Takuya Aramura followed Masao Hatoba to a wooden house that was no different from the other houses in the village. Death

Wow!

Hatoha Masao pushed open the sliding door and turned his head to look at Takuya Aramura, "Guy, please come in." ”

"Excuse me." Takushi Aramura also put his hand on top of his head, and bent over the door that was not as tall as his.

"The little brother in the deserted village is really tall." Hatoha Masao looked at his back with a smile, "I've never seen someone so tall in my life." ”

Takuya Aramura took off his shoes and changed into clogs placed on the entrance under his instructions, "Although people of my height are not common in Japan, it is not uncommon, I saw several of them in Yokohama today. ”

"I've been in Hatoha Village all my life, and I've basically never been out." Hatoha Masao shook his head and put on clogs as well, "The last time I went outside was in Showa 60, I went to Yokohama once, and at that time there were people who were so tall that I had only seen them in newspapers. ”

"Showa 60..."Takuya Aramura thought about it in his heart. Death

In the 60th year of Showa, that is, in 1985, it has been 31 years since then, that is, Hatoba Masao has not been out of Hatoba Village for 31 years.

The two came to the guest room, and Takuya Aramura looked around at the room.

Although the house as a whole is relatively old, and there are very few things in the house, it is very clean and tidy, which not only does not make him feel shabby, but has a feeling of leisure similar to that of retreating to the mountains.

Looking at it, Takuya Aramura suddenly saw a Buddhist shrine on the wall in the center of the guest room, and there was a palm-sized black and white photo on it.

He walked over and looked at the black-and-white photo.

Compared to his DSLR camera, the clarity of this photo is so low that it can be said to be blurry.

The photograph shows a plain-looking young woman in a kimono sitting sideways on a stone bench with a smile as bright as a flower. Death

"This is my wife, Hanako." Hatoha Masao approached, stretched out his hand to pick up the photo, and looked at it like this, his eyes were full of nostalgia, "This photo was taken by a college student in the village not long after we got married, and she and I were only in our twenties at that time..."

"Mrs. Hatoha, she..."Takuya Aramura regretted it as soon as he opened his mouth.

This problem is simply taking off your pants and farting, and the photos are all placed on the Buddhist shrine, where else can people be?

"She's already a Buddha." Hatoha Masao put the photo back on the shrine, "It was the year I went to Yokohama, she was sick and needed a lot of money to treat, so I went to Yokohama, I wanted to find a job, I looked for more than a month, there was no place willing to ask me, after I came back... Unexpectedly... I didn't even see her for the last time... Since then, I haven't been out of Hatoba Village... I'm going to watch over her here..."

Takuya Aramura was silent for a moment, and it took a long time to hold back a "sorry".

"It's okay." Hatoha Masao waved his hand, "People, birth, old age, sickness and death are always unavoidable. ”

Takuya Aramura nodded twice, took two steps forward, picked up the small copper hammer on the Buddhist altar, and knocked lightly on the dharma pan. Death

Ding——

"Mrs. Hatoha, please forgive me for the interruption." Takuya Aramura folded his hands and bowed slightly to the photo of Mrs. Hatoha.

Immediately after, Hatoba Masao took him to the table and knelt on the mat.

"It's been a long time since anyone has been to Hatoha Village, and I don't have any tea leaves here that I can use to entertain guests." Hatoha Masao took a copper kettle on the table, poured two glasses of water, and pushed one of them to Takuya Aramura, "I'll just treat you with a glass of water." ”

"No, it's good to have water." Takuya Aramura took it with both hands, raised the cup and took a sip with his lips, "It's very sweet, it's better than tea." ”

"Not bad, right? Hahaha..."Hatoha Masao smiled and said, "This is what I called from the well in the back mountain, and I drank it since I was a child. ”

Sitting face to face again, there was no word, and there was a lot of talk aimlessly.,When a pot of water was all drunk.,Hatoha Masao offered to take Takuya Aramura out for a walk.。 Death

This is exactly what Takuya Aramura wants, so he readily agreed.

The two went out and walked along the bluestone road, passing by the blacksmith shops, newspaper kiosks, small shops, and chess and card halls that had been abandoned for a long time in Hatoba Village...

These places all bear the traces of time, and Takuya Aramura takes a picture with his camera every time he walks by.

After walking like this for about an hour, Hatoba Masao took Takuya Aramura to a stone bridge and beckoned him to sit down on the stone bench above.

Listening to the sound of running water under the bridge, Takuya Aramura raised his camera.

Click!

"That's about it." Hatoha Masao lowered his head and stretched out his fingers to caress the cracks on the stone bench, "We don't have any beautiful scenery here, and we can't keep people..."

"How so." Takuya Aramura put away his camera, "It's a very special scenery without people, but if there are too many people, it won't have this taste." ”

Suddenly, he felt inexplicably familiar here, "Here... Sort of..."

"Hanako's picture was taken here." Hatoha patted the stone stool they were sitting on, "She was sitting on this stool and smiling so happily... So good-looking..."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have a smile on his face, and even the folds of his dry skin were full of happiness and warmth.

Takuya Aramura lost his mind for a moment, and then said, "The relationship between Mr. Hatoha and Mrs. Hatoha must be very good. ”

"Then you're wrong, hahaha..."

"Huh? Isn't it a bad relationship? "Death

"That's not it, it's just that Hanako and I often quarrel, she's a person who loves to have nothing to do, and it's uncomfortable if she doesn't quarrel with me for a day, sometimes I don't do anything wrong, she has to come to me to quarrel, and she can't find a reason to turn over old accounts..."

"That's good, too."

Buzz Buzz –

Takuya Aramura's mobile phone in the pocket of his clothes moved.

When I took it out, I saw that it was Rinne Sakura who made a video call.

"Is it a phone?" Hatoha Masao was so cooperative that he stopped talking.

Takuya Aramura bowed his head to thank him, pressed the connect button, and Rinne Sakura's delicate little face appeared on the phone screen. Death

"Hey, where are you?"

"I'm in Yokohama..."Taku Aramura also switched the camera to the rear and took a picture of the surroundings with his phone, "... A small village. ”

"Hmm... The scenery is good, how did you get to the small village? I thought you'd go to Chinatown or Hakkeijima or something like that. ”

"There are too many people in those places, it's too noisy."

"You're pretty good at having fun." Sakura Rinne looked at the camera and pouted, "It's not like me, I've worked all day, and I'm only idle now, and I just saw the message you sent." ”

"Popular voice actor, how can you do it if you're not busy." Takuya Aramura smoothed her hair.

"Uh-huh~" Sakura Rinin suddenly felt satisfied, and then became squirming again, humming and chirping for a long time, and asked in a fluttering tone: "Have you been unwell in the past two days?" "Death

"Nope." Takuya Aramura switched the camera back to the front, "For now, everything is normal. ”

"It's good if you don't have it... Tut! Who wants to see your face, hurry up and change the camera to the rear for me, I want to see the scenery! ”

"Oh, that's fine."

"Wait... Wait a minute! Don't be so troublesome, the front doesn't seem to be invisible... Well... That's it... Just ignore you. ”

"You're asking for a lot."

"Huh!?"

"I said... Your request is quite reasonable..."

"Count you as acquaintances!"

On the side, Hatoha Masao quietly stared at Takuya Aramura, who was talking to Sakura Rinne, his eyes flashing, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

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