novelraw Chapter 902 [Chapter 3 Day and Month ENDING] 1
Chapter 902 [Chapter 3 Day and Month ENDING] 1
Not only Honmaru, but even in the outside world, the present world composed of many mortals is now in late spring.
In an inconspicuous red brick building on the street, a young girl in a red sleeveless dress with long hair draped over her shoulders was walking briskly, pushing the door hinges which were already a bit rusted. The door, stepping into the warm spring outside.
After going out the gate, she stood on the sidewalk by the side of the street, raised her head and took a few deep breaths, then raised her head slightly and closed her eyes, as if she was feeling the warm spring breeze blowing past her face, the corners of her lips Tilted slightly with a smile.
After a while, she opened her eyes and lowered her head, glanced at the small card that looked like a pass in her hand, and then put it into the bag hanging on her arm.
Then she took out a mobile phone from her bag—actually, it was called a "terminal" in her working place—pressed on the screen to locate the direction, then selected a side, and walked with strides .
Ten minutes later, she pushed open the door of a cafe on the street.The wind chime hanging on the door jingled because of this.
At a table by the window of the cafe, a neatly dressed young man with a good face was already sitting there.He heard the sound of wind chimes and raised his head. When he noticed the clothes of the young girl who came in, he froze for a moment, stood up slowly with a little hesitation, and when the young girl was about to walk to his table At that time, he asked in a low voice uncertainly: "...is that Miss Han? Miss Han Yue?"
The young girl whom he called "Han Yue" paused when she heard this, then walked straight towards his table, stopped opposite him, nodded to him with a smile, and said: "I am. You must be Mr. Liu Mu, right? Sorry for keeping you waiting."
Liu Mu stretched out his hand and shook her politely, and sat down again after waiting for her to take a seat. The expression on his face seemed a little unnatural—maybe it was because he didn't expect that this person who had been with him many times in the past two months The young girl I was talking to by mail was so pretty, so I felt a little caught off guard—he coughed lightly in embarrassment, and asked, "No, it's okay, I just arrived... Would you like something to drink?"
The young girl named "Han Yue" turned her head and said "Cappuccino" to the clerk who had already walked over, then turned around again, and stared at the half-drinked cup of coffee in Liu Mu's hand. Turning around, he raised his eyes again to look directly at him, with a just right apology and a friendly and generous smile on his face, and said: "I'm sorry to ask you to meet me in your busy schedule. But once Hearing you say that you have made a very important discovery, I can hardly restrain my strong curiosity..."
Liu Mu laughed a little, being helpless by the politeness of the young girl in front of him, he laughed dryly twice, and went straight to the topic of today's meeting.
"It's true that I made a little...unusual discovery." He said, opened a folder on the desk, took out a copy from it, rotated it 180 degrees, and pushed it from the desk to the person. in front of the young girl.
The young girl only glanced at it, and then showed a look of surprise.
"...a copy of household registration?!"
Liu Mu nodded and explained: "I asked a friend to help me find this...the household registration certificate from that year. Fortunately, it has already been entered into the old system, so it doesn't take too much trouble to print it...otherwise, I would have to find it. The paper records of household registration are troublesome, and whether they can be preserved to this day is still a question..."
He babbled on to explain the cause and effect, and used a lot of words to fill in the awkward moment when two strangers suddenly met for a certain reason; but the young girl sitting in front of him slowly frowned—— Because she seemed to notice something important.
"Cancellation time?" She murmured, stretched out an index finger and swipe across the bottom of the date registered on it, and finally stopped next to the "registration for cancellation", a deep crease was formed between her brows.
"After seven years of disappearance, I canceled my household registration as an accidental death...Is that so?" She pondered, her face darkened, as if she was thinking about something, and also seemed to be frustrated by simple disappointment; Liu Mu suddenly felt that , the kind and gentle atmosphere that she had been showing since she appeared suddenly disappeared, and her aura has now unconsciously changed into another one—powerful, distant, cold, and inaccessible...
Liu Mu hastily added: "...It is said that it is an unknown disappearance..."
As soon as he said this, the young girl suddenly raised her eyes.Her pupils were bottomless, but the light on the surface was extremely bright, like a blazing flame.
"Excuse me...how did you know?" She asked slowly, word by word.
"Do you know anything else... about this lady who, uh... 'disappeared'?!"
This is also a very common question.However, Liu Mu always felt that this young girl named "Han Yue" had an inexplicable and unexplainable aura, that kind of disappointment and sadness mixed with unexplained anger and pain that had nowhere to vent. , making her momentary tone seem to be a bit gnashing of teeth.
Although Liu Mu felt a little strange, but thinking about it, this girl probably made up some beautiful friendship between the elders of the two parties in advance, and maybe even imagined the long and happy life that the elders who exchanged postcards would have in the future, but now The answer she could get was completely opposite to what she had imagined—the girl who sent the postcard disappeared at a young age, and no one knew what happened to her, and she never came back... It is not a story that can satisfy the beautiful fantasy of the girls, and it is only natural that she shows a strong sense of loss.
So he tried his best to make his voice softer again, with a touch of comfort in his tone.
"...Sorry. I don't feel like I'm sorry if you don't investigate carefully, so I not only asked a friend, but also hired a good private investigator...but their authority and connections are limited. Sorry, I didn’t help you much, I’m really sorry.” He lowered his eyes, seemed to be full of apology, hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a thin plastic bag from the folder, and pushed it from the table to the girl’s before.
"That's all I could find. You see, if you turn it over, it has the date and the words 'Family Portrait' written on the back."
His voice sounded very gentle, as if he was trying his best to comfort her, but he was a little at a loss - that's probably because he didn't bring her many satisfactory investigation results.
"I also tried my best to search at home." His voice was very soft, sounding a little cautious, "Unfortunately, the family ancestors did not leave any records or letters or memoirs about the missing sister. ...In the family cemetery, there is a flowering tree, and there is a plaque next to the tree that says 'Remember Willow Spring'—"
His voice suddenly disappeared.Because the young girl in front of him suddenly showed a look of extreme shock, as if the news had shaken her so much.
"...tree?" He heard her murmur the key word again.
He nodded and added: "It's a magnolia tree. The flowers bloom very beautifully... It's planted in the cemetery, and Kazuki's flowers can be seen from a distance. It feels like... the atmosphere of other places is different. It doesn't quite match——then, I asked the cemetery administrators, and they couldn't find any information from a long time ago, but they said that there is only this one magnolia tree in the entire cemetery, which should have been transplanted here on purpose. , it is not ruled out that it is due to the request of the family... or something like that."
"...Magnolia tree?" He heard her repeating the plant name again.Then, as if she finally broke free from the trance just now, she slowly raised the corners of her lips and smiled softly.
"Really, what's the point of planting a magnolia tree..." She said in a low voice, and Liu Mu noticed a suspicious glint in her eyes for a moment.
Really... She doesn't really like magnolia trees.Liu Quan thought.
It might as well be a real cherry blossom tree... However, planting a flower tree in a cemetery is a bit unique, and planting a flower tree with pink flowers would be too conspicuous...?It would look... out of place, wouldn't it?
out of place.Yes, that's the word.
I don't know how many times in the past, when she thought of her family - parents, and younger brother - she would think of this word.
They are a close family.She, the eldest daughter who didn't join the family until she was a teenager, always seemed a bit out of place with that family.
She doesn't have many good memories to share with them, and the limited good memories - like going to the park with her parents when she was very young - don't have a brother, and it's not a suitable topic for family chatting .
Even when taking this old family portrait that is now in front of her, she remembers walking into that park and seeing a huge statue right in front of her, and her brother immediately chattering and laughing with her parents about how they used to come here together Interesting memories related to the statue when she was in bed; and she could only stand there awkwardly, pretending not to hear their conversation, because she couldn't get in and didn't know what they were talking about.
They are self-contained, they are a happy and complete family; I was taught in math class that the triangle structure is already the strongest, and there is no need to add an extra corner-a person-to become wobbly and never stand Unsteady quads, right?
She lowered her eyes and stared at the old yellowed photo in the transparent plastic bag in front of her.
Liu Mu said embarrassingly that the material on the surface of the photo was glued to the plastic surface of the photo bag in the old-fashioned photo album and could not be removed. With a little force, the entire photo bag was destroyed together because of the aging of the plastic in the photo album. It was torn off, so he had to find another bag to put it in and bring it here for her.
She looked at the edge of the torn plastic liner of the photo album, and a lot of bits and pieces of memory flashed through her mind.
There are memories about my parents, about my younger brother, about their awkward but slightly polite smiles, and the closeness and intimacy that naturally flowed between them when they were out together...
There was even, on that summer night many, many years ago, at the venue of the fireworks display, due to a breakdown, hovering in the mid-empty Ferris wheel car, quietly looking at her, Munakata Reishi in a yukata, listening After finishing the fake childhood memory of a happy family that she made up, she said with a smile: I don't want to be your father.
For some reason, tears of weakness and nostalgia came to my eyes in an instant.She burst out laughing, and took the initiative to end this short period of time that she indulged herself in the memories temporarily, as if possessed by a demon, raised her head again, and placed the plastic bag containing the old photo across the table, and the The copies of Zhang's "Liuquan" household registration records back then were gently pushed back in front of Liu Mu.
The author has something to say:
February 4:
first!Did you notice today's chapter title? hhhhh
After almost two years of serialization, I finally wrote the HE part of the grandpa linew
Of course, like the HE of the previous four personal lines, the ENDING of the grandpa line will last for about five to ten chapters.
Today's chapter can be regarded as the last to explain the connection with my family [.
Then the chapters starting tomorrow will be complete!department!All!yes!sugar!
[Next update: tomorrow (Monday) at midnight. 】
By the way, the girl came out of the small red brick building at the beginning. That building was similar to the situation in HP where she went to the Ministry of Magic through a Muggle building, and it was the entrance of the Non-real World Administration in disguise.
As I said before, "Han Yue" is the pseudonym used by the girl when she communicates with her descendants. It comes from the sentence in an ancient poem "Irrigate the cold spring by the moon".
Thanks to the little angel who threw [Grenade]: Meow 1;
⊙10 bottles of curvaceous radish from the new world; 1 bottle of the first leaf of the night;