Chapter 159 Souvenirs

"With snow this heavy, only airports in Hokkaido would dare to let flights take off."

Jun Matsueda sat in the Mochizuki family's ride, breathing in the dry air that poured into the car.

He looked back at Haneda Airport behind him. The heavy snow in Hokkaido, the late rising and early setting sun, and the turbulent air currents along the way had all disappeared.

"What have you been writing with your head down all the way?" Matsueda Jun turned his head and looked at the girl beside him.

Wang Yueyao looked up at him and immediately put away the small notebook in her hand, "I can't show it to you."

The black car stopped in front of Toriyama Hospital affiliated with Showa University, and the girl got out of the car alone.

"Don't you need me to accompany you this time?" Jun Matsueda asked, leaning out of the car window.

She shook her head. The girl's black hair had already reached her waist and swayed with her movements. "We'll be staying for a while. You should go back first."

When Mochizuki Haruka entered the hospital elevator, she was still holding her notebook, which she had bought at a store called Rokkatei next to the Otaru bookstore.

The girl's stationery is simple in black and white, but the cover of this white notebook is colorful, with pictures of hydrangeas, bellflowers, lilies, sunflowers and other plants on it.

Mochizuki Haruka believes that these colorful colors are the colors of love. She wants to use this notebook to record Matsueda Jun's likes and dislikes, so that he will never be able to leave her.

Of course, I must not let Jun Matsueda know this now, otherwise he will definitely push me away.

The girl put her hand on the door handle. Although the temperature in Tokyo was much higher than in Hokkaido, she felt that the door handle was even colder than the wall of the Otaru Hotel.

She took a deep breath and pushed open the door of the ward. The mechanical and regular "beep-beep" sound of the instrument came into her ears. The woman on the bed was still sleeping soundly. Wang Yueyao walked to her side and listened to her long and steady breathing.

Time seems to have stopped here.

She sat down on the bed and waved the notebook in front of the woman. "This is the manual on how to conquer Songzhi. Didn't you always want to teach me how to conquer him?"

"Unfortunately, I didn't want to listen at that time. Now I can only figure it out on my own."

Mochizuki Yao was silent for a while, then took off her coat and got into the quilt. The girl's lips were pressed against the woman's delicate earlobe.

"Auntie, I have someone I like."

She fell asleep holding the woman on the hospital bed.

Jun Matsueda pushed open the door of Room 507, and there was no sound in the dark living room.

"Didn't you say you were at home?" He turned around, touched the wall, and turned on the light in the living room.

Almost at the same time as the lights came on, Kurusu Yoshi jumped in front of Matsueda Jun.

"Dangdang!" The girl held a tray with a lid on it. "Welcome back!"

"Do you know I almost punched you in the face?" Matsueda Jun lowered his raised fist. Kurusu squeezed it curiously. "I would have cried for a long time if I had hit you with that punch, right?"

He slapped the girl's hand away, "What are you doing?" He pointed at the plate in the girl's hand.

Lai Qi Yang Shi made another strange "dangdang" sound and took away the tray in his hand.

"Kurisu's secret recipe, red bean butter toast—"

"Celebrating your escape from Hokkaido!"

Jun Matsueda sat down at the dining table. "Don't talk like Hokkaido has been overrun by zombies."

The girl placed the "Kurisu family's secret red bean butter toast" on the table and sat down opposite him.

The toast exudes a rich buttery aroma, topped with red bean paste and fresh cream, and looks very tempting.

Jun Matsueda picked up his knife and fork, cut off a piece, put it in his mouth, and closed his eyes to savor it carefully. "The perfect sweetness reminds me of the days when I drank three bottles of milk every day in Hokkaido."

It was clearly yesterday, but his tone sounded like it had been a long time since then. Perhaps he was also affected by the strange girl in front of him.

"Didn't I say I'd make you garlic toast during the cultural festival? I thought about it and felt it wasn't appropriate to celebrate with you, so I changed it to red bean butter toast."

"Isn't it delicious? I even made the toast myself. I carefully selected it from Kurusu, using red beans from Kokura, and flour and butter from Hokkaido."

Kurusu Yoshi rested his chin on his hands, looking at the enjoyment on Matsueda Jun's face with satisfaction. "Hokkaido's dairy products are really delicious. I was drooling while heating the butter in the pan."

"I really want to go to Hokkaido to eat and drink~" The girl's cheerful face wrinkled as she spoke, "Do you know how boring it is for me to be alone at home?"

"I know you want to go to Hokkaido." Matsueda Jun put down his knife and fork and went to the entrance to get a handbag. "These are souvenirs for you. They are all dairy products."

Yosuke Kurusu stood up, took the bag, and took out the items one by one, placing them on the table: "Milk, cheese, milk candy, cookies, and raw chocolate."

She gave Matsueda Jun a hug from a distance before sitting down, "As expected, you have me in your heart!"

The girl couldn't wait to unscrew the cap of the milk bottle, took a big sip with great vigor, and raised the back of her hand to wipe off the white marks on her lips.

"What a fragrance! So mellow! So rich!" She looked at Matsueda Jun, "Is this really cow's milk? Not kangaroo milk or goat milk?"

"There's a cow painted on the bottle, can you please be respectful?" Jun Matsueda pointed at the glass bottle in her hand with his fork.

"Then this cow must have become a spirit." Lai Qi Yang Shi said in a sacred and rigorous tone.

"Matsueda, when I have money in the future, I must ship a cow from Hokkaido over here and milk it for me every day!"

Jun Matsueda swallowed the red bean toast in his mouth and asked, "Has the postcard arrived yet?"

"What postcard?" The girl drank the last sip of milk and asked him with an unsatisfied look.

"Well, you'll know when it arrives."

When he walked into the classroom the next day, Jun Matsueda found that everyone's topic was still about Hokkaido, as if the school trip had not ended yet, or had not even started.

"News reports say the economic losses are around 400 billion."

When Jun Matsueda passed by the second-year classroom, he still heard the topic of Hokkaido.

"I heard that the freshmen survived in the ruins of Hokkaido for two days!"

"It's a good thing that you're back safely, Matsueda-san." Yamami Maki walked beside him, passing by people who were excitedly discussing in the corridor.

"Thanks to Senior Yamami's advice, I was able to save myself a lot of unnecessary trouble." The two of them reached the end of the corridor, and he took out a piece of blue and white fabric from his pocket and handed it to the girl in front of him.

"This is a souvenir from Hokkaido. Thank you for your concern, Senior."

Yamami Maki reached out and took it, looking down to examine the amulet in her palm. The blue and white fabric shimmered with star patterns, and the words "May the Star Guardian" were written in gold in the center.

"so beautiful"

Matsueda Jun nodded and said, "When I saw it, I also felt that you would like it. I bought it at Hoshioki Shrine in Sapporo."

"Thank you, Matsueda-san!"

Yamami Matsukio smoothed the hair behind her ears and smiled, and the dry morning air became moist, as if countless trees suddenly sprang up on the open space of Yugaoka High School, and a group of birds were singing in the woods, sipping dewdrops.

"This way I have to prepare a Christmas present for Matsueda-san even better!"

 I'll be adding an extra chapter tomorrow, but the update might be a little delayed, probably around this afternoon or evening.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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