Satoko was surprised, she really couldn't think of who it could be, and what important thing it was, so that this person flew thousands of miles from a foreign country to Fuso, and traveled through mountains and rivers to come to such a remote Okutamagawa town to meet her.

While he was thinking, the door from the office to another office opened.

A middle-aged man with a sturdy figure and luxuriously dressed clothes walked over with a smile on his face.

Riko stood up, and the secretary hurriedly introduced, "This is Mr. Bi from China......

The man and Satoko nodded to each other, but Satoko still looked confused and questioning.

The man was followed by a young man, who appeared to be his personal interpreter.

He said, "I'm here this time for Sakura's daughter's business. Her daughter, I've found ......"

Riko is usually calm and steady when encountering things, but when she heard this, she still fell on the sofa......

On both sides of the street where the town hall is located, colorful flags are fluttering to welcome the Kashima Festival.

The warm spring breeze blew on Lizi's face, and her heart was excited, and her face stretched like a spring flower.

"Sakura's daughter has been found at last, oh my God, is it true? If it's true, then ......" She was as happy as a little girl, with brisk steps, and soon arrived home.

Her husband Shanyou hasn't come home yet, and she really can't hide this good news in her heart.

"Let's go see my mother-in-law. Dressed in clogs, she walked step by step up the hill next to her house, climbed for ten minutes, and came to an ancient wooden house on the hillside.

The house is tucked away in the mountains and overlooks the terraced rice fields and lake of Okutamagawa Town.

The clogs stepped on the ground and "clicked", and Lizi relaxed his steps, feeling that he still had to be steady, in case his mother-in-law was sleeping in the afternoon, it would be difficult to disturb.

She crept up the steps to the Japanese paper door, and was about to knock lightly, "Sato, come in." An old voice came through the door.

Satoko obediently opened the paper door, took off the clogs and arranged them neatly under the porch, and walked into the floored room wearing white socks.

An old woman sat in the middle of the living room, in front of a stove buried under the floor, on which hung an old black iron kettle, the water had just been boiled, making a "zizi" sound.

The old woman had a kind face, dressed in an ochre-colored hermit garment, and wore a bone rosary around her neck.

She motioned for Satoko to come closer, and Satoko closed the paper door and walked over to her mother-in-law and sat down on her knees.

"Satoko seems to be in a good mood today. The old woman said with a smile as she took the hot water from the stove mountain, poured it into a tea bowl filled with matcha powder, stirred it gently with a tea brush a few times, and handed it to the liko.

Satoko took the tea bowl, took a sip, and replied briskly, "My mother-in-law can guess all my thoughts." Guess what's so happy about me today?"

The mother-in-law smiled and took a sip of tea herself, then she slowly turned her head, looked out the window, and said, "When the spring rain falls, the buds of the tree swell a little." ”

Satoko also followed her mother-in-law's eyes, looked out the window, and said with a smile: "Yes, this year's spring feels like it came earlier than usual." ”

"The grass in my garden is germinating again, and the infinite world is about to be green. The mother-in-law muttered, drank all the tea in the tea bowl, looked at the remaining tea residues, squinted slightly, and nodded.

"My mother-in-law is full of poetry again today, and she is playing dumb riddles with me. Satoko said.

"This is a haiku, and my favorite sentence is Matsuo Basho's. The old woman continued.

"You know, 'the ancient pond, the frog jumped into the pond, a sound', right?" Satoko couldn't wait to continue, this is a sentence that she has been hearing in her ears since she was very young at her mother-in-law's side.

"My granddaughter......" The mother-in-law smiled again, picked up the kettle and filled the cup with half a cup.

"The Okutama River, which is as quiet as an ancient pond, is about to jump into a small frog. The mother-in-law said.

Satoko put down the teacup abruptly and clapped her hands, "Mother-in-law, how do you know?"

I just learned today, Sakura's daughter has been found, in the northeast of China!

Today there is a gentleman, his surname is Bi, and he said that he will send the daughter of Sakura God to us!"

"Oh?" the mother-in-law licked the matcha powder on her lips, closed her eyes, was silent for a while, and said, "Let her come, we have finally waited for this day."

This year's spring in Okuyugawa came so early......"

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The train slowly passed one stop after another, and they chatted for a while, and then slept sideways for a while.

They woke up more than an hour later, all of them staring out the window with sleepy eyes, and did not speak.

After sitting for more than forty minutes, a slightly hunched and hobbled lady walked into the car.

She wears dark green turnip pants, a wide beige mohair coat, and an old-fashioned ladies' bag.

The lady smiled and asked where they were from, and Xiaohai said that they were students from China.

The lady happily said that she also came from China when she was young and came to make money.

She now runs a laundry in Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Edo, and has lived there for 28 years, traveling to see her daughter in Saitama Prefecture to the north.

Xiaohai's main task this time is to accompany Yingying to take refuge, and they are very cautious in their words, and most of the information about themselves is brought in one sentence.

The lady didn't seem to mind, still smiling, and told them a little about Edo.

Xiaohai and the others listened very carefully, and only listened to this lady's introduction:

"There was a time when Fusang was very prosperous and prosperous, and almost everyone had a villa and a car at home, and the way to vacation was to travel abroad.

At that time, the price of goods was extremely high, a cantaloupe from Tokaido cost 3,600 fuso yuan a piece, and a box of cherries from Yamatao County cost 5,000 fuso yuan.

However, despite such a high price, the Fuso people often enjoyed it at home, which shows the high standard of living of the Fuso people at that time.

But somehow, a few decades ago, the country of Fuso suddenly became more and more depressed.

Coincidentally, it was from that time that the cherry blossoms of Fuso Province and Manchu stopped blooming.

Some people say that because of Fuso's national flower, cherry blossoms no longer bloom, which represents the decline of Fuso's national fortunes.

When the officials heard about this legend, in order to appease the people, they hired some plant experts to treat the cherry blossom trees.

However, the experts have never been optimistic about the disease of the cherry blossom trees, and there are many cherry blossom trees missing from the country at once, and the cherry blossoms flying in the sky are no longer seen every spring. ”

Feeling thirsty, she stopped talking and took a few sips from her thermos.

Yingying, Xiaohai and Brother Qiang all opened their eyes wide, waiting for her to continue telling this strange story.