Tokyo life starting with painting

Aomori Prefecture is located in the northernmost part of Japan's Honshu Island. It belonged to the Mutsu Kingdom during the Reiji Kingdom era. Therefore, although the historical and cultural heritage here is not as good as that of ancient Japanese capitals like Kyoto, it is actually quite rich. From the end of July to the beginning of August, Festivals such as the Aomori Nebuta Festival, the Hirosaki Nebuta Festival, and the Hachinohe Sanja Grand Festival are held on these days, and they are considered important intangible cultural assets even in Japan——

These things were provided by Konoe Ryoka to popularize science for Higashinoji and the others. Listening to the Nebuta Festival, people were holding huge lanterns in parade to celebrate, and when Taiko drummers played music behind them, Takahashi Yumi sighed repeatedly, saying that she was late and missed a lot. s things.

It's natural that she would have these complaints.

Takahashi Yumi's hometown is in Tokyo, and in Tokyo, there are only a small number of such unique folk activities, so it is natural that it is particularly difficult to see.

On the side, Konoe Ryoka quietly comforted her regretful looking best friend, saying that it would be a good experience to go whaling with Higashinoji afterwards.

This cheered up Yumi Takahashi. She whispered in the Shinkansen carriage that she wanted to go see whales. Aoi Fujiwara next to her ignored her and just took out her phone to take pictures outside the window. Although she didn't say much, she actually didn't say much. Very excited about this trip.

The two of them were happily there, while Higashinoji was across the aisle from them, holding a painting album and flipping through it from time to time.

After all, he is also a professional painter. Although he has not exhibited many works outside recently, he is still very concerned about the level of Japanese painting in this world.

Chihiro Higashino was sitting with Higashinoji early in the morning. Seeing him flipping through the album, she looked over curiously, but as she looked at it, she began to yawn and half fell asleep. She was not very interested in the album, and she was not interested in Takahashi Yumi. I am very interested in going to see whales.

On this trip to Honshu Island, Higashinoji mainly plans to meet Konoe Ryoka's father, and also to see windmills and experience whaling. When he has time, he will also take a look at the New Century Aomori Prefecture Art Branch mentioned by Bunta Kageyama—— He is quite curious about this New Century Art Association.

Other than that, he didn't have any other ideas. He accompanied Konoe Ryoka and the others to play outside for a while and then planned to return to Tokyo.

As for the "Unnatural Death" serialization this week or next week, Higashinoji has already finished the drawing and handed it over to Hosokawa Koharu——

It is impossible to delay the manuscript, and it is impossible to ask for leave. Higashinoji has never delayed a manuscript or asked for leave since he debuted as a comic artist.

After getting off the Shinkansen, I transferred to a prefectural bus, which was a particularly difficult journey for Fujiwara Aoi. She was taking pictures and playing with her mobile phone on the bus, her head felt dizzy, and she was already motion sick and about to vomit before she even got there. If Yumi Takahashi hadn't been supporting the limp Fujiwara Aoi next to her, she would have just rolled her eyes and lay down.

I have to say that although Takahashi Yumi is usually a bad friend and always calls her "short, short", she is still quite reliable during this critical period. He has been supporting her for more than an hour without saying a word - In addition to touching her butt when there is nothing wrong.

After getting off the prefecture bus, Higashinoji took them out of the bus. Takahashi Yumi, who was holding Fujiwara Aoi, got off the bus. She looked around and then sighed: "Is this the place where Lianghua has been living? It is indeed very beautiful. No wonder you can raise a beauty like Lianghua."

These words made Konoe Ryoka particularly embarrassed. She turned her head with a red face: "What should we do next? Asa?"

"I searched online. There seems to be a good hotel here." Higashino replied with a smile.

Of course, he was responsible for the travel expenses of Konoe Ryoka and Higashino Chihaya. Originally, he also planned to arrange the travel expenses of Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi, Konoe Ryoka's friends, but their parents disagreed, so Higashinoji had no choice but to give up.

Standing firm on the street, Higashinoji glanced around and found that this main road had a strong feel of the Showa period. The black wooden signboards on both sides of the street looked quite dated, and the pedestrians on the street were also mainly... Mainly middle-aged and elderly people. Occasionally, young people come out, but they are only high school or junior high school students.

As Tokyoites, Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara had never seen such sparseness in the densely populated Tokyo, so they looked around curiously - this wooden signboard and wooden building gave them a sense of novelty.

Unlike them, the scene before him was what Higashino expected.

Aomori Prefecture has always been regarded as a major population export county in Japan. After graduation, young people here usually go to Beijing to pursue their dreams or go to other economically developed areas. After all, the average monthly salary here is very low, and it is often ranked first in the list of the lowest monthly salaries in Japan. famous.

However, Tonoji didn't care about this. He walked into the convenience store nearby and bought a few bottles of drinks for the girls who had just gotten off the car and were a little sluggish to cheer them up. Then he bought a map of the prefecture and confirmed it with the shop owner. He took his place and waited for others.

It was really difficult to get things done in the era without smartphone navigation. It was quite troublesome to find a hotel.

Higashino sighed silently, his eyes wandering around the map.

And just when he focused his attention on the map, somewhere unknown to him, several couples of men and women were already curiously eyeing Konoe Ryoka and others who were standing next to the bus sign.

"Weixiang-senpai, look, is that Konoe?" A girl with a single ponytail who was obviously a high school student next to her spoke up.

She was pointing at Konoe Ryoka, who was patting Fujiwara Aoi's back with a surprised look on her face.

His face was indeed full of surprise.

At that time, Konoe Ryoka was famous in her grade for being stupid and rich. In addition, she used to have very long side bangs and lowered her head most of the time. At that time, Konoe Ryoka's figure was not particularly well developed. Look at it. She has the appearance of a gloomy and ugly girl, so she is quite famous in Aomori Middle School - mostly because of her bad reputation.

But although the Konoe Ryoka in front of her still had side bangs, her temperament was completely different from when she was a student at Aomori Middle School.

The short black hair is slightly curled, the big black and white eyes are bright, the face is white and soft, the lips are pink and tender, with a cherry blossom color. The most important thing is that the figure is too well developed, right? It's just a little too foul.

Even the boys who went out to play with these girls couldn't take their eyes away.

"Is it Konoe?" Before the senior Yuixiang who was called could respond, an active boy spoke with a somewhat surprised look on his face: "But... why did Konoe suddenly become so beautiful?"

There was a moment of surprise in the crowd.

The entire Aomori Prefecture is so big, and those schools are the only ones in its jurisdiction. Many of them are very impressed by Konoe Ryoka, a 'gloomy ugly girl'. Even if she later transferred to Tokyo, she would still often cause problems. They discussed for a while.

But the transformation of women into eighteen is too exaggerated, isn’t it?

While they were still thinking, one of the girls with long hair spoke with some disdain: "So what if she is beautiful? I used to make her bow her head and admit her mistakes to me, but it's the same now! It won't happen. Nothing has changed.”

This girl with long hair is named Nakamura Yuika. She was called "Yika-senpai" just now. She is studying at Aomori High School and is now in her third year, a graduate.

However, due to her average family background and average grades, her parents had no intention of sending her to continue her studies in college, so she had always been a little jealous of Konoe Ryoka, who came from a wealthy family - when Konoe Ryoka was studying at Aomori Junior High School , she bullied the other party more than once.

Another time when Konoe Ryoka was practicing running, she specially filled a bottle of chili pepper water for Konoe Ryoka to drink. As a result, Konoe Ryoka stupidly thanked her.

It is precisely because of Konoe Ryoka's stupid performance that Nakamura Yuika's vanity is very inflated, and she feels that she is nothing but her family's money. At least in front of Nakamura Yuika, Konoe Ryoka has nothing. no.

Listening to Nakamura Yuika's words, several boys started laughing, making noises and shouting. They didn't care about the conflict between Konoe Ryoka and Nakamura Yuika. After all, the other one went to Tokyo and became so beautiful. Konoe The three girls next to Lianghua are also very good, are they her classmates in Tokyo?

Do you think you have a chance to get to know each other?

A group of people walked over together.

At this time, the trio of Konoe Ryoka and Higashino Chihaya, who were standing next to the bus sign, also noticed the group of people who had just laughed.

Seeing them approaching, Takahashi Yumi touched her head, looking a little puzzled: "Aoi, why do I feel that those people are coming towards us?"

"Ah?" Fujiwara Aoi, who was still leaning next to the stop sign with half-closed eyes, opened her eyes and turned her head sideways after hearing this. Then she pushed up her glasses, feeling that Takahashi Yumi was making a fuss again.

Maybe she was just passing by, so why did she come to us when she arrived?

"Maybe he's passing by." Fujiwara Aoi responded casually.

"That's not right, Aoi, you haven't practiced kendo before. You don't know. They have been staring at us since just now." Takahashi Yumi stretched out her hand to gesture. At the same time, she felt that the opponent was coming menacingly, so she put her hand on I just bought a small wooden knife for ornamental use in the station gift shop, and I was going to catch them off guard.

Higashino Chihaya glanced at these young people approaching with some confusion. She didn't know what these people were going to do, but if they really came to use force, she would use her trump card - kill Ah, who was still checking the map at the convenience store. Si called over.

There is no problem that my younger brother cannot solve!

Just when they each had their own thoughts, Konoe Ryoka seemed to notice something. She turned her head and looked at the person walking over with some surprise: "Nakamura-senpai?"

She took the initiative to say hello.

On the other side, Takahashi Yumi also stopped her hand when she saw this, and looked at Fujiwara Aoi.

It turned out to be someone whom Konoe Ryoka knew, and he almost made the wrong move.

Seeing Konoe Ryoka taking the initiative to say hello, Nakamura Yuika's sense of vanity swelled again. She smiled and nodded, pretending to be caring: "Ryuka, have you just come back?"

"Well, I just came back from Tokyo." Konoe Ryoka nodded.

She still respects Nakamura-senpai, but Higashinoji said before that his motives were impure.

So Konoe Ryoka hesitated for a while, but didn't get too close.

"Konoe, what are the names of these people behind you?" Standing behind Nakamura Yuika, a boy glanced at Chihaya Higashino and Aoi Fujiwara.

They speak the Tsugaru dialect from Aomori Prefecture, which can be said to be obscure and difficult to understand. It is said that because almost no one in other prefectures can understand it, the nationally broadcast program "Tsugaruben" will be added with standard dialect. subtitle.

Fujiwara Aoi didn't understand what the other party was saying, she just frowned slightly, not used to the way the other party looked at her.

At the same time, she was also a little strange, how could Konoe Ryoka interact with this group of people who didn't seem to be very well-educated?

So she took the initiative to speak: "Lianghua, let's stop here to catch up with our old friends. Let's follow Mr. Higashino to the hotel to settle our things first."

Of course Konoe Ryoka agreed with this suggestion. After all, she didn't want to talk too much about people who only knew her but had almost no interactions with her.

So she immediately turned around, bowed her head and said, "Sorry, everyone, I have something else to do next."

When they saw Konoe Ryoka and the others wanted to leave, one of the boys couldn't help but persuade them to stay: "Don't be so anxious. Konoe, you guys are coming to Aomori for sightseeing, right? We can be your guides."

There is no way, the quality of the girls like Konoe Ryoka is too high, and it seems that they are all from Tokyo. People from some small places in Japan have an inexplicable pilgrimage and curiosity about Tokyo, and Takahashi Yumi They are really good-looking. Of course, these young people from Aomori Prefecture have to export to retain them.

"Ryuka, what are they talking about?" Fujiwara Aoi saw that the situation was a bit strange and couldn't help but ask Konoe Ryoka.

Konoe Ryoka relayed what they said.

This made Fujiwara Aoi couldn't help but frown.

They all said they had something to do, but they still forced me to stay. This is so ignorant.

Next to her, Takahashi Yumi saw that her best friend had a strange look on his face, and his usually daring eyes became very serious. His other hand was placed on a small wooden knife for viewing, and he was ready to give them a hard blow on the head later. .

At this moment, Konoe Ryoka showed a side that she had never shown much. She looked at the group of people and spoke in a firm tone without retreating: "I'm sorry, we really have other things to do next, can we?" Can't you please stop disturbing us? Also, I and the three people behind me already have boyfriends, so I'm sorry we can't accompany you."

She said these words in a very strong and firm tone, and she also used some rhetorical skills.

The four of them, at most, Konoe Ryoka has a boyfriend, while Fujiwara Aoi, Takahashi Yumi, and Higashino Chihaya are all still single.

These are what she learned from Higashinoji.

On the other side, Nakamura Yuika and the others couldn't help being stunned when they heard Konoe Ryoka's determined and uncompromising tone.

If it weren't for the confirmation that the voice was Konoe Ryoka. They would have doubted whether the Konoe Ryoka in front of them had been replaced.

She used to be soft and could be bullied by anyone.

It's nothing like it is now.

Have we all gone astray?

Thanks to Master Li Zi, Wushang Wuxian, Pingming, Times Certificate, and Dungeon Rat for the rewards! Thank you so much!