This thing about me becoming a girl

"I just found him not too long ago."

Hearing this, Mari Aoi Sawamura became even more angry, but after years of ups and downs in the society and seeing the boss with more things, he heard other meanings from it.

He asked a little cautiously.

"Then Furuya-san... how long have you been wandering?"

As for the homeless old man, he just seemed to be talking about a small matter as if it had nothing to do with him, he said.

"It's almost 50 years."

Hearing this, the boss fell silent, and Mari Aoi Sawamura was innocent but not stupid. After hearing this, he reacted belatedly, loosened his clenched fist, but clenched it again , as if making a difficult choice.

The entire ramen shop fell into an atmosphere of silence.

The old homeless man never mentioned this, but the implications were obvious.

After a while, the boss said.

"It must have been a rather difficult journey."

He smiled very gently, and said again.

"Furuya-san, I believe that your son must be too! Definitely! I really want to see you!

So, after you return to Shigang, I guess I will never see you again, after all, your son will never let you leave his side again! "

When he said this, he seemed to think of something again, and quickly added.

"But I will definitely find time to see you!"

After finishing speaking, he took three bowls of hot ramen and placed them in front of the three of them, then put his hands on his hips and said.

"But before you go back to Ishioka! You must first give a sincere and long-winded evaluation of my ramen!"

Hearing this, the homeless old man just smiled, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes, I am also looking forward to this year's Fire Festival."

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After returning home, Mari Aoi Sawamura kept pretending to be worried and couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

In the end, she turned on her mobile phone and searched for keywords such as 50 years ago, ancient house, missing child, but found nothing.

Seeing that she couldn't find relevant content on the Internet, she got up and went to the book storage in the residential area of ​​Sawamura.

Because Sawamura Homi has a hobby of reading newspapers, every day, the latest newspapers will be sent to him in the early morning.

And it's not just him, it seems that every imperial palace in modern times has the habit of reading newspapers.

So after reading them, these newspapers will not be destroyed. After all, they are the things that the Sawamura Imperial Palace likes to read. Although they didn’t say anything, some people have specially organized a room in the library. The former Imperial Palace started to store these. Newspapers over the years.

No one stopped her, so Sawamura Mari Aoi entered it.

The newspapers in recent years are placed neatly and orderly on the bookshelves, while the newspapers in the early years, even those dating back to earlier periods, are specially placed in storage cabinets for careful preservation.

Mariko Sawamura turned on the flash of her mobile phone and searched slowly. It didn't take long before she found a locker lined with newspapers from 50 years ago.

She opened it carefully, then took out the newspaper slightly, took off the protective items and moth-resistant scented leaves on it, checked them one by one, and then put these protective Wuping and scented leaves in, and sorted them out .

She checked the lockers one by one, and finally found a concise report in the corner of an October newspaper 50 years ago after a few hours.

The son of a high-achieving student at Dongda University was lost in Shigang on the day of the Autumn Harvest Festival, and when he was lost, he was wearing clothes for..."

323. Ringtones

In the early morning of the second day, in the residential area of ​​Sawamura.

Sawamura Mari Aoi was still full of thoughts.

After reading the newspaper, she has confirmed that... the homeless old man is the top student of Dongda University who lost the child.

In the 50 years he has been wandering here, he has been riding a bicycle, looking for his children...

And now he has found it, in Shigang, so he plans to go back.

Sawamura Mari Aoi doesn't know what to say... After all, maybe the homeless old man has searched everywhere in Japan during the 50 years since he left Ishioka.

But in the end...he found his own child at the beginning.

Perhaps his child has never left, and has been staying in Shigang City.

Sometimes a city is too small, but sometimes, a city seems boundless..

I don't know how the homeless old man felt when he knew his child was in Shigang.

However, at least the ending is good. The homeless old man finally found his child in the last period of his life.

In this way, the homeless old man, at least, can make up for the regrets of the year.

Sawamura Mari Aoi thought this way, and felt sincerely grateful for the homeless old man.

So she was even more anxious, thinking that the homeless old man should return to Shigang as soon as possible, so that the father and son could be reunited as soon as possible.

After all, after repairing the bicycle by picking up cans, I don’t know how long it will take to ride again.

Moreover, what happened to the homeless old man also made Mari Aoi Sawamura feel sympathetic, so she subconsciously wanted to do something.

But she also felt that it was a hypocritical belief at work, and she... didn't want to become hypocritical.

After all, the person who taught her these righteous beliefs and the right things was Uesugi.

And the father that these beliefs are sourced from.. are false.

So Mari Aoi Sawamura restrained these thoughts and didn't plan to think about them anymore.

She went out, ready to go to school.

But at this moment, she received a summons from Homi Sawamura, her grandfather.

This is the first time that Homi Sawamura has taken the initiative to summon her since the 744 incident, and it is also the first time that Mariko Sawamura is about to meet him.

Even though it was the teaching day that was held every week all year round, when Sawamura Mari Aoi didn't go, Sawamura Homi didn't summon her or ask her, but just ignored her.

It's like whether she comes or not, it doesn't matter, even though the teaching day that Homi Sawamura took out one day every week for ten years, suddenly disappeared, it's the same.

But now, for some reason, he took the initiative to summon her.

Sawamura Mari Aoi...in fact, she doesn't really want to meet her grandfather, and only she knows the reason.

But after hesitating for a moment, she still asked the teacher for leave and went.

But when she was on the way, she seemed to remember something, and took out the mobile phone that she had just put back in her pocket, opened the address book, and clicked on one of the few contacts.

It's Bei Dao Ya's phone number.

In the past few days, she also exchanged contact information with Bei Dao Ya. At that time, she still had a special emotion in her heart for some reason.

But now, looking at the contact information, she hesitated.

It seems...their relationship is not close enough to send text messages to each other, telling themselves that they will not come to school today.

But because of tutoring, Bei Dao didn't know that he didn't come to school today, so after school, he kept waiting for me and her to go to her home for tutoring.

Sawamura Mari Aoi didn't want to go to Kitajima's apartment, not because she didn't like it, but because she was ashamed of hiding her identity to see Kitajima's aunt.

But inexplicably in her heart...she wants to go again, and wants to get in touch with Bei Dao's classmates and Aunt Bei Dao more, to know what kind of people they are...

I want to know how these two people who were hurt by their father are living now, whether they have changed for the better...or still have any difficulties.

Although strictly speaking, none of this had much to do with Marito Sawamura, she still wanted to know.

It was contradictory, so she hesitated.

But in the end, she chose to send the message.

"Student Bei Dao, I won't come to school today, so please don't wait for me. After school, I will go to your home by myself to receive tutoring."

After she finished sending, she clenched her fists and waited anxiously for a response.

She was afraid of being rejected, because it meant that Bei Dao hated her, but she also wanted to be rejected, because in this way, she would not have to hesitate as much as she does now.

Sawamura Mari Aoi just stood there, pinching her phone, staring at the screen, waiting for a response.

After about a few minutes, the response finally came.

"okay."

It was incomparably brief, in the usual Kitajima style, but Sawamura Mari Aoi suddenly fell to the ground like a big stone in her heart, and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Classmate Bei Dao is still willing to let me go to her house, and she doesn't hate herself because of her performance yesterday.

Now, after a sigh of relief, she walked towards the main house in the Sawamura residential area.

The place is still the dojo that Mari Aoi Sawamura is very familiar with, and she would come to the dojo every week for the past ten years.

Looking at the empty dojo, she also seemed to see the memories left here, and it also brought back memories that she didn't want to remember.

She didn't know what she was thinking in her eyes, she stopped in place for a long time and didn't regain her senses.

A few minutes later, she took off her shoes and walked in, but she didn't change her kendo clothes as usual, nor did she go to get the two or two sword barrels in the corner of the dojo, one of which was also her own. Bamboo sword.

Instead, he just put on his uniform, knelt on the futon, and waited patiently.

Time passed slowly, and after about half an hour, a small bell suddenly sounded outside the dojo.

The bell sounded a bit crisp, but it also carried a bit of simplicity, probably... like the kind of Buddhist rattles held by monks in temples.

Mariko Sawamura was very familiar with this voice, so she opened her eyes and looked towards the path outside the dojo. Sure enough, an old man in a kimono with his hands behind his back was walking slowly.

Every time this voice sounded, Sawamura Mari Aoi knew that her grandfather was nearby, and she had known this for so many years.

Sometimes, or when the grandfather moved too far, this slight bell sounded from his body.

For this, Sawamura Mari Aoi has long been used to and is familiar with.

It's just that after so many years, she didn't know what made the ringtone, and she didn't ask.

ps: The fourth update is over! ! !Oh wow! ! !It's a good end to the end of the month!Keep going next month!

324. Destiny already decides everything when no one knows

After a very special slight ringing of the bell, the figure of Sawamura Homi also appeared in the cobblestone path outside the dojo.