Chapter 10 Chapter 010

She didn't answer. "I went to Kyoto a year ago, you don't know?" "I found out later that Bo Fang left me a letter." "That's right, you went out to play with your friends. I stayed there for a month, but I didn't see anything more lively than Fengtian, so I came back." "Seeing that you left the bank note, my lord, you feel sorry for me." She laughed at him, as if she heard the funniest thing, and finally called her name: "Mingyue, you really learned something, you know how to thank me, are you polite?" He was so weird that she didn't know what to say, until he waved his hand: "It's been a long way, go down and rest."

She knelt for two or three hours, said a dozen or so words to him, and then he sent her away again, saluted, and went out slowly.After going out, I found that the sky changed at night. Dark clouds rolled up, covering the moon and stars. The shadows of the walls and pavilions were long and short. The servants put away the precious flowers and plants outside. A spacious tomb. It has been a month since Xiuzhi arrived in Fengtian, and he has been familiarizing himself with the environment in his uncle Ishida Shuichi's club, making friends with colleagues, and taking Chinese lessons at the same time.Shuichi Ishida runs a construction company. The designers and supervisors are all Japanese, and he also hired many Chinese people to do business and make connections.Shuji was still here and met Akira Oda, his senior in college.

The dormitory arranged for him by the club is near the city post office. It is a new three-storey building. There are many Japanese who come here to do business, and there are also family members of the military.Each suite in this building has its own toilet and bathroom. There are also many small restaurants downstairs. The living conditions are very good and convenient.Xiuzhi lived in one room and one living room. The previous owner was a painter from the four countries. He moved his things away and left a small landscape painting next to the south-facing window. Xiuzhi thought he liked it so he didn't take it down.In addition, the bachelor had a sleeping berth, two sofas, a drawing table and chairs, a closet, a radio, and electric lights.There are also large handfuls of green plants that he went to the North Market to collect after he arrived.

It was windy and rainy a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the weather turned cold. He bought a thick coat at Xian Shi Department Store, and found the address Wang Mingyue had left him in the pocket of the old suit.On a Saturday morning, Xiu Zhi called a rickshaw to find No. 28 Yulu Street. When he got there, he found that this place seemed to be a mansion gate that was smaller than the old imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty. He went to knock on the door knocker of the side door. A man in his forties opened the door and said Chinese that he could not understand. Xiu Zhi thought for a while and only said, "Wang Mingyue?"

The man looked him up and down, shook his head and waved his hands, and closed the door again. Xiu Zhi double-checked the address, and it was clearly correct. He couldn't understand the language, so he had to come out of the alley.At the southern end is the Ci'en Temple. The gate of the temple is open. There are believers and monks coming in and out. Xiuzhi climbs up the steps and goes to the temple. In front of the main hall of Ci'en Temple, there are four huge round water tanks, which contain lotus, carp and frogs.A few craftsmen were repairing the side pillars. Xiuzhi found that they were mixing sand in the lime. The proportion was not right. They did not cut corners, but there was less sand and more fine soil, and the resulting material dries too quickly and is hard. not enough.Xiu Zhi gestured to the craftsmen to add more sand. They were surprised to see this Oriental man in a suit and leather shoes gesticulating. They stopped their work and looked at him, smiling while wiping off their sweat.