The memory scene appeared in Nan Youxi's mind.
The sun lost its brilliance, turned from golden to orange, and fell towards the distant sea level. The wind blowing from the sea brought a slightly chilly and moist feeling.
Minami Youxi stood behind Mayu and watched the girl talking to the old lady carrying a fishing rod.
The girl praised the old lady's valuable catch, and received a smile from the old lady, as well as a sea bream she handed over.
The fish was hung with a straw rope. It seemed to know that it had a new owner. It shook its tail vigorously and struggled violently.
Nan Youxi thought boredly that prey, like the famous sword in the story, would choose a capable master. If the master was weak, he would be injured by the prey.
Just like the fish in Mayu's hand, if someone who has never touched water had caught the fish, he would lose his composure due to the sudden struggle and would loosen his fingers, letting the fish fall to the ground. He would probably be shocked and have some shadows about the fish in his heart.
The fish may have known this in its own form, and so made a fuss when it changed owners.
However, it chose the wrong target. Moyu's palm was steady, and there was no change in the light and shadow in her eyes. She just stretched her arms a little to prevent the fish tail from touching her clothes.
After a while, the fish gave up resistance and calmed down. It had determined Moyu's capacity and knew that she was a qualified owner to eat.
After thinking about this for a while, Nan Youxi saw the old lady looking at him. The eyes on the old woman's face, which seemed very small due to the wrinkles, were staring at his face.
"What is this?" The old lady looked puzzled.
Hearing this, Nan Youxi stepped forward and wanted to introduce herself. She couldn't tell the truth about her identity, otherwise the girl would be like a girl who brought a strange man to her home.
He planned to pretend to be Moyu's distant relative and say that he came here on a business trip and to recuperate.
Before he spoke, Mo gave an answer first, which also perfectly solved the above problem, but brought a new problem.
"It's my fiancé." said Mayu.
"Um?"
"ah?"
Nan Youxi and the old lady exclaimed at the same time. Nan Youxi was less surprised, so he immediately put away his surprise. It would be more troublesome to expose the girl's lies at this time, so he kept silent for the time being. After returning home, he would ask the girl carefully to see what she meant.
"Moyu is 17 years old this year, and it's time. This man... is good." The old lady looked at Nan Youxi again, and this time, her eyes and expression were much more serious.
Nan Youxi didn't understand how the old lady could tell that it was good.
The old lady came up to him.
"How old are you?" The old man raised his head and looked at Nan Youxi's face.
"A little older than me." Mayu answered quickly.
Nan Youxi thought, it is indeed a billion points higher.
"Do you have any special skills?" the old man asked again.
"The painting is very beautiful." Moyu answered again.
"Painting, that's good. Moyu also likes painting." The old man nodded.
Nan Youxi thought the old lady would ask more questions, about work, life and assets, but unexpectedly, the old lady turned around and left.
"Goodbye, grandma!" Moyu raised her hand and waved towards the old woman's back.
The old man also raised his hand and waved twice.
"Let's go too, Yuuki." Mayu lowered her head and said to the fish in her right hand.
Minami Youxi was confused about her identity and didn't pay attention to Moyu's antics. Ignoring that was the most insulting reaction to a joke, the girl mentioned it again, wanting Minami Youxi to complain.
"It's turn right, Yuxi." She nodded her fish head.
"Look, that's a convenience store, Yuuki." She turned the fish in the direction of the store.
"Why aren't you talking, Yuuki?"
When we were almost at the residential area, the fish suddenly started struggling violently again, for some unknown reason.
This time, the struggle was much stronger and longer than before. Moyou's slender arms could not keep steady and were swung left and right by the fish. Several times, the fish's tail was about to hit her clothes. The girl had to intervene.
"Stop it, Yuxi!" She lifted the fish and smashed it hard against the corner. The fish head hit the concrete wall, making a loud noise.
Once, twice, three times, cement chips, broken scales, and fish saliva splashed everywhere. The fish stopped struggling.
"That's how you behave. Come home with me obediently." She touched the fish's head.
“… It seems I have to lock the door at night.” Nan Youxi couldn’t help but say.
"The spare keys of the house are all with me. Youxi, be careful. If you don't listen to me, I will attack you at night!" The girl smiled. Nan Youxi finally reacted. She felt that she had won.
They walked through a forest and entered a residential area. Residents had returned home from all over. Young and old greeted Mayu and looked curiously at Minami Yuki who was following behind her.
Mayu repeated to them what she had said to the old lady.
Asagiri's house is at the end of the residential area and is the tallest house. After climbing up the slope and hearing the sound of the waves, Minami Youxi knew that she had reached the house.
Moyu carried the fish into the kitchen. Nan Youxi leaned against the door frame and watched the girl skillfully gut the fish and cook it.
"Yuxi, what's wrong with you, Yuxi!" The girl scraped off the scales, dug out the internal organs, and placed the motionless sea bream on the chopping board, shouting in a sad voice.
Nan Youxi walked up and knocked her on the head.
Not planning to continue playing fish with the girl, Nan Youxi got to the point: "What about the fiancé? I don't remember having such a relationship with you."
"My mother taught me." The girl turned her face away.
"I'll send a message to Shagui and ask." Nan Youxi insisted.
The girl failed to pass the blame, she turned back and stuck out her tongue: "I don't think it's a big deal that my brother wants to live in my house, but if he doesn't have a legitimate identity, the residents on the island will have objections."
"Then they should say we are distant relatives!"
"Ah, so it's possible to do this? I forgot!"
The girl pretended to be confused, trying to see Nan Youxi's reaction, but the man showed no emotion.
She told the truth: "Mom said at the beginning that they were distant relatives, but even if they were distant relatives, it would be bad for a man and a woman to live together, right? My fiancé is the most convenient."
"How can anyone believe that I am bigger than the sand?"
"Everyone on the road believed it, didn't they? After all, Yuuki has a foul baby face."
"But… "
Before Minami Yuuki could finish her words, Moyu spoke first: "I don't care. All you need to do is say that the engagement is cancelled. Um... the reason is that Yuuki cheated on you."
"Okay." Nan Youxi was helpless. He wanted to pinch the girl's cheek to vent his anger, but when he saw the girl's mature cheeks and elegant curvy body, he withdrew his hand.
His hesitation and retreat did not escape Mayu's eyes, and the girl pushed him out of the kitchen: "Youxi can't help at all here, get out now."
After closing the kitchen door and listening to Nan Youxi's footsteps fading away, the smile on Moyou's face disappeared. She returned to the kitchen counter and stroked the fish tail on the chopping board with her soft fingertips.
She thought, if you didn't say you were her fiancé, you would leave Ge Island after staying there for a week at most. Even if you didn't leave, you would rent an empty house on the island and would not stay with me.
[Moyou calls you her fiancé in order to keep you in her home. ]
[You noticed her intention. You were planning to stay for two days, but you used the excuse that you had something to do and ran to the city or another island. You thought that this was Mayu's way of trying to keep you. Compared with verbal retention, this kind of retention was more radical and showed more emotional closeness.]
[Moyou noticed your hesitation, and she took out the Moyou farming map you gave her and hung it on the wall of the front hall. Every morning when you wake up, you will see this picture and think of your past time.]
[You talked to her about your past, and you found that the girl knew more about your past than you did, based on the parts reported in the news.]
[She talked about her life over the years, saying that there were few residents on the island and she couldn't find close friends; the school was far away and it took her two hours to commute every day; she came from Misaki and couldn't fit into the class at all, and she could only communicate with the old ladies on the island in her free time every day. ]
[You know, there may be some exaggeration in this, you think, at most there is a third of falsehood in it, so you feel pity for it.]
[You accompany the girl to the island to go fishing, strolling around, and after the island tour, you plan to take her to the city. You overestimate your energy, and after the island tour, you don't want to go anywhere. ]
[Although you like to collect folk songs, you don't like to go out. Going to the same old urban area is obviously not within your scope of collecting folk songs, so you are reluctant to go.]
[Moyou knows your habits, so she didn't drag you out and stayed at home with you. ]
[In the morning, the girl served a rich and delicious breakfast; at noon, the watermelon taken from the well in the yard was cool and delicious; in the afternoon, you and she played games and read novels and comics in the air-conditioned room; only at night, the girl took you to walk outside the house, to feel the cool sea breeze and watch the waves rolling.]
[You quickly get used to this decadent life. You feel like you have returned to ten years ago, to the day when you took Moyou to your home.]
[After a week like this, you suddenly realized a problem. ]
[Look at the date. It’s already September, the first day of school, and Mayu stays at home every day.]
[You asked Moyou about this, and she told you that the start date of the island school is different, and she is still on vacation. ]
[You believed it, and a few days later, you found yourself in an awkward situation.]
[This morning, you woke up at around nine o'clock as usual. You opened the curtains and the bright sunshine filled your bedroom.]
[Usually turn off the air conditioner, open the window, take off your pajamas and change into casual clothes.]
[The first strange thing happened. Usually, the clothes that would appear on your pillow on time every morning suddenly disappeared today.]
[You didn't care, you just thought Moyou forgot, and wanted to ask the girl. ]
[The second strange thing happened. The strength of your fingers failed to open the door. The door was locked.]
[You don't have the habit of locking your door. The only person who could lock your door is Moyu. This makes you wonder why the girl would lock your bedroom door?]
[You unlock the door, pick up your phone, and go out. You want to find the girl and ask her a question.]
[Walking in the quiet corridor, you looked down at your phone, and the third strange thing happened. You found that the girl sent you a message. The content of the message was - Don't go out! ]
[The message was sent ten minutes ago.]
[If you saw this kind of news at night, you might hesitate, but now it is daytime.]
[You quicken your pace to see what the girl is doing. ]
Memory scenes emerge.
The soles of the flip-flops stepped on the brown floor, making a slight sound that echoed in the corridor.
There are no windows in the corridor, and the lighting depends entirely on the light reflected from the rooms on both sides. It is not very bright. If it is cloudy, the lights in the corridor must be turned on during the day.
The living room is at the end of the corridor. In the hot summer, the entire wall panel leading to the backyard from the living room was removed, allowing sunlight to shine in, making the room exceptionally bright.
There were two cups of tea and a piece of cake on the low table in the living room.
Moyou sat with her back to the backyard, the dazzling sunlight filled her back, and from Nan Youxi's perspective, the girl seemed a bit dazzling. Therefore, he could not see the expression on the girl's face clearly.
He walked over to the girl, sat down, took a sip of tea, and asked, "Where are my clothes?"
At this time, his eyes adjusted to the sunlight and he could see the girl's expression clearly.
The girl's delicate and beautiful face was filled with surprise, anxiety and sadness.
Her gaze passed over Nan Youxi's head and fell behind the man.
Nan Youxi's hand holding the teacup froze. He realized something was wrong, took a deep breath, turned around, and looked in the direction the girl was looking.
He saw a short-haired woman wearing an OL uniform and glasses, who was about 20 years old and had a pretty face. At this moment, the woman held her wet hands and looked at him in astonishment.
Nan Youxi lowered her head, looked at her pajamas, thought about what she had just said, and fell silent.
"Brother, please go to work quickly!" Moyu broke the silence. She leaned forward and pushed Nan Youxi's shoulder.
"Yeah." Nan Youxi put down the teacup, stood up, and was about to leave this embarrassing place.
The woman with glasses was still standing there in a daze. The scene just now seemed too shocking for her.
It looked like Nan Youxi could escape before she came to her senses.
Wait, why are you leaving
Nan Youxi paused and sat back at the table.
If it was just an ordinary woman, why did Moyou hide it from him? She sent him a message asking him not to go out, because she didn't want him to see this woman, right
"Moyu, go make another cup of tea," he said to the girl.
Mayu knew she couldn't avoid it, so she sighed, got up frustratedly, and went to the kitchen to prepare tea.
Nan Youxi turned sideways, pointed to the seat next to Moyou, and looked at the woman standing there: "Please sit down."
The commanding tone brought the woman back to her senses. She walked over to the cushion and knelt down.
"Good morning, I am Mayu's brother,... Asagiri Yuki, who are you?" Minami Yuki raised her head and looked at the woman in front of her.
The woman stammered, "I, I'm Imagawa Mana, Asagiri, no, Mayu-san's homeroom teacher."
"It's Mr. Imagawa. Excuse me. Let me change my clothes first."
"Okay, okay."
Walking into the yard from the eaves, Nan Youxi took her clothes off the clothesline, changed in the bedroom, and returned to the living room.
Moyu and the homeroom teacher were sitting there obediently. Minami Youxi sat down in front of them. He had guessed what was going on and looked at Moyu with blame in his eyes.
Moyu looked away, as if she was invulnerable to anything. The head teacher next to her was startled and lowered her head in fear.
"What's the matter with Mr. Imagawa coming here today?" asked Minami Yuxi.
"Moyu has been on leave for a long time, so I came to see her." Imagawa Mana carefully raised her head and glanced at the man opposite her. The expression on the man's face was more serious than before, so she quickly lowered her head again.
"I understand. Mayu will go to school tomorrow, no, today. Thank you for troubling Mr. Imagawa."
"Eh? Is that so? Then I'll go back first." Imagawa Mana didn't expect things to go so smoothly, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Teacher, please wait for a moment. I'll take Mayu to school." Nan Youxi called her.
"Yeah." Imagawa Mana sat down again and looked at the girl next to her. She realized that not going to school seemed to be a one-sided problem of the girl.
Nan Youxi stood up and said to the girl who lowered her head, "Moyou, come and pack your schoolbag."
"No need to pack, the schoolbag is at the entrance." Moyu didn't dare to look directly at Nan Youxi. She stood up by supporting herself on the ground and wanted to escape to school.
"No, you need to clean up!" Nan Youxi grabbed her shoulders and dragged her to the bedroom.
(End of this chapter)