Chapter 14 Study in Japan

The metropolis of Tokyo is bustling with people and vehicles, and the noise of trams and cars is continuous like a tidal wave.Everyone looks very busy.Walking on the trail, if you don't pay attention, you will collide with people.The bustling street scene is dazzling.Tai Ming grew up in the laid-back countryside of Taiwan. In his opinion, everyone walks like a trot. He thought: "Why are there so many busy people in Tokyo?" On his way to Tokyo, he stopped by Kyoto Visiting a friend. Taiming likes this ancient capital very much. The people, the city streets, the natural scenery, all the atmosphere is calm and tasteful. It makes people feel a kind of culture cultivated from a long history and a long time, Fragrant, high-level culture. Everyone Taiming came into contact with was friendly and pleasant to him. The waiters in restaurants, the waitresses in hotels, the bus drivers, and the female clerks in department stores all seemed to be Taiming was freshly surprised by the elegant demeanor of a highly educated person, especially a woman.

'Beautiful country, beautiful people! Thinking of this, Taiming felt very happy. Compared with Kyoto, Tokyo is not quiet, and it is a city that makes people nervous.However, the people in Tokyo are also very kind. Every time Taiming asked people for directions, they were appropriate and kindly told him the way to go.Unlike the Japanese in Taiwan, calling Taiwanese 'you! ' (Your meaning, but with a contemptuous tone), so he, a 'countryman going to the city', can reach his destination without getting lost.What he was looking for was a classmate surnamed Lan who was in normal school.When classmate Lan was about to graduate, he had a conflict with the teacher because of a small incident, and was expelled from school.He took this opportunity to study in the interior of Japan.Studying law at Meiji University, dreaming of becoming a lawyer or a high-ranking civil servant in the near future.

Ever since Taiming was in normal school, he and Lan had often argued about things. Although the two had different worldviews and ideas, they became close friends with a sense of arguing against each other.Lan has a very extreme personality, so discussions inevitably go to extremes, while Taiming takes a moderate position in his discussions.The two argued tirelessly over and over again, and occasionally they agreed on one another, but the paths to consensus were different because of the different methodologies. When Taiming arrived in Tokyo, his feet naturally walked in the direction of the area where Lan lived.

Lan just didn't go out at the boarding house.Since we broke up, we have seldom communicated, but when we met, it was as if we were friends who just broke up yesterday. If there is any change between the two of us, it is that Lan, who is good at studying abroad, has completely behaved like an older brother. look like. 'Hu Jun!In any case, Taiwan is a rural area, and the ideas you hold are not applicable here. You should start from the first grade and learn from scratch. 'He said that, but he suddenly lowered his voice:' You'd better not say that you are Taiwanese here.The Japanese spoken by Taiwanese is very similar to the Kyushu accent, so you can say that you are from Fukuoka or Kumamoto. 'When he advised Taiming, he seemed to say something inauspicious, which made Taiming feel unhappy. He didn't like this kind of inferiority.This disapproval reached its climax at dinner, when the girl from the boarding house brought in the dinner.

Lan introduced Taiming to the girl as his friend, and the girl asked Taiming: "Where is your residence?" Lan didn't wait for Taiming to answer and said first: "It's Fukuoka, just like me." ' Taiming heard Lan talking nonsense in front of him, and it was related to Taiming himself, so he felt even more unhappy.Because Taiming felt embarrassed and humiliated, blood welled up on his face itchy.If possible, he would really like to tell the truth that he is Taiwanese.However, considering Lan's position, he couldn't do this.The girl sat there and waited for them to eat, Taiming didn't bother to open his mouth in a gloomy mood, he took the food in silently, realizing that there was a gap between Lan and him.

However, apart from this point, Taiming felt that Lan was a kind friend, but unfortunately, Lan's boarding house had no vacant rooms, so Taiming lived there temporarily before finding a boarding house, while looking for a room to rent.Taiming thought it would be a good idea to find another house.Living with Lan, I kept talking nonsense about my place of birth, so I might as well rent a house elsewhere, and openly said that I was Taiwanese from the beginning. Taiming felt relieved that night, and he wrote a letter to his old man to arrive in Japan safely.After finishing writing the letter, he really wanted to write a letter to Hisako Naito, who had been transferred from a teaching position but had no news about him, but he hesitated when he thought of the bitterness that Hisako Naito had given him in the end. Unrelated strangers.What was the use of writing to her?It would be more natural to keep silent. After asking and answering himself like this, he finally stopped writing.Then he thought of Rae.Now he thought of Rui'e showing affection for him, he could feel it in his body.Still, he hesitated to write to her.He felt that he should cut off all the past, and now concentrate on improving on the path of learning, which is the only way.

That night, he and Lan slept side by side in the same bedroom.Although he felt to Lan that there was a gap between the two of them, he met again after a long time, talked about various things in the past, and talked almost all night, and fell asleep hazily at dawn. From the next day, Lan also helped Taiming find a rental house, and found it on the third day. It was the home of a widow of an army sergeant. There was a daughter and a son in elementary school. The environment was quiet and nice, too. Ming immediately signed the lease and moved in on the same day.He identified himself as Taiwanese from the very beginning.The landlord's family didn't mind him being Taiwanese at all, and they didn't treat him differently from person to person.

After Taiming rented the place, he began to work hard from that day on.Also take cram school.As far as foreign students from Taiwan are concerned, he is different from ordinary people and is planning to apply for higher technical schools.The landlord's people don't interfere with his study, and no one else will come to him except sometimes Lan visits, which is a very suitable environment for studying.The landlord's daughter is called Hezi, and she is very polite in her daily life, bringing three meals, etc., like water seeping into dry land to nourish her daily life. On Sunday, etc., Taiming was tired of studying and lay down on the tatami to rest, when he heard the sound of a crane playing the piano downstairs.The quiet and elegant melody makes people think of her virtuousness and beauty.Taiming listened casually, and couldn't help but think of Hisako Naito.So bitter memories came back.Feelings of touching old wounds.He thought of the landlady's daughter who was more beautiful and educated than Hisako Naito, vaguely begged for comfort and reflected on himself: "Don't think about women, just concentrate on reading, and only concentrate on reading." ' he said to himself every time.

Lan came to visit Taiming occasionally, and he still discussed various issues with Taiming in a fierce tone.He once brought a "Taiwan Youth" doujin magazine and persuaded Tai Ming to join the magazine as a doujin.After Lan left, Taiming flipped through the magazine. Those articles all had a strong political color, full of youthful vigor, and easily aroused the readers' extreme indignation.But Taiming felt that he would not follow them. Taiming understands how Taiwan youths are attracted by politics, but Taiming feels that the purpose of his study in Japan is to learn. If young people are all devoted to politics and not diligent in learning, the soil of Taiwan's learning will be barren.As Zeng taught, not only politics, art, philosophy, science, industry and all other fields are waiting for young people to devote themselves to it.All of this makes sense.Then, Taiming felt that he was not affected by political noise, and he had his own purpose. As a student of science, he should go forward bravely on that road. This is Taiming's view.However, he didn't just settle down in that situation.Just like what Lan said when he strongly opposed his views, no matter what they want to do, if Taiwan youths must first get rid of political restrictions is the prerequisite, then Tai Ming also thinks that politics is the way that youths should take.When it comes to what is the most essential question, Taiming's thinking is often intricate, confusing and difficult to decide.

However, Lan insisted on persuading Taiming to join the "Taiwan Youth" magazine as a fan, but Taiming refused to join on the pretext that he was busy preparing for the exam and had no time. The days and months passed, and finally the day of admission to the Higher Technical School arrived.Tai Ming was the first Taiwanese student to enter a higher technical school.On the evening of the day of enrollment, Lan and a classmate surnamed Zhan came to congratulate Taiming.And these believers engaged in political movements took advantage of the opportunity to come to see Taiming, and they never let go of persuading him to join the "Taiwan Youth" magazine as a colleague, and made various discussions.The friend surnamed Zhan brought by Lan is a sharp critic with excellent observation skills. He even cited the example of the Tweeting System implemented by the Han Dynasty because it wanted to weaken the power of the princes, to illustrate the contradiction of the "Japan-Taiwan Co-learning System" (In order to weaken the power of the princes in the Han Dynasty, when the king died, he distributed all the land and property of the king to the princes equally to disperse the power. There are differences, such as insufficient imperialization, or lack of academic ability, and other reasons to limit the number of Taiwanese children enrolled, and cleverly implement a system that kills talents).Then he said that the "regional system of raw materials" in Taiwan's sugar industry system is indeed a point of oppressing the capital of the aboriginal people, etc., and explained it clearly.At that time, in order to protect the sugar industry, Taiwan took the sugar cane produced in the area of ​​company A and could not sell it to company B. This so-called "regional system of raw material selection" was implemented.This policy prevents fair competition and results in unilateral determination of sugarcane purchase prices.As a result, the area of ​​Jianan and Dazhen had to implement the "three-year crop rotation system", and the Taiwanese who almost invested all their capital in the land were in a difficult situation.Taiming lacks economic knowledge, and although he doesn't quite understand what Zhan said, he still feels that the situation is contradictory, which is obviously unreasonable, and at present, Taiming feels helpless.

'However, for me, the most important thing is to learn. 'Tai Ming always evades the question of joining 'Taiwan Youth' in this way.Seeing that Taiming was indecisive, Lan and Zhan hurried back.The two specially came to celebrate Taiming's enrollment, but it ended in an unhappy way.He felt empty, lying on the tatami, thinking about the helpless gap between himself and Lan and others, but comparing himself with their unrestrained enthusiasm in his heart, he felt a little disgusted that he was not without greed for comfort.