On the day of the Teine Shrine fireworks display.

Naoki Natsume got up early in the morning, because his mother used to be a shrine maiden, so on the day of the festival, the whole family had to eat glutinous rice together in the morning.

In the countryside of Hokkaido, where most houses are made of wood, a half-meter-square bonfire is dug in the middle of the house, and an iron hook is hung from the beam, on which are hung pots and pans for cooking.

Glutinous rice cakes may be a custom unique to the area around Teinayama, but Naoki Natsume has never seen them anywhere else, not in Otaru City, and not in Hakodate.

Even so, it is still a village and a way to eat, and in some places the glutinous rice cake is roasted and eaten on the bonfire in the house, as Naoki Natsume remembers going to his grandparents' house when he was a child.

And Natsume Reiko doesn't seem to like this, she has always put glutinous rice in porridge and boiled it...... Since she is now a housewife, Natsume Yuu has no choice but to change her habit of baking and eating glutinous rice cakes.

A family of three sat around the dining table, and Natsume Yusheng looked at the glutinous porridge brought to the table, still with a sad face.

"Husband, give you a spoon." Reiko Natsume took three spoons and handed them to Yuo Natsume, and handed them to Naoki Natsume: "Son, yours." ”

"What do you want to eat with pickles? There were also pickled cucumbers and some white radishes in the fridge. She asked.

Natsume Yusheng and his son glanced at each other and shook their heads slightly: "Bring me some white radish." ”

"Me too!"

After so many years of reincarnation, it seems that only the white radish and Miso soup Naoki Natsume are still used to eating for breakfast.

Taking advantage of his wife's efforts to go to the kitchen to get pickles again, Natsume Yusheng had a sad face: "I've been with your mother for so many years, and I'm really not used to drinking this glutinous porridge." ”

"Why do you have to eat glutinous rice cakes?" Naoki Natsume doesn't really like to drink porridge either, and when he lives alone in Tokyo, he actually prefers hot dry noodles.

But the strange thing is that I don't know how to cook, so how did I make hot dry noodles before?

Maybe it's instant noodles in convenience stores, after all, there are still quite a variety of instant food products now.

Natsume sighed and said, "Your grandfather worked hard to beat the glutinous rice cakes, and he pulled me over to help yesterday, and his tired shoulders were sore and he didn't sleep well for a day...... I haven't played a dumpling in years. ”

Naoki Natsume looked at the bowl of glutinous porridge per person on the coffee table, and thought to himself that it was just one day, and it would be over after a while.

"Huh? Husband, did you make this bowl of noodles heated in the microwave? ”

Reiko Natsume's doubts came from the kitchen.

Natsume Yusheng took a sip of glutinous porridge, frowned and raised his voice: "What noodles?" I didn't go into the kitchen this morning! ”

After a while, Reiko Natsume walked out with a bowl of hot dry noodles.

"Didn't you do it?" She turned her head again and asked Naoki Natsume, "Son, did you do it?" ”

"I don't know how to cook." Naoki Natsume shook his head, but his eyes still lit up: "Hot dry noodles?" Mom, I want to eat this bowl of noodles. ”

Seeing this, Natsume Yusheng also understood that his son was no match for himself, and he was not interested in the glutinous porridge on the table, so he opened his mouth to help: "Maybe you did it and forgot about it, but since you have done it, if you don't eat it, it will be wasted, let your son eat it...... He wasn't in a good mood a few days ago, and it's rare for him to be so excited today. ”

Naoki Natsume took the bowl of hot dry noodles and pushed his glutinous porridge in front of his mother: "Mom, it's hard for you to make a meal, eat more, work hard every day for this family, it's so clean inside and out, it's too hard!" ”

"Flim tongue, learn from your dad." Reiko Natsume sighed.

Although he was praised by his son, his heart blossomed, but he was muttering in his heart.

Have you worked so hard?

Looking around, the home is indeed clean and spotless, inside and out.

But I don't think I've cleaned it much.

I don't usually feel how tired it is to clean the house, as if someone is helping me clean up.

"Let's eat." Putting these thoughts behind her, Reiko Natsume handed the white radish between the two of them: "After eating, I'll ask your dad to take me to the shrine first, but I also worked there before, and I'm going to sacrifice today, go and help." In addition, in the case of the fireworks festival, many people in the village will also go to Zhangluo, and the rest of the people will probably not go until dusk, so you should follow along then. ”

Naoki Natsume took a quick look at the hot dry noodles and nodded: "I know, I may go with Uncle Murata's family at that time, or maybe I will follow the Nanami school doctor next door." ”

"Miss Nanami." Natsume Yusheng sighed: "When I was a child, the family next door often visited the door, and the sacrificial ceremonies at that time were all our two families together. Then I'll send your mother to the shrine first, and we'll help, and at dusk, Mr. and Mrs. Asai will lead the little girl from their family to ...... with you."

"Don't say that." Reiko Natsume quickly interrupted her husband's memories and frowned.

Natsume was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"I'm sorry, I'm just feeling that Miss Nanami has returned to her hometown this time to stay temporarily, and we can participate in the festival together again...... I'm sorry son, let's eat. He gave his son a quick white radish, and apologized slightly: "Obviously, you finally came out of the shadows back then." ”

Naoki Natsume paused and shook his head slightly: "It's okay Dad, it's been ten years." ”

It's time for me to get rid of the death of that little girl named Mao Asai ten years ago.

With that, he took a bite of the noodles vigorously, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was a little solemn for a while.

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After eating, my parents went out to the shrine to help.

Tedao Shrine didn't long ago he went with his senior sister.,Not too many people.,If you want to hold a sacrificial ceremony and fireworks display that everyone from all over the country comes to attend.,Without the help of others.,I'm afraid it's very difficult to rush to those shrine maidens and priests.。

Naoki Natsume looked at the time, it was still early in the morning, so he decided to go to the bedroom to study for a while, and then visit the village after lunch, and go to the shrine with his peers in the same village.

After entering the bedroom, he was stunned, the quilt was folded squarely, but he didn't remember that he had folded the quilt when he got up and went downstairs.

Anyway, when he lived alone, he never had the habit of folding quilts, and the quilts were all spread flat on the bed, so that they would not be like the quilts that were required in boarding school to be folded into tofu blocks after getting up.

But what's the matter with the tofu cubes on my bed now?

"Mom, did she come in while I was in the bathroom?"

When you go to the window and open the curtains, you can see the yard of the Asai house next door through the foggy atmosphere outside.

"I guess the school doctor is still sleeping." He said to himself: "The school doctor seems to have a habit of staying up late. ”

Staying up late has almost become the fourth major addiction in modern society, knowing that staying up late is extremely harmful to the body, but contemporary stinky young people still stay up late while brushing "the harm and prevention of staying up late".

People who couldn't control their weight in the past couldn't control their lives, but now they're about to be replaced by staying up late.

"Did it snow again last night?" Natsume Naoki opened the window a crack, feeling the cold wind blowing into the room, and the hot air he exhaled began to white: "But why do I always feel like I've lost something?" ”

"Something has disappeared from my life." He muttered, "It's like Hokkaido has lost snow." ”

Immediately after that, the phone rang.