On Sunday morning, Miyazaki personally drove from his residence, Chuo-ku, to Tokyo Railway Station in Chiyoda-ku to pick up a man.

His heart was filled with a little complexity. That person is not only from his hometown in Aomori Prefecture, but also his first girlfriend in high school.

Miyazaki Ryui is a man of thirty years old. As for his first girlfriend in high school, she is also the same age as him. A man's thirty is a flower, and a woman's thirty is tofu dregs.

The two haven't seen each other for so many years, and he still has some expectations in his heart, after all, he belongs to a foreign country. The revival of old love or something, even he himself doesn't believe that there will be something.

Besides, the love affair in high school can be said to be both innocent and ignorant. Anyway, not only did they get better, they did.

Natsuki Matsui carried a large backpack on his back, a suitcase in his left and right hands, and a bag on his chest, and after getting off the train from Aomori Prefecture to Tokyo, he walked out of the platform with the flow of people.

She paused, let go of her suitcase with both hands, rummaged through the bag hanging from her neck, and dialed Miyazaki's phone.

Miyazaki Ryujing answered the phone, attached his right hand to his right ear and said, "You stand and don't move." Is there anything around you that you can recognize at a glance? By the way, what do you look like?"

"I don't move. I was right at the exit of the train station with a newsstand next to it. I was dressed in a very ordinary way, with a light blue sweater on the top and a long skirt on the bottom. Natsuki Matsui looked left and right for a moment, and then looked down at what he was wearing.

Miyazaki didn't hang up the phone, and while walking briskly, he began to look for the target with his eyes, and said, "You must not move." Otherwise, I won't be able to find you. ”

"I'll listen to you, just stand still. We haven't seen each other for more than 10 years since we graduated from high school, which means we've broken up for more than 10 years.

I remember very well that it was the day you got your admission letter to Waseda University. Then, you dumped me.

You've been staying in Tokyo all the time and you've never been back to your hometown, right?

"What are you mentioning about the past?" said Miyazaki, who didn't want to mention his not-so-glorious black history of love.

"I'm sorry. Natsuki Matsui apologized instead.

"You didn't feel sorry for me, I was sorry for you in the first place. At that time, I was too ignorant, young and frivolous.

Originally, I thought that if I was admitted to a prestigious university, it would be smooth sailing from now on, and I would be able to enter a large company and live a good life. In fact, reality is always full of variables and drama. ”

Miyazaki Ryujing involuntarily remembered a little thing about his past in his mind. Life is not what I designed it to be.

After graduating from Waseda University, he only joined a medium-sized securities company. Within two years of doing so, the company went bankrupt in 1997 during the Asian financial crisis.

For this reason, I am unemployed. On the road to reemployment, he has not been smooth. If he hadn't met Masayoshi Kishimoto who came out for a walk, he would have hanged himself on a cherry blossom tree in Ueno Park.

Natsuki Matsui didn't blame him at all and said, "At that time, I was very sad. When I work and really grow up, I will be able to understand your original choice.

You don't want to stay in your hometown of Aomori Prefecture for the rest of your life, and live a simple and ordinary life like our parents and grandparents. You yearn for the bustle and bustle of Tokyo. ”

"So many years have passed. How are you doing?" Miyazaki didn't want to dwell on the past anymore, so he began to try to change the subject.

"It's not a good time. If I'm doing well, I won't come to Tokyo and cause you trouble. Aomori Prefecture, you don't know, is mainly an agriculture-led economy.

How many of today's young people are willing to work in agricultural production? Many of them have left and gone to Tokyo to work.

Since the Asian financial crisis began in 1997, the industry I have worked in has not had much better. Especially this year, it is getting more and more sad.

You're getting better and better. I've heard your mother say everywhere for a long time that you first went to work in Seoul, South Korea, and then went to San Francisco to work. Now, you're back in Tokyo and you're working for a big company. Natsuki Matsui said bluntly.

Miyazaki Ryuai didn't have the slightest intention of blaming his mother. Mothers naturally want their children to be well.

Not to mention now, even more than ten years ago, if he could read and have good grades, he had already become a good child who would achieve something in the neighborhood.

Ever since following Kishimoto's actions, his life has changed dramatically. His position is getting higher and higher, and his annual income is also rising.

As the only son of the Miyazaki family in Aomori Prefecture, it is natural that he will send money to the family. When he sent more and more money, his mother naturally became more and more proud, after all, it was a sign that her son was getting better and better in Tokyo.

When the elderly get together, no matter which country or which nation, they will always show off not only about money, but about whether their children are promising.

After so many years, he has not returned to his hometown. In the past, when I didn't mix well, I didn't have the face to go back. After mixing, I stayed either in Seoul, South Korea, or San Francisco, USA, for a long time.

It's rare to have a long vacation once a year. Even when he returned to his hometown, it was mainly to visit his mother, after all, his father died in his senior year.

As for relatives and friends in the past, even if they meet, they can't talk together. Some classmates and friends got married early and had children.

Busy every day to support my family. This topic is inseparable from complaints about society, jobs, income, family, and so on.

As for dreams or something, there are no more at all. If there is any other dream in them, it is to play pachinko and win the jackpot.

In addition, he has two younger sisters. After graduating from high school, Xiaomei neither went to school nor worked, and completely began to squat at home.

After the eldest sister divorced, she also lived in her parents' house with her two children. She works part-time at a convenience store not far from her home. For this reason, he couldn't say anything, and when he was not by his mother's side, his two younger sisters did their filial piety.

I also know very well that my mother will definitely use the money she sent her to help her two younger sisters and the two children of the eldest sister. Otherwise, this relatively decent middle-class life would not be sustainable.