Chapter 265: There is a problem with this pumpkin lamp!

Akina, who had finished her makeup in the dressing room at Fuji TV, was preparing to go on stage.

But her eyes were aimed at the Wan Shengjie gift Naoki-san had given her, which was placed on the dressing table.

The orange-yellow imitation pumpkin lamp, because it was taken from "Future Disco," actually had a switch behind the ear, and it would glow when pressed.

Although it didn't look like a very expensive gift, receiving it at this time was very appropriate, and the sudden surprise also made Akina feel especially good~

"If I put it here, will someone take it away?"

Akina was a bit worried. It wasn't appropriate to find her manager Kenji Hatakenaka at this time; he was at the front desk connecting with the staff about the script. "If I had known, I would have put it in the car."

After thinking about it, she still couldn't bear to leave it directly in the dressing room. Akina prepared to hold this pumpkin lamp and go on stage directly. Anyway, it was a Wan Shengjie variety show, so bringing a pumpkin lamp was very normal, right~

Walking along the corridor to the variety show studio, the staff were nervously and orderly preparing for the shooting process. The studio was also filled with Wan Shengjie decorations like bats, etc.

As one of the program guests, Akina was not yet at the peak of her future fame, and now she was just a well-known newcomer. After greeting Kenji Hatakenaka not far away, she merged into the lineup of guests calmly.

Everyone knows that shooting variety shows has a script, but most of the time, the script is just an outline, and the improvisation and coordination of the variety show host are very important. The host of this program was the famous Tamori. Later, the famous *Waratte Iitomo! * had just been broadcast for one episode, and at this time, he was still active in other variety shows.

As the program shooting progressed, Tamori was transitioning in the middle of the segment when he suddenly saw the pumpkin lamp on Akina Nakamori's lap with sharp eyes, so he cued this newcomer idol:

"Akina-chan, why does everyone else not have a pumpkin lamp, but you have one?"

"Eh? This one?"

Caught off guard, Akina, who was chatting with the guest next to her, was startled. The camera that followed faithfully recorded it.

Tamori also walked closer and looked: "This pumpkin lamp doesn't seem to be from our studio, right? The painting style is completely different!"

Kenji Hatakenaka behind the scenes patted his forehead... He hadn't looked carefully just now and thought it was a program prop. He didn't expect Akina-chan to take the gift Naoki Nagayama gave her directly on stage.

"Uh... actually, this is a Wan Shengjie gift someone gave me!" Akina smiled embarrassedly. "I felt it fit the Wan Shengjie atmosphere, so I brought it over~"

"So that's how it is. But if you give a pumpkin lamp for Wan Shengjie, it's a bit too perfunctory~" Then Tamori turned back to his partner host. "Minji-san, if you want to give me a gift, don't just give me a pumpkin lamp and call it a day!"

The funny tone and comical expression caused the audience under the stage to laugh out loud~

"Haha, no, this pumpkin lamp is very interesting~" Akina Nakamori said with a smile. "After pressing the switch, it will emit light like a real candle flame, and it will move and move~"

"Eh? Then I have to see~"

Akina pressed the switch, and sure enough, the pumpkin lamp lit up. Even under the studio lights, one could see the pumpkin's facial features flickering with light.

"It really moves~"

Tamori picked up the pumpkin lamp and pretended to bring his eyes close to the eyes of the pumpkin lamp. "It looks like it's come alive~"

Then he seemed to have discovered something: "Akina-chan, Akina-chan, there is a problem with this pumpkin lamp, there seems to be something inside!"

Other audience members and guests in the field thought this was an arranged plot, but several directors and staff felt strange. Clearly, there was no such segment, but a camera still cooperated and gathered around.

Akina Nakamori's face was also full of ignorance. She took the returned pumpkin lamp: "There is something?"

This pumpkin lamp had just been received, and she hadn't looked at it carefully, thinking it was just an ordinary toy.

Under the shooting of the camera, Akina Nakamori lifted the brain shell of the pumpkin lamp, and then from that hole, sure enough, she saw a wrapped gift box stuffed next to the small electric light of the pumpkin lamp!

"There really is something!" Tamori felt that the effect of this plot was too good, attracting the attention of everyone in the field, so he urged again: "Akina-chan, take it out and see!"

Akina Nakamori pulled the gift box out from inside with some effort. Speaking of which, when Naoki Nagayama stuffed the gift in at the beginning, he also put in some effort. On one hand, he couldn't break the pumpkin lamp, and on the other hand, he couldn't break the gift box.

"What is it?" Feeling that Tamori was even more anxious than Akina Nakamori~

Akina unwrapped the gift box bit by bit, revealing the gift inside. The latest silver Sony Walkman-7 and matching headphones were revealed.

"Oh ho! It's a Walkman! And it's the latest model that just came out in October!" Tamori was even more excited than Akina and looked at his partner host again. "Minji-san, you saw it, if you want to give me a gift, you have to give a pumpkin lamp like this!"

Akina was also full of smiles on stage, holding the silver Walkman and looking at it from time to time. If she weren't still recording the program, she would definitely have tried it on the spot!

And Tamori hadn't let her go yet: "Ano, Akina-chan, who gave such a good gift?"

The audience under the stage all followed with "Oh~~" to boo.

At this time, Akina was no longer a little novice who had just entered the entertainment industry, still smiling: "It's a good friend~"

"Oh? Looking at the type of gift, it should be a male!"

"Hai~ it's a handsome guy!" Akina was still full of smiles, but still didn't reveal who it was.

Tamori followed up: "A suitor?"

"No way~" Akina shook her head with a smile. "It's~ a good friend~"

Seeing Akina's skilled artist face, Tamori knew he couldn't ask anything, and cleverly turned the topic to his partner: "Well~ I also want to have such a good friend, Minji-san, you are my good friend!"

"No way!

!"

"Hahahaha~" The audience under the stage all laughed!

However, the protagonist at this time, Naoki Nagayama, had already arrived home. This scene could probably only be seen when the TV was broadcast~

Sunset and sunrise, as the cold air became heavier, the bottom of October was getting closer and closer.

Naoki Nagayama came to Ginza again, wearing a newly bought trench coat and a thin scarf, like a gentleman who had just returned from France.

The clothing of pedestrians on the road had all become cold-proof autumn wear. Down jackets, scarves, and gloves in the shops were just in the hot-selling period. Some merchants also placed small bat and pumpkin lamp decorations at the entrance, and all kinds of strange costume props and masks were also arranged on the display cabinet...

Wan Shengjie was just around the corner.

The negotiation matters for *Hana Yori Dango* basically didn't need Naoki Nagayama to add chaos. Hiromi Otomo and Kazuteru Takano went to the office to communicate every other day, and then went to an izakaya or some club to drink a meal...

According to Hiromi Otomo, who had been drinking and feasting these days, the two had reached a consensus, and it was estimated that it would take about 2 more drinking parties...

To actually be able to predict even the number of times of drinking, it was really...

The release of the movie *A Scene at the Sea* was also very smooth. It had already spread among film lovers, and most directors and producers in the industry had also heard the reputation of this movie.

This quiet movie, just like its name, permeated the core of the Japanese film industry silently.

Besides art theaters, some ordinary theater chains also planned to arrange screenings.

However, under the suggestion of Xiu-san, Naoki Nagayama still decided to wait for the word-of-mouth to ferment, so now he could stroll leisurely on the commercial street.

"Sanmei Residence" opened in Ginza. Without an opening ceremony or advertising, such a tea house with no fame started business silently. When others passed by this green ancient-style building with unique characteristics, they even thought it was a place like a temple.

However, the faint tea fragrance occasionally coming from the shop revealed its essence as a tea house.

"Yasui-san, Chinatsu-san, how does it feel to open?" Naoki Nagayama walked into the shop slowly and saw the main and deputy managers drinking tea at the counter.

"Completely no real feeling..."

Katsuo Yasui had already figured out the personality of this owner through several meetings with Naoki Nagayama, so he didn't answer rigidly.

"Nagayama-san, only 3 guests have walked in these few days, two of whom were a couple, wanting to ask if this is a temple, wanting to draw a lot..."

"Hahaha, then what about the other one? Did he consume in the tea house?"

"No... he was scared away by the price here!"

The price Naoki Nagayama set for Sanmei Residence was about one-third more expensive than other tea houses in Tokyo. Basically, drinking a cup of better tea would cost one-third of a wage earner's salary.

"Hahaha, it's okay, then I'll be the first guest~" Naoki Nagayama said to Chinatsu Sakakibara with a smile. "Chinatsu-san, please brew me a pot of Gyokuro."

"Hai, guest please wait~" Chinatsu Sakakibara, wearing a kimono, bowed slightly and quickly entered the role of a tea master.

The three-story tea house was for Naoki Nagayama to choose. The tea table in the hall on the first floor was for drinking tea and chatting, the partitioned tea table on the second floor was for tasting tea and resting, and the private room tea table on the third floor was for private negotiation.

He walked slowly to a tea table by the window on the second floor, and by the way, checked the hygiene situation in the shop. It looked like the two main and deputy managers were very responsible.

Before long, Chinatsu Sakakibara brought tea utensils and tea leaves to the second floor. The simple pottery tea utensils were full of natural interest, and Chinatsu Sakakibara's smooth and solemn tea-brewing skills made the tea house have an extra sense of Zen.

Top-tier Gyokuro first needs to be brewed with 40-degree water, then 60 degrees, and finally 80 degrees, so that one can taste the sweetness of Gyokuro tea.

Naoki Nagayama's previous practice of brewing directly with hot water was indeed wasteful.

However, Naoki Nagayama only let Chinatsu Sakakibara perform once, and then sent the deputy manager back to the counter. He was still used to being alone when drinking tea.

If there was someone serving in front, he always felt he lost that sense of leisure.

Smelling the tea fragrance, tasting the tea flavor, looking at the sky outside the window and the pedestrians flowing on the street, Naoki Nagayama seemed to have realized the human "one taste" of the three tastes of tea...

It seemed that Naoki Nagayama's arrival brought popularity to Sanmei Residence. In a short time, there were actually two more guests. Looking at the two in suits and leather shoes, they looked like they were not short of money, and they generously opened a private room on the third floor.

When they went up the stairs, Naoki Nagayama also heard the two saying: "Don't know when a tea house suddenly opened here..."

"The decoration is quite interesting, just don't know how the tea is~"

The publicity department of Akina was holding a meeting to decide the next itinerary.

And Akina Nakamori's neck was hanging with ear-hook headphones, the white wire extending to the Walkman on her waist. If you listen carefully, the light music was coming out of the headphones.

"Does Akina-chan have any opinions?" Nobuo Tomioka asked Akina Nakamori, "Regarding this blessing program."

"Ah, Tori-no-ichi, daijobu daijobu!" However, Akina Nakamori also asked afterward, "But there should be no arrangement after the program, right? Can I go to the temple fair?"

Looking at Akina, who was full of expectation, Nobuo Tomioka couldn't say words of refusal. After all, this idol basically had no holidays now...

"Yes, you can!"

Nobuo Tomioka was about to say the next topic, but suddenly saw the headphones again, feeling a sense of disgust in his heart.

"Akina-chan, it just so happens to be in Asakusa Shrine. After it ends, why don't you go do a purification ceremony~"

"Eh? Why do a purification ceremony?"

Nobuo Tomioka's eyes turned, and the excuse was already on his lips: "After all, the selection for the FNS Music Festival is coming, we must ensure not to be contaminated with any filthy energy, and strive for the Newcomer Award in the best state!"

Although she didn't know why Nobuo Tomioka was suddenly so serious, Akina still nodded in agreement happily.

After the meeting, which was not short, ended, Nobuo Tomioka found Kenji Hatakenaka to communicate:

"How is Akina-chan's state recently?"

"Uh... can only say it's very good..."

Although she had always worked very seriously before, she would occasionally show a tired look, and her mentality would have ups and downs, but since receiving the gift, her mood had been very good these days, and her state was also very positive.

"Sure enough, it's because of that Walkman."

"Well... it should be. Akina-chan listens to songs every day..." Kenji Hatakenaka recalled. These days, as long as she was resting, Akina would wear headphones, in the car, when resting during the program...

She even asked him to help charge it~

Nobuo Tomioka extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand, helpless and unwilling, finally merging into a fierce sentence:

"Must participate in the purification ceremony next month properly!

!"

Akina Nakamori started listening to songs again. This latest Walkman could automatically flip the tape. As long as the power was sufficient, she could keep listening.

And at this time, what came from the headphones was surprisingly the theme song of Naoki Nagayama's new movie, *Silent Love*, which had been on single-track loop for a long time! ===== CHAPTER 266 =====