Chapter 12 first quarter

Liu Qi and his group ended their long journey and came to Tokyo City. Zhao Long had no place in Tokyo he was willing to live in, so the father and daughter lived in Liu Qi's apartment as a matter of course.They were received graciously by Mrs. Liu Kai, the resident housewife, in a purely Tokyo style: heroic, kind, enthusiastic, and all-inclusive. Mrs. Liu Qi's mother's family has lived in Tokyo for several generations and has taken root in Tokyo.The farthest her footprints have been has not exceeded the range of dozens of miles outside Tokyo.That is to go to the outskirts of the city with my girlfriends for an outing, to explore the spring, and to appreciate the rural scenery for a while, as if I am used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas, and occasionally want to eat some light vegetables.The long-term urban life gave her a sense of superiority.She received the guests brought by her husband with all her heart, and it is her most important duty right now to receive foreign friends and make them thoroughly and completely Tokyoized.She greeted Zhao Long, and with her special sensitivity, she immediately felt that the old man was not an easy-going person.But she didn't care about that, she was confident that in the end it would always be him to adapt to her, not her to him.Pure Tokyoites are full of pride in this way.

Then, she grabbed Ren Niang, looked her up and down, and finally came to a conclusion, and praised her decisively: "What a handsome girl!" She used the level of intimacy that outsiders must know for more than a year to say: "What kind of good wind blows the girl to Tokyo! It takes three to five years to live here, and this is the girl's place." Home, don't think about it anymore." "Thank you, sister!" Shocked by Mrs. Liu Kai's Tokyo-like speed, she didn't know what else to say. Mrs. Liu Qi liked this simple answer and the straightforward expression accompanying this answer very much.

Liu Kai told her about her mission behind her back, which made her even happier.She immediately pulled Erniang into her boudoir, and told her in a low voice with the level of intimacy that could only be achieved after three years of close contact: "Although we haven't met Brother Ma yet, your Brother Liu Qi still talks about Brother dozens of times a day, which makes our ears callused. This time Brother has come back to Tokyo. At least I want to arrest him and have sex with my sister." Get married. This matter is on us, what do they save men?" Qiniang's life experience is so poor, she knows this non-military human world, just like a newborn baby.She didn't understand that in her status as a girl to be married, when such a sharp question was raised, she should blush and feel coy, and use this bit of shyness to increase her objective obsequiousness.

"Thank you, sister!" She replied simply. Her simplicity and straightforwardness fascinated Mrs. Liu Kai, and Mrs. Liu Kai never expected that she would get such an answer.She took Erniang's hand again and continued: "But Tokyo's lantern market has been extremely lively these two days. How can there be such a beautiful lantern market in the world? Let's go shopping with my sister first. After visiting the lantern market, it won't be too late to organize my sister's wedding." Yan Niang also visited the Lantern Market in Weizhou, but she never understood the significance of a Tokyoite visiting the Lantern Market:

People in Tokyo divide their life stages not by age, but by memories of visiting the lantern market. An old woman with silvery hair can trace back the memory of visiting the Lantern Market 60 years ago to her innocent girlhood, and she can also trace the most important social relationship in her life from the friends who visited the Lantern Market.Some of their tombs have been arched, and some have descendants around their knees... Their passing lives are like a string of counting beads strung with silk threads of memories, and every Lantern Festival is a counting bead.Whichever one she twists, she will think of the situation and atmosphere of the Lantern City in that year-they seem to be the same, and each has its own particularity.She thought of the neighborhoods where she and her fellow travelers huddled, still with the same names, half of the houses had been renovated, half of the shops had expanded, shrunk or closed.She still remembers a word she whispered to a playmate, and now thinking about it, she still blushes because of it.She would still think of the green lotus-colored silk brocade jacket she put on for the first time, how it stirred up the market in Jiucheng at that time!

All of this is beyond my mother's comprehension. She looked at Mrs. Liu Kai's enthusiastic expression in bewilderment, and at her irresistible suggestion, she replied again: "Thank you sister!"