Chapter 17: Chinatown (Push, Collect)
Chinatown.
Looking at the three familiar traditional Chinese characters in front of him, a sense of intimacy rose irrepressibly from the bottom of the dynasty's heart.
There's nothing better than seeing familiar Chinese characters in a foreign country. At the same time, Wang Chao's heart was lifted, and he stepped into Chinatown with joy, ready to take a good look at the content of Little China Village in front of him.
The result was unsatisfactory.
Although more than half of the buildings in Chinatown are built in the style of ancient Chinese architecture, the remaining half are built in the style of Japanese architecture and even Edo period houses. Then I felt a little disappointed.
"Sure enough, just like foreign Chinese food, the taste has changed." Wang Chao couldn't help but pouted secretly.
But I didn't get too entangled, after all, the objective factors are there, and they can't be changed simply.
Then I sorted out my mood a little and toured Chinatown with the attitude of seeing novelties.
"Hey, there's still candy paintings here!?"
The so-called sugar painting, is the old artist with the refined melted sugar to make the craft of the craft, belongs to the old folk craft, in the 80s, 90s of the last century in the country is particularly popular, often can be seen in the park, the campus gate or the bustling area of the square, attracting the bear children to stop, crying for parents to buy one. The dynasty had done this kind of thing when he was a child in his previous life. So for a while, it seemed very nostalgic.
"It's rare to see, so buy one and try it."
Then he stepped forward and asked the master who made the sugar painting for a zodiac sugar painting.
It's not very expensive, only 800 yen...... And the speed of production is very fast, in less than two minutes, a dragon-shaped zodiac sugar painting was made and handed over to the hands of the dynasty.
Wang Chao took it in his hand, holding the candy painting and eating it with emotion, recalling the taste of cane sugar, while continuing to look for old memories that may exist in Chinatown.
Not to mention, there are quite a few. There are a lot of fried stinky tofu, mung bean lamb, rock sugar gourd, and balloons, which can be regarded as a good memory of the fun of childhood.
But correspondingly, the dynasty finally became thicker, and the wallet was suffocated.
"Hey, it seems that we have to find a way to make some money, otherwise if we continue like this, we will have to sit and eat nothing." After handing over the money for Shandong's big trapped buns, Wang Chao looked at the crumpled handful of change in his hand and said helplessly.
Then he took the bun, picked up the change, and nibbled on the bun while continuing to walk deeper into Chinatown.
He hadn't forgotten what he was here for.
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"Stop!"
At this time, with a crisp and bright shout, a thin man rushed out of the crowd quickly, as if there was a vicious wolf chasing after him, completely ignoring the pedestrians beside him, running rampantly and quickly, and after a while, he rushed to the front of the dynasty who did not understand what was happening, and collided with the dynasty heavily.
"Bang!"
Immediately, the buns and meat flew into the air, and Wang Dynasty fell heavily to the ground. There are also men who are so thin. It's just that the other party didn't pay attention to the dynasty, and didn't even look at him, so he got up from the ground with a panicked expression, ran out to the side like a fugitive, and disappeared from the dynasty's sight after a while.
Then the light dimmed in front of Wang Dynasty's eyes, and another figure appeared beside him.
It was a young girl, with a very good figure, wearing a red cheongsam painted with flowers and phoenix patterns, and her chest was bulging, attracting the attention of Pang Ren like the most dazzling pearl.
The short black hair, no, it should be long hair, but I don't know how to tie it into short hair, tied with a pair of hair bands with metal bells, and with the girl's movements, it makes a crisp sound of "jingle crotch".
The girl bent down and picked up a purse from the ground that looked like a purse, and then turned her head to look at the dynasty and asked, "Are you alright?" β
"It's fine." Wang Chao shook his head, looked at the big sloppy bun that had been stepped on with pity, and stood up from the ground.
"Lunch?" At the same time, the girl who noticed the dynasty's movements tilted her head and asked.
"Yes." Wang nodded in acknowledgement.
"Then come to my restaurant. Our Reverse Scale Restaurant is the most well-known Chinese restaurant in the entire Chinatown, with authentic taste and guaranteed to satisfy you. Suddenly, the girl's eyes lit up, a very professional smile appeared on her face, and she grabbed Wang Chao's arm and introduced, looking like she would never let you go if she didn't come to my house for dinner, which made the corners of Wang Dynasty's mouth twitch slightly.
"I'm sorry, I don't have any money." Wang Chao said helplessly.
That's the big truth. If it weren't for the lack of money in his pocket, he would very much like to enter a Chinese restaurant and reminisce about the taste of 'hometown'.
"Uh...... Heh, hehe......" The girl was stunned when she heard this, and smiled dryly and spread his arm. In the same way, Wang Dynasty responded to him with a dry smile, and it was not until a moment later that the awkward atmosphere between the two was broken by the appearance of another woman.
"Here, your wallet." The girl changed hands and handed the wallet in her hand to the new woman. And he speaks serious Chinese, and has a slight Jiangnan accent.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much." The woman took the wallet, quickly opened the wallet and checked the contents, and after making sure that nothing was missing, she thanked the girl with a grateful face. The same Chinese is used, and it looks like a Chinese tourist visiting Japan.
"You're welcome, just a little bit of effort." In this regard, the girl didn't care and waved her hand.
However, the woman continued to thank her, and it was only after a while that she left with her companion who had arrived later.
Then the dynasty said with some surprise: "Are you Chinese?" β
Of course, Chinese is also used.
"yes, you too?" The girl, who probably didn't expect the dynasty to speak Chinese, was surprised, and looked at the dynasty in surprise.
"Yes." Wang Dynasty nodded, "I'm an international student, what about you?" β
"Same. Which high school? β
"Osaka Prefectural Higashiyodogawa High School, what about you?"
"I'm at XX private junior high school in Kanagawa." After a pause, he continued, "My name is Ma Lianhua, what about you?" β
"Dynasty."
"Dynasty? Nice to meet you. As she spoke, the girl named Ma Lianhua stretched out her right hand. Seeing this, Wang Chao did not hesitate, and also stretched out his right hand and shook it with Ma Lianhua. But it was just a moment, and it quickly let go.
"Okay, I still have something to do, so I won't talk to you. If you want to eat authentic Chinese food, don't forget to come to our Reverse Scale Restaurant. The Chinese cuisine at our Reverse Scale Restaurant is the most authentic in the whole Chinatown. Ma Lianhua smiled. It's just that even in the end, he still didn't forget to sell his restaurant to the dynasty, which can be described as dedicated.
"Okay, if I want to eat one day, I must go to the Reverse Scale Restaurant." Wang Dynasty laughed.
"That's settled." Ma Lianhua chased and said.
"Yes." Dynasty nodded.
Then Ma Lianhua smiled, waved away at the dynasty, and quickly disappeared into the crowd in Chinatown.
Then the dynasty did not stay any longer, and continued to wander around Chinatown.
Before I knew it, it was more than five o'clock in the afternoon.
After visiting Chinatown, the dynasty finally stopped his tour, returned to the train station, and took another bullet train to Osaka to return to Osaka Prefecture.
After about two hours and half an hour, the dynasty returned to the eastern three parts of the city, where his apartment was located. Then I didn't stay outside any longer, so I went straight back to the apartment, went back to the bedroom, turned on the computer, and looked up how to make money.
It's just looking around.,There's only one way in front of him.,That is, learn from the protagonists in the anime.,Temporary work.γ
"Isn't there a quick way to get money?" Wang Dynasty frowned, staring at the job postings displayed on Yahoo on the screen in deep thought.
"There it is!" After a moment, his eyes lit up.
The method that the dynasty thought of was very simple, and it was very much in line with his characteristics, that is, to exorcise ghosts! Not only does this come quicklyβas long as you make a single business, you can earn 10 or 200,000 yen, which is equivalent to a month's salary of the average Japanese wage earner, and may even be higher! What's more, he can also exercise his golden finger.
Of course, the premise is that his golden finger is indeed capable of fighting ghosts. After all, the ability to fight ghosts has always been his imagination, but whether it is really effective has never been tested, so before he sets foot on this road, he still needs to find a ghost to test.
"Ghost, ......" Thinking of the ghost, Wang Chao couldn't help but laugh bitterly at himself.
But he didn't hesitate too much, and after five or six minutes of struggle, he got up from his chair, grabbed his coat, and walked out of the apartment as he put it on.
Now that you've decided that you're going to try this path, let's start as soon as possible. If the mother-in-law continues to be numb, I don't know when I will be able to build up the courage to find ghosts again, and then I will trouble ghosts.
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Before I knew it, more than an hour had passed, and it was more than nine o'clock in the evening. At this time, it was completely dark, and only the area covered by the street lamps could be seen, and the rest of the place was pitch black, giving people a very oppressive feeling.
Especially when the purpose of the dynasty is still to see hell, not to mention how much pressure there is in my heart, I want to stop several times, immediately go back to my house to sleep, and no longer die.
It's just that he was finally overwhelmed by his imagination of the golden finger, so he didn't return halfway and gave up.
It's just that I don't know if it's because of the existence of Kamata Shrine near the apartment, or for some other reason, the streets around here are very 'clean', and the existence of wandering ghosts and ghosts is completely invisible, which makes the dynasty feel both helpless and very lucky.
"Forget it, let's stop here today, and wait until tomorrow to check the situation in the vicinity, and then let's act."
After thinking about it, Wang Chao stopped his steps, turned around, and walked back towards his apartment.