I push the child!

Chapter 10 10. Happy Birthday to You
Out of the forest, through the green path full of larch needles, the stream on both sides, and the marble covered with moss.

The sky became unobstructed, as if washed and washed by the blue waterfall on the mountain.

Stepping into Old Karuizawa, which is surrounded by Mikasa Avenue and Ginza Street, you can see the western-style historical buildings and bustling shopping streets built in the Meiji and Showa periods.

Here is a boutique, there is a candy store, and you can see a Western-style restaurant further ahead.

There is a souvenir shop nearby, and there are two long queues at the door. The shop sells curry bread.

There were sounds of girls and children talking and joking around.

There are all kinds of pedestrians walking on the street, as if to include people of every skin color.

At a glance, you can also find a deliberately tanned Japanese woman wearing platform shoes.

They wear woolen autumn clothes on their upper bodies and hot pants on their lower bodies. Their light earth-colored thighs are completely exposed to the air, but they don't feel cold at all, as if they have put their bodies in two different seasons.

Strolling in this ancient street full of people coming and going, Hoshino Ai is like a simple chick just hatched.

After seeing the east side, she looked west again, wishing she had a pair of eyes on her body.

“Grilled fish!”

Makimura Taku followed her gaze and looked over.

“Russian fried buns!”

Makimura Taku glanced in another direction.

“Beef Teppanyaki!”

Mu Cuntuo sighed, and called Hoshino Ai who was running around, "I'll say."

"What?" Ai Hoshino turned her head to look at him innocently, and the corners of her mouth were about to leave saliva that was naturally secreted.

"Why don't you choose one first?"

She poked her red lips and thought for a while, then pointed at a mocha ice cream shop diagonally opposite with a smile on her face.

"Just go there!"

The ice cream shop is not small, with a total of two floors. There are several small round tables on the terrace, and you can overlook the street from above.

Below is the usual storefront. There is a signboard for the announcement of new products at the door, but the decoration is so that it feels like a fruit shop.

"Thank you for your patronage~" the clerk said with a smile.

They bought two cups of mocha ice cream with coffee jelly and ate as they went.

The cold feeling spread from the tip of the tongue to the brain, they thought of snow, and thought of Echigo Yuzawa who had just left, and the sweetness spread in the taste buds.

Later, they passed a white church, where they saw passionate couples getting married.

The bride's wedding dress was dragged on the ground for a long time, and the wooden platform of ash was trampled by red high-heeled shoes.

As the bride and groom stepped out of the church, Mendelssohn played the prelude to the fifth act of the overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a "Wedding March", as if it sounded melodiously from the birch forest.

When she got there, Ai Hoshino couldn't move.

She stood a little far away and kept watching, and she didn't even notice that the ice cream was peaking.

When applause erupted from the wedding venue, all the colorful balloons were released into the sky, and the colorful ribbons suddenly exploded like fireworks. The loud and cheerful sound is like a rabbit fleeing into the wind.

The air is stained with the smell of love, and the world seems to be happier.

At the end of the song, the bride's lace veil was carried into the blue sky by the autumn wind, as if chasing the pigeons away.

Seeing this scene, Ai Hoshino couldn't help wanting to applaud.

She did applaud, the coffee jelly dangling under the ice cream, the cream clinging to the sides of the glass.

"So happy~" she said enviously, her eyes were still looking at the wedding scene, which was a church like a white mountain.

Beside her, Mu Cuntuo nodded: "Just seeing it once, I feel that I have become happy."

"Is happiness contagious?"

"Yes."

"What about sadness?"

"I will too."

"After falling in love, there is a wedding, and after the wedding, a healthy baby will probably be born..." At this point, she turned to Mu Cuntuo, "Mu Cun, do you think the child will be happy too?"

"Yes."

"But why didn't I feel it." She said.

Makimura Taku stared at her, as if something was breaking in her eyes, there was a click, the sound was harsher than when a goblet fell to the uneven concrete floor.

The sound of congratulations, laughter, and the crisp sound of glass bottles colliding together seemed to disappear in an instant.

The wind is still blowing, and the birds are still singing.

The leaves also kept ringing, rattling, it was extremely noisy, and the bells of bicycles passing by kept ringing, which was obviously very pleasant in the forest.

"Ah, I'm just kidding!" Ai Hoshino smiled, her eyes filled with color again.

She smiled faintly, and opened her mouth to bite down the ice cream without the tip of the cream.

That smile seemed to be crying, and the outside of the pupils seemed to be covered with a mist-like film.

Makimura Taku felt that something was stinging himself vaguely, and he was speechless.

The two left outside the church and were silent for a long time. No one could tell what shop they passed by, what tree they saw, whether the autumn wind was still blowing.

When the time came, they naturally decided to go to lunch, which they had in a particularly elegant restaurant.

Ai Hoshino ordered a lot of things, as if she could be happy in this way. In fact, she was never sad. Even if there was a little bit, it was thrown outside the church.

"Afternoon," Hoshino Ai said to him when he was in the store, "let's go buy a cake to eat, shall we?"

"Okay." Makimura nodded.

In the afternoon, they went to buy cakes, and talked about the scenery along the way, and the willow trees by the river. Mucuntuo told her that it was not a willow tree, but a locust tree. Said to be.

They went to the cake shop to buy cakes, and the waiter helped them wrap them in a blue gift box, and tied a bow with a red ribbon on it, with knives and forks, and candles.

"It's okay if you don't want the candles." Makimura Taku said to the waiter, it wasn't anyone's birthday anyway.

"No? It's free~" the waiter told him.

"Yes!" Hoshino Ai rushed to answer.

Mucuntuo looked at her, and she smiled again, that smile was indeed a smile, with a lot of upper teeth exposed, Mucuntuo thought, even her teeth were so beautiful.

In the evening, when they returned from the forest road in the dusk, the setting sun was left behind the shadows, and the wind suddenly became cooler.

Back at the hotel, they watched the baseball game on TV. Team A led 10-[-] at first, and then trailed team B by two points after [-] minutes.

The applause from the audience was enclosed in the screen, and the two felt that it was boring, so they turned off the TV.

As the sky darkened, they turned on the lights, and outside the French window-like door, the bamboo forest was quietly illuminated, but most of it still melted into the night.

Around seven o'clock, they unwrapped the cake, threw the ribbon and plastic gloves aside, and stuck sixteen candles on top of the chocolate cream.

"Happy birthday to you." Makimura Taku said.

"Today is not my birthday." Ai Hoshino smiled happily.

They didn't turn off the lights, and directly lit all the candles with matches. When the candles were half burned, a gust of evening wind came in through the crack of the door and blew out all the fires.

"No need." When Mucun Taku still wanted to strike a match, Hoshino Ai said holding his hand.

They cut a piece of cake with a knife and fork, divided it in half, and the two tasted it, and there were two thirds of it left before going to bed.

At night, the cake is placed on the table, as if it has become a painting.

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　　I went out to relax for a while today, not so much. In fact, I went out to eat and went to the bookstore to read. I think reading is considered a "business trip".

　　April has passed, please continue to be happy in May.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)