Chapter 22 Chapter Four

"But the TV station filmed her pulling a rickshaw recently." "Ah, there's such a thing. She came here to thank us after borrowing the car." "You even borrowed the coachman's clothes?" "No." "She didn't borrow it?" "Yes. Our family's clothes are so torn, how can the daughter of the Matsuzaki family wear them?" "Then who did she borrow the clothes from?" "I don't know. Anyway, she just borrowed our rickshaw." "Did you watch the TV show?" "No. We don't have a TV at home." The other party shook his head.

When Tanabe wanted to ask something more, there was a moaning sound from the inner room.The other party shook his head in annoyance and said, "He's calling me!" She spoke wearily and entered the back room. When Tanabe returned to the hotel to take a shower, the female boss who came to deliver tea asked: "Do you want a geisha?" "If there is a geisha who was on TV on April 23, please call." "Then let Shizue from Matsuzakiya come." Then she went on the phone. An hour later, Shizue came.She looks tall on the TV demo, but in reality she looks very short.

Tanabe asked the female boss to drink and said, "I've seen you on TV." Shi Jinjiang smiled when he heard it.Probably other guests have said the same about her. "The people from the TV station put you in a rickshaw?" She poured wine for Tanabe and said: "I was the least noticed in Matsuzaki House, so I was asked to be a model for a while." "Miss Hayakawa Yaeko often pulls rickshaws, right? But how many people can she pull?" "Shall I tell the truth?" Shizue suddenly lowered his voice and looked at Tanabe.Her expression immediately became a little mischievous.

"Ah." Tanabe nodded. "That's an empty rickshaw!" "But on TV, I saw you riding a rickshaw!" "Hey, that's a TV station trick: let's take a personal shot of her pulling an empty car after we get off the car! She's never pulled a car before, how can she pull several people? She's still panting like that!" "So no geisha or tourist ever rides in a rickshaw pulled by Ms. Yaeko Hayakawa?" "No. She can't move someone at all!" "Then why did you shoot like that?" "I don't know either. But Miss likes to do such weird things. She used to be pulled by the rickshaw of the old man Tokunosuke. She likes old things."

After she finished speaking, she giggled again. "However, since the TV station broadcast this program, it is true that more tourists come here, but after tourists come here, they all ask if they can take a rickshaw pulled by a woman. Is this the same purpose for you?" "I want to sit down. But she went to Tokyo." "There is another interesting thing: the mayor and the president of the hotel association also proposed that she pull a rickshaw and walk on the street once a day!" "Oh?……" "But Miss has no interest at all, that's why she went to Tokyo. The news of the 'beautiful coachman' has indeed increased our number of tourists here. Yes, the president of the hotel association also said that he would pay for it, 10 per month. Ten thousand salary to hire a female coachman!"

"I see." Tanabe smiled. At 12 o'clock the geisha went back.Tanabe lay on the bed, lit a cigarette and thought. Hayakawa Yaeko is a person who likes to be original. So the director is Matsuo, right?As a TV station, the clothes of the rickshaw driver are not difficult to find. ——Then why make such a show? This is something Tanabe can't understand. Shizue, a geisha, said the number of tourists has increased since the TV station aired the show. There are also other hot springs in this area.The contributors may be the operators of those hot springs, and because they cannot report "justly", they have adopted the form of anonymous letters.

Tanabe thought that what he thought was correct, so he fell asleep in peace.