Chapter 24 third quarter

On the ceiling are thick and blackened beams.Dim electric lights glowed orange under the beams.At this time, the cow stopped crowing, and the crowing of the cock could not be heard.The teacup brought by Bangzi's cousin just now was left alone on the red tea table.Today, Dianzi experienced the feeling of being forced to wait for someone in a strange farmhouse. Footsteps came from inside. "I kept you waiting for a long time." Hataka Zenichi's younger sister walked in while bowing to Noriko repeatedly.In her hand was a thin booklet. "I finally found it. If there is any clue about my brother, this is it."

"It took you a lot of time." Dianzi took the book with great excitement, but when she took a look in her hand, she was immediately disappointed again. This is the same magazine "Shirakawa" that I saw in Tokyo from the general manager of the building, Mr. Nitta Keichiro.Moreover, even the issue number is the same.If it is just to see this, there is no need to go so far to the Meinong countryside. "Only this?" This was a bit rude to ask, but Dianzi said it without knowing it. "Yes. My brother's things are scattered... Anyway, we are a common people's house, and after 17 years, we haven't sorted it out, and all the things have been thrown away. Also, if I Just stay at home. As I told you just now, I spent a long time overseas in the early years, and then I got old and didn’t care about anything. In the past, my brother still kept a lot of things.”

Because keeping this, it seems that there are some clues. If there is nothing, I won't look for it. "I'm so sorry that you came here on purpose to take a look, but found nothing." Looking at Dianzi's face, the peasant woman did show apologetic expression. "Nothing, I'm sorry. It's just such a photo left. This is a photo taken by my brother when he was young, maybe it's useless, please take a look." She said, taking out an old photo from her bosom.Dianzi took it in his hand and looked at it. There are 3 people in total, and the background is the gatehouse of the monastery, and they are all standing.The man was about twenty-two or three years old, wearing a white shirt and trousers, and smiling.The little boy next to him, about 7 years old, was wearing a shirt, holding a young girl next to him with one hand. The girl looked to be about 19 or 20 years old. She was wearing a whitish kimono and holding a parasol.It can also be judged from the intensity and darkness of the clothing and light that this photo was taken in summer.

"Who is this lady?" Dianzi asked the young girl with the parasol.The face in this photo is also very beautiful. "Is this you?" A smile appeared on Hataka Kuniko's face. "She is my brother's lover. Standing beside her is her brother." "Oh, is it?" Roughly imagined, Noriko looked at the appearance of the girl called Hataka Zenichi's lover.She is a full-chinned, lovely-looking woman. "A very pretty lady. Didn't she marry your brother, then?" "My brother died before we got married. My brother also loved that girl, and she seemed to like my brother too. However, after my brother got lung disease and returned to his hometown, things didn't make any progress."

Hataka Zenichi's younger sister's voice became a little heavy. "So, is there any correspondence?" "No, there is no correspondence." "Oh, why?" "Before my brother returned to his hometown, something happened that he had to sever ties with this lover. The details are unclear. My brother didn't say anything to his parents. I am a younger sister, and he didn't tell me anything. However, my brother I have always cherished this photo. I still remember: When I was young, I found this photo from my brother’s book box. I asked my brother who was lying down due to illness, is this the person my brother is close to? My brother replied with a wry smile, um, yes."

"How is the lady now?" "I have no idea where she is now. Because she is thirty-eight or nine years old now, she may be a wife with two or three children." Dianzi looked at the photo again.Hataka Zenichi smiled happily, and his lover also smiled happily. "Don't you know the lady's name?" Dianzi seemed to see a young man's life, and his heart was filled with a touch of sadness. "I don't know anything about it. My brother never said a word about it. So I don't know where she is or what her name is. I just left this picture." When Zenichi Hatanaka's younger sister said this, she looked as if she wanted to say something.

She lowered her voice slightly and said: "I don't understand the situation at the time, some of it is now imagined." "I think, since breaking up with the man he was in love with, my brother has been in pain. My brother's early death is also caused by great mental torture. It's not that the woman hates her brother. I always feel that what happened between the two of them Something unfortunate. No, I don't know what happened. I'm just imagining it." Sister Yoshiichi Hataka speaks in the same way as people in the city.Maybe it's because she has lived overseas for a long time, so people don't think she is a rural person at all.

When it comes to her brother's failure in love, Dianzi can fully understand her imagination.It is not uncommon for love to fail because of something other than the will of the person involved.It seems that Zenichi Hatanaka's love has not been opposed by relatives and friends around him. What caused the two of them to break up?Dianzi couldn't help thinking. Her gaze returned to the photo.Suddenly she looked at the face of a 7- or 8-year-old boy. He was very similar to a child somewhere around her.She didn't remember where the child was from. Maybe many children of this age have similar faces.Of course, this child is the younger brother of the girl with the parasol. It seems that the brother and sister took this picture when they went to the temple in Kyoto with Zenichi Hatanaka.

However, this photo does not seem to be taken by someone who specializes in taking commemorative photos. It is obvious that it is taken by a layman.Therefore, there should have been a person taking pictures at that time.At that time, it should be Zenichi Hataka, his lover, his younger brother, and the person holding the camera. Dianzi turned to the back of the photo.It has words written in pen on it. "On X, X, X, X, X, X years of the Showa era, at Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto. Photography..." The photographer's name has been blotted out in ink.Dianzi was secretly taken aback.It must be Zenichi Hataka himself who erased the photographer's name.That is to say, at that time he wrote down the date, place, and the name of the photographer, but later erased that person's name for some reason.

Why do you want to do this? "When I first saw it, it was blacked out." Hataka Zenichi's younger sister continued: "At that time, I asked my brother why he erased this with ink. I was young at the time, and I didn't think about it. I just thought it was a bit strange and asked. My brother smiled and said that it was because the name was written wrong. So I asked again, and it was wrong. If not, wouldn’t it be good to erase it and write it again? At this time, my brother replied that he didn’t want to write it. At that time, I thought that my brother was really a lazy person, but recently, I think that my brother is not that kind of person, and there seems to be another reason.”

"Another reason?" "yes." Hataka Zenichi's younger sister nodded with a heavy expression. "But, I didn't want to talk about it. Miss, she..." After glancing at Dianzi, she lowered her head and said, "You are from Tokyo and you work in a publishing house. You must be better at analyzing problems than ordinary people. Let you imagine the following facts." Dianzi also imagined one thing.However, she couldn't say it.However, Noriko believes that her resemblance is roughly the same as that sister Zenichi Hataka wants to say. Dianzi wanted to borrow this photo and take it back to Tokyo if possible.Since this is an item that Hataaka Zenichi's younger sister keeps as the only souvenir of her brother, it is embarrassing to borrow it for export.However, she still took courage. "Okay, fine. Just come back later." Hataka Zenichi's younger sister readily agreed to Noriko's request.She smiled and looked at Dianzi's face. "I'm sorry, because for some reason I have developed a good impression of the young lady whom I have only met once." That night, Noriko returned to Inuyama and stayed at a hotel by the Kiso River.She wrote a letter to Tatsuo at the hotel. Perhaps it would be faster for her to return to Beijing than for the letter to be in Long Fu's hands, but now she thought to herself, rather than speaking to him in words, it would be more appropriate to write in words on the letter.This is not just a dry report of the facts, but also wants to tell Long Fu all the atmosphere she feels. The murmur of running water could be heard from outside the room where she wrote the letter. Mr. Tatsuo Sakino: Arrived as scheduled. I visited the hometown of Mr. Zenichi Hataka.This is a lonely farmhouse located in the middle of the Nobi Plain. I met the woman called Zenichi-san's younger sister.Maybe it's because she has lived overseas for a long time, she makes people feel very straightforward and sincere.I admire her a lot. When I visited, I asked if there was anything related to Mr. Zenichi Hatanaka, but unfortunately there was nothing left.What a disappointment.Maybe it was because I was a little discouraged when I came here on purpose. Out of sympathy, Zenichi Hataka's sister found two things with great difficulty. One is the kind of doujin I saw at Mr. Magazines are useless.The other one is a photo, which is very interesting.The accompanying photograph was borrowed from his sister with her understanding.Please take a good look.There were three people in total, the young man standing was Mr. Zenichi Hatanaka 20 years ago, the girl with the parasol was Zenichi Hosaka's lover, and the seven- or eight-year-old child next to him was the girl's younger brother.The time is said to be the year Mr. Zenichi graduated from Kyoto University, and the location is Nanzenji Temple as it is also written on the back of the photo.I've been there once before, and it's a nice, secluded place.However, regarding Mr. Hataka Zenichi's sweetheart, we don't know where he is from, what his name is and where he lives.It is said that no one in his family knew anything about it.Because, this love affair of Mr. Hataka Zenichi ended in failure, it seems that Mr. Hataka passed away before he could tell his family about his lover.Therefore, there is only one photo left. However, although Hatanaka Zenichi's sister does not know exactly what the reason for the failure of this relationship is, she has some guesses.This love affair failed due to some reason beyond the will of both parties. This blow hastened the death of Mr. Hataka Zenichi, and this reason was mostly related to someone. The above seemed to be her imagination and speculation.However, his sister didn't say the last point clearly, but from the tone of her voice, she had that kind of meaning. According to my speculation, another man appeared between Mr. Hataka Zenichi and his lover, and it was this kind of entanglement that frustrated Mr. Hataka.Please turn to the back of the photo for a good look.The photographer's name is blacked out.This was erased by Mr. Hataka. It can be considered that the name erased must be the name of the man who caused his failure in love.That is to say, when this photo was taken, Mr. Hataka's love affair was still going on normally. Mr. Hataka went to Nanzenji Temple happily with his lover, younger brother and the friend who would later become his rival in love.I think I wrote down the name of the friend who took the picture of them, and then something happened that Mr. Hosinaka erased it.It is said that when his sister asked him casually, he replied that he no longer wanted to write that name.It was perhaps a name he wanted to forget and hate forever.When I came to the countryside of Mino, what can be called harvest is this photo.I think it is a material that implies a very rich content.Although I don't know the name of the man who borrowed Zenichi Hatanaka's writing notes, I feel that the failure of the relationship 20 years ago is related to this incident.Right now, it's just a hunch, a vague imagination, and I plan to sort out my thoughts slowly on the train back to Beijing. Mr. Sakino, please think about it. The younger sister of Mr. Hataka Zenichi is a good person.Even if I only saw her, I think it was worth it.It was already dark when I came back, so she carried a lantern and walked me all the way to the bus.On the dark Nobi Plain filled with the atmosphere of the fields, the impression of walking ahead with a red paper lantern is really unforgettable for a lifetime! I am writing this letter to you right now at an inn on the banks of the Kiso River.The lovely castle of Inuyama had vanished into the night. Dianzi