Chapter 588 Can I kiss you?
"According to the official conclusion of the All Japan Kyudo Federation, the basic movements of archery can be divided into eight steps. Through this clear and definite division of archery, the teaching, explanation and guidance of Kyudo are more efficient..."
"Ashita-mi refers to the movement of spreading our feet when we face the target. And the movement of stabilizing the upper body after we have mastered the basic steps. Bow-setting is the preparation for putting the arrow on the bow. And after the arrow is strung, the movement of raising the bow and arrow above the head with both hands..."
"Then there are very few schools of Kyudo, each with its own characteristics, and it's hard to say which is better. They can be roughly divided into..."
Zuikaku was particularly enthusiastic this afternoon, no longer just posing casually like before.
Su Xia leaned against the pillar under the eaves with his arms folded across his chest, listening to the chestnut-haired girl talking. The girl seemed to be in a good mood, and he became happy too.
Su Xia knew her own habits. She would forget what she had read, watched videos, and listened to lectures. She had to do exercises or operate the equipment herself to remember things. She had always been like that, whether taking a driver's license test, taking a civil service exam, installing a computer, installing an operating system, or beating bosses in games.
"Zuihe, let me demonstrate." Su Xia suggested.
"Okay." Zuikaku picked up the bow. The bow that was taller than her was not part of her ship's equipment, but was purchased and customized separately. Then she took a stance, "Look carefully... this is the foot step. If I stand like this, my feet will be like this... and this is the dojo..."
Zuikaku paused as she spoke, not because she forgot what she should say, but mainly because Suxia walked behind her at this time, holding her hand with the bow in her left hand, and holding her hand with the bowstring in her right hand, and her hot breath sprayed on her ears.
"Is that so?" Su Xia asked.
"Not good," Zuikaku felt a little distracted, his face slightly hot, "That's about it."
It wasn't just Zuikaku who was distracted. Suxia stood behind Zuikaku, lowered her head and looked at her neck. The slender and graceful lines of her neck, the girl's body fragrance surrounded her nose, and she could hear the girl's slight breathing. The two sisters' necks were equally beautiful. Her heart beat a little faster and she said, "Now you can draw the bow."
"It's okay." Ruihe reacted after Su Xia reminded him several times.
Zuikaku was responsible for aiming, and Suxia was responsible for drawing the bow.
Ten rings is a bit difficult, but at least I won’t miss the target anymore.
"I hit it." Su Xia said excitedly while staring at the arrow on the target. After shooting the arrow, he had no intention of letting go of Zuikaku.
"Yeah." Zuikaku seemed a little concerned. Of course, it wasn't that she hated the fact that two people were so close. Rather, she was looking forward to it.
"I said yes." Su Xia wanted to bite Ruihe's ear, "A husband and wife working together can achieve great things."
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to hit the ten rings." Zuikaku said, trying to hide his happiness.
No shipgirl can resist the sweet words from the admiral, no matter whether they are cheesy love words or not. In fact, the focus is not the sweet words at all, but the person. It's like a girl says she likes men who can cook, but in fact, she likes handsome men with eight-pack abs to cook, not fat, greasy chefs in restaurants.
"Without Zuikaku I will miss the target." Su Xia smiled and said, "I can't do it without Zuikaku."
Su Xia's archery skills were not good, but her rhetoric was different. She hit Zuikaku right in the bull's eye with one strike. Zuikaku didn't know what to say. He hesitated for a moment and tried to get away with it. He tilted his head and said, "Don't talk in my ear... It's itchy."
Su Xia laughed. He knew that Zuikaku was shy. Her slightly red ears were a strong proof of that.
Su Xia let go of Zuikaku, snatched the bow from Zuikaku's hand, and started practicing with arrows. After Zuikaku's careful instruction, his archery posture and movements were now quite decent, but in the end, he still couldn't escape the fate of being a target.
After shooting several arrows with the bow, Su Xia soon became weak and had no strength left. His sore arms made it impossible for him to draw the bow. He did not mind exposing himself in front of Zuikaku. He rubbed his arms, biceps and triceps in front of Zuikaku's face, and said to himself, "I didn't expect archery to be so strenuous."
"What else do you think?" Zuikaku deliberately did not say that the bow she used was not a lightweight toy bow, but a bow that could really kill people. It took a lot of strength to lift it, and it was even more difficult to draw the bow.
Su Xia didn't think much about it and said admiringly: "Zuihe looks so slender and soft, I didn't expect she is so strong."
Zuikaku wrinkled his nose.
Su Xia looked around and found that there was not even a bench near the archery range. After thinking about it, he sat on the steps under the eaves. Japanese-style buildings are basically suspended in the air, and there are steps connecting the inside and outside of the house.
"I'm so tired." Su Xia supported her body with both hands, "Zuihe, come here."
"What?" Zuikaku asked.
"I need a knee pillow." Su Xia said. Shokaku's knee pillow is really great, but it's not as good as Fuso's plump thighs. The main reason is that you can't see the sky when you sleep on Fuso's knee pillow. I don't know how soft Zuikaku's knee pillow is.
"Get lost." Zuikaku said bluntly.
"If you don't want to give it to me, then don't give it to me." Su Xia said, "Why are you cursing?"
"I'm just cursing." Zuikaku said as she pulled up some long hair and twisted it around with her fingers. "If you're willing to call me Zuikaku Sister, I might consider giving you a lap pillow."
"Aunt Ruihe." Su Xia had already laid down, "Please."
"Are you going to die? Who are you calling aunt?" Zuikaku walked to Su Xia's side, looking down at him lying on the wooden floor with squinted eyes looking at her, and raised her feet in white socks to step on him, "Admiral, you are tired, right? Let me give you a massage."
"Keep going, don't stop." Su Xia said.
"Pervert." Zuikaku withdrew her foot in disgust. As a girl, she could never be a match for a shameless man.
Su Xia rolled over with laughter. He had no interest in Zuikaku's feet, but he didn't hate them either.
"What time did Zuikaku go to bed last night?"
"About twelve o'clock."
Su Xia thought about it and decided not to mention the matter between him and Xianghe, so she asked, "What time did you get up in the morning?"
"Seven o'clock." Zuikaku replied.
"So early." Su Xia said. He couldn't imagine getting up so early.
"You think I am you." Zuikaku said, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a healthy body."
"It's not that going to bed early and getting up early is good for health, but having a regular schedule is good for health." Su Xia corrected.
While chatting, Su Xia fell asleep somehow. When she woke up, she found her phone to check the time. It was already past four in the afternoon. Looking around, Zuikaku was sitting on the steps playing with his phone. A table fan was placed next to him, blowing at him. There was a tray with two slices of watermelon and a piece of watermelon rind on it.
Su Xia wanted to continue lying down. To be honest, she didn't rest well yesterday. It wasn't Shokaku's fault, but mainly because he had no self-control. When she saw the watermelon, she immediately sat up, reached out and took a piece, which was still a little cold, and said, "Is there any watermelon in November?"
"There are watermelons in December." Zuikaku said, but she didn't really understand.
"Off-season greenhouse watermelon or late-ripening watermelon?" Su Xia took a bite of the watermelon and said, "It tastes good."
"I don't know." Zuikaku said, "It's very expensive anyway."
"How much is one pound?" Su Xia asked casually.
Zuikaku reported a number, a rather exaggerated number.
"So expensive?" Su Xia laughed, "Is the melon rind made of gold , or are the melon seeds made of gold?"
Zuikaku blinked. She felt like she should say something, but she didn't know what to say.
Su Xia didn't say anything. She quickly finished her watermelon and lay down again. She stared at the sky outside the eaves in a daze. Seagulls were circling in the sky and heavy cumulus clouds were hanging low. She said, "I remember Zuikaku likes rain clouds very much."
"Why are you asking this suddenly?" Zuikaku said, "It's fine."
"Is it because of historical reasons?" Su Xia said.
In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Zuikaku and Shokaku sank . At the same time, the U.S. military also sent carrier-based aircraft to attack the two ships, but under the command of the captain, Zuikaku successfully escaped under the rain clouds and was unscathed in the subsequent air raid. Zuikaku, who had such an experience in history, must have liked the rain clouds very much.
"Is it a beautiful memory to be chased and have to escape into the rain and clouds?" Zuikaku asked.
"You are a pessimist." Su Xia said, "Look at it from another angle. When you are being chased and have nowhere to go, you can escape through the rain clouds. Isn't the rain cloud a good helper that people like?"
"I don't know." Zuikaku smiled, "I think aircraft carriers don't like rain clouds. Rain clouds and rain affect carrier-based aircraft."
"Didn't you just say it was fine?" Su Xia said, "If you say so, aircraft carriers should also hate the night, because they can't launch or land carrier-based aircraft at night."
Zuikaku smiled.
"I like the kind of clouds that look like billowing smoke," Su Xia said. "Is it called a cirrus cloud or a cumulus cloud?"
"Cumulus," Zuikaku said, "I don't understand either."
"It's a pity that it's hard to see." Su Xia struggled to sit up, "Zuihe doesn't practice archery anymore?"
Zuikaku put down his phone and asked, "What can I do for you?"
"Why don't we take a walk?" Su Xia suggested.
"Where are we going?" Zuikaku asked.
"The ring road around the island and the seaside embankment." Su Xia said, "I suddenly want to stand on the lighthouse."
Zuikaku looked at the sky and said, "It feels like it's going to rain."
"No way." Su Xia said, there were no dark clouds. "Let's go."
Su Xia planned to walk through the Japanese residential area to the ring road around the island, walk through the ring road around the island to the seaside embankment and then to the lighthouse. However, as soon as the two of them walked out of the archery gym and into the lush woods in the Japanese residential area, they encountered rain and had to hide under a tree.
"Why is it raining suddenly?" Su Xia said.
"I told you it was going to rain. My intuition is very sharp." Zuikaku sat on the bench with his face in his hands.
"It's really not dark." Su Xia said.
"If it's not dark, it means it won't rain for long." Zuikaku said arbitrarily. She didn't understand either.
"Maybe." Su Xia thought about it and laughed, "Even if it's going to rain, it can't happen when we go out and walk to a place where there is no shelter from the rain... Isn't Zuikaku a lucky crane... Why is this happening? You are Shinano in disguise, right?"
Shinano was the unlucky one in the tutelary fort.
"I'm Lucky Crane." Zuikaku tilted his head and looked at Suxia and said, "Why does it rain as soon as I go out?"
Zuikaku nodded and said, "Two people go out, one of them is a lucky crane, and ask the other one what would cause them to encounter rain when they go out, so unlucky."
"It's just bad luck." Su Xia said.
"Who is that person?" Zuikaku asked.
"Lucky Crane's brother-in-law." Su Xia laughed.
"Huh?" Zuikaku was stunned.
The raindrops hit the leaves, making a rustling sound. The leaves of the Phoenix tree, a deciduous tree, were constantly knocked down by the raindrops. Su Xia looked at the raindrops falling from the gaps between the lush tree canopies. She didn't know when the rain would stop. It shouldn't last too long, but it was getting heavier. She said, "The rain is getting heavier. Let's go back."
"Let's go back." Zuikaku agreed.
The two of you looked at each other, and finally Su Xia left first, running towards the Japanese residential area in the rain.
The rain was getting heavier, and by the time the two men ran under the eaves of the Japanese residential area, the rain outside was already crackling.
Su Xia found that Zuikaku's hair was wet and stuck to her forehead, and her kyudo uniform was soaked, with faint patterns appearing on it.
Ruihe noticed that Su Xia's eyes were on her, so she crossed her arms and said, "What are you looking at... I'm going to go back and take a shower." She had already sweated a lot and felt uncomfortable after practicing archery in the afternoon, and now she was wet from the rain, so she had to take a shower.
After returning home, Zuikaku, who finished his shower first, wore a pair of old jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. You could smell the faint scent of shampoo and soap on his head and body. He walked back and forth barefoot on the wooden floor, making a clattering sound.
Su Xia followed and took a shower. Since there were no clothes for him here, he could only wear his original clothes. His shirt was already soaked and hung under the eaves to dry, but his pants were still wearable. When he returned to the living room, he saw Zuikaku sitting by the wide-open door. Outside the door was the courtyard.
She bent her legs, rested her face on her knees, and gently stroked her toes. The length of her toes decreased in order, with smooth lines and round and smooth skin. She listened to the sound of rain quietly, as if thinking about something.
"What is Zuikaku thinking about?" Su Xia said.
"No." Zuikaku raised her head, her slightly wet hair hanging loosely, and her long eyelashes curled up.
Ruihe noticed that Su Xia was staring at her and said, "What are you looking at?" Her lips were clearly defined and had a beautiful curve, and dimples were faintly visible on her cheeks when she nodded and smiled.
"What are you looking at... Zuikaku is so beautiful." Su Xia said, "Can I kiss Zuikaku?"
Ruihe looked at Su Xia, his heart pounding wildly.
The rain had stopped. The potted plants in the courtyard were filled with transparent rainwater, looking like small sinks. The air was exceptionally quiet, with only the occasional patter of water drops falling from the eaves hitting the ground, and the crisp thump of a bamboo tube filled with water hitting the green pebbles.
Zuikaku sat cross-legged on the wooden floor. Suxia knelt in front of Zuikaku, put her hands on her shoulders, and kissed her lips gently.
