In the "Standing Hina Picture", the village and the mountain are depicted in black Mozi, and the bright red paint is the flame of the sun.

Igarashi exhaled and poured half a cup into the emerald tea bowl.

He took a sip, and then began to frown and smile bitterly:

"Slowly, everyone will no longer have pain, relatives will no longer have guilt, and even take it for granted, and no one will hear the queen's cry.

In this way, the legend of Chitori Island appeared, and then it came true, making it impossible to get rid of it. ”

There were several beautiful small red sweet steamed buns in the refreshment container, but none of the three people reached out to eat.

Jiang Yuanshen exhaled briefly, and the sunlight shining on the tatami mats was extremely dazzling.

He thought that most of the people in the shrine maintained their faith, just like the old men who chased and scolded after Azusa Kawa Takaku at the festival of flying sky lanterns that day.

However, Miyaji in front of him was unexpectedly clear-minded, and talking to him was like a red sleigh sliding deep through the snow, without any bumps in the road.

"Are you going to stay here forever?" Jiang Yuanshen asked.

Igarashi Stealing Paper raised her eyebrows slightly, revealing a smile that was a mixture of meaning and helplessness:

"You two may not understand, but the reason for the young puppet god and Zhitori Island is very profound, and not everyone can easily change it, and I will always stay here."

"Could it be that for hundreds of years, those queens have finally stayed on Zhitori Island?" Shaking the apricot in the sky himself is enjoying it, it is the joy of absorbing unknown knowledge.

Igarashi stole the paper and nodded, the ripples of the teacup reflecting the side of his face.

"As far as I know, not a single queen has ever left the island"

His eyebrows twitched, and his eyes were a little melancholy as he saw through the half-frame,

"Didn't you see the queen leaving the island full of islanders the night before? Isn't retribution coming quickly? ”

Jiang Yuanshen looked at him in astonishment and said, "Do you know this? ”

"Well, I was helping the islanders to escape the disaster, and I happened to see Yomi returning from overseas, and then I knelt on the ground and cried, and finally jumped into Lake Kamo."

Igarashi's tone of paper stealing didn't fluctuate much, as if he was just telling an extremely distant story.

However, only five years have passed since this incident.

"Was it you who saved her?" Jiang Yuan leaned out impatiently.

At this moment, he looked at Jiang Yuanshen's figure in the air, his long eyelashes trembled, and finally he just lowered his head and stretched out his hand to take the small red steamed bun in the container.

She sipped her eyes in a daze like a toothless baby.

"I'm sorry, I can't swim." Igarashi shook her head and said in a self-deprecating tone, "Even if I could swim, I didn't give my life to save her consciousness, even if Yami was the queen of Chitori Island." ”

- "Everyone on Chitori Island is selfish, and I am no exception."

Jiang Yuanshen seemed to hear Jinghai Shenyue's murmur in his ear again, and he immediately got goosebumps.

The premise of everyone's generosity is that disaster will not befall them.

"And who saved her in the end?" Jiang Yuanshen's voice couldn't help but weaken a little.

"No one."

"No one?" Jiang Yuan paused cautiously.

"Yes, when I saw her jump into the lake, I put down what I was doing."

Igarashi's paper-stealing gaze glanced vaguely at the apricot shaken into the air,

"Someone was crying next to me, so I squatted by the lake to watch, and after a long time, no one came to save Yejian, but I didn't see her float up."

Shaking the apricot in the air, he held the red steamed bun with both hands, and his voice trembled slightly:

"Coco, even if you don't go down to save it, why don't you call someone? Lake Kamo is connected to Shuangjin Port, and most of the people there can swim. ”

Igarashi stole the paper and looked at the apricot in the sky, as if her heart was completely penetrated, and the corners of her mouth grinned:

"Shaoxing, you are so kind and simple, I can understand your feelings a little bit about wanting to save people, but who will bear the weight after that? Is it me who offers the rescue, or is it the night see who leaves Chitori Island? ”

Chao Xingxing was stunned, but his tone unconsciously weakened: "What do you mean?" ”

Igarashi casually looked at the view of the courtyard and continued:

"Yomi once told me that she didn't want to stay alone on the island, and I wasn't surprised that she had the courage to leave the island, but she came back,

If I call someone to save Yejian, her abandonment of the islanders and leaving will be known to everyone, and it will be very uncomfortable for her to be looked at by everyone with sympathy and hatred.

At that time, I will be ashamed and tormented, as if it was because of my salvation that she was so miserable, in that case, it is better to let her be released directly from the pain, and I pray for her soul at the shrine-"

To be honest, it was not only Chaokong who was surprised, but even Jiang Yuanshen.

The heart of the apricot swaying towards the sky swayed like the shadows of the branches and leaves in the courtyard, but her simplicity still prevailed:

"I guess you're the only one who saw her coming back. Isn't it okay for everyone to keep silent? ”

Igarashi was silent for a while, explaining:

"Shake the apricot, Zhitori Island is very small, so small that there are no secrets, no matter how many years have passed, there will still be people who remember, whenever something happens, "who did something in the first place" will soon spread, and now there are secrets, but maybe in a few days it will be known by the people of the whole island."

His gaze shot straight through the barrier of self-protection of the apricot in the air, causing the girl to hold her breath-

"Your father was so mad at seeing the queen at night that he abandoned his family and children, everyone will remember."

- It's too much, it's really too much, it's all in the past, why do I still feel so sad, it's too embarrassing.

Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and her heart trembled and hung deep wounds, and her useless self made her want to cry.

Somewhat afraid that his face would show an unusual gaffe, he immediately stood up and wanted to leave here.

Jiang Yuanshen saw that her face was a little pale, and naturally understood what she remembered because of Gong Si's words.

"Shake Xing, are you okay?" He asked softly.

"It's okay, I've drunk too much water, I'll go out for a while."

"You want me to take you?"

Chaokong shook the apricot carefully not to let him find out the abnormality, and said with a smile on his face: "I won't let you take off my skirt, pervert." ”

"My ambitions aren't that small." Jiang Yuanshen had no choice but to joke with her.

However, Asaka didn't blush or respond, just walked out of the Japanese room lightly.

"Please don't worry, I'm not in the habit of taking off her skirt." Jiang Yuanshen argued in a low voice.

Igarashi stole the paper but smiled slightly.

"You're normal at your age."

After a while, he re-brewed a pot of tea, held it in front of Jiang Yuanshen and whispered:

"But if you don't come back, Shake Apricot may be finished, because it's hard to be different from others."

Jiang Yuanshen understood what he meant, compared to the people around him, the difference from everyone would make people scared, and he seemed to be a person who had been stripped out of the frame.

Looking at his calm cheeks, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but ask cautiously, "Mr. Igarashi is in his thirties, right?" ”

"Thirty-five."

"There's a feeling of having seen countless stories."

"Maybe I'm reading all about young people's literature, please don't care."

Looking at his smile, Jiang Yuanshen also smiled back.

"Mr. Igarashi, you're also obsessed with the Queen at Night, right?"

The words of the young man in front of him made Igarashi's paper-stealing smile disappear suddenly, but then he raised a smile and said:

"I think people my age had a crush on her at the time, and I was no exception. But that's all before. ”

Jiang Yuanshen showed a refreshing smile and said, "Mr. Igarashi, do I want to go to the main hall?" ”

"What are you going to do in the main hall?"

"I heard that the queen dolls of the past generations are there, and I want to see them."

Igarashi's brows shrunk into a ball, his fingers kneaded his chin, and he pondered for a long time and said, "I'm afraid this won't work." ”

The main hall of the shrine is a shrine where the deities are housed, and it is also called a shrine, and under normal circumstances, outsiders are not allowed to enter.

Jiang Yuanshen could also think of it, just when he was about to grind it softly and hard-

"Normally, you can only enter on festival days, but the next festival is on the day of Hina Kagura, which is held once a year, which is September 7."

Igarashi stole the paper and said in a tone without any jokes, without any teasing,

"Before that, you couldn't even go in for hygiene, and no one could do it."

Jiang Yuanshen frowned explicitly and said, "Can't even go in for hygiene?" ”

Igarashi stole the paper and nodded, and suddenly bowed his head meaningfully to make tea and said:

"If the queen herself goes in, it's fine, and at the same time there are three keys to the main hall of the shrine, one in the hands of the palace secretary, and one in the hands of the queen of Chitori Island, Jinghai Fukatsuki."

Jiang Yuan thought carefully about this rhetoric, and immediately asked, "What about the other one?" ”

"I'm afraid the other one is at the bottom of Lake Kamo." Igarashi whispered and lowered her eyes.

“.”

Jiang Yuanshen was really sure that he didn't know the fact that Ye Jian Xun Yu was still alive.

Time passed slowly, and he felt that the two of them were talking about some meaningless topics again.

The sun hung in the middle, and Jiang Yuan Shencai and Asakura shook the apricots to get up, bid farewell to Igarashi stealing paper, and left Zhitori Shrine.

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At the end of the road down the mountain, there is a wide blue sea, and the vehicles at the foot of the mountain are like earthworms of different colors.

Shaded by wild trees, the descent was easy for the two when they arrived at the bus station.

"The sky is so beautiful—"

Looking up at the blue and white sky, he took a deep breath, and even the air he inhaled in his lungs was so fresh.

"Like Hawaiian shaved ice." Jiang Yuanshen sat beside her and said with a smile.

"I want to take to the skies."

"I want to fly into space."

Shaking the apricot's gaze from the sky turned to Jiang Yuanshen's body, as if her heart was blowing back to this side.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuan cautiously smiled reflexively when he saw that she had been staring at him.

She smiled slightly, took a green leaf from Jiang Yuanshen's shoulder, and said ostentatiously:

"The mark of summer, be cautious."

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a while, and said as if he was amused: "That's what you guys are also getting, after all, you found it." ”

"But this is on your shoulders, and you don't want to give me everything, there are many on the tree, and I can take it myself if I want."

Shaking the apricot in the air, he raised his head and pointed to the countless green leaves on the tree.

The heavy bass of the wind sounded in his ears, and Jiang Yuan looked cautiously at the mottled light and shadow sifted off the girl's little face.

Her figure, like a little bit of a firm axis, became more and more awe-inspiring and full of brilliance.

"Shake the apricot, are you a little different?" Jiang Yuanshen asked with his hands on his hips.

"Huh? Where? Isn't it getting fat? Don't do that! ”

"No, there's always one. Better feeling. ”

"What is this saying?"

"But thank you for letting yourself come with me."

"It's not a laissez-faire, I just want to see what you care about, I'm willing to try anything again, I want to know people you know, and you're also very concerned about this matter, I also want to be by your side and do something for you, because I think it's hard to talk to a person, and there's nothing to talk to on the road."

Shaking the apricot in the air, her eyes focused on the distance, on the boatless ocean, covered with dazzling golden sand.

Jiang Yuanshen could feel his heart beating impatiently, and the upright face of the girl next to him, with slender eyelashes like a handicraft, straightened up.

He didn't give her meticulous care, but even so, he still expressed his chest as straight as the first day, and regarded himself as the only one.

Chasing the reason, what Chaokong Shaoxing wants to get in himself is not just a simple "concern".

Jiang Yuanshen's throat twitched slightly, but his lips opened and closed, but he still couldn't give an answer.

For herself, shaking the apricot in the sky is definitely special, and he can't leave her to live alone, and even wants to give her unconditional concern.

The healthy legs looming under her skirt, the incomparably cute smile, and even the sweetness of the two of them that night made her heart move.

But on the other hand, his feelings for Kurosawa are undeniable, even if she is far away in Tokyo, he will definitely see her again one day.

Shake the ten fingers of the apricot in the air, stretch your hands out, and stretch your body as if stretching your waist.

Finally, she looked at the sea and soothed her expression, and a sweet smile wrapped around the corners of her mouth.

Xiao Shen, you may think about other girls in your heart, or you may not, but as long as you don't abandon me, then the person I like all my life will only be Xiao Shen, and it can't be someone else."

The lyrical words seeped into the parched earth like raindrops, melted into his throat, and her liking, sparkling like rain and dew.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but look at her, and his cheeks were probably red.

"Why all of a sudden now? I'm not that good. He smiled softly.

He is not modest, he doesn't feel good in his heart, otherwise Kurosawa Mercy will not reject him.

"Maybe it's not great, but it's special to me. I can take it special."

The little face of shaking the apricot in the air was dyed cherry red, but the little hand quietly grabbed the corner of Jiang Yuanshen's clothes and said,

"So far, there is no one who can make me eager to close the distance, I think such a person, in this life, you are the only one."

Jiang Yuanshen couldn't answer without hesitation, and the emotions rippling in his body were like muddled color spices, making him unpredictable about colors.

(End of chapter)