"...."

The two beautiful girls held their breath, frowned, and turned their faces away desperately.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Hearing Toru Watanabe's laughter at the joke, Miki Kujo covered her nose and mouth with her left hand, and slapped him hard on the back with her right hand, making a "bang" sound.

Doesn't it hurt? The sound is quite loud.

The cow didn't even look at them.

In the front yard of Yoshida's house, a few people had gathered. There were no adults, they were all students digging bamboo shoots for an outing.

"Archer, Archer!" Far away, a little girl wearing overalls waved to Toru Watanabe.

The three of them walked over and Toru Watanabe said to the little girl:

"How many times have I told you to call me Brother Che? Is it you who calls me Che?"

The little girl ignored him completely and stared directly at Rin Kiyono and Miki Kujo, her eyes slowly wavered and began to shine.

"City person?" Her tone sounded like she had discovered an alien.

Miki Kujo was not yet old enough to be interested in children, so she looked at several women of similar age in the vestibule.

Qingye Rin smiled and said to the little girl, "Yes."

"Tokyo?"

"Um."

The little girl covered her face with her hands and said with a look of intoxication: "We watched TV today and a comedian introduced the pasta in Tokyo."

"Do you like pasta?" Qingye Rin asked softly.

"When the camera was focused on the store door, a tram ran past."

"...electricity, tram?"

"As expected of Tokyo." The little girl sighed, "Tokyo is amazing." She looked satisfied.

"..."

"Don't worry about her," Toru Watanabe comforted Rin Kiyono, "This little guy's brain circuit is not normal."

"You are not qualified to talk about her, are you?" Qingye Rin glanced at him.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm not surprised about the tram. Isn't it normal for Tokyo to have trams?"

"From your answer, I know how abnormal you are."

"...Huh?" Toru Watanabe really didn't understand what was wrong with him.

"Shouldn't normal people be concerned about - why did the conversation go from spaghetti to trams?"

"Really?" Watanabe Toru didn't believe it.

Qingye Rin sighed helplessly.

"Uh-huh." Reiko, who had obviously just gotten up, coughed, "Well, Xiaoche, let me introduce you to everyone."

"I almost forgot." Toru Watanabe stopped worrying about whether he was normal or not, "This is my girlfriend, Miki Kujo. This is my friend and a member of a club in school, Rin Kiyono."

After introducing the two of them, Toru Watanabe introduced his friends in the village to them.

"This is Reiko Yoshida, a teacher from the Mizawa branch. She is one of the oldest girls left. Her special skill is that she can fall asleep even while sitting."

"Don't say any more unnecessary words." Reiko Yoshida complained, and then laughed, "And not only can I fall asleep while sitting, I can also fall asleep while standing."

"Don't say anything unnecessary - before saying this to others, think more about yourself." Toru Watanabe said helplessly.

He went on to introduce:

"This is Ayako Honma, my senior. Because she liked Rukawa Kaede from "Slam Dunk", she went to high school in Kanagawa, but she joined the music club. By the way, she didn't enter the national competition this year."

"Don't say anything unnecessary - I'm talking about you, Toru Watanabe." Ayako Honma had a ferocious smile on her lips.

"And these two are my school girls, Kana who is in the first grade of junior high school, and Mana who is in the fifth grade. They are biological sisters."

"Hello sister Kujo, hello sister Kiyono." The two sisters bowed obediently to say hello.

"Hello." The two eldest ladies returned the greeting.

"As for this one," Toru Watanabe pulled over the little girl who was still intoxicated with her hands on her face, "my cousin, Ren Watanabe, is a first-year student who is a little bit dumber than me, but also a lot more abnormal than me.

Elementary school students.”

"The salmon in Tokyo is really amazing," Ren Watanabe sighed.

"..."

"Let's go?" Reiko Yoshida broke the "I don't know what to do" situation.

The group of people walked towards the mountain.

Ren Watanabe held a children's shovel and walked at the front, singing loudly.

"The red dragonfly in the sunset, please tell me: When I met you in my childhood, which day was it?"

"I picked up the small basket and went to the mountain. The mulberry trees were as green as the trees. I picked the mulberry fruits and put them in the small basket. I looked back and saw the shadow of my dream."

"Xiaolian, it's morning now." Ayako Honma reminded.

Ren Watanabe stopped, shook her index finger, and said in a lecture tone:

"Ayako, you really don't understand. When the cherry blossoms bloom, they are already buried in the soil."

"Ah?" Ayako Honma was stunned for a moment, "What?"

Ren Watanabe's small body sighed heavily and shouted loudly:

"Ayako! How can you do this! If you are too stupid, you will be thrown into the mountains and eaten by wild boars!"

"...No way, no, I'm not stupid!"

Behind the crowd, Miki Kujo nodded with interest: "Your cousin is very interesting."

"Looking like me, how can it not be interesting?"

"But it feels different from what ordinary people think." said Rin Kiyono at the end.

"I'm also worried about her, and I don't know who she is." Toru Watanabe sighed.

The two of them rolled their eyes at him at the same time.

In front of me, I don’t know what kind of dialogue happened in the middle. In order to prove that she is not stupid, Ayako Honma sang "Red Dragonfly" with Xiaolian.

In the song "Red dragonfly in the sunset, where are you? Resting on the tip of the bamboo pole, is that red dragonfly", they began to climb the mountain.

Not long after the start, Qingye Rin was out of breath and put his hands on his knees.

Although Miki Kujo was also tired, her steps were still steady. She deliberately walked in front of Kiyo Rin, turning around and smiling provocatively at her.

Kiyono Rin couldn't even do sarcasm. He couldn't breathe in his chest, so he could only climb up the hill.

Tetsu Watanabe was at the back to prevent Rin Kiyono from falling.

Her dark and smooth long hair looked very elegant. Looking at her back, Toru Watanabe, who was not tired at all, walked more relaxedly.

Keep climbing, keep climbing, hands on knees.

"Kyono-kun, we're here." She raised her head when she heard Toru Watanabe's voice.

Ren Watanabe and the others climbed a steep slope directly from the middle of the mountain road and entered the bamboo forest.

The bamboos are green, as if the season here is still spring.

The mountain wind blows and the bamboo leaves rustle.

Deep in the forest, the sound of birds was heard. If you listened carefully, you could also hear the intermittent sound of pecking wood. It turned out to be the woodpecker's call.

The forest floor was covered with withered yellow bamboo leaves, some stained with white bird droppings.

"Come on." A hand was handed to her on the steep slope, and she subconsciously put it up.

The man gave her a hand, and she used his strength to easily climb up the steep slope and enter the edge of the bamboo forest.

She raised her head and saw that the person pulling her was Kujo Miki.

"You're welcome." Kujo Miki said with a smile.

Qingye Rin took a deep breath.

In the bamboo forest, the childish voice of Ren Watanabe singing the story "The Girl Born from the Bamboo" was heard.

"This is what happened one day. The old man went to the mountains to cut bamboo. From the cut of the bamboo, a little girl appeared."
Chapter completed!