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"My brother has been with his sister since he was in elementary school. It wasn't until he entered junior high school that he gradually became different from other boys. Although my sister is also very good, she always feels that she can't hold her head high in front of her brother. ."

Ichinose Maki counted her fingers and commented on Kitagawa Ryo:

"He was one year older than his sister, so he was promoted to junior high school before his sister, and became the student council president before his sister. He is a handsome guy himself, and he is good at football. I heard that when the third grade of junior high school is about to graduate, every day I get a dozen love letters in the morning."

"Senior Kitagawa is indeed a very good person, and he also has a good personality, which gives people a sense of security."

Karuizawa Megumi nodded in agreement. Although she and Kitagawa Ryo had only established a false relationship for a few days, it was enough for her to realize that having such a boyfriend was indeed something to be proud of. To this day, she still often I remembered the scene when Kitagawa Ryo held her shoulders and agreed to her confession in front of everyone.

"You have a good personality..."

Ichinose Maki stroked the white cat in her arms and said hesitantly:

"I don't deny this, but sometimes my brother does things that don't match his appearance."

"And it's all because of my sister."

Ichinose Maki suddenly accused angrily:

"My sister is an idiot!"

"Eh?"

Startled by the sudden loud voice of the little girl next to her, Karuizawa Megumi let out a little puzzled sigh.

As if she had made up her mind, she suddenly stood up and took Karuizawa Megumi's hand:

"No wait, let's go!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah?"

The girl who was startled in front of her took the hand and ran out of the temple and came to the mountain road leading to the top of the mountain. Only then did Karuizawa Megumi react and asked quickly:

"What, what's wrong?"

Ichinose Maki was also tired from jogging all the way, so she stopped and explained breathlessly:

"Actually, my brother and sister are coming over soon."

"Eh? Senior Beichuan and the others are coming over?"

"I don't know what sister is paying attention to, but I think it's best for you not to meet."

Ichinose Maki turned off her phone and said to Karuizawa Kei with a serious face:

"Do you like brother?"

Choking on the too direct question, Karuizawa Megumi hesitated with a blushing face and couldn't explain why. It was clear that the person standing in front of her was a girl two years younger than her.

"You like it, right? I know, after all, we are the same."

Ichinose Maki put her index finger in front of her mouth and spoke softly:

"Tell you secretly..."

"My brother is a liar, the kind of big liar who would be a pity not to act."

"Senior Kitagawa doesn't seem like someone who can lie."

Karuizawa Megumi was a little confused by Ichinose Maki's too jumping topic, and subconsciously retorted.

"There are quite a few that I know of."

"For example..."

"I never confessed to him at all."

Maki Ichinose said.

ps: The class suddenly changed to online classes, maybe there will be additional updates.

Ichinose Honami's Summer Reappearance: Chapter 13: Actors (Part 2)

"I feel like I'm being treated like a rabbit."

"Rabbits won't eat so many soy products...maybe?"

"I actually think those tofu skin, shredded tofu and tofu fruit are much more delicious than all kinds of green leafy vegetables."

"I heard that someone made a fuss here half an hour ago because the food didn't taste good and was taken out by the staff. It seemed like they were a group of bad guys. They became honest when they saw the security guard."

"It's not that unpalatable, but it's a little bit different for tourists."

Kitagawa Ryo and Ichinose Honami, who walked out of the tourist restaurant, just smiled and greeted the monk passing by, then turned around and started to complain about the vegetarian food they had just eaten.

"I think I need something to eat."

Kitagawa Ryo touched his belly. The free vegetarian meal just now not only perfectly reflected the characteristics of 'vegetarian', but it was also very small. For a boy of his age, the portion was almost the same as a dessert before a meal.

"There are also sandwiches in the bag."

Honami Ichinose checked his backpack and took out two ham and egg sandwiches made at home. ,

This temple built on the mountainside is quite big. The two of them walked from the front yard to the main hall. After asking for a fortune in the main hall, they walked from the main hall to the backyard. It took almost an hour to walk around the entire attraction and walked to the backyard. Nearing the exit, Kitagawa Ryo finally finished his third sandwich and drank lemon tea with satisfaction.

There was a stage set up in the middle of the backyard, and three old monks with white beards and hair were sitting on it. The lottery tickets that tourists asked for in the main hall were solved here. However, what surprised Kitagawa Ryo was that the temple here did not solve the marriage lottery. When he became curious, he also secretly approached a group of tour groups nearby. As expected, the tour guide there was explaining the origin of this custom.

Kitagawa Ryo has always been unwilling to listen to such legends. In his opinion, in fact, most of the various real or fabricated stories circulated in every tourist attraction were born when the tourism bureau selected this place. When developing tourism resources, with the stroke of a writer's pen, every mountain, river, shrine, and river was suddenly given its own legend. Only in this way can diligent local tour guides have the ability to boast to tourists. Special capital.

Essentially, it's all business. Kitagawa Ryo doesn't want to be led by a tour guide who says this stone looks like a monkey and that stone looks like an elephant, and then everyone swarms up to take a photo. This kind of tourism is nothing like torture to him. Both.

But it was indeed the first time for Kitagawa Ryo to see the temple that did not understand the marriage sign. It happened that someone from the surrounding tour group also raised this question, so he took advantage of the situation and leaned over to listen.

Actually the story is very simple.

Hundreds of years ago, or a long time ago anyway, two brothers in the mountains fell in love with the same girl. They each went to seek marriage, and both received the answer that they were a good match. So, because of this girl, the two brothers turned against each other and fought, but neither could do anything to the other. In the end, the two of them begged the girl to make a choice, and vowed that no matter who she chose, the other would accept it and never retaliate. What the two of them didn't expect was that the girl was actually very conflicted. While she was enjoying the fact that both brothers loved him wholeheartedly, she had difficulty making a choice.

For her, as long as she doesn't make a choice, there are two people who love her. If she makes a choice, the two loves become one. In order to always have these two loves, this girl She jumped off the cliff in front of the two of them, and she felt that they would remember her forever.

"and after?"

Ichinose Honami asked curiously while listening to Kitagawa Ryo's story.

"Then the two brothers got married and started a business. They were prosperous and lived a happy life."

Kitagawa Ryo twitched the corners of his lips to calm down the mood he felt when he first heard this story.

"What does this have to do with the temple's inability to interpret the marriage lotus?"

"Because these two people jointly donated money to build this temple in their later years, this is also the rule they left behind. The two of them miraculously reached a consensus when their time was approaching."

"Marriage is totally unreliable!"

Honami Ichinose, who was speechless, looked at Ryo Kitagawa, who was also speechless and choked, and whispered:

"The ending I originally thought was that the two of them would cut off their marriage after seeing through the world of mortals and becoming monks."

Kitagawa Ryo looked at Ichinose Honami holding the marriage lotus all the way, and said tentatively:

"What should I do with this thing?"

"Give it back."

Now that they knew that this temple did not interpret marriage lots, the two of them lost interest and went to the monk who collected the lots to return the wooden lots.

"This can be kept as a souvenir."

The monk who was in charge of collecting the lotus was only in his twenties. When Ichinose Honami handed him a marriage lotus, he explained:

"Although this temple does not interpret the marriage lottery, it will allow tourists to take it away."

"Do you want to keep it as a souvenir Ryo?"

"This is the sign that Fanbo asked for. Fanbo decides on his own."

Kitagawa Ryo looked uninterested and folded his arms beside him, waiting for Ichinose Honami to make a decision.

Ichinose Hanami looked at the wooden sign in his hand again. It was indeed an extremely cheap piece of wood. The smooth part above was wrapped in red cloth with "marriage" written on it. Generally, a few words would be engraved on this place for marriage signs. The paradoxical verses will be explained by the master who interprets them, but according to the unique custom of this temple, it should be just for show.

"Don't you want to take a look?"

It seemed that he heard what Ryo Kitagawa said next to him, but at this moment, his phone vibrated with the message that he had received a message. Honami Ichinose did not pay attention, and handed the lotus in his hand to the monk apologetically:

"We don't want it anymore. If you keep it, you might throw it away as garbage. Please take it back."

"OK."

The monk had no intention of persuading him anymore. He nodded and solemnly put the wooden sign into the box on the other side.

[Have you gone to the top of the mountain...]

Hearing what Ichinose Honami seemed to be muttering, Kitagawa Ryo looked at her doubtfully:

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay. Let's go to the top of the mountain. If we go down later, it will be too late."

Honami, who couldn't contact Ichinose Maki, put her phone back into her bag as if nothing had happened. However, through the location sharing software she had previously installed on her sister's phone, she was still able to know the other party's location:

"I was just wondering if Maki and the others had reached the top of the mountain."

"Yeah, I haven't seen them yet, but there are two roads leading to the top of the mountain. Maybe they didn't go from the temple."

Kitagawa Ryo took Ichinose Honami's satchel and put it on his back. The time came to about two o'clock, and the blazing sun shone at the highest point, releasing heat to its heart's content:

"Let's go to the top of the mountain."

Just five minutes after the two left, another man came on stage to interpret the lot and asked the old monk in the middle with interest:

"Master, is your temple's unsolved marriage sign really what the tour guide said?"

The old monk fluttered his eyelids and spoke slowly:

"The story is probably the same."

Just after the man showed some disappointment, the monk suddenly smiled, with wrinkles on his face as old as dry tree bark, and his eyes were almost invisible:

"But there is actually another theory circulating in this temple."

"The last words left by the two donors who funded the construction of this hospital were actually:"

"Marriage will not cause two unrelated people to suddenly fall in love just because it is auspicious, nor will it cause two people who like each other to separate immediately just because it is unlucky. If you are obsessed with the result of the marriage lottery, you will end up falling in love. You won't be able to see your true feelings clearly."

"That's why our temple never interprets the marriage lottery. If a couple comes to ask for answers, we will only tell them about the important matters of marriage and they can only interpret it themselves."

"Master, I understand."

The man bowed his head deeply, with an expression as if he had understood everything.

"The donor is really wise and seems to have a lot of insights into relationships."

The old monk also looked at the other person with the loving eyes of "a child can be taught" and stroked his long beard.

"Master, actually I am thirty-nine this year and single."

The old monk, who was almost choked by the man's answer, coughed hard twice, waved to the young monk next to him, and continued to say to the man with a smile:

"If you are single, you can also choose our temple's customized marriage sign service."

"Imagine that when you bring an ambiguous partner to the temple to ask for a marriage sign, the two of you are anxiously waiting for the result, but the temple suddenly tells you that you need to unwrap the marriage sign yourself, so you tear open the marriage sign in front of your female companion. Those are the words and phrases you chose, what a romantic scene it is!"

The old monk looked as if this was a trade secret of the temple and I wouldn't tell him. He stroked his beard contentedly and said with a smile:

"I've been here to solve fortune-telling for twenty years. The number of couples I've matched through this method ranges from 1,000 to 800. I've seen all kinds of love stories. If you pay extra, the temple also provides writing services. "

As soon as the old monk raised his hand, the young monk next to him took a hard book wrapped in brown paper and handed it to the man:

"This is the sentence used in customizing the marriage sign in the past year. The donor can take a look."

"If love lasts for a long time, how can we stay together day and night?"

"This is a poem written by Qin Guan in the Song Dynasty."

The man seemed to be really interested, and he was mumbling something while reading.

"Two people are leaning against each other, swimming like a duck in the water. However, on duckweed, the frost and dew easily melt away."

"This is a sentence from "Man'yoshu"."

"I will take care of you forever."

"This sentence is surprisingly simple."

The man, who seemed to have a high level of education, was enjoying the review with gusto, and with a calm expression on his face, he suddenly froze when he turned to the last few pages:

"Come again - one root"