The weather in Japan is cold this year, and the cherry blossoms have not yet bloomed in Tokyo by this time, so I got off the plane from Tokyo, and the person who picked me up told me that Harada and his party had gone to Oshima to shoot, and the cherry blossoms there had begun to bloom.

Sitting on the train to Izu, I was told about the cherry blossoms, which last for about 50 days in Japan and are expected to end in Hokkaido in mid-May. Originally, Izu's cherry blossoms bloomed very early in Japan, usually starting in February, but this spring came very late, and the cherry blossoms are only blooming in full three quarters.

My knowledge of Izu stems from Yasunari Kawabata's The Dancing Girl of Izu, and I love the ending of the movie version, where the teenage student returns to school by boat after roaming around the holidays. Kaoru Koshi, a geisha, went to the pier to see her off. As the boat drifted away, Kaoruko ran up the hill with all her might, stopping from time to time and waving her handkerchief to make herself clear in the sight of the young students; Finally reaching the top of the hill, Kaoruko waved her handkerchief almost in the frame of a broken arm, her teeth clenching her lower lip like an unwilling wounded bud. The boat goes around the corner of the mountain, and Kaoruko's figure is obscured, but the despair and stubbornness of the fourteen-year-old smash like the blue-black rocks at the end of the movie.

The ending of the movie I'm talking about is the Yamaguchi Momoe version, but in fact, the plot is already very vague, and I only remember Kaoruko's waving arms and her desperate eyes. Maybe it's also from that time that I liked Yamaguchi Momoe, although I've also seen the Yoshinaga Sayuri version, but it's far less memorable than the Yamaguchi Momoe version.

This time, we went to the place where the story of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" takes place: Izu Oshima. However, we didn't stay at the famous "Yuno Onsen", but at the Yaeshiro Onsen not far from it. When I arrived, everyone went out to take pictures of the cherry blossoms, and someone stayed behind to help me settle in and wait for them to come back.

I took a hot shower and felt a little tired, so I opened the sliding door of the courtyard to let the room have a nice touch, pulled the quilt and spread it on the floor, and fell asleep.

This sleep is not stable, the dream is always wandering in the mind, as if I just thought too much, the dream is Kaoruko's smile, she picked a bamboo pole to Kawashima as a cane This paragraph, has become a classic, hard to forget for a long time, is the first opening of the girl's love, is the young man's spring heart rippling, Pingshui meets, but it seems to have known each other for a long time, and the heart is connected. However, the young man in the dream was not Tomokazu Miura, but transformed into a cold-faced god, hazy but not very clear, and I seemed to be following them, looking at them. Then, the boy looked back at me, and it looked like Gao Xiang.

When I woke up, it was already dusk, and there was a man sitting in the corridor against the door of my room, dressed in a light pink kimono, smiling at me.

"Wake up, I was about to wake you up, it's cold in the evening, and I'm going to catch a cold when I sleep like this." Her face was backed by the sun, and there seemed to be a little warm taste, and her voice was sweet, but not greasy. I didn't want to get up, I lay on the treadmill with the quilt in my arms, and looked at her with a smile, and that feeling was very warm.

In fact, when I saw her, I already recognized her, Yae Sakura, when I was a teenager, I used to like her very much, that warm smile and her beautiful story. But she didn't want to see her here, she was now the owner of this hot spring, and Harada had a good relationship with her, so she stopped business and rented it to us.

When Harada returned, we had become friends who talked about everything, chatting together about her long past. Probably few people remember her anymore, and when it comes to old memories, she is amazed at how much I remember and understand so much to her heart's content.

She said: "When I saw you sleeping with the quilt open and the door open, I already liked you. ”

Harada didn't arrange any specific work for me, he was filming a group of plans, and he would show me when he came out and listen to my opinions. I also enjoyed having a good time, and Harada arranged for a geisha to come and perform in the evening to satisfy my curiosity. By the way, I was introduced to many people in the group, including photographer Kino, and they were very happy to be here, and the atmosphere was much more lively than the last time I was in Hokkaido.

Because of the success of "The Dancing Girl of Izu", the geisha business in this area has led to the development of the geisha industry, and we are joined by a pair of sisters, dressed in the traditional twelve single clothes, one with strings and the other with drums. It's a pity that I can't understand the lyrics they sing, and I can only understand one or two sentences occasionally, and the sisters sang two songs and danced a duet, looking elegant, like a professional actor.

After drinking, it was already late at night, everyone in the group washed and slept, they have to go to shoot the location tomorrow, I slept just now, and now I am not sleepy. I packed up my things and ran to the hot springs to take a dip, but at this time, there should be no one. But it seems that I'm not the only one who can't sleep, Yae is also there, and when he sees me, he stretches out his hand from the hot springs, "Come quickly, the water is hot." ”

The skin was exposed in the cold air, and immediately it was surrounded by hot water again, and it was indescribably smooth. Yaeyo took out a small barrel behind the mountain rock, which contained a small bottle of sake, "I didn't think that there were others who didn't prepare the cup, don't mind!" He handed me the wine, "I made my own." ”

I took a sip from the bottle, and the faint smell of sake came to me, I don't like Japanese sake very much, there is too little alcohol, too much water, and it is slightly sweet. However, Yaeyo's sake is really good, at least much better than buying it outside.

We are like this, you and I drank one sip at a time, the water was very hot, after a while, I don't know if it was because of the strength of the wine or the heat, I felt that my face was red, I leaned on the edge of the mountain rock and sat in the water, humming unconsciously.

"Ahh You'd do this. Yae Dai listened to me humming the song, and he was also interested, so he sat next to me for a while, and hummed with me, this turned out to be the song she had sang, I only remember the tune, who knew that she was too, and I didn't remember the lyrics for a long time. We just like that, humming a song and drinking one by one.

"It's been a long time since I've been like this, and it reminds me of Shigezen and him." Yaeyo's eyes were a little confused, "Do you know why I opened a hot spring here?" Hopefully, one day, he will remember this place, and when he comes back, he will see that I am still here, still waiting for him here. ”

"Is that him?" I've heard the story of Yaeyo back then, like a fairy tale, but unfortunately the princess and the prince turned around in unison in the end, and no one looked back.

Yaeyo nodded and handed me the bottle, "People always have to have some memories!" ”

I took the wine and thought for a long time before pouring the last sip into my mouth, "Tomorrow, let's make wine together!" ”

Yaeyo looked at me, his face was also red, at that moment, I seemed to see her a few years ago, that innocent smile, time seemed to stop, frozen in this moment.

"You know what? She's really beautiful. At night, lying in the quilt and talking to the cold-faced god on the phone, "It's not superhuman in appearance, but it makes people have an urge to be close to her." ”

"Sakura makes you feel the same way, so you like her?" The cold-faced god is in the office, and he can still hear the phone ringing in the distance, presumably he is also busy in Shanghai.

"Well, it's an amazing feeling." I pulled the quilt up, and it was still very cold on a March night.

"What's on tomorrow's schedule? Do you want to go out with Harada? The cold-faced god looked interested in the fence and asked casually.

"No, he doesn't need me yet, tomorrow Yaeyo will take me to visit various places, and the cherry blossoms here are already blooming well."

The cold-faced god seemed to pause, maybe someone on the other side of the phone was talking to him, he covered the microphone, and for a while, "I'm going out tomorrow, I should sleep now, and if there is something good tomorrow, we'll talk on the phone again at night." ”

I put down the phone, but I didn't want to sleep anymore, so I opened the door of the Japanese room, and there was moonlight outside.

When I woke up the next day, Harada and the others had already gone to the mountains to shoot. Yaeyo got up earlier than me, and when he told his subordinates to pack up his things, he saw him, had breakfast with me, acted as a guide for me, and traveled around the surrounding scenery.

When you come here, you can't fail to visit Yuno Onsen, where there is a literary monument to the "Dancing Girls of Izu" and a large statue of a dancing girl in the courtyard; There are many stalls next to it where you can buy dancing girls' dolls, as well as a kind of sweets called "Izu dancing girl bags".

The cherry blossoms along the road are already in bloom, and there are many varieties of cherry blossoms in Japan, and a layman like me can't name them, but some of the cherry blossoms have already fallen, and there is a shallow layer on the ground. I took a piece of the cherry blossom that fell from it and put it in my mouth, it was a little fragrant, but not sweet, and had a sour taste.

Around Mt. Omuro, there is a cherry blossom garden called Sakurasato, and when you walk in front of the cherry blossom trees, you will feel like you have stepped into a sea of misty flowers. The cherry blossoms are also different, pale red, pink, pale pink, and from a distance, they look like a huge umbrella has been opened, and when you get closer, the cherry blossoms that blow down are like butterflies flying in the wind.

"What's that?" In it, I saw a different cherry tree, the flowers were light purple-red, and the flowers were like small red lanterns, which was very beautiful.

Yaeyo put down the parasol, "That's the Taiwanese cherry blossom, it's very beautiful, I also feel that the most beautiful thing here is it." ”

I took out a bag from my backpack, took the light purple cherry blossom, and walked with Yaeyo again.

On this day, Yae Dai led me to many places, Kawazu Nanataki Waterfall, where there are Kawazu cherry blossoms, which are called "early spring surprises", because they are a cross between cherry trees that bloom in January and April, and get a variety with a long flowering period, pink flowers and a strong aroma.

After that, we went to the plum garden in Atami, and when we arrived, it was just in time for the plum blossom festival, and although it was about to end, there were still many tourists, so I took the cherry blossoms and plum blossoms in these two places, wrapped them separately, and put them in my backpack.

"What's the use of taking so many flowers?" Yaeyo asked me, "Do you want to take a flower bath?" ”

"Let's keep it a secret for now!" I packed up my things and pulled Yaeyo back, and the day passed quickly, and there was still a lot to do.