The words of shaking the apricots in the sky sounded a little lonely.

- Why is she in such a mood?

Jiang Yuanshen himself was at a loss.

However, whether it was the boiling mood at this moment, the atmosphere of the festival, or the noise of the crowd, his nerves were exhausted.

The tsunami and landslides caused by the earthquake, and the final ruins and ruins come to mind like silent black-and-white photographs.

The acidic substance of the melted food swells in the cramped stomach, and the brain becomes a mess like a chaotic bucket of paint.

He is not alone, there are many people with symptoms like him, most of them are islanders who have experienced and survived the earthquake.

Counting those from outside the island, some people lowered their eyes sadly, some people burst into tears from time to time, and some people showed smiles that had nothing to do with themselves.

At first glance, it looks like a painting meticulously depicted by Rembrandt.

Sympathetic fatigue.

When you empathize too much with the suffering and sorrow of outsiders, even your own body and mind will feel extremely tired.

Jiang Yuanshen's hand covered his stomach, and he looked sideways at the apricot shake in the air.

"Asakura? Are you okay? ”

"It's fine."

Shaking Xing in the air raised his hand and grabbed the bangs in front of his forehead, but behind the forced calm tone, a trace of trembling seeped out.

Her eyes, which had been quite aura in the past, were now dimmed, as if they were a bottomless black fountain.

The sound of the team's musical instruments landed in the crowd, but Jiang Yuanshen didn't have the heart to remember the melody.

"Are you feeling unwell?"

Jiang Yuanshen prayed in his heart that she could say "yes", and the apricot shaking in the air who was unwilling to admit his mental state to himself would only make him feel afraid.

- It's a pity that you can't even tell the truth to yourself.

The night breeze blew, and the town below the mountain was silent, and there was peace and tranquility everywhere, and in the distance the harbor was a bad-tempered monster, spitting unpalatable passenger ships.

"It's fine."

Shaking Xingxing's gloomy eyes rolled into the air, and a smile was squeezed out stiffly, and the hair stuck to his cheeks due to sweat.

Jiang Yuanshen's lips moved unconsciously, as if he had broken the double window of his neighbor's house because he was playful when he was a child.

Frightened but helpless.

Not knowing what to say, the two could only stand in silence as the marching procession flowed slowly, and they were about to arrive in front of the worship hall.

The bamboo pole was lowered, and one person in the front and one carried it, and under the command of the staff, it was carefully lowered and carried horizontally into the courtyard of the worship hall.

Jiang Yuan glanced cautiously at the sky shaking apricots beside her, and she just silently looked at the door of the worship hall where her father walked in.

"Do you want to go in?" He asked.

“......”

The atmosphere was so heavy that it almost pierced a hole in my lungs, and it was hard to even open my mouth to speak.

The expression of shaking the apricot in the air is very lonely, as if to say, "I don't want to do it at all".

But her ears were extremely red, and her breath was panting, if Jiang Yuanshen would normally think that she was shy, but now he couldn't think of it at all.

The only possible emotion can only be endless anger.

- Why don't you send her home?

"Jiang Yuan?"

Just as Jiang Yuan was about to speak, a familiar voice came, and when he looked to the side, he saw a slender figure, which made him subconsciously stunned.

It's Kurosawa's mercy.

She wore a white base and a yukata with an iris pattern, a bright red belt, and a white hairpin crossed over her long black hair.

The girl was as gorgeous as a pure white flower, and the light around her seemed to be brightened by her, and the wild flowers hiding in the grass were all fragrant.

Kurosawa's loving skin was as white as a ceramic doll, and beside her, there was a man in civilian clothes.

The man looked to be in his early thirties, with a straight nose and gentle cheeks.

In the Cowherd store in Tokyo, this person must be a big hit.

Kurosawa made a refreshing sound from the clogs under his feet, and walked over with a shuffling of his feet.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Yuanshen was quite surprised, he thought that this guy had returned to Tokyo.

"What do I have to do with you here?" Kurosawa had a small face, glared at him angrily, as if he was still angry about not helping her speak before, "It's you, what are you doing here?" ”

Her long, low-hanging eyelashes cast a faint shadow in her clear eyes.

"Where else can I be if I'm not here? Nearby nautical miles? Jiang Yuan grinned.

- I'm the islander of Zhitori Island, right? You outsider.

Kurosawa seemed to notice the apricot shaking in the air, and suddenly, a low cat-like sound came out of her white throat.

She furrowed her proud eyebrows, carefully examined the face, hands, feet, and body of the apricot shaking in the air, and then a meaningful smile bloomed on her face.

"Hmph, why don't you let the girls who come out with you look better?"

Kurosawa's playful words hit Asaki Shake Achiko hard, and he groaned as if he had been stabbed in the chest.

"This ...... I ......"

Shaking the apricot in the air and tugging on the bag tightly, the goldfish felt the vibration of the water and began to become vigorous.

As if to give a fatal blow to the helpless apricot shake in the air, Kurosawa's peachy lips outlined a dangerous arc, and he wanted to take a step forward, but was immediately stopped.

"Pity, don't talk like that."

At this moment, the man standing beside Kurosawa spoke up.

He affectionately raised his hand and pinched Kurosawa's cute little face, and then shook the apricot to the sky and said, "I'm sorry, my character who loves her is not very likable. ”

Kurosawa snorted coldly from his nose and stood straight with his arms folded.

"No, it's fine." Shaking the apricot in the air said with a wry smile.

Jiang Yuanshen frowned and said, "Where is it okay?" How can such a thing be said? As I said, you can't take it back if you say something hurtful. ”

Kurosawa raised his eyebrows, and the iris pattern on his yukata seemed to have thorns at this moment.

"What do you mean? Teach me how to do things? She stepped forward, her face displeased.

"I just wish you could be more considerate." Jiang Yuanshen said.

"Considerate? I haven't seen you understand me! Kurosawa's face flushed with a sigh of pity.

"How can I speak for you in that office situation?"

"If you don't have guts, you don't have guts! You idiot! ”

"What was wrong with me?"

"Yes!"

"Where?"

"Yes!"

"Can you be reasonable?"

"I've been reasoning, and this truth is that you don't have the guts! I'm coming from Tokyo alone! As a result, you didn't even speak for me! ”

"I didn't let you come over, did I?"

"You ——!"

Seeing that Jiang Yuan was cautious and unrelenting, Kurosawa became more and more angry, like a powder keg that exploded at one point, and almost picked up the paper fan on his waist and threw it in his face.

"Okay, okay, stop talking." The man pressed his hands on Kurosawa's shoulders as if he was suppressed, and said to Jiang Yuanshen, "I'm sorry, Mercy's appearance and personality follow her mother, I really don't know where she resembles me." ”

“...... Are you her father? ”

Jiang Yuan looked at the man in front of him in astonishment.

is also a father, why is Asakura Masamune so much different from the man in front of him? In every sense of the word.

Kurosawa on the side was like a squirrel that had lost a fight, puffing out her cheeks angrily, and she could see the ups and downs of her chest through the fabric.

"Or else? Doesn't it look like it? Kurosawa's father smiled heartily.

Jiang Yuan glanced at Kurosawa cautiously, and hooked the corners of his mouth extremely unceremoniously: "I thought Kurosawa had found a job as a father, of course, please don't mind this sentence." ”

"What did you say!"

Kurosawa's long, delicate eyelashes fluttered up and down, and his bangs sifted a shadow on his flushed little face.

She suddenly raised the fan in her hand to throw it over, but was quickly snatched down by her father.

Jiang Yuanshen's arm that he wanted to raise relaxed and said, "Look, this kind of talk hurts you, it's angry, so think more about other people's thoughts when you speak in the future." ”

"Don't teach me to do things, how do you want to die?" Kurosawa stared at him with a smile.

"Huh...... She's sometimes more aggressive than her mother, and I'm spoiled. Kurosawa's father held his forehead and smiled bitterly, but his words were doting, "I am Bai Yuan Xianshu, you can call me Mr. Bai Yuan, you are Jiang Yuan?" ”

"Yes."

Jiang Yuan nodded cautiously, but he was curious in his heart why Kurosawa was not surnamed Bai Yuan.

"Mr. Azusa is your adoptive father, right? He used to work in my newspaper, and some time ago he told me that he was going to resign and come back, and I was quite reluctant to give him a look, after all, he was a very capable person, and he happened to be free during this time, so he came to have a look. ”

"Thank you for doing this kind of work." Jiang Yuanshen bowed slightly to him.

"I said that he was capable, not that I pitied him." Bai Yuan Xianshu smiled, looked at the courtyard of the worship hall and said, "Since you have met, do you want to come closer to us to watch the festival?" I'm also a little interested in the Queen. ”

Kurosawa raised his eyebrows.

"Dad?"

"No, I'm interested in the folk customs of Chitori Island, how about it? Do you want to be together? Bai Yuan Immortal Tree immediately changed his words.

Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment, the faint light of the lantern reflected in the corner of his eyes.

"I'm afraid she'll be unhappy if I'm next to Kurosawa-san, but if you can, can you give me two close tickets?"

As soon as he heard his words, Kurosawa's loving gaze suddenly glanced to the side, his teeth gently biting the flesh of his lower lip, and the undulating sparkle in his eye sockets.

“...... Where did I say I was unhappy. ”

"You asked me how I wanted to die."

“...... You can't afford to make jokes! Boring! You're like an ant squeezing into the pan here! ”

Kurosawa's loving cheeks flushed instantly, and he rudely tucked the paper fan into his belt.

Knock knock! ——

The dry sound of clogs sounded in the air, and the girl walked towards the worship hall with very emotional steps.

Seeing this, Bai Yuan Xianshu immediately took out two tickets and handed them to Jiang Yuanshen and said:

"Originally, these two tickets were bought for my lover, but they gave them to you before they came, this is a ticket to see the queen up close, don't waste it."

"Really?"

- Wait? Wife? Two?

"No problem, little money." He waved his hand and immediately went after Kurosawa.

In confusion, Jiang Yuanshen took out a ticket and handed it to Chaokong Shaoxing, but she kept her head down in her hand, and there was a transparent compartment between the two.

In the conversation just now, the girl who was speechless just gritted her teeth and lowered her head.

From between her lips, a thin moan flowed.

Jiang Yuanshen asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Shaking the apricot into the air squeezed out a broken smile, she tilted her head slightly, as if to pour embarrassment and shame out of one end of her cheek.

"I'm sorry Jiang Yuan, this is already the limit of what I can dress up, I didn't expect it to be so inconspicuous......"

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, scoffed at her worries, crossed his hands on his hips, and smiled gently:

"I know, you painted your eyebrows, put on lipstick, put on foundation, wiped your cheeks, brushed your eyelashes, sprayed perfume, touched your nail polish, and wore beautiful earrings, except for those that were covered by clothes, I saw all the changes in you."

"Wait? You know? ”

In the depths of her gaze, there seemed to be stars flying in the sky.

Jiang Yuanshen raised his face extremely proudly and said, "Of course I know, I'm a man who can even know that your ass has turned into a peach form." ”

"You know what you say! I thought it was useless! ”

Shaking the apricot in the air, his face was red, and his small hand clenched into a fist that seemed to hit Jiang Yuanshen's arm heavily.

It's not so much a fight, but the moment it falls, it takes a lot of strength, and it's more like a spring finch feeding a chick.

"It hurts~~" Jiang Yuan pretended to be in pain and held his arm.

"Keep loading!"

Shaking the apricot in the air, she pursed her lips and glanced at him, a glimmer of light flashing in her eyes.

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In front of the worship hall, the crowd was surging.

It was as if these people had fallen from the sky, and suddenly there were more of them.

I thought there would be fewer people here, but visually, there were even more than outside.

It seems that the queen's sightseeing value is far beyond Jiang Yuanshen's imagination.

The red carpet of Langfang, the red-painted wooden roof was dark and dreary, the flytrap lights crackled from time to time, and the scene of rustling leaves was as frightening as a horror movie about to unfold.

"There are more people......

The voice of shaking the apricot in the air was much lowered, mixed with a sighing voice, and it seemed to contain water vapor.

Her gaze wandered around, as if she was looking for Asakura Masamune.

Jiang Yuanshen only felt that his abdomen and chest were often hit by elbows, and the people were already so dense that he felt dazzled.

- Are tickets unlimited?

At the right time, the sounds of bamboo strips, taiko drums, and flutes mingled without warning.

The melody played by the instruments blends with each other one after another, and countless sound particles rise into the air.

Fluttering violently on the water like the sails of a shipwreck, like a flock of crows with sharp claws and sharp beaks, descending from the sky.

To sum up, it doesn't sound good at all.

Jiang Yuanshen was crowded in the crowd, and the double torture of body and spirit made him even more bored.

Wandering around meaninglessly, through the gap in the crowd, I found Itokado squatting and resting under Langfang.

He was wearing a short smock and seemed to be carrying a bamboo pole?

Suddenly, the large lens of the magnificent tripod around him immediately turned, and even the camera lens of the TV station stared at the entrance of the worship hall.

There was more noise in my ears, and the crowd began to squirm like an unconscious lump of rotten meat.

"The queen has appeared!"

Someone shouted excitedly.

Jinghai Shenyue walked out wearing a palace-style twelve-clothed kimono, and every inch of silk draped on her body was extremely exquisite.

Just like that day's Daughter's Day, she was incomprehensibly beautiful.

The moment she appeared, all she could see was a mixture of admiration and admiration, and she had to ask why, because there were so many men present, all of whom cast the same glance at the queen.

Even Itokado showed a look of fascination.

However, Jiang Yuanshen just stared blankly at the scene in front of him, as if he was watching what was happening in the other world from beginning to end.

Because the person who walked behind the queen to hold an umbrella.

It's Azusa Kawa Takaku.