Chapter 18 second quarter

"Guanlin!" "Tochigi." "Utsunomiya..." Reading the place names that were approaching and then left behind one by one, I gradually lost my mind. "Don't sleep, you want to die!" Xiaozheng's left hand slammed down hard on the knee of my jeans. "It hurts. My thigh must be red." "This is the real beating palace." "So you wanted to tell a bad joke?" "Are you kidding? It's better than dying, right? If you fall asleep next to me, I'll fall asleep too." "That would be bad." "So, just say something casually. Like One Thousand and One Nights. If you fall asleep, be careful I'll chop your head off."

Going for a drive is like being in a back room for hours.Best for lengthy topics.So I had an idea, "The little girl will make a fool of herself and tell a story about Utsunomiya—no." "what?" Although I have already told Xiaozheng before that I work part-time at Misaki Study, and I have made a default decision to work there after graduation.However, I did not mention what Tasaki-sensei said.Because I haven't checked all the information before. Now, I can explain more or less.So, I told her the mystery of "passing and catching the ball". "Do you remember?"

"Oh, I seem to have read it. It seems to tell a story about a noble daughter." "Although you are right, you won't get points for this kind of answer." Xiaozheng pretended to be innocent and said, "He is clumsy." I hope you have good ears. "The original text is from the fifth chapter of the nineteenth volume. It is almost exactly the same as the story written by Akutagawa until the middle. The six palaces here refer to the place names. The nobles who have been eliminated by the times live there. They don't communicate with people. They should be They say they have no money to socialize with other people. In other words, they are poor and the house is dilapidated. There lives a very lovely and lovely young lady like me."

"Mom, I woke up." "This noble daughter is a stunning beauty, but due to her family background, she is unknown to the world. She has become a real greenhouse flower, and no man will pursue her." "This is very similar to you." I pretended not to hear. "This family has no relatives to rely on. Under such circumstances, the parents who were worried about the future of the only child passed away one after another. Although Miss Qianjin was deeply grieved, there was nothing she could do. Her nanny was a bad woman. It’s a tragedy. In Akutagawa’s version, the nanny becomes a loyal servant. However, since this is a helpless daughter with a bumpy life experience, I think it’s better for the nanny to play the villain. So the future of Miss Qianjin In the middle of nowhere, lonely and helpless. The nanny forced her to serve a certain man, although the young lady was crying and crying to the death, but the matter has been arranged behind her back, so that the other party will come to her regularly."

"It's a common pattern." "Well, it's not uncommon for a nanny to be entrusted by a man to make a match. Fortunately, my family doesn't have a nanny." "If there is, maybe you will be sold too. At this time, you may already be up for sale in the auction house." "Leave me alone. It's not surprising that this noble daughter has fallen to this point. If it really becomes like that, it's just a cruel story. But the man who raised her is a good man, and he really loves her. In this way , and the story turns into another common pattern of noblemen saving Cinderella."

"Prince Charming has appeared." "Yes, yes. Unfortunately, the story does not end here. At this time, the man's father must go to the local area to serve as the prefect of Mutsu, and the man must go with him. He left a sentence, 'You have to trust me and wait for me to come back' He set off. However, after going through all kinds of twists and turns, the man married his wife there, and seven or eight years passed in a blink of an eye. When he returned to the capital and went to the woman's house, he saw ruins. The noble daughter had long disappeared. The man Hit and searched around Kyoto."

"Ok……" "At dusk, it started to rain. He wanted to take shelter from the rain in the building next to Suzaku Gate. When he went in, he saw two women in rags, one of whom was an old nun. In Akutagawa's version Ren is a loyal nurse, and she is set to follow the lady all the time. But in the original script, it is just an unrelated nun who happened to be there. The lady is alone, and I think the setting in the original script is better." "indeed." "Another young woman, lying on the ground wrapped in rags like cows. Although she is a beggar, she has a charming charm. As soon as the man approached, he felt a burst of electricity rushing through him. 'Ah, this The woman is—" At this time, the woman murmured in a lovely voice: "In the past, the wind between the hands and pillows was still chilling, but now I am used to the cold and warm in the world." This poem is also included in the collection of relics and songs. The version included in it is the version included there. I even bought the "Supplements and Songs Collection" published by Iwanami specially for that poem, and it cost me 3,600 oceans. How can you say this!"

"It's not my business?" "How should I explain this poem? It should be the most appropriate to regard 'hand pillow' as sharing a bed with a man. In this way, it can be interpreted as 'a couch of love lying with you'." Xiaozheng shook his shoulders suddenly: "Please don't speak in such a disgusting voice." "It doesn't matter. In short, if you compare the scene of this story, it should mean, 'When I fell asleep with your arm on the bed in the past, I had a lover to rely on. Even the slight airflow from your strong arm , will make me weak and shivering with cold. But now, the arm I rely on has disappeared. And the severe cold, like an ice net, binds me tightly. Although I have a vague premonition, I can't even dream I didn't expect to end up in such humiliation and pain. Sadly, I've even gotten used to this kind of life. Sometimes, I even forget how pathetic this habit is. Ah, people have fallen to such a point , still have to live...'."

"Although there is excess emotion, it also made me fully realize that you really deserve to be a student of the Faculty of Arts." Xiaozheng passed a light car with a yellow license plate while talking. "So the man thought to himself, 'This is really the Yiren I have been looking for so hard.' He hugged the lady tightly. Although the other person's appearance changed, when he heard the voice, he could still intuitively recognize this person. For example Said that when we meet again after three or four years, that person has changed his hairstyle or put on glasses."

"Ah, there is such a thing." "So, this man must have heard the weak voice, but it was the same as before, and suddenly remembered the past. The sudden appearance of the man scared the young lady into a faint. I don't know if it was shame, joy, or Resentment and unwillingness, in short, writing to her fragile heart, the effect of this sudden reunion is too strong. In the end, the lady died like this; the man also saw through the world and became a monk. The original work ends here." "This kind of person is too casual. What about the wife he married in the country?"

"That's true." "So, what's different about Akutagawa's version?" "With Akutagawa's style, of course he added ingenious descriptions, every word. However, what he really wanted to write was the next part. Knowing that the young lady had no way to recover, Akutagawa's loyal nanny hurried to find a nearby The beggar mage asked for help. He asked him to recite sutras for the dying lady. But the mage said to the lady: "You can't rely on others when you die. You must recite the name of Amitabha Buddha yourself unremittingly." " The car crossed the Kinugawa River.The river beach full of stones winds to the distance. "and then?" Xiaozheng was anxious to listen to the following.I have read this part many times, and it has long been firmly in my mind. "As a result, the lady listened, and she really started to recite the Buddha's name with a weak voice. However, she couldn't last long. 'Hey, there is a burning car over there.' she said. Although under the reprimand of the mage, she finally Say: 'I see a golden lotus.' But it is only for a moment, and then say: 'The lotus is gone. In the darkness, only the wind keeps blowing.' That's it, even if the mage urged her to 'must be single minded. Chanting Buddha', but she just kept babbling: 'I can't see anything. There is only wind in the dark, only cold wind blowing constantly.' In the end, she died like this." "Totally hopeless. That's the style of modern literature." "Well. Then, the author left her alone. The end of the story is that a few days later, a certain samurai was walking on the road under the moonlight, and suddenly heard a woman sighing faintly. He held his saber without thinking, and at this moment The mage said: 'That is the ghost of a cowardly woman who knows neither heaven nor hell. Please recite the Buddha's name for her.'" "Hmm... With such an explanation, it's an easy-to-understand story." "Well. No matter how you think about it, it's obviously like talking about yourself."