Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 328 Going to Sendai

When Kirino Akane called, Soya and Asagiri had already boarded the Tohoku Shinkansen train and left Ibaraki.

"Kirino?"

He answered the phone, but the voice on the other end was a bit crying: "Song Gu..."

"What's the matter?" Zong Gu was startled for a moment, and immediately asked.

Zhao Wuling, who was sitting next to her, was looking at the fading sunset outside the window, but at this time she also looked over and listened.

Her sniffling sound came from the microphone, and it took a while for her answer: "It's okay..."

"Are you crying?"

She sniffed again, "Nothing."

Soya didn't know why, so he could only shake his head in response to Chao Kirin's inquiring eyes.

"So, what happened?"

The inexplicably depressed mood when she just woke up disappeared after hearing his voice, and Akane Kirino didn't know how to answer.

It was completely dark, she got up and turned on the light in the living room, and stood by the door for a while.

"Hmm... is Soya still in Chiba?"

"What time is it now? Suzu and I have already boarded the Shinkansen and are on our way to Sendai." She avoided answering, and Soya could only guess for himself, "Did you quarrel with Miss Keiko?"

"Eh? No, no..."

Akane Kirino had no choice but to confess, "It's just that after waking up, I suddenly felt a little depressed..."

"wake?"

"Um……"

Soya breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, and leaned back on the back of the chair again, "Aren't you doing your homework?"

"...I finished my work for today, I wanted to take a rest, and then I fell asleep."

"Are you still at the old house?"

"Yes."

"go home."

"it is good!"

Akane Kirino immediately agreed, "Then hang up when I get home."

"Yeah." He didn't have anything else to say.

Then, the sound of her closing the door and window came from the other side of the microphone.

"It's nothing." Zong Gu said to Zhao Wuling.

She nodded and looked out the window again.The sunset glow faded away, and the twilight came like a tide, and the lights near or far were lit up.

"What?" Akane Kirino suddenly asked.

"It's okay... I didn't tell you."

"Oh." Her voice pulled away again, "Alpine—come here. Ah, I didn't take Alpine out for a walk today."

Holding the mobile phone, Soya's eyes fell on Asagiri Ling's side face, "Let's make up for it tomorrow."

"Ok."

Call the Shiba Inu back to the house, close the door again, before the sky is completely dark, Akane Kirino walks quickly to the house.

"Mom and Dad should have already gone to the store."

"After all, it's already this time. What about your dinner? Are you going there?"

"The family should have left food for me."

"Ah."

The sound of her footsteps continued to come from the microphone, and when she spoke, her breathing was a little short.

When she didn't speak, Soya remained silent, sometimes looking out the window, sometimes looking at Asagiri.

"Songya."

"Ah."

"Thank you."

"Suddenly say something."

Akane Kirino flicked the key in her hand, "Because Soya answered my call right away. I'm so happy."

"...I don't dare not answer the phone call from the landlady."

"Hahaha, what are you talking about?"

She raised her head, and after the night rose, the stars were faintly visible in the sky.

"The stars are already out..."

"Ah."

"Did Soya see it too?"

The lights in the car were already on, reflecting on the window glass.He leaned in, pressed against the car window, and glanced at the sky outside. There were two or three stars.

"Saw."

Looking at Wuling's side face, he quickly sat back.

"Will Soya come back tomorrow?"

"will not."

"What about the day after tomorrow?"

"The day after tomorrow... no."

"The day after tomorrow?"

"maybe."

Akane Kirino looked up at the starry sky, and blurted out the words in her heart: "I want to see you soon."

"..."

Sogu pursed his lower lip, and after a while he said, "Are you going home?"

"almost."

Akane Kirino walked on the stone path, looking at her own house at the top, "One or two minutes."

"Ah."

"What about Soya, how long will it take to get to Sendai?"

"The whole journey took more than four hours, and now there are about two hours left."

She was slightly taken aback, "Hey... so far away..."

"En." Zong Gu responded, and raised his eyes to look at the lights on the top of the carriage, "Northeast is a far away place."

"Then when Soya arrives in Sendai, will he be closer to me or Hongzi?"

"It's hard to say...she is in Furano today."

"Yes, you know it really well." Akane Kirino said casually, and took another step up, "Okay, I'm home."

"Ah."

"I'll see if there's any dinner left for me in the kitchen... If not, I'll go to the store."

"Ah."

The sound of inserting the key, the sound of opening the door, the sound of changing shoes, and then a burst of brisk footsteps.

"Stayed!"

Sogu smiled, "Congratulations."

"Okay, that's it, I'll contact you later."

"OK Bye Bye."

As soon as the phone was hung up, she sent a message, which was about her dinner today.

Zongya clicked and took a look, then looked at Zhao Wuling again, "Does Ling feel hungry?"

The train is almost at the next station. If necessary, you can get off at the stop and go to the station to buy lunch.

She shook her head.

"I'm not too hungry either."

Soya glanced at the time, "We should be able to arrive in Sendai before nine o'clock, and then we can find a place to eat."

"Ah."

"Then there is the question of where to stay tonight... Hotels near the station may not have rooms, and you may have to live in a place farther away."

Sendai is not a particularly popular tourist city. Even the hotels near the station are usually not full, but these days may be an exception.

"The Qixi Festival has already begun."

As one of the most grand festivals in Northeast China, the Sendai Tanabata Festival starts on August [-]th and lasts for three days. Today is the second day of the festival.

Tourists flocked, and Soya only hoped that the hotels with vacancies were not too far away.

He checked it on his mobile phone, but found that the occupancy situation of the hotel was not as popular as he expected, at least he could book a room near the station.

"It seems that the enthusiasm for the festival has faded a lot by the second day..."

It could also be that the memory of the past inadvertently exaggerates the pomp of the festival - he hasn't been back in over two years.

Soya searched, picked a hotel that was close to the station, and then called to inquire and book a room.

"...yes, I want to book a room... for two people, um, two single rooms."

Chao Wuling suddenly pulled him.

"..."

The two looked at each other for a long time, he was defeated, and changed his words: "Sorry, please change me to a standard room."

Only then did she let go.

After the hotel confirmed the information and booked the room, Soya hung up the phone and the train started to slow down.

"It's about to enter the station."

"Ah."

Half a minute later, the train stopped at the platform, and several figures got off the train.

Soya also got up, got out of the car to buy two bottles of juice, and quickly returned to the car.

"Give."

After stopping for a few minutes, the train restarted and headed for the next station.

After sunset, it gets dark quickly.

The night outside the window was getting darker, the sky turned from dim blue to complete darkness, and the distant stars lit up.

Soya leaned back on the seat, closed his eyes and meditated.

Chao Wuling looked at the window of the car, his gaze shifted from far to near, looking outside as well as him.

The train was moving fast, making regular noises.

Not long after, she also closed her eyes, and a long white train was speeding in her mind, passing through the night and flying into the Milky Way Star Sea...

"bell--"

After an unknown amount of time, Chao Wuling opened his eyes, looked at Soya who got up, and then looked out the window.

The train has stopped.

He held out his hand, "We have arrived in Sendai."

"Yeah." She grabbed his hand, got up and got out of the car.

Once again set foot on the land of his hometown, Soya looked around on the platform, trying to find familiar fragments from distant memories.

"I don't seem to have been anywhere from here... I didn't catch up with the third grade school trip, so I don't know where they will go."

He basically spent the first half of his life in this city, because he lived in a children's welfare home, and he didn't have much chance to travel far.

"Aomori." Chao Wuling said suddenly.

Soya was startled for a moment, then realized she was talking about his grandmother's house.

"Aomori...you really have to take the Shinkansen to get there. But I can't remember things before I was seven years old."

Many people choose to get off at Sendai.

Following the passengers in twos and threes, the two left the platform and walked out of the station.

"It's so lively."

As soon as you leave the platform, you can see the colorful Qixi Festival decorations in the station, paper flowers, colored balls or paper cranes are dotted around, and long streamers hang down and flutter with the wind, especially after you walk out of the station.

In the shopping street, the decoration of the Tanabata Festival is even more grand and gorgeous. Lanterns illuminate the night sky, and the hanging ribbons are like colorful waterfalls. Young men and women in yukata or a family of three walk through it...all are the appearance of the Tanabata Festival in Soya’s memory.

"It's really nostalgic." He pulled the Chaowu bell, "Go to the hotel to drop off your luggage, let's come and have a stroll."

She shook her head, "We'll go shopping tomorrow."

"Then just stroll around the snack stalls tonight..."

"--tomorrow."

"..."

Soya was a little surprised and didn't quite understand her insistence.

Chao Wuling looked up at him, "This is a date."

"so……"

"Come here in your yukata."

"..."

Soya felt helpless, "Let's go to the hotel first."

The booked hotel is near the station, and it only takes a few minutes to walk there.

After completing the check-in procedures at the front desk, the staff handed out a room card and leaned forward slightly to guide them in the direction of the elevator.

The room is on the third floor. When you open the door and turn on the light, you can see the huge French windows at a glance.

Putting down the luggage casually, and walking past the ends of the two beds, Soya came to the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the street below.

There are fiery trees and silver flowers, pedestrians are weaving, and there is a group of people dancing in the middle of the street, and the sound of piccolo and taiko drum can be faintly heard.

Chao Wuling also walked to his side and stood watching for a while.

"Awa dance."

"Ah."

The dance is weird, and there is a person dressed out of place in the middle who is awkwardly imitating.It took a while for Soya to recognize that it was Date Masamune, the founder of the Sendai domain in the Edo period.

"Go down and eat something."

He rubbed his belly, turned and walked out, "I'm almost starving."

Chao Wuling followed and took his arm.

After going downstairs, Soya went to the front desk and asked if there were any places to eat nearby that he could recommend.

"Aren't the guests going to the festival? There are many food stalls on the street."

He glanced at Chao Wuling who was silent beside him, and smiled, "It's not very convenient today."

Following the instructions of the receptionist, the two walked out of the hotel and walked to the block on the right.

Although he has lived in Sendai for more than ten years, this is not a place he often comes to, and he could not afford it before. Most of the areas near the station are both familiar and strange to him.

While searching, they looked at the festival on the street. Five or six minutes later, the two came to another shopping street, turned around and walked in.

There are many izakayas and restaurants on both sides. Even though the festival outside is in full swing, the place is still full of people.

Soya and Chao Wuling walked and searched, because they didn't want to wait in line, so they could only choose a self-service hot pot restaurant with vacant seats in the end.

"Two people."

"Okay. If you choose 'Full Meat', it will cost [-] yen per person."

After paying and entering, the clerk took the two of them to find a place to sit down, and then asked some questions about the soup base.

"If you eat buffet in the middle of the night, you will definitely gain weight..."

Having said that, Soya brought several plates of meat over the first time he got up, and then made a dipping sauce for himself and Zhao Wuling.She went to get two drinks.

The bottom of the pot was delivered quickly, with clear soup on one side and tomato pot on the other.

When the soup base gradually boiled, the two added meat to it and began to enjoy their belated dinner.

The boiled beef is covered with the soup in the tomato pot. It tastes sweet and sour. When you bite down, the aroma of the meat will also come out, which makes people want to stop.Soya picked up some slices of raw meat and put them in.

In addition to the beef, he also brought back two plates of black pork belly.

"Besides beef, pork and chicken, there seem to be other types, but I didn't go over there, so I didn't see what kind of meat it was."

Stuffing a piece of pork belly into his mouth, he nodded towards Wuling and responded vaguely.

After swallowing it, she said, "I want vegetables."

"I'll get it."

Soya got up and brought some vegetables.

"Well, will it be too much..."

He could eat a few plates of vegetables, after all, Zhao Wuling was still there, but the meat was the key.

"Forget it, that's it."

When the vegetables and meat are put into the pot together, they can be cooked in a few seconds and then divided up quickly.

The last meal for the two was the lunch they had in Kawasaki eight or nine hours ago. Their stomachs were already empty, and they ate for a while before slowing down.

Picking up a piece of beef, blanching it slowly, rolling it in the dipping sauce a few times before putting it in the mouth, Zongya looked outside, thinking of the past for no reason.

"I remember that on the day I graduated from elementary school, the teacher brought me and Ling to the station to have a barbecue."

Chao Wuling looked up at him, "Yes."

"It's just a few years ago, it's really nostalgic... The teacher also said that the barbecue meal cost her a week's wages."

This may be true, because the treatment in the Children's Welfare Institute is very average, although Ju Tianzi doesn't actually need this salary.

Chao Wuling stopped her chopsticks, thoughtfully, she also missed that time a little bit.

Pulling away from the memory, Soya stood up, "I'll go get some more meat."

"Ah."

The sliced ​​meat and vegetable leaves were rolling in the soup. Except for the first moment, the two of them didn't eat fast, and spent a lot of time reminiscing.

After about an hour and a half, they finished eating and left.

"Let's go outside for a while before going back to the hotel."

Although there are night factors, the temperature in Sendai is obviously much lower than that in Kinki, Kyoto.The festivals on the street did not stop, the enthusiasm was like fire, but the coolness was already very obvious.

The two walked out from the other side of the shopping street and made a big circle around the nearby block.

The decorations of the Qixi festival dotted the night, and after wandering for more than 20 minutes, they returned to the hotel from another direction.

"You wash first."

"Ah."

Back in the room, Chao Wuling went to take a shower first.Soya stood in front of the French window and sent a message to Yueyue to inquire about the situation.

After the two parties separated from their wives, except for Yuedu who sent him a message when he just returned to Chiba, they didn't contact him again. He didn't know whether Lord Shenming was playing a game now, or was being played, or had been kicked out. out.

Monthly reading: [image]
He sent a photo of a slender white machine.

Soya: What is this?
Monthly reading: PS5.
"...that's fast enough."

Soya: Has Ms. Hanada played with Tsukiyomi-sama already?

Monthly Reading: That's really ugly.

Monthly reading: We are playing games together.

He didn't reveal it, and Zongya couldn't guess anything else. He only knew that the eldest lady had no plans to drive her away.

Soya: That's fine.We have already arrived in Sendai, and we will notify Tsukiyomi-sama when we return.

Monthly reading: [OK]
After chatting with the god who was busy playing games, Soya sent another greeting to Kyoko.

And she called.

"Student Fangming..."

"Kyoko."

It was past ten o'clock at night, and for Jingzi who was used to going to bed early and getting up early, it was almost time to rest.

The two talked about their situation, then asked each other, and after chatting for a while, they said good night to each other.

Putting down the phone, Soya saw Asagiri come out of the bathroom from the floor-to-ceiling window.

"..."

Pulling the curtains, he went into the bathroom, took out the bathrobe, and put it on her.

"It's time for me to wash up."

The bathtub in the hotel was too small for Soya, and he couldn't stretch his body to his heart's content, so he came out after a short soak.

Zhao Wuling sat on the bed by the window, wrapped in an oversized bathrobe.He sat down on another bed, brushed his hair, and talked about tomorrow's arrangements.

"Go to the Children's Welfare Institute tomorrow morning, stay until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and then go to the festival in the evening."

She thought about it for a moment before nodding.

"Any questions."

"I need time to pick out my yukata."

"Yukata...then come back early."

"Ah."

He also didn't ask her where she planned to buy bathrobes. She knew much more about Sendai than he did.

"Turn off the lights."

"Ah."

After drying his hair, Soya turned off the light and lay down.

The room suddenly became dark.

Before he could close his eyes, she put her hand on his arm, "Come over."

(End of this chapter)