Chapter 307: Routine

After deciding to buy this house located in Chiyoda Ward with a simple and unique design, the most important task for Lin Xiuyuan and the others today was considered successfully completed.

However, for a while after completing the task, everyone was a bit dazed, not knowing what to do next.

If you say go home and rest now, it seems a bit unfinished.

After all, it's rare for everyone to come out together, can't just leave after seeing the house.

But if you want to go out and play, the rain outside the window is still drizzling, without any intention of stopping.

In this kind of weather, as long as people walk outside for a few more minutes, I'm afraid their shoes and pant legs will be soaked, and the sticky feeling is really not comfortable.

So in this situation, a subtle emotion of "don't want to go back like this, but don't know where to go" suddenly permeated the carriage.

Thus, after getting back in the car, everyone started to discuss the itinerary of where to go next.

First, Park Jiyeon suggested, this Little Dragon Cub, who was very full of vitality, said, "Unni, since there is no place to go, and I don't want to go back, let's go exercise. I know there are several indoor sports halls nearby, such as gyms, badminton halls, or tennis halls, all of which are indoor, no need to worry about being rained on at all."

As a result, as soon as she finished speaking, she was rejected by Xian Enjing without hesitation, "No, Jiyeon-ah, it's rare for us to have a day off, and it's this kind of rainy day suitable for sleeping, can't we find a quiet place to lie flat or rest, I really don't want to sweat anymore."

After Park Jiyeon's suggestion was rejected, Park Hyomin followed up with a relatively quiet suggestion.

"Then how about we find a cafe with a better environment to sit? Drink coffee, read books, or just chat simply, isn't a rainy day and a cafe a good match?"

This suggestion full of petty-bourgeois sentiment made Lin Xiuyuan smile and look at Xian Enjing beside him, and suddenly teased.

"Jingjing-ah, look, this is the real literary style, petty-bourgeois style, you really learned a half-bucket of water, didn't finish learning."

Lin Xiuyuan's words seemed to evoke some memories of Xian Enjing that might be about being drunk.

That night about fooling Lin Xiuyuan but being exposed in the blink of an eye still made her cheeks slightly flushed.

So she glared at him angrily, "Go to the side~"

In the gap between the two bickering, Goo Hara, who had stayed in Nihon for the longest time and was more familiar with the entertainment in Tokyo, put forward a new and tempting suggestion.

"Since you don't want to exercise, and don't want to just stay, then how about we go soak in a hot spring? It's been a bit cold and damp with the rain these two days, soaking in a hot hot spring to warm the body and drive away the dampness, isn't it quite good?"

After listening to this proposal, Sulli raised her hand in approval first, her eyes shining, "Can, I agree, unni, I haven't soaked in a hot spring for a long time."

It's just that when it came to this, she was a bit confused, "However, are there real hot springs in downtown Tokyo?"

Lin Xiuyuan also nodded in echo of Sulli's suspicion, "Yes, downtown hot springs, listening to it doesn't seem reliable, won't it be the kind of boiler water heating and pretending to be one??"

Facing the doubts of the two, Goo Hara smiled and leaned over from the back seat, gently hitting Lin Xiuyuan's arm in the driver's seat.

Then she simply lay between the backrests of the driver's seat and the passenger seat, and explained in a low voice at close range, "I've been there with friends before, it's not boiler water, it's a real natural hot spring. Although it may not be as famous as the hot spring sources in the deep mountains, the water quality is absolutely guaranteed."

"Where is it?" Park Jiyeon asked curiously.

"There is one in Nerima Ward, there is one in Odaiba, and then————" Goo Hara paused and said a location that made Lin Xiuyuan instantly energetic, "There is also one in Akihabara."

"Wait!!" Lin Xiuyuan turned his head back suddenly, almost hitting Goo Hara who was close at hand, his face full of shock and disbelief, "Akihabara? Is it the Akihabara that I understand————the holy land of otaku, full of figures and maid cafes?!"

Goo Hara looked at his surprised expression and couldn't help but laugh "puchi," but still nodded affirmatively.

"Hmm, it's the Akihabara near where you boys like to go. But that side is just a very normal hot spring bath, not as special as you think."

At the same time, she gave another example, "To be honest, that one in Akihabara is far worse than the Toshimaen Niwa no Yu in Nerima Ward, whether it's the environment or the hot spring quality. That one is an authentic Japanese garden natural hot spring, the scenery inside is really quite good, very artistic, shall we go see that one?"

Smelling the faint fresh fragrance from Goo Hara behind her, and listening to this description, Lin Xiuyuan was immediately interested.

"If it's really as you said, with a Japanese garden and a natural hot spring, then I'm really a bit interested."

The rest of the people, upon hearing this, also imagined the picture of soaking in a hot spring in the rain and enjoying the garden scenery, and they were all moved and agreed.

Thus, under Goo Hara's guidance, the MPV started again and drove toward Nerima Ward.

Soon the car came to the vicinity of the navigation address.

The entrance of this hot spring inn is located in a quiet alley with two lanes, and it happens to be at a bend, which is a bit of a feeling of being hidden in the city.

When Lin Xiuyuan followed the sign and carefully drove the car into the parking lot and parked it, looking at the slightly ordinary residential environment around, he couldn't help but have doubts again, "No, Hara-ah, is there really a decent hot spring here? It doesn't look like it."

Goo Hara in the back seat heard his muttering and pouted her small mouth a bit depressed, "Didn't I show you the official website photos in the car on the way here, still don't believe me?"

Lin Xiuyuan saw this and quickly shook his head to soothe, "That's not not believing you, mainly I have an instinctive suspicion of the things promoted by the little Japan side, you know."

And his teasing, which carried a bit of regional black, also successfully amused Goo Hara.

Afterward, everyone got out of the car together and walked into the lobby of the hot spring inn under Goo Hara's lead.

The interior decoration is an elegant Japanese style, quiet and Zen-like.

Goo Hara had already booked a very luxurious private garden on the way here, if the actual environment is not much different from the promotional photos, then this garden should be quite nice.

According to the information in the booking map.

That garden also possesses two hot spring pools, and can see a small artificial waterfall, the scenery is quite considerable.

After entering the lobby, the group sat on the comfortable Japanese-style sofa for a while, waiting for Goo Hara to check the booking information and handle the procedures with the front desk manager.

After a while, a clerk wearing a kimono and with a respectful attitude led them, passing through winding corridors, bypassing several exquisite dry landscape sceneries.

Anyway, it was a long way, and finally arrived at the garden they booked.

As the clerk pushed open the simple wooden door, what everyone saw first were two rooms on the left and right at the entrance of the garden.

According to Goo Hara's translation of the clerk's introduction, Lin Xiuyuan only then knew that one side was a fully equipped washroom, and the other side was a changing and rest area.

Walking forward again, the field of vision suddenly opened up.

A carefully managed small garden was built by a stream, the gurgling sound of water intertwined with the sound of rain.

Not far away, a two-story small waterfall was flowing gurglingly, and the water splashes raised fine white foam.

Besides that, on the opposite side of the river not far from the garden, it was actually a dense maple forest.

Although it was not yet the season when the maple leaves were reddest, the layers of green could already see the natural taste of freshness in the water vapor.

Lin Xiuyuan, who withdrew his gaze, turned to look at the core of the garden, which were the two hot spring pools that were emitting steaming heat.

One pool looked like a traditional Japanese large bath barrel, and the rounded wood texture looked exceptionally warm.

The other was a pool of irregular shape piled up with natural volcanic rocks, which was more wild.

In those two pools, the clear hot spring water was surging slightly, and the steaming heat met the cold rain falling outside the eaves, forming a dreamlike atmosphere.

As Xian Enjing, Park Jiyeon, and others followed Lin Xiuyuan's footsteps into the garden and saw this scene like a painting, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.

"Wow, this scenery is too beautiful!"

"Daebak, I'm not the first time to come to Tokyo, how come I didn't find such a great place before."

"Soaking in a hot spring in this environment, I feel I can soak for a whole day and don't want to come out."

"Then you'll soak into human wrinkles."

After Park Hyomin finished that sentence very happily, Lin Xiuyuan's sentence in front, which carried teasing and destroyed the scenery and atmosphere, immediately attracted the white eyes of the girls who were either reproachful or amused.

Then, after the guiding clerk bowed and left politely, only the few of them were left in the garden.

So the girls cheered even more and started to discuss and prepare excitedly.

However, before enjoying the hot spring, they had a realistic problem to solve.

That is, none of them brought clothes to change.

"How about going vacuum?"

It was Park Jiyeon again, and it was this Little Dragon Cub who mischievously proposed a bold idea.

But she was immediately patted by Xian Enjing, and her eyes looked at Lin Xiuyuan in front.

And Park Hyomin proposed a more practical suggestion, "Go to the store and buy swimsuits, I see there seems to be some for sale in the lobby."

Park Jiyeon thought about it and felt that buying swimsuits was safer, "Alright, alright, buying swimsuits is fine."

On the contrary, Lin Xiuyuan was the most casual about this, waving his hands, "I'm a man, so I don't have so many requirements, just soak casually, you go buy yours."

So with the departure of the girls, the garden, which had just been lively, turned into only Lin Xiuyuan left.

Looking at the two pools and the scenery outside, Lin Xiuyuan didn't waste time, walked directly into the changing and rest room nearby, took off his outer clothes and pants neatly, leaving only his underwear.

Then he went to the next room to wash his body, then picked up the prepared bathrobe and a large bath towel, brought his phone, and walked out.

Before he reached the edge of the hot spring pool, the warm and moist air mixed with a faint sulfur smell rushed toward him.

Lin Xiuyuan, who walked to the edge of the volcanic rock pool, tested the water temperature, and the just-right hot comfort came from his fingertips.

Seeing this, he didn't hesitate to take off his bathrobe, hung it casually on the wooden rack nearby, turned around, stepped into the warm pool water, and slowly sank his body into it until the hot spring water covered his shoulders.

"Hoo" the moment Lin Xiuyuan soaked his whole body in, an indescribable sense of comfort spread from his limbs and bones, dispelling all the cold and fatigue brought by the rainy day.

The next second, he tilted his head back, leaned against the smooth volcanic rock pool wall, closed his eyes, and let out a sigh of infinite satisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

"This enjoyment is really great!!!!!"

The warm water flow wrapped around his body, every pore seemed to be opening happily, dispelling the fatigue and tense nerves of the past few days.

Lazily leaning against the smooth volcanic rock wall, Lin Xiuyuan let his thoughts empty.

After soaking for about a few minutes, after his body was completely warmed up, and even sweating slightly, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and a playful smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.

He reached out and took his phone from the dry rock slab nearby, the screen instantly covered with a layer of water mist due to the temperature difference.

However, Lin Xiuyuan didn't care, wiped the screen with a corner of the bath towel casually, then adjusted the angle, and aimed at the misty hot spring pool in front of him, as well as the waterfall and maple forest that were looming in the rain curtain behind the pool.

"Click," he took a photo full of atmosphere.

Opened the address book, found the contact remarked "Little Potato," and sent the photo over.

Immediately after, his fingers tapped a line of text rapidly.

【Lin Xiuyuan】: (Picture)

【Lin Xiuyuan】: Baolan, want to soak in a hot spring? The scenery is excellent, private garden.

At the same time, inside the TARA Tokyo dormitory.

Quan Baolan was curled up in the soft lazy sofa in her room, holding her phone, her fingertips sliding boredly on a small game interface.

Suddenly, when a new message preview popped up at the top of the phone, her instinct was to ignore it.

However, when the corner of her eye caught the avatar that had become somewhat familiar, that slender finger seemed to have its own will, and uncontrollably clicked on it.

The next second, the dialogue box expanded.

First coming into view was the hot spring photo that seemed to carry heat and moisture.

The hazy water mist, the natural scenery, looked indeed very tempting.

This made Quan Baolan's eyes freeze slightly, and she subconsciously zoomed in on the picture to look carefully.

Then she seemed to react, her eyes widened suddenly, and she quickly typed to reply to the other party.

【Quan Baolan】: You guys went out to play, and it was to soak in a hot spring???

Not long after the message was sent, Lin Xiuyuan's reply was almost instant.

【Lin Xiuyuan】: Went to see houses for business earlier, just finished and came over to relax. How about it, is this environment okay? Do you want to come over and soak too, drive away the cold, guaranteed comfortable.

Looking at the line of text jumping out on the screen, as well as the highly tempting environmental photo, Quan Baolan was indeed a little moved.

Soaking in a hot spring on a rainy day, it sounded very healing.

However, her introverted personality, thinking of a group of people crowding into that hot spring pool, it was lively, but for someone with social phobia like her, it was simply a large-scale social execution ground.

Just imagining that scene made her feel uncomfortable all over.

So after struggling for a few seconds, reason finally occupied the high ground.

Quan Baolan, who pursed her lips, replied with a trace of imperceptible disappointment.

【Quan Baolan】: Forget it————you guys have fun, I won't go join the fun.

After sending this message, Quan Baolan thought this topic would end here.

As a result, she didn't expect that less than three seconds after the message was sent, Lin Xiuyuan's reply was like it had been prepared long ago, and popped out immediately.

【Lin Xiuyuan】: Understood, social phobia is acting up, right, embarrassed because there are too many people, right. Alright then, forget it this time. Let's go alone next time, guaranteed quiet.

!!!

Quan Baolan looked at the line of text on the screen, first stunned for a second, then laughed "whoosh."

What ghost???

Thinking of this, she seemed to be able to see Lin Xiuyuan's face with a bad smile through the screen.

Throwing out an option with many people first, and after she refused as a matter of course, then taking the opportunity to propose other invitations, it was simply full of routines.

So her fingers poked the screen hard again, and she typed a series of question marks rapidly.

Fully expressing her shock and anger at being calculated.

【Quan Baolan】:???

【Quan Baolan】: Lin Xiuyuan!! You were waiting for me here???? ===== CHAPTER 308 =====