The devil is by your side

Chapter 142 The trip to Hakone
It's a pity that the more Xia Luoluo wiped, the more tears fell on her face. In the end, it was like turning on the faucet, and she couldn't stop it no matter what.

"Don't wipe it, just cry if you want to, don't hold it in your heart, it will only make you more uncomfortable." Yamazaki reluctantly took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Charlotte, and said softly.

"I don't want to cry, especially for Long Zeye." Charlotte snatched the handkerchief from Shinobu Yamazaki's hand and wiped the tears from her face.

"Would you like to think about it and go to Hakone with me for a few days. Our Yamazaki family has an old house over there, and the scenery there is not bad. Every year, I will go to live for a few days. Maybe change places to see what's different. The scenery will make you feel better." Shinobu Yamazaki suggested.

"To Hakone?" Charlotte raised her head, her eyes were as red as a bunny's.

"Yes." Yamazaki Shinobu nodded.

"Okay, I promise you." Charlotte nodded, agreeing to Shinobu Yamazaki's invitation.

"Changed to Hakone." Shinobu Yamazaki said to the driver.

"Yes, master." The driver diverted the car and drove towards Hakone, while the assistant quickly called the butler of the old house in Hakone.

Hakone is located in the southwest of Kanagawa Prefecture, more than 90 kilometers away from Tokyo. It is a famous hot spring town and sanctuary in Japan. It has always been famous for its beautiful scenery and has the reputation of "National Park".

Shinobu Yamazaki's car gradually drove out of downtown Tokyo, and the vision along the way gradually became wider.

Leaving Tokyo, an international metropolis, Xia Luoluo saw the rural scenery of Japan for the first time.

Two hours later, the car arrived in Hakone and stopped at the gate of the old house of the Yamazaki family.

The old house of the Yamazaki family was built on a platform halfway up the mountain. The surrounding land, including the entire mountain forest, is owned by the Yamazaki family. The villagers live in the village at the foot of the mountain, which looks very quiet and simple.

"Here we are, this is the old house of the Yamazaki family." Yamazaki Shinobu got out of the car and said to Charlotte.

Xia Luoluo walked out of the car door and looked up at the ancient Japanese-style building in front of her.

After receiving a call from the assistant in advance, the housekeeper of the old house knew that Shinobu Yamazaki was coming, so he ordered someone to clean up the bedroom early and opened the door to welcome Shinobu Yamazaki.

"Master, you haven't been back for almost a year." The old housekeeper said excitedly.

"Well, Steward Tamura, long time no see, how are you doing recently?" Shinobu Yamazaki nodded slightly at the old housekeeper and asked with a smile.

"Thanks to the young master, my body is still strong, and I can still look after the Yamazaki family for a few more years." Butler Tamura's eyes fell on Xia Luoluo's face, and a doubtful light flashed in his eyes.

"Master, who is this lady?"

"Hello, my name is Xia Luoluo." Xia Luoluo quickly bowed to the old butler, and said nervously.

"I'll bring Luoluo to live here for two days. Housekeeper Tamura can treat her as one of his own." After speaking, Yamazaki Shinobu led Charlotte along the stone steps in front of the door and walked into the gate of the old house of Yamazaki's family.

Inside the old house of the Yamazaki family, the scenery is extremely elegant. Every plant, every tree, every stone and every flower can be seen from the master's careful carving.

Standing here, Charlotte suddenly felt unreal.

Two hours ago she was still in the noisy metropolis of Tokyo, and two hours later she was standing in an antique Japanese garden in Hakone.

Charlotte was thinking wildly when she suddenly heard a rush of footsteps.

The clogs tapped the bluestone road crisply, and a pink figure suddenly turned out from the corner, and quickly ran in front of Xia Luoluo and Yamazaki Shinobu.

"Brother, have you come to Hakone too?" A sweet female voice sounded.

Charlotte suddenly came back to her senses.

A long-haired girl in a pink cherry blossom yukata has come in front of her and Shinobu Yamazaki.

The girl is very petite, even shorter than Xia Luoluo, her palm-sized face is as pure and charming as a lotus emerging from water, her big eyes are watery, and the two dimples at the corners of her mouth seem to be filled with fine wine. The girl looks up Looking at Shinobu Yamazaki, his big eyes were bent into two crescents, the smile on his face was brighter than the summer sun, and he looked carefree.

"Sakura, don't mess around." Yamazaki Ren reprimanded in a low voice: "Why are you here? Didn't mother say that she would take you to Kyoto?"

"Brother, I don't want to go to Kyoto with my mother. She is only 16 years old, and it's not that she is too old to marry. Why are you so eager to find a husband's family for a blind date! Please, please, don't tell your mother I hid here." Yamazaki Sakura folded her hands together, struggling to blink her big black grape-like eyes and begged Yamazaki Shinobu.

"I can promise you not to tell, but I can't guarantee that she won't find you." Yamazaki Shinobu said lightly.

"Anyway, I can delay it for a day." Yamazaki Sakura said with a smile.

After finishing speaking, her eyes fell on Xia Luoluo beside Shinobu Yamazaki, "Brother, is this your new girlfriend? She looks so cute, what's your name?"

Yamazaki Sakura tilted his head to look at Charlotte, gave her a friendly smile, and stretched out his right hand, "My name is Yamazaki Sakura."

"Uh, hello, my name is Charlotte." Charlotte stretched out her hand and held Yamazaki Sakura's little hand.

Being called cute by a super kawaii girl, Charlotte always felt that something was weird.

"Are you Chinese?" Yamazaki Sakura asked.

"Well, I'm an exchange student from Saint Laurent Royal Academy who came to Diying Academy for exchange and study." Charlotte said.

"Well, this is your first visit to the old house of the Yamazaki family. Let's go, I'll take you to visit. There are many interesting things here." After finishing speaking, Yamazaki Sakura warmly took Charlotte's hand To go to the backyard.

"Master Yamazaki, can I go and see with Sakura?" Charlotte asked, looking at Shinobu Yamazaki.

"Well, let's go." Yamazaki Shinobi nodded slightly, agreeing to Charlotte's request.

Yamazaki Sakura led Charlotte along the path through the Yamazaki family courtyard and out of the house through a small door at the back.

The entire back mountain is the private domain of the Yamazaki family.

It's winter now, the branches are bare, the ground is covered with golden fallen leaves, and people walking on them make the sound of "Kazkazi".

The surroundings are quiet, the sun shines through the bare branches, with a touch of warmth, it is extremely bright.

Yamazaki Sakura took Charlotte on the path in the forest, and while walking, told Charlotte the interesting things that happened in the old house when she was a child.

Xia Luoluo gradually relaxed, and I have to say that Yamazaki Sakura's character is just like her name, bright and warm like spring, making people feel like a spring breeze, and she is a very easy person to get along with.

The two became good friends without knowing it.

"Okay, the place I want to bring you is just ahead." Yamazaki Sakura said, pointing to a smoking depression ahead.

There was a suspicious light in Xia Luoluo's eyes, "This is..."

"This is a natural hot spring in the old house of the Yamazaki family. When you come to Hakone, you must try the hot spring! The reason why the ancestors chose to build the old house here is because there is a natural hot spring here." Yamazaki Sakura smiled. Said.

As the two got closer, the smell of sulfur gradually became stronger.

This hot spring is not big, but the temperature is not low. In winter, the temperature is low, and layers of white mist billow at the mouth of the hot spring, like a fairyland.

The two stood not far from the hot spring, and the steam mixed with the smell of sulfur rushed towards their faces.

"The temperature of this hot spring is relatively high, so it is not suitable for direct soaking, so the ancestors dug a special water pipeline, built a hot spring pool in the old house, and then led the hot spring water here, so that when the water flows to the hot spring pool The temperature is just right for people to use." Yamazaki Sakura smiled and said to Xia Luoluo: "Luo Luo, let's go to the hot spring together tonight."

"Okay!" Charlotte immediately nodded excitedly in agreement.

She has long heard that hot spring water contains a variety of minerals, and soaking in hot springs is good for the body. Unfortunately, she has never tried it. This time she just took the opportunity of coming to Hakone to try it.

When Xia Luoluo and Yamazaki Sakura returned to the mansion, the housekeeper had ordered someone to arrange a residence for Xia Luoluo. It was in the room next to Yamazaki Shinobi, which was also very close to the hot spring pool.

After dinner, Charlotte returned to her room to rest, and not long after, a servant walked in with a set of sky blue bathrobes.

"Miss Xia, this is the bathrobe that Miss Sakura asked me to bring you. She invited you to go to the hot spring together."

"Okay, I see, please thank her for me." Charlotte took the bathrobe from the servant, and with the help of the servant, changed into the bathrobe.

The sky blue bathrobe was worn on Charlotte, making her skin fairer and more delicate.

The servant pulled up Charlotte's long hair and tied it with a hydrangea hairpin, revealing her slender and graceful neck.

Charlotte put on clogs and walked towards the hot spring pool with the servant.

The hem of the kimono was very tight, and Xia Luoluo felt that it was a bit awkward to walk, and she was not used to wearing clogs.

Fortunately, the hot spring pool is not far away, Xia Luoluo finally got to the door of the hot spring pool, Yamazaki Sakura has already arrived one step ahead of her.

When Yamazaki Sakura saw that Charlotte was coming, she immediately took a small wooden barrel from the servant beside her, and said happily to Charlotte: "Luoluo, let's go to the hot spring together, look at me I also specially prepared some small bath toys for you."

Yamazaki Sakurano took out a yellow rubber duck from the barrel, pinched the duck's body, and the duck immediately made a "call".

"Uh... I don't think it's necessary." Xia Luoluo's face was full of black lines.

Please, she is not a three-year-old doll, she needs to put a few rubber ducks in the bath!

In the end, Charlotte declined Yamazaki Sakura's kindness, and Yamazaki Sakura gave the wooden barrel with the rubber duck in her hand to the servant beside her with regret.

The two went to take a bath first, and then sat in the hot spring pool wrapped in bath towels.

Hot water with a faint sulfur smell washed over her body, and Charlotte leaned against the wall of the stone pool, her body stretched out completely.

The unhappiness that had been pressing on my heart for several days also melted away with the hot spring water.

In the men's soup just across the wall from the women's soup, Shinobu Yamazaki also stretched his body and soaked in the hot spring water.

"Master, Master Long has been waiting at the gate of your villa for a day, do you think you want to tell him that you and Miss Luo Luo are not going back tonight?" the assistant knelt by the pool, lowered his voice, and asked Yamazaki Shinobu for instructions.

(End of this chapter)