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Chapter 442 - 208. New Year in Iwate Prefecture: His and Her Morning (5)_3

Chapter 442: 208. New Year in Iwate Prefecture: His and Her Morning (5)_3

Kiyono Lin didn’t eat the tomato, she took out her phone, squatted down, and started taking photos of the tomatoes and eggplants hanging on the branch.

"It’s supposed to be a symbol of good neighborly relations, isn’t it? How did it turn into stealing?" she asked while snapping pictures.

"He’s not from our village."

Dubian Che had already finished eating the tomato, and casually tossed the stem onto the ground.

After Lord Kiyono, who had never seen much of the world, finished photographing the coriander from every angle, they secured the greenhouse door and continued their stroll.

"This village, it’s desolate but not decaying." Kiyono Lin observed the sun rising from over the mountains.

"Yeah, it’s like my house: old, but not broken." Dubian Che also gazed at the distant mountains.

"What is summer like here?"

"Everywhere you look is filled with fresh green, the mountain azaleas cry out."

"Is there no bonito?" Kiyono Lin diverted her gaze back to Dubian Che.

Dubian Che shifted his gaze too, and the two shared a smile.

This was a haiku by Yamaguchi Sutang: Everywhere you look is filled with fresh green, mountain azaleas singing, early summer brings fresh bonito.

"When will there be something you don’t know?" Dubian Che said, feeling slightly vexed.

"To surpass me in literature, you’ll have first to finish reading my family’s eight-meter-tall home library," Kiyono Lin said with a laugh, covering the corner of her mouth.

"Take your time; we have plenty of it."

"Then, in your own words, what is summer like in Misezawa Village?"

"Hmm... a monotonous cicada song, the sporadic jingle of wind chimes."

"’Monotonous, sporadic,’ although it sounds decent, compared to the earlier ’Everywhere you look is filled with fresh green, mountain azaleas cry,’ it seems desolate."

"Can it not be desolate?" Dubian Che explained, "Do you think life in the countryside is comfortable? It’s okay to stay occasionally, but for someone who has seen the neon lights of the city, this place is a ghost town."

"Let’s drop it," said Dubian Che, pointing towards a valley at the end of the road, "Pass through there, and you can see the ocean. I’ll take you there in a couple of days."

"So, this is actually considered a seaside village?" Kiyono Lin recalled a glimpse she had upon arrival; it was indeed the sea.

"Huh? That makes sense!" Dubian Che clenched his right fist, pounding it into the palm of his left hand, "Turns out I’m not a child of the mountains, but a child of the seaside."

Kiyono Lin glared at him with a ’what on earth are you thinking about all day’ look.

In the midst of their conversation, the two arrived at Yoshida’s house.

The layout was probably similar to that of the Dubian Family’s home, with a concrete path, a muddy front yard, and a quaint traditional building.

Different though, in the storeroom sat a rice-planting tractor.

"It’s Little Che!" Mrs. Yoshida’s voice was very pleasant.

"Mrs. Yoshida." Dubian Che greeted, "This is a friend from a school in Tokyo, Kiyono Lin."

"Good morning, Mrs. Yoshida," Kiyono Lin greeted, holding the tomato in both hands and slightly bowing.

"What friend? She’s your girlfriend, isn’t she?" Mrs. Yoshida affirmed with a smile to Kiyono Lin, "Little Lin, you’re very pretty!"

"... My girlfriend is sleeping at home," Dubian Che replied patiently.

"Eh? You have two girlfriends?!"

"... My mom asked me to come and get Blessing God Pickles."

"Blessing God Pickles? Oh right, that reminds me, I’ve already put it in a jar."

Mrs. Yoshida went inside to fetch the Blessing God Pickles, and then said to Dubian Che, "We’re planning to dig bamboo shoots today. Do you want to come along, Little Che?"

"Sure." Dubian Che glanced at the second floor, "Is Teacher Reiko still asleep?"

"Since the school vacation started, she’s lying in until noon!" Mrs. Yoshida said peevishly, speaking of her daughter.

Dubian Che, who himself used to sleep until noon, thought that if Reiko were to change, she’d need to take a trip to Tokyo and then run into Jiutiao Meijie.

When they got back home, it was only eight o’clock.