The Naruse family.

Matsu stood up awkwardly, slammed her hands on the table, and roared along with the table.

"What do you mean?"

Naruse opened his mouth and didn't speak.

"How many times do you need to say it before you understand, I'm different from you, it's impossible for me to put down my work, and I can't slack off at all!"

Looking at her angry face, Naruse spoke in a low voice, as if trying to appease.

"No, I just think you've been under a lot of pressure lately, so it's not good...... Why don't you put down work for a while, go out for a while, and relax......"

"What a joke!"

Boom!

Song Qianqiu slammed the table again, leaned down, and approached his son with an angry face.

"You've been staying at home and you don't understand what the workplace is! Taking time off work to travel? Don't be naïve! After all, I didn't work so hard for the sake of the future of this family. Want me to relax? If you could have half of my income, I wouldn't be ...... Yes. ”

She stopped suddenly, and the anger on her face disappeared in an instant, turning into three points of embarrassment and seven points of worry.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to look down on you, I mean...... I'm sorry. ”

Naruse was silent for a moment and shook his head.

"It's okay, I don't care about ......"

"—that's not right."

Song Qianqiu immediately interrupted him, "At this time, you have to say this with a reluctant smile. ”

"That's not what the script says."

"Although it is not said in the script, a lot of foreshadowing has been laid ahead, and the emotions have advanced to this point, isn't the next development clear at a glance?"

Naruse rolled his eyes, "I'm not a professional actor. ”

Song Qianqiu crossed her hands on her hips, "So in order to hone your acting skills, my mother is now giving you professional guidance." ”

He had to remind her: "It's you who are going to film, not your son." ”

"Ahh

Song Qianqiu was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand again, "Get used to it." However, the juniors on the set are happy to be guided by me. ”

Naruse didn't squeak, squinting at the script on the table.

"Alright, let's do what I just said, rehearse it again."

"Don't." He immediately refused.

Song Qianqiu has high requirements for her acting skills, and the same is true for others, it is painstaking and laborious to accompany her to rehearse, not to mention that he has been practicing with her for half a morning.

"I'm tired."

"Okay." Song Qianqiu didn't force it.

Leaving the dining room, Naruse watched a TV show in the living room for a while, and then went back to his room for a while. When he went downstairs again, Matsu Chiaki was still performing a one-man show in the restaurant.

Seeing her crying and laughing into the air, screaming and apologizing, Naruse didn't bother and quietly went out.

"Where are you going?" Matsuchiaki still found out.

"Just hang out." Naruse said.

"Where's lunch?"

"Will be back."

Leaving the house, Naruse stood at the intersection and looked left and right for a while. He said he was just strolling around, because he really didn't have much to do with it.

Walking to the left, he will pass the real wood hotel, and he may meet someone, he thought about it, and walked to the right half of the area that he gradually became familiar with.

After buying a bottle of juice at the convenience store and coming out of the store, he looked at the intersection that led to Takigawa's house.

At this time, the Takigawa sisters are probably not at home.

Takikawa Moon is going to study at a school, and Hikaru Takikawa also joined the girls' basketball team after entering high school, and often goes to school to train during the summer vacation.

"Did you still make it to the national competition when you were in the third year of secondary school......

Continuing along the prefectural road, passing by the bus stop where Hikaru Takikawa met yesterday, Naruse stopped and sat for a while.

He originally just wanted to rest his feet for a while, but he didn't get up for half a day, and he unconsciously fell into deep thought.

Today is his fourth day back in the country, and he doesn't seem to have adjusted to the rhythm of country life.

There is something unstable that has always made him feel anxious.

“……”

Naruse tilted his head and exhaled into the sky, the answer already on the horizon.

Matsu Qianqiu is about to leave.

He sat and froze for a while, and it wasn't until a bus stopped in front of him that he came back to his senses.

Looking at the open car door, Naruse didn't move, for fear that the driver would misunderstand that he was going to get into the car.

The doors quickly closed and the bus was gone, and he got up and left the platform.

Further on, there is the Minamiki River, a river that originates from Mt. Iwaki.

The river is wide, and the current can only submerge part of the middle, and the rest is covered with rocks and weeds.

He remembered that he had often gone down the river to explore, and the farthest time he had walked several kilometers along the river and returned home in the middle of the night. The companions left on the way for various reasons, and in the end, only four or five children were left, including Naoko and Hikari.

After looking at the bridge for a while, Naruse did not cross the bridge or go down the river, but went up the river along the path by the river.

The Minamiki River flows through the fields on the edge of the Aoyagi region, where there are only two bridges over the river: the Shimo-Aoyagi Bridge, which he just left, and the Kami-Aoyagi Bridge, upstream.

The Aoyagi Bridge also connected to the prefectural road, and he could go home from there, although it would have to go around a big circle.

Think of it as a walk, Naruse thought.

The river is wide, turning in small arcs through the fields. In summer, the water is turbulent and turbulent, constantly lapping against the rocks and making a loud noise.

He suddenly remembered the results of that "river journey":

Song Qianqiu scolded him bitterly, and then went back to the bedroom to cry alone; He was confined to his home for more than half a week; And the flower family next door is not there because his parents are not there, and Shangzi is also locked up in his house.

"It was also the summer when the river was swollen......

After walking along the river for more than ten minutes, Naruse looked away from the mess of rocks and realized that he had walked near Kamiaoyanagi Bridge.

And not far in front of him was a lonely family.

Several white-walled and black-tiled Japanese-style houses are enclosed in a courtyard, although they are tall, they are old everywhere.

But because of the unchanging age, he immediately remembered what this place was.

Morimi family.

The Morimi family that runs the Furumoto store.

And yesterday at noon, he also met the daughter of the Morimi family at the central station, the one who had changed more to him than Hikaru Takigawa.

He only remembered that she was thin and short, with withered yellow hair, and very inconspicuous in a group of children, but he didn't expect that when he said goodbye, she was already slim, more dazzling than most of her peers.

- Just like the girl who was standing on the second floor of the house and looking at him through the window.

“……”

Naruse hadn't noticed when Kazuha Morimi had appeared, and she didn't know how long she had been standing there, but judging from her fixed gaze, she had probably been staring at him for a while.

The two looked at each other, and he came closer, "One leaf." ”

She stood by the window and didn't move, "You're coming for me?" ”

"Nope." Naruse looked back at where he had come from, "Take a walk." ”

Kazuha Morimi seemed to smile, but it was blocked a lot by the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his expression did not change significantly.

"I thought Naruse was looking for a place to go down the river."

He shook his head.

"What's next?"

"What?"

"Naruse's next plan." Kazuha Morimi said, "Do you want to continue walking?" ”

It was still early, and he didn't plan to go back yet, so he nodded yes.

"Then you wait for me." With that, Morimi's figure disappeared from the window.

Naruse didn't know why, but he didn't leave, and stood on the side of the road for a while.

It didn't take long for her to come out.

"Let's go."

Naruse looked at her, "Where are you going?" ”

"Take a walk."

“……”

Morimi pointed to Kamiaoyagi Bridge, "There's a shrine on the other side of the bridge, Naruse remembers." ”

"Yes." Naruse said.

"Let's go to the shrine, I just have something I want to ask you."