Chapter 12 third chapter

The investigation institute was unable to track Heitaro Kasai's behavior in the United States.Therefore, he had to trace his subsequent behavior from other directions, and the following is the result of the investigation. Kasai Heitaro is a self-centered person who cannot coordinate with others and does not care about others, so he is isolated no matter where he goes.At first, he went to the University of California to audit the Department of Electrical Engineering, and his choice was computers, but he thought it was troublesome to take the qualification examination in Japan, so he came directly to the United States.In fact, he has too much self-esteem and is afraid of failing the exam and being ridiculed by others.

After arriving in Los Angeles, he did not go to visit local Japanese or foreign students to inquire about news, but went directly to the Japanese consulate and asked for assistance with the procedures for him to attend lectures.His sense of superiority can be seen from the fact that he went directly to the consulate without first visiting Japanese overseas Chinese. The consulate told him how to handle it, which of course is not within the scope of the consulate.I heard that if you want to study in an American university, you only need to show your academic performance in Japan, and he is quite confident about this.However, auditors are required to pass a language test.Kasai also couldn't understand the simple English (in the dialect) asked by the committee members, and couldn't speak it well, so he was not qualified.America is more "reasonable" than he thought.In fact, it is impossible to communicate with Americans by speaking, whether in an airplane or on the streets of Los Angeles.

That's why I had to visit Japanese students studying abroad and ask about the electrical engineering department of the University of California. Sure enough, the computer technology in the United States is much more advanced than that in Japan, and Kasai's knowledge is outdated. But he didn't want people to know his weakness, so he listened quietly.Then he told the international student that the level of the University of California was too easy for him, so he wanted to go to MIT, because he heard that the standard there was much higher.In fact, at this time, Kasai Heitaro not only considered giving up auditing in American universities, but even his confidence in computer knowledge was greatly shaken.

Kasai visited various places from the west to the east, and finally settled in a hotel in New York.In terms of money, because I "borrowed" the "study abroad fee" for two years from my wife's natal family, it is quite sufficient. He wanted to take the opportunity to visit Europe, so he took a cruise from New York to England.He plans to come back to the United States as well, because he has not given up on his new knowledge of computers.The return trip is going to take a plane, and when I go, I will take a boat across the Atlantic Ocean.Buying first class in order to have a good time is much more expensive than flying.

During the six days on board, Kasai Heitaro caught luck.He fell in love with a twenty-seven-year-old woman named Keiko Kazuki.Although Xu Keiko is not beautiful, she is the daughter of the owner of a large construction company in Kansai. She also travels abroad alone. For a man like Kasai Heitaro who lacks compromising nature, it is strange that people find him easy to approach in the early stages of a relationship. I guess it is the influence of his frustration and discouragement in the United States.Otherwise, he has always believed that socializing with women is as "wasting time" as playing mahjong.If you think that at this time he planned to get close to Keiko Kazukisu, then you are overestimating.Because when he was on the luxury cruise ship, he didn't know that she was the daughter of a millionaire.

Kazukisu Keiko was deeply attracted by Heitaro Kasai. Although she was a little pale, she had a face full of wisdom and was tall and thin. She was exactly the old lady's favorite marriage partner.The purser of the foreign ship always put the Japanese passengers together at a table, but besides the two of them, the Japanese passengers in the first-class cabin were only a young couple, and they naturally got close.Keiko Kazuki came out to do "observation trips" of European and American architecture, of course it was just pure tourism. Kasai Heitaro boasted that he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study computer technology, and he is currently traveling during his vacation and constantly showing off his computer knowledge.Xu Keiko listened with admiration, not only because of interest and curiosity about her lack of common sense, but also because there seemed to be some kind of thinking lurking in her heart.

Landed in Southampton, stayed in London for two weeks, and also traveled to Dublin, Ireland.The two lived in different rooms in the same hotel, but otherwise acted in the same way.Su Keiko was more fluent in language than he was, so it became her to guide him.At this time, she inevitably developed feelings similar to maternal love. Since it was an "architecture inspection", it was necessary to visit buildings in Northern Europe, so the two flew from London to Copenhagen, Denmark.On the night they visited the ancient city in the channel, the romantic atmosphere of Hamlet probably infected them, and the distance between them disappeared.From the second night at the Copenhagen Hotel, the two shared a room.

When they returned to Amsterdam from Stockholm and stayed at a hotel in a coastal reserve in The Hague, the two got engaged.She had already revealed her identity when she was in London, and decided to ask her father to set up another architectural branch after returning to China, and introduce his computer technology into architectural design.So after getting married, he is not just a computer technician, but the general manager of the new company whose wife is the president. Of course, bigamy is not allowed. Kasai Heitaro is not a liar, and he did not expect things to turn out like this, so he said as early as on the Atlantic ship that he is a married man.He now declares to Su Keiko that he wants to divorce his wife.

"Will she agree?" Keiko Kazuki asked worriedly. "I think so." "Why? She is not wrong. If she doesn't agree to stamp, we will never be able to get married. There are too many examples of this." "I don't love her. After leaving Japan, I only sent her a postcard when I arrived in Los Angeles, so..." Therefore, it is not necessarily that the house is willing to agree to divorce.No, the house will not allow divorce.His natal family paid for him to go abroad, but he wanted to marry a woman he met there. Of course, the house was not reconciled and refused to stamp the divorce papers.House is a submissive woman, but she has a strong heart, and she loves her eccentric husband deeply.

The trouble is that Heitaro Kasai longed to marry Keiko Kozuki. His self-esteem was destroyed after going to the United States, and he was losing hope for the future. If he could marry the daughter of a Kansai bourgeoisie and become the general manager of a construction company, it would be his wish. life opportunity. Can't the house be persuaded?Divorce peacefully and without hurting feelings.But no matter how I think about it, I feel that there is little hope.His favorite theory of "rationality" is useless here.In the United States, it is illegal for a husband to live with another woman as long as the wife does not agree.Even if you agree to divorce, you have to pay a lot of alimony.This kind of man is even nicknamed "dead horse".

Kasai Heitaro has always been a person who hates disputes.In the M optics and D automobile industries, the debates are not exciting, just to avoid disputes.This is the case at work, and I don't want to cause the world's discussion for forced divorce or cohabitation with women. However, he would never miss this great opportunity.A man with a strong sense of superiority like Kasai Heitaro must be higher than his former colleagues.He couldn't bear to be inferior to them, to be worse than them.Takayoshi Mizuma, who was second only to him in the era of M Optics, is now the director of lens design.Takashi Mizuma, who is worse than him in every aspect, has become the most important lens design minister in the optical industry. If Heitaro Kasai has stayed in M ​​Optics, this position is of course Kasai's, and he must have obtained this position earlier than Mizuma. Bar. If you return to Japan to work now, you will be regarded as a new employee, and you will not be able to get such a position immediately.According to Kasai's experience in the United States, Japan's computer technology must have advanced by now, and his knowledge is outdated by comparison.When he was in Japan, this was beyond his wildest dreams. After arriving in the United States, he was amazed by the current situation.The destruction of self-esteem turned into terror, even fear of the current Japanese computer industry, and a series of blows brought about a nervous breakdown. It doesn't matter if it is a computer for architectural design, because it does not require the high precision technology of the optical industry or the automobile industry.Kasai Heitaro thinks that his knowledge and skills are sufficient, and he is even more advanced than others.Therefore, in terms of his own skills, or in order to gain a higher status than his old colleagues, no matter what, he must marry Keiko Katsukisu. At this time, what Su Keiko said: "But, your wife is right." came back to Kasai's ears. (Yes, if she made a mistake, grounds for divorce would stand.)