Chapter 263: The Apartment and the Landlord
The sun is shining, the wind is mild, it is a good weather to go out, the temperature of this day is not very high, and the upcoming autumn brings a touch of coolness to the temperature of the autumn tiger. Dragged a small suitcase and carried a large backpack out of the crowded airport, and the deafening cheers were in my ears. With the help of setting foot on this land for the first time, I got into the prepared nanny car and drove to the hotel where I was seated.
The domestic team, the Soon-gyu band is ready to release a new single, and this time the single style is lyrical in the HipHop category. When the company said that they would release a new single for their team, Lee San-ni did not hesitate to pull out the long-coveted HipHop song from the song written by Kim Tae-yeon, thinking that she almost debuted as a HipHop group at the beginning. The title of the song sounds quite sad, called "Don't Call". I don't know if this one lead singer and the four leading dancers can sing them well, and the fact that others are not optimistic does not mean that they are not confident, they have been caught and opened for so long, how can they be justified if they have not made any progress!
As another lead singer of the domestic team, Xiao Xiannai was assigned to the Japanese team as a guitarist, and formed a three-person band with Kim Taeyeon, who was in charge of the lead singer of the bass, and Choi so-young, who played the drums. It can be said that the models of these two squads have changed with each other, one has put down the instrument, the other has picked up the instrument, and the only thing that has not changed is the neighbor squad in the United States.
What Kim Taeyeon, who has already started singing on the street in Japan, is that after she went abroad, the OST "Can You Hear Me" she sang for "Beethoven Virus" had swept one of the OST departments on the major music charts on the third day of the release of the music source. According to the news from Li Sanny, there were sentimental tears on the Internet, and some people gave her the name of a soul singer. In this regard, the girls unanimously agreed with their hands and feet, and since it was Cui, who had lost a pack of tissues, he almost raised the person to show his approval.
Street singing can be seen in all countries, and the people who sing it vary from person to person. Some are wanderers, some are pure singing lovers, and some are here to experience that feeling. But there are very few people like Kim Taeyeon who are already famous and still sing on the street, especially artists with brokerage companies, who will not do free and rewarding street singing, and a star's street singing is prone to similar congestion.
Fortunately, this did not happen to the street singing of the three of them, and most of the people who came to listen were local sone, accompanied by almost every stop. And passers-by come and go in a hurry, a very urban, fast-paced life. Although Kim Taeyeon and Choi so-young are well-known in this country through "Sakura Sakura Wants to See You", more people support local singers, and they still don't know much about them, foreign singers who don't see real people, and they need to work hard to be known to passers-by.
"Kids, you're free to do free this afternoon, but don't go too far, you know! Xiao Xian takes a good look at your two Ernies. "Kim Dae agent is like a kindergarten teacher, who keeps telling the two naughty children again and again, and at the end he doesn't forget to explain the good students who let him rest assured, and look at the students who make him unable to relax.
"Inner~"
"Inside!"
The two weak responses were sandwiched between a strong and powerful response, and you could easily hear who made the intermingled response.
Glaring at the two role models who have been taught repeatedly, and then at the best among other people's children, Kim so Yong is very relieved that there is a master in the girlhood that allows him to worry less. Helplessly waved his hand to drive people away, "Go play, go play, don't appear in front of me this afternoon." β
"Inside~!" Suddenly, the response was so full of energy that Kim so Yong almost suffocated in his throat with a mouthful of old blood, these two bastards!
Leaving the room where Kim Dae's agent lived, Choi so-young, who was full of vitality, suddenly became depressed, and looked out the window of the corridor with memories in her eyes, as if she saw something familiar from the scenery outside.
Suddenly, the pain from her back startled Cui Xiuying, but she turned around in fright and heard a teasing smile in her ear, "Don't stand and look stupid, if you want to, go over and see for yourself, just let us see what the place you used to live is like." β
"Who is stupid, I just remember how to get to that apartment at that time." The stubborn one refuses to admit what she thinks in her heart, this kind of embarrassing thing, she Cui Xiuying doesn't want to come once.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see where I lived eight years ago, and I don't know if it's still there." Choi so-young took the lead with a wave of her big hand, and she didn't tell you whether Kim Taeyeon or Seo Joo-hyun didn't see her sad expression after turning around, nor did she hear her murmuring in the second half of the sentence. However, even if you hear it, you may pretend that you don't hear it.
On a nearly autumn afternoon, the sun is no longer as hot as a summer day, although it is still a bit of an annoying sweat, at least not like rain.
Every lively city has its quiet place, and these quiets are always on the edge of the bustle. Surrounded by typical Japanese-style houses, most of them are two stories high, and the surrounding walls separate the roads, and the yellowing leaves in the walls are blown away from the branches and fall on the concrete road, and you can hear a slight 'click' sound when you step on it, some of which are crisp and a little pleasant to hear.
Turning one corner after another, walking through one quiet alley after another, an apartment with obvious signs of age comes into view. The apartment is only four stories high, the walls are all white, there are many traces of peeling off on the walls at the heights, and there are a few trees planted under the apartment, which is very ordinary but it can be vaguely seen that it is almost the same age as the apartment. Cui Xiuying's footsteps stopped in front of her, her eyes looking at the apartment were full of nostalgia, and the smile on the corner of her mouth was slightly bitter.
"It's been a long time, it's changed so much...... "I looked around nostalgically, and raised my foot to pull one towards the apartment with one hand.
At this time, the apartment is deserted, and most of the people who want to live here are office workers or houses. Approaching the apartment, Cui Xiuying walked to a door non-stop and looked at the door number 101, which should be the residence of the administrator or landlord of this apartment. Look at the name tag hanging next to the door, Yukiko Yamazaki is the landlady.
On the way, I heard Cui Xiuying say that the apartment she lived in when she first came to Japan was here, and this apartment was owned by the landlord alone, as if it was left by her elders. At that time, the landlord here took very good care of the two children, often brought them food, and when Cui Xiuying left, the landlord helped her pack her last luggage. It can be said that the landlord of this apartment is the person Cui Xiuying values most in Japan besides Marina.
"Ding-dong! Ding dong! β
Fingertips twitched the button of the doorbell, and only the crisp bell inside the door could be heard, but no other sound could be heard inside. I didn't see any movement at the door for a while, and in desperation, Cui Xiuying poked and poked the doorbell as if retaliating. Half ringing, the bell behind the door fell silent, and the sound of Suosuo's action faintly came into his ears, and the door opened.
The door opened outward, and after taking half a step back, I could see the faces of the people behind the door. The white hair on his head seemed to be frosted, and only one or two blacks could be faintly seen, the wrinkled folds on his forehead looked like an uneven road, his face was full of nicks left by the years, and his eyes were no longer young. Kim Taeyeon roughly looked at the old man in front of him, he should have passed the age of ancient times.
"Who is it?" The thick local accent is heard so that Xu Xiaoxian, who has only learned the official language and does daily communication, is half-understood.
"Grandma Yukiko, it's me, look, look!" Cui Xiuying leaned her neck and pointed at herself excitedly, her face magnified in front of the landlord.
"Are you ......?" the landlord squinted, as if he still didn't recognize it, only to see her left hand take out a pair of glasses from her coat pocket and put them on the bridge of her nose, and carefully examine the face in front of her eyes. Well...... I think I've seen it somewhere......" The landlord pushed his glasses and frowned, and the three wrinkles on his forehead seemed to almost kill a fly.
"It's me, so-young, so-young, Choi so-young!" Cui Xiuying was so anxious that she waved her hands.
"Xiu...... Hero? β
"Eun, so-young, so-young, the child who lived here with Marina's sister eight years ago!" Feeling that the landlord seemed to be thinking of something, Cui Xiuying was busy guiding further.
"Xiuying...... Marina...... "The old man hesitated for a while, and then suddenly smiled, "Ah~ It's Xiuying, I haven't seen you for a long time, you didn't even have a position on my shoulder when you left, and in a blink of an eye, you grew so big, you are two or three heads taller than grandma and me, time is really an indescribable miracle." The landlord pulled Cui Xiuying and sighed, patting this and that, as if he was looking at his granddaughter who had been away from home for many years.
"Well, because Xiuying has grown up." Although she was smiling, Kim Tae-yeon still heard the choked throat hidden in Choi so-young's words.
"Yes, Xiuying has grown up, and Yukiko has also grown old." The old man laughed self-deprecatingly.
"No, no, Grandma Yukiko is still the same young!"
"Hehehe~ Old is old, grandma still knows." The old man held Cui Xiuying's hand with one hand and patted the back of her hand with the other, "Don't stand outside the door, come in and sit down with your companions." At this time, the landlord finally saw Kim Taeyeon and Seo Joo-hyun standing on the side as a background, and warmly beckoned the three of them into the house to sit down.
"Then I'm going to bother you." Respectfully bowed to the landlord, followed her and slowly entered the house, the iron door slammed shut again, and the outside of the apartment returned to its original desertion, with the roar of a few passing cars from time to time.
The apartment is very typical of Japanese furnishings, with a simple living room, a low table, a cupboard, an old TV turned on, and a fan whirring.
"Come, have a drink and a snack to cushion your stomach." The landlord staggered over with a plate of three glasses of orange juice and a few biscuits.
"I'll come." Choi so-young hurriedly stepped forward to take the plate in the landlord's hand, Kim Tae-yeon helped her sit down, and Seo Joo-hyun habitually divided the things on the plate.
"Good, what a good boy." The landlord smiled kindly, a pair of seemingly cloudy eyes flashed a light, just for a moment, the depth in the eyes was once again hidden behind the turbidity, giving people the feeling that he was a very ordinary old man, sure enough, the older generation is deeply hidden.
"I fell asleep watching the TV just now and didn't hear the doorbell, people, it's useless when you're old." The landlord sighed with emotion, picked up the teacup and tasted it, "Did Xiuying come to Japan with her companions to travel this time?" β
"No, we came here first in the group, and when we gain a foothold in China, we will officially develop in Japan, and then Grandma Yukiko can see me on TV again." Cui Xiuying raised a big smile and seemed to be very happy, "Both of them are members of the same regiment as me, and they are also my best sisters, this short like a high school freshman is our captain, and the one who looks familiar is the eldest of our regiment, Grandma Yukiko, don't be deceived by their appearance." While pointing to Kim Taeyeon and Seo Joo-hyun, he made a playful introduction.
Cui Xiuying, who swept her eyes lightly, gave a respectful salute to the landlord, "Hello Grandma Yukiko, it was really rude to introduce herself just now, junior Kim Taeyeon, the captain of Girls' Generation, this is our eldest son Seo Joo-hyun, I disturbed today." β
"Hello Grandma Yukiko, junior Xu Zhuxian, I've made you feel hard today." Xu Zhuxian respectfully walked to the opposite side of the old man and also bowed.
"Hehehehe, what kind words are there, you two are coming to Japan for the first time, and the words you say are much better than when Xiuying came for the first time." glanced at Cui Xiuying who was pouting in her words playfully, and the landlord patted the back of her hand funny, "I still remember that Xiuying was as thin as a bamboo pole at that time, and she stammered in Japanese, and I couldn't understand what it meant." Ignoring Choi so-young's shy shouting, the landlord told Kim Taeyeon and Seo Joo-hyun for more than half an hour about Choi Chang's black history in Japan, and the two of them held their breath with laughter.
"By the way, Grandma Yukiko, Sister Marina, she ......" finally made the landlord stop nagging her about her black history, and when she mentioned her sister who had worked hard together, Cui Xiuying wanted to stop talking.
"Marina, she's fine." Speaking of Marina Takahashi, the landlord opened the conversation again, "That kid comes once a year, and every time she comes, she visits the room where you used to live, she just came a few months ago, and brought a boy over. By the way, why don't you go to your room too, that house has been empty since you left, and now there is a little more clutter. β
"I ......"
"Let's go, maybe we'll find something......" the old fox smiled at the landlord, who thought she knew what was in the house.
Seeing that the old man was about to get up, Kim Taeyeon hurriedly glanced at Seo Joo-hyun, and hurriedly walked to the old man's side and took a hand, and walked to a room with her.
"Let's go, Xiuying, Xiaoxian and I are looking forward to it." Without giving Choi so-young any chance to react, Kim Taeyeon directly hooked her neck and dragged her out, perhaps to take revenge for the same thing she had done to herself more than a month ago.
The room where Choi so-young lived in Japan for the first time was on the second floor of the apartment, and the general layout inside was similar to what she saw at the landlord's house, except that there were a lot of boxes piled up in the living room here, and some modern items such as household appliances were missing. On the wall of the bedroom there is also a poster of the RouteΦ combination, which is printed with two immature girls, the same as the one I once saw in Choi so-young's house, but much older. The whole room was not covered with thick dust as expected, and the fingertips swiped over the cabinet, only a thin gray was glued, thinking that it had been cleaned not long ago, thinking of what the landlord had said before, this should be Marina and her boyfriend cleaning together.
Choi so-young flipped through a letter in the bed where she had slept before, and looking at the words written on the envelope, Kim Tae-yeon immediately guessed who left it, and also understood what the landlord's ambiguous smile meant before.
[To Suyoung-chan who doesn't know when to meet again]
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"Taeyeon, where is the next show?"
"Hokkaido, I want to go to Noboribetsu Onsen, which is known as 'Japan's No. 1 hot spring.'"
"Hideeiuni, Hokkaido must be fun, right?"
"This one...... Maybe......"
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PS: I'm really suitable for writing about everyday gods, as soon as I write about these inspirations, and when I write about grades, it's more uncomfortable than constipation