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

Chapter 7 Sweet Love

Just like my wife said, Ryukawa Toru's high school grades were not ideal.

Even if you have the gift of photographic memory, it is easy to be lost among the more than 50 candidates.

His greatest treasure is his unpublished novels.

Haruki Murakami, Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio and so on.

It seems that the history of modern Japanese literature has taken a forked path and everyone has ceased to exist.

Some people may think plagiarism is shameful, but Ryukawa Tetsu said:
"One man swallowed up a century of Japanese literary fortune."

Longchuan Che copied out all his representative works and raised his eyebrows with some pride at the paper.

"I want to reproduce the works they wrote with great effort. Shouldn't they thank me?"

What's yours and his.

What I write is mine.

Even if these great writers were born later, they would have to say that I feel like I have always lived in his shadow.

After finishing the table of contents, Longchuan Che put the paper into his arms.

After thinking for a moment, he opened the drawer and found an iron box.

The tin box is the original packaging box for cookies.

This is where Ryukawa Tetsu used to hide small things.

He opened the iron box and casually threw two orange peels into it. Longchuan Che picked up the things inside and started to look at them.

An Irish piccolo.

The silver whistle was the only thing that Ryukawa Toru's mother left him but did not give to Mrs. Takeda.

Even if it's not worth the money, Longchuan Che won't blow it.

After putting the piccolo with the words "Kujo" and "Ryukawa" engraved on it back, Ryukawa Toru picked up another photo.

The woman in the photo is gentle and virtuous, standing at the entrance of Waseda University and smiling warmly at the April breeze.

Longchuan Che suddenly felt a little sour in his nose.

He turned the photo over.

[If the cuckoo doesn't sing, how can we wait for it? - Shimamura Nishiko, 63.]

The cuckoo does not sing comes from the story of three heroes of the Japanese Warring States Period and the cuckoo.

There is also a line of faint pencil writing below, which was written by Longchuan Tetsu in the past.

'If the cuckoo doesn't sing, wait for it to sing'

This was an answer that imitated the final victor, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Long Chuan Che sneered and erased the line of pencil words.

[If the cuckoo doesn't sing, kill it and I will sing for it. ]

This is Longchuan Che’s current answer.

After putting away all the things, Japanese high school students like to use mechanical pencils. Ryukawa Toru couldn't find a suitable pen and ink, so he took out his few savings from the iron box and went out.

The wife was still lying there. Long Chuan Che thought for a moment and said:
"I just agree that you can live here. I won't do housework anymore. And I'll trouble you to take care of the meals during this period."

After saying this, Ryukawa Toru walked out, leaving Mrs. Takeda, who pulled back the blanket and looked in disbelief at the direction Ryukawa left.

"hateful!"

Takeda Takako gritted her teeth towards the gate. In her opinion, she had made such a great sacrifice, but the other party still wanted to quibble over these "small" things.

Mrs. Takeda rolled her eyes and waited for half a quarter of an hour.

After confirming that Longchuan Che had left, the woman pulled her skirt, glanced at the water stains on the ground and blushed.

"You'll be in trouble!"

Mrs. Takeda had a grim expression.

The agreement was drafted in 1994, when Japan had just experienced a financial bubble.

Large companies collapsed and many government departments were merged at that time.

It was unclear whether the attachments left at the notary office could be found. Mrs. Takeda walked into Ryukawa Toru's room with a sneer.

The small room looked like the one that Harry Potter's aunt gave Harry to live in.

Mrs. Takeda began to grope around the room quietly.

"found it!"

Mrs. Takeda was delighted when she saw the iron box.

She was glad that she didn't put the agreement together with the money, but Longchuan Tetsu was also a person who liked to keep valuables together.

"You son of a bitch, I'll kick you out!"

Mrs. Takeda happily opened the tin box of baked cookies, and inside was only a light note and a few orange peels.

[Vitamin C can make men's XX sweeter. Madam, if you think it through, you can buy more oranges for me to eat.]

"Asshole! I must kill you!"

Mrs. Takeda tore the paper into pieces in frustration, while Ryukawa Toru had already boarded the bus to Kofu City.

The village of Yamanakako where he lived was about a 30-minute drive from Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, where the district capital was located.

This small village is very remote and has no entertainment facilities. The only place where you can use coins is the store at the entrance of the village.

The lady boss of the convenience store is not easy to deal with, and there is also a naughty kid who likes to throw snowballs everywhere.

Sighing for his difficult situation, Ryukawa Toru touched the only 13,000 yen left in his pocket.

I have been working for a long time since I entered high school, but every time I earned money, that "sister" would extort and deduct it for various reasons.

Remembering that his 'sister' was also in Kofu City, Ryukawa Toru thought for a moment and decided to get off at Sakeori Station first.

The first snow brought with it the unique romance of winter. Longchuan Che breathed into his palms when he got out of the car.

He had few winter clothes, and the ones he had didn't quite fit him.

At this time, he was wearing the winter uniform issued by the school and was freezing like a fool.

A student passing by chuckled at him, saying that his black youth outfit was a little too thin.

Long Chuan Che didn't care about the looks around him, or rather, it was useless to care.

He looked up at the beautiful Western-style academy in front of him.

There is a clear fountain with cool natural light flowing through it, neatly trimmed flat paths, a huge banyan tree planted at the gate, and a tall bell tower inside the campus.

The golden school motto at the gate reads: "Salt of the earth, light of the sky, each of you is indispensable."

This school motto is in stark contrast to the school rule of Yinghe High School where Ryukawa Tetsu is studying, "Don't bully pigs."

"It's so irritating to compare people to each other."

Ryukawa Toru sighed. The Yamanashi High School where Takeda Akane studied was a high-deviation high school ranked in the top ten in the country, while his own Eiwa Academy was a third-rate school that mainly focused on agricultural majors.

It’s not that farming is bad, but the school is full of chickens, ducks, geese, and several pens of pigs, which makes Longchuan Che a little overwhelmed.

Thinking of the school where he might step on animal feces, Longchuan Che shuddered.

Fortunately, today is the last day before the winter vacation. After passing the central examination, I can just go to school again during the graduation season.

It was lunch time at school, and Longchuan Che explained his purpose to the security guard at the gate.

Yamanashi School does not exclude outside students, and Ryukawa Che has a clean face, red lips and white teeth, and looks like a good person.

"go in!"

The security guard patted Longchuan Che on the shoulder.

She sighed when she touched the boy's thin clothes.

The impact of the financial bubble has not yet passed, and there are still many poor families in this small town outside the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Another young man who longs to find solace in books.

The security guard watched Long Chuan Che walk towards the largest library in the small town inside the school.

Many people come to Yamanashi Gakuin because of the library, which has the most comprehensive collection of books in Japan.

(End of this chapter)