In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 386 Climbing Mount Fuji (2)

The hiking trails of Mt. Fuji are not like ordinary mountain trails.

Because it is an active volcano, there are mostly low shrubs on the mountain. There is no dense vegetation in the area above 1500 meters above sea level, but above 2600 meters, it is all alpine dwarf forest belt.

If you want to describe it, this section of the road is like a bare sand pile, and people climb up along the ridge of the sand pile.

If you don't pay attention, your feet will slip, and the whole person will roll down the sand pile and disappear into the white clouds.

This section of road is called the back spine of Godzilla.

It is named for its steep slope and jagged rocks.

If you want to pass here, you need to use both hands and feet, grabbing stones, pulling your body, and trying your best to climb up.

"Come on, give me your hand."

Uesugi Kai took Hanamaru Hanabi's hand and pulled her towards him.

"Thank you, thank you."

Uesugi Kai smiled slightly: "It's cute when Hanabi says thank you."

Sports are not her strong suit, not to mention the high altitude here, the low oxygen concentration, and she will faint if she is not careful.

Kaoru Uesugi was taking care of her.

The four of them climbed extremely hard and dangerously along this section of the road.

It took nearly three hours to make it up the one-hour journey.

"It's only halfway through the climb!!!"

Beichuan Sakaki stood on the small stone platform, covered her mouth with her hands, and shouted as hard as she could towards the rugged mountain road filled with white mist below.

It's a pity that the deep mountain is lonely and silent, and only many climbers below who are still climbing look at her.

Uesugi Kai, who was resting behind her, said weakly to her back:
"Stop shouting, save some strength to climb the mountain, if this continues, we won't be able to reach the top of the mountain at night."

Kitagawa Sakakisa was very discouraged and sat down on the stone bench.

She suddenly turned her head to look at Uesugi Kai:

"Uesugi-san, I don't want to climb the mountain anymore, why don't you carry me on your back?"

"Stop it, if you want to carry it, you will also carry my wife."

"Hua Huo Jiang is not your wife!"

"That's also a fiancee, almost."

"I am pretty tired."

"I'm tired too, aren't I resting now?"

Kitagawa Sakaki saw that Uesugi couldn't move, and moved her butt to Hanamaru Hanabi to look for opportunities:
"Hua Huo Jiang, what do you think if we go down the mountain together now?"

Kaoru Uesugi grabbed the conversation and looked at the cloud-covered mountain ridge below: "Look at the slope. Have you ever heard the saying that going up the mountain is easy but going down the mountain is difficult?"

"Oh~ let's climb the mountain with all our strength! But, let's eat lunch before that."

Uesugi Kai looked at Kitagawa Sakaki quite speechlessly, how did this change so quickly.

Lunch refers to self-heating hot pot.

This kind of food that uses the heat pack to come into contact with water and release heat to heat is quite useful on the mountain.

"Uesugi, what flavor do you want?" Kujurika asked him standing behind Beichuan Sakaki.

"Fat cow."

"Give."

Kai Uesugi lifted the lid and took apart the cooking package.

Then pour some water that comes with the self-heating hot pot into the bottom of the bowl, and finally put the lid on, and you're done.

"Does Huahuo want spicy food?"

"Yeah." The blushing Hanamaru Hanabi nodded, half of her face was hidden under the collar of the jacket, which was very cute.

"What about me? Uesugi-san!"

"Let Lixiang help you."

"Pear sauce!"

"Here, make it yourself."

"Ah, why is this?"

The small hot pot of four people gathered together.

Uesugi Kai stands on a small stone platform and looks far away. From here, you can see the virgin forest hundreds of miles away along the ridge
The breeze blows slowly, and the high and wide scenery, in an instant of youth, makes people feel refreshed, as if they are standing on the clouds and riding on the breeze.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling the freshness of the fog and water on the high mountain in his breath.

This is probably the fun of mountain climbing.

Kaoru Uesugi also had more expectations for the scenery after reaching the top of the mountain.

"Uesugi! Your fat beef hot pot is ready!" Kitagawa Sakaki shouted behind her.

"understood."

"Your Majesty."

Uesugi Kai heard the sound and realized that there were a few extra pieces of meat in his bowl.

Looking up again, Hanamaru Hanabi had lowered her face.

"Ah~ Hua Huo Sauce, I want it too~"

"No, no more meat."

Hearing Kitagawa Sakaki's jealous voice, Uesugi Kai picked up the pieces of meat and put them in his mouth.

For some reason, there is a hint of sweetness in the spiciness.

The four of them finished their lunch and took a short rest before continuing to climb to the top.

We supported each other all the way, and after several rests, we finally came to a hut at an altitude of about 2900 meters.

The hut hangs on the side of the mountain, and there is a trail paved with wooden boards outside. Most of the climbers sit here drinking tea and chatting, their faces are full of joy of climbing to the high place.

Standing next to the guardrail, you can take a panoramic view of the distance you have passed before.

Here the clouds are rolling, extremely high and wide, looking down, it is full of dangerous and beautiful scenery of mountains.

Arrived here, finally not far from the top of the mountain.

"A cup of coffee costs 400 yen." Kitagawa Sakaki touched her chin and looked at the sign hanging on the small window, "400 yen coffee? Is it good, Uesugi-san, Uesugi-san."

"Uesugi."

When Kitagawa Sakaki turned her head, she saw Hanamaru Hanabi leaning on the wall with a pale face.

Immediately afterwards, her body softened and she almost fell down.

Uesugi Kai also saw the strangeness of Hanamaru Hanabi when Kitagawa Sakaki yelled, and hurried up to support her.

"Are you okay!?"

Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head, lowered her face, closed her eyes, and did not speak.

"Hanabi!?"

no response.

Evidently passed out.

"This is altitude sickness, just go to the house and inhale oxygen, 1500 yen."

Kaoru Uesugi tried his best to support Hanamaru Hanabi who was in a coma, and raised his head, and found that it was an uncle wearing rimless glasses who was talking, and he was wearing a thick jacket.

Uesugi Kai reacted and quickly thanked: "Thank you."

The uncle smiled: "It's okay, help her in first."

There was a female clerk in the hut, and Uesugi Kai walked in with Hanabi, and the clerk let her sit next to the oxygen machine.

Putting on the oxygen tube, after a while, Hanamaru Hanabi's purple lips became much better.

Although still in a coma.

"First time climbing a mountain?"

Kai Uesugi looked up and found that it was the uncle from just now.

"Yes."

"The first time this happens it's normal and nothing to worry about."

"Thank you." Kaoru Uesugi thanked him again.

"Haha, since you want to thank me, how about spending a few cups of coffee here?"

"coffee.?"

Uesugi Kai realized the identity of this uncle at this time.

"OK."

"What do you want?" the uncle smiled.

"The simplest mocha will do."

"Then little friend, let's sit with your girlfriend for a while."

"Uesugi, is Hanabi alright?" Kitagawa Sakaki opened the curtain and entered the back room with Kujurika.

"It's okay, just take a rest." Uesugi Kai watched as Hanamaru Hanabi's expression gradually improved.

"Are you all right? That's good, I was really scared just now."

Kitagawa Sakaki used her hand and expression to show how bleak Hanamaru Hanabi's face was just now.

"She has not had a good physique since she was a child." Uesugi Kai held Hanabi's cold little hand.

"Did you have any illnesses before?" Jiushi Lixiang asked.

"No," Kai Uesugi shook his head, "It's just that his physique is not very good."

"By the way, do you want coffee? You can order a cup from the uncle just now."

"Uncle?"

"He's the owner of the cottage."

"That's it."

All three ordered a cup of hot coffee to warm up.

The uncle's name is Kanzaki Shun, and he sat down and chatted with a few people.

Kaoru Uesugi felt that this uncle was inexplicably familiar.

"Mr. Kanzaki, do you recognize Takashi Kanzaki?"

"That's my brother, are you Kanzaki Koshido's students?"

Uesugi Kai understood.

It seems that the uncle is the elder brother of the old principal.

"It used to be, now it's out of high school."

"Graduated."

Uncle Kanzaki was very excited and chatted with them a lot about the school.

Kai Uesugi and the others drank coffee and heard a lot of embarrassing things about the old principal, such as running off his pants at the sports meeting. When he was 14 years old, he often dreamed of the toilet when he was sleeping at night, thus wetting the bed.

Kitagawa Sakakisa didn't expect that the serious old principal of the school would have such a thing, so she burst out laughing.

Several people sat in the hut for a long time, waiting for Huahuo who had passed out to wake up.

When Uesugi saw a guitar at the front desk, he pointed to the guitar and asked Uncle Kanzaki, "Can I use it?"

"No problem." Uncle Kanzaki agreed very readily.

The sun was about to set, and there were more climbers in the uncle's hut.

Most of them are sitting in the house chatting, and some uncles are playing cards in a group.

Many people book a room here as a place to rest at night, so that they can climb to the top of the mountain to watch the brand new sunrise in the early morning of the next day.

Uesugi Kai took the guitar and walked out of the hut.

He picked up a small stool with the other hand, and chose a seat with the widest view.

Kaoru Uesugi kept plucking the strings of the guitar, and turned the metal knob on the headstock with his right hand to tune the guitar to his own syllables.

At sunset, the twilight is underfoot, and the red sun has never been so close to the golden horizon.

Uesugi Kai sat on a small stool, staring at the sunset scenery of Mt. Fuji, his face and eyes reflected the breath of summer.

"Your Majesty."

Kai Uesugi turned around when he heard the voice, and found Hanamaru Hanabi standing at the door of the hut.

The warm lights in the cabin set off her figure, making her rosy face look extremely cute.

"feelling better?"

"Yeah..." Hanamaru Hanabi was a little disappointed, she put her hands together in front of her body, "I'm sorry, Kai-kun, Kai-kun is taking care of Hanabi today"

"Don't tell me that," Uesugi Kai smiled, put another small stool beside him, patted it up, and beckoned to the girl standing at the door, "Come and sit."

When she sat beside her, Uesugi Kai hugged the guitar and asked her with a smile, "What do you want to hear?"

"Kai-kun decides." Hanamaru Hanabi's voice was still weak.

Uesugi Kai turned his head and looked at the golden sunset not far from his feet.

"Takahashi Yu's "Sakura no Uta", Hanabi, please listen carefully."

"Um"

"This pose is not good, it should be cute."

Hanamaru Hanabi sat upright beside him, resting his chin with both hands, looking at his cheeks flushed by the sunset.

"This is good."

Uesugi Kai smiled, turned his head and closed his eyes, smelling the breeze on Mount Fuji, recalling the tune of "Sakura no Uta".

Soon, his fingers began to pluck the strings, and his little finger struck the guitar panel rhythmically. The tone was neither too fast nor too slow, and the melody of Sakura's Song was uttered between his fingers.

After a melodious ending, Kai Uesugi looked at the mountain scenery with a soft voice and sang: "We always chat about the trivial daily life, look at each other and smile, every day in the past is shining with light, and the laughter of the past is still alive. The words are still in my ears, you said that we will grow up eventually, are you also struggling for life now? If you don't pay attention, this spring."

At this time, the originally sad sentence burst out like a dead tree in spring.

"It comes lightly, and the fragrance of flowers is overflowing, just like the bright petals of cherry blossoms in full bloom."

Uesugi Kai sang while searching for the memories of the past in his brain. The scenes of the past scenes were all at this time, in his brain, like cherry blossoms, with a beautiful and moving rhyme.

After Kaoru Uesugi finished singing, he held the guitar in his hands and asked Hanamaru Hanabi who was sitting beside him with a smile:

"Does it sound good?"

Hanamaru Hanabi wiped the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile, "It sounds good."

"It's good to hear. If Hanabi is willing, I will play it for you every day. Besides, I learned this guitar for you."

Kaoru Uesugi looked into the distance.

"Speaking of which, how is Yuki doing in England? Miss Anna, Mr. Bryce, Mrs. Margaret and the others."

Hanamaru Hanabi said: "Yuuki is very good. She won an award not long ago. Miss Anna and Mr. Bryce are still working in that coffee shop, it is Mrs. Margaret."

Kai Uesugi looked back at Hanamaru Hanabi's lowered face.

"Really. I still remember that the first day I came to England, the breakfast she prepared for me consisted of bread, eggs, milk, and peanut butter"

Uesugi Kai remembered that when she and Hanabi were leaving, she and the two smiled and said blessings.

Lady Margaret suffered from infertility, which was brutal for a woman.

But her husband loved her deeply and did not choose to divorce her because of her flaws.

Her husband doesn't smoke or drink.

Working three jobs just to spend the money on those expensive medicines for Mrs. Margaret
The two often sit on the side of the street at night, looking at the city full of lights, telling each other their dreams, talking to each other, supporting each other, and fighting for their future life together.

But before the common dream was realized, Mrs. Margaret's husband died young.

After that, Mrs. Margaret spent nearly 50 years alone, and used the remaining time to fulfill the common dream of the two as a couple, which can be regarded as making up for regrets.

Kaoru Uesugi still couldn't imagine that the strong and independent old lady left the world so simply.

"Did Lady Margaret say anything when she went away?"

Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head.

"Then she must have a lot to say to her husband."

In the western sky hangs a large piece of sunset glow, which is illuminated by the setting sun and emits a halo like haze, which is so dazzling and beautiful.

(End of this chapter)