[Net King] Summer

Akira Matsumoto didn't seem to be able to react to such a homely conversation for a while. She was stunned for a few seconds before answering, "Well... I've been doing well recently."

"Is Hokkaido fun? Actually, I have always wanted to go to Hokkaido."

"It's beautiful, and it's starting to snow there now."

"Well, the snow in Hokkaido always falls very early. Is the lavender in Hokkaido still blooming this season?"

"The ones in the wild seem to be gone, but the ones in the greenhouse are still open..."

This pattern of question and answer continued, and Matsumoto on the side finally couldn't stand the stiff feeling. He went upstairs, took down the newly developed photos in Hokkaido, and put them in front of them. He said: "Autumn Also, please show Qingran the photos we took, I still have something to do, so I'm going out first."

"..." Matsumoto Qiu also watched Matsumoto leave, and looked away, looking at Qingran who was already looking at the photo. Her thoughts suddenly became a little dazed. Feeling at ease, I started to talk about the photos with her, "Xiao Qingran, look, this is a photo of us at the entrance of the hotel. At that time, we just got off the plane and were very tired. Of course, we didn't want to leave..."

Regardless of whether we were uncomfortable talking about the contents of the photos at the beginning, when the photos were opened one after another, both Qingran and Akiya Matsumoto were really invested in the stories in the photos.

Although Qingran was not very good at revealing her emotions, she still added some of her own feelings after Matsumoto Akiya finished speaking with a smile on her face.

After this pleasant conversation, Matsumoto Akiya was finally no longer as uncomfortable as before. She excitedly pointed to a photo of luggage and said, "Xiao Qingran, let me tell you, at that time these luggage were originally It was stolen, but it is true that I chased it back, and I fell down on the way..."

Qing Ran smiled slightly, "Is Dad okay?"

"Well, because it is true that I used to belong to the school's Taekwondo club, and I was in good health. At that time, he dragged me around for several laps, and I couldn't walk anymore, but he didn't even shed a drop of sweat." Recalling the past, Akira Matsumoto He also had a sweet smile on his face.

Seeing Akira Matsumoto like that, Qingran hesitated for a while, and finally asked, "Mom, can you tell me how you and Dad met?"

"Okay." Matsumoto Akiya, who was expecting to have more communication with Qingran, nodded indifferently. She stood up, said "wait a minute" to Qingran, and then ran up Going upstairs, she carried the photo album from the study, and she walked down and put the photo album in front of Qing Ran.

The photo album was very thick and looked very old. While opening the album, Akira Matsumoto said: "When I met Cheng Zhen, it was the Doll's Day when I was 11 years old. But he got lost, met me, and then asked me for directions, but I didn't know the way at all, so I took him to another shrine... Although it was a completely different shrine, the guy didn't realize it at all, and he was still tall Thanked me happily, and said that I could visit him when I arrived in Osaka... At that time, I was thinking, how could someone be so stupid and rude..." She pointed to the not-so-good photo on the first page of the album. The clear photo shows a figure in a kimono with a straight back, a head of supple black hair tied by a blue hairband with delicate embroidery, light snow falls in the picture, and that immature figure looks a little lonely.

Qing Ran was slightly taken aback.

"This photo was taken secretly when I was following me. I didn't know it at the time. Later, after he got to know me well, he let me see this photo." His slender fingers like green onions slid across the photo , Matsumoto Qiu also recalled the beginning, and felt that everything seemed like yesterday, but the days that were more distant to her seemed to be a matter of the previous life, because from that day on, her life began to be different.

"Maybe it's really fate. Later, when I went to Osaka for a class, I met Chengzhen again. When I saw him at that time, I recognized him because he left a deep impression on me. And he also recognized me, and he came to greet me stupidly..." At that time, the proud young lady didn't want to pay attention to this strange person at all, and she even looked down upon him with contempt. Ignored it, but the young man naively thought that the other party hadn't seen it, so he kept waving his hands. He didn't know what being low-key was at all about the eyes of the people around him. The underlying meaning was to let him calm down for a while, but he didn't expect that the boy would come to her in full joy after getting her response, carelessly said that he would take her around Osaka, and complained that she had taken him to the wrong place before, It took a long time to find the real place.

The eldest lady, who had never seen such a shameless person, didn't know how to respond at all. After being entangled with the other party's so-called "reunion is fate" and desperately entangled, after telling others her name and school in a daze, everything went wrong. Like a spell, the fate of the two people was bound together.

Then never separate again.

The young man who likes to jump around goes to Kyoto every now and then to find this perfect and exquisite Kyoto doll like a textbook. It seems that he regards this as a challenge. He always devotes himself to making this doll laugh. He said that there is no Sitianbao It's just that he failed time and time again. Facing the jokes he tried to come up with every time, the girl just thought how could this person be so stupid, and then kept despising him.

Only gradually, the girl turned into a young girl, and the boy also went to high school. The eldest lady gradually got used to this nonsensical guy. In her depressive life, being with him became the only moment she felt relaxed. In front of him, she She can talk about her true feelings without any scruples, instead of having to deal with people she doesn't like with a smile on her face. He once complained to her, saying that he was clearly a Yamato Nadeko in front of others, how could he be so in front of him? If you don't get a little tenderness and consideration, this world is really unfair... But in the end, he added with a silly smile.

[However, I still think Igarashi Aki who is not Yamato Nadeko is cuter. 】

Maybe it was at that time that Arashi Igarashi fell in love with this stupid person who moved her and made her laugh.

This love is an earth-shaking change.

The originally delicate doll has been taught emotion, courage, and things other than family. After a person with extraordinary abilities has been poured into a heart, how can she be willing to stay in her heart? In the cage.

So I transferred to Osaka, and the relationship with the boy gradually got out of control. After that, it was the clichéd violation of the family and wanting to stay with the boy.

They also eloped, surrendered, and went on a hunger strike... Everything that can be imagined to happen in a drama happened to them. In the end, the eldest lady broke up with her family, and the boy fell out with his own family. They willingly dropped out of school to earn money to live, and then, when they became pregnant, the teenagers who grew into men signed a contract for their wives to let the children be raised by their wives' families...

The story ended when they were in love, and Qingran was silent after listening to it. This kind of love is too dramatic, and it is too sinking. It is no wonder that Arashi Igaran was willing to let go of everything and follow the person he loves.

If she is not the daughter of Akiya Matsumoto, if she has not seen the end of that road, perhaps she will choose feelings in terms of feelings and responsibilities.

It's just that in the end, the choices they make are different.

Igarashi Qiu also chose love, Matsumoto Qingran chose responsibility.

No, to be precise, Matsumoto clearly chose family affection.

"Mom, do you regret it?" Qingran subconsciously asked this sentence, but after asking this sentence, she felt that this question was unnecessary.

How could she regret it?

That kind of cage is what anyone wants to escape from.

Sure enough, Matsumoto Akiya flipped through the photo album and said, "I don't regret it."

"I will not regret any choices I make. Because I know what I want."

Hearing these words, Qing Ran was in a trance.

Is it because you know what you want that you can abandon everything without hesitation?

"..." The corners of Qingran's mouth curled up slightly, and she smiled meaningfully, "Then mom, do you know what I want?"

After flipping through the photo album, Matsumoto Akira didn't raise his head.

"What I want is to make up for the mistakes you made back then." Said with a soft tone, sighing clearly.

"..."

"For you, mother, freedom may be very important, but for me, responsibility and family affection are more important. The choice you made at the beginning was for your own love, but now the choice I make is for the home where I grew up. Yes That home is even more this home. When you say that I went back to Kyoto, it means that I left you and went to my grandmother. But when I went back to Kyoto, it means that I am your daughter."

"I know, you used to prevent me from getting close to the family because you were afraid that I would fall into such a cage like you did back then. But, Zifeiyu, An Zhiyu's joy. Mom, you are not me, how do you know what I am doing now?" Isn’t this choice because I know what I want? It’s just like my grandma back then, grandma is not you, so how can she know how you feel about all this.”

"...you don't understand." Matsumoto Akiya pinched the foot of the page and her fingers gradually turned pale. She lowered her head, her eyes were sad and indifferent, "How terrifying is that cold place."

Qingran held Matsumoto Akiya's hand, pleading in her tone, "Mom, I'm your daughter, trust me?"

"I won't let myself regret it either."

As the sun went down, Matsumoto, who came back last, indeed sent Qingran to the door. He was wearing a suit, and his refined appearance did not reveal that he was such a troublesome young man back then.

Looking at him clearly, her thoughts gradually became complicated.

"Dad, mom showed me your previous photos today."

"Really? It seems that you have a good talk. Qiuye is not an unreasonable person. She is just a little extreme in this matter."

"Hmm...that photo of you guys meeting for the first time..." Qingran was a little puzzled, "Why did you take a photo of someone you don't know?"

Matsumoto looked at the edge of the hazy sky, recalling that day, he smiled slightly, "At that time, I was just thinking, how could there be such a strange child. He looked like a child, but there was a little emotion in his eyes No volatility either."

For the teenager who came from Osaka and lived in an environment of great joy and anger, he only felt that the little girl seemed to be tightly locked up with iron chains, and the depressive atmosphere on her was too distressing.

So he didn't get lost, but walked forward on purpose, wanting to break this uncomfortable depression.

Sitting in the car, Qingran leaned against the window, thinking of Matsumoto Akiya, thinking of Matsumoto Makoto, and finally she recalled Matsumoto Makoto's character that didn't match the description at all, and she sighed.

It's not just Akiya Matsumoto who has been changed.

So is Matsumoto.

The author has something to say: I just want to say...the protagonist never seems to be Qingran, but a couple who are close to the times...orz

Merry belated Christmas! ! ! (Actually, it’s not too late, it’s Christmas time here.)