Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 306

After lunch and a short rest, the Yoshikawa couple told their daughter a few words, greeted her daughter's companions, and then prepared to drive away.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Mrs. Yoshikawa said to her daughter who came out to see her off while wearing her seat belt: "My father and I will come pick you up again in three days."

"I see."

"Since Hongzi brought three friends over, don't just stare at one of them and ignore the others."

Hongzi curled her lips and said the same words: "I see..."

Mrs. Yoshikawa stared at her daughter for a while, and suddenly sighed softly.

"I can see that Soya-kun is also in a difficult situation—Mom!"

When the voice was raised suddenly, the Yoshikawa father and daughter inside and outside the car were startled.Then I saw her hurriedly unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car, and quickly walked towards her grandma who was coming with a lot of vegetables.

"Didn't I say I don't need it... Really, I still go to pick vegetables when it's so hot at noon..."

In the scorching sun, Hongzi was waiting by the car door, but the father in the car waved her to go back to the house.

"Mom talked about it, it's still those words, whether you can listen to it or not is up to Hongzi herself - go in, don't bask in it here."

She pursed her lips, nodded again, and ran all the way back to the door.

Unfastening the seat belt, Yoshikawa's father also got out of the car.

"mom……"

After a while, the Yoshikawas loaded the vegetables, returned to the car, asked Hongzi to take care of grandma, and then drove away.

Soya and the others rested on the edge of the other side.Helping grandma back to sit in the room, when Hongzi passed by, Akane Kirino was throwing the winning popsicle stick up and down.

The old electric fan shook her head back and forth, she stuck to it and occupied it for a while, Soya quickly turned around and shouted that it was hot.

Hongzi got up again, sat down beside him, and soon lay down on the floor again.

"It's so hot now, let's go out later."

"It's not the hottest time of the day yet." Looking at her half-hanging calf, Sogu looked up at the sky again.Just two days after the typhoon left, the scorching heat returned with even more momentum.

"But it doesn't matter if it's by the stream." Akane Kirino said, "There are many trees on both sides, and they can't get the sun."

Sogu turned his head and glanced at her, "It seems that you really want to go out."

"Hey, it's okay. Go early and come back early."

After she said so, Hongzi didn't have any objections, went to the refrigerator in the kitchen and took a few bottles of water with her, said hello to grandma and went out.

"Run!"

Kirino Akane is like a vampire who can't see the sun, she runs away after going out, until she runs into the shade of a tree.

Zongya and the others quickly followed, and she ran to the next shade of a tree.And so on and on until they came to a stream full of shade.

"It's cooler to walk in the water." Akane Kirino had a whim.

"Then don't even try to find the source when it's dark." Zong Gu didn't have any objections. He came to the countryside to escape the summer heat, and he was just killing time wherever he went, so he was afraid that she would not give up until she found the source.

"Also..." Akane Kirino had no choice but to dismiss the idea, "Let's talk about it when we come back."

The countryside is vast and sparsely populated, and there were not many people in the first place, and the scorching heat in the afternoon was unbearable, and even half of them could not be seen.There were only the four of them in front of and behind the creek path dappled with light and shadow.

Akane Kirino walked in front, holding a twig in her hand that said "[-] points out of [-]", and waved it casually, "Speaking of which, there don't seem to be any young people in the village, not a single child."

"Because there is nothing in the countryside here." Hongzi said, "Everyone who can go out has gone out. Occasionally people will come back during the summer vacation, but most of them are concentrated during the Obon Festival."

Akane Kirino nodded, expressing her understanding, and asked, "Will Hongzi come over again during the Obon Festival?"

"It depends on the situation. Whether you come back or not is up to your mother."

"Is that so..."

The Obon Festival is a day for worshiping ancestors. It is an important festival second only to New Year's Day. Many people will return home to visit relatives at this time.Zong Gu followed behind and listened, but he didn't have any thoughts in his heart, his hometown was too far away.

"..."

A touch of coolness squeezed into the palm of his hand, he turned his head to look, and Chao Wuling also looked up at him.

"Want to go back and have a look?" she whispered.

"..."

Soya opened his mouth, "Sendai?"

"Ah."

He was a little hesitant, a little dazed, and a little bit at a loss, all blocked his throat together, making him speechless.

The two of them will have a long journey, and Zhao Wuling didn't urge him to hold his hand until he was suddenly clenched at a certain moment.

"Let's go back to the Children's Welfare Institute." Sogu swallowed the hesitation and hesitation, but he didn't swallow it completely, "I'll talk about other places at that time."

"Ah."

Nodding to Wuling, he handed over the water bottle in his hand.

Unscrewing the cap and returning it to her, Soya himself opened the water bottle and took a sip.

"what."

Akane Kirino suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong."

"Look ahead."

Zonggu raised his eyes and looked forward, and found a tributary beside the river, only one or two meters wide, but the water volume was comparable to the main stream.

Akane Kirino waved a branch and announced to the team members: "We have arrived at the first save point."

"What did you say suddenly?"

"Ah, a bald NPC appeared in front of the tributary!"

The middle-aged man carrying a hoe beside the tributary may not understand the meaning of "NPC", but he is extremely sensitive to "bald head". He turned his head and looked over, and opened his mouth to shout something he didn't understand, with a bad tone.

"Run!"

Akane Tongye ran away when she got into trouble, and she didn't forget to grab Hongzi.Zongya didn't intend to run away, but the bald middle-aged man refused to let go, and yelled something at him again.

"What the hell are you talking about..."

Soya was a little dazed, and Kirino Akane shouted back from the front: "Run!"

He had no choice but to pull towards Wuling to keep up.

After running for a minute or two, after leaving the place where the two streams meet, Akane Kirino stopped - Hongzi couldn't run anymore.

"Ha ha……"

Panting heavily, she took a long break before she could utter a complete sentence, "What are you running for..."

"Ah." Akane Kirino felt a little embarrassed, "I didn't expect to be heard by him."

Hongzi shook her head, Sogu took the water bottle from her hand and opened it to her.

"thanks……"

She took two sips and wiped her lips again.

"What was that man talking about just now, the local dialect?"

"Well. That's the dialect of my grandmother's house, and I can only understand a little bit."

"What do those words mean?" Soya asked again.

Hongzi was a little helpless, "The only things I can understand are words like brats and bastards."

Kirino Akane laughed.

Sogu shook his head, "Is it someone I know?"

"Basically, there are not many people in the village, so we can always see them." Hongzi said, "But I haven't talked much."

"He won't go to Hongzi's grandmother's house and wait for us?" Kirino Qian was suddenly worried.

Sogu glanced at her, "Go back later."

"..."

She pursed her mouth, twisted her body, waved the branch in her hand, and looked elsewhere.

"It's okay." Hongzi smiled.

After a short rest, the four continued to explore along the stream.

Intimidated by Soya, Akane Kirino was honest for a while, and even lost the eighth branch, but she returned to the original state before walking too far, and the smile on her face returned.

"Soya's hair seems to be growing again, do you want to try bald?"

"Do not want to."

"Next time you cut your hair, I'll help you..."

"Next time I'll go to the shop to cut it."

Walking towards the mountain, the terrain slowly rises, and the river gradually converges, becoming almost as wide as the tributary just now.

The closer to the foot of the mountain, the wilder the stream becomes.The current is fast, the rocks are distributed, and the trees and grass are overgrown on both sides. After walking for a long time, there is no place to go down.

Hongzi told them that there was a small water pool at the foot of the mountain ahead, and the road ahead would be difficult, and that was the farthest place she explored.

Two or three minutes later, Sogu saw several boulders.A few steps forward, a small water pool surrounded by green leaves and boulders comes into view.

Large and small stones are densely covered in the pool, with strange shapes. The stream surges down from the upper reaches and falls into the small pool three to four meters long and wide, with white waves making noise.

"Wow……"

Akane Kirino seemed to like this place very much, she didn't even want to disturb her for a while, she just stood by the water.

Hongzi walked to one of the boulders, tested the temperature of the surface with his hand, and then sat on it, "Not bad."

"Uh-huh!"

After taking off his shoes, Sogu stepped on the rocks and walked into the pool, leaning against a boulder by the water, half leaning and half sitting, looking around.

The gentle terrain rises abruptly here, and there is a rugged mountain road in front of it, surrounded by dense trees, which are deep and shallow green under the sun.When we came here, the road got narrower and narrower, and there was no trace of human activities here, as if they had crossed the dividing line between society and nature without knowing it.

The water in the pool is rippling, the depth is nearly two meters, and the upper part falls in the sunlight, like a translucent emerald.

"Soya, you should go back first." Akane Kirino said suddenly.

He looked over, and she looked at the pool: "I want to take off my clothes and swim for a while."

"...don't say stupid things."

Kirino Akane puffed her mouth, then took off her shoes and walked into the water.She walked slowly to the depths until the icy stream water covered her thighs and was about to soak her hot pants.

"It's so cold..." She stood for a while, splashing the water with her hand, then looked at Hongzi again, "How far is the source?"

Hongzi was startled, then shook his head, "I don't know."

Kirino Akane seemed a little tangled, "Do we have to find the source?"

"The one who wants to explore the source is you, you should ask yourself." Sogu understood that she wanted to stop here.

"Soya, give me a coin."

"What?"

She flipped a coin, "Let fate decide."

"..."

Soya took out a fifty-yen coin, afraid that she would not be able to catch it, so he didn't give it to her.

"I will be the spokesperson of fate. Tell me, which side is to continue to explore the source, and which side is to stay here?"

Akane Kirino hesitated for a while, "Well...the number side will continue, and the chrysanthemum side will stay."

"it is good."

Soya tossed it up, opened his palm again, and firmly caught the falling coin.

"Number side." He lowered his palm so that she could also see the fateful choice in his palm.

"..."

Akane Kirino glared at him: "This is Soya's fate, it doesn't count. Give me the coin."

Soya smiled, then glanced at her thighs that were about to be submerged, "Come here by yourself."

wow-

Akane Kirino waded through the water and walked back a few steps, walked around to him, and took the coin from her hand.

"Is it still the same?" Soya asked.

"Same!"

She tossed it up and caught the coin of fate just as it stopped rising.

Open your hand again, it's still digital.

Akane Kirino took a deep breath, expressionless: "I interfered with fate, this time it doesn't count."

Soya just nodded without saying a word.

"One more time..." Before tossing the coin, she added, "This is the last time."

I don't know whether to tell him or tell myself.

Using force with his fingers, the spinning coin flew high under the gaze of the four people, reached the highest point, and then fell unimpeded.

thump.

The coin fell into the water, sank straight down, lying on the bottom half a calf deep, freezing the result of the last decision.

Akane Kirino squatted down, quickly saw the upward side of the coin, and was finally convinced.

"Woo... Fate is really ruthless."

Still digital.

Soya looked down at her, "Fate is not irresistible."

He glanced at Wuling, then at the looming coin at the bottom of the water.

Akane Kirino raised her head, the neckline of the short-sleeved T-shirt drooped naturally, the snowy neck was white and tender, and the black spot in the middle was the four-leaf clover pendant he gave her.

"But I also want to know what the source of the creek looks like. Is it water coming out of the ground, or there is a pool on it... I want to see it with my own eyes."

"..."

Soya looked away, "It's up to you."

Returning to the shore, putting on his shoes again, he took the coin with water droplets on it, and looked at the stream above the small pool through the round hole in the middle.

"How about we come back when there is no obvious surface water flow, or when there is no way to go?"

Akane Kirino was taken aback, and immediately nodded.

"Ok!"

Starting again, the terrain climbed up suddenly, the path by the stream became rough and difficult to walk, and the person leading the way in front became Zongya.

There were overgrown weeds on both sides, no one cleaned them up, scratching or pricking, making the calf itchy, Kirino Akane began to regret throwing away the eight-cent branch.Now even if there is a branch that is only two or three points in front of her, she is willing to pick it up and hold it in her hand, so as to calm down the unreasonable tension in her heart a little.

"There won't be snakes on the mountain, right?" Hongzi behind her suddenly spoke up, expressing her panic.

"Of course there are snakes this season." Soya said, "I just don't know where they will appear."

As soon as he heard a snake, Hongzi stopped immediately, "What should I do if I encounter a poisonous snake?"

After taking two steps, he also stopped and looked back at them: "There doesn't seem to be any hospital nearby. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you can only wait for death."

"It's too dangerous, let's go back."

When she said this, Akane Kirino felt a burst of relief.Not only because he can avoid the potential dangers in his mouth and his own imagination, but also because he can return to the small pool just now.

Sogu looked at her: "Don't you want to explore the source?"

"The weeds here grow so densely that there is no place to set foot... Yes, we have nowhere to go!" Akane Kirino felt more relaxed after finding a reasonable reason, "This is not giving up, it's just that now is not the right time to explore. , we’ll come back in winter—snakes are hibernating at that time.”

"I'm not coming."

Soya shook his head and announced, "Go back the way you came."

Kirino Akane became the guide for the return journey.Within a few minutes of setting off, the few people walked not far, and quickly returned to the water pool.

"what time is it now?"

"It's about one o'clock." Soya didn't look at the time, but just judged based on his feeling, "We've only been out for about half an hour."

"That's a long time before the sun goes down."

"Ah."

"Well……"

Akane Kirino suddenly began to coil her hair, took out the mobile phone from her pocket, and stuffed it into his hand.

"Hold it for me."

Zongya was stunned for a moment, and then realized: "Hey..."

"I am coming!"

She ran to the water's edge at once, looked at the shallow water at her feet and stopped again, walked slowly to a slightly deeper place, and shouted again:
"I am coming!"

thump!
She jumped forward and plunged into the pool. She swam underwater for a few seconds before resurfacing. The white T-shirt on her upper body was completely soaked, revealing the light blue bra inside.

"Xi..."

Hongzi opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything else.

The hastily coiled hair fell apart after wandering in the bottom of the water for a while. Akane Kirino shook her wet long hair and smiled at her in the water: "Does Hongzi have a hair tie?"

"No……"

Wiping the water off her face, she raised her hand to tie her long hair behind her head again, "Where's Zonggu?"

"There are two shoelaces."

"No."

Soya looked around, "It's fine if you can tie your hair."

"Then don't need shoelaces, how ugly."

Holding the bundle of hair, Akane Kirino took two steps in the water when her feet slipped suddenly.Her body was out of balance, she let go quickly, and threw herself into the water head-on, her long black hair loose again.

"Like a female corpse floating down the river..."

She was busy thumping, but she didn't hear anything, Hongzi turned her head and glared at him.

"Don't look around."

Zongya understood what she said, "Then I can only go back."

"……That's not OK."

Hongzi took off his glasses and let him hold them, "I also want to go down and play for a while."

Soya took it, "I will be scolded by adults."

"No, grandma loves me very much."

Instead of jumping directly into the water like Akane Kirino did, she walked to almost knee-deep and sat down slowly.

"Ah...the water is so cold..."

Akane Kirino swam over, grabbed her calf in the water, and stabilized her figure, "It's cool."

"Kirino—"

She turned her head, and Soya was holding a piece of dogtail grass in her hand.

"Use this to tie your hair."

The girl laughed, "What, it's not as good as shoelaces..."

It's just that she didn't refuse after laughing. She took the slender weed, removed the "dog tail" at the top, and handed it to Hongzi.

She sat up from the water, tied up her long hair, and Hongzi wrapped the wild grass around her, and tied it into a fairly firm bun.

thump!
After jumping into the depths and swimming under the water for more than half a minute, Akane Kirino surfaced again, the hair knot at the back of her head was still firm, she was very satisfied.

"Soya, come down and play together."

(End of this chapter)