"Vomit ....."

In the early summer of the ninth year of the Showa era, on a passenger ship bound for Honshu, China, China, the air was filled with a "strange" smell, the deck was full of all kinds of miserable vomit, a young student dressed in black uniform was vomiting his last bit of soup and water, and behind him, there were more people rushing towards the side of the ship one after another, but most of them did not wait to rush to the side of the ship, they took a "wow" bite, decorating the colorful deck with a new picture.

The young student emptied his stomach and finally felt a lot more comfortable, but then there was a surge of hunger, he shook his head helplessly, and swallowed two mouthfuls of salty and humid air vigorously against the humid sea breeze, as if this would make his stomach a little fuller - anyway, he would vomit it if he ate it, but it was better to drink some sea breeze and chat to quench his hunger.

"Haha, I originally thought that being so poor that drinking the Northwest Wind was just a joke, but it turned out to be true."

The young student sighed self-deprecatingly, and was about to turn around and walk back, but found a person next to him holding on to the railing, calmly looking into the distance - the young student couldn't help but be a little curious, these days are in the gusty season, even if the regular customers who have been on the boat a few times, they are all vomiting meat and vegetables, but this person looks very leisurely, much more "peaceful" than most people on the deck.

"Aren't you seasick?"

After a moment's hesitation, the young student finally spoke.

"Oh," the man turned his head when he heard the young student's conversation, a smile appeared on his angular face, and he shook his head and said, "I was dizzy the first time I took the boat, but once I sat for a few months, and I got used to it." ”

"Haha," Listening to the man's humor, the student couldn't help laughing, and the discomfort in his body suddenly subsided a lot, but his curiosity immediately rose in his heart, and he asked:

"A few months? Where is this going? ”

The man smiled and shook his head, not answering.

The student's face was slightly red, and then he woke up, when he met in Pingshui, how could he talk deeply?

"It's going to Nanyang," the man resolved the embarrassment of the students in a timely manner, "This long-distance ship, the most feared thing is to nest in the cabin, in case of any epidemic, the ship lacks medical treatment, and sometimes it dies if it can't survive the ground." So, I generally don't like to stay in the cabin, at least the air outside is fresher. ”

"That's true, but it's dangerous to stay outside, and if you encounter any wind and waves, it's not a joke to be swept into the sea." The student reminded with a little trepidation, apparently remembering the terrifying typhoon last night.

"Haha, that's right," the man smiled and nodded, but he didn't mean to go back to the cabin at all, he looked at the petrels in the distance who came out to feed after the storm, and smiled, "Why don't you go back first?" ”

"I'm reminding you that I'm certainly not afraid." The student's face turned red again, obviously not wanting the other party to see his timidity.

"Haha." The man couldn't help but smile a little as he looked at the student's embarrassed expression.

"What are you laughing at, since I dare to go east to Japan, of course I have considered the possibility of being buried in the belly of a fish, why are you laughing at me?" The student was a little angry.

"No, no," the man smiled and shook his head, "I was thinking, dying in a typhoon is still relatively heroic, at least I can experience a spectacle of flying with heaven and earth, the sun and the moon together, if I die in the cabin, it will be aggrieved." In the end, isn't it thrown into the ocean? ”

"That's right," the student looked at the endless skyline, imagining in his heart the scene that the man had just said about the sky and the earth flying together, and after a long time he spoke, "If you can really fly, it will be in vain." ”

"Haha, if you really fly, maybe you can run into Penglai Immortal Island!" The man laughed.

The young student smiled embarrassedly, then turned to look at the man and asked:

"What is your surname, sir?"

He listened to this man's witty speech, and he was quite bold in his speech, and he couldn't help but feel the heart of friendship.

"My surname is Zhou, a few years older than you, you can call me Brother Zhou." The man laughed.

The man surnamed Zhou is Geng Chaozhong, three days ago, he left Nanjing overnight, boarded the ship from Shanghai, and embarked on a freighter to Japan, but it seems that the luck is not good, just two days on the ship, he encountered a small typhoon, fortunately, the captain is quite experienced, and finally saved the day, and survived the storm without danger.

"My surname is Liu, Liu Zongyuan's Liu, a native of Guangxi, went to Japan to study," the young student over there was also introducing himself, "What about you, what are you doing in Japan?" ”

"Do some small business," Geng Chaozhong smiled, "What, I see that there are a lot of students on this boat, could it be that they have been staying in Japan recently?" ”

"Yes, I originally planned to study in Shanghai, but then I heard that two or three years ago, 100 yen had to be exchanged for 200-300 yuan in Chinese national currency, but recently it can be exchanged for 70-80 yuan to 100 yen in Japanese currency. The difference is very far, so studying in Shanghai is not as cost-effective as studying in Dongdu. Liu said seriously.

"I see." Geng Chaozhong looked suddenly enlightened.

In the past two or three years, Japan's economic crisis has worsened, and in order to stimulate exports, the Japanese government has taken the initiative to guide the depreciation of the yen, which has led to the same amount of silver dollars living in Tokyo more easily than living in Shanghai, and the gap is even more than three times.

"Aren't you afraid that others will say that you are a traitor?" Geng Chaozhong thought about it for a while, and looked at classmate Liu with a smile.

"Ahem, they're all on the ship to Japan, what are you afraid of?" Liu pouted nonchalantly, "Besides, Shiyi's long skills are used to control Yi, Japan is so strong, we don't learn from it, how can we fight him in the future?" ”

"That's right," Geng Chaozhong nodded with a smile, "I can't see that you're quite patriotic." ”

"Ahem, who can not be patriotic," Liu smiled embarrassedly, "But then again, our country is too far worse than Japan, and now take advantage of the armistice, hurry up and go to Japan to learn something, maybe one day there will be another fight, and then you won't be able to go if you want to." ”

"Can I go to Europe and the United States?" Geng Chaozhong teased him with all his heart.

"It's easy to say," Liu rolled his eyes, "How expensive are the prices in Europe and the United States, I inquired, there is no money left after buying a ferry ticket, it is better to go to Japan!" ”

"Haha, in the final analysis, it's a matter of money, as the so-called people are poor and short-sighted!" Geng Chaozhong sighed with a smile.

The ship was speeding up, and the two of them talked about it, but they didn't feel that the journey was lonely, and in the blink of an eye, two days had passed, and more and more ships were encountered along the way, and it seemed that it was not far from the land.

Three days later, the ship finally arrived at "Kyushu", the closest to China, and everyone on board couldn't help but cheer when they saw the coastline - it was not a beautiful thing to take a boat at this time, not to mention the harshness of the storm along the way, and the harsh environment in the cabin alone was not something that ordinary people could bear.

The ship docked near the largest city in Kyushu "Nagasaki", but it was still not far from the destination of Geng Chaozhong's trip "Tokyo", and after half a day of repair, the ship finally set sail again, and then one day and one night, it will arrive at the large island where Tokyo is located, and it is also the largest "Honshu" island among the four islands in Japan!