Chapter 63 Qushui Liushang

The door is simple and the courtyard is well-arranged. The inner courtyard is filled with mist and the water is gurgling.

The restaurant where Ikawa Haruka and Nanase Haruka agreed to meet is a Qushui Liushang theme hotel with the characteristics of a flower family. Tea and snacks are placed on round plates and sent to the guests through the stream.

Nanase Haruka has been staring at the gurgling water in front of him since he sat down. His pupils flicker like a deer and tremble slightly with the water flow.

Ikawa Haruka guessed that he should like it very much. She took the steaming tea from the stream and put it in front of Nanase Haruka: "Have a cup of tea first and see what you want to eat on the menu."

Nanase Haruka picked up the teacup and felt the fragrance of the tea soup. Her light blue eyes softened and a fleeting smile appeared on her lips: "Thank you."

Ikawa Haruka saw him wavering when he picked up the menu and took the initiative to introduce the restaurant's specialties. Nanase Haruka carefully flipped through the menu from the first page to the last page.

Nanase Haruka's eyes lit up,

and he pointed at the photo on the menu: "This." Ikawa Haruka raised his lips and called the waiter: "Hello, add a portion of scallion-grilled mackerel."

The restaurant is a new style that combines Japanese and floristry. Many Japanese ingredients are cooked using floristry cooking methods.

In addition, the restaurant's dim sum and traditional floristry-style dishes are also the signature must-order dishes of this restaurant.

They ordered mapo tofu, kelp salt-baked duck, spicy fried eel, seasonal vegetables in soup, matcha red bean donkey rolls, and lotus crisps.

After all the dishes were served, Nanase Haruka's eyes circled around each dish and finally fixed on the mackerel.

He picked up the serving chopsticks and skillfully removed the fish meat from the fish bones, then divided it into small pieces and put it in the bowl.

The small piece of fish meat was put into the mouth, and the scallion fragrance finally spread, and the fish meat melted in the mouth.

Nanase Haruka's pupils dilated, and the light in the center of the pupils spread in circles. This was a flavor he had never tasted before, and the salty aroma of the scallions was also very good.

Ikawa Haruka looked at Nanase Haruka calmly. He himself was like a clever fish, and he loved to eat fish.

She thought of the popular game before - Big Fish Eats Small Fish.

Ikawa Haruka was amused by her own imagination, and her delicate eyebrows turned into two crescents and her eyes were like stars.

When she lowered her head and laughed secretly, a piece of fish appeared on her plate.

She looked up and saw Nanase Haruka said casually: "This is delicious."

Ikawa Haruka thanked her and then picked up the neatly cut piece of fish meat. The reason why she didn't eat fish was because she thought it was troublesome to have bones.

At home, Toru picked out the fish bones for her, and later Yurika would take the initiative to pick out the bones for her, and later Jie Shiyi also helped her pick out the fish bones.

In addition to being able to use Ikawa Toru with peace of mind, she didn't want to trouble everyone so she basically rarely ordered fish-related dishes.

But whether it was Yuri or Shiyi, they would always take the initiative to feed her.

Nanase Haruka has been watching Oikawa Haruka's every move with his peripheral vision. He only retracted his gaze when she ate the mackerel with relief.

Mackerel is the most delicious thing in the world, and he also wanted her to try it.

Nanase Haruka found that Oikawa Haruka had never eaten mackerel and eel, so he took the initiative to feed her.

He believed that Oikawa Haruka would like mackerel after eating it. There would be no cat in the world that doesn't like fish.

When he was distracted by Oikawa Haruka, a tingling and spicy feeling rushed straight to the top of his head.

His originally indifferent face wrinkled into a ball, and a few drops of transparent tears were faintly dotted in the corners of his eyes.

He covered his mouth and tried to regain his composure. He drank a few sips of tea to barely dispel the spicy taste of pepper and chili seeds.

Oikawa Haruka was amused by his reaction: "Are you not used to spicy food?"

Nanase Haruka cleared his throat: "It's okay, I just accidentally ate pepper and chili."

After he recovered, he found that Oikawa Haruka didn't seem to like mackerel.

After eating the piece of fish he gave, Haruka Ikawa did not touch the mackerel again. His light blue eyes were full of doubts: "Don't you like mackerel?"

Hearing this, Haruka Ikawa put down his chopsticks and explained: "No, I just don't like fish bones."

Nanase Haruka nodded to show his understanding, and he brought the scallion-fried mackerel in front of him.

He used the serving chopsticks to remove the meat of the whole mackerel from the fish bones. The chopsticks in his hands were as smooth and precise as a surgeon's scalpel.

Haruka Ikawa pursed his lips to accept his kindness: "Thank you."

Haruka Nanase did all this with silky movements and nodded to indicate that it was nothing. He knew that no one could resist the charm of mackerel.

At the end of the meal, their snacks flowed down the curved water. From a distance, the lotus crisps looked like lifelike, slowly blooming lotus flowers.

Haruka Ishikawa brought up the past: "I'm really grateful to Nanase-san for saving me that day, and..."

She still remembered the mottled red marks on Nanase Haruka's fair back. She said embarrassedly: "Is your back scratched by me at that time? I'm so sorry."

Although it has been a long time since the incident, she still feels deeply sorry for it.

She was so panicked at the time that she didn't react. She unconsciously held on to Nanase Haruka as if she were a life-saving straw.

Nanase Haruka's calm blue eyes flashed with unnaturalness. He still remembered the touch of the girl's skin against his, as well as her burning breath and the light fragrance of her hair.

He calmly said stubbornly: "You remembered it wrong, my back was not scratched by you."

Haruka Ishikawa racked her brains to recall that she clearly saw that there were red marks on his back.

In response to Oikawa Haruka's suspicious look, Nanase Haruka remained calm: "The red marks on my back were caused by the force of diving, so it was all red."

If Tachibana Makoto were here, she would definitely complain about Nanase Haruka's dishonesty, with three different statements.

She told Tachibana Makoto that it was scratched by a cat; she told Oikawa Haruka that it was caused by the force; what she told herself was the truth.

Nanase Haruka didn't want Oikawa Haruka to dwell on this issue anymore. The image of the girl struggling in the water appeared in his mind. It was really a close call at that time.

He raised his clear eyes: "Do you want to learn to swim?"

Nanase Haruka didn't want the girl to experience drowning again, and didn't want the water he loved to bring her bad memories.

Recalling how Oikawa Haruka was trapped in the water and unable to escape, she seemed to be imprisoned in the water by invisible vines.

Iikawa Haruka was stunned by Nanase Haruka's unexpected question. She half-jokingly said, "If I want to learn, will you teach me?"

"Sure."

Iikawa Haruka was no longer calm. She didn't expect that this indifferent and cold boy would agree so easily.

Now she was in a dilemma. It was not that she was afraid of water, but she just felt that she didn't have much talent for swimming.

Nanase Haruka looked at the girl in front of her steadily: "But I can only teach you freestyle." He only swam freestyle.

Iikawa Haruka pouted: "This may be a little difficult for me."

Nanase Haruka interrupted her: "Then do you want to learn? This way you won't be swallowed by the water because you can't swim. You can enjoy the water and save yourself at the critical moment."

Haruka Nanase's eyes were impartial, he just wanted to know from beginning to end whether she wanted to learn.

Haruka Oikawa lowered her eyes and smiled faintly: "I want to learn, but I can't guarantee that I can really learn it." Unexpectedly, he is a serious person.

She thought he was the kind of self-centered person who only cared about himself and swimming, and didn't care about the outside world.

After getting a positive answer, Haruka Nanase smiled.

He didn't care whether Haruka Oikawa could learn it or not, she just needed to tell him whether she wanted to learn.

Whether he could teach her or not was his business. If she didn't learn it in the end, it must be because he didn't teach her well.

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