North house meal

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With a heavy head, Yonekurae Xia raised his hand to press his forehead, and found that his palm was full of mud.The scratched skin was faintly red, and the blood beads had dried.

She remembered.

That slap landed on her right cheek, which was heavier than she expected. She was caught off guard and kicked back a few steps, and fell down on the bed, her head buzzing.

Her father looked like a ghost, staring at her ferociously, and let out a roar that could shake the whole house.

"How do you think I've raised you until now?! I've worked so hard not to see you idle around here! Just let you go, this is the only value of your life!"

As her father left, she lay down on the bed, and her mother looked back at her, but still chased her father.The older sister who just came home heard that she had refused to go on a blind date, so she came upstairs and knocked on the door of her room.

She didn't respond, she leaned her head against the side of the bed and heard the doorknob turning.

My sister quickly gave up on opening the door, but the voice still inevitably reached her ears.

"Zhi Xia, are you okay? Father is also thinking about you. You see, since you left the group, you have stayed at home, so you should find something to do. You are about the same age, and the other party's family is well-off. You will be carefree when you marry. Besides, you already know each other, don't you? If I don't have to work, I want to go on a blind date for you, what a pity."

No, my father was thinking about himself, wanted to have more power, and wanted to gain the support of more people in the political and business circles, and she was just a tool that could be used and discarded at any time to achieve this goal.

Sister, you are jealous of me. We also applied for the opera troupe. You failed the exam when you reached the upper age limit, but I passed it once and got admission to the highest school.You've been jealous of me ever since.Seeing me now in despair, and you becoming my father's right-hand man in the company, I must feel very happy, you have successfully revenged...

Yonekura Zhixia silently refuted her sister's words, shedding tears for her dark side.

In this way, she was locked up at home, and when the day of the blind date came, she went to the hotel and pretended to go on a blind date, but quickly escaped from there and bought a Shinkansen ticket casually.

After getting off the train, she took a taxi and asked the driver to keep driving.

The drive was muddled and I don't know how long it took. The driver said that there was no way to go any further. After paying the money, she threw the bag in the car, and then it was a long walk.

She cried as she walked, and when she lost her strength, she lay down on the spot, thinking that she might as well die.Better to have a young woman found dead in the wilderness a few days later in the news before they regret it, before they realize they never cared about her.

What a naive idea, only a child would think so.

Yone Cangzhixia opened the corner of her mouth mockingly, choked up a bit, and sat up slowly.

She was exhausted from hunger, and her limbs were as stiff as a puppet, but she still subconsciously stepped across the edge of the tatami, not letting her dirty hands touch the half-open shoji door.

The corridor was pitch-black, and there were brighter lights far away from the passageway that could not tell the distance, guiding the direction.She walked over consciously and quietly, stood at the door, and cautiously poked her head out to look inside.

In the room full of rich fragrance, a person just turned around, holding a large white porcelain bowl in his hand.

Yonekurae Xia immediately withdrew her body.

"Ah, you're awake." The dialect accent was soft and familiar.The person inside said: "I found you lying there when I was walking on the mountain."

Sure enough, she was still alive and was picked up, Mi Cangzhixia took a light breath, and couldn't say she was not disappointed.

"Thank you." She leaned against the wall, poked her head out to look again, and said softly, "Excuse me, where is this?"

The silver-haired young man turned around. He turned on the faucet and said in a gurgling voice, "This is the Maruyama area of ​​Tamba Kamiyama City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. I am a farmer here."

"Shenshan City, so it's like this..." Yone Cangzhixia dragged his voice, as if he knew this place very well.But in fact, apart from Fuyuki, Kobe and Himeji, she knew almost nothing about Hyogo.

It's just... this person started talking about the country, and he was too serious.If the occasion is different and the mood is different, she will definitely be able to laugh freely.

"It's done." The young man turned around again, and put a glass of water and a spoon on the mat beside the bowl: "I don't know how long you haven't eaten, it's better to start with liquid food."

"Ah... is it for me?" Mi Cangzhixia pursed her lips.

She can't accept other people's kindness for no reason, but looking at the food on the table, she swallowed unconsciously, which is very unseemly.

She was so hungry that if the bacteria in her stomach could digest everything, she could even swallow the whole bowl in one gulp.

"Yes." The young man said, "When you fell on the mountain, you kept crying for hunger."

Although she was very hungry, she didn't keep going...was there?

"Then, you're welcome." Mi Cangzhixia took a step forward, tiptoed into the kitchen like a little raccoon, and sat on the opened chair.

She lowered her head, trying to let the hair falling on her forehead hide her embarrassment.He wanted to pick up the spoon, but when he saw the black mud on his fingers, he paused again.

Wash your hands before meals.

But when it comes to the critical moment of swallowing a bowl, it doesn't matter what those people do.

Yone Cangzhixia took a spoonful of soft rice with soup, put it to his mouth and blew it, and bit the spoon.The similar metallic texture awakened her fragmentary memory again.

"I thought someone had to carry you out of the house, so you can walk properly when you grow your feet."

On the morning of the blind date, she unexpectedly ran into her father at the dinner table.She was drinking soup when her father walked in and gave her a sarcastic remark.

He did not forget to say: "I saw the heir of the Atobe family today, if you dare to do something disrespectful, never enter this family again!"

So I ran away and never went back.

The hot soup swirled in his mouth, and big tears rolled down.

Kita Shinsuke was about to leave the kitchen first. Seeing her crying like this, he blurted out and asked, "Where did it hurt? There are many wild plants on the mountain that need attention."

Yone Cangzhixia wanted to laugh for a while, but even strangers knew they were concerned about whether she was hurt, but those closest to her didn't care about the hurt she caused, and tears fell down uncontrollably.

"I...I'm fine..." She sobbed, but she cried louder and louder.She put down the spoon, raised her hand to cover her face, her shoulders trembled, thinking that she must be crying ugly. "Can...don't look at me..." She cried and said, "Please...turn your head away..."

Kita Shinsuke silently walked aside, picked up the paper and put it on the table.He noticed that she was still barefoot, probably because she didn't notice the slippers in the room.

The door behind him was closed, and the details were gentle, causing Yonekura Zhixia's chest to throb.

She cried for a long time, cried and ate again.

Wiping away tears with a paper towel in one hand, and stuffing soup and rice into her belly with the other, she thought she must have shed all the tears this year.

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Kita Shinsuke stood in the corridor, pressing his fingers against the door.The calluses on the fingertips have been ground into a thick layer over the years, tougher than the fingertips of a pianist.

The cries across the door made the night even more lonely in a closed space.

But he didn't stay long.Kita Shinsuke stepped forward when he heard the sound of a spoon colliding with a bowl.

Yes, the first thing to eat is to be full.Only by filling your stomach can you have strength.