For New Year's Eve, Chieko also made preparations several days in advance this year, carefully preparing food boxes for the New Year's Eve dinner. No matter when it was, she could not go to underground shopping malls to buy ready-made food boxes. This was Chieko's pride.
What's more, she wasn't the only one spending this New Year's Eve in her new home.
In the evening, the second son and second daughter's family came to Chieko's house to celebrate the New Year. The youngest grandson, Heita, was at an age where he seemed to understand things in the world. He didn't understand why his grandmother divorced his grandfather and moved to this new place alone.
I also know in my heart that the home of my grandparents and grandparents that I was familiar with in the past can no longer pass by.
Pingtai seems to understand, and the younger sister still knows nothing about everything in the world. The mother is no different from before, and as for the father
Nakamori Akino was in high spirits. While drinking, he said, "It's much more convenient to go to Asakusa from here than before."
The two families had made plans to go to Asakusa to pay homage as soon as midnight.
If that's the case, wouldn't it mean that I wouldn't be able to see Akina-chan and the snack Iwahashi-san? Heita looked at the scene of the Kohaku Song Contest on the TV. On the TV, a band called REV was performing. The lead singer-san is beautiful
Big sister, but she looks very similar to Kamachi-san from ZARD.
Is this band also a singer in Iwahashi-san's company?
Heita heard from his father that the confection Iwahashi-san is a very powerful producer, even more powerful than Akina-chan... right?
He blinked a little boredly, not interested in this band's performance. On New Year's Eve this year, he couldn't see Shota from his uncle's house, and lost his most compatible playmate. Heing Tai sat at the low table honestly.
Nakamori Akiho, who was a bit drunk, clenched his fist at Heita and assumed the posture of the protagonist in the tokusatsu TV series Heita liked to watch, "Tonight, we must seize the opportunity and start at midnight!"
"What an idiot, Mingfa!" Akiko Nakamori complained.
Mingfa and Mingzi are similar in age. The two siblings are noisy, but they have a good relationship. Being verbally suppressed by this sister who has no sister-like appearance, Mingfa is not willing to be outdone and starts arguing with her.
Pingtai listened to what his father and aunt said to each other, and thought to himself, when his little sister grows up, will he quarrel with her over trivial things like this?
He couldn't help but be pessimistic about the relationship between brother and sister when his little sister grew up. However, the little sister was still at an age where she had to speak word by word. As an older brother, he was sure to win.
…
As soon as it's past midnight, we will set off from Chieko's place and go to Asakusa to pay homage. By making such an arrangement, both Akira and Akiko knew that they would stagger their meetings with Akina, who came here after the Kohaku Uta Festival.
But what does that matter? It’s not because I wanted to meet Akina-chan that I came to my mother’s place to spend New Year’s Eve.
Although no one has ever told the truth, in the minds of the children of the Zhongmori family, many things changed after their mother divorced their father.
The blood ties that originally tied this big family together have actually been severed. What's more, the actions of mother Chieko made the children of the Nakamori family completely give up, knowing that they would never get any benefits from Akina.
.
And once there is no possibility of getting anything more from Akina, the children of the Nakamori family will be shocked to realize that they and this sister are already people in different worlds when they come out of the illusion that they took for granted.
The only connection between them is actually the blood-sucking lips that once stretched out towards Akina.
Now, this only connection has finally been severed by her mother, Chieko.
As a mother, Chieko knew best what she had done. Because of this, she said nothing about the schedules arranged by her children. But when Akira and Akiko told her, "Akina-chan and that Iwahashi-san,
Just ask my mother to say hello for us~" He agreed as a matter of course.
On TV, the Red and White Song Contest was coming to an end, and the singers packed the stage and sang "Light of the Fireflies" together.
Mingfa drank the wine in his glass in one breath, stood up and prepared to go out.
He and his wife's plan was that since his mother would not go to the shrine, he would entrust his young daughter to take care of her and take Heita with him.
"Pingtai?" Mingfa sat down cross-legged and put his face close to his sleeping son.
As soon as midnight passed, the two families said goodbye to Chieko and set off noisily. After walking out of this door, although they had the same destination, they quickly went their separate ways.
After seeing off the children, the house became quiet again.
Chieko tidied her room lightly and leisurely, preparing for the arrival of her other daughter and son-in-law. On the radio, the host was introducing which temple the bells on New Year's Eve came from.
…
"Light of the Hotaru" ended, and the backstage of the Kohaku Song Concert was in chaos.
The singers who have to rush to perform at other TV stations' New Year's Eve programs after leaving NHK are busy, and the singers who have finished their last job of the year and are preparing to leave are relaxed.
Nakamura-san, who is from Tokyo, naturally wants to go back to his hometown, and Miwa-chan has made an appointment to go on a New Year's trip with her friends. The next time the three of them get together will have to be ten days and a half later.
The staff who followed us prepared beer as usual, and the three of us drank a glass of beer together.
"I have a hunch," Miwa-chan said seriously as she took a big gulp of her beer, "After the New Year, I will see Shinichi-kun on the weekly headlines again."
Shinichi Iwahashi swallowed the beer in his mouth as hard as he could and let out a suppressed burp. Just as he was about to say something, Miwa-chan felt very proud of herself and showed off to him, "Didn't I hit the mark last year?"
"Since it's so clever," Iwahashi Shinichi told her, "then just predict something else."
Miwa-chan is only exceptionally smart and responsive when she is arguing with him, "Didn't I just say about this year's prophecy? You can't be greedy and ask for too much when it comes to New Year's prophecies. Does Shinichi-kun know that?"
"..." Iwahashi Shinichi was speechless.
Miwa-chan was so proud. Brother Nakamura and the band staff watched the first free cross talk of the new year. The atmosphere was harmonious, and only Iwahashi Shinichi could bear it all.
Miwa-chan finished her beer and squeezed the can so loudly, "We're ready to go."
The three people left the backstage, and it wasn't until they got into the car that Iwahashi Shinichi took off his giraffe hood. At this time, his last job of the year was completely over.
Miwa-chan took the hood he took off, put it on her lap, and poked the giraffe's horns with her fingers.
Iwahashi Shinichi saw this and secretly felt a sweat for his clone.
"Just now, was Shinichi-kun surrounded on the stage?" Miwa-chan suddenly remembered and looked at him with some evil intentions.
