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Chapter 67 Part Four: The Journey of Those Youthful Birds

Nie Zi 白先勇 6416Words 2023-02-05
one Letter from Xiaoyu Ah Ching: I'm finally in Tokyo!Today is the tenth day since I arrived in Japan, but sometimes I still can't believe it, thinking I'm dreaming.Especially when I woke up in the middle of the night a few times, I thought I was still sleeping in Miss Liyue's small room on Jinzhou Street in Taipei.It wasn't until I stretched my head out and saw the red, green and green neon lights of Shinjuku outside the window that I breathed a sigh of relief: Sure enough, I'm in Tokyo!The unexpected smoothness of jumping off the ship was all thanks to the dragon captain, Dragon Lord.I told him all the facts, and of course I used some bitter tricks. The Dragon Lord knew that I was going to Japan to find my father, so he was very kind.The boss of Dasanyuan used to be the third mate of the Cuihua, and he also jumped ship, and he took good care of me.Who said there are no good people in the world?Lord Dragon is a living Bodhisattva. When I become prosperous, I will definitely set up a longevity tablet for him.Don't worry, I didn't let those rotten sailors touch a hair on the Cuihua.A Cantonese man wanted to recognize me as his younger brother. He took a cashmere velvet vest, made in Hong Kong, and wanted to give it to me.I said to him: I just had gonorrhea.He glared at me and took the vest back.

Tokyo is exciting, fascinating and terrifying!I went to Ginza yesterday, and saw so many cars, people, tall buildings, and mansions, I wanted to jump up and shout.Ginza is our Ximending, but it is a hundred times bigger than Ximending. When it comes to style, it is even more incomparable!I think the Japanese are very rich!Wear what to wear, all have a car.I like the prosperity here. There are so many department stores, and it’s good to go in if you can’t afford it.No wonder my father Noro wanted to work for Shiseido. When I went to Matsuzakaya, the largest department store in Ginza, I saw that Shiseido’s cosmetics occupied the seventh and first floors!Be good, there are so many tricks, it's scary.Who knows, maybe I will get a job at Shiseido in the future, maybe I can climb higher than my dad, so my mother won't have to worry about rouge and gouache!But it’s still too early to tell. My biggest worry right now is that I can’t speak Japanese, and the street is filled with babbling Japanese farts. I don’t understand a word.However, my Japanese class has already started. The teacher is Sanyuan’s Michu, who is also a sailor who jumped ship. He has been in Japan for many years and is an authentic old Tokyo.In the first lesson, he taught me that in Japanese, it is called "Sai Ku Shi" or "Sai Ku Shi".I was a quick learner, and he thought my Japanese was promising.A good start is half the battle, this is what our primary school principal told us.

In fact, my job at Dasanyuan is to do odd jobs in the kitchen, from plucking chicken feathers, peeling shrimp shells, to washing pots and stoves.What crystal chicken, squirrel yellow croaker, the tricks learned in Taipei cooking school, are all useless here.The chief secretary of Da Sanyuan is as fierce as Yan Luo, and even the boss makes him three points.My shrimp was peeling slowly, so he raised his eyes and scolded Shanmen.Of course I didn't reply, a gentleman can bend and stretch, and now my wings and feathers haven't fully grown yet, so let's swallow my anger for the time being.But when I took advantage of him not paying attention, I picked up the two biggest shrimps in the pot of shrimps in tomato sauce that he fried, and I ate them.I am now sleeping in a warehouse on the second floor of Dasanyuan, and the activity space is only four tatami mats.The warehouse is full of dried shrimps, dried abalone, fermented soybeans, salted fish, and preserved eggs. After ten days, I have been so irritated that the aroma and smell are indistinguishable.However, the rent in Tokyo is astonishingly expensive, at least ten times higher than in Taipei.There are four tatami mats to sleep in, at least for now I am very satisfied.Only occasionally when I wake up in the middle of the night, I think of Taipei and you.How about you, Ah Qing, how are you?What about Xiaomin?What about the little thief, the mouse?Say hello to the master when you see him, and I will write to him to report.If Zhao Wuchang's batch of old glass asks, don't tell them that I do odd jobs in Dasanyuan, you tell them: Wang Xiaoyu is shaking very much in Tokyo!

wish Happy New Year Xiaoyu December 30th Also: Don't you always laugh at me for dreaming of cherry blossoms?Now I really have cherry blossoms in my dreams.Next spring, when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, I will wear a kimono and take a picture under the cherry tree and send it to you. letter to xiaoyu Xiaoyu: We are relieved to receive your letter.In the past few days, I have often told Wu Min that I wonder if Xiaoyu jumped out of the boat and landed, or if he was captured by the Japanese government.I showed your letter to Wu Min. When he got excited, he went to buy a bottle of beer and came back. The two of us drank a few glasses to celebrate you.We said, Xiaoyu is a nine-tailed fox after all, why did he let him go to Tokyo!In your letter, you described Tokyo as a world of flowers and flowers. I think you look like a fish in water and are overjoyed.You go and try the sashimi in Tokyo, and write us next time to tell us how it tastes.Guess who I met in Ximending the day before yesterday?Old Zhou!The fat grandpa also heard that you went to Japan, so he said to me sourly: I heard that the small seller went to Japan?I don't think he can sell it for a few pennies in Tokyo!I replied casually: The overseas Chinese godfather has gone to pick him up, and Xiaoyu wrote to say that the godfather just took him to Hakone to take a hot spring bath.Lao Zhou sneered twice, I think he believed half of it at least.

Since you left, there have been many twists and turns in our circle, and there have been great changes.Our Anle Township is officially closed. Fan Ren of the "Chunshen Evening News" wrote two more reports, and the writing became clearer and clearer, only missing Duke Sheng's name.Chairman Wan Nianqing was very distressed by this. I heard that he secretly stuffed a lot of money in order to gag that bad reporter.Of course, our Anle Township will not be able to continue driving.The master was the saddest. On the day when the door was closed, the master and a few of us got drunk in Anle Township. The master said to us: Sons, you can fly by yourself. The master doesn’t care about you anymore.As he said that, he shed two tears, which frightened Ah Xiongzai, so he took the master's hand and called Dada.I passed by the gate of Anle Township last week. It has already changed its owner, changed its name to Xiangfei, and turned it into a tavern to attract Japanese. I heard that there are wine girls to accompany drinks.

I'm currently working as a bartender at Round Table on Zhongshan North Road, which is a high-end bar full of atmosphere.The customers here are also very high-class, most of them are brothers and sisters who come to tryst and fall in love, and soak in a glass of mint wine overnight.My salary is not bad, 3,000 yuan a month, and those guys give very sweet tips in front of their girlfriends.My job is fairly easy. After mixing the drinks, I sat and listened to <Blue Danube> over and over again on the tape recorder.I have moved out of Mr. Fu's house. Mr. Fu donated his house to Lingguang Nursery in his will.The dean of Lingguang came to take the house away.Mr. Fu adopted a handicapped child in Lingguang Nursery before his death. His name was Fu Tianci, and he was born without hands.Now I often visit him and teach him to write with his mouth.I also went to see Sister Liyue, but unfortunately she took away our old room, otherwise I would move back to Jinzhou Street. I like to eat squid fried sauerkraut made by Abasan.Sister Liyue told me that your mother laughed so hard that her mouth was crooked when she knew you had jumped off the boat and landed on the shore.She said she was waiting for you to pick her up and go to Tokyo.I live in Dalongdong now, the rent is a bit more expensive, but the room is spacious, well ventilated, and doesn’t smell like salted fish!

Wu Min also found a job as a waiter at Catherine Western Restaurant on Linsen North Road.But lately he has been troubled.His Mr. Zhang, Wang Wu with the scar, probably drank too much wine on Christmas Eve last year. When he was taking a bath, he fell into the bathtub and suffered a stroke. He was paralyzed and is still lying in the Mackay Hospital. .Wu Min had to serve him every day after work. Once Wu Min took me with him, Mr. Zhang’s appearance was completely out of shape, his former unrestrained vigor was gone, like a deflated balloon, limp Lying on the hospital bed, his eyes were slanted and his mouth was crooked, but his temper became more irritable, scolding Wu Min all over the place, neither east nor west.After leaving the hospital, I said to Wu Min: "Xiao Min, you can bear it at this point, why don't you take the opportunity to leave him?"Wu Min said to me solemnly: What is this?He needs me more now, I can't have a conscience, just go away like this!I think Wu Min is also a hard-working person. One Mr. Zhang is enough for him, and his gambling father is added.His father had a quarrel with his uncle's family, and he also ran to Taipei to join him.Wu Min has to serve the sick and take care of his father.Thanks to him, he was able to withstand it and not collapse.

As for the mouse, we had already seen what happened to him.The mouse is now in the Taoyuan Orientation Institute, where he is being reformed and educated.More than two weeks ago, at the State Guest Hotel, the mouse repeated the same trick, stretching out his third hand to pick up a tourist's pen, but this time the State Guest's manager caught him.I made an appointment with Wu Min to visit him in Taoyuan next Sunday and bring some fruit to comfort the troubled boy.Closing it like this may turn off the little thief's thieves, it's unknown. Xiaoyu, your dream of cherry blossoms has finally come true. It is still worthwhile for you to smoke salted fish in Dasanyuan.

wish All the best in the new year Ah Ching January 17th letter from mouse Ah Ching: You and Xiao Min are so mean!I have been locked up for more than two weeks, and you don't come to see me.I received reformation education here, and it was very difficult.Correctional education means teaching people to be good people. They have to study every day and write about their reading experience.Since I left elementary school, I haven't read a book seriously. How can I write about my reading experience?Every morning we have Chinese, history, and national spirit education, which is very boring. I often want to doze off, but I am afraid that the teacher will scold me, so I have to pinch my thigh.In our national spirit education class this morning, the teacher told us the story of Yue Fei. Yue Fei is the general of the Song Dynasty who fought the golden soldiers. Do you know?The teacher said that Yue Fei's mother tattooed Yue Fei's mother on Yue Fei's back with a needle!The teacher wrote the words "loyalty and dedication to the country" on the blackboard.A bastard asked: What does it mean to be loyal?poor!I haven’t even seen Jing Zhong Bao Guo. Don’t these four words often appear on the signs of railway stations?The teacher said that mother education in Chinese families is very important, Yue Fei will become a national hero with such a righteous mother, so the teacher asks us to follow mother's teaching in the future.The bastard got up again and said: Teacher, my mother is a prostitute in Baodou, what kind of righteousness is there!The teacher blushed and was speechless.We winked and sneered inwardly below.The vocational training in the afternoon was more interesting. I chose the dyeing and weaving department, and a teacher from Zhongli Dazhonghua Dyeing and Weaving Factory came to teach us.I just learned color matching today, it's fun, just stir a color.The teacher praised me for matching the colors very well.I asked him if I could go out and find a job in a dyeing factory in the future, and he said no problem, as long as I worked hard to learn the craft from him.

Ah Qing, we are a den of robbers here!I just took some things from others in the hotel, it's nothing.The gangsters here are much better at committing crimes than me.They really went to other people's houses with guns and sticks to rob them.There was a leader of the Bamboo Union Gang, who killed and seriously injured the youngest of the Tiandi Gang because of a fight with the Sanzhong Tiandi Gang.This kid is a demon king in the world, he is called the boss here, and he has a group of minions who help him show off his power and bully others.This kid is very horizontal, he raised his eyes and pointed at people's heads at every turn, saying: I want you to look good!Good brother, I have been among these robbers all day, why don't you make people feel scared!I made up my mind that a hero will not suffer immediate losses.I was beaten up by that boss yesterday, which made me dizzy, so I had no choice but to lie in the ground and pretend to be a dead dog.You are not here, can I fight back alone?There was a fool who didn't know how powerful he was, he contradicted the devil incarnation, and let them catch him at night. Guess what?I took a mouthful of urine!

Here, what I'm most dissatisfied with is that they classify me as a habitual thief, don't you think it's hard to hear?Every Wednesday, a graduate student from the Sociology Department of Normal University came to talk to me. He said that he was researching the habitual theft of Taiwanese teenagers.He asked questions, dug my material.He asked me why I like stealing things, and I said that when I saw other people's things, I would play with them if I liked them.He said that taking other people's things is considered stealing, but I said that taking things without taking money is considered stealing?That graduate student uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuI told him that once I took a wallet from someone with dozens of dollars in it, but I saw nothing else, and the wallet was meaningless, so I put it back into the person's pocket.The graduate student took down everything I said. He said that I was a very interesting special case. He said that I had a psychological problem, and he wanted to suggest that the nursing home provide me with psychological treatment.Fuck it, my heart is fine, treat a bird. Ah Qing, where is my treasure chest?You must keep it well for me, and don't let others find out and steal my treasure.When you come to see me, bring me a pen to play with.Instead of the few good pens, the old blue Sheaffer will suffice.The people here are terrible, and good things can't be revealed.Good brother, when are you coming?If you don't come to see me again, I'll be suffocated to death. wish Happy New Year Rat January 21st Also: Lu Siwu from Cornucopia came to see me today and brought a smoked chicken for me to make a tooth sacrifice.Lu Siwu is very affectionate.I asked him to take this letter out and post it to you.I heard that letters sent here must be checked, and it is not acceptable to speak ill of this place.The day before yesterday, two boys tried to escape, but they were caught and put on shackles.The two boys walked left and right like two crabs. Letter from Xiaoyu Ah Ching: I haven't written to you for a long time. I'm too busy to even have time to fart.This month, our Dasanyuan business is surprisingly good, every day is full.The Japanese are really strange, they don’t eat sashimi, but the whole family comes to eat our Chinese food.The boss smiled from ear to ear, but it was hard for the people in our kitchen to work until one or two o'clock every night, and we were exhausted when we went to bed.Where can I mention writing a letter?And if I have a little free time, I will go to do important things.I've started looking for my father's whereabouts.In the first step, I called Shiseido to check whether there was a man named Masao Nakajima among their staff, who was a Taiwanese who had returned to Japan.Shiseido has dozens of dealerships in Tokyo alone.I asked one by one, but found an employee named Masao Nakajima in Asakusa, but that person was a young man in his twenties, not qualified to be my father, and he was from Osaka.I went to the Lin Clan Association of Overseas Chinese in Tokyo to check. There were Lin Wuxiong, Lin Shengxiong, and Lin Jinxiong, but there was no Lin Zhengxiong.I went to find a phone book, first looked it up from the Shinjuku area, and copied down all the addresses of Masao Nakajima in the phone book.There are twenty-seven Masao Nakajimas in Shinjuku alone, and I can’t call him to ask if he has an illegitimate child in Taiwan. This matter is so complicated and delicate. I have only learned Japanese for a month. Clearly, people won't recognize wild boys on the phone.This month, whenever I was free, I went to find Masao Nakajima according to the address.The street numbers in Tokyo are horribly messed up, and I was running amok in the streets and alleys of Shinjuku, like spinning around in a maze.As of yesterday, only ten Nakajima Masao had been checked, and there were all kinds of Nakajima Masao.One is a plastic surgeon, the other sells wigs and prosthetic breasts, and the manager of an electrical appliance store. One of them ran out with a pockmarked harelip and a blind eye, like a ghost. I was so scared that I ran away.If my dad is really born with that kind of virtue, I would rather not recognize him! Yesterday we had a public holiday and I went out and ran all day.It snowed heavily in Tokyo this year, and the slush on the streets was one foot thick. It was very inconvenient to walk. The snow seeped into the shoes, making my feet stiff and painful from the cold.I ran three Nakajima Masao, all Japanese.In the evening, there was a family of Masao Nakajima, who was actually Chinese!For a moment, my heart almost jumped into my mouth.When I asked, that Masao Nakajima was actually a Manchurian from Tianjin.His surname is Jin, he looks about sixty years old, he is very decent and elegant, and his home furnishings are also very particular.He knew that I was from Taiwan and was very happy. He invited me in for a cup of tea and chatted for a while.When I went outside, it was snowing heavily, and the thousands of neon lights in Shinjuku were blinking lively in the snow. I stood in the middle of the street, and at that moment, I felt that there was a huge crowd.That night I went to Tonghu in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, which is the most famous gay bar in Shinjuku. It is said that there are hundreds of Anle Townships in Tokyo, and there are twelve in Shinjuku Kabukicho alone.Shibuya, Roppongi, and many more.The youth birds in Tokyo are amazing, they fly all over the streets, they are not afraid of the police.Dancing and kissing and everything in the bar.Shinjuku also has a new park called Gyoen, which is ten times bigger than our new park, and the young birds are much wilder than ours in playing hide-and-seek.Ah Qing, compared to these oriental birds, we are quite well behaved.Tonghu is about two or three times larger than our Anle Township. The lighting is very trendy. It is full of people on weekends and you can dance.But yesterday was Monday, and it snowed heavily. There were only a dozen or so people in the bar, and they didn't stay long.I warmed a jug of sake by myself and soaked it overnight in the Tonghu.In the bar, there is a floor-standing record player that keeps playing Mori Shinichi's songs.Shinichi Mori is currently the most popular male singer in Japan. Everyone in the gay bar here is fascinated by him, and his singing is so sad.In the middle of the night, when I was almost drunk, a middle-aged Japanese man in a gray suit came up to talk to me.When he realized that I was from China, he took out a piece of paper and wrote Chinese characters with me. He asked me why I looked so sad.I said: Shabby four!What about Sapphire!This sentence was also taught to me by Sanchu of Dasanyuan, which means: lonely!Lonely!The middle-aged Japanese took me back. He lives in Ueno, which is so far away that he has to go around twice by subway. Ah Qing, I will continue to search. After finding Masao Nakajima in Shinjuku, I will search for Asakusa, Shibuya, and Ueno, and keep searching.After searching for Tokyo, I will go to Yokohama, Osaka, and Nagoya after I save some money.I want to search every inch of land in Japan. If it is really like what Mr. Fu said, God has mercy on me. One day, I will catch my father.Guess what's the first thing I'll do when I find him?I want to bite that wild man's dick hard and ask him why he gave birth to me as a wild child for no reason, causing me to suffer and suffer for the rest of my life. I'm really not surprised that the rats are in the reformatory.It's okay to shut him down, maybe shut him down.Wu Min committed his own crimes, so there is no need to pity him.My overseas Chinese godfather Lin Maoxiong, I didn't go to find him.I heard here that Lin Maoxiong is very respected in the overseas Chinese community in Japan.When I was in Taiwan, he treated me very well and valued me very much, saying that I was sensible and considerate, a hundred times better than his own son.If I go to him now, it will make him feel embarrassed, I don't want to do that, I want him to keep a good impression of me in his heart forever.Although Lin Xiang and I got along for a short time, Ah Qing, those were the happiest few days in my life. wish good Xiaoyu February 1st Also: I suddenly remembered that the old calendar year will be celebrated in ten days.I would like to entrust you with one thing, please go to Liujia Yazhuang on Xinyi Road to buy two duck cakes for me (the money will be returned to you later) and send them to my mother in Sanchong Town on the first day of the Lunar New Year. My mother loves to eat Liujiayazhuang I love the duck cakes. During the Chinese New Year, I like to steam the duck cakes for wine and drink Wujiapi.
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