Not too many out of four

"Finally back here..."

Li Jia sat in the co-pilot's seat, looking at the scenery outside the window quietly.

Going back to her long-lost past, which is almost sealed in her memory, this is the place where she grew up and lived, and it is also a place full of memories of her and her mother.

After coming back after such a long time, she suddenly found that she was still nostalgic and looking forward to coming back here, but she would never be able to see the person she missed the most and looked forward to seeing.

"Should we go to the cemetery first?" "Brother Zhongye" was concerned about Yilijia's bewildered expression, his eyes turned away from time to time, and he couldn't even concentrate on driving.

Fortunately, he is not driving fast now, and he can catch his eyes a little bit while running on the road, so that there will be no situation that he cannot cope with.

"Should I go home and pack my things first?" He asked pretending to be normal.

When Li Jia moved to Mihua Town, she didn't bring too many cumbersome things for the convenience of going on the road, but took a light car and took a train to leave.

Maybe I wanted to pack something when I came back this time. After all, there are still many memories between Li Jia and her mother at home in Aichi County.

She recovered and shook her head slowly, and said softly, "Let's go to the cemetery first."

In fact, she hasn't decided whether to move all her things to Tokyo, or let the past stay here, in the beautiful memories of the mother and daughter in the past, maintaining a never-fading appearance.

"Brother Zhongye" nodded, turned the steering wheel to the intersection on the right, and started heading towards the outskirts of the city.

The car he is driving now is a new car rented from a car rental company. There are more than enough seats for the five of them, and there is room for luggage in the trunk. If it is not enough, he can notify the moving company. Everything will be done according to Li Jia's ideas.

"Would you like to go to the flower shop to buy a bouquet of flowers?" "Mr. Nakaya" paused while looking at the flower shop passing by the window, and said in a low voice.

"Brother Zhongye" consciously slowed down and stopped the car, Li Jia responded softly, "I'll be back as soon as I go."

Because "Mr. Zhongye" can't retract his ears and tail freely, and his thinking tends to be clingy to cats, his demeanor and behavior may appear a bit conspicuous in a backward and conservative town, which is likely to attract criticism.

He was suppressed by the Central Plains members of his family, and he couldn't get out of the car to have fun when he didn't go to the cemetery or at home, and he couldn't cling to Li Jia when there were outsiders.

After all, this is the place where Li Jia lived for many years, but he probably will meet many acquaintances on the road. Whether it is for her reputation or to avoid exposing "Mr. Zhongye", he has to restrain his habit of wanting to get close to Li Jia.

"Zhong Ye" got out of the car with her and stood side by side: "I will accompany you in."

He didn't know Li Jia's thoughts about meeting his former acquaintances, but he must not be completely indifferent, just like when he joined the port mafia and saw Shirase again.

Li Jia did not reject his kindness, she looked up at the familiar and old plaque above the flower shop, and let out a breath slowly.

The bell attached to the hinge of the door rang the moment the door was pushed open. The flower shop proprietress didn't see the customer, so she raised her voice to say hello: "Welcome, what do you want..."

The line of sight touched the slim girl standing quietly with her hands clasped in front of her body. The voice of the proprietress Tanaka paused, and she asked in disbelief, "Yes, is this Li Jia? Yukari's daughter?"

"...Long time no see, Auntie Tanaka." Li Jiashu frowned and smiled softly, "I'm Li Jia. I came back this time to buy a bunch of cornflowers for my mother."

After casually wiping water stains on the apron, Tanaka hurried over and looked Li Jia up and down, with a look of joy on his face: "You seem to have grown up a lot."

Although the height does not seem to be much different from before, the timidity and weakness between the eyebrows and eyes have weakened a lot, replaced by a kind of beauty that grows slowly, independent and quietly blooming with fragrance.

"You have become more beautiful and energetic. It seems that the people over there take good care of you." Tanaka couldn't help feeling relieved, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears: "Do you want to buy cornflowers to visit Yukari? Cornflowers Well, cornflowers are fine, that's your mother's favorite flower."

Cornflower has the flower language that meeting you is happiness. It is Yukari Fujimine's favorite flower and the flower with the most special meaning in Rika's heart.

Tanaka hurriedly went to pick out the most beautiful cornflower with the largest torus in the store, "Nakaya" asked in a low voice, "Is it someone I knew before?"

The proprietress of the florist who still remembers her name after two or three years away from Li Jia should be someone who is more familiar with their past.

"Aunt Tanaka used to take good care of my mother. It is said that when my mother first started looking for a job, Aunt Tanaka helped to introduce her." Li Jia lowered her eyes and curled her mouth, thinking a little: "When the work is too busy, my mother will ask Aunt Tanaka to help take care of her. me for a while."

When she was in elementary school, Tanaka flower shop almost occupied most of her childhood memories. She always stayed near the beautiful flowers to observe their blooming posture, and watched Aunt Tanaka wrap the flowers into bouquets and hand them over to the expectant guests.

There was some nostalgia in the girl's tone and expression, but I don't know why her nostalgia seemed to be limited to the past, and the expression before entering the door to say hello was also a bit complicated. It didn't seem like nostalgia or a feeling of being close to home, but something more special Nostalgia is mixed with many complex emotions of melancholy and loneliness.

"Zhong Ye" took her hand and said, "If you want to come back, we can come back next time."

There is no need to show that there is no chance to come back. Even if Fujimine Yukari's tomb is moved, their home is still here, the house has not been sold, and the contents inside have not been lost, so there is no need to care so much.

"...Next time." Li Jia did not explain the complex emotions she felt when she saw the proprietress Tanaka. It was not just the excitement of nostalgia and reunion, but a calmer attitude of trying to treat her with a normal heart.

The beautiful blue and purple cornflowers are piled up in a bunch, and the blooming flowers are close together. The color is deep, mysterious and beautiful, which makes people lose their minds.

"It's hard work, Aunt Tanaka," Li Jia hugged the bouquet of cornflowers, the magnificent and special blue-purple made her skin more fair and delicate, "How much does the flower cost?"

Looking at Li Jia's solemn and solemn black long dress, and the boy beside her dressed in the same formal suit, Tanaka looked a little cautious, and she waved her hands repeatedly: "You don't need money, just treat it as the flowers I gave to Yukari."

Li Jia was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Cornflowers are rare in the market. Only Auntie Tanaka buys a batch of flowers every month. It is normal for the value to be slightly higher."

"Nakaya" looked at her strangely as he dug out his wallet and handed out the [-] yuan bill. He didn't even wait for the proprietress Tanaka to return the change, and turned around to leave with the bouquet.

"...Wait, wait," Tanaka held the money in his hand and couldn't help shouting, "Li Jia, are you still blaming us?"

The girl with her back turned to her stopped, her eyelids dropped to cover her blue pupils, and she said after a long time, "I am very grateful to Auntie Tanaka for taking care of me and my mother in the past."

She didn't look back at the expression on the woman's face, but quietly pulled "Zhong Ye" out of the flower shop, and let out a long and slow breath, as if she wanted to release all the burdens on her heart.

"You hate that woman?" The young man was a little surprised. He didn't seem to have seen Li Jia hate anyone, and he had never seen her show such a quiet and silent attitude towards her elders.

According to what Li Jia said just now, she should be very familiar with the proprietress of the flower shop, and even got a lot of help from her.

He didn't think that Li Jia would alienate someone who treated her well for no reason, but he couldn't understand the complicated relationship between them.

The flower shop proprietress was very happy when she saw Li Jia at first sight, and that joy was real, but her attitude towards Li Jia gradually became cautious, and finally she even asked the sentence: "Are you still blaming us? "

Such meaningful words with special meaning.

"...I don't hate Aunt Tanaka," she just couldn't understand why some people would care about them on the surface, but secretly spread bad rumors and rumors secretly, and even use depreciation of people's value to raise their sense of superiority .

Li Jia's voice was so soft that it almost disappeared into the wind: "I just can't like her anymore."

After she accidentally heard them whispering something that seemed mocking and regretful after her mother's funeral, she lamented that she was unkind to others and didn't love herself.

She also said that when she was working, she would flirt with clients because she wanted to seduce rich people to find another way out for herself, and she didn’t want to see if she graduated from high school and was single with a drag bottle. man.

She also laughed that she has a man who is willing to accept her life, as long as she is willing to give up the oil bottle around her, she can immediately get rid of the current difficult life.

At that time, the 13-year-old girl who was about to graduate from the first country and was about to go to school did not understand why her uncle and aunt, who usually seemed gentle and amiable, would say such nasty gossip.

Create a rumor to belittle a person who has just passed away through gossip and sarcastic remarks.

Li Jia has never understood how the classmates in elementary and middle school knew about their family's situation. Some things they have never told outsiders can become extremely ugly if they are spread out.

She always thought it was what her elementary school classmates said when she saw that she only had a mother and bullied children who didn't fit in.

It never occurred to her that the proprietress of Tanaka's flower shop usually chatted with them, and heard a few words when they were not on guard, and she added embellishments to let everyone living nearby know.

Children know because their parents know, and their parents know because their colleagues and people around them are talking about it.

Lijia lives in a small town with a small population. Most people have lived here for generations and will not leave at will to work in further places.

The atmosphere here is quite old-fashioned, and it is difficult to find a job or a house without an introduction from an acquaintance.

Maybe my mother already knew that it was Tanaka, a flower shop, who spread the gossip. On the one hand, she was gentle and kind to them, helping them find a job, finding a suitable house, and introducing her mother's clients and people in the town kindly and enthusiastically. It's hard to hear insulting words...

Li Jia doesn't understand why people are so complicated. She has always been protected by her mother so well that she can't even face those familiar and unfamiliar people who live in a gentle and friendly mask after her mother's death.

So she ran away.

She took some luggage that she simply couldn't bear to leave behind and fled away, leaving the place where she grew up.

……

The tomb, which no one has visited for two or three years, is deserted and covered with a thick layer of dust.

Fortunately, Fujimine Yukari was buried in the cemetery, and no weeds taller than people would grow nearby. Simply wipe and clean the tombstone before placing flowers and tributes.

"Mom, I'm back to see you." Li Jia folded her hands and knelt in front of the tomb, raised her eyes to look at the woman smiling softly and beautifully in the photo, and said after a long silence: "Sorry, it took so long to see you."

She was just a coward, she didn't dare to come back after she ran away, she could only hold her mother's photo album and cry silently.

Obviously looking at the mother in the photo album, she always has endless words, but when she returned to Aichi County, her voice seemed to be stuck in her throat and she didn't know what she could say.

Guilt, longing and sadness are not something that can be described in simple words.

She is afraid that coming back here will completely destroy the good memories she once had, and she is afraid that she will see those unrecognizable people when she comes back.

She didn't even know how to face them. Her memory still clearly remembered how friendly they were to her and her mother, but she remembered even more deeply when she saw them mockingly regretful on the day of her mother's funeral.

A feeling of disbelief, dizziness and nausea surrounded her, and it became difficult to support her steps.

Li Jia hated such a weak self. She tried hard to change, but her nature seemed to have merged with her flesh and blood. After all, she still couldn't become a strong and unyielding person like her mother.

"Zhong Ye" originally wanted them to talk alone, and then go up to introduce themselves after the talk, but now he can't wait.

"It's the first time we meet, my name is Nakahara Chuya."

The young man knelt beside Li Jia, imitating her movements and clasping his hands together, nervously stammering: "Mother, please give your daughter to me."

As soon as he said this, Li Jia was stunned for an instant, she opened her round eyes and looked at him in astonishment: "Eh, eh?!"

When his mind was in a state of confusion, "Zhongye" didn't even realize that he was calling the wrong name, and said quickly: "I promise to protect Lijia for the rest of my life, take good care of her, cherish her, and be the person who loves her the most in the world. Protect her from harm and live a safe and happy life..."

"What are you talking about, kid?!" "Brother Zhongye" almost laughed angrily, and directly lifted him up with his arms crossed: "You want to get married when you are underage, you are still far away!"

"I am the same age as Li Jia, and the age of adulthood and legal marriage are the same!" Originally, he wanted to ease Li Jia's emotions and said it abruptly, but seeing the gentle gaze of Kami Fujimine Yukari, "Chuya" couldn't help saying what was in his heart.

He wants to marry Li Jia.

He wanted to be with her forever, hand in hand till the end of life.

Although what he said just now sounded confusing, they were all his sincere words.

"Lijia is my partner." "Mr. Zhongye" who pressed the cat's ears with a peaked cap, flicked his tail left and right, and then leaned over and said, "Please give Lijia to me, and I will make her happy!"

The beautiful cat eyes of cobalt blue stared closely at the photo on the tombstone, and after a while he turned his head to look at Li Jia and said, "The photo is smiling, does your mother agree?"

Li Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Mr. Zhongye, the photos are meant to be smiling."

"Huh?" Mao Er almost pushed his hat away, "Mr. Zhongye" shook his head indifferently, and said, "It's okay, anyway, Li Jia said that he likes me the most."

He is Lijia's favorite kitten.

"Mr. Zhongye" passed "Zhongye" and "Brother Zhongye" who were twisted into a ball, knelt down politely, with a calm and calm expression, as if facing important moments and scenes in life, and said in a low voice: "I can't guarantee that Li Jia will become the happiest bride in the world, but I will respect, cherish and love her for the rest of her life."

Li Jia secretly looked at the smiling face of Fujimine Yukari in the photo, feeling guilty and embarrassed for no reason.

She closed her eyes immediately, and kept saying in her heart that she was really not a big carrot, this was just a special situation, next time, next time she would bring only one person over.

"Tsk, one or two of you have finished what I wanted to say."

"Brother Zhongye" unhappily let go of "Zhongye"'s hand, took off the wide felt hat and pressed it in front of him, and let out a long breath: "Please rest assured, your daughter will be happy."

Looking straight at the photo with unusually bright cobalt blue eyes, he said in a firm and deep voice, "——I swear on my life."

With her closed eyes quietly opened, Li Jia looked at her mother's beautiful and gentle smile in the photo, her expression was almost completely blank.

To be honest, she was very moved by Nakahara Chuya and the others' attention and respect for Fujimine Yukari.

But, but...

She really didn't bring four boyfriends back!

Please trust her, Mom!