The roof terrace is not particularly wide.
Think about it, after all, it's not an apartment, and if the space is really big, it can't be renovated all at once. In the end, it's just the original small attic that was opened and renovated, but the visual effect is really good. , standing on it has a vast view, and even the surrounding space seems to have expanded in a circle.
"The moon is out, is it already this time?"
"The sky is very nice today. Even at night, there are no clouds in the sky. It feels like there are more stars. I haven't seen anything like this for a long time..."
"That should be the Sky Tree over there. Yes, the Sky Tree is in Sumida District. I haven't seen it properly before. It turns out to be so beautiful at night."
...
Although Hashimoto Nana's tone was still calm, her words revealed a bit of joy and relaxation. The light shining in her eyes was not only the reflection of the neon lights, but also revealed some inexplicable emotions inside.
Looking up, in the distant night sky, the Tokyo Sky Tree stands tall in the center of the city. The light is the pink of the cherry blossoms, the district tree of Sumida District. In the gradually darkening night, many details of the steel pouring cannot be seen clearly. In the haze, it seems real. There is a tall cherry blossom tree rooted here, which looks even more dreamy compared to the busy scene around it.
Baiyunshan put his hands behind his head, blowing the cool breeze in the dusk, and said leisurely: "How is it?"
Hashimoto Nana did not hesitate, nodded and said: "Very good."
"How nice is that?"
"My hometown is in Hokkaido. Hakodate City in Hokkaido is known as a million-dollar night view. I went there once and it was really beautiful." Nana Hashimoto looked at the sky tree in the distance and said: "The night view here may not be as good as a million. It’s an exaggeration, but one hundred thousand is enough.”
"So seeing it here ten times is about the same as seeing it once in Hakodate City?" Baiyunshan touched his chin and thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "It's just that I would rather you see the night view here a hundred times than you Go to Hakodate and see it once.”
"Why?"
The girl turned her head and looked at him, a little confused.
"Because it's so unlucky."
Baiyunshan didn't explain much, but replied lightly.
Nana Hashimoto frowned involuntarily. Ominous? Why is it unlucky? There are many beautiful rumors about the night view of Hakodate City, and there is also an urban legend that if you find a heart shape in the night view, you will gain happiness. How can this be unlucky?
Baiyunshan pinched the girl's subconsciously frowning brows as if pinching the fat cheeks of a little bird, and interrupted her thoughts: "Children, don't think too much, there is no profound meaning in this sentence."
Hashimoto Nana didn't frown this time, she just stood there and glared at him resentfully. She didn't like Baiyunshan's attitude of deliberately treating her like a child. It was clear that the other person was not much older than her, but he spoke in such a strange way. There is always an old-fashioned feeling.
Baiyunshan curled up his lips and said proudly: "I am an adult after all, and these are the rights of adults."
After saying that, he looked at the shining Sky Tree in the distance and said, "Look, you keep looking there. Why, do you really want to go to the Sky Tree?"
Hashimoto Nana nodded and said seriously: "I will definitely go up there again in the future."
"Have you never been there before?"
"No, Mai Mai is afraid of heights. Besides, I have never been able to find anyone to go with me."
"Then I will accompany you to see it later."
"good."
The agreement was made so easily, Baiyunshan couldn't help but asked curiously: "This may be a bit presumptuous, but I still want to know, what do you want to do after you go up?"
"I want to see the stars."
Unexpectedly, Hashimoto Nana responded like this.
"Star?"
"The Sky Tree is very tall. You should be able to see the stars more clearly there."
It had been a long time since Nana Hashimoto had seen the stars as clear and bright as in her memory. They were spread out one by one, as if the silver sand reflected in the river when playing with a flashlight on a summer night was shining brightly, and the silence was long.
The Milky Way is vast, and these stars have taken care of the human world for thousands of years. Human beings have grown from ignorance to wisdom.
But there is one who has taken care of the girl for more than ten years, from babbling to graceful.
She believed there was such a one.
There were so many stars, and she wanted to see them.
——The star named Father.
"You can see it very clearly from here."
Baiyunshan suddenly said.
He stretched out his hand, pointed to a corner of the sky, and said: "The spoon-like thing over there is the Big Dipper. The bright star facing it is the Polaris. Altair is over there, Vega is over there, and Orion is on the other side. On one side, and next to it is Pisces..."
He knew all the treasures in his family and pointed out the coordinates in the night sky one by one.
Nana Hashimoto looked along her fingers and tried her best to keep her eyes open, but she didn't see the majestic galaxy in her imagination, and could only spot a few twinkling stars here and there.
"Why don't I see anything?"
The girl was silent for a moment, then turned around and asked.
Baiyunshan looked at her and said with a strange expression, "Because I have memorized them in my heart a long time ago. You cannot see the stars when you look up. You can only see them clearly if you memorize them in your heart."
Keep the stars in mind.
Hashimoto Nana was stunned, and seemed to understand what he meant.
Bai Yunshan pinched her eyebrows again, smoothed away her frown, and said calmly: "As I said before, don't think too much, there is no deep meaning."
The girl squinted her eyes and snorted slightly with dissatisfaction. It seemed to be a response, but in fact she was thinking that you always say this, but you always say something interesting. How could you not think more about it?
Baiyunshan continued: "I have never believed in the legend that people will turn into stars in the sky after death, because I prefer the moon to the stars."
"The stars are eternal and they are too far away from us. Even the nearest star to us, the sun, is 1.5 billion kilometers away. Such a long distance makes them so high up that no changes can be seen. There is no human touch at all. It is really too It’s not interesting anymore—that’s why I like the moon.”
"The moon waxes and wanes, just like people's joys, sorrows, and joys. This is true. When I see the full moon, I feel happy. When I see the waning moon, I look forward to it becoming full. Just like life, life always needs some hope. There is no The vague purpose will sooner or later turn into stars that cannot see any changes. Such stars are like the sand in the desert, boring and boring."
He spoke calmly, as if he was outside the world, but his eyes became colder than the moonlight.
Hashimoto Nana looked at him quietly, as if she could feel the other person's lingering loneliness. This loneliness was no different from the sand in his mouth, even though there were countless sands crowding around him, forming a long stretch of sand. There is no end to the desert, but this one in the desert is still lonely.
She wanted to speak to comfort her, but she didn't know what to say.
Lonely people huddled together for warmth, but no matter how much sand gathered together, it could not warm them up. When the moonlight fell, it became extremely cold again.
Fortunately, Baiyunshan's mood didn't last long, and he regained his lazy look. He suddenly turned to the girl and asked, "Do you want to take off the moon?"
Hashimoto Nana was slightly startled and nodded subconsciously.
Baiyunshan smiled, turned around and went downstairs. He dug out a can of plum wine from the cellar next to the courtyard, then went upstairs with the cup and wine.
The clear wine is poured into the milky white porcelain cup, and the bright moon in the night sky is bound to this world.
Even the faint fragrance of plum wine seems to come from the moon palace above the nine heavens.
"How about it?"
Baiyunshan looked at her proudly, as if a seven or eight-year-old child had bought a novel toy to show off to his friends around him, and raised his eyebrows.
Hashimoto Nana was not amused by the other party's smug expression. She covered her mouth with her right hand with her little finger raised and smiled for a moment. Then she tilted her head and said coquettishly: "I stopped playing such childish tricks when I was in the sixth grade of elementary school. .”
As he said this, the smile in his eyes was more intoxicating than the wine.
Baiyunshan also smiled, drank the wine in the glass, and continued: "Let's talk about something that is not childish. There is a farm where the number of chickens is four times that of ducks, but there are nine fewer ducks than pigs. The ducks follow The total number of pigs is sixty-seven. How many feet do all the animals in the entire farm have?"
Hashimoto Nana said without blinking: "Where have you heard this question before?"
"This is a question Kawago asked me. Hashimoto Nanami, who even Wada respectfully calls Hashimoto-sensei, must have also heard this question, right?"
"of course."
"What's the answer?"
"I won't tell you."
"Liar, you must not know that's why you refuse to tell me. I know very well that there are not many of you who are good at studying. You saw it when you filled out the questionnaire. Don't try to lie to me."
"I'm not lying. Mathematics has always been my strong point."
"How strong?"
"Strong enough to be able to calculate that Bai Yunsang has asked me a total of twelve questions from the time I came up to now; strong enough to be able to calculate that from the time I came up to now, Bai Yunsang should not be in a good mood today; strong enough It can be calculated that Baiyun Sang has been trying to comfort me from the time I came up to now."
Hashimoto Nana's expression was as calm as the crescent moon in the sky.
The air suddenly became quiet.
Baiyunshan was silent for a while, and then said: "This is because of my strong memory, not my strong math skills."
"Um."
"I'm in a bad mood because today is a waning moon, not a full moon. The reason has been mentioned before."
"Um."
"It's true that I want to comfort you. I know that today is the anniversary of your father's death. I know a little bit about him..."
"Um."
Baiyunshan scratched his head in distress and sighed: "You're not angry, are you?"
Nana Hashimoto shook his head quietly, looked at the can of plum wine beside him, and suddenly said: "I want to drink plum wine."
