us at all. Hoko turned her head and smiled apologetically as she was dragged away by Jing.

My hands were frozen in the air, and I had a lot of thoughts in my mind, but I couldn't figure out what to do. Even according to the most rational thinking, it is impossible to guess what Jing is thinking for a while. Is it because of what happened in the morning that you are angry?

I quickly shook my head again, thinking that it shouldn't be like this, but I couldn't figure out why she did it for a while. But after thinking about it, this seems to be good, it's no longer my unilateral evasion and alienation, but the two of them deliberately keep their distance, as long as it takes a long time, Jing's alternative feelings for me should also be calmed down, right?

Thinking about it, I finally put down my hand and didn't choose to catch up. Facing the inquiring eyes of the three peers next to me, I shook my head slightly: "She's in a bad mood, she probably doesn't want to see me, and she should get better after a while." ”

"But ......"

Of the three, Sasa was arguably the only one who was somewhat aware of the complicated relationship between me and Jing, and she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.

Meijia and Mamura were confused, Meijia looked at Jingyuan's back, and turned back to look at me: "Is it really okay not to apologize?" Sister Jing's appearance is not an ordinary angry look. ”

"It's okay."

I shook my head again and led the way to another store. Mika and Mamura hesitated for a moment, and soon followed with Sa, and in the blink of an eye, they returned to the appearance that nothing had happened.

Mika and Mamura are gluttonies, a fact I've known since I visited their house before. Whenever I visited their house, most of the snacks that their parents used to entertain me ended up in their stomachs, and I ended up with a stomach full of tea.

So on the road of foraging for food, the two gluttons rarely agreed, muttering that they wanted to eat all the snacks in Chinese food, but they had only run to a dozen snack bars, and the two of them could no longer eat anything, and at this time, even half of the food in hand had not been eaten.

As a last resort, we had to sit down in a seating area in the market area and take a break while we got rid of the leftovers.

The noon time passed quickly, and after the leftover food was settled, we took a break while waiting for the start of the afternoon ice sculpture building competition for large buildings. This is one of the highlights of the day, and most people choose to go to the ice wall to see it.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, a voice came from the Ice Palace in the center, and the voice was transmitted to every corner of the event area through a loudspeaker: "Everyone who has signed up for the large-scale architectural ice sculpture construction competition, please gather in front of the Ice Palace now, and the competition will start in half an hour." ”

"In addition, if you want to watch the competition, please go to the ice wall or stay in the market area, and do not enter the competition area when the competition starts, so as to avoid accidental injury. Please pay attention to the children around you, whether it is your own child or someone else's child, please take care of them and do not let them enter the field during the game. After 20 minutes, the town office officials will inspect the area of the event and clear the venue, so please go to the designated location to watch the game again. Repeat......"

"Let's go, let's go to the wall."

Hearing the sound of the megaphone, I stood up and waved to Sawa Mamura, and then shook Mika, who was about to fall asleep, and then obediently followed them behind them to the ice wall under the serious gaze of several adults around me.

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PS: For time reasons, this chapter will be written here first, and I will add a little plot after two days. If you have more, you will open a new chapter, and if you have less, you will add to this chapter and reissue.