[Hokage] Terukawa

Together we carried buckets to the river to fetch water and water the trees—note that this "we" only included me and Brother Dongming.Although Yiren and Zhizi accompany them all the way, they are only accompanying.They would even deliberately distance themselves from us on the way, just to hold hands and whisper something, or run to the ginkgo grove to hug each other for a while-in the words of these two people, this is It's called "We're keeping you safe in a special way."

...This is probably the legendary secret observation?

I looked down at the small bucket in my left hand with some gloom—it had just collided with the bucket in Dongming’s right. Even less—shouldn’t it be enough to just say that you guys want to continue dating, you’re embarrassing me and my brother...

"Zhaohe, is the water heavy?" Dongming subconsciously glanced at my bucket, "Do you need me to carry it for you?"

"...No, no, just a little water." I raised the corner of my mouth.

Looking at Dongming's pure smile, I couldn't help falling into another round of contemplation: Maybe I'm the only one who feels embarrassed?After all, the first prerequisite for feeling embarrassed is to keep looking at them, and the second is to understand love (?), and Dongming probably hasn’t even achieved the first one—he has been looking at me the whole time, like a little girl in my hand. The bucket weighed ten tons, heavy enough to drag me into the dirt.

The yard is not small, and a lot of vegetation is planted in it for decorative purposes.From tufts of green grass to low shrubs to deciduous trees, the ginkgo fruits taken or fallen from the mountains absorb nutrients from the moist and fertile soil, take root and sprout, and become old and old in the years of training—of course, Ginkgo is a tree species that Panqiu can't go anywhere, but it wins my heart because of its tallness.

The tree we are going to water is in the southeast corner of the yard, which is the place with the best light conditions in the whole yard.Those two trees were not ancient trees enclosed in the yard, but two small ginkgo saplings that were not very eye-catching.They were planted by the protagonist's father in the year of the protagonist's birth, as told in many stories, and in the years after that day, the same time flows on the tree and the person, whether it is for the parents or the people. For the protagonist himself, this tree of the same age can always arouse their great emotion.

——This is the exclusive level of treatment for the protagonist!Unexpectedly, our [beep——] the three Han brothers will also enjoy the treatment of the protagonist one day!

Dongming and I each went forward to identify our own tree—the reason is that the growth of ginkgo is too slow and distinctive, and it can’t even be seen a slight change in height in the first few years of planting , and the result will have to wait at least 20 years.I have to say that this characteristic undoubtedly added to my liking for them... I always feel that my tree has a chance to grow taller than Dongming's.

In order to facilitate identification, our parents presciently prepared a marker for us-a black, flat and long stone placed at the foot of the tree.

It was fished out from the bottom of the river by the righteous on the day we were born, and then they used iron brazing... well, it was a thousand copies, and they used a thousand copies to engrave "Dongming" and "Zhaohe" stroke by stroke. "Two names like this, and then buried them in a shallow pit, and only exposed the side with the engraved names on the soil surface - Dongming and I dug them out of the soil to observe their backs out of curiosity, but the result was only Some concentric patterns of unknown meaning were found on the back.

If you don't understand it, it doesn't make sense, so we honestly buried them back.

I water in circles near the roots of the tree.It is said that Zhizi’s original idea was to plant these two saplings by the pond in the east. There are two reasons. One is that it is closer to the pond, which is more convenient than the current method of fetching water from the river. The second is because when autumn comes, the golden leaves of Linshui and the bright reflections on the calm water surface are very interesting scenery.

"There used to be similar scrolls in the family... so I was almost tempted by what you said." I heard the righteous man whispering to Zhizi, and I couldn't help but turn my head to look.

Zhizi shook her head, and said helplessly, "Yes, we were almost ready to make such a decision at the time—if you hadn't suddenly told me at the last minute, 'In fact, ginkgo is not hydrophilic'."

The righteous man scratched his face in embarrassment, and there was a pink color on his fair face that surprised me—I thought that the thick-skinned old fritters would no longer blush—I saw him Bending down close to Zhizi's ear, she didn't know what to say between her lips. In the blink of an eye, the helpless look on Zhizi's face was completely wiped out, and replaced by a relaxed expression that didn't even need to be covered up. smile.

"Zhaohe, I think you don't water enough."

Dongming's voice suddenly rang in my ears, which startled me.I suddenly came back to my senses and looked down, and found that I had really emptied the fruit in the bucket in my hand... However, a small half of the soil under my tree was still dry.

...I thought about the water that dangled out of my bucket on the way back, and my expression was a little uncontrollably subtle.

... No wonder it's getting lighter and lighter.

But I remember that my bucket and Dongming's probably didn't bump into each other a few times...?Otherwise I should have been impatient in the first place.

Or is there something wrong with my way of walking, like... I jumped up and down before I knew it.

Obviously walking was still very stable before.It seems that we need to pay more attention to this issue in the future.

With a conclusion in my heart, I made up my mind, and I took another look at the dry soil under my feet.

"...It's just a small matter, I'll just carry another bucket." I turned around to leave, and wanted to tell him that I don't have to walk the not-so-steep mountain road with me this time—my cerebellum is well developed , not to stumble on that kind of trail.However, looking back, I saw Dongming lowering his head at the moment, and his movements were skillful, and it even made me, a bystander, seem to be struggling with his fingers into several gestures with unknown meanings.

"You..." What the hell are you doing?

"Water escape water polo technique!"

Even though he was trying hard to tense up, his voice was clearly recognizable as immature.My question was blocked in the throat by its owner with a clear drink, and I saw him spit out a rather majestic one from his mouth (obviously, I didn't suspect that he took a mouthful of water in his mouth at some time, and then At this time, the water column sprayed out to achieve the purpose of teasing me) turned into decomposed ATP energy, and then affected my stiff facial muscles, and finally fixed my expression on stunned.

???

Brother, I know you are a young ninja genius, but the current situation is too out of line, right?Can you still grow bigger and smaller, breathe fire and stealth, and finally tell me that your real name is actually Gourd King Kong? ? ?

Then what am I, Grandpa Calabash?

I stared at the liquid in the pit for an unknown amount of time. After confirming again and again that it was really pure water and not some honey vomit [beep——] with transparent special effects, I stiffly raised my head and saw Dongming He was turning his face to me, those gray-blue eyes were full of expectation-this is the look I am too familiar with, but also because of this... It is too much for me to praise him for giving him a smooth hair as usual. Is it difficult?

Me: ... To tell you the truth, you are a little too strong.As a good young man who (once) believed in science (?), after suddenly witnessing such a serious unscientific scene, he still has to praise the perpetrator, how can it be a bit strange?

—and I promise!Before today, neither the righteous nor Zhizi had ever made such a similar move beyond human cognition!At least on the surface, they belong to the category of normal people!

After giving Dongming a thumbs up stiffly, and habitually saying, "As expected of my brother, he is really amazing", I turned my head slightly, trying to observe our parents with a less direct line of sight. expression……

Their expressions were not stiff at all, and the righteous man even smiled encouragingly after seeing my gaze, and then said to Dongming behind me: "The chakra is well controlled in this ninjutsu release. Dongming, you gave your brother a fright."

???

I tugged at the corners of my lips vigorously.Dongming on the side jumped up and held my hand, and said with a smile, "Actually, I have already prepared it, this is just one of the most common usages of Chakra" and "This is a surprise, Zhaohe, are you happy?" "Something like that.

I'm sorry, I can't blame the world for being too powerful, but I can only blame me for being too naive.

I think the first task is to wash your face and calm down.

After washing my face, I felt that I had calmed down a lot. When I walked out of the bathroom, I saw the righteous man hugging Zhizi - Zhizi buried her head in her husband's arms. No need for me to guess.The righteous man stretched out one arm to wrap around her body, and patted her on the back lightly.

Haruno, who was standing on the window sill, uttered a crisp bird song at the right time.

Why are you more like dating than when I was dating? ? ?