207. New Years in Iwate Prefecture 4(1/3)
After visiting the house, the three of them returned to the living room.
Rin Kiyono lost interest in the game and sat in the hearth reading a book.
Toru Watanabe plugged in "Contra" for the Famicom and went through the levels with Miki Kujo.
"Let's walk in the water."
"Mei Ji, do you want this S bomb?"
"There is an invincible here. Do you want to eat it? Ah, he ran away."
After finishing "Contra" and playing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" and "Fighting", Miki Kujo felt sleepy and slept on her side.
Toru Watanabe plays "Juggernaut" alone.
About two hours later, the color began to appear on the horizon, and Watanabe's mother came back.
Jianze Village is far away from the nearest town.
"Xiao Che, come and help mom peel the peas!"
"good!"
"I'm here to help." Qingye Rin prepared to stand up.
"No, no, no, Xiao Lin, sit down."
"Come here quickly." Watanabe's mother told Toru Watanabe and went to the kitchen.
After a while, Toru Watanabe was nowhere to be seen, and Watanabe’s mother called again.
"Xiao Che——?"
"I'm coming!"
After a while, Watanabe's mother rushed over from the kitchen.
"Xiao Che, what are you doing?" Mom scolded.
The two beautiful girls also looked at Toru Watanabe.
"It's coming, it's coming." Toru Watanabe manipulated the controller with a focused expression, "I'm almost going to get the Red Wolf tank!"
"..."
Watanabe's mother walked over and turned off the TV.
"Ah - my tank! My lifelong dream! Mom, what are you doing?"
"There are guests at home, so be diligent! Come over and help!"
Watanabe Toru put down the handle and stood up from the quilt with a look of helplessness.
He followed Watanabe out of the living room and walked towards the kitchen.
"Didn't Qingye say she did it? Just let her do it."
"Let the guests do it? Lie there and play the game by yourself? How did I teach you?"
"Then we can't let them live and eat for free, right?"
"What have you been thinking about all day long? Are you going to charge them for money? By the way, after peeling the peas, go to the field and pull some radishes back."
"Carrot, white radish?"
"Which one do Xiao Lin and Mei Ji like to eat..."
The two people in the living room could hear this conversation between mother and son.
When dinner was almost ready, Toru Watanabe's father came back.
A man who is taciturn, but drinks with men in the village, likes to brag loudly, and always wears a pair of old rubber shoes, named Tsuneo Watanabe.
"Dad, have you gone to deliver the goods?"
"Yeah." Watanabe Tsuneo nodded.
He took off his rubber shoes and showed no reaction to his son, who had been in Tokyo for more than half a year.
"This time I brought my girlfriend back."
"Um."
"There is another classmate."
Tsuneo Watanabe didn't even say a word, just nodded "I understand".
"You two, come and help serve the dishes!" Watanabe's mother's voice came from the kitchen.
"Got it!" Toru Watanabe responded.
Tsuneo Watanabe said nothing, and just walked to the kitchen with Toru Watanabe.
Watanabe's father is such a taciturn person.
But even so, he would raise rice field ducks for his son and specially send them to Tokyo.
During dinner, Toru Watanabe introduced the two beautiful girls, but he had no reaction.
Compared with Kiyono Rin, he said one more thing about Kujo Miki:
"Archer is causing trouble for you."
Watanabe Toru really wanted to tell his father that Kujo Miki had caused him far more trouble than he had caused her.
"Okay, okay," Watanabe's mother greeted with a smile, "Hurry up and eat."
At the long wooden table, Watanabe's father sat at the head, Watanabe's mother and Kiyono Rin sat on one side, and Watanabe Toru and Kujo Miki sat on the other side.
Two beautiful girls face each other.
Before saying "I'm starting", Kujo Miki looked at the bowls and chopsticks in front of her.
"Is this new?" she asked.
Watanabe's mother looked at her doubtfully and subconsciously replied: "No."
Kujo Miki turned her gaze to Watanabe Toru.
"I was just going to give you mine." Watanabe Toru exchanged the bowls, chopsticks and dishes between the two of them, "This is for my exclusive use, no one has used it."
Kujo Miki looked at the bowls and chopsticks in the hands of Watanabe's parents. They were indeed of different colors, and then she nodded with satisfaction.
Watanabe watched this scene and looked at Watanabe's father with a hidden look.
Watanabe's father pretended not to see it.
"I'm gonna start now."
After expressing gratitude for the food, dinner begins.
Watanabe Toru took a bite of rice, took two bites of vegetables, and asked the two of them: "Are you used to eating?"
"It's okay." Kujo Miki said,
Qingye Rin took a sip of radish stew and ate fried mushrooms, and said with satisfaction:
“Fresh vegetables, tender and delicious, I like them very much.”
"Eat more if you like, there's still some in the kitchen," Watanabe's mother said happily.
"Thank you, auntie, maybe I really need to add more food." After saying that, she looked a little distressed, "But I will gain weight, so forget it."
"You are so thin, I think you must gain at least ten pounds before your weight is considered normal," Toru Watanabe said.
"Watanabe-san, you don't understand how girls feel about weight...it stinks!" Rin Kiyono wrinkled her white face and covered her nose.
Watanabe's father, who was stirring the natto, was stunned.
Watanabe's mother slapped the table and laughed, full of the boldness of a country woman.
"This..." Watanabe's father didn't know what to do and said without thinking carefully, "I made it at home. It's delicious. Do you want it?"
Qingye Rin shook his head vigorously: "Sorry, I can't stand natto."
"Then..." Watanabe's father hesitated, preparing to give up the natto he had had with every meal for forty years.
"Please don't worry about it, uncle." Qingye Rin pinched her nose and said with a slightly distorted voice, "I'll just get used to it."
Watanabe's father hesitated for three seconds, continued to stir the natto, and then poured it into the rice bowl.
"Ahahaha!" Watanabe's mother couldn't stop laughing, "Little Rin is so cute!"
"Auntie, I didn't pretend to be cute on purpose, but I am indeed very cute."
"I understand, I understand, even after so many years with his father, I can't stand natto! It's too smelly!"
When she said the vegetables were fresh and delicious, Rin Kiyono wasn't trying to please her; natto smelled bad, nor was she deliberately trying to stir up trouble, she was just telling the truth.
However, according to her etiquette, she shouldn't have directly said "it smells", but the natto made by the Watanabe family is indeed too smelly.
Kujo Miki also frowned and warned Watanabe Toru: "You are not allowed to eat that thing."
"Why?" Toru Watanabe doesn't eat natto, but is curious about the reason.
To be continued...