In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 274 Memories of the past

June [-]st.

Kai Uesugi was waiting in the living room for Hanabi to come out after changing clothes.

Last night, he touched her feet secretly and woke her up by accident. He coaxed and hugged her for a long time before letting her fall asleep in his arms.

In the morning, Hanamaru Hanabi came out wearing a small skirt and white shirt, her face was flushed, and she whispered many small words to him one after another.

It means "hate", "bad guy", "big bad guy" and the like, which means being angry or being coquettish.

Kai Uesugi had no choice but to hold her hands, tap her small forehead with his mouth, and then said to her:
"I did this because I like you. I don't care about other girls."

After hearing this sentence, Hanamaru Hanabi raised her head as expected, her beautiful purple eyes shone brightly against the morning light in the living room.

"really?"

"of course."

After getting his promise, Hanamaru Hanabi nodded seriously again, with a look of complete belief, and an extremely happy expression.

Seeing the appearance of the girl in front of him, Uesugi felt that she was stupid and innocent.

The sentence just now was just the most common way to coax a girl.

In this modern age with a lot of information, girls basically won't eat this kind of thing anymore.

On the contrary, they will get angry because of this, saying that this is coaxing for the sake of coaxing, low-end love talk, and being unhappy all day.

Only Huahuo will be full of joy because of a small compliment, a small care.

Has she ever thought that this is a trick specially used to trick girls?

Maybe one day she was cheated, and she was still immersed in a happy mood without realizing it.

Feeling pathetic and stupid.

In some harem anime, her type is the one who loses the most.

The innocent childhood sweetheart who doesn't know how to fight will definitely be targeted by the other heroines.

They will make her do many wrong things unintentionally, and deepen the misunderstanding between her and the male protagonist, and then she can only silently blame herself and stay away with a sense of loss.

Kai Uesugi could even imagine Hanamaru Hanabi's back in a white dress, sending her blessings and walking away.

She was obviously the one who stayed with her the most attentively for the longest time, but left the first.

"Stupid." Uesugi smiled and stretched out his hand to touch her head.

"Mr. Zhao."

Hanamaru Hanabi held his hand and raised her head.

"how?"

"It's because Kai-kun touches Hanabi's head too much, so Hanabi doesn't grow taller."

"It's good if you don't grow tall, I can hug you as soon as I hug you."

"not good."

"very good."

"not good."

"very good."

"not good!"

"The little girl has learned to be stubborn? If you keep being stubborn with me, I won't help you tonight."

Hanamaru Hanabi's face turned red, and her little hands were entangled together, twisting and pinching for a long time, she could only bow her head in embarrassment and say, "Kai-kun hates it."

Uesugi Kai likes to see her shy, with a kind smile in his heart, pretending to sigh and say:
"Hey, it's tiring to say, the nail marks you scratched on my arm in the bathroom yesterday haven't disappeared yet, obviously at that time Xiao Huahuo was very comfortable lying in my arms—"

"Mr. Kai!"

Hanamaru Hanabi quickly interrupted him, but he hesitated for a long time and couldn't find anything to resist him, so he closed his eyes and said:
"Hate!"

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Baiqiu Elementary School is located in Shinjuku District. It is a public elementary school in Tokyo founded in the early Meiji period. It is one of several elementary schools with a long history.

It's not far from Uesugi's house and Hanamaru's house, and it takes 10 minutes to walk to the school gate.

The two got off the tram and embarked on the second half of the path that was both familiar and unfamiliar to them.

What is familiar is that this is the way the two have been going to and from school for six years in elementary school.

The strange thing is that I haven't been here very often for 6 years.

Even the small shop where I used to buy snacks was closed and did not continue.

Walking through the familiar small bridge and the crossing of the tram, and walking to the door of the rolling door, Uesugi Kai couldn't help but miss it.

In the past, he often used his pocket money to buy milk for Huahuo here.

As a little girl, she is often reluctant to drink on the spot, and has to take it back to show her mother, and is willing to start it when eating.

Up to now.

Kaoru Uesugi looked at her standing beside her.

The little girl is already slim.

Hanamaru Hanabi stood in front of the rolling shutter door, looking up at the empty signboard with no characters.

"Mr. Kai, what happened to Grandpa Jiwu?"

Grandpa Jiwu was the owner of this small shop in the past. In the past, there were often marble chips, snacks and other food hanging outside. If there were a few clever little ghosts, they would be sloppy. .

Uesugi Kai understood that Grandpa Yoshitake knew about their little tricks of stealing.

The first time I didn't care, but the second time I just drove them out with a stick.

He always told himself and Huahuo that most of the thieves were stealing, and he could forgive those who stole once. After all, the family is poor, and the mood of wanting things is understandable, and those toys and snacks are not worth much.

But it won't work the second time. It's completely a habit. If you want anything in the future, you can't fight for it with your own hands. You just want to steal it.

Grandpa Jiwu has a straight face towards those little kids, and many elementary school students are a little afraid to buy things from him.

But he only treats Kai and Huahuo very well, saying that they are good boys, often leaning on a cane, and taking milk and candies from the shelves for Huahuo to eat.

Xiao Huahuo also took it with her little hand full of anticipation, and then left the best snacks to her brother Zhao.

——Although Ah Kai doesn't eat snacks.

But times have changed, and Grandpa Jiwu, who sat in the canteen and looked out at the children after school, is gone.

Kai Uesugi also looked at the empty plaque, recalling the past in his heart, and answered Hanabi's question:

"Later, he suffered from a disease that everyone will experience."

Hanamaru Hanabi turned to look at him, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't Grandpa Yoshitake be picked up? He was with Sister Yoshitake and the others."

That's lying to you.

Uesugi Kai didn't want to expose the lies he told her when he was a child.

At that time, he didn't want Xiao Huahuo to experience this kind of situation where he could still see him one day and never see him the next day.

The kind elder left suddenly, this kind of empty mood is really uncomfortable.

Now... just let this white lie continue.

When we arrived at the gate of the primary school, we could see many bright signboards and balloons hanging on it.

Far from the gate, you can see many ribbons and wishes hanging on the big tree in the middle of the campus, and they are rippling with the morning wind.

Although the campus is open today, registration is still required when entering the gate.

In case of any security risks.

Uesugi Kai and Hanamaru Hanabi are serious college students and young people, so it was easy to get in.

He took a special look to see if the doorman was the one who crossed his legs in the duty room every day when he was a child.

Unfortunately, it has been replaced.

The two took advantage of their free time to go around the elementary school, and by the way, they also played with the slide next to the playground sand.

The slides are new and a lot less memory.

Kaoru Uesugi was standing next to him, watching Hanabi slide down the spiral slide with a curious and happy expression.

When he was a child, he also looked at her like this, and sometimes she would pull him to invite him to skate together, full of the appearance of a little girl.

Hanamaru Hanabi walked over after trying out the slide.

"Aren't you going to play for a while?" Uesugi Kai asked.

"Hanabi is wearing a skirt, which is inconvenient." Hanamaru Hanabi said after looking at the position of the slide, as if she was nostalgic for the tall slide.

"You also wore skirts when you were young, didn't you have fun too?"

"Kai-kun, Hanabi is no longer a child." Hanamaru Hanabi knew that he was deliberately teasing herself, and muttered.

"Yes, yes," Kai Uesugi replied with a smile, "Hanabi is now a big sister who is about to get married."

Continue to walk around the campus. At this time, the Children's Day activities have not officially started, and the children have just gathered in the playground for the opening ceremony.

The parents sat on the benches outside the playground and watched the children's performances.

The program is chorus, little swan dance, cultural performances, etc.
These self-show performances are actually similar to Chinese elementary schools, the difference is that there will be many interactive games with adults, and guessing games hosted by children themselves.

If it is an international primary school, there will even be special activities.

The speech at the opening ceremony will also be given by five children in five languages.

Kaoru Uesugi didn't notice Umezu Nana and the others, maybe he and Hanabi came too early?

The exchanges between their big brothers and sisters from the university who came to the school also took shape in elementary school.

——It’s called a school-level activity. There will be senior brothers and sisters coming to the lower grades to take classes together, and bring the children to make lunch together.

Hanamaru Hanabi didn't like to participate in this kind of school-level activities when she was in elementary school, because she was afraid of strangers, and she didn't like senior seniors to teach her, so she often ran to Uesugi Kai with tears in her eyes.

The children's emotional expression is very straightforward, if you like it, you like it.

Even in the past, the shy little Huahuo often approached herself directly, expressing that she wanted to stay together and play together.

Hold your favorite toys and pictures in your hands.

When he grew up, he became tactful and shy.

Uesugi Kai had just brought Hanamaru Hanabi to a class, and found Mr. Imamishi standing among the children, watching them play bowling in the classroom.

It's a little surprising that Imanishi-sensei was his elementary school teacher with Hanabi.

She teaches Mandarin, arithmetic, school work, morality, life, physical education, and graphic arts.

I used to be 32 years old, but now I am in my 40s and almost 50 years old.

Wears glasses, is a very Asahi teacher, a little chubby.

This classroom is also the classroom where Kai Uesugi does school-level activities.

In other words - he was originally assigned to this classroom to communicate with the children, and happened to meet the class managed by the primary school teacher.

He looked at the teacher who was teaching himself and Huahuo seven courses, and decided to go up to see if she recognized the two of them.

"Teacher, excuse me."

"Oh? You are?" Chiri Imamishi looked away from the children and turned to a man and a woman walking in front of him, two young people.

To be honest, she seldom saw someone with such a good-looking appearance, so she was a little surprised.

Kai Uesugi: "I am a student of the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. Didn't your school invite us to hold class activities with the younger students? We are the teacher in charge of your class."

"Ah, yes, there is such a thing."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chiri Imanishi became puzzled again, "But isn't the class activity in the afternoon? At this moment, the children just came back from the playground and are still arranging classroom activities."

Kai Uesugi acted as if he had misremembered the time: "Mr. Imanishi Chiri, are you sure it's not morning?"

"No," Chiri Imanishi replied, and then became confused, feeling an inexplicable familiarity between the two in front of him, "You know my full name?"

Hanamaru Hanabi: "Teacher."

As soon as she opened her mouth, this unique weak voice reminded Chiri Imanishi of a little girl who followed a little boy every day, and tentatively asked:
"Are you Hanabi?"

Uesugi Kai didn't expect that she would be recognized as soon as she spoke.

Chiri Imanishi glanced at Uesugi several times again, "You are Xiaokai?"

Uesugi Kai smiled wryly: "Teacher, you don't need that kind of address, just call me by my name."

Imamishichi recognized the two, smiled softly, and said with emotion: "That's right, they've grown up, and they're much taller than me now."

She carefully looked at the two of them up and down, she didn't expect that the two little guys who used to be tired of being together all day long looked so handsome.

"Sure enough, Kai was admitted to the University of Tokyo. I saw you reading alone before. You always looked like a young adult and didn't get involved with other children. At that time, I was quite worried that you might have a strange disease or something."

It's not that he is sick, Uesugi is just a little bit of a maverick.

In other words, he was out of tune with the children. After all, what he saw in them was not only innocence, but also childishness.

Little Huahuo cried a lot.

Uesugi Kai had to protect her at that time, so he really fulfilled his status as a good brother.

The good news is that because of this, she also relies on him for everything, resulting in the emotional fetters accumulated over the past ten years, which can no longer be broken.

When Chiri Imamishi looked at the two of them, he also found two identical rings, plus the feeling of being so close when standing together.

she asked:
"You guys won't get married, will you?"

Seeing the two children I taught since childhood are still walking together, even to the point of getting married, it is really emotional.

"No, it's just an engagement."

Chiri Imanoshi looked back and forth at the two young people in front of him, showing a kind smile:

"Engagement is also a happy thing. I saw you sticking together before, and I joked to you that maybe you will be husband and wife in more than ten years. It's really good.

"I still remember that when Huahuo listened to my words, he was happy and shy, and folded a thousand paper cranes for you. He really looked like a little wife."

Uesugi Kai has an impression of this incident, because Hanabi was very shy that day, and after giving herself the thousand paper cranes she was holding in her heart, she ran away in despair.

At that time, he was still wondering why he was so shy to give away a thousand paper cranes.

Now it seems
I'm afraid that at that time, she just took the jokes made by the elders as real.

Thinking that when she grows up, she can really marry Brother Zhao, full of the innocence of a little girl, full of love and hope, she folded a thousand paper cranes and gave it to him.

It was touching to think of her small, timid form now.

(End of this chapter)