"Miss Shiraishi, please don't count me among them."
Hoshino's eyes and tone were cold, which made Shiraishi shrink back in fright, but he emboldened himself again when he thought of Keisuke Aoi by his side.
"Ahem...Hoshino-san, I was just joking!"
"Please don't make such jokes, I don't care what the members think."
...This guy seems to have said something astonishing unknowingly. He is indeed a family with capitalist blood flowing through his veins.
Shiraishi and Aoi Keisuke looked at each other in tacit understanding, both feeling a little funny.
"Do you want me to wipe your mouth too?" Qing Keisuke asked.
"This is free."
Shiraishi is grateful but not sensitive. Although she is petite, she is fundamentally different from Weiko!
She is a mature woman in Tokyo!
While chatting, the four of them finished the noodles quickly or slowly. Qianzi seemed to be a little unfinished and turned to look at Qing Keisuke and the others.
Hoshino took the initiative to hand over the menu and asked her to order whatever she wanted to eat.
"Aoi Keisuke?"
"Let's order something else." Qing Keisuke also said.
Qianzi squinted his eyes and smiled, humming an unfamiliar tune.
"thanks, thanks."
She read the menu carefully, not sure if she understood the words on it, but in the end she happily selected an item with her fingers.
"Spicy stir-fry?" Hoshino glanced at it, worried that Weizi wouldn't be able to eat spicy food.
"Then let's take this." Qing Keisuke didn't think much and just ordered an extra portion for Weizi.
Weeping son continued to chant the word "spicy stir-fry", his little body swayed left and right, and his two little feet dangling in the air also swung back and forth.
"Mountain, mountain,
Stand quietly,
The wind carries the clouds passing by,
Why don't they stop?
The mountains want the lakes to sing for them.
The lake sang,
The wind, the clouds,
Look, you are already in my arms."
This is a tune that Qianzi sings when she is happy. It seems that even she herself doesn’t understand why she sings such lyrics.
But such lyrics are enough to give Aoi Keisuke and Hoshino deep thoughts.
"Hello everyone, this is additional spicy stir-fried udon, please use it slowly."
You can tell at a glance that this noodle shop's spicy stir-fry is done with care. Of course, it may just be a decorative embellishment. In fact, the spiciness of the neon style is questionable.
"Eat."
Hoshino's eyes followed the bowl of noodles until Qianzi picked two noodles and ate them in his mouth.
She swallowed the noodles hard and stuck out her tongue with tears in her eyes.
"Qing Keisuke, it hurts!"
"Is it spicy?" Qing Keisuke actually laughed when he saw Weiko's appearance.
"Hmm...spicy!"
Hoshino was about to scold Aoi Keisuke when he heard Aoi Keisuke ask again: "Do you still want to eat?"
"Eat~!"
Qing Keisuke asked Qinzi for another glass of ice water.
"Kiko-chan, if you can't eat it, don't force it," Shiraishi said with a smile.
"be able to eat!"
Qianzi nodded seriously and began his arduous struggle.
Hoshino said something but then took it back. Looking at Qing Keisuke, Shiraishi and Weiko, she felt excluded again.
Or maybe she isolated herself from the outside world.
Heavy barriers were slowly being erected. She was watching this scene and didn't know whether to remain indifferent or break through it.
"His ha...his ha..."
Qianzi gradually realized the beauty of the spicy taste, and ate more vigorously. Sweat came out and soaked the hair on her forehead. The silver-white hair turned into strands, and her originally pale face also became tangled.
A touch of blush appeared on her face, making her expression more and more lively.
"Aoi Keisuke, water."
"water!"
The way she eats is very interesting and cute, a bit like a hamster with its mouth full of peanuts and still trying to fill its stomach with nuts.
Yuki, who was already full, sat on her knees, wagging her tail and yawning from time to time.
The three of them just had a drink in the evening. Firstly, they had already eaten pasta, and secondly, they planned to go out again tomorrow.
After Qianzi finished finishing the new udon, Qing Keisuke got up and went to pay the bill.
Shiraishi smiled and handed Weizi some tissues to wipe the sweat from her cheeks.
Although Aoi Keisuke said that Keiko was a being related to the gods, now it turns out that she sweats like a human and is afraid of spicy food. This gave her a new understanding of the mysterious world.
The other two groups of people who were in the noodle shop just now had already left before them. The young apprentices were quietly cleaning up the kitchen counters and preparing to close the shop.
The old shopkeeper went to the back door to light a cigarette for fun.
Qing Keisuke came back after paying the bill and said, "Let's go, go back and rest."
"knew!"
Shiraishi responded, she and Hoshino were indeed sleepy, especially Hoshino, who was already struggling before going out.
The eldest lady stood up and asked, "What should I do if I cry?"
The rain outside shows no sign of stopping.
Aoi Keisuke looked at her deeply when he heard this. Once again, this was not something Fujiko Hoshino would say.
He had already vaguely noticed the importance Hoshino attached to Weizi.
But he couldn't resonate with Hoshino's feelings.
Although his and Hoshino's attitudes towards Weizi were similar, they were fundamentally different.
——He never expects to get anything from Weizi.
Qing Keisuke did not immediately answer Hoshino's question. After the group left the noodle shop, they stood under the plastic shed to protect the rain. When they were about to hold an umbrella, Qing Keisuke said slowly: "Weeping child has been a person every rainy day in the past."
She will not be moved by the difference of one day, let alone be hurt by it.
We are not people who just happened to appear and are destined to be with her forever.
It's enough to sit around a round table, have a meal together and make memories.
Even if I take her back, she will disappear when the rain stops."
Upon hearing this, Hoshino immediately pursed her lips tightly, her pink lips losing color. She lowered her head, letting her bangs cover her eyes and expression.
"..."
What hurt her most was not the words Aoi Keisuke said at this time, but that sentence.
For a moment, it was as if she was naked in front of Keisuke Aoi, and was completely seen through by him.
She could only ask herself this question, but for her, the answer didn't require thinking at all - she just longed for the purity of Weizi.
She doesn't need possession, even if it's just companionship, she is completely satisfied.
So, was the question she just raised to Keisuke Aoi for her or for her?
Until here, Hoshino was at a loss.
She couldn't come up with the answer, and she didn't dare to come up with the answer in front of Qing Keisuke.
So he could only lower his head and accept Qing Keisuke's criticism.
"Qing Keisuke, what are you talking about!"
In the long silence, Shiraishi suddenly spoke, with a little anger and complaint in his tone: "Isn't the rain stopping yet?"
The rain hasn’t stopped yet, the judgment and reasoning couldn’t be simpler.
Qing Keisuke was surprised at first, and then understood what Shiraishi wanted to express.
Hoshino seemed to gain infinite power from these words. She raised her head suddenly and looked directly into Qing Keisuke's eyes. His eyes at this time were unexpectedly weak, just like her sitting on the window sill of the activity room. This discovery made her
Xing Zhi was surprised.
"I made a mistake."33
Hoshino suppressed the curiosity and surprise in his heart and said in a cold voice: "My only mistake was that I didn't realize that I didn't need to ask you about this question at all."
She walked directly to Weizi, squatted down, looked straight at Weizi's delicate face and asked: "Weizi, are you still willing to stay with us?"
Even if it's only one night, one hour, or even one minute, she will try to invite!
Whether this greed is based on pity or selfishness, at least she must say these words!
Weizi's expression didn't change at all, she just looked at the three of them, and finally looked at Hoshino in front of her, she asked softly: "Are you quarreling?"
"No, I just want to invite you to come with us." Hoshino stretched out his hand to her, so nervous that his fingers were trembling slightly.
Weizi looked at her seriously for the first time, and then asked a little shyly: "But...is it okay?"
"certainly!"
Hoshino suddenly held her hand and covered her little hand.
Qing Keisuke looked at this scene and just blinked twice without further dissuasion.
He walked to Shiraishi and quietly said "Sorry" to her.
"Hmph~"
On both sides of them were the long streets of Yuzawa. It was dark at night and the moon could not be seen in the sky. Behind them, there was a faint conversation between an old man and a young man in the shop door. A black cat jumped up on the wall, opened its mouth and stretched its body.