109 to Aogaoka and a face pocket
"Mr. Kurihara, please come with me." A crisp voice came from behind Tsukasa Kurihara, and I don't know when Autumn was already standing there.
Tsukasa Kurihara withdrew his gaze towards sea level and looked at Aki, there was no one else around her, as if she knew Tsukasa Kurihara's question, Aki explained: "Kaede took Akane to Aogaoka first, the celebration is about to begin, and she still needs to prepare a lot." Mr. Kurihara, you are a guest, and I will accompany you for the rest of the journey. โ
"Is it escort or surveillance?" Tsukasa Kurihara asked with a smile.
The expression on Qiu's face paused, but quickly returned to normal, and a pair of flattering eyes bent up and replied, "What does Kurihara-sama think?" My task was to accompany my husband on a visit to Aooka. โ
Tsukasa Kurihara looked directly into Aki's eyes, and the latter did not shy away from it, and finally Tsukasa Kurihara raised his hand and made a gesture of please, and Akira bowed his head slightly in thanks before turning around and walking ahead.
In a place where Tsukasa Kurihara couldn't see, Autumn breathed a sigh of relief, squinting at the hairball that was staring at her, and lifted the breath that had been released again, and raised her trademark smile at the hairball.
Furball grinned back at her with bared teeth, but this smile was so terrible.
Aki Obiku Kurihara and Furball walk the straight and clean streets of Wakkanai, with the blue sea and blue sky on one side and the rows of houses on the other.
Seabirds hover among the sandy rocks, the sound of the tide is heard, and the fish occasionally fly out of the flowing water foam. The curtain in front of the izakaya is shaped into various shapes by the sea breeze, and when it comes to the meal, there are sporadic people who lift the curtain and walk in.
Qiu's long hair fluttered in the air as if it had come to life in the sea breeze, and she wore a silk floral dress with a beige knit sweater on the upper body, and the wind outlined her beautiful figure at a glance.
As Kurihara shook his mind from autumn, he felt a layer of gelatinous material flowing through the surface of his skin, as if he had passed through a door made of stagnant colloid.
He looked sideways, and the sun was slowly sinking to the sea level, and the stars above his head were shining and distinct.
In front of me was a scene that I had seen before, as if time had gone backwards, and the seabirds, waves, and fish I had just seen reappeared in front of Tsukasa Kurihara in the same way.
Everything is going backwards along the timeline, but they are moving forward.
The sea breeze also swept the izakaya's curtains, but the guests were completely different โ "people" dressed in Meiji-era civilian clothes with a fox's head lifted the curtain with their paws.
All of the previous modern buildings have been transformed into low-rise buildings with a Western flair, and the round domes, stained glass windows, and wall tiles remind Tsukasa Kurihara of the Republic of China era of the Celestial Empire.
The deserted streets were filled with people and foxes in an instant.
Most of the foxes wear civilian clothes, and the fox's head is shaggy and exposed, which has an indescribable cuteness. And people are different, some wear suits and dresses, some wear kimono yukata, and all kinds of straight clothes and dresses, everything, it looks like a hodgepodge.
The appearance of Tsukasa Kurihara and Autumn was a paint that had not entered the sea, and in an instant they were surrounded by the crowd, and no one noticed the sudden appearance of the two.
"Qingqiu?"
Autumn nodded: "Qingqiu." โ
She walked up to Tsukasa Kurihara and answered for him: "Aooka and Wakkanai overlap, but there are two spaces. Occasionally, someone will break in through the barrier, which is why the legend spreads. โ
"You can't break into such an enchantment by chance." Tsukasa Kurihara said with amusement.
Qiu Shuang was quick and admitted directly: "Every once in a while, the elders will deliberately leave a gap. But we don't know exactly who came in. โ
"Just let someone in." Tsukasa Kurihara looked around and replied casually, "It doesn't matter who it is. โ
Qiu continued as he walked forward, "It's been a long time since we've communicated with the outside world, and everything in Qingqiu is still the same as it was a hundred years ago. But there are radios, telephones, TV stations, and so on, and that's fine. โ
"Up to now, Qingqiu has its own way of operating." Speaking of this, Autumn suddenly stopped, and Tsukasa Kurihara looked at her and waited for her next sentence.
Autumn fell into some kind of contemplation, and she stood in place in a daze, the crowd around her coming and going. Tsukasa Kurihara stood with her, looking left and right at the passers-by.
A fox passed by Qiu, but it stopped, looked at Qiu twice, and then happily stepped forward: "Lord Qiu, is it you?" โ
Autumn came back to his senses and looked down at the fox, which was only one meter five upright, much shorter than Autumn who was nearly one meter seven.
"Face pocket?"
"Yes, sir." The fox named Face Pocket smiled, "It's been a long time, Lord Qiu." Are you here to purchase the next ceremonial items? Now that the market is over, everything is almost sold. The next time I catch the market is in five days, and I will let the head of the house prepare what you need. โ
"Face Pocket, I'm not here ยทยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"What do you do?" Tsukasa Kurihara intercepted Aki's words first.
Hearing Tsukasa Kurihara call himself, his face suddenly became frightened, and he hurriedly responded: "My lord, you are tormenting the villain." You can call me a face pocket. Our family is fishing, and our family is responsible for the mobilization of materials in the vicinity. Whether you want silk, appliances, furniture, dishes, desserts, venues, we can arrange it all. โ
"Oh?" Tsukasa Kurihara raised an eyebrow, "That is, the logistics department." โ
"Yes, yes, back-office." The beard, eyebrows, and eyes on the face are all put together, and it looks extremely flattering, "It's still an adult who is well-informed." โ
"Face Pocket, let's stop here today, we still have things." Autumn didn't seem to want Tsukasa Kurihara to continue talking to Facedou.
"Okay, then Lord Qiu, I'll go first."
"Autumn, we don't think we have dinner yet." Tsukasa Kurihara said.
"Dinner is arranged in the restaurant." Qiu Hui, "There are a few elders who want to see you, sir." โ
"Face pocket." Tsukasa Kurihara suddenly stopped his face, and the latter immediately paused and bowed, bowing to make its fox body even smaller, "Let's go to your house for dinner tonight, okay?" โ
"Huh?" Autumn and Face Pocket let out a surprised exclamation at the same time.
"Great, my lord, this is not good." "Our family is in the village, which is incomparable to the city, and the environment is chaotic, and we have never received such an honorable guest as you. There are also some foxes who don't know the rules, and there are no stone slabs, so I'm afraid of dirty your feet. โ
Autumn is also speaking: "Mr. Kurihara, dinner has been arranged. โ
Tsukasa Kurihara didn't care about Qiu, and looked straight at his face: "Autumn went to your house privately." โ
Tsukasa Kurihara said an affirmative sentence, as if he had offended the gods, and his face was so frightened that he immediately crawled to the ground and kowtowed: "It's me who offended, it's me who offended, and my lord spares my life." โ
Qiu's face was pale, she glanced at Tsukasa Kurihara, stepped forward and wanted to lift her face pocket, but her face pocket was firmly attached to the ground. Autumn suddenly turned around and stared coldly at Tsukasa Kurihara, anger welling up in his eyes.
Tsukasa Kurihara smiled instead, and he took two steps and squatted in front of his face pocket: "Look up." โ
With a fierce face, he raised his head obediently, but he didn't dare to look at Tsukasa Kurihara's inky black pupils.
Tsukasa Kurihara reached out to hold the arm of the face pocket, and the face pocket only felt an irresistible force supporting it, and it couldn't help but get up.
"Let's go, let's go to your house for dinner." Tsukasa Kurihara patted the shoulder of his face pocket and said naturally.
His face shook again, and he looked at Qiu as if asking for help.
Qiu just wanted to speak when he was interrupted by Tsukasa Kurihara: "If your elders want to come, go to the face pocket house to find me, face pocket shouldn't mind a few more people, right?" โ
The face pocket barely squeezed out a smile, and the smile was more ugly than crying.
Tsukasa Kurihara left with Face Pocket, and Aki stayed where he was and thought for a few seconds, and finally followed.
Everything that happened here seemed to others to be sparse and ordinary, except for a few pedestrians who stopped slightly and quickly continued on their way.
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