I'm in Mihua, and all the ladies like me.

"This is actually a very simple truth. Everyone will remember No. 1, but few will remember No. 2. Everyone will remember the glamorous person standing under the stage lights, but few will remember those behind the scenes. The staff who arranges music and programs. Even though I am the consortium wife of the Suzuki Foundation, I am only well-known in the circles that have business dealings with our family. If I go to a convenience store to buy things, I have to pay normally. Take a bus. You also need to buy a ticket for the car, etc... At least no one else should recognize me except you in this car."

So what does this have to do with taking off your shoes when you get in the car...

Serabel said to her heart.

As if aware of the inner OS of the boy next to her, Suzuki Tomoko lowered her head and looked down at her feet, which were casually placed on the shoes and wrapped in black stockings, and she even curled her toes playfully.

"As for why you need to take off your shoes, to be honest, you still want to indulge yourself in your leisure time. Is this a rebound?"

She used a new term that Sera Bell had never heard of before.

"To put it simply, the more serious and upright you are in front of others, the more willful you will be when you relax. You should indulge all the restraints you are subject to in daily life."

"Contrast cute?"

Serabel suddenly thought of a suitable adjective.

"more or less."

Tomoko Suzuki leaned sideways to the window, put her elbows on the edge of the window, held her cheeks with her fists, looked at her in a posture that was not good for the spine but made people feel lazy, and wrapped her arms with The toes of a thin layer of black silk touched Serabel's calf under the seat.

"Have you followed the news in the entertainment industry? You should often see it. A popular artist has been exposed as having a habit of stealing."

Serabel nodded: "I think I've heard of it..."

"So it feels weird, doesn't it? As a popular artist, you shouldn't be short of money, but you end up stealing."

Tomoko Suzuki talks eloquently.

"To put it bluntly, they use the excitement generated by stealing to relieve the huge pressure caused by being restrained in various ways."

"So Mrs. Suzuki, your way of stressing is to take off your shoes in public?"

Serabel squinted downward.

A pair of restless black stockings began to gently touch his calves again.

"Haha, of course not."

Tomoko Suzuki looked at her daughter in the seat in front of her who was having a lively chat with her best friend and had no energy to pay attention to the back seat, shook her head and smiled happily.

"I just don't want to be restrained when I am relaxing, but I won't go too far. At least if I am sitting in the same position now and there is no one sitting next to me or it is not you, Sera-kun, I will be the same. I’ll take my shoes off.”

"..."

Listening to the above words, Serabel suddenly thought of a famous scene in a game called Old Head Ring that he had played before.

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I didn’t expect you, Mrs. Suzuki, to be a warrior too!

……

The two-hour drive was not long, but for the two female high school students in the front seat, who were chatting intensively, it probably passed in the blink of an eye.

In the back seat, Serabel and Suzuki Tomoko chatted all the way, so the journey in the car was generally quite pleasant.

The bus stopped at a road facing the sea in Izu. On this side of the road were various commercial streets, and on the opposite side was the beach. In the distance, beside the azure beach, a dozens-story beachfront hotel stood proudly under the scorching sun.

Yuanzi got out of the car with his luggage and put his hands above his eyes like a tent, looking curiously: "Is that hotel where we are staying this time?"

According to her expectations, the hotel her mother booked must be a super-star hotel.

However, Suzuki Tomoko's words in reply made the girl instantly dumbfounded.

"Unfortunately, that's not the case. Our hotel is a little far away from here. Come with me."

"Hey, where are you..."

"You'll know when you come."

It should be said that I was shocked.

After a 10-minute walk, Serabel and others finally followed Tomoko Suzuki to the so-called "hotel".

Well, there is nothing wrong with calling it a hotel, but compared to a hotel in the popular sense, the style of this hotel is more like a farmhouse. The one-family home at the entrance has a strong flavor. It can be regarded as half hotel and half home. kind of.

Yuanzi was shocked: "Mom, you would actually choose this kind of hotel?"

"No way."

Tomoko Suzuki turned around and smiled. She reached out and opened the hotel door, slid it open and stepped into the entrance hall. The sound of people and the aroma of food in the restaurant on the first floor immediately hit her face with the air-conditioning.

"If you stay in a star-rated hotel like that, you might even go to a temple fair and the hotel manager will ask a group of waiters to follow you, so you won't be able to have fun. Besides, I have checked this hotel a little bit. Although it is not large in scale, It’s big, but it has a pretty good reputation in Izu.”

"But precisely because it is not large, there were only two rooms left when I made the reservation."

"When the time comes, Sonoko, you, Ran and Conan can live in the same room."

Uh-huh?

Suddenly feeling that something was not right, a big golden exclamation point appeared above Serabel's head. ?

Chapter 184 Mrs. Suzuki who doesn’t want to be restrained

The sense of déjà vu becomes even more obvious after going up to the accommodation floor on the second floor of the hotel.

Looking from the stairwell on the first floor towards the end of the corridor between the guest rooms on both sides, it can be seen that everything from the side near the stairwell to the back is newly built.

Obviously, this place was originally just an ordinary one-family building, but later it started a homestay business. As the business grew bigger and bigger, the reputation became better and better, and the passenger flow also continued to increase. In order to operate more smoothly, Then the land next to it was also purchased and turned into a B&B hotel.

However, land in Japan is also very expensive, especially in tourist resorts like Izu, where ordinary B&Bs simply cannot afford a large area.

As a result, if you want to separate as many rooms as possible in a limited space, you can only reduce the area of ​​each guest room within a reasonable range.

"This room... feels a bit small."

He used the key he got from the front desk of the hotel to open the room with the corresponding house number. When Sonoko turned on the lights and saw the layout of the room clearly, he couldn't help but complain.

All guest rooms are very standard Japanese-style rooms, only equipped with additional shower rooms and toilets. The floor of the room is covered with tatami mats, with a low square table in the middle and futons on both sides of the square table.

No bed.

The bed was replaced by a floor bunk, all rolled up and neatly placed in the cabinet in the guest room.

And judging from the size of the room, if there is only one tatami on the floor, it will be like flying. You can roll around on the tatami at night when you fall asleep. Two tatami mats are more than enough for the time being, and there is enough gap in the middle. .

But if there are three, then there will be a situation where all three floors are perfectly aligned and side by side.

Of course, you can also place two vertically and one horizontally.

But then there will be a situation where one person must smell the smell of the other two people's feet.

Yuanzi originally planned to say that Serabel and Conan could share a room, and then she would share a room with her mother and Xiaolan.

Now it seems that it is impossible. Either she will be squeezed to death or someone will have to smell the smell of feet. In comparison, it is better to share a room with Lan and then stuff Conan's brat's head into Xiaolan's bed.

Oh, or you could share a room with Serabel, but considering that her mother was among the people present, Miss Sonoko had no choice but to give up.

I don’t dare to mention it, I don’t dare to mention it at all.

At the same time, Suzuki Tomoko also took out the key and opened the door of the guest room next door, which was also equipped with the same configuration as Sonoko Xiaoran's room.

She raised her chin towards Serabel to signal her to enter the room first, and then turned to her daughter.

"Okay, don't be in a daze, go in and put your luggage away, and after going downstairs for dinner, it's time to go watch the fireworks display."

……

There is not much to say about dinner. After all, it is just a B&B, so the dishes are all common Izu home-cooked dishes.

After dinner, I put on my slippers and set off from the hotel. Before six o'clock in the evening, there were already many people on the streets of Izu.

After all, this is an annual screening conference. Not to mention foreign tourists, many locals including Izu will also come out to watch.

From children who came out with their parents to elderly couples in their sixties, there were even half-grown high school students who took advantage of the fireworks display to put on their yukata and sneak out to be with their crushes.

There are all kinds of people, but generally speaking, there are mostly young couples.

The evening breeze at the beach is always refreshing, and a group of four, one and five people are walking along the street.

Tomoko Suzuki waved the folding fan in her hand, looking at the scene on the street in front of her, with a faint smile on her lips.

"It's good to be young. It seems to you that most of the people participating in the fireworks display are students of about the same age as you."

"Yes, yes, and they all have partners, unlike us..."

Yuanzi was always outspoken, but after she finished speaking, she realized that her words were a bit too explicit. She quickly stopped and glanced at Serabel who was walking beside her mother. After confirming that the latter had no reaction, she put on a smile. , using his elbow to poke the waist of his friend next to him.

"But if I really want to say it, the one who has the biggest regret should be Lan, right?"

"...Huh? What?"

Being suddenly attacked by her friend, Xiaolan was caught off guard for a moment, blinking her eyes quickly with a cute look.

But how could Yuanzi let her go so easily.

"Hey, Lan, just be honest and don't be shy. (Punch in the waist). We have known each other for many years. How can we not guess this? (Pap on the shoulder). I have some ideas when I see so many couples on the street. It's normal (shows hands), for example - ah~ Shinichi! Where are you? I have such a beautiful time but without you by my side, I feel so lonely (affectionate recitation)!"

Xiaolan couldn't stand her exaggerated acting skills at all, and her face turned red instantly: "How is it possible? I don't think so. Besides, that guy I called him before said he was busy with some cases. Anyway, it will always be a case. Just let him live with the case for the rest of his life! Hmph!"

After saying that, he snorted loudly and proudly.

Conan, who was walking on the far side, also had a look of disdain for looking at a fool.

Yuanzi was not embarrassed to be rebutted by her best friend like this, she just laughed twice.

"It doesn't matter. Speaking of which, this is the first time we go to a fireworks display together. We will take more photos when we go back. I will be jealous of a certain stinky detective."

As he spoke, Sonoko took out a seemingly valuable camera from the sleeve of his yukata, as if by magic.

Xiaolan was surprised and said: "So Yuanzi, you brought a camera."

"Of course, why don't you bring a camera when traveling~" Miss Yuanzi said proudly.

"So it's my first time to visit a fireworks display with this mentality."

At this time, Suzuki Tomoko also came over, pursed her lips and smiled.

"When the time comes, remember to help mom take two more pictures."

"...Eh? Mom, are you telling the truth or a lie?"

Yuanzi didn't react yet.

"It's true."

Tomoko Suzuki closed the folding fan, raised her arms high and stretched out for a long time regardless of the appearance. She didn't care that the cuffs of her yukata fell down to reveal her white arms, and she didn't put them down until she was completely stretched.

"The fireworks shows I attended in the past were more like leadership meetings than fireworks shows. Most people would just pick a place they liked and sit down and start watching. But we were given a designated place to join a group of people who also brought their families. Ministers and congressmen sit on a bench per family, sitting there and watching the fireworks for an hour with a smile on their faces. Even if the fireworks that year were not brilliant at all, they still had to comment a few words."

"Reading means being high-class, writing means going to jail." Sera Bell complained.

"That's pretty much what it feels like."

Tomoko Suzuki accepted this very new description without any difficulty.

"So I've been looking forward to enjoying a fireworks display like this for a long time."

As the words fell, a gust of evening wind blew, touching the hair of the wife's ears.

The young butler held a stick by his side in one hand, while the old-fashioned tram in the distance rumbled along the railway track, with sparks flashing from time to time at the connection between the roof and the catenary.

Everything is as beautiful as in the comics. ?

Chapter 185 The garden is in danger

The fireworks display lasts for one hour, but since the fireworks display is often accompanied by temple fairs, and there is a warm-up period before starting, the total time is actually far longer than one hour.

When the fireworks burn out, it’s like people leaving after the song ends.

Serabel and others set out from the hotel before six o'clock in the evening, and by the time the show ended, it was already after eight o'clock and close to nine o'clock in the evening.

"Aha~ I really took a lot of photos."

After leaving the place where he watched the fireworks, Yuanzi walked leisurely on the tree-lined path with small steps while opening the photo album in his camera and admiring it.

She really transformed into a violent photographer tonight, not only taking a lot of photos of her mother Tomoko Suzuki, but also of herself and Xiaolan, almost filling up the camera's memory card.

As for Conan and Serabel, neither of them were interested in taking pictures, so they had no choice but to give up.

Just like when they arrived, the group of five people walked slowly and leisurely.