Chapter 24 third chapter

One o'clock at midnight.The performance of the student wind band sounded in the auditorium.Funerals in Tonga always have a pipe band, and the pipe band also marches as the body is transported from the church to the cemetery. The body of the former headmaster is now in the church.Although the school and the church are a bit far away, it is said that in order not to make the old people feel lonely, the concert will last all night.If I hadn't known it in advance, I would have mistook it for some kind of celebration.The repertoires played are lively and energetic. When you close your eyes, you will see the Koshien Stadium in front of you.

However, I can't just listen. As soon as I changed into a T-shirt and cotton trousers, I jumped on my bicycle and rushed to Sister Shangmei's house.Sister Shangmei usually works as a tour guide for foreign tourists, writes travel books, and at the same time runs around every day in order to realize her dream of opening a homestay. Until half a year ago, Sister Shangmei and I were just acquaintances, and I was a round younger than her, but now she treats me like a friend. The reason is that Sister Shangmei asked me to help prepare meals for relatives' wedding ceremonies. She came to me because I was a housekeeping team member, but the two of us chatted about our life experiences while pinching hundreds of rice balls, and found that we had a lot in common. Since then, we have eaten together and gone out together.

I arrived at Sister Shangmei's house.When she knocked on the door, she answered immediately. "Sorry, it's midnight." "It's okay, it's okay. After the homestay is finished, it will be a common meal." Saying so, Naomi-san asked me to sit in the front seat of the van and started the car.We are going to the airport. There is no direct flight from Japan to Tonga, and you must transit through Fiji, New Zealand or Hawaii.One of them was a flight that arrived at 2:50 in the middle of the night.Although I don't think there is any need to take the flight that arrives at this time, it is the most efficient flight if you use a few days of vacation to visit. Relatives and friends of other team members often take this flight when they are from Japan.

It is very troublesome to pick up the airport at this time, but it is really difficult to say to a person who is in Tonga for the first time, "You can take a 40-minute taxi to the city." Especially at night, the airport and the surrounding area It was pitch black, not at all like the gate of a country. If the flight arrives during the day, I can take a taxi to pick it up by myself.The law and order in this country is better than Japan, even if you get a taxi driven by the burly and mighty Uncle Tonga or Big Brother, there is no need to worry.What is your name?What work do you do?Whose child is it?Are you married yet?Happily answer these few must-ask questions, and you're at the airport.However, I still worry about it in the middle of the night.

Do you want any male team members to come with me?Later, I decided to ask Miss Shangmei for help. Although I hope that Sister Shangmei's dream will come true soon, but when I consider that I have to take a late-night flight one night a week, I feel very hard.However, opening a homestay is an agreement between Sister Shangmei and her dead husband, so she probably doesn't think it's hard, right? I, who wanted to break my pact with the dead, really didn't understand. I've already told Naomi-san about the person we're going to pick up. Zong Yi and I met in the tennis club of the university.

It is a very common, relaxed and happy club formed by boys from prestigious schools and nearby female college students. They spend more time on dinner than tennis.Zuo Ji, the first friend I made after entering university, asked me to join. Before that, my life was clearly not related to tennis, but I came to study from the countryside alone. Participated after thinking about it. However, once I started, I felt that tennis was pretty good, and everyone in the club was kind and easy-going, all of them were good people, so I became the freshman with the highest attendance rate before I knew it.

It was June, when it rained for the first time in social relations activities. Zuo Ji had a class, so I went to the office first, only to find that I was the first to arrive.Wanting to do something to pass the time, I looked around the room and saw a Rubik's cube in a messy place full of bookshelves or lockers. Rubik's cube was very popular in elementary school, but my family refused to buy it for me, so Rubik's cube became a dream toy in my heart.Although I have borrowed it from my friends several times, but every time before I can put it together, my impatient friend will snatch it and say "it's going to be turned like this", so I have never put it together by myself.

Maybe this is my chance to realize a dream I have had for many years.Thinking of this, I concentrated on turning the Rubik's Cube around and around, and I didn't even hear the sound of the rain hitting the tin roof.I like blue, but red seems to be the easiest to spell at first glance, so I desperately spelled red.However, the last frame can't be spelled together.Just when I thought I should just tear off the sticker and hold the Rubik's Cube so hard that the color of my fingertips changed, someone took the Rubik's Cube away. It's my senior, Soichi Kashiwagi. He turned it three times, showed me the red color that was put together on one side, and then twirled again. In less than a minute, he put the six sides together and handed me the Rubik's Cube.I sincerely admire?I clapped my hands and said "that's amazing" several times.Should have said "genius".

Once the switch of "so powerful" is turned on, other great places will also stand out. His tennis is one of the best in the social media. When talking about the Japanese economy at the banquet, he will use a lot of words that I don't understand. Some seemingly very clever syllabuses. When I was looking for his "so amazing", he invited me to watch movies, listen to foreign singers' concerts, and I started to spend the night in his apartment on days when there were club activities. At first, I felt 60% of the uneasiness of "Am I really worthy of him?" and 40% of the happiness of being liked by a "great" person.