Reborn In Tokyo After Picking Up Sayu Who Ran Away From Home

   Chapter 263 Homecoming

The    house is a common single-family house in the countryside, but it has only one floor.

   The layout is two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom and one bathroom. There is a large and small yard outside, which is usually used for drying clothes.

   As soon as you open the entrance door, you can see the living room.

   A four-seater wooden dining table and chairs, a three-seater sofa and a low table, a TivoliAudio (retro multi-function radio) placed on the cabinet, and a niche in the corner of the living room.

   The two bedrooms next door are also very modest.

  One is a Japanese house with tatami and paper drawers, and there is a low table for drinking tea and a cushion.

  The other is a completely modern room: a single bed and bedside table, a desk and an old leather single-seat chair, neither a TV nor a computer, but a bookcase with a lot of books in its place.

Ninety percent of the    is a reference book, and another 10% is an ancient book with a sense of age, such as "Manyoshu", "Snow Country", "Dance Girl" and so on. Just like the feeling of this house.

  The door was closed with a "click".

   Kato Yusuke, who was carrying his luggage, walked to the living room naturally and put his things on the dining table and chairs.

   Sayu, on the other hand, stood cautiously at the entrance of the entrance, timidly said "Excuse me..." before changing his shoes and walking in.

   The room is filled with a faint scent of thread, which smells inexplicably calm.

   Just heard the boy say: "You can relax a little, it's okay, there is no one else here, just treat it like in Tokyo."

   "Ummm..."

   Sayu nodded slightly, followed in his footsteps, his eyes were unconsciously attracted to the niche in the corner.

   "Yusuke, that is..."

   Followed her gaze and looked back, and there was a photo in the opened cage. It was an old man with a clear face, and his appearance was seven or eight similar to Kato Yusuke.

   There is still some burnt ashes in the furnace on the incense burner table below. It is not difficult to imagine that people have worshipped here before.

   The dark eyes moved imperceptibly, Kato Yusuke nodded slightly and said, "Well, it's my old man."

   took the girl's hand to the front of the altar, and then knelt down on the ground.

   Picked up a short stick from the ground, pulled a large black bowl to his knees, and struck it with the short stick.

"Ding--"

  The long, crisp sound came from the Buddhist sounder called the lóng son, and it reverberated peacefully in the ears.

   Next, he took out the long box containing incense sticks from the alcove, and took out three sticks.

  嚓, sand.

The    match ignited a scorching flame in a short friction, and overlapped with one end of the incense stick, passing its own flame to the past.

   Gradually, a cloud of blue smoke rose in the room.

  The boy who inserted it into the incense burner folded his hands and said in a low voice, "I'm back, old man."

   Then he got up from the ground.

   "Eh...? Is this enough?" Sayu, who maintained the same movement behind him, couldn't help but say something.

   "The real cemetery is not here." Kato Yusuke, who rubbed her hair, said softly, "Let's go, let's do other things first."

   "What else do you mean?"

   "Giving gifts, visiting and paying debts."

  …

   This kind of building is similar to the old house of the Kato family. There is one every 100 meters in the village.

  The space is so spacious that Tokyoites who open the curtain and see the next door neighbor's house are envious.

   Walking together on a narrow road where vehicles cannot pass, the souvenirs in the hands of the two are also decreasing from house to house. In the process, Sayu also met the villagers who had sponsored Yusuke Kato to study in Tokyo.

  Because she didn't know how to treat these kind and simple people, she chose to do the same thing as Yusuke and say the same thing.

   When the other party said thank you, she said thank you, and when the other party bowed and saluted, she also bowed and saluted.

  Even though no one was surprised by this, the girl was always willing, just like a little daughter-in-law, and she was quite happy.

   Look at the expressions of surprise, kindness, simplicity, praise, and quietly stay by someone's side. This alone gave her a kind of witnessing process, as if she really participated in the other person's life.

   Then we came to the last house besides Motoyama Mina's house, the Uchiyama house, which is also the landlord's house with the most fields in the village.

   If the former Kato family is regarded as a declining family, then the current Uchiyama family is the upstart of the later Jin Dynasty.

   To put it simply, about 70-80% of the land that once belonged to the generation of Kato Shuren (grandfather) is now all owned by the Uchiyama family.

   And thanks to the long-term vision of its owner Uchiyama Kou, their business is not only limited to the village, and the agricultural products produced under their name are distributed even in the Tokyo market.

   can be regarded as a little famous.

   Kato Yusuke neither understands nor cares about the delicate relationship between the two ancestors.

   He only knew that the other party had also helped him with his schooling, so what he had to do now was to return the money to the other party.

   "...Greetings from a long time, Lord Uchiyama. Thank you for your financial aid to me. Here is the 800,000 yen you borrowed from me. Now I can return it to you. There are also some small gifts, please accept them."

   Sitting in the spacious Japanese room, Yusuke Kato, who bowed slightly, pushed a stack of money as high as a hill along with the gifts he brought with both hands.

   And sitting across from him is the actual manager of the Uchiyama family - Uchiyama Kou.

   It was a small old man with a few strands of white hair hanging sparsely on his shiny head. With dark skin and deep wrinkles on his face, he looked like an authentic old peasant.

   At this time, he was smoking his cigarette puff, and alternately looking at the things on the ground and the boy in front of him. Then he asked, "Have you been to anyone else before you came here?"

   The dry and hoarse voice was spewed out of his mouth along with white smoke, and a pungent smell of smoke rushed to his face, and white smoke rose up in the room.

"Yes." Kato Yujie nodded without changing his face, trying his best to block his body from the girl behind him, and said: "Because Uchiyama's family has the most money, I'll go and pay off the rest of my uncle's family first. Just came to visit at the finale."

"Oh-?"

Hearing this, Geng Uchiyama raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud, "You said that, didn't you leave the Benshan family at the end? When it comes to money, that little girl who treated you as her own son back then But not much less than the old ones."

   The laugh like a dead tree sounds very uncomfortable, but Kato Yusuke doesn't move.

   just replied without being arrogant: "Auntie Mui Ne is different."

   "Well, that's true for you..." The other party slapped the pouch again, and the smoke was inhaled from his mouth, and then spewed out of his nostrils.

   Uchiyama Kou, who glanced at Kato Yusuke, slapped his mouth and said, "Although I don't know how you lived alone in Tokyo, can I really accept this money? Kato kid."

"Eh…?"

   Sayu, who had been refusing to cover her nose from the beginning, could not help but let out a light whimper with a puzzled expression.

   Hearing the young man respond like this: "Please rest assured, I earned this money through legal means, and there is no tax problem. Lord Uchiyama can accept it with peace of mind."

   "Huh, how can you earn this amount of money in just one year?" Uchiyama Geng nods in a murmur, with a little more approval in his eyes, "That's really amazing, if that's the case, the old man will accept it."

   Having heard these words, Sayu finally understood what the old man on the other side was worried about, and could not help but feel a little unhappy in his heart, but it was not obvious on his face.

   Kato Yusuke bowed slightly politely, "Then we won't bother, I wish you good health, Lord Uchiyama."

   So Sayu also bowed slightly and said "I'm sorry for disturbing you".

   The two of them got up and walked outside.

  Uchiyama Kou didn't stop him, he just continued to smoke his cigarette.

   Just when Kato Yusuke was about to open the paper door—

   Smell.

  The door was pulled open one step ahead.

   "Hey, I'm back, sir...cough, are you smoking here again...Eh?" The half-spoken words of reproach came to an abrupt end.

   A sturdy young man who was slightly lower than Yusuke by half a head suddenly appeared in front of him and met his eyes.

   There was a moment of silence at the scene.

   followed by—

   "Long time no see." Kato Yusuke said first, with a lukewarm tone.

   "Yes, is that you—!?" The boy pointed his finger at him, and his handsome face suddenly wrinkled, as if he had seen something nasty.

   "Oh~ you're back, Kenta." Uchiyama Kou, who heard the movement, came out from the inside with a smile on his face. "It just so happens that the kid from the Kato family has also returned from Tokyo. Let him take you to play."

  While speaking, he snuffed out the cigarette bag, and subconsciously fanned the wind in front of him with his hands.

   "Grandpa..." The boy known as Kenta responded in a dazed tone, and then raised his voice sharply: "Who wants to play with him!?"

   "Huh? But didn't you say you were going to go to a high school in Tokyo? Wouldn't it be nice to share your experience with Kato kid?"

"It's long-winded, I can pass the test by myself!" Uchiyama Jian was too impatiently scratching the back of his neck, "Anyway, I'm going to study now, don't bother me. Really... If I had known, I would not be back for the summer vacation. ."

   Ignoring Uchiyama Kou, who wanted to say something, he was about to turn around and leave.

   And Kato Yusuke is also not surprised by this.

   Just a second before Uchiyama Kenta was about to turn around, a cute little face with a little pink on it suddenly poked out from behind him and looked at him curiously.

  The eyes of both sides met in an instant.

   "Hello." As if feeling a little apologetic, the girl smiled at him and nodded her head.

   Uchiyama Kenta's footsteps couldn't help but take a moment, and there was a momentary loss in his eyes that were full of impatience, but he immediately reacted and nodded subconsciously.

   "...you, hello."

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   (end of this chapter)