Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 46 The Moonlight is So Beautiful 2
The sound of girls playing could be heard in my ears. This shop, which was half tea house and half library, did not force a quiet atmosphere.

Everyone is doing what they like, a few good friends are chatting, and couples in love are snuggling together.

Takeda Akane didn't leave either. She was wearing a beautiful silk scarf and chatting with several girls that Ryukawa Toru didn't know.

I could faintly hear her saying, "I really don't understand why Muzi would date someone like that." "He looks like a loser."

This girl always had a strong malice towards him. Longchuan Che didn't know why. He put the pen between his middle finger and ring finger, and fell into deep thought with a frown on his face.

'I love you.'

This was the last paragraph of his translation. The store gave him a 10,000-word translation. If the translation satisfied the store, he would receive 10,000 yen.

"Why don't you continue writing?"

Natsuko Imamura had unknowingly finished reading the entire "The Tale of Genji". She pinched her chin and walked to Ryukawa Toru. The gilded and shining colors almost dazzled the poor man Ryukawa Toru and he couldn't take his eyes off it.

“I’ll be done soon.”

Longchuan Che blew twice onto the golden tip of the pen.

The fountain pen provided by the bookstore is the classic Parker 51 fountain pen, which writes fluently. American writer Hemingway once used it to write "The Old Man and the Sea".

"Then write quickly. Do you want to spend Christmas Eve here?"

Natsuko Imamura smiled and glanced at Matsuji Muzi beside her without leaving a trace.

The girl was playing with her friends, with a bright smile on her face, as if she could even brighten the bad mood of others.

"It's not impossible to live here."

Long Chuan Che curled his lips. A big part of the reason why he ran away was that he couldn't stand the warm festive atmosphere at home.

Exchange gifts and wish each other well.

You can't expect too much from someone who hasn't celebrated a festival since he was five years old.

Ryukawa Toru even felt that if his heart was not strong enough, he would have written rogue literature like Dazai Osamu.

He has a consciousness of resisting authority, takes a self-deprecating and self-abuse attitude towards life, specializes in writing morbid and gloomy works, and has a decadent tendency.

Very suitable for a child who grew up in foster care and has been traumatized for a long time.

While Longchuan Che was lost in thought, two girls who were playing nearby came over.

Seeing where Ryukawa Toru stopped his pen, the girl who must be called Saori pinched her chin.

"I love you, Muzi. He doesn't seem to be able to write. Why don't you teach him? Hahaha, stop tickling me."

Before the girl could finish her joke, she was tickled by pine branches and walked aside again.

Under the light, half of the girl's ear turned red, and Longchuan Che tilted his head in confusion.

Most adolescent boys and girls are reserved and ambiguous. The slightest liking or closeness can easily make people blush and their hearts beat faster.

It's normal for couples who have just started dating to feel shy when faced with their friends' teasing, but Ryuukawa Tetsu felt that they didn't have that kind of feelings.

"Is it to irritate that person?"

Longchuan Che turned his head and looked at Senior Yuanmu who was still waiting there. At this moment, the other party was very angry at this side.

Longchuan Che looked at Matsueda Muko with an expression that said this woman has great acting skills. At this moment, the other party looked gritting her teeth, as if she was really a little girl who was in love and her face turned red when her friends teased her.

Japanese people don't say 'I love you'.

Ryukawa Tetsu circled this short sentence in the last paragraph of his translation.

The girl's tender red ears reminded him of something.

"月が绮丽ですね."

Ryukawa Tetsu wrote this short sentence on a new piece of white paper on the side.

"These words" Natsuko Imamura, who was about to leave on the other side, suddenly stopped.

The girl looked at the moon outside the window, looked at Longchuan Tetsu's face, then sat down again and frowned as she pondered the short words on the white paper.

The moon is beautiful.

The moonlight is so beautiful. It was written casually, and Ryukawa Tetsu didn't pay too much attention to it. He translated the last sentence "I love you more than my own life, but I love life itself more than loving you." and stood up to hand the translation manuscript to the clerk.

"Do you think it's okay?"

Longchuan Che was also a little nervous at this time. Private translation also depends on the employer's preference. Some people like fancy words, while others prefer plain and straightforward expressions.

Ryukawa Tetsu's translation borrowed some expressions from the 'New Sensation' school, and he was not sure the store would like it.

"Well, most of them are the same as the previous translations."

The clerk noticed that Longchuan Che had written some very brilliant paragraphs, but her business instinct made her choose to lower the price.

The market price is one yen per character, but not everyone can get the full amount.

Hearing the other party's words, Longchuan Che sighed. "Jean-Christophe" is a French classic. Even though he put a lot of effort into translating a lot of things, they were all torn apart by others.

"You have no money and no ability either." Seeing Long Chuan Che sighing, the young man in formal attire sitting next to him sneered.

Many people have already left at this point, and Takeda Akane also went into the colorful world outside the house with her classmates a few minutes ago.

Longchuan Che admired this senior named Yuanmu a little.

In order to compete with someone for his favor, she stared at him from the afternoon to the evening on Christmas Eve.

"How much is left?"

The boy regretted running out today when he was about to translate more manuscripts.

"10 yen. Give him yen."

Natsuko Imamura tore off the note written by Toru Ryukawa, and then looked at Toru Ryukawa hesitantly.

"For 100,000 yen, I'll buy your translation and add this sentence, okay?"

The girl clenched the white paper in her hand, and the black words seemed to gleam with a gilded texture under the light.

The ancients said that a word is worth a thousand gold.

The place in Tsutaya Bookstore suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone turned to look at the girl with such a loud voice, wondering what kind of words could be worth a price of over 100,000 yen.

It is now 19.

The minimum hourly wage in Japan is 989 yen.

One hundred thousand yen is equivalent to about twelve days' wages.

Twelve days’ salary is neither too much nor too little.

but that
"Just a word?"

The big and strong boy stood there in a daze with a squeak.

He just said that Longchuan Che has no money and no ability.

He takes advantage of girls when he goes out, and even calling it a part-time job won't make up for it.

In fact, the store clerk was able to lower the price to 8.9000 yen. Whether it was the opening line "The sound of the river rises from behind the house" or the last line "I love you more than my own life, but I love life itself more than loving you.", the translation was first-rate.

The clerk almost helped Longchuan Che to slap the boy with a fierce look in the face.

But the words of the lady from Tsutaya Bookstore calmed her down again.

The young lady has her eyes on something more satisfying than translation.

The girl in kimono was holding a piece of white paper, her eyes sparkling with light and fireflies.

This is the eldest daughter of the Kujo family who came across something she liked.

When was the last time you saw this scene?

Was it the painting “Arashiyama Full of Flowers” ​​that you got when you were five? Or was it the painting “Three Beauties of Gaoming” that you got when you were eight?
The clerk couldn't remember clearly, but anyway, the young lady liked things that were very aesthetic and lyrical.

(End of this chapter)