[bright] time

(bright side)

Liang pushed the trolley of the fresh supermarket to the fish section, stopped at the cooked food section and stood looking at it for a while, thinking that a certain delusional person just couldn't reach out to pick up the things on the shelf.

Finally, he sighed and decided to buy other substitute ingredients. When he was pushing the vegetable basket and was about to walk to the checkout area, he suddenly saw a familiar profile face.

The woman with the curly hair was wearing an unnatural smile and listening to another woman with curly hair who also looked like a housewife.Nodding his head in response,

"That's right. But it's because of this that Mrs. Kataoka needs to teach her more. I learned it slowly from my mother-in-law after I got married."

"Oh! It would be great if she could listen! That daughter-in-law of my family is against me all the time, and she puts on a bad face when I tell her a little bit. If she does a good job, I will say more Really? It’s really hard to be a mother-in-law these days!”

"Ah..., that's it." Mitsuko nodded again in embarrassment, and responded.

Seeing that Mitsuko seemed very troubled, Ryo walked over to say hello,

"Auntie, hello, what a coincidence."

"Taya-kun... are you here to buy things too?" Mitsuko turned around in surprise and smiled.

Just when Ryo was about to answer, the wife who was standing next to him spoke a step earlier.

"Oh! Ryo-kun! It's been a long time! You've been very active recently! I often see you in magazines! If you have time, why don't you come and see this year's autumn sports meeting? Aunts are looking forward to it! Hehehe~" Laughing loudly, he patted Liang on the shoulder habitually.

He came here with the intention of helping Mitsuko out of trouble, but found that the woman holding Mitsuko and talking was one of the Obasans who stretched out her claws to touch her hair at the community sports meeting last year, and her heart skipped a beat.

Liang, who has always been confident in getting along with his elders, discovered at the sports meeting that there are elders in this world who make him feel troublesome.

"Mom! Haven't you been alright yet? It's been a long time!" A girl with dyed brown curly hair and a bun on her head was holding a supermarket basket, looking here with one hand on her hip with an unhappy face.

"Come here as soon as you come! Oh~, what the hell? You must call this dead old woman in your heart. Then I'll go first, Mrs. Shinto, Ryo-kun! I really want to come and see the sports meeting when I have time!" Pushing the trolley towards the girl, he pointed to the girl's vegetable basket.

"Really, didn't you say that compared to the cooked food made in the store, it's safer to cook at home! I bought it again!"

"It's convenient to buy freshly made ones! Do you have to fry them in a big oil pan just to eat a few fried shrimps? How troublesome?"

"Do you know what kind of oil people use? Are the shrimps fresh? How many times do you want Mom to tell you that you should be more considerate of Shinya's health!"

Mrs. Kataoka just drifted away while reading.Then at the corner, the young daughter-in-law nodded to Mitsuko and Mitsuko responded with a smile.

"It's really nerve-wracking. Hehe~" Mitsuko sighed and said to Liang after the person walked away.

"Ms. Kataoka is very humane, and she is very good at cooking and housework, but she likes to talk a little bit. Although her daughter-in-law looks sullen and looks unapproachable, in fact, she will respond well whenever someone greets her. Last time He also helped tidy up the garbage that was bitten by cats. Why can’t these two people get along well? It’s nerve-wracking…”

In my aunt's heart, there is no really annoying person in this world, and I like an aunt who thinks like this.

Shinto said it was naive and not smart enough, but I just like this kind heart without calculation.You can always feel a stable and gentle atmosphere and full tolerance from her.

So far, I have never wanted to be anyone's child and call someone else's mother.But after getting to know Auntie... Sometimes I just envy Shinto.

Looking at Mitsuko Ryo with a sad face, she thought so in her heart.

"Well, if they can see each other's goodness, maybe it will change." I think Auntie always finds good things in others so that she doesn't hate people.

Mitsuko tilted her head and thought for a while, then looked up at Liang's face, as if asking for his opinion,

"Is that so?...Then next time Auntie casually proposes in front of them."

"Well, I think it's best for aunt to mention it. It's more objective to mention it by a third party." And just like aunt doesn't hate anyone, no one will think she hates.

"Hehe~ The so-called bystander is clear, Auntie will try it, and tell Taya-kun if it works some other day?" Smiled gently at Liang.

"Yes, I hope there is good news."

"Yeah. Sigh~, I'd better discuss it with Taya-kun. If you tell Hikari about this kind of thing, you will definitely say something. Don't worry about other people's housework, as long as I get along well with grandma. I don't know if I always stand on the sidelines." How difficult it is for me to listen to the character.”

"He always hates troublesome things." Although it wasn't him, Ryo felt sorry for Hikari's answer.

"That's right, that child who is too lazy to use his brain. By the way, why did Taya-kun come to the neighborhood? The supermarket here is a little far from your house, right?"

"Uh...uh..."

The supermarket where Liang is now is just in the middle of Guang's old home and Liang's home, that is, near Guang's apartment.There is no other reason, because Liang Liang is planning to go to the place where Guang lives later, and the ingredients he bought now are to be taken to Guang's house.Suddenly asked by Mitsuko, she didn't know how to answer.

"Hehe~, are you like Auntie, thinking today is Fruit Day? You bought such a big watermelon." Before Liang answered, Mitsuko slapped her palm with a smile, pointing to the watermelon in the bright vegetable basket ,

"But Auntie just bought one too, it's really a slippery deal."

"...Yeah." Ryo nodded and smiled.

"But such a big one, Taya-kun's parents are still abroad now, right? Taya-kun also likes to eat watermelon? Our family also likes to eat watermelon, especially when the weather is hot. Eat a big one!"

"Eh?...um...ah, I like it." Ryo's answer became vague again.

If you want to eat light, of course you will buy the kind that is cut and sold. The problem is that it is for light food.Unexpectedly, he was talked about in his mind, so he nodded ambiguously and admitted that he liked it anyway, although not to the point of eating a whole one.

"But a whole one is too much. It's not a matter of being a big eater. Taya-kun doesn't eat too much. Could it be that he has lost his appetite recently? You don't know if you eat watermelon all day long?

It is because of the hot weather that we should pay more attention to a balanced diet and drink plenty of warm water. Like light, we run around all summer and only eat cold food. In the end of summer, our body will suffer from chronic heat stroke. "

"...Does Mitsu-kun do this every summer?" Ryo asked as if suddenly thinking of something after hearing Mitsuko's words.

"Yeah. It's like this almost every summer. I'm not sick, but I just have a loss of appetite, and I'm lazy. I'm really not good at learning. I play around in the sun on the summer vacation because I'm a summer child. When it's time to start school, the weather will be cooler. At that time, the accumulated heat of the whole summer will make a big counterattack, and this year should be no exception, right? I’m really worried.”

Mitsuko tilted her head and sighed, wondering if she was going to ask Hikari to go home to help him mend it in the next few days.

"Then... is there any solution? If you suffer from chronic heat stroke." Ryo continued to ask.

"The solution is to start with a daily diet besides taking a good rest. Eat more vegetables that are abundant in summer, such as tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, green peppers, etc. are good choices...──, Taya-kun Isn’t this all bought? It’s not easy, it’s clear what summer vegetables are!” Mitsuko said in admiration while looking at the things in the bright vegetable basket.

"I used to go to the fresh market with my mother. I remember that my mother bought these more often in summer."

Liang replied shyly.

"Hehe, it's amazing. Then, apart from these vegetables, the most effective against heat is of course eel!" Pushing the cart to the shelf full of Pu eels, I took two packaged ones. Eels in bright baskets,

"Come on, eat more! You have to take care of yourself when your parents are not around, you know?"

"Yes, thank you, Auntie." Looking at Mitsuko's worried face, Ryo smiled back heartily, but at the same time felt sorry.Auntie really thought heatstroke was what I looked like....

"Taya-kun will come to my aunt's house for dinner one day. After Hikari moved out of the house, the opportunities to meet Taya-kun have decreased, and it's actually a bit lonely. Next time, even if I don't invite Hikari-kun, why don't you come by yourself? Let auntie take care Can you mend it for me? You're welcome!"

"Well..., if Auntie doesn't dislike it." Ryo answered with a smile.

Pushing the cart to check out, Liang and Mitsuko walked out of the supermarket together. Originally, Liang wanted to help Mitsuko take the shopping home together, but Mitsuko said that her husband would come to pick her up, so Liang took a taxi back to the place where Light lived.

He took out the key of Guang's house, opened the door and put the things in the refrigerator to freeze. He sat in the living room and stared blankly at himself reflected in the LCD screen directly in front of him, thinking that he had deliberately done something to deceive Mitsuko just now.

It only takes about ten minutes to walk from the supermarket to Shindo's house, and although the things in my hands are not light, they are not so heavy that I need to take a taxi.Just because Mitsuko was watching, and because she couldn't let her know that she bought these things to go to Guang's house, Liang finally chose to take a taxi so that she thought he was going home.

Auntie waved her hand kindly to say goodbye to me, and the next second the taxi door closed, the destination I answered was the address of Shinto’s house not far away. …so sneaky and duplicity.

Feeling self-loathing to the extreme, I grabbed the rattan pillow that was lying on the sofa and used it for a nap, hugged it in my arms, buried my face in the pillow, took a few deep breaths, smelled the smell of the owner of the house, and remembered what the owner of the house said if.

"I'm lying, too, as are we.There's nothing to worry about because the lies we tell together.

Lies bind us painfully, but they also make us closer and more inseparable.Right? 』

I often feel that fortunately Shindo is an optimistic thinker. His words and deeds always make me feel a lot more relaxed. I think confidently that we are not wrong and we are right.

Holding tightly again, he rubbed his cheeks on the pillow a few times. The cool and soft touch made Liang raise his head and look at the pillow in his hand, which was in the shape of a black cat's hand.

"Why not a puppy?Black cats are not unlucky. 』Looking at the webpage of the pillow specialty store on the computer screen, Shinto checked the black cat's hand and prepared to place an order.

"I like cats, especially little black cats.Noble and elegant, just like you.where?Hey~" He grinned.

Entering this room and coming to a space full of "shen vines", it is as if you are isolated from the world, you can close all your troubles and worries outside, and just immerse yourself in the quiet and stable air.

***

"Taya, are you here?"

The sound of light came from the door, unlike before, there seemed to be no surprise in the sound.The bright probe said to the light,

"Well, excuse me, wash your hands and eat?"

"...Oh, thanks. You also help me cook." Hikari replied listlessly.

He took off his shoes and went to the washroom, washed his hands and face, went to the chair at the dining table and sat down, staring at the dishes on the table with dull eyes,

"...Grilled eel, eel bibimbap, fried eel with green peppers, eel omelette, eel cold with cucumber...how come the table is full of eels." He said in a calm tone.

"Also... the table is not full. There are also a lot of summer vegetables. Miso eggplant, tomato soup, these are not eels!"

"...Oh, that's right."

There are only two dishes without eels, but the table is full of eels!If the normal light would definitely bite back, it's a pity that he is in a state of chronic heatstroke, and his brain is on strike.

Looking at the obviously different light from usual, Ryo asked worriedly, "Are you tired? How is work?"

Today's NHK Cup televised Go match happened to be the match between Kurata and Ikaku, and Hikaru was entrusted to be the commentator for the first time.

"Hmm..., almost. It's easier to speak to the camera than to the crowd, and you don't have to pay attention to the expressions of the audience."

"You don't want to pick only the ones you are interested in talking about?" This is Shinto's shortcoming. When he sees the chess moves he is interested in, he will talk at length, and if he is not interested, he will skip it. Not everyone who ignores chess They are all chess players with ranks, as if he is participating in a seminar.

Guang thought about it for a long time this time, as if he was turning his head and reviewing the situation at work today,

"..., it should be okay. The partner is Oka, he is full of questions, and sometimes he will pull me back if he talks too deep or too far."

"...Is that so? I started."

Liang closed his eyes, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of cucumber and chewed it in his mouth, making a crisp sound.

"Yeah....Then I'll drive it too..." Guang, who was about to start it, found that his chopsticks were still being controlled by the light buckle.

"...I don't have chopsticks." Turning his head, he looked at Ryo who was holding the eggplant in his elegant posture and taking a bite.

"..."

Liang turned his pitch-black eyes to look at the light, picked up the chopsticks specially designed for light, pointed the tip of the chopsticks at the light, and asked him to take it.

"...Oh, thank you." He took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of cucumber like Liang, and chewed it crisply, but he didn't notice any abnormality at all.Driving on his own, pointing the tip of his chopsticks at someone and other impolite things are not what Liang would do under normal circumstances, unless he was angry.It's a pity that, as mentioned just now, the light in the state of chronic heat stroke can't notice this step, and quietly shovels the rice grains in the bowl with chopsticks.

Looking at the unusually seldom-talking, unusually well-behaved, unusually slow, and unusually sluggish Guangming, Liang couldn't help but start to worry from the bottom of his heart. Just three hours of work is like squeezing all his physical strength. Chess games, baseball, and sea fishing are not as tiring as these days. It seems that this year's chronic heatstroke is quite serious.

So I caught a piece of grilled eel for the light,

"Eat more, I bought it specially."

"... Oh, thanks." Staring at the eel that Liang had given to him, he took a look at it and took a bite.

"There's still watermelon in the fridge after eating, I've already cut it up."

"...Oh." Replied, after eating the grilled eel, he picked up a piece of eel omelet on the plate in front of him, stopped in mid-air, looked at it, put it in his mouth, bit it, and nodded like a kindergarten student.

"…tasty."

This was the first time that Guang said the word delicious since the start of the day, which made Liang heave a sigh of relief.

In the past, as long as the food made by Liang was delicious or unpalatable, he would say it immediately after the first bite, and he would never be expressionless, and he took it for granted that he ate the food that Liang helped him prepare.It wasn't until the recent chronic heatstroke incident that Liang realized how important those reactions to light were to him.

"..., why does it taste a bit like my mother's..."

"I met my aunt when I was shopping in the supermarket just now. She taught me that you usually eat like this at home." Great, Shinto's sense of taste has recovered. Is it because of the piece of grilled eel just now?so effective?

"Well, I see it almost every summer. You can eat it too, don't just watch me eat it, maybe it's hot and you don't have an appetite?" Put a piece of eel omelet into a bright bowl, and pick it up by yourself Mouth eel bibimbap.

Listening, Liang began to smile inwardly, and gave Guang another piece of grilled eel,

"Don't worry about me, you only need to eat more, and this is for you too. After eating, go take a shower and sleep. Are you tired easily recently?"

"Is there? ... I think it's okay. The state of Go is good. I was praised by Mr. Morishita yesterday; ... the work is getting smoother and smoother. Shinohara-sensei said that he is now relieved to let me substitute for the class; ... the seminar is not absent .Others and..." Hikaru muttered to himself, mechanically ate all the eels that Ryo gave him, without the slightest awareness that he was in a state of heat stroke.

"Shall I wash the dishes? You go take a shower, and go to bed after you take a shower."

"...Huh? No need. Do I really look that tired?" Folding up his sleeves, he stopped when he was about to put away the dishes for washing.One person cooks while the other washes the dishes is Guang He Liang's usual practice.

"Yes! Go, I'll prepare the clothes for you." Pushing Guang into the washroom, he closed the sliding door.

I took the bare clothes from the closet and put them in the closet in the washroom, and said to Guang through the bathroom door,

"Shinto, I brought you some clothes. I'll go back after washing the dishes. Go to bed early today."

The sound of water from the shower head stopped, and there was an echoing answer from the bathroom,

"...Oh, thank you." Soaked into the bathtub, Guang said leisurely.

What, thank you... I don't know how many times I've listened to it today, Ryo sighed while washing the dishes.

***

After washing the dishes and drying his hands, Liang went into the study and took the bag and carried it on his shoulder.After changing into slippers, he took out his leather shoes from the shoe cabinet and put them on, and said to the door of the bathroom: "I'm going back."

"Crack-crack--" Turning the doorknob made the sound of the automatic lock unlocking.

But at this moment, there was a sound of "ping, ping, bang, bang" from the bathroom. Liang felt strange and was about to turn around when the door was just opened a crack when two big hands stretched out from behind pressed it down, "touching" the ground. The door frame was closed with a loud noise.

"Crack, click -" the automatic lock sounded again, and the lock was re-locked.

Liang stared at the hands stuck to the door panel, feeling the hot steam and the aroma of body wash coming towards him from time to time.Without turning his head, he knew that there was only one person in the room who would do such a thing, so he frowned and asked a little angrily:

"What are you doing, Shinto."

"Sorry Taya, I seem to have missed a lot of things... but I'm already awake."

The hand on the door panel was wet, with long fingers and short nails, it felt very clean, and the obvious joints looked very strong. Transparent water droplets slid through the blue veins on the back of the hand and dripped to the ground.

Liang couldn't help looking away, but he didn't know that when he turned his eyes away, more naked pictures came into his sight... A naked arm straddled his ear. ... Only then did I realize that the person standing behind me was now completely naked.Quickly turned back to stare at the door panel, stiffened his body,

"Why don't you wear clothes!!"

"You can go back after wearing it? How can there be time?... Listen to me first. I'm sorry, I asked you to cook and wash the dishes. Let me do it all next time?" Guang stood behind Liang with a repentant expression. The tone said.

Almost every time I asked a question, the light became brighter by nearly [-] centimeter, and I stretched my neck to look at Liang's face and listen to his answer.And this action made Ryo more clearly smell the smell of just taking a bath permeating Hikari's body, and feel the heat surrounding Hikari's whole body.A little dizzy, Liang nodded indiscriminately.I just hope that Hikari will soon finish what he wants to say and go get dressed, but Hikari continues to talk for a long time....

"Then you still said you bought watermelon today? A whole one? Just carry it back like this? Isn't it heavy?"

"...Fortunately, I came here by taxi."

"Taxi? That's fine, but next time we go together when I come back? Wouldn't it be easier for the two of you?"

"Understood....You go and get dressed."

Being squeezed by the approaching light, Liang, who was almost pressed against the door panel, pushed the light with his shoulder.At this time, the water droplets hanging on Guang's body directly printed on Liang's skin through the thin shirt. The wet and cool touch made Liang startled, and he didn't dare to move around.

"Yes! I'll wear it later. I haven't finished talking yet. Then you said you met my mother?"

Guang, who had been pushed away by Liang, leaned closer again, and asked with a worried tone on his face,

"...Are you okay? My mother is a scheming person, and she likes you so much, so don't think too much. Do you have any?"

"...No." After listening to Hikari's words, Ryo's state of panic eased a little and shook his head.

"Really?" Hikaru confirmed with disbelief.

"Hmm." I hadn't thought about it.Liang answered in his heart.

"That's good. And the eel omelette, my mother said I like it, so you made it for me, right? Hey~ Thanks, it's super delicious! I'm sorry, but you didn't pay attention to what you said..."

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but Guang's body that was still emitting steam was attached to Liang's back, and the lips and nose that kept exhaling hot breath also kept moving on Liang's cheeks and shoulders.This made Liang's heart beat wildly, his head seemed to be boiling, and he continued to be confused, so he could only nod his head,

"…It doesn't matter."

"Phew~ Great, you were a little angry just now, right? It's fine if you don't get angry now!"

Of course, this was not the reason for Liang's unhappiness when he was eating, he was completely in the wrong direction.

"Taya...turn around, why don't you get angry and keep talking with your back to me?"

As Guang said, he turned Liang's body around.

Before he had time to refute, he was forced to face the bright light, and he didn't know where to put his gaze.I want to lower my head to hide my flushed cheeks, but in this case, I only have the view from the bottom, Ryo wants to avoid it no matter what, neither does looking up, nor does it work to the left, only the face staring straight at Hikari, with an angry expression No difference.

"...Isn't that face angry yet?"

"no."

"Is there anything else I haven't noticed?"

"No. You go and get dressed! I don't care about you if you have a cold!"

"Tsk, are you the one who caught the cold? Your face is so red when you're not angry?" Touching Liang's face.

"Did you say it!" Slapping away Guang's hand, he lowered his face reflexively, and instantly raised his head as if struck by lightning, the blush on his cheeks spread to his two ears.

No matter how unnatural a series of movements looked, Hikaru evoked a sly smile.

"Oh~, so that's the case. Thinking about it carefully, it's only been one time recently....I'm sorry, Taya, for making you feel lonely. I'm really a disqualified lover. Let me make a good apology?"

"what are you saying!?"

"I'm very sober now. The table is full of eels today, right?"

As she said, she hugged Liang's waist and hugged her in her direction. The white shirt, which was ironed evenly, was not only wrinkled because of Guang's tight hug, but also became transparent and clingy because of absorbing the water droplets on her body.

"──...you!?"

That's why I didn't want to buy eels... I knew that with his poor head, he would immediately think of that...

"Idiot! It's not what you're thinking!! It's because you have chronic heatstroke that I asked my aunt what is the most effective food, and my aunt told me that I bought the eel! Don't think too much!"

Push away the light to separate the distance, but it's a pity that the waist is being buckled, which is useless.

"Yes yes yes! You are still so stubborn, you are still angry...I will make it up to you, today's goal is five times!"

"Five...five times?...What are you talking about? Let go!" Pushing Guang, he tried hard to release the hand that was clasped around his waist.

"Hey~ What's the matter? Of course it's sex!...Suddenly I feel that the situation is super good, I think it's seven times?"

"You hopeless idiot!! What a joke!!"

"No way?...That's five times Luo? Follow orders!!" He hugged Ryo by the waist.

"Yeah──!! Put me down into the vine!!" It was the first time someone picked him up like this, and he was so angry that he struggled.

"No. Thanks to your eel feast, I'm full of energy now! Try it?"

"Idiot Shinto!!! I won't worry about you anymore!!!"