The little flying bird muttered and turned around, trying to avoid the intrusion of the fifth watch.

"Hey, why don't you leave here if you don't leave?" Wu changed his hand and patted her face. Still no response.

"Forget it, I'll carry her back." He sighed.

"I'll do it." Gao Shan stood up.

"That's okay." Wu Geng didn't give in. Xiao Feiniao looked six or seven centimeters taller than her, so it was really inconvenient for Wu Geng to carry her words.

"Are we leaving now, before the end of this year?" Fukawa said.

There are nearly two hours until the New Year, and Mother Asuka is still waiting for her to send her daughter back. Besides, she never planned to stay too late from the beginning. Tokyo is not dangerous, but staying on the streets in the early morning is indeed not safe.

It's appropriate, not to mention that the trams were out of service at that time.

On the other side of the mountain, a little flying bird was already on its back, with a subtle expression on its face. The little flying bird also frowned and snorted.

"What's wrong?"

"Asuka-chan... your belly is pushing against me."

Wu Geng glared at Ikoma who had just stood up from the sofa while rubbing his belly, "How much food have you eaten? Are you going to work so hard?"

Matsumura leaned back on his seat and sighed contentedly, "In the end, my Apple Princess is the better."

Hashimoto took a coat from the hanger and said, "I'll take you downstairs."

"I'll go too."

"No, I can be alone. Mai, please stay here."

"Shiraishi-san, are you staying here?" Nishino asked.

"It's okay if we leave later, we are adults after all." Shiraishi smiled at her, "How about Nanasai stay here and wait for the New Year before going back?"

"...I'd better go back with Xiaoxiao."

Wu Geng glanced at Nishino, who was shaking his head slightly, and remembered that she seemed to be more supportive of Shiraishi in the past. Because of her shy personality, she never took the initiative to talk. I don’t know how the two of them get along now.

When going out, Wu Geng and Hashimoto walked in the front, Gao Shan carried the little bird on his back, and Nishino helped watch.

Looking back at five o'clock, I happened to see Nishino lifting Little Bird's arm hanging by his side and placing it on Gaoshan's shoulder.

"Nanamin, have you and your brother spoken to each other?" Wu Geng asked. Hashimoto invited her to the New Year's Group gathering, partly because of her brother, who felt troubled by Wu Geng.

"I called in the afternoon and mentioned it a little bit. Although they still didn't let go, they agreed that they would come to Tokyo to meet and have a good talk."

"Why is Nanamin so opposed to his younger brother going to Beijing?" The nearby street lights were a little further apart, and they just walked to the dark place between the two street lights. Wu Geng noticed that Hashimoto was looking at her sideways.

"Ah, I don't mean anything else, I just don't understand. Although I don't want my brother to come to Tokyo to study, and I think it's too early, but after all, it's his own decision, so it's not good to interfere too much. He usually

I'm still very independent. My father probably felt the same way, so he didn't refuse. After all, it's not a big deal to go to Beijing to study, even in high school. Maybe my thoughts are relatively simple."

"..."

Hashimoto paused for a long time. Just when Wu Geng thought that she couldn't speak, he heard her suddenly say: "How is Shixiao-chan getting along with dad?"

Faced with this question of being suddenly taken away, Wu Geng didn't know how to answer, "It's okay... My dad seldom takes care of me and my brother, maybe because-" It stopped here, she didn't feel that

It is a good choice to talk about the deeper family situation here, but it will only make things look more complicated.

"It's nothing," Wu Geng shook his head, "My dad actually respects my brother and I's ideas." This is the truth.

"...That's good." Hashimoto said.

"When I first entered junior high school, my brother was admitted to a pretty good university in Tokyo." Hashimoto suddenly talked about his brother.

"At that time, his parents had always been opposed to him going to Beijing. At that time, there were often news of young people going to Beijing, and they might go back home once or twice a year. My parents were both afraid of loneliness and were unwilling to let their son go.

At that time, my brother thought that his family was frightened by the high tuition fees, but in fact he had misunderstood. His parents simply did not want their son to leave their side. But my brother did not give up, so his father cut off his living expenses and restricted him.

I went out. I thought I could keep my son with me in Hokkaido, but I didn’t expect that my brother would escape in the end.”

"and after?"

"Later? Later, my parents called the police out of desperation, but my brother did not run away from home but just went to university in Tokyo. The police could only help mediate between the two parties and had no power to arrest my brother. After my brother went to university in Tokyo, he would often

When I called back, my father was so angry that he never answered the phone once. It was always my mother who answered the phone, asking about the situation on his side.

"During college, he didn't ask for money from his family. He mostly worked to raise tuition and living expenses. Oh, and there were scholarships. His college tutor admired him very much and sometimes helped to advance part of the expenses. After graduation, he worked for his tutor

I found a job at a magazine in Tokyo through the introduction of my friend. I don’t know if he is still angry with his father. He rarely goes back to Hokkaido, and even when he does, he often bickers with his father, and eventually they break up.

"If it weren't for my father being hospitalized with a back injury, my brother might not really have planned to return to Hokkaido to live permanently. They stayed in the ward for a long time, and maybe they secretly reached some kind of reconciliation. After that, my brother found a job and settled down in Hokkaido. Maybe he had originally

The main reason why my brother stayed in Tokyo to work was because he was angry with his father."

"Nanamin, you..." Wu Geng didn't finish her sentence. Her meaning was obvious.

"When I was admitted to Musashino Art University, my parents were still opposed to it, but not as strongly as my brother was. In addition, my brother was there to help me. At that time, the family was really in financial difficulty. I had to support my younger brother's studies, and there was no extra money.

Pay my tuition. My brother has a family and his wife is just pregnant, so there are a lot of things that need money. So I said that I can survive without relying on anyone, just like my brother did back then. Maybe this sentence angered my father,

He said, 'Do whatever you want!' and stopped stopping me."

Hashimoto lowered his head and smiled, seeing that the shadow under his feet was stretched thin and slender, like a straight, trembling thread.

Nogizaka Story
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