Chapter 41
She asked Professor Wang about it and after passing the exam and officially enrolled in school, she could apply for work. She worked no more than 18 hours a week and would get a reward of 70,000 to 80,000 yen in about a month. However, it was basically complicated manual labor, such as selling hamburgers at McDonald's or KFC, or plastering tables at some Japanese taverns.
Xiaoya thought, this is nothing. I didn’t have such physical work in Tianbao Hotel, but it was better than sitting in the sacrificial area. Didn’t it just do two and a half hours every night?
Professor Wang said: After a while, if you have the opportunity, you can find jobs such as Chinese tutoring, which will make a lot of money. However, this kind of opportunity is not often available, so I will pay attention to it for you.
She told Yinzhen that Yinzhen was also very excited and said that she would go to work together after entering school to subsidize some household expenses.
The entrance exams for both of them went smoothly. In April 2000, Xiaoya officially became a member of the Nagoya University with a long history. After Yinzhen entered the school, because of her relationship with Xiaoya, she refused to move to the Hewu Campus where the Medical Department was located and stayed in Dongshan. She would rather go to the subway to attend classes every morning.
Fortunately, the courses in Japanese universities are not very tight. Sometimes the first class does not take until 11 o'clock, so Yinzhen often has the opportunity to go to bed in the morning.
Xiaoya continued to keep the habit of studying in other subjects, and she got up early every day to read, then ate breakfast, then went back to the house to get her schoolbag to attend class, and asked Yinzhen to get up. If there was no class in the morning, she would go to the library to read. She unexpectedly found that there were many Chinese books in the famous library, which made her a little overjoyed, because even if she was fluent in Japanese, Xiaoya still liked to read and think in her native language. There were many subtle things, and only Chinese could express that charm and feeling.
The moon rises to the willows, and people make an appointment after dusk.
Whether it is the splendor of the sound of the oars and the lights, the warmth of the red sleeves, the bones by the Wuding River, the desolation of people in the dreams of the spring boudoir, etc., this feeling and artistic conception cannot be accurately expressed in Japanese. Even if there is no language that can have the breathtaking penetration of Chinese. If some people do not realize this, it may only mean that they live too shallowly.
Xiaoya lives a deeper life because she has a purpose in reading Chinese books. I don’t believe that this guy Kazuyama can speak Chinese better than me, a Chinese! You have to find some allusions or difficult sentences, and make things difficult for him at that time, so that he can’t get out of Taiwan.
But she didn't know that the books she read now, Kazuyama has basically read them all in the past four years since she was studying in the Chinese department. The egg-like head was not filled with thin egg yolks, but it was real wisdom.
In Nagoya in April, it is the season when cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Xiaoya received a call from Katayama and asked her if she was interested in going to Nagoya Castle. The cherry blossoms in Tsuruma Park were also in full bloom, which is worth seeing. Xiaoya is no longer so disgusted with Katayama at this time. In addition, she hasn't gone out for a long time and is a little moved, so she asked Yinzhen if she wanted to go with her. Yinzhen said it was OK, and she wanted to go there.
As a result, the car drove. Katayama looked at Yinzhen and asked Xiaoya: Where are you going to let her sit? Xiaoya heard that he was speaking Chinese again, so she said: Is it good to speak Japanese? Yinzhen doesn't understand Chinese.
Katayama still stubbornly said in Chinese: Why didn’t you tell me earlier that I have another person?
Xiaoya said: I forgot, is there any problem? You can’t sit two people in the car?
Katayama had no choice but to spread his hands: It would be fine if you were willing to sit on her lap or she would sit on your lap.
Xiaoya said: What are you wearing in the back row?
Kazuyama opened the car door: See it for yourself.
Xiaoya saw that the back row was filled with paper boxes, so she took out a small box and took a look. It turned out to be diapers. She was very curious and said, "Why are you buying so many diapers?"
Katayama said angrily: Of course it is not for food.
Xiaoya was unhappy when he was poked like this: If we can’t sit down, we won’t go!
Although these two people were talking in Chinese, Yinzhen realized that they were definitely discussing whether they could sit or not, so they quickly stood up to express their attitude: It doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter, Sister Xiaoya can sit on my thighs. After saying that, she got into the car and sat down, patted her thighs and said: Come on, sister, sit here!
Xiaoya gave Katayama a blank look, barely squeezed in, and sat on Yinzhen's thigh.
It was pretty good to play along the way. Katayama gave the two girls a detailed introduction to the history of Nagoya Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu's great achievements, the significance of the Sekigahara war, and Tokugawa shogunate created Japan's peaceful and prosperous era for nearly three hundred years. The founder of this prosperous era Tokugawa himself later went to Edo, which is today Tokyo, but many of his descendants lived in the Tensou Pavilion on the west side of the Honmaru District of Nagoya Castle. This five-story flying eaves building, built by dozens of the most famous names at that time, is a landmark building in the history of Japanese architecture. Since then, many Japanese buildings have used this as a template to form the unique characteristics of Japanese architecture. Nagoya Castle, built with Tensou Pavilion as the core, is like Osaka Castle and Edo Castle, a comprehensive embodiment of the strength of the lords in the Warring States Period of Japan.
Xiaoya thinks this guy is not as unreliable as when he first met him. He looks like a little bit of ink, but Xiaoya replied with dissatisfaction with his high evaluation of Nagoya Castle:
Ieyasu has become a shogun, and all Japan has to listen to him to build such a small city. What's so great about it! Look at the size of our Forbidden City in China?
Kazuyama pinched his nose and thought to himself: How could he forget that this girl came from China? She is now laughed at. Indeed, in terms of momentum and majesty, adding those cities together is not as good as the Forbidden City. If Tianshou Pavilion is compared with the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, it would be a toilet. He has been to Beijing, but he just stood in front of the center square of the world's largest city, and he felt that the magnificent momentum made him almost breathless. What an amazing building and what an amazing civilization, he felt that he was the right choice to learn Chinese. But Kazuyama was indeed clever, and he answered Xiaoya like this:
Although the size of the Forbidden City is amazing, it has no vitality and vitality. Although Nagoya Castle is small, it exudes the breath of spring and life everywhere.
This sentence is very pertinent. In order to set off the solemnity of the Forbidden City and to prevent assassins from sneaking in, except for the Imperial Garden, there is no big tree, or even flowers or grass in the Forbidden City, but it is just a lifeless person.
However, Nagoya Castle is lush everywhere, and more than 2,000 cherry blossoms blooming make the spring here particularly gorgeous.
Xiaoya thought his answer was very reasonable, so she smiled at him and led Yinzhen to the cherry blossom bush. The two girls hadn't seen so many cherry blossoms before, and were so happy that they played hide-and-seek like children.
Kiyoshiro Katayama stood in a trash can, lit a cigarette, watched the two girls play, and recalled Xiaoya's questions just now, and felt that Xiaoya was a little different. When he talked endlessly about the history of the shogunate and the allusions of Nagoya Castle, he could feel the thirsty expression in Xiaoya's eyes. He could be sure that Xiaoya was not interested in him, and he knew it in his heart after picking her up from the airport that day. However, Xiaoya showed a strong desire for knowledge, and could beat with his thinking, and even asked very challenging questions. Of course, this girl could also respond to his answers with a knowing and appreciative smile.
Compared to the Quan Yinzhen who had been absent-minded about his narrative, just following behind, picking a flower and putting her head on her head, and squatting on the ground to look at the little insect, Katayama felt that Xiaoya was at least a smart girl.
Xiaoya had a very bad first impression of Katayama, but she didn't know that Katayama's first impression of her was actually not very good. On the time she picked up the plane, Katayama was indeed a little bit flirting with her, and she always looked at her chest. Later, when she was with Katayama, she found that this guy was far from as obscene as she thought at the beginning.
Katayama explained this: When I first met you, I thought you were just a vase and had no knowledge. I looked down on such a girl, so I made those jokes.
Xiaoya asked her: Then do you look down on me now?
Chapter completed!