Hearing the slow footsteps coming from the stairs, Mrs. Yoshikawa turned her head and looked, and saw that her daughter and the two children who came to visit her were down together.

"Are you going back now...ah, what's wrong?"

Akane Kirino shook her head slightly, her red eyes still a little wet.

"fine……"

Zong Gu followed, saying nothing, just said goodbye to her.

Hongzi sent the two to the door.

"I will definitely be able to go to school tomorrow."

"School... by the way, I almost forgot." Soya opened his schoolbag and handed her the test papers, "Yoshikawa's homework. Ah Cheng asked me to bring it back."

"Thanks."

Hongzi took the homework and said goodbye to the two of them. She sighed softly when she watched them walk away.

"Anime..."

Walking to the corner of the alley, Zong Gu looked back and waved his hand.

She nodded and waved her hand.

As soon as I put it down, I lifted it up and waved it faster.

This is in response to Akane Kirino.

"Let's go, Soya."

"Um."

The rain kept falling intermittently and stopped again at this time.

Walking on the way home, Akane Kirino beside her is not as quiet as before, and it makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Zong Gu looked at her side face.

In the face of the eternal farewell that he never returned, he could not think of any suitable words to comfort him, so he could only take a deep breath.

Akane Kirino looked over, "Soya doesn't look energetic."

"Yeah."

"Even a perfunctory smirk is gone."

“…”

Sogo smiled perfunctorily.

"What, I smile so ugly..."

She also frowned and smiled, and quickly restrained again, "Is it really affected by me?"

"I can't turn a blind eye."

"I can't help but think about my uncle...sorry..."

Zong Gu pursed his lower lip and looked forward.

"I understand."

He had experienced this kind of grief a long time ago, and it lasted for a long time and became more intense.

Each had their own thoughts, and the two walked forward silently.

When it was almost time for the old house, Akane Kirino spoke.

"Zonggu, I want to stay for supper."

"good."

"My parents are still in Saitama, I came back alone."

"Yeah……"

Zong Gu looked at her, "Because of the 'returning light' thing?"

"Um."

Akane Kirino nodded, "Auntie said that in principle, this matter cannot be told to anyone other than her immediate family. She only told me. Because I cannot ask others, I will come back to find Soya after the funeral."

He expressed understanding.

"Do you have anything to eat at night?"

She opened her mouth and just thought for a while, and only said, "Everything is good."

"I see."

The two walked into the yard, but walked in front of the door in a separate way. Zong Gu walked to the other side.

“Where to go?”

"Backyard. I'll pick some vegetables."

"I'll go, too. Give me my schoolbag."

Zong Gu took off his schoolbag, "By the way, I've brought back Kirino's homework, and it's inside."

"Hate, why do you bring such extra things?"

“…”

After taking the schoolbag, she just threw it in the entrance hall and leaned against her schoolbag.

"I'll solve the homework here later. If you don't understand, please ask me." Zong Gu said.

Akane Kirino pushed him out, "Let's talk about it."

When I walked around the vegetable field in the backyard, Zonggu picked a few vegetables and took a look at the growth status of several other crops.

"How about it?"

Seeing him bent down to check, Akane Kirino asked behind him.

“Um…”

He didn't quite understand, "It seems that nothing is wrong."

"Then I'll go and see the tomatoes."

"Um."

About a week later after the end of the Golden Week, the tomato sprouts in the seedling plate broke through the ground and grew into seedlings.

Soya and Akane Kirino took out most of the day on the weekend to transplant and plant all the seedlings into the field. After watering the water at one time, they let them grow.

More than a month later, the tomato plant is still in the seedling stage - although it looks quite large.

The growth process of tomatoes is divided into four stages, and before the large buds appear, they all belong to the seedling stage, about fifty days.

Dozens of tomatoes were distributed in an orderly manner, occupying a small piece of land. Akane Kirino was watching from the side, and Soya came over quickly with the picked vegetables.

"Grow a little taller, it's time to set up these tomatoes."

"yes."

After looking at it for a few more times, Zong Gu returned to the house with the vegetables in his arms and did some simple treatments.

Looking at the ingredients on the table, he pondered.

“What should I do…”

......

"I'm back--"

Yue Du changed his shoes in the entrance hall and shouted.

Walking into the room, Zong Gu was already waiting for him at the kitchen door.

“So slow.”

Yuedu carried the convenience bag on his handle, which contained several things he asked him to run errands to buy.

He complained: "The convenience store is so far away."

“Don’t you let you ride a bicycle here?”

"Who can ride that thing?"

"I will, Kirino and Yoshikawa will do it." Soya took the convenience bag, "When the bell grows a little taller, she can ride it."

"Can she grow taller? You're kidding... Anyway, I won't continue to learn to ride a bicycle."

Yue Du emphasized and added, "I don't go out anyway."

"Did you give up after falling a few times?"

After checking the contents in the convenience bag, Zong Gu looked up at him again, "I haven't asked Lord Yuedu to pay for the repair of the car, that's my new bike."

“…”
To be continued...