On the morning of New Year's Eve, Oda Sakunosuke brought Kosuke and Shinji, whose schools were on holiday but who were still practicing tennis until the end of the month, came to the house where Dazai and the others lived in Yahara. By the way, they also brought some Suki Materials to bake, and stick to pound rice cake.

"Good morning, Mr. Oda. I haven't seen you for a long time, Xingsuke, Shinji." Shuya sat on the porch, watched the few people who came in directly from the backyard door and said hello, and then watched Dazai go down to set up equipment and plan to start working directly in the backyard , "I haven't seen you for a year, you've grown a lot taller."

The two children looked much taller than last year, and probably because of tennis practice, Qiu also felt that they were more robust.

"Long time no see, Mr. Shuya." Shinji, who thought his personality tended to be quiet, greeted first, and then went to help set up the stage with Xingsuke.

"I've resigned a long time ago and I'm not a teacher," Qiuya shook his head with a smile, looked a little farther away and nodded to him as a greeting, and Xingsuke who helped him non-stop smiled even deeper, "Speaking of which, if you are a student, you may still What about my seniors?"

After all, he only entered school in March of the next year, and the two children entered school in March this year, but it was a whole year earlier than Qiuya.Although the two children go to elementary school, Shuya will enter university later.

"How have you been these few days, Akiya-kun." Oda Sakunosuke walked to the corridor, handed the ingredients in his hand to Qiuya who was sitting there, and asked, "The winter in Yahara is better than that in Yokohama. Warm, I don’t know if you are used to it.”

Last winter, the whole of Japan was colder than before, even with Yahara, there were a few snows that could accumulate a few centimeters. Although the effect was not as good as in Yokohama, he still took his two children down to play. For a while, try to untie their knots through that method.

There was no snow this year, and returning to the state where the snow melted as soon as it hit the ground was a little unaccustomed to him at first.

"Hmm," Shuya rolled her pale blue eyes, and looked at Dazai who was standing a little further away in the yard from the corner of her eye.I saw the man taking advantage of Oda Sakunosuke's back to him, and kept making cross gestures in front of Shuya.It was rare to see his lover so flustered, Qiu Ye chuckled and shook his head, then turned his gaze back to Oda, "I've had a good few days, and I promised to give it to the neighbor's cat. I’m sending some rice cakes, so I’m going to trouble Oda-san to make more today.”

"Yes, yes," Oda Sakunosuke responded, "but can cats eat rice cakes?"

Won't it make it sick or something?And Qiu also said that it was an agreement with the neighbor's cat, not with the neighbor?

"It's edible, Mr. Oda, do you want to meet it? It's a very cute three-colored cat." Qiuya thought about the ball-shaped cat monster, and said to Sakunosuke Oda, "I don't know if the Fujiwara family will be there on New Year's Eve today. I'm very busy, if Teacher Cat is free, I'll invite him to come over and play."

"As for the three-flowered cat, I also know one in Yokohama, whose name is Sensei." Oda Sakunosuke said with a smile, turned to look at Dazai who was still building the stage, and then turned back to Shuya and continued, " If Qiu Ye sees him when he goes back to school early, please say hello for me."

"Okay," Qiuya replied with a smile, "By the way, when is Xingsuke and the others scheduled to start school?"

Shortly after Akiya decided to go to Yokohama City University, Mr. Oda contacted him and said that he wanted to transfer his two children to a school with better tennis sports resources.After that, he helped to find some information, and learned that Shonan Elementary School in Yokohama is very famous for its tennis.

So after discussing with the two children, Oda Sakunosuke and Xingsuke and the others agreed to the transfer arrangement without hesitation after they learned that Shuya would follow him back to Yokohama after the transfer.

"A few days ago, I received their transfer admission notice in the mailbox. The time seems to be a little earlier than your start of school, so I will trouble you to take the two of them to school." Oda Sakunosuke recalled the previous few days , the two children held the transfer notice from the famous tennis school, smiled excitedly, and then said apologetically, "I'm sorry, but I can't see your opening ceremony in person."

He attended the opening ceremony of Shinji and Kosuke when they entered elementary school in Yahara.But this time the two children returned to Yokohama, and this time when Shuya was enrolled in university, he couldn't leave Yahara, and it was really a pity that he couldn't participate.

"It doesn't matter," Shuya smiled and shook his head, "I'll feel that you guys are happy for me in Yokohama, right? Besides, Mr. Oda will continue to stay in Yahara during this time, so just help me keep an eye on Dazai."

"I seem to hear my autumn is also calling me." The Dazai who took Mantaizi returned to Qiuya's side, and after sitting next to Qiuya on the corridor, he hugged him skillfully, "Qiuya's possessiveness is really real Gao, even if I leave two months earlier than me, I still need to find someone to watch me."

"Huh? Is the date of Dazai's resume whitewashing?" Shuya, whose shoulders are still not very comfortable, leaned against Dazai's strength, looked up at his lover, "Even if Mr. Oda is not allowed to watch You, you will go to him too."

After all, the two are very good friends.

"Yes, the resume date has come down, in May." Dazai said, then looked at the two children in the yard who were pouring rice into the table seriously, and after making sure that neither of them paid attention to this side, he quickly kissed Qiuya "This way Ziqiu can spend it with me, the coming-of-age ceremony you have always cared about."

"Then congratulations to you in advance," Oda Sakunosuke said, he was relieved when he saw that Dazai just kissed his cheek and didn't move any further, "Then what is Dazai going to do when he returns?"

After the resume is whitewashed, it feels like there are thousands of possibilities.

"Ah, the work has already been decided," Dazai said softly, "It's the turning point of day and night—dusk."

"Is that so..." Oda Sakunosuke sighed softly, "It's also a pretty good choice, a job that suits Dazai."

"After all, he is going to be the 'saving party', isn't he?" The iris-eyed man tightened his embrace of his lover, looked up and smiled at his friend standing on the ground in the yard beside the porch.

"Ah," Oda Sakunosuke agreed, and turned around to walk to the table where the two children were discussing, "Then let's start making rice cakes, we have to eat it tonight, right?"

During the whole process of making rice cakes, Qiu Ye just sat on the porch and watched quietly.Facing Xingsuke's complaint of "Akiya is being lazy——", he just smiled softly, pointed to the ingredients around him and said that he was going to make sukiyaki tonight.

The time passed when they hammered the rice cakes again and again, and Qiu Ye sat on the porch smiling and watching them in a daze.Because Qiuya told Sakunosuke Oda in advance that he wanted to give a copy to the neighbor's cat, so after making a big copy, this gentle and good man packed the rice cakes.

"I remember Shuya said that he likes eating rice cakes." Dazai, who stood by and watched an adult and two children working for a long time, smashed it twice by himself, and immediately cut off a piece after seeing the finished product. Feed it to Qiu Ye, "Ah——"

"I saw it all the time, Dazai's lazy behavior." Qiu also looked at the man who picked up a piece of rice cake and handed it to his mouth, and finally opened his mouth to eat it. I'm being lazy."

Rice cakes were the ingredients for the first New Year's Eve dinner when he and Grandpa Yasuo were still in the second-hand bookstore.At that time, he only ate it once, and he liked the taste since he was young.

"Well, it's not that I don't want to work, Qiuya." Dazai pointed to the two children on the other side of the table who were pounding rice cakes by playing tennis, and said that it's really not my fault, "It's those two children who are too hardworking. gone."

"...Okay," Qiuya sighed, "Then Dazai will wrap up the rice cake with me, and send it to Mr. Cat next door."

It's impossible to let this man be lazy, you have to find something for him to do.

Pulling up the man who was trying to hide on the porch with his left hand, Qiuya walked towards the table and handed the wrapped rice cake to Dazai, then opened the back of his own yard and planned to go to Fujiwara's house in this direction.

And after he opened the door, he saw Natsume from the Fujiwara family next door, carrying the chubby three-colored cat on his shoulder, and also holding a food box in his hand, opening the backyard door and coming out.

"Rice cake—————" The cat teacher on the shoulder of the boy with milky chestnut hair started to call after seeing Shuya who was going out, and the rice cake box in Dazai's hand, and even jumped on Natsume's shoulder, quite amused A feeling of urgency.

"What a coincidence, Natsume-kun." Shuya laughed, took Dazai's hand and walked over, then took the rice cake box with his left hand and handed it over, "Did you just go out too?"

"Ah, actually Aunt Toko asked me to send it to you." Natsume held up the food box in his hand to show Qiuya, "This is a barbecue with the same taste as the last time I sent it, because Aunt Toko said that I heard you before. I liked them all, so I made some more before the New Year.”

"Ah, thank you," Shuya smiled, and motioned to Dazai to help him pick it up. He saw that Natsume was still bouncing on Natsume's shoulders, and he kept shouting after hearing the rice cakes being pounded in the yard next door: "Eat hot ones." ——I want to eat hot——" Teacher Cat suggested with a smile, "Would Natsume-kun come over and taste the freshly made rice cakes? Also, let me introduce my friends to my family, right?"

"Wouldn't you bother me too much? If my family is here..." Natsume was still hesitating to be polite, but the cat teacher on his shoulder couldn't wait to jump off when he heard this, and ran to the next yard.

"Teacher Cat—" the boy stretched out his hand and shouted, chasing after him.

Qiu also felt for a moment that this was a bit like when he first came to Yayuan and met Natsume who was looking for a cat teacher.It seems that this is not the first time, Teacher Cat...

"Mr. Oda, I brought the friends I met here—" Pushing open the backyard door again, Shuya and Dazai walked in with Natsume.And the three-flowered cat was already bouncing back and forth under the rice cake making table, Qiu also introduced, "This is Natsume Takashi, a friend of the same age I met in Yayuan, and the one who wants to eat rice cakes now is the cat Mister."

Then he turned his head, looked at Natsume with a smile and introduced: "This is my elder, Mr. Oda, and my two younger brothers, Kosuke and Shinji—they and Dazai are my most important family members."

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